What's up guys? Welcome back. I'm gonna make this one special. I'm gonna make this one as special as possible You know what I've done. You know what I've done From number 100 to number 51 were released Instantly by the NFL Channel last week in fact It's been seven days and what I've done is made my way in fact. It's been six days. In fact I reckon it's been five days and And what I've done is made my way slowly, but surely methodically 10 10 15 and the rest in four days down to number 51 and here we go I couldn't continue even if I wanted to my name is white Morpheus We're here today to react to Alvin Kamara. He's number 51 on the list of the top 100 players in 2022 He's running back place for the Saints when I think about Alvin Kamara I think about the ability to Absorb a hit absorb a tackle yet still stay on your feet, you know what I mean This video is only two minutes 35 seconds long. He's made his way into the top 50 I mean we'll call it top 50 51 50 is what it is at the end of the day There's nothing left to do but to do it. Let's get into it I go against the best running back in the league in practice In his first year a big after breeze Alvin Kamara carried the rock a career after what? After breeze After breeze Alvin Kamara carried the rock a career high 240 times almost 50 carries more than its next highest season Tell you what okay, okay? I slipped on this count. Did I call him a cat? Yeah, I did Alvin Kamara, I still feel okay. He pulled out. He pulled out.   I'm assuming he should be should be in the 30s surely So whether it's runner pass. Well, he's getting the ball or not. He's receiving back then go through. Okay, toss Kamara left He follows it. He's still gonna get in He's explosive that was to me He's amazing What he does as far as running football and catching football as out back sale.  He passed Roger Craig to become the fastest player in NFL history to reach 3,000 yards rushing and 3,000 yards received. Oh, I'm not surprised If there's one guy that you got to tell you what? Oh Alvin Kamara the record machine Catching the football first in the league to 3,000 rushing yards and 3,000 receiving yards And he's only ranked 51 I'll tell you what the only thing that does to me is make me more excited about who we're gonna see Oh, he can catch next on the screen He can catch angle routes He can absorb any contact to it's very rare Who you can line them up at receiver and just get the same production as maybe your receiver He's completely different and you know, that's why when he's out there for the Saints They are a much better team New Orleans went 0-4 when Kamara was sidelined with a knee injury But upon his return finished with four wins and five tries highlighting his impact on the Saints success Now I see him about the eight-yard line. I see a guy chasing him One guy is just no shot. No shot touchdown. Honestly, I thought he should have been stopped there. I Really did He does a great job of absorbing contact So you'll go to hit up and he'll absorb it and then fall back a little bit and then stay on his feet He's truly one of a kind Well, he can certainly absorb contact and would you believe I've worked my way all the way through this playlist And the next video is the Jags vs. Patriots Which came out in 2018 NFL AFC championship game highlights five million views We won't be watching that today, but what we will be doing is You know, you know what?  Here we go. All right So it's I look Am I white Morpheus? Well for today I was I'm not even sure if Morpheus took off his glasses. I'm pretty sure he did either way guys How fun is this series, you know, I've completed half of it in four days and that is That's some hustle. You know what I mean? That's that's some real hustle. That is me wanting to reignite The passion and the views behind my YouTube channel, you know, this is this is basically my this is my passion This is what I do.  I tell you what this thing Look guys, this this was just absolutely incredible And I reckon that it's actually been somewhat of a Distraction it was seductive this thing this thing was seductive Because you know, I did go from fifteen thousand to a hundred thousand subscribers relatively quickly But we've gone from a hundred thousand to hundred and fifty thousand a lot slow a lot more slowly and You know, the only thing that's gonna continue that that growth is for me to continue to put my my all into my content And that's what I'm doing man. That's what I'm doing. So You know here we are four days four days and I've completed From number 100 to number 51 of the top 100 NFL players of 2022. It's been an absolute pleasure Look guys, if I'm in a good mood, I can do absolutely anything For as long as I want if I'm in a bad mood, I Ain't doing nothing and you know what everyone gets into good moods. Everyone gets into bad moods It's the ability to manage that. It's the ability to average it out. You know what I mean and When you're in the bad moods you can still do what you need to do when you're in the good moods.  Thank you. Thank you so much and Look, I will say that I don't mind I do not mind I do not mind being white Morpheus Don't mind it Cheers guys. Thank you for watching and look. I'll see you on Sunday afternoon for me Sunday morning for you might even be Monday morning for me after an absolutely Incredible weekend of combat sports. We've got the BKFC London. We've got Anthony Joshua vs. Alexander Usick to and following that we've got UFC 278 and for a guy who absolutely loves combat sports This weekend is going to be absolutely incredible. So for me from me white Morpheus to you I'm saying Sayonara Evita say Boswa And I'll see you in the next one. Cheers guys and peace out white Morpheus. Hey, we are we


Behavioral traps. Ah, it's a trap. Literally, that's what you're trying to do here. You're trying to set a trap for a behavior. The key with a behavioral trap is this. You need somebody to engage in a behavior that they already have in their skill set, a really simple behavior. Like, think of it as this. Open the door. Open the door, little person. Open the door, dare you. Watch what happens when you open the door, right? So it sounds kind of naughty, right? But they're gonna open that door, which is really easy to do. And inside, it's all their friends and all their toys and all these different things that they can play with. Those different things, right? They lock on to that kiddo. They lock on to whatever behaviors are associated with it, okay? So you set this trap. So you ask the kiddo or the adult, whatever it is, to do something that then opens the door for a whole bunch of other reinforcers to be interconnected and maintain social behaviors, academic behaviors, all sorts of things. Like, I don't know, maybe smoking? What? Smoking's a behavioral trap? Sure. It's easy.  I mean, similar. Your cigarettes are funny. No, I might have funny cigarettes. Well, that would be like this. We are in Washington, folks. Anyway, so smoking a cigarette, really easy response to inhale, right? That's not a challenging response. It's really easy to do. And it opens the door for a whole bunch of reinforcers. This sounds really bad because, but anyway, it's cigarette smoking. But anyway, think about it. You get to escape work when no one else does. You get to have social reinforcement with other smokers. You get all sorts of these with the nicotine itself. So that's, smoking is kind of like a behavioral trap. And just think about this. Now that you know what's involved in smoking and the reinforcers that are present, you can start to break those darn reinforcers to get rid of that nasty habit. Behavioral traps.


