Speaker 1
This does not happen by learning off quotes from Nietzsche's aphorism sections, by knowing what young men by archetypes. None of that stuff is going to contribute that dramatically to what you need to do. Instead, you must participate in the world. You must participate in life and get very, very clear about that. And so all this builds up to another very big principle about understanding religion, quite closely related. Religion is about bringing you towards life. And it is also about making sure that you and the tribe survive as a whole. Religion is an organizational tool to lead a large group of people towards success. This is what it is trying to do. Now, the way it does that, we can pontificate about that later. But this is the fundamentals that we must understand and belief in God. This idea at the center of all these religions, belief that there's a higher power organizing all this and giving your life a purpose and a plan and encouraging you to participate in things like marriage and participate in the church and participate in the community and be good towards the community, which means being, you know, pro-moral towards the herd around you, the community around them. These are all very wise things to do. And God is the thing that holds it all together. God, the belief in God is a signal of health in the vast majority of people. That's a big shocking statement. But this is the truth. When somebody believes in God, they believe in the God of their church. This is a signal that they're participating in something that has long-term thinking. You know, God, I believe in Him. Therefore, there is a plan for my life. There is a goal for my life. And therefore, I must act in this restrictive way. I must control my sexual impulses and then, you know, channel it into a ritualized marriage so that I can produce children. I must participate in the community and act moral towards this community and try to build up this community. I must participate in this church and look at this church as this thing that God has created for me that I must worship and protect and build into a cathedral like all the Europeans used to do. All of this stuff is about you digging your roots down into reality and building things, manifesting your creative power, releasing life into the world and creating art, creating beautiful buildings, creating a strong network in a community, creating children, creating families.