All right, what's up everyone so today the Dow Jones was down almost 2,000 points The market the entire market was halted. So this is actually the first time that I've seen the entire market halt What ends up happening is that the S&P 500 is down 7% on the day the market gets halted for 15 minutes if the S&P 500 is down 13% on the day it gets halted for another 20 minutes and The S&P 500 is down 20% on the day the entire market is closed for the day So today when the S&P 500 was down 7% Every single stock in the stock market was frozen. It was actually really cool to see so There's a couple things that we have to pay attention to during these markets, right? So an increased times of volatility increased times of fear. We're gonna get extremely abnormal moves, right? So you're getting stocks that are going crazy all these market ETFs bullshit this and that It's a very very fast way to blow up and you know There's a couple tips that I want to give you guys to help you stay safe During these times of extreme volatility number one, which is always the most simplest is never hold anything overnight There's way too much headline risk in this market. There might be another 100,000 people that die from coronavirus tomorrow There might be a hundred thousand people that get cured tomorrow.  So on days where there's extreme market volatility on days that the market is crashing The best thing to do is let the experts deal with it. Let's see NBC talk about it Let the grandmas and grandpas worry about it while we focus on what we do best which is finding scam companies and betting against them so the thing about a market tank the thing about when the market goes down like this is The most important thing the most important thing is proper education If you don't know what to do in this type of market You will blow up literally in one day, right?   That's not what I specialize. So I don't want to really mess with that So the tips that I want to give you guys is if you are a small cap trader or whatever type of trader You are futures, whatever the hell it is when the market is tanking Do not step outside your comfort zone These are not the days to be experimenting These are the days that it is very very hard to trade and these are the days that if you do not have the proper education You will be blown out. You will blow up and lose all of your money so it's actually funny because we had a lot of people join MIC this morning and When I DM them and asked them, you know, what was kind of the reason they joined is because they're like, look I'm losing money and it's finally the time that I start to make a change and invest in myself And that's, you know, I think today's or today or this week is the best time to do it Because the market is going so crazy and you need to actually learn how to navigate these markets and learn how to Essentially short, which is what we do, which means making money when stocks go down So that's kind of the thing that I want to introduce the day with but on these videos This is kind of like my daily trading diary. These are kind of my recap videos so that I can go back and Review myself like a professional athlete. I could go and rewatch footage of myself like a professional so that, you know Again, when the next Super Bowl comes or when the next big thing comes, I'm ready to attack So if you guys don't know what that analogy is like, I basically explained to people that day-to-day trading of making a $100 day to $2,000 a day is basically my practice and me keeping up with my discipline So that when the big opportunities come like sector plays or any other type of virus play Comes that I am in full. I'm in the zone completely and I know exactly how to attack them So you guys see the P&L's of $50,000 but not every day is that massive today was just a normal $300 day and although it's lower than my daily average.   So Brian goes in and make sure that you conduct everything anything including your MIC membership So if you're interested in the MIC tax planning program, you don't have to be an MIC member for it but MIC members get You know special treatment. It's I think it's at myinvestingclub.com slash tax So before you go and take your broker statement and your tax documents to a regular Joe Schmo on the street Recognize that with Brian.  So That's that also what I want to kind of mention is on these videos I'm getting a lot of good feedback that people are saying that I should be talking more about Process and more about routine rather specific trades because at the end of the day one of the biggest mental Struggles that people deal with is improper process improper routine So these videos are meant to show you a day in the life of how I kind of prepare for the morning a day in the life of what we do so that we could make money in the market but also to explain the mental struggles that traders deal with so The market has been tanking right everyone knows that coronavirus is going crazy everyone knows that There's a lot of fear in the markets The news sources are pumping and pumping more and more fear because that's the only way that they can get ratings People like my mom that do all the shopping for most houses. She's the one buying Hey sanitizer. She's the one buying Clorox. So they're preaching and making them be fearful So that they kind of make purchases on a whim and stuff like that. So again, the coronavirus is very scary It's very it's not a good thing But at the end of the day people in this market are overreacting based on the news.  These coronavirus stocks are on fire. I was able to make 200 grand last month With not really much stress at all But that doesn't mean that every single month is gonna be that massive. So I want to open this up to Q&A for you guys I want to kind of make it more interactive Let me see if I can walk away from that house. They're doing some work on it Um So I want to open this up to you guys. What questions do you have? What specific questions that you have so I could kind of come in and help you guys because I get asked same questions all the time Like how to read tape and all this stuff But I want to make sure that I am Catering to what you guys are looking for because oftentimes sometimes I feel like I am Disconnected from the brand new trader. So Let's go through it guys. Do you have any questions for me? All right? Let me see I have some questions Well stock makes a new high five minutes before pre-market. Does he usually squeeze more towards the open? No cool There's I mean you could track that but that's not something that I Was really paying attention to Look at can you talk about your aim trade? So yeah, so in the morning I was actually interested in aim a IM and the stock pushed towards $5 I mean to $4 in the morning pre-market and then washed out towards 350 at the open, right? So It the open on aim I wanted to push towards $4 to be able to short but instead stock tank The stock went from 350 to $3. So in the morning I do what I always do I wait for the stocks to tank and I short the bounce today on aim I tried shorting the bounce at 330. I think I added some at 360 and it went way further than I ever expected But I use something called the 30% rule which limits my risk We have a ton of videos on this and I ended up losing $500 on the trade I covered in the three nineties and then when the stock topped out again and start to make lower highs I got back in with a little bit larger size as the stock was broken and I kind of just controlled my loss and made it a little bit smaller But most of my trades today came from my watch list. So every single morning I put out a watch list I actually made a free video watch list It's the video before this and I talked about NNVC on my watch list and I talked about APT on my watch list APT I missed the trade The trade was shorted when it was red and the stock got clobbered today NNVC my plan was to short it when it went red Instead I shorted the pop on it and covered way too quick. It went red and then tanked and I know I've been warning people all day and all week not to be shorting this thing and I'm pretty sure all the members in MIC stayed safe on it. So Although I missed some of the watch list place today I know a bunch of members that actually nailed it and it's funny because what people do is they wake up They look at the watch list. They play they place their fantasy orders. They drink their coffee. They let it execute And they make money. It's almost we've almost simplified so much and we do all the work for you, right?  We give you a strategy that's gonna help you become consistent Let me see if I have some more questions Hey, Alex, how do you distinguish between your Frito days and the Super Bowl? Do you know beforehand or feeling out of the market a combination? Yeah, so that's a fantastic question, man I love that question.  First of all, great job. Great question Now here's the answer You have to first find out the setups that you make the most money on right so for me I've actually found out over this year that the first red day is actually the setup that I tend to make the most amount of money on so For me what I define as a Super Bowl setup is that whenever there's a sector play It doesn't have to be a sector play But usually sector plays are the ones that pay out the best Whenever there's a sector play that's been running for three five six green days in a row Running from four to eight to ten to twelve to fifteen to twenty like these corona virus stocks did I am getting very interested in that right? I'm getting very interested as they are inflated prices They are prices that don't warrant to be At those levels so for me whenever I see a stock that's been running Parabolically and that's up a thousand percent in a week and that's been having five or six green days in a row I know that the day that that stock goes red is gonna be the first day that there's profit-taking on the longs And there's gonna be shorts that are more comfortable. So for me Super Bowl setup is when these stocks are extended extended extend up hundreds or if not thousands of percent up and the first day that they go red That's usually Set up that I've seen pay out dramatically for myself So for me waiting for those are the Super Bowl setups I use my maximum amount of size on whereas these day-to-day trades.  