Hello and welcome. Today we've got Tom and we have Bryce and we'll be speaking the lost books of the Bible. Now, just before we begin, you can subscribe to our Telegram channels and to NicholasVeniamin.com for my free email updates. And if you're watching this for the first time on YouTube, I will leave the link below in the description for the full interview. Tom and Bryce, thank you for joining me. Tom will go with you first. How are you? Hey Nick, how are you buddy? Hey Bryce, good to see you both. Yeah, so it's been an interesting, an interesting few weeks. And I know you've mentioned this before, but something that President Trump said at the weekend that stood out to me, I did a little mini video and it was, he's making it really obvious for people that, and he repeated a, basically the phrase that he doesn't think it's him. And he actually said it with real emphasis at the end of one of his little mini pieces on it. And he says, I don't think it's him. You know, really clearly. And I did the numbers on that. And it comes to 202, which comes to the ripple effect. It's the ripple effect, which I've spoken about before, and it comes to also 30,000. And that was the sacred number that he spoke about many, many months ago last year, actually, when the stock market was high. And so he's coding his messages, but he's also telling us by I don't know, maybe we're going to see someone like Jim Carrey pop up. Who knows, you know, it might be a Scooby-Doo ending because they need to shock the world and show that it's not him. And then obviously Trump will be like, well, that's another thing that Trump got correct because everything he says comes to pass. He's laying the foundation to show that it's not him. It's not Biden, you know, and he's telling people clearly now, but that's the case. So I thought that was interesting. And I thought the numbers on it, it's the ripple effect, which is 30,000 reference to the stock market is all very kind of funneling into a focal point. So I thought that was interesting. Very interesting. We have to read in between the lines of what President Trump says because like, you know, it's no coincidence. You know, he's definitely saying something. And and usually there's a lot more to what he's saying. And I was saying yesterday on my webinar that when Donald says that he's going to take back the house and he's, you know, dwelling and talking and sorting up the election, that he knows that he there is definitely light under the tunnel at the end of the tunnel. Sorry. He knows he's going to take back the house. He's not when he says, I think it means he knows he's going to when he says, I think he's humbly letting people know and planting the seed in their brain that this could this is going to be happening in the future. So get prepared. And that's what it is. It's a preparation. And I think it's a military communication to the people. So Bryce, how are you and and what's been happening with you? Well, we're just we're just living the life here in Atlanta, Georgia. It's extremely, extremely hot here. And I keep thinking about that the book, The Great Gatsby. And when everything came to a pivotal point in that book, we're at the precipice of a change. It was in the heat of summer. And so we are definitely living in that heat, thick heat of summer right now. And it's so exciting. I know we've been waiting for this for a really long time. But it's so exciting that that I know our friend Janine released a video a couple of days ago on the military guy that said, basically, this is it.  And and that can be scary.  We've been waiting for this. And this is our time to shine to help our fellow man to who who isn't prepared. You know, it's a time for us to hold the line and step up and really be loving people, the people of the light. So with that being said, you guys want to talk about how we got where we got with like hardly any of the Bible in our actual Bible. You know what? It's the Bible is a topic where I'm very interested in it. OK, and a lot of people are and we shouldn't be ashamed of questioning them, you know, because we we we we we shouldn't be in love with the indoctrination and just stick with what we've been told. We should be in love with the truth. Absolutely. And when we're in love with the truth, we're always asking questions. Now, one of the questions that I had was Mary Magdalene has a gospel. Why isn't it in the Bible?  They didn't put it in the Bible because it wasn't Christ centred. And I said to him, right. Well, personally, I think that Mary Magdalene's gospel would be very Christ centred, first of all, and it's just a coincidence that she's a female. So they've told us he's not Christ centred. But on the other hand, let's I said to him, let's just argument, let's just say for argument's sake that you're right and that it's not Christ centred. OK, so they left it out of the Bible. Well, why isn't it general knowledge? Why isn't it out there? Why didn't they tell us? You know, well, this wasn't Christ centred, but here it is. And you can download it on the app store like you can with the Bible. Why isn't it available? How about the Q gospel? How about the gospel of Philip? There is just so, so much. And how where are the missing books of the Bible of Jesus's life from 13 to 30, which is number 17, by the way, if you add them together. Where is the missing books of that? What was he really doing? And if it's not Christ centred or not relevant to the Bible, then why isn't it general knowledge? Why isn't it that when I ask a very Christian person about Jesus's life from the 13 to 30, nobody has a clue about what he was doing? Like, we know what happened when he was 30 to 33. I know what he was doing because I've read some of these books. Right. So these questions are as a Christian person. In fact, I will say this as a person who loves the truth and whatever the truth is, I want the truth. I want to I'm in love of the truth with the truth. Whatever the truth is, I want to follow that. OK, but I'm not going to accept something that's got missing knowledge and nobody knows the answers to. And we're just going to accept the narrative that, oh, it wasn't important. So we didn't put it in the Bible. That's not good enough for me. No, it's not good enough for a lot of viewers. OK. Now, this is not mocking the Bible and this is not looking Jesus. I love Jesus and I love God. But when it's given to us in paper, black and white material, I question the deep state. They've lied to us about everything. OK. Well, why haven't they lied? Of course, they're going to be lying to us about this as well. There's no coincidence that they would just leave the book out and, you know, it's perfectly intact. I mean, it wouldn't be floating on the app store, would it? No. Yeah. This is a very this is a, you know, people who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. So you're right. If they weren't trying to hide something, they would have made all of these. There are supposed to be seven hundred seventy seven books in our Bible. We only got about 60 of them. And I say about because some denominations have more than others. That's a lot of information that's missing. Now, with that being said, before people ask the Vatican has not released, the Vatican has all these books down in their library. They have not released them. The forty five ish books that we do have were found in excavations in Egypt and in the Middle East. All right. So people like us back in the fourth century, when they became illegal, hid them in tombs because they knew the truth. They saw what was happening with Constantine and the Council of Nicea. Now, the devil, Satan, Lucifer is many, many, many things.  All right. We know that this group of people, what do they do? They infiltrate, they infiltrate and they invert. So in order for us to and I'm going to go, I'm going to stamp. This is going to be very much a very cliff notes version of what happened on my channel, Esoteric Atlanta. If you go to my playlist, the Dark Outpost playlist, I have a bunch. We've read Mary, we've read Philip, we've got Thomas. I have a bunch of the read-throughs of all these books that we have. And I also have a history on Constantine. So if you want to know more information, you can look at that. So when Jesus died, when Jesus was executed, which is what happened, he was crucified, he was executed, all of his disciples, his apostles, then had a warrant out for their arrest. They were going to take them down to why? Because Jesus pushed back against the rabbis and the state at that time. He was like one of us. He was pushing back against what they were teaching and the control. There's a lot of similarities to what was happening to us now that was happening back then, the Romans coming in, the Greeks coming in, all this kind of stuff. And of course, the control of the temples with the rabbis. So all of these apostles that we know, we know there were 12, but there were also way many more women who were also granted the permission to go and spread this as well. Mary Magdalam, Mary of Bethany, who is Philip's wife, which I'll talk about a bunch of them. So when Jesus died, all of these apostles basically had to skedaddle. They could not stay in the area. There was warrants out for their arrest. They had to run. They were fugitives. So most of the apostles, some could write, some could not write, some could read, some could not read, but they were all very well educated in like the temple. So when they left the Middle East, Mary went to France. We know Mark went to Egypt. We know Thomas went to India. Philip went to Turkey. But they went everywhere and they started teaching this new faith. I'm not going to call it a religion because religion means the worship of many legions or the worship of many satanic gods. All right. That's where the word goes. So it's a faith. Jesus was teaching freedom. He and the Gnostic gospels, which Mary, Thomas, some of these gospels were all Gnostic taught you if you read them, there's not a whole lot of story to it. There's no bigot. It's just these teachings that Jesus gave.  Thomas Didimas, you know, he was Greek. A lot of these guys were had Greek blood in them. That's where you see their names. Philip had Greek blood. They were translators with the Greek language. So there's more to these guys' stories and these women's stories than were actually even told. They were like us, right? And they had, they were looking over their shoulder the whole time. So they were teaching people through Jesus's teaching that they now are free.  Your soul, you don't have to go to a preacher. You don't have to go to the state. You don't have to go to anybody else to have that relationship with divinity. That was the basis of Jesus's teaching. That's still the basis is through Jesus's blood we are saved. Through Jesus's blood, we can have a one-on-one relationship with God. We have nothing to fear, right? Death is just a passage into a new beginning, right? So Jesus taught all this. Well, this was very scary for the powers that be. We know this.  