Hello, David Digger Hernandez here. You're watching Spirit Church on Encounter TV. From where have demonic beings come? The answer may not be exactly what you believe it to be. Today on Spirit Church, I'm going to be addressing the origins of demonic beings. And I want to warn you, this view today contradicts tradition and contradicts what most believers believe about the origins of demonic beings. This week, Stephen Moctezuma featured a different worship leader. His name is Omar Lopez and he's here to worship along with you to his original worship song, Everything. Here's Omar Lopez. I want to give you everything, I want to give you everything, I want to give you everything as your, when deep within says your name As I said at the top of the program, I'm going to be contradicting a traditional view. This view is that fallen angels are demonic beings. Now I want to say that though this is a traditional view, it is not by definition a biblical one. Here in the Bible does it say that the angels who rebelled with Satan became demons upon the earth. This is an assumption we make because we believe that there are missing links in the scripture. And so people will make the leap from the angels fell and rebelled with Satan all the way to they are now therefore the minions that are doing his bidding within the earth. Now where this belief originates is found in Revelation chapter 12 verse number nine. We talked about this on the last edition of Spirit Church where I was specifically talking about the fall of Satan. This is what the scripture says there. This great dragon, the ancient serpent called the devil or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world was thrown down to the earth with his angels. Now this is the one verse that causes people to believe that the angels that rebelled with Satan became the demonic beings that Jesus describes in the New Testament and that we are commanded and gifted and empowered to expel from individuals. Now I'm going to give you first three distinctions between fallen angels and demonic beings. So I'm going to make the case that demons and fallen angels are two separate entities or creatures all together. And then I'm going to tell you where I believe the scripture tells us demonic beings come from. So looking at demonic origins we have to first distinguish because of the traditionally held view demonic beings from fallen angels. So number one, the first distinction between demons and fallen angels is that demons need bodies. That's number one. All throughout scripture you'll notice that demons are constantly seeking to possess vessels through which they can work. In fact they seem to be very uncomfortable outside of a physical body. This is what the scripture says in Matthew chapter 8 verses 30 to 31. There happened to be a large herd of pigs feeding in the distance. So the demons begged, if you cast us out send us into that herd of pigs. This of course is a story where Jesus was casting a legion of demons out of a demonic man and those demonic beings begged Jesus that he might use his authority to cast them into a herd of pigs. Now imagine this, they are so uncomfortable outside of a physical body. They so desire a physical body that they beg to be thrown into a herd of pigs. There's something very needy about demonic beings. They're parasites. They're seeking a place to find a rest. In fact they seem to be very tired outside of a physical body and in a physical body as we see in the same story where Jesus cast a legion of demons outside of a man they seem to gather strength, supernatural strength when they possess a human being. Now fallen angels on the other hand have bodies. Genesis chapter 6 verse number 4 says this, there were giants in the earth in those days and also after that when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men and they bear children to them and the same became mighty men which were of old men of renown. Now some say that this verse in the Old Testament is not referring to supernatural beings. That this is referring to maybe a distinct group of people in the earth referred to as the sons of God. However in the Old Testament you'll find that the term sons of God never once refers to a mere human being. Always in the Old Testament the term sons of God is referring to a supernatural being. Also as we're going to read later you'll find that God punishes the sons of God for coming in unto the daughters of men. Now some people say well it's quite possible that this was just a people group that was forbidden with procreating with another people group and therefore God punished them. But the punishment was very severe and supernatural in nature in that there were chains that were counted against those who fell into this sin. And third of all it doesn't make any sense that men who produce with mere women would produce giants. Why was it that this offspring came to be gigantic beings? In fact as we know demonic beings desire to be worshiped much like their origins which has to do with Satan who desires worship for himself. They are men of renown and they are counted by the ancients as gods. Now as you study ancient history you may find clues of this especially in the Old Ancient writings of different civilizations or even hieroglyphics where these hieroglyphics are describing these great gods that came down to the earth. Either way you look at it this is supernatural in nature. There is no way or no reason that natural procreation should produce such giants nor is there any reason to believe that natural procreation should result in a supernatural punishment. So some say that these sons of God as I said weren't angels but they were mere human beings not just because of the reasons I gave but they'll cite verses like we see in Matthew chapter 22 verse 30 they'll cite verses like this for when the dead rise they will neither marry nor be given in marriage in this respect they will be like the angels in heaven. So some people will say well the angels as Jesus described never get married but does that mean that they don't have physical bodies does that mean that they are unable to procreate? Certainly not. In fact procreation as it goes with angels has nothing to do with marriage. Marriage is something that God instituted among the human race. So angels do in fact have bodies as we just saw in Genesis and as we also see in Hebrews chapter 13 verse 12 the Bible says don't forget to show hospitality to strangers for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. In other words angels appear to be human and they can only appear to be human to the physical eye if they have a physical human like appearance also in Luke chapter 24 verse 4 we see that the angels standing at the tomb are described as men as they stood there puzzled two men suddenly appear to them clothed in dazzling robes now we know from other accounts of the gospel that these two men are angelic beings also consider the men of Sodom who desire to procreate with the angels that visited lot here in Genesis chapter 19 verse 1 and verses 4 through 5 that evening the two angels came to the entrance of the city of Sodom lot was sitting there and when he saw them he stood up to meet them then he welcomed them and bowed with his face to the ground but before they retired for the night all the men of Sodom young and old came from all over the city and surrounded the house they shouted to lot where are the men who came to spend the night with you bring them out to us so we can have sex with them now all of the angels described in scripture that came unto men are described in physical form they have physical bodies whereas demonic beings are never described physically they're only described through their activity in people so angels have physical bodies and demons by contrast desire desperately desire physical bodies that's distinction number one distinction number two demons wander the earth Matthew chapter 12 verse 43 says when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walk it through dry places seeking rest and find it with none so here again we see just on a side note that demonic beings when they've left their vessel become very tired they seek rest they are drained of strength and they are desperately searching wandering the earth looking for a vessel to possess looking for a vessel to inhabit so demons wander the earth by contrast we see that angelic beings have the ability to move from heaven and earth and in between they go back and forth we see an example of this in Job chapter 1 verse 6 where the scripture says now there was a day when the sons of God there it is again the Old Testament reference now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan came also among them now I'll give you a few good reasons to believe that fallen angels and not just the holy angels were counted among those who came to give an account to the Lord and I'm going to base this off of the fact that Satan himself came to give an account before God so it stands to reason that if Satan who himself is a fallen archangel has to stand and give an account before God periodically then so do the fallen angels who went with him in the rebellion so first note that the devil was no longer called Lucifer in this scripture in Job he's called Satan so he's in his fallen nature we know it because he's called Satan second we know the devil is in his fallen state in that scriptural reference in Job because the scripture says in John chapter 10 verse 10 the thief's purpose is to steal and kill and destroy what did he desire to do to Job still kill and destroy third this account of Job takes place after the flood how do I know that Job chapter 22 verses 15 through 16 has thou marked the way which wicked men have trodden which were cut down out of time whose foundation was overflown with a flood now it talks about the foundation being overflown now that foundation is described in the scripture as being destroyed is when the fountains of the deep broke open so this account of Job is definitely after the flood so we know Satan was we also know Satan was in his fallen nature because he desired to steal kill and destroy and we also know Satan was in his fallen nature because the best clue I think is that the scripture describes him as Satan and not Lucifer so Satan a fallen archangel has to stand before God and give an account then it stands to reason that fallen angels were also among the others who had to give an account before God during that time now therefore angels both fallen and holy angels are not bound to earth and in contrast demons when they go out of a vessel that unclean spirit is forced to wander the earth number three demons are called devils and unclean spirits angels are not now when referring to fallen angels the new testament scriptures do not use the terms demons or devils or unclean spirits instead the bible makes reference to fallen angels by simply using a negative description or a negative context for example let's look at these verses here and these verses are clearly describing fallen