I already done it so many times the only differences I'm gonna use more and more size on it So every single day if you practice your shots You're gonna get better and better and better and better and that's the whole point every single day I am here shooting and practicing at the gym Educating all this stuff so that when the time comes when the opportunity comes I am in full Focus and ready to attack so first is to find the setup that is paying you the most amount of money And then waiting for those setups to come and not using other setups as an excuse to size in Just because your max size is a thousand shares does not mean they use a thousand shares on every trade That's the point that that's something that I've actually learned from bow. So Remember that just because you have a max size does not mean you have to use it Just because you have a max loss does not mean that you have to use it But that is your guidelines for when the opportunity is there to attack it last week I made $50,000 on the week this week. I'm only up 300 bucks on the week So that doesn't mean that every single week is gonna be massive either just because you made a bunch of money or lost a bunch of Money in one week doesn't mean that's gonna be the cycle going forward So every single day I am showing up to the market and I am trying to show you guys that I am sticking to the same routine and the same Process every single day some days. I make a lot of money some days I make a little bit of money some days. I lose money, right? No one is perfect Although today I lost money on aim I made money on NNVC and that offset the loss and that's what's all about I sized in into the better setups and use less size on the stocks that I was not too comfortable in What does exactly mean about the first red day and how do you recognize it? Just go to our YouTube channel on my investing club in the search bar right my investing club first red day And you'll see a bunch of free videos on it How do you know when the stock will be the first red day you have absolutely no clue But apparently on I and O today again when it goes red, I just short it Anymore questions guys? That was a great question. I like again I want to open this up to you guys So I answer the question that you have because chances are if you have that question There's probably a couple other people that do so let's make this more interactive. Let's make this more about you guys I Ask yourself how much money have you lost today this week or this month if you cannot afford to join MIC chances are trading is not for you, right? It is literally five dollars a day to invest your education and there's members that are making five hundred to a thousand dollars a day Do you know anything about level three forget all that gypsy magic, bro? Level three level four level five. Who cares man? Just stick to the chart stick to Lines stick to the process For those of you that are in MIC Comment what you think about it right now so that people understand Any questions guys? Again, I've also realized that people like these videos when they are short and sweet so I want to keep it short and sweet Remember guys, this is your opportunity to ask a trader who is consistently profitable because we're doing this for six years Any question you want about trading and you're asking about level three I mean it's better than a crypto question It was so funny man last week I was doing one of these videos and I was talking about the coronavirus stocks and some guys like Yeah, but do you guys have a strategy on forex?  I know an aim and not opk and htbx? I was actually looking at opk htbx But to be honest, I actually have a problem that I cannot focus on more than one or two stocks at the same time Bow is very very good at trading multiple multiple positions at the same time for me. I'm not that good I know where my strengths are my strengths are to size into one or two setups more Rather than trying to size in a little bit into a bunch of different setups So for me, I like to focus on less my attention span really isn't that good So I actually find I do better by actually doing less Again, also one more thing is if you have any questions about trading or any questions about mic Or you had a good day or you had a bad day and you want someone to talk about it. You could text tosh Who is one of our mentors at mic? His number is<PHONE_NUMBER> It's not a collect call. It's not a telemarketing call He's actually going to be the guy on the opposite side of the phone So please text him do not call him the calls will not go through And this is very unique to mic. No one else offers this. So if you have any questions, just hit up tosh Do you have any FOMO from not watching? I know right now? Of course I do Of course I have FOMO, but I'm trying to delay going back to my computer Because I know that I'm going to have FOMO, but Adam what I do is again, you know, it's past 10 30.  If not more when I start trading midday so cutting myself off and making sure that I am Controlling my worst personality trait is what's been yielding to me making more money because now when I'm making $300 on the day. I feel like I didn't make enough I feel like I want to make another 700 more to get to a thousand dollars And then what's gonna happen is midday? I'm going to scalp around and I'm going to lose fucking money So I block myself out I patrol myself and now I've been making more and more money because I'm keeping the money in my pocket Walking away is very important in trading Imagine you're at a casino and you just made a thousand dollars Chances are you're going to be so high and so into yourself that you are going to keep gambling Right in trading when you make money quickly you try to push and push and push and you end up losing it So this is a way for me to get up and walk away from the table and it's been rewarding me tremendously Please talk about putting heart stops on big size. I mean shit, man I use heart stops on everything and the way that I explain to everyone is this right because you guys all understand from analogies, right? So The way that I describe a heart stop is this sure you could drive A Porsche without a seatbelt or an airbag, but what happens when you get into an accident, right? Maybe you'll never get into an accident in your entire life chances are you'll probably get into one accident, right? God forbid but chance are you get into an accident if you have no seatbelt and you have no airbag You are dead same thing in trading If there is an accident in trading if things don't go well, right? If you do not have a heart stop to protect you then boom your airbag is not going off and you're dead So think of that next time you don't want to use a heart stop What I see personally is all the successful traders in MIC are using heart stops and that's all that matters, right? Because today on aim Had I not Used my heart stop had I been using too much size I would have not been able to control the loss and that would have ended up causing me to have a red day In the beginning of a trading career Will you be scared to give back your gains when you were green on the first trade or how do you deal with it? Walking away helps me a lot man walking away helps me a lot because I know how to make money in the stock market. The problem is that keeping it is the hardest part, right? Let's say I'm up $300 today. I feel like it's not enough. I want to trade and make $1,000 I'll go back to my desk and I'll scalp around and maybe I'll make another 100 bucks And then that's still not enough and then by the time I know it. I'm ending and losing money So for me what I recognize based on my stats is that I make the most amount of money between 930 and 1030 after 1030 I have a very good habit of losing money So by cutting off my trading after 1030 I've locked in so much more profits I've controlled my trading losses and I've actually had Low stress while I'm trading which has yielded to better results.  And that's all that matters. So I want to show you guys every single day that even when I have small days It's because the process yielded me those results, right? I don't even know how much money I make every month, right?  I'm focused on making the money and I know that if I keep sticking to that I will be rewarded So does that all make sense guys?  We are actually teaching people how to be consistently profitable And that's something that's really important You will learn how to fish here, right?  Make your money and walk away We have about 600 Free videos on youtube and I think we're close to 700 or 800 member only videos, right? So all the questions that you guys have are in the videos It's literally at my youtube.com slash my investing club So if you're asking these questions like what's a zombie move or what's a first red day? Gents is are you haven't watched it? And that's totally fine because at the end of the day the amount of work that you put in is directly correlated with your success So while you are sitting there getting high and smoking weed I am over here watching these videos because I'm the guy that's on the other side of your trade And if you want to be able to beat me to beat bow you have to learn right you have to learn And that's the entire point. So I'm gonna wrap it up here guys. Thank you for a great YouTube live again, if you have any questions hit up tasha two one three four five eight five nine nine seven And I will see you guys in the room. Thanks and have a great day


I thought we would sort of focus on genome-wide association studies because it's been said that 2007 may be the year of genome-wide association. This is the famous tidal wave of Hokusai, and what you've probably been seeing in the journals and papers have been a whole series, just a slew of genome-wide association studies coming down the pike. So most recently there was the report from the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium on 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls. That was in nature, I believe. And then two follow-up papers published at the same time on Crohn's disease and type 1 diabetes.  