We lose too many good people in off-duty ground safety mishaps. These are losses we cannot afford. More important, they don't have to happen. And when they do, they destroy families and cost us combat capability. We've put together a short video describing some of these mishaps. You'll get the story directly from airmen who were lucky enough to survive these accidents. They volunteered to share their experiences so you can learn from them. Watch carefully and please put into practice what you learn. We have to exercise this self-discipline that will help us avoid similar accidents. Remember we need all of you alive and well to keep us combat ready and in the fight. That makes you our number one priority and safety a top responsibility for all of us. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The accident started out getting together with my buddies to go out and get something to eat or drink or go to the pool hall. We ended up coming back pretty early that night and the first thing I automatically did was go straight to my bike and put the keys in and started up and my friends were smart enough to take my keys and my helmet. We all ended up going back inside and they kept my keys from me and we drank quite a bit. I think about one o'clock that night I had decided to tell them I was going to go to bed. I need my keys so I can get back and go into my apartment. I had grabbed my keys and just went straight to my bike without my helmet. I just wore a sleeve shirt and it was a pretty cold night.  I had come up towards the T intersection and I remember being very tired and very cold. I kept laying down on my bike and popping back up real quick so the wind would rush and wake me up. But I was so cold so I kept lying back down. I guess I had just passed out one of those times and I told disregard for a stop sign at this T intersection. I hit a curb. I guess me and the bike ended up about 70 feet from the road. I sustained. I had broke both the bones of my shin. I broke my upper leg which was a complete break. I had completely broke my upper arm which was a compound fracture as well. My wrist was a compound fracture and I had two middle couple breaks. It was actually my hand where I rolled my two fingers. Both compound fractures. I ended up getting a rod in my shin, a rod in my upper leg, a rod in my upper arm and a plate in my wrist. And some exterior pins for a couple of months in my hand. I also had a concussion that put me out for a couple of days and just some pretty bad road rash. I definitely feel like I let everybody down. I let my coworkers, my supervisors, I feel like I let my squadron down. I feel like I let my family down. All we were told was that he was in the hospital. He had been found in a field. He had had a motorcycle accident. But they kind of indicated that things were not too bad. But probably I should get there. And I live about three hours away from the base. And I got to call at 10.30 and I was there at 2.30. And I was scared to death. The whole drive, I only remember the drive. I just remember my knuckles were white on the steering wheel. And I had to think about that and relax. I couldn't imagine what I was going to see. I couldn't get there fast enough. And it just felt like every mother's nightmare had come true for me. And the unknown was just terrifying. My accident affected my mother pretty emotionally at first. It was pretty hard for her to see her son there in a coma, not responsive. Not knowing if I'm going to wake up like a vegetable. I walked in his room and I actually started to walk back out of the room. I didn't think with him. I thought it was somebody else. Because he was totally disfigured.  Because she was looking out for me. It really hurts me now to know that I wasn't there to be there for her. And to comfort her like she was for me at that time. His head was swollen to twice the size that normally his left side of his face was completely scraped up and bloody. And his eye was horrible. And his left side was all bandaged. And he was so still. I couldn't touch him anywhere. Everything was bandaged. I bent down and I grabbed his hand and I said, I'm here. And I think he was comatose at the time.  And I just went to my knees. Military, it's still yet to be determined if I'm going to be separated or not. I always have that in the back of my head. I think what impacted me the most was when I realized that there was a very strong possibility that he may not get full function of his arm back. And that scared me as far as what was that going to do to his air force career. What was that going to do to his career anywhere? I didn't drive drunk all the time. I know the first time I did it, you know, I was worried about like, oh, what am I doing? And then after I was on, oh, nothing happened. I'm fine. And, you know, it just kept, you know, every time I did it after that, it just got easier and easier to do it.    You know, you're not immortal. I know you feel immortal, but you're not. And you've got to be really aware of what's going around you. And if you're going to get a motorcycle, if you're going to get a hot rod car, you know, educate yourself as much as you can and always remember that your family is there and you have a responsibility to them to keep yourself safe. It's changed me drastically and I still, I really still have no idea what's going to happen. It's a scary thing to think about, you know, which every day I think about it. It's hard to, it's kind of hard to deal with. Me and a couple buddies, we decided that we were going to sit around my one friend's house and just do some drinking, have a good time, you know, whatever, relax while I was at home on leave. And then we drank for a couple hours. It was probably until about 12, 30, something like that in the morning. And all of my buddies, they decided that they were going to go downstairs to my buddy's room and, you know, watch a movie or go to bed, whatever, crash out. I went outside, went to smoke one last cigarette and then I was planning on going down. Well, I went outside, smoked my cigarette and then as I put my lighter back in my pocket, I found the keys to my buddy's motorcycle. At that time, I was like, okay, well, you know, I'm going to go visit somebody else while I'm at home on leave because I only had a couple days to be at home. So I went out to the garage, went to see, you know, if my buddy's bike was there, got on it, started it up, opened the garage door and I took off. I drove to one of my friend's house. I don't know if they weren't there at the time or what was going on that I didn't go in or stop by it. But I guess I went down out of their driveway and that's pretty much the last thing that I remember. The next thing that I remember is I woke up in the hospital. What happened between that time was I took a left out of the driveway. Soon after that, I took a right on another road. I drifted across my lane of traffic through the other lane of traffic and once I hit the grass because it was moist because it's very humid up there. The front tire slipped out from underneath me and laid the bike down on its right side and I hit the pavement. It wasn't like I was up working or anything. I think I had gotten up and gone to the bathroom and I had heard the phone ring. We do not have a phone in or upstairs until I got downstairs and got the call. It had already rang four times and the answering machine picked up so then there was no message on the answering machine. I went down to check the message none there and in the process of the way our house is situated, I saw a car pull up. I knew Jim was not home at the time and I saw a car pull up and it was a state police car.   I was worried for Jim. I really was because he's taken a lot of bad spills in his life and things but this seemed more severe than others and I was afraid for him that he was alone. That's a mother's heart. He had to go through this alone. I stayed in the hospital for a day and a half. I got released the very next day in the afternoon somewhere around four o'clock. But I had to come back the following Monday to have facial reconstructive surgery where they put a plate into my head. They cut me open. When I went in he was laying flat out on a hospital bed and he was hooked up to all kinds of machines and IVs and catheter and all that kind of stuff just laying there. My parents were, yeah, they were disappointed to say the least. The thing that I had asked the officers, which as a mother I think already knew, I said, was there alcohol involved in this accident? And they said yes there was. And I just, I knew that there was but I also knew that I had to ask that question as well. After I got back here I probably didn't call and talk to my parents for about two weeks, three weeks, something like that. I mean they already knew that I had been in the accident and they knew everything. It's just I didn't want to tell them what was happening with me in the military because, you know, I didn't think it was something that they would be proud of. I did not know the military's stance on motorcycles. I did know their stance on obeying state laws and in the state of Pennsylvania a helmet still needs to be worn. He was not wearing a helmet for their protection and he did not have a motorcycle license either. I didn't really think about losing my life during the fact. It was kind of, you know, four or five days after the fact when I realized that, you know, I wasn't wearing a helmet. I didn't have anywhere close to proper equipment on. How do I think the accident has changed Jim? I'm not sure. There are some disciplinary actions that the military has taken. I know that he doesn't like them, but that's good. That's all part of growing up. There are consequences and that's, that is being an adult. When you become an adult, there's privileges, but there's also consequences for bad choices. A lot of people used to have a lot of respect for me and I've noticed that, you know, with my stripes and the things that I did, you know, my actions, my accident, I think I've lost a lot of respect from a lot of my co-workers and my peers and stuff. What got me here was on May 31st, there was going to be a big party at one of my friends' houses. Everybody knew about the whole week before. Everybody was going to be there, basically. So, and