00:00hi i'm cedric welcome to saved by the truth uh today i'm making my first video
00:10and i wanted to first start by sharing a little bit more on why i'm really starting a youtube
00:21channel and just to help you understand a little bit more about me and perhaps some
00:28value that i may be able to bring to your life and helping to kind of go deeper into really this
00:37matter that we call the truth what is the truth so just a little bit more of a background
00:50if you if i look at my own life i have to say that everything that i know about the world about me
01:05all of that it's kind of like i just woke up into this world and i see everything i see the trees
01:13mountains people and have thoughts and ideas but i can't necessarily say that i made these things
01:24but rather i just woke up and now it's kind of like this now right so really everything that i know in
01:34a sense i have to say has been imposed on me if that makes sense and so i can't really say that i
01:46know anything i can only say that everything has been told to me passed out to me uh when i was born i
01:57i never i don't know what god is i never i never asked my parents you know hey you know what is god prior to me
02:09hearing or knowing about it in some uh shape or measure and so everything that i know
02:17from being born up until now are information that's been given to me by my parents by the school that i've
02:30gone to and everything that i've been influenced by throughout my life so in short i own nothing that i
02:42know it is not i don't know anything that i can say is original to me so that's where really i want to bring this
02:56and i want to also express another fact that
03:01what most of us take to be true is merely the type of view we have about a certain thing
03:16so for example if you know i can look at drinking alcohol as bad uh you know let's say i'm you know i've
03:27heard a bunch of uh christians say this before where you could have two different christians or two
03:34christians and one would say well no drinking is bad you shouldn't drink at all and another christian
03:42say well you know drinking is fine you know hey even jesus drank wine right and so uh in a sense they're
03:53of the same religion but of different views and when you look at also all the conflict that arises in the
04:03world whether it's conflict between a man and his spouse or conflict between nations uh even civil wars
04:14uh really any type of conflict or argument uh really any type of conflict or argument all of it is based on
04:24one's view so i have a view for example i have a view that cheesecake is good
04:34and you have a view that cheesecake is bad and i say well what cheesecake is bad i think it's good it's
04:47the best cake ever and you're like no it's terrible i hate it i never want to see it again and never want
04:56to eat it i can't imagine that you think it's good and you're defending your i your view that it's good and
05:07he's defending his view that it's bad so eventually that's how conflict arises you see when you look at any
05:17sort of political uh campaign it's all about someone expressing his view and saying that the other
05:31person's view is wrong you see so we uh have come to a point in our lives where we take views
05:41our views whether it's this person's view my view or anybody's views that they are in themselves the truth somehow
05:56and that's not quite how
06:01i experience the truth
06:03the truth the truth cannot be your view or my view the truth has to be independent of any view
06:23the truth has to be separate from any view in fact the truth has to be there
06:31prior to any view that we can have you see first there's the truth then we have a view about it but
06:47because we do not know the truth then we develop views and so what are views
06:56views so views are our thoughts our thinking our opinion about something so for example
07:08i have a mouse right here so there is what it is and there is my idea of what it is
07:19we can say that my idea my view what i think is obviously you know something different up and apart from
07:32the actuality of what is here and we can also say that first of all the actuality has to be here
07:44before i can think and have a view about it so the truth stands on its own it doesn't need anyone to
07:57think a certain way about it so for example let's say yes there's a mouse here and let's say i thought of
08:06it to be a glass of water for example it's not just going to turn into a glass of water what i think is not
08:16going to change the actuality you see that so what i if i rely on what i think to be in itself the truth
08:28then obviously i'm very mistaken right and so what i do want to narrow down on is there's the truth
08:43and there's our views and so with many channels with many uh in all of the forms of media it's all about
08:57sharing our views sharing our opinions but rather i want to create this channel to help people
09:08have discernment on the different matters of the world uh in this channel we're going to be watching
09:21videos uh we're going to be reviewing the different things going on both politically both in terms of
09:30of human rights uh and across the world to really uh examine and develop insight from these uh different
09:42matters and how can we in ourselves live in a way that is harmonious with the way things actually are
09:54and so this channel is about discovering the truth discovering the way things actually are rather than being
10:07entangled by our views so i'm not going to share my views with you i'm not going to share my opinions with
10:17you we are going to have a conversation on discovering the truth in all that happens in our lives so
10:34join me in this journey i'd love to see what you think about the future
10:40future shows and uh just some of the content that we share here just some of the uh ideas that we share
10:52here just so uh you can give some feedback and see how it really kind of affects you and that's really
11:02what we want to see what we want to see here you know can we have conversations that go deeper than
11:11our views and opinions and open something within us that is less in conflict that's not fighting with
11:24the next person that's not saying i'm right and you're wrong but rather
11:30other hey you know you see this and i see this in this way but what is the truth of the matter
11:43you see what is the way what is the way things actually are
11:48another example and last example that i do want to share here imagine you're driving down the road
12:07and just ahead you see a puddle of water
12:13water and your eyes tells you well there's water there
12:24however insight and discernment tells you it's a mirage
12:32you see you see and by that example also notice that what isn't real
12:45and what is false can also appear to your eyes
12:52so it is a huge mistake to trust one's eyes without first discerning and developing
13:05insight of what is actually there so thank you very much welcome to saved by the truth
13:16and i'll see you in the next video
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