December 18, 2024 • 30 mins
Have you ever wondered how our inner moral compass guides us in making decisions between right and wrong? In this episode of the Moral Compass Chronicles, hosted by yours truly, Eyon Johnson, we journey through the intriguing landscape of morality, shaped by our upbringing and experiences. Through personal accounts of my own missteps, I explore the idea that moral fitness requires as much dedication and practice as physical fitness. Together, we confront the resistance to change and embrace the power of self-reflection and accountability in resolving conflicts, urging us all to look within before pointing fingers outward.
This episode also navigates the complex waters of truth and perspective, drawing inspiration from wise figures like Solomon and others. We revisit the trend of "my truth," which can often lead to a self-centered worldview, and advocate for returning to universal truths that bind us together. Join the conversation as we challenge societal norms that encourage cutting off others and justify poor attitudes, and instead strive for a more compassionate and understanding world. This is a thought-provoking exploration of how our perspectives influence our moral compass and societal values.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Grace and peace.
Grace and peace, world.
What's going on?
Everybody, my name is EonJohnson, and welcome to another
rendition of the Moral CompassChronicles man.
I am your host, I am your tourguide and you can find me on
just about every you know everysocial platform at Eon J,
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instagram, tiktok, twitter, eonJ that's two Y's on the end.
You can find me on YouTube atEon Johnson, facebook at Eon
Johnson, and you can find thispodcast on just about every
single platform, every listeningplatform Apple shout out to my
Apple people and Spotify andAmazon and Podcast Index and all
(00:47):
those other apps.
Feel free to tell Alexa.
Hey, alexa, hey Alexa.
Play the Moral CompassChronicles podcast and I think
she'll do it.
I think I might pull up myAlexa to see if she actually
does that.
I'm looking to get this to youguys just about every single
(01:08):
week, several episodes per week.
I have a lot to say, I have alot to say, and I'm grateful
that there is anybody that evenwants to hear what I have to say
.
Man, it's that's an honor,that's an honor.
I don't take it lightly, and soI will be giving this my all um
(01:30):
shout out to each and every oneof you guys that have been
supporting and and showing melove, sharing, downloading,
please continue to do so.
Um, this is we're going to go.
God is going to take us to, tosome higher heights and some
deeper depths.
I believe that, um, and solet's, let's, let's dive
straight into it.
I, what is morality?
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What is a moral compass?
What, what are these things?
Now, before I, before I jumpinto that, um, I, I want to, I
want to preface everything I'mabout to say by letting you know
by no means am I the judge onall things morally sound, by no
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means am I an expert on allthings.
Morality, what I don't want,morality, I don't.
I don't what I don't want.
I don't want anybody to thinkthat I believe that I am the
judge and I am an expert on allthings morality.
Okay, I'm not.
I'm not.
I am someone who has made a lotof mistakes.
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I am somebody who has gottenthings wrong many, many times.
I have made the wrong choicemany times.
A lot of that is what hashelped shape the values, the
principles that I hold dear tome now, you know.
And so I just don't wantanybody to think that I believe
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I'm an expert.
I'm not a philosopher?
I'm not, you know, I'm not ateacher.
I, this podcast will not beabout me teaching on morality,
teaching every single episode onmorality.
No, this, this podcast, they,these episodes, these chronicles
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, these renditions, every singleweek, several times a week.
They will be based on Differenttopics, that sort of surround
morality, you know.
So I hope, I hope we have aclear understanding of that.
(03:46):
Okay, now, what is morality?
What is morality?
What is?
What is a moral compass?
Okay, and I and I wrote a fewthings down here a moral compass
and, if I could just express itfrom my heart, it's an inner
guide.
I think we, a lot of us, knowthat some, some people may not,
but it's, it's an inner guide.
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That sort of shapes and ithelps us distinguish between
right and wrong, that moralcompass that's within us, right
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and wrong, that moral compassthat's within us, it helps us to
differentiate between good andevil.
I like to say sin versus no sin, right, or sinning versus not
sinning, rather versus notsinning, rather, okay, and so
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the, the moral compass of anindividual, myself, you, it's,
it's based on differentprinciples, different values.
Um, different principles,different values and like
different beliefs that make us,make us who we are.
They literally shape thedecisions we make on a
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day-to-day basis.
These values, these beliefs, um, these different principles of
morality, and what are thesedifferent?
If I could give you somedifferent like examples right,
integrity, like now, before Ieven start listing off like
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different principles, um, youever hear of a street code,
somebody having a street code orknowing the street code, or a
bro code, for example?
So a shout out to my bros wehave a bro code that we sort of
just know.
It's kind of unspoken.
Right, girl code I know theladies have a girl code as well.
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I could argue that all of thesedifferent codes are they're
morally based and they're all apart of a greater moral code.
