Truth Reel: Recent Episodes
Javier Gonzalez
A Real conversation begins with honesty. It's raw, candid and fearless. That's how life unfolds. One discovery at a time, always searching to find the answers. On the Truth Reel, we are the inquisitors on a journey to really understand the "why" of life. Who we are, why we are here and where all of this is going. The Truth of us is something you and I are meant to find and to know. Because in the end, it is the Truth that will set us free.
Show Notes:
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Klaus Shwab: Great Narrative
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Great Narrative Conference - Closing Plenary
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WEF Conference in Dubai - Ngaire Woods on Global Elites
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Michael Shellenberger - Apocalypse Never
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WEF Great Reset - On Net Zero
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WEF - The Great Reset Website
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The Hill - John Kerry on Great Reset
Wall Street Journal, Lance Morrow - You Are Living In the Golden Age of Stupidity
Click Here To Donate and Help the Afghani People - Live For 1, Inc
9/11 Nat Geo Documentary: One Day In America
- Nancy Pelosi - Press Conference
- The Atlantic - Unvaccinated People Need to Bear the Burden
- EarthBeat - Thomas Reese: Covid-19, global warming and diminishing Catholic guilt
- The Chosen TV Series - THE CHOSEN APP
- The Devil's Delusion - David Berlinski
Show Notes:
-John Kerry on Pope Francis
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2021-05/pope-francis-meets-with-us-envoy-for-climate-john-kerry.html
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Fratelli Tutti, Encyclical by Pope Francis
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de Balsio on NY mandates - New York Post
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EUA Provision - FDCA ACT
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Loyal D. Rue, A Noble Lie - Desert News
JFK - 1960 Speech
Build Back Better - Video Compilation
RNS - Article on Catholic Moment in America
RNS - Biden in Catholic Washington
WSJ - Can Catholic Social Doctrine Unite A Divided America
NYT - Biden's Catholic Faith
Freedom is Everything - Video
The Hill - John Kerry and the Great Reset
Great Reset - Report
Rudyard Kipling - The Gods of The Copybook Headings
Show Notes & Articles -
- NY Times: Climate Clock
- TIME Magazine: The Great Reset
- H. Gratton Guiness: Romanism and The Reformation
Links & Articles -
- Vatican News: Global Compact on Education
- Crux: G20 Inter-faith Forum
- WEF: The Great Reset Agenda
- WEF: Transformation Interactive Map
- YOUTUBE: U.N. Address
Links and Notes:
- Pope Francis Encyclical - Fratelli Tutti
- World Economic Forum - The Great Reset
- World Economic Forum- The Pope's Prescription for resetting the global economy
Suggested Reading - The Keys of This Blood by Malichi Martin
Show links and articles -
- Wall Street Journal - The Art of the Pandemic Meltdown
- YOUTUBE - The Great Reset: World Economic Forum
- YOUTUBE - WEF: Klaus Shwab, We must prepare for an angrier world
- New York Times - China Gives Citizens A Color Code
- World Economic Forum - Common Pass
- World Economic Forum - The Great Reset Agenda
- Vatican Radio - Pope Francis: Religion should not be confined to personal conscience
- America Magazine - What Catholic Social Teaching says about Property Rights & Religious Liberty
- LifeSite - Attorney General Barr: Separation of church and state
- Religion News Service- Pope Francis launches his post-covid agenda
- Pope Francis Encyclical - Laudato Si'
- Croatia Week - Croatia heading towards work-free Sunday
- The Green Sabbath Project- A Universal Day of Rest
- New Boston Post - If History Rhymes
- Alveda King Article
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/alveda-king-as-riots-spread-across-us-heed-words-of-my-uncle-martin-luther-king-to-end-violence-and-racism?fbclid=IwAR3zo94Y6qBgQfT41_V-rl27F73id1fnzBJtoEA7UK-fLxWDLqDtR1Uiado
- Martin Luther King Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1964/king/lecture/
It’s been said that the only thing we learn from history is that men never learn from history. We now stand on a precipice of that history. Humanity has stood over its edges before, but like the empires of the past, are we destined to repeat their fate?
