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How to Master the Curiously Complicated Machinery of Marriage Sep 06, 2019

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Most women want to give themselves to men they consider worthy of their surrender. What if the man of your dreams turns out to lack ambition, masculine mastery, and money-sense? The time I took a strange woman dress-shopping. Is the man you're married to now the product of your behavior over the past few years? Most women would like to be married to a man taller, smarter, and richer than they are. Boys who grow up with weak fathers. The spiritual power of divorce. Why a big city prosecutor found happiness as a small town kindergarten teacher. Avoiding the dangers of fantasies and daydreams. A woman's physical affection increases her husband's masculinity. The perils of 19 year-old bikini babes. Why no divorced couples in the Bible?

The 10 Myths, Lies, & Delusions of Dating Aug 30, 2019

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1. We broke up weeks ago so she'll be okay with me dating her roommate now.

2. My GF/BF is having dinner with her/his ex but it's nothing, they're just friends.

3. Everyone has one true soulmate somewhere and my purpose in dating is to find him/her.

4. You'll always recognize true love.

5. No, he doesn't have a job but he can get one anytime he wants.

6. I know he says he's not interested in marriage but he'll change his mind.

7. Hooking up is no big deal these days, right?

8. My income is irrelevant to her; she really loves me for me.

9. It's healthy to date many people before settling down for marriage.

10. She says she wants to build her career so we'll be a two income couple.

If You're Not a Politician, a Judge, or a Bureaucrat, You're a Business Professional! Now Learn to Excel. Aug 23, 2019

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Just try make a movie or write a book in which the terrorists are Moslems and you'll have CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) to deal with. Just try depicting a money-loving character in your movie as a Jew and you'll feel the weight of the ADL (Anti Defamation League of Bnai Brith) drop on you like a bag of cement. Depict African-Americans or Italian-Americans badly and you'll instantly incur the wrath of the NAACP or the Italian American Civil Rights League respectively.

So, aren't you curious why entertainment media routinely mock Evangelical Christians with impunity and why the evil murderous villain in most movies and TV shows is the successful, wealthy, businessman? How come Christians don't have a defamation league? How come the institution of business has no defender?

My demo of how people are like fireflies. The only lie I told was about who invented car air-conditioning. Why almost all of us are in sales. The power of face-to-face communication. How the government created a new profession of bootlegger. I know that all you busy happy warriors sometimes yearn for a little solitary confinement but remember why it's not a reward but a torture.

Remember that your best moments of joy, achievement and satisfaction always involved at least one other person. Using money to influence your children. Stories are about feelings, but numbers are about facts; good business professionals are number obsessed. Why sales professionals do more good for society than professors. What is a friend worth? What is a Facebook friend worth? How to discover how many real friends you have. Why your facial expression is so important and how to modify it.

Dealing With Death: Deny it? Defeat it? Transcend it? How to Build Your Own Culture of Life. Aug 13, 2019

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Why the number of mentally ill in America just keeps climbing. Who said "If you will not have God, you should pay your respects to Hitler and Stalin"? Let's talk truthfully about mass shootings. First of all, unlike familicides or felony-related homicides, they are almost always suicidal. Why are the perpetrators nearly always white men? Yes, they mostly involve firearms, but now let's seriously explore all the other commonalities they possess which are so very politically incorrect. When was anything the government banned removed from society? Alcohol during prohibition? No! Drugs for the past 40 years? No! But banning guns will work? Really? Heard of the famous Elephants' Graveyard in Africa? Why is nature so private about death? Where are all the dead pigeons in New York? Is death a technical problem or a philosophical problem? Discover the latest work being done to defeat death. Why exactly does death disturb us? How the growth in crime paralleled the growth in children born to single mothers that began…yes, that's right: in 1962. More innocent people die violently in American road accidents every single day than died in the last three mass shootings; doesn't anyone care? Actually, no. More than 70 Americans die of homicides each single day. Doesn't anyone care? Why do we seem to care more when fewer people die in what we call a mass shooting? Every month there is at least one mass killing carried out with knives and axes rather than guns. Why don't you hear about these events? Is it possible that America's increase in abortion both clinically and culturally spreads a subconscious mood of death? Why is the number of people who'd mourn your departure so important? Eliminating cancer would add only 3.3 years to lifespan average and eliminating heart disease would add 4 years to average life expectancy so reaching 120 years or older would require a whole lot more. Will technology ever bring 300 year lifespans? Would that even be good for the environment? (Just kidding).

Join Susan Lapin & me over breakfast as we live, love, and laugh our way through today's ultimate issues. Aug 02, 2019

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Rabbi Daniel and Susan Lapin converse over breakfast about the General Patton Principle. This explains why the most effective person to solve a particular problem may not be the most gentle, refined and polite person. General Patton and his 3rd Army beat back the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge in January 1945. But his tirades were often vulgar and profane. Yet not only did the men under his command love him but so did their mothers because they knew that he really cared about their sons. The very best doctor to perform a dangerous surgery might possibly be a serial adulterer -but no normal person, no matter how religious, would spurn this doctor in favor of a less competent surgeon because of his marital ethics. Obviously we were responding to two angry letters attacking us for our enthusiastic support for President Trump's reelection. We emphasize how this Patton Principle applies in many areas equally applicable to the lives of listeners in Africa or South America who might care nothing about American elections. We also spoke about our children and child raising in general with special emphasis on consistency and both father and mother singing from the same music. We looked into why New Yorkers looted during their power outages since 1977 but not in blackouts earlier than that. What changed during the 60s? We inquired whether knowing that some things are just plain wrong helps stop us from doing those things and we explored the role of moral will power. Why is that kind of self-discipline, capable of helping us resist the urges of our appetites and impulses, acquired mostly through religion and the military?

