Feb. 11, 2026

Why Your Beliefs About Reality Are Collapsing

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Why Your Beliefs About Reality Are Collapsing
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This episode explores the ongoing debate between flat earth and globe earth perspectives, delving into ancient cosmologies and modern skepticism. It examines how trust in institutions has eroded, leading to a resurgence of interest in alternative worldviews. The conversation highlights the emotional landscape surrounding belief systems and the impact of data and technology on our understanding of reality. Ultimately, it calls for a middle ground where curiosity and skepticism can coexist without falling into dogma.

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Well, folks, in this episode, I think may start some crap,

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but I hope you all understand what I'm saying here

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and right now, people aren't just arguing about politics or money.

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They're arguing about the world itself. And here's what's wild.

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Long before NASA, long before telescopes, before textbooks, humans, we're

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already telling stories about where we live on Earth. Domes, layers, pillars,

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world mountains, world trees, turtles holding up the Earth, oceans

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above and below, corners, ends. You've got realms stacked like

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floors in a haunted house. So tonight we're stepping into

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flat Earth versus glow Eirth, but we're doing it the

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old way first, now with diagrams, with sacred texts, with

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oral traditions, and with the worldview fingerprints our ancestors left

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behind because in reality, because if reality is a battlefield,

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the first fight is always over the map. Welcome back

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to broadcasting, seeds.

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Broadcasts broadcast.

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In the minds of the.

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If you want to understand why Flat Earth versus Globe

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Eirth keeps coming back like a sequel nobody nobody asked for,

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you can't start with YouTube. You have to start with

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the oldest operating system humans ever ran. And that is story, okay,

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Because whether you grew up with the Bible, the Qur'an,

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the Veda's tribal oral tradition, or just a stubborn sense

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that the world is stranger, then we admit you've inherited something, okay,

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a mental picture of reality, not just what the earth is,

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but what it means. And lately people are starting to

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notice the shift. I keep saying this over and over again,

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but they are. And right now, trust trust is an

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absolute freefall, jumped out of an airplane. In freefall. Institutions

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that used to feel untouchable have been caught spinning narratives

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for money and power and control. You've got governments, you've

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got media, corporations, platforms, even you know experts. I'll say

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that experts the whole stack. So it makes sense that

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regular people are dusting off old questions asking them from

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a fresh suspicion, including the biggest one. And that's where

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we are? That's where are we on a planet, on

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a disc, on a globe? Where are we in the universe?

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But here's the twist. When you look across religious texts

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and oral traditions worldwide, you don't find one neat modern

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diagram either. You find patterns repeating themes. The sky is

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a vault, the world is layered a cosmic mountain at

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the center, waters above, waters below, corners and used like

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corners and ends, used as directional language, realms beyond the

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edge of what's known. Some of that is poetry, for sure.

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Some of it is theology, of course, and some of

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it is cultural memory. Some of it might be symbolic truth,

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trying to describe something the human brain can't measure with

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a ruler. And that's where this episode is headed, not

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into the flat earth pep rally, not into a mainstream

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science sermon either. Okay, we're going to challenge both camps,

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because that's what I do. Because if you treat sacred

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texts like their physics textbooks, you can end up forcing

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poetry in the geometry. But if you treat modern institutions

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like they're incapable of deception, you end up outsourcing your

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mind to the loudest voice with the cleanest branding. You

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know that for sure. So here's the question that's been

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quietly haunting people lately. What if the real divide isn't

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flat versus globe what if it's inheritedly versus verified reality?

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And tonight's file is not just about the shape of

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the Earth. It's about why humanity keeps describing realities, describing

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reality in domes and layers and circles with and edges,

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and what happens when modern authority tells you to stop asking.

