Okay, hi everybody. Nice to see you all. Good morning. Welcome to our all-day movie workshop. I'm Peter. Yeah, we've got a fun movie coming up today. And yeah, for those who are new, I always like to just give you a little idea of what's going to happen in the day. So we'll start with David and the movie, and then we have a 10-minute break afterwards. Then we have breakout rooms where you can share any emotions or anything that came up during the movie. And then we'll have a 45-minute break, and then we'll have a Q&A session with me. So I'll pass it over to you now, David. Thank you. Thank you, Pete. Welcome everyone. Glad you can join me and join all together for a very profound awakening experience. And it was beautiful because every week I look at the themes and I just pray and pray. And sometimes I have one or two or three movies that come to mind. And yeah, that's what happened this week. I had two or three movies in mind, and I was praying to Jesus. I said, which one? Which one am I going to show here? They're all really good for these themes. And he said, well, you know, this is the first week of the National Football League, the NFL. And you know the teams are playing. And I said, yeah, that's right. I did see that. And he told me the Seahawks are playing the Broncos. The Seattle Seahawks are playing the Denver Broncos. And I was like, okay, I know which movie you want. Because in this movie, that's a premonition of this very key in the movie that the Seahawks are playing the Broncos. And so it made it obvious that this was the movie from the teams that are playing this weekend. And they're in the movie as well playing. So I'm just grateful that you can all be here with me. And this week, in terms of themes, all of the themes were very, very high. And I think when I read through this list of themes, the ones you voted on, you all resonate with each one of them. I think some of you might have voted for all five of them because they're all very intuitive and they're all very high. And Jesus is like, good, good, good. These are really good themes. And this movie that we're going to show today deals with the topic of death. And so what Jesus is saying is you have to be able to face the belief in death. You have to be able to expose it in your mind. You have to be able to face it. And you finally you have to be able to release it. That's the he says that's the last illusion to be overcome his death. His earth life was quite an example of that because of the crucifixion and the resurrection. Also, just recently, Queen Elizabeth passed away. So that's been all over the news. The passing of Queen Elizabeth at 96 years old. So we're going to look at some very high topics today, very high themes. And also we're going to be reminded from Jesus that you have to be able to face the belief in death in your mind. Because that's what the ego is. It's a death wish. And as long as it's unconscious, then you believe in what you perceive with the five senses.  That's when you begin to feel that the strong draw of the light, and you start to automatically let go of everything else that you once believed before. That's how spiritual awakening occurs.  Jesus and the Holy Spirit, and then it disappears. So, here are those beautiful five themes that you voted on this week, and they're all really super high. Just one, fully accepting what is right in front of me. Wow, if you can just do that fully accepting what is right in front of me, then you can have a pretty relaxing, joyful life because acceptance is the key. In the end, Jesus says you have to accept the atonement. And what he means by that is the correction for this entire world of time and space is in the present moment. So when the theme comes out is fully accepting what is right in front of me. What is right in front of me the present moment. It's under your nose. You may go like this a lot, but the present moment is, it's so close, it's under your nose. It's above your lips, it's front and center. And the present moment, all the spiritual traditions have said, think into the present moment and know that you are loved and know that you are free. And so that's what this first theme is about. The second theme is it's time to shine. It's time to shine. No, no time for regrets. No time for sadness. No time for sorrow. It's time to shine. It's time to let your light shine for all the world to behold. It's time to be happy. It's time to be joyful. It's time to release the struggles, release the compromise, release the wishy washy back and forth, you know, no, no. Christ is not wishy washy. Christ is the light of heaven. And, and Jesus is really telling us it's time to shine. Third theme is staying in tune with the purpose. The purpose in our mind that the Holy Spirit sponsors is forgiveness. So forgiveness is simply seeing the false is false. So it's great to know you don't have to accomplish something in form. You don't have to figure out something in form. You don't have to even achieve something in form. You don't have to judge your progress by anything in form. You simply have to join with the light in your mind and simply see the false is false. And this does mean that you start to see there's no hierarchy of illusions. So if you believe that there's better illusions and worse illusions. Jesus is just smiling and, and gently laughing saying, well, they're actually all the same. There's no hierarchy of illusions. And that's why there's, there's no order of difficulty in miracles. The first principle in a course in miracles because they're all equally the same. That's why Jesus could look upon the world with the Holy Spirit and just see the sameness of everything. And then his exit seemed to be kind of dramatic, you know, with a crucifixion or resurrection, and I am with you always even until the end of time and then poof, he's gone. But we have modern day movies that really show us the modern day version of that and that's for example the Truman show where Truman takes a bow, you finally get to take a bow in the end, take a bow. In case you're on stage with Shakespeare, take a bow. In case I don't see you. Good afternoon. Good evening and good night. You just simply escape the world by not valuing the ego. Everything the ego sponsored to try to make you feel good in a projected world of time and space was all part of a lie. The ego is kind of ingenious at inventing substitutes for love, but at some point you start to realize, wait a minute, none of these substitutes for loves are working. I tried it.  Well, why isn't this working? Well, try this one. Why not this? And then you start to realize, oh, I need to surrender. I need a new way of looking at the world. I actually need to forgive this world. Jesus says God does not forgive for he has never condemned and there must be condemnation first before forgiveness is necessary. So, so God is so loving that God is beyond even the concept of forgiveness. And this is the last illusion and it's for the sleeping mind. God doesn't need to forgive because God has never condemned. So God, in one sense, God is just pure love God doesn't even know of forgiveness but the Holy Spirit is brought us this concept to free our sleeping mind to wake up to the eternal nature of God. That's to the heralds of eternity of eternity, which is our next theme for our next online movie or online retreat. So, the next one is feeling the ease of following the spirit. When I talk to people, most people just say, you know, I just, I just want the heartache and the struggle and the challenge to disappear. I want to feel the ease. I want to, of course, I'll be joyful if my, if I feel a sense of ease. If everything feels easy to me, I can see why I would be happy if, if absolutely everything was easy, I would be happy. They say, well, yeah, that's it. So the theme is feeling the ease of following the spirit ease comes from following the Holy Spirit. The more intuitive you become, the easier everything gets because all you have to do is listen and follow. It can't be difficult to listen and follow.  All you have to do is listen to the instructions and follow the instructions.  Since I started the course 36 years, that it's been intuitive listening and my willingness to follow the guidance that that has made all the difference. And the course is just words, and the words and the thought system and the workbook lessons are just designed for one thing, and that's to put you in touch with your internal teacher. And once you make direct contact with your internal teacher consistently, I mean really consistently then you, you can throw the book away. The book becomes a prop. Just like this juice is a prop, or this, this mouse is a prop. Of course a miracles book eventually becomes a prop for you.   You don't even need the book you don't need anything of time and space those are just props on the stage of the world. So that's why it's so important to tune into the Holy Spirit because once you make contact with your internal internal teacher, essentially it is over for the ego, and you realize that it doesn't matter what's even happening on the screen you realize this is it this is this is the thing that the course was pointing me towards just making contact with the internal teacher and then following what the internal teacher tells me to do guides me to do every day. And then you don't even, you're not even concerned with what's going to happen in the day because you know it's all kind of in in the control of the internal teacher the GPS system has got it. You can mess it up you can't make a wrong turn. If you make a wrong turn the internal GPS just says make a legal you turn at the next possible opportunity. See, it doesn't even squawk and say, oh you dummy, you missed the you missed the turn it just says, make a U turn at the next possibility you see how kind that is. That's the best way the Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit always recalibrates you know you really seem to you get into an egoic fit and then the Holy Spirit simply recalibrates, and then says, it gives you the next direction. It doesn't criticize you it just gives you the next direction and that's the way the internal teacher is the the internal teacher knows that mistakes and errors have already been corrected. The Holy Spirit will never condemn will never criticize will never will never belittle you because the Holy Spirit knows that who you truly are is the Christ the Holy Christ, and that is always glorious. There is no mistake in the Christ. And the last theme for this week is staying in true empathy. Let doubt thoughts go. Wow, rounding out an amazing top five let doubt thoughts go. Wouldn't it be great if every time you started to doubt anything or anyone or even doubt yourself that you just automatically stopped and paused and and allowed a smile to wash over you. And then you just thought, I don't need that thought that thought is not helpful to me. I'm just going to let it go.  Bye bye.   And that's how you keep your house clean.  