Gracious God, Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, would you just bless this brother abundantly in a very mighty way? Would you send your spirit in a very real way, Father, and just move in this assembly this morning? Bless our dear brother. If there's anything that needs to be purged from his life, would you do that purging right now at this moment and give his tongue the ability to just speak and inspire and direct us in the ways that you would have us? Father, would you bring thoughts to his mind perhaps that he's not even considered and just use him as a vessel in a very mighty way for your glory this morning as we worship together in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Well good morning. My name is Jacob and I am a slave to my older brother. Now don't feel too sorry for me because I am a willing and joyful servant of my older sibling. Now I can assure you that it has not always been this way. I have not always desired to commit myself to my brother but it is a decision that took place in my life when I was in my late 20s or early 30s. The defining moment of my life. I understand that you have come this morning to hear about James the brother of Jesus. Now that puzzled me a little bit when I heard of that expectation because you see I am a brother of Jesus and there are three others who are also brothers to him. There's Joseph, there's Simon, there's Judas whom we also call Jude and there's me. Jacob, that's my name. And so I did a little bit of digging to find out who this James person was and I came to realize that several hundred years after I walked this earth my name was changed to James. I don't know how it happened but it was. Well if there's anything that I've learned in life it's that true wisdom is gentle and peaceable and willing to yield. And so I will try to call myself James this morning for your sake. However I must say that as I think back over my upbringing it was such a wonderful experience. My older brother's name of course is Jesus and we do not have the same father but we have the same mother. He of course was conceived miraculously through the power of the Holy Spirit in our mother Mary. And my father is Joseph and we were both raised by our earthly parents Joseph and Mary. Now my parents were very devout people. I had such a wonderful upbringing in the home. They were so proud of the Jewish heritage that they had received. They had such visions and dreams for the legacy they wished to pass on to us as their children. And that's why they named me Jacob. When you think about Abraham, Isaac, Jacob there's importance there. And not only were they thinking of the patriarch but they were thinking of my grandfather. My father's father's name is Jacob. And so that's why they gave me that name. Of course the person that I'm most passionate about is my brother. When I think about our growing up years, I'm a bit amazed when I think about how normal everything was. I did not think of my brother as perfect for sure. I got irritated at him. I did not understand him many times. Can you imagine what it's like to live with a brother who is perfectly obedient? It's annoying. I just chalked it up to personality or somehow he was just willing to bend and do whatever dad and mom said. But overall we had a very happy family. There were five of us brothers. There were several sisters. And other than a brief sojourn in Egypt, which I was too young to remember, we grew up in Judea just like most every other Jewish family. One of the things that sticks out to me was the importance that my parents placed on spiritual priorities. And one of the main ways they illustrated that was how they made a yearly pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the Passover feast. We knew that if dad and mom were at all able to make that trip, we would all get to go along and travel with aunts and uncles and cousins and neighbors to go to Jerusalem and engage in that feast. Talk about instilling spiritual values in a family. Maybe that's some of what you are doing here today in coming to this place called Rocksbury, this kingdom fellowship weekend thing. Maybe it's a bit of a yearly pilgrimage for your family to instill spiritual values. Anyway, that's what we experienced as we were growing up. There was that one incident when my brother was 12 and the Passover had happened. We had a great time. We were traveling back from Jerusalem. And Jesus is a normal 12-year-old. We just all assumed that he was out there playing with cousins or traveling with neighbors. We went a whole day without even realizing he wasn't even with us. And well, that caused a lot of tension and concern. We had to drop out of the caravan, turn around, go back to Jerusalem, and try to find and figure out what happened to my brother. And I was a little concerned. But he's 12. He's able to take care of himself. And besides, I had to leave my cousins and friends in order to turn around and look for him. But you know what? We found him. And I thought, I thought, aha, he messed up. In fact, Mom even rebuked him. And then he said something to the effect of, well, don't you know, I need to be about my father's business. I'll tell you what, he was something else. I just thought personality or disposition, I sure did not think divinity. Well, time goes on. We grew up as all young people do, right? Our father passed away and Jesus as the oldest in our family now had responsibility to care for mom and for us as the brothers and sisters. And of course, all of us boys, we'd learned the trade of our father in carpentry and so providing and protecting was no hard difficulty