In this video I'm going to talk about manifestation and the law of attraction and the problem with it and how Christians can biblically pursue their goals and dreams. If you're new to this channel, my name is Isaac David and this is The Daily Disciple where I help you follow Jesus daily. This content is brought to you by my patrons on Patreon, thank you to each one of you who support me monthly on Patreon. The idea of manifestation comes from what is called the law of attraction, which is a New Age philosophy. One manifestation website says this, it says, manifestation is looking into your own eyes and declaring your desire. Manifestation means to be the creator of your own reality. What we decide to focus on will expand. If that hokey New Age lingo isn't enough for you, you should know that it was majorly popularized by Oprah. You see, in the early 2000s, Oprah had this book club where she would get all her middle age lady viewers to pick up this one specific book, whatever it was for that month and follow along in the discussion. Now as you can imagine, whatever book she declared was the book of the month, that book spiked in popularity overnight. Oprah's approval meant a lot back then, unfortunately. The secret was one such lucky book. Why do you call it the secret? We really needed to contain the knowledge in a couple of words. The secret is the law of attraction. OK, so what do you mean by that? The law of attraction, I would describe as the most powerful law in the universe. And it is the law by which we are creating our lives. So whether we realize it or not, the law of attraction is working all of the time. It heavily promoted the law of attraction and this idea of manifesting your own future. And as you can imagine, the Middle Age ladies of the early 2000s gobbled it up. Now, I don't want to shade those Middle Age ladies too much for bringing this thing into popularity because it's all throughout motivational speaking, even to this day. Your desire dictates your destiny. Desire it, believe it, repeat it, and it shall be yours. The life you've always wanted is almost within your grasp. Just keep manifesting your future. Sounds like a sweet deal, right? I mean, a lot of people thought so. And unfortunately, a lot of people still think so. So what does manifestation look like practically? Well, we have some advice from a young lady here. So you have to always stay present in the moment and be manifesting the things you want in the future by already having them in your mind because that's how they come into the physical. And you can do this with anything. If it's money, you can say, I'm making so much money every day. I make money all the time. I am constantly bringing money into my life. I am wealthy, so on and so forth, whatever you want it to be. If you're attracting a specific person or a girlfriend or a boyfriend or a significant other, let's say you can say, I am so happy and grateful now that I am in a happy and loving relationship with blank, you can say my specific person. If it's an actual specific person that you know in real life, you can even use their name. There are some major problems with manifestation, and I probably don't need to spell them out for you for you already be picking up on some of the red flags that appear. The problem is, is that it has infiltrated the church in large part. Now, I'm not going to get into too much of how manifestations infiltration, that's a lot there, tongue twister, into the church has really changed the message and really distorted the gospel in some cases. That would be for a whole nother video. But what we need to know is how to identify what is manifestation and why it is wrong. Let's go back to that manifestation website for a second. Manifestation means to be the creator of your own reality. What we decide to focus on will expand. In that worldview, we become God, like we legit, like we are the dictators of our own destiny. What we think about will become reality. Like they're putting a lot of pressure on us, a lot of power in our hands, a lot of control. But notice how this directly conflicts with the teachings of the Bible. Proverbs 1921 says, many are the plans in the mind of man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand. You see, manifestation proposes that we have the power to simply think a thought or, you know, really just create something out of nothing through our thoughts. Like if I want a big, high-paying job, like I want money, like I want whatever, I simply think it, I manifest it into existence. But according to Bible man, we ain't got none of that power at all. The purpose of the Lord supersedes all of our own desires, thoughts, whatever manifestations, all of it, God's purpose comes first because he is sovereign. And you know, if we take on this manifestation worldview or even try to adopt it within the Christian worldview, we're actually taking a lot of glory away from God because when something we want to happen, something that we quote, unquote, manifested happens, we're like, look at me, how awesome am I? I manifested this and how awesome and powerful are my thoughts. But it's like, oh, God did that, bro. Like you did not do that. So we take the glory away from God that he deserves. And don't miss this too. The ugly truth of manifestation is that manifestation does not deliver. You know, I'm convinced that manifestation only works if you have rich parents. No, but really people have this obsession of asking the universe for stuff. Like you can be in a conversation just randomly and they're like, I put it out there into the universe or I asked the universe for it. And it's like, bro, the universe doesn't care about you. And I don't say that to be mean.  You know, as Christians, we're called to bring all of our requests to God. But that doesn't mean they're always gonna happen or he's gonna come true. And honestly, it's a good thing that they don't always come true because God is infinitely wiser than us. If you got every single thing you wanted, when you wanted, you would miss out on a lot of growth and also learning to rely on God. The big dipper doesn't care about you, but God does. So you're asking me, yeah, but does this mean our thoughts don't matter at all? No, they do matter. No, our thoughts are important and the Bible makes that clear. It actually talks about how we need to take every thought captive. It's not good for Christians to dwell in thoughts of self-pity or anger or anxiety. Like, those things should be submitted to God. We have to submit our thoughts to him. And also, our actions are driven by our thoughts often and our behavior. So if we wanna serve God faithfully, yeah, we wanna focus on what we're thinking because it is important. But here's the difference. A lot of attraction will encourage us to have all of our thoughts directed inwards, all of our thoughts directed at us. I'm the best, I can get what I want, and so on. In this context, we're putting all of our faith in us to succeed. As Christians, we want God-directed thoughts.  