Just before that, there were two papers on coronary disease, one from Iceland, one from Texas. And a few weeks before that, three studies on diabetes in Finns, in Swedes, in a group in the UK. And shortly before that, there was a series of papers on prostate cancer, again, three papers coming out together very nicely coordinated. And even though these aren't 2007 papers, very soon, or recently before that, this one paper on inflammatory bowel disease in October, the other on age-related macular degeneration, and perhaps the one that started it all, the Complement Factor H paper shown here, which came in in March of 2005, and really kind of got the field rolling. So that we're all sure what we're talking about, a genome-wide association study is a method for interrogating all roughly 10 million variable points, the single-letter base pair spellings across the human genome. Maybe not all of those spots are interrogated, but probably a good proportion of them are in this technology. Variations are inherited in groups, so you don't have to test all 10 million points in the blocks we recognize are shorter in populations that are older like those of recent African ancestry, so you have to test more SNPs or more variants in those. But now the technology really allows us to do this kind of work in unrelated persons, assuming shorter areas of linkage than had been previously relied upon for family-based linkage studies, which means that they are available for population-based cohort studies, clinical trials, surveys, et cetera, the kinds of work that the SCR has very heavily involved in. And this is the kind of data that you sometimes see. This is a display from the diabetes study done by the Broad MIT here in Massachusetts, and this just shows all of the associations that they saw across 500,000 SNPs, shown by chromosome, very colorful, pretty slide, and these being the associations that look like they're somewhat suggestive and worth looking forward into. So we do recognize then that understanding genome structure and being able to do this kind of typing really gives us unprecedented opportunities to define genetic contributions to disease, but there has been some slowness in applying these kinds of knowledge, partly because there are significant differences between disciplines. There's the genetics and genomics field, which is very technology-driven, population-based epidemiology, which is very population and person-driven, and we need to bring those two fields together. One of the challenges is some of the language differences. Geneticists talk about copy number variants, about gene deserts, about base factors and HAPMAP and cell files and inversions and epistasis, and sort of like this fellow in this Larson cartoon, understanding only German fritz was unaware that the clouds were becoming threatening, and here the clouds say, hey, what are you looking at, buddy? You want trouble, you found it. So hopefully we'll be able to do a little bit of translation while we're here and also identify some of the cultural challenges that there may be in bridging this, this somewhat chasm. So the structure of the session today, we're going from 8.30 to 5, so it'll be a full day. We'll have Wendy Post and Debbie Nickerson start with talking about their experiences in bridging these fields, then David Hunter on initial and replication studies, Elizabeth Pugh on genotyping platforms and quality control, Nancy Cox on selection of markers to carry forward after your initial study, Laura Scott on managing and analyzing data. And we have a lunch break, then promoting collaborations. Bob Hoover, data deposition and access by Jim Ostell, community concerns from Dan Levy in Framingham, data sharing and collaborations, Andy Singleton, synthesizing findings from Marta Gwyn at the CDC, and then a summary panel discussion of sort of best practices that we've discussed and identified during the session and other, you know, questions or issues that have come up and possible additional research or tools that are needed as identified by y'all. And a word from our sponsor, this is not a drug company or industry sponsored group. This is entirely your tax dollars at work. This is partly through the, it is actually wholly through the Genes and Environment and Health Initiative. Don't ask me why, this has an acronym of GEI when it has four words in the title, but that's another government to use kind of thing. And you will find that the website for this is shown here. If you just search for genes and environment, it will pop up. And as shown here, there are two parts to that, the genetics program and the exposure biology program, just to say a few words about that. It's an NIH-wide initiative that actually was begun by the Secretary of HHS in fiscal 2007, so this year. There are 40 million dollars that are committed to identifying genetic and environmental contributions to common diseases. 26 million of that is dedicated to the genetic component and 14 million is dedicated to developing innovative exposure biology, measures of environmental exposures. Also the NHGRI Office of Population Genomics, which is where my group is located, is findable through the NHGRI webpage through this somewhat cryptic number here, 1951-866-0. I think if you search this in Google, you can find us. But at any rate, what that describes is the goals of our office, which are to bring epidemiology and genomics together and to apply population-based technologies, sorry, genomic technologies to population-based studies. So we were established basically to do that. And one of our key goals is to support cross-disciplinary training of geneticists and epidemiologists. And so this meeting is critical to that. We also have a meeting sort of annually throughout NIH where we try to get the institutes and centers, or ICs, as we call them, to discuss how we can approach applying genomic technologies to population studies throughout NIH. And genome-wide studies for the rest of us is this session here in June. And we will be having another session more for the genetics folks at the Society for Human Genetics in San Diego in October, which will really be sort of a primer on epidemiologic study design in that run by my colleague Emily Harris. So again, we thank SER for allowing us to do this in collaboration with them, especially Mike Bracken, the president, and Peggy Christensen, who's been very helpful in putting this together. A few housekeeping issues, videotaping. We are doing videotaping for this because we want to make this available to others who weren't able to be here today. And we will be web archiving it on the Genes and Environment site. So be aware that you're being taped. And please use the microphones during the discussion sessions. We'll have a 20-minute discussion after each two talks. So there are also two 20-minute breaks and then a 45-minute lunch. We would ask people sort of not to congregate in the back where the food is, except at the breaks, and then to come back up to the front. I'm sorry that we're not able to give you lunch, but we do have a local lunch list provided there and there are a few places here. It's only 45 minutes and Bob Hoover will be very cranky if you don't come back on time at 1 o'clock. So please do be back on time. And you do have a little homework assignment during the session. Since we're having a closing discussion on best practices and research tools needed, it would really be of great value if you could identify things that you can then raise during that discussion with us. And we're also asking the speakers to identify one to two things during the course of the day that we will then be discussing in terms of new needs, research needs, and other kinds of needs, communication, consent forms, whatever it might be, which would be of great value to the Genome Institute, to the Genes and Environment Initiative. And we will share them with the Society for Epidemologic Research. So it may be of use to them as well. We selected speakers specifically for their strongly expressing laid-back genes. And if you have questions, just ask. If you need to know something in order to go further, feel free to raise your hand from your seat. During the discussion session, if you come to the microphones, it'll make it easier to call on you. But if you don't know what a SNP is and they haven't explained it, or there's some other jargon that's gone by, just feel free to ask.  Well, maybe there's one. Here's a Gary Larson say, what's a mountain goat doing up here, way up here in a cloud bank? So hopefully those of you who have flown over here won't run into that. And do watch for the PowerPoints in the video that will be on the Jeans and Environment website. We have a special section for that, meetings and workshops. And ours will be appearing very shortly. So I think I'll stop at that point. Ask if there are any questions. If not.


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So far, we've solved different types of equations by using inverse operations. We have an inverse operation for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. But what about other operations? So remember, we can characterize expressions by the last operation performed. An exponential expression is an expression which has a variable expression as an exponent. So 3 to power x is an exponential expression. x to power 3, however, is not an exponential expression because while it has an exponent, the exponent is not a variable. If we have an exponential equation, we need an inverse for an exponential expression. So we'll make the following definition. Let a be greater than 0. If a to power b equals c, then log to base a of c is equal to b. Now, a here is the base, and in general, it can be any positive number. However, there are two important cases. First of all, if that base is 10, we obtain what are called common logs. So if 10 to power b is equal to c, then log c is equal to b. And the thing to notice here is that we're not specifying that base of 10. Common logs aren't actually that important.  And this is based on a very specific real number. Suppose e to power b equals c, where e is a real number that's about 2.71828 and so on. The reason that this particular number shows up will become apparent in calculus. Then we write log ln c equals b. So remember, equals means replaceable, and in each of these we have b is the same as the log. But in every case, b is the exponent. So the thing to remember is that logarithms are exponents. So let's see if we can find a log. Let's find the log to base 2 of 8. So it helps to approach the problem as follows. We want to find the log to base 2 of 8. Well, let's give it a name. How about x? And we want to solve this equation for x. Definitions are the whole of mathematics. All else is commentary. So if log to base 2 of 8 is equal to x, our definition says that 2 to power x should be 8. Since we've been genetically programmed from birth with an inborn knowledge of logs, well, actually, since we don't have any other choice, we can try guess and check and try out different exponents. So we'll find 2 to the x for different exponents, and we find that 2 to power 3 gives us 8. So x equals 3. So our exponent is 3, and we might summarize our results as follows. Since 2 to power 3 equals 8, then log to base 2 of 8 is equal to 3. Or how about log of 0.01? The only important difference here is that there's no base specified. And so remember, if the log has no base specified, the implied base is 10. So again, it's helpful to set up an equation. Log 0.01 equals, I don't know, call it x. Our definition of log says that 10 to power x is 0.01. And since we're not born with the knowledge of logs, we'll go ahead and evaluate different powers of 10. So 10 to the 0 is, 10 to the 1 is. Now keep in mind, we want to get 0.01. And notice that if we have a positive exponent, our numbers are going to be way too big. So we'll have to try some negative exponents. How about 10 to the minus 1? And 10 to the minus 2 is, which is what we're looking for. And so we can summarize our results. Since 10 to power negative 2 is 0.01, then log 0.01 is negative 2. What's important to recognize is that while we can find some logs this way, most logs turn out to be irrational numbers. So let's see if we can find an approximate value for log base 5 of 100. So again, we'll set up our equation. Log base 5 of 100 is, I don't know. But this allows me to rewrite this equation as, and now we'll use guess and check. I'll find various powers of 5. And since 5 to the second is 25, which is too small, but 5 to the third is 125, which is too big, I might conclude that x is between 2 and 3.


