0:00:00 - 0:00:22 All right, here's another echo. This is the second echo from the initial impulse. But uh some of you may have grunted through the other two videos and you notice I said something about uh saying to the Lord that I didn't want to, I didn't want people to incorrectly interpret. What I was saying is drawing 0:00:22 - 0:00:42 attention to myself and you may have maybe found something in the last video that you thought was was, you know, the reason for that. But the real reason was I forgot to tell you a story from basic training, which was like a million years ago when dinosaurs roamed the earth. But the story of the last 0:00:41 - 0:01:14 video for those who did not view it, not story theme was something like uh the burdens that you visibly carry. The value of the burdens you physically carry is magnified by the weight of the burdens you invisibly carry. Um When I was in basic training a million years ago, um the the apex of the experience 0:01:13 - 0:01:37 was this really long March, we had to go on and as all things in the government, it was heavily prescribed exactly how much weight we could carry and what distance we could walk and it was this temperature, you had to take a break for this long and all this other garbage. And um as we were walking, there 0:01:37 - 0:02:06 were a lot of people struggling and I had my own physical struggles, the basic training that uh I got to work on, which is good. But um I saw that these people were having a hard time and we had a few extra items with extra weight distributed across our group. Um What those were, I guess is irrelevant 0:02:05 - 0:02:26 , but they are weapons uh that were fake training devices. They looked like the real thing. A Claymore mine and a T four anti tank weapon like a, like a rocket shoulder mounted rocket launcher. And these things are freaking heavy. So I had the A T four and it was big and it, it went across your pack 0:02:26 - 0:02:48 sideways and everybody could see it. And uh I was getting pretty tired, to be honest, but I saw the person that had to Claymore slowing down and having a hard time. And the thing is, is if you can't make this March, you have to repeat the last, I don't remember two weeks or something. The basic training 0:02:47 - 0:03:10 , which was the worst part. And uh I, I just thought, you know, maybe I can carry that. So I don't know how I did this without people noticing and getting in trouble for it because you get in trouble for everything, but somehow I got that claim more and I stuck it in my pack without anybody noticing 0:03:09 - 0:03:35 . And, uh, it turns out that during that march, um, I hurt myself pretty badly and, uh, I broke my foot and I didn't know it was that serious, but I was about to go to a doctor because if you go to a doctor, you have to repeat the last portion of the training. Right? And I was like, I'm, I'm so done 0:03:35 - 0:04:03 with this. So I didn't go to a doctor and my foot healed up incorrectly. And, uh, that was 20 years ago and I have problems every single day because of that. And, um, I guess truth be told, like, weighing out the consequences. I, I probably wouldn't do that again. Uh If I did, I would have gone to a 0:04:03 - 0:04:24 doctor. Um, I think my, my life would be measurably different in some ways if, if I had handled that differently. And yet, uh, I think it's a, I don't have strong regrets about it. You know, we, no one gets out of here alive and, uh, sometimes the choice is between getting busted up for nothing and just 0:04:24 - 0:04:45 decaying or getting busted up for a reason. And, um, true to form this video will literally be less long than the other two and there's a pattern. So that's nice because I was talking about impulses and echoes. But, um, I don't know. Do you get the point here that I'm, that I'm trying to make is that 0:04:45 - 0:05:07 um it's one thing to like, say, hey, uh you're struggling, you can do this. Come on and we're all encouraging each other. Uh But it's another thing to say, hey, you have this extra weight that I don't have, let me carry that for you. We can take turns. And then it's another thing to say, uh I actually 0:05:07 - 0:05:33 have something way heavier than you, but I'll take that too. And then it's another thing to, as a result of that get injured in a, uh, you know, not a particularly serious way but something that has very serious complications, um, that you carry for the rest of your life and, uh, those things are not 0:05:32 - 0:05:57 equal. So I think, uh, what, what goes on under the covers, I mean, it matters, the hidden things they matter and, and I think the, the closer you get to God, the more of those things tend to be outside of the division of other people. And, um, that's the way it works and that's the way it's meant to 0:00:00 - 0:00:22 All right, here's another echo. This