Cheers to everybody in the independent investor community fantastic. Happy Thanksgiving to each and every one of you guys Go ahead and give yourself a little pinch Make sure you're all right Make sure you're the same person this Friday that you were last Friday We woke up this morning to a nice right to the face It's like man, I didn't I didn't get involved with the stock market for this. This is this is crazy It's okay. You come to independent man. I make you okay. It's okay We come and talk about The stock market today that was a nice kick in the pants for a short market anyway I made one buy unlike my friend who is buying everything. He bought everything today, but the kitchen sank So a little bit of a sell-off today in the market anyway, we try to add some perspective for you guys in the market we'll talk about You know what it what it means in the long term and I'll get into some things that I jotted down to maybe help with your perspective Jack and coke I highly recommend pouring yourself some libation man. It's the holidays. It's time to celebrate, baby Lot to be thankful for no doubt about that Guess something that wears on me a little bit Is the lack of perspective? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm If I go into a masseuse I just expect to have a massage and I have some pretty good certainty That I'm going to get said massage for about 60 minutes and I'm going to leave Having had my massage was very very predictable very predictable activity, right? It's amazing to me how the stock market With all we talk about and with all that we Anticipate which is important helps a lot of people because I think people hear about the benefits of The stock market man, you got to check this guy out man. He's unbelievable. Go check out youtube man He's got a half a million dollar portfolio. He's the greatest investor ever. He's got a community that's so robust man They're all wealth building That's true Tends to lose a little bit of luster when you understand the truth of the matter And that is gone. I've gone through so many ups and downs in the market weathered so many storms It's just conditioned me to understand that the market Can dole out a lot and it's forced me to understand the market as as common place Especially when there's volatile times, okay There's one day in the market. It doesn't mean anything. Okay. What you need to start to really ask yourself Is the interesting questions? I mean if if this really scared you today ask yourself, I mean Do you seriously not want to invest because of this? I look back over the history of all the corrections and all the bear markets and some really interesting, you know Jars to the market, you know last early last year. That was a tough one We're not even a year removed from that And people, you know start to think oh my goodness the the sky is falling here with one Day that's been been terrible. I think if there were something to talk about fundamentally I think we should talk about what's been going on for the last five weeks not just today Because corrections have an interesting way of creeping up on us Under the surface and there there's nobody out there that can forecast them. Nobody. I don't care who you are Doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what you think your ability is in the market. I'm just going to tell you it's impossible Okay, so what do we do? Do we not invest? Well, I can tell you one thing. We don't invest for the short term That's for sure if you're looking for short term validation in the stock market I mean just just imagine if you and your wife got into a fight After your first month and you were like, I'm done. I can't do this.  This I'm out, baby I can't can't god dang it.  I thought I loved you four weeks ago, but god dang it them I'm out.  The engine light goes off.  I gotta turn the car in. I'm out We only have so much time in this life Okay And there's a few things that we can use and then discard. Okay Toilet paper, okay use it discard it chewing gum use it discard it Okay a condom can use it discard it. Okay Stock market is one of those things that perhaps maybe even if you're just getting absolutely reamed over the coals, okay, and you're losing it or getting hammered That's investing with errands in the group here, man I said, what happened, man? Did you spring a leak on the portfolio? What happened? If you think that you can just Give up throw your hands up in the air Then you were ill prepared to enter into the game in the first place Okay, well, what did we do Ryan? I don't understand Everybody should invest. Okay But I think the amount that we allocate can really help control Our emotions down the line. What do I mean by that? I help curb mine by entering into multi buckets Multi strategies that way the strategies that are actually working I was actually up week over week the last two weeks in the tsp for example I take a little bit of comfort in knowing that those assets are working Um, even though I'm getting kicked in the nuts over and over again by Hylian and the lower the stock goes The more of a buy it becomes The more people on youtube are becoming Furious and actually starting to turn code on me, which is interesting. I don't really care You can turn code all you want Some really interesting comments coming through some people who have actually been within my community Absolutely, and they come in and they enjoy the content free of charge. It's my perspective. Okay I tell you bottom dollar with all my heart man. I am not telling you what stock to buy. Okay If you don't feel that there's conviction on my end To invest in a company like Hylian or any of the other companies that I share willingly through the channel And and even specifically the the amount of conviction that I have right obviously I have a big position in Hylian And I have incrementally less positions Depending on the holding I declare those to you guys right But I find it interesting all too often when we use this community for for good Okay, what I mean by that is it's good in so far as You've got a guy like myself who? Should not have the wealth that I have and that is duplicated thousands and thousands of times over by people who just work regular jobs And they get caught up in that mundane activity and they start to believe that they can't get ahead I can't get ahead. I just can't see myself having wealth I can't see myself having wealth and you want to know what happens over time They start to believe that they can't accumulate wealth Mm-hmm.  I don't care enough about youtube specifically. I don't care about my own agenda Okay, I don't buy 364 shares of highly on just so I can come up and talk about how awesome the company is Only to dump the stock two months later because I made something up in the earnings report That justifies me selling out of the stock Then I can come up with a series on why I need to bag on the stock And tell everybody why it's going to be a long recovery I don't get that mentality never hood It never never did never could I think a lot of people really just need to grow a sack Sorry for the females in the audience, but I think some of you guys and gals need to Man up or women up. Whatever you need to do. I don't care. Just beef up a little bit Stop being the Quintessential retail investor.  Okay, because the opportunities are so grand Okay, so what if you ill time an investment? Does that mean at that particular juncture?  Is that what needs to happen the stock market? I've said this many many times is a mechanical evolution and when I look back over my 25 years of investing I don't remember any of the bad times. I don't remember any of it I remember at some point starting my Roth IRAs Those are the pivotal milestones that I do remember And as I've expressed to the group many many times I do remember when I turned over that first $10,000 milestone in my life It was the most monumental I've said this many many times because I was rest assured god honest truth had it in my head That I was so wrapped up in that I'm a effing loser retail investor Or or a blue collar fella that I will never ever have the opportunity to accumulate wealth and when you do it It's that much more impactful right So the 25s and the 50s and eventually the hundreds and you know for me the quarter million and the 500 I knew I would get there.  I'm out. I got I got a I got a jump ship I'm out. This is terrible Captain captain the boat sink and water is coming in once you get your ass down there and try to patch it Okay, I think a lot of people man for for whatever reason I think they have some level of of entitlement going on See, here's the funny thing man I don't I don't come from money and I would presume that there's a lot of people that are Not are as well not from money and and those that are no problem too I I've met way different schools of of of people on this Some people come from money and they're the hardest working people out there Okay Some people like myself come from nothing and we have to work a little bit harder man I mean me and my wife were just talking this morning. Yeah, we have a lot to be thankful for 2021 was one of those years that I profess to all investors man You'll you'll go through bad years at 25 years The damn over half my life has been involved in financial markets. You're gonna have bad times And those bad times have the ability to persist And they have a bit ability to Stay around for a bit They sure do what do you do You really just have to gain some perspective about this and wear $10,000 of invested capital Might be really really a lot of a representative Amount for one household It might be that perspective in another household that allows them to stretch that up And go to that 25 50 100 250 And I think everybody's capable of of achieving those higher milestones But not until you mentally get it yourself like like I I can coach you I can encourage you I can provide you templates. I can provide you In-depth transparency on on my pitfalls And and deliberations and the difficult times and all that stuff Yeah, you know my pain is your pleasure In other words, you can kind of sit back and we as a group get together every Friday and we share our perspectives In the markets everybody came in and they were like we just got our ass kicked today Ryan But everybody understands That these things are commonplace in the market guys and and we just have to Have some perspective about this and and and where that perspective can be You know where one person decides to Sell out of a specific holding or completely sell out of their portfolio altogether You know, it's always interesting to me how I get the wave tops Of those of those concessions, but I never really get the details In other words people are you know, I'm throwing in the towel I'm throwing in my towel on this or that well, it's because it didn't work out for you over the short term How long have you been investing? Oh, I've been investing for since 2021 Well, 2021 for the most part has been phenomenal. Okay, it's been great. The market's been great it has not gone down and There are times when markets go down for a year over year average in the negative And these are things that you really have to understand when you're looking to apply a winning Strategy over the long term It's great to see everybody we allowed everybody to get in here We've got about 60 people in the group here happy holidays to each and every one of you guys It's really really great to see everybody. We've got a full gallery. I will try to deliver the goods today I am absolutely fired up. Cheers to each and every one of you I'll give you just a second to make your own. I highly encourage it It's a nice nightcap after a day like today Very much appreciative of of each and every one of you guys Absolutely kind of cool, man kind of cool to see the facebook post so what everybody does You know, I'm kind of one of those simpletons to be honest with you We made our turkey yesterday with three ingredients and one of them was water But the cast iron pot that we have cooks it like to perfection. It's unbelievable We cook our chicken the same way and uh, man salt and butter and and uh, and water were very simple people and uh It was a great great great dinner here. Just had the Immediate family here. You know, it was really cool, man. Really good stuff and You know, it