So for the next couple of hundreds of years, you have these disciples out there teaching their students and their students are teaching their students. Well, when they left the Middle East, obviously, they did not have the New Testament that was created afterwards. Most of the New Testament is letters written by Paul and Paul never knew Jesus in life. He had an experience with Jesus after Jesus died. And then we have the four Gospels at the beginning, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, there are many more Gospels guys. So these people, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John will just take them as an example. Did not write their Gospels, their students and their students of their students wrote their Gospels. Now, these schools that existed and will calm schools after Jesus died before the Council of Nicea, they were not really in communication with each other. It would take a long time to communicate. But if you look through Matthew, especially the first three, Matthew, Mark and Luke, you see identical passages in there. They're identical. How is that possible since they did not communicate with each other? Well, it's possible because they had two Gospels with them when they fled the Middle East that were their hard copies. This was the Book of Q. Yes, that's correct. You heard me right. I should do not the Book of Q and the Gospel of the Holy 12. The Gospel of the Holy 12, we do have a full intact version of that that was found in Tibet in the late 19th century. And if you go to the Nazareneway.com, you can read the whole English translation. It goes through. I I sobbed throughout that book. It is so touching. It gives so much detail to Jesus's life. It talks about his parents, his birth, his cousins, his siblings. He had two wives. He married his first wife at 18. She died when she was 27. And then he married Mary Magdalene. She was his wife. He had children. A lot of these children were kept hidden because he was such a dangerous person. They wanted to keep the children hidden. So it goes to everything, 13 to 30. He was studied first. He went to study down in Egypt. Then he went into India and studied all these spiritual with these different talking to these different, trying to know he's the son of God. He's listening to all these other people. And he's kind of bringing people together under this one teaching of freedom. All right. He talks about reincarnation that we do live many lives before we finally reach the end of our lifespan. He he he encourages women to go teach. There's a scene in the Gospel of the Holy Twelve where he's preaching and teaching and there's a woman listening to him teach and they get mad at the woman and tell her she needs to go to the kitchen and make Jesus some food. And Jesus stops them and says, no, she needs to sit here and listen to. Her soul is valuable, just as valuable as well. We also have a lot missing from the Old Testament, the book of Jubilee, which we just finished. We're right now reading reading the Apocalypse of Abraham, which goes way into detail over what they do in these ceremonies, these Canaanites, right? So in the fourth century, we have this figure called Constantine. Everybody's heard of Constantine. Constantine, the great, he was really Constantine, the con man. All right. He before he took over the Roman Empire, the Roman Empire was divided into four sections. It was a republic, right? And he decided when his father died in the early fourth century, his father died in York, England, that Constantine wanted his own little new world order. He wanted to be the man. All right. Constantine practice of faith called Mithraism. Mithraism looks very much like our Christian faith today. And it's based in pagan and satanic holidays. I'll just leave it at that. And we know that we know that our Christmas celebration, our Easter, are not actually they kind of been tied up with Christian ideas, but they're actually really not Christian ideas. Anyway, so at this point, Constantine, Christianity was a fledgling faith that was moving throughout the Roman Empire at this time. And a lot of the lower class men and women, but mostly men who talk about soldiers, had adapted to this new faith because they were now free. They didn't have to worry about the change that bound them in poverty in this life. They knew they were going to have eternal life in the next life. Now, at this point, Christianity was illegal. You could be executed for practicing Christianity. You remember the story of the Colosseums, where they would put Christians in the Colosseum to be devoured by lions. It was sport for the Romans. Well, Constantine decides that he is going to pass an edict that Christianity is not is now not illegal. He's doing this because he needs men to fight for him. It's a manipulation. Now, the person that stood up against Constantine was the guy that governed the side, the kind of central Europe side today up into Rome. And that was Max Iscentius. Now, Max Iscentius would be in reality like our Mr. T. Trump today. History books will tell him he was terrible. He was awful and that Constantine was wonderful and great, but it's all an inversion. He had already already accepted the Christian faith into his region. He'd already he's kind of like living that live.  Like, that's cool. This weird new Christian faith, you do it. Well, Constantine Maximentius went up against Constantine because he did not he knew what Constantine was going to do. He was going to take over this this land and he was going to be the emperor and control everything. Constantine ended up killing Max Iscentius at this battle in Italy, where like many years later, Constantine claims he saw a vision of God. That's not true. That's complete BS. Constantine Constantine tells on himself and his artifactual remains that never happened. That was all lie. So when he kills Max Iscentius, he now is the ruler of the of this new world, this new world order. At this point in 325 AD, he has what's called the Council of Nicea. So he decides now Christianity should have never been a dogmatic religion. There should have never been rules. There should have never been a pope. In fact, having a pope goes against everything Jesus taught. Nobody is higher than anybody else in the eyes of God. We are all that's what Jesus taught. We're all equally children of God. We're children of the light. And so Constantine has this council. Well, he calls all these bishops into this council to now put together a dogma, a Bible. So what they do is they go through all of these 7777 books and they throw out all the books. They label them as heresy that counter the narrative that they now want to spin. And with the 60-ish books they keep, they edit. So the Bible you have has been edited. And you can look through some of these missing books and see exactly where edits have happened. For example, I know people are gonna get upset about this. A virgin birth is a satanic thing. The satanic religions talk of a virgin birth with Horus, with Ra, with all these other deities. In the Gospel of the Holy 12, it is very clear the angel goes to Joseph and tells Joseph to go visit his wife. And they get pregnant. Which to me doesn't change my opinion at all on Jesus. Jesus was man and was God. He was the same. So he could have a biological human father like Joseph and a biological mother and still be in spirit, the Son of God. I think I've passed, I think myself and the viewers and many people who are awake now, we've passed that point where we're getting upset. We just wanna know the truth. We're cool about getting upset because we know we've been lied to about everything. It'll be foolish to think that the Bible is 100% perfect and we should follow it by the thing. If it was the truth, it wouldn't be in the app store.  The truth about who we are and they're trying to, you know. So, you know, no, no, please. Well, I was gonna say, I look at a lot of the archeologists.  They just wanna find the truth. And so if you follow a lot of archeologists, archeologists, who did the archaistic psychopath, you know, he had his, let me tell you a little something about Constantine, he had his son executed and his second wife executed because he heard a rumor that they were having an affair, a rumor that turned out to not to be true. If you have the love of Jesus in your heart, is that a behavior you would have? No, he was a psychopath, Canaanite Satanist. In the Council of Nicaea, all these bishops were now subservient to Constantine because he was the one power. So if a bishop were to like try to push back against what Constantine wanted, Constantine could have that bishop executed. He could also pull money from that bishop. So they all had to agree, okay, okay, okay, we're gonna do this. And then after this canonized Bible was put together, they told people, the Christians of that day, if you have any of these books that we have now labeled as heresy in your possession, we will, you will be executed, it's a death penalty. And so all of these Christians at this time knew, they knew where this was going. They knew this was gonna be censored. They were like us. So what did they do? They took what they had and they buried it in tombs down in Egypt and the Middle East, hoping, hoping that one day we would find them, which we did starting in the late 19th century through the 20th century. Lot of, like the book of Mary, we're missing chunks of the book of Mary because the paparist was rotted away. We're missing some of Thomas. My favorite, one of my favorite books so far besides the gospel of holy 12 is the Acts of Philip because of his wife. Philip's wife was Mary of Bethany or Miriam of Bethany. It's the same interchangeable name and she was sassy and saucy. Let me tell you guys, she was a force to be reckoned with. And the whole Acts of Philip talks about him and Mary, his wife Mary, because again, they were all named Mary in what is modern day Turkey teaching. And she was literally, Philip was very shy. She was literally the one pulling people in, giving them the show. She was, she talked back. So you see these female figures, especially in the missing in the book of Jubilee, in the Old Testament. You see all of these wives that are saucy and sassy as well and talking back to having a voice. And at this point we're coming into a very patriarchal place with the Roman Empire as well.  And in my, in my own faith, in my own belief in God and where I've been reading and going through all of these missing books again that we have, that we have access to has strengthened my faith in God has strengthened it. And somebody commented on one of my videos and I loved it. I wish I could remember who commented it so I can give that person credit. There is a difference between Christianity and Churchianity. You can go to church every day of your life and have no relationship with God whatsoever. You could never step foot in a church and have a very devout and powerful relationship with God. And that's the basis of the Christian faith is that we all have that in us. We all have that light in us. We are children of a living God, right? And they want to take that away from us. Now it's funny, there is a prophecy somewhere. I think it was with the Cathars which was Mary's line in France that at the end of day, so the end of this timeline that we're in which we're in right now, we believe we're in revelation, we're flipping to the new timeline that all of these missing books that have been censored had been fact-checked. The Bible basically got fact-checked by the Council of Nicaea would start to come up. We would start to find them and we have been finding them. So anyway, I would really highly suggest if you guys go to the Nazareneway.com they're a great website. They have a lot of great papers on some of these missing books and what had happened at the Council of Nicaea. You can also just Google some of these missing books and you can find PDFs of them. You could find many people talking about them who aren't even, my best advice is to always go to somebody if you're gonna listen to commentary who isn't necessarily a Christian because they're gonna give you an unbiased viewpoint and you're gonna get closer to the truth that way, right? If it's somebody that shares your faith, you're gonna have confirmation bias but without that, you're gonna get a clearer view and that's what I've done. Even though my faith is that of Christian origins, it's not, I like to hear people with their truth. As you say, they are looking at the truth of what the stuff is telling us. So anyway, that's basically in a nutshell what had happened and that, and we know, I'm sorry for the, I know the Catholic people are beautiful, beautiful people but we know that the Catholic church is, it's Canaanite, it's Cabal. The Protestant churches are the same thing. I'm sure Tom, the Mormon church has become corrupt as well. They've all been corrupted by this power and it's up to us now to reclaim our freedom back. So- And we will, we will. Yeah. We're beautiful because we're victims of the deep state and lies and we want to find the truth. Now, the other thing I wanted to ask you was, you say that Jesus was studying from the time he was 13 to 30, okay? So some may, my dad would say, yeah, but he's the son of God, he knew everything. He was good, why would he need to study? So what's your answer to that? He was also man. He was both man and God. And how are you going? So God, if we look at like, if we look at the apocryphal of John, that's another missing book that's very beautiful. And we studied this in yoga. I mean, we go to India a lot. We put on a yoga shala, like the idea of God, you know, the idea of, it's not, God is not human. God is something that's so much bigger than we can't assign human opinions to something that is above human origins, right? God is self-generating. God is not mortal.  