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I thought I'd tell you a little about what I like to write.

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And I like to immerse myself in my topics.

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I just like to dive right in and become sort of a human guinea pig.

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And I see my life as a series of experiments.

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So, I work for Esquire magazine, and a couple of years ago,

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I wrote an article called "My Outsourced Life,"

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where I hired a team of people in Bangalore, India,

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to live my life for me.

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So, they answered my emails.

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They answered my phone.

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They argued with my wife for me, and they read my son bedtime stories.

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It was the best month of my life,

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because I just sat back and I read books and watched movies.

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It was a wonderful experience.

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More recently, I wrote an article for Esquire called --

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about radical honesty.

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And this is a movement where --

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this is started by a psychologist in Virginia,

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who says that you should never, ever lie,

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except maybe during poker and golf, his only exceptions.

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And, more than that, whatever is on your brain

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should come out of your mouth.

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So, I decided I would try this for a month.

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This was the worst month of my life.

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(Laughter)

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I do not recommend this at all.

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To give you a sense of the experience,

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the article was called, "I Think You're Fat."

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(Laughter)

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So, that was hard.

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My most recent book -- my previous book was called "The Know-It-All,"

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and it was about the year I spent reading the Encyclopedia Britannica

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from A to Z in my quest to learn everything in the world,

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or more precisely from Aak, which is a type of East Asian music,

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all the way to Zwyiec, which is -- well, I don't want to ruin the ending.

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(Laughter)

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It's a very exciting twist ending, like an O. Henry novel, so I won't ruin it.

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But I love that one,

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because that was an experiment about how much information

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one human brain could absorb.

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Although, listening to Kevin Kelly, you don't have to remember anything.

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You can just Google it.

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So, I wasted some time there.

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I love those experiments,

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but I think that the most profound

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and life-changing experiment that I've done

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is my most recent experiment, where I spent a year

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trying to follow all of the rules of the Bible,

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"The Year of Living Biblically."

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And I undertook this for two reasons.

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The first was that I grew up with no religion at all.

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As I say in my book, I'm Jewish in the same way

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the Olive Garden is Italian.

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(Laughter)

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So, not very.

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But I've become increasingly interested in religion.

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I do think it's the defining issue of our time,

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or one of the main ones.

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And I have a son. I want to know what to teach him.

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So, I decided to dive in head first, and try to live the Bible.

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The second reason I undertook this is because

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I'm concerned about the rise of fundamentalism,

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religious fundamentalism, and people who say

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they take the Bible literally, which is, according to some polls,

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as high as 45 or 50 percent of America.

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So I decided, what if you really did take the Bible literally?

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I decided to take it to its logical conclusion

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and take everything in the Bible literally,

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without picking and choosing.

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The first thing I did was I got a stack of bibles.

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I had Christian bibles.

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I had Jewish bibles.

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A friend of mine sent me something called a hip-hop bible,

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where the twenty-third Psalm is rendered as, "The Lord is all that,"

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as opposed to what I knew it as, "The Lord is my shepherd."

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Then I went down and I read several versions,

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and I wrote down every single law that I could find.

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And this was a very long list -- over 700 rules.

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And they range from the famous ones that I had heard of --

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The Ten Commandments, love your neighbor, be fruitful and multiply.

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So I wanted to follow those.

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And actually, I take my projects very seriously,

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because I had twins during my year,

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so I definitely take my projects seriously.

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But I also wanted to follow the hundreds

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of arcane and obscure laws that are in the Bible.

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There is the law in Leviticus,

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"You cannot shave the corners of your beard."

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I didn't know where my corners were,

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so I decided to let the whole thing grow,

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and this is what I looked like by the end.

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As you can imagine, I spent a lot of time at airport security.

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(Laughter)

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My wife wouldn't kiss me for the last two months.

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So, certainly the challenge was there.

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The Bible says you cannot wear clothes made of mixed fibers,

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so I thought, "Sounds strange, but I'll try it."

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You only know if you try it.

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I got rid of all my poly-cotton T-shirts.

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The Bible says that if two men are in a fight,

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and the wife of one of those men grabs the testicles of the other man,

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then her hand shall be cut off.

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So, I wanted to follow that rule.

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(Laughter)

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That one I followed by default,

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by not getting in a fight with a man whose wife was standing nearby,

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looking like she had a strong grip.

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(Laughter)

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So -- oh, there's another shot of my beard.

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I will say it was an amazing year

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because it really was life changing, and incredibly challenging.

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And there were two types of laws that were particularly challenging.