Welcome to Pickling Basics presented by Alice Moore, regional extension agent with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. Pickling is one of the oldest known methods of food preservation. There are four kinds of pickle foods. Fermented pickles are your traditional old-fashioned pickles made by soaking in a brine which is a salt and water solution that can take up to six weeks. The pickles go through a process called fermentation. When the salt encourages the growth of good bacteria on the food to produce lactic acid, examples include dill pickles and sauerkraut. Fresh pack or quick processed pickles are not fermented but covered with hot vinegar, spices and seasonings to increase their acidity. They can also be brined for several hours or overnight, then drained and covered with vinegar and seasonings. Examples include fresh packed dill pickles, bread and butter pickles and pickled asparagus. Relishes are made from chopped fruits or vegetables cooked to a desired consistency in a spiced vinegar solution. Relishes are the perfect complement to a special dish. Examples include pear relish, sweet apple relish and pickled corn relish. Fruit pickles are whole or sliced fruits simmered in a spicy sweet sour syrup. Examples include spiced crab apples, watermelon rind pickles and spiced peaches. When selecting your produce, you should use only good quality fruit and vegetable varieties designed for canning and pickling. Select tender vegetables and firm ripe fruits. Pear and peaches may be slightly under ripe for pickling. A pickling type cucumber makes a better pickle. Such varieties include model, chipper, explorer, carolina, ashley, poinsett and gherkin. Wax coated cucumbers bought from the grocery store are not suitable for pickling. Select cucumbers of uniform size that are best suited for the recipe you are using. Select smaller produce if you plan to put up whole. Larger produce can be cut into chips or wedges. Use cucumbers within 24 hours after gathering. If they are kept refrigerated longer than 24 hours before the pickling process begins, you will not have as good a quality product. Always remove 116 off the blossom end of the cucumber and discard. It contains enzymes that soften the cucumber. If whole cucumbers are to be brined, leave one fourth inch of the stem. Harvest cucumbers before they get too large for the best quality product. When selecting ingredients, you want to purchase pickling salt, fine green sea salt or pink Himalayan salt, then with other salts at the grocery store and they may be found in the canning section. You can also purchase pure granulated salt without added iodine or a non-caking agent. Iodine can cause the pickles to darken and the non-caking material may prevent fermentation during the brining process and it turns the brine cloudy. Refined table salt should not be used for brining cucumbers and never use an ice cream salt or rock salt for pickles. When you're choosing your vinegar, you want to make sure it has a five to six percent acidity. Recommended vinegar is apple cider or white distilled vinegar, but keep in mind that the apple cider vinegar can again cause your product to turn a brownish color. Best choice vinegar is white distilled vinegar. Just keep in mind it must be a five to six percent acidity. There are some vinegars that are more diluted and they're not safe to use. You do not want to use a wine vinegar, a homemade vinegar or a lemon juice. Fresh spices ground or whole are the best to use for pickles. Tie whole spices in a thin cloth bag but removed before pickles and relishes are packed. Whole spices if left in the jar tend to darken the pickles and can also cause off flavor. Ground spices tend to darken the pickles, so store your spices in a cool place about 70 degrees Fahrenheit in an airtight container. If you need to substitute a spice a good rule of thumb is one fourth teaspoon of dried is equal to three fourths to one teaspoon fresh. For dill ahead is equal to one teaspoon of dill seed. Most recipes use white granulated sugar. However some may use brown but brown sugars again turn your product darker. If you plan to use a sugar substitute follow recipes developed for these products. Your sugar substitutes are not recommended in pickling because heat and our storage may cause bitterness and the sugar substitutes do not plump the pickles and keep them firm the way sugar does. Now let's talk about farming agents. The reason for soft pickles may be as simple as not removing the blossom end of the cucumber. Slice off at least one sixteenth of an inch on the end where the blossom was. The use of ice to firm pickle products is a great way to get a crunchy pickle. Soak product in ice water for four to five hours before pickling. Alum may be used safely to firm firm into pickles but it's not necessary. Some people can be sensitive to the alum which causes digestive issues. Alum does not improve the firmness of quick processed pickles. It's the calcium in lime that improves pickle firmness. Food grade lime may be used as a lime water solution for soaking fresh cucumbers before pickling them. However it takes several rinses of the cucumbers in fresh water to remove the excess lime absorbed by the cucumbers. There's a new product called pickle crisp that can be used to keep the cucumbers firm. Just remember that you must start with a firm product to keep a firm product. You cannot pickle a soft cucumber and make it crisp. Do not use hard water from the tap. Hard water is the amount of dissolved calcium and magnesium in the water and it can be removed by boiling. Hard water you can boil hard water in a stainless steel or unchipped enamel boiler for 15 minutes and remove it from the heat. Cover and let sit for 24 hours. Remove any scum that may be formed on the top of the water. Slowly pour water from the container so sediment is not disturbed. Discard the sediment. Water is now ready to use. For heating pickling liquids use unchipped enamelware, stainless steel or glass pots. Do not use copper, brass, iron or galvanized utensils. These metals may react with acids or salts and cause undesirable flavor and odors or they may even form toxic compounds in the pickle mixture. Use a wooden or stainless steel spoon for storing pickles. Other equipment needed in pickling includes water bath canner, standard canning jars, canning lids, bands, funnel, a ladle, magnetic wand, bubble freer, jar lifter and a timer. When selecting equipment for brining or fermenting glass and food grade plastic containers are excellent substitutes for stone crocs. Stone crocs are great for large quantities but some are so heavy they're hard to work with. Other food grade containers may be used if lined with a clean food grade plastic bag.  To keep vegetables below the surface of the brine use a heavy plate that fits just inside the container. A sealed glass jar filled with water makes a good way to hold down the plate. A more recent method is to use a sealed plastic food grade bag containing one and a half tablespoons of salt per one quart of water. The bag covers the container keeping the contents at a correct level so the plate is not needed. Using the brine prevents solution in case the bag leaks. Cover the fermentation container with a clean cloth to reduce mole growth on the brine surface. Cabbage and cucumbers must be kept one to two inches under the brine while fermenting. A word of caution. The level of acidity in a pickle product is as important to its safety as it is to taste and texture. Do not alter vinegar, the produce or water proportions in a recipe or use a vinegar with unknown acidity. Use only approved and tested recipes from the US Department of Agriculture, Extension or the National Center for Home Food Preservation websites. For safety there must be a minimum uniform level of acidity throughout the mixed product to prevent the growth of clostridium botulinum spores. If product is not processed correctly spores can produce a poisonous toxin that can be deadly. Never taste food from a jar with an unsealed lid or food that shows signs of spoilage. When in doubt, throw it out. Now let's talk about the processing steps in a boiling water bath canner. One, wash jars in hot soapy water and rinse well. Keep them hot until ready for use by storing in a canner filled with hot water. A hot dishwasher or an oven on the lowest setting. Jars processed for less than 10 minutes should be sterilized first by boiling them for 10 minutes in clean water. Follow the manufacturer's directions for preparing lids. Two, prepare ingredients and follow the instructions of an approved recipe. Three, pack food and liquid to within a half inch from the top of the jar unless otherwise specified. If the jars are too full some contents could siphon out of the jar during heat processing. Stick to the rim and prevent sealing. All air may not be exhausted during processing if the space between the packed food and liquid and the top of the jar which is called the head space is too large. Four, run a bubble freer, a small spatula or a plastic knife around the inside of the jar to remove air bubbles. You may need to adjust head space again. Five, wipe the jar rims with a clean damp paper towel to remove any bits of food that may prevent a seal. Six, adjust lids and screw bands fingertip tight. Seven, place jars on the rack by transferring them up and over into the canner using a jar lifter. Add more hot water if needed around the jars but not directly on top of the lids to bring the water level one to two inches above the jar lids. Place a tight fitting cover on the canner. Processing step number eight, turn heat to the highest setting and wait for water to come to a rolling boil. When the water boils, set a timer for the specified time as directed in the recipe. Increase processing times for higher altitudes as needed. Add boiling water if necessary to keep the jars covered. Nine, at the end of the processing time turn off the heat and remove the canner lid away from your face. Do not leave jars in hot water. Remove jars using a jar lifter, being careful not to tilt the jars. Ten, put the jars on a heavy cloth or towel allowing air to move freely around each jar as it cools away from a drafter fan. Eleven, let the jars sit undisturbed for 12 to 24 hours. Do not remove water from the lid and do not tighten the screw bands or press down on the center of the flat lid until the jar is completely cool. Twelve, the jar is sealed within 12 to 24 hours if the lid has popped down in the center and does not move farther down when you press it. Listen for the popping sound. If you hear that popping sound the jar has not been sealed properly. Jars that are not sealed can be refrigerated or reprocessed. To reprocess you need to remove the lid, reheat the brine to boiling, wipe the rim of the jar, use a new lid and process again for the full time. However, the quality of the pickles will not be as good after reprocessing. Thirteen, remove screw bands for storage to keep the moisture under the lid from resting the bands. Wipe the jars clean. Fourteen, label each jar with your product and date. Store in a cool dark and dry place. Store jars of pickles for four to five weeks to develop their best flavor used within one year for best eating quality and nutrition. Exposure to heat, freezing or light decreases the quality and the shelf life of processed foods. You can find the food safety agent in your county by going to www.aces.edu and clicking on directory at the top of the page. Select your county and click on meet the staff located at the bottom left. You can also stay connected with the Alabama Extension Food Safety Team on Facebook by searching at Aces Food Safety.