it helps keep those things in perspective as well But tonight is devoted to Stock market talk. We accept the goods with the bads You know, we don't cry about spilt milk here. We do acknowledge it. It was kind of a kick in the pants today down 900 I don't even know what the catalyst was. I heard something about an oil war I don't know if i'm wrong or right there. I don't know. I don't pay much attention to that anymore I've become much more passive with my program I don't know if that's been a good or a bad thing. I've established a lot of basing positions This year that just have not materialized. It's really Been been tough. It's been tough on me this year. That's fine. We'll enter into 2020 2022 ready to fight the good fight And advocate for that long and hold and see it through for sure And that's the only way to be that's what i've learned so many times And really just to be in this position. I i i'm really just looking to lean on this And pursue other opportunities while the portfolio is working You know, i'm really aggressively looking at exploiting a few other Opportunities that i've had through the independent investor channel, you know, I want to thank all the vipers as well I did send out a solicitation there To to to re up your subscription So that's in the the the shared thread there. I would encourage you to do that That's just to to wash the cost of the actual website I do enjoy that but it's kind of like a nice support I thank chris for helping support that initiative a little bit if I can get a little bit come back on that It'll help the wash on the monthly subscription that I pay to maintain the website So very thankful for all the discussion this year 2021. I learned a lot And hopefully you guys feel the same You know, I've had a few a few guys reach out to me And talk to me about how many highly on videos i'm putting out through the channel I know there's going to be some people that are that are concerned about it I I just look at it different me man. I do when this thing goes back up to seven eight dollars I'll stop And this is where a lot of people started buying the stock and on the last time it dipped down here It proved to be a buying opportunity now. Is this a buying opportunity? I don't know It's only time will tell when either it's up at seven eight dollars It's gonna actually float and I think what I have Really find interesting is that everybody's calling 2022 as a wash As they step toward what it is that I feel like they're stepping toward with regard to their commercialization The stock market's not going to allow you to do that Okay And my thing is I wanted to be in on the ground floor of this company and I believe that I am Okay, and I'll be there when those things materialize. It's just that simple So for me, I had somebody ask me Ryan. What's the right entry for highly on and I said anything between five and 10 Sorry to be a smart ass, but if you stop and you think about it It kind of talks about this whole like anything in between Five and 20 is irrelevant. It doesn't matter. I'm not investing in the stock to sell it at 20 I'm not I'm not selling. I'm not selling at 10. I'm not selling at 50 either. Okay, so What does it matter right now if you have your conviction? You're entering into the stock, right? Do do the law probabilities? What is the probability? Everybody's saying that the good news is going to absolutely stop The progress toward product validation is going to stop We will not continue on the trend of good news 2022 will be a bust And that the long road to recovery is going to be just that Quoting my friend park paul cardeau who I love his commentary. I really do but the these folks that are selling out of the stock right here It's it's interesting and it's speaking from a position of convenience To come on to a youtube audience Not one day after you've sold the stock and start talking about all the bearish thesis Around the stock that just doesn't work for me. It would have worked for me Three months ago Would have worked for me when the stock was at nine dollars start to talk about the bearish thesis and how the stock based on your analysis Fundamental and technical is going to drop the price to 675 now. You're worth your salt But like I started to talk about it at the top of the live stream Nobody has that ability or capability anyway, right? So it's a futile effort to sit there and say, okay Now i'm going to jump on this bandwagon And i'm going to talk about how the stock is going to have such an incredibly bad time When that when the conversation if you do have long-term conviction Is to actually to buy the stock at these levels if you don't like it to buy the stock outright Buy some cash secured puts to the downside. I just bought some long 2024s today at seven bucks, right? I bought two contracts very very simple $800 contracts very very simple at what I thought was the lowest price of the day right at the low I bought two very simple add to my existing five. I'm actually up in those contracts right now Okay, those are the most lucrative. I think there were whole numbers So I had to either do seven or eight. Obviously the price wasn't below six So my option was seven right in the middle Mm-hmm fantastic Investing with erin's in the house. Stephen. I agree. We have been waiting for the last decade for small cap Value to perform better. It will happen Yeah, I agree. It's one of my favorites. I like that VBR that's a good holding That's a really good small cap holding. Let's jump into the portfolio. Take a look at the damage. Um, we were down Pretty significantly, but I I think it's interesting if I had looked at at these At any time During the market fluctuation this week. I would have been like, wow, this is really terrible. I'm out So 90 thousand 91 thousand here This fluctuated any anywhere between the high eights and the low nines today Settled out at about 91 No changes here. I'm good I I cannot justify Making any type of rash moves, but this is down for the third week in a row. I believe We're really just getting crushed and this is the third swoon that I'm taking in my big portfolios I'm on about a 30 thousand dollar range Back and forth and this is the low end again for the third dip This is it is what it is I just can't catch a break this this year and I don't know how long it's going to persist But I've lived through these before And they are sometimes overdue For a correction to the upside and sometimes they happen when you least expect it And so I stopped expecting it a long long time ago And I and I do other things with my time, which is exactly what I'm doing Buffering some of these losses and other capacities putting money to cash It's the only account that I do not declare to you guys on the live stream And it helps buffer some of these losses. I don't want to sell out of these companies I like every company in my portfolio They're coming off a little bit and You know for you guys that are are looking to take a little stab yet in the market Today would have been a nice day to pick up, you know 10 shares of the voo if you were just starting out in the market boom buy right into it But nobody does that nobody does that if there are people out there that are like, I did it, right? You can put your buy up in the in the thread here, man, but I know how Unnerving it can be to buy into a market like this. I totally understand But uh, here's my roth. Uh, excuse me roth one. This is my wife's Mm-hmm. Nothing's changed. I've held true on this all the way through 2021 There are some bright spots spots here realty income Absolutely fantastic reed the the best in the business. It's really holding the portfolio Pfizer came out of nowhere Who would have thought Pfizer's run up 20% in the portfolio just been an absolutely silent killer I'll take it microsoft fantastic I'm up in voo. I'm up in most of the small caps. Excuse me the vbk growth I think i'm down a little bit in that But the other specialty etf being q i'm up a little bit the voo obviously rolled off today a little bit But i'm still up in that very very powerful etf That voo it's very nice 3 cash in this And and I like the value mix and growth that I have in here. I'm totally happy week over week. It means nothing I just report to you guys when i'm down or up just for the fun of it It's just that simple and this is mine here flirting with that hundred thousand. I've broke the hundred thousand dollar mark Six eight times. It's gone below. It's gone above. It's gone below. It's gone above Alibaba real disappointment.  It should have never been there in the first place That was a buying frenzy in the stock that should have never happened So imagine it didn't happen We're down 35 bits and I think we're down as far as we can possibly go in the name here. Could we go lower? Yes, absolutely. We could we could absolutely go lower But imagine that the base price in the stock was 10 dollars a share Okay, we're we're down 35 percent in the name. That's how I look at it Okay, my entry is just above that because I didn't for the life of me think that it was going to sink this low But the 1130 entry on highly on is kind of what i'm sitting on right now So what does it mean to me with the stock at six dollars and 75 cents? Absolutely nothing. It doesn't mean squat It doesn't mean jack diddly squat My my problem isn't that people are selling out of the stock have been very very upfront I don't care what you do with your money. You want to sell out of the stock go ahead and sell Okay, I totally get that But when you come on and you talk to a youtube audience and you say i'm very very convicted And here's my reasons a b and c and then two months later you sell out of the stock That's something that I just cannot advocate for why you might be right You might be wrong. You might be making the right or wrong call for you I get that but when thousands of people are watching your channel and they don't know the first foggiest thing about investing It makes you seem wishy washy. Why because you are you are wishy washy if that's your application Okay, if you need to control your conviction with the amount of scale that you put in the the holding in the first place then by all means do that but Don't don't don't come and tell me because of your stock evaluation That you saw something on the q3 earnings that nobody else saw and therefore you've just got to throw in the white Throw up the white flag and sell your position off because you saw something That's absolutely given you the definitive you do not know What's going to happen with the stock nor do I nor does anybody? Nobody knows what's going to happen with the stock market as a whole you sure as hell Don't know what's going to happen with a single equity. It's just not going to happen Doesn't happen that way it will float up or float down when people least expect it Trust me. The stock is not going to sit here all day and it's not going to say hey Investors we're ready to start ramping up Sales here.  It just doesn't work that way It just does not work that way and you'll miss the train. You will miss the train Okay, i'm not telling you to buy. I don't care if you just understand my point a little bit Some of these folks are really interesting like paul I don't know how big of a position that he had But the channel that I commented on today and I know that I offended him and I didn't mean to do that But what I looked at was that he had an original position of 300 and 64 shares and probably made about Oh, I don't know 25 highly on videos really I've got 100 f and grand in the stock. I'm fine Okay, you want to define conviction? Look in my eyes. Okay, and and again, you can see here and tell me ryan I had the comment on the same channel and I swear to god if I see him on the channel I'm going to block his ass from the channel for telling me that i'm leading people astray as if i'm the shepherd Leading people astray in 2022 and that it's going to flush everybody's portfolios down the toilet really Nobody has the ability to forecast that when I do my 50 minute videos on highly on it's because I want to I'm extremely interested in the company and I think that there's other people out there who are interested the same but The presumption that I'm continuing to buy stock. That's what I was accused of look man If I want to buy stock, I'm going to buy the stock But truth be told I'm not buying the stock right here. I bought a couple options contracts today But I'm exercising my right to hold the shares.  