So I remember about five years ago, we started talking about kind of the alt-right and I remember I did a couple of shows I think on what was then kind of the Iran book show or something similar about the alt-right. And then of course we had the election and everything else happened and that's when I kind of noticed them and the alt-right and you know after the show I got all this anti-semitic stuff and it was pretty nasty. And they've been around since then at the fringes nipping away and we'd be talking about this phenomenon on the right for a long time but when did this kind of come to consciousness for you, when did this issue become real and then what has stimulated kind of your most more recent interest in writing and engagement with this? Yeah, so as you said four or five years ago, I think we both started hearing about becoming moderately interested in what at the time was called the alt-right. And, you know, I think the turning point event was Charlottesville and the protestants Charlottesville and the aftermath of what happened in Charlottesville and I think it shocked me, it shocked you, it shocked I think a lot of people that there was this movement, which at the time consisted of a number of sort of very disparate groups I would say, from, you know, neo-Nazis to various white nation's front people, various identitarian groups. I mean, I think the coalition that formed at Charlottesville was actually a fairly, well, fairly broad spectrum group of people that loosely went under the name of the alt-right, probably the most famous person associated with the alt-right. And I think the guy who gave the name to it is this Richard Spencer guy who was a white nationalist type. But with Charlottesville, the whole thing seemed to implode and in fact it really did implode, the alt-right died I think in many ways at Charlottesville. And then that whole sort of movement just kind of, it seemed on the surface to my way of thinking, it kind of disappeared. And then it was now, I guess, two years ago that I became aware of a different kind of movement that was not necessarily associated with the alt-right. And it was a movement that was primarily online that grew out of places like 4chan and 8chan. And it was largely an underground movement of young people who took Pepe the Frog as their mascot. Well, Pepe was really the mascot of the alt-right even five years ago. Maybe, yeah, might have been, but Pepe only came to me sort of post alt-right. And this was the time of Milo Yiannopoulos and other people like that. And I started noticing that young people in particular were latching onto this. I had been aware of following, had been writing on the sort of general generic rights for quite a number of years. Well, we wrote a book together, right? That's right. On the Neoconservatives. I did a book on Neoconservatism and I'd actually been sort of writing on the conservative intellectual movements for probably 20 years, even prior to the Neocon book. But the right, broadly speaking, both conservative and libertarian was largely a movement that had increasingly become focused in Washington, D.C. And in the major conservative and libertarian think tanks, Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, et cetera, et cetera. So it was a movement at the time, and now we're talking sort of 2000, up to maybe 2010 at the most. It was a movement led by these white paper think tanks, for lack of a better term. So in other words, it was a movement of grown-ups, you might say. But then all of a sudden, I don't know, I think around 2017, I became aware that there was this underground movement of young people, and they were entirely online. And so I started exploring.  And so I started exploring it. And I quickly discovered, and you and I have talked about this at the time, young 14-year-old girl who goes by the name of Sof, who was putting out these incredibly provocative, I mean, and that's putting it mildly, videos. And she had a million followers on YouTube. And then there was this guy, Sam Hyde, who's very popular on what I call the dissidents' right. And he had his own TV show and the guy was frankly kind of a madman. Anyway, I just, I started following this world. And then I think the turning point came in August of 2018. And interestingly enough, two, I'd say important things happened that year. The first was Jordan Peterson's sort of disappearance. That's when Peterson just sort of fell off the map. Or maybe that was, I'm sorry, that was 2019. He fell off the map in 2019. And so in August of 2019, Jordan Peterson just fell off the edge of the earth. And then he stopped giving talks. And I think most people know his very sad story since then. But the very same month, the Claremont Review of Books published a review by Michael Anton, who was the author of the infamous Flight 93 election essay that really was a kind of catalyst behind the Trump campaign in 2016. People don't know that essay. Can you quickly give it a, like a one paragraph summary? Yeah. Well, the thesis is, think of the 2016 election as Flight 93.  And you basically have two options. You can just go down with the plane that's been taken over by terrorists, or you can, against all odds, try and fight the terrorists and take back the plane, the plane. And maybe you have some small possibility of surviving. But basically the argument down anyway, but at least you fought in a sense, but at least you fought. Yeah. And that, that's how Anton viewed Trump's election. The left has become increasingly to tell the Terian, they are going to destroy America. Trump for all of his vices and flaws is the only possibility to fight the left. So you might as well vote for Trump. So Anton wrote a review of a book titled Bronze Age Mindset by the perversely named Bronze Age pervert. And up until that point, I'm not sure that I even heard of the book or of the Bronze Age pervert. But that review, which was a review that was both in awe and in shock of this book by Bronze Age pervert. But on the whole, though, I would say the Anton review was generally speaking, at the very least fascinated by Bronze Age mindset, if not somewhat supportive of the Bronze Age mindset. And from that moment forward, certainly in one small corner of the online dissident right, particularly amongst graduate students in political philosophy. And all of a sudden, the Bronze Age pervert and his book became the hottest ticket in town. And so the Bronze Age pervert has a has a very large following on Twitter, almost 60,000 followers on Twitter. He has a very popular podcast called Caribbean rhythms. And so that's, you know, I started becoming very interested in what was happening with with the online dissident right and because you know, I'm a university professor, I'm interested in what young people are interested in. And with this larger interest in that I've had for decades now in the on the right in, you know, an interest in conservatism and libertarianism. I just started following this stuff. And I will go ahead. Well, I mean, Anne has a question that where she's attempting to insult both of us, but she says that you did a show on BAP a year ago from bad suggestion is actually longer than a year ago but yes. At what point is the focus on the fringe right away to steer clear of cancel culture. I mean you're talking to Brad who has been cancer cultures attempted to cancel many times and has fought them vigorously on campus and has published up ads against them and has done, you know, all kinds of work with regard to cancer culture, and I basically devoted I think 50% of the last few shows to cancel culture so what you want and what many of these people want is that we never talk about the fringe right because the only enemy, the only enemy is the left. And this is a good question I guess. Is it true that in the you know is BAP a friend because the left is our enemy. Well, the answer that is absolutely not right so that's why in just almost a year ago now so I guess in May of 2020.  And, and with that, then I have spent the last 10 months of my life, battling with these guys who have launched a kind of personal. Not ideological interestingly enough but a personal jihad against me. And so, if for some reason and thinks that Brad Thompson hasn't been a victim of both the woke right and the woke left she's sorely mistaken. I spent an entire academic career, being attacked and and attempts to cancel me by both the right and the left. And I'm probably one of the few people in history who's been foy it three times. I have freedom of information requests, where, you know, hundreds of pages of my emails have been produced, and, and, and attempted to make public so this this is a trend on, among certain, you know, people affiliate with objectivism that, and it's a trend I think on the right more broadly on the, on the better right that there's only one enemy and that's the left and we should focus all our energy all efforts on that and ignore So I, we've done two shows by and his own admission in one year right a year ago or now, and that to her is she's going up a plaque take because of two shows, because we haven't dedicated every second of every waking moment to attacking cancer cancer culture, which is being attacked by us but also by, you know, plenty of people I mean there's a whole army out there attacking culture culture, every single day anyway, back to back so you published pajama needs issues which is one of the great titles ever. And it got it really got them it got people talking, but before we get to back before we really dig into about the article doesn't just go after about, I mean and and I don't want to present it as a only force on the right that we think is worthy dealing with. But it also takes on kind of the trad cons traditional conservatives. So talk a little bit about trad cons, and then maybe broader what what what you consider the dissident right and who who who counts within the dissident right. So, you know, there, there are all kinds of sub factions in the dissident right. I've been primarily concerned with, I think the two largest factions, the so called Catholic trad cons or cath trads as they're sometimes called on the one hand, and then primarily bronze age pervert and his followers on the other hand, the Catholic trad cons, as they're called in the essay the pajama boy Nietzsche ends I take up primarily two of the leading voices of the Catholic trad cons, a professor of political science at Notre Dame, a guy named Patrick Denean, who wrote a book called why liberalism failed, and then so Rob Amari, who is the editor of the New York Post. And, and, and what I what I try to do in the pajama boy Nietzsche and essay is demonstrate that both of these factions of the reactionary right are profoundly anti American and in fact not only are they that, but they join with the left in their anti Americanism so in the essay I begin with a critique of the 1619 project. And, and then I turn to these, these, these two factions which I consider to be equally anti American, and they are openly and explicitly anti American so the Catholic trad cons for instance on the one hand. I would argue that all of the things that they regard to be corrupt immoral and evil in 21st century America. And this would be primarily on on cultural issues so so Rob Amari seems particularly exercised by drag drag queen reading power, for instance, right. And, and, but what Amari and Denean one argue is that the nihilism and moral relativism of late 20th and 21st century liberalism is the direct result indeed it is the culmination of the principles of the anti American founding. So, for Denean and Amari, there is a straight line between the Declaration of Independence and the Port Huron statement which was the, the, the, the new left statement of the 1960s that there's a direct relationship between Thomas Jefferson's ideas and that and drag queen story hour right so it's one continuous whole, it's the working out of those ideas. And that is just simply false. And then they make a very specific claim, both there and you know in the whole Amari French which was this fight with on within the right. I read a lot of kind of what they what these trad cons were writing the real opposition they have is really twofold it's the individualism. The individualism is what the left is about. And it's a, you know rejection of community and tradition, and in the state and the