Enjoy the backyard. You're not staying in my living room. I'm living in my living room. I'm living in my, my happy bright mind you can just go out the door and be on your way. So this movie we have today. It, it's called life or something like it. And it's from 2002. And it stars. Angelina Jolie. And, and basically this is a is a movie that shows us what we've been really learning in our recent movies we just finished the, the Turkish series. Basically, and we in that series and other self we learned that even though the past is over and gone. As long as we hold remnants of the past in our unconscious mind, they will play out on the screen. So even though Jesus is telling us this world was over long ago, the past is gone it can touch you not. He does tell us Jesus says the one thing you can truly believe about the past is that it is not here. The one thing you can believe about it is, it's not here is gone. But that's what the, the seeming situation of separation is about is believing that the past is not over, believing that the guilt is not over, believing that the separation is real, that it's actually really possible to separate from God from the source. And then the ego just keeps projecting a world in which the past still seems to play out. And we still feel bad because we believe it's still here. And Jesus again is telling us the one thing you can believe about the past that's holy true is that it's not here, it is gone. And we've had in many different ways in the course. So, we learned that from our another self series and this movie is is carrying on that theme, because Angelina Jolie is going to play a character named Laney.  A little photo shot of when she was a little girl. We see her as, as a, we'll say a young teenager with big thick black glasses, and she has a sister who's very popular who's a cheerleader who gets to date all the football players and, and she's extremely popular and, and Laney as a teenager is not she's very shy, and she's very self conscious. And her sister seems to get all the attention from her father. Laney has a good connection when she's younger with her mother but her mother passes away and dies and Laney had a really good connection with her mother but with her father, her father's not. He's more of a workaholic he works a night shift he works so many hours every week that he never was really good at communicating with Laney and so we see her self concept. And what that movie emerges is, it's one of loneliness it's one of sadness and depression. It's one of comparison and judgment that she's not getting as much attention as her sister. We can see that past. And then we can see the modern day Laney, which of course Angelina Jolie is very capable of playing the modern, the adult version, very sexy career. She has goals she has ambitions. She's, she's very beautiful. And she has a fiance, who is a star for the Seattle Mariners baseball team, named cow. And this is very common, where, if you have unworthiness in your childhood, in terms of your childhood on earth. Oftentimes the ego will say, you need to, you need to compensate for everything that you're not, and become something so good that you will overcome the unworthiness with maybe a great career being beautiful having a beautiful body. Having a very famous partner fiance like cow and living the high life, you know, being popular being known. So she becomes from a very shy teenager she becomes a TV personality, and she is basically a television personality on a on a show in Seattle. So she becomes known to the certainly to Seattle she has ambitions to become a national television personality. She also is is very caught up in how she looks. She's very much controlling of the people places things in her world to have control over her life which she feels she didn't have when she was younger. And she goes for everything that the ego tells you that you can overcome your unworthiness in this world, if you have money. If you have fame. If you have physical beauty. And if you are have will say friends in the sense of people that admire you and like you all those things are are seen as important in the world but they're all ego projections. Doesn't mean anything to a mind that knows his divine, because you can't be either famous or infamous, you can't, you can't have a bad mind or a good mind when your, your divine mind is really all that there is, it's the light. Money money is just a symbol that the spirit can use, but to the ego money is extremely important because it's exchangeable for things of the world that can bring you fame and possessions and control seeming control and and seem to bring you all the goodies that the ego has to have. That's why money is so important. And when money becomes evaluated as important to the ego obviously then that's where the career comes in. For most people, they are not just inheriting millions and millions of dollars, unless your, your name is Prince Harry or Prince William.  And to the ego that's a big thing to be the wealthiest woman in the world it's like very good wealthiest woman in the world, check that one off. A queen, a queen no less wow a queen wealthiest woman in the world and a huge family that she leaves behind and huge tradition and everything and the ego is soaking up the media attention.  The only thing that's wrong with that is, when you go through all that you still seem to suffer, you still seem to struggle and get jealous and, and feel bad and in the end you still seem to die. Actually the self concept fails miserably at undoing unworthiness. And then you look at the mystics and saints who basically like Romana Maharshi as he went on in his life you know he, he didn't seem to own anything. He just kind of was in deep stillness and and people came from all over the world to just sit in the same room. And he didn't have a legacy. His mother did come there to spend some time with him after he became enlightened so to speak because she was not happy when he left at 19. He was an abandoning son but eventually she started to think he's really happy. I think I'm going to go spend some time so he bought her a couch.  But the key thing in this movie is, we're going to see the topic of death, introduced in this movie. It's going to be introduced by a man on the streets of Seattle, called Prophet Jack, and Prophet Jack just he stands on his little wood pedestal opens up the drawer so people can make love offerings and donations if they want and then he forecast what's going to happen in the day. What's going to happen with the sports teams or what's going to happen with the traffic, the highways and so forth. But when Laney is going to go to interview Prophet Jack he kind of just slips in. Like, and on next Thursday, you're going to die. There's nothing like a street prophet who just kind of slips in in the middle of your live interview. Next week, you're going to be dead, you're going to die, which brings the main character to face all of her thoughts and beliefs about mortality.  You will begin to examine your beliefs in mortality and death. Now the good thing about this is Jesus knows that death is not an event in time and space that is not something that actually happens to the Bible. It actually happens to the body, because the body is just a symbol is just a projection, but he does tell us that the ego belief system in the mind is the death. If you believe in the ego, you believe in death. And of course the world acts that belief out very well. This is a world of birth and death. And in many cultures, birth is celebrated throughout one's lifetime, birthdays, and death is mourned as a great loss as an ending. And Jesus is the experience of eternal life. The Christ is eternal life. So Christ is teaching us that birth was made up by the ego and death was made up by the ego and all the form that you perceive in time and space is a projection of that ego. So it seems like bodies die, but Jesus is saying now you need to face this death wish in your mind, because you'll never transcend it by just believing it's external it's outside of you. If you believe death is something that's going to happen to your body, then then you'll either try to repress it and deny it and most human beings are examples of that. So when a baby is born, usually the mother and the father who are just delivered a newborn baby, they may caress the baby's head they may hold the baby.  They do not usually present the death idea to the newborn. The newborns already crying. It's it's been a rough entry. The baby is already crying usually with a slap on the bottom or something like that. And the death wish is not introduced. Oh, you sweet one, sweet sweet.  So mom is a course of miracle student and realizes that that all I'm believing in death and I need my whole life with you is going to be about undoing the ego so we can both be set free. So all the projections are set free. Now that's a very enlightened mom. But she's in that state of mind. She's, she's almost there. She's almost home. Because in this movie, Laney is, she has built a career. She has built an image of herself. She grew up watching Marilyn Monroe movies and she tries for the big blonde hair of Marilyn Monroe. She really is going for the Marilyn Monroe look. And, you know, Angelina Jolie can get away with that. She's, she can, she can get away with Marilyn, a modern day contemporary Marilyn. She wants to be famous. Marilyn became famous. She wants to have famous husband. Marilyn was, was married to Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller. She wants to she's Laney is, is got a fiance named cow. And, and then when she starts to question everything in her life, like, what is it all for. She doesn't only have a week to live or less than a week. She starts to really get deep, you know, she starts to ponder what's the purpose of, of, of life what's the purpose of this world.  Is this profit, even telling the truth at first you will try to label and dismiss the profit. I know that many human beings would do that if they were confronted with a prophecy that they would be dead in less than a week. One of the things that humans do with the egos blessing is just deny. Now that's not going to happen. That's impossible. It's a joke. Who put, who put this profit up, who paid this profit, you know, it's going to be, it will be like, like Kubler Ross calls it denial. It's a huge amount of denial when faced with the belief and death. Most people do not give that much thought to death, because they, they have so many other things that are keeping their attention that they would rather wait until the final day or weeks before they entertain the possibility. So it kind of, it kind of bears on you all along whenever you look around and you perceive sickness or suffering whenever you perceive murder, whenever you perceive war, whenever you perceive conflict and arguments and fights, or starving children or any of these kind of things. That's, that's the belief in death starting to come up into awareness. And there's something in you that says, this is just not right. This is what's going on. How, how is this possible if God is pure love. So of course a miracles comes in and says yes, actually God did not create this world. You are looking through a darkened glass, you're perceiving the egos world and the ego is a death wish. So you shouldn't be too surprised that the world is offering you reflections of death because the, the concept, the belief that made it is, is dark, it's a death wish. It's a wish for death. Now, Freud and Carl Jung and so forth, they started to realize that there was this thing called an unconscious mind. And young said, you know, you, the only way to release shadows is to look at them. And Jesus is saying the same thing that Carl Jung said he's saying, if you want to release the shadows in your mind, you have to look at them. You have to be willing to let them come up into awareness. You have to allow the darkness to be brought to the light. You can't bring light to this darkened world because it's a projection, but you can bring the darkened beliefs and thoughts in your mind to the light and they will disappear. So Jesus is telling us the pathway to God is you don't try to deny the darkness. You have to face it. For