You you want to take a vacation You've got the independent investor channel's blessing to do so. This is just how I talk to people I'm not condescending. I'm not anybody special Okay, I just come on to share what it is that I know from my perspective about the market Why because I am smart enough to identify how uniquely independent my opinion is And being uniquely independent is a lot of the reason why I've carved out success in the stock market Whereas I find that a lot of people that I see Flounder fail and they just Piss their way out of the stock market And then they want to bitch and complain and come back and start to chip away at folks like myself Who will be successful will be it's just that simple If you don't like that confidence or cockiness or whatever the f you want to call it I don't care. It doesn't matter. This is what it takes It takes an over-aggressive Abnormal application to make it if you don't want to apply that No problem. I'll still be friends with you. It's okay You have no idea the level of scrutiny that I put myself through to the rigor that I put myself through, right The in the gym at 0500 in the morning man to counterbalance The amount of aggressiveness that I'm applying right now. I'm engaged, baby I'm engaged right now. I'm in the time of my life, man Where I am looking to engage engage engage and make some of these things a reality and This is proof of reality that I declare to you every week even though we are down just a few bits anyway The m1 I dropped tonight. This here is the passive portfolio This is for those investors out there that don't really understand that single stock element It scares them. I totally understand man. Like I'm putting myself in your shoes That's why I don't understand the scrutiny like my my aim and intent is to hurt people Really that takes an awful big imagination, man Especially if you've been with me a long long time. Do I do promotional content? Yes guilty is charged Guilty is charged. You can stone me if you'd like but I make a lot of money to do so And there's should be a lot of people out there who are like, you know what Ryan? You've been doing youtube for five years. You've only got 30 000 subscribers. That's really not that much It's really not I don't get paid a whole lot to do it So I do segue my opportunity and my time to some of those more lucrative opportunities Coming on and doing the live streams one of my most favorite things to do. I do it free of charge I don't get paid for this but I love doing it So I do it and then to have it thrown back in my face in that way that I'm leading people astray Give me give me a break be independent with your application.  You really do. All right This is the passive portfolio here. This is funded and it is passive in nature This is funded with a few hundred bucks a month anyway, and this is we're growing wealth This is a two-year-old portfolio. So it'll be fun to see how this sucker grows over the years We'll continue to grow. We're going through a little bit of downtime. This is down just marginally week over week nothing too crazy Here's the dividend portfolio We chronicled this tonight. I released a video before the live stream to give you guys some insights on that M1 finance is awesome, man. It's a really really cool way of investing This is such a low maintenance way of investing I invest in this and it always goes toward the lowest sectors Or under allocated slices. It's just a cool way. This is why I do it People are like you selling people and you get make lot money Ryan. You bad man No, I use M1 finance. Hell. I have three accounts with them. What else do you want? Use it. Don't use it. I don't care Unsubscribe for me if it makes you feel better if you have some ethical hair stand up on the back of your neck Okay, unsubscribe. It's no big deal. Okay You have somebody who wants to know how to invest bring them on the channel I will show them how to set up strategic buckets. It's that simple. I will show them the different strategies in the market Why is that important? It's so that they can choose on their own It's not so somebody across from them who understands money like I do Okay, sets up a plan or or or tells somebody how to invest If they don't have the freaking first level of buy-in to the program that I'm pitching I'll put it out there. I will put the food in the trough. I will I will open the gate And I will allow you to make yourself to the trough. Why? Because you're hungry.  I'll sleep easy knowing that I provided the food. Okay. It's that simple 26 000 staring down the 30. This is the 80 stock portfolio for you guys that haven't caught any of those m1 chronicles Do it man. It's 15 minutes. You'll get an idea of the aesthetics. Hell if I was starting out man I think I would like to see something like that. That's why I come out with those to help people Understand a little bit more about the aesthetics. I had to struggle through m1 finance I quit the platform all together because I was so frustrated I didn't have any testimonial out there like mine to show that's why I do it To kind of help and soften the blow for new individuals Some people hit me up on the m1 tutorial. I just had my first one this week in a while really helped out a lot man He was awesome had some questions for me Hit me up and was like, hey, what about this? What about this? This is somebody who's trying to streamline their application They know I know my stuff So we run them through the tutorial and it just helps bridge the gap and they're more the wiser to it man Money well spent as far as I'm concerned. So is this I added this in here for the first time. This is a the bond DTF portfolio This is another account within the dividend growth. So it's separate. I keep it separate I I don't know how often I'm going to chronicle this But this is going to be some of the fixed income that I'm going to start to grow a little bit Buying into a little bit more of a traditional type of portfolio mindset some of the real surplus capital That you know, I put a lot of capital to risk and dividend growth I put a lot of capital to risk hell I put 20 of my paycheck away have done that for a long time Um, and and then the thousands of dollars that I invest strategically in the accounts every month But I really wanted to have a bond arm and that's what I've done here Okay, and we'll chronicle this it'll be kind of fun. Um, that was up. This is up tsp nicely Cannot shake a stick and this is just incredible Yep, so for you guys that have the opportunity for 401k exposure Please do so here.  That's personal investment performance factor There at the end 42.69 percent. I do not touch this. I do not compromise this. This is completely 100 percent passive 75 percent in the sm p 515 percent in the small caps and 10 percent to the international Okay in the robin hood count. We've got the vanguard's growth fund It came off pretty good today. Obviously a 900 point sell-off not a lot of places to hide Okay, you can think that your prepper bunker is safe enough From a market downturn like this.   Okay, but if you did have a new year's resolution Be it make a resolution to be different. Okay. Do something different from the crowd Do something special in your life.  You don't have to do things the exact same as everybody else Trust me. Okay Tasman We both we bull. We've got the Mid cap offering. This is the mid cap etf here This is swiss f. This is just one Kind of taking a little bit of a backseat on this one. No big deal. I think we've got about 12 000 shares of swiss f Here in this Crypto has come off obviously with everything cryptos come off 37 14 here in the eye trust capital This is just a a little bit here Very small representation of the total overall portfolio. Whatever. I don't pay a whole lot of attention to it It's kind of exciting. It jumps all over the place. Hell. I could check it right now. It could be up It could be down It's all over the place and it's 24 7 maybe it never stops. So Helps feed my fire to keep stay involved in the market anyway And the total portfolio value here today Really wouldn't have come off too much week over week, but today hurt obviously Down about 6500 anyway today total portfolio adjustment back today And like I said outside of the one contra or two contracts that I bought I did not make any stock moves today I I didn't sell everything I don't consider this to be a crash The volcano was just an analogy Stay with me It'll be okay.  Okay, you are fine Even though you went through today and you did survive You are an investor and there's a lot of people on this globe That would love to have the opportunity that you have Even if it meant losing some money like you did today think about it. Okay, it's all about perspective Certainly is let me jump in here. Some of these comments man. Some of the cats are in so jmac just dropped a fantastic video man I I'm glad jason's in here Um perspective was the gig here It's amazing to me too jason hasn't been investing his whole life. Okay. He hasn't we're friends I can say that because I followed him since he started on youtube And for somebody to have this much conviction about a stock is really really rare That's a compliment because what I'm seeing is that a lot of people I maybe been ill prepared. Look, it's interesting enough man If we had had q3 earnings, okay, and the stock went up to nine dollars We would be having this we would be having a completely different conversation Then we were having now the stock market stock market just didn't like what they heard the stock sold off That's just what happened and here we are all looking for ways to Out the the stock, you know Hey, oh my god ryan's bringing people astray man 2022. He's leading people Right right into the ocean man. He's going to lead them to write down the toilet man No, I'm not I do my thing I expect you guys to do do the same but it was a good video man He brought in some really really good perspective comparing Really what tesla went through and I remember watching all that I do and I remember looking at tesla And I remember having the mindset of I would never touch that stock Never touch it You know and and it was the very conviction that people had during that time that said, you know what?  I want to be there at the beginning Which I am and the only way that you can guarantee that you're there at the end Is if you're there at the beginning and so these folks that are selling out of it right now They may get back into the stock later. They may not I don't know and I don't care The only thing that I care about is being there in the end And what I mean by that is when these catalysts that I feel like are inevitable down the line happen I want to be there and I will and I know Jason will be there as well It's great to see you my brother. Happy Thanksgiving to you and the family. It's great to see you this evening. Fantastic Fantastic bjj says covet. Thank you. Thank you for that. It's fabulous.  I was like Really? I go to an eatery. I go to olive garden I took my kids out and and we're like you do you have to wear masks and like no, it's optional man. It's all good Jesus it just doesn't fit with my independence mentality. I've already got three three covid shots. How many more do I need? Jesus, I've opted myself up to the lab rat gods.  You know what I mean? We cruise down here. Holy freaking comments, man. There's a large gallery. I really appreciate it, man Yeah, Henry's in the house. I love the one saying they sold out and can jump back in whenever The stock market's not going to allow you to do that. It's not either. You're going to have conviction or you're not It's just that simple and it's not that way with just highly on it's that way with any company It is impossible.  It'll gap up to 13 and then everybody's going to be like Ryan is a good. He's a good man.  