August 10, 2024 • 31 mins
Can we truly return to the "old ways" of community and neighborliness in our fast-paced, tech-driven world? Join us on this heartfelt episode of Pagan Preacher as we explore the critical balance between maintaining our roots and embracing modern advancements. We discuss the collective effort needed to address pressing environmental issues, emphasizing unity across different religions and cultures. By drawing lessons from history and acknowledging our shared connection to all living beings, we foster a spirit of cooperation that transcends individualism and isolation.
Throughout this episode, we delve into the tension between old traditions and modern technology, advocating for a balanced lifestyle that respects the environment. You'll hear insights on how to harness technology responsibly, reconnect with ancestral wisdom, and address overpopulation concerns. We also highlight the power of small acts in building community, cherishing simple pleasures, and engaging in meaningful conversations about environmental responsibility. Our overarching message champions unity, thoughtful stewardship of our resources, and supporting leaders who genuinely care about these critical issues. Tune in for a hopeful, inspiring conversation that calls for a collective return to compassionate, mindful living.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everyone.
Welcome back to another episodeof the Pagan Preacher and this
spiritual journey.
Anybody ever miss the old ways.
By the old ways I mean beingneighborly, helping your
neighbor, neighbors andcommunities working together.
(00:22):
You know, in this high-stresstime we have right now election
time coming up and you knowpeople just stressed, frustrated
and at loss at where we'regoing, not only as a country or
a world, but all the way down towhat we're going to do in our
families and our homes.
(00:43):
In the old ways we can lookback even at the days of
depression, how people cametogether and found ways to make
things work.
And today, what I want to tellyou is no matter how bad it
looks, know that there is hopethat together we can get through
(01:10):
anything.
We need to lay down the biasesand the bigotry, the racism, the
divisions and the hate, theunnatural, the taught hate,
(01:30):
because we're not born hateful,we're taught it.
We're taught it by our familyor something that we witness.
But community working together.
Ultimately, that's what we needagain.
(01:53):
The old ways, because when welose grip of how it was in the
old ways and we begin movingforward into the future with
advancements in technology,advancements in almost every
degree of life we have, fromrobotics to different cars, to
everything in our homes, tocomputer systems and robotics
(02:18):
running everything we lose a bitof the benefits of the old ways
, we lose enlightenment, we loseourselves, because I think
within all of us, as humanbeings, as creatures of this
(02:41):
earth, we need this earth.
As creatures of this earth, weneed this earth.
We need To be connected To theplanet, to the things around us,
to the life around us, even tothe animals around us.
And you know, I have all kindsof friends.
(03:04):
I have Buddhist friends andHindu friends, I have Christian
friends and I have Wiccanfriends.
I have all kinds of friends ofdifferent religions and faiths
and we all know we can worktogether because religion
(03:24):
doesn't separate us.
Ego does.
Ego and pride are whatseparates us from understanding
the way it was in the old waysFor some Christians.
You say, well, I'm told toforsake the earth and to lay
(03:48):
everything else aside and justfocus.
And to you I want to just pointto Job 12, 7.
And it says but ask the animalsand they will teach you.
Or the birds in the sky andthey will teach you.
Or the birds in the sky andthey will tell you, or speak to
the earth and it will teach you,or let the fish in the sea
(04:14):
inform you what job was tryingto say there was.
Just like all religions, nativeNative Americans have said it
for centuries Hindu and Buddhist, they've all said the same
thing that we are connected toevery living creature on this
(04:38):
planet, every living life formon this planet we are connected
to.
On this planet we are connectedto and we are destroying
ourselves by destroying ourplanet.
And don't let a few people turnyou away from believing that our
(05:00):
earth is in jeopardy for manydifferent reasons, not just
man-made reasons, but reasons ofnatural cycles and all kinds of
various reasons why the earthis in jeopardy.
But the fact remains, period,the earth is in jeopardy and
with that comes us, because notonly do we need our planet to
(05:25):
survive, but we need our planetand the things around us to be
happy, to be comfortable in ourlives.
You know we don't think aboutit in our everyday lives.
Sometimes we don't realize that.
