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Bassem Youssef

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  1. “I will never because their input is different than mine. But there's one thing I learned when people told me did the revolution fail in Egypt? Did people that the people revolutionary? I was like, listen, the revolution is not an event. It's not like, hey, we go in, we topple the government. It's not under revolution. A revolution is a process. It's a very long process. And maybe that process, I mean, as much as we don't like what happened in the Arab world, but the people there, the awareness that happened and the discussions that have been opened that when you didn't even imagine what happened in the Middle East is happening. And maybe the beginning of any hope of change is that people start talking speaking out, talking about stuff they were not allowed to speak about. Like for example, Israel.”

    2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Getting nervous because people are calling them out. And those people were like hiding behind their desk behind in their offices and not holding a couch for that, but like people now are calling them out. And it is not going to happen like this year or next year. But I think it's something.”

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  3. “I think There is a wealth of it, you know, remember like the joke that said, we thought that when we have internet, we're going to have be more informed and now we're watching Twerkin videos and that is true. But on the other side, the fact that you have the availability of information. I'm learning a lot. And there's people who are using that platform for that. It's not the majority because it's not very interesting and exciting. But I think there might be a tipping point where there's enough people that will be aware and maybe they would collectively do something in order to bring back the power to the small man. And maybe it sounds very naive. Maybe, but we don't know. We don't know because you have already seen the legacy media and the legacy politicians shaking in the past few months.”

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  4. “So now you all would have these revelations, but these revelations mean nothing if you don't have an effective weapon in order to make it happen. And this is the crazy thing. And I'm worried that the end is going to be by someone that wants to meet God a little bit earlier.”

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  5. “Am I getting? And the problem is Islam has their people that believe that at the end of time, and then we have the Christians that believe in the end of time. And then you have Israel happy that those people are using it for the end of time. And then the whole idea about them pushing as many weapons and troops and people in the Middle East to be there for the nuclear Holocaust. And John Haggy, one of the pastors, talk about that, about the brimstones, and it's not going to be a nuclear holocaust. All that people, it's crazy how people are so despising life that they are wanting death.”

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  6. “You have another factor that will contribute to that. And remember how the radical Islamists talk about the end of time and whatever, but most of the Islamicans don't have that much power. Problem is with Christian Zionists now being on the top of the world with America. They have been pushing for that kind of conflict to kind of escalate. Listen to Sarah Palins. God wants us here. Like Arl Drove, all of the new cons, the dispensationalist dragon. There's an incredible book called Forcing the Hands of Gods. Beautiful book. I read this like, it's published 1998, but it still matters today. The whole idea about especially the Zionist Christians who love Israel, but they hate the Jews. They're anti-Semite, but they love Israel because of its role. This is all basically formed because of the interpretation of the Bible of Schofield and how they talk about the end of time than Amargedon. And then the late great planet Earth and then left behind Sirius and all of that. It's all about like we're heading to.”

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  7. “Because here's the thing Humanity is destined to have war, especially it will have war. But something happened in the last 50 years. Now we have much more lethal weapons. The problem is the beginning is like swords against swords, horses, cavalry, like cannons, catapults, medium missiles, chika, chiki, chiki. But now we're like, you know, like a press of a button, you can annihilate the whole plant And this is the problem. Wars will always continue. The problem is when is going to be the tipping point where we are actually going to destroy ourselves. And it is so easy now to destroy ourselves. The amount of weapons and the quality of weapons that we have. Is designed to kill more effectively. It's like we can create our own destruction on ourselves. And I think we're not that far away from it.”

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  8. “It's like we just like, I think, I think because of the West is more advanced, like in movies and cinemas, we kind of direct it better. I think the outcome is like the way that you kind of set the scene is like scene and scene”

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  9. “But the same happens in the West, but I'm behind closed doors. It's not that open. It's not that pronounced. It's like, ooh, oops.”

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  10. “Yeah, but what happened in Valencia in Russia is not something new in Russia. I mean, Putin has this whole history of poisoning and killing people. And it's kind of like pretty much, I would have to cite. Putin is the living example of what happens if Game of Thrones was reality. It's like death by poison, like a blow up a plane. It's like mysteriously disappears. It is so it is very dark, but it's like, wow, it's like a television show.”

