Just thought I would insert a few direct quotes from messages I’ve received : “ he has such a wonderful delivery” , “ he has a remarkable way of processing everything and explaining everything” , “ Jared hit the nail on the head” , “ even with the difficult topic he shared with respect” “ I enjoyed listening to him, he has a calm soothing voice” that one did make me laugh insert we love the world - wait that was actually soothing too 😄 “ I love it”
You are in the right place doing the right thing for you. So excited for what’s ahead for you and what us listeners will receive from it also! Yay! I’m going to go look at the sky now.
You draw my audience simply because your contemplations are honest. As you confront your past tendencies to accommodate the audience with what they were comfortable hearing, I suspect such will be impossible for you to do that going forward. This is because being honest with yourself has become paramount.
On your existential health progress, I look forward to you perhaps examining its origins. That is, you've likely preached the common Christian idea that we exist with a "God-shaped hole that only He can fill", to explain our poor existential health conditions (an explanation that many religions have in common). Since you seem to have stepped back from this explanation, I'd like to ask you (a leading Substack philosopher!), this 'chicken-or-egg' question: Do existential crises exist because religions have incubated and exploited them, or do religions exist because humans have the capacity and propensity for existential crises?
Okay, I think I've arrived at an answer. The intelligent designer, who created this simulation, intentionally built chicken or egg questions into our reality. You lose the game by choosing either chicken or egg. The only way to 'win' is to continue engaging with the chicken or egg questions
I think it's good to hear your stories & love the humor woven in! Your stories are bringing clarity and perhaps even a bit of healing for those who've walked similar paths.
Wait, so Sammy Mac's decades of rolling out that "monkey's uncle" joke, a joke I still don't know WTH he was talking about, was crowd tested? Yeeeesh! So after years of a continually shrinking audience and less resonance, he chose to be Gallagher and kept smashing that pumpkin. Wow.
I liked this stand-up analogy. It was true for meeting members too. There's many of us who recall kneecapping our testimony thoughts on study chapters to be within the bounds of "acceptable." People like to please anyway, and we're especially hardwired as a group to lean that way. I find this same dilemma with my own writing. I have to get whole with the fact that some who subscribe to me got to know me in certain contexts and at a certain time. Others came to me through mutual Substacks, like yours.
If I'm true to myself, some of the stuff I'll write is bound to shock, possibly disgust and turn some of them off and away from subscribership. I'm trying to get better with watching people go without hurt or hard feelings, but I'd be lying if I said I don't still have immediate thoughts of wondering why. I hope to get to watching them go and accept it, do my thing and wish them well on their way out.
Thanks for this Jared. love the description of pulling on a thread and the whole thing unraveled. Such an accurate depiction of these last two years for sure. With three boys going in the work from our home there were many red flags in the past 20 years really but Mar 23 blew the whole thing up. Two boys are no longer in the work. they came home so broken any way thanks for this it is really healing.
Thanks for all of your entries. Hard to express how much I appreciate them. Your closing comments made me laugh. Thx, Jared. Ida and Orray loved you. I’m so glad you have Jen and are working through so much…and the fact that you’re sharing it with us. Much appreciated.
Keep processing. We'll keep listening. This episode brought to mind one of my favorite poems:
I Worried
by Mary Oliver
I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers
flow in the right direction, will the earth turn
as it was taught, and if not how shall
I correct it?
Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven,
can I do better?
Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows
can do it and I am, well,
hopeless.
Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it,
am I going to get rheumatism,
lockjaw, dementia?
Finally, I saw that worrying had come to nothing.
And gave it up. And took my old body
and went out into the morning,
and sang.
Awesome, thank you!
Just thought I would insert a few direct quotes from messages I’ve received : “ he has such a wonderful delivery” , “ he has a remarkable way of processing everything and explaining everything” , “ Jared hit the nail on the head” , “ even with the difficult topic he shared with respect” “ I enjoyed listening to him, he has a calm soothing voice” that one did make me laugh insert we love the world - wait that was actually soothing too 😄 “ I love it”
You are in the right place doing the right thing for you. So excited for what’s ahead for you and what us listeners will receive from it also! Yay! I’m going to go look at the sky now.
Wow! Thanks for this 🙂
You draw my audience simply because your contemplations are honest. As you confront your past tendencies to accommodate the audience with what they were comfortable hearing, I suspect such will be impossible for you to do that going forward. This is because being honest with yourself has become paramount.
On your existential health progress, I look forward to you perhaps examining its origins. That is, you've likely preached the common Christian idea that we exist with a "God-shaped hole that only He can fill", to explain our poor existential health conditions (an explanation that many religions have in common). Since you seem to have stepped back from this explanation, I'd like to ask you (a leading Substack philosopher!), this 'chicken-or-egg' question: Do existential crises exist because religions have incubated and exploited them, or do religions exist because humans have the capacity and propensity for existential crises?
Okay, I think I've arrived at an answer. The intelligent designer, who created this simulation, intentionally built chicken or egg questions into our reality. You lose the game by choosing either chicken or egg. The only way to 'win' is to continue engaging with the chicken or egg questions
Profound! Perhaps this dilemma is at the core of the simulation’s logic, which is what propels humanity forward ;)
I don't know, give me a minute 😃!
I think it's good to hear your stories & love the humor woven in! Your stories are bringing clarity and perhaps even a bit of healing for those who've walked similar paths.
Wait, so Sammy Mac's decades of rolling out that "monkey's uncle" joke, a joke I still don't know WTH he was talking about, was crowd tested? Yeeeesh! So after years of a continually shrinking audience and less resonance, he chose to be Gallagher and kept smashing that pumpkin. Wow.
I liked this stand-up analogy. It was true for meeting members too. There's many of us who recall kneecapping our testimony thoughts on study chapters to be within the bounds of "acceptable." People like to please anyway, and we're especially hardwired as a group to lean that way. I find this same dilemma with my own writing. I have to get whole with the fact that some who subscribe to me got to know me in certain contexts and at a certain time. Others came to me through mutual Substacks, like yours.
If I'm true to myself, some of the stuff I'll write is bound to shock, possibly disgust and turn some of them off and away from subscribership. I'm trying to get better with watching people go without hurt or hard feelings, but I'd be lying if I said I don't still have immediate thoughts of wondering why. I hope to get to watching them go and accept it, do my thing and wish them well on their way out.
Here's a guy who gets it. Thanks for spending some of your time with my weirdness!
Oink! Oink!
You have such a beautiful way of weaving words and ideas.
Thanks for this Jared. love the description of pulling on a thread and the whole thing unraveled. Such an accurate depiction of these last two years for sure. With three boys going in the work from our home there were many red flags in the past 20 years really but Mar 23 blew the whole thing up. Two boys are no longer in the work. they came home so broken any way thanks for this it is really healing.
Oh wow, thank you for sharing this. What the parents of workers go through is a story we don't hear much about.
Thanks for all of your entries. Hard to express how much I appreciate them. Your closing comments made me laugh. Thx, Jared. Ida and Orray loved you. I’m so glad you have Jen and are working through so much…and the fact that you’re sharing it with us. Much appreciated.
Thanks Bonnie, I loved Ida and Orray too 🙂