the fact, of course we both know Carl. When you first heard of Megan Thee Stallion, you was in the radio then, right? Yeah, yeah, matter of fact, we the first people to interview Megan Thee Stallion and my podcast, me, R.R.P., my man, Dippa Ratchie, and Glam, it was me, Glam and Dipp, and free my boy, Ben Frank. We had a podcast, I think Frank was on it. I remember your podcast, I got mad at you about that podcast. Why? Nigga, I was upset with you about that.  Hey, but you know you said it. Hey, I definitely do, but you know what I did? Yeah.  On Boss Talk 101, 101, here we gon' talk. I'ma thought I saw dope. Yeah, yeah. I'ma thought I saw dope. Yeah. She was like, how is she buyin' all this? And the catch was, I was literally spending my whole check, I was giving it to you. Yeah. I ain't need me no more, I ain't need no money to go out. I gotta ask you about, I gotta ask you about, I'ma myself gonna ask you about Carl Crawford and Megan Thee Stallion, man. It's all over the internet right now. I wanted to talk about it because of the fact, of course we both know Carl, when you first heard of Megan Thee Stallion, you was in the radio then, right? Yeah, yeah. Matter of fact, we the first people to interview Megan Thee Stallion in my podcast. Me, R.R.P., my man, Dippa Ratchie and Glam. It was me, Glam, and Dipp, and free my boy, Ben Frank. We had a podcast, I think Frank was in it. I remember your podcast. I got mad at you about that podcast. Why? Nigga, I was upset with you about that. You and he had princes on there and the nigga gon' say, you the oldest, you'll still the one that's the oldest been rockin' this out. I'm like, nigga, are that nigga forgot about us? Hey, but you know you said it. I definitely did, but you know what I did? Yeah. I said, that nigga, he camp over there, that nigga camp, nigga. And you know what, she know me well, she like, they know the old G is here, the old even trip, like, I've been doin' this. We see each other at a magic show, could I come with you? They all see us. We see princess every single six months. They rock with us, bro, cause I've been around for all of this, man. You know what I'm saying? I like, and I don't, I think it was because we humble and we stay out the way. We stay out the way. And I'm gonna say this, I gotta say this, a lot of people are like, man, why are you in Moodle Stove here? Why are you in Moodle Stove here? I come from the street, so I really don't want everybody comin' to me. You don't hear me, man. So I move how I wanna move. Sometimes it better be out the way than in the way. In the way. So we always move like that. Cause people always said, why you not in the mall? Why you don't do this? And we had the finances. I just, I'm a hustler. So first of all, you can't get to your store at night in no damn mall, so I can't do that, bro. We had customers callin' us at 10, 11, 12. I need to, I'm in the store. I need the drip. And I give it to them every time. I need the drip. Thank you. Every time.  You can't get to it. You can't get in the mall. So I don't play those games. I'm a hustler, bro. So you weigh me up out of bed. Mm-hmm. You know what?  Don't waste my time. You can put your price on it. Come on now. Hey, hey, hey, hey. So you get it. Come on, man. It's a sleepin' nigga fee. My old man, I ain't still what I said. She's like, I'm my old man. That's me, that's me. You know, I'm more than the best one. I got a family. Man, I'm the best one.   I'm like, this nigga called me. Man, I'mma go up here, man. You gotta come, man. Nothing open. I gotta go to the club tonight. I gotta come. And there's certain niggas that would call me. So I could never do that hustle like everybody else. And my mind said, I'm like, I can't read that. You know what I'm saying? No doubt. But I just want to go back to the Carl Crawford making the style, you know, like you say y'all interviewed her first. And when y'all interviewed, what she would call then? You know what I'm sayin'? Orphe to her mom. You know what I'm sayin'? Her mom was there. Carl Crawford was there. Okay. And that was just now like starting a partnership. So you know what I'm sayin'? Like when we interviewed her, we actually booked her at our club. You know what I'm sayin'? We had rumors at the time. And I got the footage and it was crazy. It was like, it was super packed. Like the girls went crazy over. But it sucks because it was her power as an artist and her network and her growth that made her be, but it was caused finances that helped contribute to it.  Each other is collective. But like now it's to the point where it's like she, this side is saying, well, we ain't need you.  Both of y'all, y'all wouldn't have been, y'all wouldn't have worked without each other. But what I did on the music. Well, in the music, Carl was already, you know, he was financially well off. He still is, so. So it's like, but you know, I got a great relationship with Megan and I got a great relationship with Carl. So from my understanding, from me actually, she was the first artist to come to Dallas and tap in with us. It's like, man, y'all need each other. And it sucks y'all don't got each other because y'all coulda did so much more than what's getting put out there. But at the same time, it's still a business. But it goes back to like what you said even about a group is pride and ego that breaks anything up. Hey man, it's business though. The kid cheers you. Hey man, Carl had her riding around and Ben Spurners, two of them, had her riding with 30 girls everywhere she go. You couldn't do that on your own finances. Wow. Like you was doing this everywhere, new outfits, you know, Megan went from slick her ponytail to bundles and you know what I'm saying?  It's not cheap.  But what I can't understand is, I know with going back and forth with all the court cases and all of that, why she don't just go ahead and give him what he wants so she can move on with her life? Because when you are talented artists, you can create so much more and it's be great. But it's like she got the right to feel like she, she feel like she worked for them. It's like if you work for your name and then somebody said they want it because they had it first, you're gonna fight for it. Yeah. And you can't blame her for fighting for it. You can't blame him for fighting for it. It's a far game.  Take it to the courts.  Yeah. And at the end of the day, those are unrepairable relationships. Yeah. Hopefully they get past it. You can go either way. You don't ever know which way it's gonna go. And that, it sucks for the culture because that's Texas and they didn't deal so much. Like look at what she done in those years because we brought her back in like with 2017, 2018 and look at what she did in the last five years. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, it sucks because man, I'm for anything dealing with Texas. Call from Texas, Megan from Texas. I'm for everything that's Texas. That's how we are. You know what I'm saying? You in the midst of it right now.  I mean Texas great again. You know what I'm saying?  It's business.


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Hey guys, welcome back to Comic-EnTV. We're all geek culture collides. I'm Shannon and today we're gonna be taking a look at the DC Universe Green Lantern Action Figure 2-Pack. This 2-Pack comes with Abinsur, Hal Jordan, and one light green Green Lantern power battery. So stay tuned. As I said, this is the DC Universe Green Lantern Action Figure 2-Pack. Abinsur and Hal Jordan with one Lantern. Let's go ahead and take a look at Abinsur. They are the exact same body just with different heads. So let's start off with Abinsur and then we'll move over to Hal. This is from the DC Universe Green Lantern Classics toy line. I can't remember exactly where I got these. I think I got them off of Amazon. I'm not completely sure though, but I've had them for a few years so there's some discoloration on the white, but it's not bad. So this is of course Abinsur. He was the Green Lantern of sector 2814 before Hal Jordan. Kind of a generic style head sculpt. It actually kind of looks like they may have just taken the head from Lex Luthor painted it like a brick color and called it Abinsur. But still not bad. Gets the point across as to who he is. Let's take a look here. The head it only moves side to side can go all the way around. Slight tilt not much though. Very slight. The arms go up to about there and go forward. They are slightly hindered by the torso. But not much. You can go all the way around. There is articulation at the bicep. Elbow joint just regular standard elbow joint. Articulation. No articulation at the glove. However there is articulation at the wrist. He does have an ab crunch waist swivel leg. He's got forward up to there. Backward about that far. He can go out to get that nice split motion come back down. Then he's got a thigh swivel knee joint can go back to there just a single knee joint. No boot swivel. But he does have an ankle rocker. Let's go ahead and take a look at this paint job. All the green lanterns in this line had the pretty much the same paint job. It is classics. So of course it has the darker kind of forest green look. It's got the black with just the classic green lantern look with the trunks and everything. Overall not bad as you can see. He does have blue eyes but it appears that this eye might be a lot brighter than this one. So I'm not sure what's going on with that. Look at the back. I'm not quite sure what that is in his back. Maybe I don't know. I don't think it ever said on the package. But the sculpt is pretty nice. Got all the muscles sculpted in there. Nice big green lantern symbol. Very nice. I used to have my green lantern collection hanging from the ceiling looking like they were flying. As you can see Hal Jordan exact same sculpt just different head and they did use the main Hal Jordan head just without the gray temples exact same articulation except his head does rock a little bit better up and down. Turn all the way around. Do the little exorcist there. Arms there. Bicep swivel. Elbow wrist ab crunch waist leg there back to there out. Let's try the other thigh. It does have thigh swivel. However I have not messed with these guys in quite a while so they're pretty stiff. I don't want to risk breaking them. Then we got the knee crunch. No boot swivel but we got an ankle rocker and as I said exact same sculpt on the body just a different head and I still want to know what that piece is for there. Anyway nice paint job. I just wish they would have gone with a brighter green you know. And this power battery they should have matched it with the green on their costumes. I did check online this is the exact power battery that came with this pack. I have so many green lantern power batteries I had to make sure that this is the one. As you can see it's very light green skinny upper lower very plain very simple they could have maybe a lot of the other green lantern batteries have a clear lens or whatever right there and there they could have done something like this to this but uh or something like that to this overall not bad it gets the point across. Decent figures. Very good figures to add to the collection so there you have it guys DC universe green lantern classics action figure two pack Abinsur and Hal Jordan. I'm Shannon for Come Again TV take care. Guys if you liked this video make sure you smash that subscribe button and click on the little bell to receive notifications on all our upcoming videos. Hit the like button make sure and leave us a comment so we know how you felt about this video and don't forget to share with your family and friends until next time I'm Shannon for Come Again where all geek culture collides.


