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Does God exist, being an atheist makes NO sense! Evolution of belief Part #1

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Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser

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Welcome to practical spirituality here in Asia tour in the old city of Jerusalem overlooking the temple. Now uh the what we're going to do today is the evolution of belief and now a lot of you I understand you maybe millennials and don't think much but if you if you were to if you were to do some thinking so so there there is some obvious thoughts that you might have. Tell me where the edge of my camera screen is. Right on the edge. Right on the edge. Oh, till the board? Yeah, the board. Oh, excellent. Excellent. This looks like a bad pen. Um we have a black pen. Here's a black This pen I think is not going to be helpful. Um so what you see is there's an evolution of belief and here what we have is a circle representing this circle is representing space and time. So everything inside space and time would be inside that circle. So you're in that circle. you're in that circle. And our and so Earth is in the circle, our galaxy, sorry, our solar system, our galaxy all the other galaxies are out there in this circle. They're all the expanding universe. And what I drew drew was the edge of the expanding universe. So that circle is the edge of the expanding universe. You know, one of the great stone thoughts you might have once in a while is what's on the other side of the expanding universe. You know, and what if you had a rocket fast enough that went faster than the expansion of the universe and you could shoot out beyond

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  1. 0:22Welcome to practical spirituality here in Asia tour in the old city of Jerusalem overlooking the
  2. 5:58in what we want to do with our internal cocktail. Now, let's keep going. So, the
  3. 12:14And you know what? Judaism says the same thing, that your frontal cortex, the frontal lobe
  4. 18:21Okay, so the atheist is the Yeah, I know. Just put on low put the fan
  5. 24:34and and having that not fun time, having someone just you like just kill you on
  6. 30:42doctor's uh uh little safe place, safe space. Behind the secretaries and the and the and
  7. 36:55And she's very heavy woman. And she she walks like that. And what happened was a
  8. 43:05England Thursday, where there'll be an intro in London Thursday night with a Shabbaton. You know,
  9. 49:17washing. Um is that if you act as if there is a god, meaning you listen
  10. 55:24asked you, "Hey, what time is it?" you'd have to say, "Well, I'm not sure, but

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