I was one of those people and I went out there. I showed up late that night at the party because I'd fallen asleep earlier in the evening at my apartment. But I woke up at about 11 o'clock and got ready and rode my bike out to the party. I got there, there was two kegs at the party and then there was also a cooler, what we called, Jumbo Juice. Over the course of about two hours I had about four beers and then the beer had ran out at that point. Both of the kegs were gone and people were just standing around talking and about four o'clock in the morning rolled around. And one of my friends, he was asking a whole bunch of people that could take him to this bar that he knew people that worked there and that he would be able to get alcohol there because we couldn't get anywhere else at that time. And nobody was really wanting to take him. You know, a lot of people have been drinking all night. And I don't remember how it came about but either he asked me or I told him I would take him. Either way we decided that he would ride on the bike with me to this place to see if his friends were there and we could get some alcohol. So we got on the bike and neither one of us were wearing helmets. I had a helmet there. I asked him if he wanted to wear it. He said no. And if he wasn't going to wear the helmet then I didn't want to wear it because the helmet would be hitting him in the face then. So I just set the helmet off to the side and we left. When we got to the bar there was nobody there. The whole place was closed down so we were just going to go back to the party and we stopped at a gas station that was right next to this bar and Billy ran in, grabbed a pack of cigarettes and then we left the gas station. That's the last thing that I remember. Mr.  Bill. Bill who? You don't know his last name? You know what squadron he's in? The phone rang about eight o'clock in the morning and it was a Sunday morning we were getting ready to go to church and Colonel McCabe called and introduced himself and told us that Bill had been in a serious motorcycle accident and we asked him whether we should come and at that point he said well let me double check and see what his prognosis is and at the time we didn't realize that they didn't think he was even going to live through the day. I later found out that as I was rolling along after I fell off the bike I actually hit a sign and got lodged up against the sign and I guess I think that it was my leg, down by my ankle hit the sign because I had a compound fracture and my bone, the bone snapped in half and my ankle was actually sticking out the side of my leg. I also broke my wrist very badly.  You walk into the room and your heart just stops because he was on a ventilator. He had IVs in both of his arms.  My friend Billy who was on the bike with me had sustained serious head injuries and that was all that they told me and that he hadn't gained consciousness and that stayed the case and he stayed at the city hospital.  Well imagine being a mother and father and going in there and seeing your son like that and not being able to pick him up and hold him. On the 13th of June, which would have been almost two weeks later to that point nobody told me much other than that he still hadn't gained consciousness and that day my commander and a few chaplains came in and told me that Billy had passed away the day before on June 12th. He basically had a lot of hemorrhaging in his head and died. There's no way to describe the way I feel when I think about the fact that I'll never hear that laugh again I'll never talk to him on the phone I'll never see him again in this life. I mean it hurts every time I think about it and unfortunately I think about it every day and I've learned to cope with some things but nothing is ever going to make it not hurt and it's just, I guess words still can't describe how it makes me feel. I don't think the kids realize because my kids have made the comment, hey it's my life. If I take chances, if I do things, if I get killed, it's my life. What's it hurt? I'm just gone. But what the kids don't realize is the big hole that they leave in the family, in your heart in everyone that's close to them in the Air Force, in their career, in the rest of their lives one bad decision affects everybody it doesn't just affect the person that it happens to I can't think of anything worse as a parent than having to stand and look down at my son's grave that's one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. One thing that I just want everybody to realize when they hear my story is that I'm not any different than anybody else I was just a normal airman, went to work every day with everybody else and went out to have fun on the weekends I'll never see him get married, never see him have children I'll never get to be a grandparent to his children and all the things that you want for your children he will never be able to do because of one small mistake they were both physically fit Justin is never going to be able to walk right again and Billy's dead and the Air Force has lost two good young men because of a party, an alcohol and a motorcycle my life has been flipped upside down and now I'm sitting in a confinement facility I haven't been able to walk for the last 10 months and I had to deal with an unbelievable amount of stress and go for the last 10 months my life has just turned into a living hell really but 10 months ago I was just a normal airman and all that took was a few bad decisions and one night and everything was changed If there's anything that I can do to ask people to not get on a motorcycle after you've been drinking or without a helmet if one person would stop somebody from doing that or do it themselves then Bill's memory will be served Every day I think about Billy it's impossible for me not to think about it there's too many reminders I spend a good portion of every day thinking about him and wishing that he was still here


Okay, good morning everyone. Good morning everyone. How are you all this morning? Good morning. Good morning. Did you all enjoy the morning worship time? Yes. Okay. Before we begin this morning, can somebody lead us in prayer, please? Everly Farah, we thank you, glorify your name. We bless you for this hour. Thank you for the teacher. Thank you for the students. Thank you for our family, we say, be resurrected in Jesus name. We commend this hour class into the hand for the command minister to us, yourself, through your servant. Command teachers yourself and take absolute control by the class. Thank you for answering our prayer in Jesus name. We pray. Amen. Are the verses on this screen which I projected clear? Are you able to read it? Yes, Pastor. Okay, thank you. Okay, so we last week, we looked at the last bit of chapter two, where we looked at the canon of the New Testament. We looked at what were the specific tests that were used to identify which books were inspired and which were not. And hence we saw that the books that were inspired are part of the New Testament. Which is there for us today in the Bible. We also discussed that, you know, there were some, there were a lot of other writings that were prevalent during the Old and New Testament times, the inter-testamental time period. And these books were not considered to be part of the Bible. And they're called as the apocryphal writings. Sorry. They're considered as apocryphal writings. Apocrypha means hidden or something secret. And why were they not considered to be part of the Bible was because they were not inspired. They were not considered as the word of God. Because the people who wrote it, you know, were not considered as people who were spokesmen or spokeswoman of God. And hence it was not considered as the inspired word of God or the words that God had revealed to them and which they had written. It was inconsistent with the rest of biblical doctrine and biblical teachings. And hence we see that, you know, these books were not considered to be part of the canon and hence not part of the Bible. And then we ended chapter two by looking at the characteristics of God. And we moved on to chapter three and basically we answered two questions in chapter three. Does anyone remember the first question that we answered? What is the first question that we answered in chapter three? Or what did we discuss the first point that we discussed in chapter three? Yes, go ahead.  Anyone remember? Yes. Yes. How do we know that God exists? Thank you. The first question we looked at was how do we know that God exists? Okay. So how do we know that God exists? How did we answer this question? Three things we said? Through scripture, through innocence, through creation. Thank you, John. Yes. So we said, everyone has a deep innocence that God exists. We also saw that the evidence that God exists is in his word. You know, throughout the Bible, we have evidence that there is a God and that he exists. And creation also gives us abundant evidence of God's existence. Then we looked at the traditional proofs for the existence of God. And then we went on to the second question. Anyone remembers what was the second question? We looked at? We talked about the nature of God. Okay. Thank you, John. Yes. Go ahead, Abu Bakr. Okay. We tried answering this question. What do we mean by the term nature of God? Right. So what do we mean by the nature of God? What do we mean by this term nature of God? God's characteristic attributes and qualities. Okay. Thank you, Zil-Toli. So nature of God is basically his characteristics, his attributes, and his qualities. So when we're saying his attributes, his characteristic and qualities, we're basically saying who God is and what he does. And how is God's nature revealed to us? It's revealed through his attributes and through the names of God. There are various names of God in the Bible. And so God's name and his attributes reveal his nature. We see that the word of God reveals the nature of God. Creation, all of creation reveals who God is. It reveals and speaks about the greatness, the power, and the perfection of God and his nature. And which is the best revelation of God? Or through whom do we know the exact nature of God? Through Jesus. Yes, through Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the logos in flesh. The word became flesh. So Jesus Christ is the perfect expression. He's the perfect representation of the nature of God and God's true picture of who he is and what he does is revealed in the person and the work of Jesus Christ. We saw that in Hebrews chapter one, verse three. And we ended a last class by saying that God's word and his works are always consistent with his nature. That means we said that, you know, God will never say or do anything that contradicts who he is or will contradict what he has spoken or what he has done. Now, what do we mean by this? Okay.  