You know what I'm saying andthe different principles and
values and beliefs that thisgreater code is.
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I like where this is going, Ilike how this is shaping up
right now, the differentprinciples and stuff that shape
this greater code of oursintegrity, kindness, compassion,
love, fairness, honesty.
I could go on and on.
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I could go on and on.
Um, I think I have a few ofthem written down as well
Respect, um, accountability, ohmy goodness, accountability and
I'm going to really, reallytouch on accountability in this
podcast.
That's one of the biggest onesfor me.
Accountability, honesty I thinkI mentioned honesty already.
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These are some of the differentprinciples that shape
somebody's moral code A lot oftimes.
The moral compass of anindividual, most times, just
about all the time.
Most times I'd say it's.
It's.
It starts taking form andtaking shape from when we are
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babies and we are learning aboutthe world.
And now watch this.
We start to pick up some ofthese things by the people who
are raising us.
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Huh, right, they say you're inyour environment.
It's derived by how I grew upmost times and the things that I
saw growing up, the things thatI heard growing up, the things
that I was a part of.
A lot of times, people grow upin violent neighborhoods.
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They grow up around gangs anddrugs and violence.
A lot of us.
Jay-z has this line and it's oneof my captions on Instagram Do
what we've done, without dying,in the environment in which we
did it in, without dying.
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Or do what I've done in theenvironment, something along
those lines Do what I've donewithout crying, in the
environment in which we did itin, without dying.
My nigga right.
So it's.
It's that environment has a lotto do with our moral compass.
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Oftentimes you know what I'msaying, and it matters greatly
the older we get the environmentthat we're in, because it
starts to shape how we perceivelife and the decisions that we
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make.
It really does, it really does.
And so now, those morals nowmay not be, your perception of
what's right and wrong will beskewed if you're around the
wrong things, and that's forbabies as well as adults.
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You know what I'm saying, and soI just wanted to kind of go
into some of that.
I was actually lookingsomething up.
Um, I saw a writer and I don'tknow to credit wherever it's due
I'm not sure the name of thewriter, but he said something
about he or she says somethingabout moral fitness.
Moral fitness, how is yourmoral fitness?
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I would ask you that questionhow do I perceive and how do I
take that?
How do I take that moral moralfitness?
It's he's, he says.
He or she says it's thecultivation of character and
moral awareness through regularpractices.
Regular practices, the thingsthat I'm doing daily, will shape
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my moral fitness, and I wouldask myself first, before I ask
anybody else um, am I doingthings that strengthen my moral
fitness?
You know, if you're, if you'relooking to get fit physically.
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You're going to be going to thegym, right, you're going to be,
um, you're going to be eating,right, you're going to be going
to the gym, right, you're goingto be, um, you're going to be
eating, right.
You're going to be trying toeat cleanly, um, you don't just
want to eat any and anything, uh, because that will affect your
overall fitness goal, whateverthat may be.
So what are, what are some ofthe things that we're doing to
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strengthen you know theseprinciples and these values and
um on a daily basis.
You know, that's.
That's something I think is isvery interesting.
Many people aren't necessarilylooking to grow.
Uh, I hear people say you know,uh, old dogs, you know, can't
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learn new tricks or don't wantto learn.
Is really more so that olderdogs don't really want to learn
new tricks because we've beendoing things our way for so long
that now it's like, ah, youknow, I just this is how I want
to do it, this is how I want tobe, this is the person that I
have been for so long.
I'm not necessarily interestedin changing now, and a lot of
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times people are unwilling tochange, even if it's for the
better, like that doesn't evenmatter to some people, changing
for the better it's not aboutthat, it's the change they don't
want, it's just the change theydon't want.
Changing for the better is notwanting to be better is not
enough for some of us To want tochange, and I don't think
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that's very good.
I don't think that's it.
I don't think that's not a goodthing.
That's not a good thing.
That's not a good thing.
I, when I'm mediating betweenpeople, I try my hardest to get
them to look in the mirror goingto touch on this separately,
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maybe at a later date, but I dobelieve that the more we as
individuals are able to look inthe mirror, that's the easier
things become for everyonearound us.
I always I say this thing likeyou ever see a mirror, a side
mirror on a car, and it saysobjects in the mirror are closer
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than they appear.
I flipped that one time and Isaid problems in the mirror are
closer than they appear.
Sometimes problems in themirror are closer than they
appear.
What is?
What does that mean?
You look into a mirror, you'regoing to see yourself and the
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problem might possibly be ussometimes.
And if we all thought that way,if I was if I was more focused
on looking inward.
In my instagram bio it says um,looking inward may rectify
outward problems.
If more of us were willing tolook in the mirror and look
inward, believe it or not, wewould be solving problems among
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each other at a much higher anda much more efficient rate.
