Episode 307: Best of show - What is SIN? PLUS The Bible Code & 666!

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1:05I am Joshua P. Warren. And each week on this show, I'll be bringing you brand new, mind blowing content, news, exercises, and weird experiments you can do at home. And a lot more on this edition of the program. What is sin? Plus the Bible code. And yes, that infamous number of people and yes, that infamous number six, six, six. What is the truth about these topics? Now let me say right off the bat, look, these are tricky and uncomfortable and complicated subjects, which is why I am tackling it. Okay, not because it's easy, but because it's hard. And I know that I can never really properly tackle this subject because it's too vast and complex

2:08and meaningful and even controversial to so many people. So let me ask you right up right here to just forgive me as I fumble through this. I'm just thinking out loud here. I am speaking off the top of my head. I have no particular expertise in this stuff. I'm not some kind of religious scholar. So, you know, please just bear with me and let me try to speculate with you as we look at this stuff and try to determine what the truth may or may not be. And I also want to point out that in some of my recent podcasts, I've talked about things that some people have felt might be kind of a downer. I talked about me reproducing the Mausleru Emoto Water Crystal experiment and not getting much of a result. And then I talked about how that this big grand announcement about fusion energy producing more output than was input.

3:08I explained, well, that isn't exactly correct. That it took a lot more energy to put that whole system in place. And then I talked about, of course, Ralph Lell's Brown Mountain Alien Mummy and I said, oh, it turns out that's just a fake, a gaff, a phony. And I know that the great Mark Twain said, never let the truth stand in the way of a good story. But you know what, we live in a world where people have taken imagination a little too far in some cases and are deluding themselves. And therefore, we have to look at all things with a sense of moderation. And I hope that's one of the things that you respect about this show that I'm not always sitting here just trying to sensationalize everything and look for the most fantastic explanation. I'm also trying to look at a reasonable,

4:10logical approach to trying to get to the bottom of some of these mysteries that can become a confusing hall of mirrors out there. You know, I'm going to talk about a variety of religions in this podcast, not just religions based on the Bible, but obviously that'll be the most prominent one because I live here in the United States of America. And there are plenty of people who question every day how much of the Bible is fact versus fiction because it has been interpreted so many different ways and published in so many different editions. I mean, these are good questions. You know, Dale Allen Hoffman brought up these sort of inconsistencies. But as I was doing research for this particular podcast, I was kind of surprised because when you start looking at the latest opinion here on something like the existence of Jesus, I remember, you know, for a large part of my life, there are always people here like, look, there's no way that we will know for sure that Jesus even existed.

5:12Jesus could have been some type of a representative character based on other earlier traditions from Egypt, et cetera. I mean, you hear these things, right? But I read this article and I read a number of these, but here's a good example. It's just the Wikipedia article on the historicity of Jesus. You know, it historicity is, that means the historical authenticity. So this is something that is supposed to look at this from a rational, practically an atheistic point of view. And this is what so many others say with a lot of footnotes. It says virtually all scholars of antiquity except that Jesus was a historical figure. Okay, that's the latest. Did you know that virtually all scholars of antiquity now accept that Jesus was a historical figure and dismissed denials of his existence as a fringe theory.

6:12While many details like his alleged miracles are still subject to debate, of course. But nobody's doubting that he existed. In fact, one expert pointed out that even back in the days like right after Jesus, practically right after he was killed, when Christians were being terribly persecuted and executed, even then people who were critics of Christianity who were writing about that and talking about all the reasons they didn't believe in it. Even they never brought up, oh, by the way, Jesus wasn't real. Even they never talked about that as a possibility. That never occurred to them. And if you look at all these scholars, they've come to the conclusion that we know, let's see, I think it's like eight as they call it, literally, indisputable facts about Jesus' biography. Here are those facts that all the scholars are agreeing upon. One, Jesus was a Galilean preacher.