And so in order for Jesus to bring people together, right? He had to go out and study all these different fates, study these different walks of life from his human brain in order to then take the knowledge of the spirit and bring it together. It's not a bad thing. It doesn't weaken the knowledge of God. It actually, in my opinion, makes our God even greater, that he would take that time to go and understand all people. Remember, especially in the Gospel of the Holy 12, you see Jesus telling his apostles over and over and over again that the Israelites, the children of God, the light, the children of God weren't just people of Jewish descent that shocked them. They couldn't believe the Gentiles were also going to be his children, who are Gentiles. Gentiles are any body, any human being that is not Jewish. I'm a Gentile. I believe you too are Gentiles, right? He was telling these guys who had been so bombarded with the Romans, with the Greeks, had this visceral hatred for these people that had conquered their land, that not all human beings are prisoner to the body they were born into, that the Israelites would also be a part of this, that the Gentiles would also come in. And so he's trying to bring people together. No more division. We are all one people. We are all humanity. We are all on this earth together. And of course, I mean, even today, look what the deep states trying to do today. They're trying to still divide us, right? And so Jesus was revolutionary like that.  These Egyptian people are just as worthy. They're all children of God.  Will you do it through understanding compassion, empathy? You don't go to somebody like, you're wrong. You're wrong. No, you come with love. I understand where you're coming from. I understand how you've been raised. Let's talk about it. Let's bring people together. That's what Jesus was doing. And the church has done a really good job to divide us again. So, yeah. So, you know, and I think once this is all over, we're gonna have to regroup. And I know I talked to Melissa Redfield about this and a third testament's gonna have to be written, you know, because we are moving into a new time where all this stuff is gonna be revealed. And I think, I definitely think Jesus is on our side and very, they say that Jesus wrote a book. There's a book out there that Jesus apparently wrote. We don't have it. We don't know. That's a very good point. That's a very, very good point. How is it that Jesus, we were told that there's no gospels from Jesus or anything from Jesus or anything in writing?  And the archeologist that I follow is that that's not necessarily true. He was a carpenter, but a carpenter can also be translated into architect. And so, Jesus would have come from like a middle-class family where he wasn't as poor as they wanna, wanna portray him to be. So with that being said, even though that doesn't matter as far as your salvation, he would probably have known how to read and write. Mary Magdalene came from a very wealthy family, very, very wealthy fishing family. Think about like the tycoons, like the fishing type that, you know, she was from one of those families. And so for a woman at that time, she was also very, very well educated. She could read and write. Her gospel was most likely written by her. So yeah, but some of the others couldn't. So their students wrote it, you know? So yeah, of course, you know, their families wanted them to understand. And I think Mary and Joseph, obviously, they knew Joseph and Mary were visited by the angel according to the gospel of the holy 12 and both told. And so they knew that Jesus was not going to follow the same path that his siblings. And yes, Jesus did have siblings. He did have brothers and sisters born after him. One of his brothers took over the temple in Jerusalem after Jesus was executed and he lost his life. All the apostles, for the most part, lost their lives in pretty gruesome ways. But yeah, so what we're looking at, what happened at the beginning of the, we're basically living the same life in a modern time that those apostles lived back then, except for it's going to be different because we're coming at, and I think, and Tom and I have talked about this a lot, that some of those disciples and apostles are back today on the earth. I think they're back. So, you know when we say Jesus came to show us how to set an example and how we should live? And for example, he was baptized by Saint John the Baptist. I don't know what your thoughts is on baptism. Yeah, no, no, absolutely. John, the gospel of the holy, John, John the Baptist and Jesus, they both had to be, they both had to exist at the same time. And John says that he had to, they were cousins, right? So they were cousins. The gospel of the holy 12 speaks of John the Baptist conception too. And that he came first, he had to kinda like, he was like the, you know, if you go to see a concert, he was the opening act, right? And he was the opening act. And the reason why these revolutionary ideas were able to flourish at this time with John the Baptist Jesus, there were a few others as well, is because, was because of the extreme, the extreme control that was coming from the Roman Empire, the locking down of people, basically what we're experiencing now, but in different times. So they were attracted to these revel.  How many people follow him around for his rallies? I will tell you my eight year old nephew, when I was eight years old, I didn't care about politics, that was boring. Most kids don't like politics, but my eight year old nephew went to one of Trump's rallies and he was mesmerized and watched the whole time. There's a magic there, right? Same thing with Jesus. When Jesus tore it around, he had a rally, rallies everywhere, hundreds and hundreds of people listening to him speak about this freedom, right? He also, something in the gospel of the Holy 12, people might have a problem with and then don't shoot the messenger, Jesus tells us if we're following this faith that we are to be vegetarian. He says the animals, do the animals not breathe the same breath we breathe?  You see him in the gospel of the Holy 12, people like beating up animals that are beasts of burden and he stops them and says, do not do this. Love your animals, take care of them. Your job is to take care of them. And in the gospel of the Holy 12, we know that Jesus gets turned into Pontius Pilate for blasphemy, basically, for saying that he's the prophesized savior. But in the gospel of the Holy 12, there's another reason as well, because he broke the laws of Moses. So they were celebrating Passover before he was arrested and at Passover, you were supposed to sacrifice a lamb and then eat the lamb. And Jesus refused to do that. He said, do not do that. We will not be eating a lamb. And he said, I am the lamb. I am the sacrificial lamb, which makes that story make way more sense when you get the full context of the story of what happened. And so he broke the laws of Moses by not allowing that animal sacrifice to happen. In the temples where he gets really mad, he gets mad and the story where he throws the tables over because they're doing business is not just business they're doing. They're selling animals for sacrifices. That pisses them off too. So we see a lot of these interesting tidbits of information that if you connect the dots, you can see why they wouldn't want us to know that, right? The story of where he, you know, the Bible talks about they passed out fish and bread and multiplied it. That was an edit in the gospel of the Holy 12. It's not fish and bread, it's bread and fruit. That was my question about fish. And you just, when I, you know, yeah. Wow, it makes sense. Why would you kill something? That's got consciousness. Right, God, I believe animals see God anyway.  So, but I think they see God. I think they see spirit, the spiritual walk. I think, I think they still communicate. You know, we see pictures of Jesus holding animals and loving animals. There's a story in the gospel of the Holy 12 where he sees a kitten that's like on the brink of death and he takes the kitten and he nurses, Jesus nurses the kitten back to hell to the point where the kitten's helping up and then he hands it to one of his disciples and the kitten like travels with them. It's now part of the group, you know? So it's beautiful. It's a beautiful story. So why do you think that there's, all right, we know there's a Q gospel. Why is it that what we follow today, whoever created it, why did they decide to name it Q? Well, we know there's Q clearance, right? We know in the military Q clearance is like the top clearance. I think that's what we all thought. But when I stumbled upon the Q and we know that Q has been saying it's all biblical and all the stuff's coming up. So Q basically was one of the hard copies of the stories of Jesus that people took from to write Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. So it is the hard copy. Now we don't have all of the book of Q. I actually have a copy of what we have on my bookshelf but we don't have all of it because they're trying to figure out what, again, we're working with what we got. The Vatican is not going to release that information to us, you guys. Now I believe, and I think you guys probably agree with me, I don't want to put words into your mouth, that the good guys are in control of the Vatican library right now. I believe that. And I believe that we will have access to all these books, not just from the Bible. Apparently there's big, huge books that were owned by the giants, by the Nephilim that they have. And you look at the Vatican, you see there's these gateways that are super big and these thrones, chairs that are really big. It's like a human being would never need something that big. Why was it built that way? What are they hiding? We know if you look at the Vatican, there's a room underneath the Vatican that's called the Lucifer Room. I'm not going to go into whole detail of that. I'm not talking about the congregation. I believe the congregation of everyday people like us who have been duped, their hearts are pure, right? They love God. So I'm not talking about your grandma who goes to the parish down the street. I'm talking about the people who know what they're doing and are creating evil. A lot of seminary schools, even in the Protestant churches, all right, if you follow the money, follow the money up to the top, they're owned by bad guys basically. And so they're over these hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years, they keep selling us this lie, right? And I know I grew up in the South. We, you know, the South Eastern part of the United States is mostly people of English descent. That's where they all settled. They were all Protestants. So a lot of evangelical churches here, a lot of Baptist, I grew up Presbyterian. You will have this thing happen where people will be like, well, do you believe in Jesus? Well, are you sure you believe in Jesus? Are you really, really sure? And so this gaslighting starts to happen within you, within the church. And that's a tactics used with like CULTs or high control groups where you start questioning your own thought process, right? And so you see that kind of happening in evangelical churches, I'm sure. And Tom, I'm sure you have tons of stories from like the Mormon church where we know that they've been kind of infiltrated as well. And so, you know, Tamara says something that's awesome. Like we all have to start trusting our gut as well. So I would encourage everybody out there to read as many of these Gospels that you can get your hands on. Read them multiple times too because you'll get a different feel every time and then trust your gut. Trust your gut. You know, pray about it. Trust your gut. That's the most important knowledge you're gonna have is through your intuition.  