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"sarris" Discussed on WLS-AM 890
"Story. I mean really tragically hilarious because the lefties will be like, oh, listen, this is a sign of Merrick Arlen's fierce independence from the White House. Dude, he just appointed the exact same guy accused of political patriotism for his kid to be the special counsel. I didn't tell you there's a studio audience here today. Tony, Bobby, thank you. You gotta keep it down during the show. Keep it down. You don't want anyone to interrupt the audience here. Fact checkers! Fact checkers, we're just kidding. Bill McCarthy. We're just kidding. There's not actually a studio audience here. I can see it already. Fact check. Four Pinocchios. In fact, I have a studio audience. He appointed the same guy. I was glad to I see was watching a little cable news during the break. Andy McCarthy and a couple of other people on Fox were commenting and agreed that this is a big scam. You don't appoint the same guy who just gave your son, Hunter Biden, a sweetheart deal to end all sweetheart deals. What kind of scam is that? What do you think, we're all stupid? think, What do you we're all John Kirby? You heard Ham Sarris before the break, otherwise known as Sam Harris. Dopey Lib. I'm not really sure. Every day, Hunter Biden laptop. You're not sure? There's not enough evidence for you? You mean the laptop being dropped off by Hunter, signed for by Hunter, with Hunter's address and Hunter's phone number, with pictures of Hunter, emails of Hunter, texts of Hunter, with a Biden family sticker, Hunter being ID'd as a guy who dropped off the laptop, with the bank records, the SARS, the FBI confidential human source, the pre -bought bank records, the photos of Biden, the meetings Biden, with the Bob Alinsky testimony and the Archer testimony. Other than that, there's no evidence. You're right,
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"Story. I mean really tragically hilarious because the lefties will be like, oh, listen, this is a sign of Merrick Arlen's fierce independence from the White House. Dude, he just appointed the exact same guy accused of political patriotism for his kid to be the special counsel. I didn't tell you there's a studio audience here today. Tony, Bobby, thank you. You gotta keep it down during the show. Keep it down. You don't want anyone to interrupt the audience here. Fact checkers! Fact checkers, we're just kidding. Bill McCarthy. We're just kidding. There's not actually a studio audience here. I can see it already. Fact check. Four Pinocchios. In fact, I have a studio audience. He appointed the same guy. I was glad to I see was watching a little cable news during the break. Andy McCarthy and a couple of other people on Fox were commenting and agreed that this is a big scam. You don't appoint the same guy who just gave your son, Hunter Biden, a sweetheart deal to end all sweetheart deals. What kind of scam is that? What do you think, we're all stupid? think, What do you we're all John Kirby? You heard Ham Sarris before the break, otherwise known as Sam Harris. Dopey Lib. I'm not really sure. Every day, Hunter Biden laptop. You're not sure? There's not enough evidence for you? You mean the laptop being dropped off by Hunter, signed for by Hunter, with Hunter's address and Hunter's phone number, with pictures of Hunter, emails of Hunter, texts of Hunter, with a Biden family sticker, Hunter being ID'd as a guy who dropped off the laptop, with the bank records, the SARS, the FBI confidential human source, the pre -bought bank records, the photos of Biden, the meetings Biden, with the Bob Alinsky testimony and the Archer testimony. Other than that, there's no evidence. You're right,
Gadget Lab Podcast
"sarris" Discussed on Gadget Lab Podcast
"Special collaboration between wired and the NPR show one a it's a four part series called know it all. One a and wired's guide to AI. It's about how AI will affect everything from education to healthcare to national security. The series features conversations with people at the forefront of this AI transformation, and people whose lives are being directly affected by it. The episode we're sharing here is called chat GPT in the classroom. As you might expect from that title, it's all about how AI generators are affecting life in schools. After all, what's the point of giving kids essays as homework if they can just offload their work onto an AI that can generate a response in seconds. This show features wireds pia sarris, as well as professors and teachers dealing with AI in the classroom right now. You can hear more at one a's website. The one a dot org slash series. We'll have a link in the show notes. Enjoy the show and stay human. From WA MU and NPR in Washington, this is one a. Hi, I'm Celeste headley in for gen white. Today on one a, we go back to school. Since its launch last year, chat GPT has been hailed as a dramatic step forward for AI, but it's also started in the online arms race to invent new tools to detect when students are cheating. And if students see it as a quick shortcut, what's stopping overworked educators from doing the same.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"sarris" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Then of course you have Jesus who, oh, he wasn't there. Hey, whatever happened to him. It is kind of amazing because this is one of the, I mean, I always say this and this is again why I wanted to have you on and point people to your book searching for truth in Vegas Hollywood and Bethlehem is because I think there are a lot of people who really have good questions and some of them are sort of believers and some of them aren't quite and some of them are definitely believers, but they still have questions and when somebody asks them they don't know what to say and I think it's important for us to understand what you just said, there are good answers to these things. We shouldn't pretend that, hey, who's to say, there are good answers and one of the classic things which I know I've written about in two of my books is the evidence. I never thought I'd be saying this. The evidence for the resurrection of Jesus is astonishing. In other words, it's one of those things that the more you look into it, the more you think, hey, wait a minute, I think he did maybe rise from the dead. Logic will lead you to that. Now it can't force you to believe it. But what I find interesting is that we live in a culture that pretty much says, listen, truth is whatever you want it to be, and if you look too closely, it's just confusing. And you and I have both found the opposite. We found that, no, no, no. If you actually are searching for the truth, you'll be shocked, you'll be absolutely shocked at how many solid answers you'll get. If you're really interested, the book is searching for truth in Vegas, Hollywood and Bethlehem, the author is my guest, George. Sarris will be right back. This is my way of telling you where everything I can never see before. Folks welcome back, check out my friend George sarris, whose book is searching for truth in Vegas Hollywood and Bethlehem. George, I want to talk to you way more about everything that we're talking about. But I do want to ask you in this shorter segment. When did you find faith? How did that happen for in your life? I grew up a couple of interesting things. I didn't find out until I was in my 40s that my mother's father toward the end of his life was ordained as a Greek Orthodox priest. It was amazing to me. Nobody told me that. It's kind of fascinating. But I grew up. We went to Protestant churches because when he first came over from the old country, he brought his children to episcopal churches because they didn't have any orthodox churches at the time. In New Hampshire. No, this was an upstate New York. That's where you were upstate New York. Yeah, small town called Johnstown, New York. And anyway, so I grew up in a Protestant background, but I always wondered, is there a God? I think there's a God, Jesus, I'm not too sure what he did anyway. So I went to college at northwestern university from 1966 to 1970, and there was a professor there who seemed to have his goal to destroy the faith of any students. And so I just kind of bought into what he said. I mean, he brought up some questions about the Bible and stuff like that. And so I thought, well, whatever's happening. And then at the end of my junior year in college, I met some Christians that had a different focus on life. They were part of a group