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Good morning folks. Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of a sunny Delray Beach, Florida. It's your 11 am update and we've got a mixed bag out there. The mix is coming from the Russell off two points in the semis down 37. Otherwise, the other US indices are trading to the upside. Dows up 14 points, 13 points for the S&P, 36 points for the Nasdaq 100, about a quarter percent move there. You've got gold trading up 60 cents. So that's flat. Silver's basically flat. Well, it's down nine pennies out there. So it's not flat. It's out trading out of 24 or six. Lightspeed crude is up two bucks. National gas is up two pennies trading out of 254. The third year treasury down a half a point trading out at 123.10. Let's try to figure out what all that means by looking at that nine panel market update chart. We begin the ESMini upper left hand side. The ESMini, we do not have a top. I don't believe we have a top. Do we have a wave seven top? Give me one second to check that out. We do have a wave seven top. Let me see where today's high so far is 47.9150. So we still have that in place. But if it spikes about 47.9175, that pattern will go away. If we take a look at the spot ball today, still well below its 50 day exponential moving average, but rising out here. So that's something to pay attention to the NQ likely targeting the 169.75 level. That's this 1.272 expansion of its last set of swing points out there. We take a look at the US dollar index. US dollar index did find support at his TD nine count breakout level for its weekly timeframe that was down at 101.60. Never got down there. Price right now is back inside its daily profile. Big to close the session above 102.18. Odds favor move up to the 103.02, 103.36 level. We've got gold, deluxe, and silver both consolidated with inside their daily profiles, both having sell the D point patterns. In the case of gold, the support levels down at 20 17 90 and resistance at 20 62 90. We take a look at silver. It's support levels at 23 90 and resistance 24 79 lights. We crude very likely going to go target the top of its daily profile. That's up at 77 55 both the bottom and the center are at that same level. And that's down at the low. That's at 70 14. That's a strong support level. We take a look at natural gas. Natural gas on Friday closed above the top of its daily profile trained above it today. That suggests a further rally now further rally to where since there's no real swing point on this move to the downside, we'd have to go take a retracement levels. We'll do that during the during the first or second segment of the Trader Zed show. And finally, we take a look at a 30 year treasury. If we did get a bearish reversal candle today, right now I've got a bearish and golfing candle. Don't know what it will look like a day's end. We would have a sell the D point pattern. Folks, stay tuned for the Trader Zed show. But if you'll have to start your Monday have a magnificent one. Thanks for joining us. We'll look forward to speaking with you again soon. Take care now.


How can you tell if you are being snapshotted, idealized, devalued, what are the tell-tale signs of the narcissist's subtle transitions, ups and downs, cycles, everything is happening inside the narcissist's mind, is not interacting with you, is interacting with a representation of you in his mind, he is interacting with your avatar, with your icon if you wish. And so how can you tell? Is there any way to ascertain at which phase of the shared fantasy you are? Just to remind you, when the narcissist comes across a potential intimate partner, someone who could accede to and adhere to the shared fantasy, when a narcissist comes across a potential source of narcissistic supply, the narcissist snapshots that person, internalizes the snapshot in a process known as introjection and then continues to interact with a snapshot of you, never ever with you is an external object. The narcissist has a convoluted and complex relationship with a snapshot, it starts by photoshopping the snapshot, idealizing it, and then he proceeds to devalue the snapshot and to discard it in order to reenact the incomplete separation from his own biological mother with the hope of becoming this time an individual of developing personhood, of course it never works, hence hoovering, but I will not go into it in today's video, there are other videos dedicated to hoovering and I encourage you to search the channel, there is also a shared fantasy playlist on this channel, everything is geared for your convenience and comfort because most of you are Americans, okay Shoshaneem American or not, let us delve right in, but before we do allow me to present myself, my name is Sam Vaknin, I'm the author of Malignance of Love, Narcissism Revisited, I'm a former visiting professor of psychology in Southern Federal University in Russia and I am a long-term member of the faculty of SEAPS, Commonwealth for International Advanced Professional Studies in Cambridge, United Kingdom, Toronto, Canada and an outreach campus in Lagos, Nigeria. Having dispensed with his pleasantries and self-bragging, let us examine you in the shared fantasy, it is a very disorienting experience, the transitions are so abrupt that they take your breath away, there is a sense of dislocation, many of you, many of the victims of the narcissist react with derealization, depersonalization and amnesia, these are dissociative responses, the narcissist actually reduces you to a borderline state, he dysregulates you emotionally and otherwise you begin to develop mood, lability, ups and downs, depression, elation, it's all within the set of manipulative techniques, it's a reaction, those are reactions to the set of manipulative techniques employed by the narcissist, very often unconsciously, one of them being intermittent reinforcement, while the narcissist is fully aware of his behaviors or even misbehaviors, he is not aware of his own psychology, psychodynamic processes and motivations, he has no access to his own emotions, he is a half baked human being, a simulation and not a very good one, so idealization takes requires from a few hours to a few days from the moment of introjection of snapshotting and snapshotting occurs instantly when the narcissist decides that you could serve as an intimate partner in a shared fantasy or as a source of narcissistic supply, so the snapshotting requires an elaborate process within the narcissist's mind to reach the conclusion that you could collude with him in his fantasies, that you could somehow buttress and appalled his grandiose inflated view of himself, his self-imputed affection, superiority and divine attributes, so this takes time, now it can take sometimes years, it can take decades, the narcissist can come across you in a work setting, in church, in a club, on a trip and at first he would not judge you to be the right stuff, the right material, and then days later, weeks later, months later, following personal contact or correspondence or what have you and sometimes with no contact whatsoever, the narcissist suddenly reaches the conclusion that you're the one, you're the one and now he embarks on a predatory hunt for you, now why are you the one? Who knows, even the narcissist can't exactly tell why you are the one, the narcissist never sees you, never truly sees you, he never interacts with you as an external object, so if you were to interrogate the narcissist, why do you find me to be the ideal, wonderful, perfect partner for you, he won't be able to answer actually in the vast majority of cases, or he would simply spew out unrealistic, detached idealizations of you which don't resemble you at all, the narcissist just knows and because the narcissist is omniscient, he's all-knowing, he's godlike, he's infallible, he never makes mistakes, the fact that he has reached the conclusion that you could be his intimate partner or his social supply is indisputable, he never doubts it, he never questions it, he never revisits it, devaluation is an entirely different thing, devaluation is not about revising his original opinion, it's about revising you, in the devaluation phase the narcissist rebuilds or reconstructs or reframes or dismantles or deconstructs the original internal object that represents you in his mind and rebuilds it as a persecutory object, an enemy within Trojan boss, the fifth column, so in both cases the narcissist feels justified, having decided, having reached the conclusion that you are perfect for him, he never doubts his own fallibility, he never says I may have made a mistake, instead he would say she has changed or she deceived me or something like that, he would put the blame on you, so the devaluation is about revising the introject, the internal object that corresponds to you in a way that would exonerate the narcissist, render him perfect, perfect victim for example, so as to allow him to devalue and discard you, but I deal with all this in multiple videos and again I encourage you to visit the shared fantasy playlist, so to summarize, the narcissist reaches the conclusion that you are the one, he snapshots you and within hours, literally within hours, maximum a few days he idealizes you, what are the signs that you have been snapshotted, introjected and that you are being idealized, in short what characterizes what is colloquially known is the love bombing phase, first of all probing, the narcissist scans you with his cold empathy, cold empathy is reflexive empathy plus cognitive empathy, but absent the emotional component or emotional dimension of empathy, it's the kind of empathy a future artificial intelligence program might have, so the narcissist scans you, literally scans you as an MRI machine would do and he tries to spot your vulnerabilities, your weaknesses, your frailties, your predispositions and proclivities, your preferences, your wishes, your dreams, your tendencies etc etc, these are the chinks in your armor through which the narcissist will intrude, penetrate you and invade you in every possible way, physical and mental, it's like an intrusion detection system reversed, the narcissist can be conceived of as a virus or map