He doesn't care for them anymore. He doesn't value what they have done or they have put their trust in him. And some of them can get very angry with God. Okay. So is this true? No, that's not. Why is it not true? Because it doesn't stand consistent with the word of God. What word of God says he is, his love is everlasting. He loves us from eternity. Okay. Thank you, John. Yes. Yes. When people say such things or think such things, they always need to interpret it in the light of the word of God, and which reveals the nature of God. Now, God's nature is not to put sickness and disease.   That is his covenant name Jehovah Rafa. The Lord our healer, God our healer. So God cannot give us something that he does not really have. So is there sickness in heaven? No, there's no sickness in heaven. So God can not basically give us something that he does not have. So we can't say that God has given us the sickness, you know, maybe or got us into this accident where we broke our leg or fractured our leg and, you know, we have to rest. So God is telling me that, you know, I need to take time, take a break and just rest because I've been so busy with work or ministry or whatever. That's a wrong interpretation because God cannot do that. It's against his nature. And we can't say that God does not love me. Or, you know, he's angry with me. And so he's punishing me. You know, God's love is always consistent. He's the same yesterday, today and forever. He loves us. God is love. And because God is love, it says in Van John, you know, he cannot hate. Okay. And, yeah, the different part of punishment and why we fall sick, you can, you know, you can, you will learn more about that in healing and deliverance class. But what I'm trying to say is that, you know, we, this is contradicting God's nature and we cannot speak like this. We cannot think like this. And these are lies that we believe for our self. And let me give you another example. Now, for example, we see a person who's greatly anointed by God just flowing in the gifts and when the person he or she is preaching or teaching, there's revelation just, you know, in their sermons and there's so much of in-depth revelation and deep truth that they reveal the way they teach, the mighty anointing that flows through them, that people are healed and delivered. Now, we can say that God is, you know, has chosen them, it's, you know, has anointed them with a lot of gifts than compared to me or, you know, God is very partial. Okay. Is that the right way of thinking or the right way of understanding or judging God? What do you think? No response? Well, that's not because we know that scripture tells us that it's not God's nature to be partial. Right? It's not God's nature to be partial. God bestows His gifts on everyone. When we are baptized in the Holy Spirit, each one of us receive all the nine gifts. Yes, it says that the Holy Spirit determines which gift, but does not mean that he will give five gifts to one person and he will give, you know, one or two gifts to another person. No, it's, it means that in that particular situation, when we are praying or ministering to somebody, which is the best gift that is effective to minister that the Holy Spirit will release to us. But if you're baptized in the Holy Spirit, all of us can manifest all the nine gifts of the Spirit. And we know that God is not partial. You know, He loves everybody, He'll just move. But the anointing, the level of anointing depends upon our choices and how much we choose to spend time with God, spend time in the presence of God. You know, that is the extent that, you know, the anointing and the presence of God will be released through our life. Or some people can say, you know, God is very unfair or He's very partial.  Now, is that the truth? What do you think? Does God choose some of us to know Him and to receive salvation? Okay, no, why do you say no, John? John 316 says, God so loved the world which says He loved the entire human being, entire mankind, human race. And whosoever believed in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. So that's God's intent for us all of us to believe with Him. Yes, thank you. So first Timothy also says that it's God's good, pleasing and perfect will that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of Christ Jesus. Okay, so what is God's good, pleasing and perfect will that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ?  No, He wants everybody to be saved.  And God wants everyone to be saved. So now when we are making such statements, it's contradicting God's nature. And that is why it's so important for us to know the nature of God and whatever God does is always consistent with what He has already revealed in His Word and, you know, what He's revealed through His works. And also it is important for us to know the nature of God so that we can also know God's will in a specific situation. Sometimes we're praying on what is your will, what is your will.  This is not the person you marry. Why this is not the person you marry because this is not the person who's a believer. My word clearly states that you cannot be, you know, yoked with an unbeliever. So sometimes, you know, we are waiting to know God's will, but God's will is already revealed in His Word. And so it's important for us to know God's Word and it's important to know the nature of God so we can understand who God is and interpret things, see things in our life and also understand His will, understand the part that He's opening for us, where we need to go, what we need to do when we understand His nature. Okay, so we're going to look at some of the attributes of God and then we will look at God's names that reveal His nature. But before we look at God's names, we will look at God's attributes that reveal His nature. Now there are a lot of, if you look at your notes, course notes, there are a lot of references that I've given. We don't have time to go through all those references. So I've just put up the references on the screen. As I just mentioned, I would request you to quickly just read those references or even please take time to, you know, after class to spend time, sometimes just reading the notes and looking at all the scripture references because it's not just important for us to attend class but also for us to get a deeper knowledge of the nature of God because it's going to benefit us in our daily life to understand God, His ways, His works, and what He's doing in our lives and His will for our lives. Okay, so the first attribute of God that reveals His nature that we're going to look at is God is a creator and that He is eternal. Genesis chapter 21 verse 33 says that He is the everlasting God. Psalm 90 verse 2 says that from eternity to eternity, He is God. And so we've, you know, I've already mentioned this in the previous class that, you know, no one made God. He always existed in the previous class. We looked at it. He's self-sufficient. He's self-existent. He does not depend on anyone or anything for His existence and hence He is eternal. That means there is no beginning and there is no end. There was never a time when He was not, there never be a time when He will not be. He was always, He always is and He will always be.  We have a beginning and we also have an end. Colossians chapter 1 verse 15 and 15 to 17 says that all things were created through Him, sorry, all things were created by Him, through Him and for Him. So we see that, you know, everything has its life in Jesus Christ. He created everything. Everything has life in Him and everything is sustained through Him and by Him. He's one who sustains life. He's the one who sustains everything in that we see in creation. Okay? That is Colossians chapter 1 verses 15 to 17. The next attribute of God that reveals His nature is that God is spirit. Okay? Now, when we say God is spirit, what do we mean? What do you understand by this God is spirit? Yes, go ahead. God does not have a mortal body. Okay. Thank you, John. God does not have a mortal body. Yes, go ahead, Abu Bakr. He is divine person without human body. Can you say that again, please? He's a divine, divine person without human body. He's a divine person? Yes. Okay. He's a divine person. I didn't get the latter half of it. He's a divine person without human body. Oh, thank you. Okay. He's a divine being or a divine person without a human body. Yes. Thank you. Now, how do we know that God is spirit? How do we know that? It's revealed to us in scripture. John chapter 4 verse 24 says that God is spirit and all those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. Psalm 139 verses 7 to 10 says, where can I go from your spirit? So when we say that God is spirit, we mean that he does not have a natural mortal physical body like us. However, when we say that he does not have a natural mortal physical body like us, he's not some formless, jelly-like, impersonal, emotionless spirit force. He's not formless. He's not jelly-like. He's not impersonal. He's not even emotionless and he's not a spirit force. But the Bible reveals to us that God has a form that is similar to us. So the Bible says God has hands, He has eyes, He has feet. And the Bible also reveals that God has emotions. So we look at the various scripture passages that talk about this. I just picked up one. So how do we know that God has a form that He has a human body like us? He reveals Himself to us as a person. As the Bible says, He has eyes, Genesis chapter 1. It says, this phrase is repeated, again and again through this entire passage in Genesis chapter 1 where it says, and God saw all that He had made and it was very good. So God saw that means He has eyes. God also has ears. The Psalm says, the ears of the Lord are always attentive to the