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CTP (20261109 S4ENovVideoExclusive1) If You Claim Goodness
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00:02Hi, everybody. Welcome to a
00:06Christitutionalist video exclusive. I was on a show
00:09the other day as a guest asked a question, the exact
00:13question, not important, but I was thinking how
00:17I'd like to change that question.
00:22We all have bad days. We all have down days.
00:25Yes, let me use the Supergirl movie
00:29here. Weird example, I know, but hang with me.
00:33It doesn't deserve all the hate it's getting. Yeah,
00:38the poster is being misunderstood, the whatever
00:41line. It has to do with Kara's youth and experience,
00:46lack of wisdom. Her origin
00:49story is different than Clark's, and this is a
00:53prequel to those other blonde Supergirl
00:57movies of the past, but I wrote a song,
01:02If You Claim Goodness, Be Nice.
01:07It's a response to the song, because in a response
01:11to the movie, because in the movie, Kara's
01:13mother says, you don't always have to be nice, but
01:17I expect you to be good. Okay, that's kind of the
01:21underlying bottom line theme of it, and she
01:25grows into that. It's an origin story. She's
01:30young. She needs to grow up. She needs to
01:33gain wisdom. What is all that? Bad days.
01:38Bad days, down days. I've also got a song
01:42called Ruins. Start it all again. Starts out,
01:46Dear Lord, sometimes I want to erase, vanish. Start
01:52your creation again without a human trace. Whoa. Dark,
01:59deep, not so positive.
02:03But even on down days for me, I recognize in the
02:09point, one of the points of the Life and Living
02:13Series, tinyurl.com slash Life and Living
02:17Series, all squashed together as one word,
02:20tinyurl.com slash Life and Living Series.
02:25Although each book is a standalone, like the
02:28book of Kennedy, the female lead, and the third
02:31in the series, far different from one, two, four, and
02:35five in the series. Their own lead character,
02:38their own independent story. But yes, one of the
02:42underlying bottom lines, if you claim goodness, be
02:46nice. It doesn't cost you anything to share a
02:50smile. It takes little effort. A cringe joke, you
02:55having a bad day, maybe someone else is having a bad
02:59day. Even a cringe joke might help both of you feel
03:04better. Like, to be or not to be is truly the question.
03:10Because if it's to be, to be, I've got bingo.
03:15Huh? Right? Another one of my songs, Jamaican me
03:20crazy with these lame puns, right? Homage to my Jamaican
03:25friends and the reggae, iry lifestyle, not cultural
03:30appropriation. But we are complex beings. Another one of my
03:35songs. We are emotional, even though we are giving the gift
03:40from God of higher brain function, inner animal. Emotional.
03:46We have moods, which can mean we can have a negative down
03:50day. But it doesn't hurt us to, even on those days, try to be
03:56better, try to be nice. So complex beings, inner animal.
04:02What was another song? I was thinking of so many that relate.
04:08The butterfly effect. That smile. Music video on BitChute and
04:14YouTube. That small smile. Discussed in the book of
04:20Kennedy Project. Sharing a smile that becomes the butterfly wing
04:26flap. The grand sum of that little smile, meaningless at that
04:33time on that day, as it may seem, means so much more in the
04:38grander scale, the broader scheme of things that you don't see,
04:43you don't realize. So I think I'm going to wrap it up here
04:52with that. That being the point. I had other thoughts in my head, but
04:59you know me. The ADHD or the OCD, the duality of me. I think of
05:07things and then forget or get distracted. Other times, I obsess on
05:13one point. So I will leave it at that. The Supergirl film doesn't
05:18deserve the hate it gets. The poster, truth, justice, whatever. That
05:24speaks to her youth. It's not an attack on the American way that
05:30whatever replaces people misunderstand the poster. And I get it with
05:36all the woke crap that comes out of Hollywood.
05:52The recent movie story said you don't have to be nice. But if you say you're a good one, you
06:02ought to back it up, at least twice. Out on the street, in the checkout line, with the kid in
06:09the cart and the clerk on shift, goodness is in the line you quote, is how you carry the list.
06:18So be nice. If you're calling yourself good, hold the door, say you please treat folks like you should. It
06:26doesn't cost much, just a little respect. Be nice while you're here. It's the best thing, yeah.
06:46I've seen it in the small stuff, the coffee left on the counter by eight. The text, the text that
06:54says I'm running late and still shows up straight. No metal for the easy move.
07:02No badge for the polished grin. Just a way to leave a room better than the way you walked in.
07:12So be nice. If you call me yourself good, hold the door, say you please treat folks like you should.
07:20It doesn't cost much, just a little respect. Be nice while you're here. It's the best thing, yeah.