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  11. “Of course, I think I'm a huge fan about putting a limit on your working years because you don't want to have a Mitch McCondon moment every now. Because now the whole thing is like, what is this? Isn't this not like a hospice care home? It is unfair. It is unfair. And the whole idea that you have a limit for the present, but you don't have limit for congress people and senators. That's what do you mean? This is basically you can go in and be in governance for forever and you know the longer that you can get the more corrupt you will get.”

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  12. “The guy is a politician. He needs bills to pay. He needs a campaign to run. He needs money. He will go to the people who will give him money. Joe Biden is the highest paid politician from Israel lobbies, $4.6 million over the years.”

    2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “Love that And it just I think the whole idea, my shock I taught you about what Biden said about Amazon is okay, we are science, but then Jews are not safe in anywhere other than it's like, dude, what the hell are you saying? And if you don't care about me and you don't care about my misery, Why would I care about you winning or losing? And I have a joke that I told people like, why would even Biden? Listen to us. He just raised $145 million in California alone from pro-Israeli groups. I mean, what can we Arabs working in the vape business do to him?”

    2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “It's all combined like 17 It is so sad. It is so sad that this is what we can produce as a society, like a demagogue and... Sleepy joe. I just not there, man. He's gone. He's gone. I mean, He could, you know, like when old people could be like a danger for themselves, he's a danger for the whole world. I mean, like the whole world, like if an old person would die, he would have a hip replacement. We can need a new planet because of one decision. But it's not just that. When I came here, listen, I'm a Democrat. I always like, and I told you, like, I vote for Bernie Sanders, I supported him in 2016, but I couldn't vote then. And of course, a huge fan of Obama. And one of my things is like he's the first Muslim president, but he killed Muslims. Like, that's the things Muslims do. But anyways.”

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  15. “Anybody who would like to push comedy forward, that is the most difficult art form and the most demanding. And the fact that you do that, and he might not even be making money out of it, but he doing that because of his passion, that is enough.”

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  16. “No, I think Joe's story was like what he did and stuff that he did in the UFC and his podcast. It's very impressive. The fact that he's there and he's bringing all of those people, whether in comedy or his podcast is very impressive. And this is what the media is all about. What is like the internet is all about to give you the experiences of stuff that you might never experience. And that is very important. I mean, you do it with people where, like, you go into their brains. He goes, take people and they take their experiences and their life and their stories. It is very interesting. And this is the beauty of that art form because... You have all of these experiences at the tips of your hands, and it is there for you to learn from. What he's doing, when he moved to Texas and we did the comedy mothership,”

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  17. “I can't. I cannot. I have a team. By the way, I give my password to like a team. I don't even go there because I went in a dark night. Very late at night. I went TikTok and it was like, Two hours. What? What is it on? No, no, no. This is dangerous. I'm reading like an Instagram and Facebook guy. I don't need that. Leave your and I barely get out of Twitter. I mean, like X, I don't, I can't.”

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  18. “This is what you're doing. No, this is what you're doing because you go into the deep dive. This is like a no filter thing. There's no spin.”

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  19. “And there's a lot of people who actually expose those lies on TikTok. So you have both. You have both. And it's kind of like the democracy of the social media, as we always call it. But if you have the street run media that is the legacy media scene in BBC New York Times, Fox News, all of those people, and they are like spreading lies and they're not even doing their journalistic job in order to at least bring the other side.”

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  20. “The TikTok tag is a TikTok guy. But if you have the New York Times being told that being exposed to be lying and then they get this like UN report, which is like a disgrace, and you just put the title and you don't talk about it, it's like, I'm fine with CNN and Jake Tapper and all of those people, like spreading the rape allegations for years. They didn't, I don't even want them to refute them. I want them to bring the Israeli reports saying that it didn't happen. The Israeli media themselves, they didn't even bother not once. Is that balanced? That's not.”

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  21. “But you cannot call people with TikTok propagandists while people being paid to can you give you the news and they deliberately lie to you.”

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  22. “You get more power in your view now, it is actually very, very fascinating to see the little man having that power over the media”

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  23. “Yes, thank God for social media because now it's individuals. They're the people. You're comparing BBC New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Genre, which is just people with a TikTok account.”