7:15Two, his activities took place in Galilei and Judea. Three, he was baptized by John the Baptist. Four, he called disciples. Five, he had a controversy at the temple. Six, Jesus was crucified by the Romans near Jerusalem. And seven, after his death, his disciples continued and then eight, some of his disciples were persecuted. So that's what is agreed upon by scholars. So from there, again, you can argue whether or not he did the things that are attributed to him. But that's interesting. It shows you how some of that changes. And right now, as we learn more and our technology advances, and we become better informed beings thanks to computers and such, some things, especially some of the

8:16weirder, more mysterious things that were written in the Bible that used to seem only metaphorical are now becoming scientifically relevant. You're starting to look at them differently. For example, the first murder in the Bible when Cain kills his brother Abel, has this scene where Cain is a shame, he knows he's done something wrong. And so God pops up and says, Hey, where's your brother? And God says, yeah, God says, what have you done? Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground. Okay, that's Genesis 4.10. What a weird thing for God to supposedly say, what have you done? I hear your brother's blood crying out to me from the ground. Now, you think to yourself, well, you've seen blood before it doesn't cry out from the ground. It doesn't literally make any noise. You can't take that literally.

9:17But now we have DNA. And that was written thousands of years ago. Now we have this thing called DNA, which is literally like the blood is speaking for the victim. That's the thing. It's like you go to a crime scene. What are you looking for? You mainly want to get some DNA here because it's going to tell you who is there. And every little bit of you is reproduced in DNA. It's astonishing. Maybe that is an explanation that would have never occurred to people if we didn't know about that. Or also like this other part in the King, the new King James version, it says something to the effect Luke 817. He's talking about the future for nothing is secret that will not be revealed. Nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light. Now you could think to yourself in the old days

10:18if you commit a murder or whatever and get away with it. Who cares? It's like it never happened, right? But now look, not only do we have DNA, but we have cameras all over the place. And cameras are now making it less and less likely for you to do something that will not be revealed. Politicians are finding that out the hard way. And you know as technology advances, we're just going to have more and more cameras everywhere. And so, and not that not to mention the possibility of time cameras that somebody in the future has invented a camera that can look back and see the past. And we are all currently being observed right now by people in the future. I mean, like we can really go down that rabbit hole. But anyway, look, when we come back from this break, now that I've made my point, let's get into this topic. All right, what supposedly is sin, not just in the Bible, but within the context of other religions? Let's look at what everybody is sort of saying a sin is

11:19and see if we can find a common denominator and figure out what that is. And then we're going to take it a step further. And we're going to see how much literal programming might be in the Bible. And is there anything to some of the numeric codes, like six, six, six? And by the way, I know that you need to see things to believe them. And if you're somebody who would like to have a little glimpse into the spirit realm, the energy realm all around us, I want you to make a pair of my aura visor goggles. They're actually, they're not goggles. It's eyewear. I canter gardener could make these. It's so simple. You only need three or four items. If you want to know how to do that for free, go to JoshuaPWaren.com. And on the homepage, sign up for my free e-newsletter. Takes you two seconds, put your email address and they're hit the submit button. You'll receive an automated email from me instantly that has links to all kinds of free online gifts, including instructions on how you can make your own aura glasses

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13:28Welcome back to Strange Fings on the I Heart radio and coast to coast to him, Paranormal Podcast Network. I'm your host the Wizard of Weird, Joshua P. Warren, beaming in to your wormhole brain from my studio in SYNCITY. Las Vegas, Nevada, where every day is golden and every night is silver. What is SYNC? Well, if we go to the Wikipedia page, it says in a religious context, SYNC is a transgression against divine law. Okay, and so divine law is law that God or some God-like force hands down. And somebody has to get that message and turn around and tell you about it. And it says each culture has its own interpretation of what it

