Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering VMworld 2017, brought to you by VMware and its ecosystem partner. Hey, welcome back everyone. Live here in Las Vegas, it's theCUBE's exclusive coverage of VMworld 2017. I'm John Furrier, the co-host of theCUBE with my partner Dave Vellante, co-host. Eighth year of CUBE coverage at VMworld. Since 2010, we've been documenting the evolution of VMware. Next guest is Bhaskar Iyer, who's the CIO of VMware and Dell. Big time CIO, been in the field, been working in real practitioner, now at the company, going to the cloud. Hybrid cloud? That's great to see you. Good to see you again. So, Pat Gelsinger's keynote, really relevant. I just want to say, our conversation last year, and even the year before, you're like no-stradamus. You're like predicting the future. We talked about IoT. That's right. Now, IoT Edge, are you helping messaging with VMware? I mean, are you? Well, my background, having worked in Honeywell and so on is that. And I saw IoT as a big opportunity, so it was easy for me to see that it was going to be big, but I didn't think it was this big. But I'm messaging more with CIOs, more than VMware to say, you're going to miss this wave. Looks like a lot of CIOs are so focused on business IT, they're missing IoT. So my message is, here's a great opportunity for you to get ahead of, don't miss it.  I can't remember. He really was under a lot of pressure. Stock was at 42, very low, and is he the right guy? He made some bets, and Pat's a wave guy, and he's all about the waves.  So I got to ask you the question, by the way, he's got the great wave slide here. From a customer perspective, they're watching here, Gelsinger lay out a great vision, the stock price is booming, strategy is clear, Andy Jassy from Amazon comes on stage. There is clarity in this direction, and the waves that you're on. Now customers have to make the choice of bets. They're looking at the wave and saying, what are my bets? The question I have for you is, what bets are customers making now as a CIO? And what should they look at? And what sequence, and how do they attack those bets? And which are the right bets? So I think the cloud is a big bet. I mean, people don't want to talk about cloud because they think we've been talking about it for a long time, but enterprise hasn't really gone much in that journey, right? There's still a lot of data centers running virtual machines, which is great, but you really don't have a private cloud setup. And then there's burst capacity to go to public cloud and so on. Very few people have examples of that. There are some people, but not the large majority. What happens in IT is, when you get spooked when you see a public cloud and a private cloud and you're not sure which way it's going, so the nice thing about this announcement is, that thing is mystery's out, right? So you want to go to public cloud, here's a way to get. You want to stay on your private cloud? Here's the way you can stay on your private cloud. Plus, moving legacy applications. People never talk about legacy. They always talk about, you know, if you and I are building a new company to go to a public cloud, do a cloud ready, pretty easy. But I have some old applications, even in a technology company, how do I move it? So I think that as a customer, when I looked at Pat's message, I said, that makes sense to me. I can choose to run it on my data center, go to a private cloud and go into Amazon. I'm going to ask you, I know Dave wants to jump in because he's got some good private cloud data to talk about. I mean, true private cloud data. You mentioned how hard it is to move legacy apps. Can you give some illustration and some color to how hard it is? Because a lot of people in the press, analysts, even startups, oh, it's so easy, I want to just win the enterprise. If it's a clean sheet of paper, I get that, but there's a lot of important things. How hard is it to really deal with this legacy data center environment in the path to hybrid and public cloud? Well, let's, there's still, you know, people think of, if you think of an ERP, people have four or five ERPs still.  And the reason you haven't migrated to one is not because we don't know how to do it. There's an ROI, you know, do I invest the money? Do I do this right now? Do I get the people? It's not the $400 million to invest on an ERP system. Very risky. So you've got a lot of these. You've got PeopleSoft, which is different versions. You've got HR systems, sales systems. So that's what in a lot of data centers, believe it or not, how do you move it? And then when you go to the public cloud, the guy says, are you cloud ready? No, you're not. You've got a legacy system. What's that? You just don't want to run this. You want to run it in the most efficient way within a container. So I think people don't see that. The other thing they don't see is at scale, it is expensive sometimes to go to public cloud. If you and I starting a company, we won't build a data center, we can probably go to the public cloud. But if I have scale, I already have data centers, I'm running it at scale. And not everything is unpredictable. A lot of business IT is very predictable workloads, right? I know what I need to buy next year, generally. So what burst capacity am I looking for? Not everybody requires that. So that's another reason. Security both ways, right? People say that public cloud is more secure, but there's a lot of regulatory bodies who want you to show. And it's a lot of work that I have to certify to show that. So what CIOs tend to do is to say, we will try to go cloud where we can, but there's still 80%, 90% of your stuff running in a data center. Help me bridge that. Well, we talk about cloud, private cloud. We talk about, we coined this term true private cloud. And the basic concept is bring the cloud model to your data. Right. We tell our CIOs, look, don't try to form your business and fit it into the cloud. Fit the cloud into your business, wherever that data lives. Is that a reasonable way to look at it? And is that what you're doing with your business? Yeah, so I define it even more simply. I kind of say, if you have a lot of people running your data center, you don't have a cloud. I mean, the whole point of cloud is automation. The reason public clouds are cheaper or better is because it's highly automated. So that's the trick is if you have people in a data center, then it's not a cloud. So get your data center modernized. I define it as private cloud. You can call it whatever you want. You can call it automation, but get it automated. Then the scale comes up and your cost comes down. But then when you want burst capacity, you don't have to build servers for that. You can go to the public cloud for a burst capacity. But the big point for me is people have to sit down and figure out a strategy. A few years ago, people said, don't go into infrastructure, just outsource it. So we all outsource it and that became a mess. Sooner or later, you got to figure out what you need to do. You can't just outsource it, put it in the cloud, not think about it, make it go away. So you see a lot of CIOs coming back and saying, yeah, I want that, but I also want to fix this. How do I automate? I want to get the cost down. That's how I define a private cloud is don't have too much cost. So are you running a private cloud? So not only am I, so I should be modest, but I'm not going to be. I think we run one of the best private clouds there is for VMware. Everything that you see in VMware, the hands-on lab you see there, it's all running on our private cloud at scale. We're extending that cloud to now Dell Technologies, right? We're saying in the same model, cut and paste it. Imagine how much leverage you get from EMC and Dell data centers when you extend the private cloud. So for a company like us, it's a sure bet. So what does it look like underneath?  Yeah, you have vSAN, NSX, everything we talk about.  I mean, what? You don't throw out all our arrays, but vSAN is. I mean, what you see in the market is happening in my data center as well, right? So vSAN is, there's more and more vSAN nodes now, but you have mission critical SAP and Oracle stuff that I don't want to necessarily save dollars. I want something that is mission critical, proven, ready, certified, et cetera. So the other things don't go away, but your storage is growing. As the storage grows, you see a lot more of the vSAN growing with that. I still have a lot of vSAN, a lot of NSX. You know how many clusters you have now? Probably a zillion, I mean, for a large number. It's a large number of clusters. And the reason I don't know is every month it's just amazingly growing. Last year, when you talked about it, when you asked the question about vSAN, there was only a few left in my data center. So I deliberately didn't talk a whole lot about it. Now it's taking on like fire, right? It's reflective, it's just, you know, as the reliability increases and the cost value proposition is there, it's taking off. You're talking tens of thousands of VMs and petabytes of data, right? Yeah, multiple petabytes of data. Over 60% of that is growing, the growth mark is really large in the vSAN as well. I got to ask you, the journey for the CIO and the CXOs out there, because now there's multiple CXOs. You've got chief security officer, some say chief economics officer because of cryptocurrency blockchains coming around the corner, which we haven't get to, we got to talk about blockchains. Next year, it's going to be on the wave slides. Because decentralization is all about blockchains. There should be a computing that's already there. They all want to get there, they don't want to screw up. I need the headroom but I don't want to make any moves too early to get over my skis or foreclose an opportunity. So what's the path? Are they getting their house in order with the private cloud? Is that the stepping stone to hybrid cloud? What are some of the day in the life of the CIO right now? Because what we're seeing from the Wikibon data is true private cloud on premise is growing really well. It's not declining in any capacity. That's where the action is right now, more than hybrid cloud. What's the CIO doing? Is that the trend that you see? What's going on in their world? Well, there are three or four things going there. When there's SaaS application, that computer is going with a SaaS vendor. So that is happening a bit. But I see the private cloud growing, right? I don't see it disappearing anywhere and I talk to my other CIOs and say, should I be saying this or is it true or not? And everybody's saying, yeah, it is growing. And so is SaaS and so is public cloud. But a big majority of VMware computers run on a private cloud and so I see it grow. So what the CIOs would look for is I want to run my private cloud efficiently. But I also want to, I don't want to have these large boxes for burst capacity. So I have a Thanksgiving sale or a Christmas sale. I don't want