(05:46):
You know the need for thingslike pets and Going for a walk
or going for Because we needthat connection, watching
wildlife movies on TV or havingpictures, even on the wall, of a
pretty, of a pretty scene.
Our minds, our spirits, ourflesh need to be connected to
(06:12):
these things.
And all over right now, we aredestroying our planet.
We are using up all of ournatural resources Because we're
afraid.
We're afraid of the change thatmust come, and it does.
It must come For ourselves, forour planet, all the way down to
(06:38):
the smallest insect, becausethis planet doesn't belong to
one person, one species.
It belongs to all of us, all ofus together.
It doesn't matter what race weare, what culture we come from,
what religion we believe in.
(06:58):
It's the religions that alwayswant to divide, always want to
separate.
They always want to eitherconvert or destroy.
We've got to come to the point,in our enlightenment and on
this planet and as a species,that we understand that that
(07:21):
simply can't be.
Thousands of years we have livedupon this earth, on this
generation of humanity, and yetwe still argue religions written
by other men and other men'sstories from centuries ago,
(07:43):
rather than writing new ones now.
We use history as a lesson, weuse them to learn from, but
today we look around and theonly thing we're focused on is
well, I got to do my job, I gotto make some money, I got to pay
(08:04):
my bills, I gotta I gotta getme this car and, yeah, I know I
gotta try to do what I can tosave the planet, but you know, I
can only do so much.
It's together and it's one dayat a time, one avenue at a time.
But first it's coming to therealization and the awakening
(08:27):
for all of us that we're all notjust talking trash when we say
we've got to do something and wegot to do something now.
We've got to continue to moveforward in technology, but we
need to move backwards towardsthe old ways when it comes to
(08:50):
our spirituality community.
You know the way we worktogether as a whole.
The problem with our countryright now is it's it's everyone
for themselves, every individualor every family for themselves.
(09:12):
And I understand it, don't getme wrong.
I do understand because you andyours is what's important and
you're trying to protect what isyours and that is honorable.
But we have to find the placeand the way to come together.
(09:36):
We have religious bodies thatbring in millions and yet we
have homelessness and povertyand people starving in the
streets.
We have people that don't havethe money to fix their homes,
(10:02):
fix their cars, these littlethings that community used to do
.
Have you ever been in an Amishtown?
When they need something built,or even certain religions?
I had some Jehovah Witnessfriends and man.
When I tell you, when they wantsomething done, when they want
(10:23):
something built, they gettogether and boom, it's done.
The Amish are the same way.
Some people have forgottenthose ways.
I'm not endorsing thesereligions or anything of that
nature.
I'm just using them as anexample of community and
remembering the old ways, nativeAmericans.
(10:46):
We all lived, or they all lived, in tribes together.
They didn't use all kinds ofspace, they used what they
needed.
Today we have people living infive, six bedroom houses,
driving six cars, living on 500acres, and I understand it and I
(11:13):
don't want to make anybodyangry, but we have to understand
that it's not when one personhas this or does this, but when
millions do, or even thousandsdo.
We consume the land.
Right now, I live in the stateof Indiana and I'm watching our
(11:38):
farmland disappear by the day.
I'm watching the homes of ourwildlife disappear and go
extinct.
So we can build moreinfrastructure, so we can house
more human beings, build morecities, build more stores, all
while destroying everythingaround us, not realizing that
(12:03):
when it's all destroyed, whenthe trees are gone and the
wildlife is gone, we will perishas well.
No matter the technology thatwe get, no matter what we
believe, as human beings, thatwe need, the balance of life has
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already been put here.
It's already been placed here,and we have been destroying that
balance from the day one.
It seems like so many people,and it's not just the rich
corporate, it's everything downto the man who changes his oil
(12:45):
in the car and then dumps hisoil in the backyard, not
thinking about what could happen, what does happen, and then
realize that it wasn't just theone man that did it, but that
day, several thousands of mendid that same thing.
All kinds of small scenarios,building day upon day upon day,
(13:14):
things soaking down into thewater table, destroying our
water, destroying thefoundations of our earth,
removing all of our fields, ourwildlife.
It's almost like a cry ofMother Earth.
You know, crying, screaming.