for us. We were glad to do that. But somewhere in the late 20s, early 30s, Jesus really began to do some unusual things. He started gathering these disciples. He was teaching some powerful things, things that caught my attention. And we weren't sure exactly what to make of it all. In fact, crowds started to gather to him. And you know, the things that he was saying really stuck out to me because I had grown up with him. And I could verify that he had lived everything that he was teaching. There was no question about that. But I really couldn't put it all together. I remember one occasion when the crowds were just thronging around him and several of us decided we need to stage an intervention. We need to go and rescue him. He's going mad. He needs to be saved from himself before he gets completely done in by the crowd. That didn't work. Then on another occasion, sometime later, several of his brothers thought, well, if we can't rescue him from himself, maybe we should just tell him to go out there and put it all out in the open. So he said, hey, this Passover is coming up in Jerusalem. Why don't you just go and show yourself to the world? That's what you ought to do. If this is all true and right, what you're saying, he didn't do that either. Personally, I had my own set of concerns. My concern was that as the next oldest, if something happened to him, then obviously the responsibility of the family would fall on me. So there were some personal issues that I was dealing with and what was going on with my brother. But you know, his teachings were something I couldn't get out of my mind. It was so influential because I knew him, even though I certainly was no convert of his. And then it happened. There was just this awful conclusion in Jerusalem. It was over the time of the Passover. We traveled up as we had year after year after year. But that year, things were different. That year, my brother was arrested. And he was tried. He was unfairly tried. He was turned over to the Romans and he was crucified. I can't express to you how devastated we as a family felt. The shock, the grief, the shame.  And we didn't know what to do with all that was happening. There was the hasty burial, the somber silent Sabbath, the shock, the grief. We didn't know what to do. And then the events took an even stranger turn. Suddenly there were reports that there were sightings of my brother, that he was alive again, that there was an empty tomb, grave clothes left behind. We were thick in the midst of grief and we weren't sure what to make of all of this. But then the defining moment happened. Several days after the crucifixion and the accounts of these strange happenings, my brother appeared to me. Suddenly he was there. I could hardly believe it. It was so surreal, but it was real. And we were able to talk. And suddenly everything that I had observed and thought about his life, his miracles, his ministry, his message, suddenly it all came together and I understood. I understood who my brother was. And it was at that moment that I committed myself to him to be his bondservant, his slave, his joyful subject. Of course he ascended to heaven several weeks later, but his presence is still so real to us, so real to me. And from that personal encounter until now everything has changed about my passion and purpose in life. My desire now is for his kingdom to come and his will to be done everywhere. And so my challenge to you is this. Hear my brother's words, but don't just hear them. Be a doer of the words that you hear. Commit to being a bondservant of his. Thank you for listening to my message today. Grace to you in peace be multiplied. My name is Brandon James Byler. We just had James quote unquote share a testimony with us. I'd like to share a few more details with you about this man. His name really is Jacob. Those of you who are Greek readers know that from reading your Greek New Testament texts. But we'll stick with James since that's how we know him best. It is difficult at times to keep track of the Jameses because there are a number of them. It was a common name in that time. At least four Jameses are mentioned in the New Testament. The first James we'll look at just three of them to delineate who they were. The first one is of the Peter, James and John had a little sailboat fame. Brother to John we would understand that he was the older brother since he's always listed first. And that Peter along with those two brothers the sons of Thunder carried on a fishing enterprise together. They were the sons of Zebedee and had quite fiery temperaments. There were two Jameses who were the disciples of Christ and it seems that they were given nicknames to differentiate them one from the other much like we might do today with David or Michael. And those are great names but often there are several David and several Michaels so we designate them. Same happened in Scripture. We have James the Greater or just James. And then the second James that we want to define is James the Less. That doesn't mean that he was less than James the Greater. It doesn't even necessarily mean that he was smaller but it may indicate that he was younger. So we would think of James Senior and James Junior both being part of the 12. James Senior or James the Greater was killed by a king here at Agrippa One in approximately 44 A.D. He was the first of the 12 to be martyred. James the Less was also called the Son of Alpheus and we really don't know a lot about what happened to him after Pentecost. It's possible that he became the leader of the church in Syria. And then the third James is the one that we're focusing