Hey, this is Brett and this 2013 Ram 3500 Mega Cab Short Box Dual Rear Wheel Laramie Longhorn is stock number 13469Z. I'm here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used heavy duty truck and Ram headquarters. This 2013 Ram 3500 has the 6.7 liter high output Cummins diesel. It's paired up with the 6 speed ice and heavy duty transmission. This truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluid is checked and topped off and it has six brand new tires on it and it is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video, inside underneath, start it up and take a look under the hood to give you the most accurate representation of the vehicle possible. Black gold pearl over white gold is the paint scheme or color scheme on this truck. Shoot all my videos in 4K, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone or television, I recommend turning them on now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition options and cleanliness of the truck before seeing it in person. As you go down the driver's side here, the duly tub and box all looks really good. The cab and doors are in fantastic condition, I didn't see any dents or dings on any of the doors, looks really good. Front fender is in great shape as well and if you like the video, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel which is youtube.com so I have Summit Auto, click the bell notifications you'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day here at Summit Automotive as well as access to one of the largest vehicle walk around catalogs on YouTube so that's pretty sweet as well. This one comes with the Alcoa polished aluminum wheels, they're in fantastic condition and it has brand new Cooper Discover HTP tires. These are LT 235 ADR 17s, you can still see the little wear knobs on there from being brand new, we put those on in our safety inspection frame and underbody is exceptionally clean on this truck. This truck's always been owned in North Carolina so it really hasn't seen any winters. The bumper is in really nice shape, didn't see any major dents on there, couple little rock chips, nothing too major, it does have the factory fog lights, the chrome trimmed grille and the hood is in very nice condition as well. Passenger side front fender looks really good too, no dents or dings on there and the passenger side front wheel, no major scuffs or scrapes. The black gold is really a cool color and if you think about it, it's kind of like the color of oil, hence the name black gold, but it's got just a little bit of green, some yellows and browns in that paint, really a cool color and then the white gold is actually metal flake as well so really a neat color combination on this truck. As you go down this side of this 2013 Ram 3500 take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle you can see the truck, hear the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here so when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that buying decision let your salesman know that you saw the video that it was helpful and that Brett sent you. It comes with nice painted step bars, the back wheels are just as nice as the front wheels, back tires are brand new as well and once again that frame and underbody is in very nice clean condition it's like that all the way underneath has all the remaining factory exhaust and the lower rockers and cab corners are in really nice shape as well. I didn't see any corrosion on them. This dually tub is in excellent shape too. Get a nice MBRP exhaust tip on there. Rib bumpers in pretty nice shape as well no major dents on that. Those have the backup parking sensors full towing package which includes a receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring and the tailgate is in very nice condition as well. Looks really good. Comes with a very nice spray and bed liner, fifth wheel and gooseneck prep package and you get these seven pin wiring back here as well. Tailgate shuts nice and solidly and for full disclosure this back wheel just as nice as the rest.  Inside the Laramie long horn package gives you the brown leather bucket seats. You get the long horn patch on the backrest. Get the black piping on there no rips no tears memory driver's seat all-weather floor mats auto headlamps power pedals power windows locks and mirrors you get the nice woodgrain trim and leather bolsters on there. The back seats are just as clean as the front seats no rips or tears back here it does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have smells very clean inside this truck I don't think it's ever been smoked in you get the all-weather floor mat back here the saddlebags on the seats and these back seats are heated on the outboard side they're your heated seat buttons and 12 volt power point these seats do fold down a couple different ways so the first way is the backrest that goes all the way down and the seat folds down to the floor you put both sides down you got a nice flat place out of store stuff or to even you know lay down back here if you need to take a nap or if you got pets they got a nice flat place to lay and then they're not gonna wreck your nice leather seats the other way is this backrest just folds down and then you get a nice contained storage area there's also storage underneath that panel there you get the latch tether anchors back here and your power sliding your window with built-in router frost so nice system for the mega cab child safety locks on the back doors and the inside and bottoms of the doors all look really good on this truck we'll hop inside check out the miles the radio and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior see that this one has get the RAM animation there this one only has 38,431 miles on it you do get the digital speedometer on there outside temp current miles per gallon range to empty gain for your trailer brake controller and you can change those corners to read pretty much whatever you want you get the special Laramie Longhorn instrument cluster it's very nice and clean comes with the heated leather wrapped and woodgrain trimmed steering wheel cruise controls on the right Bluetooth and information center controls on the left audio controls on the back of the steering wheel comes with the ison six speed heavy-duty automatic transmission with the optional tap shift and this one comes with the you connect 3C radio you get the factory navigation system on there there's highway 41 so that is working nicely you also get AM FM and Sirius XM radio capability so you get your heated seats cooled seats and heated steering wheel controls and this is also where your backup camera shows up and see that is working nicely this one also has the Alpine premium sound system there's your badge for that the nice woodgrain trim up there as well as down here here your dual climate controls more tactile volume and tune controls as well if you don't like using the radio turned out four-wheel drive factory brake controller stability control tow-haul factory exhaust brake and your reverse parking sensors you can turn those off and on does have the heated and cooled seat buttons as well as your heated steering wheel button there you get your 115 milt 150 watt plug-in that does have the keyless entry with the remote start and you get the kind of cool trim on the dash passenger side format and seat are in excellent conditional rips or tears on there get the piping on those seats the speakers in the ceiling and the headliners in really nice condition does have the power sunroof map lights home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems power sliding rear window button assistant SOS buttons in the mirror and your home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems we'll start it up I'll start it up take a look under the hood show you just how clean it is under there starts right up no check engine lights or anything like that I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to verify the quality condition options and of course cleanliness of this truck all the way around inside and out under the hood we have these 6.7 liter Cummins diesel engine engine is very clean runs very smooth once again this truck has been fully safe and inspected by a service shop as a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked and topped off and it is 100% ready to go there is the emissions sticker I did forget to show you the tire and loading information stickers so I'll do that real quick as well as the VIN sticker and I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint once again has been fully safe to inspect it has six brand-new tires and really a really neat color scheme on this truck and see more pictures of this truck and one of other 550 new and used cars trucks SCVs minivans Wranglers half tons three quarter tons one times you name it we got to go to that website right there summit auto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle all at summit auto.com and if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto click the bell notifications to get updates on videos I do each and every day here at summit automotive in fact in a second you will see a link to 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Before I get into today's news video where we got five really big stories, I wanna remind you of a giveaway we have going on right now. We're gonna be giving away a replica Hylian Shield, not one, but two Nintendo Switch Zelda OLED editions. Also, not one, but two Zelda Collector's editions as well. Now, to enter that giveaway, I used to do this head down to the pinned comment or the link in the description. And I wish all you guys luck. This is a kickoff giveaway for our Prime Gaming Fest 2023, which begins on June 8th. We'll have details on that later, but you can go ahead and enter this giveaway now. Also, we're gonna do 133,000 subscribers. So I'd appreciate it if you would go ahead and hit that like button, maybe hit the bell to get notified of all videos and live streams. And you know what? Let's get into this video. Our first story today deals with a sales update in France. We actually did an individual video on a sales update in the UK, not realizing we might get more sales data today. So I wanted to throw the French sales data in here because it's quite impressive. So this was announced, and yeah, we got it off Nintendo everything. And it says 500,000 units were sold physically in France. This is not only beating out games like Scarlet and Violet physically. It's also beating out Red Dead Redemption 2, the latest FIFA games. Oh, and by the way, this is the biggest fastest selling game in Nintendo history in France. So wow, in the UK, it actually was a little bit behind Scarlet and Violet. Here it's ahead. It makes you wonder if it's ahead of Scarlet and Violet and more and more territories. Is it possible that tears of the kingdom is the fastest selling Nintendo game of all time, even counting Scarlet and Violet? I don't know. It's interesting to think about. All I know is I'm really, really having a lot of fun with this game. So I want to get through this video so I can get back to playing myself. So another tears of the kingdom related story here we have comes from Amazon of all places because remember those Hori accessories we announced that were coming to Japan only a couple of weeks ago. Well, it looks like the Hori split pad tears of the kingdom edition is now available to pre-order right now. We got a pre-order link down in the description for you guys. It's going to be costing them $59.99. It says it releases by the end of August. I do got to say these split pads look pretty solid. The left one looks really good.  