And they say, because I told you so. That's basically what the church is telling us. Why can't we read these books because I told you so? That's not an answer. That's not a good answer. Show me the proof that these are not legit Gospels. Show me that where's the proof that these are hypothetical? You know what? We should never be refused to look at anything because we're all on the same level as Jesus told us. We're all equal and we should have complete transparency, right? Yeah. Complete transparency. So when they, I don't, there is no excuse why there's a book that's hidden. As soon as I know there's a book that's hidden, it's in the Vatican or the tombs and there's, we don't know what's happened with Jesus' life from 13 to 30. That's enough for me to know that something's wrong here and I have a question to ask, well, what else is wrong with this book? You know, naturally that's what you would think. Well, what else is wrong with it?  It's a bit like in a relationship.  Well, how about the other times that I didn't catch her? Right. Right. You start to say, you start to second guess everything and you don't need, I mean, the idea that we have to have a pope, I mean, we don't in the Protestant churches, but I mean, the apostles creed that we say in the Presbyterian church say that I, in it it says, I believe in the holy Catholic church, which always confused me as a kid because weren't they like burning each other at the stake? Like why would we say that now when our ancestors were basically threatened with their lives for being Protestant and had to come to a whole new world just to be able to express their faith? Why are we submitting to that? Why aren't we taking the knee, as we say now, to this organization? Why, Jesus never said, never said in any of the canonized gospels or any of the heretical missing gospels that he is going to die on the cross for the salvation of the pope. And then the pope will then decide who is worthy to speak to God. Never said that, never said that. He said he's doing it for Nick, for me, for Tom, for everyone, equally, equally. Why is it that the average person will have stories of angels, of seeing angels? You know, of seeing these beautifully? If we weren't valuable enough to be on the same level as the perceived pope, which we know, I mean, if you're on this channel, you know that Pope Francis is not, he's not the same faith as us, let's just put it that way. Of course it's not the same faith as us. And I think the most important thing is that we have a clean conscience and we are looking for the truth. That is enough. God knows we love the truth. You're serving others.  When we're in the late 90s, they had those bracelets, what would Jesus do? You know, those bracelets. First of all, Jesus would not put anything over his face right now, nor would he take them. But he also would be very kind. He's always very, very kind to everyone. Even to Pontius Pilate, you know, you see this in the Bible, you also see in the Gospel of the Holy 12, where Pontius Pilate was grief-stricken. He did not want to execute Jesus. He knew that the rabbis were jealous. He knew, but he had to do it because of his place in government.  This has to happen to complete the prophecy. And he forgives Pontius Pilate. So even the man that was sentencing him to experience, remember guys, he was in a human body. He experienced the same type of pain, physical pain that we would experience in that situation. It's not like he didn't feel it because he was God. He was in a human body with a human nervous system. And the fact that he could stand there knowing what was about to happen to him and forgive the man who was going to orchestrate it happening. Like, that's powerful. That's a powerful place of love and compassion. And that's where we should be. You know, if we're following Jesus, if we're following this faith, we should be that way as well. Stand up for yourself. But treat every human being with love and compassion the way Jesus did, especially the way he treated Pontius Pilate. Absolutely. Tom Numbers, you've been quiet.  Is that you want to tell us numerology-wise? Yeah, so there's some things came up. So you asked the question, why Q? Why, you know, why is it called Q? And I don't actually know the real answer to that, but there were some things that came up with that question that you asked Price, Nick. So 17 obviously is Q. If you do one plus seven, that's comes to eight. Eight is the eternal infinity number, the resurrection number, the wealth number, the Chinese wealth number. Obviously, two eights is Trump, 88 Trump. But if you spell the word 17, it comes to 109. And 109 comes to Diana Spencer. Comes to Jack Kennedy. It comes to Parliament as well, which is quite interesting. Comes to the day Saturday. Saturday is about to the future. Next Saturday night, we're going back to the future. And also, if you spell the word one, which is 34, that's DJT, it's also free, it's also dark. And then seven is 65. Add those together. That comes to 99, which is Patriot, which is Rapture, which is Jupiter, which is Judgment Ascension. So there's a lot of codes numerically within Y17. And even if you just think of it as a circle, which is eternal, never ending, but then there's a line that cuts it. So it's almost like kind of divide between perhaps this mortality, but also eternity as well. There's a distinct line, but there's also the eternal element to it as well. And there's probably a lot more reasons of YQ, but I don't know exactly why it is. But there's some of the things that popped up. Bryce spoke about the book of Q. So if you do the numbers on the book of Q, that is 33, which is Dawn, which is Magic. Book is 43, which is a wife. She spoke about the wives of Jesus. Also, Todd, her partner is 43, the word of is 21. That takes you to 97, which is Kennedys, which is Crypto, which is Thursday. But if you add the letter Q, which is 17, that takes you to 114. 114 is Trump card. It's also Keystone, and Keystone is like the area or the village just below Mount Rushmore. And we've always been told about in the Q drops about Keystone. And also Bryce spoke about Christ being in Egypt for a period and also India. The word Egypt is 73, but the flip side of that, India is 37, which is also Bryce. But if you add 73 plus 37, together it comes to 110, which comes to president, but it also comes to the Christ. It's quite interesting how Christ was in Egypt, but also in India, in some of the places that he was in, but you add them together, it comes to 110, the Christ. And Mary Magdalene, so Bryce was talking about Mary Magdalene at the beginning. And Mary Magdalene, Mary is 57, which is England, which is Tesla. Magdalene is 62, which is Queen. Also Nicola as in Nicola Tesla. So Mary Magdalene literally comes to 119, which is Nicola Tesla, and it's also redemption. And there was another one I did here, whereas you also spoke about freedom. Bryce was talking about freedom. Freedom is 66, which is also women. And she spoke as well about reincarnation. And that's something that's come up for me during this whole kind of journey of 2020 and 2021, but the word reincarnation comes to 141, which actually comes to looking glass as in the technology for future, the past, et cetera. It also comes to Tom Bush, and also I obviously like that one, but it also comes to I Am the Storm, and someone I've got to know in the last few weeks is a guy called Michael Prozman, who goes by on Telegram. He's got a channel called negative 48, and he taught me that one, and he knows a lot of numerology. So I'd recommend people to have a look at him and his work. And also Mickey, Mickey Klan, who we all know, she's got a lot of great stuff out right now as well. And interestingly enough, if you do Michelle Klan, Michelle comes to 67, which is reset. Klan comes to 52, which is Earth, which is heart. They add those together. That comes to 119, which is also redemption, Mary Magdalene, Nicola Tesla. So it's interesting that how a lot of us in the community have really powerful numbers on the board as well. And yeah, this is an interesting one. So you spoke about the 777 books that they say that there are in the Bible. So 777, people know this, that President Trump was inaugurated on the 20th of January, 2017. And that is 70 years, seven months, and I think it's seven days or seven weeks since he was born in June 14th, 1946. So there's a 777 there, and 70 is the divine number. The word seven, as I mentioned earlier, is 65. But if you do three sets of 65, that takes you to 195. President, well, Donald Trump is 185. But if you do 195, that comes to redemption of currency. And it also comes to a physical landmark. And I did a little mini episode on this a few months ago. But Victoria Embankment, so right next to parliament in London, houses of parliament. Interestingly enough, houses of parliament comes to 217, which comes to Bryce Elizabeth Watson. It comes to Tom Sidney Bushnell. But houses of parliament is 108, which is Twilight, which is, yeah, hoverboard as well from Back to the Future. Jack Edward Kidd as well. But if you add parliament, which is the 109 part, which is 17, comes to 217. But the Victoria Embankment, 195 redemption of currency comes to one of my, well, pretty much my favorite, film director is a Q director, is Christopher Nolan. His name comes to 195. But the interesting thing as well with that in terms of the redemption of currency is you've got River Thames. So River Thames actually comes to 138, which is Donald Trump. And also comes to the word re-evaluation. But it's right there, the Victoria Embankment, exchange of characters right next to it. So all of these things have been put in place for this great biblical, vernal event that's gonna start to take place pretty soon. So, yeah, but some interesting numbers, you know, when you look into the numerology, it's just, it's faith enhancing. Takes you from the 3D to the 5D. And if you want facts and figures and to get kind of down into the nitty-gritty, you can't argue with the numbers. You can get many interpretations of what the numbers mean. But when you add up the numbers, they're there for people to look at, you know, and if people want to take it on board, they can. If they don't, then that's up to them. But those things have been put in place a long, long, long, long time ago. And the other thing about 17 is the beginning of my number experience really. I mean, I had one in 2015 with my cousin and with a bunker in Manhattan that I've spoken about. But at the early part of lockdown of March, 2020, I knew it was all BS, what we were being told. I knew for the three months prior, I knew it was, but I knew they were going to lock us in. I was like, this is going to happen. They're going to go through with us. So I had to figure things out like everybody else. And Boris actually said, the key to the coronavirus puzzle is to stay indoors. Now, I thought, ah, he's telling us something here. So the key to the puzzle, he's admitting it's a puzzle and it can be worked out. And if you stay indoors, I guess you can watch television or you can go online and research.  