common good and the public interest, and all that so they reject individualism they blame the funny fathers for instilling and that the inevitable outcome individualism is the left and then, in a sense they don't do this explicitly, they reject reason they reject at least the individual's capacity to think for themselves. And so what they reject is individual values, and your choice of values your ability to use your mind, because, again that leads to subjectivism, which is what what they blame that link between Jefferson and and in the modern left to be. Absolutely so I mean the way the way the way to sum it up is the founders view is that the purpose of government is to protect the rights of individuals for the Catholic trad cons the purpose of government is to promote virtue and the common good, or the public welfare. And of course I mean that the whole idea of the common good is an anti concept that that has that has no basis in in in reality. And so they they are willing to use the coercive force of the state to make men good, rather than withdrawing the force the course of force of the state in order to make men free. And that's the fundamental difference between their view and the founders view, but somehow they believe that that the founders emphasis on on individual rights and individualism leads to the what they consider to be the corrupt culture of the world in which we live today. And so, you know that you might you might describe them as central planners of the right, as the central planners of the left want to control, want to control man's body they want to control what you know what he produces these central planners of the right want to control what he thinks. And, and, and his, his, his, his moral views. So, and I've noted, I've noted on my show that they now have a parallel in politics which is the people like Josh Holly and, and others who admit to being central planners and want government to control much of our behavior. So they are people now in Washington who, you know, manifest these ideas. And we know we've got new think tanks centered around these kind of ideas. One by Cass and another one I forget the name of we've got conferences of conservative nationalists who these people all affiliated with I mean there was, this is more than just an academic movement this is now an academic political movement. Yeah, it is and the Catholic trad cons, they, they tend to be somewhat more intellectually respectable because you know they all have those fancy college degrees and, and some of them teach it at universities and they have high powered visible positions in the media and amongst the intellectual elite, Bronze Age pervert and his followers, however, you know, it's a movement mostly of young men, I'd say between the ages of 18 and 35. But with Bronze Age pervert and his followers. They likewise reject the principles of the American founding. So, you know what are they often instead so you know the the the trad cons. We know what they're often instead they offer kind of a traditionalist authoritarian. You know we can impose our values on you and we're going to guide society to be good. What is, what is BAPS BAP is short for Bronze Age pervert. What is BAPS solution what's his ultimate state. I mean, BAPS philosophy is there's a lot to say about it and much of it is profoundly convoluted, but there is there is a kind of systematic philosophy but to go directly to your question I mean what what is the end point what is the political end point of baptism. It is by his own admission, and that of his followers. It is what they call Caesarism. So, I mean, and it's military rule, it's the military state that they are proponents of and BAP in the book Bronze Age mindset and on his podcast.  They include Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Edward, yes, Eduardo Strozner, Juan, Perón, Salazar and Franco from Spain and Portugal. Right, so those are the big revival and interest in Franco. It's interesting. He's considered the less bloody of all the dictators of the 20th century. And there's a there's a lot of people now coming out of Franco wasn't that bad that you know, unbelievable. Yeah, so it's at the very least, it's strong man authoritarian rule and and and that it's worse it's it's in there and in the essays that I wrote after the rise and fall of the pajama by Nietzscheans. And I've sort of laid out fairly systematically BAPs moral and political philosophy. And it at the, at the very least it's flirting with fascism, if not openly supporting. If you admire Saddam Hussein you're flirting with fascism there's no meaning today. What I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think, meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, women or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist. 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Okay. I'm just waiting for the recording to start. Okay. Good morning everyone. Welcome to the class BC314 on media and technology and ministry. Sorry for missing the classes last week. We will definitely catch up and cover everything that we intended to cover in this course. Let's pray together before we start. Can I request somebody to pray? Thomas, God bless you. Would you like to pray Thomas and help us start? It's your first time. Thank you. Father in Jesus name we thank you for this wonderful day Lord. Thank you for your mercy and grace. They are new every morning. Father as we sit to listen from your word.  Help us to understand that we thank you Starshis. Anoint him and Father let me grow in the kingdom. We bless you. We give you glory. Let the service be blessed in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Good morning and welcome everybody to this course on media and technology and ministry. So last week we didn't have classes. I apologize for that. The week before we covered some of the distribution channels. We talked about the various ways in which we can distribute content online through online platforms. I give you the list. As and when your church or your ministry grows and then you want to think about distributing content you can consider some of those platforms. So today what I would like us to look at is social media platforms which you know I think many of us are familiar with and are already using some of these platforms but I just want to touch on things that would be relevant in terms of how to use the platforms not so much as which platforms but you know some things to keep in mind as we use social media to engage with our audiences whether it's people in the congregation or people outside the congregation. So along those lines to share some thoughts and see if you would be interested in taking it and making use of it in your church in your ministry. We'll do that today. I think we will be able to cover that chapter and then from tomorrow onwards we'll start talking about equipment. So we want to talk about the hardware and software that we use in various things that we would be doing in ministry just to give us an exposure and when you have to make decisions you know on those things it'll be useful but let's try and see if we can discover the usage of social media today and these are just some guidelines to keep in mind. So you know social media has become a big thing in people's lives today for good or for better or for worse it's become a big thing and as we saw in a very first lecture when you look at the current data the number of hours people spend on the internet in general and social media in one of one or more of these platforms it's huge. You know an hour or more we just talk about averages we're not saying that every individual but in average on an average people are spending several hours a day on social media on multiple platforms. So it is important for us as a church as a Christian ministry to say okay look this is where people are then that's where we need to go and you know engage with them so we don't look at these social media platforms as taboo or bad no it's just where people are and so we need to be able to very intelligently see how we can engage with people right now some churches take the position that oh we will not engage with social media at all it's bad it's a waste of time this that personally my conviction is we don't need to take that stand rather we should say that look this is where people are then let's look at ways by which we can meaningfully engage people build relationships with people wherever they are and in this particular case social media platforms. Now some of the current platforms of course you know here's again platforms come and go things were there things platforms that were popular several years ago have disappeared and some have stayed and endured through time and you know we don't know what you know six months from today what would be there but some of the more stable more you know well established platforms which we are all familiar with Facebook Twitter LinkedIn and of course teenagers and young people are heavy on Instagram and TikTok and then there are other specialized type of platforms been interested in Reddit so LinkedIn of course it's you know a professional community it's meant for it's it's targeting working people or sorry I shouldn't say it's more of a professional type of social platform but it's good as a church to have a presence there because of that's kind of the people you're looking at reaching then it's good to be on that so the question I think to begin with is to find out for the audience that you are targeting right or maybe you have a diverse audience you know you may be having of course teenagers young adults may have others you may have professionals in your audience so you need to have a some idea now what are the social media platforms that people in your audience are spending time on so that of course you could engage with them on those platforms right so if people in example if there are a lot of young people teenagers young you know young adults in your congregation or in in your audience people that you're targeting then it's very likely they are very active on Instagram and TikTok you may not find them on LinkedIn you may not find them on Twitter but you'll find them on Instagram and TikTok if so like that you know just you need to have a good some idea okay this is where my people are and of course you may want to you know target multiple platforms and that's okay because you know in any congregation you have different age groups and segments of people and so you may need to do multiple platforms but find out the ones that you feel you should focus on and when I say research I don't mean like heavy-duty research it's just like looking across your congregation and you know just getting a feel of where people are that's enough so what I wanted to share is some you know some practical things on how do you engage with people on social media because the fact is they are spending time you know on a daily basis or at least on a weekly basis and people are spending time on social media so it's good that as a church or a ministry you have something happening where you can connect with people how do you go about doing it and here are some practical things one is it's very important it's very important to do regular posts from your church or ministry and of course you brand it that means you know it should be your church's facebook page or you know instagram account and it has your church logo or your church name on it so people know that okay this church or this ministry is putting out this kind of content so and there's nothing wrong you know basically as a church you're reaching out to the community that you are interested in or to the people that you're interested in so there's nothing wrong that you your church has a facebook page or an instagram account that is branded and named by your church or ministry and it's reaching out nothing wrong with that okay but then the key is to do a regular post don't do it randomly occasionally you know so people don't know when you're posting but if you do a regular post something that has created an expectation and people looking forward to then that would be useful so just some ideas you know for instance some of the things that we do and which I think almost any church can do is we put out our Sunday sermon the edited version of the Sunday sermon so happens on Sunday by latest usually by Monday or latest by Tuesday