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And yes, we're going to use my conversation with flat

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Earth Dave in an earlier episode as a thread later

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to including Antarctica perception tricks, and the weird ship and

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map claims not as proof as an example how trust, technology,

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and worldview can all collide. Now, quick favor, Sorry, quick

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favor before we go deeper. If you want broadcasting seeds

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to keep growing, hit like share this episode and leave

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a review. That's how the show survives. It tells the

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platforms that you want more of this and less recycled

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outrage and send this to a friend who loves theology,

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loves conspiracy, and loves arguing because but secretly just wants

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something solid to stand on. Here we go Section one,

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Flat Earth versus Globe Earth, the Old World map hidden

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in sacred texts in oral tradition, and if you think

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the flat Earth conversation started on tik tik TikTok. I've

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got bad news for you. This rabbit hole is ancient,

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like older than modern science, ancient, older than empires, older

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than the institutions people are mad at today. For sure.

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The shape of the world question has been writing shotgun

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with humanity since the first camp site, the first campfire story,

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and the first player whispered into the dark. And when

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you look across cultures, something jumps out that's hard to ignore.

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Not not a single flat Earth doctrine that everyone agreed on,

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but repeated themes rhyming in imagery, since I like to

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use that analogy, a shared set of cosmic metaphors that

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show up in places that never shared a border. So

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if you're here for a clean diagram, I'm going to

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disappoint you. But if you're here for patterns, you're in

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the right place, because the oldest human map of reality

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usually has the same ingredients. A world we live on,

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a sky above that waters, layers, realms, a boundary, and

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something beyond. Let's start with the biblical tradition, because that

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one gets dragged into this fight the most.

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All.

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Right, in Genesis, you get the firmament language and the

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idea idea of a separation of waters above and below.

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Psalms and job used for poetic language like foundations and

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ends of the true or ends of the Earth. Isaiah

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and Revelation talk about four corners and ends. That doesn't

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automatically mean flat Earth model, though, folks. It means ancient

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people describe the world with directional and symbolic language, the

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way you and I say sunrise, even though we know

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the sun isn't literally rising like an elevator. If you

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take every poetic phrase literally, you'll turn every song into

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a math equation and you'll miss what the writer was

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actually trying to say. Now slide over into Islamic tradition.

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The Qur'an uses language like rent out, and you'll find

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debates over words like da ha ha, the haha and

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what it implies. Some people argue it hints at an

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egg like form. Others argue that it describes the Earth

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being made livable and extended for human life. Either way,

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you're not reading a geometry textbook. You're reading revelation aimed

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at the heart, not the drafting table. Now take a

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step further east into Hindu and Buddhist cosmology. This is

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where it gets a little spicy, because these traditions don't

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just describe a single earth. They describe layered realms, cycles

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of ages, and cosmic mountains like Mountain Marrow Merou sorry

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Mountain rou and world systems stacked like levels. If you

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try to force that into a modern map, you're you'll

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snap in half. It's metaphysical architecture. It's the world as

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a spiritual landscape, folks. And then you've got indigenous oral

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traditions which are criminally overlooked in these conversations. In my opinion,

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many speak of a sky dome, a world supported by

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pillars or world trees or layered heavens or turtles and underworlds.

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Not always as literal architecture, though, but as a way

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to explain how reality feels, how it's ordered, how humans

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relate to the scene and unseen, And when multiple continents

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carry dome in the continents carry dome imagery, you at

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least have to say, is it coincidence, shared human perception,

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or cultural memory of something way older. Here's what all

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this does to the modern argument of flat earth versus

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globe Earth. It makes it a lot messier. Sort so,

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because the mainstream narrative often acts like ancient people were

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freaking idiots until modern experts just saved them, until us,

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modern humans saved them. That's arrogant, and that is freaking lazy.

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Ancient people were careful observers, We know this. They navigated oceans,

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they tracked seasons, They built monuments that we can't even

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build today, aligned to the sky with precision that still

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makes engineers sweat. So tell me who's who's more advanced? Right,

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But the conspiracy narrative gets lazy too because it will

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cherry pick sacred phrases and treat a symbolism like a blueprint.

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It turns poetry into proof. So what do we do

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with that? We treat these texts like what they are,

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their witness statements, their cultural fingerprints, not final answers, but

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evidence that humans across time sensed structure in reality and

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tried to name it with the tools that they absolutely had.