Read the Book; Don't Worry About the Movie! Jul 29, 2019

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Won't ya let me take you on a sea cruise? Johnny Rivers 1974 and Rabbi Daniel Lapin 2020. The only 3 permanent principles you need to make sense of Robert Mueller's testimony on Capitol Hill. More news on Secularists Anonymous, my 12 Step Program for recovering secularists. Seriously, guys, it's no longer 1859 or even 1972. It's time to get over it. A secular world view is just a failure. For instance, can you explain the middle east without using words like God and religion? Okay, you asked for it. Another story about Llucky, the Llama belonging to the Llapins. Why you should pay as much attention to what people do NOT say as you pay to what they do. The titanic struggle between the G and the g.

Spiritual Strategies for Income Increase Jul 19, 2019

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Do you know the name of your most valuable employee? Do you know the name of the person most to blame for your problems and predicaments? Do you know the name of the person you are most responsible for educating and improving? Clue: All three carry the same name. Your physical characteristics: height, skin color, hairstyle, body type. Your spiritual characteristics: integrity, resourcefulness, optimism, resilience, imagination, fluency & eloquence. Unless you are a swimsuit model, your spiritual attributes can make you far more money than your physical. So how do you improve them? Well, that's why you're listening to this show. Stand by to learn priceless strategies.

There Are No Poor People In America! Really! Jul 12, 2019

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So there was your rabbi struggling with what to name this episode. At first I thought of calling it "Even Poor People Deserve Compassion". Then I thought we'll call it "Especially, Poor People Deserve Compassion". Then I thought how about "We Love Poor People". As you can see the ideas were flowing fast and furious but I was worried about appearing to lack compassion—one of the very worst sins in today's secular theology. So I came up with this one "Poor People Means Virtuous People". If you want to know why, in the end, I chose the title I did use, listen on. Now, for those of you who plan to write to me in righteous indignation howling in protest at this podcast, I will save you time and trouble. Just cut and paste from what follows: Doesn't your faith command you to care for the poor? How dare you deny their existence! You're such an ignoramus, you don't you even know that over 30 million Americans live below the poverty line. I suppose you think it's their fault. That's called blaming the victim you heartless human being. There, see how helpful I can be? Now if you invest the time to listen, you'll hear the answers to all those questions and many others you may not have yet thought of.

Hey Girl! Do You Really Want To Be Some Boy's Girlfriend? Jul 05, 2019

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If you liked being a happy warrior, well, I've upped the ante. It's now a little harder. It's easy to laugh when I speak about your rabbi (that would be, me!) revealing how the world REALLY works. The truth is that learning how the world REALLY works and adapting to it is immensely painful. Having our illusions shattered is always painful. The slogan is easier than the reality. How the world REALLY works is quite different from the ways in which many of us wish it worked. Many fondly labor under the delusion that we live in a secular age in a secular world. Nothing could be further from the truth. I explain why I feel nothing but compassion towards former secularists who are having their entire world views obliterated. Secularism is the tired expression of yesterday's cultural dinosaurs whose perception of reality is being pulverized. Only anti-scientific secular dinosaurs would believe dogmatically that a man can become a woman. Only tired and aging secularists would believe that it costs nothing if the government pays for it. Why the 1999 movie, The Matrix helps explain the quandary of secularism today. People used to think that the more educated and wealthy a society became, the more secular it would be. The growth of Islam, Christianity and Judaism thoroughly refutes that lie. My trip to Ghana last week where 70% of the population is Christian. Where over a billion Africans are headed. Why it is MUCH harder for women to find good men to marry than it is for men to find good women. The only four conditions of womanhood; hint: girlfriend is not one of them. Wise women seek security and all wives thrive in its cocoon. Men's failure since 1962 to be able to project power; not brutality, not tyranny, not bullying but calm competent benevolent good masculine power.

Why Keeping Illegal (or Legal) Immigrants Out of Your Country Is The Perfectly Moral Choice Jun 29, 2019

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Never use the word "fair". The political landscape of many countries is changing because citizens are asking their governments, "What have you done to our country?" Please allow me to teach you the hierarchy of moral obligations. What does the Biblical dictum "Love your neighbor like yourself" actually mean? I tell you about two important books; but for your own health, tell nobody, not even your closest friends about them. Many secular liberals speak of compassion but practice very little of it themselves. Boasting of your commitment to "Women's Rights" while betraying your wife. Caring less about those closest to you. The reprehensible evil of government taxing the legacy you bequeath to your children. Is it unseemly for me to care so much more about my children than I care about your children? Are you willing to pull the trigger on military reprisals? Why the state desires to educate your child. How political propaganda changes your mind. Why it is moral for any state to view its citizens as more valuable than any other people in the world. Would you like to hear about the guests who came to dinner and never left?

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