most people, they don't really ever think of facing the belief in death. They think that death is an outcome at the end of their form, worldly life. And so they try to push it off and not think about it. And then they're very shocked when it comes suddenly, but actually they're more trying to escape death by not thinking about it. And Jesus says, well, you do believe in death because you believe in the ego and it's in your unconscious mind. So no matter what you do to try to avoid it in form, you will still have to face the belief in death sooner or later. And Jesus is saying, I'm right here. I've got nothing else going on. Why don't we do it sooner? Let's do it now. Let's face it now. Don't put it off. Face the belief in death. Face the belief in the ego and transcend it. Be a transcendent being because that's who you really are. You always have been a transcendent being. Now, when I was looking at this movie, one of the things that came up and Jesus does this with me is when, before I even started really looking closely at the movie again, Jesus said, David, let's go into the course workbook and let's go to workbook lesson number 13. And workbook lesson number 13 says a meaningless world engenders fear. So he starts off with workbook lesson number one, nothing I see means anything. So he's already teaching us from the very first workbook lesson that what we're perceiving with the five senses is really meaningless. He says that in the first lesson. But now in lesson number 13, he's bringing in an emotion that is tied to this meaningless world and that emotion is fear. And that's because the ego made up this world to conceal the fear and conceal the light that is beneath the fear. So in other words, in order to reach heaven, you have to pull your attention away from the meaningless world, the figures, and the images and you have to go inside your mind and start to face your thoughts and beliefs, because the ego is just a belief. The ego is a belief in separation from God and that's why it's the death wish, because separation from God is impossible. If you believe the impossible, then you experience an impossible emotion which is called fear. Why is fear impossible because God didn't create it. You see, God is only love. God is pure love. So if you believe in fear, you believe in the ego, but no one can live in terror. No one can live in horror. So that's why it was pushed down out of awareness into the unconscious mind. So you can seem to survive and live as a person with a daily life and get little bits of fear. But the big fear is the belief in separation and that's pushed out of awareness. And that big fear is covering over the light. So you have to go through that with Jesus to reach the light. And this is why many of the mystics and saints throughout the ages, like St. John of the Cross, talked about the dark night of the soul. As soon as John of the Cross decided not to pursue the things of this world in Spain, and there was another famous saint too, Teresa of Avila. Teresa and John decided, let's go for God and let's give up the values and pursuits of the world. And then, ooh, dark night of the soul. Didn't see that one coming. Whoa, I thought it'd be light down there. It's black. It's pitch black. And you'll hear that from the Pasadam meditators. You'll hear that from Buddhist. You'll hear that from Christian mystics.  And this is why we like the Star Wars movie. Darth Vader. Luke has got to face Darth Vader, right? We know in all of the movies that you have to face the darkness. You have to face the evil. You have to face that. Now, I'm just going to give you a little bit from work with less than number 13, because Jesus is explaining why that this self concept image that Laney has been pursuing in the movie. Famous TV personality. She wants to be more famous, go national. She wants the famous hunk of a boyfriend named cow. She wants to make the perfect beautiful partnership of two beautiful bodies. She wants the money, the fortune, all the goodies and perks that come with money and high paying careers and all that all the typical things of the world. That's why Jesus is telling us in workbook lesson number 13 that none of that will work. A meaningless world and gender sphere today's idea is really another form of the preceding one, except that it is more specific as to the emotion around. A meaningless world is impossible. Nothing without meaning exists. However, it does not follow that you will not think you perceive something that has no meaning. On the contrary, you will be particularly likely to think you do perceive it. So if Jesus came right out in lesson number one and he says, nothing I see means anything. And then he would say, actually you're just hallucinating and everything you perceive with the five senses isn't there. It's an entire hallucination. It waits until later in the book to use the word in the workbook to talk about hallucinations that's too much for lesson number one just to be told. It doesn't mean anything is enough for lesson number one. But now, in lesson number 13 he's explaining why the perceptual world is fearful. The recognition of meaninglessness arouses intense anxiety in all the separated ones.  You know why you feel restless is because there's anxiety underneath the sense of meaninglessness. You're told drop down sink down into your mind below the thoughts and sights and sounds of this world. Let it all go.  You feel fatigue. I'm so tired I can meditate my eyes are closing down. Sorry Jesus I can't.  This presents a situation in which God and the ego challenge each other as to whose meaning is to be written in the empty space that meaninglessness provides. The ego rushes in frantically to establish its own ideas there fearful that the void may otherwise be used to demonstrate its own impotence and unreality. Alone it is correct. It is essential therefore that you learn to recognize the meaningless and accept it without fear. If you are fearful it is certain that you will endow the world with attributes that it does not possess and crowded with images that do not exist. To the ego illusions are safety devices as they must also be to you who equate yourself with the ego. So, the ego made this whole world as a giant distractive device and hoping that the sleeping mind would start to equate itself with the body, equate itself with the personality, equate itself with the images. Therefore, not realize that the entire projected world is nothing. It's just illusion. It is Maya, it has no reality whatsoever. It's a hallucination of trying to read meaning where there is no me. And that's less than number two in the workbook I have given everything I see all the meaning it has for me you see he's, he's giving us the dynamics. And of course the miracles that the mystics and saints have been praying for for centuries. We have the advantage of Jesus giving us the context and the metaphysics of why it's important to let go of all value of the projected world. Because if you see meaning in the world, then you will remain afraid of going within, you'll be afraid of the underlying darkness and you'll even be more afraid of the light that is underneath the darkness which is the light of heaven you see. Jesus is such a master. He's showing us all the metaphysics around going into your mind in the deepest way possible and finding who you are, the Christ. I learned about time because times and illusion to. So, when, when Jesus is asked in the course how long will it take to to reach a state of purity of complete oneness and love and light. I'm answering the how long question Jesus ask another question. And his question is how long is an instant. You see that's his pep talk. How long is going to take me to completely forgive the ego and Jesus is like, how long is an instant. How long do you want this instant to be. I'm with you now, we're, we're here now, just accept me as I am now, and you accept yourself as well as the Christ. But time is like a deluded projection in which there's so many distractions, always vying for attention. Now the reason I'm giving you all this metaphysics is because this is a great movie this is actually a really spectacular teaching device I have to say out of all of Angelina Joe leaves movies yes Angelina you get the Oscar for this one because this is our metaphysical awakening movie. You're showing us that as long as you pursue the self concept to overcompensate for the lack in the past childhood past black.  You need the fame to be happy you need the beautiful body to be happy. And, and if you believe all those things, you are twice removed from true happiness, you're not even close to true happiness. In this movie it's going to take a relationship isn't that great how Jesus always sends in the torpedo of the relationship, even when the ego has such a grip on the mind and it's so certain.  Then Jesus will send in the torpedo of a relationship. And then this, this movie this relationship is Pete. Pete is Mr. No private thoughts. Pete is Mr. No people pleasing.  Pete will just talk to Laney and say you are the most egotistical person I have ever met. He will just womb womb womb.   So this is the Holy Spirit and Jesus torpedoing the self concept. And in the end, that's why Jesus focuses on relationship as a means for awakening because they mirror what you believe in. And Pete, Pete and Laney have have have had their romantic moment in the past. She prefers not to remember that she is still mad at, at Pete. And basically, she has nothing really good to say about Pete. She's, she's always joking how, how bad he is. But he's been sent in by the Holy Spirit to break through that self concept. He's, he's there to, to be a reminder that there's something much more. She's very organized. He's very relaxed and more in the present moment. She's very future oriented with career. He doesn't need to care at all about career, you know, he'll, if he feels to spend the day doing something else or with his son, he will do that, instead of going to work, because for him, there are many things more important than work and career. So this is the beauty of the movie. It's showing you how, when you have a prayer in your heart to read, be spontaneous to be joyful to be happy to shine your light. The spirit will find a way to make that happen, because it's your prayer. You want to be happy and free. The spirit will find a way to unwind the self concept, so that you can actually be happy and free in the moment. And that's why I think this is, I would again say this is one of our classic movies. And the movie watchers guide to enlightenment so today we're going into a classic one. Also, I have asked them to leave the final the theme song on at the end of the movie. Because I'll give you a few lyrics from it, looking to the sky to save me, looking for a sign of life, looking for something to help me burn out bright. Make my way back home when I can learn to fly, looking for a way to fly. I can't quite make it alone. Make my way back home. I can't learn to. It's a beautiful song when the credits roll again the Holy Spirit comes blasting in even on the credits of these classic movies. You just make it through a classic movie and the Holy Spirit comes booming in even during the credits. Like, listen, pay attention. It's important. This is for you. This is for your mind. Please hear me. This is one of our classics. So, sit back. Enjoy the movie. I'll pop in from time to time with some commentary. And I think you're going to find this a very hard opening movie. It's very, very hard opening facing the belief in death and learning to go beyond it to the present moment.