A lot of if I was able to lookin the mirror.
That means, number one I'mlooking at myself.
That means I'm no longerlooking at you.
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If I was willing to look atmyself in the mirror to see
where I'm going wrong, I'm lessinclined to point fingers at you
.
Now, if I can identify theissue within myself, I am less
concerned with pointing out yourissues.
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I am.
I am less concerned withpointing out your issues.
The word tells me about umpointing out the moat in someone
else's eye when I have a beamin mind.
Right.
So I got crust in my eye.
I got a problem on my face.
I got a pimple on my face, butinstead of focusing on the
pimple on my face, I'm lookingat a pimple on my face.
But instead of focusing on thepimple on my face, I'm looking
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at the pimple on somebody else'sface.
I'm pointing out your problemand your issue instead of
focusing on mine first.
If most, if we were to do that,oh, my goodness, man, you know,
you know there are wars thatwould end.
I don't even I'm man, I'm notgoing to get political on this
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podcast, but there are so manyproblems among us as a people,
us as brothers and sisters, thatwould end today.
That would end today.
They could end today.
I mean right now, right now, asI speak, there is somebody with
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an issue With someone else.
There is somebody who hasn'tspoken to somebody else In days,
in weeks, in months, in years.
There is somebody, listening Tothe sound of my voice, who has
not spoken to a family member inyears because of an issue that
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you guys have.
And I'm here to tell you, or askyou rather have you looked in
the mirror?
Have you looked in the mirror?
Have you looked in the mirror?
Are you sure the problem isthem?
Are you 100% sure that theproblem is them?
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Is it possible that you couldalso be a problem?
Is it?
Is it possible that you havealso contributed to this issue?
Now and watch this, now, watchthis, because it's always easier
for us to.
So now, as you see, this is howthis podcast is going to take
shape.
These are the things I'm goingto discuss, and I kind of want
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to do an entire chronicle onjust this topic right here,
looking in the mirror, and Ithink I will.
Maybe I'll leave this one alonefor now.
I kind of teased it a littlebit, I kind of I kind of touched
on it.
Maybe I'll do an entire jointon that, because I think that's
necessary.
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But are you sure the problem isonly on them.
And so now what we do is wehave these issues with people
and then we sit back and wedon't say anything.
So now I'm not talking to you,you're not talking to me, and go
by, we don't speak to eachother.
I may see you at Thanksgivingand I'm not really talking to
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you.
Maybe at Christmas, not talkingto you.
And if we were all able to justlook in the mirror, identify the
issue within ourselves and thentake a step back, we would be
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so much more willing to forgivethat other person If I was able
to identify the wrong that's inme.
I would be less inclined tokill this other person, not
literally, but I wouldn't be sofast to crucify this other
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person if I was able to identifythe wrong that I have done.
Shout out to my NCACI shirt.
So listen, man, I'm going toget into that, I'm going to get
real.
Man, I, I, I'm going, I'm gonnaget into that, I'm gonna, I'm
gonna get, I'm gonna get real,real, I'm gonna go real in on
that right there at a later date.
I just kind of wanted to touchon that, and that's a big part
of mediation.
Um, because it's not me, it's,it's.
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It should not always be meversus you.
I have to recognize that it'sme and you versus the problem.
My job is to live in harmonywith you.
My job is to be at peace withyou.
I don't want to get my Bible isright next to me, but my job is
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to be at peace with you, tolive peaceably with all men and
women.
When I say men, it's referringto men and women.
That's one of my jobs, right?
And so that's a lot of timeswhen I'm mediating between
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people or mediating I don't knowwhy I said it like that, but a
lot of times when I'm mediatingbetween people, that's that is
my initial focus.
Well, number one it right now.
Let's.
We got to tackle this problemand it has to be us versus this
problem.
If I'm able to do that off therip, then, boom, I'll be able to
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take the necessary steps thatwe need to take as individuals
to move forward.
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No-transcript.
I think it's extremelyimportant, as I have mentioned,
that there is a morally correctway for me to govern my life.
There is, there is, and I amgoing to pull on many, many
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different topics, pull on many,many different topics.
You know, this is only thesecond episode and I believe it.
I've actually recorded someother stuff that I felt was a
little bit too incendiary.
I kind of want to lay afoundation first here before I
go into the different topicsthat I have, and I'm really, I'm
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really looking forward to it.
I'm really looking forward toit.
I'm really looking forward toit because I do believe there is
a need, there is a need for it,there is a need for it.
Man, there is a need for it,and I'm here to be a vessel.
I was saying earlier, I'm not ateacher.
I'm not a teacher, I'm not aphilosopher, I didn't go to
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school for, for for any of this,I do believe God has given me
wisdom because I have prayed forit.