on today. He was one of Jesus four brothers and in the several places where the brothers are listed by name James's name always comes first and so we speculate that he was the second oldest brother in the family. We don't have any indication of James becoming a believer until after the resurrection the apostle Paul says this in 1 Corinthians 15. He's talking about the various people to whom Jesus revealed himself and verse six Paul says after that he was seen by James and then by all the apostles. Our understanding would be that that revelation took place between the resurrection and the ascension. The next time that we hear about James is in Acts 114. You recall that Jesus has just ascended to heaven and the people that were there went back to Jerusalem to the upper room to await the promised giving of the Spirit. And Luke says these all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication with the women and marry the mother of Jesus and with his brothers. Our understanding being that James was with them. So we think back to John seven where it says that his brothers did not believe in him. Now his brothers are in the upper room seeking this gift of the Holy Spirit. Something happened and it's possible and I'm speculating here that perhaps their unbelief in John seven wasn't so much unbelief as it was disbelief or a difficulty to believe. We grew up with this guy. We know him. What does it mean for my brother to be the king of the kingdom of God? It's likely that James was married even though we never hear of his wife or family. And this comes to us from what Paul asks in 1 Corinthians nine five. He says do we have no right to take along a believing wife as do also the other apostles the brothers of the Lord and Cephas. We recognize that James's brother Jude wrote a small letter an epistle in which he opens up the words Jude a bond servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James. And of course James wrote his own epistle with a much similar opening very similar wording. James a bond servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. So that gives us a bit of an overview of James's life. I'd also like us next then to look at the leadership of James. The life of James being what it was. There's also something to consider about the leadership of James and how did he become a leader anyway. We have scripture and early historians both secular and Christian historians who give us some insight into what took place there in those early days. Eusebius who was a church historian living in the fourth century quoting from an earlier work by Clement says that Peter and James and John this would be James the senior and John after the ascension of our Savior though they had been preferred by our Lord did not contend for the honor but chose James the just as bishop of Jerusalem. That's pretty amazing considering the aspirations for power and leadership that particularly James and John had as they walked with Jesus and his earthly ministry. They wanted to have the positions of preeminence of leadership but Clement says they deferred to Jesus brother James and chose him to lead the church in Jerusalem. To me that speaks powerfully of the change that had worked been worked in the lives of these men. Chronologically the first reference to James as someone influential is mentioned by Paul in Galatians 1 18 he says after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and remained with him 15 days but I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord's brother. This probably happened around 37 AD or so we'll try to keep some of these dates in mind. It's likely that James was put into leadership somewhere in the early 40s AD within the first 10 years or so of Pentecost. The next indication that we have of his influence is around the year 44 in Acts 1217. You'll remember that James Sr. was arrested by Herod, was put in prison, was beheaded and so he was off the scene and Herod saw how much that pleased the Jews and so he decided to take another one of the disciples the apostles and he arrested Peter and had the same designs for him. Peter of course was delivered by an angel, came out of prison, he ended up at the prayer meeting that was in session for him and once he was finally able to convince his brothers and sisters in Christ that their prayers had worked. It's always great to realize that prayer does work. He said this. He said go tell these things to James and to the brethren. It indicates the position of leadership that James had. Particularly this position is established by the mid to late 40s or so. Paul writes about this in Galatians 2. He talks about how after 14 years he went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas to see and make sure that the message he had been preaching was approved by what he calls the pillars there in Jerusalem and so he shares with them what he had been teaching with the result being in verse 9 that when James, Cephas and John who seem to be pillars perceived the grace that been given to me they gave me and Barnabas the right hand a fellowship that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. So they agreed to focus their ministry on the Jewish people and Paul and Barnabas to focus on the Gentile people. They gave them the right hand a fellowship and James of course is listed first there indicating likely his preeminence in leadership in Jerusalem. Also in the late 40s or early 50s we have the story from Paul in Galatians 2 where Peter had come from Antioch and Paul withstood him to the face because he was to be blamed Paul says for certain men came from James certain men came from James and after they arrived in Antioch Peter withdrew from fellowship with the Gentile Christians because of some sort of concern about what these Jewish believers would think from James and Peter and even Barnabas was carried away and the rest of the Jews by this this hypocrisy.  