God has empowered me to live through his power and his presence for him. Like I said before, that doesn't mean everything we want or everything we desire, every goal that we have will come true as we think it should. Sometimes Christians fall into this false philosophy of name it and claim it theology. This idea that if I have enough faith for what I want, God will give it to me. What we often miss is that God's purposes are often out of our sight. He is working beneath the surface. But you can trust that God is working things out for our eternal good and his glory. Now the reason that I say eternal good and not just good is because sometimes in our life things can happen, circumstances can arise that don't seem good.  Was there martyrdom good? Was that good? Like did they have nice good lives? Was God looking out for them? No, well, we say eternal good because in the grand scheme of things think about God's purpose and how it's been revealed to us through those disciples. Like look at how the gospel has spread to many billions or many millions, billions of people, right? Like that's unbelievable. We get a glimpse of God's purpose there. Was that good that the disciples died that that was their purpose? In the grand scheme of things, yes, that was good because it served God's purpose. And so for us, we can sometimes look at our lives and we're like, yo God, I thought you were looking out for my good and this seems tough, but what we can't see is what's going on underneath the surface, how God is using that, how God is working in us and through us. We sometimes take on such a limited perspective or tunnel vision and we're like, God, how are you actually using this? And because of that, we kind of maybe sometimes fall into this tendency of like, maim it and claim it. Like if I just believe I will get what I want or manifestation, if I just like think about something or think about making money, it will just come to me. These can be tempting philosophies. But ultimately, when we can submit our own desires to God and submit our life to him, and that's not an easy thing to do, but when we can say, God, like I give my life to you, I wanna submit my life to you and it's a daily thing because each day we're tempted to, oh, follow what I want or do all these kind of things that are aligned with my own kind of selfish desires, but it's being open and attentive to where God is leading us. And that's one of the missions of daily disciple ministry is to help people see what it looks like to follow Jesus daily. Part of that and a big aspect of that is submitting our lives to him, our day to him and say, God, like I have these goals, I have these desires, help align them with your heart, help align them with your will because it's not a bad thing to want to pursue like, oh, you have goals in this area or whatever. Like that's awesome. But the key is being attentive to what God is saying to us through other people, through circumstances, through his word, through the Holy Spirit, being attentive to those things so we're able to properly discern, okay, this is a good direction, okay, I'm gonna keep going here. And it's a process. I'm not gonna say this is an easy thing, like you're gonna get a sign from God and be like, okay, I know what's going on. But it's like, I'm gonna submit my life to him, that's the best place to be because I wanna be following Jesus. That's gonna be the best place for me. The last thing is remember that God is working underneath the surface. Sometimes his purpose is out of sight but it is always for our eternal good and his glory. Thank you so much for watching. I really appreciate it. If you're new here, subscribe down below cause I'm putting out new videos all the time. 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with the speed of light, the cloud of dust, and a hearty, high-o silver, the lone ranger. With his faithful Indian companion, Tato, the masked writer of the planes led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. The stories of his strength and courage, his daring and resourcefulness have come down to us through the generations. And nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again! Come on, Silver! Let's go, big fella! The storm began as a delirious fury so great there was an effort to stay in the saddle. The Lone Ranger, Tato, and Dan Reed were drenched to the skin in less than a minute. They leaned low over the necks of their horses, fighting against the driving rain. There's a house of some sort, just ahead. No other shelter near. Victor sure is a strong horse. He's keeping right with you. Victor will do his part, Dan. We can ask for shelter in that place again? Yes. Seems to be a barn on the back. We'll need it for the horses. You all right, Dan? Sure. I'm all right. He must hobby. They're a woman in winded. You see her? Yes. She's serious, Tato. Head directly for the barn. We'll take care of the horses. Ah! Come on, Silver, old boy. That's a little further. Come on, Victor. Push it before I move. I'll get the door open, steady. You go right inside. Come on, Dan. Come on, Tato. There.  I don't support the people at all. This place will find us coming in here like this. Of course not. The horse is plenty tired from the fight against storms. As soon as I've unsaddled Silver, I'll go and see the people who own this place. You know, Bobby, here come women on way here from town. Oh, I'm sorry. Golly, you'll be as soaking wet as we are. My sick's alive. I never thought such a storm in all my born days. I'm sorry you had to come out in it. I'm just going to your house and explain that we had to find shelter for our horses. Thunderation. You needn't explain. I saw you from the wind and hoped you wouldn't be foolish enough to keep going. Just a minute now.  As soon as the storm lets up, you'll be... You're messed. Yes, I always... And I left my rifle inside. Well, I'm all the nerve. Why, you... That's it. Draw a gun on an old woman. No, no. Here. I drew my gun to give it to you. I don't want you frightened because you're unarmed. Take it. Sure as thunder will.  Now that you have a gun, you needn't be afraid. I'm not an outlaw. There's a very good reason why I use a mask. Are you Mrs. Runyon? No. Quick eye, ain't ya? Saw my name on the wall there. Who are you anyway? I never used my name. It's called the Lone Ranger. The Lone Ranger? My six alive. Is that true? Yes, it is. And you? Who are you? Dan Reed. My friend.  