(13:35):
Please save me so I can saveyou, because when the balance is
completely broken, we perish.
Mother Earth has many timeshealed herself.
The problem is when MotherEarth has many times healed
(13:56):
herself.
The problem is when MotherEarth decides that it's time to
heal herself and that she mustrecycle, remake and restart over
.
It also comes with devastation.
It comes with great pain andanguish and torment.
It comes with death becauseeven your scripture says that
(14:19):
God is no respecter of persons,which means that when it's time,
when things must happen for thebenefit of the whole, it's not
about who you are, how muchmoney you have or anything of
that nature.
When it's time, if you're inthe way, that's it.
(14:41):
But we can halt these things.
We can with our technology, ourknowledge and our wisdom.
We can help Mother Earth inthese cycles so that these
cycles are not completely andutterly devastating to all life
(15:03):
on Earth.
We have the ability.
The problem is we have stubbornindividuals that don't want to
believe and then we havestubborn greedy corporate that
don't want to lose profit.
(15:26):
They don't want to changedifferent things.
You know, I understand this.
I understand that.
You know people in the oilfields.
You know that in the justthings of this nature, we
understand that this goes backyears upon years, upon years and
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families and families andfamilies, and massive change can
devastate and alter the entirepower system of our planet, for
the people that are in power nowwouldn't necessarily be in
power then.
Someone else would step up withnew technology, different
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technology.
People are afraid of differenttechnology, people are afraid of
losing, people are afraid ofhanding over that power to save
us, but yet, at the same time,they don't want to make any kind
of sacrifice.
It's like, well, if we couldjust get through this, I'll be
okay.
It's not going to happen untilI'm passed on.
(16:33):
But what about your children?
How about their children?
Or, heck, how about even theirchildren?
If we know these things arecoming and scientists have
already said that this isguaranteed, scientists have
already said that this isguaranteed If we don't make
change and get back to the oldways, it's all going to be over.
(16:56):
We'll be lucky if anybodysurvives.
These cycles have happenedbefore and other people, very
small amounts of people, survive.
We have the knowledge.
We have the knowledge, we havethe technology.
And when I say we need to getback to the old ways, I know
(17:19):
I've talked a little bit andkind of rambled a little bit on
the need.
But it's that community feeling, that connection, is how we get
back and we break the fear ofchange.
We break the fear of talkingabout it.
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When someone says somethingabout climate change and someone
else says, oh, that's just bull, that's just politicians trying
to, you know.
But what we have to understandwhen it comes to science, when
it comes to things of thisnature, pinpointing the exact
day and time is absolutelydifficult, because even your
(18:07):
Bible says that no one knows aday or time and some of us work
day in and day out saving thisplanet.
So what scientists said wouldtake 50 years has now lasted 150
years Because of the peoplethat work behind the scenes.
(18:27):
Work behind the scenes andpulling trash out of the oceans
by the tons, cleaning the watersas they can and conservatory
measures of animal life and land.
People working every day, justtrying to, just a little bit at
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a time, to save Mother Earth andthis balance of life.
The old ways, you say, well,there's no way we can have the
old ways and have the new waysat the same time.
But we can.
We can have technology when weunderstand technology.
We can have technology when weunderstand technology and that
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we understand technology in aviewpoint that we don't want
technology that destroys.
We don't want to build thingsthat do nothing but destroy, but
we want to build things thatcreate, enable, empower and
strengthen.
You know, we all the time, ourmilitaries and our greatest
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minds in this planet work andbuild bigger and bigger weapons
to destroy each other anddestroy things around us
Biological warfare and bombs andplanes.
And my God, what if we justcame together as a whole?
Think of what we could do.
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Why do we hate each other?
Why do we fight each other?
Why can't we just share theresources, taking only what we
need, applying what we know fromthe old ways and advancing from
the future into the future?
(20:26):
I mean, we can remember whatour forefathers taught us, what
our ancestors taught us, and wecan move forward, even using the
technologies that are faradvanced from what we know now,
(20:49):
because there are alreadyadvances out there that would
astonish most people on thisplanet.
But most of us on this planetright now are nowhere near ready
.
