I think the first raid might be a little bit rough, but it'll be good once we learn everything Right now it's basically just As it was what what what was all that damage It dropped are you kidding me? Oh It's actually kind of weird coming in an axe again, so for anyone who doesn't know the mechanics to this Don't worry. I did this without knowing the mechanics when I was eight years old. You should be fine No Everybody's saying this expansion is like a complete joke until like Let's bounce around ICC gearing. It's a bonus moves that up here, so it really screws around early. Yeah I legit might just like play prop. It's kind of weird going from being like so competitive Competitive or like all of us are making everyone like super weak now. You have no gear. Yeah, I have no gear But it's also it's also more than that.   All right, maybe I'm not either Three two one No way out judgment crusader strike Consecrate crusader strike Divine storm judgment Exorcism crusader strike Consecrate Storm Exorcism Consecrate and my breath is up And I do mine storm say to strike judgments hammer crusader Consecrate Exorcism divine storm Judgements Uh, I mean my day doesn't seem that Okay, so let's look The next piece of loop we're gonna do Grand Widow fair Lena There's nothing all fair Lena that we need Wait, what is embrace was from no, that's the wrong max I didn't even notice I realized whatever I went to my ex down I saw because of the spider I was like wait a second. Can I actually suggest something because based on our performance on the first boss? We can actually just literally Let's do it. Yeah, you can probably face tank the thing in rage to be honest go.  Are we sure we want to just a lead us down because if we don't sack her like I think this is high enough Yeah, her and rage is like pretty soft. Okay, so that's the image.  Yeah Let's go Thanks for getting melted Guys we we're actually gonna kill it.   This is so messy All right, yeah, if I don't have she'll block up I get Reallessness ring drops. Hey the greatest overdone since this is their time. No, it's it's not just that it's like I think they literally should have doubled everything double damage double healing double whatever and they only get 30% instead of instead of one's up now boys Lost on pull again No, we can keep on I'll get him eventually. Hey, I'm missing a blessing of my it's like somebody You have battle shout, oh that'll stack around Okay, before people I just want to know that the stuns that stunned the whole raid is a time thing that you can actually Yeah, so Yeah, all range should move to webs Here's the thing there's like a hundred and thirty less attack power though. There's like way less attack power. Oh My god, I really two berries in a row Troll timing I potion of speed at the whole web wrap I Grim toll 83 hit melee and I just access your use armor pen Destroyed limbs Bindings of hapless prey helm of diminished pride. It's what dropped I'm just gonna say it again.   I don't let me just do this by itself So guys everyone who hasn't done patchwork, I think most people probably have But big thing is just to save cool down for the last I think 5% of his health when he hits his enrage So defensives and off and so we're gonna want to help them as many would you swap for this or do you want to parse it? I do do what now. I mean, I might like you're The top does no one know shaman want this well just give it to the healing shaman medic Yeah, you want a tank I think that I was cringe so so the top four on the red are gonna be the ones who are taking Yeah, like mortal strike thing that he has which is brutal There's make sure you look at the off tanks to take the most damage the main thing does not take much damage I Like why are you saying good and three people are dead they stand in green We got melee. Yeah, I got hateful twice. So apparently here's something else people are saying you actually do have to be We're wiping. Why are you all running away? Just die like you deserve like we're bad people and this is we're dying for our sins So did people pull threat there too like? People are dying early. No, it's just hatefuls. It's What hatefuls hit the highest Threat, that's why they're like dying Overtaking the tanks. Well, no, it's not it's not that they are overtaking the tanks. It's so all the hatefuls hit somebody below the top Below the top leave the three tanks should probably attack for the first like at least couple seconds Yeah, yeah, I mean So we have two tricks and MD so that should probably each go on attack, right? Yeah, it's easier. I'm ready. If you guys are ready check If it ready checks out, I'm gonna Turn off turn off forward if you're DPS again remember that I'm going I Tip tips tips tips you cannot pop breaklessness I did not touch him. I literally did not attack the boss or do any damage to him It's somebody so aren't you supposed to Absorb the hateful strike isn't the kind of how it works I mean even even like a even like a buff or something would have put him on the fifth table But what's crazy is how often he's doing hatefuls Just because he hateful tips killed him and then immediately helpful hatefuled me Yeah, I already have so so So here's how hateful strike works hateful strike works like It takes their threat and it takes their health Those are the two things you have three people who are going to be the top of the threat meters Of the three people that are on top of the threat meters It hits the guy with the highest health of those three people Now I was told that the health does not matter in wrath of lich king. I don't know if that's true If it is true Then what needs to happen is all the dps needs to run in they need to dip into the green stuff before patchwork But a lot of people are saying the health doesn't matter anymore the You need to have three tanks that can with they can one whole threat and then two They can withstand the hateful strike itself because as soon as one person dies Then the top three people are no longer going to be three tanks It's going to be two tanks one dps and then there's going to be a cascading snowball effect Patchwork is Ooh, that's a big one on tips there So Right now it's it's basically just rinsing repeat from from this point Is that because like we don't have people high enough on threat like what's going on Yeah, let me You have righteous fury on correct limits No, I didn't put it on after I died. I need a week more Oh, no Go for it Well, he was like let me can taunt to catch him So let's just keep it keep it up Dude, it's actually hilarious how many times I run things with pallies and they forget righteous fury.   It like really does not feel good I mean I died on this boss too. So it's like bonus, but still I just I never felt weak at all in burning crusade. Now I feel weak all the time You should be less now Why don't we talk about what I refer about? Do you have any more interbates? Good job They split great hammer foods of septic wounds Sandworm band crude discolored battle grips Okay, let's see who died. Okay. There's one. Yeah, I did. I was busy watching who I was He It's okay. You said you're going clockwise, right? Yes, I'm gonna go clockwise. I wasn't listening where we drop the bombs behind them Wait, I wasn't listening again.  I'm behind him if you gotta So what happened? So what happened there Kyle? There's a poison thing we need to move we need to move we need to move we need to move You don't want to be in front of him because if you're in front of him you you get these uh fall outs Move in moving more You need to turn him So scap you have to go behind the boss. Yeah, when you get that debuff you gotta run behind the boss Right. So first time Kyle didn't move any kills like everyone and that was to you see It's on s-fan. So now I stand right here Can you move can you move the boss away from s-fan's gonna kill everybody? I have aggro on some of these things Okay, then I drop it See all these fall outs are spawning because people are running in front of the bosses They're in front of the boss stop And I don't know why we're moving the fall out away from the boss We should have the fall outs right next to the boss. So we can leave them We have a lot of room left. So we should keep moving a little bit more Except one scab now grails it's on grails See over taking extra damage because people aren't moving away Ah Helping a parsnick Some prestige. Okay. So, uh, we got another one Okay, people are standing right on top.  That's this that is the best tank trinket. Are we ready to do this boss? Uh, are you So our job is to just make sure there's zombie chalice Are as far as the way as possible To gloof because the gloof eventually there's a mechanic called the decimate which uh, he pretty much brings all those zombies to him He beats them and he gets Who focus guys because we're just thank you for the 30 months out of the tunnel Um, can we get uh shields through this tunnel so we don't have to Really going right? So, yeah, I'm going for Bruce Clark going So Clarky you and Bruce will be pretty much kiting them around Bruce will be putting down the freezing traps You can use cold or cold. You can use I think gold works too. I'm gonna pull them over to the door by the way. Yeah, that's work No, save for third and rage Third uh, decimate or whatever he does I'm gonna use this We need a battle There's a zombie child they're being guys too there Consider strike Exorcism judgment Divine storm how many stacks is that a standard strike right now? Consecrate Hold you say that we have a third tank judgment. I think actually Like these side shots You say the strike divine storm consecrate Consider strike judgment Exorcism crusader strike Oh Divine storm We crusader consecrate judgment divine storm Exorcism It's gonna feel a lot here Judgment It's fine. Our defense is actually pretty good. We're out of TPS in the chalice. So just keep it up guys vengeance wisdom Crusader do you want to pull me a farther away? Trying I'm pretty much all the way to the door.  Yeah, we yeah, we gotta kill the zombies. Just kill them. Just be safe. Be safe. Kill zombies All right, let's go Clean clean clean them clean them I kill bus go bus Honestly, I'm learning I can pretty much withstand that entire So I kind of feel like we should be lusting on pull for pretty much everything I don't feel like we're getting enough damage.  It's tear That is uh Tier seven chest It's not in damage. I have no gear. Okay. Okay.  They have to die within seconds of each other So we'll have to pull back or speed up depending on things. So obviously just pull back is going to be the thing So we'll know if we're ahead try to slow down a little bit. Um, so then when we get the thaddeus We're going to jump down. Please don't miss the jump and we're there Identify the polarity debuff there. You're either going to have a positive or a negative debuff If you are positive, you're going to the gonna you're going to go to the right of thaddeus as we're facing him now If you're negative, you're going to go to the left Keep an eye on your polarity debuff that will shift and you're going to have to shift with the raid If you go on the right side, you're going to have a major buff if you go on the wrong side, you're going to wipe the raid Um, so keep an eye on that as long as we do that. This should be a pretty easy fight I'm sure you guys don't usually get to see these Five four three polarity shift two one Uh, thanks if you don't mind communicating Come to the far corner of the pad it's much easier for swaps It's like Swaps are going to happen like immediately 75 percent We're 76 over there Yeah, okay, slow down. Come on chat. What side did they say they're doing positives negatives positives right negatives left negative right Wait negative right or negative left slow. What did they say dad? Don't show me Don't show me what they say what they decide on so we're getting closer Uh slow down.  