angels but I want you to notice that not once in any of these verses do you see the word demons devils or unclean spirits second Peter chapter 2 verse 4 for if God spared not the angels that sinned but cast them down to hell and deliver them into chains of darkness to be reserved unto judgment that's a portion of that scripture Jew chapter 1 verse 6 says and the angels which kept not their first estate but left their own habitation he hath reserved in everlasting chains unto dark under darkness unto the judgment of the great day Matthew chapter 25 verse 41 says then shall he say also unto them on the left depart for me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels it does not say the devil and his demons it does not say the devil and his unclean spirits it does not say the devil and his and his unclean devils as the king james version would describe demons instead the scripture in the new testament attaches a negative context or a negative description so as we just saw here in second Peter chapter 2 verse 4 the scripture says for God spared not the angels that sinned so we know that these angels that sinned are definitely not among the holy angels they're just counted as the fallen angels that sin now this is also an interesting side note this i believe is referring to the sin that we read of in genesis chapter 6 where the sons of god came in and procreated with the daughters of men and we'll show you why i believe that wasn't just a little bit we're gonna get a little more detail but on a side note someone asked me brother david when do you believe hell was created i believe hell was created sometime after genesis 6 because the first sin was the rebellion against god in heaven and the punishment for that was being banished to the earth the second sin was the procreation with the human race and that resulted in hell so god i believe in to some in some sense had given them a second chance they rebelled were kicked out of heaven and they were to live under the subjection of man the dominion of man but instead they further rebelled and so god had no choice but to cast them into outer darkness in chains into everlasting punishment and to the great day of great judgment and by the way hell is different from the lake of fire because hell is cast into the lake of fire whole different lesson for another time but let's continue to move on so referring to the holy angels now paul describes those angels as from heaven here in galatians chapter 1 verse 8 the scripture says although if we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel to you than the one we have preached to you let him be accursed so paul is basically saying look we're preaching the gospel to you don't believe the gospel no matter don't believe the false gospel no matter who tells you to believe that false gospel even if it's an angel from heaven so he's saying even if it's one of the holy angels as opposed to one of the fallen angels so angels are angels they're either fallen or holy angels and the bible will give them either positive context or negative context positive description or negative description but it does not call them demons devils or unclean spirits now okay we went through these three distinctions distinction number one demons need bodies angels have bodies or fallen angels have bodies distinction number two demons wander the earth fallen angels can go to and from the heavenly realms to earth and three demons are called devils and unclean spirits and angels are given just a negative context or negative description now on a side note here the scripture describes in Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12 that there's spiritual wickedness in high places and i'm going to be talking about this on the next edition of spirit church on the rankings of hell i believe that demonic beings are the wickedness of the darkness in the earth and the fallen angels are spiritual wickedness in high places and we're going to get into that on the next edition of spirit church by the way everything you're hearing and we're going to get into a moment right now where i believe demonic beings come from so if they're not fallen angels what are they but before we get into that i want to take a quick note here to tell you that this is all from my brand new book 25 truths about demons and spiritual warfare this book i believe will help you to understand the spiritual realm and the true dynamics of spiritual warfare some people get into superstition and they make you really paranoid and they go into places where the bible does not go and they do a lot of speculation and it just gets very weird and then others are a little too skeptical of how demonic beings are able to work within the earth so i avoid both the extremes in my book both extremes of superstition and skepticism and we find true spirituality in the center because of what the bible says so i encourage you you can actually get that book now you can order it now and if you do so right now our ministry has an offer if you watch this after october 4th 2016 that offer is gone but right now you can get it at our ministry website you're going to get free shipping i'm going to sign it for you and you basically just pay for the book itself and everything you purchase from the book helps to go toward the gospel and funding the gospel everything this ministry does okay so where do demonic beings come from or from where have demonic beings come as i like to put it in the correct phrasing jenesis chapter six verse four let's go back to that verse there were giants in the earth in those days and also after that when the sons of god came in unto the daughters of men and they bear children to them the same became mighty men which were of old men of renown now recall again i mentioned this just a few minutes ago that satan and his angels rebelled against god and were punished by being sent to the earth but there was a second punishment that took place that we read about in second peter chapter two verse four let's read that verse again second peter chapter two verse four for if god spared not the angels that sinned but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved unto judgment now think about this some people say well brother david when the angels rebelled against god obviously that's when they were cast into judgment i thought that's odd because they rebelled they had to have rebelled before the fall of man this means they had to have rebelled before genesis chapter six and if the demonic beings and satan or the fallen angels all came about before then it doesn't make any sense in genesis chapter six because if the fallen angels had been thrown into hell had been chained in darkness they could not have been present in genesis chapter six to commit the second sin so this verse in second peter chapter two verse four is by no means describing the punishment for the original rebellion because again that doesn't make any sense if they're chained how are they in genesis chapter six committing the second sin it's not possible so this means there are two different sins and two different punishments this is not a contradiction so the rebellion against god punished by banishment to earth revelation chapter 12 verse nine and the procreation with human women punished by chains of darkness second peter two four this is not a contradiction jew chapter one verse six again let's read that here's another description of that same punishment and the angels which kept not their first state but left their own habitation he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the day of the great judgment or the unto the judgment of the great day now why did the angels do this some speculate that it's possible that the fallen angels had noticed that their ranks were lacking in comparison to the armies of heaven and because their ranks were lacking they sought to procreate by rebellion and create new soldiers that they could use so maybe the fallen angels came in to procreate with human beings so that they can create men of renown or these strong and mighty beings for their use in another rebellion that they were trying to form against the creator that's one possibility the second possibility that i've heard i actually hold to and i believe this i believe that the fallen angels came to the earth to procreate with the human race for one reason they wanted to pollute the dna of mankind now why did they want to pollute the dna they wanted to pollute the dna because it was prophesied that the seed of eve would crush the enemy they were preparing just as god was for the advent of christ and the salvation of mankind they were working against the will of god in the earth and they saw that eventually the seed the son of god would come and deliver all of humankind and subject all of the kingdom of hell which is satan fallen angels and demonic beings under mankind under god again now somebody told me there is no such thing as the kingdom of hell it's true that hell is a place of punishment but we nowadays use the term to describe the kingdom of hell as something that is descriptive of anything that is not the kingdom of heaven so the scripture calls it the kingdom of darkness and in terms today we understand what kingdom of hell is referenced to but still these angelic beings these mighty angelic beings that had fallen were trying to pollute the bloodline of christ they were trying to stop the seed from coming through and you have to imagine this is absolutely wicked god did not create demons because some believe that if fallen angels are not demons that god created demons from nothing i actually had someone comment that on one of my articles that i did on charisma they i had written about this and we didn't give the second part that i'm about to give you but i had talked about how angels and demons are different and somebody's conclusion for some reason was well you know if fallen angels are not demonic beings that means god created demons and therefore god is evil and it couldn't be and i thought there's another option here God did not create demonic beings fallen angels and man did together think of how evil this is that rebellious man and rebellious angels came together to give rise to a new hybrid of evil the likes of which had never existed before that's heavy that is demonic literally that man was so rebellious man was so wicked that he accepted the offerings of the fallen angels the proposal to join in union and give rise to some form of evil half man half fallen angel now at this point because of how wicked it had become this is why the bible says and god saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually and it repented the lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart and the lord said i will destroy man whom i have created from the face of the earth both man and beast and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air for it repented me that i have made them that's genesis chapter six verses five through seven do you realize that the verse before this or the just a