cry of the afflicted one. God also has feet. You know, Nahum chapter 1 verses 3 to 4. It says, the clouds are the dust of His feet. I'm just saying the latter half, the last phrase of verse 4 where it says, the clouds are the dust of His feet. And also we know that God has hands. This verse says, God has engraved us on the palm of His hands. Isaiah chapter 49 verse 16 says, see, I have engraved you on the palm of my hands. So we know that God has, as a form, that means He reveals Himself to us as a person and thus when He speaks to us, He speaks to us so that in a way that we can understand because we are all personal beings, we are all people, we have a personality, we have a form and God also reveals Himself to us in a way that we can understand Him. Okay, the Bible reveals to us that God also has feelings and emotions just like us. He loves us. 1 John chapter 4 verse 16 says that God is love. He also cares for us. 1 Peter chapter 5 verse 6 to 7 says, cast all your anxieties on Him for He cares for you. God also loves just like any other human being. Psalm 2 verse 4 says, He who sits in the heaven laughs. He weeps. Jeremiah chapter 9 verse 10 says, God said that He will weep and wail for the mountains. He's basically talking about the devastation of the land and the unfaithfulness of the people of Judah and God says He will weep and wail. We also see in a Bible that God is angered or He gets angry. Exodus chapter 32 verse 10 to 11, God says, tells Moses, now let me be alone. Let me, let then, now then let me alone that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them.  He forgives all us since He is all our diseases, His gracious and compassionate, merciful and forgiving God. Okay. So we see that God, you know, has a personality or a form. He reveals Himself to us as a person. He also has emotions. And so the Bible reveals to us that God as a spirit being, He loves and He cherishes a relationship with us. And as a spirit being, He's not somebody who's formless or He's not somebody who's emotional-less, but it's just the opposite. He's somebody who has a form and He has feelings. He has emotions. And because He has feelings and emotions, we know that He's not just some spirit being or some force that is not able to relate to us, but He loves us and He cherishes to have a relationship with each one of us. He desires to have a relationship with us. And hence, we know that this God who's a spirit being is also a very personal God. Okay. And He's described to us as our Father, as our Savior, as our friend. And the Bible also reveals to us that those who believe in Him, you know, He considers us as His sons, as His daughters, as part of His family. So here we see that God cherishes or He desires to have a relationship with us. Okay. So Bible also records at times that, you know, when God takes on physical appearance in order to communicate to man. And theologians call this as epiphany. Or also another word that is used is theophany. Okay. Now, what is epiphany? Epiphany comes from the Greek word, which means appearing or revealing. Okay. So basically, epiphany focuses on God's self-revelation in Christ. The other word that is also used is theophany. And theos, the Greek word means God. And phiny means to appear. So historically, it's been seen or been taken to refer to as the appearance of Christ in the Old Testament. So if you look at Exodus chapter, chapters 33 to 34, we see, you know, God revealing Himself, theophany, you know, where we see Christ appearing, revealing Himself, manifesting Himself. And it says there that the Lord would speak to Moses face to face as one speaks to a friend. And there are various other scripture passages, you know, when the people of Israel were moving or journeying in the desert, in the wilderness, to go to the promised land, you know, God's very presence was there by a pillar of cloud by day and fire by night. That's the very presence of God. And that is theophany that is Jesus Christ Himself being with His people. Okay. So we see that, you know, God manifesting Himself or is the physical appearance of God in order to communicate to man something which we see in the Old Testament. And this is referred to as epiphany or theophany where God self-revelation through Jesus Christ revealed in the Old Testament. Okay. Any doubts so far? Any questions? If not, we will move on to the next attribute of God that reveals His nature. We will look at that God is omnipotent. He is omniscient and He is omnipresent. Okay. Omni means all. So omnipotent means all powerful. Omniscient means all seeing or all knowing and omnipresent means all, you know, present everywhere. Okay. So God is all powerful. He is omnipotent. Luke chapter one verse 37 is there on your screen. It says, for with God, nothing is impossible or with for God, nothing shall be impossible. We know that God is powerful all the time. God's power is limitless. It's absolutely limitless. There's nothing that He cannot do yet. He has declared that there are certain things He will not do. Now, what are the certain things He will not do? For example, He cannot be unfaithful. You know, if He's unfaithful that contradicts His nature and it cannot contradict His nature because He is God. He's a perfect being. Okay. Another thing that God said He will never do, He said He will never lie. Okay. If He lies, that contradicts His very basic nature. And another example is that He can never stop loving us. And if He stops loving us, if He hates us, that means, you know, it's, it's hitting at the very core of who He is. It says that God is love, that is who He basically is His core being, His core substance, His core essence.  He can do anything and everything. But He will not, you know, there are certain things that He will not do. He cannot be unfaithful. He can never lie. He can never stop loving. The things that He will not do are things that will contradict His nature. Okay. And when He does not do certain things, it's because He's contradicting or contrary to His characteristic and to His nature. Now, an important thing to note is that God's power is released through His. How is God's power released? Anyone? Is that on your screen? Hebrews chapter 4 was 12. How is God's power released? Through His Word. Yes, through His Word. Thank you. God's power is released through His Word. We know that God's Word is active and powerful and living. And God's Word that He spoke is powerful. So even when we declare the spoken Word of God in Scripture, whether it is His promises, what He said He will do, or we declare His covenant names over our lives, you know, it is powerful and God will bring it about. It will be an yes and amen because God cannot go back on His Word. You know, God is not a man that He can lie. God is not a man that He would, you know, He would change His mind. And what He has said, He will surely do. Okay. So the first aspect we looked at is, you know, in the attribute of God, which comes to the third one, but in the omnipotent part of it is that He is all powerful. He is omnipotent. The next one is He is omniscient. That means He sees everything. He knows everything. Let me just put up the next. Psalms chapter 147 verse 5 says His understanding is infinite. It has no limit. Isaiah chapter 46 verse 9 and 10 says, you know, He declares, God declares the end from the beginning. That means He knows everything. He knows the beginning. He knows what's going to happen. And He knows what is going to happen in the end. So He knows everything. That means He's omniscient. He knows everything. He sees everything. There's nothing that that's happening in your life that God does not know, that God does not see. Okay. He's also omnipresent. That means He is present everywhere. Jeremiah chapter 23 verses 23 to 24. It's there on your screen. The latter half of it in verse 24, God says, the Lord says, can anyone hide Himself in secret places so I shall not see Him, says the Lord? Do I not fill heaven and earth, says the Lord? So, you know, He's there everywhere. The psalmist also declares that in Psalm 139 verse 7 says, where can I go from your spirit? You know, where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there. If I go down to the, make my depth, bed in the depths of the earth, even there, your presence is there. And if I settle on the far end of the sea, even there your hand will guide me and lead me. Okay. So wherever we are, whether the bottom of the ocean or on top of the highest peak, you know, mountain peak in the world, you know, the furthest part of the world, you know, even there God is with us. He's present everywhere. Okay. That means God is omnipresent. So the three things that we saw was God is omnipotent. He's all powerful. He's omnicent. He knows everything. He sees everything. He's omnipresent. He's present everywhere. Now, the sixth attribute of God that reveals His nature is that He is triune. He's a triune God. What do we mean by saying that He's a triune God? Triune God? Three persons in one. Okay. One God in three persons. Thank you, Joy. So, how did God reveal Himself in three persons? Who are the three persons of the Trinity? Okay. Go ahead, Joy. The Son, the Father and the Holy Spirit. Thank you.  Where do we see Trinity? Is Trinity mentioned in Scripture? Yes, no. Is Trinity mentioned in Scripture? Yes, ma'am. Yes. Thank you. Where is it mentioned in Scripture? At the time of creation. Genesis. Okay. What does it say there? It says, let us make man in our image. If it was just a singular, it would say, let me make man in my image. But it says, let us make man in our image. We also see Trinity in action or Trinity mentioned at the baptism of Jesus. Yes. Matthew chapter 3 verses 16 to 17. Let me just project that. Matthew chapter 3 verses 16 to 17. Where it says, as soon as Jesus was baptized and He came out of the water, at that moment heaven opened and they saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and a lighting on Him and a voice from heaven said, this is my Son whom I love, with Him I am well pleased. So here we see Jesus. We see, you know, God the Holy Spirit and we see or we hear the voice of God, the Father. Okay. And there are the places also where Trinity is mentioned. Jesus says, baptized in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. We look at Trinity in detail. It's a whole chapter. So we'll be studying that in detail. We'll just move on.  