is the second echo from the initial impulse. But uh some of you may have grunted through the other two videos and you notice I said something about uh saying to the Lord that I didn't want to, I didn't want people to incorrectly interpret. What I was saying is drawing 0:00:22 - 0:00:42 attention to myself and you may have maybe found something in the last video that you thought was was, you know, the reason for that. But the real reason was I forgot to tell you a story from basic training, which was like a million years ago when dinosaurs roamed the earth. But the story of the last 0:00:41 - 0:01:14 video for those who did not view it, not story theme was something like uh the burdens that you visibly carry. The value of the burdens you physically carry is magnified by the weight of the burdens you invisibly carry. Um When I was in basic training a million years ago, um the the apex of the experience 0:01:13 - 0:01:37 was this really long March, we had to go on and as all things in the government, it was heavily prescribed exactly how much weight we could carry and what distance we could walk and it was this temperature, you had to take a break for this long and all this other garbage. And um as we were walking, there 0:01:37 - 0:02:06 were a lot of people struggling and I had my own physical struggles, the basic training that uh I got to work on, which is good. But um I saw that these people were having a hard time and we had a few extra items with extra weight distributed across our group. Um What those were, I guess is irrelevant 0:02:05 - 0:02:26 , but they are weapons uh that were fake training devices. They looked like the real thing. A Claymore mine and a T four anti tank weapon like a, like a rocket shoulder mounted rocket launcher. And these things are freaking heavy. So I had the A T four and it was big and it, it went across your pack 0:02:26 - 0:02:48 sideways and everybody could see it. And uh I was getting pretty tired, to be honest, but I saw the person that had to Claymore slowing down and having a hard time. And the thing is, is if you can't make this March, you have to repeat the last, I don't remember two weeks or something. The basic training 0:02:47 - 0:03:10 , which was the worst part. And uh I, I just thought, you know, maybe I can carry that. So I don't know how I did this without people noticing and getting in trouble for it because you get in trouble for everything, but somehow I got that claim more and I stuck it in my pack without anybody noticing 0:03:09 - 0:03:35 . And, uh, it turns out that during that march, um, I hurt myself pretty badly and, uh, I broke my foot and I didn't know it was that serious, but I was about to go to a doctor because if you go to a doctor, you have to repeat the last portion of the training. Right? And I was like, I'm, I'm so done 0:03:35 - 0:04:03 with this. So I didn't go to a doctor and my foot healed up incorrectly. And, uh, that was 20 years ago and I have problems every single day because of that. And, um, I guess truth be told, like, weighing out the consequences. I, I probably wouldn't do that again. Uh If I did, I would have gone to a 0:04:03 - 0:04:24 doctor. Um, I think my, my life would be measurably different in some ways if, if I had handled that differently. And yet, uh, I think it's a, I don't have strong regrets about it. You know, we, no one gets out of here alive and, uh, sometimes the choice is between getting busted up for nothing and just 0:04:24 - 0:04:45 decaying or getting busted up for a reason. And, um, true to form this video will literally be less long than the other two and there's a pattern. So that's nice because I was talking about impulses and echoes. But, um, I don't know. Do you get the point here that I'm, that I'm trying to make is that 0:04:45 - 0:05:07 um it's one thing to like, say, hey, uh you're struggling, you can do this. Come on and we're all encouraging each other. Uh But it's another thing to say, hey, you have this extra weight that I don't have, let me carry that for you. We can take turns. And then it's another thing to say, uh I actually 0:05:07 - 0:05:33 have something way heavier than you, but I'll take that too. And then it's another thing to, as a result of that get injured in a, uh, you know, not a particularly serious way but something that has very serious complications, um, that you carry for the rest of your life and, uh, those things are not 0:05:32 - 0:05:57 equal. So I think, uh, what, what goes on under the covers, I mean, it matters, the hidden things they matter and, and I think the, the closer you get to God, the more of those things tend to be outside of the division of other people. And, um, that's the way it works and that's the way it's meant to 0:05:57 - 0:06:06 work. So, food for thought. And hopefully this is really the last one I'll make about this.