We're like children withdangerous toys, because we've
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learned or we have the knowledgeand the intellect to build
things, but we don't have thewisdom to understand how to
apply them and when never toapply them.
This earth belongs to us all andit seems like for centuries
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that's all we've done is fightand fight and fight, killing
each other.
People will say well, we needit for population control too.
That's what, and that's thesilliest thing, that because we
don't need population control,but people are understanding
(21:53):
their place in this world, thatwe can't be like insects or like
roaches that just breed andjust consume everything around
us until it's gone.
We're supposed to beintelligent life, that if we
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want a family, that's great, butwe can't, for the sake of the
purpose of this earth, justbreed like it's of no
circumstance, because it is.
Because this earth has abalance and, like all animal
life, human life is the same.
(22:35):
For every life that is born,one must pass.
There must be a balance.
And when we constantly, withoutregard, just continue to have
babies without even consideringit and you've got people out
(22:55):
there that are forcing people tohave babies, and I'm not even
going to get into that, butgoing back to the old ways
community, caring for each other, remembering that connection to
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the things around us, don'tforsake just going to the park
and sitting and relaxing,watching the squirrels, maybe
even feeding the squirrels,hurting a bird feeder in front
of your living room window orsomeplace where you sit and
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watch the birds feed the birdsbe a part of that balance.
To wash the birds feed thebirds.
Be a part of that balance.
Do those little things thatcontribute.
Make sure that when you dothings at home, you do them the
correct way, the safe way,everything from just conserving
water to, you know, just yourtrash.
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We can make differences, but wemake the differences when we
find our way back to who we were, because we're lost, ladies and
gentlemen.
We are lost.
We're lost in a rat race ofwho's got more in the Joneses.
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I've got more than theneighbors, for the neighbors got
more than for.
Their grass is tall and ourgrass is not.
They got a better lawnmowerthan we do, got a faster car.
We need to get to the pointwhere you know what we don't
care.
What we care about is do theyhave love?
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Do they have community?
Do they have a support?
Are we all working together orare we just working to destroy
each other, consuming what weneed?
Are we consuming likegluttonous?
How are we living on this earth?
No matter what religion you are, or whether you're no religion
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at all, you have to agree withthis that we all have
responsibility to the life onthis planet and to this planet
itself.
That we were given dominionover this earth to nurture it,
to care for it, to tend to it,not to use it up, destroy it and
(25:38):
kill everything on it but us,and then eventually kill ourself
off Because it seems likethat's all we do anyway.
You know it's sad and it grievesthe spirit and it should grieve
you right now.
Listening, our ancestors wouldroll over in the grave if they
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saw where we are right now.
Do you honor your traditions?
Do you even remember yourtraditions?
Do you know who you are in yourroots, where you come from?
How many of us have forsakenwho we are or don't even know
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who we are, because all we knowis where we were born.
We were born in this town, inthis state or this area.
But where do you come from?
Are you European?
Are you African?
Are you?
You know what are you?
These things are roots.
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When we get down deep, have wetraded our own culture of our
ancestors for religions thataren't even our own?
And then we try to.
We don't understand why we'resad, why we're depressed, why we
?
Because the spirits around us,the ancestors, are trying to
(27:06):
speak and they speak through thewind and the trees and the
birds, but most of us have lostthat ability to listen.
Our ancestors are trying totell us, if we don't find the
way back to the old way, that weare all doomed that it doesn't
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matter who gets elected for whoor for what.
It requires us.
It requires us working togetheras one.
And, yes, it does requirebeginning to elect people that
actually care themselves, notcare about corporate profit or
(27:54):
care about you know, the thingsthat might seem important, but
we need to focus on what trulyis important.
This earth is dying, we aredying.
We're dying emotionally,spiritually, not only physically
(28:18):
, and I urge you right now, justwherever you are, just stop for
a minute and just look around.
Where are you?
Are you happy?
Is the location you are?
Does it make you happy?
Does it frustrate you?
(28:38):
Does it make you feel anxiouswith anxiety?
Or does it make you feelanxious with anxiety?
Or does it make you sad?
And then imagine within yourmind's eye what makes you happy
and brings you peace Simplecookout in the backyard with
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family and the dog, the familydog, little things.