me now. Thank you. Who here has done a psychedelic drug?  We will be fingerprinting everyone on your way out. Obviously kidding. You can keep breathing your hand. You're very excited about this. I agree, right, right, right. The reason that I wanted to talk on the subject was because psychedelics changed my life completely over the course of the past year. Iowaskan psilocybin mostly. And there's no way to describe the level of transformation that this one addition to my life has led to. And so the person who came here a decade ago, which Mark Sisson was referencing on that video, she's gone. I'm gonna say that she's gone. I have not cared very much about nutrition in about a decade. And I stuck with a certain identity because I didn't know what else to replace it with. And I think a lot of people get stuck in these potholes that we create for ourselves by identifying with something that we then can't let go of because it becomes too much of an attachment. And it took me a while to come to terms with losing that identity. So when I was trying to figure out what this talk wanted to be about on psychedelics, I realized it was pretty simple. I want to share from the part of me that these tools helped wake back up and bring back to life. So I'm not actually going to talk much about science today. If that makes anyone really freaked out, you're welcome to leave right now because I know you guys have been on the science circuit for this whole conference. And I would also say if you want to read about studies, the internet is available to you. Google is available to you. I don't want to just come here and rehash things that you can find on your own. I want to give you something a little different because no one in this room is actually going to feel the thing I want to communicate just by looking at graphs and brain scans. So we'll be trying something else. Psychedelics are fascinating because in many ways they're a complete inversion of our conventional model of healing. Modern medicine's approach is to standardize and sterilize, define, make things predictable and controlled, assure outcomes, give statistics. Psychedelics revive everything that approach tries to kill. It's a medicine that designs itself in response to the psyche of the patient. Totally unpredictable. We have nothing else in the world like it. We have no map of the space they take us to. You are the map. And psychedelics show us a pathway out of the cage of the mind where you can only ever think about healing. And down into surrender, which is where healing actually happens. The space is a wild, chaotic, pulsating womb, steeped in the same kind of mystery that the Western world tries very hard to kill. We don't like unknowns. We don't like the dark. We've built an entire intellectual religion arguing against the existence of the things we can't measure or perceive. Meanwhile, people are flying down to the Amazon and getting more healing, puking into buckets in the jungle than they have sitting in a therapist's office for year after year after year. Our allegiance to the current system is costing us human life. We're choking ourselves to death with the amount of force and control we apply to the healing process. And something has to shift if we're going to change. Psychedelics are very exciting to me because they sit on the fracturing edge of our current understanding. And we might not know what the next paradigm is, but psychedelics can connect us with its aroma and help attune us to a way of perceiving that we can't reach intellectually. And in my opinion, for whatever that's worth, I'm just one person. These are some things that are trying to arrive to launch a shift for us. Healing as transformation rather than a return to baseline. Right now, medicine approaches healing people as doing whatever it takes to fit them back into the life and identity that made them sick. Let's give people drugs to chop off the most vivid ends of the emotional spectrum because those emotions aren't convenient and it prevents us being functional. And another pill to interrupt the grief process because your sadness is taking too long and you have to go back to work. Let's manipulate the chemicals involved in anxiety so that you can get rid of that feeling that something is off in your life and go back to how things were. In reality, the healing process always involves something dying. The identity of the one who is sick. The habits that created their condition. The wounds that created the habit. The attachment to the wounds. We really don't like letting go of our pain. Layers go very deep. And by the time a person is sick, they're already starting a process of ego death. Their body's ahead of their mind. Something in them is saying this isn't working. This isn't me. This isn't the life that I came here for. And with our current approach to medicine, we're abandoning people on the edge of their transformation. Immobilizing them halfway through the birth canal and getting them stuck there instead of supporting them all the way through their metamorphosis just because we don't know who they would be on the other side. And that's very threatening to our current structures. Psychedelics don't make your life an identity more tolerable, which is the goal of most pharmaceuticals. They make it so that anything out of alignment becomes even more glaring. So that we have no choice but to transform. Another thing, we need to stop abandoning what's true for what's appropriate. Humans are very funny with the way we think we can impose our will over reality. In order to fit this idea of what we think we're supposed to be. I shouldn't feel this way. I shouldn't be upset about that. I shouldn't want that. I shouldn't hate that. I shouldn't be turned on by that. Keep it professional. And all those times, when we say yes, when we need no, or no, when we mean yes, instead of listening to our knowing and creating this false doubling of reality, one that's true and the one that we have to try so hard to convince ourselves of. If we override our reality enough times, we lose that connection to our intuition, and we lose our clarity. And that light we're born with gets dimmer and dimmer. And our life gets more and more of those crunchy spots where we know something needs adjusting the job, the marriage, the sense of self, the thing we're doing the addiction. But we don't like what we'd have to give up in order to change. You can ignore those spots for a long time. It's a big world and there are lots of distractions. But eventually the spots get bigger and bigger. And one day you realize there's nowhere left to go to get away from the discomfort of being in your own skin. Ask me how I know. Everything in your world will shift when you come back to what's true. Less becoming, more unbecoming. Our culture loves accumulation, acquiring, getting more studies, more evidence, more rules, more definitions, more labels, more stuff, more knowledge, more Netflix, psychedelics or unravelers. They lead us through our unbecoming. Instead of what can I put on? What can I take off? What stories can I shed? What patterns hold me hostage? What weighs me down because I won't let go of it? What am I not? Discovering who you are is never a matter of finding something you're missing or adding something new to your life.  It's a straight jacket. And life keeps trying to peel it off of you. Over and over, infinitely patient and generous with the number of times it will try to show yourself until you finally see it and break free. This is the path to freedom. It's not a place to get to. It's not something to fight for. It's what's left standing after everything else falls away. The knowing that if it can be taken from you, it isn't really yours. And that if you can watch it die, it isn't really you.  I don't think anyone really knows what they are or what they do. But I can look at my own life as the evidence I need that they are a gateway. Helping us navigate whatever's coming next. Helping us navigate ourselves. Rewiring our mind so that we can see more of what's already there. And there's a way where we can invite this in without abandoning the brilliance that humanity has already given birth to. The next paradigm shift, in my opinion, will happen when we put science and service to the mystery, instead of only trusting the things that we can capture and cage and make perform on command.  We just have to let it in. Thank you. Questions, but also if anyone just wants to share something, I invite that. The floor is open. How do you how do you know? Yes, it asked me how you know. Oh, you're over here. Sorry, I didn't even see this one. Look at this dual thing. Yeah, so I spent 10 years working in the nutrition field, trying to force myself to believe that I still enjoyed it. And meanwhile, I don't know how many of you were here for the first AHS, at least some familiar faces. I went underground for a long time. I just stopped posting online, stopped writing, stopped going out in public, speaking wise, also even socially for a long time. And it was from this deep mismatch of what I thought I was, what I was trying to be, and what was actually trying to break through inside of me, which is much more esoteric than I ever felt comfortable showing anybody. And last year, I woke up one day close to my birthday, and I was like, I need to do ayahuasca. Never in my life had it appealed to me. I've never been a drug person, never did a psychedelic before. And I just knew I did no research beforehand. I just found the closest place I went. And it changed my life more than anything, other than being born. And yeah, I don't know if that answers your question, but I had to get to the point where I couldn't stand being in my own skin. There's a beauty at the bottom. If you let yourself go all the way down, it's where the nourishment is. Thank you. Thanks for sharing all that. I like to share something. So I've been to Burning Man eight or nine times, which you can try all the things there if you want. And so once you've been there a couple of times, people will join your camp and maybe they'll have some experiences. And it'll be the first time. And so the veterans will warn them, okay, so you have just seen that you have been living a facade for your whole life. So please just don't go back in the first two weeks and leave your wife, leave your job, just take a little time and do it in a measured way. And it's actually a real thing because that advice comes from the juxtaposition of people seeing that they've been living a fraud. And it's a kind of a forced way to have a midlife crisis at whatever age you are. And we make fun of people who have a midlife crisis, but that's no joke to wake up and see that you've been an automaton just doing what society has asked you to do. So definitely this, I recommend everyone try it, see what chains are freed from you. Thanks. Thank you so much. Hi. It was a nice refreshing change from the all the other presentations. Thanks. Glad you feel that way. Yeah. In my late teens and 20s, I did bassid and peyote and mushrooms and other things. And the insights I feel, and this is makes my life exciting now, the insights I feel I experienced and saw then are coming back and kind of emerging naturally, kind of in a in the insights and wisdom that I'm discovering in myself and my worldview. So it's, it's interesting to note that I don't know whether they set the seeds or set the stage, but I feel like I'm experiencing a lot of what I learned then, now, naturally, although I am curious to try one of those again. It's time it'll call. Thank you for sharing that. As soon as you started talking, my heart started pounding. I have a lot to share, but I'm actually going to do breathing exercise, breathing exercise for the next minute. I'll let this gentleman speak and then I'll share. Thank you. Thank you for sharing your story. You know, I feel like this summer for me personally, for those who followed me on Twitter, I've been tweeting out a lot because with the Olympics, there's been a lot more focus on mental health and the struggles from people who have very high expectations placed upon them. And a lot of times it's really self induced as in we take on those expectations and we put them on ourselves. So I totally I I'm impressed and I wish more people would follow your example and be open about struggles that they not only take on, but when they overcome and then share that with others. So I just have to say I really appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks a lot to me. I just wanted to say a big thank you. I have come from an opposite direction of you being born in the psychedelic community. And actually being here at the ancestral health conference for the first time, I was lucky enough on Easter and 4th of July to be crawling around the lab that where MDMA was not first synthesized, but