called campus crusade for Christ. They've changed the name now to crew. But they shared a little booklet with me. In fact, the book is dedicated to Conrad cook who was the person that actually changed my life by sharing that little book that with me. But basically what it was saying is the reason you don't have power in your life. The reason you're not seeing God answer prayer, the reason you're not experiencing peace and joy, the reason you don't have answers is because you're trying to be the boss of your life instead of allowing God to be the boss. You're the servant he's the boss. And when that happened, it was like, wow. And so then I decided, I need to check out on the question that this professor had been challenging me with. And I found there were answers. And then there were more questions. The whole idea of evolution, I started looking, wow. There are answers to these things. Is the Bible too? Wow, there are answers to all this stuff. It was exciting. And so then I graduated from college, worked with campus crusade for Christ for about four years in their headquarters when it was in California. Then went to seminary, got an M div at Gordon county seminary. And while I was in seminary, I thought, you know, there's a need for godly individuals to get into positions of influence within secular institutions. And I was interested in the media. And so I thought, well, I'll just get into the media. Why is that the media is communicating so much junk all the time? Because there are junky people in what you need is to have some people that can actually have good thoughts, godly thoughts that are producing the programming. And so at the time, I decided to basically be a tent maker missionary. And so I was working in the Boston area at that time, and then in 1991, moved to New York. And that's how I ended up meeting you and working trying to share my faith. But it's just amazing to me that this happening college. I just love when I hear stories like this that somebody's in college and suddenly the lights go off. The bulb goes off. And you start I mean, it happened to me after college. But that moment when you realize, wait a minute, there are tons of great answers and books, and I had no idea that all these objections that people say, well, what about this? There are satisfying answers to these things. And so I started reading all these different books. And as far as I'm concerned, I've written some of those books now. In this book that you've written is one of those books. It's called searching for truth in Vegas, Hollywood, and Bethlehem. It answers all kinds of questions that everyone has did Jesus really rise from the dead. What about this thing called pain? Why would God allow pain to exist? All of these important questions have great answers. We will continue talking as the end of our one..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"sarris" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"The book is searching for truth in Vegas Hollywood in Bethlehem. The quest to discover if God is real. So when you talk about Hollywood, you say that's kind of like the force, it's this impersonal force. It's not the God of the Bible. But you were just saying that in 77 when Star Wars arrived, it only opened on 32 screens. Right. But it became so popular because it really combined sort of this idea of science and philosophy and eastern mysticism and it was right during the time when, in fact, I think George Lucas, if I'm not mistaken, was involved in est, which I wouldn't have something, whatever it was. And so it was kind of his idea that it's basically sort of a combination of Hinduism and Buddhism and a bunch of these eastern mystic ideas. Zoroastrianism, so you have some of the. Light in the dark are Zoroastrian really. You've got a good being and you've got an evil being and they kind of are always fighting with one another. That type of thing. And then it developed more when it became transcendental meditation. Everybody was involved in that in the 70s and then it became the new age movement. And so it just kind of has taken over as the basic idea of our culture today. In fact, many of the people I'll talk to, I'll say, by the way, what kind of religious background do you have? Oh, I'm not religious. I'm spiritual. Yeah, it's the cliche of the century folks. When you hear people whenever I hear anybody speak a cliche, I die a little bit, because it's so pathetic. It's an excuse. I mean, it's an excuse. It's a substitute for actual thinking. So it's embarrassing to me for the person when they say things like that because they've been told that they've been told that that's a safe thing to say. And that ends the conversation. But part of the reason is because they can't really trust what they've been brought up with. They can't trust the schools. They can't trust their churches, unfortunately. Of course. And they can't trust the government. And so they're really expressing, I don't really know where I am. That's right. That's the more generous way of looking at it and you're right to point it out because I think and this is why I'm glad you wrote this book searching for truth. I think there's so many people, they have basic questions and they're not getting them answered. They're afraid to, I wrote a series of books years, 20 years ago, called everything always wanted to know about God, but were afraid to ask a similar concept that people are afraid to ask whether it's the priest or the minister or their born again neighbor. They're just, they're afraid they're going to get it with both barrels. And so they kind of just are looking for clues in the culture, but they're not getting it. Right. And so that's why people like you write books like searching for truth in Vegas Hollywood. And you wrote, by the way, atheism is dead. Same kind of idea. That doesn't answer the questions that you do in this book, but it deals with some of the same stuff. But you answer the questions on a simple level because there are so many questions that you're actually answering the questions in this book. And when you talk about the default mode that has come into American culture, you just said it as Hollywood. And it means it says, well, I believe there's some force, there's some spirituality. I just don't know what it is. I'm a nice guy. I want to be in tune with good spirituality. It's very sloppy. It doesn't ask anything of any one. And it also is not logical at the end of the day. But it's the best some people can do. And that's why Oprah Winfrey was so popular and why a lot of these versions of new age stuff are so popular because people are just they're lost, but they know they need something. Nothing, you know, the brave atheist who says, I believe in absolutely nothing, first of all, that's preposterous, but I'm saying that most people just don't like that. Most people know there's something. And because churches and Christians maybe haven't sufficiently answered that, they kind of gravitate toward what you're talking about in Hollywood. Yeah, a lot of the people that say their religious or they're not religious, but their spiritual. It's not that they're atheist, but they just have real questions. Right. And they're looking for somebody or some group that can tell them answers. In fact, sometimes they're wondering if they're even our answers. And so what I was trying to do here was say yes, there really are. The problem with that whole eastern mystic idea is that they're basically philosophical musings by thoughtful people, but that's it. There's nothing transcendent about it. In fact, one other little interesting thing that I found out in my research, which I was kind of surprised at. We've often said the tomb of Jesus was empty, but all the other people they died. Do you know where Muhammad is buried? I do not. He's buried in Medina, Saudi Arabia. I was pretty sure it was grant's tomb. No, it's not grand Stu. But there actually is a grave of Muhammad. It's protected by people that are, I guess, whatever they do, they protect it. Watch it over. It's a covered tomb. And that's where his body is. Confucius is buried in the cemetery of Confucius in khufu, Shandong province, China. Buddha was actually cremated in, I think it's Conde gaar. I can't remember what the name of the kashinagar, because whatever it is. Yeah, thank you. But he was actually cremated. And the bones, because when you cremate someone, the bones don't get destroyed, were given out to various people. And so they are relics. They're relics around of Buddha..