It's more kind of like this, but still guys, I'm really excited about this. I know that I really want these split pad pros just as an option. So, hey, who knows? Maybe we pick some up and we check them out ourselves this August. Now we have some updates on the Super Mario Bros. movie because we got two big things happening. One, it is officially now the fourth highest grossing animated film of all time at the box office at $1.21 billion in box office revenue. Absolutely incredible and it's still available at many movie theaters right now. So it could climb even higher and get into the top three. But here's the thing. It's going to be interesting to see how much higher it continues to climb because starting tomorrow it has been officially announced that you will be able to buy slash rent Mario Bros. at home. So that's right, late tonight slash tomorrow you will be able to rent or buy the movie. Now the center will be available anywhere that Universal Movies are currently available to buy and rent. So through your Amazon Prime, right? You can buy and rent the movie there, probably buy and rent it through your cable providers like Charter or Direct TV, Dish Network, et cetera. Maybe AT&T's TV service, all those stuff where they sell and rent movies that have Universal Movies you should be able to get the Mario movie there. It's not going to be available for like streaming as part of a subscription right now. They haven't announced a date when that would happen. It's likely going to go to Peacock first if I had to guess. But again, we don't know when that's going to happen because the date hasn't been announced for that. They did announce along with this that there will be a physical version. So we are going to get Blu-rays and DVDs and all that but they don't have a release date at this time just that it's going to be later. The only confirmed store that's going to have it for sure is Best Buy but I would be surprised if pretty much all retailers that still carry DVDs and Blu-rays have it such as like Walmart and Target. So yeah, I'm just going to have to keep our ears to the ground for a physical version but hey, you know what? We'll see how the box office continues to perform now that people can just get it in the comfort of their own homes and that leads to our next story and that is dealing with Hogwarts Legacy. So look, Hogwarts Legacy was supposed to come out on July 25th of this year for Nintendo Switch a few months after it came out on every other platform. There was a bit of a split release of like current gen then old gen and the Switch was supposed to be last but it has now been delayed and they put this announcement up on Twitter stating Hogwarts Legacy launches on Switch on November 14th, 2023. We know fans are looking forward to playing on Switch. Therefore creating the best possible experience is a top priority. Thank you for your patience. So this is actually the second delay of the Switch version and it does make it really feel like we're getting a native version of the game because you wouldn't keep delaying a cloud version. So at this point it is kind of neat that they are working on a native version and we have something we gotta talk about with that release date but before we do we need to remember that they're actually excited about the Switch version as this came from Troy Johnson, a designer of the game who said something on an interview back in February and here is what he said in regards to the Switch version. He said the Switch version is going to be awesome. It sure will be. We are doing everything in our power to make sure that each version is beautiful that is well optimized and above all that it is faithful to the idea we had for the title and in the end it will be exactly the title we want. So they are just trying to make sure that Hogwarts Legacy lives up to the reputation that it has garnered on all the other platforms of being a really fantastic game. One of the best games of this year, not quite as high as tears of the kingdom but still a really good game and I'm looking forward and very curious how the Switch version is gonna run and now the fact that it's coming out in November might need you to think about a potential new Nintendo system and our last story deals with that because we have a couple updates on Nintendo's next generation system. First, Nintendo Shintura Farakawa, the president of Nintendo actually talked about the next generation system in their investors Q&A. Let's go ahead and read what happened over there. So the question came in, it was question four of the Q&A and so the number of annual playing in user for Nintendo Switch is continuing to rise even as we enter its seventh year since launch. So from that perspective I feel that is a possibility to say that there is less of a need to release a next generation platform. When you do release a next gen platform, do you foresee a dramatic increase in the number of annual playing users or will you maintain it at a level of at least 100 million users? Farakawa responds and states, the growth in annual playing users has become more gradual compared to three or four years ago and going forward we expect to be at a point where we prioritize maintaining high engagement while also able to invite new users. Gaming system operation tends to fluctuate based on the release timing of major titles so we will continue to release a steady flow of software. We also believe that we need to keep providing opportunities for consumers to play Nintendo Switch rather than relying solely on new software releases. We do not believe that reaching a certain number of annual playing users means that there is no need to release a next generation platform. I cannot say anything specific about a next generation platform at this time but we are always working on various projects aimed by the future, by asking ourselves what kind of fun proposal we can make which can possibly provide a new and unique entertainment. And in the case of future Nintendo releases, hardware releases that is, the annual playing users will largely depend on how widely the hardware is adapted. From that standpoint as well, we believe that how we maintain a high level of consumers actively playing Nintendo dedicated video game platforms while transitioning to the next generation of hardware will be a very important topic going forward. However, at this stage, we believe that our top priorities are maintaining and expanding the utilization of Nintendo Switch which has entered its seventh year since launch and maintaining business momentum. Now that's some really cool neat information coming out of Nintendo from Furukawa and honestly it makes a lot of sense what he's doing and what he's saying here and the end he's just saying, hey look, we have a lot of active users but we don't see there being like a number that triggers us to transition whether it's dipping or rising. What he does know though is that they do think the transition is very important and they wanna make sure they get it right and he's basically not going to reveal anything right now about the new hardware but that doesn't mean we're done talking about new hardware because would you believe it? A Bloomberg article came out and honestly they're not making stuff up here. This isn't like some private source they have. This was a public investor's call from Sharp and something very interesting happened in the investor's call and it's happened since that investor's call that basically tells us we are getting new hardware, it's coming soon whether it's this year or next year, it's within 2023 or 2024. Look, let's get into this and actually read the article a little bit or at least the notes down and it says, million on this Sharp has announced they are working or have been working on new LCD technology for an upcoming video game system. They said this during an earnings release call. They stated plainly that it will begin making production lines for this panel for the new system this year. Now, notably Sharp is owned by Foxconn and has worked with Nintendo in the past on Nintendo Switch. Of course, after the stories broke and before they released their documentation publicly they scrubbed all of the mentions out of the slides so people were looking for the slides. You know, hey, here's our public release of slides. Here's the PDF and the slides they actually saw with this information in the investor's call were erased. So that's quite interesting. And while they didn't mention Nintendo the fact the story broke originally as being for Nintendo and then they scrubbed the files it does heavily suggest they gave too many identifying information in the call. Of course, being a company that worked on screens out for the original Switch and mentioning screens for a new game system it's pretty easy to put two and two together. Now, note this does mean an LCD panel for the new system versus the superior OLED screen in the Switch OLED. However, it is a newer LCD technology and likely cheaper to make than the current OLED panels. So if they do use LCDs this is probably the drive down cost of the new system at launch as they would use OLEDs as the new XL model driver for platforms moving forward. Now, notably this would suggest that, hey, we're not gonna be getting this platform in 2023 because if the manufacturing lines are opening later this year they're not in mass production now there's no way they can do a holiday launch. Of course, Nintendo technically has multiple partners or at least they did it for Switch on their screens. So they could have a completely different manufacturer such as Samsung who's making their OLED panels already pumping out screens for the new system and have a VLCD technology and that these are just additional manufacturing lines coming in to ramp up production of the new system as it starts to sell so they can continue to meet demand after launch. So in other words, we don't really know what this means for when the Switch is coming other than if they confirm manufacturing lines at this point it's either this year or next year. There's really no in between and it's probably looking like holiday or holiday, right? It's either holiday 2023 or holiday 2024. That's what we have it narrowed down to. If we get to 2025 without a new system then I would be really shocked at this point. Anyways, guys, thank you so much for being here. I am Nathan DeRovell Jance from Nintendo Prime. Hopefully you enjoyed this video and I'll catch you in the next one.