That's connection, that'sconnecting with life and the
earth and everything around you.
Take some time and do thosethings.
(29:21):
They're not small things.
They're not little things.
Take the time to go sit on theporch, like you want to and read
that book, maybe have a hot cupof coffee or a cold glass of
iced tea and just wave at aneighbor that walks by, be
friendly, start building thatcommunity back up.
(29:45):
When you see somebody hungry,offer something needs help,
offer that.
Help.
Talk to people about things anddon't be afraid of what they're
gonna say.
Oh, you're one of them, treehuggers.
No, but you know, without,without the trees, we all die.
(30:08):
Thank you everybody for takingthe time to listen.
Be blessed and blessed.
Be Thank you.
Welcome everyone.
Welcome back to another episodeof the Pagan Preacher and this
spiritual journey.
Anybody ever miss the old ways.
By the old ways I mean beingneighborly, helping your
neighbor, neighbors andcommunities working together.
(00:22):
You know, in this high-stresstime we have right now election
time coming up and you knowpeople just stressed, frustrated
and at loss at where we'regoing, not only as a country or
a world, but all the way down towhat we're going to do in our
families and our homes.
(00:43):
In the old ways we can lookback even at the days of
depression, how people cametogether and found ways to make
things work.
And today, what I want to tellyou is no matter how bad it
looks, know that there is hopethat together we can get through
(01:10):
anything.
We need to lay down the biasesand the bigotry, the racism, the
divisions and the hate, theunnatural, the taught hate,
(01:30):
because we're not born hateful,we're taught it.
We're taught it by our familyor something that we witness.
But community working together.
Ultimately, that's what we needagain.
(01:53):
The old ways, because when welose grip of how it was in the
old ways and we begin movingforward into the future with
advancements in technology,advancements in almost every
degree of life we have, fromrobotics to different cars, to
everything in our homes, tocomputer systems and robotics
(02:18):
running everything we lose a bitof the benefits of the old ways
, we lose enlightenment, we loseourselves, because I think
within all of us, as humanbeings, as creatures of this
(02:41):
earth, we need this earth.
As creatures of this earth, weneed this earth.
We need To be connected To theplanet, to the things around us,
to the life around us, even tothe animals around us.
And you know, I have all kindsof friends.
(03:04):
I have Buddhist friends andHindu friends, I have Christian
friends and I have Wiccanfriends.
I have all kinds of friends ofdifferent religions and faiths
and we all know we can worktogether because religion
(03:24):
doesn't separate us.
Ego does.
Ego and pride are whatseparates us from understanding
the way it was in the old waysFor some Christians.
You say, well, I'm told toforsake the earth and to lay
(03:48):
everything else aside and justfocus.
And to you I want to just pointto Job 12, 7.
And it says but ask the animalsand they will teach you.
Or the birds in the sky andthey will teach you.
Or the birds in the sky andthey will tell you, or speak to
the earth and it will teach you,or let the fish in the sea
(04:14):
inform you what job was tryingto say there was.
Just like all religions, nativeNative Americans have said it
for centuries Hindu and Buddhist, they've all said the same
thing that we are connected toevery living creature on this
(04:38):
planet, every living life formon this planet we are connected
to.
On this planet we are connectedto and we are destroying
ourselves by destroying ourplanet.
And don't let a few people turnyou away from believing that our
(05:00):
earth is in jeopardy for manydifferent reasons, not just
man-made reasons, but reasons ofnatural cycles and all kinds of
various reasons why the earthis in jeopardy.
But the fact remains, period,the earth is in jeopardy and
with that comes us, because notonly do we need our planet to
(05:25):
survive, but we need our planetand the things around us to be
happy, to be comfortable in ourlives.
You know we don't think aboutit in our everyday lives.
Sometimes we don't realize that.
(05:46):
You know the need for thingslike pets and Going for a walk
or going for Because we needthat connection, watching
wildlife movies on TV or havingpictures, even on the wall, of a
pretty, of a pretty scene.
Our minds, our spirits, ourflesh need to be connected to
(06:12):
these things.
And all over right now, we aredestroying our planet.
We are using up all of ournatural resources Because we're
afraid.
We're afraid of the change thatmust come, and it does.