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  24. “I know but It's a lot of inequality, man. There's a lot of people on the internet. But who have the mainstream media siding with”

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  25. “And now, when it was leaked instead of them correcting themselves, they went in and they had their own investigation to see who leaked. The New York Times in 2003 became the mouthpiece of George W. Bush of the WMD. And now, as an American, I see that the New York Times becoming a mouthpiece of a foreign country. Why do you do that?”

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  26. “It is not. And this is why, for example, it is very disheartening for me to see that the Western media, Western press that used to be the beacon of freedom. Adam using as mouthpieces. And it is funny how the New York Times. Nixon got angry in the New York Times in 1971 when they found leaks about him lying about the Vietnam War since the beginning. And now he hired the plumbers, you know, the special unit in orders to go in and find the leaks. This was Watergate bas Because he was angry to see who leaked that. Instead of fixing the problem, now the New York Times have published this story about the rape that was a hoax that was written by Anna Schwartz, who someone who have no experience.”

    2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  27. “So now, in order to cut expenses, now we're paying more money. And the thing is, we do not have a say in this. We do not have a say in how my tax money and your tax money is being spent. Because I'm sure you don't want your money to be sent to Israel like that. I'm sure, even if you choose, I'm sure. I'm sure that I don't want my money to be given to some Muslim countries who kill other Muslims. I'm sure. But here's the thing. What kind of power do we have other than speaking? So what is left for us is free speech. And now when you speak, they call you anti-Semitic. You see why I'm angry?”

    2024-04-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #424 – Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  28. “It's crazy because the defense budget is 68% of American military. It's like almost 850 billion dollars each year. And most of that weapons we don't even need. Just do it because of the contract. There was like an incredible 60 minutes. I'm sure that you saw it, the one about the gouging of the prices of the Department of Defense. It was one of the most fascinating things that I've ever seen. They say like a valve, a safety oil valve that used to be sold for $329. Now it is sold for $9,000. Why? Because there is only five weapon companies and they control the prices. And in 2006, the whole Apache fleet over the American army in Iraq was grounded because there is one valve that they were like gouging the price and didn't want to give them. This Tinger missile, there's just like the missile, the one that you carry, and it's like the anti-aircraft choose to be sold for $25,000. Now it's sold for $400,000. And nobody is doing that. Because the DOD has fired 130,000 people, including engineers and negotiators.”

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  29. “Have drones and they have the lasers, and they have sitting comfortably behind the screens. It's kind of like it turns like a big Xbox game.”

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  30. “It doesn't matter now who you vote into power, they will not listen to you, they would listen to the people who paid them to be there. And it is very concerning because I can see the American democracies turning not even slowly, very rapidly into an oligarchy. I'm sure that all of the millions of people who are voting, they don't vote for the NRA. They don't vote for APAC. They don't vote for the pharmaceutical companies. They don't vote for the military complex. And yet the people in power, they come in, they take your vote, and my vote, and they are loyal to those people, not to us. And it is very, very, very concerning, very concerning. And it is, this is the danger of American policies, American politics and American democracies. It is dangerous because basically the vote Becomes just like a ceremony”

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  31. “One thing about the power of the little guy that I am very sad about because you see I love America by the way. I consider it my new home and I want my kids to grow up here. I'm very grateful for the opportunity that I have in the United States. And I criticize the United States politics and I criticize it out of love the same way that I was criticizing what's happening of Egypt out of love. What is worrying for me? How the power of the little man is diminishing.”

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  32. “Yeah. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Listen, it's always the people in power. I believe that humans are easily corruptible and easily repairable, but the corruptibility part is much easier. But people could change, but power, people in power are very dangerous. Very, very dangerous, especially if you have religion, which is powered by itself, military might, political support, and money. Dude. A very, very, very dangerous recipe.”

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  33. “Part of me thinking maybe they are doing that intentionally because if there's a rise of anti-Semitism and Jews, they will always like points like see they hate us so we can do whatever we want. Because if we let go of our might and our strength, we're going to go back to the concentration camps because you see how the word hates you.”