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The first was avoiding the little sins that we all commit every day.

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You know, I could spend a year not killing,

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but spending a year not gossiping, not coveting, not lying --

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you know, I live in New York, and I work as a journalist,

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so this was 75, 80 percent of my day I had to do it.

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But it was really interesting, because I was able to make some progress,

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because I couldn't believe how much

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my behavior changed my thoughts.

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This was one of the huge lessons of the year,

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is that I almost pretended to be a better person,

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and I became a little bit of a better person.

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So I had always thought, you know, "You change your mind,

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and you change your behavior," but it's often the other way around.

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You change your behavior, and you change your mind.

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So, you know, if you want to become more compassionate,

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you visit sick people in the hospital,

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and you will become more compassionate.

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You donate money to a cause,

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and you become emotionally involved in that cause.

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So, it really was cognitive psychology --

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you know, cognitive dissonance -- that I was experiencing.

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The Bible actually talks about cognitive psychology,

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very primitive cognitive psychology.

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In the Proverbs, it says that if you smile, you will become happier,

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which, as we know, is actually true.

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The second type of rule that was difficult to obey

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was the rules that will get you into a little trouble

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in twenty-first-century America.

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And perhaps the clearest example of this is stoning adulterers.

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(Laughter)

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But it's a big part of the Bible,

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so I figured I had to address it.

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So, I was able to stone one adulterer.

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It happened -- I was in the park, and I was dressed in my biblical clothing,

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so sandals and sort of a white robe,

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you know, because again, the outer affects the inner.

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I wanted to see how dressing biblically affected my mind.

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And this man came up to me and he said,

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"Why are you dressed like that?"

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And I explained my project,

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and he said, "Well, I am an adulterer, are you going to stone me?"

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And I said, "Well, that would be great!"

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(Laughter)

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And I actually took out a handful of stones from my pocket

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that I had been carrying around for weeks,

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hoping for just this interaction -- and, you know, they were pebbles --

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but he grabbed them out of my hand.

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He was actually an elderly man, mid-70s, just so you know.

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But he's still an adulterer, and still quite angry.

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He grabbed them out of my hand

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and threw them at my face, and I felt that I could --

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eye for an eye -- I could retaliate, and throw one back at him.

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So that was my experience stoning, and it did allow me

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to talk about, in a more serious way, these big issues.

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How can the Bible be so barbaric in some places,

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and yet so incredibly wise in others?

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How should we view the Bible?

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Should we view it, you know, as original intent,

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like a sort of a Scalia version of the Bible?

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How was the Bible written?

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And actually, since this is a tech crowd,

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I talk in the book about how the Bible actually reminds me

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of the Wikipedia, because it has all of these authors and editors

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over hundreds of years.

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And it's sort of evolved.

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It's not a book that was written and came down from on high.

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So I thought I would end by telling you

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just a couple of the take-aways, the bigger lessons

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that I learned from my year.

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The first is, thou shalt not take the Bible literally.

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This became very, very clear, early on.

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Because if you do, then you end up acting like a crazy person,

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and stoning adulterers, or -- here's another example.

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Well, that's another. I did spend some time shepherding.

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(Laughter)

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It's a very relaxing vocation. I recommend it.

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But this one is -- the Bible says that you cannot touch women

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during certain times of the month, and more than that,

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you cannot sit on a seat where a menstruating woman has sat.

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And my wife thought this was very offensive,

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so she sat in every seat in our apartment,

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and I had to spend much of the year standing

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until I bought my own seat and carried it around.

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So, you know, I met with creationists.

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I went to the creationists' museum.

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And these are the ultimate literalists.

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And it was fascinating, because they were not stupid people at all.

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I would wager that their IQ is exactly the same as the average evolutionist.

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It's just that their faith is so strong

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in this literal interpretation of the Bible

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that they distort all the data to fit their model.

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And they go through these amazing mental gymnastics to accomplish this.

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And I will say, though, the museum is gorgeous.

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They really did a fantastic job.

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If you're ever in Kentucky,

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there's, you can see a movie of the flood,

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and they have sprinklers in the ceiling

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that will sprinkle on you during the flood scenes.

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So, whatever you think of creationism -- and I think it's crazy --

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they did a great job.

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(Laughter)

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Another lesson is that thou shalt give thanks.

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And this one was a big lesson because I was praying,

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giving these prayers of thanksgiving, which was odd for an agnostic.

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But I was saying thanks all the time, every day,

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and I started to change my perspective.