Daddy's good. We're good. We're good. We're making sure you guys focus don't fall Jump jump jump jump jump okay.  If you kill it early, your children will be addicted to cigarettes, so don't do that. Group 3, Group 3, Group 3. Spore coming out now, spores out. Group 5, Group 5, Group 5. Plusting in 3, 2, 1. Group 3, spores up. Spore coming in, spore coming in. Group 3, Group 3, Group 3. Group 1, kill that spore. Yeah, guys, pay attention to spores and your groups. So this is going to be Group 5. See, now you did it way too fast.  Group 4 next. You guys can kill it, I already have it. Sneaking into this group. Why is there like 8 people? Yeah, Rich, you can't do that man. Oh my god, look at these guys. So, people don't understand this group 5, right? So, to understand the spore mechanic, only 5 people get the buff.  And you specifically go whenever it's your group. There will be some overlap. And that's the reason why you're killing it.  Like, I don't understand this. So why is there 6 people there? That was only 5 people. Why can't I count? Hahaha.  I think I saw a pet. This is 4. In the front. So we're waiting, we're waiting. We did it before everybody was there, but I think at that point it was like... I'm just going to bubble sack. Okay, you're going to interview Chris. Group 4, Group 4. Guys are behind, hurry. I can't even get there because I can't get there yet. Zoom out your cameras. Good point in first person. Group 3. Can I drew an interview for Chris each place since you can't really heal him. Do you want me to do anything here? Thank you very much. This is 5, right? It's there, just go, just go. Hey, did we do that chest piece yet? Again? There's another gear chest at the drop. Do you want to explain that? You want to explain the fight while I just do all the rest of the look here? Yeah, I got you guys. Right now we got Saff, Mages and Druids. You guys are prioring, decursing life during the entire fight. That is your objective through and through. We're going to avoid Blizzard when it's going down, but you guys know to do that. And then everyone spread as far as we can, or at least 10 minimum yards away, I think, from one another when Saff flies up, because they're going to ice block a target and anyone adjacent to that are going to be frozen as well. So, or not frozen, they get hurt.  You are not in good shape. So don't do that. And all non-selected raiders are going to hide behind the ice blocks before she uses ice breath.  So hide behind the ice blocks. It should be good. Make sure that you spread out whenever she flies up. Somebody walked up. What? What? What? He started the event. Somebody walked in the range. What? Uh-oh. Did it? No, it did.  I mean, we don't have to go. I'm just saying we won't be in position. We can wait or we can be in position now. What do you guys want to do? Get in position. Get in position. Get in position.  It's the same as Tim, right? Yeah. Yeah, essentially. It's literally lost on pull. Don't be in front. Yeah, make cleaves and tail swipes. Yeah, be to the side. Be to the side. It's a dragon. There's all the dragon stuff. Crusader. Exorcism, Divine Storm, Crusader Strike. Judgment is up. Consecrate, filler, Crusader Strike. Hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold.  Consecrate. Exorcism is up. Spread, spread, spread, spread, spread, spread. Get away from something, everyone. He's an animation guy. Get behind blocks, the frostbats going out. We should, we were in, oh my god. Yeah, we should be there way earlier, guys. It's not bad, it's just like, we shouldn't be behind the boss. We should spread in the front, in the front of the room.  Yeah, we want to be in a cone. It's ideal because if you spread all the way around the room, so look at him, he's facing 12 o'clock. Just imagine 10 to 2, right? Like 10 o'clock to 2 o'clock. Can we B-Rez, can we B-Rez tip some quick? Can we B-Rez tip some quick? Lifetrain's coming out. Couldn't hear you girls, I'm sorry. Frostbreath, too, I think. Hey, you guys there look way too close. Like two ice blocks that close together is not good. Yep. Wanker's got absolutely murdered. No, no, no. Her B-Rez is out. Lummings got it. He's about to go into air fans. Get on the CD Lummings. Lummings, pop CDs, pop CDs. Do we have to B-Rez this? I need a D-Curse. D-Curse is not going out. I didn't get my drain life D-Curse. Okay, so remember, you want to be in this range, get in this arc. You guys are, well, I mean really at this point be in this arc. Look how close these, look. Two frost, two ice blocks are right on top of each other. Stop right on top of it beforehand. Because you moved too early. Yeah, you can't run right behind it too early. Yeah. Nick, I think your beacon might have fallen off. Maybe. Because I didn't get a single direct heal for like three really hard hits. I was just on rejuvenary growth. That's true. What happened? Oh, man. All right. Heroic key to the folks in Harris.  Boots with a great construct. Bandits insignia, trinket. Is that bandits insignia? Any good? That bandits insignia looks good. Oh, S-Fan still has level 70 shoulders, guys. If it's like a really big deal. I mean, I don't mind passing, but I do still have my level 70 shoulders. Well, I'm going to give him the rich. Since he won the role and you guys can figure it out. He has level 70 shoulders, so keep that in mind. Okay, next. You can explain this fight as I do this if you want. So first phase, we're going to get all the like horde of undead coming at us. So that's going to be just me and lemmings swapping on picking up A-bombs just to keep our mortal strike stacks low. So those A-bombs do mortal strike slacks. All melee are going to go with the tanks. We're going to keep leaving down all the A-bombs as they come in range. You guys are prioing the soul reavers and the soldiers. That's not true. Maybe and you're killed. Melee, position yourselves in a diamond. We'll be facing the throne. Everyone make sure you slash range 10 for that fight. It's very important. So we don't get a ton of collateral on the freeze. Also, don't forget that he does an ability called mana detonation. It does an explosion. I believe it does AoE explosion. So just be aware of your sphere surroundings. Obviously if you're spread, it solves all the issues. Nick, are you... Dude, Chad, I hope the axe drops so bad. Just throw it in the middle and he's dead. Man, man, it's so good. Damn, Peter, Peter, hold on any further. Just wanted to say you have supercute. Funny and I always enjoy your world of warcraft gameplay.  Love K less than 3. Thanks, K. I appreciate it. That whole entire wing, there's no point. Thank you, K. I'm not doing the achievement, so... 33 months. Love you, buddy. Did you just say we were doing the achievement? It's too late, man. It's 2 AM. The other ones are all single, single target. Or single boss raids. Yeah, but they're more mechanic heavy, so... We're tired. Also, I gotta... As long as it's been like 2 hours, it's gonna be good. Cause I gotta leave here. I'll hear a bunch of casuals, man. What is this? So, um... I gotta go work. But... I didn't shake. I'll go up there. Don't even rush them. Save it for a tank. Things get crazy here. So this bandit is... PvP bis for rogues. Rogues? We have someone in the raid that's called an infernal gladiator. She's better than everyone else. So... What is happening, guys? Guys, how are you guys getting meleeed by these A-bombs? Let them come to us. This is being really greedy. We don't have to do much here, guys. What's wrong? How are we dying? What killed you? Are the soldiers getting too close, and that's what's happening? No, I got hit by the soldiers. Okay, the soldiers do... That's the thing, they're too close to people. No, it was... I'm taunting for damage, but it was well after I taunted. You just gotta taunt it off faster. I didn't say I was doing that, so maybe you just weren't ready for it. You died in less than a second from an enemy. Yeah, but I was targeted for a while. Should melee not even run towards this guy, or what's the deal? Yes, literally, away from the company, the circle. We should not be going up there too close. You have a minute left. There's a soldier coming in here. Yes, it is.  No, like... You gotta taunt for damage. I shouldn't go near this. My taunt does damage. If there's enough time, do it. Let's say maybe 5 feet on the outer ring. They just had to taunt them, you know what I mean? It was your fault, is that what you're trying to say there? Because I'm targeting Jay the Bard, I'm just wondering. Alright, we're transitioning at 25 seconds. Basically, you don't want to run up and you don't want to melee the soldiers. Yeah, they do. Unless they're stunned. Alright, tanks get ready for the KT transition in 10 seconds. When do we want lost, by the way? How many B-res do we have? Do we have like 5? 5 seconds until KT's active. We can rush these weavers, guys. Weavers, guys. Go the weavers. Range. When do we want lost? Make sure, hey guys, get in a diamond here. Starting his wall range if possible, please. Wait, stand still, please. I'm trying to get in position there. Watch out for the fissures. Corey, do not run on top of me, motherfucker.  Range 10, guys. Range 10. Everyone's in 10 right now with me. Tips, best friend. Yeah, but it's like... You gotta do it, Ken. It's not gonna be 10. Right now we're good. I can't get one, buddy. It's too far away from there. Get one by the side of my range if you just died. And then they should be coming. Someone? Yeah. Make sure you kick those in my light. Alright, so you guys are buried within 10 right now. Yeah, the range 10 is not gonna end. It's never gonna end. I'm seed. I'm CC'd, I'm CC'd, I'm CC'd. Cyclone, cyclone, cyclone. Sheeps are nothing to me. We should fire them up a month later. Spam it. Use your focus. Is there DRs? The fucker, what's off, anti-magic show? Watch your feet. Hey, technically, if there's a fissure, what should happen is we shouldn't go run to another stack. We should step back. Because the reason why we're stacked is because we're in there. Fossils are there. Nice. They should be kicked, yeah? No, that can't one. The volley can't be. The volley can't be. Everything else can't be, but that one, you just... Okay, it's actually no big deal. That was an R Master yet. No, it's no problem. No, it's no problem. So... Are you ready on adds? Yeah. Should I let them shackle first and then go to the remaining two? Let's pick up all of them. Okay, let's shackle three if we can. Just a lesson bird. They're in the fear. They're on death. Rusty, use... Rusty, use... Our siege please. Someone, please. It's you, nice done. One more second on siege, please. Got your wrap. Lemmings is dead. Beerus Lemmings. I put on a sword and shield and just taunt it off so it doesn't go on a healer. Okay, Lemmings, you gotta pick those up. Can we get both Lemmings? Both Lemmings, please. Whoever's hitting the adds, you should be on the boss. Everyone on boss. He was going for the healer. So that's why he was going for medic. So I was like, I gotta sacrifice myself for you. Cause my damage isn't that high anyway. I'm not buffed and stuff. I got ice blocks. So I was just like, I'll just sacrifice it. Let's taunt. Take them so close to other people, by the way. Kick, kick, kick. Watch your feet. Watch your feet. Kick on CD. I could have just bobbed him too, to be honest. But it was just my first reaction. Was to taunt. Cause if I bobbed him, he could go to another healer or something. It dropped. Are you kidding me? No! Shot the adds. Everyone passed.  