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"sarris" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"That's amazing. Well, so I discuss all of those kinds of things in the book. Well, let me answer a question. We're going to go to a break, but I want to say again, folks, the book is searching for truth in Vegas Hollywood and Bethlehem. This is important stuff. People are looking for answers. The author is George W saris. We'll be right back. 'cause I'm all ready standing here on the ground. With the overturn of roe V wade lots of companies are coming out saying they'll pay for employee abortion travel and expenses. Most of you have heard about some of these companies, you've decided to stop shopping or doing business there, but did you know that you most likely own stock in those companies through your four-o-one-ks, IRAs, and other investment accounts. Folks, this is a huge problem, and we need to do something about this. The send a message to Wall Street through our investments. You need to go to inspire advisers dot com slash Eric and get a free inspire impact report. This biblical investment analysis will educate you on what's really in your investment accounts like companies paying for abortion travel. You need to go to inspire advisers dot com slash Eric to connect with an inspire adviser's financial professional who can run your report and help remove companies paying for abortion travel. Today, go to inspire advisers dot com slash Eric that's inspire advisers dot com slash Eric. Advisory services are offered through inspire advisers LLC, a registered investment adviser with the SEC. Welcome back folks talking to George sarris, the book is searching for truth in Vegas Hollywood and Bethlehem. So George, you were just referring to a couple of things that are, they are genuinely honest objections to this idea of the God of the Bible because you say these things are so horrible. It doesn't make sense. If they were a God, surely he would not allow those things. I always say there's no easy answer to that. I myself, you know, anytime anybody gives an easy answer to it, you say, well, look, you don't appreciate the pain and whatever. There are no easy answers. But there are answers. So what are some of the things we can say? Yeah. Pain is real. And to try to minimize that is not a good idea, because pain is really real. It's physical sometimes. Sometimes psychological. And sometimes the psychological emotional pain can be even worse than the physical pain of something coming along. Anyway, but there are a number of reasons why I think God allowed it. Number one is free will. I mean, God shows that he wanted mankind to have a free will. That's extremely important because you can make he could have made mankind a robot and said in program, but so do you love me? Yes, I love you. You are absolutely wonderful. That kind of thing. That would have been a total sham. Well, because then that's not love. We understand this is the conundrum. Right. But the second thing is, God has placed a limit on the amount of pain, any individual or any culture will be allowed to suffer. And that's extremely important because there is in reality no such thing as unbearable pain from God's perspective. Now we may think that the limit that got put on is to wide. But from God's perspective, there is a limit. At any point in physical suffering, at some point, the area of pain will go numb, the person will go unconscious or ultimately will die. So there is a limit that God has placed on suffering physical suffering that any one individual might. Okay, that doesn't give me much comfort, but please continue. That's right. Well, it actually should give it a little bit of comfort because it means that God is not going to allow you to, he knows exactly how much you can handle and he'll never go beyond that. I think that's extremely important for us to keep in mind. And God is given loving people, loving medicines, to be able to deal with pain, physical pain, that kind of thing. But anyway, I deal with a couple of different reasons why God might do it. One is obviously to develop character. When I was in crusade staff back in the early 1970s, I just gotten there. There was this man going around with a woman. He was in a wheelchair. This woman was pushing him along. He was wearing weird stuff, looked kind of weird, and I always felt sorry for him. Until one day, he's the person is speaking at our staff devotions. I was shocked. And he explained that he had been a competition diver that he had dove into the pool, broke his back, and he became a quadriplegic, or a paraplegic, I think, at that point. And then he said, and Eric, I was blown away. He said, that was the greatest thing that ever happened in my life. Because if it hadn't been for that accident, my life would have been pursuing trivial things as a result of that accident, my life has done significant things. He and his wife, the woman that was pushing no long, was there were some of the top linguists in the world because of that accident. He then pursued something significant. In fact, he wore these weird outfits. They were all given to him by heads of state at different places around the world. So it provided direction. Why did God allow that to happen to provide direction for that particular person's life? I mean, it's interesting because there's no question that we don't nobody looks for suffering. But oftentimes, the worst thing that happens to you in retrospect, do you think if it hadn't been for that, I wouldn't have turned that corner to God or whatever. And I don't know, I don't want to think where I'd be today. The other thing and I don't know if you go into it in the book searching for truth, that I'm holding here. But the idea that in the Christian faith, God sends his son into the world to suffer and to die to be with us in suffering and in dying. And no other religion deals with it..