07:30It's the best thing, yeah.
07:54It's the best thing, yeah.
08:00It's the best thing, yeah.
08:02It's the best thing, yeah.
08:18Moving will suffice, but for here on earth, I declare. Be nice if you claim goodness. Cost nothing to share
08:26a smile.
08:29Be nice while you're here.
08:33Be nice while you're here. That's the best thing, yeah.
09:00The Life and Living Series. Five Standalone Stories. Read them in any order. By Joseph M. Leonard.
09:14Dear Lord, sometimes I want us gone. Vanished. Erased.
09:24Your earth creations start again. Without a human trace.
09:53Dear Lord, sometimes I look at what we've built. Oil on the water. Smoke in the schoolyard. Still a siren
10:01dance.
10:02Down the block, a screen full of bad news. We kept the receipts and still call it a breakthrough.
10:08I walked past the corner where the trees got cut. Now it's chain-linked gravel in a coffee truck.
10:16Kids in hoodies cross with their heads down low. Nobody looking long. Everybody in a rush to go.
10:23Sometimes our water's gone. Wipe clean off the map. Not out of anger. Just because we keep coming back.
10:36We pass the same holes and dig them deeper in. If this all got reset. Maybe something good could begin.
10:59I know it's a wild prayer. I know it sounds cruel. I'll ask for a blank page when we make
11:06the rules.
11:06But there's too much taken. Too much left undone. Too many hands in the jar. Too many ways we spun.
11:14Still, if mercy means more than a hard stop. Maybe it starts with one last honest look at what we've
11:20got.
11:21No more pretending the mess is somebody else's to hold. No more calling this normal when it's just worn out
11:28and cold.
11:29Sometimes our water's gone. Wipe clean off the map.
11:36Not out of anger. Not out of anger. Just because we keep coming back.
11:43We pass the same holes and dig them deeper in. If this all got reset. Maybe something good could begin.
12:02Dear Lord.
12:06I don't know how to mend what we've ruined.
12:11I just know we're tired.
12:14And maybe need be retired.
12:18All to our tune.
12:26Yeah!
12:39Butterfly effect.
12:40Butterfly effect.
12:41Put good forward.
12:44Flap your wings.
12:46Effect the future.
12:47Make the world better.
12:51Happily we sing.
12:55I left my phone on silent at the kitchen table.
13:00Grabbed the spare umbrella from the hall.
13:03Held the door for the guy with the busted shoelace.
13:07Said you've got it when he almost dropped it all.
13:10Small move, small push.
13:12That's how it starts.
13:15One kind thing turns into ten more parts.
13:19Butterfly effect.
13:21One little bend in the air.
13:23A nudge, a note, a hand on a stare.
13:27It rolls out further than you expect.
13:30So I put good forward.
13:33Butterfly effect.
13:41The kid at the bus stop drew a chalk sun on cracked pavement by the curb.
13:48Then two more kids came over with the blue and the red.
13:52And the whole block changed its shape for a word.
13:55Small move, small push.
13:58That's how it starts.
14:00One clean choice makes a few more hearts.
14:06Butterfly effect.
14:08One little bend in the air.
14:10A nudge, a note, a hand on a stare.
14:13There, it rolls out further than you expect.
14:17So I put good forward.
14:20Butterfly effect.
14:24Maybe nobody sees it while you're away.
14:28Maybe it looks like nothing much.
14:31But a door held open, a meal passed down.
14:35Can change the room with one small touch.
14:38A nudge, butterfly effect.
14:44One little bend in the air.
14:46A text, a lift.
14:48I'm here if you care.
14:50It moves through people you'll never meet.
14:53So I put good forward.
14:56Yeah, I put good forward.
15:00Butterfly effect.
15:05I put good forward.
15:13Butterfly effect.
15:20Butterfly effect.
15:22The Life and Living Series.
15:25Five Standalone Stories.
15:27Read them in any order.
15:29By Joseph M. Leonard.
15:46Kennedy stared at the ceiling.
15:50Coffee gone cold in her hand.
15:54All these Tuesdays bleeding together.
15:57Like she picked on the back of her plans.
16:00She said,
16:02I thought there'd be thunder.
16:04Some sign when my moment began.
16:08But the mail still comes.
16:10And the dishes still dry.
16:12And the clock just ticks where it stands.
16:15Are we just re-overlaced?
16:18With a few bright minutes stitched inside.
16:22Laughing in a car park in the rain.
16:25Then battered traffic lights and tired eyes.
16:29If every breath is meant to me.
16:33More than a box to take.
16:35But by the side.
16:37Teach me how to see the sacred.
16:40In the middle of an ordinary life.