I should get the adds. I'm just gonna say it, chat. I should get the adds. This is the best weapon in this right here. It's an item of those 226 items. This will be massive. If I get this, this will be massive for arena's early season. Are we rolling on the axe? I feel like that should get cancelled, man. Isn't that like, super-biss? I mean... What if you just gave it to Esfand? See, I think that's a good idea. I will pass on one condition. Esfand, one condition. You gotta show up here every week. Look, listen. I showed up this weekend. And that's between you and me? No, I'm not gonna... Really? No, come on. You're not gonna stay? No, no, I was making a joke about TwitchCon. It wasn't funny. Are you gonna raid every week with us? Or are you gonna raid with Crusade? Be honest. My plan is to raid with this group. Because you can't take the weapon and then not raid with this group.  How is that a lie? If you take the weapon, you have to raid with a group. So you're saying you're gonna raid with us every single week? Until tomorrow. Bro... I'm joking. Look, listen. If you guys are good friends, you give me a weapon. Okay, okay, let's talk about facts. Let's talk about facts. Yes, I'm gonna raid every week, but that shouldn't even be a question because who's gonna do the most with the weapon in the raid group? As far as I'm concerned, there was like five GPS that did better than everybody else combined. Yeah, but that's because they had more gear. That's because they had more gear. Three pink parses for the night. Pretty much everything else orange. Imagine holding Fred against that though. You know what I mean? That's formidable. No, S-Fan. S-Fan for real though. I don't play with this dog. I am raiding with this group. S-Fan, obviously. You should also join quicker. No, I'm the guild leader. You should G this band so they have to join us. No. Look, there's a reason why... Listen, I will say this. There's a reason why every other streamer guild in the whole WoW section in Classic fell apart except for Crusade. See, brother, now you're talking like someone who might start raiding with Crusade. No, it's just because, look, it's because my leadership in this guild is good. He's one.  Look, someone has to pay attention to that. I'll never forget the day Armageddon betrayed, dropped the same night even though I won a Royal Knight. Do you know how to give Betrayer Loyal Knight? Left the guild and raided after getting it? Wait, there was a guy named Loyal Knight that he gave Betrayer of humanity to who then immediately left the guild after he got the Betrayer. Dude. He's not saying Loyal. He's acting.


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Well, actually, piano, but it could be a string bass or a chord major. It could be a keyboard or a chord major. It's actually a bridge. Is it sounding? It's great. I can hear it like this. Yeah. It takes you through all of it. I'm sorry. Oh, you're in there. Did you say follow somebody? Absolutely. I'm sorry. What a view. Welcome to the First Unitarian Society of Madison. This is a community where curious seekers explore spiritual, ethical, and social issues in an accepting and nurturing environment. Unitarian universalism supports the freedom of conscience for each individual. As together, we seek to be a force for good in the world. My name is Karen Rose Gredler, and on behalf of the entire congregation, I extend a special welcome to any visitors who are with us this morning.  May today's service stimulate your mind, touch your heart, and stir your spirit. I invite you now into a few moments of contemplative silence as we settle in and come fully into this time and place together. Please rise in body or spirit. Standing for the opening words and the lighting of the chalice. Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the attendant of truth. Doubt is the key to the door of knowledge. It is the servant of discovery. A belief which cannot be questioned binds us to error, for there is incompleteness and imperfection in every belief. Doubt is the touchstone of truth. It is the acid that eats away the false. Let no one fear for the truth that doubt might consume it, for doubt is a testing of belief, and the truth stands boldly and unafraid, and is not shaken by the testing. Truth, if it be truth, arises from each testing stronger and more secure. Therefore, let us not fear doubt, but let us rejoice in its help. It is to the wise as a staff to the blind. Doubt is the attendant of truth. And now would you please join with me in reading the words of affirmation printed in today's program. We gather this hour as people of faith, digging always for deeper truths, as people of hope, working diligently for a better world, as people of love, eager always to create closer connection. May this flame we now kindle, signify our faith, our hope, and our love. And in the spirit of that love, please turn to your neighbor and exchange with them a friendly greeting. This time I'd like to invite any children to come to the front for the message for all ages. So all of you are having a staycation, right? You know what a staycation is? It's a vacation where you stay home. Because you're on vacation, right? No? Not yet? It'll come Monday. Yeah, that's right. Most people will be off for spring break, I think. So this is a story with some pictures that will be up on the big screen called I Wonder. Any of you ever wonder? Good. Well, this is a story about Eva, and Eva is out and she loves to look at the moon. And as she's walking, she notices how the moon seems to follow her from place to place, disappearing behind trees and mountains, and then reappearing again in some place new. Look, mama, there it is. The moon looks so beautiful in the sky. How do you think it follows us, Eva? Her mother said. Eva thinks about that, and she just can't really figure out how the moon keeps following her. Well, it's okay to say, I don't know, her mother says. When we don't know something, we get to wonder about it. Well, Eva says, I wonder if the earth and the moon are friends. Her mother smiles. I kind of like that idea, she said. But mama, how does the moon really stay so close to the earth? Well, says her mother, there is this invisible force, and that force is called gravity. It's called gravity, and gravity pulls everything in the universe together. Gravity keeps the moon close to the earth, and it keeps the planets close to the sun, too, so they can circle around and around and around. Well, Eva understands a little bit better, and she starts to wonder and says, mama, where does gravity come from? I don't know, Eva. Nobody really knows that for sure, and when nobody knows the answer to something, it's called a mystery. A mystery is something for everybody to wonder about together. Oh, how fun Eva thinks. And she imagines herself wondering about gravity together with all the rest of the people in the world who don't have an answer to it. Eva watches the moon disappear behind the clouds as she walks, and she's excited now to see something else, something else new. I wonder how many grains of sand are in the whole world, mama. I wonder about that sometimes, too, where mother says, but there's trillions and trillions and trillions of grains of sand, and nobody really knows exactly how many. And so Eva tries to think about all of the sand in the entire world, and she says, it feels so big. I can't keep it in my imagination. It kind of makes me feel dizzy thinking about something that big, and now I feel like maybe I'm falling.  I think other people probably feel that way, too, sometimes when they think about really big things. Eva walks down another path, and she's looking for the moon again, and then a small orange butterfly appears, and then she noticed that there are butterflies everywhere. Mama, where did all those butterflies come from? Well, mama says that those butterflies have been flying around now for a couple of days, and they started out as little caterpillars, and those caterpillars came from eggs, and those eggs came from other butterflies. There are cycles all around us, Eva's mother says, and one thing is always ending, and another thing is always beginning. Everything is always changing. Eva, can you think of something else that changes? So Eva thinks about that. Well, clouds, frogs, and me. And later Eva wonders, mama, what was there before butterflies? What was there before gravity and frogs and clouds? What was there before everything? I don't know, explains her mother. Maybe nothing, but that's another mystery. Her mother says, I like trying to imagine what was here before the beginning of everything. What do you think was here, Eva? And Eva pauses. Well, I don't know. She thinks for a long time, and she said, well, maybe there were feelings. Maybe there were feelings. And as she walks home, Eva sees the moon again, glowing brightly over the roof of her house. Let's go inside, mama, and let's see if we can see the moon from the upstairs window. And so that's what they did. We live with some really big mysteries, and when we come upon one of those mysteries, it's really kind of a little gift to us, because every mystery is something to wonder about, and for everybody to wonder about together. So the question is, what do you wonder about? And you don't have to answer that now, but you know, in our religious education program, we have all kinds of things that we talk about that people wonder about, and sometimes we actually can come up with a few answers for those wondrous questions, for those mysteries. So now it is time for you to go to those children's religious education classes, and we are going to sing you out with our next hymn. Thank you for listening. Please be seated. At this time, I invite you to join me in the spirit of meditation and inner communion. Thickle spirit of springtime weather, of the greening grass and the soggy soil. Help us to understand that we belong to something so much greater and grander than ourselves. Increase our appreciation for the intricate cosmic web into which our own ephemeral lives are woven. When we find ourselves frustrated, impatient, with the slow pace of winter's retreat, when we are eager for shorts and shirt sleeves and oppressed by the weight of winter clothes, may we then alert ourselves to the larger picture because the crocus, after all, is content to wait in no rush to bear its fragile blossoms. The fish will still spawn when the ice is gone and the robin lay her powder blue eggs when instinct tells her it's safe to do so. Despite what scripture might imply, the world was not meant to serve at our pleasure or on our timetable, and yet too often the world has become a victim of just that assumption. And if, per chance, nature did accede to our winter weariness, everything else would be completely out of kilter. No sap would flow for maple syrup. Our skin would feel a mosquito's unseasonable prick and tired