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"sarris" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Do you know how many theaters had opened in? No, 32. Wait a minute. Hold on a second. We need to fact check that and we'll be right back talking to George saris, the book is searching for truth in Vegas, Hollywood, and Bethlehem. Now I can start over again just hanging around. With the overturn of roe V wade, lots of companies are coming out saying they'll pay for employee abortion travel and expenses. Most of you have heard about some of these companies, you've decided to stop shopping or doing business there, but did you know that you most likely own stock in those companies through your four-o-one-ks, IRAs, and other investment accounts. Folks, this is a huge problem, and we need to do something about this to send a message to Wall Street through our investments. You need to go to inspire advisers dot com slash Eric and get a free inspire impact report. This biblical investment analysis will educate you on what's really in your investment accounts like companies paying for abortion travel. You need to go to inspire advisers dot com slash Eric to connect with an inspire adviser's financial professional who can run your report and help remove companies paying for abortion travel. Today, go to inspire advisers dot com slash Eric that's inspire advisers dot com slash Eric. Advisory services are offered through inspire advisers LLC, a registered investment adviser with the SEC. Folks, welcome back. I'm talking to my friend George sarris that's the Greek name..
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"sarris" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"So the vagus idea is everything's random and people actually say that the whole universe and life and human beings are emerged from nothingness from randomness by itself kind of created itself or whatever. And you were just talking about how in real life we know that never happens. Our cars break down. We die. People die. It's amazing. Everything goes bad. At the end. Kind of falls apart. And so most people know that that's the way it is. So the idea that we're supposed to say yes, but except in the case of evolution where it just happened to work in the other direction. But you know, to be fair, I can understand how people could buy that idea, because when you talk about natural selection, we've all heard it in school that, okay, the giraffe with the longest neck can reach the higher leaves and over generations giraffes will get longer next. So you can get this idea in your head and you go, okay, that solves it. That makes sense. Except it doesn't, really. It doesn't explain how you go from an amoeba to a whale. Right, exactly. But it pretends to explain it. Yeah. The problem with that really is that until a system is completely in place, it doesn't help an organism. It actually hurts it. So for example, if you have a half a wing, right, I start out with no wings and I just get a half a wing. Well, that's not going to help you. If you have part lung part gills, that's not going to help you. It's actually going to probably kill you because you don't have what's appropriately there. So this whole idea that things gradually developed into something new is actually quite foolish. I use the illustration of a car junkyard. And I say, or a vehicle junkyard. And I say, if you apply evolutionary principles to a vehicle junkyard, you assume that what started out as a unicycle, suddenly developed on its own into a bicycle, then a tricycle, then it goes to maybe a Fiat like Fiat. Then to a Chevy Corvette, and ultimately it gets to a BMW, because that's the ultimate driving machine. And then you have offshoots to cars or to trucks and airplanes. Right. Or you can say, no, each one of those individual things was designed by a careful designer who was very wise and skillful. So what is the more reasonable conclusion? And I think, again, we have to say that, you know, there's the common sense approach to this, which is what we're taking right now. But there's also the, you can look into the science, folks. This is not like scientists aren't equally troubled by this, but they just, many of them are so invested in a certain worldview. They wouldn't dare mention anything that might get them in trouble. But the fact of the matter is I just had it Socrates and city we just had David berlinsky. He wrote a book called he's written a number of books on this stuff. He's an agnostic. And he recognizes that so called Darwinian evolution is just lunacy. I mean, it's not like they have no points, but at the end of the day you would have to conclude sorry it can't happen that way. Because the levels of complexity, if you ignore the levels of complexity, you say, well, I could see stuff happening, but then when you get down into how an eye develops or the idea of flight or any of these things, you realize that we're so far from actually being able to show that, that we've got to be we've got to be honest about it. And this doesn't prove God, but if you're honest, you'd have to say, well, they've been selling this soap for a 150 plus years. And the more we learn, the more difficult it is to think that it really happened. But actually what I love is that even before you get to evolution is the idea of because evolution presupposes life and you say, okay, life, natural selection. But how do you get from non life to life? That's even more crazy. That really is like going to a junkyard and expecting this stuff the wind to create a working vehicle or something like that. There's no natural selection. It's just wind and rain and random processes and you're saying, oh, we'll end up with a cell eventually. It's like, no, you actually won't. You'll never end up with a cell. In fact, if you start with a cell, the cell will break down, which is what you just said. Should we talk more about that worldview because there are three worldviews. The book is searching for truth in Vegas, Hollywood, and Bethlehem. But Vegas is the random chance. That's why it's Vegas. It's chance. You just kind of, it's a crapshoot. I'm going to throw the crepes, the dice down. Oh, wow, I got 7. But it doesn't work that way in real life. Okay, so one of the things I mentioned in there is a hummingbird looking at a sophisticated helicopter. And two hummingbirds are there, and the one hummingbird says, well, it's big. It's powerful. It can definitely go up and down and move around a lot better than a regular airplane. Hey, I'll give it an a for effort. Well, I mean, when you think of what it takes to design a helicopter, you know, human beings didn't do that until, oh, I don't know, fairly recently in history, and obviously the same with airplanes. And then you look at something like a hummingbird, which is so small, and so efficient and so magnificent. It's mind bending. Let's talk about the second thing. And the book is searching for truth in Vegas, Hollywood and Bethlehem. So Hollywood, what is the Hollywood when you say Hollywood, what do you mean? What's the worldview there? The world over there is basically the force of Star Wars. I mean, I use that. It started out a number of years. Actually, by the way, one little interesting piece of information. The original Star Wars film debuted in 1977..