It's just stock market investing. Okay It's just stock market investing calm down It's just it's just money And a bet That you put on a freaking company And the bet is the company is going to be worth more in the future than it is right now It's all it is Calm down. It's okay Perhaps maybe I have bigger stones than most people. I don't know. I don't know But like I said, man, do not expect me to validate your crap And when this thing starts to move up, don't I I I don't care and people could be like damn Ryan's pretty convicted on this. I just had my brother call me this week. He's like Ryan I'm thinking about buying some highly on I'm like, yeah, I think the entry is pretty good. He bought 40 shares He bought 40 shares right on man. Like you don't have to lose your cotton pick in mind It's okay Like it's okay. Don't buy buy whatever it is man. It's all good The reason why we revolve around these topics is because we're posing options out there for people. That's it I'm already invested in a lot of stuff right. Why why didn't you buy some google? I already own $10,000 of it. Why don't you buy some amazon? I already own $12,000 of amazon Why don't you own apple? I already own 75 shares of apple. I'm good. I'm good I I want this opportunity for me and my family Okay, and I'm not investing in the stock to justify it next week Do I need to repeat myself or do you get the picture? Okay, all right I don't think I like realizing a gain on all my losses later Yeah, well I eat, you know, here's the thing man If if my conviction tells me anything this stock will be worth more in the future than it is now delays Delays are being chalked up as a reason to sell the stock right now And I think that that's a I think that's a fatal flaw In a retail application where large institutions are saying bring it they don't Emotion has no place in investing with institutions And I think we could probably take a little page out of my playbook And and and really I'm looking at you know, somebody like sherry baker who's got 85,000 shares of the company 586,000 in the company right here My measly position is is large for me and it could be life changing But some of these folks that are selling out of the company They've got a few hundred shares and they won't come in and it's just like god damn it I I saw this and you need to listen to me.   Okay Quit youtube don't do something else.  I don't care if it's next year I don't care if it's 2023 24. I don't care It's the story right now that makes sense. Okay Some guys are like, you know Ryan stop making so many highly on videos Well, right now is the time where it makes the most sense. Is it going to make most the more sense when it's at 15? Some people will they'll be like, yeah, let's jump back on the highly on bandwagon. I'll stop I'll stop. This is the opposite Right approach. Okay as it starts to go higher. It's less and less of a buy Mm-hmm It's just how it works guys It's just how it works, man People will start to get excited as this thing moves to eight dollars. They'll start buying it and they'll be like, I bought it at 650 and I I I own it at 718. I'm up 26 cents. I'm awesome.  I gotta go fantastic. Check you, Steven. Thanks for stopping by man I had to get some shout outs here. Uh, why the secret? Oh my goodness. Yeah, so the optics of this are bad It's not really that something that I'm excited about But these were pre-arranged cells and here's the thing I don't think when the pre-arranged cells were were were were put through That thomas expected that the supply chain issues were going to delay the timelines forward I honestly believed that he was betting that the stock price was going to be a little bit higher The reason why they do this is to It's to save any type of questioning with regard to the ceo Knowing information that he is acting upon in the open marketplace Ceo sell and buy stock all the time. Okay, and these were pre-arranged Remember thomas healy has been at the helm of highly on for seven years And so to sell some stock here as low as it is If it's something that pisses you off and you really feel like sticking it to thomas He's getting it stuck to him right now in that he could have sold these shares at 58 He didn't he's selling right now because they were pre determined cells To get him some money for either tax purposes. This is why they they arranged this they forecast What type of obligation or debt obligation is going to be necessary into the future? And it doesn't bother me in so far as Um affecting my own personal position in the company However, I think the optics are bad. However, I explain that and those are the facts Okay, I don't believe that he's selling the shares because he's not bullish about the company He sits right next to sherry baker who owns 80 000 as part of her package, right? Who's not selling shares? Okay But some of the original gangsters vincent cubbage and thomas healy have sold a little bit of shares I think peng has also sold a few shares. I have no problem with that. I don't there's been so much progress in 18 months with this company It's one of those things that Um, it's it's it's actually more commonplace than you think and it doesn't change my disposition about the long term in the company Somebody said that they thought he sold like 80 percent of his shares It's not even close to that It's like maybe four percent three five percent something like that The the guy's got over 30 million shares the company. Okay. I think he can afford to sell a little bit It's a good question. Thanks for bringing it up. I appreciate that Brent says to hit the thumbs up button if you wouldn't mind there's like 100 people in here And I have not broke 100 for a long long time if you want to know about perseverance On the independent investor channel. I was doing this live stream all through 2021 With about 50 60 patrons And thank you very much and thank you for those folks that are making their way to the message very The the first time or if you're an infrequent visitor. Thank you Really appreciate it. All right. Love the conviction. Sure. That's me with tesla. Sure. Sometimes it takes that it's okay It makes sense multi layers in the position I could spend an entire video which I probably will do I'll break down why it is That I justify a position like me Do I justify people out there putting a significant amount of their portfolio into this company right now? No, no, I don't you've never heard me say that and and how I get accused of that is just beyond me It's just beyond me. I know what i'm looking at and i'm not the only one Okay, I'm not the only one We had dexter reaching out to me from a drive mix Drive mix drive love drive mix whatever the new highly on channel. That's a chronicling debt mar He sent me an email. He said to share with all of you guys That he is probably earmarked. They he shared the particulars of a zoom call with with with matt debt mar who is the ceo of debt mar corporation and They are getting their Two new cng hybrids by november 30th. So good news there Again, hasn't hit the books and he has been earmarked as one of those drivers that is going to get one of the new cng Elements he's going to be sent to austin with the highly on team He's going to go over the specifics of the truck and he will be chronicling that journey Nobody on youtube has that information.  He does a real good job dexter awesome dude He's showing some field work, man. The truck's dirty. Yeah, baby. That's what i'm talking about It's not like, um, it's not like monster trucks. You know what i mean? It's not like grave digger But it's kind of cool to actually see this company that i'm invested in with their products out there in the fleet Providing that bottom line benefit that i talk about and getting dirty doing it Okay, and they've been working now for four months in the fleet fantastic Matt depmar said that thomas healy's a visionary He said that the facility in austin is state-of-the-art He said that the employees there top notch, man It's an environment that anybody out there would want to invest in not a lot of companies can say that man They've got some good things going on man and it starts at the grassroots really does some cool stuff So stand by i'll throw out the um the updates as they come through the channel He asked me to share that with you guys Tonight so uh, steven says peace. He's out. Uh, keep making videos fantastic. I will i'm not going anywhere Fantastic. Let me cruise up here Yeah, he and i see me have i see everybody Ha investors should take a life to try and learn in my opinion For sure want to strike it rich the next day is not it? Yeah, that's a thing man. It's like I could be wrong I could be wrong That's the thing is I have the maturity to admit that but but here's the thing I could make myself wrong I could have made myself wrong Any day for the last 18 months justified being wrong and I have the perseverance to See this thing to a place where I think I need to see it too and we are way premature of that And the the delay in the time frame it just is what it is. It's a delay. It doesn't mean that it's a scam You know one of the guys that's been coming in man Really really and I won't name his name because he really surprised me. He's been very kind to me over the years Some good spirited debates with me but always above board said that highly on was a scam really really That's really really disappointing for whatever reason For whatever reason Brings you to that place to say something like that Is so off base It's it's really just disappointing all I can do is chalk it up as that. All right couldn't agree with you mad cow king It's awesome. I appreciate it man. Very cool. I've been with highly on since the yep fantastic Thank you for for sharing very cool ben h's in the house Say it loud for the idiots in the back fantastic. No doubt. I I'm I got a microphone man. I'm mic'd up I can't I can't yell too much. I don't know how how my computer would pick it up, but for sure That frame of mind's in the house Never again can't revenge investing Jamie Can't do revenge investing no emotion and investing. I didn't get to share my my script I had 10 things that I was going to share with you guys, but You know, this is a really really quick Quick 60 minutes for me man. Yeah, the military is soft now Be careful I agree with you. However, um, you're sitting across from somebody right now. That's old school, baby I got salt in my blood man. Not a lot of people can say that. I sure as f do You don't believe me. I've spent many many nights on the pick many many nights, man Yes, I have I've cooked in a 10 foot swell if you can do that, man My hat's off to you. Absolutely Yeah, yes, yes, yes Uh, I love those. Yep. I already got to that. That's a lot of us run. I'm gonna cruise up I'm I just want to scroll through and make sure Okay, it's not it's what kind of bourbon do I like Rohan creek If you can find Rohan's creek, I like makers mark and makers mark is really quite good What kind of bourbon you guys like I've only tried bullet makers mark. Yeah, I really don't discriminate I'm actually drinking whiskey tonight, man.  You guys were all telling me everything was going down. So I went to the liquor store Yeah, yeah, oh you guys met the stock market. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. No, most of the liquor was half price today It was pretty awesome. I got my jack Daniels for like 32 bucks Yeah, it was pretty cool Yeah, kind of cool Oh, kind of bourbon. Yeah, there it is and kelvin's in the house. Great to see you kelvin Happy happy Thanksgiving to you and yours man and and happy holidays, man. You got a beautiful family Love you so happy and grateful. You bet. Oh, yeah, your guys are gonna just love that Um, it's the gift that keeps on giving the whole year clerk right there, right kelvin We can have a little fun with this. All right. I don't wear a suit and tie. It's okay I'm not trying to you know misguide you or you know lead lead you into the toilet. It's just here I think this is something that's worth taking a look at and I think if you give it a good honest look Um, I think you'll find that it it works for a lot of people and that's really great to hear It's the reason why I do the channel really cool stuff man Different processing uh, us alcoholics understand the difference between bourbon and whiskey. I bought both About both both but you'd you'd be a little disappointed man. I I I don't want to afford that expensive stuff I really don't but rohan creek is my favorite bourbon by far like there's no joke But um, I do I do drink jim beam. It's no big deal jim beam is fine for a cheap cheap bourbon I have no problem with that but um jack is good too. I just like I don't discriminate, baby I'd have other one with you my brother. It's all good happy holidays to you, man We're down to the nitty gritty here, man, but I do want to stay on for just a couple I'm gonna do five minutes of bonus.  