14:31means to commit a sin. Okay, so that means a sin is whatever somebody tells you it is. Well, we solve that mystery. Thanks for tuning in on our next show. Just kidding, I think we can dig a little deeper. Let's see. It says while SYNS are generally considered actions, any thought, word, or act considered immoral, selfish, shameful, harmful, or alienating might be termed sinful. Okay, so right off the bat you see here, that we are going to have to look at this through the lens of many different kinds of cultures and perspectives to see what we can find in common here. All right, so let's, here's a list of just different religions, philosophies, whatever you want to call them. One of them is Baha'i. I don't have time to explain what each one of these religions is about. You

15:32can look that up, but it says Baha'i considers humans to be naturally good, fundamentally spiritual beings. Human beings were created because of God's immeasurable love for us. However, the Baha'i teachings compare the human heart to a mirror, which if turned away from the light of the sun, that is God, is incapable of receiving God's love. It is only by turning unto God that spiritual advancement can be made. In this sense, SYNING is to follow the inclinations of one's own lower nature to turn the mirror of one's heart away from God. Okay, so the lower nature in humans is symbolized as Satan, the evil ego within us, not an evil personality outside. Okay, so that's what they believe. And by the way, I don't know if I'm saying Baha'i properly, but you probably know what I'm talking about. Like I say, I'm just

16:36dude with a microphone. I'm not a scholar. Next we go on to Buddhism. There are a few differing Buddhist views on SYN. American Zen author Brad Warner states that in Buddhism, there is no concept of SYN at all. The Buddha Dharma Education Association also says, quote, the idea of SYN or original SYN has no place in Buddhism, in quote. That sounds nice, doesn't it? It goes on to say here, in Buddhist thinking, the whole universe, men as well as gods are subject to a reign of law. Every action good or bad has an inevitable and automatic effect in a long chain of causes, an effect that is independent of the will of any deity. Even though this may leave no room for the concept of SYN in the sense of an active defiance against the authority of a personal God, Buddhist speak of SYN when referring to transgressions against the universal moral code. Okay, so whoops, looks like there is some SYN in here somewhere. In fact, it goes on to say,

17:41as a matter of fact, there is this part of Buddhism that has five SYNs. So you see, there's always variety even within a certain faith or philosophy. One of them is killing your mother and another one is killing your father. One of them is injuring a Buddha, which is in a light in person. One of them is killing, I guess they call it an Arhat, Arhat. It's one of the spiritual leaders or creating a schism, a problem in their society. So there are some things there that are considered SYNs, but Christianity, of course, Christianity, that's the major leagues of SYN right here. Now we're getting to the big stuff. And Christianity, what's interesting is Christianity often relies on this concept of original SYN. And here's what that means. Best I can tell here.

18:45Original SYN is the belief that humans were automatically born into a sinful state of mind. And that, for example, it says, just as SYN entered the world through one man and death through SYN, death came to all people because all SYNs. And this is best represented by the story of the Garden of Eden. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity and ensin my mother conceived me. So what they're doing is they're talking about the fact that we were born as sinners, and which is why that Adam and Eve gave in to temptation. And since you were born as sinner, well, it's a pessimistic point of view. You were born as sinner. So what you're doing is spending this whole life

19:47trying to learn how to not sin. So you're kind of screwed from the moment you entered this world from a Christian point of view. You're always fighting against your nature. Your nature is to sin and to be like an animal. I guess that's how you can define it without me giving you some kind of sermon here with all these biblical quotes and everything. But then of course you have specific things which are what you're considered sins. And you know, the Bible is interesting because there are a number of religions and faiths and philosophies that all rely on the Bible, but they view it differently. Obviously the two big ones are Judaism and then Christianity, but you have a lot of sex within Judaism that disagree and a lot of sex within Christianity that disagree. And then you have other religions that rely on the Bible that don't view it the same way. But anyway, the most famous examples of course would be like the Ten Commandments. And I'm not going to read all of them to you,

20:49but you know, it says thou shalt not kill. Well, again, that can't be taken literally because you have to kill something in order to survive. You have to kill a plant or an animal in order to eat something. I mean, so like again, it's like you have to interpret this stuff. And then it's like thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house or wife or or anything. You know, he has, and you know, remember the Sabbath, keep it holy. You know, those are things. A lot of it has to do with just like minding your own business, though, and not being jealous of what your neighbor has got and not wanting what your neighbor has, which is a very practical way of looking at life. If you don't want to cause problems with your neighbor, but did you know, and this was kind of a surprise to me that when it gets down into Judaism, it says Judaism, regards 613 commandments as a sin.