My boy'd be about 19 by this time. Your boy? But hold on. If you're the Lone Ranger, what am I doing holding the gun on ya? Here, put this back where it belongs. Then come on into the house where I can find some dry clothes for Dan Reed. I'm all right. All right, ma'ai. You're soaking wet. Come on now. You too. No, no. You stay here. Take care of horses. I'll stay here with Tom. I want to speak to you, Lone Ranger. You've traveled a lot. Yes, quite a lot. And maybe there's just a chance you might know something of my boy. Will you come to the house where I can talk to ya? That lad needs dry clothes and something warm for his stuff. Please come. All right, come, Dan. Things out in the next room.  But I don't...  All right, Dan. You've been very kind, Mrs. Runyon. I wanted to ask if you'd ever seen anything of my boy. He'd be around 19 by this time. I don't know. Oh, it ain't likely you have. But I never missed the chance to ask about him. It's been 16 years since he was taken from us. When he was just three? Yes. But he's alive. I'm sure he is. I've been hoping that some day, somehow, he'd find out where I am and come home. There's a fortune for him. A fortune, a gold mine. Oh? It's in the mountains north of here. The golden nugget is called... I've heard of it. It's a good mine. I didn't know you owned it. Oh, I'm not active. There's a man in town, Mr. Scanlon. He's been a fine friend ever since my husband died. He's handled things for me, you see. Run everything and brought me the profit and cash. Mrs. Runyon, would you like to tell me about your son? The way he disappeared? Yes, I would. My husband and I went out every day to dig where he thought there was a rich vein. We worked at the side of a mountain, took little Tim along with us. Then one day, Ben let out a yell. It could be heard a mile. I got it! Kate, I got it! I ran up to him as fast as I could. What is it I yelled? I found it and there's no question about it. It's the real thing. The mother log. Oh, Ben, you're sure? Look at this. Look at this nugget. We're rich! We didn't have long to feel glad because just then some men come riding from a gully. Adam, boys, close in! Claim jumpers! Tim! Tim! Get down behind the embankment, Kate. Quick! But Tim, you'll be careful. I'll hold them off. You haven't got me yet. They've taken Tim! Ben! Go to the sheriff, Kate. Show him the nugget. Make him witness your claim to the mine. And when he finds Tim, nothing can take it from you. It's yours now. Yours and the boys. Keep it for Tim to work when he's grown. That was 16 years ago. I haven't seen Tim since. Gosh. Didn't the men who ever kidnap him ever ask for ransom? No, I think they knew the sheriff was hunting them for Ben's murder and it scared him away. Would you recognize your son if you saw him, Mrs. Runyon? Oh, yes. I know I would. You see, when Tim was little, he burned himself on the wrist while playing near the stove, left a scar shaped like a crescent. Golly, that ought to be easy to recognize. You haven't seen a young man with a scar like that? No, I'm sorry. I thought because you've traveled so much. I want to do all I can to help you find your son. Oh, I hope you'd say that. I've got a feeling Tim is somewhere in these parts. Wait, I'll pay Hanson for your time and trouble finding him. That isn't necessary, Mrs. Runyon. Here, here, I've got all the cash you will need for expenses. It's paper money and easy to carry. I don't want money. That'll take care of your expenses to start. I, uh... Why did you get these bills? Well, hey, same place I get all the money from lawyer Scanlon. He handles my affairs at the mine and comes here once a week with my share of the profits. Oh? After Ben died, I needed money to work the mine, so I sold Scanlon one-third interest. But I am retained in control of the Golden Nugget for Tim. Oh, yeah. I see. Is anything wrong? Mrs. Runyon, I'd like to borrow these bills for a short time. Well, take all you want. But I... I'll explain later. Dan, help Tunnel rub down the horses. I'm going on an errand, but I'll be back soon. Yes, sir. Then trouble in town lately. This money may be a clue to the man behind me. That's right, Mr. Scanlon. What's your name? Kid Carlson. Hank Weaver sent me. What, so? Where did you meet him? In jail. I was there for something I didn't do. The law punished me for nothing. Well, now I'll be the man the law made me. What did Weaver tell you about me? He said you were a smart lawyer, Mr. Scanlon, and that you'd show me how to make money without being jailed. Do I get the job? Hold on, kid. If Hank Weaver did send you, like you say, he gave you something to show me. Give me something. Oh, yeah, that's right. I forgot. Have you got paper and pencil? Yes. Yeah. He told me to make a sign. A sign of the double cross. You're in, kid. Well, shake hands with Mr. Quirt. Hi, Ken. How do you do, Quirt? I guess Quirt's had no reason to complain about the way I've treated him. Have you, Quirt? Nope. I don't know what I'll have for you, but I'll think it over. You'll do anything, huh? Anything. You can drop in later in the day. Meanwhile, if I think of something, I'll get in touch with him. You'll be at the hotel, won't you? What if I had some cash? Here, take this. It'll take care of you for the time being. Thanks. Well, Quirt, what did you think of the kid? He's strong and he's bitter at the law. He'll do murder if he's paid for it and feel that he's got a right to anything he can grab. I can use him to trade some of these counterfeit bills for good-folding money.  Good idea. It's hard to get the stuff in circulation. Well, we didn't pay much for it. We've already made a nice profit on the deal. You sure old Mrs. Runyon doesn't bank her cash? I know she doesn't. If she did, the bank would spot the cash as counterfeit. She won't bank it. Or spend it. You know, I'm almost ready to break the news about the mind to her. She'll take it hard. What do I care? Well, Storm's all done. I reckon I better... Wait. I think someone's in the outer office. Maybe the kid again. Put these bills on the desk. Get them out of sight. Just a minute. You're Scanlon. I'm asked. I'm a friend of Mrs. Runyon. I don't understand. You gave her these banknotes. I want you to look at them. What's the matter with them? Don't you know? I don't know what you're talking about.  What do you mean? These bills are counterfeit. Counterfeit, why? I had no idea. That's what I intend to find out. No, see, here you can't come walking into my office and accuse me of being a crook. I'm not accusing you yet. Does, uh... Does Mrs. Runyon know the money is worthless? No. She will. Well, I'll... I'll rectify the mistake right away. I'll see that Mrs. Runyon doesn't lose a thing. I've got my eye on you, Scanlon. Don't try any more... mistakes. Nerve of that masked coyote. Nerve of something that Amberie's got plenty of. He's the lone ranger. Come on. Quit. We've got to move fast. If he tells the old lady the cash I gave her is counterfeit, we're hogged out. What do we do?  