Yes. Yes, it is. Yes. Yes, it is fantastic M1 is off the chain It's a cool wealth building tool and I think for a lot of people it makes a lot of sense It kind of bakes in a little bit of that discipline for you and uh, really doesn't allow you. Um, what am I drinking jack daniels? Mm-hmm um It makes a lot of sense for a lot of investors because it kind of it takes that emotional element out I just think a lot of people man. They think they have to control their portfolio more I went highly on because I read the document saw who was involved. Nobody led me Um, jason just showed me the opportunity and I made my decision I do I do give proper credence actually uh for the introduction to the opportunity Um, the exactly things have transpired the way they've transpired up to this point and that's it no more no less You know what i'm saying if jason sold his shares tomorrow No, no love lost it just um, I know he won't but the point is each and every every individual individual independent investor is just that It's its own entity and trust me when this thing starts to go north. It will be yours as well It goes both ways. All right people don't invest in the stock market just to lose all the time They don't but but but but but winning doesn't always happen at the exact time that you think it should As a matter of fact, it can stretch you really thin on your expectations And you just have to be ready for it. That's all you have to show a little bit of discipline for it, man That's it All right, I got some good comments I think here in the middle uh, you follow someone's choices and when it goes south you blame them What's wrong with those people? Oh, I you know, I think it's human nature, man I I don't you know the it doesn't make you a bad person Uh, it doesn't and I really try to help.  I've had to mute so many idiots that they just pissed me off One lady says i'm a cashier at kroger I've got 50 grand should I invest it all in highly on and they're asking the yahoo thread this advice this advice And I actually I actually believe that they're asking Sincerely, you know, like you come into a yahoo financed thread You pick the stock you're interested in and you ask a genuine question It's crazy But I don't think it's coming from a non genuine place. I don't I just think people are looking for a lot of help And a lot of answers and the more people we can help the better off I don't I don't I don't come down on people for what if I can blame me blame me Shit, I don't care. I've got tough skin.   Tell me I'm a bad guy. Tell me this and that and this and that But don't carry it over to my subscriber and community base.  No, I'm just looking to share my opinion Okay, and people need to understand what's available out there on the landscape We talk about the stuff that's commonplace all the time Why not dig a little bit deeper and talk about some of the cool things? I mean just some of the interviews that I have the opportunity to do are just broadening my perspective It's so awesome, man, and I'm just looking to share that with you guys. I know it's not popular on the channel I know it may never never will be but I love it and You know, it's just one of many aspects on the channel that I really like pursuing. All right Never follow in any but yep simple. It's just simple and not only that but you're the one Even if I have a great investment It still might not fit with you because it just might not be The type of risk profile that you're looking to place into the portfolio Right, it just might not fit. It might not fit for what you need. You might already be a multimillionaire You might be broke in either one of those capacities. Why are you looking to make a move? Why are you putting a risk on the table when you should be capital preserving? Or if on the on the contrary if you don't have any money at all Why aren't you just looking to get a value base established in your portfolio? Why are you looking to take ones that you can you know strike out or have to incur a multi-year downturn? I could do that See I'm prepared to do that and a lot of people are not I have other elements of the portfolio that are working for me okay, so You know to each his own and you're absolutely right That's not what we're looking to do We're not looking to just provide guidance to the masses and tell them exactly what they need to do what we're looking Forward to do and is is teaching them how to eat. That's it teaching them how to eat really try to drive down on the value Proposition of the investing opportunity. It's super super important. Got mats in the group here. Happy Friday getting another Thanksgiving play. I had my leftovers tonight, man for sure, man I make the I make the most killer sweet potatoes you guys would ever like they're they just they're like candy, baby They're incredible. They're super super good Hey Tonight. Yeah, sometimes I get in the zone Sometimes I sit here before and I'm like I wonder if this is going to be the one because sometimes I go through and it's kind of It's kind of uh kind of forced a little bit, you know, I love doing the live stream But when I when I get on a nerve like this, it's really good It's all natural like I could keep going for five hours You guys you guys think I'm joking wait till Hanley on hits a hundred. I will do a 24 hour live stream 24 hours Great watch watch mark my word hold me to it.  You think I've stayed up for 24 hours in Alaska Fishing pulling in nets from the open ocean in 10 foot swell cooking meals Dead tired hallucinating seeing double. I can absolutely sit in front of you guys and absolutely celebrate Becoming a millionaire because of my stock and conviction 100 24 hours to mark my word Fantastic and cruise up here. I just want to say there's a bunch of new folks. I can make my own bad decisions in the market You know, that's kind of how you live and learn a little bit, you know, like if you say well You know, I entered into the stock at the wrong time. Okay. Do I beat myself up over it? Oh, kind of I go through some deliberation to say man. Why was I so impatient? Well, I'm impatient I didn't think that the stock would dive down this far. I I didn't I couldn't have forecasted A supply chain issue and we're just gonna have to wait it out. It's just that simple those the cards we were dealt Okay, but I'm going to continue to ask to be dealt those Those hands over time as this position materializes. It's just that simple I'm invested in companies. I'm not invested in stock The pledge to the company is through the stock So it just so happens to be that I own shares in the company It is the company that I am absolutely paying attention to not the stock Okay, I believe somebody famous has said that somewhere down the line But if do you actually believe it? That's the key Do you actually believe what it is that I just said invest in companies not stock And rebecca is in the house happy Thanksgiving captain ryan's videos could pump the stock would be at 100 No doubt. Um, I I'm fascinated by the story Really? Um, I'm I'm disappointed obviously in the stock action Um, I'm looking to get this thing. I'd love to get it back up into just a respectable realm 10 to 15 bucks or so But like I said, it's going to be a different shift of mindset When this thing starts to Really have those metrics that hold that value and the stock really can help Through grants grounds well move up. That's going to be difficult to get people to hold while they're sitting on profit Is a whole lot tougher than holding when you're in the hole. Okay It's it's a whole lot easier, but once people get back up to 20 25 bucks and like dang I'm sitting on a few grand here ryan. What should I do? You know, what if what if we go back to 675? Oh There and lies the beauty of the whole thing absolutely, but Very good. What a few moments over man, but I just see a bunch of people in here that I want to get to Really, uh, haven't seen your videos videos forever. Hope you're doing good. Hey, Brody No way man.  I remember you Brody from New York, man It's so cool how I remember folks and um, it's great to see you my friend happy Thanksgiving I think a lot of people have popped their way back in and said god, let's see how ryan's aging But let's see if ryan's still just as passionate or just to scare I'm a little more refined now on youtube There's no doubt about it a lot more comfortable in front of the camera that I was before That's for sure. So I hope highly and goes to five. I'll just buy more sure sure I I don't see that happening. Um, the options market does not uh, does not Support that type of activity, but but who's to know where I mean we're we're a point 1.75 points away from that right now. We'll see it. You know, you never know For sure. Uh, I went to buy highly on in the market closed. Yeah, I know it closed early today, sarah It's great to see you I still have alibaba. Alibaba has been a real dog. Nobody talks about down 40 right You know, why isn't everybody, you know, beating that stock up, you know And um, you ask ask yourself these questions. Anyway, uh, got rebecca Uh, becky in the house. Happy thanksgiving to you. Uh, tell the husband. I said hi fantastic. It's so good to see you I hope all is well As simon d is in the house I always thought to give highly on the benefit of the doubt until the trucks are being manufactured still holding slowly dc ang sure, um Yes or no, um I think I was under a little bit different impression with regard to what type of product they had available to the marketplace so kind of important there, but uh I think sherry baker touched on this on the last bar clays interview when she talked about the 2022 order book Is solidified and they're working on the 2023 order book right now. So, um, we'll see how we'll see how it shakes out I'm just holding my shares here really simple. I'm not trying to get too cute with it It is really volatile and it'd be like catching the um the falling knife As of now lots and five shares of tesla backwards for fantastic. That's great man made a little dough fantastic fantastic Yo, j. Matt good highly on fantastic Uh, we're starting to lose some folks, but I just keep going with these lost the equivalent to tesla They got a buying opportunity. Obviously Yep, it was down for today for sure guys. We'll clean it up 11 minutes of overtime bonus time Really appreciate you guys for the fastest 60 minutes on youtube Wish all of your guys's household the best for this uh Thanksgiving weekend Really appreciate seeing each and every one of you guys. It was a very robust live stream We had a hundred patrons in the group tonight. I'm super stoked. That is the very energy that fuels my fire I do this product for you guys guys. Take it easy and we'll see you next friday on the independent investor channel live stream You


السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي بجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك اللهم افتح علينا فتوح العارفين اللهم علينا ما ينفعنا وانفعنا بما علمتنا يا رحم الراحمين today insha'Allah we will talk about الشفاء وبينتو عبدالله and أبو عويدة ابن الجرح رضي الله عنهما so insha'Allah we'll start with الشفاء رضي الله عنها and one day this blessed woman became a Muslim and she was of the very early women who became Muslims so she bludged سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and she used to go to his home often to sit with a sayada sayada حفصة the mother of the believers and she would teach her how to read and write she was from Quraysh and she was known to be so wise she had brilliant mind and she was very smart so she knew that she was from the few women who could read and write so she decided to serve Islam she decided to serve Muslims with all she can she knows she has something that people do not have so she decided to use this knowledge that she has for the stake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so she used to be a teacher and she used to teach the female companions of sayada محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and by this she was the first teacher with woman teacher in Islam and she had a special position with the mothers of the believers and as I just mentioned she had a very strong relation with حفصة رضي الله عنها so events were taking place in the new Islamic state and she continued her jihad and continued her work for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so when the men would be fighting with the sword she would give her knowledge of medicine in the battlefield and she would help the injured she would help those who need her help and with this she had a very special place with sayada محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and she would always come to him and to ask him to discuss things with him and sayada محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم liked her wisdom and he liked her wide knowledge this is a message for all women learn, read do your best to be knowledgeable in as many fields of this life as you can and there are a lot of hadiths and narrations that talk about the virtues of the well educated people so Ashifa was one of those very wise and very smart women she was very knowledgeable in medicine and she also practiced رقيا and that was since early time before she became a Muslim so in pre-islamic period she practiced رقيا and when she became a Muslim she came to sayada محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and she told him I used to practice رقيا before Islam can I do it again so sayada محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم gave her the permission to continue her work and she would always listen from sayada محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم when he used to say سل الله العفوة والعافية فإنه ماءوتي أحد بعد يقين خيرا من معافات so ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى for forgiveness ask him for health for well-being for after being granted certainty one is given nothing better than health and if you wake up in the morning and you are able to get out of bed say الحمد لله I don't need anyone to help me get out of the bed when you go to use the restroom say الحمد لله I don't need any machines help me get the urine out of my body when you do just feel the blessings of health that Allah سبحانه وتعالى with every single thing you can think of you are looking you are seeing you are hearing you can walk you can use your hands you can think thank Allah سبحانه وتعالى for all these blessings and there is a charity there is a Sadaqa for having good health every day you need to pray two rak'as of Dhuha prayer so the chief came to sayada محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and he gave her the permission he gave her the permission to go on with her work and she used to her to use a spell for a stink of scorpion a spell for the evil eye and a spell of anamella what is this this is a certain dermatology sickness it's a type of skin eruption that she used to know a certain spell for that and she used to say it and Allah سبحانه وتعالى would give Shefa for the person who she is doing the ruqya for now let's stop for a second when you feel sick and you go to a doctor don't think that the medicine this doctor gave you cured you no Allah made the cure on the hand of this person but Allah سبحانه وتعالى is the one who cured so when she came to sayada محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and said to him يا رسول الله إني كنت أرطي برقا في الجاهلية من النملة وقد رأيت أن أعرضها عليك وكنت أعمال لتصميم كلمة عن البقاء من هذه الأحرار من هذه الكلمة المتاكية وكن أنت تستطيع أن أرد منك فقال لي وقال لي وقال فيها السناب واللتفال عصري لكي أخذتك لكي أخذتك إلى هذا الشخص أنت أنت the Lord of mankind وكانت أنها تستطيع أن تفعل روكيا كانت أن تأخذت كركم وكانت أن تفعل روكيا seven times وكانت أن تأخذ كركم وكانت أن تفعل روكيا مع كركم وكانت أن تفعل روكيا على المدينة وكانت أن تستطيع أن تستطيع أن تستطيع لكي تستطيع أن تفعل روكيا على المدينة وليس فقط أنت تستطيع أن تتعلمها لكن بالطبع, عندما تريد أن تتعلم شيئا يجب أن تحصل على إذا كان الشخص يستطيع أن تعلمه أو لا لا تتعلم أي شخص الذي ستستخدمه أو لن تفهم كيف تستخدمه لا, يجب أن تستخدمه أن تستطيع أن تستخدمه ثم تفعل أن تتعلمه سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم عندما ترى كيف الله سبحانه وتعالى يجب أن تقوم with what he does عندما تسألها أن تتعلمها حفصة رضي الله عنها روكيا على المدينة ولماذا؟ إذا نتوقف المدينة المدينة في أربي يعني أنها مدينة لذا لذلك the reason that this sickness is called because the sick person would feel there are ants on the area that as if they are running on this area and sticking him and that's why this sickness is called the sickness of a namla سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم asked a shefa to teach his wife حفصة رضي الله عنها the ruqya of the namla and she said دخل علي رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وأنى عند حفصة سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم came in one time when I was visiting حفصة so he said to me ألا تعلمين هذه talking about حفصة رقية نملة كما علمتها الكتابة would you not teach this one or this one of my wife's this one the spell of skin eruption the ruqya of the namla as you told her writing we mentioned at the very beginning that she used to go to the house of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to visit حفصة رضي الله عنها she was in very good relation with and she used to teach her how to read and write so سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم liked what she was doing and he was always giving her good position with him and he gave her also a house in مدينة and she lived in that house with her son سليمان رضي الله عنهما that was her life during the life of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم after سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم passed away and of course when he passed away he was so pleased with الشفاء so the shifa continued to be the teacher and the doctor during the time of سيدنا أبو بكر رضي الله عنه and later during the time of سيدنا أمر رضي الله عنهما and سيدنا أمر also used to to give her a special rank and he used to talk to her he used to take her advice and he having found something special so much knowledge so much wisdom he gave her a position in the market and with this she was the first finance Muslim woman in Islam at the time of سيدنا أمر رضي الله عنهما so now if we stop for a second a woman can be a leader a woman can be a teacher a woman can be a doctor a woman can be everything that can we stop building this society and one of the poets said الأم مدرسة إذا أعدتها أعدت شعبا طيبة الأعراقي the woman is a whole school if you know how to to have a good school then the students who will graduate will be a whole good nation this is the woman this is the woman in Islam and سبحان الله أشفاء used to be very just very good person and she used to say a lot of things about a lot of good things about سيدنا أمر رضي الله عنه and she used to praise him and to witness for his virtues one day she saw a few young men walking very slowly talking very slowly and she said what's this and they said we are worshippers men of worship and she said كان الله عمر إذا تتلما أسمح عمر used to be a very strong man if he would speak people would listen everyone would listen to him he used to speak loudly he used to speak well وإذا مشى أسرى and if he walks he would walk quickly not like the way you are walking وإذا ضرب أوجى if he hits it would be a painful hit وهو ناسك وحقا and he was a true worshipper of الله سبحانه و تعالى عمر رضي الله عنه used to visit her used to check on her and he used to check about her husband and about her son and he would give them guidance and he would give them he would need anything he would fulfill their needs and one time أشفى says that عمر رضي الله عنه came into my house and he found two men sleeping and they were her husband and her son so he said ما شهده معنى الصلاة what happened to these two men when they prayed with us she said يا أمير المؤمنين صليان عن ناس and that was during Ramadan by the way she said او أمير المؤمنين they prayed with people فلم يزالا يصلياني حتى أصبحا و صليان صبحا و ناما so they were praying all the time the whole night that was a night in Ramadan so أمر said I would prefer to pray the prayer in جماعة with people congregationaly and that would be much better for me than going up all night and praying by myself so do your best to revive this سنة of سيد معمر and pray فجر prayer with جماعة you don't need to go to the masjid but pray it with your husband pray it with your children pray it with your father so do your best not to miss the فجر prayer with جماعة that was how Omar understood religion and his advice would always follow the rules that يدن محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم has put so الشفاء رضي الله عنها was a very good female companion and she was the best teacher she was an amazing physician and more than that men used to come to her to listen to the narrations of سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and of the hadith that she narrated سؤيل عليه الصلاة والسلام عن أفضل الأعمال سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم has asked about the best things to do and he said إيمان بالله faith in Allah وجهادون في سبيل fighting and struggling for the sake of Allah وحج جن مبرور and performing Hajj that is accepted by Allah سبحانه وتعالى let's stop for a second here about and think about what does he fighting and struggling for the sake of Allah the word she had means to fight for the sake of Allah but it also means to fight your nefs to struggle against your nefs the nefs would always ask you to do whatever pleases her the nefs but so the person should always fight the desires should always fight sheytan this is one type of fighting the one type of struggle another type of struggle is that when you have to walk up for a pleasure prayer it's so called you are under your blanket warm, cozy and you think of I have to get up I have to make a duel and I have to pray this is a type of struggling for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and it's a struggle for worship so we want to worship Allah سبحانه وتعالى and we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to make it easy for us one day of the 20th year of Hijrah during the caliphate of عمر رضي الله وعن the teacher and the physician got sick she always used to help people and to cure people but it was at the time when she could not even cure herself and normally when someone is sick you make dua for Allah سبحانه وتعالى Allah please get this person well again and give him good health again Allah will answer this call if there is still time for that person to live but if it's death time then nothing nothing so she passed away she moved to Allah سبحانه وتعالى but whatever she taught stayed and this is why we do our best to do something that would stay after death that would stay after we die that we can still get the reward for it after we die leave knowledge teach someone if you know how to read Quran teach someone how to read Quran at least teach them how to read الفاتحة because whenever they pray they would read الفاتحة and whenever they read الفاتحة they would get the reward and whenever they would get the reward for that you will get the reward also so leave something behind that will be continuous leave something that's called continuous charity to help building a message raise good children who will make dua for you after you die build a message dick a wall a well do something that would give you حسنات that would give you good deeds after you die so moving on we will talk inshallah about سيدنا أبو عبيدة من الجرح أبو عبيدة من الجرح was a thin tall very bright faced man and he had several nicknames he was at the very he became a Muslim at the very early time of Islam so I think it was one day after سيدنا أبو بكر and he was a merchant he was a friend of سيدنا أبو بكر so the titles he had the trustworthy the strong the commander the one who lost the front teeth two front teeth and he was one of the 10 people who were promised paradise and above all his lineage meets with the سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم when he became a Muslim his father his father was against Islam and he was he even died as non-Muslim but what he did he tortured his son with the worst torture that that was possible but the son stayed fast the father got to the point that he was sure that he could not get his son to go back to be a non-Muslim to go back to the religion of the four fathers so he left him he got this he knew that he