But one of the first things I discovered, I think I'd seen this before in some other context, years before, but something prompted me to look up the funeral service of Princess Diana. And if you look that up on Wikipedia, you can see it in probably other places as well. But it will tell you that her service, her funeral service, which took place in Westminster Abbey, remember the tale of the two-set issue that married in the city of London and St Paul's Cathedral for her funeral services in Westminster, which is just a couple of miles away. Interesting enough, Westminster Abbey comes to 200, which comes to Mount Rushmore. And it comes to like a thief in the night, that biblical term, when Christ would come again. But the start time of her service was 9.08 in the morning, which is a strange time to start anything. Usually start at 9 o'clock, maybe 9.15, maybe 9.20 at a real push, but not likely, but 9.08 is a strange start time. So I looked at that and I realized that 9 plus 8 comes to 17. And I didn't know about Q then, I discovered Q later. But I realized that that was a 17, and then something prompted me to look at, okay, 17 letter, that's Q. And then I realized that JFK's memorial is a big roundabout with a kind of a road going through, which is a very clear Q. Diana's burial plot on the island is a circular Q with a circle with a squiggly path through it. And even her memorial garden in Hyde Park, interesting enough Hyde Park comes to 88, which is Trump. But there in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, the water feature is an ellipse with a line through it as well, which is another Q. So I was like, okay. And then I discovered the video with JFK Jr., with Diana and how they met in Manhattan a year or so before she passed. But one of the places mentioned was Trump Tower. So I was like, ah, there's three big characters on the board here, Donald Trump, JFK Jr. and Princess Diana. And then things went from there and I was just in present Trump every day and I got the energetic, the numerical download from him. That's how it happened for me. No one sat me down and said, Tom, this is what numbers are. It just came from research and listening to President Trump and also the key of 17 with Princess Diana and her funeral start time. So the numbers are beautiful, Bryce and Nick and they're just, they're a joy to behold. And if people wanna learn more about it, I've got things on, you can see in the links, but also I'd encourage people to perhaps tune into the negative 48 channel and listen to Michael. Mickey's on there a lot, I'm on there a lot and others like Tiffany 777 and Sabrina Goddard. There's a whole team that are really very good and very well versed in numbers of people wanna upgrade their numerical understanding. I would suggest people go to that telegram channel and join and listen. And it's on very regularly, but it's very profound stuff. So. Well, Tom, thank you so, so much. We are running out of time, but in Tom and Bryce, it's been absolutely wonderful having you both on. Is there anything that you'll both like to say to the viewers before we finish, Tom, you go first. Well, thanks, Nick. It's a pleasure to see you again, buddy and to check in with you. And yeah, just, I know I usually say this, but just hold the line. We're getting close every day. We get close to the finish line and be prepared as President Trump has kind of alluded to. Janine has made reference to that. And just by pure mathematics, we're getting closer to it every day. We don't know exactly when, but just get up our lines, get ready, and it's coming. And it's gonna be more amazing than we could possibly imagine. So, hold the line. Keep the faith, everybody. Thanks, Nick. Well, thank you, Tom. And over to you, Bryce. Yeah, thank you so much for having me on, Nick. And I'm gonna tell you guys again on my channel, Esoteric Atlanta on YouTube. On Wednesdays, I post a new reading from one of these missing books. So if you go over to my YouTube channel and you look at the playlist from the Dark Outpost on Tuesdays from one to 3 p.m. on David Zublick's channel, which is not on YouTube, we read through it live and discuss it. But Wednesday, I do a recap. So you can see all the books that we've already read through and you can listen to the reading. I read it and we do commentary on it. And I've got some videos on Constantine and all that, if you like the history of that on my channel as well. I'd love to have you guys. I'm not an expert at this. We are all learning together. Where we go one, we go all. We're all just digging through this together. So thank you again, Nick and Tom. It's awesome seeing you guys. Hold the line. We'll get to see each other in person soon, hopefully. Absolutely. Hopefully sometime in Mar-a-Lago in the future, you know, we could maybe set that up. Well guys, thank you so much. If you send me your links, I will gladly put them below in the description so that the viewers can go and have a stalk. Okay. All right, you take care. I love you all. Bye. Bye.


Hey guys, welcome back to another video. So today I'm going to be doing another mod showcase. This time we're doing a mod inspired by Satou Kazuma from the anime Konosuba. So what we have here today is a costume that has a white tunic with grey sleeves and he has a traveler's hood that is colored green with a yellow outline similar to how Kazuma dresses inside the anime. And I thought this would be a cool mod so I had a Komodo over at Nexus Mods. I requested this from him and he really delivered. It's a nice mod so we'll do a quick little showcase. It looks pretty cool. So if you are a fan of the anime Konosuba and you like the whole fantasy thing and you want to kind of dress up like Kazuma, you could definitely get this. This is the closest thing we can get that at this point. And the first thing I thought when I saw that hood was, man, that looks a lot like the thing Kazuma wears and I thought it would be a great idea to color it to look like that. So yeah, let's hop on the horse and see how it looks on there. Even though Kazuma's never rode a horse in the whole show, I don't remember him doing that. Yeah, it's looking pretty good to me right now. So yeah, let's see how it looks inside battle. So first thing we'll do is we'll do a normal battle right now. We'll do a classic camera and see how it looks like that. Some Fright Bulbs here. All right, and it looks pretty natural. He looks pretty good in that costume. It works. So yeah. So yeah, there he is standing and he looks pretty good. I like this mod and how it turned out. I'm definitely going to be using this one because I'm a big fan of the series and I just like Kazuma's outfit a lot and the green hood and everything. It's very iconic even though it's very simple, you know? About 250 battles or a reward. So yeah, he looks pretty cool. So yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed this little showcase of the mod. It was a short one, but I just want to show it. I thought it was a pretty cool mod. So yeah, if you want to see some more Dragon Blast mods, be sure to subscribe and I'll see you guys next time.


So the talk is called The Abstractions Adequate to Chinese Historical Phenology. To start with a quick glance at the philosophy of science in Chinese Historical Phenology. And the way I got to this is basically the question that I'm interested in today and that I think the project is interested in to some extent is to what extent are differences in Chinese reconstructions, methodological differences, which then boiled down to differences in the philosophy of science, and then to what extent are the differences of how to analyze a particular poem or something like that. So it is a contentious business, Chinese Historical Phenology. There are disagreements, and Baxter and Sagar explicitly promote a paparian philosophy of science. And their critics reject this. So Schüffler, but actually basically all of their critics one way or another say either they're misusing this paparian methodology, or the problem is that they're using it. And so let's call them Baconians. So they're empiricists. So we have the Baconians, the empiricists, and then the paparians where the term that would correspond with empiricists is hypotheto-deductivists, which is not a very nice term. So that's why I'm going with the Baconians and paparians. And once I got started on this, you start having to read these people like Popper and Bacon and whatnot. So somewhere I would like to actually think more about philosophy of science as, let's say, how the philosophy of science has been consumed by Chinese historical phenologists and maybe what it says about how they work and maybe make my own recommendations about how we can maybe communicate better, but I'm not going to do that today. It's too big, too complicated. So I'm just going to jump straight to my philosophy of science. I'm a Marxist. So let's look at Marx's philosophy of science. So in capital, he says, in the analysis of economic forms, moreover, neither microscopes nor chemical reagents are of use. The force of abstraction must replace both. So I think it's clear this comment could be about any social science that we use abstraction in our methodology. That's from capital. And then from a contribution to the critique of political economy, he actually discusses the history of economics from this philosophy of science perspective. And this is a long quote, so forgive me for that. But he says, OK, the economists of the 17th century, for example, always started out with the living aggregate population, nation, state, several states. But at the end, they invariably arrived by means of analysis at certain leading abstract general principles, such as division of labor, money, value, et cetera. As soon as these separate elements had been more or less established by abstract reasoning, there arose the systems of political economy, which start from simple conceptions, such as labor, division of labor, demand, exchange value, and conclude with state, international exchange, and world market. The latter, which is from abstract to concrete, is manifestly the scientifically correct method. The concrete is concrete because it is a combination of many objects with different destinations, i.e., a unity of diverse elements. In our thought, it therefore appears as a process of synthesis as a result and not as a starting point, although it is the real starting point and therefore also the starting point of observation and conception. And then to end, by the former method that's going from the concrete to the abstract, the complete conception passes into an abstract definition. By the latter, abstract definitions lead to the reproduction of the concrete subject in the course of reasoning. So he's promoting, and this is the famous phrase, the ascent from the abstract to the concrete. So then the first thing we need to do in our