21:56Now you're really screwed. If that 600 did you know that? Sure enough, I have a list right here. 613 commandments. So some of them are just like, you know, fear God. And then it's, and then it's stuff like show love towards converts. Do not hate fellow Jews. Do not embarrass others. Do not oppress the weak. Do not take revenge. Do not bear a grudge. Do not curse God. Do not worship idols. Do not make an idol for yourself. I mean, and you know, it's just like it's interesting. Do not inquire of spirits. Do not consult magicians or seers. Do not plant a tree in the temple courtyard. And I mean, like 600 of 613 like I guarantee you you've you've violated one of these. That's interesting. You should go read the 613 things that they say you're not supposed to do. And then of course, we have

23:01an Islam sin as an important concept in Islamic ethics. Muslims see sin as anything that goes against the commands of God Allah. A breach of the laws and norms laid down by religion. Islam teaches that sin is an act and not a state of being. That it is believed that God weighs an individual's good deeds against his or her sins on the day of judgment and punishes those individuals whose evil deeds outweigh their good deeds. So it sounds like it's a little different than the Christian, the Christian perspective of original sin. And then listen to this shinto. Let's see, the shinto concept of sin an exorably linked to concepts of purity and pollution. Shinto does not have a concept of original sin. Instead believing that all human beings are born pure. Sin also called sumi is

24:08anything that makes people impure. Anything that separates them from the kami. However, shinto does not believe this impurity is the result of human actions, but rather the result of evil spirits or other external factors. Isn't that interesting? Sin can have a variety of consequences in Japan, including disaster and disease. And because of this purification rituals are viewed as important, not just the spiritual and physical health of the individual, but to the well-being of the nation. Wow, this is fascinating isn't it? Alright, when we come back, I'm going to look at all this stuff and I'm going to find what I think is the common denominator to help us figure out like, okay, let's simplify this. What is sin? But then we're going to go back to this most influential book, the Bible. Some people say that there's a code in there that really spells things out for you. Is that true? I'm Joshua P. Warren and you're listening to strange things on the iHeart radio and

25:13coast to coast, I am paranormal podcast network. I'll be back after these important messages. Welcome back to Strange Things on the iHeart radio and coast to coast, I am paranormal podcast network. I'm your host, Joshua P. Warren and this is the show where the unusual becomes usual. You know, having read all this stuff and studied it best I can, I'm looking at, you know,

26:16what is the common denominator here that maybe because everyone is different and they all have their own specific detailed rules, but I kind of think that maybe Baha'i and I looked it up, I am pronouncing it correctly, I believe, Baha'i. I think that Baha'i probably does the best job of reducing it right down when it says the lower nature in humans is symbolize the Satan, the evil ego within us, not an evil personality outside. And I say that because that how often have you seen some demon running around with a forked tail and horns and all that, probably not very often, but how often have you seen people do evil things? It's unfortunate that they're on the news every day. And maybe what we can do here to sort of just reduce this down to what all these things

27:22have in common is that ultimately evil, let me put it this way, sin, sin is absolute selfishness. And where does that come from? Selfishness comes from ego and narcissism and lack of humility and arrogance. And so whether or not you believe in a higher power, whether you're an atheist or a believer in God or you're an agnostic, if you are arrogant and you are egotistical and you are selfish, then you, I believe, are what we can say is the type of person who is given to sin, which leads in many cases to evil acts. I don't think it always does because again, it depends on