cannot do anything about it so he said okay I don't care about you right after that he used to insult the Muslims used to oppress them badly until سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم gave the permission for the Muslims to go back to Abassina and was of those who went to Abassina and who lived there safely but he couldn't leave سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم he wanted to go back and he did so he went back to Mecca and years past الله سبحانه وتعالى ordered and gave permission to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to migrate to Medina so Abu Ubaida was of the first people who migrated to Medina and that's why he was called صاحب الهجرتين the one who migrated the both immigrants and it was the one to Abassina and the one to Medina and there in Medina سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم talked about asked the immigrants to be brothers so the immigrants were paired off with Ansar and the leader of the Ansar سيدنا ساعد بن معاز was the other pair of سيدنا محمد سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم it was the second year of Hijrah later and the two groups the Muslims and the non-Muslims started the war of Badr and the Muslims were victorious during that battle but later less than one year it was and سيدنا أبو عبيد had a very special remarkable position in that battle so when the Muslims were about to win the battle the archers whom سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم were put on behind the army just to protect the army they thought that the war ended and they ran down to get the booties so at this time خالد بن الوليد attacked the Muslims from behind from the rear changing an Islamic victory into defeat around سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so he immediately rushed to guard him and he had a special event happened at that time so أبو عبيد رضي الله عن so that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم had his armor and the two pieces of the armor got into the cheeks of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and he was bleeding so he rushed to him and سيدنا أبو بكر saw that he also rushed to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to take it out and سيدنا أبو عبيد looked at سيدنا أبو بكر and he said to him أسألوك بالله يا أبا بكر ومن وجنة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أو أبو بكر أسألوك بالله سبحانه وتعالى to leave me to take care of it I want to to extract it from the cheeks of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم so أبو بكر of course gave him that honor and أبو عبيد took the one of these things that came into the face of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and he took it with his front teeth and he pulled when he pulled he fell on the on the ground and the piece was taken out of the face of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and as a result he lost his front tooth then he did the same for the second piece that was in the cheek of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and again he fell down and his second tooth also was pulled out when he pulled the piece from the face of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and that's why he was nicknamed as أثرم the one who lost the front tooth الأثرم and he أبو عبيد says this is the best nickname I ever had we know he had a commander he had the the strong the trustworthy he had different nicknames but he says because it reminded him always of the time when he sacrificed himself for سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so then after that battles happened and he was always fighting against the non believers and سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم would always make him a leader he was very strong he was very honest he was a true trustworthy strong leader and سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم when it was the time of conquering مكة he divided the army into four divisions and he made a leader on one of those divisions then it was also things happened after the conquering of مكة now the tribes would come to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to witness Islam to accept Islam and one time there was a group of Yemen and when they announced Islam they asked سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to send with them to Yemen a person a companion who would teach them the religion and who would teach them the of the religion and سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said to them come during the night and I will tell you I will send with you the trustworthy the strong and all the companions who heard this statement of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم they all wished that they are that person whom سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was called the trustworthy the strong and when it was the prayer after they finished the prayer they were praying with سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and سيدنا عمر said when I never like to be the Amir the leader of anything except for that time because I like to this statement of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so when they finished praying and سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said السلام عليكم السلام عليكم and سيدنا عمر at that time he said I would make myself tall enough just so that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم his blessed I would but سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was looking into the crowd into his companions until his eyes met the eyes of and he said to him come اخرج معهم فقض بينهم بالحق في مختلف وفيه come you will be going with them and you will be a just person with the matters that they have dispute with so he sent him سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم send Abu Ubaida the strong the trust worthy man the companion just to teach the people of Yemen their true religion so this one سيدنا Abu Ubaida during the life of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and on the day say the سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم passed away مدينة مدينة everyone in مدينة was panicking but سيدنا Abu Ubaida had a very strong position at that time he he went to سيدنا Abu Bakr and asked him سيدنا Abu Bakr wanted to appoint سيدنا Abu Ubaida as the Khalifa after سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and he said to him سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول I heard سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said إن لكل أمة أمينا each and every nation is trustworthy و أنت أمين هذه الأمة and you are the trustworthy of this nation and he wanted to pledge to give him the pledge to be خليفة but سيدنا Abu Ubaida understood it wisely he was a wise person he said ما كنت لاتقدم رجولا أمره رسول الله and he a leader to someone who was asked by سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to read the prayer I remember when سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was on his deathbed and it was the time for prayer he ordered them to tell سيدنا Abu Bakr to read the prayer and سيدنا Abu Ubaida wisely understood it he was smart to understand that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم appointed سيدنا Abu Bakr to be the Khalifa after him and with this سيدنا Abu Ubaida was of the first people who gave the pledge to سيدنا Abu Bakr to be to be the Khalifa he knew that this was an emanah this is a trust and the one who is trustworthy should be trustworthy no matter what positions what circumstances change so Abu Ubaida was a humble loyal trustworthy person who took care of the Muslims all the time and that of course was recorded for him this moment when he gave the pledge to سيدنا Abu Bakr when he announced it to the Muslims was recorded for Abu Bakr if you want to apply something like this in this dunya always remember that there are some circumstances there are some events that need you to stand fast and it will be recorded for you especially when you are on the right path of course there are people who are recorded but they are recorded badly for their actions but we as Muslims we have to stand steady fast and to prove our points and to be proud of our religion to be proud of our ideas when people are opposing them we don't go with the flow if people are doing something bad it doesn't mean that that this bad thing became okay because everyone is doing it no we always ask Allah to guide us and to make us recognize what is good and what is bad what is lowfall and what is not lowfall and we ask him to guide us to make us follow the correct thing that should be done so أبو عبيد رضي الله عن was very kind أبو عان was very close to and he was his consultant in the political issues and in the issues of jurisprudence also so when some Muslims would ask for to have a leader would ask أبو بكر to appoint a leader to teach them he would say الذي إذا ظلم لم يظلم وإذا أسيئ إليه غفر وإذا قطع وصل رحيم بالمؤمنين he would say you have to go to أبو عبيد the easy to go if someone who is just if someone oppresses him he would never oppress people if someone mistreat him he would forgive them if he is cut off something he would get connected to others he has so much mercy to the Muslims but he is very strong against the non-believers so these are the characteristics of أبو عبيد رضي الله عنه he fulfilled the words of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم in صورة الفتح الله سبحانه وتعالى gave us the description of the people the companions of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم he says محمد is the messenger of Allah and those with him are forceful against disbelievers they are merciful amongst themselves you see them bowing and prostrating performing the prayers seeking bounty from Allah سبحانه وتعالى seeking his pleasure their mark there are marks on their faces from the traces of prostration so this was a true example was a true example of those whom الله سبحانه وتعالى has described in the Holy Quran so this was سيدنا أبو عبيد and once there was during the time of سيدنا أبو بكر there was a big army against the Byzantium and the armies of Muslims gathered in a place called أرلير موغ just to fight the Byzantium the chief commander of the army was and was a commander on the center of the army and two armies they started the war and it was a first for war before the army was finished سيدنا أبو عبيد got a letter from from from مدينة and the first thing that was mentioned in that letter was that سيدنا أبو بكر passed away and سيدنا أمر became خليفة after him and the second order in that the second thing that was mentioned in that letter was that سيدنا أمر was demoted in favor of أبو عبيده so he سيدنا أمر demoted خالد أبو عبيد the commander in chief of the army and he appointed سيدنا أبو عبيده in his place when سيدنا أبو عبيده read this letter he found he thought that out of a man out of trust he has to conceal the caliph order to avoid chaos in the army so when it was when the army when the battle finished he immediately very humbly took the letter and gave it to سيدنا خالد أبو عبيده سيدنا خالد he was a very strong leader but yet he would comply to the orders of the caliph no matter what and he said to سيدنا أبو عبيده يرحمك الله أبو عبيده ما منعك أن تخبرني حين جاءك الكتاب may Allah have mercy on you أبو عبيده why you did not tell me when you received the book I would immediately step down as the chief of commander of the whole army so about listen to this answer that was given by سيدنا أبو عبيده he said to him you are leading the army I didn't want to change anything in that it's not for the dunya that I want to be the leader of the army this is not the main issue the main issue is that we should have victory as Muslims so imagine the moral superiority and the unselfishness of this amazing great commander so this is this is what our goal should be in this dunya to be to work for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and nothing more and then we are passing on time and I'm going to mention this very briefly there was later on a plague before that another point I want to mention actually once سيدنا عمر missed سيدنا أبو عبيده a lot so he visited him in sham and when he أبو عبيده saw سيدنا أبو بكر خاليفة he shook hand he kissed his hand and hugged him he loved him so much and سيدنا عمر said let me take me to your home and سيدنا