It won't work, Scanlon. That's all open country along the trail. He'll out-ride and out-shoot us and lay a finger on him. There must be some way to stop him. Well, there is. Kid Carlson. That kid? Hank Weaver was his jailmate and Hank recommended him. But how can one man stop it? There's a trap door in the roof of the old lady's house. Kid could make use of that to ambush the lone ranger inside. You mean... I mean the lone ranger would be off guard when he walks into the house. Kid can drill him for he says anything. All right.  You can show him the shortcut to the Runyon house so he can get there first. Tonto and Dan had finished their attentions to the horses and were with Mrs. Runyon before the fire when the lone ranger entered the house. Here he is now. Mrs. Runyon, they have something to tell you. No, wait. He has stepped some stairs. Great day. Out of my way. Got that gun. Come and get it. Oh, the wrist. Look, the wrist he's holding. It's branded with a crescent. No, no, it can't be. I'm not through yet. Mrs. Runyon, he's got another gun. Stand back. Tim. Stand back, I tell you. The curtain falls on the first act tonight's lone ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Continue our story. As Mrs. Runyon ran toward the outlaw who was her son, two shots ripped in quick succession across the room. He already stopped settling her tracks, then slumped to the floor. The lone ranger leaped across her prostrate figure to grapple with the hour. Take care of her, Tonto. Let me help.  Lift your hands. You got the drop on me. The water's cold. Fine. The old lady. Is she all right? I didn't mean to drill her. She stepped in my line of fire. She not hurt bad. Bullet only grazed for her. Oh, I'm sure glad to hear that. And you planted lucky. Lone ranger's bullet. Hit your gun when you fire. Make your shot go wild. She's opening her eyes. Where? Oh, what? Oh, Tim. Tim, you've come home. You sure she's all right? She keeps acting like she knows me. She does know you, Tim. Tim? I don't say I be. This is Mrs. Runyon. You are Tim Runyon. What? I'm your mother, son. Oh, you're local. All of you. My handle's Kidd Carlson. I have no mother. You were taken from me when you were too young to remember, son. Outlaws kidnapped you and killed your father. Outlaws? How, uh, how long have you been alone, Tim? As long as I can remember. I see. Here, Mrs. Runyon. I'll give you to a chair. Dan, bring me the box in the drawer. Yes, ma'am. How old are you, boy? What? I reckon I'm 19. That's just the age my Tim would be. I don't know what to say. Oh, don't say anything, son. You're home. That's all that matters. Tim, who sent you here to shoot me? Robert Morgan. Scanlon's friend. Seems I was right. What do you mean? These banknotes with Scanlon gave you a counterfeit, Mrs. Runyon. Counterfeit? Well, I don't understand. Scanlon denied any knowledge of it. But I thought if he was lying, he'd try to stop me from telling you. Garly, then you suspected from the first that you'd be ambushed. You mean all this cash, all the profits from the mine are worthless? Yes. Oh, Tim, it was your money. The mine belongs to you. It belongs to us. Mother? The low-down skunks. They'll return every cent of it in hard case to you. They don't know the doubt. That's not the way, Tim. We must prove that Scanlon and Quirt are passing the notes. Ah. Will you help? Help? Just tell me how. A cabin cunningly concealed in an awry or not far from Broken Spur, Quirt Morgan sat at a rough table, yielding himself a hand of solitaire. Now, then, his eyes flickered with amusement at Scanlon who stood staring impatiently at the trail below. Pull up a chair and cool your heels, Scanlon. Quirt'll come when he's finished and not before. What if he doesn't come at all? And we'll have to figure a new way to get the Lone Ranger. Not a good little do. If a lady will know all the money out, Peter is fake. What if she does? She can't prove you gave him to her. We floated a lot of phony cash around Broken Spur, and bills might have come to her from a dozen sources. Just the same, I'd feel easier with that mask on raised six feet under. You ain't the first to have said that. Someone coming to her. Ah, but who? The kid. No. Boys wouldn't have no reason to give him a personal escort all the way up from the trail. Surrounded by Quirt Morgan's renegades, a tall man dressed in rough, nondescript clothes strode toward the cabin. His face, too, was unfamiliar for it had been cleverly disguised to the outlaw and the lawyer as his approach from the cabin window. The features of the Lone Ranger were unrecognizable. Stranger to see you, Quirt. Mountain and prowler down on the trail. It's your handle, stranger. Names don't mean much. Waste of the pay-cos. Suppose you call me Slim. What's your business? Whatever comes my way. As long as it shows that dollar sign, you ain't particularly how you get it, huh? I have a message for you. Are you? I'm listening. And it's this. A double-cross. Yeah, came from Hank Weaver. And what do you know, Scanlon? Another one of Hank's mates from the territorial prison. Maybe he knows Kid Carlson. Yeah, I do. Well, Slim, there's only one ticket to a berth with me, and that's a quick trigger and a coulis. Like, uh, partin' that leaf in the middle. BAM! I think you can qualify as one of my gunwatties, mister. I think so. One of the stranger's guns cut that deck of cards, and the other drilled one of the cards from center while it was in the air. You're in, Slim. Quirt, it's him. It's a kid. Back to your post, boys. Did you get him? Did you throw the Lone Ranger? You wanna prove? Yeah. Quirt, Quirt, look. The Lone Ranger's mask. You really slugged that hombre for keeps? How else would I get his mask? Kid's right, Scanlon. The Lone Ranger'd have to be drilled permanent for each surrender that. What happened to your wrist? Oh, one of his bullets grazed me. Let me see. It... Crescent. What's the matter? That burn. The kid is Mrs. Runyon's son. What? She's been tryin' to locate a kid with that mark for years. But... Wait a minute. How do we know the kid is on the level about drilling the Lone Ranger, Quirt? You mean... He's supposed to have ambushed him in his ma's own house, ain't he? And the Lone Ranger and the old lady are friends. Ah. Maybe he didn't drill the quitter after all. Maybe that mask was given to him to bring back here to convince us the hombre was dead. Why? No, you don't, Quirt. Last year, you got that drop on me. It's what you hired me for. A quick trigger, man. He won't trouble you again. Nice shootin' sliver. Yes. Drilled the gun right out of his hand. Take him into the cabin. Time to that share. Yes. Well, this summer's a quit. What? And making that last trip of the mine, cash to Mrs. Runyon right now. Ah, you better wait till I see if I can make the kid talk. The Lone Ranger's still alive. I can't wait. Anyhow, I've thought of a way to take care of that masked coyote. Oh, yeah? I ought to go to the house alone with a count of hit cash as usual. If the Lone Ranger's dead, if he would have us believe, everything will go as planned. He will own complete control of the Golden Nugget. What if the Lone Ranger's there alive? You and the boys will follow a short distance behind me.  