or malware and it kind of pings you, it pings you until it creates, until the narcissist created a map of you with access for invasion and penetration, now the probing, the scanning for vulnerabilities is disguised as limerence and infatuation, the narcissist is all over you and he appears to be extremely infatuated with you, he appears to have fallen in love with you, he appears to be lovesick and what is even worse, the narcissist experiences the probing phase as limerence and infatuation, the narcissist honestly convinces the he has fallen in love that he can't live without you, that you are his other half or if he's so inclined to inflate soulmate and other such nonsense, so the narcissist deceives first and foremost himself having identified you as a potential target, his detection system is triggered very similar to a military system, a military weapon system, so his detection system is triggered and he scans you, at the same time he data mines, there's a process of data mining, the narcissist is going to interrogate you like few other police forces, he's going to ask you about everything imaginable, every event in your past in the minutest details, everything you've ever experienced, everyone who's ever shared your life with you, your family, your friends, your former lovers, your bosses, your colleagues, the narcissist is going to create a dossier, a file on you, the way some intelligence agencies do, it's the utmost ultimate surveillance operation, the narcissist data mines you in order to generate a profile of you which would kind of incorporate the vast majority of data, relevant data, relevant in the sense that he could use this data, this data in the future to somehow obtain favorable outcomes in short to manipulate you to do his bidding, so probing and data mining, it's flattering, the whole process is couched in infatuation, charm, limerence, falling in love and it's very flattering to be the focus of such laser guided attention, it makes you feel special, makes you feel complex, makes you feel amazing, makes you feel worthy of such inordinate focus, concentration and in-depth penetration, makes you feel the subject of a biography, it's as if you become a mini celebrity in the narcissist's ambit and circle, so the narcissist becomes your biggest fan, your follower, he follows you around everywhere and he keeps interrogating you, it's like his thirst for information about you is unquenchable and it is irresistible to you because you've never been exposed to such intensity, fire-hot intensity of interest, someone interested in you to this extent, it's addictive and so you discompromises you because you dole out the information, you give the information about you to the narcissist because you want him to continue to be so focused and interested, focused on you and interested in you, you want this to proceed, you feel elevated, you feel defied in some way, in short the narcissist triggers your narcissistic defenses, your own grandiosity, at this stage the narcissist moves to the next phase, the next phase is accelerated intimacy and ostentatious trust, accelerated intimacy requires a compression of normal processes, processes that take time, a compression of these processes into an exceedingly short period of time, so on the second day the narcissist would offer your marriage and on the third day he would be planning to have children with you and on the fourth day you'll be talking about your pension plans, that's within four days, now these things do happen in couples, every relationship, every intimate relationship proceeds into deeper and deeper levels of daydreaming and planning and imagining and fantasizing about your togetherness, but it takes months, it takes years for such a process to be healthy, it requires certain benchmarks, certain yardsticks, certain goalposts, the narcissist compresses, it's like a zip file, you know, the narcissist compresses everything and becomes very insistent on total intimacy now as if you've been together for years, it's a very big red alert, it's a warning sign, the second thing the narcissist demands is ostentatious trust, so the narcissist confides in you, confesses to you, shares with you, gives you access to all kinds of things within days and he expects you to do the same, he expects you to do the same because gradually he wants to take over your life, to control it, it's a hostile takeover in effect because it leads inexorably to devaluation and discard, the whole sense of the shared fantasy, the goal, the meaning of the shared fantasy is to lead the narcissist to separation and individuation from you, so trusting the narcissist to an ever-growing extent is exceedingly dangerous, it's an ominous sign and you should never do this, but the narcissist pushes you, he feigns disappointment and disillusionment and anger when you refuse to trust him to the extent that he demands which is infinite, so accelerated intimacy and ostentatious trust, the trust has to be visible, has to be conspicuous, the trust has to be outlandish, self-defeating even, to convince the narcissist and yourself that you're one, that you're a single organism with two heads, he, the narcissist pushes you in effect to enmesh with him, to fuse and merge with him, not because he wants to merge and fuse with you, but because it's a controlled tactic, that's his way to maneuver you and control you and make sure that you don't abandon him until he is ready to abandon you, all this leads to impaired reality testing, the narcissist intentionally pushes you to form a couple or a diet within days or weeks, whereas the normal process, as I said, the habitual process takes years or months, so this is very disorienting, you feel that as if you were trapped either in a dream, your dream comes true, is coming true or in a fantasy or in a nightmare, now the narcissist doesn't gaslight intentionally because the narcissist believes his own confabulations and his own promises and his own fantasies, the first victim of the narcissist's deception is actually the narcissist and he's convinced absolutely that you are going to get married and have three wonderful children within, within two days, so he's not future faking and he's not gaslighting intentionally, but as far as you're concerned it amounts to gaslighting and future faking, the narcissist's motivations are not relevant because he ends up doing what the psychopath does, which is gaslighting and future faking, he does it and owing to unconscious processes, he self-deceives, but as far as you're concerned his victim, it's the same, the outcomes are the same, so the narcissist undermines, challenges and undermines your reality testing, he begins to make you doubt yourself, you ask yourself all the time, is this for real, am I getting it wrong, am I no longer embedded in reality, have I lost it, for example the narcissist constantly justifies your behaviors and even when you know that you shouldn't have done something that you've misbehaved, the narcissist keeps telling you that you've acted rightly, now this is, this drives you away from reality, you want to hear that nothing's wrong with you, that all your actions are utterly justified, this is very addictive, very enticing, very tempting and seductive, so you succumb to the narcissist's offering of I will always be there to justify, but it drives you away from reality, the narcissist casts you as a victim, victim of your exes, a victim of your family of origin, a victim of your boss and colleagues, he drives you to develop a victim mentality, a victim stance and finally a victim identity, victimhood, he drives you to adopt victimhood as a defining determinant and dimension of your identity and this of course is not true, this is not real, it's another way of driving a wedge between you and reality, the narcissist keeps comparing you favorably as superior to other people, he compares you to people in his past, to people in his present, to celebrities, to other people, to neighbors, to colleagues, to friends, to parishioners and you're always on top, you're always blemishless, you're always perfect, you're always right, you're always right, so this phase, the narcissist is distorting your self-image and self-perception, healthy self-perception requires a recognition of advantages and disadvantages, right and wrong, shortcomings and superiorities, proper, healthy, normal, self-perception is balanced, the good and the bad, the narcissist drives you to develop a grandiose counterfactual, unrealistic, fantastic, inflated self-perception, therefore is driving you away from reality and weakening you because you no longer know yourself properly, your boundaries begin to dissipate and you are not quite sure what constitutes proper behavior and inappropriate misconduct, the narcissist refrains your failures as unmitigated and alloyed successes, that is also very disoriented, in short the narcissist becomes the buffer, the interface, the firewall between you and reality, he takes over your reality testing, so whenever you want to judge reality, whenever you want to appraise it, you revert to the narcissist, as the sole authority, that is a cult, narcissist creates a cult, you might as well be in a prison cell with no access to the media, now the narcissist communicates to you the idealized internal object that represents you in his mind, he keeps describing to you the parameters and contours of this idealized object, he keeps telling you about his expectations, how you should behave, what you should think, how you should dress etc etc, so gradually the narcissist conveys to you the way you should be, which is the idealized perfect object in his mind and how you should behave to accomplish this perfection, behavioral expectations, the narcissist becomes very possessive of you, that is not traumatic jealousy, there is no fear of loss, it is about monopolizing your time and your resources, so that you are utterly depleted, dependent and devoid of any independence, agency, self-efficacy and personal autonomy, his possessiveness is about strangulating you, suffocating you, it's like the walls of your prison cell are contracting, he constricts your life because he is a controlled freak, he is a controlled