to have boxes sitting doing nothing. Can I take advantage of the public cloud for that? And then cloud ready, even I want to do some experiments with a newer development. Let me try it on the public cloud. My feeling is my stats tells me, and you guys are the experts on it, is if you have a scale at some scale, if you're on a good private cloud, the costs are going to be better for you. That's what my experience tells me. Because some of the things are predictable, like, hey, retail season's here. I can go burst in the cloud for that. And then everything else kind of overflowed to the cloud, auto-scaling. The key is labor. Yeah, it is. You could take labor out. So I just want to share some numbers with you guys. We saw what we call the true private cloud. You're calling private cloud growing at 33% cagger versus the infrastructure as a service for the public cloud growing at 15%. And in the 10-year forecast, we have true private cloud at 230 billion, the infrastructure as a service public cloud at 150 billion. So the biggest market growing the fastest, to your point, SaaS is bigger than both. That's growing really, really fast. But it's the IT labor piece, $150 billion coming out of labor, going into vendor R&D and shifting to analytics and transformation, value-producing things. I think that is the transformation. The transformation's labor is going out, automation is coming in. So I can put that on DevOps or the business kind of transformation projects. That's good to see. That's what intuitively as a practitioner I say, but it's good to have the data. I'm going to go and read it up and see. That makes a lot of sense to me. And Pat Gelsinger actually made a quote in the keynote. I thought this is why I was honed in on that, is that he actually said shifting to value activities. That's analytics. You call it vendor R&D, which is basically a way to fund some of the new projects where the hybrid and public are being operationalized and be predictable to some level. But I totally see that the hybrid cloud is stalled in my opinion. You guys can comment on it. But based on my anecdotal hundreds of shows we go to, it's hyped up beyond all recognition. But it's happening after private cloud is set up because the operating model of the cloud has got to get set up. And it's just a lot. It's just a long for the enterprise. To your point, it's maybe bursting, maybe some DR, but it's not a federated set of federated apps or is it? At least I don't see it that way. I mean, so things should be simple, but not simpler is what they say.  I mean, I made the mistake of saying, let's just outsource it because I don't want to think about it. This is the same thing that we are talking about. Let's just put it all on the cloud. What do you mean? I mean, there are legacy apps. You still have to run at a good cost. You still have to know it. So I'm a little old fashioned that way to say get your house in order and have the options open for bursts and other kinds of things that you want to do. Well digital transformation also has a lot of pressure on top line revenue. So now you can't just put the paint aside and not look at it and put it in the corner. No look, IoT, we talked about this. You're going to have your whole business being censored. That needs a lot of latency and other kind of issues, a lot of data. You need to be better have a good private cloud story for the IoT, right? Not everything can be put on the public cloud to make it happen. You just don't have the latency. I mean, there's a lot of physics though. So like a car is going to be a data center more or less, right? You need to make response in a very short time. Factories have to have responsive systems and robotics. You can go traverse the internet, go get a data from a public cloud, come back to make a decision on robot. So don't ignore it as all I'm saying, do everything, don't ignore it. So the future, let's talk about the future. AI is here, that's also hyped up beyond all recognition. But I love AI because it's got a software aspect to it. Machine learning is super relevant. Blockchain, Pat Gelsinger and his keynote really address, I thought a really clever way to weave this in, decentralization. Obviously we all know what distributed computing is. Centralized databases can be hacked. Distribution and decentralization around blockchain is interesting. So if we're putting our futuristic hats on, what does IT look like in a totally non-controllable, fully instrumented blockchain cryptocurrency market? Is there going to be IT coins? Like an arcade, I want some IT? I think, I mean, it's exciting that the only, the thing with blockchain in enterprise is not the technology, it's our ability to think creatively on it, right? We are not able to envision these kinds of things yet. It'll come in a year. I think it's our, we have to sit down and think about how to take advantage of that. It's pretty exciting. And you know, we still have simple issues on, you know, we know we can't centralize everything. That we've tried for years and years and years, it's gone already. Now I want to decentralize. Perhaps use technology like this to make sure I can still control what I want to control, right? So the thing with blockchain, internally when I talk to people is, don't show me a proof of concept on the technology, I get the tech. What is the use case? So we have to use our brains and I think in six months we will have it. We're just not there yet, completely. Because that's where the disruption vector will be. That's right. So if anyone's doing an IT coin token sale, I'm interested. Yeah, well, next year. I mean, IOT, we talked last time, it looked like vaporware and now you have examples and everybody's doing it. I think blockchain is definitely there. I mean, supply chain can be applied to network packets, as we always say at the edge. Best thanks for coming on theCUBE. Have a great stuff. Good to see you. Cube Coverage Live here in Las Vegas for VMworld 2017. We'll be right back with more coverage after this break. Thank you.


Well, good evening again. I wanna thank you so much for taking the time to begin sort of our Easter celebration with a Good Friday service. My name's John, I'm the campus pastor here in Richland and I'm honored and humbled to be able to share this evening. Pastor Stefan and Portage is speaking there as well. So it's kind of a campus pastor night. And so we're just super honored and excited to start the Easter weekend with you reflecting on the power of the cross and the sacrifice of Jesus. So I was just trying to think through this message and I remembered, and maybe I'm the only one, but I have sometimes the weirdest memories and really the clearest memories from childhood and the random things, like you shouldn't possibly remember, but they're just so clear. And so I was thinking about, I remember the first sort of real memory I have of Good Friday. So I went to Seymour Christian School in Grand Rapids in the corner of Elger in Eastern, shout out to the sailors, Mrs. Bartelsen, my first grade teacher. And I remember hearing, sitting in class and hearing, well, we won't have school this Friday because it's Good Friday. And I was like, that sounds good to me. I mean, I was the youngest of five. And so like I had older siblings who ingrained in me that anytime there's not school, you're supposed to be happy, even though I like school. But I was like, wow, I got to look cool for my brother. So, you know, I was like, yeah, no school on Good Friday. Perfect, sounds good. And I remember Nate Deswannick who lived down the street. He went to a different school and they had school.  And I was like, well, that isn't a Good Friday for you, bro, but I don't have school. And so I remember that, I vividly remember that, but then I remember asking my dad, like, what is Good Friday? Because we ended up having to go to church. And then I was like, wow, it's not as good. We were looking good. And then, no, I'm just kidding. Well, not really. I went to church as a young boy. So he's like, well, we're going to church tonight. It's Good Friday. And I was like, really, why? And I literally am probably seven, eight years old. And he's like, well, it's the day that Jesus died for our sins. And I was like, so why is that good? You know, and why would we call it good if he died? Well, he died. So, you know, and my dad explained it. And I'm not saying he didn't explain it well, but I had a hard time reconciling why we would call it good.  And so I just remember wrestling with that as a young person. But then also remember being pretty, I don't obsess, isn't the word, but I, for whatever reason, really loved Good Friday. I remember singing the songs. I grew up in a Christian reform church.  And were you there when they crucified my Lord? And just as I am, and I just remember singing these songs and anyone who works with me will tell you that I sing a lot and I sing usually like maybe to mostly one phrase of a song for, I don't know how long Kendra, months. Anyway, so I can remember singing those songs too and just being drawn to the Good Friday experience. And then obviously Easter on the tail end of that. And so I was just reflecting on that this week and thinking through like obviously as I grew up and as I matured and as time went by, I was able to reconcile why it's a Good Friday. Why in fact it is good and why it was so crucial that Jesus did what he did. And yet, and so I think that can be even a, and I won't go this direction, but a life lesson for us. Like sometimes we're so quick to label seasons in our lives or situations that we're going through or maybe even people as bad, as unredeem, as this is, this can't be a good thing. But how many of you know sometimes on the other side, sometimes as Romans 828 works its way through your search situation. And God says, look, when you love me and you're called according to my purpose, I work all things together for good. It doesn't mean everything that happens is good, but I'm working it for good and we can get on the other side of those situations and see differently, see more clearly what God is doing and where his plan came to fruition. And obviously 2,000 years removed, that's what we can do with Good Friday. But I just remember as a young person, really not understanding that, and I wanna submit to you, I have 20 minutes to talk about the cross of Christ, which is not gonna be enough time. And so I only wanna highlight a few things, but I wanna start by saying, but I don't believe this was necessarily a Good Friday, the day that it happened for the people involved. I'm not sure, again, that in that moment, they were thinking, you know what, when this is all done today, I'm calling it Good Friday. You guys think, I bet that conversation didn't happen. Again, you have in Matthew 26, it really begins by telling us that the scribes and the chief priests, they were with Caiaphas, the high priests, and they were looking for a way to accuse Jesus, to secretly arrest him, and ultimately to have him killed. So that's all happening in this moment.  