couple verses before this is the whole description of everything that we just read verse four is when the sons of god procreated with the daughters of men and the very next verse begins to describe saying i'm grieved that i ever made man he saw the wickedness of what they had created together and he saw that the bloodline had become polluted god brought the flood out of mercy had god not brought the flood those men of renown who in the ancients called gods the ignorant called them myths but the bible calls them demons these men of renown these strong giant beasts half man half fallen angel hybrids these creatures god saw that they existed god was grieved that they had come about this is why god destroyed the world in a flood he did not want that to continue in the earth it truly did pollute the dna and so he did away with these false gods who desired worship who men did worship they were men of renown and again i believe this is the description of the ancient gods that are worshiped in hieroglyphics and in ancient accounts and records these are those false gods and so god wipes them out with the wipes them out with the flood how many were in the earth i don't know first of all we know a third of the angels fell we don't know how many angels there were to begin with and then we don't know how they procreated and we don't even know how many are still active on a side note here we don't know what fallen angels are still at work in the earth every new testament reference that i've seen and again i've seen some that could be referring to fallen angels but i don't really see that they are so as far as what i've studied and the way i view it every new testament reference to fallen angels is past tense or future tense we're talking apocalyptic imagery something that happens in the end days so i believe that the work of the fallen angels in the earth has either completely ceased or has come to a dramatic slow and we know the devil is still in the earth because the bible tells us to be sober and vigilant first peter five eight be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a rowing lion walk at the bout seeking whom he may devour in revelation chapter nine we see a future reference to fallen angels and this is describing a demonic being or a fallen angel named apollyon and he releases something from the depths of darkness something from hell i believe and i believe what he releases on the earth is that group of fallen angels that had been chained unto that great day or the day of judgment so i believe at some future point these angels are going to be re-released upon the earth and i believe they're going to procreate again now i'm getting into very deep things here they're going to procreate again with the human race and that's why the bible says at the last days shall be like in the days of noah that's what i believe that connection is but again i'm not dogmatic on these things these are just some very interesting things i've seen and observed now getting back to this flood we understand now that i've kind of gone over this why it was so important that god wiped him out so we know where people who are redeemed go when they die they go to heaven we know where the unredeemed go when they die they go to hell or some believe that they go to some form of hell until the day of great judgment whatever your eschatology is there's punishment and there's reward and then we know that fallen angels they're reserved for hell but where does a half man half fallen angel go when its body is destroyed i can't imagine that they have a spirit that goes to heaven or hell or a soul and i also can't imagine that they are punished like the angels there has to be some in between i believe that demons are the disembodied spirits of the offspring of men and angels the fallen angels procreated with humankind creates the nephilim the giants in the land the nephilim are destroyed in the flood and their spirits their souls remain upon the earth their souls were destroyed in the flood that's why they desire bodies these men of great strength great renown what happens in the new testament when a demonic being possesses someone they gain great strength and that i believe is the origins of demonic beings that demonic beings are the offspring of rebellion god did not create demons god destroyed the bodies of those nephilim those men of renown and they remained upon the earth and that is just absolute wickedness of the highest order and hopefully that gives you a greater understanding of why that god had to judge now this is going to conclude that lesson i don't really see a point here to pray other than that god would continue to give you peace and understanding because i know when you hear these things it's very heavy now look i already know what i'm going to get comments on this video i don't really care but i want to explain this to you those of you who are sincere in asking questions and you can ask questions feel free ask questions and let me tell you this nothing is more important than the gospel of jesus christ some people say oh you should just preach the gospel and i believe that but there are also times where we teach the word as it goes with these things and these are questions that people have and the reason i'm telling you this is so that you can understand that god is a just god that things that have happened especially as it comes with the demonic realm it's not because god is evil and he created these demonic beings because he wants to test us no demonic beings are the results of rebellion the joint rebellion of men and fallen angels and when you understand that it gives you a greater appreciation for the goodness of god now i'm not i don't think you have to believe these things to be saved this is not central to the salvation message and my message will continue to be the gospel this is something we teach to believers my primary message is the gospel of jesus christ salvation through jesus but this is something i felt in my heart that i wanted to address because i know there are those of you who watch this that want the deeper things if you feel a lack of peace if you feel uncomfortable with this just understand this these deeper things are for those who have gone deeper in the word and they can handle the meat if you're uneasy you're uncomfortable you you feel a little nervous i understand whenever you talk about demonic beings people start becoming afraid there's no reason to be afraid and i want you to know that all you need to know ultimately is that jesus loves you jesus died on a cross and jesus is the only way to heaven jesus rose again on the third day and that if you put your faith in jesus you'll be saved everything else is up for debate so i just wanted to give you those thoughts but i want to pray with you now that god would give you peace and understanding let's pray father in jesus name i pray for that one watching right now lord who's hearing this message and father who finds it difficult to receive lord we pray that you'd give peace to their heart and mind and i pray also lord that those of us who have received this that we would keep these things in its proper place and not let it become our central focus not let it become our obsession for lord jesus that our gaze would remain fixed upon your countenance in the name of jesus amen even jesus said don't rejoice that the demons obey you instead rejoice that your names are written in the book of life in other words salvation is more important than spiritual warfare so have peace and i know there's somebody who disagree and and that's fine we're all family here and if you disagree let me know in the comments maybe we can learn together okay i'm going to get to the comments in a moment i'm going to read them all and then stick around i got a special announcement i want to tell you about but first i want to take a moment to welcome the brand new members of the spirit church family there you are up on the screen there are your names from different countries different states from all around the world we love you we are praying for you we appreciate you 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let's go to the comments these comments are left on the video the fall of satan so again we're taking the next few weeks to go over spiritual warfare demonology and such so here we go here's a comment from alexis thank you for your commitment to sharing the word of god your videos have been a blessing and very insightful well thank you alexis for watching us and we appreciate that comment here's michelle who writes thank you for this powerful teaching satan takes great advantage of our lack of knowledge once we know then we can take back what jesus paid such a high price to give us thank you i believe it's adinata george writes that revelation of satan shook me as well my hand was clasped over my mouth for a while if you want to know why she was so shocked there's a tongue twister if you want to know why she was so shocked then go and watch that video the fall of satan it is a very unique perspective on why satan fell and i already know people are going to say i ask why did satan fall they go because of pride and why because that's kind of the cliche thing to say but we get more specific than that so go check out that video siresh anthony writes hi brother david don't stop what you are doing you are a blessing from god to us god bless you and your family forever well god bless you too and thank you for watching spirit church here on encounter tv dg 4827 writes i'm truly enjoying this sound and wholesome teaching i now have a new understanding of the fall of satan can't wait for part two of the series well i just did part two i hope you enjoyed it palita white kitten i don't know if that's really your last name but that's pretty unique thank you for blessing us with another great teaching i had wondered what is the root reason of satan being our enemy and you helped me understand it i can't wait for next week's teaching i also join spirit church well welcome to the spirit family we welcome cat lovers as well to us profit writes i love your sermon you are one of my 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observation illustration application i make an observation in the verse i illustrate it with a story or an anecdote or a point or a statistic and then i go into application which is the hardest part to do but i give you bits and pieces of things that you can take away and begin doing in your life immediately and that's application well those are the comments i want to announce something to you now we are going to begin weekly meetings in southern california on sunday nights however i need your help we need a thousand new thirty dollar a month supporters because it's not just weekly meetings we are going to open what i believe is going to be called a miracle center what we have here is a beautiful facility we have a television studio we have offices where our people work we have a director's room and we have a little bit of room where we can seat some people