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The case and this is practically speaking is that it is not at all unreasonable to think of God the Father as the Spirit that arises from the crowd that exists into the future Right and that’s we talked about that in relationship to the idea of sacrifice at least a little bit more or we’re going to You make sacrifices in the present so that the future is happy with you The question is what is that future that would be happy with you and answer to that is it’s the spirit of Humanity that’s that’s who you’re negotiating with because you make the assumption that if you forgo Impulsive pleasure and get your medical degree that when you’re done in ten years, and you’re a physician Humanity as such will honor your sacrifice and commitment and open the doors to you right so you’re treating the future as if it’s a single Being and you’re also treating it as if it’s a some something like a compassionate judge You’re acting that out and maybe we had to imagine God in that form before we could Understand once we started to understand that there was a future perhaps we had to imagine God in that form in order to Concretize something that we could bargain with so that we could figure out how to use Sacrifice to figure out how to guide ourselves into the future because a sacrifice is a contract with the future But it’s not a contract with any particular person. It’s it’s a contract with the spirit of humanity as such It’s something like that and so when you think about it that way that should make you faint with Amazement because that is such a bloody amazing idea to come up with that idea that you can bargain with the future That is some idea man. That’s that’s like the major idea of human of humankind We suffer what do we do about it? We figured out how to bargain with the future and we minimized suffering in that manner It’s like no other animal does that either you know like lions. They just eat everything I think a wolf can eat 40 pounds of meat in a single sitting right it’s like there’s some meat eat it It’s like not like save some mammoth for tomorrow That’s a that’s that’s not a wolf thing man That’s a human thing and that might mean you have to be hungry today Or maybe you’re a farmer you know Several thousand years ago six thousand years ago or so what agriculture first got going and you’re starving to death Waiting for the spring planting and you think we build it bloody well better not eat those seeds Right and that’s really something to be able to control yourself To make the future real to put off what you could use today and not just in some impulsive manner man Maybe your kids are starving to death you think we are not touching the seeds that we need for the future And for human beings to have discovered that and then to also have figured out that we could bargain with the future It’s like man. That’s something and I think that that I think that the stories that are laid out in this book actually describe at least in part the process by which that occurred clearing