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Historical Parallels in Challenging Times
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Baker Plbg
We certainly live in interesting, challenging, difficult, and uncertain times. And I don't think our situations situation is much different than the previous generations.
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Baker Plbg
These sort of events that we're all experiencing um have certainly wreaked havoc on the earth forever.
Apocalyptic References in Modern Contexts
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Baker Plbg
Read some history.
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Baker Plbg
What is interesting to me, um you know, there's been lots of references to sort of the apocalyptic moment. You know, I've certainly seen revelatory, like, or sorry, revelation scriptures quoted, which I am not here to sort of sustain or um
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Baker Plbg
dissuade.
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Baker Plbg
in any way, shape or form.
Personal Judgment and Self-Perception
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Baker Plbg
ah But I do think that all of us, ah many times in our life have judgment days, where we are put to the test through circumstances created by ourselves or by others, or we get to prove ourselves to ourselves. That's what I was talking about the other day.
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Baker Plbg
And how do you know? what you're capable of unless you're actually put in difficult, stressful, challenging circumstances. And one of the great blessings of my life is that I have been placed in a great many challenging, stressful, and difficult circumstances.
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Baker Plbg
And I suspect that thing will continue But i know what I am capable of doing because I have done it under those under duress.
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Baker Plbg
And certainly for my own sort of integrity from way back here to right here and where my face to the world, what I say and do
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Baker Plbg
aligns with what I think I am and what I do. And I hope that's the same for you. It will be
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Baker Plbg
a judgment day. You will be, you will judge yourself for better or for worse. And the people that, that I know personally that have chosen over many years to stand on the sidelines and sort of besmirch and deride and criticize previous generations and take no ownership of their own lives are going to find out in short order um that they have chosen the wrong side.
Critique of Passive Choices and Social Media Personas
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Baker Plbg
And choosing to do nothing, as we all know, is a choice to be made. And it is my thought and opinion, my thoughts, not yours, that they will regret those decisions. And I hope that you, was going to cut this off at three minutes, but hope that you are equal to the man that you have created in your mind.
00:03:09
Baker Plbg
And that the story of yourself that you tell yourself coincides with and is equal to ah what you present to the world. And the biggest challenge that we have with social media is people say one thing on here and soon as the camera's off, they do something else.
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Baker Plbg
And that creates a lot of friction internally and part, in my opinion, you know some of that mental stress that we see
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Baker Plbg
manifested in people's lives.
Self-Responsibility and Congruence of Self
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Baker Plbg
um you are responsible for yourself, you're responsible to yourself, you need to answer to no one but you.
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Baker Plbg
And if those two things are incongruent, it is a difficult challenge to overcome. And I wish all the best to the people that I know ah ah as they enter their own crucibles to determine, to to grapple with the decisions that they've made over the last number of years, whatever that may be.
00:04:24
Baker Plbg
So I wish everybody luck. I wish you all the best. My life is fantastic in so many ways. And the reason it is fantastic is, and it's the hubris is there, I understand that. But the reason it is fantastic is because My mental self reflects my physical self.
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Baker Plbg
And my spiritual self, if you want to go there, is is but you not completely satisfied, but understands that I am working towards being the best version of Bob Baker that I can be.
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Baker Plbg
And I hope that's
Commitment to Integrity and Helping Others
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Baker Plbg
the same for you. i have I have stood with those that needed me to stand with them. I have defended those that needed to be defended. um And I have ah derided and called out those that needed to be derided and called out. And that is my own ah sort of wrestling ring, if you will. And you all of you no doubt have your own. And I wish you luck in dealing with those and in the challenges that today's world, economy, whatever situations you find yourself in,
00:05:46
Baker Plbg
that you are able to handle those and that you're able to put your best foot forward and be the most magnanimous individual that you can be. My thoughts, not yours.