that edited sermon that's just a sermon part comes out then you know another sermon maybe 45 minutes long which is a lot of time for many people and so they may not want a full sermon so some people may want just the key points so we also have a five minute version of the Sunday sermon we call it key points which also goes out by Monday or Tuesday and then of course to the younger generation they just want to highlight hey if there were five key points what was the main point so we have a smaller version a 60 second or less version which is just one statement key statement from the whole sermon you know so you know we're looking at different interest levels and availability right some people would don't mind listening to the whole sermon some people may be able to afford five minutes some people just keep I'll give you a minute tell me something you know so we are putting all of that out on of course it goes on all our platforms so wherever people are engaging they're able to get it and this happens every week right every week so those are interested can look forward to it on a weekly basis right so they know and every Monday or every Tuesday these things are coming out from this church the sermon part we also have you know we also announce uh what we do is we announce the coming sermon that means the coming Sunday sermon title and all of that by usually by Friday now some people like it some people don't like the idea they say why do you want to tell people keep it as a suspense and you know make them come to church but we feel that we can let people know ahead of time what is this upcoming sermon sometimes it could be a guest speaker or sometimes it's part of a sermon series but they know what to expect you're already setting the expectation and sometimes if they're thinking about inviting their friend you know they could decide like okay yeah this sermon title seems to be relevant for my friend or or maybe I should not invite them whatever you know so we feel we are looking at from that perspective and so every Friday there's an announcement there's a graphic that goes out that announces the so the title of the sermon coming Sunday so you know I'm not saying you have to do it I'm just saying you know this is what we do and of course there are other event announcements if anything else is happening you also announce that then something we started doing maybe just a year back or so is we put out testimonies that come in of course these are a brief of the testimony start the whole testimony we do it anonymously that means we don't reveal the name or any of those details and people know that when they send a testimony we are going to share it so it's an implicit or implied permission and so and we don't reveal anybody's names if somebody sends a testimony not to that particular email ID but some other way then we check with them can we share your testimony anonymous way on our platforms and we get the permission then do it so these testimonies are a very good thing which you know or to do because then people know that something is happening in this church or in this ministry lives are being touched in such and such manner and it's a good thing you're doing it to promote but you're letting your creating awareness and of course you're glorifying the work of God glorifying God other things that you could do is just normal pictures and videos of what's happening in the church yeah just these are all the scandid shots of what's going on the church service sometimes you could get people to share their individual experiences you show people volunteering and serving at an event or something or part of the regular service it gives the outside people a feel of oh this is what the church is this is what the community is like you know and it lets people know and sometimes that can actually now welcome people to the church it's like hey these people are just regularly today people and they're all working together and they seem to be having a good time and they're happy and serving God and so it just draws people to your congregation or ministry and of course in cases where you need to get permission do that you know if if you're putting pictures of children and so on so forth and and and if you're having special events like conferences seminars mission trips programs you can put those pictures and videos which again is is a nice way to let people know what your church is about right so these are just some ideas but if you do it in a very systematic way that means it's good it's happening right regularly that is the key and rather than doing you know you know what happened once a month or once a year or once in a few months if it's happening regularly like your your sermons or your other events that is key it keeps people engaged on those platforms another practical tip is when you're using social media platforms maintain a consistent look and feel across all platforms that means people you know there is creativity there's different expressions but people should not get confused on what kind of a church you are example just example so you know so we use the word personalities meaning if you know or in one place you're you're you're you're making your church look as very sober very you know very reverent and then another in another place you know it looks very unlike that you know then people get a confused message you know because sometimes people may look at both platforms I'm not saying don't be creative but don't be you know don't use different creative ideas but what I'm saying is the look and feel who you are what is your church about coming the message coming through must be consistent across all platforms because people may tend to see you on multiple platforms it should not send contrary or confusing message so that's the point right so maintain a very consistent look and feel a consistent personality or a consistent messaging across all platforms not to confuse your audience okay another simple tip is to encourage people to share so you know sharing is like the word of mouth so you know the word of mouth is very powerful if if somebody invites a friend that says come to hey would you like to come to church that is more powerful than just you know randomly dropping invites into people's homes telling them to come to church now there's nothing wrong in you know sending in invitations somebody may come but the word of mouth personal invitation is very powerful because there is trust and there's relationship and comfort all of that so on social media sharing is kind of equivalent to the word of mouth so when you tell people in your congregation hey why don't you share this link with your friends now of course you don't want to force people or you don't want to make people obligated to it it's just a request you know you just so you know on Sundays we tell you know the person who's starting the worship would say or you know you'd welcome and then you say why don't you share the link now with somebody invite them or when we're doing other posts we say no please share with others so it's just an invitation it's not a compulsion but that sharing is very powerful because they would obviously share it with people who are connected to them on social media they will share it on their timeline or some form and it means that they are telling their friends they're telling people in their circle of influence hey I like this I'm going here so on so there's automatically a trust level and this is all happening on social media so without forcing people or without you know making them feel obligated you can just encourage people you know why don't you share with your friends and it's harmless you know you're just sharing it on your own timeline it's a very simple thing harmless thing to do and most people would be happy to do that okay so another useful thing maybe more than useful or I would say a necessary thing is to use hashtags along with your posts on social media so whatever you place after the hashtag is like a search keyword or a search phrase by which your content is being indexed by the search algorithm that's behind that platform so example on Facebook or on Instagram or any of these social media platforms when you do your post and then you put your hashtag usually you would do up about three hashtags and different platforms have a different you know I'm not saying standard but recommendations on how many hashtags are optimal so maybe on Facebook three on Instagram you can go up to 30 but doesn't mean you have to put 30 hashtags just means you can you know can go up to 30 so Facebook you can put more but just putting minimal about three is makes the post effective so like that what you do is use these hashtags to indicate what your content is about and to generate interest in your post if you don't use hashtag you're missing out on making your post and content searchable and visible to other people right so put some hashtags just even three hashtags anywhere you know in your post and you know you're indicating that it's on this topic or this category and so on right so simple thing you know so basically it's a it's a keyword or a key phrase and you can put it in the top middle bottom of your text and this is the normal way to do it right you don't use any space don't use no don't use any special characters for example all people search Bangalore or you want to you would a better way to do it is like this right that you use mixed case so it's easier to read or capitalize each individual word but make sure there's no space no underscore no hayfin no special character there like that so you can say this is an online church service so people are interested in that can go or then you could use things for you know related to the topic of your sermon related to the content of your post things like that so what happens that indexes that post makes it searchable so people are interested in that kind of a theme topic etc they can see this right so it helps your content to be found by the right people people who might be interested in it and it will drive traffic to your content right so basically you are targeting and you're making your post more visible when you add hashtags along with your post okay now other thing on social media is to respond to questions comments etc right especially questions or negative comments concerns now if people say you know I like this or you know people may just do a like or you know a positive comment okay you know you don't have to respond to it but if people are asking questions how do I come to church what time is your service etc or you know or it's good to respond to it because what happens is others are watching others are seeing you know how you are interacting with people and so it kind of in some ways telling people that look I care about your questions I care about your concerns I care about your comments now of course I don't do this you know we have somebody else doing or handling this so depending on you know the availability of your time so you have to be careful you know you don't want to get all your time gone and especially if you're a pastor or a leader you may not be able to spend the time responding to comments and so on so you can assign somebody else you know like just keep a watch on what's happening on the church Facebook page Instagram account or you know whatever it is and if there are questions or there are comments please respond on behalf of the church you can delegate the work because you yourself may not may not have the time but the idea is if we are responsive to people they will feel comfortable they'll feel happy that you know the church cares about their questions and concerns and it's a good tool for building relationships so you're actually making use of the platform you're building relationships and people may based on that decide to even come to the church okay so that's a that's a simple thing important thing but it's not always easy because it requires time and that's where maybe we should delegate it to people who can do it on behalf of the church and another another interesting thing and this is just a thought for for you to keep in mind is to make your posts at an optimal time now why is that first of all why is something like that important because a the first few hours of posting if you get engagement then these algorithms that are working on the on the social media platforms the recommendation