It must come For ourselves, forour planet, all the way down to
(06:38):
the smallest insect, becausethis planet doesn't belong to
one person, one species.
It belongs to all of us, all ofus together.
It doesn't matter what race weare, what culture we come from,
what religion we believe in.
(06:58):
It's the religions that alwayswant to divide, always want to
separate.
They always want to eitherconvert or destroy.
We've got to come to the point,in our enlightenment and on
this planet and as a species,that we understand that that
(07:21):
simply can't be.
Thousands of years we have livedupon this earth, on this
generation of humanity, and yetwe still argue religions written
by other men and other men'sstories from centuries ago,
(07:43):
rather than writing new ones now.
We use history as a lesson, weuse them to learn from, but
today we look around and theonly thing we're focused on is
well, I got to do my job, I gotto make some money, I got to pay
(08:04):
my bills, I gotta I gotta getme this car and, yeah, I know I
gotta try to do what I can tosave the planet, but you know, I
can only do so much.
It's together and it's one dayat a time, one avenue at a time.
But first it's coming to therealization and the awakening
(08:27):
for all of us that we're all notjust talking trash when we say
we've got to do something and wegot to do something now.
We've got to continue to moveforward in technology, but we
need to move backwards towardsthe old ways when it comes to
(08:50):
our spirituality community.
You know the way we worktogether as a whole.
The problem with our countryright now is it's it's everyone
for themselves, every individualor every family for themselves.
(09:12):
And I understand it, don't getme wrong.
I do understand because you andyours is what's important and
you're trying to protect what isyours and that is honorable.
But we have to find the placeand the way to come together.
(09:36):
We have religious bodies thatbring in millions and yet we
have homelessness and povertyand people starving in the
streets.
We have people that don't havethe money to fix their homes,
(10:02):
fix their cars, these littlethings that community used to do
.
Have you ever been in an Amishtown?
When they need something built,or even certain religions?
I had some Jehovah Witnessfriends and man.
When I tell you, when they wantsomething done, when they want
(10:23):
something built, they gettogether and boom, it's done.
The Amish are the same way.
Some people have forgottenthose ways.
I'm not endorsing thesereligions or anything of that
nature.
I'm just using them as anexample of community and
remembering the old ways, nativeAmericans.
(10:46):
We all lived, or they all lived, in tribes together.
They didn't use all kinds ofspace, they used what they
needed.
Today we have people living infive, six bedroom houses,
driving six cars, living on 500acres, and I understand it and I
(11:13):
don't want to make anybodyangry, but we have to understand
that it's not when one personhas this or does this, but when
millions do, or even thousandsdo.
We consume the land.
Right now, I live in the stateof Indiana and I'm watching our
(11:38):
farmland disappear by the day.
I'm watching the homes of ourwildlife disappear and go
extinct.
So we can build moreinfrastructure, so we can house
more human beings, build morecities, build more stores, all
while destroying everythingaround us, not realizing that
(12:03):
when it's all destroyed, whenthe trees are gone and the
wildlife is gone, we will perishas well.
No matter the technology thatwe get, no matter what we
believe, as human beings, thatwe need, the balance of life has
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already been put here.
It's already been placed here,and we have been destroying that
balance from the day one.
It seems like so many people,and it's not just the rich
corporate, it's everything downto the man who changes his oil
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in the car and then dumps hisoil in the backyard, not
thinking about what could happen, what does happen, and then
realize that it wasn't just theone man that did it, but that
day, several thousands of mendid that same thing.
All kinds of small scenarios,building day upon day upon day,
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things soaking down into thewater table, destroying our
water, destroying thefoundations of our earth,
removing all of our fields, ourwildlife.
It's almost like a cry ofMother Earth.
You know, crying, screaming.
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Please save me so I can saveyou, because when the balance is
completely broken, we perish.
Mother Earth has many timeshealed herself.
The problem is when MotherEarth has many times healed
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herself.
The problem is when MotherEarth decides that it's time to
heal herself and that she mustrecycle, remake and restart over
.
It also comes with devastation.
It comes with great pain andanguish and torment.