scientific enterprise is identify the correct abstractions. So that's why the talk is called The Abstractions Adequate to Chinese Historical Theology. So in terms of this methodology, I want to look at two case studies before getting to Chinese Historical Theology. And I look first at mathematics. And in this methodology, we're talking about a synthesis of a Baconian moment of identifying the abstraction, and then if you like a Popperian moment of applying the abstraction in the reproduction of the concrete. And to speak in Hegelian terms, I think that Marxist philosophy of science is the synthesis that comes after the thesis of the Baconians and the antithesis of the Popperians. So OK, so I looked at mathematics. We're going to look at the relationship between integers and rings. And then at least in my mind, then we would also look at the relationship between the reels and fields. But I can only force so much algebra on you. So I leave that as homework. So we'll look at the integers. So what are the integers? We all know the integers from childhood. They're the positive and negative numbers, if you like. So what are the integers? They're a collection of things, things like 0 and 2 and 17 and minus 25. And they have two operations, addition and multiplication. OK, so now we're just going to sort of we're pretending to be naive. We're like, OK, there are these things, the integers. There are little poise. We're going to play with them and see how they work in a very inductive, empiricist way. And so what do we find out? We find out that 2 plus 3 plus 4 is the same as 2 plus 3 plus 4. They're both 9. And that is the principle of associativity. And then we also find out that 2 plus 3 is the same as 3 plus 2, which is 5. And this we call commutativity. Then we have the observation that 2 plus 0 is the same as 0 plus 2. That's just commutativity again. But then we get 2 back out. So basically, if you add 0 to something, you get the same thing back. That means 0 is an identity element. And then we also observe that there's something called an inverse element, which is basically for anything, like 2, for instance, I can find a thing negative 2 that will sum to the identity element. So you can always pair things off in order to get the identity element. And then I will more quickly whiz through the properties of multiplication. So we also get associativity. We also get commutativity. We also get the identity element. But we don't get the inverse element, right? Because then we would be looking at the rational numbers and not at the integers. But there's one last principle. So yeah, we do get the identity element. Now, one last principle that I haven't touched on, which is how do we bring multiplication and addition together? And it's this. It's that multiplication is distributive over addition. This sounds technical, but you know it. And you've known it since fifth grade. So 2 times 3 plus 4 is the same as 2 times 3 plus 2 times 4. And they're both equal to 14. OK, so that was all just reminder from grade school math. How do the integers work? But now, having done that, having done our Baconian business, we can move on to do the paparian business, where we turn those observations into sort of biots, sort of abstractions that are methodological assumptions. So what's a ring? A ring is a set of elements with two operations, addition and multiplication. And here, addition and multiplication should be just understood as in quotes. There are two operations that we're calling addition and multiplication, where addition is associative commutative and there is an additive identity and additive inverse, and where multiplication is associative, commutative, and there is a multiplicative identity, but not necessarily, at least, a multiplicative inverse, and where multiplication is distributed over addition. So just in terms of the logic of my argument, these start as observations about how the integers work, and now they become a definition of what a ring is. And then we just observe that there's lots of things that are rings. There's 0 all by itself. I leave that to you. You can think about 0 plus 0 is 0. 0 plus 0 plus 0 is the same as 0 plus 0 So it's just 0 all by itself that fills these properties. And then also, the integers did. That's no surprise, because we define these properties based on integers. But then we also have things like the integers modulo 4, which basically just means just the numbers 0, 1, 2, and 3, where 3 plus 1 is 0. So you can think of it just going in circles. It's like you're doing, if you only had four integers, you could still get all those properties out of it. And then I mentioned the Boolean ring just because maybe some of you have heard about Boolean algebra, which is logic. It's like things with P and Q. And it's also the operations of set theory, which are isomorphic with Boolean logic. So some of you might have heard of that. But then there's lots of fancy stuff, things with polynomials and piatic numbers and whatnot. So it's just to say, now that we've started from our abstractions, we can explore the concrete, not that any of these things are particularly concrete, and see that, oh, the integers are just one sort of beast in the zoo of rings. OK. So that is, I'm saying, going from rings to integers is the ascent from the abstract to the concrete. So I think that's the methodology that I want to use when doing Chinese historical phonology. So the question is, what abstractions should I use? So in order to actually, we can look at historical Chinese phonology for abstractions. But I think for clarity of presentation, I'm turning instead to the decipherment of Egyptian. And I would, with equal fun, like to do the invention of writing in Samaria. So one is sort of, we as modern understanding what the ancients were doing. It's sort of a movement from writing to sound. And then the other one is, if I want to write something down for the first time, how do I do it? A movement from writing, sorry, from sound to writing. It's also sort of forward in history. So I think these two contrast nicely. But I don't have time to do Samarian. So I'm not going to do it. Yeah. But now, a look at the decipherment of Egyptian. So it turns out that the Egyptians put proper names in cartouches. And this fact, which initially was just a conjecture, is what really allowed the decipherment of Egyptian. And although the Rosetta Stone is the most famous object in terms of the decipherment of Egyptian, because it has Egyptian and Greek on it, actually the Philae obelisk is what proved decisive. And actually, something about just a side note on British colonialism. The Philae obelisk is extremely important document for the decipherment of Egyptian. It's just sitting in some guy's yard where it's been sitting since his family bought it from Egypt. OK. So this is the name Ptolemy, as it's written on both the Rosetta Stone and the Philae obelisk. So this is our starting point, which is we have two bilingual inscriptions. They both have Ptolemy and Greek on them. They both have the same thing in a cartouche. So it's probably the name Ptolemy. And then we just force Ptolemy. We say, OK, this must be pronounced Ptolemy. And then we can say, OK, maybe the square is a P, and maybe the little half circle is a P. And now that's our starting point. And this is all, this is actually how Champollion deciphered Egyptian. So it's not a thought experiment. It's actually like how we did it. OK. So then on the Philae obelisk is another name, which from the Greek inscription he could figure was Cleopatra. And then just notice that we've already got here the L, the E, the O, and the P in just in a different order. So if you just looked at this and said, OK, I'll throw in it. I think you've got that game show in the 80s, like give me an L or something. So you were given L, E, O, and P. And then you've got Cleopatra in the Greek. So then you sort of force the rest of it on there. And then this is what you get. So just spell that out. So Ptolemy occurs on both objects spelled the same way. The four signs are common to both names, L, E, O, and P. And then also both instances of A are written the same way in Cleopatra. It says eagle, right? So that like, oh, Cleopatra has two O's and there are two eagles. So probably that's an A, OK. But then notice that the sign T in Ptolemy and the sign T in Cleopatra are written with two different signs. So maybe you say, OK, maybe things aren't going so well. But Champolion said, ah, who cares? So and then I will sort of say this is an act of abstraction, right? He's ignoring the difference because he's like, well, they're both T's, I know from the Greek, yeah. And he assumed they both had the same value T. This is this is wrong. Yeah, like now we would say one is a T and one is a D. But one point I want to make is it's wrong in a very special sense, which was a necessary mistake. Science could not have made progress without this abstraction, right? OK, and then we look at Alexander. So Alexander Ross, I tell you because the S is relevant on the filet obelisk. And if we just look at it using the letters we already know, so far we have A, L, S, E, T and R. And then these three question marks. Yeah. So then Champolion guessed, I just mentioned that. We have these letters already. And then Champolion guessed that these are K, N and S. Where N is the only new letter, yeah. So so so this is an interesting sign of, you know, progress in the settlement. We're getting to the point where we're not getting, you know, the number of new letter of new sound values we're getting is going down. But then he has to introduce more of these transitive relationships among signs so so that we have two ways of writing K that are like the sort of boop thing and the bull thing. And we have two ways of writing S, which are the sort of, you know, bishops, whatever it is, staff thing. And then this thing is actually a bolt over a door. OK, so and then. I mean, I haven't really gone into the Egyptological literature, but it sounds like it seems like in some cases, most cases, we know these are also wrong again, but in the case of the S, it's not so clear. Yeah. So maybe the Egyptians did just have more than one way to write S. Yeah. So yeah. So some of them turn out to be wrong, but wrong in a kind of necessary way, sort of logically and historically necessary abstraction to make. And I think that's the way to think of it. It's not a mistake. It's an abstraction. Yeah. And then as we progress in our science, we go from the more abstract to the more concrete. So now that Egyptian has has gone further, having existed at this more abstract level, it can fill in these details. Yeah. OK. So what are the abstractions that we use methodologically in deciphering Egyptian? I think they are alphabetization, which you can think of as a function f sub a that maps letters in Greek into letters in Egyptian. So, for instance, F of T is this symbol. So and I'm using Roman letters more properly. I should use Greek letters. I should say F of tau or something. But, you know, I thought it would just be more friendly if I use the Rome letter and then F of P is the square and so on. Yeah. So that's one abstraction we have is this process of alphabetization, which is a map from Greek into Egyptian. And then we also have another abstraction, which is transit transitization, which is a function like F sub T, which maps Egyptian back into Egyptian. And this, for instance, brings us from the sort of mound to the hand. Those are both T and it brings us from the, you know, the foot to. This isn't actually a foot, but I'll call it foot to a bowl. That's K and the sort of staff to the doorbell. That's S. Yeah. But so it's so in the one case, we're identifying, you know, characters