That could have been sold, given to poor, there was a better way to spend that.  And what she's done will be communicated for generations to come. It's gonna be captured. And so there's this intense moment. And then maybe not surprisingly, after that Judas agrees to betray Jesus. He's offended maybe, maybe he didn't like being rebuked, maybe he took it personally. But anyways, he went to the religious leaders and offered to betray Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. And then in the midst of all this, Passover is happening.  It's supposed to be like fun and vibrant and fellowship and just this amazing time. But in the midst of that, Jesus begins to talk about the fact that he's going to be turned over to the authorities. That he's going to not only be turned over, he's going to be betrayed. That somebody who's with them is going to be the one who's the catalyst for his death, for his arrest. And he says, one of you is going to betray me. So there's a lot of, I mean, you can read about that. What, who, not me, what, who? And there's a lot of unrest and angst in this moment leading up to the cross. And before we, and so my hope tonight is this, that we can look at the sacrifice of Jesus and what he has done through just maybe not a new lens, but through a renewed lens. I said in my prayer, sometimes it's easy to sort of gloss over what we're reading or sort of get familiar with Good Friday or Easter, and it just kind of becomes a thing. And I'm really praying that God just again, illuminates the beauty, the passion, and the wisdom of his plan of redemption and what it meant for Jesus to do what he did. And so we're going to look at three aspects of the cross, of Good Friday. We're going to look at the weight of the cross, the obedience of the cross and the victory of the cross. But before we do that, I want you to turn to Matthew 26. And my boy, Caden Martinson read this already, which is amazing. We'll read it again. This is, before we get to the cross, we have to begin in the garden. The garden of Gethsemane is really just olive groves. It wasn't, you know, it was an area they had been familiar with. And Jesus goes there to have this intense encounter prayer moment with the Father. That's the extent of why he wants to go. He brings the disciples with him. He wants to have community. He wants to have people close to him. And in Matthew 26, we're going to read from 36 to 46 again. So after everything that I just talked about happened, it says that Jesus went with him, his disciples to a place called Gethsemane. He said to his disciples, sit here while I go over there and pray. And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. And he said to them, my soul is very sorrowful even to death. Remain here and watch with me. And going a little further, he fell on his face. And he prayed saying, Father, if it's possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will. And he came to the disciples and he found them sleeping. And he said, so you could not watch with me one hour. Watch, pray that you would not enter into temptation. Your spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. And again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, my father, if this cannot pass, unless I drink it, your will be done. And again, he came and found them sleeping for their eyes were heavy. So leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words again. Then he came to the disciples. And he said to them, sleep and take your rest later. See the hours at hand and the son of man is betrayed. Into the hand of sinners rise and let us go, my betrayers at hand. This is the precursor to Jesus's moment of scourging, beating and ultimately crucifixion. This is leading up to it. And the first thing I want to just highlight as we talk about the cross is the weight of the cross. And when I say that, I think you can go to like movies, the passion, you know, we hear accounts and it's in the Bible of them getting Joseph, a different Joseph, obviously than his father to carry the cross for him. And you can think it's because it was too heavy or he was too weak, but before he ever has to actually carry the cross, he feels the weight of what is about to happen in this garden moment. And I want to highlight it because I feel like this is so easy to overlook and it's so easy for us to concentrate on the physical beatings, whipping, scourgings, the things that really happen to Jesus that are terrible, but I will submit to you are pailing in comparison to the weight that Jesus ultimately had to carry, which was the cup, which was the wrath of God. And so look at this story.  And he says, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. So when you study that and you see the scholars, it literally was something that almost hit him out of nowhere. Like all of a sudden he's walking, I'm going to go pray. And he has this like intense pain. He has this sorrow to the point where he literally is saying to the disciples, I feel like this is going to kill me. Like I'm sorrowful unto death. Something is happening to me that I've never experienced before and I don't know what to do. And there's this humanity part of Jesus that comes out. The Bible says in Luke and Luke's account that he begins to sweat so profusely that there's drops of blood, which is obviously not common, but medically can happen to people who are in shock or in a stressful enough situation. And there's this weight of the cross that begins to be a reality in Jesus's life that I want us to remember as we reflect on Good Friday. Before he ever carried a cross, before a whip ever was on his back, something literally brought him to a point where he thought he was going to die under the weight of this. And what it was, wasn't a cross, wasn't a whip, wasn't people spitting on him. It was literally the cup that the father was gonna ask him to drink in this moment. The cup of God's wrath towards sin. Jesus wasn't afraid of death.  I'm gonna end up being turned over. My life is going to end. It wasn't that, oh no, I'm actually gonna die. No, this is something so much heavier, so much more unbearable in his life. And look what he says. He says it's a cup that he has to drink. And you can read in Ezekiel and in Isaiah in Ezekiel, it says he's prophesying to the nations. And he said, you'll drink the cup of wrath and you'll tear your chest. There's something almost like it's this formula or this poison that once you drink, it literally is, it destroys you from the inside out. And in that moment, Jesus is feeling and carrying the weight of the wrath of God. Maybe not in its entirety, but certainly in a way they had not felt up until that point. And he's in the garden and he says, I don't know what to do. I'm sorrowful unto death. And so he goes and he lays this before the Lord, but before we even look at the actual cross, I just want you to remember that it was the price Jesus paid where the Father said, I need you to willingly drink this cup. I need you to willingly take this pain, this wrath, this payment for sin so that other people aren't going to have to and Jesus made a decision to do that. And in his heart, he may have been thinking, who am I doing this for? I'm doing it for these guys and they're sleeping. They can't even stay awake. And I'm supposed to believe that God's gonna use these guys to launch, to be the launch pad for the church.  I've never experienced anything like this. I knew what was gonna happen, but now I'm feeling the weight of it.  And so there's the weight of the cross. The second thing that I wanna highlight before we look at the cross is the obedience of the cross. Look what it says. It says he goes to the Father and he says, if there's any way, my Father, if it's possible, let this cup pass from me. Notice he didn't say, if it's possible, I don't really wanna be whipped. I'd rather not be scourged. I don't wanna have to face the Romans. No, he wasn't worried about that. He wasn't feeling that in the moment. It was the cup of the wrath of God towards sin. And he said, look, if there's another way that we can do this, I'm off for it. Is there any other thing? And he prays this, he doesn't hear anything. He goes back to the disciples, they're sleeping. He goes a second time and prays more fervently. God, if you can remove this cup, please remove it from me. And then he comes back, again, the disciples, the people that are supposed to be there for him, his friends, they're sleeping. And he goes to the Bible, says out a third time and he prays the same thing. And it's at that moment that Jesus has to come to a conclusion. Again, let's not forget that Jesus is fully man and fully God. And so he's not hearing the Father say, you don't have to do this. He's not hearing a release. His friends are sleeping. It's dark, he's in a garden. There may have been a part of him that was like, can I Uber out of here and we can figure something else out tomorrow? He had to make a decision. Like, am I gonna really do this? And it was in that moment that we see the radical obedience of Jesus Christ on display. It's a simple sentence, but it is so radically said, nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done. I don't wanna do this. I don't understand. This is harder than I thought it was gonna be. Maybe that's part of the reason Jesus, God revealed some of it to him in that moment. So he would have a taste of it before he was actually on the cross. And he'd have an opportunity to be like, I don't know. Maybe I don't wanna do this. And some of this might have done that with kids or something, you know. If I knew raising kids would be this hard. I don't act, you know, but he has this moment where he can say, do I wanna keep doing this? Is there another way out? And it's the radical obedience. And here's why I use the word radical and not just obedience. Because every time, other time in scripture, God asks someone to do something. What is his promise? I'll be with you. Don't worry, I'll strengthen you through it. Don't worry, if you make the right decision, it is going to be good for you in the end. You might not understand, but I promise I'll be with you.  That's the promise every time somebody steps in obedience, but not for Jesus. God said, if you do this, you'll be crushed. You'll be broken. You'll be forsaken. You'll carry the weight of the whole sin of the world. I can't promise I'll be with you. I can't promise that I can carry you through it.  