secondly synthesized and then publicized by Dr. Sasha Shulgin. These are powerful, powerful medicines, you know, and I just want to help everyone to remember that and draw the correlation between Tommy's talk neuroplasticity and these substances, these substances put our brain in a very volatile state. And it's so so important to go into these experiences with love and intention and plan for them, you know, and make sure that you're in a beautiful environment, whether that's in nature, whether that's with a guide. And it's beautiful to see you just the changes from that picture that you put in where you are now. And it's a testament to the power, you know, of these medicines of how they can lower the activation energy to allow the natural processes in our brain, the plasticity synapses changing to take place. So I don't have a question for you. There's not much to ask. It's pretty clear, you know, what's happened to you. And I wanted to thank you. Thank you so much. You should have given this talk. Hi. Thank you for a wonderful talk. Thank you. It's nice. My partner's helped me a lot is the sort of thing that maybe I wouldn't have appreciated three, five years ago. But so it feels funny to ask this after a talk like you gave. But I was wondering if you had any practical tips for implementation and people starting out and I don't know what any legal things are. You cannot say but you know, if you can say certain things, I would be curious what you're what you take is on getting started and in which ways. So obviously, all of this is hypothetical because you know, no one wants to get shoved into a box and locked up. That being said, I feel like if you have a draw, this isn't this is not going to happen at the level of the mind. Like if you make a pros and cons list of should I do psychedelic, should I you will never get an actual answer for yourself. It has to be a resonant match with wherever you're at at life for whatever reason. This thing is just a yes for you. And I can't really explain that in words beyond what I just said there. Like if you know, you know, if it's a yes, it's the yes. If it's a no, it's a no. And also share that my first two I've done six ayahuasca experiences, ceremonies, my first two were the most beautiful things I had ever experienced in my life. The last two, the final two, were the most garb wrenching experiences of hell that that could envision. I can't even envision. You can't know until you're in that state how bad it can be. And I would say that any, anytime you're, you're dealing with psychedelics because we don't have a map for this territory at all.  And no one else can fully help you navigate that. So be prepared to take whatever comes out and alchemize it rather than just fighting against the experience. If you go through something very, very terrible and frightening.  And it's still something that I would recommend to people, not unscrupulously, but because the journey that it launched was so valuable to me. In fact, the more difficult trips tend to be the ones where you learn the most. And they show you the stuff you really have to work on. That being said, you know, give yourself space to integrate anything that that comes up like don't don't expect to jump back into work the next day. The residual effect is very beneficial if you keep sinking in. And other than that, you know, just try not to get arrested. Thank you. Thank you. That was well crafted. I loved it. It obviously really resonated. I'm very happy for you. And I wanted to preface what I want to share with a quote that Gabor Mati, I'm sure many of you know what Gabor is. He said this, I think a couple weeks ago, he said, there's only two kinds of psychedelic experiences. Just like there's only two kinds of life experiences. Either we experience love, or we experience what's in the way of it. And when people have bad trips, that's what they're experiencing. So all I wanted to share was I fell in love sometime in the recent future. And I had edible marijuana, and I had a series of psychedelic experiences on edible marijuana. I think it has something to do with my ancestry, to be honest. I had radical psychedelic experiences. And I know it had a lot to do with because of the safety and the love of the person I fell in love with. And them, you know, knowing the totality of who I am, the good, the bad and the ugly, but them accepting that and seeing me for who I am and loving me. And having had those experiences. As a person who grew up in a Christian community, and always had a hard time, you know, being a Christian person, because I've always had an aggressive mind, and I just ask so many questions, and, you know, I can't put me in a box. Having had all those experiences, I did tons and tons of research, and I started to look into Eastern philosophy and started to hear this notion of source, and with sources. And as I had all those experiences, and I've been learning meditation mindfulness for so long, and I'm out in the world now. I'm very emotional right now. But I, whatever that thing is, it's beautiful. That's all I wanted to say. Thank you so much. Hi, I feel like you and I are making some eye contact, but I don't know, may just be me. Okay, because I was I was feeling you a lot. Yeah. And this gentleman who who just spoke, I feel like you gave me the bravery to say something because I'm pretty shy. And I don't like to talk into a microphone. But I just felt like, I needed to say that this is my this was like my favorite message that was but not to like, say I didn't love everything else about this conference and every talk and the first one to Todd Becker, like I've been trying to work up the courage to talk to you. But I haven't yet, maybe I will later. I love that you're talking about psychedelics. But I just want to say I feel like I resonate with everything you're saying without that without the mushrooms without the ayahuasca, I think I am a very sensitive being in that that would be too much for me. But I think for some individuals, they can have the kind of experiences and appreciate the beauty of every image you showed us today. From a just a place of maybe consciousness or self discovery, I don't know quite like the words that would write. But I wanted to say that because I think you could get the wrong idea and be like, Oh, I have to do ayahuasca and I don't think you do. I'm not going to. But I so appreciate the side of health that you're bringing. Because I think that trauma I gave Ramate I wanted to be like, whoa, because he's amazing. He's great. Psycho neuro immunology. That's like, I want to yeah, I'm hoping to explore. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'd love to. Yeah, that's it. That's it. Thank you so much. That was a really good point to I think I'll tack on is that the whole point of this, these are just tools. And they're trying to get us to a certain place. You don't need these. Not everyone needs these. But if they call to you, they can nudge you. But she eloquently said, you know, that that place is accessible to everybody, just inside. Thank you again. That was that was a great segue. Thank you, Denise. When Oh, Denise knew me. I was like, dude, I'm on Denise radar. So thank you. That means so much to me. We were hanging out a little in Seattle. That was like, pretty wild and cool. So knowing Denise's brain and what she brought to the community, this solid nature of dissecting Ansel Key and all the mythology around that. And then now what we've got here, mind blown and thinking that Aaron said, Sure, Denise Minger. Yeah, let's talk about psychedelic. But I want to point out that actually I was scratching around on my undergraduate and one of my graduate degrees trying to find paleo ancestral primal in the 1990s. And I did a interdisciplinary thesis for my undergraduate because I was in the School of Music and then I branched out to anthropology and religious studies and communication. So I had a degree in ritual creativity and human potential. Doesn't it sound like I was trying to find you guys? So along with psychedelics, then so ritual, just kind of seguigging, segueing perfectly from our last lovely speaker, who I adore, who's so cuddly is ritual. And so first off, this community through scientific hard science as well as community is finding ways to peel back the problems with mismatch. It's part of the reason why we hug each other here. Stephanie is a rock star here.  So Catherine Dunham was a African American woman who established the Dunham technique. And she was also an anthropologist, which is dancing, excuse me, African American dancing, unbelievable, mind blown, an American treasure. She studied the Haitian badum, do you say badum trans dancing. And so just drumming, for instance, we could try to have an experience where we're going back to our ancestral ways. So we're not just here as scientists saying, okay, well, then the gene mutates and the, we're also finding that we find comfort in establishing those ways. So through dance and back to Stephanie, the she got us doing karaoke. So, so now the side thing with AHS is going and doing karaoke karaoke.  Well, she's a brick house, right? So, so it was like the womb, right? Isn't a dance floor like the womb with the with the, the, yeah, the strobe lights and the ball, the, I started to say crystal ball. At any rate, we have the science to help us understand basically that without necessarily having something outside of our exogenous to our self, working on our brains in that fashion, it really could just be a trans experience with drumming and and cuddling being right there with each other, being in the cave or, or whatever it is. And so my mind is blown that Aaron said, Denise, sure anything. I mean, he probably didn't quite know what I was going to do with it. She snuck it in, but no one else could have done what Denise just did. I mean, really, if you analyze the history of AHS and Denise, Denise is part of it. And then we end up here. I mean, I am feeling loaded just having gone to this, this, this talk. So I love you so much. Denise, I do want to thank you for bringing psychedelics as a topic. If not, you have a stash on you. I don't know. But at least as a topic, the Anselstor Health Symposium, and sharing your personal story with this with that journey. I personally, as I was one of the people that raised my hand when he asked the question of people who tried psychedelics and it's some of the highlights of the experiences of my life. And also being a cognitive scientist, somebody who studies the mind as well as the physiological substrates by which it's a function of the functioning produces mind. We really in cognitive psychology are understanding that much of the world we look at around us is really in our minds, literally in our minds. Not in a solipsis way, which means that everything's a figment of your imagination, but that there is an external reality. But really, what we're experiencing when we're interacting in 3d space with the objects and the people and everything in it is a simulation that's gathering data, building up a simulation and then running that simulation and continuing just check to make sure that it's predicting is that the way it's supposed to be and when predictions fail, that's when we learn, right? So so basically, we're running the idea that's emerging in cognitive psychology and kind of science that we are running simulations and that's what we're experiencing in the world. And like Dave Feldman had mentioned, we can sometimes get that simulation wrong. We get it in our heads that, you know, we have to be this way or I have to identify that way you would look, you know, you had identified a certain way. And it's very hard to change that simulation once it's really established. And so psychedelics are really emerging in clinical science and just in cultural memes as being a very powerful tool that can help affect that change in that simulation to make it healthier and operate for the betterment of the individual and their community. So it's great that you brought an important topic here.  I'm actually pursuing trying to get some rat research going to look at with a rat model of the effect of hallucinogens and on cognition, the positive effects, because you know, there's some good mouse studies as well as human clinical data on how hallucinogens can be used to treat PTSD and anxiety and MDD major depressive disorders and a neuroplasticity changes that underlie those things. But we don't have much evidence yet, at least in a nonverbal model like a like an animal model of the other positive effects, longer term that can emerge from these experiences. And so it's something I'm interested in pursuing. So all dovetails. And Naomi, you read our minds, we're on the collective same page. Would it be okay to just now roll into closing remarks? Okay, let's thank Denise minger once again.