in different alphabets. And in the other case, we're identifying characters within the same alphabet. And I think just if we if we step back, I showed you, you know, how I'm calling it, if we step back, we said, what was he doing? He was making these two moves. Yeah. And I think these are the two moves that we should allow ourselves in, well, in historical phenology in general, perhaps, but let's say in Chinese historical phenology. So now I've got my my tools, which I think of as like the geometry, his tools are a straight edge and a compass. And then you say geometry is whatever you can do with that straight edge and compass. And here in in the sort of philological study of historical phenology, you know, our two tools are our alpha alphabetizers and our trans advisors. So so in the Chinese context, then alphabetizer is a map from something that's not Chinese. Yeah, some some alphabet of letters, if you like, it's not Chinese into Chinese. And the trans advisor is some map from inside the Chinese writing system to somewhere else inside the Chinese writing system. OK, so now I will just go through yeah, some examples, right? So now I'm going to try and move from the abstract to the concrete. I should gesture the other way, right? Is an ascent from from the abstract to the concrete. OK, so and I'll do these each, which is, say, alphabetizers and trans advisors in sort of historical or I'll do sort of a Joe dynasty, Han dynasty. And then if you like, sort of middle Chinese period. So first loans in and out of Chinese. So the word for chariot in Chinese, at least I think comes from not Sanskrit, but Indo-Aryan, but I give you the Sanskrit form. So that's, you know, if I allow myself to associate those two words, then I've also created a map from from that phonology to that those those characters or that character. Right. And then similarly with Tiger, Tiger is I think what we can say with confidence borrowed from Southeast Asia somehow as a word. So I give one as an example. So one has club. And back to Mr. Carr, we can start up. I think actually I have another paper just about the work of Tiger. I think you can get them even closer looking together. But but I don't want to use my reconstructions, right? I want to use Baxter and cigars reconstructions for for sort of consistency and clarity. So anyhow, those that's that's a sort of Joe dynasty, if you like, alphabetizer. Now, if we look at a Han dynasty, alphabetizer, we have Indic Buddhist Indic words being written in Chinese. So for instance, Varanasi, we write with these characters. So that's a way of alphabetizing, you know, those characters. And then also a canista. Yeah, so and then this time I've given Schuessler's Han dynasty reconstructions just just as a kind of visual aid, right? The principle is directly between whatever the the non-Chinese thing is and the Chinese characters. And then I'm not really going to talk about it today because it's a bit of a complicated matter in its own right. But the alphabetizer par excellence in Chinese historical phonology is, of course, the rhyme. Tables, yeah, so not the rhyme books, but the rhyme tables because they give information about articulatory phonetics for particular characters. They say like, you know, this character had a voiced veeler fricative as its as its onset. Yeah. So quite explicit phonetic information in the rhyme tables. OK, so now moving on to to transit advisors. We have in the Joe dynasty, we have phonetic series, which you should all be familiar with now, because this is what the James is talking about. So we have a character used as a phonetic component of another character. So that creates a map from one character to another character. It's a transit advisor. Right. And in terms of my choice of word, transit advisor, it means if I already associated one of the characters with the pronunciation like mea, then somehow it doesn't mean it's exactly the same pronunciation, but somehow the other characters that participate in that transitive relationship are associated with that pronunciation. Right. And then from the Han dynasty, maybe like something like a pair on a mastic glove. So here we have this is a quote from a commentary quoting an earlier commentary, because this this gloss is due to his works are not preserved. They're only preserved in quotations. But anyhow, so this guy says due to read this character ball as Paul, which and then poor means a ball rush with better leaves. OK, so these these glasses are like, you know, I sometimes say like just an example, right, you say, what does what do you mean in French?  Right. So this attempt of the of the of the Han dynasty philologists to come up with a word that shares both sort of somehow the semantics and the and the the phonology. So anyhow, that's a transit relationship, right. It says associate this character with this character. OK, and then moving on to the sort of middle Chinese, of course, we have things like a bunch of chains.  And so you can create a transitive relationship between different characters with function. And so, like, say, just returning to what I was I was sort of presaging a moment ago, the Ryan books are transit advisors. They're not alphabetized. And I think that's an important thing to to recognize that, like, Ryan books are only giving you equivalence relationships among Chinese characters. And the Ryan tables are the things that allow you to fill in those equivalence relationships with phonetic information. OK, so now, you know, you are asking yourself, when is he going to talk about graph theory? OK, so so just at the very end of the talk, just a note about graph theory, which is that alphabetizers just define bipartite graph, right. So imagine that, like, I don't know, that, like, Buddhist Indic words are the red nodes and the Chinese characters that write them are the blue nodes. This is, you know, any alphabetizer relationship can be formalized with a bipartite graph. And then similarly, similarly, any any transitive relationship can be formalized with a there's not even a really word for it, but not by a part of graph, just a simple graph or a unit part type graph. And so I think it's now possible to, you know, at least dream about Chinese this the the both the source material and if you like, the study of of this Chinese historical phonology, Chinese historical phonology as the creation of this beautiful, you know, mathematical object, which is the union through time of these different bipartite and unit part types graphs. And that that gives you a way of sort of imagining, I think, more than visualizing the kind of the totality of Chinese historical phonology as an abstract object. OK, so that was, you know, my effort to find the abstractions adequate to Chinese historical phonology. Yeah, and and thank you very much for your attention. Let's say for me personally, I only came to this through Chinese by virtue of the specific challenges that Chinese characters present. Yeah. And I think it's not a coincidence that the the parallels that I found helpful were Egyptian and Sumerian, which are actually script systems that are structurally quite similar. Right. But once you have them as tools, it's clear that like, let's work. Let's say we're just talking about the historical phonology of Greek, right, where, like, you can just kind of read it. But but if you're interested in, like, how second century Greek different than sixth century Greek, you will use these two operations. You'll say, like, well, how are loan words adapted into Greek, our Greek words written in foreign scripts, you know, what kind of relationships do we get inside of Greek? Like, I don't know if the Hellenistic Greeks even, you know, rhymed or something. But but yeah, so I, you know, so I would say, like, you know, not to make it about me. It sounds arrogant, but I discovered these because of particular features of Chinese, but I think they're good in general for, let's call it his philological historical phonology. And the reason why I say that is because there's a whole new kind of historical phonology, which is reconstruction, right. And in reconstruction, I think I like to think in terms of the geometry and his two tools, right. Or actually, like, I think about like, in a lot of go in Japanese storytelling, you get to have like a fan and a handkerchief, and that's it, right. So, so what are the the tools you allow yourself? So I would say in reconstruction, you allow yourself a regular phonology and analogy. Those are the only two moves allowed in the game. And for sort of philological historical phonology, they are alphabetization and transitivization and then also like a methodological assumption that I haven't talked about here, but I think it's both sort of obvious that needs to be pointed out, is some kind of, you assume some kind of continuity to history. Methodological, right. Like, is Han Chinese the direct linear descendant of Zhou, Chinese probably not, but we assume it is in order to find out when it is not, right. And I think that that's also an assumption that's always made in historical phonology, is that you assume, you know, direct continuity through history, like, like there's a whole another direction I could go in that I'll just sort of gesture at, which is technological progress and how technological progress works. And if I can, again, sort of turn to Marx, he describes it as, I won't get it right. There's a very beautiful passage, I think it would be interesting about, like, materializing knowledge. You take knowledge and you put it in an object, a physical object, right. And so, like, I don't know, like a water mill is somehow, you know, the knowledge of how to change water to flour, changed into a machine, right. And so I think that one of the sort of glorious things about if you like digital humanities is that we need to make our methodology both extremely abstract and extremely explicit in order to teach it to a machine.  But I think that as a goal trying to teach something to a machine is a useful process for discovering, or let's say, making explicit what it is you've always been doing, yeah, at a different point. The spiral again. Yeah, exactly, yeah. And actually, there's, I mean, I'm going to, that there's this philosopher, Robert Brandon from Pittsburgh, who I think is extremely good on this, as like, you know, to the extent we can, like it's a dangerous word, progress. But to the extent we can talk about scientific progress or philosophical progress, it's the act of making explicit in words what was already somehow an implicit social practice. Similar to the kind of, oh, we discovered this for Chinese and then realize it works for all historical phonology. I think when we discovered that this is true of progress in philological historical phonology, we discover it's true of all scientific progress, right? And that's why I chose to use the example of mathematics because we think of like, I don't know, mathematics or physics as like, this is where empiricism actually works or this is where abstraction actually works. Whereas I think this, you know, dialectical model of the synthesis of Bacconian and Poparian moments is actually how all scientific progress works. And so it's sort of like, well, you know, if I like, if I can end saying something provocative, if we realize that Marx is just right in his theory of how this works, we'll make faster progress by embracing that as a methodology rather than, and that's where I'm trying to sort of, you see this sort of camp of, you know, the Bacconian, the Bacconian, the Bacconian, the Bacconian, the Bacconian, sort of screaming to each other. I feel like, you know, let's step back and figure out how this actually works. And then maybe we can move past this argument.