to watch during the broadcast but what we want to do is open a facility that is centralized and that people can come to to receive 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Hello everybody and welcome to video number 30 of the online version of the fusion research lecture The last video we finished with chapter 5 collision and transport and thus in this video We will start with chapter 6 turbulent transport So this is a 6 for Turbulent transport more or less so actually Although we talked a lot about Classical transport and neoclassical transport when you look in the experiment You will see that neoclassical effects alone are not sufficient to explain the observed transport and talk about fusion plasmas so neoclassical effects are not sufficient to Explain the Observed transport in Tokamak fusion plasmas The transport is actually one to two orders of magnitude too small In classical Stellarators, however, this was an agreement However, modern Stellarators are so good that the neoclassical transport losses have been reduced like W7X for example And also turbulent transport is an issue there because What is going on is turbulent transport which is used as an explanation for the increased additional losses So turbulent Sometimes also called anomalous Anomalous this is a bit of an unfortunate expression because it sounds it might sound weird or strange And it was just used because it was not a normal transport something which could not be explained in the beginning so This is why the expression anomalous was used, but in principle is just turbulent transport and this is Due to small scale fluctuations, so small Scale Fluctuations Those are the source of the origin for the observed Transport and those are small scale fluctuations in density in temperature and Also in the plasma potential If we observe these then we call this electrostatic Turbulence which is created by the Fluctuating electric field fluctuating density fluctuating temperature fluctuating plasma potential creates a fluctuating electric field And the resulting e cross B drift then is Leads to electrostatic turbulence As we will see if we have also Magnetic fluctuations just to be clear if they are not zero then we talk about electromagnetic turbulence Then we talk about electromagnetic turbulence and The electromagnetic turbulence is then caused by micro islands. You remember when we talked about magnetic islands by micro magnetic islands and Just for definitions. So since I've used these expressions with the tilde on top So for the density for example, the full density is the background density and not plus the perturbed density and tilde Where the average value of the density denoted by these brackets is Simply and not which of course implies that the average of the fluctuating part is zero Okay, as for the outline of this chapter the outline we will first talk about turbulence in neutral fluids turbulence in neutral fluids and We do so just to be sure that we are all on the same page here I know some of you might have heard a hydrodynamic lecture But if not, then we just ensure that we all talk about the same things Then we talk about turbulence in magnetized plasmas turbulence in magnetized Plasmas Then we will talk about turbulence observed in the experiment And then finally we will talk about methods to suppress or reduce the turbulence methods to suppress or Reduce the Turbulence Okay, when I start with this chapter, I always oops. I'm sorry. Yes restart not now When I start with this chapter, I usually like to start with a quote of these two people so on the very on the left hand side you can see a photography of Richard Feynman and His quote he said once that turbulence is one of the most unsolved problems of classical physics He did not said that literally but figuratively and on the right hand side You can see a photography of Werner Heisenberg who was also the founder of IPP in 1960 and He set the following when I meet God. I will ask him two questions. Why relativity and why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first So this is just as a motivation to show you that really great minds and physics and physics really great people considered the Problem of turbulence to be one of the most important ones So let's talk about turbulence in neutral fluids. So let's talk about turbulence in Nutri Fluids Turbulence is observed everywhere in nature. This is probably a good way to start using these pictures here Turbulence is Observed everywhere in nature When I say everywhere I mean for example in fluids This is the picture on the left hand side So this one here what you can see there These are the ocean surface currents deduced from satellite measurements from NASA and These data was then fed into a computational model And then you can see in the ocean these kind of currents here these these turbulent structures So I think this is a very nice Graphic there then of course not only fluids, but it's also in gazes So this photography here. This just shows a bit of smoke Coming from a candle. You can see how this is a very nice and turbulent structure and then on the bottom Of course, you can see this one here. This is a simulation of a plasma of a magnetized plasma Actually of a d3d plasma And you can clearly see the turbulence going on here in the colloidal cross section So it is you Turbulence is a ubiquitous phenomena in nature Now what is turbulence so turbulence can be defined in multi ways and a very simple definition might be the following So turbulence is Or can be understood as flow vortices of different size moving with random motion So it can be understood as flow Vortices These are also sometimes called eddies of different size and With random motion This is a very short and simple Definition of turbulence, but it captures. I think the most important or For us relevant properties here. Okay Turbulence has been a hot Topic for centuries a hot topic for centuries and these hot topics include for example the transition Studying the transition from laminar to turbulent flows from laminar to turbulent flows Then to study the lifetime of these eddies to study the lifetime of eddies To study the distribution of the size of these eddies to study the distribution of the size of these eddies to study the size distribution of the energy and To study the energy input and the energy transfer and also the energy dissipation so energy input the energy transfer between the scales and And also how the energy is dissipated and especially these three topics are also topics of modern physics and One very important role in turbulence plays the and in hydrodynamics in general the Navier Stokes equation the Navier Stokes equation because this can be used to describe turbulence in Incompressible fluids in in whoops in in Compressible Meaning that the Gradient of the velocity is zero other divergence An incompressible fluids and it reads as follows. So we have rho m and Then delta t. So this partial derivative with respect to time and then the velocity times nabla times The velocities with the hydrodynamic derivative Being equal to minus grad p plus row m times g the gravitational force plus eta and Then Laplace times the the velocity So this Is the famous Navier Stokes equation and Here as I said, we have the pressure. This is pressure Then this is the gravitation and Then here. This is the friction Laplace times the velocity. What else? We have row m This is the fluid density Oh, I'm as a fluid density then of course you which is the fluid velocity and Finally eta eta The viscosity of the medium viscosity now The Navier Stokes equation is Corresponds to him or is a basically an equation of motion This is an equation of motion and it is similar to the Corresponding Equation in a plasma to the corresponding equation In in a plasma Which reads just as a reminder also the fluid the plasma well density row m and then d t plus you times nabla times oops, sorry Times you Being equal to grad p Plus row m times E plus U cross B for the Lorentz term And this is quite similar now An important simplification is if we talk about ideal fluids for ideal fluids Where eta is equal to zero We get to the Euler equation the Euler equation and often made simplification Because you can already start study important phenomena using this equation the Euler equation and This then obviously reads row M times data t plus you times nabla times you being equal to the gradient of the pressure Okay, that's it for this video which was an introduction into chapter 6 turbulent transport And the major points were that the neoclassical effects are not sufficient to explain the observed transfer in the experiments and the transport being responsible for most of the Losses in the experiment in a trochamark is turbulent transport and In this video we started to talk about turbulence in neutral fluids I gave a few examples and a very simple definition of turbulence which came in and stood as flow vortices Eddies of different size with random motion and on this slide It was probably mostly a reminder for you the Navier-Stokes equation which can be used to describe Turbulence and an incompressible fluids and the Euler equation, which is just setting the viscosity to zero Okay, that's it for this video. See you the next video


Hi, my name is Thomas Kishan and I am a spine surgeon at Manipal Hospital's Bangalore. The hospital is a quaternary care facility for all conditions relating to the spine and we are able to offer you surgical and non-surgical options for your neck and back problems. As far as non-surgical options go, we do tarot assessment, we have excellent imaging facilities for MRI, CT scans and X-rays. We also have physiotherapy and manual therapy treatments for those who require it. We have an option of giving spinal injections for people who require it and if none of these work then surgery is an option. As far as surgery goes we are equipped to treat all conditions of the spine right from the neck to the lower back. We also do some complex deformity surgeries especially for children with scoliosis and kyphosis. These children occasionally do require surgery and we are equipped and have expertise in treating these children with scoliosis and kyphosis and we have excellent results with them. We also specialize in treating patients with spinal tumors who are referred to us by oncology colleagues. So some patients with spinal tumors may require chemotherapy, some may require radiation and some occasionally require surgery and we have the expertise and the equipments to 3 patients with spinal tumors. Whenever anybody thinks of spine surgery the first thing that comes to their mind is fear. I think in the 21st century with the equipment and expertise that we have I don't think spinal surgery is a scary option anymore. Most of our patients are out of bed and walking the next day and go home in a couple of days time. So the old stories of patients being bedridden after spinal surgery is a rare occasion now with the equipment and the expertise that we currently have.


