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Leah: Yes.

Leah: Yes.

TOMAS: I would like to just spend a [[moment]] with you. I cannot think of anything [[profound]] to say except, perhaps, "Happy Anniversary" and that is a peculiar [[celebration]], and so I will sidestep that and go back to your most capable globetrotting ventures. The [[reading]] [[public]], you see, appreciates that the [Pittsburgh] Pumpkins have such an aerial view of what goes on in the rest of the world through the eyes of Leah the Traveler. It was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse,_New_York Syracuse] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo,_New_York Buffalo] last week, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London,_England London] the week before, tomorrow it is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio Ohio] en route to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver,_Canada Vancouver Canada]. My, my! Is it any [[wonder]] that your [[husband]] and yourself are celebrating 22 years of 4 1/2 years of togetherness? (Group [[laughter]]) Perhaps that is the [[secret]] of your success.

TOMAS: I would like to just spend a [[moment]] with you. I cannot think of anything [[profound]] to say except, perhaps, "Happy Anniversary" and that is a peculiar [[celebration]], and so I will sidestep that and go back to your most capable globetrotting ventures. The [[reading]] [[public]], you see, appreciates that the [Pittsburgh] Pumpkins have such an aerial view of what goes on in the rest of the world through the eyes of Leah the Traveler. It was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse,_New_York Syracuse] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo,_New_York Buffalo] last week, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London,_England London] the week before, tomorrow it is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio Ohio] en route to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver,_Canada Vancouver Canada]. My, my! Is it any [[wonder]] that your [[husband]] and yourself are celebrating 22 years of 4 1/2 years of togetherness? (Group [[laughter]]) Perhaps that is the [[secret]] of your success.

Leah: That might have something to do with it.

Leah: That might have something to do with it.

Celeste: Tomas, I get concerned about the marvelous [[young people]] who are not [[marrying]] and not having [[children]] and yet there are all kinds of children being [[born]] today that people don't really want, and so I'm [[wondering]] what that means for the [[future]] of our country.

Celeste: Tomas, I get concerned about the marvelous [[young people]] who are not [[marrying]] and not having [[children]] and yet there are all kinds of children being [[born]] today that people don't really want, and so I'm [[wondering]] what that means for the [[future]] of our country.

TOMAS: "Have you heard of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_bell_curve The Bell Curve]?"

TOMAS: "Have you heard of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_bell_curve The Bell Curve]?"

Elizabeth: Oh, yes. I've heard of the Bell Curve. I thought it was a pretty important [[point]] that somebody was making recently, in the last couple of years.

Elizabeth: Oh, yes. I've heard of the Bell Curve. I thought it was a pretty important [[point]] that somebody was making recently, in the last couple of years.

Celeste: [[Explain]] it to some of us.

Celeste: [[Explain]] it to some of us.

Elizabeth: Well, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_bell_curve Bell Curve] was saying that there's a [[difference]] between the [[ethnic]] groups insofar as their [[ability]] to be [[intellectually]] challenged. There is a difference between these ethnic groups and we should actually be kind of cognizant of it in order to help them be more effective, in teaching the [[different]] ethnic groups. They learn [[differently]]. That's what the Bell Curve said.

Elizabeth: Well, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_bell_curve Bell Curve] was saying that there's a [[difference]] between the [[ethnic]] groups insofar as their [[ability]] to be [[intellectually]] challenged. There is a difference between these ethnic groups and we should actually be kind of cognizant of it in order to help them be more effective, in teaching the [[different]] ethnic groups. They learn [[differently]]. That's what the Bell Curve said.

TOMAS: All [[groups]] have to learn how to produce intelligently . .. Elizabeth: Oh, boy, yes.

TOMAS: All [[groups]] have to learn how to produce intelligently . .. Elizabeth: Oh, boy, yes.

TOMAS: . .. for if we do not [[reproduce]] [[intelligently]], we will be producing mental defectives and heading downhill, and that was my [[reference]] to the Bell Curve. It is not necessarily an [[ethnic]] situation, but it is a [[racial]] situation, and as the human [[animal]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_propagation propagates] as a dog has puppies, there will continue to be [[difficulty]] in developing a solid [[society]].