I have prayed and I'mconstantly praying for that and
I'm constantly praying for thatand, like Solomon, an
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understanding heart, notnecessarily to judge between his
great people, but to do what Ican to help and to help people
gain perspective.
I shout out to my boy, vicksVibes, vick Hardison, wherever
you at man, much love, much loveto you.
I heard Vick say a long timeago if you change your
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perspective, you'll change yourlife, and a lot of us need a
perspective shift on our moralcompass.
A lot of us.
A lot of us need a perspectiveshift on our moral compass.
A lot of us, a lot of us.
I did a video the other day ornot the other day, that's like
what Caribbean say and it was awhole year ago.
I did a video a year ago and itwas it derived from a post that
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was on the Shade Room.
I did a whole video and I waslike one of my first videos, and
it was it derived from a postthat was on the shade room.
I did a whole video and I waslike one of my first videos and
it was received very well.
But the post said something likewhatever you lose from telling
your truth is not a loss, it's a, it's an alignment and I'm like
bro, what is wrong with people?
Of course, that was like.
It was like a shade room postor I don't know, just an LA boy
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or one of them, one of themfoolish joints, man.
And I'm like yo, what is wrongwith people?
Whatever I lose from telling mytruth and that was, that was a
whole thing I went into becauseit's like we are straying so far
from the truth and I don't evenwant to.
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Don't, let me go into the truthfor real, because I'll go into
the truth for real and I, justfor the podcast, I just held up
a Bible for real, for real, but,like, I don't even want to say,
forget about the truth for asecond.
Like this is the ultimate truth,right, but when we're, when the
when, that what, what truth isthat post referring to?
It's referring to my truth,like what I believe, what I feel
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, I me, me, me.
That's what it's referring toand and I'm just like, and I and
I go through the comments andI'm seeing people like really
eating this post up because itvalidates them and them cutting
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people off and them losingpeople that used to be in their
lives.
It justifies the foolishness,it justifies the horrible
mentality of this generation,this, this day and age.
It's disgusting and that is amentality that is shared across
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the across the world.
Me, me, me, I, I, I.
Whatever I lose from telling mytruth is not a loss.
Whoever I lose from telling mytruth is not a loss.
It's an alignment.
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An alignment to what and analignment to who.
That, that, that is a.
That's a.
That's a.
That's a demonic.
Oh Lord, help me.
Jesus, that that is a.
That is a demonic mindset andmentality.
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Me, me, me.
Humble yourself, man, humbleyourself, be, be okay, saying
sorry, your truth, your truth,no, what about the truth?
And that's what I said in thevideo.
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What about the actual truth,what really happened?
Because we know there's like,what do they say?
There's three sides to everystory.
Right, is my side, your side,and then the truth.
So, in other words, this iswhat, this is what they're
saying.
Whatever I lose from telling myside of the story, it's not not
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a loss, it's an alignment.
That's foolishness, bro.
I really want to call it whatit is, but this is this is a
clean podcast.
I can't get explicit on this.
It's a clean podcast and I needto be clean.
You know what I'm saying, um,but man, I, I, I listen, I, I'm
gonna get into this stuff, man,I'm gonna get into this stuff,
man, I'm gonna get into thisstuff because it needs getting
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into, and so I can't wait, man,I can't wait.
Um, very excited to continue,very excited to continue, um,
and from this point on, it willbe topic based.
So we're going to be getting onand getting straight into the
next topic that that I'm led bythe Lord to get into, excuse me,
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and I'm really looking forwardto it.
I have, I have a list of topicsalready and you know what.
I listen back to these and I'mgoing to be pulling.
I'm going to be pulling.
So, looking in the mirror,please look out for that one.
Looking in the mirror, I'mreally good.
I'm going really, really dig into the importance of looking in
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the mirror at oneself, holdingyourself accountable, and you
know what.
Being OK, being heldaccountable by a loved one.
A lot, of, a lot of times watchthis right whatever you lose
from telling your truth is not aloss.
A lot of times, you lost thatperson because they tried to
hold you accountable.
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They tried you, you.
You were being held accountableand I'm sorry to point at you
like that.
But you were being heldaccountable, rightfully.
You are rightfully being heldaccountable, you are fairly
being held accountable.
But because people don't likebeing held accountable, they,
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they run, they're gone.
You try to hold somebodyaccountable nowadays, they're
gone, that's it.
They rather, they rather ship,they rather just set the house
on fire and and and bounce brothan to be held accountable and
to have a conversation aboutwhat they did wrong and who they
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hurt.
They hurt it, man, it's.
It's getting real nasty outthere.
So I advise you y'all, y'allgood people, the people who have
that moral compass, pointed inthe right direction.
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You're true north, you're,you're headed in the right
direction.
Your true north, you're headedin the right direction.