fields the urgent bite of the farmer's plow. Spirit of life that make us all things new give us a lesson in compassion and humility that we might see beyond our own immediate self-interest and become an integral part of your perennial plan for restoration and renewal. Let us continue on in a moment or two more of silent meditation. Blessed be an amen. I have two readings to share this morning. The first from the field of science, the second from the humanities. Michael Spector writes, C. Everett Koop is one of the most famously right-wing men ever appointed to a senior position in the public health service. In 1991, when President Ronald Reagan nominated him for the position of Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop was a noted pediatric surgeon from Philadelphia with the beard of Abraham Lincoln and a strident opposition to abortion. Even today, his 1979 book, Whatever Happened to the Human Race, remains a touchstone for those who are opposed to legal abortion. But Koop had no public health experience. Surgeon Generals are usually quickly confirmed and then instantly forgotten. Before Koop, few Americans could have named even one. No public health official in American history, however, generated more controversy. Liberals on Capitol Hill denounced Reagan's choice for what it was, a blatant attempt to place ideological fealty over the demands of public health. And so the battle for Koop's nomination dragged on and on for nearly a year, but in the end, he was confirmed. He then proceeded to alienate nearly every supporter he had on the religious and political right. To fight the growing epidemic of AIDS, he recommended a program of compulsory sex education in the schools, and he argued that children should be taught to use a condom. He campaigned vigorously against smoking in public spaces, thereby angering the tobacco industry. When President Reagan asked him to prepare a report on the psychological effects of abortion, the conservatives finally felt certain of the result. And yet, after meeting with activists on both sides, reviewing hundreds of scientific publications, Koop declined to say that abortion was always more dangerous than the alternative. The administration was shocked. Koop later said, you know, I never once changed my stripes during all of that time. What I did in my job was what any well-trained doctor or scientist would do. I looked at the data and I presented the facts as they appeared to the American people, because in science, you can't hide from the data. The second reading from Reina Maria Rilke's collection of letters, entitled Letters to a Young Poet, where he is responding to a letter from a young aspiring poet that he is mentoring and he tells this young man, your doubt may become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing. It must become critical. And so ask it. Whenever it wants to spoil something for you, ask it, why? Why is something ugly? Demand proofs from it. Test it. Find it perplexed, embarrassed perhaps. Maybe rebellious. But don't give in. Insist on arguments and act this way, watchful, consistent every single time. And the day will arrive when, from being a destroyer, doubt will become one of your best workers and perhaps the cleverest of all those tools that are building your life. So with respect to that all too human propensity to question and to challenge assertions that do not square with our experience, well on that question of doubt, the Bible delivers a decidedly mixed message. The Gospel of John may be the most overtly hostile toward those with a skeptical turn of mind. In the four canonical accounts of Jesus's ministry, this is the only one that includes a post-resurrection interchange between Jesus and the disciple Thomas. Now as you may recall, Thomas was not present when the crucified Jesus suddenly and unexpectedly first revealed himself to his compatriots. They came back from that experience, found Thomas, we have seen the Lord, they tell him. But Thomas is doubtful. Wishful thinking can cause people to visualize things that aren't really there. Unless I see the print of the nails in his palm, unless I can put my hand in the wound in his side, I will not believe. A short time later Jesus makes a second appearance and he challenges Thomas to inspect that risen body. Abashed, Thomas quickly confesses his belief in the Lord. But Jesus upbraids him. Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believed. It would not be too many more years for that lesson to take hold. Doubt is a symptom of spiritual weakness and human willfulness. For subsequent generations of Christians, that meant accepting the gospels at face value and resisting the temptation to quibble about even their most dubious claims. Now by contrast, the author of the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes, also known as Cahelet, that author invokes his own life lessons in order to call into question much of what passed for conventional wisdom at that time. It simply isn't true that good people invariably prosper, he wrote. That justice is always meted out fairly. That wealth and power ensure human happiness. All of this, Cahelet says, is poppycock or as he put it, mere vanity and a striving after the wind. Now the creator of that ancient text was no cynic, however. He urges his readers to find pleasure in life's small graces and to live righteously without harboring illusions. As Jennifer Hecht says, the teacher makes a simple appeal to experience the evidence of history and of our senses. Ecclesiastes was almost certainly composed by someone imbued with the questioning skeptical mood of Greek philosophy, which was very much in vogue in third century BCE Palestine. There's also tantalizing hints of Buddhist thought because Buddhism as well places a premium on personal experience and careful discernment. Annie Tenzin Palma was a teacher in the Kagu order of Tibetan Buddhism and she recalls a story from the ancient texts in which a group of villagers come seeking an interview with the Buddha and they complain to him, many teachers come to our village and each one has his own doctrine and each one claims that their doctrine exclusively is true. It makes us totally confused. How do we judge? The Buddha listens sympathetically to the villagers and he says, you have a right to be confused. This is a confusing situation and then he offers them the following counsel. Do not take anything on trust merely because it has been passed down through tradition or because your teachers say it or because the elders have taught you or because it is written in some famous scripture. When you have seen it when you have experienced it for yourself to be right and true, then you can accept it. Here again the teacher points to the primacy of personal experience which is not to say that those ancient scriptures have nothing worthwhile to say to us or that the sage does not deserve an open and respectful hearing. The kind of doubt that both the author of Ecclesiastes and the Buddha recommend to us is more akin to the fearless, sifting and winnowing by which alone truth may be found. The phrase that we find in Bascom Hill and that has guided students and faculty at the University of Wisconsin since 1890. And this is also the kind of doubt that I as a Unitarian Universalist subscribe to. It is a commitment to that process as Robert Weston put it that eats away the false while simultaneously revealing precious nuggets of truth. Now to be sure we should not place doubt on too high a pedestal for then it risks becoming a caricature of itself. The British novelist and Unitarian W. Somerset-Mann had just this in mind when he gestingly described his co-religionists as people who very earnestly disbelieve in almost everything that everyone else believes and they have a very lively sustaining faith and they don't quite know what. So we should not presume that doubt is ever and always profitable. An open mind, curiosity, a healthy skepticism, yes these are essential preconditions for the cultivating of wisdom and ever-deepening understanding. But just as faith can become arrogant and exclusive so can doubt. And I suspect we have all met people who doubt not in the constructive spirit of Buddha or Raina Maria Rilke but in the condescending manner of the early 20th century essayist H. L. Mankin he who dismissed faith as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. As reverent doubters we Unitarian Universalists employ this tool in order to become more discerning and more secure holders of not absolute but provisional truths that can always be improved upon. And so the ultimate objective as Jennifer Heck puts it the ultimate objective is enlightenment. It is to teach us to live well and aware in this strange place we occupy between meaning and meaningless nets. Nevertheless, even as people who profess to live the questions as it were rather than passively submit to preordained answers sometimes we too may rue that choice. Doubt can be discomfiting. And more than a few times in my 40 years in the ministry I've heard a staunch Unitarian Universalist say that it must be nice to have that bedrock belief system like religious conservatives that they can fall back on. The good news though is that people who are cautious in their certainties as we are who are open to alternatives are less likely to be severely traumatized when that bedrock of belief buckles under the weight of a lot of discomfiting evidence. And so the bottom line is that despite some reservations you use do see doubt as a good thing a highly serviceable tool as we try to make sense like those villagers of the many truth claims that keep crossing our path as Elford Lord Tennyson the great 19th century British poet once put it there lives more faith in honest doubt believe me than in all the creeds. It should also be pointed out that despite the bad press that doubting Thomas receives in John's Gospel not all Christians think that doubting Thomas's reservations were misplaced. Take C. Everett Coop the former Surgeon General whose story I shared a few moments ago Coop was a conservative Christian who was appointed to his post with the expectation that he would establish public health policy on a logical basis. But Coop was also a scientist and like any self-respecting scientist he entertained his doubts and they ended up taking him in a direction that he had not expected. His early supporters they took him to be a true believer first and a medical practitioner second but as Coop later said I never changed my stripes I did what any well-trained scientist would do I followed the data. It's unfortunate that more religious conservatives have not followed Dr. Coop's example. When George W. Bush was the president he was a self-declared evangelical Christian and he claimed to be guided by God in his decision to invade Iraq. The original pretext was we will recall the need to discover and to destroy some Hussein's stockpile of WMDs weapons of mass destruction. Now if President Bush had relied on the data that had been painstakingly gathered rather than on his faith in God's guiding hand then he would have let Saddam's floundering regime topple of its own accord because there were no WMDs as numerous experts had attested before that invasion took place. Jim Wallace is another evangelical leader of a more progressive bent and before the invasion he tried to engage the president on this issue Bush wouldn't see him and later Wallace said faith