There's a similar situation of course in Acts 15 I don't know whether this is the same situation or not where you have Jewish Christians from Jerusalem going to Antioch and attempting to Judaize the Gentile believers meaning what they were preaching was you have to as a Gentile become a Jew first then become a Christian. If you want to become a Christian you have to become Jewish first then become a Christian. Be circumcised follow the commands of Moses and that is the approved path to Christianity. Obviously that raised a big dispute. James was not listed in that passage that they came from him but it caused a big stir and so it led to a major brothers meeting or maybe you could say a leaders meeting in Jerusalem. Paul, Barnabas, a bunch of people from Antioch travel to Jerusalem to hash out what should be done about Gentile believers and what should be expected of them and what's fascinating is you have Peter standing up and sharing what he's sharing there's a lot of disputing going on Paul and Barnabas share what God has done through them and then it says everything became silent. Then James spoke up and he gives a summary of what he sees going on he quotes some Scripture and he provides a path forward as to what he believes ought to be done in telling the Gentile Jews or Gentile Christians what they should do or what is expected of them in order to follow the Messiah and the result of that stand by James and that leadership is that everyone was pleased and a letter was drafted and was sent back to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas as well as emissaries from the Jerusalem church and everywhere they went sharing this message of what had been decided there was encouragement there was joy there was peace there was excitement why because James had exercised wise leadership the church banded together and they all recognized that this is pleasing to the Holy Spirit this is the direction that we ought to take and that account is where I really see the indisputable authority of James in the church there there's one final passage that has James's leadership fingerprints on it and that is in Acts 21 it's probably the mid to late 50s AD by now this is the story of Paul traveling to Jerusalem along with his entourage the brothers received them gladly and it says that after they'd gotten there the following day Paul went in with us to James and all the elders were present and when he had greeted them he told in detail those things which God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry and when they heard it they glorify God and they said to him you see brother how many myriads of Jews there are who have believed and they're all zealous for the law but they have been informed about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses this is a big concern Paul are you are you saying that Jewish Christians shouldn't follow Moses now this is this can get a little bit perplexing here in what happens next what happens next is it doesn't mention James's name but it says he went into James and the elders at least the elders have this plan they said to Paul look here are four men that have made a vow we want you to pay their expenses and also be purified yourself to prove to all the Jewish brothers that you still walk in an orderly manner and you support the law of Moses now this is Paul Paul is the one who if I have my Romans correct really comes down hard on the law and the the fact that the law is put away the law of Moses is unnecessary the law of Moses that's for back there we have something new this Paul submits to this plan to show the people the Jewish Christians that he is and the Jewish non-christians that he is still walking orderly and he still supports the law of Moses what are we to make of all of that in a nutshell I believe that Paul was living out what he expressly stated to the Jews I will become as a Jew I will become all things to all people without denying my Messiah I believe that's what James was living I believe that that was his his vision his desire this is what I see in James's leadership now remember the the guys that came from James some of them were really zealous and they felt like the Gentiles had become Jews before they become Christians I'm not sure how that all went down but it indicates to me that if nothing else James was a devout Jewish Christian he did not see those as two things that had to be split apart or divorced one from another what we see in James's leadership are several things but James was about doing John Maxwell says that leaders have a bias for doing things for getting things done James was a leader James had a bias for getting things done he was a doer we can confirm that from his letter James says in his epistle that he wants his listeners to be swift to hear but then he hastens on to say that he doesn't want them to just be hearers but be doers doers of the word faith and works must not be put as under his is a letter that moves and it wants people to move someone has noted that James's short letter has 54 imperatives that means 54 do-somethings in 108 verses that's on average of one do-something for every two verses this is a man who was doing things and he was calling people to do things he was a doer he wasn't a Judaizer but he was a doer and he believed that Gentile believers should also be