They're co-equal and all three are to be worshiped because all three are God and they are one. Okay.  So there is no systematic explanation. It's just revealed to us and so we accept it and believe it by faith and we see them, you know, working in unity, in oneness. And the important truth for us to know is all three are God. There are no three gods, but they are one who revealed in three persons. And all of them have the same essence, the same being, the nature, the characteristic of what makes God God. So they are all eternal. They're co-equal and all of all three are to be worshiped. Now, if we understand, we want to understand Trinity. We can understand it in this way that each person of the Godhead work as one in unity and harmony. But, you know, they have different roles in terms of the Father represents the wisdom of the Godhead. He conceives things. He plans things. The Son represents the authority of the Godhead. That means He commands. He speaks. He said, let there be and there was. And the Spirit, the Holy Spirit represents the power of the Godhead. That means He creates. He brings about the spoken word of God. So God the Father conceives. God, the Son is somebody who is the authority of the Godhead. He commands things. And God, the Holy Spirit is the one who represents the power of the Godhead. And He brings things about. He creates. Okay. So that is about the Triune God. We'll study Trinity in detail in a few chapters or in a few classes to come. Okay. Now, I think last week somebody asked us a question, you know, when Jesus said the Father is greater than I and asked if we say that all three of them are equal and all three are God, then why did Jesus say the Father is greater than I? Now, the Father is greater than the Son in position. Okay. Especially in regard to the incarnation. But the Father is not greater than the Son when it comes to the essence of the very nature or the being. Okay. The Father, Son and the Holy Spirit are all equal. But when it comes to position in with regard to incarnation, the Father is greater than the Son. But all three are equal. Okay, Father, Son and the Holy Spirit are all all God and all of them are equal. So here we understand that the Father and the Son are equal. But the Father is greater than the Son in terms of position, especially with regard to the incarnation. Any questions? Any questions? If not, we will move on to another attribute of God that reveals his nature. God is infinite. You know, we read this in Psalms chapter 147 and Psalms chapter 147. And Romans chapter one was 20, where it says that, you know, he is limitless. That means because he's God, he cannot be measured. He cannot be fully grasped. He's supreme. Supreme means he's not somebody who's a superior being. When we say that he's a superior being, it means that there is someone greater than him. He's not a superior being, but he's a supreme being. There is no one greater than him. There is no one superior to him. So he's superior. He's great. He's almighty. He's all powerful. And he's eternal. We already saw this that he always existed. He always was. He always is and he will always be. He will always exist. There is no beginning to him. There's no beginning and there is no end to his existence, which means that he is infinite. The next attribute of God that reveals his nature is that he is holy and righteous. Holy means that God is untouched by anything that is evil or any sin. He cannot be and he's unstained. He cannot be stained by anything that is sinful, dirty or any form of evil. The Hebrew word for holy is kadesh. Kadesh means something that is withheld from ordinary use and it's treated with special care. So God is holy. And since the God we serve and the God we worship is holy, it means that holiness is God's perfection. And pursuing holiness should be our standard for our moral character and the motivation for our lifestyle. Everything that we do, everything that we think, our standard should be holy, which means that it should not be stained by anything that is sinful, that is evil. It should not be touched by anything that is evil. And we should live lives holy in God's sight, which means that we dedicate or consecrate our minds, our bodies, our wills totally for the special use of God. And so we treat ourselves, our faculties to be holy, consider ourselves to walk in holiness because it's written in 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 16 that, you know, be holy for I am holy. God says that even the Old Testament, that is his standard, he is laid for us. The standard that he's laid for us is be holy for I am holy or be holy as I am holy. So that is God's perfection, that is God's pursuit or that's God's purpose for which he created us. And that should be something that we pursue for, you know, for our moral character and the motivation for our lifestyle. Okay, he's not only holy, but he's always he's also righteous. That means he's right in what he does. Jeremiah chapter nine was 24. Let me just look at where Jeremiah chapter nine verse 24 is. Okay, Jeremiah chapter nine verse 24. Sorry. Jeremiah chapter nine verse 24 says that I am the Lord exercising loving kindness judgment and righteousness in the earth for in these I delight says the Lord. So the Lord delights in righteousness. Okay, he's a righteous God. He delights in doing things that are righteous that is right. He only does and only commands others to do what is right according to his own law. We read this in Genesis chapter nine. Genesis chapter nine versus sorry Genesis chapter 18 verse 25 where it says but let him who glories glory in this that he understands and knows me that I am the Lord exercising loving kindness judgment and righteousness in the earth for in these I delight says the Lord. Sorry that I read Jeremiah nine 24. You know, sorry about that. He delights in righteousness, but he not only does and not only commands others to do what is right according to his law which is given to us in Genesis chapter 18 verse 25 the latter half of the last phrase says shall not the judge of the earth do what is right shall not the judge of all the earth do right. So, you know, whenever we understand God's ways or we think is God doing anything that's right in my life, everything is going wrong. We need to understand that God is righteous. He always does what is right. If there are things that are happening in our life that is not right, you know, then it's something that we have fallen short. We have gone away from God that sin that is, you know, that we are facing the consequences for but we know that God is always right.  Okay. So, he's holy and righteous. He's also sovereign. Okay. Now, what do we understand that he's sovereign sovereignty of God means that he's absolute. He's the master. He's the Lord. He's a ruler over everything. Everything yields to him and everything bows down to him. We read this in 1st Timothy chapter 1 verse 17.  That means we have the free will to choose whatever we want and whatever we choose, God respects man's choice. So, in his sovereignty, he has given us the free will to choose. Okay. The free moral will he's given us so we can choose and whatever we choose whether it's right or wrong, God respects man's choices that does not mean that he likes the wrong choices or he appreciates the wrong choices that we make. No, he just respects the choice that we make. And God is so secure in his sovereignty that he's not afraid in giving up or releasing his control as far as, you know, us human beings in us choosing, depending on our free will that he's given to us. Now, when God has given us a free will, we can choose things and we can choose things that are contrary to his purposes that will go against his purposes, that will go against his will. Now, even if it goes against his purpose and his will that he has planned for us or planned, the plans that he has for humanity as a whole, or for his purposes to come into being can be trotted by man making the wrong choices. But even though man makes those wrong choices, God is still secure in his sovereignty. He's not afraid that he's given up his control to man and everything is going chaotic and, you know, there's no order. There is total confusion. No, no, he's not afraid of that. He respects man's choices. For example, in the Garden of Eden, when, you know, God created Adam and he told him not to eat from the fruit of the tree, of the knowledge of good and evil. But did God know that they're going to eat? Yes. Then, you know, all the questions, why did he make that tree? Why did he tell them? You know, why did he put it in the Garden of Eden? Well, God has given us the free will to choose. And people said, you know, people say God could have stopped Adam and Eve, but God has given us the free will to choose and he respects our choices. So he respected Adam and Eve's choice. He knows everything is going to be chaotic from then, but God already had a plan in place where he's already planned of sending his son to save the world. So whatever man does, and even though it trots God's plan goes against his plan and purposes, God still is in control. He's still sovereign. He will still bring about and fulfill the plan and the purposes that he's already planned and willed for us and for the world. But man has to face the consequences of his choices. Man has to face the consequences of their sins. So man's freedom to choose and the choices he makes, even though it opposes the purposes of God, it no way undermines, no way lessens, no way weakens God's sovereignty. God is still sovereign. He's still authoritative. He's still in authority and he will still bring about his plans and he will fulfill his purposes. Okay. So that is the nine attributes of God that reveal his nature. We will look at more them in the next class. Anyone has any questions? No. Sorry, it took two minutes extra time. Okay. We'll stop class here. If you don't have any questions, I would request you to please go through your notes and if you have any doubts, please ask next class. Okay. Okay. I'll see you all next week. Have a good weekend, a good refreshing restful weekend and see you next week.  Bye. Bye. Good day. Thank you. Thank you. Bye.