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This capacity to automate the basic workings of social institutions coupled with increased interconnectivity means that we increasingly have the technological means to create massive organizations that are truly distributed and automated, something we have never seen before and whose potential is only really limited by one's imagination. This potential of the blockchain to revolutionize human social institutions is most clearly demonstrated in what are called distributed autonomous organizations that give us a glimpse into the future. Although truly autonomous, decentralized organizations are something new, they can also be seen as just one more step in a millennia-old process of institutional evolution, a process in which we have gone from organizations based fully upon the specific characteristics of their leaders within hierarchical structures to the modern bureaucratic organization to today's platform economy, where we have moved into semi-distributed organizations where businesses operate platforms where the rules are executed by computer code automatically. In our current platform economy that has been built on Web 2.0 technologies over the past decade, organizations are a hybrid of distributed automated platform and centralized business organization managed by people. Platforms like YouTube, Alibaba, WeChat, Upwork, or Uber represent a combination of both centralized digital platform operated by a private business and distributed user-generated systems built on the platform by hundreds of millions of users. However, things are changing fast at present and the Web 2.0 technology that created these platforms is giving way to a new era in web technology with the rise of the blockchain. Blockchain technology offers the possibility to disintermediate these platforms by creating fully distributed systems of organization without need for a centralized organization supporting the platform. With the blockchain, we now have the technology to create truly distributed organizations at a global scale, something that we previously did not have. A decentralized autonomous organization, also called DAO, is an organization that is run by rules that are created by their members through a consensus process and then written into a set of contracts that are run via computer code, thus enabling the automated management of a distributed organization. On a more technical level, a DAO is an organization that is managed through rules encoded in smart contracts and run on the blockchain. DAOs are online platform communities with their resources organized according to rules agreed in advance and set out in its code. DAOs are an open-source software capable of modification through member consensus. They are currently made possible by the development of Ethereum. Ethereum is a public blockchain which works as a decentralized virtual machine for executing peer-to-peer contracts. DAOs are essentially a set of complex smart contracts that combine to form a set of rules that manage the operations of a group of members and their resources. Distributed organizations are based on a few core principles to their design which are ultimately trying to support a self-sustaining system of organization through local feedback loops. Instead of having formal management structures monitoring and coordinating the organization from a central point, decentralized organizations work through signaling systems which are distributed feedback loops as means for aligning the individual with the group. Distributed organizations tackle a problem by creating an infrastructure of cooperation done through the local interactions between members and signaling systems which are designed to create a self-organizing system. A good example of one such signaling system would be the feedback a buyer leaves for a seller on eBay, thus creating a signal to others about the seller's trustworthiness via only peer-to-peer interaction. At the heart of these distributed organizations is the idea that groups are about value as measured by some form of a token. With distributed ledgers, we can create markets out of tokens that represent whatever value system the organization is based around. It is this value token system and market mechanism that are at the heart of the organization. They regulate the system and define any one person's position within the group. These distributed organizations aim to be meritocratic, that is to say, a person's position in the organization is based upon the value they have contributed as measured by the other members that they have interacted with. Their value and corresponding reputation that they have received through their interaction with other members defines their status within the community, with all of this being encoded as tokens on the blockchain. Distributed organizations try to draw upon the intelligence of many people by drawing upon their specific local knowledge. They try to avoid situations where people become overly influenced or persuaded by any highly influential member. They try to harness a diversity of perspectives from all the members. Distributed organizations try to embody the process of evolution in their design similar to the evolutionary process that is built into our market economy. Distributed organizations work through a process whereby members create a stock of new ideas, decisions or initiatives and then members essentially invest their tokens into those that they believe most viable and receive rewards if the initiative is beneficial to the organization, thus mimicking the process of evolution where new varieties are created and selection is performed based upon their contribution to the whole organization. Distributed autonomous organizations are very much in their infancy. They are still just experimental. Not only do we lack the actual finished software solutions, we in many ways still lack some of the basic science required to understand the full dynamics through which self-organizing social systems can work in a stable, safe and sustainable fashion. There are many things that can go wrong with badly designed social systems. One of the first large-scale autonomous distributed organizations was recently hacked at the cost of millions of dollars. We are still in the experimental phase of trying to understand exactly all the parameters and dynamics that are needed to make a social system self-regulating and then building these into the software. This being said, a number of distributed systems for organizational management already exist such as Backfeed or Colony being the most often cited examples. Although such systems are still experimental in nature, their potential should not be underestimated and they will only grow as the underlying technology develops and our understanding of distributed self-organizing systems matures. The blockchain and new distributed models of governance can play a major role in providing the trust infrastructure, the platforms, and off-the-shelf organizational solutions to massive social systems, the type that would be required to develop functioning global institutions.


You got this! Hi, I'm Chef Nini Nguyen, and today I'm going to talk to you about beef roast. Now, when you go to the butcher, it might be a little bit confusing with all the different types of cuts, and you might not know how to prepare them, but today I'm going to show you a few tips on how to pick out the best roast and how to prepare them when you get them home. So I have seven cuts of beef, and I've separated them to two different categories. We're going to cook some hot and dry and some wet and slow. So let's start with the hot and dry. What fits into this category? This is a standing rib roast. This is the most dramatic of roast, and the rib roast is a more expensive cut. The bone being crunched is also a nice dramatic touch that makes this just so much more special. When I say marbling, I really mean all of the fat that grows in between the meat muscles. So you could really see it here. Not a lot of meats will have this beautiful marbling, and what happens when you roast this is that fat melts, and it makes that meat so juicy. Now the rib eye roast here is essentially the same as the standing rib roast, except it doesn't have the bone. It has the fat cap which you want to roast on top, but it also has this beautiful marbling inside just like the standing rib that's going to also melt and keep it super, super juicy. So a single muscle when you think of beef, I automatically think of beef tenderloin. Something super tender and something kind of lean. Another alternative to beef tenderloin would be the eye of round. If you could see here, you can see it's one long muscle that's quite lean. Now this is going to be really, really good and nice and tender when you roast it dry.    So let's talk about these tougher cuts that need a little bit more love. The best way to prepare these cuts are going to be wet and slow. And what do I mean by that? We want to braise these meats. We want to stew them. Now why do I want to cook it this way? It's because a lot of these cuts are going to have connective tissue. And what happens when you braise or stew these cuts of meat is the connective tissue melts and makes this meat super tender. So let's talk about the top round. Now the top round consists of two muscles that I could see quite visibly. And this is what you can see at the butcher, a line of what looks like fat. But when you pull it apart just like this, you could see that there are different connective tissues that are in between the muscle. If you were to cook this dry and hot and fast, it's going to be really, really tough. The top round is what we think of as the classic pot roast, but it's so versatile. As long as you cook it wet, low and slow in the oven, it's going to be juicy. So another cut that's really great for the low and slow cooking is the rump roast. And I'm going to show you here. This one is a great example of the different types of connective tissue that you might see when you're picking out your meat.  It's all worked within the meat. But again, when you cook it low and slow, all of that kind of disappears. This is really great for marinating and roasting. And this is what we think of when we think of roast beef. So now let's talk about the top sirloin. Now this, you can really see the different muscles in between. And what butchers usually do is they tie it all together. You could definitely cut this up and stew it or slowly cook it whole just like this. But all of this connective tissue again, it's going to disappear. Last but not least, we have the chuck roast. Now this is a prime example of the multi muscles in one roast. You could see the different muscles kind of partitioned with the layers of fat. And if you really dig in, you could see the connective tissue. All of these nooks and crannies are great to kind of stuff with garlic or whatever flavors that you really want. And this is not to be confused with the chuck eye, which is basically the tail end of the rib eye. The chuck roast is a great example on how you don't have to spend a lot of money to make an exceptional meal. And there you have it.  And you'll have a perfect roast every time.