أبو عبيده said what do you want to do with my home you you will not like what you will see in my home سيدنا عمر understood the message and he said yes I want to go to your home and when he was there he found nothing he said to him where's your stuff I see nothing except an old water skin sword a plate to eat and you are the chief commander and he said to him you could have arranged for comfort for yourself at home but he told him سيدنا أبو عبيده I chose to live a simple way of life and سيدنا عمر رضي الله عن tried and he said we were all changed by dunya except for you أبو عبيده and later on during the eighth year there was a plague that broke in the area where it spread among the army عمر رضي الله عن heard of it when the news of the plague broke and he immediately wrote him a letter he said to him I am an urgent need to you if my letter reaches you at night I strongly urge you to leave before dawn and if you get my letter in the morning I strongly urge you to leave before sunset so عمر was scared that أبو عبيده would get afflicted by the the plague and he wanted to have أبو عبيده back and he had no desire to save himself and leave the army dying and he remembered the Hadith of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم when he said if you hear of an area that a plague spreads in do not get into that area and if you are in that area do not get out of it but it won't spread so what عمر was scared of happened أبو عبيده became afflicted with the plague and he died he appointed before his death he appointed معاز المجبل as his successor and معاز gave talked to the أبو عبيده and he said by God I don't know whether I have seen a man who had a more righteous heart who was further from an all evil and who was more sincere to people than أبو عبيده ask Allah for forgiveness and ask for mercy this was أبو عبيده رضي الله وعن and our hope إن شاء الله is to raise a generation that are the like of أبو عبيده we wanted to raise a nation we wanted to raise children that would be coolness of an eye to say الله وعليه وسلم so we have to start with ourselves we have to be the good models that we want to raise our kids how we want our kids to be we have to show them that this is how you be and this is how we want you to be and that's what will please the messenger of Allah وسلم الله وعلى سيدنا محمد وسلام وعليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته


Item No. SCP-1959 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures As of this writing, SCP-1959 is yet to be contained. All observatories within 50° North and 73.2° South of the Equator are to be placed within the Foundation's watchlist and amnestics is to be administered to every witness. Should it be captured, a specialized containment unit has been set aside at site ██████████████████ Description SCP-1959 is an unmarked white spacesuit, similar in make to Soviet's SK-1 model used in Bostok Program with few alterations. The suit itself appears to be indestructible. The helmet's visor is badly damaged and missed it over, preventing any observation of its interior. So far, all attempts to communicate with SCP-1959 have failed. The subject is also known to emit considerable amounts of gamma radiation. SCP-1959 appears to continuously orbit around the Earth at a reasonably constant speed. Subjects' positioning can vary between low to high Earth orbit at any given moment. SCP-1959 will ram through any obstacle it encounters, causing grave structural damage. While the subject is capable of independent movement, it remains motionless most of the time. On the occasion the subject does move, its body language so signs of extreme distress, and it will sometimes make attempts to break its visor. There are recorded instances where SCP-1959 hovered in place for a certain amount of time before moving off again. According to observations made at such events, the subject appears to be resisting some unseen force before being pulled away. Addendum 01 SCP-1959 will first observe floating in low Earth orbit by the crew aboard ███████ on ████████ 1971. Observation lasted for three hours before the crew members lost sight of the subject. Addendum 02 After some research on the Soviet space program and declassified files, we have a strong reason to suspect that SCP-1959 either Alexei ████████, Andrei ████████, or Sergei ████████, further research is necessary to fully ascertain the identity of SCP-1959, Dr. ████████, darkness slowly turning to light once more, blinding red fiery light. At first it was amazing, the sun rising to greet its vision, warming his bones. Just as everything else since the accident, though, it was a false warrant, a false feeling of hope. SCP-1959 Sure, the first couple of times he managed to turn his head to view the Earth, he was filled with the hope that he would be brought back, that somehow his comrades would find him and bring him home. Now he's glad they didn't, that would have meant their end. SCP-1959 You can return home! It somehow tuned into the radio too. Over the years he heard a constant stream of broadcasts from his home, oh what the world had become. That was probably just to lure him in though, get him to fall, but he wouldn't, not now, not ever. SCP-1959 They want you home! What got the try? SCP-1959 He wasn't sure exactly how it happened, or exactly what it was. One day he was on a shuttle, a secret flight into space, and the next, well, he was where he is now, and his presence was with him. SCP-1959 You can't hold out much longer. SCP-1959 At first he just thought it was a figment of his imagination, a way to keep himself sane in the cold void of space. But as he began to drift towards the Earth, he began to realize he wasn't drifting. He was being pulled, and the closer he got, the stronger the presence was, and it felt… wrong. SCP-1959 Wrong. Although he stopped it, he's not sure how he did this either. He stopped himself, stopped his unnatural inertia, caught himself in the Earth's orbit. Oh, how the presence raged, but what he didn't expect was it to defend itself so well. SCP-1959 Get stopped! SCP-1959 It wrapped itself around him in a suit, not something solid, just a presence. And it was that presence that made him unstoppable. Everything he touched broke before his velocity and density.  But you know what? SCP-1959 You won't fall! SCP-1959 I stopped it. I saved my comrades. I saved us. Or rather just halted what was inevitable. But I'm not going to let go. Even though I'm trapped in this body, in this suit, I won't let go. Sometimes I even gain control. I smash my visor. To expose it to the vacuum of space when it was ingrained so deeply in me would kill us both. But it's too smart for that. Too old. And too smart. So I will continue to hold. I will continue to be the harbinger of death who blade hovered above the throw of the earth.  On the day this presence realizes it can't beat us, I'll finally come home. He stares the opaque glass of his visor. It was nothing he hadn't seen before. Every single day, he looked at nothing but the misted-over surface. He had wept the first few months. By now, he didn't feel like mustering the energy to cry. Most days, he couldn't muster the energy to do much of anything. Not that there was anything to muster energy for. His eyes traced a spider web of cracks in the glass. He knew it better than he knew his own face. He recalled being handsome, back in Russia. He had attracted a wife whom he vaguely remembered being beautiful. Of course, there was no telling just what his face looked like now. He knew it had been years, but just how many he couldn't guess. The accident, though, that he remembered quite well, it had been going so perfectly. They had told him he would be the first human being in space. And perhaps he had, before the explosion. He had been the only one actually wearing a full suit when it happened. His friends, they had been lucky. At the time, he had mourned for them.  Now though, now he envied both of them. In the beginning, he had prayed to God to be rescued. The air in his suit was only supposed to last a day, maybe two without resupply. At first, he had counted off the seconds in his mind. When he reached three days, he stopped. The burn in his throat made sure of that. After what he guessed was five days, the gnawing pain in his stomach took up all of his attention. When he went for almost a full week without affixiating, his prayers slowly turned from rescue to a far more desperate wish. In his grief-stricken state, the ramifications of his ketune existed for slow to occur to him. Eventually, it dawned on him that, even if he had ketune with oxygen, he would have long ago died of dehydration. At first, it seemed like a miracle. He was so hopeful, certain that the motherland would not leave him here in the empty void of space. When the thing had first attacked him, he had prayed for death. He had prayed to die rather a lot over however long he had been stuck in his suit. God hadn't been sitting by the phone, it seemed. The devil hadn't been especially receptive either. None of the old gods had bothered showing up. Perrin, the god of thunder and lightning, the one his wizened grandmother used to whisper about in front of the earth. Well, apparently he wasn't in a prayer-entering mood either. When the second attack came, he finally gave up all hope of being rescued. It had him now. That had been a long time ago. He had stopped praying to anything before long. After the praying had ceased, the screaming had started. He had screamed and screamed for days, once his throat had become so damaged that he had choked on his own blood. That had been the last time tears welled up in his eyes. For a moment, a brief shining moment, he had hope. Hope that he could finally die. He really should have known better. For what felt like weeks he begged himself, God, anything, to just let him die of dehydration, of starvation, of asphyxiation, anything. There was no way he could be alive anymore, not after floating in space without supplies for this long. Yet he stubbornly remained breathing, breathing and suffering. After abruptly, the constant feeling of motion, the whistle of what air there was this high in the atmosphere rushing past his suit, the sharp tug of G-forces against his flesh, his only link to existence outside his suit, slammed to a halt. He knew what that meant. He knew all too well. It had come for him again. The pain arc through the same spot in his chest, just as it had before, time and time again. He screamed, this time in agony, not in fear or despair. Unbidden, his hands rose to his helmeted head. He knew it was useless, but he had to try anyway. His gloved fist pounded against a hardened dome. He never saw what menaced him, never knew what it was that tormented him. It didn't really matter, knowing wouldn't change a thing. Oh, but it was so much worse than before. Whatever the thing was, it had gotten much better at hurting him. He had stopped screaming long, long ago, but now he found his lungs being voided of air against his will, his vocal cords scratching from disuse, finding a purpose again. He screamed for an audience of one. No one but him heard. His fingers, so clumsy in the bulky soup, reached above him to fight back, an involuntary response to the pain. He knew there was nothing there he could touch. There never had been.  His hands came back from the fruitless quest to beat a frantic tattoo against the glass of his helmet. It had to break. It had to. Something like desperation filled his heart, a disease atrophied cousin of hope. It hadn't broken him before, but now it would. This time would be different, death would come, death would free him. It didn't. The comforting rush of the vacuum, his last hope, didn't sound in his ears. The burning agony reached a new crescendo, and he felt fresh tears in his eyes. For the first time in so long, his efforts to break the helmet ceased. Fingers instead scrabbling in what he knew with a futile effort to breach the pressure seals. Then, as quickly as it had appeared, the searing departed. He gasped for a long time. He couldn't bring himself to bother feeling relief. It would be back soon enough. Alexei's breathing finally calmed back down. Once again, he stared the misted-over surface of his visor. It's not like it was anything he hadn't seen before.


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