16:50She watched a kid chase a pigeon.
16:54Trip them.
16:55Burst into grins.
16:58Mother's hands trembling slightly.
17:01Like she'd almost lost the whole world again.
17:04She thought, maybe this is the movie.
17:08Not the part where the credits roll by.
17:12Just two plastic bags in a grocery cart.
17:16And a quiet thank you at the end of the line.
17:20Are we just mediocre days?
17:22With a few bright minutes stitched inside.
17:26Burned toast bills and broken plates.
17:30Then one small hand reaching for mine.
17:34If every breath is meant to me.
17:37More than a box to take.
17:40A line to sign.
17:42Teach me how to see the sacred.
17:45In the middle of an ordinary life.
18:06Maybe the point was the waiting.
18:08The slow burn.
18:09The stop and go right.
18:13The jokes that fall flat.
18:16The night's coming back.
18:17Just to sit on the edge of the sky.
18:22Are we just keep the open days?
18:25With a few bright minutes stitched inside.
18:29Or are the cracks in everything?
18:33Where that quiet holy light arrives?
18:37If every breath is meant to me.
18:40More than a box to take.
18:42A line to sign.
18:44That every small forgettable moment.
18:47Was the story.
18:50The whole time.
19:16Eyes open wide.
19:19Not living in fear.
19:23Just knowing the signs.
19:27When danger draws near.
19:57They call it paranoia when you pay attention.
20:00But there's a difference between fear and comprehension.
20:03Crime doesn't clock in.
20:05Terrorism has no zip code.
20:07Anytime, any place.
20:08You better know which road.
20:10You are not an ostrich with your head buried in sand.
20:12You're a thinker with awareness.
20:14And a reason you still stand.
20:20When the world erupts around you.
20:24Don't let panic be your guide.
20:27Three options in the crisis moment.
20:29Only one keeps you alive.
20:32Awake.
20:34Awake.
20:34Not paranoid.
20:36Situationally aware.
20:38Not consumed by all the fear porn.
20:41But prepared to face what's there.
20:44Fight.
20:45Flight.
20:45Or maybe fade.
20:47Know the difference.
20:48Make the call.
20:50A thinking mind won't be the sheep all trampled when the panic falls.
20:56Awake.
20:58Awake.
20:58Not paranoid.
21:00Awake.
21:02Awake.
21:02Remember when the music stopped and panic filled the air?
21:05The stampede was the danger, not what triggered the scare.
21:08Fry and panda fire when you run without a thought.
21:10The threat that really kills you is the panic that you caught.
21:13Mama bearer ostrich, which one are you gonna be?
21:16Assess the situation, is that danger close to me?
21:19Is it in my orbit?
21:20Is it coming for my space?
21:22Or do I fade to safety, live to fight another day?
21:25When the world erupts around you, don't let panic be your guide.
21:30Three options in the crisis moment.
21:33Only one keeps you alive.
21:36Awake.
21:37Not paranoid.
21:40Situationally aware.
21:42Not consumed by all the fear porn.
21:45But prepared to face what's there.
21:47Fight, flight, or maybe fade.
21:50Know the difference, make the call.
21:53A thinking mind won't be the sheep all trampled when the panic falls.
21:59Awake.
22:01Not paranoid.
22:04Awake.
22:05Awake.
22:06Life over death.
22:07Hope over fear.
22:08Faith over despair.
22:09Keep your wits clear.
22:11Love over hate.
22:12Good over evil.
22:13Freedom over tyranny.
22:15Rise above the sheep all.
22:17They said burn out, don't fade away.
22:20But I say fade and live to see another day.
22:22Unless it's in your orbit.
22:24Unless there's no escape.
22:25Then you stand and fight.
22:27That's the choice that heroes make.
22:28Awake means you are watching.
22:30Not wrapped in paranoia's chains.
22:33You carry situational awareness.
22:36Like an umbrella when it rains.
22:39Not selling fear.
22:41Not peddling doom.
22:42Just asking you to think.
22:45Before the panic swallows reason.
22:48And you're swept across the brain.
22:51Awake.
22:52Not paranoid.
22:55Situationally aware.
22:57Not consumed by all the fear porn.
23:00But prepared to face what's there.
23:02Fight.
23:03Flight.
23:04Or maybe fade.
23:05Know the difference.
23:07Make the call.
23:08A thinking mind won't be the sheep all trampled when the panic falls.
23:14Awake.
23:16Not paranoid.
23:19Awake.
23:20Awake.
23:21Think.
23:22Don't panic assess.
23:25Don't assume.
23:29Fade.
23:30When you can fight.
23:33When you must awake.
23:36Not paranoid.
23:40Just awake.
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