targeting terms and resell those targeting terms in the middle of the ecosystem undercutting publisher pricing right and this is I'm just using this as an example because it's when I have to be particularly familiar with and like is this potentially fair use and I don't know is it a copyright or plagiarism issue I don't know about that either but I do think that at the very least we should be able to think about how providers of data are undercut by it somebody says that they recently when they were like if it goes on long enough you end up destroying all the people whose job it is to write things their jobs are gone and then the future chat GPT has murdered has been murdered by the past chat GPT because there is no longer anything new for it to be trained on except other maybe well-written maybe bullshit chat GPT output right and so I think it's worth as we look at how to use these things and how to consider using these things how people who are providing the inputs can have controls over whether they do or not and how these things might be modeled in order to provide some stake to participants and I'm not interested in cryptocurrency so let's not go down that road but like there's it if my data is being used in this there should be something more to it than just it gets mashed all up into the system which can then say you know it's summarizing me but not writing something very good in that summary but can use that data for other things that might be quite useful I think like it is fascinating too because in some ways the flip side of that is the authorship becomes good enough to be dangerous where like I asked chat GPT for a bio of myself and it has four very subtle errors in it and I publish a lot about myself I put a lot of stuff on the internet there's a lot of source information here and there is enough information that it could write something that looks a lot like my bio but has these very subtle problems and then that itself causes the issue of like I can ask it if it knows a particular author and it knows that author and I can ask it to write something in the style of that author and it writes something but it's not in the style of that author but like how that moves forward and how that interacts with the author's work on the wider web becomes sort of very difficult to parse out moving forward the problems I think are ones of compensation right there's a really great did I link this last time the video by a person named jack saint I might have linked it already but I'll pull it up again but like the point is like is it bad that the problem with AI art you did yeah yeah that's the one right the thing is like is making art fundamentally something that should be more accessible to everyone yeah probably it would be great if we could do this but the the larger problem is that if this starts being used to make it so that artists can't make money like I don't really care about the ontological consequences of soullessness in AI art I do care about the fact that you know my friend can't get a job and therefore can't pay rent and therefore can't eat right so talking about the conditions by which we flip the switch on socialism right I think as we support these types of processes we should be thinking about how do we support accompanying systems that don't cause them to destroy the world not by describing it in the style of a sci-fi author but by being agents used by capitalists in a capital assistant which is I think much more likely to destroy the world than anything it could come up with if you ask it to be a sci-fi author not that I think it's particularly likely to destroy the world but I think that's more likely to cause problems than anything else so this is linked nicely to your question about can capitalism be tipped over and you just referenced socialism too and I'm reminded something I need to fact check but apparently in the early reggae world artists would publish 45s with a B side that was the same song minus their lyrics because they were hoping that somebody else in the community would sample their their instrumentals and include them which was homage which was basically a thing you wanted it was sort of tribute in reference that your music made it up through the family tree of reggae songs so you would be offering up like the grateful dead let people record the concerts but you were offering up your just your instrumentals for that purpose and it would be nice if people who wanted to be artists could make a living in some new and fashionable way while contributing their work to the commons not afraid of being emulated but in fact proud of having something that that some signature that they've created being rift on reference remixed and becoming part of the patrimony that's great I mean yeah they know that that's very fascinating uh Jerry thank you look for it I guess here I keep the back of my mind this all conversation is very interesting I keep going back to like what can we do is there like a high leverage point here and so on and it seems like you know in particular as acceleration is ongoing or we feel it it seems likely that there is and to me it's like I'm going back to what Aaron said about like you know when do we hit stop or like uh and switch to capitalism away from capitalism or you know that's a coordination problem to some extent and maybe like you know again like building the tools or even like the frameworks or the words the you know the vocabulary to enable people affected by these like upcoming likely wave of disruption within capitalism uh could be a good target right we could prepare for that and say like okay what can we do which tools can be developed so that when that hits people they know what to do instead of like all of us just like sort of like uh you know running around I guess or like in a discriminatory way or whatever I've seen is so I guess I go back to the commons always pretty much by default you know like you can imagine and I go back this you know to the idea of like you know how this this models are you know trained and fine tuned and so on and whether like people pulling together or just being able to say you know whatever I produce online from this moment of time onwards is covered by such license or is you know it's meant to be used only by the commons of which I'm part of you can imagine a protocol in which you can say by default everything I produce is in such and such commons it's can be you know like one name and all the people that you know choose the same one are in the same like both to some extent yeah the commons agreement sounds great and I don't know about it so yes two hands I yield um to go along with um Joey's uh reggae anecdote I um Japanese anime is also another place where uh so I just looked it up and found a a semi-source the it's it's illegal to make fan you know indie indie stuff of a commercial you know product so you're not supposed to but but people but the IP owners look the other way so people make fan art it's kind of like the Grateful Dead thing you know it's like as long as we're we're as long as you're not making a big commercial profit out of it you know go ahead it's free promotion um and then uh the they make the point that this person makes the point that some fan art actually gets successful enough to become um become the the real stuff you know they um uh they they wouldn't fork the original IP but based on the work that they did they got enough of a following that they can do their own art as uh you know as pro instead of being like indie stuff all right have you come in here so funny yeah uh yeah tv trip is cool um so I just put in the generative commons agreement because we had a series of conversations in the middle of the pandemic as part of ogm that didn't lead to an agreement we could sort of all point to and and agree with but it was a really nice series of calls provoked partly because one of our members uh michael grossman had a company and he was he was participating in ogm and offering a lot of like comments value etc he was like happily in there but he was trying to figure out how to make his platform work better and so he had a commercial aim as part of his participation and he asked well so what are the ground rules here like what happens if we come up with ideas what happens to you know things that i contribute whatever else so we were trying to create some sort of agreement that you could put up you know put a stamp on your avatar or something else that said hey when i'm participating i participate it's sort of like chatham house rules like if it was successful it would be like chatham house rules be like when i'm participating here's my assumptions about my ideas and and the generative commons agreement which might be one of several flavors one of them could be the i own everything agreement and don't talk to me unless you pay me agreement but the generative commons agreement was meant to stimulate people to contribute to the commons with the knowledge that they would like to make a living somehow possibly as well and to find some of you know some of that balance and again we never finished writing the agreement but there's a bunch of calls i can point anybody to uh that are on youtube that because i uploaded all those calls uh back when uh go ahead arm well yeah uh i was just gonna say i think like that is conceptually pretty interesting uh i'd be interested to see what it could eventually come up with if you went further with it it's it and it's also the other piece of it is the mechanical parsibility of it i've been talking about this which is like there are there is um uh w3c established rights like mechanical like rights language of course creative commons has something that's functionally sort of a mechanically parsable rights language um and then there's like robots.txt which is another iteration of this i think i think it's very difficult to figure out one what exactly we needed to do two exactly how you want it to work and three how you deal with the question of uh fair use in these things and how it works it's very frustrating right because it's like on one hand i am very pro fair use on the other hand if somebody uses fair use to remix your work up in a way that undercuts you it seems to be against the spirit uh of what's going on um but how you make that distinction is not easy to say um i certainly can't and i think that's a space that is very interesting to think about and invest time and consider it agreed um this is a lovely thicket of issues yes i mean um i will read more on the genetic commons agreement but like i think the way before uh Samuel left he said like uh maybe a shared log for what to do i guess we already like uh well we have the shared a shared log idea we have like the uh you know massi wiki rape also and so on to discuss this kind of thing but yeah i mean it does seem like going back to this commons agreement that does seem to tie in way very well with i mean many of the things we discussed today and we have been discussing lately so maybe resurrecting that is in some shape or form could be i will be up for an experiment for this work and uh we have the domain generative commons.org oh nice okay which is good it's not yet that would be a good place for something like this and i don't know how else to host it or what else to do with it but but it's it's