freak because he has abandonment, anxiety, separation, insecurity, we will not go into it right now, but he is a controlled freak, he is very intrusive, surprises for example are a major weapon of the narcissist, the narcissist keeps surprising you, but the surprises are not only intended to please you and gratify you, the surprises are also intended to disbalance you, to create a state of constant trepidation, anticipation, uncertainty, indeterminacy, surprises keep you on your toes and utterly dependent on the narcissist's good will, surprises are a form of intermittent reinforcement, the narcissist seeks to realize your fantasies, now that you've confided in him in the beginning of the Love Bobby during the probing and the data mining stage, he came to learn everything about you, so he knows your fantasies and he is well bent and set on realizing your fantasies, again as a tool to control you, it's very edifying and very gratifying and very addictive to have your fantasies come true, narcissists does everything I've just mentioned, in order to mold you to become so dependent on him that you would agree to shape shift in order to fully conform to the idealized internal object in his mind and change your behavior to meet his expectations and this is what I call coercive snapshotting because when you don't conform, when you disagree, when you criticize, when you fight back, when you resist, when you show any hint of independence and autonomy and personal agency and so on, the narcissist penalizes you, he becomes very punitive, anything from silent treatment to physical beatings, so the coercive snapshotting phase is about coercing you into fitting the internal object in his mind, molding you, shape shifting you, sculpting you like Pygmalion and Galatia, sculpting you to become that internal object so that there's no discrepancy, no daylight between the external object which is you and the internal object that represents you in his mind, this lack of discrepancy or reduced discrepancy also reduces, mitigates, ameliorates the narcissist's internal tension, stress, anxiety, it's an anxiolytic stage, the narcissist wants you to become that idealized counterfactual, unrealistic, inflated, grandiose, superior, perfect ideal object in his mind and he would do anything to force you to become that object, hence coercive snapshotting, once you had become, once the narcissist judges that you had become or that you largely conform to the internalized idealized object, he then parades you, I call it trophy parading, he shows you in public, it's a form of ostentation, he brags about you, you see, he says to everyone, I am the proud owner of an ideal object that makes me ideal, only ideal people possess ideal objects, here's my object, look at her, she's perfect, she's drop dead gorgeous, she's amazingly brilliant and hyper intelligent, she's perfection, she's godlike, she's a goddess, she's a goddess that makes me a god, this is co-idealization, ostentatious trophy parading, throughout this process, this initial phase of the shared fantasy, throughout this process, the narcissist uses sex as a tool to control you, bait you, trap you, get you addicted to him, form a bond and an attachment, hypersexuality, it's false advertising, the narcissist is incapable of having sex with another person, the narcissist is auto-erotic, even when the narcissist is in bed with another person, the narcissist is making love to himself, using the other person's body, in short, the narcissist masturbates with the other person's body, so the narcissist's hypersexuality, competitive sexual praises, he says you are the best in bed, I've never had sex like this, all these are intended to captivate you, to entrap you, and then the narcissist feels confident that he's not about to lose you, the sex diminishes, vanishes altogether, or becomes overtly masturbatory, he doesn't bother or care anymore about your needs in the sex, when the idealization is complete, the narcissist changes his interlocution, he changes his speech patterns, his speech acts, whereas throughout the initial phase, the love-bombing phase of the shared fantasy, the communication was mostly about you, you were the center of attention, you were the focus, you were the subject to be learned, to be studied, a bit like an insect in a laboratory, so the initial phase, it's 99% about you, once idealization is complete, you have been molded and shape-shifted into the internal idealized object, you're no longer yourself, you're no longer yourself, you conform to the narcissist's unspoken expectations behaviorally, even your thoughts and your emotions are controlled by the narcissist, let alone your moods, you're an extension of the narcissist now, you're a figment, you have become indeed an internal object, you have lost your externality, your separateness, your autonomy, at that point when the narcissist decides that he owns you, possesses you, so totally that there's no way for you to elope or to escape, at that point the narcissist stops talking mostly about you and starts to talk mostly about himself, and from that moment on for the rest of your relationship, it's about him, 90% about him, even if you were to ask you something about yourself, it's because he wants to ascertain that you're going to function, that your functionality is not hampered or obstructed, that you're not going to abandon him, so even when he talks in this later stage of the shared fantasy, even when the communication is focused on you, it's because the narcissist is lacking some information, so it's a form of data mining, what about devaluation, how can you tell that you're about to be devalued, coffee break, devaluation resembles very much the separation phase, not only in early childhood, but also in adolescence, there is a second separation phase in adolescence, the narcissist when he discards you is very much like an adolescent, he is defiant and reactant, he is contemptuous, he distances himself, he defines his identity in contra distinction to your identity, we call it negative identity formation, his identity is the opposite of your identity, he's not you, that's his identity, and his approach avoidant, all these are very common among adolescents who are separating from parental figures, and they are very common among narcissists in the discard devaluation phase, so in the narcissist's mind when he already starts devaluing you, he had already discarded you, he has already discarded you, in his mind you are discarded, the narcissist devalues you because he has already discarded you in his mind, he hasn't discarded you in reality because he has to keep you around, he didn't tell you to walk away, he didn't break up with you because he needs you to hang on, he needs your availability, he needs to have access to you in order to devalue you, but in his mind you are long gone, you are long discarded, devaluation in the narcissist's mind follows discard, by the way exactly like separation in reality, in the separation phase from mother, mother is idealized, then the child separates and then the child devalues mother, he develops a more realistic perception of mother which includes her bed aspects, frustrating aspects, shortcomings, failings, flaws, the realistic image of mother following the separation phase at age two to three is a devalued image because prior to separation mother is perfect, she is godlike, after separation she is a mere human, she is devalued, so the narcissist goes through the same phases in his mind and in reality but in reality he has to keep you around so he gives you the impression that you have not been discarded but that's a lie because in his mind even before he starts with the first hint of devaluation, you are long gone, you are no longer with him, what are the signs of imminent devaluation, how can you tell when the narcissist has discarded you in his mind and is about to embark on a campaign of degradation, denigration, humiliation, contempt, devaluation against you, how can you tell? The transition from love-bombing, shared fantasy to devaluation is very often abrupt and inexplicable, it's a whiplash, it's mind contorting, it's utterly incomprehensible, it's a bolt from the blue, it's a thunder stroke, it's people feel disoriented, dislocated, discombobulated, confused, they don't know what to do, they internalize shame and guilt, they castigate themselves and chastise themselves, I've done something wrong maybe, did I provoke him, did I misbehave, they don't know what to think, they don't realize that's an internal dynamic since inside the narcissist's mind has nothing to do with them, the narcissist's intimate partner is flabbergasted, she is heartbroken precisely because she can find no reason rational or irrational for what's happening, she doesn't realize that she is just an artifact, she's just a symbol, the narcissist's mind is in operation, these stages, idealization, discard, devaluation, they all take place within the narcissist's mind, they are artifacts of his mind, they are processes that unfurl and unfold in his brain, they have nothing to do with external reality, they have nothing to do even with you, any and all intimate partners go through the same inalienable, indistinguishable phases, you are utterly interchangeable, you are a commodity like a grain of rice or an internet service provider, it's not about you and you've done nothing wrong, it's about the narcissist and the inexorable, inexorable, inaluctable, inevitable processes that infest his mind because it's an infestation, but how can you tell that it's about to happen, this inevitability?  In his demented and tortured mind does the narcissist follow these steps sequentially in the same order or not and why does he transition from one to the other? How can you tell that the narcissist is about to devalue you and discard you? Are there any tell tale signs, behavioral, cognitive, emotional? This is the topic of today's video lecture. My name is Sam Vaknin, I am the ineluctable author of Malignant Self-Love Narcissism Revisited and I am also a professor of psychology. Now if you turn on captions in YouTube it says my name is Sam Batman, not Vaknin but Batman. I love YouTube, they get straight to the essence, they see through me and they realize that I'm not Vaknin at all, I am Batman. There's nothing, nothing more humorous than the auto captions in YouTube, the cycle titles that are generated automatically by YouTube's supposedly artificial intelligence. But officially it is intelligent, I'm not quite sure.  