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And I started to realize the hundreds of little things

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that go right every day, that I didn't even notice,

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that I took for granted, as opposed to focusing

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on the three or four that went wrong.

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So, this is actually a key to happiness for me,

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is to just remember when I came over here,

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the car didn't flip over, and I didn't trip coming up the stairs.

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It's a remarkable thing.

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Third, that thou shall have reverence.

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This one was unexpected because I started the year

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as an agnostic, and by the end of the year,

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I became what a friend of mine calls a reverent agnostic, which I love.

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And I'm trying to start it as a movement.

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So, if anyone wants to join,

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the basic idea is, whether or not there is a God,

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there's something important and beautiful about the idea of sacredness,

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and that our rituals can be sacred.

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The Sabbath can be sacred.

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This was one of the great things about my year, doing the Sabbath,

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because I am a workaholic, so having this one day

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where you cannot work, it really, that changed my life.

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So, this idea of sacredness, whether or not there is a God.

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Thou shall not stereotype.

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This one happened because

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I spent a lot of time with various religious communities

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throughout America because I wanted it to be more

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than about my journey.

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I wanted it to be about religion in America.

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So, I spent time with evangelical Christians, and Hasidic Jews, and the Amish.

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I'm very proud because

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I think I'm the only person in America

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to out Bible-talk a Jehovah's Witness.

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(Laughter)

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After three and a half hours, he looked at his watch,

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he's like, "I gotta go."

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(Laughter)

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Oh, thank you very much.

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Thank you. Bless you, bless you.

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But it was interesting

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because I had some very preconceived notions about, for instance,

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evangelical Christianity, and I found that

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it's such a wide and varied movement

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that it is difficult to make generalizations about it.

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There's a group I met with called the Red Letter Christians,

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and they focus on the red words in the Bible,

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which are the ones that Jesus spoke.

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That's how they printed them in the old Bibles.

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And their argument is that Jesus never talked about homosexuality.

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They have a pamphlet that says,

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"Here's what Jesus said about homosexuality,"

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and you open it up, and there's nothing in it.

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So, they say Jesus did talk a lot about helping the outcasts,

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helping poor people.

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So, this was very inspiring to me.

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I recommend Jim Wallis and Tony Campolo.

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They're very inspiring leaders, even though I disagree

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with much of what they say.

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Also, thou shalt not disregard the irrational.

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This one was very unexpected because, you know,

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I grew up with the scientific worldview,

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and I was shocked learning how much of my life

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is governed by irrational forces.

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And the thing is, if they're not harmful,

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they're not to be completely dismissed.

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Because I learned that -- I was thinking, I was

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doing all these rituals, these biblical rituals,

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separating my wool and linen, and I would ask these religious people

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"Why would the Bible possibly tell us to do this? Why would God care?"

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And they said, "We don't know,

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but it's just rituals that give us meaning."

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And I would say, "But that's crazy."

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And they would say, "Well, what about you?

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You blow out candles on top of a birthday cake.

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If a guy from Mars came down and saw, here's one guy

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blowing out the fire on top of a cake

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versus another guy not wearing clothes of mixed fabrics,

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would the Martians say, 'Well, that guy, he makes sense,

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but that guy's crazy?'"

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So no, I think that rituals are, by nature, irrational.

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So the key is to choose the right rituals,

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the ones that are not harmful -- but rituals by themselves

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are not to be dismissed.

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And finally I learned that thou shall pick and choose.

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And this one I learned because

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I tried to follow everything in the Bible.

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And I failed miserably.

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Because you can't.

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You have to pick and choose. And anyone who follows the Bible

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is going to be picking and choosing.

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The key is to pick and choose the right parts.

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There's the phrase called cafeteria religion,

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and the fundamentalists will use it in a denigrating way,

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and they'll say, "Oh, it's just cafeteria religion.

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You're just picking and choosing."

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But my argument is, "What's wrong with cafeterias?"

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I've had some great meals at cafeterias.

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I've also had some meals that make me want to dry heave.

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So, it's about choosing the parts of the Bible about compassion,

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about tolerance, about loving your neighbor,

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as opposed to the parts about homosexuality is a sin,

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or intolerance, or violence,

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which are very much in the Bible as well.

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So if we are to find any meaning in this book,

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then we have to really engage it, and wrestle with it.

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And I thought I'd end with just a couple more.

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There's me reading the Bible.

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That's how I hailed taxicabs.

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(Laughter)

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Seriously, and it worked. And yes,

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that was actually a rented sheep,

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so I had to return that in the morning, but it served well for a day.

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So, anyway, thank you so much for letting me speak.