doers and he wasn't just about doing James was about doing hard things hard things by his example he chose to continue living as a devout Jew after his conversion and he did this without denying his brother Messiah and he was apparently so strict in his expectations of himself that his disciples tended to take it one step further and assume that he would endorse the Judaizing of the Gentiles that's that's the sort of influence that I see James wielding in the Jerusalem church so the life of James the leadership of James these are things we can learn from but what is the legacy of James you can imagine that such a legendary figure has all sorts of fanciful stories that have been attached to him and so it's tough to figure out sifting back through the mists of time and the biases of historians exactly what all we should believe about him that's how fanciful some of the stories are and yet I believe there are certain things that are true as we look at his life and his letter and how they corroborate one of the accounts talks of how he was a great intercessor and he was much on his knees and he was praying for his people I believe that's corroborated by his letter he talks about how Elijah was a man of like passions like as like we were we are and he prayed he stopped the rain for three and a half years we also have the power through prayer to do mighty things the legacy or the legend is that his knees became as hard as Camelneys I don't know if that's true or not but he apparently spent a lot of time in prayer praying for his people he was very concerned about the Jewish people obviously he led as an elder or a bishop for 20 to 25 years or so what a wonderful legacy that is he lived a wise and blameless life in fact he lived in such a way that he became known as James the just or James the righteous talk about an amazing nickname an amazing description by this time he was likely in his mid 50s late early 60s and you would think that such an upright man would have no enemies but you know he faced the very same sorts of enemies that his perfect brother did and the historic accounts state that James became so influential in winning Jewish people to Christ to the kingdom that the leaders became very alarmed people from their own ranks were starting to recognize Jesus as Messiah we've got to do something about this man and so there are varying accounts was it the Sadducees was it the Pharisees whoever it was it seemed like it was religious leaders who concocted a plan to put James at the center of attention during Passover apparently they came to James they talked to him they said we know that you are a just man you do not show partiality you're no respecter of persons you treat everyone the same everyone respects you because you don't respect persons and we want you to stand up in the midst of the Passover and explain to everyone who is here who Jesus is and their hope was to pressure James to renounce Christ so that people would stop flocking to the Messiah I don't think James was looking for this I don't think he was angling for it but somehow he was placed on a high place of the temple the pinnacle or a high wall or something and they commanded him to to speak of Jesus and what he said was clear and unequivocal the account says that his statement was why do you ask me about Jesus the Son of Man he is now sitting in the heavens on the right hand of great power and is about to come on the clouds of heaven and as many were confirmed and gloried in this testimony of James and said Hosanna to the Son of David the priests and the Pharisees the leaders recognized that they had miscalculated their scheme they realized that this thing was backfiring and suddenly they decided that they had to do something to stop this thing that was going off the rails and according to the accounts they pushed him off of that high place to the pavement below or something of that nature in an attempt to kill him however he wasn't he wasn't killed he he survived hurting I would imagine he was able to get onto his knees and he began to pray for them they were so enraged that they began to to stone him to do away with him but James on his knees is praying I entreat you oh lord god and father forgive them for they know not what they do and according to the account one of the priests who was of the house of recibs you remember the recibites that were highly esteemed by Jeremiah the prophet a priest of the house of recibs stood by he said stop what are you doing this just man is praying for you so you have a great melee going on with crowds who are very supportive of James you have religious leaders who are angry at James and seeking to destroy him they stoned him and continued to to attempt to do him in until a fuller this is a a man who beats out material to clean it a fuller uses a club to beat out that that cloth apparently a fuller or someone had a fuller's club came along and it says they beat out James's brains there and he died and so James suffered martyrdom but his legacy is one of a faithful witness one who endured unto the end and interestingly enough Josephus who is a non-christian non-believing Jewish historian claims that immediately after this whether it was immediately or several years right after this the Romans put Jerusalem under siege and Josephus says that he blames or he considers that it was because of the mistreatment the injustice the murder of James the just and he's not the only one there are other people looking on who went through those days who lived through those days who also felt that the Jewish or the Roman siege was directly related to the mistreatment of