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  34. “And I don't think a lot of, and I don't think it is fair for a lot of Jews. I don't think that they should use the Holocaust and the persecution that happened to Jewish people all through history in order to push an equally oppressive agenda. That is not fair and it's not good for the Jewish people living. And it is basically a disrespect to the memory of the Holocaust. I told you, I want to make a movie about the Holocaust. I do, because what happened was that kind of engineered torture should never happen again and it should not be happening now.”

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  35. “I would always push back when you do the comparison because one of them is not really in the same kind of power. It's very easy to say why Palestinians will victimize themselves, but Israel, with all of that military might, man. What Israel is doing is that they're victimizing the Jewish experience.”

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  36. “In that dark times, I was detained in airports. I didn't have my American passport yet. I was still traveling with my Egyptian parent. And I was detained in an Arab airport. And I was going to be delivered to the Egyptians. I had shows when I was still starting, I had hecklers being sent to me by the Egyptian embassy and Egyptian consulate in New York and in London to curse me and to take videos of that and then send it to state run media in Egypt. And I didn't speak about that because I felt that if I speak about that, I feel about what was going on to me, I would be victimizing myself. It's like if I'm going to be good, I'm going to be good because of what I do, not because of what people's perception of what I'm going through.”

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  37. “Greed. It's greed. They want more attention. They want to be more into the thing. They want more and more. And there is so much to go around to be enough for all of us. But it is greed. It is ego. Ego. Ego. Ego. I need to be in the center. I need to be victimized. I need to feel sorry for me and love me. And it is not the right way. It is not because it is fake. It is fake. It's made up. And I did not victimize myself when I left for Egypt. I mean, in the time that I was, now I speak about it now.”

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  38. “I don't want to be. I'm doing great. I'm doing great. I'm selling out everywhere. I'm having a wonderful, loyal audience is coming to me. Why I would be angry about the role of its Superman. Yes, it's great to be in a superhero movie, but so what?”

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  39. “So I still think that the timing sucks and everything. But then I went and I did a video explaining exactly what I'm telling you because I didn't want to be famous for the wrong reasons. Because that would be unfair. Because already people were, and I was having like interviews. Can you come about the supermarkets? Like, that's it. I'm not going to talk about it because this is a non-issue. And I didn't, and when I talked to James on the phone, I felt how sincere he was. So I didn't want someone to, because of me, will have that kind of attack because I know what it means to be on the other side of that kind of attack. It's terrible and it ruins your life and it ruins your day. And nobody deserves to be doing that. And I don't want to be the reason for somebody else to go through that pain.”

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  40. “And I was pissed off how it was handled. I wasn't angry at James Gunt, but I thought it was. So my public system, I just like best him, stay on, don't speak. It's better to not talk about it. I said, okay. So there's nothing wrong about me, but I see the heat is rising against James Khan. And that is a guy that I had a personal connection with even. And I didn't like what was happening. And then he called me and he explained to me and said, Bless him, you know, I actually use have camera tests before people before finally I didn't know that. And then we changed the script and it was the strike. So I didn't call. And also I thought to myself, I'm small. I'm a small actor. I'm not that important for him to call me to say we got to change the script.”

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  41. “I said the story in a different way. I said, I don't have any anger. As a matter of fact, maybe if I was Wonder Brothers, I didn't talk about Jim Skun. I thought it was the studio. If I was Wonder Brothers and I'm a Muslim, I wouldn't have like a Zionist or a pro-Relian movie. But I want to tell them that when I criticize Israel, I am not a threat to you as a Jew. And we can actually have more in common. I was more of a kind of empathic. So when I said that the internet went crazy and you know, Jim's gonna have haters because, you know, the Snyder verse and all of that, it's a word that I don't understand. And James Gunn. Had all of these attacks on him”

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  42. “After I finish the show, he told me, Did you lose any opportunities? And that was off record after the show was like we concluded. And I said, I talked about Superman. And I found myself when I was talking, I was angry. I was bitter. And I went home. It's like, why was I angry? Why was I bitter? It wasn't meant to be and I'm living a good life now. I don't need to. So when I was asked again the next day in two different interviews, the BBC and another one was alone with my friend Dino with Allah.”