I highly advise that we buckledown, man, because it's only
getting worse, and the wordtells us that.
The word tells us it's onlygetting worse.
It's only getting worse, it'sonly getting worse and it's
getting worse among us as apeople, in the physical and in
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the spiritual, which we can'tsee.
It's getting worse.
It's getting worse.
It's getting worse, man.
What would that meme say?
It's getting worse, it isgetting worse, all right.
So lock in with me, family,lock in with me, man, I love you
guys.
Um, until next time.
This is the moral compasschronicles.
Grace and peace.
Grace and peace, world.
What's going on?
Everybody, my name is EonJohnson, and welcome to another
rendition of the Moral CompassChronicles man.
I am your host, I am your tourguide and you can find me on
just about every you know everysocial platform at Eon J,
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instagram, tiktok, twitter, eonJ that's two Y's on the end.
You can find me on YouTube atEon Johnson, facebook at Eon
Johnson, and you can find thispodcast on just about every
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those other apps.
Feel free to tell Alexa.
Hey, alexa, hey Alexa.
Play the Moral CompassChronicles podcast and I think
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I think I might pull up myAlexa to see if she actually
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I'm looking to get this to youguys just about every single
(01:08):
week, several episodes per week.
I have a lot to say, I have alot to say, and I'm grateful
that there is anybody that evenwants to hear what I have to say
.
Man, it's that's an honor,that's an honor.
I don't take it lightly, and soI will be giving this my all um
(01:30):
shout out to each and every oneof you guys that have been
supporting and and showing melove, sharing, downloading,
please continue to do so.
Um, this is we're going to go.
God is going to take us to, tosome higher heights and some
deeper depths.
I believe that, um, and solet's, let's, let's dive
straight into it.
I, what is morality?
(01:52):
What is a moral compass?
What, what are these things?
Now, before I, before I jumpinto that, um, I, I want to, I
want to preface everything I'mabout to say by letting you know
by no means am I the judge onall things morally sound, by no
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means am I an expert on allthings.
Morality, what I don't want,morality, I don't.
I don't what I don't want.
I don't want anybody to thinkthat I believe that I am the
judge and I am an expert on allthings morality.
Okay, I'm not.
I'm not.
I am someone who has made a lotof mistakes.
(02:39):
I am somebody who has gottenthings wrong many, many times.
I have made the wrong choicemany times.
A lot of that is what hashelped shape the values, the
principles that I hold dear tome now, you know.
And so I just don't wantanybody to think that I believe
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I'm an expert.
I'm not a philosopher?
I'm not, you know, I'm not ateacher.
I, this podcast will not beabout me teaching on morality,
teaching every single episode onmorality.
No, this, this podcast, they,these episodes, these chronicles
(03:26):
, these renditions, every singleweek, several times a week.
They will be based on Differenttopics, that sort of surround
morality, you know.
So I hope, I hope we have aclear understanding of that.
(03:46):
Okay, now, what is morality?
What is morality?
What is?
What is a moral compass?
Okay, and I and I wrote a fewthings down here a moral compass
and, if I could just express itfrom my heart, it's an inner
guide.
I think we, a lot of us, knowthat some, some people may not,
but it's, it's an inner guide.
(04:06):
That sort of shapes and ithelps us distinguish between
right and wrong, that moralcompass that's within us, right
(04:29):
and wrong, that moral compassthat's within us, it helps us to
differentiate between good andevil.
I like to say sin versus no sin, right, or sinning versus not
sinning, rather versus notsinning, rather, okay, and so
(04:53):
the, the moral compass of anindividual, myself, you, it's,
it's based on differentprinciples, different values.
Um, different principles,different values and like
different beliefs that make us,make us who we are.
They literally shape thedecisions we make on a
(05:17):
day-to-day basis.
These values, these beliefs, um, these different principles of
morality, and what are thesedifferent?
If I could give you somedifferent like examples right,
integrity, like now, before Ieven start listing off like
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different principles, um, youever hear of a street code,
somebody having a street code orknowing the street code, or a
bro code, for example?
So a shout out to my bros wehave a bro code that we sort of
just know.
It's kind of unspoken.
Right, girl code I know theladies have a girl code as well.
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I could argue that all of thesedifferent codes are they're
morally based and they're all apart of a greater moral code.
You know what I'm saying andthe different principles and
values and beliefs that thisgreater code is.
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I like where this is going, Ilike how this is shaping up
right now, the differentprinciples and stuff that shape
this greater code of oursintegrity, kindness, compassion,
love, fairness, honesty.
I could go on and on.
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I could go on and on.
Um, I think I have a few ofthem written down as well
Respect, um, accountability, ohmy goodness, accountability and
I'm going to really, reallytouch on accountability in this
podcast.
That's one of the biggest onesfor me.
