Rick Strassman

And that's one of the species that kind of goes through a period of, you know, rise and then decline, obviously.

It just couldn't sustain itself.

You just have to try it and see what happens.

The way I try to follow it is through a biblical lens.

Really?

Yeah.

What chapter are we in right now?

Yeah.

Well, good question.

You read the prophets like Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel.

They just rage against the machine.

So I think it was pretty far back.

Yeah, you know, so what's good and bad?

What's right and wrong?

How do we decide that?

That's what I like about the Bible.

I mean, obviously, I can make up my own mind about things, but it's nice having that kind of an option, that kind of a tradition to refer to when deciding what's good and bad, you know, what you should do and what you shouldn't do.

Yeah.

There's like supposed to be over 600, you know, they're translated as commandments in the Hebrew Bible.

And those are what you do to live happily and attain a spiritual state close to God, a state of prophecy.