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It's Martin Rubinovich. You are the former ambassador of Israel to the United States and you've been a negotiator with Syria So you've had some interesting experiences Is the two state there's two state solution basically dead? No, it's not it's in danger. It's not dead The the peace process can still be revived. I think the prospect of one state solution is frightening to Israelis and I believe that when presented with With a reasonable Formula for two-state solution the Israeli public will support it, but do you think that's plausible at the moment when you've got Conflict turmoil in Syria you have Islamic State etc. Why should there be any move from the part of the Israelis? It's not possible right now because of what you said and because of the makeup of the Palestinian leadership the Israeli leadership the Weakness of the the American role right now So what I presented in in our dialogue on on the stage was an effort to overcome this Problem not to go directly into final status negotiation use the carry paper that was prepared in 2014 as a vision and Start to negotiate more modest gold right now in order to get us out of the current predicament and put us back Into a peacemaking or negotiating mode. You mentioned the dialogue just now with the PLO representative Or the Palestinian Authority representative How do you find the WPC the world policy conference as a venue for this sort of dialogue? I think it's excellent. It's you know, it's large enough To be diverse to have a significant number of Knowledgeable interested influential individual. It's not the mass Let's say of Davos where one feels lost and it's not a tiny gathering of the same 25 familiar faces, but it's I think optimal size very good makeup. It's my second Conference and I'm very happy with it. And that's a bit which thank you very much. Thank you


Merlin Entertainment is a company known largely for many theme parks located in several different countries. Established in 1998, the company owns many well-known theme parks such as Alton Towers, Thorpe Park, and Hyde Park Resort, among others. In this video, just as I did with Six Flags, Cedar Fair, SeaWorld, and Hirschend, I'm going to look at many of the Merlin Entertainment theme parks and give my thoughts as to which roller coaster I think could be the next to get removed from each park, as this is something that was requested by many people for me to cover. Technically, Merlin owns 16 full-fledged theme park properties, but I'm only going to be covering the five main properties as the others are all Legoland branded properties, of which I have little or no knowledge of, and many of them are also relatively new, and they aren't focused on thrill rides at all, so I will be skipping the Legoland parks. As far as the main five parks I'm going to be talking about in this video, I'm not as knowledgeable about these parks compared to some of the other parks I've talked about in this series, so I do want to remind everyone that these are purely my predictions and not based on things I know as fact or have heard from the parks. So, let's dive in. Alton Towers in the UK is a very historic park with a great history and has had many revolutionary roller coasters in their lineup over the years. Choosing one here that I thought would be removed soon was a bit of a challenge because I could see a few going soon. Those specifically are Rita, Runaway Mindtrain, and Spinball Wizard. The one I ultimately selected though is their 2005 Intamin Accelerator coaster known as Rita. From what I've heard, this ride is not received very well and it doesn't fit in with the park or the area that it's in that great either. The theme has been reworked a bit over the years to attempt to make it fit in better with its surroundings, but it seems that has just never been achieved quite how the park wanted. Rita looks very okay but is nothing great and it really doesn't do anything notable it seems besides maybe the hydraulic launch which honestly pales in comparison with the other Intamin Accelerators out there. You have this park that is full of many revolutionary rides such as Nemesis, Oblivion, and even Galactica, and this one just has never been received nearly as well as most of those other rides have and that is why I ultimately chose Rita for Alton Towers. Chessington World of Adventures is a park that is currently home to four roller coasters, perhaps most notably the 1990 aerodynamic suspended coaster Vampire which was retrofitted with Vakoma floorless trains for 2002. As rare as these suspended coasters by Arrow are nowadays, Vampire being one of only five left in operation, I decided on Rattlesnake, a 1998 mock rides wild mouse model to get the axe next at this park. This is an older ride at this point and likely isn't as popular and I could see the park maybe sacrificing this potentially for another cheap modern family style coaster that would honestly just be so much better. Chessington is a small family park with no real major thrill coasters and they likely won't receive any major coasters so they'll probably stick with the current coasters they have for quite some time. With Vampire having those Vakoma trains maybe they can continue to maintain that for longer than many other parks have been able to maintain the Arrow suspended coasters as Vakoma is still alive and well as a company. So for all of those reasons that is why I chose Rattlesnake for Chessington World of Adventures. For Italy's Gardaland I had to make a call between two Vakomas the park currently has. They are home to one of the very first SLCs called Blue Tornado which opened in 1998 but I decided on Shaman known as Magic Mountain until 2016 which is a standard Vakoma MK1200 model which opened back in 1985. It is the basic layout being the double loop and corkscrew iteration of the design. This is just very old at this point and I can't see it sticking around for long. This ride did receive the newer style Vakoma trains with Vesterstraints for the 2009 season so maybe they'll try to keep this going for a few more years but for me this was the clear pick for the next major coaster to go from Gardaland. Hyde Park Resort in Germany has quite a solid collection of roller coasters, probably the best out of all the Merlin parks in my opinion. Out of Hyde Park's current nine roller coasters I was struggling between a few of these. I did consider Desert Race, a clone of Rita at Alton Towers and Bobon which is a 1994 Mach Bob sled coaster but I ultimately went with the 1983 Big Loop which is yet another Vakoma MK1200 model featuring two vertical loops and corkscrews, this one having a slightly different layout than the one at Gardaland. This one is pretty much the same story as Gardaland's Shaman. It is just a very old model that doesn't hold up with today's coasters including many great rides in the same park such as the Intamin Prefab Woody Colossus and the B&M Wayne Coaster Flugedur Demonen among others. Fun fact about Big Loop, it has the Vakoma trains that Alton Towers defunct Vakoma MK1200 called corkscrew operated with later in its life. Those corkscrews, of course, can still be found at Alton Towers as you are entering the park. At the end of our list of Merlin parks to discuss, we have the UK's Thorpe Park. Thorpe seems to really like their horror themed rides, one of those being the Walking Dead The Ride. This is a small Vakoma indoor coaster that opened in 1996. The model is known as a Vakoma Enigma, and this ride previously went under the names X No Way Out until 2012, during which time it ran backwards, then was simply known as Just X until 2017, where it then received a re-theme for the 2018 season to be based around the hit TV series The Walking Dead. This is yet another coaster that is just older and likely no longer very popular at this point, despite receiving a re-theme just a couple years ago. I could see this ride biting the dust in the next few years to potentially make way for a more modern thrilling ride, maybe even something else horror themed. I don't really see any other coasters being removed from Thorpe Park anytime soon. What are your thoughts, and do you agree with my picks or do you think we'll see some other coasters going first from each of these parks? 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Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casewrakes.com coming at you with the Jaspy's 10 box conference finals basketball mixer And finally did it giving way a Michael Jordan at the end will re-randomize everybody's names for that Yeah, should be pretty nice No vet common ship a lot of nice boxes in the mixer as well not just about the Jordan some nice boxes big Thanks to this group for making it happen. Thanks to the people who bought their spots straight up I guess Eric ends up with last spot the last Bob Mojo star next to his name and congrats again to the winners and those two fillers we did All 30 teams are in let's roll it and randomize names and teams one and a four five times one two three Four and once more fifth and final time We got Louie down to Roel one and a four five times for the teams one two three Four and fingers crossed fifth and final time after five That's spurs down to pelicans. All right, so Louie You got the spurs Jeffrey with the Blazers Jared with the Raptors Steven with the Jazz Allen with the Hornets and the Allen Matzoo with the Hornets Allen Murdoch with the Kings two different Allen M's Michael L with the Rock it's Michael P with okay C Eugene with the Celtics Jesse with the Knicks Michael with the T Wolves Steven with the Pacers Tim with Atlanta John with the Magic Eugene with Denver Kyle with Milwaukee Oliver with the with the Lakers Eric with the Cavs Steve Birch with the Warriors Jimmy with the Heat Steve Birch with the Clippers Joe with the Sun Steven with the Grizzlies Mike with the Wizards Jesse with the Sixers Eric last Bob Mojo Bulls Dustin with the Nets Allen with the Pistons Tony with the Mavs and rule with the New Orleans pelicans So let's sort by team and again for that Jordan at the end of the break We'll we'll re-randomize everybody's names long with any other randomizers and See who wins that so stay tuned for that. We're gonna pause the video. We're gonna see if there's any trades And when we come back, we'll have the mixer stick around All right, welcome back everybody. No deals were done. So that list right here remains the same Here on Wednesday the 25th or 10 box conference finals basketball mixer Big thanks once again to everybody who got in No matter how you got in I appreciate it There's the Jordan. This is what we're giving away. We're gonna re-randomize everybody's names The name on top we'll get the Michael Jordan And that'll happen along with any other randomizers that they're there may or may not be we'll put that just off camera really quick What should we start with let's start with this box right here mosaic fast break we'll just kind of Jump around different years and different products Try to get some of the base heavier stuff out of the way first before we work our way back to I think got a choice box All right, we've got a poll up on our if you're watching live. We got a poll up who wins tonight's