The early Anabaptists stepped onto the scene of 16th century Europe with a bucket of water. And they had the invitation, come and receive baptism. Come repent of your sins. Join the true church of God. Follow Jesus. And when someone came up and had that water, that handful of water poured over their head, they accepted a life of suffering, a life of persecution. They knew that at any time they could be arrested for that act, imprisoned, tortured, and killed. And we often think of that, the person giving up his life, surrendering his life to Jesus by having that handful of water poured on his head. But even more dangerous was to be the water pourer. If you were the water pourer, you were in even more danger. You were wanted ten times more. Now they wouldn't put out placards looking for an ordinary member, say, big money reward if we catch ordinary church member. But if you were the water pourer, if you were the baptizer, they would put out placards with your name on it and say, reward for the capture of Meno-Symons. Reward for the capture of Jacob Hutter. Reward for the capture of those who poured the water. What was it that motivated the water pourers? Despite the huge danger, the huge risk, the huge personal cost. And there was a personal cost. Meno-Symons died peacefully in his bed. But there was a personal cost because he was on the run his entire life.  His family was harassed his entire life. What was it that motivated them to endure that personal cost and beyond just the water pourers? What was it that motivated the army of ordinary Anabaptists whose names have been lost to history who evangelized their neighbors in smaller ways? They risked their lives printing booklets and pamphlets in secret. They invited their neighbors to Anabaptist meetings. They talked about the gospel to their neighbors, their coworkers, their family members, their friends. Now the title of this talk that they gave me was How the Gospel Spread in 16th Century Europe. We're going to talk about how some, but ultimately, I think that the why is more important and more relevant for us because some of their methods from then, some of their how, are ultimately not all that helpful for us today. I think of methods like pulpit stealing when George Blau Rock would dramatically go up into the state church preacher's pulpit and try to preach while the state church preacher is trying to preach. I don't think we'd consider that all that helpful today. Another method they had that I don't think we would consider all that helpful today was sending out illiterate messengers. I don't think that would work very well today, but there were some Anabaptist evangelists who were literally illiterate and they had simply memorized the Lord's Prayer and the Apostles Creed and some Anabaptist interpretations of those texts and would go and share those with other professing Christians, Catholics or Lutherans or whoever, who would acknowledge the authority of the Lord's Prayer and the Apostles Creed, share the Anabaptist interpretation. That was all the messengers knew. Now that, I think we could say was noble for their time and worked just fine when there was very low literacy in Europe. But I don't think that we would consider that very wise or would condone it today. But their motivations can still inspire us and help us and they got results. As just one example between his ordination in 1551 and his death in 1582, Leonard Bowens baptized over 10,000 people. That's in 31 years he baptized over 10,000 people and he kept a record of his baptisms and that's why we know the total. Other Anabaptist evangelists had similar extraordinary success. For instance, Hans Hoot, who I was not able to find a total or even an estimate for, but I'm sure that he baptized thousands as well. And when we think about those kind of numbers and that kind of evangelistic success, I think that that can be almost discouraging, not almost, maybe altogether. We look today and think we have no hope that any one of us, no realistic hope that any one of us sitting here today will baptize 10,000 people in 30 years. We just don't see that kind of thing happening today. And so we get discouraged. Here are some other things that can be discouraging. Acts 241. Then they that gladly received his word were baptized and the same day there were added unto them about 3,000 souls. Acts 4, 4. How be it many of them which heard the word believed and the number of the men was about 5,000. Acts 5, 14. And believers were the more added to the Lord multitudes, both of men and women. Acts 9, 31. Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria and were edified and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost were multiplied. Acts 9, 35. And all that dwelt at Lidda and Zeran saw him and turned to the Lord. We read these kind of things in the book of Acts and I think that sometimes we can almost turn green with envy except we know we're not supposed to envy. And we wonder what is wrong with us? Is it us that's the problem? You sometimes hear sermons that say that God didn't put the book of Acts in the Bible to tease us or to taunt us. And so the problem must be us. We're not filled with the Holy Ghost enough. And so we're not having this kind of success that we see in the book of Acts. We're not having this kind of success we see in the early Anabaptist movement. The problem must be us. We're not spiritual enough. Well, I think that we need to take a little different perspective on that because if you keep reading in Acts you find another experience that the Apostles also had as soon as they set foot outside of Judea and Galilee and Samaria, the places where Jesus had ministered. Acts 1734. This is after Paul's sermon on Mars Hill, a powerful sermon and one that we would all say he was filled with the Holy Ghost. This was the result. How be it certain men clave unto him and believed among the which was Dionysus the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them. I don't know how many others is, but it certainly doesn't sound like very many. Luke gives two names of believers, people who believed after Paul's Mars Hill sermon. Two names and then he says and others. I don't know how many that was, but it sure doesn't sound like very many. Acts chapter 18, as you read through the chapter of Acts 18, you see a range of experiences. After these things, Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth and then it goes on to describe how he worked with Aquila and Priscilla and it says in verse 4, he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. So he was making converts, but Luke doesn't make any big pronouncement about how many it was. Acts and then in verse 5, and when Silas and Timothyus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.  I am clean. From henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles. So he had times where he had apparently no success. Then the next verse, and he departed thence and entered into a certain man's house named Justice, one that worshiped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue. And Christmas the chief ruler of the synagogue believed on the Lord with all his house and many of the Corinthians hearing believed and were baptized. So Paul says, Luke says, many believed then. But we have a range of experiences throughout that chapter. Outright hostility, failure of making any progress, and then many believing. In Acts 19 we see something similar. Paul comes to Ephesus and finds the one dozen disciples who had been baptized with John's baptism and he rebaptizes them. And then in verse 8 it says, He went into the synagogue and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God. But when diverse were hardened and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyranus. So we have an experience where he's preaching for three months and seems to make very little headway. In fact, the people just become hardened and opposed to the gospel and he ends up leaving the situation, taking the believers somewhere else. He separated the disciples, it says. So with this fuller picture of the Book of Acts, what are we really to think of the spectacular success at the beginning of the Book of Acts? Did the apostles somehow lack the Holy Spirit or spiritual power after leaving Jerusalem? I think we would all agree that that is absurd to think that. The mass conversions in the early part of the Book of Acts happened under a specific set of circumstances that can never be replicated again. All those mass conversions happened in or around Jerusalem or one of them is described in Samaria, I believe. All of these are areas where Jesus had personally ministered while he was on earth. And if you think of that, that gives you the key to what this was all about. The ministry of Jesus had touched hundreds, maybe thousands of lives. You think of all the healings in the Book of Acts, all the times it says that he preached, all the times he talked to people. He must have touched hundreds or thousands of lives when he went back to heaven and afterwards, while the apostles were waiting in Jerusalem for the Holy Spirit, there was only 120 people in that upper room. Out of all the thousands and thousands of people, Jesus had healed and preached to and ministered to in his lifetime. Only 120 were there in that upper room. But as soon as the Holy Ghost came and the apostles said that the day of grace was available and it was time to repent and be baptized, thousands responded because they were ready to respond. Jesus had himself touched all these lives and when they heard that Jesus had risen from the dead, they were ready instantly to believe and follow him because they knew what his life had been like. In addition to just the people Jesus had touched during his lifetime, Jesus had sent out emissaries, first the 12 and then the 70. And those touched thousands more lives. And so you have this huge pool of people right around Judea and Galilee and Samaria of people who were ready to instantly respond when the apostles began proclaiming the gospel and inviting people to baptism after the Holy Spirit came. But as soon as they left that area, then that situation didn't exist anymore. Jesus had not gone into the Gentile areas. The 70 and the 12 had not gone into the Gentile areas and so you're going into areas where people may possibly have heard rumors or stories about Jesus but mainly probably not. And you have Jews who are expecting the Messiah so you have a pool there and you have God-fearers who are the Gentile people who maybe believe in one God but aren't ready to be circumcised and become Jews. They're a pool of potential converts and then you have pagans and the apostles preached and they had results but it was not anything as spectacular as in the early book of Acts. And the same thing applies to the spread of early Anabaptism. Why is it that out of about a dozen people who were baptized on January 21st, 1525, you have at the end of the century 75 years later, thousands of Anabaptists 2,000 had given their lives for their faith by that point and you have thousands spread across Europe. Well they lived at a time where there were specific historical circumstances that made that kind of spectacular spread possible. There was a general eagerness for church reform in Europe at that time. You had lots of people who were very dissatisfied with the corrupt Catholic church and the corrupt clergy and the many abuses in that system. And they were ready and eager for church reform and ready to embrace it when they found it. You also had the Peasants' War that happened in 1525 just as Anabaptism was starting the Peasants' War happened and ended. And the Peasants' War was all about the peasants being upset at the lords for the economic abuses that they were suffering under and also their anger at the reformers like Martin Luther for having preached church reform and finally not doing much about it, not making any efforts to actually stop the abuses that were happening in the church. And so finally the peasants got fed up and they rose up and then the authorities slaughtered them by the thousands and it was a terrible situation but after they were crushed the peasants still wanted something better and the Anabaptist missionaries had it and you had thousands of people ready to accept it. You also had an environment of apocalypticism which means obsession with the idea that this is the end times. Now we look back at it and think it all looks rather funny and absurd five hundred years later but to them it was real and it was no question. Everybody was convinced these were the end times. It didn't matter if you were an Anabaptist or Lutheran or Catholic or anything. Everybody knew without a shadow of a doubt this is the end of time. And if you think about what's happening in the early 1500s you have to agree that from their perspective it made a huge amount of sense. Everything Jesus had said would happen was