Chats with Larry Episode 9

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On today’s RABBI BRIAN’S CHATS WITH LARRY

While Today’s Rabbi Brian Chats With Larry has great audio quality (an improvement over last time), but that’s because I TOLD Larry I was recording it. He  was really stiff at the start, which I’ve skipped. 

Enjoy the good quality` and fast start as Larry and I talk about:

    1. Will power and God’s will. (God’s will =) “Love people, use things”
    2. Will power, Won’t power, and how we don’t always do what we know we should do
    3. Satan, good and evil
    4. Larry’s imposter syndrome and Brian’s childlike playful spirit
    5. The paradox of pride
    6. Explaining religion without the religious words

Five More Wisdom Biscuits

  1. I know garbage “You should put the garbage bins back where they were before you remodelled,” I tell the managers of the Grant High School construction project when they host a neighborhood forum. “Funny thing, that,” the lady in charge says, “It’s a bit counterintuitive.” She explains something city planners learned about beaches. “If there is a garbage

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Light-Lifting

✧✧✧ Introduction ✧✧✧   A long-form follow up to May’s 14/40 Five Wisdom Biscuits about smiling.   ✧✧✧ Outline ✧✧✧ A Story Deep Shit About Smiles The Joke My New Workout Plan ✧✧✧ A Story ✧✧✧   I exercise religiously—by which I mean I’m very compassionate and affirming. Today, I didn’t challenge myself to attempt an eight-rep back squat 5–8

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A Big Ask

Beloved, What I’m about to ask is a very big ask. You (probably) aren’t going to want to do it. But I’m still going to ask. Because it’s important. Very important. Stop hating.   ✧✧✧   “No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to

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