It comes with death becauseeven your scripture says that
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God is no respecter of persons,which means that when it's time,
when things must happen for thebenefit of the whole, it's not
about who you are, how muchmoney you have or anything of
that nature.
When it's time, if you're inthe way, that's it.
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But we can halt these things.
We can with our technology, ourknowledge and our wisdom.
We can help Mother Earth inthese cycles so that these
cycles are not completely andutterly devastating to all life
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on Earth.
We have the ability.
The problem is we have stubbornindividuals that don't want to
believe and then we havestubborn greedy corporate that
don't want to lose profit.
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They don't want to changedifferent things.
You know, I understand this.
I understand that.
You know people in the oilfields.
You know that in the justthings of this nature, we
understand that this goes backyears upon years, upon years and
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families and families andfamilies, and massive change can
devastate and alter the entirepower system of our planet, for
the people that are in power nowwouldn't necessarily be in
power then.
Someone else would step up withnew technology, different
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technology.
People are afraid of differenttechnology, people are afraid of
losing, people are afraid ofhanding over that power to save
us, but yet, at the same time,they don't want to make any kind
of sacrifice.
It's like, well, if we couldjust get through this, I'll be
okay.
It's not going to happen untilI'm passed on.
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But what about your children?
How about their children?
Or, heck, how about even theirchildren?
If we know these things arecoming and scientists have
already said that this isguaranteed, scientists have
already said that this isguaranteed If we don't make
change and get back to the oldways, it's all going to be over.
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We'll be lucky if anybodysurvives.
These cycles have happenedbefore and other people, very
small amounts of people, survive.
We have the knowledge.
We have the knowledge, we havethe technology.
And when I say we need to getback to the old ways, I know
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I've talked a little bit andkind of rambled a little bit on
the need.
But it's that community feeling, that connection, is how we get
back and we break the fear ofchange.
We break the fear of talkingabout it.
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When someone says somethingabout climate change and someone
else says, oh, that's just bull, that's just politicians trying
to, you know.
But what we have to understandwhen it comes to science, when
it comes to things of thisnature, pinpointing the exact
day and time is absolutelydifficult, because even your
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Bible says that no one knows aday or time and some of us work
day in and day out saving thisplanet.
So what scientists said wouldtake 50 years has now lasted 150
years Because of the peoplethat work behind the scenes.
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Work behind the scenes andpulling trash out of the oceans
by the tons, cleaning the watersas they can and conservatory
measures of animal life and land.
People working every day, justtrying to, just a little bit at
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a time, to save Mother Earth andthis balance of life.
The old ways, you say, well,there's no way we can have the
old ways and have the new waysat the same time.
But we can.
We can have technology when weunderstand technology.
We can have technology when weunderstand technology and that
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we understand technology in aviewpoint that we don't want
technology that destroys.
We don't want to build thingsthat do nothing but destroy, but
we want to build things thatcreate, enable, empower and
strengthen.
You know, we all the time, ourmilitaries and our greatest
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minds in this planet work andbuild bigger and bigger weapons
to destroy each other anddestroy things around us
Biological warfare and bombs andplanes.
And my God, what if we justcame together as a whole?
Think of what we could do.
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Why do we hate each other?
Why do we fight each other?
Why can't we just share theresources, taking only what we
need, applying what we know fromthe old ways and advancing from
the future into the future?
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I mean, we can remember whatour forefathers taught us, what
our ancestors taught us, and wecan move forward, even using the
technologies that are faradvanced from what we know now,
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because there are alreadyadvances out there that would
astonish most people on thisplanet.
But most of us on this planetright now are nowhere near ready
.
We're like children withdangerous toys, because we've
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learned or we have the knowledgeand the intellect to build
things, but we don't have thewisdom to understand how to
apply them and when never toapply them.
This earth belongs to us all andit seems like for centuries
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that's all we've done is fightand fight and fight, killing
each other.
People will say well, we needit for population control too.
That's what, and that's thesilliest thing, that because we
don't need population control,but people are understanding
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their place in this world, thatwe can't be like insects or like
roaches that just breed andjust consume everything around
us until it's gone.
We're supposed to beintelligent life, that if we
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want a family, that's great, butwe can't, for the sake of the
purpose of this earth, justbreed like it's of no
circumstance, because it is.