And Jesus says, nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done radical obedience of the cross. And I think this is an incredible formula for how we should pray. As believers, 2,000 years from now, notice Jesus isn't trying to put on a good face. He's not masking what's going on. He's not trying to get a stiff upper lip. Okay, God, I'm ready. Whatever you got, I'm good. Let's do it. No, he's pouring his heart out before God. He doesn't understand. Psalm 62 says this, pour your heart out before the Lord for he can be trusted. There's a vulnerability and a transparency that we see in Jesus that I think is so beautiful. And it's such an example for us in the place of prayer. When you pray, when you seek God, you don't have to put on a happy face all the time. You don't have to just go through the motions. You don't have to become all super religious, be open and vulnerable with God. That's what Jesus did. If you can take this cup from me, do it. If there's another way, do it. I don't understand. This is hard. I'm sorrowful unto death. But at the moment where you have to make a decision, am I gonna trust God or am I gonna trust my feelings? Am I gonna trust the Father or am I gonna trust my circumstances?  And the place of prayer is not so that we can bend God's will to match ours. It's the place where we surrender our will to match God's. That's what happens in the place of prayer. And that's how Jesus modeled it in that moment. When everything was on the line, none of us will face a situation even remotely close to what Jesus had to do. But he said, not my will, but yours be done. And that's where Paul in Philippians 3-10 said, I want to know you, speaking of Jesus, and the power of your resurrection. And everybody in the church is like, yes, up from the grave, resurrection power. And he says, and I want to fellowship with you in your suffering. And we're all like, wait, what? No, no, not the rest of the verse. It's just kind of, suffering is part of the Christian's life. It's not something we avoid because we're Christians. Jesus didn't suffer so that we would never have to. Jesus suffered and overcame so that when we suffer, we also can overcome because he is our overcomer. That's what it looks like. Jesus said, in this world, yeah, you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, take heart. Why? Because I've overcome the world. The Christian is not someone who's stronger in and of themselves, who has enough inner fortitude and enough willpower to make it through. No, Jesus set the example and he suffered in a way where he surrendered to God so that when we suffer, we know God will never leave us. He was forsaken so that we'll never have to be. He carried the weight of our sin, so we wouldn't have to. And he went to the Father for us so that when God sees you and sees me, it's through the lens of the shed blood of Jesus. There is the weight of the cross. There is the obedience of the cross. It's how we pray. God, not my will but yours, be done.  And finally, and gloriously, we see the victory of the cross. So I don't have time to go through, again, all of the physical ramifications of crucifixion. You can read that, I would encourage you to. But we know that he was brought before Pilate. He was sentenced to 40 lashes. He had a crown of thorns pushed on to his head. He had a purple robe that was put on him as he was beaten, mocked, spit on. People saying, prophesy, who hit you?  Why don't you do something about it? And as a lamb is silent before the shear, it's the son of God who's silent before his accusers. And it was brutal in the natural as well. But we get to the moment where he's put on the cross in Matthew 27, verse 45. And it's the final, the culmination. And it says, now from the sixth hour, there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. The minor prophets speak of that. And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice saying, Eli, Eli lemma sabachtina. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? I mean, just the most powerful words. Listen, all the scholars believe that this really did take place. Like he really said that because if he didn't, you would never include it. If you were trying to market a religion, if you were trying to promote a movement, you wouldn't have the leader of it in a vulnerable position like this, saying, I've been forsaken, I have no hope. This is too terrible for me. You just wouldn't do that. And notice Jesus didn't say, my head, my head from the crowns or my hands, my hands, that they hurt from these nails. No, the whole time his heart was fixed on the fact that he had had eternal relationship with God the Father, eternal intimacy. And he knows it's about to be broken. He knows it's about to be severed. And he's praying Psalm 22. And some of the bystanders hearing it said, this man is calling Elijah. And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine and put it on a read and gave it to him to drink. But he wouldn't. And I think it's important to just realize. Somebody I read a commentary mentioned that many of the people who were martyred for their Christian faith seem to have handled it better than Jesus. You look at Polycarp, he was the Bishop of Smyrna. He was a disciple of John. He was put in a den of lions and eaten and killed publicly. And he said, I would never renounce Christ. I've served him for this long. And then William Tyndale who translated the Bible was burned at the stake. And the people burning him could hear him say, I believe we're lighting a fire so bright it shall never be dim for Christ. And there's just this like peace and power and security in these moments. And Stephen in Acts chapter six as he stoned is looking up and seeing why would it seemingly be harder for Jesus because nobody had to bear the weight that Jesus had to bear. Nobody had to drink the cup that Jesus had to drink. Nobody had to pay the price that Jesus had to pay. And so in this moment he realizes I'm the God, the Father that I've known for eternity is gonna have to turn his back on me. And he says, why have you forsaken me? And it says, Jesus cried out again. Again, we can read cried out and we think, oh, like literally it means to shriek or to scream in this moment. And it says with a loud voice, it is finished. He yielded up his spirit. And so Jesus died and instantly listened. Behold, the curtain of the temple was torn into from top to bottom. The victory of the cross is yes, Jesus paid the price for our sins. Yes, Jesus took the cup and drank it for us. But the result is this, that the veil, the veil was a literally separated the holy place from the holy of holies in the temple. And the priest could only go in there once a year. It's where the Ark of the Covenant, the presence of God was and it separated God's people Israel from the presence of God. Like they couldn't see it, they would die. It was inaccessible. And at that moment, the one time Jesus said, it is finished and yield to the spirit. It's tore from top to bottom. And when I say a veil, it's not like a cheap curtain. It was like four inches thick and it was 50 feet high and it was torn only the way God could tear it from top to bottom. And it signified that in that moment, the new covenant had begun the sins and the things that had kept us from accessing the presence of God were removed because of the price Jesus paid. And now we can have intimacy with the Father. That's why it's a good Friday. It's because we can know Jesus. We can know God. Our sins are forgiven. We're not defined by our past anymore. God doesn't look at us and see our insecurities, our failure, our sins. The veil's been torn and now we have access to the righteousness of God. And so was it a good Friday? I'd say this, on that day it wasn't good for the disciples. They lost their teacher and they lost their friend. It wasn't a good Friday for Jesus. He was beaten and scourged, nailed to a cross. It wasn't even a good day for Jesus as accusers. They put to death an innocent man. You know who it was a good day for? Barabbas, a guilty, convicted lawbreaker who was released and set free because Jesus took his place. That's what good Fridays are about. I'm a Barabbas.  Our sins put Jesus on that cross and his love kept him there. His love for you, his love for me, his love for Barabbas, his love for the lost, his love for the Muslim, the pagan, the homosexual. Whoever it is, Jesus said, I will pay the price. And now we look back 2,000 years and we say there's never been a better Friday. When you stand with me, I want us to take communion together and I want us to just be able to reflect on the price Jesus paid for you. Not just in general, not just really bad people, not just the Adolf Hitler's and the people who deserve, but for your sins. Sometimes it's so easy to forget that we were saved from darkness. We were saved from being eternally separated from the God who loves us. That Jesus paid the price for your sins. And just as 2,000 years ago, Jesus instituted communion, the Lord's Supper with his disciples. He said, I want you to do this every time that you remember the sacrifice that I made, that you remember the price that was paid. So we're gonna do that together as a church family. And we're gonna reflect on who Jesus is and what he has done. And so I would invite you to take the bread first. The Bible reminds us that on the night Jesus was betrayed, he took bread and he broke it after giving thanks. And he told his disciples, this is my body and it's broken for you. They didn't probably understand, they didn't know what was going to take place, but we know now, looking back, that the broken body of Jesus was so that we could walk in wholeness, so that we could be redeemed and that we could have relationship with him. And so as we take the bread together, reflect on the price that Jesus paid. The same way it says Jesus took a cup and he poured wine into it. And he said, this signifies my blood, which was shed for the complete redemption of all of your sins. And I wanna remind us that there is no chain that the blood of Jesus can't break. There is no sin that's greater than the blood of Jesus Christ. There's no amount of time that can go by. There's no amount of mistakes you can make that is greater than the shed blood of Jesus Christ. And maybe you're here and you need to recommit, you need to re-remember who you are and why Jesus did what he did. And today is the time to do that. The voice of the enemy will say, it's been too long, you've gone too far, it won't work for you. I'm telling you, your savior Jesus spilled his blood and said, it speaks a better word. It speaks a stronger word. It speaks the truth over you, your family, and for generations to come. The blood of Jesus is the reason we have relationship with our Father and our sins are no more as far as the East is from the West. Let's take the cup together. And Father, as we prepare to worship, as we prepare to seal this time and this moment, as we prepare our hearts to look to resurrection, we do it with gratitude, God. Regardless of what we're facing, regardless of what might be happening, we have reason to be thankful and it is the blood of Jesus Christ, the broken body of our Savior, King. And so we celebrate you, we sing to you, we worship you, and as we do, we thank you that your spirit feels not just this place, not just the rooms where we're joining, but God, it fills our hearts. And so we invite you, Holy Spirit of God, fill us right now in Jesus' name.