You learn how memory works by creating tech faults. That's a cool feature of C. Oh man Great, can we start? The advantage is over Java. Where should I start using Java? What is your company rich? Memory allocation Hybrid inheritance. I mean I think C is a real hero here. I don't really like C++ C sharp Yeah, good driver will say learning to fly is stupidly complicated because everything is done with a say Dan But if you ask a pilot he'll simply laugh at you C++ is low level low level for hardware programming low level try writing a kernel and JavaScript try Programming an FPGA in Java try programming an FPGA in JavaScript in the other language is where do you have pointers? structs references OOP procedural even types and where do you have virtual constructors and other languages that you wouldn't understand structs You want a good knock knock joke? Knock knock raise condition. Oh, no, no, no, no. Did you get it the reference? Do you need pointers? It's not an error. It's a sec fold. That's a casualty memory leak It is more difficult to create unsafe software in Java. Well, then where's the fun water leak what software is written in C What software isn't written in C websites. We're talking about real software all platforms are built in it How can it not be cross-platform? Mmm linker error. We need to see the compiler as enemy Viki League the runtime error detection the runtime error detection is the program as responsibility We don't need a package manager. We write everything ourselves. We do use boost though I remember writing kernels and drivers when I started with C. What were you doing painting guis? You'll learn C in one night People build applications. We build applications that let people build applications My favorite book 10 elegant ways to create a sec fold. Let me show you how you would do it in C


Part 2 of A Grammar of the English Tongue, by Samuel Johnson, read for the LibriVox Language Learning Collection, Volume 1. Of nouns substantive. The relations of English nouns to words going before or following are not expressed by cases or changes of termination, but as in most of the other European languages by prepositions, unless we may be said to have a genitive case. Singular. Nominative. Magister. A master, the master. Genitive. Magistry. Of a master, of the master, or masters, the masters. Dative. Magistro. To a master, to the master. Accusative. Magistrum. A master, the master. Vocative. Magister. Master. O master. Ablative. Magistro. From a master, from the master. Plural. Nominative. Magistry. Masters. The masters. Genitive. Magistro. Of masters, of the masters. Dative. Magistras. To masters, to the masters. Accusative. Magistros. Masters. The masters. Vocative. Magistry. Masters. O masters. Ablative. Magistras. From masters, from the masters. Our nouns are therefore only declined thus. Master. Genitive. Masters. Plural. Masters. Scholar. Genitive. Scholars. Plural. Scholars. These genitives are always written with a mark of elision. M-A-S-T-E-R apostrophe S. S-C-H-O-L-A-R apostrophe S. According to an opinion long received that the apostrophe S is a contraction of his as the soldier's valor for the soldier his valor. But this cannot be the true original because apostrophe S is put to female nouns. Woman's beauty. The virgin's delicacy. Haughty Juno's unrelenting hate. And collective nouns as women's passions. The rabble's insolence. The multitude's folly. In all these cases it is apparent that his cannot be understood. We say likewise the foundation's strength, the diamond's luster, the winter's severity. But in these cases his may be understood, he and his having formerly been applied to neuters in the place now supplied by it and its. The learned and sagacious Wallace, to whom every English grammarian owes a tribute of reverence, calls this modification of the noun an adjective possessive. I think with no more propriety than he might have applied the same to the genitive in equitim desus, Trohey oris, or any other Latin genitive. Dr. Louth on the other part supposes the possessive pronouns mine and thine to be genitive cases. This termination of the noun seems to constitute a real genitive indicating possession. It is derived to us from the Saxons who declined smith a smith, genitive smither of a smith, plural smither or smidar, smiths. And so in two other of their seven declensions. It is a further confirmation of this opinion that in the Old Poets both the genitive and plural were longer by a syllable than the original word K-N-I-T-I-S for knights in Chaucer, L-E-A-V-I-S for leaves in Spencer. When a word ends in S, the genitive may be the same with the nominative as Venus Temple. The plural is formed by adding S as table, tables, fly, flies, sister, sisters, wood, woods, or E-S where S could not otherwise be sounded, as after C-H-S-S-H-X-Z. After C sounded like S and G like J. The mute E is vocal before S as lance, lances, outrage, outrages. The formation of the plural and genitive singular is the same. A few words still make the plural in N as men, women, oxen, swine, and more anciently, iron, shun. This formation is that which generally prevails in the Teutonic dialects. Words that end in F commonly form their plural by V-E-S as loaf, loaves, calf, calves. Except a few, muff, muffs, chief, chiefs, so hoof, roof, proof, relief, mischief, puff, cuff, dwarf, handkerchief, grief. Irregular plurals are teeth from tooth, lice from louse, mice from mouse, geese from goose, feet from foot, dice from die, pence from penny, brethren from brother, children from child. Plurals ending in S have no genitives, but we say women's excellencies, and weigh the men's wits against the lady's hairs. Dr. Willis thinks the Lord's house may be said for the house of Lords, but such phrases are not now in use, and surely an English ear rebels against them. They would commonly produce a troublesome ambiguity, as the Lord's house may be the house of Lords, or the house of a Lord. Besides that, the mark of elision is improper, for in the Lord's house nothing is cut off. Some English substantives, like those of many other languages, change their termination as they express different sexes. As prince, princess, actor, actress, lion, lioness, hero, heroine. To these mentioned by Dr. Louth may be added arbitrus, poetus, chantris, duchess, tigris, governess, tutris, purus, authorus, traitris, and perhaps others. Of these variable terminations we have only a sufficient number to make us feel our want. For when we say of a woman that she is a philosopher, an astronomer, a builder, a weaver, a dancer, we perceive an impropriety in the termination which we cannot avoid. But we can say that she is an architect, a botanist, a student, because these terminations have not annexed to them the notion of sex. In words which the necessities of life are often requiring, the sex is distinguished not by different terminations but by different names, as a bull, a cow, a horse, a mare, equus, equa, a cock, a hen, and sometimes by pronouns prefixed, as a he goat, a she goat. Of adjectives. Adjectives in the English language are wholly indeclinable, having neither case, gender nor number, and being added to substantives in all relations without any change, as a good woman, good women, of a good woman, a good man, good man, of good men. The comparison of adjectives. The comparative degree of adjectives is formed by adding E-R, the superlative by adding E-S-T to the positive, as fair, fairer, fairest, lovely, lovelier, loveliest, sweet, sweeter, sweetest, low, lower, lowest, high, higher, highest. Some words are irregularly compared, as good, better, best, bad, worse, worst, little, less, least, near, nearer, next, much more, most, many for MOE, more for MOE-R, most for MOE-ST, late, later, latest, or last. Some comparatives form a superlative by adding most, as nether, nether most, outer, outer most, under, under most, up, upper, uppermost, for, former, foremost. Most is sometimes added to a substantive, as topmost, southmost. Many adjectives do not admit of comparison by terminations, and are only compared by more and most, as benevolent, more benevolent, most benevolent. All adjectives may be compared by more and most, even when they have comparatives and superlatives regularly formed, as fair, fairer, or more fair, fairest, or most fair. In adjectives that admit a regular comparison, the comparative more is oftener used than the superlative most, as more fair is oftener written for fairer, than most fair for fairest. The comparison of adjectives is very uncertain, and being much regulated by commodiousness of utterance, or agreeableness of sound, is not easily reduced to rules. Monosyllables are commonly compared. Polysyllables, or words of more than two syllables, are seldom compared otherwise than by more and most, as deplorable, more deplorable, most deplorable. Dissyllables are seldom compared if they terminate in SOME, as fulsome, toilsome, in FUL, as careful, spleenful, dreadful, in ING, as trifling, charming, in OUS, as porous, in LESS, as careless, harmless, in ED, as wretched, in ID, as candid, in AL, as mortal, in ENT, as recent, fervent, in AIN, as certain, in IVE, as missive, in DY, as woody, in FY, as puffy, in KY, as rocky, except lucky, in MY, as roomy, in NY, as skinny, in PY, as ropey, except happy, in RY, as hoary. Some comparatives and superlatives are yet found in good writers formed without regard to the foregoing rules. But in a language subjected so little and so lately to grammar, such anomalies must frequently occur. So Shady is compared by Milton. She, in Shady's covert hid, tuned her nocturnal note. Paradise Lost And Virtuous What she wills to say or do seems wisest, virtuosist, discreetest, best. Paradise Lost So trifling by Ray, who is indeed of no great authority. It is not so decorous, in respect of God, that he should immediately do all the meanest and triflingest things himself, without making use of any inferior or subordinate minister. Ray on the Creation Famous by Milton I shall be named among the famousst of women, sung at solemn festivals, Milton's