a thing nice and right now there is just uh an image of a seedling in some soil and a headline and a link out to some attempts uh yeah there's no there's no actual text in the agreement but there could easily be nice um we've gone sort of our usual call length so we wrap this call over a little we're not at 90 minutes but we've gone kind of a bunch so julian uh before we wrap i was wondering i'm still working on like the notes parsing and combining tool i was wondering if anyone had like progress on that that they'd like to report that would help me influence by design i'm gonna be a little bit slow and putting something together on this because this things got a little crazy and worked this last week and this week but also because i decided this would be a good opportunity for me to learn rust so um i'm very interested in it but i am starting from literal zero so it's gonna be a a little bit longer for me to set up the stuff that i want to set up for this hmm so veda from uh flancia collective i mean you know developing a herona what i've been doing like rust as well and uh yeah so we have like some plugins i mean parsers within a rust now um that's cool could you link that link what the the parsers in rust i'm curious i am in what's talking about okay right and i think community rule is net and shiner yep that's what i'm referring to yeah yeah we're in social co-op i i went to social co-op before because of him and like yeah he's like he's really he's very interesting he's he's working this he doesn't communicate a lot but he's he's like working these same fields he's communicating over his work i mean just what he produces but yeah i know i know it's like maybe i'm just not i'm not i'm probably just not listening to him in the right place he could be interested maybe on like uh maybe he could revise someday i mean i'm talking to him right now about like some projects in social co-op yeah exciting work cool cool cool cool and yes and i'm um because you're also with like the party and so on like i'd be happy to like sync you know like 101 or like we can have like a call maybe post around like this some more technical aspects there if we can if i can help with anything you know yeah maybe let me get a little bit further along since i'm literally starting at zero with rust i think i probably need to push a little bit further through before anything is at the point that feedback could make it better um but yeah i will probably take you up on that maybe in a couple of weeks oh just to say it i don't know if this is impolite or not but gpd4 is is a fun way to help learn a language i say this but i find that i have developers i work with who use um it's it's also ai co-pilot yeah and i find that they very often it is very easy to let it answer the question not learn the answer um and i fear that in myself um got you i have thus far avoided it but i did as an experiment for working with rust since i am starting with zero i did buy a sub for co-pilot to see what it can do for me in this respect we'll say i i haven't tried co-pilot um but i actually really value the conversational way chat gpt and i ferv code i think you want gpd4 um you can have how do you how do you access gpt4 over chat gpt i haven't even gotten into that yet you have to have the 20 a month plus subscription um and then okay that explains it and on the plus you aim it you aim it which engine you want to use because they eat it eats your tokens at different rates uh plus does not oh but you have a but you have an allowance right no you've got a limit which i've never bumped into and i keep hitting all right now it's uh 25 messages every three hours um which actually i you know i wrote the python script with gpt4 and nine prompts uh even though it took me two hours i still can't figure out how that mouth worked out but um 25 is still a big conversation with with the lm sweet um gpt4 is super expensive over the api um you know 20 30 60 times as much as three five interesting well i i did note that like even though it's not natively conversational co-pilot does have a great response to inline comments comments yeah so you can almost have a conversation with it anyway yeah i so the the code experiment i did with gpt4 was you know here write this for me no now add this you know now take that away to change the you know change the endpoint whatever um i also do the same thing with human languages with gpt4 well i mean i i practice with gpt3 5 actually is good enough for human languages and that's like you know um translate this uh you know why would you use this word rather than that word whether the different um different ways you conjugate you know give me the the thing i like most actually is uh write a short story about dinosaurs and rabbits in french right and um and it it feels different to me i don't know if i'm strange or not it feels different to me to be in conversation with somebody that can speak the language and i can ask it to do whatever i want and it's it's different than reading a book because the book has stock things you know and knowing that the bot is making a little story for me and can explain why it did this or why did that or change the names to chinese or japanese or you know switch now now uh now output the same thing in english now i'll put the same thing in german um you know being able to do that with the chatbot feels different than doing it with a human because with a human you don't want to be wasting their time um and the chatbot has all the time in the world and it's different than a book because it's live and interactive and all the little examples are just for you not for you know kind of just a static population of everybody who reads but i can see this transforming bedtime for children yeah including including there could easily be an iPad app that animates whatever story you have it in that oh yeah i have a friend who's trying to wield these right now in whatever in whatever mode or genre you would like right it reminds me a lot of yeah that context reminds me a lot of did you ever see there was a wow a star trek voyager episode where the little girl has a holodeck story um and she and it changes significantly based on some of her inputs in ways that are unexpected it reminds me a lot of that make me remember that it's also a lot like uh neil stevensson's uh diamond age yeah diamond age a young lady's illustrated primer yep yeah fun fact then they they used to expose the don't the url but they don't anymore the original kindle um notes url included a reference to the dying age never remember that that's fun gen tube good idea there's your startup lancin there you go right it would be very expensive right now but probably two years yeah yeah the stuff is just getting easier and easier to do and the image generation stuff is going to get to be real time so it's not even yeah i mean facebook already has like a few um the price of paper right on video generation right yeah so rising before frame by frame very expensive but you could imagine it being like a few years yes from an earlier uh email i went and looked at uh a show that basically creates avatars called ultra ego that um where it's just a sing-off for different singers to present except the singers are off stage wearing mocap stuff with a nice microphone wired in front of their face they perform the heck out of things but what the judges see is whatever avatar they've chosen to be represented as and then doing strange avatar stuff like you could levitate your avatar very easily right so that's being projected on stage i'll i'll put a post uh to the original this is the first episode of ultra ego which i hadn't heard of before that sort of a lower key version or an easier to execute on version of uh the masked singer yes yes and yeah with a lot more a lot more flex on on what you're doing it's interesting i i don't know but but but take that which is live mocap rendered as whatever avatar you want marry it to the thing pete was just describing and drop that any place and you're off and running it's like wow okay i'm we're not going to recognize our world in 20 years interestingly enough even since permer had mocapt actors that played the the parts of the you know the the storyteller wow and and that seemed the whole thing seemed fantastic at the time and now we're not going to need the the lookout it's right really bizarre we can just generate the motion or and in fact you could invent some new poly creature and then have it generate motion that seems natural for that creature and animate the thing i mean like like yeah well once you're in that territory you can you can create anything you want yep very interesting all right gentle friends uh shall we now fold the call yeah thank you so much this is really thanks really awesome thank you thank you and how are you next week uh pete if you want to send me the the recording after recording before oh good yeah uh do stop it but if you want to send me that recording i will upload it as part two because i'm right now uploading part one awesome we'll do thanks thank you so much


What's happening guys? Thanks for stopping back by the channel today So have you guys ever thought about installing a dash cam in your vehicle now? Whether you guys think it is something that's necessary or not It's something that I've been thinking about for a long time and putting into the truck You know, this is one of my biggest investments that I absolutely have I love this thing and I want to be able to add that extra line of protection And I think I'm gonna be able to do that with a new dash cam that I ended up getting from a company called Rexing we're gonna be putting this one in today. It's their v1p pro Version of a dash cam both the front and rear 1080p and we're gonna get this installed into the Duramax today and check out and see how good this is gonna work for us All right, bear with me here guys. We're gonna get this thing installed I know it's kind of fading light here, but this really isn't gonna be that hard of an installation They do make these super simple for you guys to install and in the truck It's just gonna be that much easier to be able to put in like I said earlier This one has the front facing camera with a 2-inch screen to it as well as the rear facing camera Both are 1080p both recording in high definition So let's look at everything that comes in the box. Got a whole big old thing of destructions here I'm sure we'll be able to figure out what's going on with this. We've got so little bits of hardware We've got cables This is gonna be the cable that runs between the front camera and the rear one because the front one is the main unit It's gonna power the rear one. We have our main unit front camera right here. This thing is a killer It's actually pretty hefty. This thing is really well built I would definitely have to say that one the mounting pad is gonna be right here This is where we're gonna have attachments here for our mounting pads We're gonna be able to mount those to the front windshield Just below the rear view mirror having that face forward The camera is able to move to the different directions wherever you guys need to put them as well as it has like a Right around a two-inch screen right here for you Does have the hookups here This is where we're gonna have our power and this one is