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The truth about women is that you can treat them however you want as long as you don't bore them Women hate boring men. Why?  Why do you children love abusive parents?  It's based upon feeling as soon as you become boring You're disposable Means that means not worth much to them. That's why women love artists so much artists are literally just engines of feeling That's right with rock star example yet Robert plant happy woman has he slept with his life And I'm not saying that's the ideal to follow truly but how he went pray thousands This he's up there on a stage and he's singing and everybody's emotions and all their All those neurological cycles are just firing on all cylinders And he's making people feel something and women will chase after that because again, it's that felt experience femininity is complementary to a man being be nothing like a woman and you'll start to understand them Don't ever feel like I'm just re I'm rehashing things where I've been said by men better than me, but Relating to women doesn't make them want you nor like you. You always want to create contrast Goes back to feeling state Polarity provides experience sameness is sameness is familiarity is comfort is contempt That's not the route you ever want to take So this is Roberto Bolle. I'm a ballet dancer. He's probably one the best in the world People always ask me like, why would you do ballet? That's not like that.  I'm like Look at me and tell me what you think.  It is beauty is Beauty and that's all it is. It's not about necessarily in the story It's not about well, it's range of motions is that you can watch woman at the absolute peak of femininity and she moves in this pure Refinement and pure grace and ballet you are chasing a perfect ideal You will never reach it and every person that doesn't knows that I saw it for the first time and the girls were stunningly beautiful And the ratio was about a hundred women to one heterosexual guy. I'm like, I like my odds here. I like my odds So I got into ballet and then the the funny thing is in ballet. It's female-dominated Patriarchies is built into ballet because all the great choreographers and men and all the ballets that girls have to do They all want to be princesses. They all want to play the role of damsel in the stress and every single ballet that you'll ever do Where you're partnering it looks like this.  Who's leading the situation is it her? Him It's always like this. It's always like this and there's always that rapturous moment when she's literally in your arms and that's what women want It's the man that leads Artist lover so I've been hanging on this Women love artists because they'll see aspects and parts of woman that she herself cannot see and are unknown to her So there's this female fantasy so to speak


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فشرف بل اشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا بدا بدا وياله من شراف عظيمي سأذهب إلى الكتاب با ابن حزم رحمة الله مراتب الإجماع لكأ الشفاء بقاضع عياذ سأذهب إلى الكتاب اللي قناع با ابن قطان و ستجد إجماع ليس سكوتي لن يوجد ايضا إجماع سكوتي is one person say something and the rest are quiet about it is to call the silence consents because they look at him and they don't say anything they don't oppose him the fact that they're silent they say that this silence is a form of acceptance so they've all agreed on this because if they didn't agree they would have spoke against it no, no, no, no this one is that I mean everybody's clearly stated that the Prophet is the last one every single person generations after generations they all transmitted to each other that نبي الله محمد is the final Prophet based on the آية I'm based on this حديث which is Mutawat it's Mutawat so it's an إجماع which is قطعي the آية we have an آية we have a حديث which is Mutawat and we have إجماع قطعي those three has solidified for us that this is not something we can't discuss we can't open discussion based on it we can't open discussion based on it وخاتم محمد بلغة رسالة ربه نبي الله محمد can be the message that was upon him ونصح لخلقي and he was sincere in his advice to his creation ولم يموت and he did not die حتى بينا للناس يديناهم until he clarified the religion to the people that's when he died when he died he conveyed everything that was on him in other words اليوم أكملت لكم دينكم وأتممت عليكم نعمتي وراضيت لكم الإسلام دينها today your religion has been complete on you the blessing has been established on to you and Allah has become complete for Islam to be your religion and the Prophet ﷺ has said in the Hadith which عمر بن العاص narrator which is صحيح مسلم عمر بن العاص it's صحيح مسلم إنه لم يكن نبي قبل there was no prophet before me إلا كان حقا عليه أن يدل أمته على خير ما يعلمه له there was no prophet before me except it was obligatory on him to convey to his people any good that he knows for them وَيُدِرَهُمْ and to also warn them of every evil that he knows that's out there وَيُدِرَهُمْ شَرَّ مَا يَعْلَمُهُ لَهُمْ so the prophet is saying every prophet that was his job our job is to come out and say this is good do it for us until we do that and we tell you every single good there is and then we tell you to come with it and we tell you to stay away from every evil and that is what the scholars they say the scholars they say the prophet explained the evil even in his intrinsic in details what was he saying and this is exactly what the prophet did when he climbed the Utum من أطام المدينة and he said when he climbed the big building he said I can see the fitna going into your households the way the way when the rain where it drops I see all of it the prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام he warned and he conveyed everything that was upon him ولي ذلك العلمة ابن حزم so I brought you an ayah from the Quran اليوم اكملت لكم also the hadith which is the Sahih Muslim من حديث عمر بالعاص also اجماع that the prophet conveyed everything من حزم انسكتها مراتي بالجماعة he says اتفقوا they will unanimously agree upon it and now منذ مات النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فقد انقطع الوحي وكامول الدين واستقرأ he said they agreed علماء have agreed that when since the process of cinema died the revelation is over now a mystic Sufi can come up to you and say to you قاولا يا الله is talking to me يا or says which they always do حدثنا فلانا عن فلانا حدثني قلبي عال ربي I got the shorter chain my heart told me from Allah لا لا انقطع الوحي this is kufra and ridda the person who is talking to you is قلبي عال شيطاني is not قلبي عال ربي الله is not the one talking to you it is shaitan who is sending revelation onto you so so revelation is over this is اجمع also the religion is complete since the revelation is over the religion is complete this is a unanimous agreement Ibn Hazm is saying so if the religion is over and it's complete what is this that you're trying to bring into the religion if the religion is complete if that day when the ayah came down and it's saying to us oh people this is what I'm pleased with where does yours come in الله is saying this is what I'm pleased with this is the blessing that Allah was talking about that day يوم عرفة the day of Arafah when the ayah came down which is the 9th of Dhul-Hijja the day before عيد الأطحة where does Moli the neighborhood or the celebration of Islam where does it fall into this مهم very important in this question also أبو سحق الشاطبي in his Kitab Al-A'it Al-Sami he says واتبت أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم لم يموت حتى أتى ببيان جميع ما يحتاجوا إليه في أمر في أمر الدين والدنيا the prophet did not die except he clarified everything worldly or religiously affairs the religious and worldly affairs وهذا and this is لا مخالف علي من أهل السنة this is an issue أهل السنة haven't differed on two people transmitted اجمع for you so it's very important that one keeps this in mind the prophet عليه الصلاة و سلم conveyed everything نعم then the sheikh goes on to say ولا يؤمن أحد one is not a believer حتى يحبه صلى الله عليه وسلم أشد من محبتي للأبي والإبني والنفسي وغير ذلك that one is not a believer until what until he loves the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم more than his own children more than his own parents more than yourself and more than anything you love him more عليه الصلاة و سلم and this is what it's from the حديث صحي مصر من حديث أليس من المعلي لا يؤمن أحدكم حتى أكون أحب إليه من ولديه وواليده والناس أجمعين that you're not a true believer until I become more beloved to you than your child than your parents and to every single person out there everyone including yourself و لذلك عمر he came to the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم عمر came to the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم حديث صحي البخاري that he said يا رسول الله لأنت أحب إليه من كل شيء you are more beloved to me than anybody you are more beloved to me than anyone إلا من نفسي except myself فقال له النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم the prophet said to him لا no عمر والذي نفسي بيدي I swear by the Lord in which my soul is in his hand حتى أكون أحب إليك من نفسك until I become more beloved to you than your own self فقال له عمر then عمر responded by saying فإنه الان right now I love you more now I love you more لأنت you are أحب إليه من نفسي you are more beloved to me now than myself فقال له النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم the prophet said to him الان يا عمر now you have this is the iman this is the iman and my beloved brothers and sisters the loving of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم necessitates ومحبت صلى الله عليه وسلم the loving of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم necessitates what that you obey him you follow him you stay away from that which he prohibited you from عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم the person who claims تعصيل إله وأن تتزعن وحبه هذا العمر كيف القياس الشنير لو كان حبك صادقة لا أطعته إن المحبة لما يحب مطيع you disobey Allah and his messenger and then you claim their love والله that's something that the mind cannot digest really the one who loves one he what if you love somebody then what would you do you obey them you obey them if you love somebody and there's love of yours or love for them is in you you will see that you will listen to them you will follow them you will mimic them and imitate and act the way they do right so when you say I love Allah and his messenger but then your limbs are not doing it then there's deficiency in this heart in this love of yours there's a deficiency here now there's a deficiency in it so وقد خصه صلى الله عليه وسلم بالمقاب المحمود another thing that the sheikh mentions which is Allah specify the prophet with the stage the praiseworthy station المقاب المحمود this is the station that the prophet peace be upon him wanted والشفاعة لأهل المحشر and also the prophet peace be upon him he specified sorry الله تعالى specified him with what والشفاعة لأهل المحشر in the intercession for the people of the day of judgment for what ليخلص من ضيق المحشر ويشرع في فصل القضاء the prophet peace be upon him is going to do more than one intercession the first one is oh Allah judge between your creation this one the first one the disbelievers and the believers all enter it because ya Rabb judge between this creation just even the disbeliever الحمد لله the evidence for the مقاب المحمود is what يبعثك ربك مقاب المحمود صورة الإسراء 79 الله تعالى will resurrect you the station of مقاب المحمود the praiseworthy station what is the مقاب المحمود what is it the مقاب المحمود is the intercession of the prophet peace be upon him for the sinners from his nation وهذا قول جبور أهلي لأن this is the view of the majority of the scholars from the Salaf and the Khalaf and their view is strengthened by the hadith of أبوه ريرا الله تعالى عنه which is in what which is in ترميلي and Ahmad narrated in his Muslim and Sheikh Nasr authenticated and also said so does الإمام مقب المحمود الواجعي in this Kitab الشفاعة he also strengthens it which is the prophet peace be upon him when he recited the آية عسان يبعثك ربك بقام المحمودة هيسن هو المقام الذي أشفع لأمتي فيه it is the station where I will intercede for my people and also the likes of it was narrated from بسعيد الخدري which is in ترميلي