agonisties. Inventive by Asham Those have the inventivist heads for all purposes and roundest tongues in all matters. Asham's Schoolmaster Mortal by Bacon The mortalist poisons practiced by the West Indians have some mixture of the blood, fat, or flesh of man. Bacon Natural by Watton I will now deliver a few of the properst and naturalist considerations that belong to this piece. Watton's Architecture Wretched by Johnson The Wretched are the Contaminers of all helps, such as presuming on their own naturals, deride diligence, and mock at terms when they understand not things. Ben Johnson Powerful by Milton We have sustained one day in doubtful fight. What Heaven's great King hath powerfulest to send against us from about his throne. Paradise Lost The termination in I.S.H. may be accounted in some sort a degree of comparison, by which the signification is diminished below the positive, as black, blackish, or tending to blackness, salt, saltish, or having a little taste of salt. They therefore admit no comparison. This termination is seldom added but to words expressing sensible qualities, nor often to words of above one syllable, and is scarcely used in the solemn or sublime style. Of Pronouns Pronouns in the English language are I, Thou, He, with their plurals We, Ye, They, It, Who, Which, What, Whether, Whosoever, Whatsoever, My, Mine, Our, Ours, Thy, Thine, Your, Yours, His, Her, Hers, Theirs, This, That, Other, And Other, The Same, Some. The pronouns personal are irregularly inflected. Singular Nominative, I, Plural Nominative, We, Accusative, And Me, Us, Other Oblique Cases Nominative, Thou, Ye, Oblique, Thee, You You is commonly used in modern writers for Ye, particularly in the language of Ceremony, where the second person plural is used for the second person singular. You are my friend. Singular Nominative, He, Plural Nominative, They, Applied to Masculines Oblique, Him, Them Nominative, She, They, Applied to Feminines Oblique, Her, Them Nominative, It, They, Applied to Nuders or Things Oblique, It's, Them For It, the practice of ancient writers was to use He, and for It's, His. The possessive pronouns, like other adjectives, are without cases or change of termination. The possessive of the first person is my, mine, our, ours, of the second, thy, thine, your, yours, of the third, from He, His, from She, Her, and Hers, and in the plural, their, theirs, for both sexes. Ours, yours, hers, theirs are used when the substantive preceding is separated by a verb, as these are our books, these books are ours. Your children excel ours in stature, but ours surpass yours in learning. Ours, yours, hers, theirs, notwithstanding their seeming plural termination, are applied equally to singular and plural substantives, as this book is ours, these books are ours. Mine and thine were formerly used before avowal, as mine amiable lady, which though now disused in prose, might be still properly continued in poetry. They are used as ours and yours when they are referred to a substantive preceding, as thy house is larger than mine, but my garden is more spacious than thine. There and theirs are the possessives likewise of they, when they is the plural of It, and are therefore applied to things. Pronouns relative are who, which, what, whether, whosoever, whatsoever. Nominative, who, genitive, whose, other oblique cases, whom. Nominative, which, genitive, of which, or whose, other oblique cases, which, who is now used in relation to persons, and which in relation to things, but they were anciently confounded, at least it was common to say the man which, though I remember no example of the thing who. Who's is rather the poetical than regular genitive of which?  Milton. Weather is only used in the nominative and accusative cases, and has no plural, being applied only to one of a number, commonly to one of two, as whether of these is left I know not. Whether shall I choose? It is now almost obsolete. What, whether relative or interrogative, is without variation? Whosoever, whatsoever, being compounded of who or what, and so ever, follow the rule of their primitives. Singular. This. Plural. These. In all cases, that those. Other. Others. Weather. The plural others is not used, but when it is referred to a substantive preceding, as I have sent other horses. I have not sent the same horses, but others. Another, being only an other, has no plural. Here, there, and where, joined with certain particles, have a relative and phenomenal use. Hereof, herein, hereby, hereafter, herewith, thereof, therein, thereby, thereupon, therewith, whereof, wherein, whereby, whereupon, wherewith, which signify of this, in this, et cetera, of that, in that, et cetera, of which, in which, et cetera. Therefor and wherefore, which are properly T-H-E-R-E-F-O-R, and W-H-E-R-E-F-O-R, for that, for which, are now reckoned conjunctions and continued in use. The rest seem to be passing by degrees into neglect, though proper, useful, and analogous. They are referred both to singular and plural antecedents. There are two more words used only in conjunction with pronouns, own and self. Own is added to possessives both singular and plural, as my own hand, our own house. It is emphatical, and implies a silent contrariety, or opposition, as I live in my own house that is not in a hired house. This I did with my own hand, that is, without help or not by proxy. Self is added to possessives, as myself, yourselves, and sometimes to personal pronouns, as himself, itself, themselves. It, then, like own expresses emphasis and opposition, as I did this myself, that is, not another. Or it forms a reciprocal pronoun, as we hurt ourselves by vain rage. Himself, itself, themselves, are supposed by Wallace to be put by corruption, for his self, itself, their selves, so that self is always a substantive. This seems justly observed, for we say he came himself. Himself shall do this, where himself cannot be an accusative. Of the verb English verbs are active, as I love, or neuter, as I languish. The neuters are formed like the actives. Most verbs signifying action may likewise signify condition or habit, and become neuters, as I love, I am in love, I strike, I am now striking. Verbs have only two tenses inflected in their terminations, the present and simple preterite. The other tenses are compounded of the auxiliary verbs have, shall, will, let, may, can, and the infinitive of the active or neuter verb. The passive voice is formed by joining the participle preterite to the substantive verb, as I am loved. To have, indicative mood, present tense, singular, I have, thou hast, he hath, or has, plural, we have, ye have, they have. Has is a termination connoted from half, but now more frequently used both in verse and prose. Simple preterite, singular, I had, thou hast, he had, plural, we had, ye had, they had. Compound preterite, singular, I have had, thou hast had, he has, or hath had. Plural, we have had, ye have had, they have had. Preter plup perfect, singular, I had had, thou hast had, he had had. Plural, we had had, ye had had, they had had. Future, singular, I shall have, thou shalt have, he shall have. Plural, we shall have, we shall have, ye shall have, they shall have. Second future, singular, I will have, thou wilt have, he will have. Plural, we will have, ye wilt have, they will have. By reading these future tenses may be observed the variations of shall and will. Imperative mood, singular, have, or have thou, let him have. Plural, let us have, have, or have ye, let them have. Conjunctive mood, present. Singular, I have, thou have, he have. Plural, we have, ye have, they have. Preter it simple as in the indicative. Preter it compound. Singular, I have had, thou have had, he have had. Plural, we have had, ye have had, they have had. Future, singular, I shall have as in the indicative. Second future, singular, I shall have had, thou shalt have had, he shall have had. Plural, we shall have had, ye shall have had, they shall have had. Potential, the potential form of speaking is expressed by may, can, in the present, and might, could, or should, in the preter it, joined with the infinitive mood of the verb. Present, singular, I may have, thou mayst have, he may have. Plural, we may have, ye may have, they may have. Preter it singular, I might have, thou mightst have, he might have. Plural, we might have, ye might have, they might have. Present, singular, I can have, thou canst have, he can have. Plural, we can have, ye can have, they can have. Preter it singular, I could have, thou couldst have, he could have. Plural, we could have, ye could have, they could have. In like manner should is united to the verb. There is likewise a double preter it. Singular, I should have had, thou shouldst have had, he should have had. Plural, we should have had, ye should have had, they should have had. In like manner we use I might have had, I could have had, etc. Infinitive mood. Present, to have, preter it, to have had. Participle present, having, participle preter it, had. Verb active, to love. Indicative, present, singular, I love, thou lovest, he loveth, or loves. Plural, we love, ye love, they love. Preter it simple. Singular, I loved, thou loveth, he loved. Plural, we loved, ye loved, they loved. Preter perfect, compound, I have loved, etc. Preter pluperfect, I had loved, etc. Future, I shall love, etc. I will love, etc. Imperative Singular, love or love, thou let him love. Plural, let us love, love or love, ye, let them love. Conjunctive, present, singular, I love, thou love, he love. Plural, we love, ye love, they love. Preter it simple, as in the indicative. Preter it compound, I have loved, etc. Future, I shall love, etc. Second future, I shall have loved, etc. Potential, present, I may or can love, etc. Preter it, I might, could or should love, etc. Double preter it, I might, could or should have loved, etc. Infinitive, present, to love. Preter it, to have loved. Participal present, loving. Participal past, loved. The passive is formed by the addition of the participal preter it to the different tenses of the verb to be, which must therefore be