game 5 between Boston and Miami Pivotal game 5 I think there's I'm sure there's some stat somewhere that says winners of game 5 go on to win the series X amount of times Series is tied at 2 Miami's pretty banged up But they get some they get some home comfort I guess they're back back in Miami So feel free to vote in that poll if you're watching live right now So far 72% of voters are saying that it's gonna be Boston That's gonna win this game first box is the fast break box Good luck everybody appreciate everyone once again for Getting in on the action Ben Macklemore nice Anthony Edwards start things off Just a base card though for Michael P and the Timberwolves and the autograph is and no not the autograph I may be a variation manual quickly That's for the Knicks. That's gonna be for Jesse. These are a couple guys that may have raised their stock in Their second year Cole Anthony Tyrese Maxie Tristan Thompson for Boston His Cole Anthony's will go to John There's our first Lamello That'll be for Charlotte. That's gonna go to Alan Matsui and behind Mason Jones is a Desmond Bain fast break autograph Grizzly's really had a nice season This is for Memphis. That's gonna go to Stephen Flatt. We got a Peyton Prichard 75 out of 85 Might get some some some minutes tonight. All right now. Let's get into some Donner's optic basketball I think this is the retail edition. We'll do the optic fast break box after that See so still 71% saying Boston in our in our chat poll They are the favorites Boston is a road favorite minus three and a half that game should happen Game should start soon. Yeah, I think I think the game will have started by the time we're we're done with this break Jason Tatum on game five saying Celtics shouldn't relax And he wants some rules around all NBA voting. I guess there was some controversy there some players being left in or out or something like that Luba Don should still believe that that they can win these around here. Good luck Elijah Hughes Very Pascal spinning around there Nice rated rookie Anthony Edwards Timberwolves that's gonna go to Michael and a rated rookie Lamello ball For Alan and Charlotte my house Westbrook Rock the Wizards Edition Stephen A Smith going with the heat fast break box. We should see an autograph in here Michael will long go with One with the Celtics he wants to take the heat, but yeah a lot of injuries for For the for the Miami team for the heat Yeah, I think officially Sam Houser for the Boston Celtics as the Boston's pretty much under percent aside from Just the little nagging injuries that I'm sure a lot of players are carrying at the time of the season The only player officially out Tyler hero That's a big loss for for Miami. I don't think Jimmy Butler is completely 100% but he looks like he's playing Boston stays focused and they just locked down on defense. That's what's gonna help him win Good luck next box Harrison Barnes to 85 the Kings That'll be for Alan Murdoch. I've got two Alan M's in this one Cole Anthony rated rookie for Orlando Try to find some parallels of these guys here So bonus to 95 got Anthony Davis 7 out of 95 purple parallel will color match match in the team I hope that this guy could stay healthy. If so, he's one of the best work This is for Oliver and the Lakers and Zeke Najee 15 out of 50 for Denver It's gonna be for Eugene and there's the autograph. It's gonna be Sadiq Bay Fast break signatures definitely got some nice upside for Detroit Alan Matsui with the Pistons Also, I think we got a better autograph here. Usually He's just SB, but we got a little little extra at the end. Thanks, Adi SA double diq. All right, what else?   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Let's let's get into some of these blaster box right here 1516 This is a Donor's basketball blaster box 1516 This we're gonna we're gonna find out soon enough for the rookies are in this class. It looks like we've got Got about a little over. We got a baker's dozen of orders coming in so keep that momentum going boys and girls I don't know what's selling but something is Something's got to be selling Hmm a little bit lower than I thought Mike Tower. Thanks for checking that 70 to 80 bucks with that PSA 10 Donovan Mitchell shock parallel I feel like it's almost a by low scenario there. He has a strong season next year jazz Go deep into the playoffs next year That should help that value considerably Blaster box. Good luck. You got Gary Harris To 199 that's for Denver before Eugene Kelly over your junior relics studio series for the Wizards Mac without campaign Okay, see addition. That was a good national anthem. Good job. 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I know i'm definitely leaning that that way as well Unfortunately, I think battle's number of project projection 555 yards for the season four tds Might be closer He might be uh closer than than some people would like to believe Five autographs in here, right? No, this is sorry contenders basketball has two autographs It's football that has five autographs Oh, you saw that full-size helmet Yeah, say come that's the that's the thing with running bags. That's why You know, there aren't really guy and even Derek Henry was injured last year, but there's not too many guys like Derek Henry or Like adrian peterson Those run those type of running backs are are increasingly becoming unicorns That's why so many teams are uh So many teams end up having multiple running backs on their team just to divide up workload keep everybody fresh and look at Look at the cowboys. They gave they gave Ezekiel that big contract and That's sort of become a little bit of an albatross now Next box first auto ziknaji rookie ticket autograph and that chrome design That is for Denver. That's going to go to Eugene See block. What's going on? Yeah, Rex. I still think if he has a full-size helmet I think uh I think he's still I mean Still kind of popular You know went to a went to a went to Penn State, right went to a big school to 249 Anthony Davis Lakers and a redemption We've got a semifinal ticket to 99 Nikola Jokic 2 mvp's in row for a new gene Tyrese Halburne rookie ticket That Donner's optic design hard stock superstar die cut Steph Curry Playoff contenders veteran playoff ticket autograph This is going to be ch charles charles barkley charles barkley Now he played for a number team so to the checklist Go to cardboardconnection.com contenders basketball 2021 Set checklist on cardboardconnection.com Battles hoping 76ers card seven Veteran season ticket set checklist cardboardconnection.com veteran playoff ticket which is numbered to 49 I think card seven charles barkley phoenix suns edition that's going to go to joe and the suns That's joe b There you go and plenty of time to Redeem as well and clearly Donner's will close things out for us All right. Good luck on RJ Hampton Got some Tyrese maxi And who do we got here? We've got We've got a brain desmond bain That's a one out of five desmond bain a train whistle in our last box of the mixer That's awesome. Memphis That'll be for seaman flat and the grizzly steven All aboard the big hit express It's pretty sharp got a cash just winston Number two 99 83 out of 99 And that my friends is your break now who's going to win This jordan second second place kind of a poor consolation prize, but it's the 150 point So let's flip back. I don't have any other randomizers right yet. No, I don't let's flip back to the main list here Let's gather everybody's name from tim down a mac Let's copy those names new dice new list name on top jordan second name 150 points Let's randomize that list Five and a one six times. Good luck everybody one two three four five And a one sixth and final time after six Tony very close But not quite 150 points going your way Can be only one winner though big congratulations to michael p There you go Gets this old school michael jordan silver ink autograph 49 out of 75 What did we estimate this to be about A few thousand dollars give or take Maybe more nice thick hard stock Maybe maybe even some grading potential if you want to risk that So Really nice stuff. Congrats to michael. Thanks everybody for getting in quick little uh recap right here That desmond bane out of five real nice charles barkley for the suns Some zeke nazi relic some nice parallels here Some lamellos anthony edwards another desmond bane And uh and just a nice solid break overall especially highlighted punctuated by that jordan Thanks ladies and gentlemen for watching for breaking with us. I'm joe. I'll see you next time for the next mixer. Bye


بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصل الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبي وسلم أجمعين mashaAllah as we near here the end of the days of mercy of course all of the منطب رمضان is a mercy but we know that the منطب رمضان comes in thirds and the first third is the third of mercy i thought we should reflect on the word mercy a little bit more because the word mercy in english does not quite capture everything it has in arabic one time the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was sitting with his companions and this was his time soon after a battle had ended and there was a lot of chaos in the background and people going every which way and people trying to find their loved ones and there was a woman a mother amongst the people who was searching frantically for her child she couldn't figure out where her child had went to and for any parent who has even momentarily lost the child just momentarily you know the panic that sets in and this woman was going back and forth and back and forth looking um for her child and anytime she saw anybody else's child she would take them and hold them and then realize it wasn't her and just keep on looking for this child and so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam turned to his companions and said do you see this mother do you think that this mother would throw her child into the hellfire and the question was kind of caught the sahaba by surprise it wasn't something they expected and so they said no by Allah she wouldn't do such a thing and then the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam explained himself and said Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has more rahmah he's arhami has more rahmah for his servants than this mother has for her child so imagine that imagine imagine a mother who's a parent who's desperately searching for this lost child and how much joy and happiness she regains when finding the child again and when the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam asked the companions can you imagine you know if this mother would throw her child into the fire and they just were sort of in disbelief right they couldn't believe the question right but it was a way for the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to explain how merciful Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is with us in comparison to the mother right because the mother's love is a natural love but then you would understand that Allah's love and mercy for us is even grander and even more subhanallah it's beautiful and speaking of mothers and the love that mothers have this is no coincidence of course that the very place that a