مرفوع الإمام مقبل also classified to be حسن and also كعبي من عجرة narrated as well so three campaigns that narrated it أبوه ريرا narrated it بسعيد الخدر ورجرا narrated it مسلد أحمد ألباني authenticated إنه سلسل أحديث الصحيحة exactly paid the fifth volume paid 400 something something that you find it نعم so وأسعد الناس بشفاعته who is the one that is going to be the most happiest for the intercession of the prophet peace be upon him من قال لا إله إلا الله the one who says لا إله إلا الله خالصا من قلبه سنسأله from his heart يستدق قلبه وليسانه قلبه الشيخ says that his heart إبقصه it's limb and the limb is back up their heart they are intact and they are working together that's the person who is going to enjoy the شفاعة and the intercession of the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام the most that is the person who is going to then the sheikh says وعلامة محبتك له صلى الله عليه وسلم شيدة حرصك على طاعته فيما بلغه عن ربي عز وجل and to sign the sign of your love for him صلى الله عليه وسلم is the excessive how much you strive in obeying him عليه الصلاة والسلام in everything which he conveyed to you from your Lord الله تعالى then the sheikh says والإيمان and also to believe in what بقدر الله which Allah destined for you you believe this is now the sixth pillar of الإيمان the sixth article of faith والإيمان which you believe in بقدر الله that which Allah has destined for you believe it what does he mean believe in it you believe الله تعالى had destined this to take place for you you believe it إيمان which is الجز عقد which is جازم this decision in your heart is strong he is the one who did this for me سبحانه وتعالى he did it سبحانه وتعالى you believe it فقد قدر الله كل ما هو كائنون because Allah destined everything is going to take place Allah destined it what's the evidence for that صورة القامر آية 49 الله says إنه كل شيء خلقناه بقدر everything we created it on a destiny قدر time for it so believing it يحتاج from you that you surrender to it that you surrender and that you get rid of doubting it doubting it but one of the arguments of these atheists is that this is something they adopted previously from the Greek logicians which is what if God existed why is evil taking place and this is a شبهة is a شبهة it is a doubt that is weaker than the web of the mosquito or the spider nothing it's easy to respond to it إن شاء الله when we do our series of atheism there's shubu hat and answering it we will do there إن شاء الله because Allah everything he has done he has done it with wisdom how many times have people thought this thing was bad for them but it turned out to be good for them how many times have you thought this is bad this is it it's the evil it hit me it can't get worse but it turned out to be what it turned out to be it turned out to be a good thing for you وذلك صحيح مسلم من حديثي عبد الله he had the prophet كل شيء بقدر الله everything is with what is with the qadr of Allah حتى الكيس والعجز even the laziness and everything the ability to do something and to go forward it's all from Allah وذلك كعب وبيبن كعب the prophetﷺ said لو كان لك مثل جبل أحود in دهبة if you have the prophet said the mountain of أحود of gold and then you go and you give it out for the sake of Allah ما قبيله الله منك الله will never accept that from Allah منك الله will never accept that from you حتى تؤمن بالقدر until you believe in the qadr or ka'ab وتعلم أن that you know أنما أصابك ذلك which has afflicted you لم يكن ليخطئك it wasn't meant to miss you وأنما أخطئك أن that which missed you لم يكن ليخطئك it wasn't meant to happen for you وإن متة and if you die upon other than that وإن متة على غير هذا دخلت الناري and entered the whole fire إما ما أحملنا ريتر in أبو داود this is what it is this is the essence of it that everything that happens to you happens to you because it was meant to happen to you and everything that wasn't meant to happen to you and that you strove for and it never happened it was never meant to happen قدر الله قدر الله it's in his hand و الله the nation who are most depressed is those who place everything in their own hands and say I am the one who's going to run everything the fact that you can give something to Allah which is already his and you say Allah is the one who's going to control this it takes that stress of you it takes that panicking of you and then when you surrender your heart becomes even more at ease so believe me in the قدر is of your benefit it's of your it's of your benefit ثم بيانا لعباده ما يقربهم إليه و ما يبعيدهم عنه then Allah He clarified that which will get them closer to him and that which will distance them from him Allah clarified everything that will get us closer to him and He also told us every single thing that will distance us from him سورة النساء 176 Allah says يبين الله لكم Allah clarifies for you and makes it clear for you أنتظلوا to be misguided والله بكل شيء علم Allah clarifies everything for you so you don't become misguided He does that for you He hasn't left you in the dark and just said you know what you managed to come to the conclusion yourself get to the answers for your own self you were guided and you were told everything which you need to do كما أرشدم بعقولهم إليه ما ينفعهم في دنياهم و ما يضرهم فيها the same way Allah guided them intellectually to that which will benefit them in their dunya and that which harm them Allah gave you a brain you won't throw yourself into a fire you know it burns and you know it hurts if you go into it who gave you that mind to know that no one's ever given you a class that the fire burns and it doesn't but you know that he gave you that عقل and that brain for you to know what can benefit you and what can harm you he's given that to you this is an intrinsic innate ability سبحانه وتعالى و لذلك currently now that I'm doing linguistics I'm studying linguistics one of the things they speak about is the theories of language and how language is gave right سعيد would know he's studying it one of the strongest arguments all these strongest arguments is language is innate ability but that's why they use the term acquire language and they don't use the word learn language so the acquiring of language meaning the speaking is nothing that a child has to go to school for all you do is you find that the child is speaking whereas the writing and the reading and the huh the child actually requires what who's placed that in him هَدَ وَحْدَهُ يَدُلُ عَلَشَيْ that itself shows something all you know is that all you know is you find out is your child is actually speaking to you now it's conversing with you he understands what you're telling him he knows his name from all the names that are out there he knows this is his name this is what it's an innate ability that's built inside الله plays a chip in the brain of the human to know to speak know you can have a parrot for the rest of your life it will not be able to speak except that which you taught it the child or lie I see in my own children they follow the English grammar in words they've never had they'll apply it that's the power they will try to apply this is the thing that no parrot can ever do the parrot will only say what you taught him children will get a new word and they'll try to add the E-D to the end of that word even if it's not a word that can use an E-D like for example my kids try to say he ate instead of he ate but how do they know that the E-D shows the fastest I've never taught them that this is innate ability they've learned the pattern of the language doesn't make sense Noam Chomsky tries to say that the language is a universal universal grammar which every language there's one common thread that runs between all of them the point is that the child knows who's done this هل يدلوا على صانع it shows a creator خالف that created them على كل حال الله has given that a brain this عقل that benefits them in their worldly affairs my child's born today if I try to get close to a fire he'll start crying try it on your daughter the minute she feels the heat she'll cry and she wouldn't like it no one's ever told that a fire can burn he's never taken school on that so this is what that which benefits them and that which harms them ثم جعلهم من التمكين والاستطاعات يجعل and then Allah also placed in them to be ممكن on this earth and the ability he gave to them he gave you ability you're able to do this he didn't take physical ability away from you سبحانه وتعالى فالإنسان المتمكين المستطيع أن يؤمن ويكفر الله gave you as a human that the ability the strength to believe of the strength to disbelieve he gave that to you but he also gave you the brain to know what's good for you what's bad for you and he also gave you the ability to obey or to disobey and he also gave you the ability to strive to that which benefits you and to ability to strive to that which doesn't benefit he's given you ability to all of that فمن اختار الخير because he's given you the ability he's gonna question you for the ability this is something he gave you سبحانه وتعالى فمن اختار الخير if you then choose the good with the ability he gave you فو سعيد الوفق you'll be happy and you're gonna gain prosperity in his life ومن اختار الشراء فو الشقي الموبق اما الموبق ومن اختار الشراء فو الشقي الموبق if you take the evil then you're a destroyed evil individual ومن قدر الله عز وجل هذا وهذا وقد قدر الله عز وجل هذا وهذا وله الحجة البالغة على هذا وهذا الله قدر هذا the good and the evil الله قدر the good and الله قدر the evil الله اتبارك وتعالى له الحجة he has a proof there's a wisdom there's a great noble high vast ability in that which he has done and that which he has left behind so what's the sheikh talking about sheikh is talking about a concept here which is very important which is the concept considered as خلق افعال العباد the actions of the creation is created you know what I mean the sheikh mentions sometimes that we need to we need to become familiar with which is the issue of the تمكين تمكين here means it means هو القدر ability والاختيار and the choosing you have the ability to choose you have strength he's giving strength to you right now you have strength and he's also giving you the choice to choose the actions that you want to choose وان العباد فاعلون حقيق and that you are literally one that's going to do something والله خالق افعال him and Allah is the one who created your actions but the slave has what his ability in your actions and you have a will in your actions and Allah is the one who created your ability and Allah is the one who created your your will they create the word موبخ it means as I said before الهالك the destroyed one because of his sins as Allah سبحانه وتعالى mentions وقول للحق وقول للحق من ربك فمن شاء فاليؤمن ومن شاء فاليكفر إن أعتدنا للظالمين النارن أحاط بهم سراتقها say to them Muhammad the truth is from your Lord anyone of you who wants to believe go believe anyone of you who wants to disbelieve then disbelieve but remember I prepared a severe punishment for those who go against كبانة الله so here is that concept and I insha'Allah أتعالى hope to go through this concept of خلق أفعال العباد more in details more explanation in the book of أمام البخاري خلق أفعال العباد it's better that we leave that topic for there insha'Allah there are other more points that we can mention but for today insha'Allah we'll conclude there insha'Allah anything which I have said that was wrong فإنه من ومن الشيطان والله ورسوله بريان منه وحمدك أشهد أن لا إلهي لله أستغفرك وأتوب إليه


Peter suggests in his review of the quest three that all of this is the makings of 2023 being the year of VR. Once I tried it and I got that killer app for me, supernatural exercise app. I was like, Oh, this is fun. This is awesome. I can't do this another way. Anywhere else I'm in, I think next year's make or break. Apple's either gonna, with all of its developer work that it's doing right now, find a couple of those apps like you're talking about that just make this sing and make everybody go, well, I don't want it for $3,500, but for a cheaper version or a lighter weight and cheaper version, I'll do that. Then we're on the road. That's what Apple does. They have very expensive first gen stuff that doesn't do all the things, but it makes people want the next version. If that happens, then we're on the road and VR will take off the way tablets and phones and everything else has.