28:25what you define as as a sin. And that varies a little bit from culture to culture. But I think if you give into that ultimate selfishness though, eventually it's going to lead you to acts that you will regret. So what is sin? Sin is utter selfishness. In my opinion, I think that's what they all have in common here. And so how do you combat that? Well, look at what all or many of these different religions and philosophies say, it's the golden rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That's the biblical concepts spoken by Jesus in Luke and in Matthew. Here's another version of it. So in everything due to others, what you would have them do to you for this sums up the law and the prophets, in quote, that's Matthew 712. And then when you start looking at some of the the Hindu stuff and things that were related to, you know, Buddhism or that part of the world,

29:31well, karma plays a role. Karma in the Sanskrit. And karma is the same thing. It's the idea that if you're selfish, well, there's, you're throwing off the bounce. It can't be all about you. You have to give and be open and humble and understanding of others. That's karma. But if you're just a strict materialistic, rationalistic scientist and you don't even believe in spiritual stuff, all you believe is what you can measure and put under a microscope. Well, now we have Newton's third law for you in physics for every action. There's an opposite but equal reaction. You see, that's the common thread behind all these things. Sin is selfishness. And selfishness comes from narcissistic, arrogant, ego and lack of humility. So if you do your best to open your mind and not be selfish, which is animalistic, if you open your mind to try to be, to not be selfish,

30:35and then you also are always considering doing to others as you would have them do unto you, I think that no matter what religion or philosophy you find solace in, you're going to be okay. I think that's what we can learn from studying all these different things. So now, like I say, there are people, however, who say, hey, dude, you're talking about the Bible. And yeah, you've, you've got some lessons. Good job. Good job, Mr. Smarty pants. You figured out the duh here. It's the golden rule. But you don't realize there is an actual code. There is coded information that was put into the Bible like a big puzzle. It's like a big computer program. The Bible code. And it will tell you literally what's going on here and even predict the future. I've heard about this for decades. I even read the book, The Bible Code, when it first came out

31:35a long time ago. When was that? Looks like 1997. All right. So here's what it says. If you look up the Bible code, the Bible code also known as the Torah code as a purported set of encoded words within the Hebrew text of the Torah that according to proponents has predicted significant historical events. The statistical likelihood of the Bible code arising by chance has been thoroughly researched and it is now widely considered to be statistically insignificant as similar phenomena can be observed in any sufficiently lengthy text. Although Bible codes have been postulated and studied for centuries, the subject has been popularized in recent times by the Bible code and the movie The Omega Code. Okay. So what they're saying right off the bat is like, look, you can take any long book and you can start finding patterns in it that you start pushing into explanation. So, but how do they do

32:38this? Okay. They use what is called the equidistant letter sequence method. Now, if this doesn't make total sense to you, don't worry. The primary method which purportedly, excuse me, by which purportedly meaningful messages have been extracted is the equidistant letter sequence. So letters are selected based on a starting point and counting every inth letter based on a given skip number in a certain direction. So for example, taking every fourth letter in a phrase, it's almost like doing a crossword kind of thing where you just start with the letter and you just start skipping around until you find other letters that form a word. Okay. And so the problem is like, you might go in there and find the word tower to your WER. I'd be like, ah, the twin towers were just, you know, attacked. And then you go back and then you try to fit that into and retrospect some kind of a prediction.

33:42Whereas again, they're saying that this can be done with with any text. I love the idea of this, but here's the problem. Here's the reality. Okay. We're talking about real stuff here in this podcast. The reality is what version of the text has got to code in it. Okay. These religious texts were written by human beings and they were interpreted and retranslated and republished and edited and all this stuff so many times over. Even if you went back and got the original version of it, that's still a version that a human wrote and humans are fallible. It's not like God handed this to you. So I don't think there's any way that you can take something that a fallible human hand writes. And say this is a code here that we can go into and definitively interpret as a message from the Lord.