engines they will begin to show your posts to more audience like they they it's almost like or they recognize that people are interested in this so let's show it to more people so we're going a step further it's not only about making a post but if you can post it at an optimal time where most of your audience are online and are likely to see it or engage with the post then it's going to increase its probability of being presented or shown to more people by the algorithms that are running behind the platform so that is why the right time to post is useful so depending on where you're posting and and I don't I'm not I'm not saying this always has to be but this is just a thought to keep in mind it's a useful thing you know you're thinking about when are people in my audience your target audience when are they most likely to be online you know so you ask questions like which day of the week and which time of day so you want to target those kinds of things and in some cases it's just a you know just an announcement you post anything okay but sometimes if you're really interested in you know optimizing your views your engagement with your post you may look at okay which day of the week would most people in my audience people that I'm targeting be online would it be a Sunday would it be a Saturday or would it be like a Thursday or a Friday generally you know now again this I'm speaking in general terms generally people say okay we know between Thursday to Sunday social media engage activity goes up Thursday because beginning of the week people are like I'm getting back to you know I'm getting back to work and you know so now some people may still be on it but generally Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday more people are you know carving out some time to check on their friends or engage on social media so okay so you have that window but in what time of day again generally speaking evenings are better right because mornings nobody's going to really be on social media they're all getting ready to work getting ready to school evening local time talking about and if you're targeting your audience locally yeah that's when most of them would be taking a little time to just check on what's happening on their Facebook or Instagram or things like that so this is a general thing later time later part of the week evenings is when most people are engaging with social so that's that's a higher it's a better time to post but now you need to know a little bit more specific about your own audience right just to guess we're not trying to just do some heavy duty research here just to guess okay maybe Friday evenings are better etc so certain kinds of posts you do with Friday evening 8 p.m or 7 p.m or 8 p.m you know depending on when your people most active will be the best time to put out your post chance of hired chance of engaging that's what you're looking at which will eventually result in more reach and more engagement now if you want to get a little bit technical on it you can look at the data the analytics so almost all of these social media posts will give you some information so a simple way is on Facebook there's a insights tab or insights page where you can go and it'll tell you okay you know this is this is your post that's doing most well this is when people are looking at your post give you some data and that will help you understand that you know this is when people are online this one people this is these are kind of posts they like the engaging so you can use that to help improve when you do your post right so one is you can just have a general understanding and that's good enough if you want to get a little bit more data specific you can look at the num insights given and then based on that you can make decisions I'm not saying this this always has to be but this just a good thing to be aware of and to use a few more things before we close on this is most social media platforms they also have paid promotions and advertising but I would definitely encourage you to use if you're promoting an event or inviting people to church and so on you know it's very cost effective even if you spend and I'm just speaking in rupees which is like even if you spend 500 rupees which is less than you know one dollar yeah one dollar no one dollar seventy so less than ten dollars even if you suspend 100 rupees you can reach in your say within your city within your target audience and you want to target let's say you want to target you want to promote an event in your city or you just want to invite people to your church service in your city so what do you do you create a graphic for that event or for the church service an example you can use facebook and say I'm running a paid promotion on facebook for one day or two days or three days whatever however you want and you just want to spend 500 rupees per day for three days you can do it and on an average you can you know for 500 rupees you can probably reach I don't know what the number would be but maybe like 10 000 people or more and it's very very cost effective and you can do it just you know within a few minutes you set the ad up submit it they will review it approve it and it's on there's nothing it's not too difficult now think about what you know what can you do if find it rupees if you were going to do it physically you would not even be able to print 10 000 handles for 500 rupees but using the social media platform you're able to reach example 10 000 people with just 500 rupees inviting them to church or inviting them to your event just just a very simple thing so using paid promotions advertising is useful when you target your audience you should know what your audience are interested in and you target them it's a good thing to do okay so keep that in mind a few other side comments before we close is like we said you can see how your page is doing using the analytics information that come with most of these platforms so on facebook there's an insights page and it'll show you about you know your people the people who are connected to your page and how how they're doing how your posts are doing etc so it's good to so it's good to have a look at that from time to time just to improve what you need to improve in using that particular platform and the posts that you're doing now there are social media platform monitoring software so this is advanced so I'm not saying you have to do it but if you want to you know if you really want to monitor and track what's happening to your page to your brand how your posts are doing etc in a very advanced way there are software tools that you can go and you can say you know monitor my page monitor what's happening and you'll get your results that'll help you on you know on an advanced level to make improvement so this is simple you know you can actually see it and see what's happening this is something you have to set up and it's more for advanced the last block of information here is that I just shared you know so okay so to do these posts of course you need graphics you need you need to make it look simple attractive I mean to do something you know something that's simple attractive and so on so I've just said a list of links and I of course I got this from our team I asked them to send me this list and these are both free and paid websites and portals where you can get graphics videos fonts so you could reuse you know these as part of what you do in your media work for you can encourage either volunteers or your staff they'll make use of graphics videos that are available through these and I'm sure that there are many more but these are what these are what our team sent back to me and what they use so you could explore using these for your work just to make your content your posts attractive to your own audience okay so that's about what I wanted to share here on social media that if we can engage intelligently it will be useful now I don't want this to consume all our time in the ministry of course so if you can get ideally it'll be nice if you get volunteers in your church and your congregation in ministry and just delegate it to them and say guys you know just handle the social media pages for the church and just keep you informed and you can of course interact with them give them guidance tell them what what needs to be done and especially if you have young people they would be more than happy to do this as part of the church's ministry so I'm not saying that as a pastor or as a Christian leader you should get involved in all the details you just have an idea just know that these are the possibilities these are the opportunities these are the details that should be attended to when doing when engaging on social media so then you can just you know get a team of volunteers or others to work on it just oversee the work tell them hey this is what we're doing let them come back to you on progress and then you can share ideas on you know how they can take it forward on behalf of the church and the ministry okay so I'm going to stop here let me see if there are any comments or questions from anybody on this any thoughts any questions any clarifications you would like here on this or any more information everyone's okay all right so tomorrow we'll start talking about getting into the equipment side just as a way of you know knowledge of knowing what is used where so that when you have people serving in your congregation or in your ministry you'll be able to interact with them meaningfully okay we're going to close and we will dismiss care or conan could you either one of you pray close and dismiss please can you pray and send us please yes sir whether we just come before once again you're thrown or what we want to just say thanking your father for this object thanking you for the court for your revelation and understanding and wisdom for the court to this subject thinking your father could help us to move forward for the court thinking you almighty Jesus name we pray all right thank you everyone um I'll see you again tomorrow we have three hours together tomorrow God bless bye now


Hey everybody, welcome back to magic orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a deck review. All right So today we're going to review the craft beer deck from the United States playing card company bicycle If you don't know what craft beer is craft beer is small. Okay, so you got to think small breweries. So independent traditional They have an annual beer production less than two million barrels. Okay, so that's what would be considered a craft beer So the argument would be made that craft beer would be unique, you know that you have a small production team you have a small line of product and Your brew masters are going to be really hands-on. They're going to be very particular very Involved in the process and making this and so what USPCC wanted to do was this partner with 53 different breweries and profile them on each card face and kind of just you know, just shared their love for card-making but also to celebrate beer and so these are breweries from all around the United States These are all genuine American Entrepreneurs their passion is dedicated to the innovative full-flavored beers they make and so this deck is of course Dedicated to all those people like me That love their local breweries and the people behind them. Okay, and so again drink responsibly 21 and over obey your laws in your state So the front of the took case this is embossed. This is all embossing says bicycle and it's celebrating 53 different breweries Does a craft beer playing cards right there this side says air cushion finish made in the USA And this side says air cushion finish made in the USA. The bottom has an ad copy about USPCC The top has the standard Tuxedo logo and then the back has a little bit of just copy about the theme and why they made the deck and the inspiration behind it And that is pretty much it for the took case. Let's take a look at these cards These cards come off the shelf and so they are a bicycle retail stock They do have a modern cut and air cushion finish and if you would like to learn more about stock cut or finish You can click the link below in the description Okay, so since this is a bicycle deck and it's an off-the-shelf deck Of course, it's going to handle and feel a lot like a standard rider back deck Standard 808 deck it does have really nice smooth edges nice