here exhibited. Indicative, present, singular, I am, thou art, he is. Plural, we are or be, ye are or be, they are or be. The plural B is now little in use. Preter it, singular, I was, thou wasst or wort, he was. Plural, we were, ye were, they were. Wurt is properly of the conjunctive mood and ought not to be used in the indicative. Preter it compound, I have been, etc. Preter plup perfect, I had been, etc. Future, I shall or will be, etc. Imperative, singular, be thou, let him be, plural, let us be, be ye, let them be. Conjunctive, present, singular, I be, thou beest, he be. Plural, we be, ye be, they be. Preter it, singular, I were, thou wort, he were. Plural, we were, ye were, they were. Preter it compound, I have been, etc. Future, I shall have been, etc. Potential, I may or can, would, could or should be, could, would or should have been, etc. Infinitive, present, to be, preter it, to have been, participle present, being, participle preter it, having been. Passive voice, indicative mood. I am loved, etc. I was loved, etc. I have been loved, etc. Conjunctive mood. If I be loved, etc. If I were loved, etc. If I shall have been loved, etc. Potential mood. I may or can be loved, etc. I might could or should be loved, etc. I might could or should have been loved, etc. Infinitive, present, to be loved, preter it, to have been loved, participle, loved. There is another form of English verbs in which the infinitive mood is joined to the verb do in its various inflections, which are therefore to be learned in this place. To do. Indicative. Present. Singular, I do, thou dost he doth. Plural, we do, ye do, they do. Preter it. Singular, I did, thou didst, he did. Plural, we did, ye did, they did. Preter it, etc. I have done, etc. I had done, etc. Future, I shall or will do, etc. Imperative. Singular, do thou, let him do. Plural, let us do, do ye, let them do. Conjunctive. Present. Singular. I do, thou do, he do. Plural, we do, ye do, they do. The rest are as in the indicative. Infinite. To do, to have done, participle, present, doing, participle, preter it, done. Do is sometimes used superfluously, as I do love, I did love, simply for I love or I loved. But this is considered as a vicious mode of speech. It is sometimes used emphatically, as I do love thee, and when I love thee not chaos has come again. Shakespeare. It is frequently joined with a negative as I like her, but I do not love her. I wished him success, but did not help him. This, by custom at least, appears more easy than the other form of expressing the same sense by a negative adverb after the verb, I like her, but love her not. The imperative prohibitory is seldom applied in the second person, at least in prose, without the word do, as stop him, but do not hurt him. Praise beauty, but do not dot on it. Its chief use is in interrogative forms of speech, in which it is used through all the persons, as do I live, dost thou strike me, do they rebel, did I complain, dist thou love her, did she die, so likewise in negative interrogations. Do I not yet grieve, did she not die? Do and did are thus used only for the present and simple preterite. There is another matter of conjugating neuter verbs, which, when it is used, may not improperly denominate them neuter passives, as they are inflected according to the passive form by the help of the verb substantive, to be. They answer nearly to the reciprocal verbs in French, as I am risen. In like manner, we commonly express the present tense, as I am going, eh oh. I am grieving, do le oh. She is dying, illa moriter. The tempest is raging, ferret procella. I am pursuing an enemy, hastem in sequor. So the other tenses, as we were walking, Greek and T'inchannamon parapetuntis. I have been walking, I had been walking, I shall or will be walking. There is another manner of using the active participle, which gives it a passive signification, as the grammar is now printing. Grammatica jamnunk chartis imprimatur. The brass is forging, ara excudunter. This is, in my opinion, a vicious expression, probably corrupted from a phrase more pure, but now somewhat obsolete. The book is a printing. The brass is a forging. Ah being properly at, and printing and forging verbal nouns signifying action, according to the analogy of this language. The indicative and conjunctive moods are by modern writers frequently confounded, or rather the conjunctive is wholly neglected, when some convenience of versification does not invite its revival. It is used among the purer writers of former times after if, though, ere, before, till, or until, whether, except, unless, whatsoever, whomsoever, and words of wishing, as doubtless thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not. Of Irregular Verbs The English verbs were divided by Ben Johnson into four conjugations, without any reason arising from the nature of the language, which is properly but one conjugation, such as has been exemplified. From which all deviations are to be considered as anomalies, which are indeed in our monosyllable Saxon verbs, and the verbs derived from them very frequent, but almost all the verbs which have been adopted from other languages follow the regular form. Our verbs are observed by Dr. Wallace to be irregular only in the formation of the preterite, and its participle. Indeed, in the scantiness of our conjugations, there is scarcely any other place for irregularity. The first irregularity is a slight deviation from the regular form, by rapid utterance or poetical contraction. The last syllable, E-D, is often joined with the former by suppression of E, as L-O-V-D for loved. After C, C-H, S-H, F, K, X, and after the consonants S, T-H, when more strongly pronounced, and sometimes after M, N, R, if preceded by a short vowel. T is used in pronunciation, but very seldom in writing, rather than D. As P-L-A-C-A-T, S-N-A-T-C-H-T, F-I-S-H-T, W-A-K-T, D-W-E-L-T, S-M-E-L-A-T for P-L-A-C-A-D, S-N-A-T-C-H-A-D, F-I-S-H-A-D, W-A-K-A-D, D-W-E-L-A-D, S-M-E-L-A-D, or P-L-A-C-E-D, S-N-A-T-C-H-E-D, F-I-S-H-E-D, W-A-K-E-D, D-W-E-L-L-E-D, S-M-E-L-L-E-D. Those words which terminate in L or L-L or P make their preterite in T, even in solemn language, as crept, felt, dwelt. Sometimes after X, E-D is changed into T, as vexed. This is not constant. A long vowel is often changed into a short one, thus kept, slept, wept, crept, swept, from the verbs to keep, to sleep, to weep, to creep, to sweep. Where D or T go before, the additional letter D or T, in this contracted form, coalesce into one letter with the radical D or T. If T were the radical, they coalesce into T, but if D were the radical, then into D or T, as the one or the other letter may be more easily pronounced. As red, lead, spread, shed, shred, bid, hid, chid, fed, bled, bred, sped, strid, slid, rid. From the verbs to read, to lead, to spread, to shed, to shred, to bid, to hide, to chide, to feed, to bleed, to breed, to speed, to stride, to slide, to ride. And thus cast, hurt, cost, burst, eat, beat, sweat, sit, quit, smit, rit, bit, hit, met, shot. From the verbs to cast, to hurt, to cost, to burst, to eat, to beat, to sweat, to sit, to quit, to smite, to write, to bite, to hit, to meet, to shoot. And in like manner, lent, sent, rent, girt. From the verbs to lend, to send, to rend, to gird. The participle, preterite, or passive is often formed in E-N instead of E-D, as ben, taken, given, slain, known. From the verbs to be, to take, to give, to slay, to know. Many words have two or more participles, as not only written, bitten, eaten, beaten, hidden, chidden, shatten, chosen, broken. But likewise, rit, bit, eat, beat, hid, chid, shot, chose, broke, are promiscuously used in the participle. From the verbs to write, to bite, to eat, to beat, to hide, to chide, to shoot, to choose, to break, and many such like. In the same manner, sewn, shewn, hewn, moan, loaden, laden, as well as sowed, showed, hewed, mowed, loaded, laded. From the verbs to sow, to show, to hew, to mow, to load, to lad. Concerning these double participles, it is difficult to give any rule. But he shall seldom err, who remembers, that when a verb has a participle distinct from its preterite, as right wrote written, that distinct participle is more proper and elegant, as the book is written, is better than the book is wrote. Wrote, however, may be used in poetry, at least if we allow any authority to poets, who in the exaltation of genius think themselves perhaps entitled to trample on grammarians. There are other anomalies in the preterite. 1. When, spin, begin, swim, strike, stick, sing, sting, fling, ring, ring, spring, swing, drink, sink, shrink, stink, come, run, find, bind, grind, wind, both in the preterite, imperfect and participle passive. Give one, spun, begun, swum, struck, stuck, sung, stung, flung, rung, rung, sprung, swung, drunk, sunk, shrunk, stunk, come, run, found, bound, ground, wound. And most of them are also formed in the preterite by a, as began, sang, rang, sprang, drank, came, ran, and some others. But most of these are now obsolete. Some in the participle passive likewise take E N as stricken, strucken, drunken, bounden. 2. Fight, teach, reach, seek, beseech, catch, buy, bring, think, work, make, thought, taught, wrought, sought, besought, caught, bought, brought, thought, wrought. But a great many of these retain likewise the regular form as teached, reached, beseeched, catched, worked. 