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And that's the doorway we're walking through next, because once

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you see the ancient patterns, the next question isn't which

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religion proves flat Earth? The next question is why does

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modern society freak out when you even ask? And what

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happens when a civilization loses the ability to talk about

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reality without turning it into some freaking tribal war. Section two,

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Flat Earth verst Globe Earth. Why ancient worldviews still haunt

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the modern mind. Here's where things start to feel I

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guess personal, because once you've seen that ancient cultures weren't clueless,

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once you've seen how carefully they mapped meaning into the world,

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the next question isn't about the past. It's about us, Guys,

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about us? And why does the modern world react so

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violently to certain questions? Why does flat earth verse globe

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Earth trigger I mean trigger ridicul instead of curiosity. Why

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does even mentioning sacred cosmology make people flinch like like

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you just swore in church. This isn't about protecting science,

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It's about protecting identity. That's that's the bottom line. Modern

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society didn't just replace ancient cosmology with better tools. It

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replaced the meaning with mechanics. The universe became a machine.

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Humans became accidents. We're freaking accidents. Consciousness became chemistry. Purpose

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became absolutely unequivocally optional. And for a lot of people

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that trade never sat right. It doesn't with me, because

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when you remove meaning from any map, from the map

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of people of humanity. People don't stop looking for it,

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They just look in stranger places. Guys, and cosmologies didn't

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obsess over measurements the way that we do today. They

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obsessed over order, orientation, and relationship. Where humans stand between

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heaven and earth, or should I say heaven and Earth.

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That's why you see vertical language everywhere above below, higher realms,

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lower realms, higher frequencies, lower frequencies, layers, levels, trees, connecting worlds,

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mountains that touch the sky. Those weren't attempts to win

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an argument, folks. They were attempts to stay sane in

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a mysterious world. Now contrasts that with modern authority culture. Today,

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truth often comes prepackaged, credentialed, sanitized, animated in four K,

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with a calm narrator telling you not to work your

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little head about the math, just trust the process. But

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here's the problem with that. Right now, people are starting

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to notice the same institutions that demand trust about cosmology

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also demand trust about wars and medicine and economics and

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surveillance and history. And they didn't just get details wrong,

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they got motives wrong. So when those same voices say

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don't question this something inside people at stiffens and gets uncomfortable.

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That's the psychology fuel behind flat Earth and glob eirth.

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Flat Earth versus gold goat. Yeah, flat Earth versus globe Earth.

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It's not that ancient texts prove that Earth is flat.

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It's that they mind people of a time when reality

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wasn't outsourced to distant authorities, when knowledge was embodied, it

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was observed and passed down face to face. People don't

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reject the globe because of bad math. They reject it

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because it arrived bundled with institutions they no longer trust.

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And let's see far to both sides again. The mainstream

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makes a mistake when it assumes skepticism equals ignorance. That

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move it backfires every time. That just creates resentment, and

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it turns curiosity into straight up defiance. But the alternative

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crowd makes a mistake too when it treats ancient symbolism

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as secret technical diagrams. When every dome becomes literal glass

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and every metaphor becomes proof, you're not restoring, meaning, you're

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just building a dogma, another dogma, a new one. And

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this is where the file gets uncomfortable without needing to

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say it, because the real tension isn't flat versus globe,

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it's this modern people are starved for meaning and you

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and they're supposed surrounded by information but disconnected from actual wisdom.

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And we're told the universe is massive and cold and pointless,

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while their internal experience tells them life feels intentional and

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layered and strangely ordered. So when someone like flat Earth

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Dave comes along and says this place is designed, that

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lands emotionally, even if the model itself raises questions, that

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doesn't make people stupid. It makes people, It makes them human.

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The danger comes when emotion replaces method, and when distrust

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replaces discernment, when rejecting authority becomes more important than discovering

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the actual truth. That's why this conversation keeps escalating instead

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of resolving, because nobody's addressing the middle ground, the space

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where you can say ancient cosmologies matter and modern science

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still it does. It has value. Authority can lie, and

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not every alternative is automatically correct. Folks. Right now, people

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are starting to notice that refusing this middle ground benefits

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the loudest extremities. Extremes. It's not just with this, it's

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with everything, and that brings us to modern the modern battlefield.