smooth corners the registry You know, it's going to be what it is and it's not a Q1 quality But it's a really good deck nice buttery soft deck the stock is very thin very flexible very snappy It's a good deck the back design is a two-way image. It's a thick brown poker-sized border And so the but the faces are white so hiding reverse cards doing magic That would be an issue the corners have a little circle that says bicycle And that should be a hop there in the corner and then you have a bottle of beer going top and bottom with the four Icons there of the suits there in the center and then you have some, you know hops or barley there on the sides making a little ring and Just some ornamentation making a frame with this deck. You're going to get two Original and uniquely different jokers and they are breweries. So again the breweries can continue on to the jokers as well They didn't make craft beer jokers specifically. These are actual Logos from local breweries with this deck. You're also going to get one double-backed gaffer, which is good for magic tricks And with this deck you're also going to get an ad card It's pretty much the same write-up that is on the back of the tuck case So it gives you a little bit of the inspiration behind the deck your ace of spades is a vintage design It says Erlingard, Kentucky down there at the bottom and again, you have the bottle of beer there in the center It's really pretty. I like the dark Tobacco brown colors that this deck utilizes and I think it makes for a very attractive ace of spades so the rest of the deck is only denoted by corner indices here in the corners obviously and The black cards are black and the red cards are kind of like a umber Brown and then you can see from the face. It's a one-way design and so it only reads one direction and they're all Craft beer logos. Okay, you're not going to find any kings or queens or jacks You're not going to find any center arrangements of five hearts It's all going to be craft beer logos and so I would say that this deck It's probably going to be more attractive to the collector either of cards and or Beer beer fans great deck of cards to have in a bar, you know, somebody says hey Do you have a deck of cards? This would be a great deck for that or you know, if you were a brewery and You know people played card games in your lobby, which I've seen and so it's kind of falls into that line Or you know, you just want a fun deck of cards I don't know if this would work great for magic, you know I think people would be too focused on the image in the center So I don't I wouldn't recommend it for magic It could be fun for cardistry because it has you know a unique flashing image that would You know passed by the spectator's eyes whenever you were doing a civil cut or whatever All right So that is the craft beer deck from the United States playing card company As always we recommend that you like this video just so other people can find it faster We also recommend that you subscribe to this channel just to stay up to date on the latest in cards and card magic If you want to follow me on social media, you can I'm at facebook.com slash magic orthodoxy twitter.com slash magic orthodoxy Instagram.com slash magic underscore orthodoxy and you can always find more content at magic orthodoxy.com Thanks. 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So I walked up we're gone. We're going to walk in the courtroom the first day And I walked up and I said hey, mr. Makis. I said I said I'm Kevin Hazel. I know you're I Said listen We're gonna spend the next week in the courtroom together and I just wanted to say how sorry I am the way I remember it John Used a an army expletive Told me to go f myself and walked in the courtroom and that's how my first conversation with John. Yep So that's how we started and that was the beginning of jury selection the first trial And let me tell you the judge Great guy love him But he absolutely wanted my client to fry and you wanted to go down and we got to opening statement And we got to that part and I had a plan and I had a plan I had a plan Because I knew what they were gonna do in my mind. They're gonna try to hide this investigating officer And they showed up at opening statements and the prosecutor took a gold framed picture of John's wife Put it on an easel in front of the jury and said that man killed that woman and after it happened You know what he said?  I mean it's like you're you're The skin is crawling. I mean it was so it was palpable And it was like oh my gosh So we got done and like every jury's like It's like man, I even started I didn't say the word I didn't got out of the shoot. I said boo. It was bad


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Good morning guys. Welcome to a new vlog. This is actually gonna be a vlog Like I'm actually going out of the house. Can can you believe it? Okay, so I'm meeting up with one of my friends to go to Disney Springs and it's gonna be a lot different Then back in the day when I would go to Disney Springs There's gonna be like, you know temperature checks. There's gonna be you have to wear a mask like everything like that So I just thought I would take you along the journey. I love vlogging as you guys well know That's what most of my channel is. So that's what I'm gonna do today. Sorry my forehead's like super shiny first things first I need to find what I'm gonna wear So this is gonna be interesting probably gonna keep it simple But I just actually want to kind of put some effort because whenever what I'm saying my friend I haven't seen her in like a long time and then number two since I never like go out I actually want to kind of dress up because I don't have the opportunity to a lot of the time at these days So let's look in the closet. Oh and by the way a lot of you guys ask Why I have a refrigerator and a microwave in my room and that is because I went to a university went to UCF that's another story time for another time and I lived in a dorm and I had This stuff in there and there's like nowhere else to put it. So it lives there it's really convenient during hurricane season when like my family comes over and We need more space and everything we have it and if we all want to eat something and our Microwave or stove or whatever is being used. It's always good to have that microwave to heat stuff up So what shall we wear? This is a little too dressy. This would be good But feel like I just wore that for a video Even though this looks like a lot Okay, this looks like a lot of clothes really don't have a lot of clothes I know that sounds kind of contradictory, but I don't know man Let's figure out the sound maybe I'll wear this I'll show you guys what I come up with but right now I have no freaking idea what I should wear cuz see like a lot of the clothes I have it's for business or it's like shorts. Maybe I'll wear these but I feel like I wear these a lot I don't know and then I have a lot of winter wear like all of this stuff. It's like good for like winter Winter ish. I mean these are nice. Oh, maybe I'll wear this romper Yes, this would be good. I decided to go with this. It's really light and airy It does have pockets, which is really cool I think this is a perfect outfit because it's not too like fancy But it's still playing an effort and it just looks good for a park Who knows but this is definitely fitting me a lot better Then when I first got it because I was a little bit more thicker back in the day I don't know. I just feel a lot better in this. It's a lot more loose Especially in my waist area. So that's cool I'm gonna wear my black flip-flops because I do have really cute like nude shoes to wear But they really kill my feet so it'd be good if I was wearing that for like a dinner or something Okay, so I am on my way to Disney Springs. It's so crazy. I haven't driven in so long It just feels so weird Honestly, and I'm trying to be like extra careful because I haven't driven in a while anyway I'm at a stoplight. So don't fret. Does anyone else even though you kind of already know where things are? You still put on your GPS just because I don't know if that's just me or not But I'll see you guys only get to Disney Springs. Well, this is a awkward view alright So I'm at Disney Springs and I had to open this I have to open this now because my friend is getting married As you guys know, I've been waiting for this for so long. Oh my gosh, it's so cute At least will you be my bride-maid? Yes! Look how cute it is. Oh my favorite picture. So cute. Oh, oh actually glass. I like And we have some champagne here some handsome. Oh, this is yeah, very very you a little face mask a little chocolate And a bird's-bees First bird's-bees ever. Thank you All right back to the vlog back to the Disney part Okay, first thoughts after just a little bit in the humid weather this amplifies the hotness It's not a very comfortable, but I think it's doable and especially if like you go in an air conditioning building I think it would be fine. Oh man. This is weird. So where do you want to eat? I don't know.  Oh my gosh. Yeah Geez Breathing all over us nasty They got some arrows here for the direction to keep everyone on the side lines like you guys know what I mean, which I find interesting there's a bunch of signs everywhere and Think we're gonna eat a raglan ruby because they have the best fries well not that restaurant But like the quick service version they have the best fries and since I'm out, you know I love me some fries. So that's what inspired me Okay, so here are the tables where the people were grilling their hot dogs. It was like somewhere over there But it was just really funny. Okay, so I got my fish and chips the guy who brought us our food He had us take the food off and then take everything else off and then he just walked away So he was not touching anything. They're taking really good precautions. So a plus Oh, let me just try to change this here. It's a lot less crowded than I've ever seen it Which is good, but there's still a lot of people it is a Saturday Okay, so we're trying to look for the entrance of the big Disney store. We don't really know where it is We've almost walked around the entire store No looks so far Wait, no, it's a cast members only We walk past it All right, so I think this is the entrance right looks like it whoo air conditioning Let's see how they do. I love how this is like a test. Do they test the CDC guy? I know Man These backpacks are cute. I Like this rain jacket. That's a cool texture. Oh great. We maybe we shouldn't touch everything Look at these backpacks I wonder if they have the ears here Okay, okay Okay, so there are these like really hard to find ears that are going like on eBay for like a hundred dollars Because they're like always sold out. I think they'd like the tiki room like limited edition. I don't know Is this a new section? I don't know. I haven't seen this Pretty cool. Oh my gosh, look at how cute you guys know I'm like a sucker for like notebooks. Oh my gosh It's an actual notebook That's cute. Oh my gosh, all the photos you've taken in a quarantine going here All right, so this is definitely one worth of logging. Sorry, there's something on my camera lens Just ignore that but anyway, this would be really good to wear with like a gravity I was telling my friend that like if I were to buy one of these backpacks It would have to be one that I could wear like with a normal outfit like to target or something You know, so we're looking at all of the t-shirt designs. I love floor key That describes us perfectly I love the Dingle Hopper one. That's also me. I don't know. I don't care. Yeah, that's also me Look at how cute these are Oh, here's our shirt Yeah, we came across these new little key chains. Remember when these were like the coolest things ever We found some backpacks or bags or whatever they are and they're really cute. I like this red one It has the Mickey Mouse hat on it and then this is the Tiki Room one. That's cool looking I love the Disney balloon one. Oh my gosh, look at the castle That one's cute. Oh my gosh. Okay, whoever designs these good job. Good job. You should get a race Okay, so I just wanted to Vlog that I got the ears. We're saying how mysterious we look because well first of all this lighting But second of all, well, like our masks are sunglasses and the ears kind of mysterious look, but you know, we're working with it I don't know where we're gonna be headed off to later Let's just walk around a little bit more. It is so hot with this thing on like it makes it five degrees hotter Probably I also wanted to mention that they're leaving the garbage cans like open So you don't have to touch anything which is really good I found that that was like dirty to begin with so I'm glad that they like did something with that Even though what's not as attractive. Alright, so we've come into the toy store and there's all this like new onward merch If you've seen onward, let me know what you think of it. It was a lot better than I expected of a movie It was actually really good. So I highly recommend you check it out Okay, so we've come into Earl's Sandwich and we got some frozen lemonade and this is awesome they have the one here getting like all the extra lids and Straws and everything for everybody and they're also gonna get you your drink for you So there's not like cross contamination and stuff, which is really good.  