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omposition and performing with the piece So I was developing codes physical instruments sonic textures and also a movement language step by step Yes a combination of gesture and live coding the gestures are measured with accelerometers that I wear on the wrists and then I have like five buttons on my hands as well and During the performance. I'm alternating between Moving and controlling the sound and live coding to change the relationships between movement and the sound Yeah, so one of the concepts when I was with this work I was also yeah, this also led me to think a lot about okay. What is this relationship? Yeah between performance building an instrument composition and I'm one of the the concepts that I came across from a sort of interdisciplinary Improvisation was this idea of instant composition Combines the notion of working from the moment instantaneous creation with the intention to build something composing a piece with an audience presence That means that for us Improvisation principles are always connected with both the question of freedom and the question of structure And I think in that live coding is quite unique Because with most improvisation the intended structure is not apparent until it unfolds because it stays in the heads of the The performers but with live coding we can actually as an audience read the code When it's projected we can actually read the the intended structure before it unfolds and And but then also the life-coder may decide to change to change it before it is unfolding So in a sense Life-coded code is a folded structure that will unfold as it is executing and its output becomes experiential Yeah, but we may at any point intervening Unfolding and change the course just gonna see if this helps, let's see So we are continuously creating and displaying possible futures There was an alternative one, maybe I will check that one seems to have done something hopefully No, okay. It's quite fitting. It's at this moment So the life-coder is continuously creating and displaying possible futures of the performance and creating alternative Futures at the risk of crashing in the moment And I think that's also what life makes life coding unique the expectations of where the Performance may go or made explicit to the audience by projecting the structure Yes, so for the last part of this this presentation I want to go back to the top left manifesto So maybe a quick question. Who has read this top left manifesto? So that's quite a few and who has been involved in writing it Okay, I see one sort of Finger there, okay So I try and unpack it a little bit and I will see if I can get back Projection take this one out. So I have to click through a little bit So I want to unpack the Yeah reevaluate this manifesto there we are So it started with a lot of demands so And I'll try to perform this give us access to the performer's mind to the whole human instrument Obscuretism is dangerous show us your screens Programs are instruments that can change themselves. The program is true to be transcended artificial language is the way Code should be seen as well as heard underlying algorithms viewed as well as their visual outcome Life coding is not about tools Algorithms are thoughts change us our tools. That's why algorithms are sometimes harder to notice than chainsaws So just just to contextualize this this a little bit. This was in the era where Actually laptops were just about becoming affordable to two artists. I would say So a lot of people were annoyed by seeing a performer with just a laptop on stage And this was seen as quite boring. So there were basically two reactions to that I think one was artists started to explore how to get away from from from the laptop and and create alternative Instruments with sensors and stuff and one of that was the the life coders who Yeah, I wanted to show Yeah, what's actually happening on that computer are they reading email or are they actually doing something that relates to what we're hearing I Also sense that there is there is a Demand for democratization and also empowerment through transparency Then the second phase it starts to to Get a bit more nuanced So it says we recognize continuance of interaction and profundity but prefer insights to algorithms the skillful Extemporization of algorithm as an expressive impressive display of mental dexterity. No backup and I think the The first media for backup show a little bit the time when this was written Who still has a mini-disc player? Who still knows what a mini-disc player is? Okay, that's a little bit more Um So this is also this reaction I think Yeah, this physical performance versus mental dexterity and also emphasizing that there should be risk in performance Then the last part gets even more nuanced So it is not necessary for a lay audience to understand code to appreciate it Much as as it is not necessary to know how to play a guitar in order to appreciate watching a guitar poor performance So this was also a reaction to two people say like yeah, why project the code? No one understands it code is difficult, etc. Etc. So I Think that part is definitely a reaction to that And that's a life coding may be accompanied by an impressive display of manual Dexterity and the glorification of the typing interface Um Performance involves continuous of interaction covering perhaps the scope of controls with respect to to the parameter space of the artwork Or gestural content particularly Directness of expressive detail whilst the traditional haptic rate-timing deviations of Expressivity and instrumental music are not approximated in code. Why repeat the past? No doubt the writing of code and expression of thought will develop its own nuances and customs so again, that's that sort of yeah stressing this this Tension between the body-based performative the expresses expressiveness and virtuosity for versus the sort of mental Yeah, the human mind displaying that So Yes, this is the third life-coding performance that I made It's in a way also an example of this Manual dexterity and the glorification of the typing interface by actually looking for a different typing interface the 100th keyboard And actually first I had this idea of using this this keyboard in a performance and then I read okay I first need to learn how to write code on this So we created this environment to learn typing with it And then I had this idea. Okay, so we need a to this for life coding for coding So that's hence the title So I started looking for scripts from other life-coders that I could re-perform So I could learn how to to perform their pieces. I only found one freely available online from Frederick Odofsen from a performance in 2007. So that's the one I've been practicing And then Yeah, that also raised some questions for me like is it life-coding when I'm re-performing this code from 2007 like 12 years ago But also like because there is this this moment in this performance where The code that is executed is not doing what what Frederick was expecting and then he starts searching Yeah, what he's doing. Yeah, where the bug is and then he tries to fix it and When I am re-performing this this this script I'm also wondering. Should I just do it, right? Or should I re-perform these mistakes like what what should I do? But I found it really interesting actually too because I could really by by going through the script in this this very close way I could really sort of follow his his thinking pattern Okay, I'm gonna Drink a little sip of tea because now we're getting to the more Sweet discuss the old manifesto So we're getting slowly towards the political part of this Keynote. Yeah, so we're all dancing in the Algorave So, yeah, if you write Manifesto's it becomes political and I think as as when you give a keynote You should transcend the practice a little bit So I think one of the messages or maybe the message of live coding is that you can develop and create your own Algorithms, everybody can learn to code. So I think that's a very important message Also shows that algorithms are mutable volatile and fallible And below our everyday fancy GUIs there is code written by humans And that we do not need to take this code and the algorithms implemented in them for granted So we can control the systems that are creating our life that are controlling our lives and Yeah, code is controlling many many parts of our life And we should demand transparency and openness and oppose this technocratic dogma that only experts can cause because anyone can and Also, the there's this dogma that's the algorithms makes no mistakes. That's true humans do And that machines are intelligence and I think that's one thing they are definitely not they are just following instructions So in a sense we are living nowadays in sort of an algorithmic society Because yeah, it's it's shaped very much by the machines that we have created like information technology is now playing such a crucial day in our everyday life How our lives are regulated what advertisements we see the media that we read How we get our information everything is controlled by by algorithms these days and Data has become one of the most important currencies on which businesses strive and yeah companies use algorithms to analyze Data usually selling selling of stuff, but also policing of stuff there's a lot happening in that era and Also, if you think a little bit further than it then you could also understand the bureaucratic systems That that's many societies have As sort of machines that are executing Rules and regulations that's Polish politicians create so I guess in a sense you can actually see politics as a very slow methods of live coding But as every rule is negotiated But it is a sort of changing code in a running running system all the time And where this in particular comes dangerous because the information technology Is starting to become more and more a part of these bureaucratic systems So whereas like a bureaucrat still Can look at this at a case and say like yeah, okay the intent of the law What's this? So so it's okay When it's implemented in a computer often It's done in a way that you can't really make these nudging of the rules and you can't look at the intent But you are only faced with the outcome of applying the role So often you have to excuse like well computers is no it's not possible And that's also what the judges in in court like when it gets that far often their role is to check like it's is The outcome of applying the rules is that's actually accorded according to the intent of why the law was made And I think as life-coders we have a very important role and that we actually show and Make clear to an audience that the intent of coding something Does not always coincide with the outcome. So where do we go life coding beyond the screen? First I have some suggestions For Our everyday practice so one is alternate keyboards. Let's explore other types of keyboards because this one is getting a bit old Let's deconstruct a laptop Let's see Let's look at programming languages beyond text. I think we saw a very nice example The performance during the lunch concert with the code Clavier Where actually the piano was controlling the the code that was generating the visuals So let's explore that more like gestures images or otherwise Let's also look more at at output beyond the audio visual Let's explore life-coded meals heat smell vibrations weaving patterns That's right. So that we saw some nice examples also yesterday with choreography Yeah, and then also Let's look at code beyond the computer and I think Kate gave some very good examples of that Yesterday in a keynote But let's also explore more like what that means in society So I want to show one last work Which I developed between 2019 and 2021 and is