34:44It's like really just God's trying to make it that hard. God's trying to make us solve puzzles and stuff. I mean, if God helped to encode something and writing to that degree, then you would need an absolute original copy from the original source. And if that does exist, you don't have any way of separating it from other versions. There are so many versions, so many edits that you can couple together. I don't think God was giving us an agatha, Christy novel to solve here. Why would God believe it or not life is actually not that complicated? I think God was just trying to give us lessons to ultimately express the golden rule. And this Bible code thing is most likely another example of what we call paranoia. All right. So paranoia, it is the tendency for a human perception to impose a meaningful

35:44interpretation on random nebulous stimuli or okay. So again, this is the tendency that you have to make sense out of chaos. I show you a bunch of random stuff and you look at it and your brain tries to make sense out of it and turn into something familiar. And this is a big, big enemy of research, especially when it comes to paranormal stuff, because people start trying too hard and they open their brain. They open their mind so much their brain falls out. This is like looking at the moon and seeing the man in the moon and being like, that's a big dude up there because you can clearly see the face. We do this all the time. We are designed to look for meaning. Magicians, and I'm talking about like stage magicians here in Las Vegas, they take advantage of this by trying to fool you because they know what you're expecting to see. And so they turn the tables on you and they use that weakness to trick you. And I just think that if there is a message of some

36:49kind that is encoded in one of these old religious texts, then the whole system is so complicated and convoluted that there is no way for you to be able to distinguish that from Paradoya. Even if it's not Paradoya and I'm totally wrong about that, I don't think you could tell the difference when you can use the same technique on other texts and get a similar result. But what about 666? The infamous. Does that make the hair stand up on your arms? We'll get into it soon. I'm Joshua P. Warren. You're listening to Strange Things. Oh, the I Heart Radio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. I will be right back.

38:06I'm your host Joshua P. Warren. 666. The number of the beast. is associated with the beast of revelation in chapter 13 verse 18 of the book of revelation. And most manuscripts of the New Testament and in English translations of the Bible. The number of the beast is 666. But you know what's interesting is that says here, an ancient sources like the codex if from me, prescribed us. Huh? It actually is translated into 616.

39:12Not 666. I was like, what is the codex of from me, prescribed us? I'm from Western North Carolina folks. It says here, this is, it's an old Greek manuscript. Let's see on parchment. And anyway, it's got a different, slightly different interpretation of things. And it says 616 instead of 666. But what we all know, what we all know and love is that quote that says in the Bible here, in the end times, quote, and that no man might buy or sell, save he had the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that half understanding count the number of the beast,

40:13for it is the number of a man and his number is 666. Wow, what does that mean? You know, we live in this, and this age of computers and numbers and what could it mean? Lots of people try to figure that out every single day. Did you ever hear this story that passed around long time ago that, hey, turns out barcodes, every single barcode out there has got 666 encoded in within it. And that this makes perfect sense that what they're talking about is they're going to, they're going to give us a barcode or some kind of RFID chip or some kind of technology like this. And it's going to have 666 as a reference point. And that's what this is going to mean. Well, you know what? Maybe that's going to happen. But what I can tell you is that barcodes,

41:15as it turns out, don't actually all have 666 in them. I looked up a number of explanations for this, and this is just one of them. Snopes says, the EAN barcode system is used in 80, an EAN 13 barcode system is used in 85 countries making it the most popular product scanning system of its kind in the world. It works by representing numbers as a series of seven vertical lines. Each of the seven lines is either black or white, and the sequence of lines forms a pattern, which is recognized as a particular digit when scanned by a computer. Every product is assigned a unique 13 digit number, 10 digits for the product, a check digit, and a couple of flag characters to indicate the organization assigned the number. Contrary to popular myth, all barcodes do not include the number 666. This belief arose because the number 6 is represented by a pattern similar