Because this earth has abalance and, like all animal
life, human life is the same.
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For every life that is born,one must pass.
There must be a balance.
And when we constantly, withoutregard, just continue to have
babies without even consideringit and you've got people out
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there that are forcing people tohave babies, and I'm not even
going to get into that, butgoing back to the old ways
community, caring for each other, remembering that connection to
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the things around us, don'tforsake just going to the park
and sitting and relaxing,watching the squirrels, maybe
even feeding the squirrels,hurting a bird feeder in front
of your living room window orsomeplace where you sit and
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watch the birds feed the birdsbe a part of that balance.
To wash the birds feed thebirds.
Be a part of that balance.
Do those little things thatcontribute.
Make sure that when you dothings at home, you do them the
correct way, the safe way,everything from just conserving
water to, you know, just yourtrash.
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We can make differences, but wemake the differences when we
find our way back to who we were, because we're lost, ladies and
gentlemen.
We are lost.
We're lost in a rat race ofwho's got more in the Joneses.
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I've got more than theneighbors, for the neighbors got
more than for.
Their grass is tall and ourgrass is not.
They got a better lawnmowerthan we do, got a faster car.
We need to get to the pointwhere you know what we don't
care.
What we care about is do theyhave love?
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Do they have community?
Do they have a support?
Are we all working together orare we just working to destroy
each other, consuming what weneed?
Are we consuming likegluttonous?
How are we living on this earth?
No matter what religion you are, or whether you're no religion
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at all, you have to agree withthis that we all have
responsibility to the life onthis planet and to this planet
itself.
That we were given dominionover this earth to nurture it,
to care for it, to tend to it,not to use it up, destroy it and
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kill everything on it but us,and then eventually kill ourself
off Because it seems likethat's all we do anyway.
You know it's sad and it grievesthe spirit and it should grieve
you right now.
Listening, our ancestors wouldroll over in the grave if they
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saw where we are right now.
Do you honor your traditions?
Do you even remember yourtraditions?
Do you know who you are in yourroots, where you come from?
How many of us have forsakenwho we are or don't even know
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who we are, because all we knowis where we were born.
We were born in this town, inthis state or this area.
But where do you come from?
Are you European?
Are you African?
Are you?
You know what are you?
These things are roots.
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When we get down deep, have wetraded our own culture of our
ancestors for religions thataren't even our own?
And then we try to.
We don't understand why we'resad, why we're depressed, why we
?
Because the spirits around us,the ancestors, are trying to
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speak and they speak through thewind and the trees and the
birds, but most of us have lostthat ability to listen.
Our ancestors are trying totell us, if we don't find the
way back to the old way, that weare all doomed that it doesn't
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matter who gets elected for whoor for what.
It requires us.
It requires us working togetheras one.
And, yes, it does requirebeginning to elect people that
actually care themselves, notcare about corporate profit or
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care about you know, the thingsthat might seem important, but
we need to focus on what trulyis important.
This earth is dying, we aredying.
We're dying emotionally,spiritually, not only physically
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, and I urge you right now, justwherever you are, just stop for
a minute and just look around.
Where are you?
Are you happy?
Is the location you are?
Does it make you happy?
Does it frustrate you?
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Does it make you feel anxiouswith anxiety?
Or does it make you feelanxious with anxiety?
Or does it make you sad?
And then imagine within yourmind's eye what makes you happy
and brings you peace Simplecookout in the backyard with
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family and the dog, the familydog, little things.
That's connection, that'sconnecting with life and the
earth and everything around you.
Take some time and do thosethings.
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They're not small things.
They're not little things.
Take the time to go sit on theporch, like you want to and read
that book, maybe have a hot cupof coffee or a cold glass of
iced tea and just wave at aneighbor that walks by, be
friendly, start building thatcommunity back up.
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When you see somebody hungry,offer something needs help,
offer that.
Help.
Talk to people about things anddon't be afraid of what they're
gonna say.
Oh, you're one of them, treehuggers.
No, but you know, without,without the trees, we all die.
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Thank you everybody for takingthe time to listen.
Be blessed and blessed.
Be Thank you.
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