RUSH: I believe in the total complexity of it and the inability of any human being to understand it. But we\u2019re gonna continue asking questions about it. I just believe that most of the questions human beings have about these kinds of things are questions we will never be able to answer in this life.<\/p>\n
RUSH: But I believe we all have a soul. The soul is the animating aspects of each of us. It\u2019s our consciousness. Our souls are what make us unique, because everything about our bodies is identical, other than size and appearance. But in terms of function, number of teeth, organs, we are 100% alike. But it\u2019s the soul, and each one is unique, even with twins. There are no twin souls. Every one is unique.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n
RUSH: “How does that happen?” I ask myself, and I believe that… Well, to cut to the chase, I believe all of this is the result of — for lack of a better word — creation. It has to be. It\u2019s too intricate. It\u2019s too complex. It\u2019s too microscopic. Our sun is the perfect size. We are the perfect distance away from it to survive. Not very far or close in either direction and we\u2019re a burning mass like Mercury or Venus, and there are none of us. But look. I\u2019m up here to a break, but I will continue this when we get back, for a little while.<\/p>\n
RUSH: We are back in the midst of an answer to a question from Steve in Manhattan Beach. Steve, are you still there?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. Feel free to… You know, if I go off track here in what you\u2019re looking for, feel free to butt in here and tell me. But I want to —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Are you thinking…? Are you more conscious of dying today than you ever have been because of your age? Is that why you\u2019re pondering this?<\/p>\n
CALLER: You know, I\u2019m not sure that is it exactly, but I\u2019m much less afraid. I\u2019m not afraid at all, I should say, whereas in my youth if I contemplated the eternity of lying around in a coffin, I definitely got a little upset at the idea. I don\u2019t feel that way at all. I feel that there is a deep, deep beyond that obviously none of us know. Not one of us returned. Even if Abraham Lincoln sat up in his coffin today, no one would believe what he had to say. Well, I mean, to say that not everybody would think that\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen to them, so to speak. You know? It\u2019s a huge subject, Rush — and, as I say, it\u2019s brandy and cigar time. That\u2019s all.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I was telling the truth. I ponder it constantly and not out of fear of anything, but curiosity. I\u2019ll share just one example of what I\u2019m talking about. One day last week — and nothing triggered this. It was just I was having fun with the cat, feeding my cat and so forth. Something just hit me. I have Abyssinian. The Abyssinian breed is the cat the Egyptians, the ancient Egyptians thought were gods. It is Abyssinian cats that they drew on the walls of their tombs. They were considered godly and they were guardians of the pharaohs.<\/p>\n
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Well, I\u2019ve got one of those cats, and whatever number of thousands of years, that cat has not changed. It is exactly as the first cat was. Now, I believe within-species evolution. They can\u2019t deny that. I don\u2019t believe evolution as a form of creation, and I don\u2019t want to argue with people about that. Wherever somebody wants to tell me the modern house cat came from, I\u2019m not talking about. I\u2019m talking the cat hasn\u2019t changed in 5,000 years or thousands of years.<\/p>\n
But we have. The point is we adapt; we modernize. We are able to, as human beings to improve our life circumstances, or standard of living. But animals are exactly as they were. They\u2019re no different. They don\u2019t live any longer than they always have. They\u2019re just identically the same. But human beings are constantly adapting to circumstances. Well, look…. (sigh) I don\u2019t want to get this too deep. Cats can adapt. All animals can adapt to climate and weather, but I\u2019m talking about their intelligence, their ability to adapt.<\/p>\n
Like, a cat cannot build a hospital and never will be able to build a hospital. A cat can\u2019t do that. Nor can a porpoise or a dolphin and so forth. And it fascinates me. I believe that… I have a phrase: “We all only get one life.” Most people, because of the nature of life, take it for granted. It just is. It\u2019s busy, and it\u2019s distracting, and it\u2019s chock-full of things so that the amount of time people actually have to contemplate what it is… What is life, how does it happen, where did it come from? I\u2019m constantly thinking about these things.<\/p>\n
As I say, any number of different things can trigger it, and I always resort to God. God is always the answer for me on these questions. That\u2019s where my faith is, and I believe there are answers to all these questions, but not here. I don\u2019t believe… One of my reasons for believing in God is that we, as created, have this magnificent ability to be curious and dream and imagine and to want to know whatever we want to know. But much of that we will never know. You\u2019re gonna continue to ask, but the answers are simply not here.<\/p>\n
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We\u2019re not capable. We\u2019re not smart enough. We don\u2019t know enough. Yet we have these questions. What kind of a God would create beings who can ponder all these things, such as heaven, if it didn\u2019t exist? Would be an ultimate cruelty, to create beings that can live their lives or try to live their lives in such a way to achieve these great things and at the end of it not be possible because it doesn\u2019t exist. No way to prove any of this. To me, it\u2019s faith.<\/p>\n
But my faith in all this is actually the foundational root for many of my what people would think are political beliefs. Climate change. The idea that human beings (chuckles) can alter the climate of the planet to the point of destroying it to me is patently absurd. We do not have that kind of power. We\u2019re not even close to having that kind of power! We don\u2019t even understand where this is. The universe is somewhere. Where is it?<\/p>\n
We\u2019re on this constant quest for life elsewhere — And you\u2019ll note that in every liberal pursuit of life elsewhere, guess what? It\u2019s always superior. We\u2019re always inferior. We\u2019re dumb. They\u2019re the smart ones. Life, if it exists elsewhere, has already solved nuclear war, it has solved climate change, it has solved hunger, everything. And if alien life comes here and takes a look at us, it says we\u2019re not worth it and they leave or they plant spies…<\/p>\n