Let us get straight to the points promised. The stage of discard. I've described the stage of discard in previous videos as a reenactment, a replay of the unresolved separation phase with the narcissist's original mother. Just to refresh your memories or what's left of them, the narcissist was unable to separate from his mother as a child because he had been abused or traumatized. The mother wouldn't let him go for various reasons, she could have been possibly selfish or maybe narcissistic or maybe depressed or maybe dependent on the child, parentified the child or maybe just found the child to be a satisfactory source of sadistic supply, tortured the child in various ways. Whatever the reason may be, the narcissist's mother refused to let him go, refused to allow him to set firm boundaries to become an individual divided from her. And so the narcissist had never separated from his mother. Fast forward to the narcissist's adulthood, he finds you and he tries to convert you into a substitute mother, a maternal figure. And the general idea is that he can replay with you his childhood like an old tape, a second chance, he can reenact all the dynamics between him and his original mother with you, but this time with a different resolution. This time the narcissist is going to succeed to separate from the maternal figure which happens to be you and this separation is the discard. The narcissist is compelled compulsively, is compelled to separate from you.  Discarding you is a symbolic separation from the original mother. I've explained all this in much greater detail in other videos and in my interviews with Richard Grana. Following separation there's a phase called individuation. Individuation is setting boundaries, developing a well-constellated, integrated, coherent and cohesive sense of self, regulating one's sense of self-worth, et cetera, et cetera, becoming an individual in individuation. In the narcissist's mind the only way to separate from you is to discard you and the only way to individuate, to become an individual, is to devalue you. Wait a minute, Vaknin, say those of you who are still awake. Why does the narcissist need to devalue me in order to become an individual? The question is simple, the answer regrettably, like everything else in psychology, is complex. Remember what the narcissist does when he first comes across a potential intimate partner, you, he takes a snapshot of you and then he internalizes this snapshot, this avatar, introject in clinical terms, he internalizes it and then he photoshopps it, he idealizes it, he idealizes you and now he has to get rid of you in order to separate from this new maternal figure, in order to separate from you, in order to complete the separation successfully with his new mother, which is you, he needs to discard you, but what justification does he have for discarding you?  How can, how can he explain getting rid of an idealized object, discarding a person who is ideal, perfect, brilliant, drop dead, gorgeous, supremely intelligent, almost as intelligent as Vaknin? How do you, how do you account for suddenly discarding, suddenly getting rid, suddenly disengaging from someone like this? You need to devalue that person to explain to himself and to others the discard, the narcissist needs to devalue you, but the stage of devaluation is the mirror image of the stage of idealization, the devaluation is the opposite, the antithesis, the polar opposite of idealization, so that's a problem because the narcissist has to admit to himself, if to no one else, but usually to others as well, he has to admit that he has been wrong, he has to, he has to confess that he has idealized the wrong person, he has to acknowledge a mistake, he has to accept the error of his judgment and the narcissist can never do this, the narcissist has idealized you and now he needs to devalue you, but by devaluing you, he is, it's as good as admitting the mistake of having idealized you, it's as good as saying idealizing her was a mistake, she was the wrong person, I made the wrong decision, my judgment was affected somehow adversely, I committed an error, no narcissist would say this because it's narcissistic injury and if it's in public and humiliating, it's modification, narcissist would never admit to a mistake, so how to square the circle, how to square the circle, the narcissist desperately needs to separate from you, but to do this, he needs to discard you and to discard you, he needs to devalue you and to devalue you, he needs to acknowledge that the idealization phase was a mistake that he has committed, that he had committed, no narcissist would do this, so what the narcissist does is a reversal of the internalization introjection phase, you remember that when the narcissist first came across you, he took a snapshot of you and then he idealized this snapshot and now what he does, he externalizes this snapshot, he kind of hands it back to you, hands the snapshot back to you and rather than the, rather than introject the snapshot, he projects the snapshot, so it's a reverse process, it's a mirror process, the narcissist takes a snapshot and says, he or, take the snapshot back, it's like giving you back a wedding ring or a gift that you had bought, he's a snapshot, take it back and I'm projecting onto the snapshot all the bad qualities and of course many of these bad qualities belong to the narcissist, the narcissist imbues the discarded snapshot with his own, with his own counterproductive traits, self-destructiveness, self-defeating behaviors, etc, etc, the discarded snapshot becomes the narcissist actually, in a way the narcissist disowns himself through the devaluation phase, it's very difficult to wrap your, your minds or to wrap your heads around what I'm saying, so I'll go through it again one last time very briefly, the narcissist needs to discard you, to discard you he needs to devalue you, to devalue you he needs to acknowledge a mistake, but he cannot acknowledge that he had committed a mistake, he cannot acknowledge that his judgment had been wrong, so what he does instead in order to preserve his grandiosity even as he exits the shared fantasy, what he does he hands you back the snapshot, but the snapshot that he hands you back is actually a reflection of the narcissist himself, this process is known as splitting, the narcissist makes you all bad and by making you all bad he renders himself all good and he says she is actually all bad, she had deceived me, she had changed from the worse, I'm a good person so I was misled, in other words the narcissist aggrandizes himself by splitting the the negative aspects of himself, placing them on the snapshot and handing the snapshot back to you, the original process of creating the snapshot is called in clinical terms internalization in projection, the reverse process that leads to devaluation and discard is externalization projection, the narcissist actually regresses to a very early stage in his childhood when separation occurs, separation happens at age 18 months, the narcissist regresses to age 18 months or two years and at that age there is a defense mechanism called splitting and what the narcissist does he renders you all bad and he renders himself all good in his own eyes thereby preserving his grandiosity, it's the only way for him to exit the shared fantasy without acknowledging his own imperfection without experiencing shame for having failed to evaluate you properly, so he tries to do this, now the vast majority of narcissists fail in this attempt to externalize the snapshot and to imbue the snapshot with all the bad aspects of the narcissist, this attempt usually fails and it fails because of something called repetition compulsion, I have a video dedicated to why the narcissist hovers you, please go and watch it, when this process fails there is hoovering, okay I don't know if you notice something very interesting, in the narcissist's mind the discard precedes the devaluation, in order to separate from you as a maternal figure the narcissist in his mind emotionally first discards you and then uses projection externalization to devalue you, so in his mind the sequence is reversed, it's not the same sequence as his behavior in reality, in his mind he idealizes you, devalues you, discard you and then devalues you, I repeat in the narcissist's mind he idealizes you, he then discards you as he would have discarded his original mother, at age two the mother is still idealized, the toddler, the two-year-old toddler who separates from mother is separating from an idealized image, an idealized imago, an idealized internal object, it's the same with the narcissist, he idealizes you and then he discards you, he separates from you while you're still idealized, but to explain to himself why he is separating from a from an idealized person, from an ideal person, from a perfect person, to explain this to himself the narcissist devalues you, so we have a divergence, we have a discrepancy, in the narcissist's mind it's idealization, discard, devaluation, replacement, in reality it's idealization, devaluation, discard and replacement, how can we explain this discrepancy, how can we account for it, if the narcissist has discarded you in his mind prior to devaluing you, why in reality he devalues you before he discards you because he has to hang on to you, he has to keep you around, he needs you there because he needs to complete the process with you, had he discarded you immediately after having idealized you, you will not be around for the devaluation phase, let me repeat this, if the narcissist were to idealize you and then the narcissist were to discard you, you would walk away and you would not be available there for the devaluation phase, so the narcissist has to reverse the order, he has to first devalue you and keep you around in order to complete the devaluation process and only then he discard you.