So maybe we passed to Marco. I saw Marco showing up and probably you saw the sunset or at least you are muted at least here. Okay, so Marco, yes. And so Marco, can you share the screen? Yes. So I should be sharing right now. This is my presentation. And this is the first slide. Very good. Screen. Yes, yes, perfect. So okay, so you can go ahead. You have 20 minutes. Okay, thank you. And thank you for inviting me, especially Lice. Too bad we're not all in Trieste now, but okay, at least we can see the sunset. So what I'm going to talk about, so we are a group of essentially theoretical physicists. And we do a lot of modeling. A lot of it is data driven. But what I'm going to talk about today is more like a conceptual model of gene sweeps. And so there will be no data in this talk. It's a very simple thing. But, you know, there is one message that I think is related to a lot of things that were raised in previous talks. Unfortunately, I'm teaching this week heavy duty, so I missed a lot of talks. Some of it I saw and it was very interesting. And I'm trying to catch up a little bit by looking at the videos. Anyway, if I can change my slide, first of all, I want to acknowledge who worked on this project. Basically, the idea came up with some discussions a few years ago with Joshua Weitz and then Jacopo Grilli, who's there at ICTP, implemented the first version of the model. And then Simone is basically now bringing home this study and trying to conclude it. We are writing it up right now. So any feedback actually is useful. So basically, I'm going to tell you three things. And the first thing is that bacteria share genes as an introduction. But this is completely obvious, I think, to this audience. So I'm just going to use some work we did on gene families to reiterate this concept that was raised by, I think, most of the talks of this workshop. This is just a network of horizontal transfers of gene families that you see between a bunch of bacteria to see that there's a lot. And what we did is a model for gene family exchange, a simple, neutral, collisional model, looking at the abundance profiles of gene families. For example, in the data, you can quantify them by PFAMs. How many PFAMs of one PFAM family you find in bacteria. And you can do the statistics of abundance across bacteria and look at the fluctuations of abundance. And the model predicts that basically the more horizontal you need horizontal transfers to have some dispersion in these family abundance. And if you have like gene family expansions, you have even more dispersion. But in the data, you also see this kind of blue histograms of specific gene families where you have under dispersed compared to what the model prediction family. So the prediction is that these families do not do any horizontal transfer. And this is basically what you see looking at horizontal transfers quantified by standard phylogenetic methods, that you have a relation between the dispersion of family abundance and the amount of horizontal transfers. This means that basically a genome is both fluid and stable, depending on the functional content that you look at. So if you look at the right functional contact, it's stable and it's vertically inherited. And it's a phylogenetic tree. Whereas if you look at other kinds of functional contact, for example, all the families that you find on plasmids, the genome is very fluid, but not only those, the genome, even, you know, metabolic enzymes are transferred a lot. The genome is very fluid. And there is no real phylogeny, but you find more like a network. So it's both a tree and a network. So this was my introduction, but what I really want to talk about is not that genes are shared a lot, but also that genes sweep. And we will clarify in a minute what it means that they sweep. So they don't sweep your kitchen, but they sweep your microbial communities. And we were inspired by this study that appeared now 10 years ago in science whereby methods of basically comparative genomics, they discovered in planton a few genes that were clearly beneficial in some sets of vibrio strains that spread without reducing the diversity of the community. So somehow these genes were beneficial. They were spreading, but then across species, across strains. So the question is, how is that possible? Because, you know, if you think about this problem with the simple paradigm of population genetics, you would expect that the first guy that gets this beneficial gene gets an advantage, a higher fitness, and will spread in the population with its own genome. You will get a genome sweep, not a gene sweep. So how can you spread a beneficial gene in a community with many species across many species, more or less preserving the diversity of that community? That's the conceptual problem that they raised at the end of that paper. Basically, they had a few propositions. Their main proposition, which is not really a mathematical model, so we're going to try to support our idea with a mathematical model, was that, okay, maybe you have very fast horizontal gene transfer rates, and then you have, quickly after, you have differentiation of different ecotypes. So now there's a barrier and this guy, the gene has spread, and these guys, they cannot basically do genome sweeps on each other. That was their idea originally. And they also proposed towards the end of the paper that, okay, okay, maybe there's some frequency dependent selection due to different deleterious genes, for example, genes that are under phages, that are linked with the beneficial gene. And this idea that they was proposed originally by Shapiro as a concept was built by Kunihiko Kaneko and Takeuchi in several papers. This was the first one into a mathematical model where they show that, yeah, indeed, this is possible. But this model requires that every time this beneficial gene is linked with a different deleterious gene, which is possible, but so far, maybe not systematically the case, and so far there's no experimental validation of this, but certainly it's a possibility. Another study proposed that maybe if the horizontal gene transfer rates and the migration rates are very fast, you can also have a single population where the gene can spread in more than one species. But I think if you look at the numbers, you have really to push a lot on the numbers to get this diversity within a single population. So this is so far the debate on this, as far as I know, maybe simplifying a little bit on possible explanations of these gene sweeps. And we have another proposition, and that's the last part of what I'm going to talk about, which is not mutually exclusive with the ones that I presented you, but it's another mechanism that could work on top of those. And our idea is that metapopulation structure, so the structure of a community divided in sub-communities islands, where you have migration and different populations in each island, could actually help preserving the diversity in a gene sweep. And this is something that we built into a conceptual model. So if you want to visualize for plankton, for example, what could be, what could give the structure of a metapopulation, it's basically marine snow. And this applies to the Shapiro data. Basically, this Vibrio, they live on chitin fragments that are found in the ocean. And each fragment can host several species and supplies the nutrients. And then you can have migration from these fragments. It's really a metapopulation structure. Other microbial communities, for example, the gut, it's not that clear what the metapopulation structure could be, but it's a complex and way community. So it's possible that the same could apply to other kinds of communities. But to be honest, we didn't really think about it very seriously. So this is our model. Actually, this is a little bit of a premise. In order to formulate the question of how a beneficial gene introduced by horizontal transfer and genome sweep could affect the diversity of a community, you have to supply a model for the diversity of a community. But the results that I discussed don't really depend on which model you supply. To fix the ideas, we basically used this neutral model of biodiversity, which, if you are familiar with population genetics, is equivalent to the infinite alleles model, except that the alleles are the islands. So these circles are islands, they are populations. And then you can have different species, the colors on an island. And you have introduction of a new species with some probability and migration with removal of an existing species on an island with some other, as a complementary move.  And that's the only thing, for example, that we will need. That there is a stable diversity and that your model for diversity is kind of homeostatic. So if you change the diversity, it will tend to go back to the diversity with some time scale. The real model that we did is about the gene sweep. So now you have your species on the islands. And as you can see, these islands have only one color. So we work in the hypothesis that the rates of migration and horizontal transfer are not high enough to supply multiple species on a single subpopulation. And the zeros and the ones are the presence of the beneficial gene. So I have a genome sweep with migration move with some probability in the model where basically I get another one, but with the same color of the previous one. So this is a genome sweep. But then I get a horizontal transfer move. So a gene sweep kind of move where the ones can spread without changing the color. So in this case, this is the same, the gene has moved to the other island on a different species and it has swept within that species. Okay. So what happens when you run this very simple model? You start from population with steady diversity. These are different realizations of assimilation. And then here you introduce the new beneficial gene and then you get some reduction. Of course, because you have these moves, these kind of moves, you get a reduction in the diversity. But this reduction is not a reduction to zero. That's the whole point. So you get some kind of reduction which depends on your parameters. And you can quantify your reduction by the ratio of the final to the initial diversity. And you can take average values of this because you can have variabilities from realization to realization. So basically, you only have one parameter, one relevant parameter, which is the relative rate of horizontal transfer to sweep, this pH over PM. And you want to quantify how much diversity you have left, depending on this new, which sets the initial diversity, basically. That's the initial biodiversity model. So if you have no horizontal transfer, of course, you end up with zero diversity. But any value, even small, will preserve, let's say, even 50% with the ratio of 0.1, you already have 50% of the diversity of the initial diversity of the population. And then if you have a homeostatic diversity, it could increase again. So this doesn't really depend on the parameter. The other nice thing about this model, but this is not super relevant here, is that it's so simple that you can do analytical calculations, and then you get a match with your simulations. And this is just to reiterate the message with different parameters. You get still a good agreement. You get a good agreement between the predicted values for this ratio from simulation theory.  