you know faith can cut so many ways and when it is designed when faith is designed to certify our righteousness then it can be very dangerous 15 years later the people of Iraq are still living with the fatal consequences of too little doubt but here's the thing so far today I have been discussing honest doubt doubt employed for the purpose of exposing error deepening our understanding and creating more legitimate and trustworthy human institutions unfortunately in recent times we have been witnessing the spread of dishonest doubt the kind of doubt that's deliberately designed to sow confusion and mistrust and to manipulate public opinion the fact is some things deserve our skepticism more than others and when well-established theories and facts are called into question it leads to as Russell Shorto puts it a world written by doubts and confusion without an arbiter or any rules and that's where we are today examples abound from the fruitless debate over Barack Obama's birth certificate to the alleged criminality of undocumented immigrants to the hollow Second Amendment claims of the NRA to the unsettled science of climate change our current president sows doubt continually doubts about the integrity and the fairness of the media doubts about the motives and the character of a whole host of dedicated civil servants doubts about our allies abroad doubts about Hillary Clinton's margin of victory in the 2016 popular vote it's no wonder so many Americans feel bewildered eager for some source of authority that can cut through all of these competing truth claims so the question is what happened to bring us to this perilous point in our history perhaps not the whole but at least part of the answer may lie in a strategy that the American tobacco companies began rolling out in the 1950s to protect their own financial interests it is a strategy that worked amazingly well for several decades the last chapter of that story was detailed in the 1999 film The Insider in which Russell Crowell plays a biochemist employed by and then harassed by the Brown and Williamson tobacco company and a fuller summary of that sordid tale is contained in a recent book by Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway simply entitled Merchants of Doubt so realizing that a growing body of scientific evidence confirmed the harmful effects of smoking and of secondhand smoke the executives of Big Tobacco knew that no ordinary publicity campaign was going to save their bacon because if consumers were convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that smoking was dangerous they'd try to quit or they wouldn't start smoking to begin with hey there goes the profit margin and thus as Oreskes and Conway write the industry manufactured an artificial debate convincing the mass media that responsible journalists had an obligation to present both sides of the issue the industry did not need to win this debate they only needed to keep it going doubt is our product explained a tobacco executive's memo in 1969 doubt is our product it is the best means of competing with the body of fact that exists in the minds of the general public it is the means of establishing a controversy around smoking now tobacco products sold in this country today are accompanied on the packaging with clear warning labels tobacco advertising is banned from the airways smoking is prohibited today in most public facilities but the tobacco strategy of sowing doubt the strategy lives on some of the same scientists who shilled for big tobacco subsequently went to work for guess who ExxonMobil and they were given the task of poking holes in the data related to climate change a similar strategy has been employed by the forces seeking to undermine the Affordable Care Act public education and a host of other programs and policies that were designed to serve the general public but policies that raise the hackles of certain powerful vested interests so dense has this cloud of doubt become that it's begun to feel almost like we're all being gaslighted now that's a psychological term that served as the title for a 1938 stage play and later a suspense film starring Ingrid Bergman in which a sociopathic husband tries to convince his wife with all kinds of little strange actions and speeches that she is going crazy she's being gaslighted which is defined as those strategies, behaviors and statements a person uses to cause another person or persons to doubt their memory their perceptions or their sanity now there's an extensive literature today on this subject and therapists can help clients to determine whether a partner or a co-worker or an acquaintance is acting or speaking in a manner designed to create serious disabling self-doubt but not just individuals groups can be gaslighted charismatic cult leaders practice gaslighting so that followers will lose trust in themselves and place their exclusive trust in that cult leader and it's a strategy that dictators use like Vladimir Putin who uses gaslighting masterfully to command the loyalty of the masses in Russia so the long and short of it is doubt can clearly be a double-edged sword we lose our freedom and our independence of thought by binding ourselves too tightly to certain beliefs but also by allowing wholesale doubt to overwhelm our powers of private judgment both of these pose a threat but it may well be that the latter is the graver of the two threats that we face as a society today so if we must have faith and yes we must and if we must trust and yes we must let it be with our eyes wide open and although we must never cease from questioning let that questioning be with due diligence and with undying respect for the wisdom of the ages as Francis Bacon the eminent British scientist and philosopher put it some 400 years ago if we begin with certainties we shall end in doubts if we will be content to begin with doubts we may end with a few certainties Blessed be this week as was the case last week we will be sharing the offering with our Unitarian Universalist Service Committee that is working around the world to promote justice peace and sustainability please be generous monetary gifts for the members of this community each week and we also appreciate the gifts of service that are rendered by people in our congregation the service of our choirs of our harpists and of the other people who have helped to complement our service this morning including Karen Rose-Gradler our worship associate Alex Manville our sound operator and Smiley who doubles both lay minister Dan Usher, Liz Wessel another Usher that was recruited at the last moment Elaine Lohr who greeted us up at the front door Jeannie Hills is a yeoman in providing coffee service for her on Sunday mornings and she is doing so again would be lovely if someone would perhaps agree to help her on a particular Sunday morning we expect that there will be a guide also following this service to meet newcomers who would like a tour of our facility typically we meet over on that side of the auditorium by the large windows and Nancy Werma is a signed up to be our guide and we also appreciate the efforts of the interim minister's search task force who will be interviewing applicants for our interim minister who will be with us between the time that I step off this stage in June and a permanent settled minister is brought on board in 2020 what qualities would you value most in an interim minister what do you think an interim minister should know about this community please stop by the table in the commons where members of that task force will be stationed for a little chat and perhaps a nice piece of chocolate we also gather each week as a community of memory and of hope and to this time and place we bring our whole and sometimes our broken selves we seek here a place where these might be received and celebrated and shared and so now two notations one Al Cannon, a long time member of First Unitarian Society died at Attic Angels after a 10 year struggle with multiple myeloma a gathering in Al's honor will be held at Attic Angels on June the 24th a Sunday afternoon we also send our very best wishes to Douglas Hill who has been heading up our music director's search committee Doug had surgery this week and is now resting comfortably in his home in addition to those two just mentioned we would acknowledge any unspoken joys or sorrows that remain among us and as a community of concern and caring we hold these in our hearts as well let us sit silently for just a moment or two in the spirit of empathy and hope and so by virtue of our brief time together may our burdens be lightened and our joys expand please rise now in body or in spirit for our closing hymn number 345 the mysteries of life are many and there is so much that we cannot explain let this not deter us from yearning and working for the good may we feel our strength be of good cheer may joyful laughter and beneficent power be ours and may a sense of our own blessings fill our hearts and brighten our days in a few moments our service of worship will conclude let our service to the world come at us please be seated


If an actor or a great director makes a movie and he cannot make any other movies because his movies are totally downloaded for free, then we're not going to have that director again. So it's that easy and people don't understand that. And once again, they may believe that they are doing something fair because, you know, where they're saying, I don't have the money to pay for the movie ticket, I'll do it for free, which I understand because, as I said, there's a huge crisis all around the world. But that way of thinking I think is the most dangerous thing because that is what we have to change. Once again, it's not about that director, that actor, that producer, it's about hundreds and hundreds and thousands of people behind those movies that if they don't get what is right for them, they won't keep on working. So it's like a snake beating his own tail. That's what I think. That's what I think frustrates me when I see or when I hear people talking about it because beyond the crime, if you want to call it crime, or I'm not calling it a crime, I'm saying that it's a fact that is happening all around the world. Beyond that, what I think bothers me the most is the way of thinking, the way of saying it's right to do it, which I think, okay, then for me it's right to go to a shop and get all these products for free and go running. Some people may say yes, some people may say no, I don't think it's right because the guy of the shop bought the products and he makes a living out of that. So it's the same, it's about stealing. We should really understand how to get to the public for a better price. I don't know, I don't know what that means. But what I don't agree with is that in the mentality of the people, to do piracy is fine because what they think is we're going to harm the richest, we're going to harm the producer who flies in private jets and have five swimming pools. We're going to harm the Hollywood actor who has three mentions in every town in the city. Well, they are wrong, they are harming the people behind those people who really have to make a living, a hard living doing movies. And if we don't sell the movies, they're going to be unemployed as they are. And that differentiation about the way of thinking is what I think is the most embarrassing thing of it all. And that's what the people have to think when they're doing it.