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"sarris" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Them. I didn't find any that I really liked. And so I finally decided to write one. Well, I love the idea that you are breaking this up, in other words, to say searching for truth in Vegas, Hollywood and Bethlehem, you're giving us a way into these three modes, basically, right? And other people have written similar things, I think of Tom Thomas Howard, who wrote his book chance of the dance, 1969. But that's a very kind of highfalutin, very literary way into this. And he only deals with two of these ideas. But let's get into it. Actually, before we get into it, I just want to say again that I think you and I, we bump into people all the time that have basic questions. And the culture is not giving them answers. And they're kind of, they've kind of become convinced that there are no answers, so they sort of stop asking and they just kind of go with the flow. But you know when I know that there are answers to this. And so in this book, you have those kinds of answers, and it is the kind of thing you can give to somebody who says, what about this? What about this? Well, read this book. So when you say searching for truth in Vegas, Hollywood and Bethlehem, let's go through these three different ways of seeing things. So you use Vegas to say it's a crapshoot. It's completely random. Which, I mean, I've written about this in some of my books. If you actually follow that through to the bottom, that is deeply nihilistic and sick. But most people forget that. They don't follow it through to the bottom. They just go, ah, everything's just random, and the universe came into being through random processes and whatever. So talk about that worldview. Yeah, I try to come up with three basic reasons that evolution is wrong. What I say is that evolution is contrary to the basic laws of science, and I point out the law of actually, okay, that's the first one. The second law of thermodynamics. Right. And you're right, the idea that science says, oh, order emerged out of disorder. It just happened. And you think, well, wait a second. That's a really high bar. I mean, really? Because you're telling me it never happens, but they accept in this one time it happened. I was on the subway. Long time ago when I was working on this book, actually originally. And I saw a sign up on the subway that said, it was for a technical school. It said, things break. That's why we always need skilled technicians. You don't drive a car and expect that it's going to get better. In fact, yesterday, my wife came and said, George, the car is running really rough. And it's not running out all the cylinders. Things don't get better. They actually get worse. They break down. They break down over time. Called entropy, and it proves, okay, we're out of time. We'll be right back. We're talking to George, Sarah, you can find him at George W saris. George W saris dot com. The new book searching for truth in Vegas, Hollywood, and Bethlehem. Tell me I will show tell me why relief factor is so successful at lowering or eliminating pain. I'm often asked that question just the other night I was asked that question, well, the owners of relief factor tell me they believe our bodies were designed to heal. That's right, designed to heal, and I agree with them. And the doctors who formulated relief factor for them selected the four best ingredients, yes, 100% drug free ingredients, and each one of them helps your body deal with inflammation. Each of the four ingredients deals with inflammation from a different metabolic pathway. That's the point. So approaching from four different angles may be why so many people find such wonderful relief. If you've got back pain, shoulder, neck, hip, knee, or foot pain from exercise or just getting older, you should order the three week quick start discounted to only 1995 to see if it'll work for you..
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"sarris" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"And so that's where he first connected. Well, look, we're here to talk about your new book searching for truth in Hollywood and Bethlehem in Vegas. And Vegas. You can have this one doesn't have this. Oh, you know what? No, I see it here because I have an older version of the book. So thank you, I'll trade you. But you and I care about truth and we care about communicating the truth of God. On a simple level so that everybody can understand yes, yes, yes, it's actually true. So what do you cover about? What do you cover in this book titled search for truth in Vegas Hollywood and Bethlehem? Well, what I found is that people today are crying out for truth. Everything is inauthentic. They can't trust the schools. They can't trust the government. They can't trust even their churches a lot of times. I think that's one of the reasons why you wrote letters to the churches. To the Christian church. I'm sorry to say that's correct. Right. And so they're looking for truth. And so are the questions of life answered in Vegas, which is representative chance evolution. In other words, are we just a chance mixing of elements that appear today? We die and that's it. There's nothing else. Is it in Hollywood, which is representative of the force of Star Wars, eastern mysticism, are we going to die and become part of a life force that exists out there and lose our individuality that we become basically nothing. So the people that believe in chance become insignificant, the people that believe in the force become nothing, or are we going to become are we a creation of an all powerful all wise creator, but if that's true, why is there so much pain and suffering in the world? And we're supposed to have the ultimate question. Everyone will always ask. In other words, even if you come to believe in the God of the Bible as we have, you still, of course, have good questions. And it's just that those questions don't overwhelm the truth of your faith because you realize, well, I know enough about God and about how much he loves me, how good he is, that even though I have questions, the questions can not can not tear me away from what I know. But it's important to have answers to that. And this book really has been designed not for the Christian audience, particularly. It's actually designed for non Christians. Interestingly, I've been in the media industry as an actor as a voice-over spokesman for over 40 years. And during that time, I've had many, many conversations with people about God about the Bible. Some people believe that how could you be so stupid George to believe that there actually is a God. Others were kind of wondering, you know, it got sort of this interest in God, but I'm not sure about the Bible. And then you got a bunch of people that are Christians, but they still have significant answers. And over the years, I wanted to have some book I could give to.
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Searching for Truth in Vegas, Hollywood & Bethlehem With George Sarris
"To talk about your new book searching for truth in Hollywood and Bethlehem in Vegas. And Vegas. You can have this one doesn't have this. Oh, you know what? No, I see it here because I have an older version of the book. So thank you, I'll trade you. But you and I care about truth and we care about communicating the truth of God. On a simple level so that everybody can understand yes, yes, yes, it's actually true. So what do you cover about? What do you cover in this book titled search for truth in Vegas Hollywood and Bethlehem? Well, what I found is that people today are crying out for truth. Everything is inauthentic. They can't trust the schools. They can't trust the government. They can't trust even their churches a lot of times. I think that's one of the reasons why you wrote letters to the churches. To the Christian church. I'm sorry to say that's correct. Right. And so they're looking for truth. And so are the questions of life answered in Vegas, which is representative chance evolution. In other words, are we just a chance mixing of elements that appear today? We die and that's it. There's nothing else. Is it in Hollywood, which is representative of the force of Star Wars, eastern mysticism, are we going to die and become part of a life force that exists out there and lose our individuality that we become basically nothing. So the people that believe in chance become insignificant, the people that believe in the force become nothing, or are we going to become are we a creation of an all powerful all wise creator, but if that's true, why is there so much pain and suffering in the world?