happening. The man of sin, the Antichrist was unveiled. It was the Pope. Everybody knew that. For the Anabaptists from their perspective the false prophet had been revealed. It was Martin Luther and the Reformers. It was obvious. So there was no question in their mind that this is the end of days and the apocalyptic end of the world which could involve maybe the Turks coming and slaughtering all of Christian Europe or something like that was here. And so you had an environment very conducive to the spread of Anabaptism. And then in the low countries in Holland and so forth you have the Sacramentarian movement which had begun in the 1400s and this was a movement within the Catholic Church of people who disagreed with the Catholic explanation of the sacrament of the Mass of Communion of the Lord's Supper and they disagreed with the Catholic explanation of that and they suffered persecution but there was a huge Sacramentarian movement in the low countries before Anabaptism started. And so when the Anabaptist missionaries came they had a very natural audience with the Sacramentarians because they already believed the Catholic Church was wrong about Communion. They were very ready to embrace the idea that the Catholic Church was an Anabaptism too. So those are some factors that fed into the growth the rapid growth of early Anabaptism. Now comparing that with today I want you to think about something else and this is a concept that Gary Miller talks about some in his book Reaching America which is a very good book. Think of the distance someone has to travel to become a Kingdom Christian to become an Anabaptist or to become a Christian and the first example in Second Temple Judaism. How far did someone have to go? If you're here you're a faithful Jewish person in the Second Temple era you already believe the Messiah is coming and you already believe that there's one God and you already believe that God has the right to tell you what to do and you have to obey it. In Jesus he didn't look like the Messiah they were expecting but he was obviously the Messiah so there wasn't that huge of a gap.  We'll say is this far. In the 16th century how far did he have to go to become an Anabaptist? Well again they already believed in one God they already believed in the Trinity they believed in the Divinity of Jesus they believed that the Bible is true all these sort of things they already believed and so the Anabaptist message only had to get them this far they only had to change their views on baptism they had to change their views on the church on some very significant lifestyle things like non-resistance so we'll say again it's this far now today think of your average American how far does a person have to come to become a Kingdom Christian? Well the fastest growing religious group today in America are called the Nuns now that's not nuns like Catholic nuns that's N-O-N-E-S people who put nun by the question what is your religious affiliation now they may believe in some sort of God but they certainly don't believe that he has any kind of claim to make them be a certain religion maybe they don't believe in God at all maybe they're agnostics but they certainly live like there's no God so you take a nun today how far does he have to get to become a Kingdom Christian? first he has to accept the fact that there's a God and then he has to accept the fact that the God of Christianity is that God and then he has to accept the fact that the Bible is true and authoritative and that Jesus is the Messiah and he has to come to embrace non-resistance embrace all the teachings of Jesus before he can finally get to that point and there's a huge distance and so I think that it's very important that we not beat ourselves over lack of evangelistic success compared to the Apostles in the first few years of the church and compared to the early Anabaptists we need to take this into account and say this is the place God has put us God put them in that place and they did well in their age and that is absolutely wonderful that they had the success they did but we can't expect to do what they did because we live in a different age and we can be faithful and if we can be faithful and we can proclaim God's word and if we can snatch a few out of the fire then we have to be happy we have to praise God for that success and work hard we do not take this as saying that we need to have an excuse for dampened zeal we need to increase our zeal but we need to have it tempered so back now to the early Anabaptists again not only was it ordained men or specifically commissioned missionaries who evangelized it was every member and this was a key to their success and I think has to be a key to our evangelistic success if we are going to have any every member was expected to be active in proclaiming and spreading the gospel they spread the gospel to their coworkers to their employees to business contacts to family members and to neighbors I read an interesting article in the April 1962 issue of Mennonite Quarterly Review called the Missionary Vision and Activity of the Anabaptist Laity and it includes several accounts of this kind of this kind of thing ordinary people in the ordinary round of life spreading the gospel to their associates to people they met one Anabaptist who was arrested in 1535 was asked by the judge if he had sought to win followers to the Anabaptist movement and he said that he and his comrades had compelled no one to join the movement but quote wherever they traveled or lived they spoke the word of the Lord in 1539 one German citizen of a German city said from the Anabaptists is from the devil for they gladly would have persuaded all of us one man was brought to the Anabaptist movement because his tailor was an Anabaptist he went to his tailor and asked the tailor to make him a coat and he said later that it was a coat tailored handsomely and in a proud style and the tailor asked him what are you saying about pride and with that as the entrance this man was one to the gospel one to Anabaptism because his tailor challenged him about how he wanted his coat made and then here's a quote from that article even toward the end of the century and later the Wurttemberg government considered the propaganda activity of Anabaptist women who spread their faith through word of mouth or through booklets so dangerous that married women who could not be expelled from the account of their little children were chained at home so that they could not lead other people astray they literally thought the Anabaptist women were such a threat that they were willing to get chained and chain her to her kitchen table so that she could not get out and spread the message this of course the author goes on to say did not eliminate the possibility that visitors who came into the house might be infected often the woman who had been chained was lost or was freed by her husband from her unhappy state and I was challenged as I studied for this message about my own zeal for evangelism the devil never had to go find a chain and chain me at home to keep me from spreading the gospel I need to take increased zeal and increased inspiration from these heroines of the faith who the devil was so scared of he had to get a chain to keep them at home so that the Anabaptists were the most organized of all Anabaptists in missions they had the religious freedom in Moravia that they were able to make a bigger structure and more organized and they were able to have everything just more organized to send out evangelists regularly now Anabaptists under persecution like the Swiss Brethren are now as organized that they couldn't do that on that kind of level as well as the Hutterites were but interestingly the Hutterites were also the weakest of Anabaptists on personal evangelism of lay members to their neighbors and casual contacts because they lived on these Bruderhoffs and there was more limited contact and also there were German speakers and they lived in an area where there was a language barrier but that did not keep the lay members from writing letters to their family back home begging them to repent to come to God and to come to Moravia and join the church in Moravia even in the devastation of the 30 years war the Hutterites still sent out messengers across Europe in this horrendously terribly bloody time when it wasn't safe to travel the Hutterites still sent out missionaries and the Hutterite Chronicle says this in an entry for 1620 this year too we followed the example of our forefathers by sending out several brothers to various places in Germany they went to seek those on fire for the truth and to call people to repentance it amazed many people in Bohemia where both hostile armies were encamped as well as in Germany that our defenseless members set out in a time of such terrible danger when scarcely anyone whether of high or low estate could travel in safety but the Lord was their protector and they relied on him alone when their task was completed through the intercession of his people he led them home again in peace and safety so what were some of the motivations that motivated Anabaptists to tirelessly evangelize even when it was so risky I don't claim that I'm going to give a comprehensive list here and hopefully if I leave something unsaid that should be said the Holy Spirit will bring it to your mind but part of their motivation was that they saw the goal of restoring the church to its apostolic purity and building this glorious church as such a worthy and such a noble and such a wonderful goal that filled them with excitement to go out and evangelize Anabaptism could be defined this way Anabaptism is a pure church separated from the world made up of spiritually regenerated disciples of Jesus Christ who live in brotherhood community practicing non-resistance and non-conformity to the world out of a two kingdom concept and every point of that sentence filled the Anabaptists with such passion such enthusiasm that they were willing to risk their lives to accomplish it with God's help they did not see benefit in weakening the message to gain more converts there was not any gatherings where they got together and said you know we could just make more converts if we just made it a little easy we could just change this here and make it a little easier and we'll get more converts the historian Colin Godwin in the book Baptizing, Gathering, and Sending writes this missioners saw no reason to explain away their particular emphases in the Bible such as believers baptism and congregational discipline because their application might be difficult they were not prepared to adjust the ethical requirements of their congregations to make allowances for sinners who might ultimately come to a fuller understanding of the truth upon further teaching they were ready to reject all of the interpretations of the state churches in order to put into practice the word and example of Christ to do otherwise would be to consider the Bible a fable or fairy tale invented by human beings for their own benefit the Hutterite leader Peter Walpot who is an 8 year old boy had watched George Blowerock burned to death wrote this God desires a new heart and a voluntary church which if its own free will separates itself from all evil and all taint of sin both within and without and not only that every faithful, zealous believer and friend of God is responsible in the love of God to testify against all evil and unrighteousness against all works of darkness and against the ungodly life of the world he must witness against the unbelievers point out their transgressions to them and use the sword of the spirit lest he be a hypocrite in the eyes of God and man in order to preach any message in order to preach to others with conviction a person must be totally convinced himself not just convinced that the gospel is true I am sure that everyone sitting here today believes that the gospel is true but convinced that the gospel is good news and that every person would be benefited every person on this earth would be benefited would be better for hearing this good news and accepting it sometimes to hear people talk I wonder whether they really think the gospel is good news or not in order to preach to others with authenticity a person must be living the message himself in order to make the message attractive to others he must embody the joy of Christian living and show that this way of life above all others is a good way to live both for time and for all eternity and the early Anabaptists knew that the gospel was good news they had been delivered from their sins they had been set free they experienced the peace and joy of forgiveness the love of brotherly love and community they knew that the gospel was good news a 16th century Hutterite baptismal sermon put it this way this assurance and seal of the promise of God is offered to mankind at Christ Jesus through the gospel which is a joyful message of our