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God?
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Since antiquity, great religious and secular philosophers alike
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have constantly advocated peaceful
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unified ideals for Humanity.
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One glance at society today makes one wonder
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why the idea of universally valuing
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and respecting your fellow human being
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and working together, has never taken root.
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I think I was on Larry King about 4 times.
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And he said to me, "Jacque, what do you think of Christianity?"
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I said, "It's a wonderful idea."
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"When are they putting it into practice?"
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Being a Christian, in behavior,
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is very rare.
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People seem to behave in contradictory ways.
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They weren't warm or they did not personify the teachings of Christ
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or Buddha
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or Moses.
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None of them seem to personify that kind of teaching.
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The Bible is subject to interpretation.
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When you read it, you say, "I think Jesus meant this."
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"I think Job meant that."
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"Oh no, he meant this."
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So you have the Lutherans, the Seventh-Day Adventists
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the Catholics
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and a Church divided is no church at all.
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And a Church divided is no church at all.
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And those Christians that really believe
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in setting up a world which is the brotherhood of Humanity
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you have to get them to join The Zeitgeist Movement
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to carry out the teachings of all religions.
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In order to eliminate most of the problems
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that exist today,
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we have to declare the Earth
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and all its resources
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as the common heritage of all the world's people.
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Jesus said: "Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven."
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And that's the way we see the Resource-Based Economy.
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Or The Venus Project.
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That you can create all your spiritual aspirations
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but make it a reality.
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Not going to church, and sing all day long. Do things!
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Jesus said, "By their works, ye shall know them."
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All they talk about has no meaning at all.
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It is time to stop talking about our supposed
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humanistic and religious ideals
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and actually work to make them happen.
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♪ [Attention] I don't. I don't understand ♪
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♪ why so much hate ♪
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♪ [Attention] between races and religions? ♪
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What we're advocating is a method of how to achieve
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what all those people who have desire for higher consciousness.
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How do you do that? How do you achieve that?
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How do you achieve a world without war and crime and bigotry?
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Human beings think that they're the greatest creation of nature.
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They're spiritual beings.
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They put themselves on a pedestal.
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And they're the ones that are poisoning the air.
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Killing each other, in the name of God.
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"Do you believe in my God? No?" Boom.
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The Bible says, "Thou shalt not kill."
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♪ Hand fits giving so do it ♪
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♪ that's what the gospel said to me ♪
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♪ Life fits living so let your judgments go ♪
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♪ that's how our future should be ♪
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It's going to take time for people take on the responsibility
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of managing this wonderful gift of nature, the Earth.
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Water. All the wonderful things that we have.
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And we have to take care of the Earth.
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We have to assume responsibility.
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Religion doesn't work. It never did.
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Religious people kill. They get angry. They're jealous.
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They go to church, and they pray.
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That isn't what Jesus did. He went around helping people.
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He associated with bums, beggars
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prostitutes, the down-trodden.
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Human beings have lived this way
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for millennia upon millennia.
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Why haven't they changed?
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Why haven't you, who are listening now,
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why haven't you changed?
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You know if you don't change
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what the consequences are?
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Fighting, fighting, fighting.
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Bringing up more and more armaments to destroy each other.
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Now, why don't you, if you are at all serious in this matter,
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why don't you ask yourself that question?
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Why am I, a human being
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who have been through all this, why haven't I changed?
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What would be your answer?
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Either you're not serious
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you want to live a very, very superficial life.
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And that superficiality temporarily satisfies you.
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Or, you really don't care.
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As long as you have immediate pleasures,
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immediate satisfactions,
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you really don't care.
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How can you find out what a religious life is, when you're blind?
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A Resource-Based Economy puts into practice
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everything the great religious and philosophic teachers
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have always talked about, in regard
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to humans embracing each other as their own.
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And working together in mutual respect as a single human family.
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What we need is a true change of consciousness.
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Where we understand the interrelationship between all of us.
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People ask me, "How long will it take
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to make the world a beautiful place?"
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It is not up to me, it's up to you.
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What you do out there.
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If you do nothing, nothing will happen.
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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren
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and to do good is my religion. -Thomas Paine