child grows in a woman's body the womb in arabic is called the rahmah and the name for mercy Allah's name for for himself the merciful ar-rahman and if you break down the three letter root word for each you realize that they're connected and Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam actually says this in the hadith what's he says i am ar-rahman and i created the rahm the womb and i named it after me inshaAllah an organ in the body and only in a woman's body that is named after Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala himself meaning it shares some of the very same characteristics of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala ar-rahman so even when we try to grasp what is this word mean of mercy what is the very it's the very core it's core to the very nature of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and who he is it symbolizes right we think about the womb the fetus grows inside the womb it's nurtured inside the womb and there's bonds built with the mother and child inside that womb before the child is even born it is a protective nurturing cared for environment and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that that rahm that he created he named it after himself subhan Allah right and in the Quran Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says this he says that Allah wrote upon himself he prescribed upon himself what the characteristic of what mercy rahmah it's beautiful right it's so beautiful and the Prophet ﷺ when he came with his message of Islam and what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala taught him was a cultural revolution it literally changed the way we perceive men and women and human interactions he took away this ignorant way of dealing with each other he as a man sallallahu alaihi wa sallam embodied the quality of rahmah from what he learned from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to be merciful with the people around you his own family first and foremost and then all of us and we have so many narrations where the Prophet ﷺ would hug and kiss his grandchildren and play with them and let them ride on his back and tussle their hair and throw them up in the air all these beautiful narrations of how connected and loving he was to his grandchildren and one day and children and one day there's a famous narration where a Bedouin man came to the Prophet ﷺ and he saw him having his grandchildren on his lap and playing with them and tussling with them and kissing them and the Bedouin looked at him this appointedly disapprovingly and did not like what he saw and then he very proudly retorted and said I have had 10 children and I have never kissed any one of them can you imagine the Prophet ﷺ listened to this and then he said something very important he said and what can I do for you if Allah has removed rahmah from your heart as in to say this thing about men don't kiss children and they don't show emotions and affection this thing is called jaheliyah and we want nothing to do with it here I kiss my children I hug my children I play with my children and my grandchildren and I show them love and affection this thing about being a man and not showing your affection not part of our Dean this is cultural nonsense that we do not approve of and so it's a cultural revolution that he did changing the way we understand because the Prophet ﷺ was operating from a place of what Allah told him and Allah made it clear and this is what he says in a different narration whoever does not show mercy will not be shown mercy in the hereafter subhanAllah so Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants us to show mercy to the servants of Allah to the other people around us especially our own family members and I'm reminded how when we first study the sciences of hadith because people can become very literal in their Islamic understanding we always say a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing because people become very you know literal and very specific and halal and haram and yes and wrong and right and the more and more and more you study the quieter and quieter and quieter you get because you realize the vast mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala the differences of our umma right the differences within my umma are mercy to us here comes the word mercy and right and in the hadith sciences the very first hadith were taught as an opening to say to us look you're going to be learning all about this deen and lest you start to become very literal and make it hard for other people the first hadith we're going to start with is is the hadith of mercy that says those who show mercy the merciful will show them mercy that first line is those who show mercy the merciful meaning Allah will show them mercy so show mercy to those on earth those in the heavens will show you mercy this is so important it's the first prophetic tradition that scholars of hadith transmission study because it's an intense importance of how you work with people and teach people and understand in the sunnah and the footsteps of the sunnah the prophets of the life are being merciful to people around you starting always with the family charity starts at home mercy starts at home and then ripples its way outward subhanAllah to Allah and so as we close here for today just as a reminder as we close these last 10 days of the days of mercy to remember that these days are a blessing within a blessing they're a mercy within a month of mercy inshaAllah and we want to really strive our hardest to please Allah subhanAllah to Allah and to make this an incredibly special month by ensuring that we deserve his mercy showered upon us and doing this by the good deeds that are multiplied many folds right and that all the bad days that are forgiven inshaAllah right and a sincere repentance that we strive to please Allah and Allah alone so I pray inshaAllah on these days of mercy that we embody the characteristics of mercy with one another that we are patient with our family members that we are patient in our workplaces that we are patient with those all who might annoy us that we quiet the inner critic within us all of this is a kind of showing mercy to one another subhanAllah that Allah may then show mercy to us may Allah subhanAllah increase us and uplift us and cleanse us and purify us this month and shower his mercy down upon us and allow us to be from those who inshaAllah are written for jannah and have nothing to do for jahannam Allahumma amin wa sallallahu ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam this is your sister Dr. Rani Awad signing off wa salaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi


Hello everyone. So for this week, we will talk about or I will introduce you to two chapters of your book that focus predominantly on the look and feel and style of your applications. So the topics are app bars, styles and themes. We'll talk about that first and then a quick thousand-mile view of or thousand foot view of the Design Support Library. All right, let's get into it. So the first thing is the app bar, also known as the action bar. So in an Android app and, you know, iPhone apps as well, when we talk about the app bar, the action bar, we are referring to that little guy right there up at the top, right? This thing is kind of at the top of every app and usually there's like some sort of back button in it and maybe a title and then a couple of buttons that do something. And in Android, you've got this little guy here that is a menu for things that don't quite fit up here, right? So the app bar, that is like the thing that is the bar at the top of your app. One of the nice things about it is pretty much every app has an app bar. So except maybe for some games in full screen mode or viewing movies in full screen mode, but you pretty much get used to expecting that there is an app bar up there and that it does certain things, at least it has a title and it has a back button usually. Okay, so this is nice because it kind of, you know, we have become trained through using apps for so long to just kind of expect this thing to be here. We don't have to look for it. And the other thing that we know is that if a thing is up here that I can do or see, it's usually pretty important, right? So users of smartphone apps have kind of become conditioned to look for this thing. Usually what happens up here is some navigation is available up at the top here and important actions is what you will find at the top. Okay, so the app bar is the term for the general concept of that line up there. Now it is realized in Android through a class called action bar. Okay, the action bar is the default widget, okay, that serves as the app bar. So it is just another widget, right, but it occupies the space at the top of the screen and people know to look for it up there. So the action bar kind of comes predefined in its general layout, but you can customize how it looks, the color of it and what's in it, right? So if you look at all these different action bars, they all kind of have this back button here. Most but not all have a title, some sort of informative piece of information, and then high priority actions, things you like to do a lot within the app, right? And so Android provides you this widget that kind of comes pre baked and ready to serve up these sorts of things to you, right? But it's just a widget, it provides the layout, and it's up to you to kind of hook together the different actions that you can do in the action bar. Okay, so these guys over here in the top right, these are actions that are tied to but Java code actions, it's like a button. All right, there is also a toolbar, which is another widget that has been introduced more recently in Android somewhat more recently, I guess this API 21 was a couple of years ago now. And what it lets you do is customize more deeply what the act at bar at the top shows you. Okay, so the toolbar, the action bar was kind of the old way of doing things, like these are relatively older apps. This is how all the apps used to look. Now they're a little more customizable. Okay, so we still have actions in our toolbar. And by the way, when you go to write your code and work on your labs, you're going to use a toolbar. We have actions that are tied to Java code just like we have before. And these actions, look, we've got a button here that's got text on it. But then we've got buttons over here that are actually like icon buttons and image buttons. We've got up navigation. Okay, so up navigation, it navigates you back to a parent activity. So in this class section, you will learn about parents, or the concept of parent activities, right? And this, you know, the back button is kind of, you know, it goes back, it's what you're used to, but they call it the up action in Android. And then the third thing that the toolbar provides to you is a menu. Okay, so a menu is going to be like a dropdown list that's baked into your app bar, that holds actions that either don't fit here, because you've run out of space, like in this guy, right, there's just not enough room for more actions here. Or you can tell Android, look, the only action I want to see is the favorite button here, because he doesn't want a favorite