salvation which announces peace to us and the immeasurable riches of Christ which gospel is a power of God that saves all those who believe it what more joyful message is there for a bound man than release and freedom no more pleasant message could be brought so also is the preaching of Christ the gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God which God had promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures and bestowed on us the Anabaptists were also filled with care for the souls of others Mano Simons made wrote this about when he was first asked to become a minister when I heard this that is the request that he be a minister my heart was greatly troubled trouble and fear were on every side on the one hand I was sensible of my limited talents, my unlearnedness my weak nature, the timidity of my spirit the exceedingly great wickedness perversity and tyranny of the world the great and powerful sects the subtlety of many minds and the woefully heavy cross that would weigh on me not a little should I comply on the other hand the great hunger and need of these God fearing pious children for I saw plainly that they erred as do a harmless sheep which have no shepherd when the persons before mentioned did not desist from their supplications and my own conscience made me somewhat uneasy even in my weakness because I saw the great hunger and need referred to then I surrendered myself soul and body to the Lord and committed myself to his grace and commenced in due time to the word to teach and to baptize to till the vineyard of the Lord with my little talent to build up his holy city and temple and to repair the tumbledown walls and many years later after that event Man of Simons was able to say this therefore we preach as much as possible both by day and by night in houses and in fields in forests and waste, hither and yon at home and abroad at dungeons, in water and in fire on the scaffold and on the wheel before lords and princes through mouth and pen with possessions and blood with life and death we have done this these many years and we are not ashamed of the gospel of the glory of Christ, Romans 116 for we feel his living fruit and moving power in our hearts as may be seen in many places by the lovably patience and willing sacrifices of our faithful brethren and companions in Christ Jesus we could wish that we might save all mankind from the jaws of hell, free them from the chains of their sins and by the gracious help of God add them to Christ by the gospel of his peace for this is the true nature of the love which is of God they were motivated by knowing that the gospel was a good news, they were motivated by care and love for other souls and they were motivated by the love and inspiration the vision of the pure church the true church of God it inspired the zeal and mission it was a powerful motivator and as they evangelized that church was built and other people could see the glory of that church as people lived righteous lives and people were set free from sin and people lived holy and people lived peacefully and people loved each other and the glory of that church shown forth and it attracted more people and it was a glorious and it was a positive feedback loop in Anabaptist evangelism thought I might have run out of time Peter read them on, said it this way the church of Christ is the basis and ground of truth a lantern of righteousness in which the light of grace is born and held before the whole world that its darkness, unbelief and blindness might thereby seen and made light and learned to see and know the way of life therefore is the church of Christ in the first place completely filled with the light of Christ as a lantern is illuminated and made bright by the light that his light might shine through her to others sometimes we hear people say that focus on the church is opposite of focus on evangelism that those two are not not complementary and they don't work together and if we're focused on the church it's a wrong focus and we're just focusing on ourselves and all of this and we need to be focused on evangelism and that can be true that can certainly be true but I think that maybe we need to give that idea a little more thought maybe making the church glorious maybe increasing brotherly love in the church maybe making so the church is more pure and more holy is the best thing we could do for evangelism I don't know very many of you I don't know what your congregations are like so I'm just going to say this and if this applies to you then you could take it from the Holy Spirit but maybe the best thing you could do right now for the long term benefit of your evangelistic success is to go home and work on relationships at church maybe that's the best thing that you could do right now if you have broken relationships at church if you have a bad witness at your church if your church is not what it should be that it's not attractive that you feel you couldn't tell someone come to my church it's a good place to be maybe that's the most wonderful and best and most impactful thing you could do for evangelism because brothers and sisters the lantern never showed anybody light the lantern never gave anybody light in the dark room the lantern is us but it's the light of Christ inside that gives the light that shows the path of life that gives light to the people in the dark room and if there's no light in your lantern you're not going to have evangelistic success you're not going to know what to do with people when they ask where can I go to church but if you go home and make sure there's light in that lantern then all the world can see and as Jesus said, ye are the light of the world not you are the light of the world not Andrew is the light of the world but ye, plural, ye are the light of the world a city that is set on a hill cannot be hid neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel but on a candlestick and it gives the light unto all that are in the house let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven


I think it goes, for me, it goes all the way back to when I was in college, when I was a freshman at UC Santa Cruz. And I was in a women's studies, my first women's studies lecture by Wendy Brown, an amazing dynamic professor. And we got to the segment of the class that addressed women of color feminism. And so the intersection of race and gender became central to the class. And that was the first moment where I realized that I was myself, a person of color, that not only was I racially sort of different than my peers, but that there was this entire body of scholarship on that, and what that means at various moments in one's life. So my background is that undergrad, having amazing professors teach things like race and ethnicity and gender, really inspired me to pursue grad studies in English. And that's when I was able to realize that I could access these really difficult questions and engage these interesting ideas through fiction and literature. So I was able to merge my love of reading with my interest in social justice and racial politics. And that's really, it's that intersection of the rigorous intellectual work of scholarship and that sort of cathartic experience of reading novels that I sought out. So when I was at UW, when I was a graduate student getting my PhD, I studied American ethnic literature and took a lot of higher level classes on African American lit and Chicano lit, which is Mexican American literature. And those were the two sort of bodies of literature that I wanted to focus because of my own background as a Mexican American woman. I wanted to bring that in to not only the courses I was taking as a graduate student and the dissertation I was writing, but I realized pretty early on that the classes that I would develop if I were to become a professor would focus on those two communities of writers because I have both of them in my family background. And that was, that's pretty much where I am today. That's how, that's why I teach what I teach at Western is basically those classes that I took and that love of learning and literature.


Book of the day thought of the day outliers by Malcolm Gladwell amazing book and My favorite by Malcolm Gladwell still here in Norway Oslo my vacation home. How pretty it is out there. I was thinking a Wondering why I like this book so much and I think it's because It reinforces a thought whenever you have a thought on your own and then you read it somewhere I think you you'd like the book more and that is why do we as a society study average so much So every scientific report you'll see will be like the average person sleeps eight hours a day the average person You know who has a high-paying job went to college this many years, but Forget average what you want to do is study the outliers. That's why the books called outliers What do exceptional people do differently you study average you end up with average So in the book he studies, you know top rags to riches stories Lawyers he studies a guy who has the highest IQ in the world, but didn't get far Or probably as far as he should have didn't reach his potential and he uncovers all kinds of amazing I don't know if it's pure science the book some of it's obviously anecdotal, but for example Luck plays a big role, but not look like you think luck about things like being born to a wealthier family Does help, but there's other factors that can mitigate against being born Let's say you were born in poverty. I was born a single mom and So the odds is somewhat are against you and he examines the fine line between What we call luck like being born into a rich family Bill Gates kids or something and then having Opportunistic luck. That's what I call it. So For example, if you're born healthy That's lucky But if you don't take advantage of the opportunity, it's all for nothing. I think some people think it's great It's black and white like you're born unlucky So you have no chance or you're born lucky and therefore things will automatically come to you It's not really that way on a Schwarzenegger's body, you know, it became the most legendary bodybuilder of all time He had the physique for it But he had to grab the opportunity Had he never worked out he would have just been probably a kind of stocky dude Albert Einstein had he not put in the work. He had a math Physics mentor growing up Bill Gates spent 10 20,000 hours as a teenager programming. Sure. He had a school that was wealthy enough and A family was wealthy enough to give him that opportunity to have a computer back in the 60s and 70s when most didn't But a lot of kids had that and he took that opportunistic luck and ran with it and sat down and literally programmed for Sometimes 20 hours a weekend. He said he would do So when there's a lot more to this book, I'm not gonna Give a full summary just because it's a good book.  Maybe you're good at writing. Maybe you're good at math Maybe you're good socially with people and the good news about life You only got to grab one opportunity and magnify it and Get it large enough that it will make up for all those shortcomings. So for me like I said You look at my life Statistically the average I haven't gone to college. So the average person who hasn't gone to college makes less than the average person I mean the average person who has gone to college makes more than the person like me that dropped out But I didn't care about average. I found outliers Bill Gates Einstein dropped out of high school for a little while Richard Branson all these You know, there's a long line of people that have done the same thing Paul Allen and I said, let me magnify Something I'm lucky in and I'm fairly social person So most of my businesses have always been social in nature and I just magnified that one area forgot about the rest That I didn't have quite as much luck in and we live in a time where that's all you need one big break. So Read the book outliers. It's really a good book. It's one of the shorter Malcolm Gladwell ones and You'll find some other points in there, but we have a comment.


political polarization has become a major concern in many countries around the world. A recent study suggests that it may be caused by certain characteristics of a given society, such as open and informal discussions among its members. The study shows that polarization can occur when there are floaters, contrarians, or stubborn agents in a community. When floaters are present, the community will gradually move towards consensus. Contrarians, on the other hand, will cause polarization within a community if they are present in large enough numbers. Stubborn agents will also cause polarization, but only if they are present in larger numbers than floaters or contrarians. This study provides insight into how political polarization can arise from the interactions of various types of people in a given society.


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