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"sarris" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Up. The reason you're on the program today is because you've written a wonderful book called searching for truth in Hollywood and Bethlehem and Vegas. And Vegas. The quest to discover if God is real. Now you, to some you up, I mean, you are, you've had a career as a voice-over actor. You've done voiceovers for, oh my gosh. All these huge corporations. So people have heard you, you've got that kind of a voice. Well, thank you very much. Actually, if people want to listen, they don't have to listen to it. But they want to hear the Bible, you can go on Bible gateway dot com. And I narrated the NIV 2011 version. You can get that for free. You can hear me. You can hear me read leviticus chapter three verse 25. Listen, it's so funny. I was just going to say to that and then the ultimate is when I go to the audio Bible, I can choose between two people that are friends, max McLean, or George sarris. I mean, this is nuts, but it's totally true. And don't tell max, I prefer your reading. Thank you very much. Don't tell me, please. Don't tell them. No, but George, honestly, it's amazing. So you've done tons of voice-over stuff and it really is your voice at Bible gateway. But you're not just an actor. You've written books. I want to talk to you about this book. You care about truth and God. And. You also, over the years, have done a one man show. Talk about that a little bit, because I've seen you do pieces of it. Before we get into the book searching for truth. Yeah, my one man show, back in 19 83, I think. I was doing a commercial for a storyteller in Boston, and he had one man show at a theater. And they asked me if I wanted to have a couple of tickets to his performance. I thought, I've never seen a one man show. I don't know what a minute one man show is. Anyway, this man stood on stage. He had a box of broom in an apron, and for two hours you could hear a pin drop. It was enthralling and the first thought that came to my mind was I wonder if that approach would work with scripture. And so I decided to memorize some passages of scripture, apply the technique that I saw him use, which was pantomiming some actions, use very, very small amount of props. And just do it. And so it turned out to be tremendously successful. I actually have 6 audio CDs of Bible stories that I have done. With music and sound effects, but it's all straight scripture. The CDs are available in either the original NIV or the King James version. And then I have performed it for many, many times over the years. Well, if the King James version was good enough for St. Paul, should be good enough for us, ladies and gentlemen. And George, people can find you online at George Sarah's dot com. I remember George W cirrus dot com. George W says Greek. That's right. That's how we first connected, I thought, here's a guy who believes in the Bible and Jesus and he's a Christian and he's also got a Greek background..
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"sarris" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"People always joke around with me. Like, Eric, everybody you have on your program. You say they're your friend. Well, usually that's just true. And in some cases, it's dramatically true, as in the case of my guest today, George Ceres, George and I have been friends for a thousand years. I don't know, George. Welcome to the program. Well, thank you very much. It's a privilege to be here. But we've been, I mean, look, we've been friends at least for 23 years, I think. I think I don't remember when I first met you, but we were part of that Bible study, the master media Bible study, which began about 2000, I think. It actually began a little before then. Yes. But not too much before that. Yeah, right around that time. Anyway, but we've been friends for a long time, and you you're tough to sum up. The reason you're on the program today is because you've written a wonderful book called searching for truth in Hollywood and Bethlehem and Vegas. And Vegas. The quest to discover if God is real. Now you, to some you up, I mean, you are, you've had a career as a voice-over actor. You've done voiceovers for, oh my gosh. All these huge corporations. So people have heard you, you've got that kind of a voice. Well, thank you very much. Actually, if people want to listen, they don't have to listen to it. But they want to hear the Bible, you can go on Bible gateway dot com. And I narrated the NIV 2011 version. You can get that for free. You can hear me. You can hear me read leviticus chapter three verse 25. Listen, it's so funny. I was just going to say to that and then the ultimate is when I go to the audio Bible, I can choose between two people that are friends, max McLean, or George sarris. I mean, this is nuts, but it's totally true. And don't tell max, I prefer your reading.
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Eric Welcomes George Sarris to the Show
"People always joke around with me. Like, Eric, everybody you have on your program. You say they're your friend. Well, usually that's just true. And in some cases, it's dramatically true, as in the case of my guest today, George Ceres, George and I have been friends for a thousand years. I don't know, George. Welcome to the program. Well, thank you very much. It's a privilege to be here. But we've been, I mean, look, we've been friends at least for 23 years, I think. I think I don't remember when I first met you, but we were part of that Bible study, the master media Bible study, which began about 2000, I think. It actually began a little before then. Yes. But not too much before that. Yeah, right around that time. Anyway, but we've been friends for a long time, and you you're tough to sum up. The reason you're on the program today is because you've written a wonderful book called searching for truth in Hollywood and Bethlehem and Vegas. And Vegas. The quest to discover if God is real. Now you, to some you up, I mean, you are, you've had a career as a voice-over actor. You've done voiceovers for, oh my gosh. All these huge corporations. So people have heard you, you've got that kind of a voice. Well, thank you very much. Actually, if people want to listen, they don't have to listen to it. But they want to hear the Bible, you can go on Bible gateway dot com. And I narrated the NIV 2011 version. You can get that for free. You can hear me. You can hear me read leviticus chapter three verse 25. Listen, it's so funny. I was just going to say to that and then the ultimate is when I go to the audio Bible, I can choose between two people that are friends, max McLean, or George sarris. I mean, this is nuts, but it's totally true. And don't tell max, I prefer your reading.
