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Today an episode for mythomanes and Polimaty.
#JUST5MORE
Good morning! Welcome in JUST5MORE, in the second episode set in Dubai.
I don't have much time, I'm having a plane to Barcelona in a while
so I need to be quick, a fast fun fact (probably 15 minutes)
which will give you a spiritual kick for today.
It will be a fun fact or a warning, but I think it's good.
Some time ago I was watching an episode of "Polimaty" on Youtube.
It was about the myth of 5 seconds, though I heard also about 3 seconds.
Many people think (I've seen it hundreds of times)
that when you're eating something, a sandwich or whatever
and it falls down on the ground, you have 3 or 5 seconds to lift it.
But we have the 5 seconds rule...
If you do it within 5 seconds, you can eat it
as bacteria haven't had time to "jump" there,
the bacteria walking on the floor haven't realised it's a sandwich
and if you lift it quickly you can eat it without worry.
But it turns out, as you can easily guess,
that it's an absurd myth far from the reality.
No matter if the sandwich lies there 1 nanosecond, 10 second or half an hour.
It wil have the same number of bacteria.
The time doesn't matter.
Bacteria aren't slow creatures walking on the ground and saying:
'Well, maybe I'll look for a sandwich... oh, a sandwich, let's run!'
They are simply there, if something falls,
the contact is immediate and we have bacteria on food.
So don't deceive yourself that you can eat something
if you lift it within 5 seconds.
Moreover, blowing the bacteria off from food is pointless.
There is research on it, you can see in the web, it doesn't help.
The percentage of blown off bacteria is very small, it doesn't change anything.
But what interested me most and showed me a spiritual truth?
Not the time till you lift the food is important, but the type of the floor.
The time doesn't matter, if something is there, it will get to food
but it's important where it falls.
What amazed me most?
Pavement is a much safer, more hygienic and cleaner place
than the kitchen floor. Incredible.
If something falls on the kitchen floor, don't eat it,
if it falls on the kitchen floor, throw it away.
But if you are going along a street eating a doughnut you've bought
and the doughnut falls on the pavement,
lift it, even after 10 seconds, blow off the dust and eat it.
Why? On the pavement, there's less chance of encountering dangerous bacteria,
which appear very often in the kitchen
because in the kitchen there's a lot of dangerous bacteria from raw meat.
When we process the meat, for example while preparing dinner,
these bacteria from raw meat, which really can be dangerous,
may get everywhere, but you won't find them on a pavement.
This shows me a very interesting thing.
We often think: 'But if I am in this evil just for a while, not too long,
nothing will happen to me, sure, if I were sitting there long,
a week, two, a year, half of my life, that would harm me,
but just a while? Nothing will happen.'
No. Evil is like these bacteria,
one second of contact is enough and it really gets into us.
We need to look for such a floor, such a way of living
that we won't have contact with the dangerous bacteria.
So, I would like us to think today in relation to this fun fact
about the areas where you say:
'Short contact with this evil won't harm me.'
No. Any contact with evil, 5 or 10 seconds, a day or a week,
is very dangerous to your life.
Sure, there are mortal bacteria and less harmful ones.
But let's shun every form of evil, as the Bible says.
In short, avoid the kitchen floor full of dangerous raw meat bacteria,
avoid any place where you can meet with evil
and stay in places which are safer, without evil we'd like to stay in,
it doesn't matter for how long, time doesn't matter in contact wih evil,
the aim is not to have contact with it, so pavements are safer,
as you can't find there the danger that is in the kitchen.
Avoid the kitchen, in a spiritual sense, I mean, I hope you get it.
I am getting a bit messy here, but I hope you follow.
I know it from my own life, I say: 'But it's only a little bit,
I won't take long with it, just a while.' But it stays in me.
The evil grabs me and stays, and I thought it would be just 3 seconds.
Shun every form of evil
and walk on pavements, not on kitchen floors.
I hope you somehow got it.
"Shun every form of evil." (1 Thessalonians 5:22)
Messy... well, I must go and pack my luggage.
Panda is lying there, ready, he'll go on board soon and we'll fly.
If you want, I can show you... wait, the camera is blocked.
This is what Dubai looks like, you can see now.
Nice, isn't it? It's interesting here.
But we're flying to Barcelona. See you.