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Podcast: theeffect Podcasts
Episode: Book of Unknowing
Description: Dave Brisbin 11.16.25
Have you noticed that people fight? Silly wabbit. Of course. Ever stopped to wonder why?
Fear. Always fear. Even if it doesn’t feel like afraid-ness, unconscious, overriding concern for personal survival drives us fearward in a zero-sum world where there’s only so much oil in the ground, where the resources absolutely necessary for survival are finite. It’s basic envy and jealousy: fear of not getting what someone else has, fear of not keeping what we already do.
Fights are made of this. No fear, no fight.
Then why do religious people fight? Spirituality by definition is inf...