gonna pull power from a cigarette lighter And this is where we're able to put in our mini SD card for loop continuous storage of the Recordings and events here is the power source This one just plugs into a cigarette lighter and then has the other cord in that plugs into our Dash cam set that one off to the side here The one thing that I don't really like about this kit which could be improved is giving you the option of having this hook Into a power source Within the dash of the truck and not having this out about inside of the passenger compartment Where somebody could just you know kind of pull it out or it could come unplugged from your cigarette lighter Don't really like that one, but you know there it is Comes with with its own trim tool. That's pretty neat for installation purposes What else we got in here lost your bag. This is the rear camera Comes with the 3m tape already onto the mounting surfaces. It's got an adjustable camera So you can mount it to whatever surface you can see We're gonna mount this one flush on to the back glass the old dirty max back there should be facing out right between my forehead and Then this one's gonna be facing the rear of the vehicle being able to cover all 360 degrees around the truck while I'm driving it There's that one and then also a couple of different mounting surfaces mounting pads and then another little adapter cable for Downloading and updating things here on it Another little warranty and downloading instructions. That's for a GPS player Yeah, and here's another mounting pad for on the windshield pretty cool So we're gonna get all of this stuff put on the front camera the rear camera Get it wired all in between and I really don't think we're gonna have to even get any tools out other than you know Maybe pop the one panel off on the bottom side of the dash to be able to fit our power cord in nice neat and flush First thing we're gonna do is make sure we put our 3m sticky tabs Onto the mounting plate for the front one and then we already have the one mounted for our rear facing camera So we got to find a place to be able to put this one We're gonna measure the front one because the adapter plate on this has about You know half to three quarters of an inch here on the top side of it So we're gonna measure down about three quarters of an inch from our rear view mirror mounting plate and to be able to mount that one We'll stick that one to the windshield Of course you need to clean off the windshield first and then put your sticky tab up there to where this can lock into place Are you listening? Damn All right, so now we've got both our front camera and rear camera mounted super easy peel the sticky stuff Stick them into the place you want it and now we're gonna be taking our Long cable that goes between the two and we're gonna be routing them from the rear camera up The pillar here in through just right at the edge of the seal Right along there across the B pillar down the a pillar or across the a pillar and then up to our front camera Which is mounted right up there in the middle drop it down to there. Yeah, it shouldn't be that much Okay, so now we've got the cable all ran from the rear to the front One of the biggest things that I would say make sure to keep in mind is in your vehicle application like this one a truck It's not as long. I don't have to go that much of a distance So there's gonna be an extra four feet or so of cable So what I did I ran the end all the way to the back ran up to the a pillar here And then put the other end into the actual unit now the four feet of extra I loomed up here in the middle and I actually tucked into the headliner right up here because there's not really anything Up into that space. I guess you could run it down the a-peller and tuck it down in here But I've got a whole lot more going on down in the dash area So we don't really want to put it there Coiled up all nice and neat put them up there above that point now what we got to do We got to run our power source. So what we're gonna do on that one We're gonna plug it into the unit first and run the cable up over down the a-peller Maybe tuck it in through the dash some way or somehow and then be able to plug it into our cigarette lighter, which is About somewhere in there right around there try to tuck everything up into that point shouldn't be that hard for you guys either All right guys Well kind of fast-forwarding to the next day because my dumb butt forgot to get an SD card for this And I wanted to be able to get that and be able to use it a little bit here and there to be able to show You guys the actual capabilities that it is using and I'm not just reading off the instruction manual So let's have a look now that we've got some better light also to see how we've got this thing put in and go through some of the features All right, so inside of the vehicle. We've got the rear camera Mounted right back there the wire goes into the ceiling up here across the C Pillar and then it'll go right up along in here pulled that seal out and kind of tucked it into the roof line Come out down and then the wire goes Across the roof panel and then down to the actual head unit device It goes down to that in there and then as well the power wire which plugs into the other side comes up over Down the a pillar into the dash area behind here and then it I've got it popped out here Right here so I can just manually plug it unplug it to the cigarette lighter Now here in the future. I might throw a switch and get a cigarette lighter Adapter to be able to plug that into and then just run a switch instead of just having to plug and unplug it But that's kind of kind of you know work for now on that one I think it was kind of silly that they didn't run it or give you kind of an adapter to be able to run it to Where it was just ignition either that or I'll change up the cigarette lighter to only work with the ignition on So now we'll get into the actual camera All right, so we've got everything keyed on we're going to plug the actual unit in here It does have a little LED to light up to know you to tell you when the unit is actually on and Then we can see the unit powering up right there Goes through its own little power ups and then it shows you the screen of the actual Forward camera and the reverse camera in the corner. We'll see if we can get it. Sorry about the background All right about there Now as you can see you can adjust all the settings here for the main part of your screen This does have GPS built-in so it does have the ability to show your miles per hour right there It shows the date the time stamp at which the recording is on as well as the power unit and the SD card there So this thing I've got it set. You can also have it set to Kind of go into whatever kind of recording that you want to so I've got this thing Recording in 1080p just because I do have a 120 gig card I really do how like like how it is nice and you know right there kind of behind my mirror So when I'm sitting here driving, I'm gonna sit right here It's not really in my line of sight, you know, it's kind of tucked out of the way Nicely right there Not like I have enough screens anyways that one there that one there my phone's there radios there I've got enough screens reading out here. That's that's definitely for sure also, I wanted to point out that the camera is adjustable on the front of this as well on the Rear camera as well. You're able to adjust that one up and down This one you're able to kind of turn it all around till you get it to the focal point that you want it to One of the other cool features that I really liked is the fact that I don't have to take the SD card out of there This thing is Wi-Fi capable so I can connect my phone with an app to it that is on the actual Directions you can download the app to it and then you can download the different stored Recordings from that to your phone without having to remove the SD card plug it into your computer and all that kind of jazz How it records is the loop function? It will actually Continuously record the whole time it's got power to it. It will continuously record now when the memory starts to run out The oldest recording on it will start to delete itself off of the beginning of the memory card So as things go record, you know, it will keep the newest stuff and start to delete the oldest stuff out of it Now the other thing that is really cool about it is there is a G sensor built into it So any time you are hit you hit a huge bump Accident kind of style thing it will automatically Record and it will store it to a hard stored section So it will not delete itself after the loop comes back around to that point You know if you guys have it still recording it won't delete that event Yeah, you actually have to take the SD card out or download it And you actually have to go in and you would have to manually delete that file yourself So that's something pretty cool. So those files that are very important will stay on that SD card It does also have a built-in microphone in case you guys wanted to have recording of audio in that event also Say for instance, you wanted to be able to record or what your vehicle is doing and what the driver is doing Well, you have your car into a mechanic that you may or may not trust too much So that is an option if you don't have the microphone on it does take up less space on the SD card Because there is no sound file along with it But that's just another option for you guys to be able to change and adjust on there Now when we're looking at price point the price point on this one is a little bit more But that's just because this thing has a lot of features the fact that it's 1080 Dual 1080 both cameras are both that and all the extra features like GPS Monitoring for having the speed on there, you know all those extra bells and whistles do add up So the normal price on this one is going to run $199.95 Wrexing was cool enough to be able to get me a coupon code Which I will be putting down in the description below so you guys need to check that one out That'll be for 15% off this unit So if you guys were looking for some kind of a dash cam kind of like this one or one That's really high quality I would definitely recommend this one and you guys can get you some money back You know get you some scratch back off of purchasing this larger purchase And like I said links to this and everything else as well as the coupon code will be down in the description below I've got a lot more things coming out here over the next couple of weeks We've got some more Duramax content coming here for you I want to go over a couple of things that I've had a lot of viewers asking questions about We've got a couple more little accessories to be able to put onto plus. I've got some really cool stuff in the works for it Mostly have to do with this back seat area might be Leaving so kind of looking out for some parts on that one And we might be doing some audio build here on the truck as well Something really cool to look forward to make sure you guys stay tuned to the channel Make sure if you haven't already hit that like button Subscribe and make sure you turn on that Bell notification to get notified when I come out with cool awesome content like this one I appreciate you guys tuning in today. Thank you and as always you guys stay awesome