42:19to that of the guard bars used to mark the beginning, middle, and end of every barcode. Since the guard bars always appear three times and a given barcode, people who mistakenly read them as sixes claimed that the pattern 666 was embedded in every barcode. However, if you look closely at the six and a barcode, you will see there is a wide white bar either to the left or the right of its pattern, which is not the case with the guard bars. The only numbers on the barcode which are scanned are those shown in the conventional numerals beneath it. So, okay, I don't know how much since that made this is a podcast, I'm short on time, but I don't believe that that is true, and again, you can look up other sources as well. It's not like that all barcodes have 666 in them, or as it's 616, again, depending on the source. Okay, so what does this mean? Is it possible some kind of technology is going to come out that is central to tracking us and allowing us to conduct trade

43:25and that 666 will be a part of it? It is certainly possible. But for right now, what does it mean? Nobody knows. That is the answer to that question. Nobody knows. And it kind of reminds me of all these people who have been predicting over and over throughout history that they know when Jesus is going to return. And they give a day and they give a time and all of their followers get together and they do insane things and then it doesn't happen, at least not from the perspective of the rest of us. And it says even in the Bible, in the Thessalonians about that, for you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the return of the Lord is coming just as a thief comes unexpectedly in the night. No human being is supposed to have that knowledge. And I don't think, I mean, if you're going to

44:31rely on the same source to get the idea that God's coming back and then that source tells you, and by the way, you're not going to be able to know, why would you believe part of it and not the other part? Why just saying like, oh, it says he's coming back and I get to know when that's going to be despite the fact that it also says that you're not going to be able to know people, they are very selective. I don't know what 666 means or 616 means and I've studied and I've done a lot more research than I have time to present on this podcast. And what I can tell you is that I don't believe that anybody knows. So here's the lesson of this podcast. Follow the golden rule and you really don't need to worry about anything else. How simple is that? But here is something to think about. Now honestly, just just think about it. The Spanish conquistador, Francisco Pizarro, was stabbed to death and Peru in 1541.

45:39And as he was on the ground bleeding out, the last thing he did was use his finger to draw a cross on the ground in his own blood as his consciousness was slipping away. And he said, Jesus, that's what gave him that last feeling of protection. That was his last impulse. What would be your very last act in the final seconds of your life as it slips away? That may help you gain some perspective on what is important in your life right now today. And it may sound depressing to hear me put it that way, but actually it can give you great joy once you understand where your priorities should lie because things become fun when you understand what to value. It's kind of a breakthrough in your life. And that understanding, once you pursue it, will start flooding your life

46:48with rewards. And you might ultimately loosen up and become a nicer, humbler, more grateful person. In fact, you know how when just about anybody says, I'm hoping for good luck. I want good fortune here. I'm crossing my fingers. You know where that comes from? Most experts say that that comes from the whole idea of Christianity that you're forming across with your fingers, whether you're religious or not, you're forming across with your fingers because you're associating that subconsciously with the idea of manifesting a miracle. Now there are some other scholars who say, well, wait, wait, we have examples of that kind of thing even before Christianity back in the pagan world. Fine. There are a lot of connections between the pre-Christian world and the Christian world. But there's something significant about this concept, isn't there, of the

47:49cross crossing your fingers and something simple about that that may symbolize some peace. But I have done the best I can do to explore this topic with you. And hey, whether you, whether or not you agree with some of my opinions, maybe at least I will have inspired you to go do some of your own research. And that is all I can hope for when I do a free podcast like this, here in the lesson. I have some very interesting audio of EVP that I plan to play for you. I don't have time to do it on this show. So I think I'm going to play it for you on my next show. I don't play EVP very often, but I'm going to play this for you and see what you think about it. But now it is time for us all to relax. If you can, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and be exposed to the good fortune ton. That's it for this edition of the show, follow me on Twitter at Joshua P. Warren. Plus, visit

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