Oh, I say, we'll give that hombre more than he bargains for. What about the kid? I'm giving him a warm reception of his own. He knows too much. You mean... Slam? Yeah? Scanlan and me have got business to attend to. Uh-huh. After we're gone, douse the cabin with coal oil. Put a match to it. But drill the kid first. Why don't you drill him and be done with it? Because I don't aim to leave any trace of that crescent brand. Slips like that are what put necks in a hang-noose. Some time later, the renegades led by Scanlan and Quirk guided their horses slowly through the sandy bottom of the narrow ravine. Meanwhile, in the cabin they had left, the man they knew as slim rapidly loosened the rope which bound Kid Carlson to his chair. Careful. We'll have to hurry.  Don't worry. Scanlan won't show his hand until Mrs. Runyon exposes him. Yeah. But when that happens, Quirk and his gang will rush the house. Steady. Easy. That's why we've got to hurry. The gang barricade themselves in the house. And I'll hear a mother, and others may be hurt. Steady. One minute. Steady. There. Now you're free. Let's go. Wait. It's the idea of shooting out the window. Quirk left orders for you to be shot. All right, Savvy. What about the fire? Just a minute. Help me sprinkle this cobalt. All right. Some more over there. I'll get it on this side. All right. Sprinkle. Some over the other side. I got most of this over here. Yeah. I got about all I can get for this. That's enough. They won't have any trouble getting this old shack to burn. The board's so dry and brittle they'll burn like kindling. Yeah, that's what we want. You see, Scanlon and Quirk will be sure to see the flame. Yeah. And when they do, they'll figure it's the end of Kid Carlson. Won't they be surprised? They sure will. Just a minute. Hand me that match. Yeah. Stand clear. Be careful. This cool oil will flame up. There she goes. Come on, we've worked to do. Well, Scanlon, what are you standing there gotting for her? Did you bring the money or didn't you? I... Of course, Mrs. Runyon. I have it right here. Is that genuine? Right. I don't know what you mean. Here, there's been a lot of worthless paper money passed in town. A body can't be too careful. Oh, you don't have to worry about these bills, Mrs. Runyon. They are the real thing. I made sure of it myself. Why, you ordinary low-down thieve and pole cat, this cash it as crooked as you are, and you know it. What? You've been passing that worthless paper money on me for more than a year. While you've been swinning me out of the real cash profits from the mine. All right. I bought control of the mine with the cash you had coming today. You bought control. You couldn't do it. You couldn't buy the mine unless I sold it to you. No? Don't forget the paper you signed, giving me the power of attorney to transact business in your name. Every time I sent you cash, you signed a receipt for it. I can show that those receipts were for payments made on the purchase of the mine. I reckon that's all I need to hear, Mrs. Runyon.  You've had me chasing circles, trying to figure who was behind them phony bills, Scanlon.  I've been waiting for you, Quirt. You and Scanlon are going to be seeing a lot of each other from now on. Behind bars. Why, you idle-headed old coot. I've got my boys with me. They'll riddle you before they'll see you. Quirt, I need your boys.  That's my posse. The whole taboodle of you is written right into a trap. Out of my way, Sheriff. Hang on with it, Quirt.  Quirt, I'm pulling snip. No you're not. Good hunting, Tim. Kid, I thought you... And I went up and smoked along with your care, weren't I, Scanlon? The Lone Ranger got me out of that. The Lone Ranger? Yeah. You know him better as slim. Oh, silly. Oh, silly. What you just heard is a copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.


There is a blank, kind of empty look that a young Gojo consistently has, which tells us all that we need to know about the childhood he had. A joyless childhood, countless assassination attempts, bounties on his head for over a hundred million before he could even say his first words. The very balance of the jujutsu world was altered when Satru Gojo was born. Tons of curses went into hiding because of his mere existence. Many curses were forced to become stronger because of his presence. When I think of Gojo's power, I think of that confidence in which he says that he is the strongest. Because from the moment you begin this story, you never get the sense that he's lying. Then I think back to the first time he revealed his limitless ability to the special grade cursed Jogo. Jogo is astonished at the difference between their strength. He is mesmerized when he discovers that he can only touch the infinity between them. That is Gojo. Gojo is touched when he wants to be touched, when he commands the space to do so. Gojo has this magnetic ability matched with this magnetic personality. The weight of the jujutsu world as we know it hinges on Gojo. The first sorcerer in 400 years to be born with the six eyes and the limitless technique. Light, teleportation, a domain expansion that forces one to see and feel everything. And of course, holo-perp. Satru Gojo really is a god among sorcerers, among curses. Jujutsu kaizen has Yuji as its protagonist, but so much of this story revolves around Gojo. Nobody can do anything without wondering where Gojo is or how his potential presence will affect any situation. The higher ups of the jujutsu world, this conservative faction was also impacted nearly 30 years before the start of this series by the birth of this child. Being a part of one of the big three families meant immediate enrollment into jujutsu hai and being a young prodigy, being essentially the chosen one, gave Gojo a massive burden to carry at such a young age. Gojo was assigned to missions that would have tremendous ramifications for the future of the jujutsu world at 15, 16 years old. The most dangerous missions weren't going to his superiors, they weren't going to adults, no, they were going to this child. People like Tengen were asking specifically for him, simply because Gojo inherited these abilities meant that he was immediately appointed as the role of the protector of the jujutsu world as we know it. So he would become partly responsible for its successes and entirely responsible for its failures. When Yuta manifests Rika in volume zero, the higher ups condemn Gojo. Any misstep by Sukuna by the way of Yuji, the pressure is on Gojo. Couple that weight with the numerous and countless attacks on his life since he was a