David Bowie, that's the goblin king, right? And all the other stuff you can do in this photo app, just hide it back here, they're not as useful, right decluttering your UI and your buttons and actions is usually a good thing. Alright, so that's the app bar, you're going to get introduced to that, how to use it, how to customize it. The next thing in that you will learn about in the lab are styles and themes. Okay, so styles and themes allow you to separate the details of your app's design, how it looks in particular, how the buttons look how the widgets look from the UI's structure and behavior. So if you're familiar with website design, styles and themes are like CSS files, right, they specify, they specify very specifically how things look, what color they are, the font size, the borders, that sort of thing, but the actual arrangement of elements on the screen, the structure and then the behavior, what happens when you like click a button, that's still kind of like in the layout file, but we can pull out the look and the feel of those different widgets and separate it into a different place. Okay, and why would you want to do that? Well, as you start getting into building like bigger and more complex apps, right, you may decide that I think that Android's default button stinks, it's ugly, jucky. And what I want to do is to have all the buttons in my app look the same. And maybe I want to have a concept of text headers that I show, and they're a little bit bigger, maybe they're bold faced, and maybe they're in a different color, right? So what styles let you do is you kind of like define the looks of the things, instead of like copying and pasting the same three lines of code into every layout file, you just say, hey, apply this style, go look up what the style is, then you can tweak the style and tweak all the buttons in your app. And so a style, there is a difference between a style and a theme. A style is a collection of attributes that specify the appearance for a single view, right? So when you create a button, you give it a border, you give it a padding, you can give it a color, you can give it a background color, you can specify the font size, all that stuff. If you put all those things together, that's a style, right? And you can extract those specific things and put them in another kind of like reusable location. A theme is a type of style that is applied to an entire app, okay, an entire app, an entire activity, or a hierarchy of views, okay? So you don't apply a, you apply a style to like one button. You apply a theme to all the buttons in your app. They look kind of similar, okay? All right, so styles. Styles and themes are declared in a style resource file, which is in your resource values directory, and it is usually named styles.xml. The idea is to specify a look in one place and then reuse it throughout your app, okay? So for example, right, here's a kind of simple data entry box, and I have specified a style, right? There's a tag called style, and I give it a name, okay? And the style needs to inherit from something, and the book will go in, the lab will go into, you know, what are the things it can inherit from, but all it does is it's saying, all right, this style, what it does is it specifies Android text color to be this hex code, ccccccccc, which is light gray, okay? So if I want like this text view over here, first name, this text view, last name, visit type, also a text view, if I want them to all have the same color, I can say, all right, Mr. TextView, your style is this style, light gray text that I specified here, right? So this is good because then if I decide later I don't like this light gray, maybe I want it to be dark blue, all I need to do is change the style name or the style value right here, and all of these guys, because they're referencing my style definition, all of these guys will now be light blue. So that's pretty cool. It's a nice reusable configurable way to change the elements that you want, okay? Now themes apply styles to an entire app or activity, okay? You still override attributes in your layout files, you can, like once you pick a theme, you don't have to specify how every possible widget is going to look, right? You only specify the looks and feels of the widgets you want, like maybe you want all the text in your app to be dark gray, fine, we will do that. It won't, but you don't have to specify how buttons look or how images look necessarily, it's up to you, okay? And it's nice and robust, right? So you can, and Android comes equipped with several kind of built-in themes that you can choose from, like material dark, right? You just apply this theme in the manifest file and the whole app, the whole look and feel of the app suddenly changes, or you change it in the manifest to material light and the whole look and feel of the app suddenly changes. So it's pretty cool, you will get some pointers in the lab to different built-in themes, but of course, you can write your own theme and the theme is just a collection of styles, okay? You can customize the default theme, so let me get rid of myself so you can see everything. When you create a project in Android Studio, it applies default built-in design theme defined in your styles.xml file. So if you go right now to any old project and you look in styles.xml, you will see this, okay? These are the colors that kind of default out of Android Studio and they're in reference to different parts of the UI. So, you know, the color primary is the background color of the app bar. Color primary dark is this little system bar at the top. Text color primary, it's white in this case. These are like default things and again, open up your styles.xml file right now and you will see this stuff specified. You can change these colors relatively easily and you will do that in lab number 12, okay? So you're going to get a lot of different control over very specifically the look and colors of the different widgets, right? And chapter, I believe this is chapter eight, just kind of tells you how to do that in a sensible way, you know, well-designed way. All right, so the other module or topic for this week is semi-optional. That is the design support library, okay? I say it is semi-optional because first of all, the design support library chapter is quite long, okay? It's chapter 12 in your book and it's got a long buffet of different widgets and things that Android provides to you through what is called the design support library and it's kind of like pre-baked pre-built stuff and chapter 12 is just a buffet that tells you how to sample each one of these widgets, okay? So if you're really interested in doing really cool stuff in Android, some of the stuff that you've seen in like your favorite apps, you know, like Tinder and those sorts of things, it's probably in the design support library. But again, it's big, it's optional and it's all mostly about how cool things look. I say that this chapter is semi-optional because there are two things that you will have to incorporate into your assignment number two and that is the floating action button and the snack bar, okay? So the design support library, the design support library adds support for various material design components and patterns for app developers to build upon such as navigation drawers, floating action buttons. So this guy down here is called a floating action button, snack bars, this thing is a snack bar, it's like a little pop-up that has an optional action in it and tabs, okay? So material design, what is material design mean? Material design is, it's a design paradigm that comes out of Android or out of Google, I should say, and pretty much all Google stuff has this material flavor to it, right? So Google's design style is called material, Apple's is called Cupertino, I believe, right? So everything coming out of Google looks a certain way, everything coming out of Apple looks a certain way, Google's is based on this thing called material design. What's the material here? Basically, Google's design metaphor is you've got a table in front of you and that table is either your computer screen or your phone or your tablet and then you've got paper that lives on top of it or post-it notes, right? And so, you know, the way that Google kind of imagines these things is like stacks of paper or stacks of post-it notes that kind of have a height and a weight to them, which is why you've got, you know, kind of these borders that sort of have this drop shadow, the drop shadow on the action button down here. But other than that, everything's kind of flat, right? So there's a background, a fairly flat background and then things are sort of stacked on top of it like cardstock. That's the material and material design. So this thing though, this design support library makes it easier to kind of incorporate different widgets into your app that do different things but also fall into this paradigm, right? So what we will get into, what's in the design support library? First is the recycler view. We will have a whole chapter about the recycler view, so we're going to get into that later. And also card viewing, right? So you've probably seen in apps these little cards that have contents that you can swipe through. That's also part of material design. But we're going to have a whole chapter on the recycler view and the card view because in Android, these two things together, recycler view and card view, are how lists of data are displayed. Whether those lists are lists of emails or whether those lists are lists of recipe cards or images. So we will get into that. There's a navigation drawer included. So this little hamburger guy up at the top who kind of pops out and can take you to different places. A tab layout where you can go between, you've got these things that kind of look like this and you tap on one and you kind of get a new page, sub page pop up. Chapter 12 talks about that. Layouts, the coordinator layout. So maybe you've seen apps that do this kind of funky thing here on the left where there's kind of two sections to your page. And as you scroll one section up the other collapses, that's accomplished with a coordinator layout. Also a grid layout, right? So what are layouts layouts arrange widgets. So the coordinator layout and then also a grid layout. So how do you make things in these nice little blocks, whether they're three by three grids or two by two or one by two, whatever they are, that's in there. And so that's it, right? It's a buffet of cool little different things. Now, again, the design support library is going to be optional for you in this class, but you do have to at least know how to do these two things down here. The floating action button and the snack bar. Okay. And I give you specific pointers to the pages where you can look up more about how to do these things, but the rest of the chapter is optional. Okay. So I'll bring myself back and I'll just leave off by saying, that's it. Have fun with these chapters, learn about them, they're going to get you a step closer to making apps look cooler, look the way you want them to look. And as always, if you have any questions or concerns, just reach out and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Take care. Have fun.