3. Take, shake, forsake, wake, awake, stand, break, speak, bear, sheer, swear, tear, wear, weave, cleave, strive, thrive, drive, shine, rise, arise, smite, right, bide, abide, ride, choose, choose, tread, get, beget, forget, sieve. Make in both preterite and participle, took, shook, forsook, woke, awoke, stood, broke, spoke, bore, shore, swore, tore, wore, wove, clove, strove, throve, drove, shone, rose, arose, smote, wrote, bode, abode, rode, chose, trod, got, begot, forgot, sod. But we say likewise thrive, rise, smite, writ, abide, rid. In the preterite some are likewise formed by a as break, spake, bear, share, swear, tear, wear, clave, get, begot, forget, and perhaps some others, but more rarely. In the participle passive many of them are formed by en as taken, shaken, shaken, forsaken, broken, spoken, born, shorn, sworn, torn, worn, woven, cloven, thriving, driven, risen, smitten, ridden, chosen, trodden, gotten, begotten, forgotten, sodden. And many do likewise retain the analogy in both as waked, awaked, sheared, weaved, cleaved, abided, sieved. Four. Give, bid, sit, make in the preterite gave, bade, sate. In the participle passive given, bidden, sitten. But in both bid. Five. Draw, know, grow, throw, blow, crow, like a cock, fly, slay, see, lie. Make their preterite drew, knew, grew, threw, blew, crew, flew, slew, saw, lay. Their participle passive by en, drawn, known, grown, thrown, blown, flown, slain, seen, lean, lain. Yet from flea is made fled, from go, went, from the old wend. The participle is gone. End of part two of A Grammar of the English Language by Samuel Johnson. Read by Bill Borscht. Part three of A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson. Read for the LibriVox Language Learning Collection, volume one. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Of Derivation That the English language may be more easily understood. It is necessary to inquire how its derivative words are deduced from their primitives, and how the primitives are borrowed from other languages. In this inquiry, I shall sometimes copy Dr. Wallace and sometimes endeavour to supply his detects and rectify his errors. Nouns are derived from verbs. The thing implied in the verb, as done or produced, is commonly either the present of the verb. As to love, love, to fright, of fright, to fight, of fight, or the preterite of the verb, as to strike, I strict, or struck, a stroke. The action is the same with the participle present, as loving, frighting, fighting, striking. The agent or person acting is denoted by the syllable er added to the verb, as lover, friter, striker. Substantives, adjectives, and sometimes other parts of speech are changed into verbs, in which case the vowel is often lengthened, or the consonant softened, as a house, to house, brass, to braise, glass, to glaze, grass, to graze, price, to prize, breath, to breathe, a fish, to fish, oil, to oil, further, to further, forward, to forward, hinder, to hinder. Sometimes the termination en is added, especially to adjectives, as haste, to hasten, length, to lengthen, strength, to strengthen, short, to shorten, fast, to fasten, white, to whiten, black, to blacken, hard, to harden, soft, to soften. From substantives are formed adjectives of plenty, by adding the termination why, as a louse, lousy, wealth, wealthy, health, healthy, might, mighty, worth, worthy, wit, witty, lust, lusty, water, watery, earth, earthy, wood, a wood, woody, air, airy, a heart, hearty, a hand, handy. From substantives are formed adjectives of plenty, by adding the termination ful, denoting abundance, as joy, joyful, fruit, fruitful, youth, youthful, care, careful, use, useful, delight, delightful, plenty, plentiful, help, helpful. Sometimes in almost the same sense, but with some kind of diminution thereof, the termination s-o-m-e is added, denoting something, or in some degree, as delight, delightsome, game, gamesome, irk, irksome, burden, burdensome, trouble, troublesome, light, lightsome, hand, handsome, alone, lonesome, toil, toilsome. On the contrary, the termination l-e-s-s, added to substantives, makes adjectives signifying want, as worthless, witless, heartless, joyless, careless, helpless, thus comfort, comfortless, sap, sapless. Privation, or contrariety, is very often denoted by the participle u-n, prefixed to many adjectives, or i-n, before words derived from the Latin, as pleasant, unpleasant, wise, unwise, profitable, unprofitable, patient, impatient, thus unworthy, unhealthy, unfruitful, unuseful, and many more. The original English privative is u-n, but as we often borrow from the Latin, or its descendants, words already signifying privation, as inefficacious, impious, indiscreet, the inseparable particles u-n and i-n have fallen into confusion, from which it is not easy to disentangle them. u-n is prefixed to all words originally English, as untrue, untruth, untaught, unhandsome. u-n is prefixed to all participle's made privative adjectives, as unfeeling, unassisting, unaided, undelighted, unendeered. u-n ought never to be prefixed to a participle present to mark a forbearance of action, as unsying, but a privation of habit, as unpitying. u-n is prefixed to most substantives, which have an English termination, as unfertleness, unperfectness, which if they have borrowed terminations, take i-n or i-m as infertility, imperfection, uncivil, incivility, unactive, inactivity. In borrowing adjectives, if we receive them already compounded, it is usual to retain the particle prefixed, as indecent, inelegant, improper, but if we borrow the adjective and add the privative particle, we commonly prefix u-n as unpalite, un-gallant. The prepositive particles, d-i-s and m-i-s, derived from the d-e-s and m-e-s of the French, signify almost the same as u-n. Yet, d-i-s rather imports contrariety than privation, since it answers to the Latin preposition de. M-i-s insinuates some error, and for the most part may be rendered by the Latin words mal-e or perperon. To like, to dislike, honor, dishonor, to honor, to grace, to dishonor, to disgrace, to dain, to disdain, chance, hap, misschance, mishap, to take, to mistake, deed, misdeed, to use, to misuse, to employ, to mis-employ, to apply, to misapply. Words derived from Latin written with d-e or d-i-s retain the same signification as distinguish, distinguo, detract, detrajo, defame, defamo, detain, detenao. The termination ly added to substantives and sometimes to adjectives forms adjectives that import some kind of similitude or agreement, being formed by contraction of l-i-c-k or l-i-k-e. A giant giantly, giantlike, earth, earthly, heaven, heavenly, world, worldly, god, godly, good, goodly. The same termination ly added to adjectives forms adverbs of like signification as beautiful beautifully, sweet, sweetly, that is, in a beautiful manner with some degree of sweetness. The termination ish added to adjectives imports diminution, and added to substantives import similitude or tendency to a character as green, greenish, white, whitish, soft, softish, a thief, thievish, a wolf, wolfish, a child, childish. We have forms of diminutives in substantives, though not frequent, as a hill, a hillock, a cock, a cockerel, a pike, a pickerel. This is a French termination, a goose, a gasoline, this is a German termination, a lamb, a lambkin, a chick, a chicken, a man, a mannequin, a pipe, a pipkin, and thus hulkin, once the patriotic hawkins, wilkin, tomkin, and others. Yet still there is another form of diminution among the English by lessening the sound itself, especially of vowels, as there is a form of augmenting them by enlarging or even lengthening it, and that sometimes not so much by change of the letters as of their pronunciation. As sup, sip, soup, sop, sipit, where besides the extenuation of the vowel, there is added the French termination et, top, tip, spit, spout, babe, baby, booby, Greek, bupis, great pronounced long, especially if with a stronger sound, great, little pronounced long, lethal, ting, tang, tong, imports a succession of smaller and then greater sounds, and so in jingle, jangle, tingle, tangle, and many other made words. Much, however, of this is arbitrary and fanciful, depending wholly on oral utterance, and therefore scarcely worthy the notice of Wallace. Of concrete adjectives are made abstract substantives. By adding the termination n-e-s-s, and a few in h-o-o-d, or h-e-a-d, noting character or qualities, as white, whiteness, hard, hardness, great, greatness, skillful, skillfulness, unskillfulness, godhead, manhood, maidenhead, widowhood, knighthood, priesthood, likelihood, falsehood. There are other abstracts, partly derived from adjectives, and partly from verbs, which are formed by the addition of the termination th, a small change being sometimes made, as long length, strong strength, broad breadth, wide width, deep depth, true truth, warm warmth, dear dearth, slow sloth, merry mirth, heel health, well wheel wealth, dry drought, young youth, and so moon month. Like these are some words derived from verbs, die death, till tilth, grow th, mow, later moth, after moth. Commonly spoken and written later, math after math, steel, stealth, bear, birth, rue, ruth, and probably earth, from to ear or plow, fly, flight, way, wait, fray, fright, draw, draft. These should rather be written, flight, frithe, only that custom will not suffer age to be twice repeated. The same form retain faith, spite, wreath, wrath, broth, froth, breath, sooth, worth, light, white, and the like, whose primitives are either entirely obsolete or seldom occur. Perhaps they are derived from fe, or foi, spry, rye, reek, brew, mow, fry, bray, say, work. Some ending in ship imply an office, employment, or condition, as kingship, wardship, guardianship, partnership, stewardship, headship, lordship, thus worship, that is, worth, ship, whence worshipful and to worship. Some few ending in D-O-M-R-I-C-K-W-I-C-K do especially denote dominion, at least state or condition, as kingdom, dukdom, earldom, prinstom, popdom, christendom, freedom, wisdom, hordom, bishopprick, bellowick. M-E-N-T and A-G-E are plainly French terminations and are of the same import with us as among them, scarcely ever occurring except in words derived from the French as commandment, usage. There are in English often long trains of words allied by their meaning and derivation as to beat, a bat, betoon, a battle, a beetle, a battle door, to batter, batter, a kind of glutinous composition for food made by beating different bodies into one mass. All these are of similar signification and perhaps derived from the Latin battuo. Thus take, touch, tickle, tack, tackle, all imply a local conjunction from the Latin tango, te-te-gi, tectum. From two are formed twain, twice, twenty, twelve, twins, twine, twist, twirl, twig, twitch, twinge, between, betwixt, twilight, twible. The