TOMAS: . .. for if we do not [[reproduce]] [[intelligently]], we will be producing mental defectives and heading downhill, and that was my [[reference]] to the Bell Curve. It is not necessarily an [[ethnic]] situation, but it is a [[racial]] situation, and as the human [[animal]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_propagation propagates] as a dog has puppies, there will continue to be [[difficulty]] in developing a solid [[society]].

===='''''[[Home]]'''''====

===='''''[[Home]]'''''====

Merium: We have a [[generation]] that is growing up, coming in, that is, has a tendency to be newly more [[enlightened]]. We have a [[society]] coming in that has had a divided [[home]], that has had a [[mother]] who is never there or a [[father]] who is never there, and it [[weakens]] a need in them that states, "when I find my friend, and the one I [[choose]] to [[love]] and share with, we are going to talk about the importance of having someone [[home]] when my child comes home from [[school]]."

Merium: We have a [[generation]] that is growing up, coming in, that is, has a tendency to be newly more [[enlightened]]. We have a [[society]] coming in that has had a divided [[home]], that has had a [[mother]] who is never there or a [[father]] who is never there, and it [[weakens]] a need in them that states, "when I find my friend, and the one I [[choose]] to [[love]] and share with, we are going to talk about the importance of having someone [[home]] when my child comes home from [[school]]."

In the meantime, let us not forget that this [[light]] of [[truth]] is here and it will be compounded and compounded, and that it will be here to [[assist]] them with their [[decisions]]. A teacher that Hunnah heard many years ago gave the [[metaphor]] of making jam. She said, "when you turn up the [[heat]], the impurities come to the [[surface]]," and indeed these [[young people]] today have been living in a state of having the heat turned up, [[listening]] to the [[ugliness]] of the narrow-minded [[opinions]] of people who are in their lives.

In the meantime, let us not forget that this [[light]] of [[truth]] is here and it will be compounded and compounded, and that it will be here to [[assist]] them with their [[decisions]]. A teacher that Hunnah heard many years ago gave the [[metaphor]] of making jam. She said, "when you turn up the [[heat]], the impurities come to the [[surface]]," and indeed these [[young people]] today have been living in a state of having the heat turned up, [[listening]] to the [[ugliness]] of the narrow-minded [[opinions]] of people who are in their lives.

There is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_in_the_Family television program] of many years ago that Hunnah at first was very [[offended]] by and then she realized that it had to be aired because it's nearer to people, the sound of their own [[voices]], and that was the one that had [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Bunker Archie] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Bunker Edith], and the [[contrast]] in their [[attitudes]] about life, and that [[family]] had a great impact on people because they stored this in themselves and realized that they did not want to be an Archie and be [[ignorant]] and obnoxious and illiterate, or totally an Edith, who was not [[strong]] enough to take the best that she had and to apply it in a more [[creative]] way.

There is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_in_the_Family television program] of many years ago that Hunnah at first was very [[offended]] by and then she realized that it had to be aired because it's nearer to people, the sound of their own [[voices]], and that was the one that had [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Bunker Archie] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Bunker Edith], and the [[contrast]] in their [[attitudes]] about life, and that [[family]] had a great impact on people because they stored this in themselves and realized that they did not want to be an Archie and be [[ignorant]] and obnoxious and illiterate, or totally an Edith, who was not [[strong]] enough to take the best that she had and to apply it in a more [[creative]] way.

I am reminding you one more time of some [[brilliant]] [[scripture]] of "taking no thought." That does not mean to hide your head, but it does mean to [[rest]] in the [[truth]] of your [[being]] and let it develop, and [[become]] your new [[reality]], and as you do this, everyone in your world and in your [[community]] will be affected, and the poultice that is being applied is on many people of misery or [[conflict]] of [[ideas]].

I am reminding you one more time of some [[brilliant]] [[scripture]] of "taking no thought." That does not mean to hide your head, but it does mean to [[rest]] in the [[truth]] of your [[being]] and let it develop, and [[become]] your new [[reality]], and as you do this, everyone in your world and in your [[community]] will be affected, and the poultice that is being applied is on many people of misery or [[conflict]] of [[ideas]].