So you have a timescale, which you can see here, by which you reduce your diversity when you introduce a beneficial gene in your metapopulation in our model. And then here you have a slower timescale, which here basically is in this plot. You don't see it, but you're going to see it in a second, where you may have a sort of recovery to the equilibrium value of the diversity, which depends on the mechanisms that preserve diversity in your community. So far, I showed you the model basically under an assumption that these timescales are very separated, but these timescales can have some overlap. And of course, you can run the model with considering these overlaps. So in this case, you have a quick loss of diversity due to the introduction of the beneficial gene spreading across species. And then you have a slower recovery due to the homeostatic mechanisms within your community. In our case, a neutral model that preserve biodiversity. You can run the model with multiple rounds of beneficial sweeping genes. In this case, here, here, and here. And then if basically the prediction is that if you don't get a beneficial gene every day, basically your community will get some kind of stable diversity. But anyway, it's the other conceptual contribution. It's a matter of timescales. So how much and how fast does your gene sweep decrease your diversity? And how fast does your community recover its diversity? Okay, and this is just the same thing. So only if you have very frequent sweeps, do you reduce on a long-term basis the average diversity of your community. So again, it's very, very simple, maybe too simple. But the advantage is that with such a simple model, it's also very clear what the ingredients do. That's it. I'm done. So basically, we have this metapopulation hypothesis supported by this very simple model. And our idea is that it's not contrary to other things that have been proposed, but it could play a role. So the next thing would be to try to support it with data. This is not super simple, but it's not impossible, I think. That would be our next project, which has not started yet. So thank you for your attention. Thank you, Marco. Thank you very much. So maybe we can have some, if there are some questions for the talk of Marco. Can I make a comment more than a question? Yes. So I might be wrong because it's late and it's been a bumpy day again. But it seems to me that you are kind of showing a model of how plasmids, how conegative plasmids are maintained in a population in between strains. Yes. Well, I didn't know anything about plasmids. You didn't mean to, but it seems, no, because in this case, we have data. There are people around. Yes. I mean, I think this model, if there are plasmid data on like the ones that there were two three talks yesterday on plasmid spreading within microbial communities. And I think I mean, we had it in mind. We developed this model with this plankton idea in mind. And in this Shapiro paper, they don't really know the mechanism. And I don't know if by now people have worked on the mechanisms of like whether, for example, these genes are carried by plasmids. Typically they didn't say and they didn't know. But I also think that what there was one mathematical model presented yesterday about the spread of where Mike broke us. Yes. And in that model, diversity was not irrelevant variable, but they looked at stability. And that's why I asked, you know, that diversity, did you look at diversity and they say, he said, yeah, we can look at diversity and we know that it's reduced. That's what I would expect, that there is a reduction. And then it would be interesting to see whether there is a recovery. What are the mechanisms? So again, might be relevant. We just didn't think about it before


Today, we are going to go over blood work, how it can help identify iron overload issues, and whether or not high cholesterol is okay in the context of the carnivore diet. Just to recap, my health started greatly declining in February of 2018 after I spent two weeks out in California filming the show Masterchef. I slept one night the whole week, half a night, and after I came back, my insomnia never got better, I never slept well again. My health deteriorated further and further for almost two years until late 2019 where I discovered that my liver was overloaded with iron. The main markers we're looking at today are cholesterol, triglycerides, iron markers, and liver inflammation. The most important thing I've learned in the past year is that high cholesterol on any diet might not be healthy, regardless of the context, regardless of the high fat, as many keto dieters and cornivores are telling you. Cholesterol can be a marker of inflammation, particularly in the presence of large amounts of omega 6 fatty acids as well as altered metabolic function from agrochemicals and pollutants in the food supply, especially liver damage, some sort of functional problem with your liver. In order to sell you low quality animal products and feedlot meat, keep you on the carnivore diet. They have to convince you that high cholesterol is okay, that iron overload doesn't really exist, and I won't know this for sure until I'm able to eat large amounts of fat again, get some lipid panel tests, but that might not be for a year, that might not be for two years.  That's why I've been eating mostly honey as my source of energy the past few months.  Other people like myself, not so much, my cholesterol is sky high. I have a general idea of what other factors play in here, but my initial advice to anyone out there is to find a diet you feel good on, make sure nutrients are synergistic, make sure inflammation is absent, and that will usually lead to a normal lipid panel. So throughout most of my carnivore diet history, I've had that elevated high cholesterol. Even before I was carnivore, my cholesterol was on the high end. And my speculation is that I've had some degree of iron overload as well as liver damage from acutane that has been compounding for years and years and years. The first thing I wanted to show is how much your cholesterol can change from week to week, even on a high fat carnivore diet. On December 8th, 2017, my cholesterol was 441, triglycerides 107, LDL 377. Any doctor would have a heart attack just looking at numbers that high. On December 21st, 2017, less than two weeks later, my cholesterol was 336, triglycerides 161, LDL 266, over a 25% decrease in cholesterol over that short period of time. So why are we even using these markers if there's such a variance? One year later on December 18th, 2018, my cholesterol and triglycerides were around the same, 319, 157, and LDL was 240, so not really much of a change from the prior year. One year after that, December 30th, 2019, my cholesterol started lowering slightly, likely because I started addressing my iron overload issue. I had a bit of a spike in triglycerides from combining carbohydrates and fat. Cholesterol 288, triglycerides 268, and LDL 176. Around three months later, on February 20th, 2020, my cholesterol dropped even further, at 222, with triglycerides at 63, and LDL at 152, actually in the healthy range by modern standards. Now, July 30th, 2020, my cholesterol is at an all-time low, 124, with triglycerides at 130, and LDL at 63, probably lower than a lot of vegans, yet I'm still eating around two pounds of red meat per day. The other important markers to look at over this period of time are ferritin, which can indicate liver inflammation from iron storage, and the AST slash ALT numbers, which measure inflammation in the body and liver specifically. These numbers improved correspondingly with my lowering in cholesterol. So October 19th, 2019, is when I discovered the iron overload. I saw my iron numbers were over the high end, my ferritin was elevated, but more severely, my liver function was very compromised. AST at 150, and ALT at 336, and that 336 had me really concerned as it was dangerously high, and I immediately started donating blood, giving blood every week for the next several months. December 30th, 2019, my ferritin was down to 19 from 470, which meant I was done with donating blood for a little bit. Generally speaking, you want the ferritin to stay below 30. By February 20th, 2020, just under three months later, my liver numbers had improved, AST going down to 141, ALT at 218, still a bit high. My iron numbers still weren't looking that good, but the ferritin was still very low, so my liver should still be detoxing the iron. In order for your liver to remove iron, you need to donate blood, because the blood is composed of iron and copper, so if you have an adequate amount of red blood cells, the liver doesn't really need to use iron for anything, so it just stores it. Once you remove that blood by donating or getting a phlebotomy, then the liver can release that iron, make more red blood cells, and you'll start feeling better. July 30th, just yesterday, my liver numbers are finally normal. AST at 33, and ALT at 27. Ferritin is above 30 at 48, which isn't a problem for most people, but I definitely want to donate blood once or twice in the next month or so. It seems as if my liver function is starting to restore itself, so I should be feeling much better by the end of this year. Granted, I keep the same diet and continue to donate blood. I double-checked my vitamin D3 markers just to make sure I was getting enough sun, calcitriol, and vitamin D hydroxy, calcitriol being the active hormone and the other form being the storage from the sun or supplements. You want to measure both to make sure you're getting enough magnesium to activate the vitamin D3. And there are definitely some more blood markers that I'm going to get tested in another two or three months, probably some more iron blood work, and just to double-check the liver numbers. I did want to do a testosterone experiment with the testicles, but that might impede me healing my liver. Testicles are very high in zinc, and that can throw off copper, and you need copper to regulate iron in the body. That's the primary reason the carnivore diet didn't work for me. It doesn't have enough copper, so I started supplementing copper about eight milligrams per day for two months, and that fixed a lot of my sleeping issues and made me feel a lot better. So I don't really want to do that testicle experiment because of the high zinc content. That being said, I don't only have to do it for a week or two, but we'll see. So thank you guys for joining me today. Hopefully you can rub this in some people's faces saying that carnivores have bad blood work. And I did get my testosterone checked, too. The numbers are in the moderate range since I haven't been doing the testicles or anything. You guys know how to support me down in the description below. I hope you enjoy the rest of your Friday.


I think it's important because we're giving back to the people who truly helped us and truly gave to us. Kids were super excited about just the community support for what they were doing right there.