child, Gojo's life is turbulent to say the least. But a large part of who he is is of course all of these experiences, but specifically what he went through as a teenager would fundamentally alter Gojo's future and the way he approaches his life. No one would have a more significant impact on his future than Suguru Geto. The contrast between these two is fascinating. From the physical to the mental, their upbringing, their abilities, Geto and Gojo couldn't be more different and it makes their relationship intriguing. Geto never looked at Gojo the same way everyone else did. Geto forced the White-haired sorcerer to be better, challenging him intellectually, and they even got into plenty of fights with each other. And I think Gojo respected that a ton, that there was someone out there who ignored his lineage who ignored that title, but who was also strong enough to match it in his mind. Gojo found an equal, but most of all he found a true friend, his one and only best friend. And with Geto, he gained a different perspective on life. Gojo tends to look at things through a more self-centered lens, that doesn't necessarily define his morality, but I think the circumstances of his life, having been used and depended on his entire life, have led to a general worldview that sees strength as the most essential factor to do anything. Gojo doesn't worry about ideals or responsibilities like Geto does, and so all the decisions he makes he makes based on how he feels, based on his own desire. Geto on the other hand tends to make decisions based on how his choices will impact others, constantly looking at the broader implications of what they, as Jujutsu sorcerers, do.  Gojo doesn't apply reasoning or responsibility to Jujutsu, he sees that as something weak people do. Geto constantly needs a reason to keep going, considering how repugnant his ability is, whereas Gojo's ability, while mentally and physically draining, isn't the filthy, murky technique that consuming cursed spirits is. He doesn't have to interact with humanity at its most vile, so that motivation, Geto constantly convincing himself that what he does is for a good reason to protect the weak and for the greater good, keeps him going. At this age, Gojo doesn't have any real reason to do things, but again he doesn't like to add morality to Jujutsu, and yet he finds himself constantly doing the right thing. But things change for the two of them when Riko, the star plasma vessel, needed to be escorted to merge with Tengen. Regarding Riko, Gojo was initially quite apathetic to the girl, only doing it because it was asked of him, but over a short time protecting her, he quickly warmed up to the idea and to her. It's interesting, because I think there is a lot of Riko that Gojo sees in himself. Here's a girl only a few years younger than him, and from the day she was born, she was seen as a candidate. Her fate was decided so early on in life, and when he meets her, she's not even a bit sad about what's about to happen to her. But that only masks her real sadness and fear. I think Gojo tends to hide much of his true desires and his feelings behind his charismatic personality. She's got all the bounties on her head, and still she can keep going and enjoy her life, the little she has left. Like Gojo, she is objectified by the Jujutsu world. Her wants and her needs mean absolutely nothing, and she is nothing more than a tool for their world. Much like no one cares about the mental turmoil that Gojo has to live with, caring such a massive responsibility, the more time Gojo spends with her, the more he can empathize with her and take initiative in her cause. He even goes on to plan these fun days at the beach in Okinawa just for her, because he grows to see her value simply as a person. He starts to enjoy protecting the weak, even using his technique over time to protect her. This experience changes Gojo so much so that he proposes the idea to geto of giving Riko the choice of merging with Tengen or not, and he is willing to bear the potential consequences if she doesn't. Past the mission, past what has been assigned to them. Here we see Gojo's morality. This mission becomes a very personal one to him, sure he might be a self-centered individual, but Gojo cares a lot about people. He cares about this girl's autonomy, willing to even fight Tengen if it comes down to it. The two of them did all of this for some girl that Gojo couldn't even care about when this all began. But for all their strength, the two strongest sorcerers get defeated by one Toji Fushiguro, who devised a plan to target and eliminate Gojo at his weakest, a plan that ended in Riko's death. Gojo got stabbed nearly half a dozen times and was pushed to the brink of death, his 15 year old, and he responded to that by ascending to a level above even the heavens. Moments of pure bliss and hubris, a moment that he earned through surviving death. He had to push everyone away at that moment to become the strongest sorcerer alive. He says that he is sorry that he didn't feel angry for Riko in that moment while he ascended. He didn't think about Geto, he didn't even think about Toji. He was all about himself, about becoming a god among sorcerers, and that incredible feeling. This entire event had significant ramifications for Gojo and Geto, a shared failure it was for the both of them, and each was affected differently by what transpired that day. Gojo's ascendance seemed to not only be a physical rise but a mental one, leaving his best friend behind, no longer able to truly understand or meet Geto mentally. Gojo alone is the honored one. And when he said it at that moment, he mentions that the feeling was incontestable with any other.  I alone am the honored one is a very different tune than the one he sang earlier on in the Hidden Inventory arc. It was only a few chapters earlier that he thought of himself and Geto as equals. We are the strongest he said in that panel. But from this moment onwards, that title has fallen to him alone. That fear and that trauma that he went through, and then the guilt that tore him up for losing Riko, carrying her body and having all of these people cheer and rejoice at his failure, led him to run limitless almost at all times, automatically, keeping his brain fresh so that he may never get caught like that ever again. Gojo's response to that event, to his failure, was to become so strong that nothing could ever even touch him without a say so. Geto's response to that event was much like he always responded to things. It was an extreme analysis of the situation and a re-examination of his reasons for being a jujutsu sorcerer. Because Gojo became so powerful, he began being sent onto missions alone. So Geto had to exercise his repulsive curses alone. He was led to his own devices and left with his failure. Geto drowned in his loneliness. Gojo has always been a sorcerer for himself. Geto has always been a sorcerer for others. Both are equally selfish and selfless.  