This is asinine to me. But this is what suffices as liberal thinking about all this, the inferiority. Yet in the midst of all of this inferiority they assign to us, on the other hand they tell us we\u2019re destroying the planet by what we invent! We\u2019re destroying the planet by virtue of our adaptation ability, by virtue of our ingenuity, by virtue of our innovation, which is all oriented toward increasing our standard of living and quality of life. They want to tell us this is destroying God\u2019s creation? Bohunk! It\u2019s absolutely absurd.<\/p>\n
This informs my view on life.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no way… The concept that we all only get one? (sigh) To me, it\u2019s mind-boggling. Just life itself. It\u2019s not enough to say it\u2019s precious. But everybody is so busy and so caught up and so immersed in themselves — and that\u2019s nature; it is not a criticism — that few people really take the time to treat it as the unique specialty that it is. If every day people lived with the understanding, “This is it. This day, I can\u2019t get back. This day, I\u2019ve got to make the most of it. “I\u2019ve got to do” whatever it is you want to do that expands your life or expands your happiness or level of understanding or what have you.<\/p>\n
But most of life for most people is one drudgery to the next. This, again, is not a criticism. It\u2019s nature. It\u2019s the way it is. But I stop and ponder these things. I think about them, and I do it in a constant state of awe over the creation of everything and gratefulness that I\u2019m part of it, and I wonder what\u2019s next. Because I firmly think there is. I haven\u2019t the slightest idea what.<\/p>\n
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But my dad when I was 6 years old, he told a story that I asked him why did he believe in God. He says, “Here I am; I\u2019m your dad. You\u2019re 6, and I want to answer your question seriously, but you\u2019re 6. What the heck are you gonna understand? I can\u2019t start quoting scripture to you.” So he evolved a theory that I just shared with you, that he believed in a loving God that created all of this and presented humanity with the concept of eternal life, heaven, afterlife, however you want to refer to it — and a mechanism and means by which to achieve it.<\/p>\n
He said to me, “I just can\u2019t believe that a loving God would be so cruel as to create human beings who could ponder and attempt to achieve such things if they don\u2019t exist.” He was just trying to use simple logic with me. Had I been older, he would have gone to various scripture in the Bible, which would have answered the question. But it always stuck with me, \u2019cause it made sense, if you believe certain basics: loving God, God of creation.<\/p>\n
It just all made sense to me, and I actually feel very sorry for people that don\u2019t believe in this. It\u2019s the essence of believing that there are things much greater than yourself, and the sooner any human being learns that in life, the better off that person\u2019s gonna be. Most people… Not most. A lot of people, they are the center of their universe. Again, that\u2019s nature too. This is not a criticism. But when anyone learns that there are things much bigger than just themselves that they are a part of, it changes their view on life, their own life, their pursuits, and their expectations, ambitions, desires.<\/p>\n
Of course it manifests differently in everybody because everybody is different. It is impossible… There are no two identical souls, and that forms yet another belief about how socialism and communism are simply not possible, based on equality, equity, sameness. It\u2019s flawed from the get-go. It is in direct violation of the essence of humanity, as I see it. The essence of humanity in the eyes of God is individuality. Stop and think of all the human beings that have ever been conceived and born and live.<\/p>\n
And not a single two of them are alike, and never will be! It boggles my mind. So much of this boggles my mind. I reach a point where I\u2019m not able to continue because it\u2019s beyond my ability to understand, and that reaffirms my faith in something much bigger than all of this. But do I believe in life and death? Yeah, you have to. They both exist. That\u2019s pretty much it. That\u2019s much longer than I intended to spend on this, but I think that will suffice in giving you a thorough explanation of how I think about this.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, one more thing. Life is everywhere, and the business of life is life. That little bird that fell off the roof, it was gonna survive. I\u2019ve been blown away at how life makes sure it continues. There\u2019s one place, there\u2019s one place at least in the Democrat Party where life does not exist. You know where that is? Stop and think. Life is everywhere, is it not? I mean, everywhere you look, there is life, and it\u2019s doing everything it can to live and to propagate and survive. Except… (interruption) Well, you\u2019re close. You\u2019re close. There is one place, many places in the world, if you\u2019re a Democrat, where life does not exist, and that is — dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut — the womb.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay, folks, back off out there. Back off! Back off! I\u2019ll fix it. I know it. I\u2019ll fix it. Take it easy. I\u2019m hearing from a group of people who do not want me to be wrong and they\u2019re trying to protect me. In my lengthy answer on life, death, immortality and the soul I described heaven as a place to achieve and got people emailing, “No, no, no! Don\u2019t you know you can\u2019t achieve it? You can\u2019t do it by good works!”<\/p>\n
I understand all that. I was simply trying to relate to the most people. Christians\u2019 access to heaven is the result of belief and acceptance of Jesus Christ, our Lord and savior, and even people who know that nevertheless think that good works is a part of it. Even though it isn\u2019t because it can\u2019t be because nobody would ever achieve heaven if that\u2019s how you got there because we\u2019re all sinners. I get that. I was trying to relate to a majority of people in explaining a certain aspect things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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CALLER: Well, I just want your own personal views of life and death and what that… You know, I\u2019m a year older than you and I also do a lot of meditation on this subject every day.<\/p>\n