Part three to our watch-a-long of Rorschach. Rorschach! If you're seeing us on YouTube, you're gonna see a very cut-up version because of copyright reasons. If you'd like to see a full-on cut version of it, you can have it on Patreon. I'll put the link in the description in the pinned comments so you can go check that out. And at the end of this part, we will talk about the movie. We will. Maybe. Maybe. And let's just finish this movie. Am I right? Yep. We stop this every 15, every 30 minutes. And just do another film intro. Here we go. This is his therapy.  No, I don't know. Hmm. That's how it is. The leave's mother said, she knows me a lot. What else can I get from a mother like this? Right? If there's anyone who doesn't care about him, I'll go with her. She's an interesting family. I'll take care of both my children and my family. He'll take care of everything. In the case of Rahsaan, Siddhi and Anil were both dead. Balanchand's case was also lost. Anil and Anil were both dead. Anil was dead in two murders. But no one saw him. Was this all revenge against him by Anil? The police officer, Luki Navey. In the case of Balanchand, Siddhi, who was killed by Anil, was given the poison of Rahsaan. When he broke the glass, he saw a bullet in his name. He was a man of the art. He was a man of the art. I've killed him. He's not here anymore. I only killed him. She killed herself. He was also a man. He killed the man who died in the past. He was a different person. He was a family member. He's not a fool anymore. He's not in the family anymore. He's the one who killed himself. Is she gonna disappear? Wow. Welcome back. Well, I'm glad to know the therapy worked. I'm not sure, I'm not sure any of that was real. I'm not sure any of it was real. I think it was all in the asylum. I do too. I think he, this, whether any of what we saw actually happened, this is him. Processing. Processing and maybe hoping. This is what happened or what he could do. Which is why I think he would be welcome back at the end. It was kind of evident that this was in my mind. And he got resolution. That somehow, whatever he went through that got him to the place where he was institutionalized, somehow he got to the place where he could resolve the past traumas and be himself again. I think he probably lost his wife. Well, yeah, I definitely think that happened. And then that sent him, and he lost his mind. Or he killed her, because obviously there was a lot of. Right, it could have been him. There was a lot of talk about husbands and that kind of stuff, almost speaking in a kind of third person-ish, like him talking to a therapist or him talking to himself in an asylum. Right. And so it leaves you with all those kind of questions. Well, and obviously the fact obviously was called heaven. Right. Well, and the fact that he's wearing the, he at the very outset, when he first gets into what we were referring to as the mind castle, and he's sitting on the therapist couch per se, he's got the mask on. Yeah, he had the mask on. He had the mask on. And then everybody else who's there has the mask on. So, and what I loved, I was gonna, it's very Nolan-esque, but the difference is, Nolan messes with linear realities. This was not necessarily linear realities. The film itself is patterned like a Rorschach test. The film itself, the story as it unfolds is like different pages of a Rorschach test. It's utterly brilliant. What do you see? Cinematically brilliant, which is, what do you see? It's a great name, obviously. What somebody sees in this film, is completely different than what somebody else got out of it. Right. They could have just taken it at face value. That this was a real story. This was a real story. I tend to think some of it was, or maybe you have to watch a few times to really get the, and I'm wondering if the director would even tell you about the style of films. I would hope not. I would hope not. What do you think happened? Yeah, exactly. That's one of the beauties of films, right? Yeah. Is that it takes you on an experience and lets you come to your conclusion of whether you like it or not. Nolan himself said like, for example, with Tenet, he doesn't particularly like to talk about fan theories because he doesn't like to bring resolution to things that he himself had no intention to have a resolution to. Resolution to? Yeah. But yeah, it's definitely so interesting. Well done in terms of blending what, at least in my mind, is reality and hallucination or just schizophrenia or whatever he's going through. Or if it's just after death, there's a whole bunch of different theories and rabbit holes I think you could go down. Did this come from other literary material or is this an original screenplay? I'm not sure. Because I would love to know if when they read the script, especially Mammoudi. Oh, Kumballanji Nights, that's what we saw. When he read the script and when Nassim Bashir read the script, did they see what the finished version was? And not only is it the direction and the story and the cinematography, but we said this throughout that the score by Mithin Mukundin was consistently tapping into shapes and shadows. Yeah. And it was super interesting that it was all in English. Yeah. Whatever happens in an Indian film, the fact that maybe parts of songs will be in English, but every single song was in English, which is a very interesting story. And maybe it wasn't that deep with that, but that just, that's such an out-of-the-left field thing for an Indian film to do, not have it in your language obviously. Well, and once again, just, I am a huge, huge, huge fan of Mammoody. Yeah, this is a great performance of his. I just, the last three things we've seen of his have just catapulted him all the way up to the top for me of actors and producers who make things that are everything cinema should, in my humble opinion, be about. I think we're only about four or five into his cinematography as well. And I'm sure it would have been worth the drive. I'm looking forward to, we will watch. Oh yeah, we will. And I'm, I have no doubt. Yeah, but. And the cast was uniformly superb. But it also might be, yeah, I thought everybody did well. I thought this was very, he gave many different vibes in this, which is obviously, he was supposed to, because you're supposed to kind of question, obviously towards the beginning, is he, and still, is he the villain in this? Is he the hero? Is he the hero? Is he the victim? Is he clinically insane? Right. Is this just. Is it PTSD out of a trauma? He went through that sad? Or is this guy, have criminality? Yeah, I definitely think it's, I definitely think something happened to the wife, for sure. Yeah, he's clearly, that's the one through line that he's haunted by. Yes, obviously, I think something happened to her. And that is the one thing we talk about that. Whether he lived, though, through that trauma. Right. Or if this is in an asylum, because he went crazy or died. He also could have, he could have lost his mind, driven into the tree on purpose. And this was what he had to process in order to begin another life. And that's the welcome back. I think the welcome back is, glad to see you've returned to sanity. But you could also see this film as, these are things he had to process before he was able to incarnate in reincarnation. Yeah. And the welcome back was welcome back to being alive. Yeah, I definitely. It's just brilliant. I definitely think it's a fun film to, like if you watch it with a bunch of people and to ask everybody kind of their theory about it. I think it's one of those really fun films of like, because I'm not sure. I can't tell you exactly what happened. No, but the one thing they showed us with the cinematography and the lighting and everything else, the one constant aside from shapes and shadows with everything else, was that whenever we went to Dubai, the murder, his wife, it was not shadowy and shapey. It was very realistic based. And anytime he was haunted by her, she was never shifty or shapey. She was the one solid thing. And whenever she appeared, she was always solid. Except when, oh, it depends on how you're saying that. Obviously, like when she was laying on his lap and she went over her hands. The times her arms appeared, it wasn't ghost-like. Yeah. It was very real. Yeah. I tend to think a lot of this was in an asylum. Me too. I think he was in, I think he was in this whole time. And I'm not sure a lot of this happened. At least this way. I think it's very possible something happened to his wife and then maybe he was going out and ran into a tree and died or like, maybe hit his head and now is in the asylum because he's crazy and now he's going through what he think he would want to do to get justice. This would be such a fun film to watch with a bunch of people. And then talk for about an hour and a half afterwards. Yeah, you definitely could. It's just a great, great film. It's funny, because a lot of people, obviously, I got a ton of recommendations for this. Understandably. So many, but also there are some people that didn't like this film. Talk my stories. I think I saw, I didn't see his review because I don't watch the reviews, but I went on Jimmy's review that I think he saw when it came out. I think he gave it like a six out of 10. Wow. I have to go back and actually watch his review because I just went to where he does the score at the end and I saw that he did, I think it was like a six out of 10. And I was like, oh, okay. So he didn't like it very much. I have to actually watch his review to see what the reasons were, but then I've also heard some other people that they just like, it wasn't their cup of tea at least. I find crazy because I think it was absolutely brilliant and a lot of fun. I think a lot of people, some people don't like when they have to think too much maybe. Yeah, of course. Not like Jimmy's one. I think Jimmy is absolutely one of those people that likes to think about them. It just, wow. Yeah, it's a. It's a brilliant movie. There's people that don't like Inception, surprisingly. Yeah. But there are a lot of layers. So if you're one of people that likes closure in your films, I don't. Or things having an explanation. Yeah, like a full, like this is exactly what happened. Yeah. I don't. No, I like. That's why even when something is way beyond me, where I'm not tracking like LGP's last film, I still can walk away from it going, I didn't get it, but for those of you who did, that's awesome, help me understand it. Maybe I'll get it later. It was a pretty film versus like Tenet for me was way beyond the pale. But I thought it was a very well done over, I mean, the lighting, the score, I liked a lot. Mamoudi's performance in this was very different from everything else I've ever seen of his. I mean, very excited to see him in the horror film because I think he could play