Rico died right in front of him and for a moment he believed Gojo had died.  What kind of sorcerer does that make him if he can't protect others? What is he doing it for then? I think it's easy to point the finger at Gojo when Geto defects. It's easy to blame Gojo's massive presence because that's what this story has always done when things go wrong. It's easy to ask why Gojo didn't save him, but at the end of the day he became the strongest and he was treated as such by every authoritative figure in their school, pulling the two further and further apart. The sheer surprise and shock on Gojo's face and his reaction when he hears about what his best friend had become reinforces this idea that Geto falling into the darkness was something no one could have expected, especially not Gojo. Considering Geto was always this rational, reasonable individual. At least that's how Gojo saw him. Gojo sees power as the be-all and end-all in this world, but he also profoundly values Geto because he matched that power, granting them the ability to connect outside their strength. So Geto asking his best friend, are you the strongest because you're Gojo Saturu or are you Gojo Saturu because you're the strongest, disrupts that trust and that friendship that was built on something more than strength. Gojo here prods at Gojo's pride and also sinks him further into his loneliness. That's one part of Gojo's identity that he struggled with. He knocks Gojo down a peg with that one line and he relegates him to a mere object of strength instead of a human, just like the rest of the jujutsu world does. Here Gojo learns that strength is not enough to save those who don't want to be saved. However, while he understands this, he still believes strength is a significant factor in one's path. I think Gojo believes that Geto felt left behind strength-wise, which is why Geto asked him that question. And so, when meeting Megumi, Gojo tells the child that strength is what will keep him from being left behind. Of course, here he doesn't fully understand Geto's fall from grace, but Gojo isn't entirely wrong. The gulf in strength between Gojo and Geto did play a part in Geto's defection, but it was only one piece of the full puzzle. Gojo can empathize with the world around him, but still it's tremendously hard for him to understand those who are not strong. He felt what losing was like, but he got his revenge. He still doesn't know what it's like to be weak. He doesn't desire to and cannot reach those below him. He knew something changed in Geto, but was unable to determine exactly what. But that was a 15-year-old Gojo. In the decade after these events, even more growth has happened for the world's strongest sorcerer. Gojo has become a teacher. He still carries guilt for these failings, Riko, Toji, Geto. Three events are the cause of his terrible loneliness. Being the only child of the Gojo family in 400 years to wield these abilities of course comes with this inherent solitude. As mentioned before, the responsibility that has been bestowed on him as a mere child and then a teenager, the over-reliance on his stature makes it hard for him to connect with people. But after losing Geto, his best friend, Avoid was left in his absence. Sure, Gojo has allies, but he still feels lonely at the top. No one can relate to the weight he has to bear and to the responsibilities he holds. Geto could once, now there is no one. And that's what it means to be the strongest. And that loss ultimately becomes the catalyst for what he does and for his philosophy. Gojo wants to nurture powerful allies, the powerful next generation, in order to change the system that has made him experience such terrible loneliness. Not only for him, but for Geto too. After a decade, he clearly understands that loneliness led Geto astray. The loneliness was simply too much. After himself, strength, natural prodigious talent aside, at the core of it all, Gojo was a kid thrust into the world of adults and he paid the price for it. He feels responsible for these losses because he's always been responsible. The reason Gojo calls his youth the best years of his life is because he wasn't so disconnected. Because he alone wasn't the strongest. Because he had his best friend to share life with. So twice in the story, Gojo mentions to Yuta in volume 0 and then to Yuji that he personally will not let the higher ups take away the best years of their youth. The same way the higher ups took his best years, the same way they took Getos and Rikos. Those three events, those three losses haunts Gojo's best years. Guilt haunts it. Gojo's desire to become a teacher can be directly linked to losing Geto. There is a sort of curse of strength that follows Gojo. The God complex he carries is both a flaw in his thinking and a result of the circumstances of his life. As mentioned, Gojo is generally unwilling to connect emotionally with those weaker than him, leading him further into solitude. So for Satoru, the people around him getting stronger, this desire for stronger allies is the solution instead of the inverse. And a part of him believes that that will cure his loneliness. But also, the goal is that none of the next generation will be as lonely as he was. Because they will all have formidable allies and they will all be equals. An argument can be made that Gojo's belief that no one can truly understand him is simply a barrier that he created to not allow anyone in. It's a deliberate choice that he made to separate and isolate himself, instead of trying to make the effort to become understood and to form these great connections. At the same time though, because Gojo's life has been filled with people trying to attack or deceive him in one way or another, because his life has been void of sincerity, especially before and after Geto, perhaps this barrier has naturally created itself emotionally for Gojo to protect himself. How do you connect with a man who has seen death and has risen past the heavens to defeat it? How do you connect with the most important man in the world? How do you relate to him? But all of their problems, all of it begins with the fundamental flaws of the Jujutsu world. The old guard, the conservative faction, the higher ups who are desperate to maintain the current system that they live in. So many of their problems have been systemic in this series. And changing the crappy system as he calls it is Gojo's initial motivation that we are introduced to when this series begins. The higher ups are all idiots, he says. Their failures are as clear as day in this series. We look at how much weight they put into one's lineage, the power these big three families hold, the fact that they send out teenagers to do their bidding, the desire to execute