following remarks extracted from Wallace are ingenious but of more subtlety than solidity, and such as perhaps might in every language be enlarged without end. SN usually imply the nose and what relates to it. From the Latin, nasus, are derived the French ne and the English nose, and nes, a promontory as projecting like a nose. But as if from the consonants ns taken from nasus and transposed that they may the better correspond, sn denote nasus, and thence are derived many words that relate to the nose as snout, sneeze, snore, snort, sneer, snicker, snot, snivel, snite, snuff, snuffle, snaffle, snarl, snudge. There is another sn which may perhaps be derived from the Latin senuo, as snake, sneak, snail, snare, so likewise snap and snatch, snib, snub. BL imply a blast, as blow, blast, to blast, to blight, and metaphorically to blast one's reputation. Bleat, bleak, a bleak place, to look bleak, or weather-beaten. Black, blay, bleach, bluster, blurt, blister, blab, bladder, blue, blabber, lipped, blubber cheeked, bloated, bloat herrings, blast, blaze, to blow that is blossom, bloom, and perhaps blood and blush. In the native words of our tongue is to be found a great agreement between the letters and the things signified, and therefore the sounds of the letters smaller, sharper, louder, closer, softer, stronger, clearer, more obscure, and more stridulous do very often intimate the like effects and things signified. Thus words that begin with STR intimate the force and effect of the things signified as if probably derived from Greek stronymy, or strenuous, as strong, strength, strew, strike, streak, stroke, stripe, strive, strife, struggle, strout, strut, stretch, straight, strict, straight, that is narrow, distrain, stress, distress, string, strap, stream, streamer, strand, strip, stray, struggle, strange, stride, straddle. ST in like manner imply strength, but in a less degree, so much only as is sufficient to preserve what has been already communicated, rather than acquire any new degree, as if it were derived from the Latin STO. For example, stand, stay, that is to remain, or to prop, staff, stay, that is to oppose, stop, to stuff, stifle, to stay, that is to stop, a stay, that is an obstacle, stick, stut, stutter, stammer, stagger, stickle, stick, stake, a sharp pale, and anything deposited at play, stock, stem, sting, to sting, stink, stitch, stud, stunction, stub, stubble, to stub up, stump, wence, stumble, stalk, to stalk, step, to stamp, with the feet, wence to stamp, that is to make an impression and a stamp, stow, to stow, to be stow, steward, or stoward, stead, steady, steadfast, stable, a stable, a stall, to stall, stool, stall, still, stall, stallage, stage, still, adjective, and still, adverb, stale, stout, sturdy, stead, stote, stallion, stiff, stark dead, to starve with hunger or cold, stone, steel, stern, stanch, to stanch blood, to stare, steep, steeple, stare, standard, a stated measure, stately, in all these, and perhaps some others, ST denotes something firm and fixed. THR imply a more violent degree of motion as throw, thrust, throng, throb, through, threat, threaten, thrall, throes. WR imply some sort of obliquity or distortion as rye, to wreath, to rest, wrestle, ring, wrong, wrench, wrench, wrangle, wrinkle, wrath, reek, rack, wretch, wrist, wrap. SW imply a silent agitation or a softer kind of lateral motion as sway, swag, to sway, swagger, swerve, sweat, sweep, swill, swim, swing, swift, sweet, switch, swinge. Nor is there much difference of sm in smooth, smug, smile, smirk, smite, which signifies the same as to strike, but is a softer word. SMALL, SMELL, SMACK, SMOTHER, SMART. A smart blow properly signifies such a kind of stroke as with an originally silent motion, implied in SM. Proceeds to a quick violence, denoted by AR, suddenly ended, as is shown by T. CL denote a kind of adhesion or tenacity as in cleave, clay, cling, climb, clamor, clammy, clasp, to clasp, to clip, to clinch, cloak, clog, close, to close, a clod, a clot, as a clot of blood, clouted cream, a clutter, a cluster. SP imply a kind of dissipation or expansion, especially a quick one. Particularly if there be an R, as if it were from Spargo or Separo. For example, spread, spring, sprig, sprout, sprinkle, split, splinter, spill, spit, sputter, spatter. SL denote a kind of silent fall or a less observable motion as in slime, slide, slip, slipper, sly, slate, slit, slow, slack, slight, sling, slap. And so likewise ASH in crash, rash, gash, flash, clash, lash, slash, plash, trash indicate something acting more nimbly and sharply. But USH in crush, rush, gush, flush, blush, brush, hush, push imply something as acting more obtusely and dully. Yet in both there is indicated a swift and sudden motion not instantaneous, but gradual, by the continued sound SH. Thus in fling, sling, ding, swing, cling, sing, ring, sting. The tingling of the termination NG and the sharpness of the vowel I imply the continuation of a very slender motion or tremor at length indeed vanishing, but not suddenly interrupted. But in tink, wink, sink, clink, chink, think, that end in a mute consonant there was also indicated a sudden ending. End of part 3 of A Grammar of the English Tongue by Samuel Johnson, read by Bill Borst.


He-Mant, thanks for joining us at STTV6 through our partner TV Studio in New Delhi. He-Mant, we all know that India is the world's largest democracy. Its general elections process has already commenced and the voting will continue for almost a month and a half. I think this long polling schedule has shaken up the social media platforms. What's this noise about the messaging service WhatsApp having launched an India-dedicated fact-checking feature? In the recent days in India, the Facebook itself and Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp have come under severe criticism for allowing circulation of false and distorted information and rumours feigning some serious mishaps. In fact, Facebook had stated sometime back that in light of the ensuing parliamentary elections, it went ahead and removed several Facebook accounts and FB pages for synchronised fabricated misconduct. Where India has recently diverged that by using the tools of artificial intelligence and machine learning processes, they have been able to remove approximately one million accounts a day. This has been the concern even in the other parts of the world as well, especially during their national elections. Now WhatsApp messaging app has launched this fact-finding service which you were talking about or feature that would curtail fake news and rumour mongering which could adversely affect the election process, perhaps even its outcome. But don't you think that this interferes with the right to access information freely? How does this feature work? No, I don't think this feature is in breach of any prevailing legislation nor does it tend to amount to moral policing because it does not prohibit the flow of information. It merely regulates the information in a way that the users can check the genuineness or truthfulness of the received messages or the messages what they receive on the platform. By forwarding the same to a prescribed WhatsApp account, the response will then specify if the information is true, false, misleading, disputed or out of scope. And commendably indeed WhatsApp will be able to examine even the pictures, video links or texts in different languages, the main language Hindi, English and even vernacular languages like Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam and so on. Thank you, Hemant, for taking the time out of your busy schedule to edify our views. We may leave you again, possibly tomorrow, on another issue.


Okay, most stocks are going into the very bullish obviously because of this price action here, Amazon is also there but S&P wants to punch higher so I think we can piggyback on Amazon actually and I believe it already in the very bullish category so let's see Amazon and if we went to say a 35 Delta that would be this one right here that would be this one obviously that's a very pricey option so we don't want to go in for five contracts all right we should get filled we should get a better price all right had to give a little more okay there we go so we are in on Amazon all right so Amazon is right here it's in the very bullish okay breadth of the market is pretty bullish we have about at least 80% bullish so looking decent on the call trade here all right Amazon punching higher now okay Amazon hits 1620 crosses that so think all right the position is developing so it's a $2,200 trade approximately so 10% would be 220 20% would be 440 so let's see if we can get so now it's moving higher Amazon is moving higher breadth is looking good very bullish is now dominating the screen so we have Amazon coming close to 15% okay we are at 15% I'm going to take off one contract so sell one at let's say 1250 so that would capture let's see here there are 310 okay so that would capture about $160 it's $1260 $1275 this is nice let's take one contract off okay so that we are one in and Amazon is still punching higher so let me go back to monitor 355 for the day so we got earlier I think 12.7 but now we're getting 12.35 okay let's see how this 12.6 350 12.75 12.85 13 okay 13.35 I'm taking it folks I'm taking it might get a better price too it's moving higher so this is at 13 see if we can get no it's not a 13 okay 13.5 yeah okay so we are out of Amazon got exactly 20% see the thing is we rode the move nicely from all the way from somewhere here you know 16 14 almost $10 move higher could go a little higher I suppose but not worth it because you just got a nice profit on a two contract position so I know definitely it's worth taking 20 20% but in absolute terms of course it's much more it's $450 on a two contract position so that's great so we just took the trade Costco and I forgot to do the recording so this is the Costco is a 220 call five contracts and it's about a $500 trade at this point so let's see if Costco can punch up higher so let me just pause it here