So for our job as military police soldiers, deployment is where you obtain the best experience for your job, but for our new soldiers that have never been deployed before, the instructors at the Joint Theater Analysis Center has provided for side exploitation. They have created realistic training that is just invaluable that we're able to get here at African Lion. The best training experience for this AT so far has probably been this crime scene training. I've learned a lot of different aspects about it that I didn't know before. I haven't went over this stuff since probably basic training being about seven years ago, and this is the first time I've touched on it on this scale since then. So the training out here is different from the training we get back in the States primarily because we have to overcome a slight language barrier. Fortunately for the most part their English is very good and some of our soldiers speak a very small amount of French, so that's an easy report win on our part. I think African Lion has been a very beneficial exercise on both parts and I love to travel and I'm looking at the Atlantic Ocean right now and just having a great time.


Hey folks, in this short video, I'm going to show you the process of recording a Zoom presentation on a Chromebook. So the first thing that I want to mention is that recording Zoom on Chromebooks is probably not the preferred way to record a Zoom presentation. The Zoom app does not work great on Chromebooks as of yet, and when it does, you will notice a significant decrease in video quality. There has been some improvements in recent months that allow folks that have a professional Zoom account to cloud record when using a Chromebook. That's probably the best method. However, today I'm going to show you how you can still make it work on a basic Zoom account with a normal Chromebook. Let's go ahead and get to it. All right, so we'll go ahead and start inside of a Zoom session. I've just opened Zoom up on the Chromebook app. However, it would be the same process even if you decided to use Zoom on the web browser version of it. And so what you want to do is on your Chromebook, hold down the control, the shift button, and then the show windows button, which is the one that looks like a rectangle that has two lines on the right hand side of it. This will then bring up a message that says, drag to select an area to capture. You don't want to do that quite yet. What you want to do is go down here and the bottom left hand corner, you'll see a little toolbar showed up, and you want to change from the screenshot function to the screen record function. Next, there is an option here to record full screen. I recommend switching to that. And then you want to go into the settings and just confirm that it is set to record your microphone. So if you see the microphone with no line through it, you're set to go. If it looks like that with a line through it, you want to hit it again so that it's set to record the microphone. Then go ahead and click anywhere on the screen and it'll record everything after three seconds. A couple of limitations to be aware of. As of the creation of this video, it is still not possible on a Chromebook to record system audio, which means the only audio that your Chromebook is going to record is audio that is picked up by the microphone coming out of the speakers. So you'll kind of want to be quiet if you're trying to record someone else on the other side of a Zoom connection, though it does work pretty well if you're wanting to record your own presentation on Zoom. When you're done recording the Zoom session, go ahead and go down to the toolbar and you'll see that there is a stop icon. When you hover over it, it says stop screen recording. Click that and then you can see that it has added the recording to your screen captures. And you can go in there and you can see that there is the screen recording WEBM file about 21 megabytes. And that is a usable file that can be uploaded to places like YouTube or edited in most video editing softwares. Well, folks, that wraps up our discussion about how to record a Zoom presentation on a Chromebook. As I mentioned at the beginning of this video, this is probably not the best way to record a Zoom presentation, but if you've got no other option, it is a workable way. Thanks for watching.


Hi, I'm Denji. And in today's video, I'm doing a calm, no-nonsense guide on how to install Gen2 Linux. Now, the first thing you'll notice is that I'm in a Linux Mint live environment over here. I'm not in the Gen2 ISO, which you can download from the Gen2 page. The reason for this is because Gen2 requires no special software or specific package manager to install it onto a base system. This means that we can easily download any existing Linux live environment, in this case, Linux Mint, to make this install process much, much easier than typing everything manually on the terminal. In fact, a lot of this install is just gonna be copying and pasting commands. But anyways, without further ado, the first thing I recommend is you make yourself the root user over here on Linux Mint, so I'm just gonna run sudo su, and there you go, we're now the root user. I'm just gonna type cd to make the prompt smaller. And now I'm gonna move on to the first step of the installation that matters to us, at least, and that's preparing the disks. Now, if you're installing Gen2, you should still be relatively familiar with how to partition disks and how to just lay out a Linux system before you start working on it. We're just gonna partition everything with CF disks, so I'm gonna run CF disks. And then for label type, I'm gonna pick GPT because this is a UEFI system.  Just make that as big as your memory or twice your memory or something like that. And then the rest of the space is just gonna be root, so just press enter twice for that one. Then go over to write, type yes, press enter, then over to quit. And there you go, we've partitioned our disks. Now let's format them to all the appropriate file system. So let's just list them again just to be sure. There they are. We're going to mkfs.ext4 then devsda3, that's gonna be our root in the ext4 file system. And there you go. Now it's gonna be mkfs.fat-capitalf32devsda1 for our boot partition. And then the easiest one is just gonna be mkswapdevsda2 for our swap partition. Now it's time to mount all these things. Now one thing you'll notice in the gen2 guide, if you scroll down all the way to where it starts to mount and stuff, is that over here it recommends you mount everything to mnt gen2 as a root and not just mnt as you would on Arch Linux. That means we're gonna have to make that directory. So I'm gonna run mkdir for it slash mnt for it slash gen2. There you go. And then I'm gonna mount devsda3, which is our root partition to slash mnt slash gen2. And just to be sure, so I do it now, I'm also gonna mount my boot partition. But to do that, I'm gonna have to create the bootefi directory just like we did on Arch Linux. So mkdir-p to make them recursively, slash mnt gen2 bootefi, and then mount devsda1 mnt gen2 bootefi. And then finally the easiest step, swap on devsda2 to turn on that swap.  There you go, everything's looking fine. Now moving on to the next step, which is installing stage three. Today we're gonna be doing a very minimal install and that's gonna play into which stage we pick. Okay, so we're gonna run date just to make sure that the date is correct. So any SSL downloads don't mess up. So everyone date and yeah, that's definitely not right. It's not 2 a.m. here, it's actually 6 a.m. I just woke up a few minutes ago so I could do this gen2 guide. I don't think a few hours like that is really gonna throw it off, but if the date is completely wrong, like if it says October 1st or September something here or any other date that isn't the current day, then you should go into your settings and change that. I'm just gonna move on to the next step, which is choosing your stage tarball. Now if you go over to the download section, which is linked over here, you can pick between various stage archives. So all these are are a base gen2 system that's sort of been packaged into a little tar file, which you can then untar and install Kernelon and then boot from basically. I'm gonna pick the first one, which is the stage three OpenRC. Stage three system D, as the name suggests, includes system D instead of OpenRC as the init system. The no multi-lib variants are the same thing except they have no support for 32 bit programs and the stage three 32 bit, that's just a 32 bit version for 32 bit computers. Anyways, I'm gonna pick this one over here so right click and copy link. And now I'm gonna go into MNT gen2, which is where you're sort of recommended to untar it. And I'm gonna run doubly get and then that. So just give it a sec to start downloading this. Might take a while. Okay, so it's been downloaded. And now as it says in the guide, you gotta untar it. So just run this command basically and there you go, tar xpvf stage three and the tar ball and enter. Once again, this also might take a while depending on your CPU and disk speed. I don't know if you can hear it, but my fans have started to rile up. That's gonna happen a lot. Okay, so now that it's extracted, we can move on to configuring compile options. Now what's weird to me is that this guide to configure C flags, CSX flags, and also make OPTS flags. All of this is done before you go and modify the use flags, which is something we'll take a look at later in the guide. Anyways, we're just gonna follow the way the guide says to do it for now. We might rebel later. Nano, MNT, Gen2, etsyportagemake.com. We wanna edit this file. This is gonna be the magic file to edit in this tutorial. We're gonna go through this file so many times. Now as you can see here, there's already some stuff to find in here. The only line I wanna add is this one over here, make OPTS. So we're gonna add make OPTS and then equals and in quotation marks, you wanna put dash j then a number of processes. A good rule of thumb is you divide the amount of memory you have by two and then round it to the lowest thread. In today's case, I've especially picked 10 gigs of RAM and five threads. So we can do dash j five because five times two is 10 and there's enough threads for that. Make sure you lower and increase this number based off any experience you have compiling maybe with this increase it's faster or maybe it just uses too much memory in your system, memory fills up and that kind of stuff. Anyways, we're gonna do control O and press enter then control X and move on to the next step, which is going to be installing the actual base system.  