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"sarris" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"But at this time, we can't. Okay, Albin. Yes. Before we go to our guest, my friend George sarris, who is Greek, by the way. I can't remember if we talk about that in the interview, but he and I share a Greek background. And a Greek foreground. But let me say that we have a new sponsor on the program. I believe it was curtailing the early church father who asked, what does Athens have to do with Jerusalem? So our Greek heritage is important to those of us who are Greek, like George and me, but we've been grafted in and we are Jewish by faith on some very serious level. And when you visit the Holy Land, our new sponsor is the Israel ministry of tourism. You can not help but feel like I'm home. There's something the place belongs to all of us, what happened there happened for all of us. And I just want to encourage people to go to the website, Holy Land, dot Israel, dot travel, Holy Land, dot Israel, dot travel, speaking of traveling, oh my gosh, I just got back from, well, actually no. I'm this weekend. I'm going to Ohio. To speak in a church in Ohio. If you want to know my schedule, just go to Eric metaxas dot com. I want to also encourage you while you're there sign up for the newsletter because increasingly there's stuff that I can't share on this program for legal and medical reasons for some very serious medical reasons. I can't share on this program. But on the website, we got pictures. We got everything. We got everything. Right, Alvin? Yeah, well, we have it all right there. We're videotaping medical procedures that we're having really private stuff. We're putting it on. But you have to go to Eric metaxas dot com and sign up for the newsletter, otherwise you don't get to see all that gross stuff. Some of it's very invasive. Some of its laparoscopic, but you got to go to Eric metaxas dot com and you'll see it there. I already mentioned that it's president's day. I want to say, again, the stories of Lincoln and Washington. Among others, but the two of them, we ought to celebrate them. And anyone who doesn't understand that is probably ignorant and needs to read more about them because we owe them tremendous debts. Any of us who calls ourselves who calls himself an American, each of us. So, okay, this week we've got a lot of weird stuff coming up. Like weird good stuff. I'm talking to our friend Ryan buffet and an actual Catholic Church exorcist, the leading exorcist because we know that that world is real and we want to explore that. We're talking to our friend Spencer clavin, our new friend. He's the son of Andrew clavin, and I'm pretty sure he was he's been Andrew's son most of his life. So we're speaking to him this week really exciting..
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"sarris" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"That was Washington. And he also didn't have wooden teeth. Okay, so the thing we want to talk about. Now today, let's be clear today, I'm talking to my friend George saras. We put it out on rumble a while ago because we recorded it a little while ago, but George is a really dear friend of many, many years, over 20 years, and he's written a delightfully accessible book. Anyway, we'll talk about that with George in the two hours to come. We have a lot to look forward to. I guess I want to mention we have a Socrates and city event February 28th, which if you can't get to New York. Now I know there are people that can't get to New York to go to the event. But honestly, you want to get there if you can get there. Alvin, are you going to be there? Oh, definitely. This is a good one. Oh boy. Are you going to bring one of your wives? Well, I will see if Anne can come because it's the beginning of lent and we want to get it started properly. Well, honestly, it's just, I am so excited about this one. I will be there because I have to be there. I'm the host. But it is February 28th. If you want to meet me or if you don't want to meet me, it's the perfect place to do either one of those two things. February 28th, union league club, but you got to go to stock season city dot com to sign up. And these are, I don't know that we sell the sizzle properly on the Socrates and city website. But these are the club is so beautiful. We have a patrons dinner afterward. That's really, really special. Sometimes people come from out of town. And they want to come to the patrons dinner. It's just really special and you get to meet some other special guests that tend to come to these dinners. So that Socrates in the city dot com that's February 28th and the speaker is the speaker that get my guest is doctor eugenia Constantino, one of the greatest New Testament scholars. But it goes way beyond that. I mean, she has 6 degrees graduate degrees in various disciplines. And she's combined these various disciplines to tell the story of passion week of what we call holy week in a way that no one ever has done before. And it is unprecedented what she has done in this book. And she's managed to write it in a way that anyone can read, which is very, very rare in the world of scholarly writing. It doesn't come across as scholarly, although it is. But it actually was a devotional for me when I read it. And I'm going to reread it in preparation to that event. So that octane city February 28th, union league club. But I do say if you can't come, you can live stream it. We've never done this before. It's super cheap. It's like ten bucks, but I want people around the country to kind of be all tuned in. It's going to be kind of, it'll be cool. It'll be cool. And we're going to have, you know, we've got hayrides and bobbing for apples and face painting for the kids. It's just a festival. And I want you to be there. Yeah, I'm going to make some balloon animals too. Yes, that's right. That's right. So just that kind of fun kind of kooky fun tacky event. So we want you to be there February 28th. Just go to soccer in the city dot com. And the live streaming does not include the bobbing for apples. There's no way virtually to bob for apples. And I apologize. We're working on that. I think the metaverse will make it possible in the future that we'll be able to offer that as well..
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George Sarris Is "Searching for Truth"...
"Welcome back. I continue my conversation now in hour two with my friend George Sarah's George W saris, in case you want to find George, George's website, George W saras dot com, the book is searching for truth in Vegas, Hollywood, and Bethlehem, the quest to discover if God is real. And so George, you and I, we've discovered that he is real. But the big news and that's what you have in this book is that anyone who wants to can discover the same thing. This is not just for a few religiously minded people. Every human being has these basic questions. And I think why am I here? Right now, people are beginning to ask those questions. For a while, they weren't asking them. Everything was going fine. You know, we've got this wonderful culture where I make money. I do this. I do that. But all of a sudden, everything is falling apart. And so as it's falling apart, people are beginning to wonder, are there answers? And if there are, where are those answers? And they're beginning to, I think, be open to wanting to know them. You are singing my song. I've been saying this for at least for the last year that things have gotten so bad that a lot of just normal people going through their lives are saying, hey, wait a minute. What the heck is happening? Something's wrong. Where do I look for answers? And the level of evil and confusion is so strong that people who wouldn't ordinarily be inclined to look for a spiritual solution are saying that this feels evil and I wonder if there's a God who has the maybe he could be the only answer to this because it's not a political thing. It's not there's something bigger going on. So I agree with you that there has never been really in our lifetimes a stronger desire on the part of just average folks. Like what is happening and are there answers? Where would I look for those answers?