James faithful unto death a characteristic of his legacy another aspect of James's legacy is his willingness to remain within a strict religious culture in order to win the people of that culture today we're in a setting right here where there are people who are or have been Amish perhaps nationwide eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite river brethren German Baptist Washington County Mennonite or something similar my beloved brethren I appeal to you to consider the example of James it may well be God's will for you to remain within a strict religious culture in order to affect positive influence within that culture obviously James's culture didn't even accept the New Testament so you've got a lot easier than he did I do not see our Lord's brother isolating himself either from the broader group of believers he was willing to blend in if you will to recognize a culture and to be part of that culture and not seek to be individualistic or to stand out he lived his life in such a way that it encouraged his followers to do radical things he lived his life in a way that makes me uncomfortable with how much he integrated with Jewish culture but I am here to learn from him at a minimum I think it is time for us to stop bashing strict god-fearing religious cultures the only way to overcome the dominant world culture is to live and present a dominant radical Christian culture within the kingdom context of course interestingly the liberals thought that James was conservative because he appeared to be a Judaizer and then on the other side of the spectrum you have the conservatives who considered him liberal because his letter doesn't say anything about the mosaic law there's a lot of doing in there but nothing about the mosaic law that is part of his legacy now that's not the best part of it I mean anyone can appear more conservative to those who are more liberal than he or more liberal than to those who are more conservative than he I think that could even have happened today you know when I first got up to speak and those of you who are here today or are watching online when you saw that I was wearing a plain suit it's possible that you immediately just put me into the more conservative camp but for those of you who are listening on the telephone line or to a future recording it's also possible that when you heard me begin with a narrative with a story it did not see how I was dressed you put me into a more liberal camp isn't that interesting still happens today so the amazing thing is not that James appeared more conservative to those who are more liberal or more liberal to those who are more conservative the amazing thing is that people who are on all sides of James looked at James and they said this is a just man the way this man is living is right and it is good and it is righteous and yes the culture is a little strange to us but it's a good way it's a godly way it's a way to point the points to Christ it is a kingdom way that my brothers and sisters is the legacy of James the fact that people who didn't even agree with him looked at him as a man to be trusted and yes even a man to be emulated probably the best known part of James's legacy is the bible book that bears his name in five short chapters he packs quite a punch but he does so from a distinctly Christian perspective I like how commentator Douglas Mu says it he says James depends more than any other New Testament author on the teaching of Jesus it is not that James directly quotes Jesus rather that he weaves Jesus teaching into the very fabric of his own instruction the author of the letter seems to have been so soaked in the atmosphere and specifics of Jesus teaching that he can reflect them almost unconsciously James was so filled with the teachings of his brother so permeated that the wisdom of Christ and the way of Christ and the word of Christ simply flowed out of his writing and so this is my challenge for you today I leave you with a challenge to do something my challenge is not just to hear the word of James's brother but to do it my challenge is for you to pick up the Sermon on the Mount and to read it today Matthew five six and seven read it today and every day for 30 days and every day I'm calling you to ask yourself the question as you read that passage am I obeying these commands am I obeying these commands I'm calling you to saturate yourself to soak yourself in the words of Christ in the words of our king so that we too like James can present a life leadership and legacy that honor our king


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I am going in the reverse order, Pratik Garg, oh you are not Pratik Garg, what is your name? Did you make a presentation last time? Good, then you come. So hello friends, so today I am going to talk about trust, maybe every day you in your life you meet some stranger. So it depends on that how you believe that it is a trustworthy person or not. So the TED talk I presented or I written that TED talk, she was aimed on describing that what is the scenario in the society upon this trustness. She says that this media is highly responsible for this belief that many persons are likely to see that today's scenario, there are 2% one is Kejriwal and one is Modi. So there are many persons or sometimes you will be feeling that Modi is right or sometimes you will feel that Kejriwal is right or sometimes again you will feel that no no no Kejriwal is doing something wrong and Modi is right. So what this exactly is, what we get from the media that is only we are processing and on that basis only we are believing on someone, we do not know