The moral framework of liberty is based not on what men dictate, but on what time-honored principles, which are self-evident truths, are founded on. Where liberty begins and ends lies in the moral law that is given by one creator. Because if we are all created equal only the creator can qualify that truth. Each of us is the evidence of the existence of this law. Without this law we cannot have liberty. With the world on the brink, now, more than ever we need that law of liberty to anchor us down and to guide us to the ultimate world made new.
- Aritcle - If History Rhymes
https://newbostonpost.com/2020/04/01/if-history-rhymes/
- Catholic Climate Movement - https://catholicclimatemovement.global/laudatosi/
3. Laudato Si - Encyclical by Pope Francis
http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html
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New York Post article on Pope Francis response on Covid-19 https://nypost.com/2020/04/08/pope-says-coronavirus-could-be-a-reaction-to-climate-change/
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The Guardian, September 17, 2019 article - Slow Sunday https://www.theguardian.com/environment/cif-green/2009/sep/17/low-carbon-sunday
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Pea Ridge Times Article - April 15, 2020: Will we learn anything from time of distancing?
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Tablet Magazine Article - February 3, 2020: The Sabbath in an era of Climate Change
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/belief/articles/the-sabbath-in-an-era-of-climate-change
We are one race of many colors, of many tongues and many voices. We are one in blood, of many in thought, made equal by creation, designed for the light, fallen, but redeemed, flawed, but renewed, neighbors all, travelers all, each seeking, each struggling and striving for that place across the deep river, beyond the Jordan.
Do we refuse to accept that humanity cannot rise above the darkness? Do we refuse to accept that we cannot change? Do we refuse to accept that our nature is just a product of mere chance? The truth of us isn't found in the skepticism of cynicism. It is found in the truth of promise. The promise of restoration. The promise that dares us to stand, dares us to rise and dares us to finally overcome.
When we suffer together, we come together. This has always been a part of the human experience. But when we emerge from crisis and adversity, we often return to a normalcy that gives way to complacency. In the midst of an unprecedented global crisis such as this we must ask, what comes next? What do we look forward to? Is it more of the same that inevitably leads to nothing or does our story end in an end to all of this and to a new beginning. This interruption to our lives here serves as a wake up call to look beyond this world to a new one. It's my choice and your choice to make.
We are in the middle of it. Hour by hour and day by day, we watch the world changing. It's no movie. It's real. We want an end to it. Do we come out of this? Can we dream or imagine all of this away? It comes down to what we really believe. Because intellect and raw numbers aren't enough to really satisfy the human soul. Looking for the truth is an existential quest. In the end, it isn't an imagining that will free us all of this. Ultimately, the answer lies in our courage and willingness to do one thing: To Believe.
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Article on Stephen Hawking
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/06/20/human-race-doomed-do-not-colonise-moon-mars-says-stephen-hawking/ -
Time Magazine
https://time.com/4767595/stephen-hawking-100-years-new-planet/
Love. It's the great ideal of poets, singers and story-tellers. We yearn for it, we seek after it, we believe in it. We long for ever after. In the midst of the shadows of our dark world, it's love that allows us to see and be small points of light that can give the world hope. Love begins with choice. It begins with giving each one of us the freedom to choose either for evil or for good. Truth leads us to love and love binds us to the truth. The choice belongs to each one of us to make.
What we think we know and what actually is are two very different things. When we search we must allow the trail of evidence to take us and reveal to us what is actually there, not what we think we know might be there. Confirmation bias can be a dangerous thing because it allows us to make decisions about what we already think we know. Preconceived ideas lead us only to prejudice, not to knowledge or true understanding. We must look at the evidence of things for what they are - a raw and real proof of the truth we seek.
All it takes is a good tag line, a few creative doses of top-of-the-line marketing and you've got a great product to believe in and trust. Or do you? Religion can be like that. Then again, so can science. So many opinions and so many voices. A few seconds on social media, one or two clicks and we're satisfied. It's "good enough for me." That's the magic of online media express. Get it while it's hot, in just a few quick seconds, and that's enough for us to know and be convinced that what we see and hear is true and nothing but the truth. No doubt, when it comes to access to information and the convenience of having it so close, and now with even a simple voice command getting what we want and what we need, then why bother digging deeper. Google and Alexa will do the searching for me. It sounds too good to be true doesn't it? Speak a word, and you've got all the answers you need. Perhaps, this type of express living is exactly what makes us so unsure and even unwilling to believe the unbelievable anymore. Is there anything beyond this world of pain, loss, division, hate and death?