creepy and does. Really, really well. And very subtly, very subtly. We were very excited to see that his current film that's out, but maybe it'll be fun to watch with you guys and so you can see our reaction to it and all that when it comes out to OTT in like a month or something like that. But everybody else I thought did very well. Very well. The whole cast was extremely strong, every single one of them. Great cast. So huge credit to the casting choices. And the cinematography, the production, production design, the VFX team. The lighting. The mask was kind of going over. Yeah. There's no flaws in the visual effects. Wonderful work with the stunt team. If there was any wire work, you hit it perfectly. I did just, I also saw some people say that the film was very slow. I didn't, I didn't get that. I didn't get that at all. Maybe the trailer, and I don't remember the trailer, can I be completely honest with you? I don't. Well, gave off the vibes of like an action kind of thriller, maybe that's what they were expecting. And since we were kind of like, we had no recollection of this film really at all. No. And we've just come out of the pacing of Cothill the Core. Yeah. So it wasn't, it didn't feel slow to me. Not at all. It felt like, not at all. Like a slow burn in terms of like, I need to figure out what's going on. But no, it kept me engaged. It's one of those films that you, the pace is being controlled not by the runtime. The pace is being controlled by the cinematography and the score. Yeah, and you're, you want to know what is happening. And you're looking, like I said, there's not a frame of film that goes by where you're not looking at every inch of screen, first of all, for some of the beauty. But then you also recognize there's a ton of messaging happening that you might miss like the Rorschach shapes of the mask getting bigger and bigger on the walls around it. I bet if you watch this film multiple times, you can see new things every time. So many different things of like, oh, that and they'll give you clues as to what is actually happening. This is a film I would excitedly watch over and over again with people who haven't seen it. Yeah, and I'm, I know, I want to see everything when it was ever done. So please, obviously, let us know what is. Huge fan. He had another film come out this year that we didn't see this. Yeah, my respect for him as an artist is as high as it can get. I have such deep respect for him. The wall. You know, if you haven't seen our review of the wall, please go watch that. Please. And cough of the corn. See those films if you haven't seen those films. What was it? Post-production in a series, I guess. Not that's the current one. Yeah. Pramayugam is the one we want to see. Kuntar Squad. And then there was a... Mala... No, we saw Nannapakal Narathumayak. That's the LJP film. Yeah. Poozhu, that one as well. This one right here. Say that name. Parvam. Yeah, and I think that one actually has Subin in it. Am I crazy here? No, it doesn't. Okay, cool. Good memory.  No, sorry, sorry, sorry. Sorry, we thought it was Fahad Vassil. It was an F and then a Fassil at the end. It's not Fahad Vassil. I was like, what? That one I've heard a lot about as well. What's next? And I know he has classics as well, that obviously he's been around for a long time. Line him up and we'll knock him down. I want to see everything he's done. Have we only seen... So obviously we've currently seen three and within a fast pace of each other, the... Right, well four. The wall, no. Three within a fast pace of each other. Yeah, the wall and this one. Obviously we want to see the new horror. Right. And we saw the LJP film last year. LJP. And I think the only other one was the first one and I think it was called Parenboo and it was with the little girl. Yeah. Which I believe was actually a Domino film. Could have been. I don't remember. Am I wrong there? So I think... Correct me if I'm wrong. I think we've actually only ever seen five Mamoudi films. I think you're right. No. Six. It was the Sense and Sensibility remake. Oh yeah. He was in that. He was in that, you're right. So I think it's six. But I think we're six for six in terms of liking his films. I don't think we disliked any of those. I believe you're correct. Yeah. Yeah, I believe you're correct. And not just liked. I mean the last three we've seen have loved. Koth of the Core and The Wall. The last four. The LJP film. Oh yeah. The last four. Koth of the Core and now Rorschach. I love every one of those. Obviously that new horror film we're toward very anticipating. I'm hoping it gets broader distribution. Like I said, if not, we'll definitely do a watch along of it. That would be very nice. But it might be fun to just watch it with you guys like this. You guys can let us know. But that was great. I hope you enjoyed it. Like we did let us know with our next Mammoody film for watch along review, whatever. Mammoots. My next. Mammoots. We need a Mammoot on the wall. Is he not on the wall? He's not on the wall. It's gotta happen. Gotta happen. Gotta happen. We've gotta have him on the wall. Gotta have a Mammoot on the wall. Predominantly on the wall. Yeah, yeah, gotta do it. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, let us know what the next Maliella watch along should be with Mammoot or others. Let us know what you thought about the film. If you liked it, if you didn't like it, let us know what your theories are. Especially if you'd love to know your theories on this. If you're seeing this on YouTube, you saw a very cut up version because of copyright reasons. If you'd like to see the full uncut version though of this and other things, other Maliella films that we've done watch alongs too, please look in the description and the pinned comment so you can go check those out. And on to the next watch along.


Alright, knowing how the regex engine works will enable you to craft a better regular expression more easily. It will help you to understand quickly why a particular regex does not do what you initially expected. This will save you a lot of guesswork and head scratching when you need to write more complex regexes. So again, let's start with our previous demo to see how regex engine works. This will always try to match as soon as is ultimately possible. This is called greediness. Okay, watch carefully on the screen now. So a regex engine executes the regex one character at a time in left to right order. This input string itself is parsed one character at a time in left to right order. Once a character is matched, it's set to be consumed from the input and the engine moves to the next input character and tries to match that against the previously matched character in the input string. Now here to make dot optional in title, I have added question mark quantifier and as soon as it encounters a quantifier, it will search forward matching as much as possible. Now say for example, if the regex doesn't match a character in input source, then it will step back a character for character until it finds a position in which it can match again and it will continue to do so until it has either found a complete match or has exhausted all possible options without finding one. Now this stepping back is called backtracking. Either way, the engine always knows its current position within the regex. Now in the regex, if the regex specifies an alternatives and if one search path fails, the engine will backtrack to match the next alternative. In the regex, an alternation contracts in simple language is called either or operation. So here we have specified the alternative. So in the name, if Mr. title is not found, then the engine will backtrack to match the next alternative. The engine also stores the backtracking position. Now here there is no match for Mr. title. So engine will move ahead and match for the next alternation. Alright, now before we go ahead, let's understand the type of regex engine. Here please note that there is no standard definition of what is regular expression engine. So basically there are two types of engine. The first is text-directed engine and the second one is regex-directed engine. Text-directed engine attempts all parts of the regex before moving to the next character of input. Thus, this engine doesn't backtrack, while in regex-directed engine, parts are attempted in left to right order as we have already seen. If the engine fails to match, then it backtracks to attempt an alternative path. Most modern engines like PCRE, eGrab etc. are regex-directed because this is the only way to implement some useful features like a lazy quantifiers and atomic grouping etc. But here the most important one is that there is one very big difference between regex-directed engine and text-directed engine. Text-directed engine will stop at the first possible match as it encounters while a POSIX-based or a text-directed engine will try to find the longest match. This does not mean that text-directed engine will always return the longest possible match just that it will try to make the first match as long as possible even if a shorter part of the string already gave a match. Let's perform one demo to understand this concept. Alright, this is another good online regex testing tool with different flavors of engine. So here I am on the PCRE tab now and you can see that I have given the input string here and here I want to match the word byte or byte scout. So for that let us write the regex like this. So as you can see here that the word byte gets matched and stop. So as I said earlier that regex-directed engine will stop at the first possible match as it encounters. Now let us see what happened in this POSIX tab. So here when I click on this button so as you can see here that now this time we get a different result. So this POSIX engine or text-directed engine will always return the longest possible match even if a shorter part of the string already gave a match. Alright now let us move ahead. When a regular expression were first made available in the computing they only supported a very limited number of syntaxes but as things go in time people wanted to be able to match more complex patterns. So they started expanding and started to add more advanced features and syntaxes and hence they built their own regex library or engine with their own syntax variation. The reality today is that according to Wikipedia there are more than 25 different regex engine which are widely used and they all have their own regex dialects. Now one last note before we go ahead.  As I said earlier that throughout this course we will be using either a byte scout PDF multi-tool or some other online tools to give you some basic idea and understanding of fundamentals. So now you know all that. Let's dive into deeper to look in more detail at the basics and syntaxes and elements of regular expression.