what exactly is there. There may be many things that is hidden behind this whatever we are seeing is there may be some raw facts which is hidden from us. Like the secret video leaked about the Kejriwal that he said that this particular part of this video must be highlighted so that we can get more votes. Or this thing may be going on everywhere, every politician is doing some same thing. So she is saying that media is highly dominating factor in the trustness that you are following. She says that the professions which were trustworthy before 20 years like teacher. Teacher is a teaching is a profession or teacher is a person who is more trustable before 20 years is also today introduced in today's scenario also is a more trustable person. But leader or politician they were not trusted 20 years before and not even today. So my point is that fine she is saying approximately right only but I think that when we come to trust our brain is enough trained in maybe we all are above 25 plus. So our brain is enough trained to get some signals or some processing so that you can just by looking at someone or just by talking 15 minute or 10 minute or 15 minute you can come to a conclusion that should we believe on this person or not. So this is fine. Thank you. Hello. Good morning. The talk I am going to present is what Facebook and Google is hiding from us. Actually Mark Zuckerberg said that the squirrel which is lying in your neighborhood is of your more interest than the people dying in Africa. Why he said this because because someone asked him about the new speed. So what is the importance of new speed on that on that he told this. So what the what the presenter is saying that today's world is very much customized like like if we go to the Google then if we go to the Google if two person searches the same search result then they will get the different results because the Google is customizing the results. It is manipulating the results on the basis of users location what the browser user is what the browser user is using what the system he is using. So on this basis the Google is filtering the results. So the presenter said this is what the problem is because the Google is showing what we Google is showing what we want to see not what we need to see. So basically over the 20 years before there was no internet after the internet the world world become the world become open source. But now we have developed some algorithms which are doing some filtration. So because of this filtration because of this filtration we are not deciding what we get what we get when we search it or what we get when we see anything on the internet. So the presenter is having problem on this. So basically my opinion on this talk is the presenter is right because Google and Yahoo like say Facebook they are modifying the search results because for their profits because of their because for their profit. So thank you. Actually there should be there should be balance what because Google should give us option that these are the search results and these are the search results according to your search and these are search results we are suggesting that. So there should be a balance. What presenter is saying that Google uses approximately 15 signals before giving a search like where what is our location what is your browser which system is using so that is not acceptable. But the presenter asked two of his friends to search the same query on the Google and they got two different results. That should be kept with the user only. These signals are to be interpreted as what I want to see or these signals should be interpreted as what I need to see. More important question Can I ever specify what I need to see? If I knew exactly what I needed to see I would probably need not have this search. So any answer? He is now expanding to horizon the question. The size of the database that Google handles is enormous. And the fact of I think that it is never ever be able to go through each and every answer that is searched in this. I have few contact I mean scenario where Google doesn't have information like I have a type that I can show you. Ok. We are somehow. Yeah. Actually this is a very typical word we I was discussing with one of my friends and what we can say let me give you one single example. I am the most I like money ok. But generally whenever I like some politicians most of the time I will go to read about it. And I will read about some other politicians especially open about those people when there is some big news. Ok. This is the reality. Now when some of my friends from ISEC were pointed out about the RTI APB which is in the specific program that they speak about the saint of mafia. Then I read about that. And that time I come to know that this is a very close to my native place and it was 7 years ago but still I will not allow that. Ok. So what I did is I tried to go to old politicians I mean K. D. V. Rauh, including Rauh that is every politician on the Twitter on the Facebook and after that it is giving me reason to go to every politician of the way and prove everything. So if we plan accordingly then I think we can sort out this problem. So we get one more input into the very big thing. By the way it's a very interesting thought. I don't know how many of you have analysed yourself in terms of thinking that you do about the issue at different points in life. It is not like you have fixed thoughts in life. Every human thinking process is affected by a variety of things including our mood, the situation at hand, our background, our liking, our disliking and our eastern liking and eastern dislike