It's in the darkest places of our own stories that we tend to be more tenacious in the questions we ask because we desperately want to know the answers. The biggest issue for many when it comes to the "why" and the "if" of God is when we take an honest look at religion. The historical record is a harsh one and when we uncover these bitter glimpses of religious tradition, it's no wonder it becomes an easy target of critics, skeptics and even faith-based believers. Did religion create God, or is religion that natural by-product of a Creator who is as real as you and me? It's another part of the journey as we listen to the questions of honest inquisitors like self-proclaimed atheist, Bill Maher. So we listen, we inquire and keep on the search.
Continue the search:
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Mowrer, Hobart. "Sin, the lesser of two evils." American Psychologist. 1960, pg. 301-304
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Nietzche, Friedrich. "The Gay Science.” Germany, 1882. Pg. 343.
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Richard Dawkins: Quoted in Chris Floyd, "A Trick of the Light: Richard Dawkins on Science And Religion." Science and Spirit 10, July/August 1999. pg. 24-31.
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The Shack: Judgement Scene -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUiW7bOqGPA -
Zacharias, Ravi. "The End Of Reason." Zondervan, 2008.
Continue the search:
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Rue, Loyal D. qtd. in "In Light Of Science, Let's Begin Anew with a `NOBLE LIE,' PHILOSOPHER SAYS."
Desert News, 1991.
https://www.deseret.com/1991/7/20/18931720/in-light-of-science-let-s-begin-anew-with-a-noble-lie-philosopher-says -
Dawkins, Richard. River Out of Eden: A Dawinian View of Life. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995, Pg. 150.
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Walter, Jeremy L. In Six Days: Why Fifty Scientists Choose To Believe in Creation. Arkansas: Master Books, 2000, pg. 11.
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Meyer, Stephen C. Yes, Intelligent Design is Detectable By Science. Evolution News And Science Today. April 24, 2018.
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Strobel, Lee. The Case For A Creator. Zondervan: Michigan, 2004.
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Eveleth, Rose. There 37.2 Trillion Cells In Your Body. Smithsonian.com, October 24, 2013.
https://evolutionnews.org/2018/04/yes-intelligent-design-is-detectable-by-science/ -
Huxley, Aldous. Ends And Means: An Enquiry Into The Nature Of Ideals And Into The Methods Employed For Their
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Ingham, Richard. Breakthrough in Storing 700 terabytes of Date in One Gram of DNA. Sydney Morning Herald, January 24, 2013.
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/breakthrough-in-storing-700-terabytes-of-data-in-1-gram-of-dna-20130124-2d89q.html -
Banks, Adelle M. Geneticist Francis Collins Ponders Peril of Biotechnology. Religion News Service, October 24, 2019.
https://religionnews.com/2018/06/19/christian-geneticist-francis-collins-ponders-promise-peril-of-biotechnology/ -
Picture of Rose Window and Strand of DNA as shown by Francis Collins -
https://images.app.goo.gl/XGkXsWBKGoebyTfw5 -
Pandit, Subodh K. Come Search With Me: Does God Really Exist? Fourth Edition. Maryland: Subodh K. Pandit, 2015.
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Tragedy At Taylor University
https://fox59.com/2016/04/25/taylor-university-marks-10-year-anniversary-of-crash-identity-mistake/
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Turner, Stephen. "Creed."
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On Federal Laws -
https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2013/03/frequent-reference-question-how-many-federal-laws-are-there/ -
Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to Peter Carr - "Question with Boldness..."
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Gould, Stephen Jay qtd. in "The Meaning Life: The Big Picture." Life Magazine, December 1988, pg. 76.
A conversation begins with a look at the truth of our existence and endeavoring to seek, inquire and search out to find our purpose in today's 21st century world. Once we find it, what do we do with it and where do we and the world at large end up in the future?