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  43. “And it was really nice. And he started to talk to me about the movie. And I talked to people before recasting them. So I know that everybody's on set have a good chemistry. It was amazing. So in your mind, if you're an actor, what does that mean? You got the part. And he told me you got the part. Month goes by, strike goes by, October 7th happens. I do Piers Morgan one and two. And then I go to my Australian tour. My manager called me, the circuit's over. It's like you don't have to part anymore. I was sad, very sad, but for three days and said, like, I need to stand up with it. I'm actually doing very well, Alhamdulillah. When I went”

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  44. “I did this mix, you know, but also like kind of like. The essence of Trump into it. I went to the airport. It's like an hour. It's like James Gunn saw it. He loves you. It's like, what? I never had an audition that fast. I mean, I had a few roles, but not that fast. Not like that. And then it's like, well, the strike starts tomorrow and we need to be on the phone after the strike. We cannot talk the Seg after strike where the writers and the actors strike. So like, well, I'm going to be on a plane right now. It's like, once you land, you can have a Zoom call with James Gunn. I have a call with James Gunn. I am a huge fan of him. The guy took like something like Guardian of the Galaxy nobody knew about it made amazing trilogy and he is like a really cool guy I like I like what he did”

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  45. “Yeah, it's okay So in June, I was traveling to Dubai, right an hour before I get into the car and go there, my managed best. I'm going to send you a script, read it. It's for Superman. It's like, oh, Superman. You know, I'm not really good in auditions. I'm not a seasoned actor. So I was like, okay, I'm just going to do it, send the tape. I do the tape, send it. I go to the airport and I read, and I think I can talk about it now because they said they changed the script. So basically what I found it interesting in that new script is that There is like a dictator in a country that invades another country and Superman interferes politically. That's the first time we ever see Superman interferes politically. So basically it was like Russia and Ukraine. But because of me it was like it had it couldn't be Russia and Ukraine. So it had to be something kind of like with a flavor. So I read the role as if as a mixture of Trump and Mubarak.”

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  46. “And you feel that you're a piece of shit and you are worthless human being and you are there. Stop there. But once you say like, oh, that makes me a better person than you. And it makes me more with God than you. So that would give me the entitlement to kick your ass. Yeah. We always ruin a good thing. Don't we That ego, you've been outspoken with Piers Morgan, but just on this topic, and you talked about the Superman story, which I would love it if you were in a Superman movie. But have you lost job opportunities because of this? There was other, a couple of things that were going on, but... They stopped again. I don't know if October 7th. The Superman.”

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  47. “But you're not, so you see how they kind of like the oxymoron. I'm humble and I'm surrendering, but in the same time, I am better than you and I'm more entitled. Isn't it crazy? Yeah, it's beautiful. It's crazy. I mean, look at the Muslim Christians and Jews and everyone. It's like, all right, Muslims, we surrendered. I'm talking about the extreme ones. I mean, I surrender to God. Good. Keep it that way. Like, if you go there, I surrender to God, that means that I am closer to God than you, then you should die. Okay, Christians. Christ is love and he loves me and we gonna be together, but ye don't get into his kingdom and you die. You see, it's the same thing. It's just if you stop it in the fucking stop where you are humble”

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  48. “That means that I will have all of that train that I can. Use that because now what does it mean being humble? I'm divine.”

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  49. “And many religions are a collection of stories and those stories based on things that humans did themselves and they attributed it to Gods. And there's an aspect of religion where you humble yourself before a thing that is much greater than you. Would say a very positive effect of humbling. It will be great if you stop there. But here's the thing. If you humble in order that your ego kicks in and feel that you are better than someone else who's not humbled in front of the same god. Let's go there.”

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  50. “My life will not end like that. My death will be even more important. There's consequences for that. There's consequences for what I do. And then the early man was like there in the desert and all of these natural phenomena. They didn't know what to do. They were afraid. So they need to have refuge. They need to have something to take care of. They need to have a reason for everything. Because if there's no reason. Chaos. It's terrifying. It's terrifying. There's nothing. There has to be a reason. There has to be a reason. There has to be a purpose, something. I'm not just going to be die like a cockroach being stepped on. And that's kind of like part of this ego. The whole world rotates around you in a way. It's the ego. So religion actually got a lot of it from. Humanity itself, like me being humans.”

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