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"sarris" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
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Scoops with Danny Mac
"sarris" Discussed on Scoops with Danny Mac
"Even the met with them was. They had five pitchers and they added more. You know The yankees could have said. You know we've got these young guys. David garcia clark schmidt domain on her. Mom's coming back at least everyone's coming back we don't need to add. They went and got jameson on. They went and got corey kluber. Just the push push everybody down. Make sure they had seven to eight quality. Starters you know you saw the padres acquired snell. Musk grove darvish over the off season and push their youngest pitcher gore and more moron weather. Those are really nice. Pitching prospects they push those guys out of the rotation. They'll they'll use them but they're not depending on them and then. The dodgers famously. Trevor bauer ton of innings. There they already had dustin main. And tony two guys. I really like that are now looking on the outside. I think are are there. Six and seven stars. That's pretty amazing pitching depth so the best teams Dance your question. The best teams will have in starting starting rotation. Yeah you know as you read all those off you know. It seems like there is a concentration of teams or a grouping of teams especially in the national league that are really pushing their chips in right now and who are you know keeping the pedal to the floor so to speak trying to win right now or making additions or acquisitions to win right now. I think it's very throw the cardinals in that mix. Last time we talked. I think was the day of the of the blake's now acquisition with darvish on the way for the padres but we haven't spoken since the cardinals acquired knowing are not out. Do you think that's fair. You see a delineation between the teams that are making acquisitions right now. And and who seemed to be acting aggressively into the spring and into the season. Or do you think it's just the teams that generally Regardless of circumstances would have been making these types of acquisitions. Now there's there's definitely they're definitely large teams large market teams. That are not doing anything pretty in some. They sold pieces rather than gain pieces. The red sox are treading water And losing Jackie bradley jr. News came down today. But you know over the time. Mookie betts. They traded away andrew benintendi. They seem to be selling and kind of trying to to to restock if not rebuild and The giants are a large market team that traditionally buys that is stuck in this kind of waiting for the kids buying on a small. They get guys like tommy la stella these days they make the big purchases as much so Their deadliest large market teams..
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"sarris" Discussed on 710 WOR
"Martinez. ABC NEWS Washington. There were more arrests over the weekend in connection with that deadly riot, the capital, and that includes a pair of New York was the leader of Liberty Today, arrest me, wrote Edward lying on Instagram during the capital insurrection, so no surprise. The FBI arrested him this weekend at his Hudson Valley home. This is May, he wrote in caps on another post. Video shows Lang swinging a baseball bat and hitting police. Shields at the Capitol also arrested Brandon Fellows in Albany who lives in a converted bus. He posted a Snapchat video showing his feet propped up in the office of Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley. This one, he told a news reporter is going to get me incriminated Ellis stacked in Racine E W. O R News. President elect bite and continues to work on his inauguration speech, and today the vice president elect Kamila Harris will step down from the Sarris is set to announce her Senate title for the vice presidency two days before the inauguration. Harris is expected to resign from the Senate Monday and make a formal announcement but will not give a speech on the Senate floor as it's not in session. She's only the second black woman to serve in the U. S. Senate. California Governor Gavin Newsom selected California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to replace Harris in the U. S. Senate. Marco Malard. ABC NEWS Washington President Trump will skip the inauguration. He will instead leave the White House for Mar a Lago Wednesday morning before he leaves the he could issue 100, part rappers, white collar criminals, drug offenders, people serving exceptionally long prison sentences about 100 names reportedly on the list for President Trump's final round of parties before he exits the White House. The New York Times reports Trump allies have collected tens of thousands of dollars from people seeking pardons, but sources say the president is not expected to pardon himself. The latest A B C News Washington Post poll says 68% of Americans are opposed to Trump granting himself a pardon. Derek Dennis ABC News president, Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani also says the president could take the stand in his own defense. The Senate impeachment trial. Giuliani is now mapping out strategy. Talk to Giuliani about his approach to the trial what he would do. He said that he would bring up all of those discredited claims about voter fraud claims that have been discredited. He said that if he can prove that those claims are true, or that the president had reason to believe they're true. Then you can't accuse him of inciting the mob. I don't know how that legal strategy will fly. All right. That's correspondent Jonathan Karl. Dr Anthony Fauci says new vaccines from Johnson and Johnson and AstraZeneca could be just a couple of weeks away, tells NBC's Meet the press. That means President elect Biden's goal is achieved 100 million doses in the first 100 days is it is absolutely a doable thing. Students were returning to campus that you can. They had to test negative for Corona virus and, ah, lot of excited to be back on kiss. Great. I really feel like.
WJR 760
"sarris" Discussed on WJR 760
"Real quickly, and I apologize to English, but I got to get Chris on quick. Chris, did I show you that video of Brendan Miniter? Yes. Yeah, this guy diving in reading The news is a Navy seal who brought the rings for running. Cyrus is way running to the head of the board of directors for the museum. And Brandon delivered the rings for his wedding and I've seen the video. He does it by parachuting out of a plane and it's just unbelievable. And it's just a Testament to the kind of skills learned by people in our military, navy seals and others like Brandon Manu. So congratulations to Brandon Dirani. Sarris and I am just so honored and blown away and accept your invitation to join as a voting member of the board of directors. For the Michigan Heroes Museum. Is that cool or what? Here's the thing. Not Chris. Something very cool. I know. I'm a little worried for him. Don't you know how they said in draws? I think we're gonna need a bigger boat. I'm going to say that to all the folks that at the cafe New Orleans, we're gonna eat some more been yays. That's sort of the master sword. Thank you know that museums like you've been there yourself, and I know it's the same way. Incredible. Yeah, Yeah, very happy for you from Congratulations. Thank you very much. Gonna be a blast. All right, Let's get back to the phones at 808 590957. After we talk to Ingrid Jocks, the The deputy editorial page editor.