anyone, mainly children, out of fear of their abilities, instead of trying to harness them, use them for good. We also have to talk about the literal trading of children. And of course the overreliance on Gojo and strength as a whole. Their fear is understandable, but it causes stagnation in Jujutsu sorcerers and their development. They know that Gojo's mere presence, his existence, creates stronger curses and yet they don't have anyone else to handle some of these massive issues. The one sorcerer they did have felt like he needed to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders. Gojo acknowledges that he could just kill all the higher ups, but he realizes that similar people would simply fill the power vacuum in the future. He believes that the next generation needs to be given the tools to take their destiny and their fate into their own hands. They need both the strength and the intelligence to do so, and Gojo is providing that. He does still think that strength is the be all end all, but he has also found allies with good hearts and who are intelligent. Gojo's worked tremendously hard over the past decade to build these strong allies who can stand alongside him.  When the allies he dreamt of having are now here holding their own, he's locked away in the prison room, unable to see it. And the very last thing he saw was the one person who could alleviate his loneliness, alive once again.  His reaction animated here makes it so much more heart wrenching. Gojo knows Geto can't be alive, and yet just hearing his best friend's voice completely froze the sorcerer. Gojo then smiles and reminisces on their time together. His one and only best friend. Gojo and Geto did everything together. Throughout the hidden inventory art, the two are basically inseparable. Basketball on the cell phones, the drinks. This is that friendship that Gojo misses in that split second, the companionship he yearns for. Gojo's story has been one of great strength, but hidden underneath all that talent is a great deal of sadness. Gojo is the most powerful sorcerer alive, and yet powerless when it came to saving those he loved most. Gojo is defined by his great strength, but Gojo's story is one of great tragedy, and even greater loneliness.


The most exciting and important parts of electronic components are made from crystals, which are made with semiconductors. A silicon atom is going to have four valence electrons, so we take a look at this guy, one, two, three, four. However, it wants to have eight. When we have a valence shell, the last shell, they want to have eight. That's the maximum number of electrons you will have in a valence. This is a problem, so what it ends up doing is this guy right here, this silicon atom, he's going to hook up with a bunch of his buddies and they're going to share their valence electrons. They're going to share them around so they each have eight valence electrons. This creates what we call a crystal lattice structure or a crystal. Let's take a look at what that looks like. Here we've got a bunch of silicon atoms milling about. They're chilling. They meet up. If we see here, they've got one, two, three, four, five, six. Then this guy, if he had one up here, seven, eight, they're all sharing them. Here's a great example. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. He's sharing his with him and him and him and him and they're all sharing them together and they're creating this crystal lattice. On its own, this crystal lattice isn't very useful, but if we add something to the recipe when this guy is starting to grow, if we add some sort of what's called an impurity, then we can make them extremely useful. We can give them a little bit of a conductive property or we can give them a little bit of an insulator property. We usually use boron or phosphorus. We add that to the recipe and it makes the crystal extremely useful. Now that is called doping. Unlike the kind of doping where you guys would probably take the van down to the river and you know what I'm saying. This is by injecting an impurity into this crystal lattice, we can give it different properties. Let's take a look at it. What we got here is your basic P-type semiconductor crystal. Before we had nothing but all this and all this and all this, we're all silicon atoms, but you notice now here, we've added this guy in. It's a boron atom, so we've injected this impurity into this crystal lattice structure. It, if you notice, is missing an electron. So there's a problem right there is it doesn't have an electron, so what it leaves is an extra hole. We call this a P-type because it has a deficiency of electrons or an excess of holes. It's like, and the P-type comes from when it's like that, it is a positive charge. It's like the old joke where an atom walks into a bar and it says to his buddy, hey buddy, I think I'm missing an electron. And his friend says, are you sure? And he says, I'm positive, get it? So he's missing an electron and it is a positive charge. So he has an extra hole here. Well, these electrons that are milling about and these guys will kind of all be hopping around, bumping each other. Now they've got a place to go. So this guy might bump this guy, which will move him to that hole. And we get electrons flowing. And when this guy bumps, then it opens up a hole here. That guy fills it. That guy moves. And we start seeing all this random current flow as it's flowing around, bumping electrons in and out of place because it's got this extra hole. We call that P-type. This is boron here and it's called trivalent. It's a trivalent material because it has tri, which is three valence electrons. So it ends up giving us a positive charge, which means a deficiency of electrons. The next one. This guy right here we're going to call the N-type. Now instead of boron, what we've done is we've added phosphorus. And we look here, we've got this phosphor atom that we inject into it. It's an impurity and it has an extra electron. So we've got this extra one right here. And with this extra electron, it can move relatively easy through the crystal. And when this guy starts moving, he bumps and bumps and bumps. And again, we get current flowing. So we called it the N-type because it is a negative charge, which means it has a surplus of electrons. And I don't have any cheesy joke to go with that. So we've got your N-type and your P-type. P-type having extra holes and it's trivalent. N-type having extra electrons and we call it pentavalent because this guy instead of having four electrons in its valence shell like a semiconductor would, it has five. And it's sharing them with all these guys. In the next video, we're going to see what happens when we take an N-type and we put it next to a P-type. And that's where all the magic starts happening, where we end up getting a diode. We'll see you in the next one.