still in development So this started as an attempt to create a gesture live coding language It's really an attempt because in the process I found it was really hard To work with Real-time time-based gestures that were learned on the fly this Is a problem that has not and using accelerometer for it. I was also not using a camera So I had this residency in Sussex and I was there for two weeks And I had already done some pre-work But during these two weeks I realized I wasn't it wasn't gonna work out with that was a performance scheduled at the end of The two weeks so I had to deal with it So I made a performance out of This process of teaching the machine Yeah, but the labor that's actually involved in that My name is Rayman The question is that I want to ask is who is doing the labor and what conditions this is So in the process I'm using time-based gestures that are not a start and an end and I measure these gestures that I use Measure the use to train machine learning algorithm you have to make recordings of this gesture doing it multiple times Repeated each time label inside make sure a start in the end of the gesture is clear One way of doing it is by displaying a graph of the data to see Because does the data look similar to the other the previous gesture So Yeah, unfortunately, I wasn't able to perform it yesterday ran out of time to prepare and rehearse it Because one of the things I also noticed doing this performance that actually remembering gestures is really something you need to train So since I only saw one finger about who wrote the the life coding manifesto, I think we need a new one So this is an invitation The future of life coding is yours Actually when I met Julian sort of yesterday You say oh, there's a lot of faces that we don't know. So the future of life coding is yours So what is our new manifesto? Where's life coding going to in the next 20 years? So I made a pad It's a blank slate right now. Let's Let's fill it up Maybe like at the end of the the question round we can see what what what is there and maybe at the end of the conference we can Publish this new manifesto So thanks Here are some references. So I Actually had had all these sources and I wanted to end with a nice picture of a book that I just wrote I brought three copies on Thursday I wanted to put them on the table there, but then I met some people at lunch But tomorrow I can bring more There's a link to pre-order or you can put your name on the little paper at the desk there Thanks Thanks a lot Maria for this provocations So we're running a bit out of time and we need to start the workshop soon But of course, there's still room for a few questions. So please come up front and I think we actually have still 3 30 When the workshop starts, yeah, I was supposed to tell this at some point. Oh, it's yeah, okay Thank you. That was amazing my my question is you you mentioned alternate computing architectures and how Sort of the world that we live in today is dominated by machines whose architecture was dominated by companies Who wanted to do things one way or not another? and in my in my sort of Time researching the history of computing and how things have come to be the way that they are in sort of a different way I came across a sort of very repeated sentiment by people who were sort of really Crucial to the development of the field in the early days Alan Kay is one of the The better examples and he was talking about how they were trying to How they were trying to convince companies that were making computers back in the day to put microcode CPUs Microcode interpreters in their CPU. So basically hardware level interpreters for high-level languages And it sounds like exactly the sort of thing that all of us would like to have today, but but none of us do and and how The design of things like the list machines or the small talk computers or all of these devices that were built as a sort of uniform body of code that is constantly There for you to to to see to inspect to interact with and change So so in essence the computer as a life-coding machine instead of us life-coding a computer But my question to you now is how what what can we do today? Given that we live in a world where these decisions are being made by companies that are way beyond our reach and and there's very little about any one individual or any one small company can do to To return to different architectures that existed in history, but not anymore Yeah, that's a good question Don't know if I have the answer But but I think I mean the those early computers I mean they Were built like back then like it was not all microprocessors So I think there is some value in actually going back and making the computers from a single like electronic components and I mean one thing which was interesting about these Burroughs computers They had like a variable bit depth for for the for the memory So you could actually decide okay I need so many bits for this this particular type piece of data So I think that was quite interesting and then also Yeah, part of that could be part of the the word could be used for the instructions So so there are like looking at these old architectures. I think that's that can give like also new ideas of how to do that But I think there's also like like other sort of horizons where where biological things like using Yeah, bio art and sort of working with those things and where computation also becomes part Or looking at things like quantum computing which also requires this completely different way of thinking about computing Where it's less about Yes, there was a manipulating zeros and ones, but it's actually a much more complicated process that's happening Yeah, I think one thing. Yeah, I would certainly be interested in and see what would happen if you challenge this binary thing like Yeah So what if there's a little bit more in uncertainty in the computing What happens then So another line for the new manifesto, I suppose Any other questions? Hi, this might not be an especially well thought out question But so you said with the machine is learning that began as an attempt to make a gestural live coding language And then you know that was hard and it kind of turned into this piece about the fact that it's hard I'm wondering are you is that still something that you're interested in like creating a Some kind of workable gestural language and and how would you approach it or how are you approaching it if you're still working on it now? Yeah, it's it's so a thing that's that's on my mind I Mean one thing I mean actually using time these time-based gestures makes it incredibly slow. I think that was Maybe a wrong starting point in any case So in that sense Actually using more poses like poses as sort of that would work a lot faster and could could have quite some potential It's also easier to recognize. So that's also helps Yeah, and I think I Mean there were a lot of things which which could have been Better because I was actually using gestures that were quite visual Where the the method of measuring was actually more focused on on the energy of movements and sort of direction from Internal point of view. So there's definitely a lot of things that I I would reconsider if I'm pursuing the thing further Yeah, yeah Thanks, I have a question when you use this gestural Do you feel that? You put us mental effort similar to how we type and we do all this kind of logical Things or we can get into more let's say Maybe I will put it. I'm not sure if that's correct more kind of Alternate states of consciousness, but I'm not sure if this is correct term here more effortless Do you think that the gestures can be more? lower the Yeah, I mean it's still I Mean as in designing any sort of Programming language you design certain types of constraints and limitations So you really have to define sort of the the sort of operations that you want to do and How you how you want to structure that? I think one thing that was particularly complicated was to actually Think about okay, how can I refer back? How can I sort of create a variable and refer back to it? and that was actually Actually quite a challenging thing to do with gestures But I think it also opens possibilities for for for completely different ways of thinking about code And that definitely needs more exploration To see where that can go. Yeah Alicia last question I think Okay, I tried to make it make sense then So you're talking us through this process of where the you know We change the machines and the machines change us and we embody the machines and the machines embody us And then we go through this idea of embodiment an inactive embodiment. That's that's really about the sensory aspect being embedded in the cultural environment and then we look at that cultural environment embodied by the Manifesto and you want us to change it? So I'm really curious like How does this how do you see that changing the manifesto as? I don't know. I mean it is it not changing fast enough. Has it not kept up with those changes Do you think it just needs to be reflective of the fact that we change or just can you explore that a little bit? Yeah, I think But it's But I think after 20 years, it's good to renew it and I think Kate already has made her Alternative or of the the choreographic life-coding Manifesto But I think I think it was Ivan who said like well the community is not reflected at all in the manifesto So I think And the world has completely changed I would also say I mean back then like laptops were really new and now now actually people So so sort of I think now actually less and less people are having laptops In their homes or computers. So now we're at a different point where actually people a Lot of people don't have programmable devices anymore in their pockets or in their homes like with tablet like tablets and and Smartphones themselves you can't code How they work you can't code them you have can have an application that can do a little bit of coding But you can't recode the machine itself on these devices. So we're actually moving into another era In that sense and I think that's also something we should reflect on I'm not sure this is an answer But it just raises a lot more questions Okay, thanks a lot Mariah that's enough for applications for now I Have two announcements are actually a few but also first two announcements are Tomorrow at 11 o'clock. We want to do this group photo. So it would be nice if everybody could join And another Another announcement is to the contributors. Please check your email We want to have this kind of a boat trip on Sunday and let us know if you want to attend That's it for me Now Lucas gonna give a tour for the workshops. Yeah, so the workshop start Start oh in four minutes excellent Okay for 19 minutes Thanks the production crew so There's three workshops in this space the Visual is meetup in the big room The expressing yourself with code world-building workshop behind his door and Animatron visual poetry in the lobby there The fourth workshop live Lily Is in the big building there It's in a space called room 31 and you will see on the corner of that building Going out is a fire escape Which you use to enter in this case the room Maybe one final note I think for most of the workshops You are invited if you registered for them Except I think for the visual is meetup. It's like No problem if there's more people than actually registered Okay, thank you Hello, sorry, I have one more announcement if we're really could sit down for one minute Actually, someone of our production crew is its birthday today. Her name is Juliet. So if we could all call her Juliet If you could come to the front and we can all sing happy birthday to you Even though you don't want to you kind of have to and all sing with me because I have a horrible singing voice Now you can go