Understanding Jesus, who he is, his identity is of the utmost importance. There will always be people who don't understand because they either don't want to understand. There are those who are trying to make it make sense. There are those who it sort of makes sense, but can't really explain it. It is so important. Literally, your salvation depends on it. Now, do you have to adopt the same terminology that everyone else adopts? No. Do you have to state that he is this triune being? Do you have to use the word triune or the word trinity? No, you don't. What you do have to understand is who he is, that Jesus is the Lord, and that the Lord is God. You must believe that Jesus is God. Now, I want to go through some scriptures. There are going to be those that are going to disagree. That's fine. Those who are kind of on the fence are trying to make it make sense, trying to get some understanding. Those are the ones that this video is for. And I want to give you some scriptures and some other things to kind of understand. Number one, we must understand according to Deuteronomy 4. Now, remember, this is God telling Moses. Moses doesn't know this unless God tells him. So God is giving him first-hand account. And remember, when God speaks, he is not trying to confuse anyone. He's not trying to speak in riddles. He is not trying to get you to hear something and not understand unless you happen to be one of the Jews of that day, whom he's given a spirit of stupor. They have ears, but do not understand. They have eyes, but do not see. That's not what he's doing to us. And that's certainly not what he's doing to Moses, who's explained it to the Jews. Then he's not trying to do the same thing to them. So what he says, they can take it at face value and clearly understand. He says to them in Deuteronomy 4.35, he says, To you it has been shown that you might know that the Lord he is God. There is no other besides him. So it seems pretty self-explanatory that he is the Lord. God is the Lord and the Lord is God. There is no other beside him. So how many Lords according to this passage are there? One, how many Gods? One, he reiterates it again in Deuteronomy 4.39, he says, Know therefore today and take it to your heart. Finally important you understand this that the Lord he is God in heaven above and he is the Lord below as well. There is no other. No other on earth. There is no other in heaven. So if there was another one to come and state that he is the Lord or anyone elsewhere to say that he is the Lord on earth, especially, then we've got a problem. The problem is we've got Jesus who comes. Paul tells us that there's only one faith, one baptism, one Lord. And he tells us how important it is to recognize he's Lord. Romans 10 9. He says that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, a Lord, some random Lord know the Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised from the dead. Now some will be bothered or confused because it says that God had us raised from the dead. Remember though, the Bible tells us that God raised Jesus from the dead. The Holy Spirit raised Jesus from the dead and Jesus himself says that he will raise himself from the dead. So who did so? Well, God, who is God? God the Father. God is God. So too is Jesus. Jesus is God. Notice what he says. He says for there is no distinction verse 12 between Jew and Greek for the Lord is Lord of all abounding and riches for all who call him for whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. You must call on him as the Lord that is understood as a matter of fact, even the Jews were understanding. As a matter of fact, they were angry. Remember Jesus makes a statement in Mark 2. He says to someone that their sins are forgiven. What do the Jews do? The Jews say, why does this man speak in that way? He is blaspheming. Why is he saying that? Because who can forgive sins but God alone? Well, Jesus doesn't correct him. As a matter of fact, he says so that you will know that I am the son of man that I will, that your sins are forgiven and take up your bed and walk. And so he wants you to know that I've got the power and I am who I say I am that being the case. Why would the Jews even think that only God can forgive sins? And why would it be blasphemous for them to think so?  So he's speaking to them in regards to their sins as it relates to their offerings. And notice what he says in verse 25.   And so for Jesus to make that statement, the Jews understood that wait a second, if he's not God, then that's blasphemous. The problem is they didn't recognize that he actually is God. Notice Jesus is not correcting them. Jesus is not saying, no, you have this understood incorrectly.  And one of the more clearer statements that could be made in the Bible in John 1, 1, we covered this passage and people still, I think, intentionally want to not understand what's saying. It's almost like they see what it's saying and just will not allow their eyes to see or to believe what they're seeing. John 1, 1, we know the passage in the beginning was the word. The word was with God and the word was God. And as we notice this now, I understand that some folks aren't necessarily Greek scholars, but take what I'm saying and go and investigate it and see if what I say is true if you don't understand it. But this even relates to certain things that we know in English. For example, in this passage, we have a subject and we have a predicate nominative because we have two nouns. The two nouns that we see here are the word and God. We have the word here, Lagos and the word Theos, which is God. Pheon and Theos, same thing. And so the question is of these two nouns, which one is the subject and which one is the predicate nominative? Well, in Greek, the first noun that we see would be the subject. And so in this case, it's the word Lagos. So Lagos, the word is the word that is the subject. The next one, Pheon, Theos is the predicate nominative. Why is that important? Because the predicate nominative is going to describe the category or class of what the subject is. And so because we see that, we see that Pheos is the predicate nominative. It describes what it describes Lagos. As a matter of fact, even in the Greek, it says Chai Pheos and Halagos, which is and God was the word. Now the reason for the ship, because our English says in that latter portion of verse one says and the word was God. By the way, the English should make it abundantly clear. The word was God. What was the word? God, that part is understood. But here in the Greek, the reason why the Pheos is shifted to the front of this last cause of verse one is to give greater emphasis to what the word is. God, I understand some folks might disagree, but you're not going to be able to argue with these rules of Greek. That's just really what it is. Paul, who was certainly chosen by God will go on to state in various places his belief that Jesus is God. And one clear place to show it is in Titus 2 13. We have a group Greek rule that is used here, what's called the Grenville sharp rule. But even in the English, you still should be able to see it. He says looking to the blessed hope and the appearing of the low of the glory of our great God and save now before I go into the to the rule, notice what he says the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior. Where have we seen this whole issue regarding to the glory appearing? Oh, I know one in the Old Testament, the glory before the people that also in John was as we beheld his glory, the glory as of the father of the begotten of the only begotten son. Who is that Jesus? And so we beheld his glory. Oh, by the way, Jesus makes a statement as he's praying in John 17.  God stated himself that he would not share his glory with anyone. And so in this passage, which glory the glory belongs to who it could not be glory that belongs to God and then Jesus be separate. No, one in the same. And notice what he says. He says that appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. So he's calling Jesus Christ our great God and Savior. Now the Grenville Sharpe rule states this. You have what's called the the, which is the definite article, the substantive, which is a noun, chi and substantive. Now both of them are singular. They're not proper names and they are in in this case. They are in the same case. And so therefore they relate. So great God and great Savior, great God and Savior both refer to Jesus. That's what that means. We're not going to be able to get around it. And so the person disagrees will then help us to understand our misunderstanding of the Greek. Now, by the way, is Jesus the great God and Savior? Well, if you're, if you're saying otherwise, if you're saying that he's not, we got a problem because we all understand that Jesus is a savior. Well, but he's not the savior or he's a different savior. But wait a second because God himself says in Isaiah 4311, he says, I even I am the Lord again, who is the Lord God and there is no savior beside me. Well, how could that be? How could God say that he's the only savior? But Jesus is a savior. He is our savior. As a matter of fact, his name in the Hebrew or Greek both means the Lord who saves. So how could he not be God? If God says there's only one savior and Jesus is called and known to be by everyone, even those who don't believe that Jesus God, they'll even accept that Jesus is Savior. And then to make it even clear, God says in Hebrews 18 he says, but the son to the son, he says, your throne, oh God is forever and ever. And the righteous scepter is the scepter of his kingdom. Well, which scepter? Which kingdom is the kingdom of God? Well, wait a second. He says this is his kingdom and this also