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Once I get the link I'll share... Bishop Jim and I had a lovely chat today... it will stream tomorrow
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Been thinking about the post that lead to all this... #4408

The Enlightenment is often associated with its political revolutions and ideals, especially the French Revolution of 1789. The energy created and expressed by the intellectual foment of Enlightenment thinkers contributes to the growing wave of social unrest in France in the eighteenth century. The social unrest comes to a head in the violent political upheaval which sweeps away the traditionally and hierarchically structured ancien régime (the monarchy, the privileges of the nobility, the political power of the Catholic Church). The French revolutionaries meant to establish in place of the ancien régime a new reason-based order instituting the Enlightenment ideals of liberty and equality.
enlightenment with the process of undertaking to think for oneself, to employ and rely on one’s own intellectual capacities in determining what to believe and how to act.

I asked Grok to break it down to teach to children, as i know a lot of you share with them ...

A long time ago in France, there were kings, rich nobles, and powerful church leaders who made almost all the rules. Regular people had to obey them, pay high taxes, and didn’t get much say in how things worked. This old system was called the ancien régime (just a fancy French name for “the way things used to be”).
Then some smart thinkers started writing and talking about new ideas. They said:
“You don’t have to believe something just because a king or a priest tells you to.”
“Everyone should be free and treated fairly.”
“Use your own brain to figure out what’s true and what’s right.”
These new ideas are what we call the Enlightenment — it means “waking up” and thinking for yourself instead of just following the old rules.
Those ideas spread around France. People started feeling more and more unhappy with the unfair old system. The unhappiness grew until it exploded into a big revolution in 1789. Crowds of people rose up, got rid of the king’s power, the special privileges of the rich nobles, and the church’s strong control over politics.
The people who fought in the revolution wanted to build a brand-new kind of country based on freedom (liberty) and fairness (equality) — the same ideas the Enlightenment thinkers had talked about.
So in short:
Enlightenment = learning to think for yourself.
Those ideas helped ordinary people decide the old system wasn’t fair anymore, and that helped start the French Revolution.
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📅  Tuesday Aug 4th @ 8:30 pm EDT Episode 19: Dopamine Loops | The Endless Pursuit of More

What keeps us reaching for the next notification, the next reward, the next piece of information... even when we know it may not satisfy us?

Dopamine is often called the “pleasure chemical,” but its role goes much deeper. It is connected to motivation, anticipation, learning, and the powerful feeling that something meaningful may be waiting just ahead.

In this episode of Awareness is Key, we explore how dopamine loops can shape our habits, emotions, decisions, and the way we move through the world. We’ll look beneath the constant search for more and ask what happens when the pursuit itself becomes a pattern.

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Hope you all have a radiant day... one step closer 🙏
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