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Battlefield where ancient ideas collide with modern tech, because the

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next layer isn't scripture, it's data. Antarctica were stricted zones,

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strange maps, weird ship locations, and systems that glitch or

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flat out lie Section three when bad data, When modern

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data gets weird and trust gets thin, this is where

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ancient worldviews smash head on into modern technology because if

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sacred texts planted, the seed, data is the accelerant. And

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right now people are swimming in data that they don't

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fully understand, deliver by systems they didn't build, and managed

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by institutions that they no longer trust. I'd say that's

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a hell of a volatile mix, wouldn't you. This is

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where flat Earth VERSEUS globe Earth stops being a philosophical

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debate and starts feeling like a forensic investigation period. Let's

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talk about the stuff that makes people lean forward in

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their chairs. Antarctica, restricted zones, maps that don't behave the

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way people expect, ship tracking anomalies, satellite imagery that looks stitched, filtered,

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or smoothed, data, points that just feel off. Not proof,

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but friction and friction is enough to wake people up.

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Some people up when Flat Earth Day of talks about

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strained ship locations in the South Pacific or vessels appearing

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deep inland on tracking maps. The real is the reaction

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is predictable. One side says, ah hidden lands. The other

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side says, you're an idiot. Both miss the lesson because

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here's the reality. AIS and GPS systems are not magical

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truth machines, folks. They glitch. They spoof, like your phone

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or your TV or any other piece of technology. They

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can be also manipulated. This isn't conspiracy. This is documented.

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Ships can appear to jump thousands of miles, Aircraft can

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show impossible paths. Data can lie without anyone touching the

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physical object at all. A bad data point doesn't prove

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a hidden world. It does prove something just as important.

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Though you're trusting systems, you don't can to tell you

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where your reality is. Now. Here's where things get interesting.

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When trust is already thin. Even explainable anomalies they feel suspicious.

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We all we do it because the explanation usually comes

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from the same authority that said don't worry about it.

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Don't worry about that. Last time so when someone hears

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it's just spoofing, they don't hear reassurance. They hear another

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layer of abstraction between themselves and reality. That's how flatter

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verse globe Earth keeps gaining emotional momentum. It's not about

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believing every anomaly. It's about realizing how medic how mediated

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modern knowledge has become. Think about it. Most people will

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never ever visit Antarctica. They'll never launch a satellite, verify

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orbital mechanics, or test long distance curvature experiments. They just

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never will, folks. So they're left with images, data feeds,

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an expert. I say that with quotes, expert commentary, and

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guess what trust and right now that trust is in

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short supply. And when your understanding of reality depends entirely

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on systems that you're not allowed to question, curiosity starts

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to feel rebellious, doesn't it. It's very punk rock at

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that point. But here's where I'm going to slow this down,

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because this is not clickbait hour. It's just not We

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have to resist the temptation to turn anomalies into conclusions.

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Just because some data is manipulated doesn't mean all data

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is fake. Just because institutions lie sometimes doesn't mean they

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lie always, And just because Antarctica is restricted doesn't mean

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it's hiding a cosmic edge. Suspicion without discipline doesn't lead

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to truth. It leads to new myths wearing old clothes.

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Here's the uncomfortable part. You don't need a label for.

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The mainstream response has been terrible, absolutely abysmal mockery instead

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of explanation, credentials instead of transparency, trust us instead of

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here's how you can test this yourself. That response US

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doesn't kill conspiracy thinking, it fertilizes it. Man because when

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someone feels dismissed, they don't stop questioning, they just stop listening.

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So here we are ancient cosmology is whispering that reality

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is layered modern data proving systems are fallible institutions demanding

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trust without restoring credibility, and regular people stuck in the middle,

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trying to figure out what's actually solid like a desk.

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That's the real story behind flatters versus glowbirth guys, not

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the models, the fracture, and that fracture forces us into

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the final question of this episode. If neither blind faith

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in authority nor unrestrained suspicion leads to truth, what actually does?

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So let's zoom out one last time, because if you've

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been listening closely, you already know this episode was never

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really about flat Earth versus globe Earth, and I apologize

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for that. It was because this can be used to

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filter through so many things. It was about something deeper,

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something older, something most systems would rather you just never

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slow down long enough to notice that the real fight

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isn't over maps, it's over how truth is allowed to exist.