Anyways, the first thing is gonna be selecting the mirrors. We don't really have to do this but it's recommended to get faster mirrors than what you regularly have. And in this case, I'm gonna go over to the Gen2 page at gen2.org then go over to the downloads page then over to the mirrors section and over here you can get a list of all of the mirrors. I'm gonna pick any Turkish mirrors actually. Oh yeah, there you go, there's one. I'm gonna just copy paste that URL and then I'm gonna go into mnt gen2 etsy portage make.conf and we wanna add the variable maybe at the bottom of the file gen2 underscore mirrors and then make that equal to that mirror or any other list of mirrors which you can find online. I'm gonna write and quit and move on to the next step. We're just gonna be copying the DNS info so this is basically just copy paste a command. The etsy resolve file, if you check that on your system this includes the name server so the DNS server which your system is using. In today's case we're just gonna copy that over dereference it and send that over to the Gen2 root so I'm gonna just run enter there you go, we've copied the DNS information.  There you go, we've mounted everything. Finally it is a warning over here it says when not using Gen2 installation media this might not be sufficient. Some distros make devshm a symbolic link to run shm which after the truth becomes invalid. Now this actually does happen on Linux Mint if you run ls-l run then shm as you can see it's linked over to devshm so you do want to follow this tutorial so I'm gonna just run this stuff then run this and then change the mode over here so there you go now we can move on to the next step which is changing root once again this is just basic copying and pasting we wanna trute slash mnt gen2 or whatever mount point you're using then to bin bash as our shell there you go we're in the gen2 root now except it does say mint our source is gonna be etsy profile there we go now we've got executable programs basically just copy paste this part all this really does is adds a little trute right there so we can know that we are in the trute mounting the boot partition we've already mounted it if we run lsp okay there's everything now we're gonna learn how to use portage that's a gen2 package manager the first command we're gonna learn is emerge webr sync if you run this emerge dash webr sync it synchronizes the repository so pressing enter this might take a while to download so I'm just gonna give it a sec okay so now that we've synced the repositories we can skip this step because it's optional and move straight to reading news items this is going to be your introduction to the e-select command which will be used quite a little bit in this guide we run e-select news list you'll see there's a few news items dating back from 2060 to 2021 and then if you wanna read any of them just run the e-select news read then it'll say I wanna read the latest one 10 and if you run that you'll just get a raw text copy of it so what you can do is then send that over either to a file or pipe it straight into less and then you can go through and and read through that if you want to but anyways I'm not gonna do that I'm just gonna go to the next section which is choosing the right profile this is very important depending on what kind of system you wanna get today we can stick to the number one profile because I'm not really gonna be installing anything like desktop environments or XORG or a display server however if you do plan to use XORG I recommend you pick this option over here and you know depending on whether you wanna use GNOME or KDE pick one of these options but to see the actual full list of options you wanna run e-select profile list and there you go we've got all the options so it's already set to number one which is perfectly fine by me however if you're however once again if you wanna run XORG you gotta choose this one if you want to run GNOME you should choose this one and of course there's options for all these to have them as system D or with no multi-lib support like this one for example and there's developer and stable versions but anyways we're gonna stick to the default because that should be perfectly fine for us so I'm not gonna select anything but if you did wanna select one of them you would have to run e-select profile set and then let's say five for the desktop one and now if you run that list again you'll see that it says that we have selected the fifth one which is the desktop one but I'm gonna set this to one because that's the one I want now what do these profiles actually do well they modify two aspects of our system primarily number one the packages in the at world set so the at world set is essentially all the packages installed co-on-co on the system or at least the packages the system plans to update in the future so if I picked the fifth one for example I would have a ton more packages to install in my world set than I would in the first one the second thing these things change is use flags so if you go and run this command emerge dash dash info you're gonna get a lot of information about the current variables that emerge is using you can then pipe that into grep and then run this little hat symbol and use to check all the use variables so here they are if you list them I think it's just this basically all use flags are our different components or functions which each program is told they either need or not need and depending on the use flags you say you may end up installing more programs or less programs or different programs depending on the stuff that you've picked these are the default use variables in the number one profile if you were to pick a desktop environment there would be so much more stuff here there would be stuff like Pam and E-Login D and Bluetooth support and all this kind of stuff that your system is configured to compile and there's not only use flags here there's stuff like audio cards also cards over here it's a whole list of different audio cards you can pick between so just delete the ones you don't need and stuff but how do I configure any of this well it's pretty simple if you want to get rid of any of the use flags first of all let's just copy paste all of these and put them in our make.com file because that's where we modify the use flags so nano, etsy, portage, make.com since you know we're in the truth so we gotta use etsy not MNT Gen2 we're gonna add that use variable here just gonna copy paste it and there it is there's all of our use flags now the thing about use flags that makes them unique from all the other flags in the system is that if I remove one it doesn't actually remove it from the global list of use flags because you saw before that all of those use flags were there even though I didn't put them in this file the only way to get rid of a use flag is to put a minus in front of it so if I put a minus in front of I don't know let's say Unicode, there it is I will not have any Unicode support but if I just delete Unicode I will still have Unicode support because that's how use flags work now it's a little bit different when it comes to different flags which are not declared now one flag that's not included on the system is Bluetooth and because it's not in that default set which we took a look at before when we run emerge dash dash info if I want Bluetooth support I'm gonna have to type Bluetooth here same thing goes for other things like for example if you want desktop support you're gonna need Pam, E-Log and D and I think you're gonna need Harfbuzz and a few other flags and these are not included by default in the first set now I'm perfectly fine with the default use flags so I'm not gonna change this however do know that when you're doing a desktop system this becomes very very useful because removing support for something like Bluetooth or CDs or DVDs and stuff as soon as you do that suddenly you're gonna get a lot less dependencies to download for each package because the system knows you don't wanna use those functions anyway I'm just gonna write and quit here and move on to the actual important step which is updating all the packages so if you run emerge dash dash ask and verbose and then dash dash update dash dash deep dash dash new use and then with the at world set which once again are those packages specified when we selected our profile and press enter you'll see that it's calculating dependencies and then it's asking us if you want to update these packages we're gonna say yes just by pressing enter and it's gonna start compiling them but this might take a while especially if you're installing lots of desktop stuff like with the desktop you're talking about over 100 or even 200 packages you gotta install not to mention KDE and stuff like that so I'm just gonna let this do what it needs to do and I'll be back in a sec okay so all the packages have been compiled over here so we can move on to the next step which is configuring the accept license variable this is also something you might wanna do before installing your packages just in case you want some special proprietary software that isn't allowed by default if we go into etsyportagemake.conf and add this variable accept underscore license we can give it various parameters to decide what sort of licenses we want to accept so I'm just gonna put a star in here because I'm assuming most of the people watching this are not really gonna be super bothered about the license of the software however if you are concerned about using free software then do put one of these various options or a mix of them to make sure that everything is indeed free software now I'm gonna do control O plus enter control X we can move on to the next steps now these are quite similar to Arch Linux stuff like setting the time zone and locale so you should be quite familiar with these concepts first thing is gonna be picking a time zone now if you already know your Unix time zone you can easily just type echo then the time zone in my case is gonna be Asia slash Dubai and then send that over to etsy time zone just like that now if we run cat etsy time zone there you go it says Asia to Dubai that's good if you run this command over here emerge config sys libraries time zone data and there you go it's set a correct time zone now locale generation is different from Arch Linux as well instead of uncommitting something from a file you actually have to type it in manually so locale.gen right over there and we're gonna type in en underscore us.utf-8 and then space utf-8 seems a little bit redundant I have to type