Accountability, honesty I thinkI mentioned honesty already.
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These are some of the differentprinciples that shape
somebody's moral code A lot oftimes.
The moral compass of anindividual, most times, just
about all the time.
Most times I'd say it's.
It's.
It starts taking form andtaking shape from when we are
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babies and we are learning aboutthe world.
And now watch this.
We start to pick up some ofthese things by the people who
are raising us.
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Huh, right, they say you're inyour environment.
It's derived by how I grew upmost times and the things that I
saw growing up, the things thatI heard growing up, the things
that I was a part of.
A lot of times, people grow upin violent neighborhoods.
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They grow up around gangs anddrugs and violence.
A lot of us.
Jay-z has this line and it's oneof my captions on Instagram Do
what we've done, without dying,in the environment in which we
did it in, without dying.
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Or do what I've done in theenvironment, something along
those lines Do what I've donewithout crying, in the
environment in which we did itin, without dying.
My nigga right.
So it's.
It's that environment has a lotto do with our moral compass.
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Oftentimes you know what I'msaying, and it matters greatly
the older we get the environmentthat we're in, because it
starts to shape how we perceivelife and the decisions that we
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make.
It really does, it really does.
And so now, those morals nowmay not be, your perception of
what's right and wrong will beskewed if you're around the
wrong things, and that's forbabies as well as adults.
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You know what I'm saying, and soI just wanted to kind of go
into some of that.
I was actually lookingsomething up.
Um, I saw a writer and I don'tknow to credit wherever it's due
I'm not sure the name of thewriter, but he said something
about he or she says somethingabout moral fitness.
Moral fitness, how is yourmoral fitness?
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I would ask you that questionhow do I perceive and how do I
take that?
How do I take that moral moralfitness?
It's he's, he says.
He or she says it's thecultivation of character and
moral awareness through regularpractices.
Regular practices, the thingsthat I'm doing daily, will shape
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my moral fitness, and I wouldask myself first, before I ask
anybody else um, am I doingthings that strengthen my moral
fitness?
You know, if you're, if you'relooking to get fit physically.
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You're going to be going to thegym, right, you're going to be,
um, you're going to be eating,right, you're going to be going
to the gym, right, you're goingto be, um, you're going to be
eating, right.
You're going to be trying toeat cleanly, um, you don't just
want to eat any and anything, uh, because that will affect your
overall fitness goal, whateverthat may be.
So what are, what are some ofthe things that we're doing to
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strengthen you know theseprinciples and these values and
um on a daily basis.
You know, that's.
That's something I think is isvery interesting.
Many people aren't necessarilylooking to grow.
Uh, I hear people say you know,uh, old dogs, you know, can't
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learn new tricks or don't wantto learn.
Is really more so that olderdogs don't really want to learn
new tricks because we've beendoing things our way for so long
that now it's like, ah, youknow, I just this is how I want
to do it, this is how I want tobe, this is the person that I
have been for so long.
I'm not necessarily interestedin changing now, and a lot of
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times people are unwilling tochange, even if it's for the
better, like that doesn't evenmatter to some people, changing
for the better it's not aboutthat, it's the change they don't
want, it's just the change theydon't want.
Changing for the better is notwanting to be better is not
enough for some of us To want tochange, and I don't think
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that's very good.
I don't think that's it.
I don't think that's not a goodthing.
That's not a good thing.
That's not a good thing.
I, when I'm mediating betweenpeople, I try my hardest to get
them to look in the mirror goingto touch on this separately,
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maybe at a later date, but I dobelieve that the more we as
individuals are able to look inthe mirror, that's the easier
things become for everyonearound us.
I always I say this thing likeyou ever see a mirror, a side
mirror on a car, and it saysobjects in the mirror are closer
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than they appear.
I flipped that one time and Isaid problems in the mirror are
closer than they appear.
Sometimes problems in themirror are closer than they
appear.
What is?
What does that mean?
You look into a mirror, you'regoing to see yourself and the
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problem might possibly be ussometimes.
And if we all thought that way,if I was if I was more focused
on looking inward.
In my instagram bio it says um,looking inward may rectify
outward problems.
If more of us were willing tolook in the mirror and look
inward, believe it or not, wewould be solving problems among
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each other at a much higher anda much more efficient rate.
A lot of if I was able to lookin the mirror.
That means, number one I'mlooking at myself.
That means I'm no longerlooking at you.
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If I was willing to look atmyself in the mirror to see
where I'm going wrong, I'm lessinclined to point fingers at you
.
Now, if I can identify theissue within myself, I am less
concerned with pointing out yourissues.
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I am.
I am less concerned withpointing out your issues.
The word tells me about umpointing out the moat in someone
else's eye when I have a beamin mind.
Right.
So I got crust in my eye.