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What is going on fishing freaks welcome back to the channel? I bet you thought there was gonna be a table build today You're not far off, but I've run into an issue. I put so much work in it But these legs it is pungent to be honest with you This table hasn't even been in this little studio for a while I've had it outside just trying to dry that nasty stuff out of the legs Thank you to each and every one of you that commented on the last video and on my Instagram page About what to do about the legs there seems to be a big debate of Do I keep them because they're so cool looking with all the knots and history or do I replace them because they're Toxic now let's switch gears and go fishing y'all it is LFD's birthday He's ready to get out there and get after it So we're gonna take all that fishing but before we do I wanted to get into my top five Favorite mystery tackle box baits MTV has been a longtime partner on this channel I've done a lot of videos for them and right here on this channel But what I never have done is gone through some of my favorite picks ever So I thought I'd switch it up a little bit instead of doing like a slam type video and just go through my top picks of all Time from my MTV pro boxes link will be down in the description where you can get signed up for the MTV Pro box some of these are recent and some of them go pretty far back some of them You've probably heard of but let's start with one of my first picks that I ever got I got it in my box And I was like whoa, I liked it so much Contacted the company and I was like hey, I really like your hooks like I was going to make a jig head and a hook like this I would probably do it like this Anyway, they liked the video I did for them and they ended up sending me some more and I've been fishing them ever since these are Really good. These are Moner Jig heads. It's got a low profile wine tide. It's got a beefy old hook You know when I fish down here in Texas in these rocky lakes. That's what I really like I like a stout hook that I can throw 15 20 pound fluorocarbon on and then just pay Stick one right in the nose. The other thing I really like about it is they got a five-odd hook on that sucker So most shaky heads you see that's like a four or three sometimes. Ain't nobody got time for that I don't have time for that when I'm trying to catch Mondim. So I like the beefier hooks. Anyway, just an overall great product That's the enraged shaky head the flickety split. This one's made by the catch company. It's a 16th of an ounce I got this in a box and I absolutely hammered fish on it all month, you know, it's a it's a post spawn Summer baked for me. This is how I use it when the fish start getting suspended They get under those tires. They get on trees fry garter's Amazing it makes it a super easy way to fish wacky rigs. It's finessed out So when I get out there and I got to throw that eight pound line sometimes I'm not worried when I have to set the hook. It's just an easy pull in So I don't have to set it through any any plastic or wheat guards or anything So it's just a nice easy hook set. I even filmed a video with this rock Oh, so I don't tell you everything right there. I got one on this one, too. I Don't even know what to do. I got two fish. Oh my god. It's one of the most insane moments Fishing I've ever had just move on to a classic right here the whopper plopper by River to see I mean who hasn't caught a fish on a whopper plopper nowadays So if you don't have at least one of these you need to go out and get one They're really good. Number two bio spawn exo swim four-incher This dude right here if you guys have watched any of my springtime videos Especially fishing with Lunkers and stuff in East Texas fishing around grass Put this on a four-ot flashy swimmer little little belly-weighted hook with little Flasher on there. It's just a good little swim bait. It's a compact size Good colors. It's got good tail kick. It's great soft plastic quality Now let's check out something new and very unique that I was super impressed by and I have been using Thoroughly since the date I first tried it I was actually doing a review for the MTV channel where you can go check out the tips and all that stuff and I opened up these bad boys big O's Game changer lures the Eliminator and I was super impressed now I had fished this once before and it was in a totally I didn't even know what I was fishing at the time I got the opportunity to go fish with big O in Mexico But we were just using these things as spinnerbait trailers down in deep water works amazing For that if you're fishing bigger spinnerbaits a lot of drag to it But just amazing tail action But once I started playing around with this bait to try to get some tips and tactics that I could share with y'all On that video I learned that it is so much more than a spinnerbait trailer So I think the best way to fish this is like a slow buzztoad and if you go and watch the video I'll link it down below. I'm like shocked Watching these fish come up and eating it like you would see a hollow body frog Like come up and sit behind it like like a cat curious to play with it and then wow slamming it Especially in calm areas over grass or back and brash Look out child, you're gonna get bit by mom down You know that was kind of fun Let me know in the comments if you want me to go through my top five baits Let's just say ever in life Thanks again from MTV for being a partner on this channel for many years now Let's take it to the water with LFD and catch some largemouth bass Looks good. I like that wind blown point right there, too It's a beautiful morning out here with LFD It's kind of like a birthday thing for you both our birthdays are in August So be no surprise that it is hotter than 80s out here 81 degree morning, but at least we got a breeze It's the weekend. So run up in some less populated area. We're gonna see if we can get some bites Did you just have a bite right there? You dead? Yeah, on the whopper plopper. Holy cow. Okay, right on the bank All right, I'm hoping dad is gonna have one by the time I get ready. There's already a boat coming out of there We're he beat us. First thing I gotta do is get me a lure tied on here. Do I go with the top water? Do I just go big? That's one of the questions. I almost stepped on that spoon right there.  It's worth wasting some oxygen over this nice tasty meal. You have a belief I have a belief. Yes, I want to know about this belief I believe that in four to six foot of water if you buzz a bait across the top or top water of some sort that It's a it's enough water for a big fish to hide But it's also Enticing because it's right there. It's only four to six feet away. So I have a belief I like your belief fish top water and four to six foot of water. Good belief Now let's see if it works First spot I was able to produce an eight-inch or smallest fish ever on a whopper plopper That was like Like he sneezed on it about what that felt like Got him got him Pops is hooked up on the belief On the belief Breaking the ice with the belief. I think we need to do a little bit better It's the only glasses I have with me today the RT giving specials Good times You're going to catch a bigger fish than what we have right now I'm just gonna put me on a little crankbait Just to keep them fresh and honest a little series three here Delectable treat caught so many fish on in the fall and summer. Just keep seeing some boils up shallow. It's bugging me Oh, we got some good wakeboarder wake here. This is gonna stir these shad up Trigger a bite. I got a feeling there is a school of looks like crappie right off this rocks It's rocks right here.  I Believe yes, and he hosed one right there in that spot He hosed it missed it and came back Old trusty coming through. Yeah, that's how you know a bass wants a crankbait. There we go Have a nice day Dad is stuck on one of these big rocks I was gonna hold my position where I caught that fish, but I'm gonna be a good son here another wakeboarding boat Stir up our shad. No shortage of those on a Saturday. Huh dad. There's that group again It's a group of fish right there Okay, going for the old Hail Mary here. Oh God Yeah, I had one eat it on the way reeling it in. Yeah, they're feeding right here. Oh my god Get in there. I might have just found something here. Yeah Well, that's like that that one that chased me out. Oh, I got him. I got one of them Nice fish all the way through my worm. Dang it. God.  Yeah, just rig it in the middle. So I was throwing this This D now what I got in my MTB box pro box in the head. It's a totally different technique. So What I did when I used used to do with these a long time ago is just take a take the Nail this one's got a little ball on Go right in the middle and then you've got a weighted Wacky rig.  It's just this you got no head at all It's a real slick presentation and that way it's gonna sink different rig that right above the nail there It's probably only good for one fish to be quite honest with you, but that way it just sinks has a very slow Nice sink. I Love this curl color slim shake. That's a Green pumpkin pearl a couple bass that are Roaming around on the shad that are sitting high up in the water column here Right at the top. Go ahead him Absolutely had him. Oh, there's by it. You got him Yep. Yes They're all black. Oh where it goes No, it was just a dark large mouth. There's another one. Oh It's letting it sink a little bit there. Gosh, you've got a shed. Let's put him on the line See, that's what they're dead. That's what they're chasing man Believe that's gonna have to be all she wrote for today. We got chores to do we got man's stuff to do at the yards At the houses for the ladies these school of fish. Let me show you guys what was going on Just give me one second. Just gonna draw this up. It's experiment time. Hashtag always be creating This is the summertime early falls suspended scenario We got a 30 to 40 foot water column right here and we've got either some tires or some floating docks marinas Whatever it is up here. Those are often attached to the bottom by Some cables some metal cables. They're nasty. You can break off in a bunch There's probably a lot of danglers down there But what ends up happening is the shad will end up running through Eating the plankton and all that stuff the algae that's coming off all this and the bass Will suspend on these cables.  There's often fish down there. It's LFD's Berks Day You know got to take him fishing. He used to take me fishing while I was a kid and he still had a great time And I got something special for it. He loves to cook and we're gonna go deliver that present to him right now. Oh That's right OSG Killing the game on the wrap service Look at that beautiful presentation dad like it's wrackly ready That's actually a part of the present that thing. You know what he said really he's happy about What granddaughter No, just gonna fish with me. Oh, I'm kidding. That is what he said.  She's a little lion The basket is the present Yes, you don't even know yet. I had no idea I'm serious about it. Calm down Miss B Yes, it's to hold all your coals. Yes The whole coals. Yes. I don't think you're understanding. I'm not. It's a stainless top. Oh, that is so cool. Put it on.   Where's the uh, I think you put it on backwards Dad that was a nice shad you caught today I don't know. Wait a minute. I called him 12 pound 12 inch bass Yeah, you did that shad was bigger in the record book So just comparatively that gives her Chad was it was a nice one. It's time to celebrate LFD's partake y'all We're gonna go in here and have a good time But I just want to thank you for coming along on today's adventure and each and every adventure If you got a doubt out there put them in the outdoors It's bound to make them happy. You might even catch a big shad. Yeah Taking fishing all right y'all hope you're having a blessed day wherever you are Don't forget to subscribe right here to the channel hit the ding dongs for all the notifications and I'll see you on the next