harkens back to Genesis 49 saying that the separate shall not depart from Judah, which is explaining that Jesus is going to be the king, his kingdom. But I thought it's God's kingdom. More to the point, though, God calls Jesus the son. He calls him God. You can be mad at me. You can say that I'm wrong. But if God calls him God, I think that's good enough. But some are going to say, well, that's just his interpretation. That's just my interpretation. Well, let's go back to Leviticus 1711. This is after he is prescribed the atonement for the people. There must be blood that's given on the altar to atone for the people sold. Notice what he says in Hebrews, I mean in Leviticus 1711 he says, for the life of the flesh is in the blood and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls and or for it is by the blood or the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement. Well, that seems okay. That doesn't seem like like it's too controversial. How is that making your point, Corey? Well, here's how we've covered this before. But in the Greek, we're going to notice something that's here. We see this word, this use here, this word wahani, which is the word I and this word not that team. This word not that team is I have given. Unlike English, we don't have to have a pronoun such as I in front of the verb and the verb is going to have different endings. It can be I give, I have given. So I have given. I got half in front of it. We don't have that problem in Hebrew in the word itself can contain and the prefix and the suffix. It can tell us what is happening. Who's doing it and even the time that is happening the mood voice and so forth. All of that can be carried out in Hebrew or Greek. Now in this case, notice what it says. He says wahani and I, I have given. Why would he say I, I have given? Well, the reason for the I, I have given is to give emphasis is to say that I myself have given. Now this could be taken that he's supplying, but we know it's not. This also can be taken. It is to be taken that he himself is giving the blood. How could that be since he doesn't have any blood? Well, he's speaking about an offering. He's speaking about them having their sins atone for what we go to Hebrews 10 five, the state, the statement is made here in Hebrews 10 five to clarify this even more. So to make sure or to validate what I'm saying, he says, therefore, when he comes into the world, speaking of who speaking of Jesus, he says, sacrifice and offerings you have not desired, but a body you have prepared for me for what, for a true sacrifice, for a true offering, why to offer himself as a ransom for many. And so he gives his blood for the atonement of the people's souls. Just like it says in Leviticus 7 11 to make it even more so, go to Acts 20 28. He says beyond guard yourselves for all the flock among, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to shepherd the church of God. Notice what he says to shepherd the shepherd of the church of God, which he got purchased with his own blood. How could that be?  And so whose blood dodge blood? How could that be? Well, he has to, as the Bible tells us to in this veiled form come in the form of a servant lower than angels and to sacrifice himself on the cross. He sent himself Lord, notice in, in the scriptures, it says that he voluntarily imputed himself. He voluntarily came on his own. He was not forced to, but another passage is to say that he was sent. Both are true. Even if you don't quite understand it, both are true. Gravity for me, I don't understand it, but it's true. Black holes don't understand them, but they're true. The way the computers work, the way cars work, don't understand them, but they sure work. That is when they do work. But the fact of the matter is Jesus is God. Now this is why this is important. This is why this is important because your salvation is literally at stake here. Remember what he says in Romans 10, that you must confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord. Now, that being the case, Jesus states it also in John 8 24.  He who's the I am. He this is the Greek phrase. I go MA and if you do not believe that he's the I am.  And we know that what he's referring to when he says the I am unless you believe that you will die, that he's referring to him being God. The I am is because he says in the exact same chapter. There's a few verses later in verse 58. He makes the same statement. He says, he said to them truly to I said to you before Abraham was born. I am. He was not saying that he's old. He's been around for a long time. They knew exactly what he was saying because therefore they picked up stones. Who's David the Jews to throw at him? But Jesus hit himself. So what did the Jews think the Jews clearly thought that he was saying that he was God? How do we know because even in John chapter 10 knows what he says? He says my father who has given them to me is greater than all and no one is able to snatch him out of my father's hand. He says verse 30. I and the father are one. And that's what he says in verse 30. He says the Jews picked up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them. I showed you many good works from the father for which of them are you stoning me? The Jews answered him for good work. We do not stone you but for blasphemy because you Jesus being a man make yourself out to be God. You are calling yourself out to be God and notice that Jesus does not correct him. Jesus doesn't say that that's not true. Now notice what Jesus does. He goes to verse 34. He says has it not been written in your law. I say you are God's now. The reason why he's he's kind of really here. He's messing with them. However they want to take it. They cannot impugn him. However, for us to understand they are thinking that he is calling himself God. That's the most important point. And he is not correcting them. He is not saying that's incorrect. Jesus has never been shy when it comes to correcting someone. Thomas says my Lord and my God. Well, first of all, if he's Lord then he's got to be God and he calls him God. Does Jesus say no, that's not the case. There are some pastors. I understand they're going to be troubled for some people. When Jesus says that I don't know only the father knows the father who sent me and that thing. Wait a second. How would he be God and not know? Well, when Jesus makes a statement, for example, in John 14, he's speaking about the father knows the time and hour. He's not saying he's not saying I don't know in terms. I don't know. He's making a point that under Jewish tradition that when the father blows the trumpet, when the father decides it's time to go and get his bride, then the son gets him. The father has given. So his whole point in that is to make the statement that he is going to come and get his bride. It's a guarantee. Not as a point to confuse people. But again, the Jews themselves thought that he was calling himself God. God calls him God and notice there's some things that have to be understood who he's called and what he does. We have to try to figure out who is who. Remember question would be who created everything? Well, Genesis one says that God did, but Jesus is said to have created everything. Who's the first and the last? Was he out from the meager? Well, according to the Old Testament, God is as well as revelation, but then Jesus is also called the first and the last, the out from the meager. Who's the great judge? Psalm 75 says it's God. James says it's Jesus. Well, who's the Lord? Well, we've covered it before. The Bible in the Old Testament says it is the Lord is God, but then in the New Testament all throughout Jesus is God. Who's the I am? According to Exodus, God who is the I am in John Jesus. Who's the Savior? God in Isaiah in Luke. It is Jesus. These are vitally important, but then also they're called by the same name, the creator of everything, the one that's forgiving sins, the one that's receiving worship, the one who's saving the one who raised Jesus. Is it God or is it Jesus? So we see them having the same name and also doing the same thing at some point in time. Someone's going to have to say, even though I don't fully quite understand it and granted everybody or virtually anybody is able to fully understand God's existence. Why? There's no one like him. There's no one nor will there ever be anyone like him.  He's made that abundantly clear. So too has God. So too has his prophets and apostles. And so I think he's also clear when he says that unless you believe this, you will die in your sins. That's why this is so important and that's why we will keep continuously stressing this so that people will finally see it now. Obviously, it's not to us. It's up to God to grant understanding for people. I don't think it takes that much. Honestly, I do see where there can be some issues where that didn't quite make sense. That's fine, but something that didn't have to make perfect sense in order for you to understand that is true. Again, you don't make perfect sense in the way that you do things, but you know that your existence is true. You don't understand everything that has to do with science or biology or anything. Computers, technology, but yet you understand it's true. You know, if I push this button, what will happen? You know, if I type certain things and hit sin, what will happen, it'll go through. And so though you don't understand it fully, does not mean it's not true. Don't let the one thing that is the basis of him coming to save us that is him showing his love and him paying the penalty, him paying the debt that he requires of himself. Don't let this great act of love be missed by you, especially if it's done intentionally. Amen.