I know They have signs here as well We got the stormtroopers up there fun stuff. They're reminding everyone to wear their masks Just thought I would update the video and say that we're in coach. We're just taking a peek around Here's the glance over the men's stuff We came into the Disney style store and there's funny popcorn cases They actually put popcorn in it. That's kind of strange. So Carly just mentioned There's a fellow vlogger all the way over there But I wanted to mention that all these stores are open here and yeah, that's just all I wanted to say I think Maria and Enzo's is still closed the Edison looks like it. It is still closed I believe Paradiso is open. Obviously STK or steak is open. It looks like there's people in there It is so hot like it. We're in like probably the middle afternoon. What time is it? It's 547 and I'm so hot I think this is probably one of the hottest just because where the Sun is and these masks do not make it more Pleasant because it's like more sticky humid. We've seen a lot of people with masks on and there's just been a couple that Haven't been wearing masks. So that's good to see at least people are like trying, you know So, I don't know what we're gonna do next. We're just kind of walking around We've come we've come to the Boat House as you guys can see I got a mule obviously just because I've been craving this so we're at the Boat House and They wiped down everything and then we got these paper menus And now we have our second round This is just a rosé because I wanted to try the thing that Carly was drinking So it's really good very smooth. Okay, so we got this cutest little drink. It's called something ras It's called the duck duck ras and honestly, I just think it's the cutest thing ever So I had to vlog it. It's adorable. We're just having like a really fun time. Isn't it cute? Okay, so now we are headed to a sprinkles right over there And we're gonna eat some cupcakes because we're just in the mood to you know, right Carly? Okay, so we're at the cupcake ATM Check out I guess cute So my cupcake is a little tipped over because I tipped it over but I got this vanilla one I normally like to get the milk chocolate with the vanilla cupcake But they didn't have a lot of options as you guys could see in the screen So I just went with vanilla. Which one did you get Carly? I got rid of it. Cool cool


Surprise surprise Fox news is attacking Bernie Sanders again and this new round of attacks comes after he introduced a fully fleshed out Green New Deal proposal, so I anticipated these attacks But what is surprising to me is just the sheer level of laziness in the way that they're choosing to attack him because they're not even trying to attack him in An intellectual way like they're just trotting out the same argument that they used before That wasn't very persuasive then and it still isn't very persuasive now But essentially what they're trying to say is Bernie Sanders must be a hypocrite because he has a carbon footprint But also cares about climate change and it's just it's it honestly is baffling that they still think that This is a persuasive line of attack.  Yeah, of course So what ways would you take to practice what you preach if you were to become president? No, I'm not gonna walk to California. All right, you know, look, you know, I understand that you know We we do the best we can as an example, but I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that we're not gonna use fossil fuels I'm not gonna tell you I'm not gonna get on a plane that would not be true I mean it seems like people like Bernie have a higher threshold Martha when it comes to You know walking the walk Absolutely, I mean when I watch that moment it reminded me of when we did our town hall with Bernie Sanders And it had just been announced that he made over a million dollars on his book And I asked him, you know, you say that millionaires and billionaires should pay more in their taxes So would you volunteer, you know to walk the walk to say, you know what? I should be paying more because I am now a millionaire He was mean first of all And he said, you know, why don't you pay more and I said, well, I'm not running for president I'm not advocating any of the things that you're that you're talking about But why why wouldn't you so he doesn't like to be pressed on these these issues that he claims to feel strongly about and that was another example You can tell you're right that that is his biggest weakness when you accuse him of hypocrisy He gets very defensive. Well first at Bernie better call up the Obamas because they just purchased a 12 million dollar mansion on the coast Now if you listen to the Dems that coast will not be there in 10 years So does the Obamas know something that the Dems don't that it's all BS which stands for Bernie Sanders The thing is the secret to being a progressive is to be on top Because if you're on top then you could enforce your beliefs without ever having to adhere to them And then when people come after you you can be like to Blasio and you go well You know what I got everybody else to obey and to sacrifice which allows me to go to the gym in Brooklyn with an entourage or with Bernie to own three homes and fly private or first class Yeah, that's like Bill Maher He can root for a recession because he couldn't you can wait out a recession with his money Well, I remember when Beto's tax returns or financials came out and people said well Why haven't you donated more to charity since you come from a very wealthy family and he essentially said well I am the gift Good and people like Bernie Sanders want to control every type of industry so that the little guy has to come and beg them for Whatever it is that they need. He's the guy that said that bread lines in Nicaragua were a good thing, right? I mean, but he's the one who's standing in those lines, right? No, that's not true You know, I listen to you too much you probably should I'm so curious because it seems to me that when I look at the people who are backing Donald Trump the big donors They're on top and they seem to be Donald Trump is doing great with the big Don't do with the Steve Ross is an all and the little donors well That is doing a little better But you know what you look at the money that comes from packs Greg you let the so-called dark Oh, he has a huge lead in this but to get back to Bernie for a second all of you I think are not understanding that Bernie is not playing small ball. He's talking Transformational politics on issues that the Republicans have nothing to say about that He will be the nominee as I predicted, but I don't know you see I don't know that the Democrats feel confident that he won't be easily portrayed He calls himself a socialist and and what does Trump want us to see a stronger candidate than energy-wise than Joe You know one the way that you change behavior especially when it comes to pollution and the environment is to do it on an individual level And if someone like Bernie Sanders can't name one possible thing that he's willing to cut back on when he's telling everyone else We're gonna tax the you to the out the wazoo tax the middle class Sue the oil companies completely take over the government with the oil companies for no crime that they've committed And yet he's not willing to say one thing he's willing to do So I don't know what that town hall participants said because for whatever reason Fox News conspicuously edited out What he said and I couldn't find the original clip But let me just respond to that individual by saying first of all There is no ethical consumption under capitalism and second of all Climate change cannot be solved at the individual level because 100 corporations emit 70 percent of greenhouse gas emissions So you can personally choose to go vegan. You can personally choose to start biking to work But that's not going to save the planet We need government action here because climate change is an issue that is interconnected When the planet's temperature increases this affects a multitude of different things This isn't just about driving this leads to desertification ocean acidification. This has political ramifications This could lead to mass migration Areas of the planet becoming uninhabitable the middle east for example would be too hot for people to survive areas of the country Being flooded being underwater permanently potentially florida for example So for you to say oh, you know if I just choose to make better decisions as a consumer That's going to save the planet One that's not reasonable to expect people to do that and two even if every single person Even if 100 of us at the individual level did that as I stated not going to save the planet So if you make this argument, it just tells me that you're not clever. You're not smart You're uneducated about this issue period now. They also decided to Like in what bernie sanders said about flying and air travel to him not wanting to raise his own taxes So one of the hosts on the table there She co-hosted bernie sanders town hall and she said look I asked him about this.   He I love paying taxes like nobody loves paying taxes just for the sake of paying taxes Nobody writes a check to the irs because they like the way it makes them feel The reason why bernie sanders is saying that we should increase taxes on wealthy people including himself Is because we expect something in return raising his taxes to help fund medicare for all Is something that's valuable Just needlessly giving the irs more money when you know that that's going to be used To bomb children in the middle east of north africa What point does that serve the point of increasing taxes on the rich Is to have that money go towards things that help people So that's just an idiotic thing to say and to claim that that's hypocritical I mean that's so disingenuous and she claimed that bernie sanders doesn't mean in his response But I mean look You asked a stupid question.  