I got a problem on my face.
I got a pimple on my face, butinstead of focusing on the
pimple on my face, I'm lookingat a pimple on my face.
But instead of focusing on thepimple on my face, I'm looking
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at the pimple on somebody else'sface.
I'm pointing out your problemand your issue instead of
focusing on mine first.
If most, if we were to do that,oh, my goodness, man, you know,
you know there are wars thatwould end.
I don't even I'm man, I'm notgoing to get political on this
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podcast, but there are so manyproblems among us as a people,
us as brothers and sisters, thatwould end today.
That would end today.
They could end today.
I mean right now, right now, asI speak, there is somebody with
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an issue With someone else.
There is somebody who hasn'tspoken to somebody else In days,
in weeks, in months, in years.
There is somebody, listening Tothe sound of my voice, who has
not spoken to a family member inyears because of an issue that
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you guys have.
And I'm here to tell you, or askyou rather have you looked in
the mirror?
Have you looked in the mirror?
Have you looked in the mirror?
Are you sure the problem isthem?
Are you 100% sure that theproblem is them?
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Is it possible that you couldalso be a problem?
Is it?
Is it possible that you havealso contributed to this issue?
Now and watch this, now, watchthis, because it's always easier
for us to.
So now, as you see, this is howthis podcast is going to take
shape.
These are the things I'm goingto discuss, and I kind of want
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to do an entire chronicle onjust this topic right here,
looking in the mirror, and Ithink I will.
Maybe I'll leave this one alonefor now.
I kind of teased it a littlebit, I kind of I kind of touched
on it.
Maybe I'll do an entire jointon that, because I think that's
necessary.
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But are you sure the problem isonly on them.
And so now what we do is wehave these issues with people
and then we sit back and wedon't say anything.
So now I'm not talking to you,you're not talking to me, and go
by, we don't speak to eachother.
I may see you at Thanksgivingand I'm not really talking to
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you.
Maybe at Christmas, not talkingto you.
And if we were all able to justlook in the mirror, identify the
issue within ourselves and thentake a step back, we would be
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so much more willing to forgivethat other person If I was able
to identify the wrong that's inme.
I would be less inclined tokill this other person, not
literally, but I wouldn't be sofast to crucify this other
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person if I was able to identifythe wrong that I have done.
Shout out to my NCACI shirt.
So listen, man, I'm going toget into that, I'm going to get
real.
Man, I, I, I'm going, I'm gonnaget into that, I'm gonna, I'm
gonna get, I'm gonna get real,real, I'm gonna go real in on
that right there at a later date.
I just kind of wanted to touchon that, and that's a big part
of mediation.
Um, because it's not me, it's,it's.
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It should not always be meversus you.
I have to recognize that it'sme and you versus the problem.
My job is to live in harmonywith you.
My job is to be at peace withyou.
I don't want to get my Bible isright next to me, but my job is
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to be at peace with you, tolive peaceably with all men and
women.
When I say men, it's referringto men and women.
That's one of my jobs, right?
And so that's a lot of timeswhen I'm mediating between
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people or mediating I don't knowwhy I said it like that, but a
lot of times when I'm mediatingbetween people, that's that is
my initial focus.
Well, number one it right now.
Let's.
We got to tackle this problemand it has to be us versus this
problem.
If I'm able to do that off therip, then, boom, I'll be able to
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take the necessary steps thatwe need to take as individuals
to move forward.
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No-transcript.
I think it's extremelyimportant, as I have mentioned,
that there is a morally correctway for me to govern my life.
There is, there is, and I amgoing to pull on many, many
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different topics, pull on many,many different topics.
You know, this is only thesecond episode and I believe it.
I've actually recorded someother stuff that I felt was a
little bit too incendiary.
I kind of want to lay afoundation first here before I
go into the different topicsthat I have, and I'm really, I'm
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really looking forward to it.
I'm really looking forward toit.
I'm really looking forward toit because I do believe there is
a need, there is a need for it,there is a need for it.
Man, there is a need for it,and I'm here to be a vessel.
I was saying earlier, I'm not ateacher.
I'm not a teacher, I'm not aphilosopher, I didn't go to
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school for, for for any of this,I do believe God has given me
wisdom because I have prayed forit.
I have prayed and I'mconstantly praying for that and
I'm constantly praying for thatand, like Solomon, an
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understanding heart, notnecessarily to judge between his
great people, but to do what Ican to help and to help people
gain perspective.
I shout out to my boy, vicksVibes, vick Hardison, wherever
you at man, much love, much loveto you.
I heard Vick say a long timeago if you change your
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perspective, you'll change yourlife, and a lot of us need a
perspective shift on our moralcompass.
A lot of us.
A lot of us need a perspectiveshift on our moral compass.