it twice but that's just how it is control O press enter control X now if you run locale.gen it's gonna generate those two locales there you go and then moving on to locale selection we have to use e-select again oh what a wonderful thing e-select locale list and we're gonna pick locale number five so e-select locale set number five and there you go now we can run this to change our profile but we're just gonna run it as it says on the guide with this environment update command so there you go copy and pasting that and there you go we've now changed our locale anyways the next step is gonna be configuring the kernel the first thing you wanna do if you want to compile the kernel yourself is to download the kernel sources so run this command then going to user src then the name of your kernels it might be linux you know dash 5 point 10 point 13 or something like that right and then from there you can run make menu config and then you can get a menu similar to the one that I show in my Linux compilation guide I'll have that linked in the description so once you get to that menu config option you can just watch my guide on how to configure the kernel but in today's case we're gonna just be installing a binary kernel so if you go over here to using distribution kernels first of all we have to install an install kernel so do the kind of configuration around the kernel you can either pick one for systemdboot or for just any other boot loader now we're not gonna be using systemdboot because once you can run openrc not systemd so we're gonna run this command emerge sys dash kernel forward slash install kernel dash gen 2 and now it's going to install the gen 2 install kernels give it a second and there you go it's installed anyway now to actually install the kernel the kernel is called gen 2 dash kernel dash bin for the binary so emerge sys kernel forward slash gen 2 dash kernel dash bin and run that and then it's gonna start downloading it now this is gonna take a few dependencies it'll take a while to download everything so I'm gonna come back in a second okay so the kernel binary is now been installed we can move on to the next step which is kernel module now if you want to enable a specific kernel module follow this guide but udev as it says in this note will automatically enable any kernel modules you need just by checking what's supported by the hardware so you don't really have to do this manually this step over here which is installing firmware is something I definitely recommend you do if you're on physical hardware but I'm on a VM so I don't really have to do that so I can skip over to the next step we're just configuring the system so the first big thing we're gonna do today is do the FS tab now we could do this manually and type everything manually but personally I don't trust myself to manually type an FS tab so instead what I'm gonna do is use the Gen FS tab script which you can get from GitHub so I'm gonna just link that in the description so over here in this repository by Glaceon you can go to Gen FS tab and there's a script that will automatically make an FS tab for you so I'm just gonna download this and run it but to do that I'm gonna need to go back to my Linux Mint environment over here not the Gen 2 Trute so I'm gonna right click make a new window and just make this little bigger and then put this over here and then I'm gonna just make sure I'm a super user and I'm gonna get the script alright so I've got the script over there I'm just gonna make sure it's executable so chmod plus x to an FS tab and I'm gonna run it and then with slash MNT Gen 2 and it should generate an appropriate FS tab there you go there's an appropriate FS tab I'm gonna send that over to MNT Gen 2 at CFS tab and now going back to my Gen 2 live environments I'm just gonna close this terminal I'm gonna use nano to go into at CFS tab just take a look okay so you can ignore the red spaces that's just it not interpreting the tabs correctly however this FEVR FS none and Trace FS we can get rid of that because those are just mounted temporarily so we can delete all of those just make sure those are gone because you don't really need them to boot into the system the important stuff is you have the dev sd1 sd2 and sd3 over there anyway pressing enter and right quitting move on to the next step after this which is networking information now this is only really useful if you're manually configuring the network I'm gonna be using an Ethernet cable so I'm perfectly fine the only tool I need is DHCPCD which we will install later however one thing we definitely do wanna do is set our host name so if you go nano atcconf.d then host name I'm gonna change this name to I don't know a fun little computer name Gen 2y there you go Gen 2y press enter and right and quit that then you can configure things like your domain and stuff I don't really need any of that it should be fine the host's file is important to configure so nano atchost then I'm gonna add a line in here it says 12700.1 and then with my host name so Gen 2y now setting the root password now Gen 2 is interesting because it requires a certain complexity to your root password you can change this but you know having a complex password is good so I'm gonna set one so password I'm gonna type a complex password it does suggest one for you there's tech39bleak I don't really know what that's meant to mean but you know you can have that as your password if you really want it oh it doesn't match I'm gonna type it again that lovely7krueljoseph what are these words and now there's in a inboot configuration we can basically skip this unless you want to specify a different key map or you want to change your hardware clock stuff now we can move on to installing tools I hear you're recommended to install various things the big thing you probably want is the DHCP client so we're gonna run emergeDHCPCD and then I'm also going to want out of my system I might want sudo so we can have super user privileges and stuff and I guess you know just for fun we can have screenfetch just so we have something funky to look at and of course we want grub because that's gonna be our boot manager and EFI boot MGR that's gonna be useful for having EFI work on our system anyways it's pressing enter it should start merging those packages just give it a second it might take a while cause there's 16 things to install I'll come back in a minute okay so now that all those packages have been installed we can move on to the next step which is configuring the boot loader now we don't even really need to read this section because I'm pretty sure if you've installed Arch Linux you're probably quite familiar with installing a boot loader but just to be sure I'm just gonna check through this and yeah it's basically the same we're gonna run grub-installdev-sda to install it first of all also make sure you do have that EFI boot manager package that I installed before because without that your system is not gonna boot then we're gonna run grub-mkconfig-o forward slash boot grub-grub.cfg press enter and there you go it made our grub config and once again that OS proper error we can just ignore that because we're not dual booting now that that's all done we can move on to the next step we're not gonna reboot the system now because there's a few more things I wanna do and that's create our user and set him as a super user so before you know that we've installed the sudo package we wanna make sure that all users of the wheel group have access to super user privileges so we're gonna run editor equals nano then vsuda then as you can see here's the etsy sudoers file we're gonna go all the way to the bottom and uncomment the iconic line wheel all equals all all and there you go now now wheel users can run commands with sudo privileges so control O press enter control X and now we can finally add a user this is just the same as on Arch Linux it's user add dash m dash g we're gonna add us to the wheel to the users group and if you want video and audio and everything you can do video audio USB all these different groups but I'm not gonna have that because we're just gonna be using a base terminal install we're not gonna be doing any extra good stuff our shell is going to be bash and then our username is gonna be denshi so there we can ignore that mailbox file thing now we're going to change our password now I'm gonna set it for denshi so denshi gonna just set the same password although in real life about what is that different password is for these two different accounts the last thing I want to do is do some disk cleanup maybe so go into your root directory there's still the stage three there so let's just remove that arm dash RF stage three and there you go we've pretty much done everything we really need to set up this gen two systems now we exit and exit again we're back in Linux Mint I guess we can just quickly unmount all just to unmount everything we could ignore the fact they're busy because we're not really doing anything on these different things and now we can run reboot okay here we are in grub there's gen two linux press enter and see if that boots up so just give it a sec there's openrc booting up and there's a small text and there's our login that was quite quick now I'm gonna type denshi and then my password over here and there I am in gen two I'm just gonna make that text bigger so set font then dash D just to make my font twice as big and now just for fun like we always do on these tutorials we're gonna run screen fetch and there you go there's gen two how beautiful now if you wanted to install Xorg and set up a graphical environment you'd have to run this command so just go into editportagemake.com there you go type my password in just to make sure that sudo is working I guess yeah it's working and then go down to use and you wanna add a few things you probably wanna add X for Xorg support Pam for Pam support you log in D for logging in support and permission support and harf buzz for all that kind of support and I think true type as well and a few other things but I'm not gonna install Xorg today because I'm just doing a base gen two install but if you did want to install it do know that you're gonna need a few various use flag changes and there might be a few hurdles on the road with those use flags if you ever stuck the best ways just Google your answer maybe ask me send me an email or write something in our tech support chat which is on matrix discord and xmpp anyways, besides that I've been Denshi that was a gen two install done as calmly and simply as possible goodbye


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