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Ancient cultures didn't agree on a single model of the

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world either, but they shared something we've mostly lost, a

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willingness to sit inside mystery without outsourcing meaning to distant authorities.

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They told stories, they used symbols, They passed out ways

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of seeing that weren't obsessed with domination or control, but orientation.

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Where am I? Who am I? What kind of places this?

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That was the question. Modern society gave us incredible tools,

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real science, real discoveries, real progress, But it also fused

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truth with power, money, and identity, and once that happened,

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trust started straight eroding. So now we're here, right now,

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people are starting to notice those cracks this week lately,

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in conversations that feel heavier than they should in questions

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that keep resurfacing no matter how much they're mocked. And

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when trust collapse collapses, people don't just question politics or media,

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they start to question reality itself. When a civilization loses

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confidence in its storytellers, it starts rewriting the map from memory.

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Here's where broadcasting seeds plants its flag. Blind faith in

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authority is not wisdom, but reflective suspicion isn't either. Truth

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lives in the middle ground that almost nobody wants to

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occupy anymore. The place where you're allowed to question without

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worshiping doubt, where you can honor ancient insight without turning

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poetry into blueprints, where you can value science without treating

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institutions like they're incapable of corruption. That middle ground is

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uncomfortable to stand in. I do my best to do it.

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It doesn't give you instant certainty by any stretching imagination.

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It asks more from you. It asks for attention and

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patience and discernment and humility. But it also is the

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only place where real understanding can grow. This file doesn't

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close cleanly on purpose, folks, Sorry as usual, because the

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moment we pretend this conversation is settled, we stop thinking,

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and once thinking stops, control moves in. If this episode

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made you pause, share it with a friend who tried,

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who's tired of being told don't question that. If it

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challenged you, send it to a friend who thinks curiosity

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is dangerous. And if you want the show to keep growing,

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like share it and leave a review. That's how Broadcasting

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Seed survives and reaches the people who need these conversations

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right now. And one last thing. If you're a researcher,

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a historian, a theologian, a scientist, or an independent investigator

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who's willing to explore these questions honestly without turning them

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into tribal warfare, please reach out. Broadcasting Seeds, which is me,

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is always open to collaboration with people who value truth

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over clout. We are not here to give you answers

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wrapped uncertainty. We're here to plant seeds, and once they're planted, frankly,

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they don't stop growing. Have a good night.

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They told us how, since we were barely tall enough

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to see.

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Lines on the map that's in the sky, said this

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is truth. Just trust us, believe.

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Really, the scenes are showing cracks where the certainty used

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to be. Every screen keeps talking louder or something quiet keeps.

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Pulling in me.

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I don't know who's lie. I just know who's been called.

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If the script keeps changing, what ever?

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So we knock though?

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What if we're all not about everything but about the

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parts we never question.

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What if the ground we stand on the stranger than

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the stories we've been fed. I'm not chasing it, sir,

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I'm just starting. I'm pretending.

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I'm not letting.

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Holy book sold songs, fireside tales, whisper things we were

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tad to ignore.

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They didn't speak in equations. They spoke of meaning, shape

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and mob. Kings wore crowns of certainty. Priest spoffort scientists too.

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Funny how power hates questions no matter which maskts weeming

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Today I'm not burning down the math. I'm just asking

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who drew the lines? If truth survived inspection, why does

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it feel and open line? What if we're all not

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about faith or doubt but the way we were told

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and chose a side. What if the liesn't the motto

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but the silence when westerns rise. I'm not claiming rebale,

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I'm just listening.

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This time.

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Well, heaven.

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M v vota.

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Funny how the argument gets louder. Right we trust breaks down.

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If they lied about.

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The small things, why would the big ones be exampt now.

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Water for rob.

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And that's not dread.

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For the start.

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The Sectly, what is humility is the doorway we were

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meant to win. Don'ty no, don't see honey.

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Truth that I could said the weather.

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So I keepsking softly while the noise keep screaming loud.

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The truth is what they say it is.

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It won't fear it being found.