A lot of us, a lot of us.
I did a video the other day ornot the other day, that's like
what Caribbean say and it was awhole year ago.
I did a video a year ago and itwas it derived from a post that
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was on the Shade Room.
I did a whole video and I waslike one of my first videos, and
it was it derived from a postthat was on the shade room.
I did a whole video and I waslike one of my first videos and
it was received very well.
But the post said something likewhatever you lose from telling
your truth is not a loss, it's a, it's an alignment and I'm like
bro, what is wrong with people?
Of course, that was like.
It was like a shade room postor I don't know, just an LA boy
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or one of them, one of themfoolish joints, man.
And I'm like yo, what is wrongwith people?
Whatever I lose from telling mytruth and that was, that was a
whole thing I went into becauseit's like we are straying so far
from the truth and I don't evenwant to.
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Don't, let me go into the truthfor real, because I'll go into
the truth for real and I, justfor the podcast, I just held up
a Bible for real, for real, but,like, I don't even want to say,
forget about the truth for asecond.
Like this is the ultimate truth,right, but when we're, when the
when, that what, what truth isthat post referring to?
It's referring to my truth,like what I believe, what I feel
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, I me, me, me.
That's what it's referring toand and I'm just like, and I and
I go through the comments andI'm seeing people like really
eating this post up because itvalidates them and them cutting
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people off and them losingpeople that used to be in their
lives.
It justifies the foolishness,it justifies the horrible
mentality of this generation,this, this day and age.
It's disgusting and that is amentality that is shared across
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the across the world.
Me, me, me, I, I, I.
Whatever I lose from telling mytruth is not a loss.
Whoever I lose from telling mytruth is not a loss.
It's an alignment.
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An alignment to what and analignment to who.
That, that, that is a.
That's a.
That's a.
That's a demonic.
Oh Lord, help me.
Jesus, that that is a.
That is a demonic mindset andmentality.
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Me, me, me.
Humble yourself, man, humbleyourself, be, be okay, saying
sorry, your truth, your truth,no, what about the truth?
And that's what I said in thevideo.
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What about the actual truth,what really happened?
Because we know there's like,what do they say?
There's three sides to everystory.
Right, is my side, your side,and then the truth.
So, in other words, this iswhat, this is what they're
saying.
Whatever I lose from telling myside of the story, it's not not
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a loss, it's an alignment.
That's foolishness, bro.
I really want to call it whatit is, but this is this is a
clean podcast.
I can't get explicit on this.
It's a clean podcast and I needto be clean.
You know what I'm saying, um,but man, I, I, I listen, I, I'm
gonna get into this stuff, man,I'm gonna get into this stuff,
man, I'm gonna get into thisstuff because it needs getting
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into, and so I can't wait, man,I can't wait.
Um, very excited to continue,very excited to continue, um,
and from this point on, it willbe topic based.
So we're going to be getting onand getting straight into the
next topic that that I'm led bythe Lord to get into, excuse me,
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and I'm really looking forwardto it.
I have, I have a list of topicsalready and you know what.
I listen back to these and I'mgoing to be pulling.
I'm going to be pulling.
So, looking in the mirror,please look out for that one.
Looking in the mirror, I'mreally good.
I'm going really, really dig into the importance of looking in
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the mirror at oneself, holdingyourself accountable, and you
know what.
Being OK, being heldaccountable by a loved one.
A lot, of, a lot of times watchthis right whatever you lose
from telling your truth is not aloss.
A lot of times, you lost thatperson because they tried to
hold you accountable.
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They tried you, you.
You were being held accountableand I'm sorry to point at you
like that.
But you were being heldaccountable, rightfully.
You are rightfully being heldaccountable, you are fairly
being held accountable.
But because people don't likebeing held accountable, they,
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they run, they're gone.
You try to hold somebodyaccountable nowadays, they're
gone, that's it.
They rather, they rather ship,they rather just set the house
on fire and and and bounce brothan to be held accountable and
to have a conversation aboutwhat they did wrong and who they
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hurt.
They hurt it, man, it's.
It's getting real nasty outthere.
So I advise you y'all, y'allgood people, the people who have
that moral compass, pointed inthe right direction.
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You're true north, you're,you're headed in the right
direction.
Your true north, you're headedin the right direction.
I highly advise that we buckledown, man, because it's only
getting worse, and the wordtells us that.
The word tells us it's onlygetting worse.
It's only getting worse, it'sonly getting worse and it's
getting worse among us as apeople, in the physical and in
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the spiritual, which we can'tsee.
It's getting worse.
It's getting worse.
It's getting worse, man.
What would that meme say?
It's getting worse, it isgetting worse, all right.
So lock in with me, family,lock in with me, man, I love you
guys.
Um, until next time.
This is the moral compasschronicles.
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