So the little guy has to beg them for whatever it is that they need This is the guy who said that bread lines in nicaragua are a good thing So first of all, bernie sanders has not advocated that the government be in control of every type of industry But if we're being honest here, that's more preferable than private companies Being in control of every single industry. So I mean for example healthcare You don't want private companies delivering healthcare to us because there's a conflict of interest They care more about making money increasing profits increasing shareholder value So to say that in all instances, you know, I'm just I'm hyper capitalist We should never allow the government to be involved Well, when it comes to healthcare at least just that's just one example Who would you prefer to be in charge of that industry? The government who answers to the people who is accountable to the people or private corporations Who is accountable to no one whose board members we can't elect? I mean, I think the answer is pretty obvious You can make the case that maybe, you know, when it comes to fashion and clothing and video games That can be up to private companies. But I mean she this is someone who's not You know a good faith actor. She's just trying to smear bernie sanders Now I want to give you the full context about that quote that she cited because she keeps bringing this up This is the actual video of what bernie sanders said when he was asked about bread lines in necrogla Sometimes american journalists talk about how bad a country is because people are lining up for food That's a good thing In other countries people don't line up for food. The rich gets a food Now to give you some additional context here that she conveniently left out Or doesn't know about bernie sanders is not suggesting that we should have people in this country Be so impoverished so, you know economically Um disadvantaged that they have to line up for bread that's provided by the government That's literally the opposite of what he wants like he wants us to have economic independence He wants to increase our purchasing power But in the context of the way he was talking about bread lines is he was saying governments Should be responsive to the needs of the people and a government in a highly impoverished country That is at least trying to offer bread to people. That's better than a government that just says, you know, what starve So context absolutely matters. He's not saying like are you honestly saying that bernie sanders wants us To be as bad as necrogla where we have to have these bread lines Of course not. He's talking about need. He's talking about the delivery of goods and services He's talking about being responsive to the needs of the people So for you to twist that is incredibly nefarious and disingenuous But this is one of the dumber fox news hosts and you're gonna see that so As usual wan williams. He was the only reasonable person on the panel and he said bernie is talking Transformational politics on issues that the republicans have nothing to say about now.  Do you know anything do you even believe in climate change for one? but I mean do you honestly believe that One all americans would be willing to make these changes at the at the individual level and even if They did make those changes.   So for you to suggest. Oh, well, you know, let's all just do better guys. Come on. Let's reduce our carbon footprints individually That's not realistic You need a government and governments plural to come together and address this issue The united states is the biggest country militarily economically so we can easily be a leader here But donald trump is an imbecile. He doesn't even believe in climate change So what bernie sanders is saying is i'm going to make us a world leader I'm going to make sure that we have a green new deal that doesn't just make us a world leader when it comes to green renewable technology But it pays for itself within 15 years It brings other countries together creates a fund for developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions And guess what we could potentially save the planet this way We change the way our economy functions, but this fox news host Since she's getting paid i'm assuming six figures would rather lie about that. It's just it's disgusting Now here's where she really shows all of her cards here She says bernie sanders can't name one possible thing to cut back on when he's telling us He's going to tax you out the wazoo tax the middle class through the oil companies Completely take over the government with the oil companies for no crime. They've committed and yet He's not willing to say one thing. He's willing to do but wait, didn't you just contradict yourself?  So that's all it takes though, right? Why didn't we think about this sooner? Individuals could have solved this climate crisis a long time ago I guess that the indigenous tribes in the amazon could just choose to not have their homes destroyed by private corporations I guess that we can choose to not create large multinational corporations and pollute the planet ourselves done I mean, what are you saying? We have what 11 years to act to take drastic action To stop a climate catastrophe and there are still people on fox news Who have no sense of urgency whatsoever and they're still promoting this harmful idea that at the individual level That's the way that we solve climate change This is a micro level issue and definitely not a macro level issue So you should probably stop pressuring lawmakers to impose more regulations on these companies that are polluting the planet And just you know, choose to not pollute the planet yourself. Uh, you know recycle more I mean, this is just downright dangerous now. Like I would love to say this is just fox news stupidity So let's laugh and point the finger at them and make fun of them. But I mean, we're in crunch mode We have 11 years to potentially stop Climate catastrophe and save the planet So this this can't stand anyone who's saying this at this point in time is a danger to the world Is a danger to the world and I don't think that that's being hyperbolic


What would you do? If you knew you were going to die? If your heart was broken, beyond repair? If you knew you would never grow old and that any breath could be your last? Alex Preston has faced this question throughout his entire life. He has grown up knowing that, eventually, he will literally die of a broken heart. Faced with the constant pressing issue of his own mortality, he once kept his pain hidden from the world, until one day, when he decided that if he was to die, he would leave behind a legacy that couldn't be ignored. This is the story of Hyper Light Drifter, a video game that was born of pain and suffering. This is the story of Alex Preston and the weak heart that inspired a digital masterpiece. Alex Preston has always known that he is not long for this world. Alex was born with a congenital heart defect, as well as a rare genetic disease. As a baby, he underwent open heart surgery in an attempt to lengthen his life expectancy. This early surgery worked, but it isn't the only time Alex's heart has gone under the knife. Throughout his life, Alex has suffered the pains of his illness. He takes a cocktail of drugs on a daily basis, just to keep himself alive. And he must stick to a strict routine in order to ensure that he can keep his health up. Any bout of sickness could be his last. And even something as simple as eating the wrong food could cause him significant pain. So how does a person live with the knowledge that their life will likely be cut short? In Alex's case, he uses art as an outlet for his struggles. Alex studied an art degree at college, using his creative works to reflect his own personal challenges and health issues. While he later felt that his early art was pretty awful, Alex appreciates that these early works were important for him to learn to express himself. Creating terrible art is simply a rite of passage that every artist must pass through. Upon his graduation, Alex moved on with his life as best he could. He worked as a freelance artist, drawing when he was healthy enough, while also taking time to rest when necessary as his illness periodically slowed him down. When possible, Alex also made art for himself, which continued to draw inspiration from his own trials. He hoarded these, keeping them to himself, as he didn't feel like he wanted to share them with the world. They were simply his own method of coping with the constant threat of death. Throughout this, Alex maintained a keen sense of humour. His doctors were amazed at how he would come into appointments, making rye observations filled with dark jokes, even as he discussed matters of his own life and death. Then, Alex hit a particularly rocky patch. He was hospitalised, and, for a while, things looked bleak. This might be the end. But as he lay there in the hospital, Alex decided that he wasn't ready to go just yet. He realised that he needed the world to know who he was before he left. If he was to go, he wanted to make sure he'd leave something behind that would make people sit up and pay attention. And so, Alex pulled through, and upon discharge, he began working on a plan to share his unique perspective, and his own personal trials, with the world. Alex decided that he wanted to make a video game, a piece of interactive fiction that would put the player in Alex's shoes so that they could feel, even in an abstract, metaphorical fashion, a little of what he feels every day. He started by making sketches and storyboards, and then trying his hand at using game engines. This game would be driven by pictures and images, with no spoken dialogue. He wanted things to stay ambiguous, but not so ambiguous that the meta-story wasn't apparent. Things really ramped up when Alex began working with the programmer, Bo Blythe, at which point Hyper Light Drifter began taking shape. The pair prepared for a Kickstarter, and Alex finally shared his story with the world. In his campaign outline, he was completely honest about what was driving the project, how he felt as a man with a serious heart condition, and why he wanted to turn his experience into a fantasy video game. Alex even named his fledgling game studio Heart Machine, succinctly explaining the focus of his game, and the omnipresent issue within his own life. To Alex's complete surprise, the resounding response that came from the internet was, we hear you, and we want to know more. Alex had initially set a goal of earning $27,000 in order to make Hyper Light Drifter a reality. By the time the funding window closed, Backers had pledged over $645,000. This was incredible. Alex hadn't expected a reaction that was anything like this. Something in his game pitch genuinely seemed to speak to people, and he now had the chance to make his game the way he wanted. Very quickly, the project ran into delays. Part of this came from the generous funding that Heart Machine had received. With more money came the opportunity to expand the game's scope, and that meant that things were going to take more time. Heart Machine grew, as many new team members joined the project, all under Alex's direction. Delays were also caused by illness. All the money in the world couldn't fix Alex's heart. It couldn't erase his genetic condition either. Alex worked when he could, and when he was sick, things slowed down. There was no way around this. At one point during development, Alex had to endure another round of surgery, as doctors fitted a new artificial valve within his heart. It helped to keep him alive, and that was the priority. So the game had to take a backseat as he recovered. Slowly, everything within the game fell into place. Alex filled his creation with overt references to his disease. The story follows a character with a similar fatal illness. While it is never clearly explained, the character is seen coughing up blood and passing out at different points in the narrative. Alex and his team littered the game with beating heart imagery. Meanwhile, he put his own story front and centre as he talked to press and interested gamers. He wasn't able to do everything he wanted to do. There were events that Alex would have liked to attend, but he simply couldn't handle the journey, and the time on the show floor, the strain would have been too much for him. Finally, Hyper Light Drifter launched, and gamers loved it. This was clearly a game that was about something. A piece of art that was more than a simple action simulator. The game was nominated for many prestigious awards, both for its art, design, and its music. Alex enjoyed the praise that came his way, even if it was sometimes bittersweet. He was offered the chance to travel to Japan to speak at a conference, but he had to decline, because the journey would have been too much to bear. Nevertheless, he was pleased with his creation. Alex had set out to show the world his viewpoint, to make sure that people understood him and the struggle he faced thanks to his illness. He had achieved this, and had managed to share his story with the world. To this day, Alex continues to be active in the gaming world. He knows that his time is limited, but he intends to make the most of it. The moral of the story is that heartbreak can lead to beauty. Alex Preston took all of his pain and suffering, and channeled it into a piece of art. He made something positive out of all the negative things in his life. Alex's attitude in the face of adversity, his ability to keep smiling and joking when facing death, is to be commended. This isn't easy, and facing our struggles isn't always pleasant. Don't give up hope, no matter what you're faced with. If you keep pushing forward, you may surprise yourself with just how much you can accomplish.


Perhaps he's not a household name in the way that Caravaggio, for example, is, but he is one of the greatest 17th century Italian painters. This is not just a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see these paintings together. If you've never seen a guacino, please come to Woodstone, because this really is an unmissable opportunity to immerse yourself in the wonder of his painting.


A lady went into a very busy butcher shop. She saw dozens of dressed chicken hanging there. She went there, lifted her leg and smelled, lifted another leg and smelled, lifted a wing and smelled. Like this she went on from chicken to chicken. Then the butcher came and tapped her on the shoulder and said, man, could you pass a test like that? You won't. So don't go about smelling around, what's wrong with this guy, what's wrong with her, what's wrong with him, what's wrong with her, what's wrong with him. All of them stink a bit. Yes, every tree, every plant in some way rooted in filth, but the question is only, does it throw out a fragrant blossom? That's all the question is.  Are we in the process of transformation? Because this is the nature of life. Are we a continuous process of transformation? Because everything is. Everything else on the planet is in the process of transformation. Are you a process of transformation? That's a big question. If you are a big yes to this one question, nothing else matters. If you're a stagnant pool, getting entangled in this and that every day and finding devious reasons as to why you're entangled, then you're a hopeless case.  When I say waste of time, I'm saying a wasted life because your life is just time. Some other creature could have lived. A grasshopper would have hopped around with more joy than a devious human being. Yes or no? We could make a million grasshoppers or butterflies out of you. For the same body weight. Yes or no?  Yes or no? We are a very expensive life, expensive in every way. To eat, sleep, to walk, how many arrangements we need. Yes or no? From footwear to clothes to buildings to how many arrangements. I don't see a kitchen anywhere in the forest, but they're all well fed. Now did you see the elephant walking with shoes? Very expensive life. For so much expense, this must do something better than every other creature can do. We as a species, as a human race, have done many terrible things. Many wonderful things also, but for every wonderful thing we do, we have at least one terrible thing to show, if not more. Spiritual process means just this, that every day you keep subtracting your terrible things.  Am I underestimating you? That I believe you have only thirty terrible things. The most terrible thing about human beings is that they're so busy with their own stuff, they don't feel the pain and suffering and what other life is going through. Not sensitive. Not being sensitive is the most terrible crime because if we were sensitive, not ego sensitive, life sensitive, if we were life sensitive, everything that we can do, we would anyway do. What we cannot do, what to do? We can't do, that's all. But what we can do would happen. A Sudanese man, you know Sudan, there are two, you know? Hello? There are two Sudanese. Sudanese people, it is sad, I'm not an expert on this, it is sad most of the Sudanese people are of Indian origin. They still eat dosa, they have very similar culture, they look very much like Indians. Mixed up with North African population, but they've gone there. A few millennia ago, a Sudanese man went to Morocco, took camel market in Marrakesh, a very famous camel market. There's one in Rajasthan in Pushkar, so he went to sell his camel. Then he found all the camels that were in the market were much bigger than his camel. So he looked around, every camel was bigger than his. Then he asked, the Berber man, Berber is a tribe, the word Berberian comes from this tribe.  Barely half the size. He said, it's very simple, I see your camel, it's not castrated. If you castrate your camel, it'll grow big. He asked, how do I do this? He said, it's very simple, take two bricks and smash the testicles of the camel. And after that it'll grow very big. Won't it hurt? He asked. He said, not at all, I'll show you. And he brought one camel, took two bricks and smashed it. The camel screamed in pain and ran. This Sudanese guy asked, but you said it won't hurt. Well, it only hurts if you get your finger between the bricks.  In this condition, the most wonderful nature of the human being will not find expression. You have to become sensitive. You must understand the tree, the flower, the birds and all creatures are very sensitive to everything that's happening around them. They won't go and hurt anything unless they need to eat. Yes, unless it's their food. They never went about simply killing as they're very sensitive to life. Not in the way you understand, not as an emotion, but simply sensitive to life.  Be careful. Either it's for food or in self-defense, otherwise no animal is simply going on. So human beings, I have to show little evolution, you know. We have to show little evolution, little more evolution than the other creatures which are on the force. At least like our nearest of the, you know, our nearest relatives, at least that much. Yes, I know in the world there is competition for resource. There is competition for everything and some friction will happen here and there. I am not innocent of those things. But I want you to at least eliminate the friction that happens within you, though you have nothing to gain. Is it happening or no? Simply?


In World War II, the number rejected came to 14 out of every 100 men called up. It's impossible at the induction stage to predict which of those who remain will become casualties of the new stresses of army life. For these stresses will vary widely in kind and degree for each man depending upon assignment and other environmental factors. A man of light gray mental health who is subjected to great stress may become ineffective in a short time. A man of darker shade who encounters milder stress may be able to stand the strain much longer. Each man's resistance to stress is strongly affected by other unpredictable factors such as the kind of leadership he gets. Good leadership raises efficiency. Bad leadership lowers it. It also depends on the incentive or desire to carry on. The stresses of army life commence immediately upon induction. The recruit is yanked out of his civilian environment and plunged into a routine where individual freedom is replaced by regimentation and privacy is thrown out of the window. A man isn't even alone when he goes to sleep. Gone are the comforts that help to counteract the strains and stresses of living. Gone is the daily homecoming and all that it means. Any way you look at it, digging a trench is hard work. But for a man like Joe Smith whose energies are already depleted by emotional tension, uncertainty and worry, it's twice as hard. Joe is sweating it out, but he's a fish out of water and the strain is beginning to tell. The obstacle course is a nightmare to him. As in childhood, he's still afraid to jump. He loses his appetite. He sleeps poorly. Finally, Joe Smith cracks. He is undergoing an anxiety reaction, the most common form of psychoneurosis. The sentry has a depression form of psychoneurosis in which the loneliness of the environment has been one of the crucial factors. The soldier with the back trouble has a conversion reaction. His emotional disturbances and anxiety have been converted into bodily symptoms that are as real to him as though they actually had a physical basis. Sometimes an inner emotional conflict becomes too painful to bear and a sudden loss of memory or amnesia occurs. This may bring a decrease in suffering to the patient but at the cost of his normal functioning. All of these cases are forms of psychoneurosis. But this patient has a mental illness of an entirely different kind. Suffering from delusions of persecution, he has what is called a psychosis. While in the acute phase, he is regarded as insane. This condition, psychosis, must not be confused with psychoneurosis. Psychoneurosis is not insanity. Any major health problem, the first step must be preventive, aimed at lightening the average shade of gray of our army personnel. High morale is most important in this connection. It can be fostered by developing basic morale-building attitudes, belief in the justice of our cause, confidence in weapons and training, recognition of personal ability, pride in the unit, and confidence in leaders. To build morale is a function of command. Morale is the first essential of preventive psychiatry. As an important morale factor, the Medical Corps aids the soldier in making the mental adjustment to army life. All right, what about this thing fear?  So fear isn't entirely a bad thing.  Now everyone feels some fear. A similar program for officers supplies basic information on psychiatric questions. But there are quite a few men with minor psychiatric disturbances who with the proper help at the right time will make the grade and become efficient soldiers. Therefore, it's important for all of you to know some of the outstanding symptoms of nervous or emotional illness, so that if a man is having trouble, he can get treatment early. Now, suppose a quiet, mild mannered... Yes, in every case, early treatment is essential before the condition becomes more severe and much harder to cure. Take Joe Smith. His commanding officer knows that his symptoms are not mere indications of momentary fright. He's been watching Joe for some time and realizes that he may be sick.