it may change. The fact is that our thoughts change. But the basic point still is not answered. Who decides what I need to know? If the example of this happens to you, so the students always want to have a lease waiver. If each and every scientist waiver there is this waiver and it is appropriate for you. You should learn this much to handle things in the future. But students always want to have a lease waiver and it means not have to pay. So who decides what I need to know? May I complete? Yes. Krishna may I complete? Yes. So the question was between wanting me. In a class each and every knows what the student wants. What the student needs and the student wants is always a minimum. They try to minimize the things. And in the case of other things also. For example, really especially, for example, news. They are what the majority of news channels present today.  There is a class that will be to act as and there is some N-1 water happens. And there is some anti-sensitivity. And just for 5 to 10 seconds they will send it back to 2 hours. So they, we have people who wants to want that because of reality. And they are getting. And what the, what actually people need is they should be given information of what the, which is of national issues. What politicians actually doing what? But they show what they show to someone has said some rubbish statements. And what are the rubbish statements? What comments are there? So that people want. And what we need is what the politicians are, leaders are actually doing to respect to whom they should vote. So one observation that he made is that media generally emphasizes negative. Something wrong somewhere. So he used a very appropriate word here. Something which triggers curiosity and anxiety in the minds of leaders. That is what says the article. Whereas what he says is that people should give information. After writing that even negative happening, a piece of information. It is just that this piece of information you put together and present. And then create an intuition as if the majority of happenings are like this. That's the point in the article. He also mentioned that in a class, teachers know what the students need. Let's examine this to some degree. When we're growing up, we generally depend intuitively on our parents and others believe that they know what is good for us. Or at least that is what they tell us. That we know what is good for you. In India unfortunately, this situation prolongs. In the western world, people start taking decisions independently much earlier. I remember, for example, when my mother told me, if I do still, cannot take the right decisions. I have to point out that my dear mother, I am 60 years old now. Or 80 years old. But the right of life to mother's won't ever change the opinion that their children cannot think straight. That's all. The point is that can I appropriate my responsibility of deciding what is good for me at least at some stage in life will be off? Or should I depend upon always some external agency? Whether it's a teacher because whether it's parents or whether it's somebody else to decide what is right for me. The independent of who gives me whether who gives us or who gives me right or wrong is a different issue. Basic issue is who should decide. My own feeling is that each one of us must decide what is right for us. The problem is we are tempted to spend time on things which are not necessarily right for us. Many times we realize that spending time on things is not really right for us. The purpose of external agency whether it is parents, speakers or friends or seniors is to sort of hear us around the park. Saying, I believe you are not doing this right. Please try to understand. That's probably the best thing that external agencies could do. That the end of the day as a human being I don't care at all. Coming back to the search, how do we deal with the information explosion is a problem for me. It did not exist 100 years ago. It did not exist 40 years ago. It did not exist before the advent of the information explosion that has happened today. It did not exist. People demanded on published material or printed material. Great potential to mention rules and rules. Whatever was printed and available is what was available. And that is why the print media and in terms of the tax of happiness and the books and tellers where the sort of essence of truth has come into that. We have changed all of that. In the way, how do you take a thought on what is right or in fact what is completely wrong? When you get one lakh answers to any question and when you know you will not go beyond the first page of the agency. So, let me answer this question. I'll get book a little.  You would have done thousands of searches by now. What percentage of time you have gone beyond the first page of the search engine? What percentage of time you have gone beyond the first page of the search engine? One to two percent. So, generally everybody seems to agree. On various locations you go beyond the first page. What it means is that Google or Yahoo or a search engine is deciding for you both what you want and what to do. You get the implication. Now, this itself is an important lesson in effective communication. So, when you want to emphasize certain points to your friends or in your communications team in research, communication or whatever, you state that prominently at the beginning. That is what you write on. Even in the internet. Take newspapers. There are the pieces of you which we read in details. But we do need all headlines. We scan all headlines. You take, let us say they are approximately 15 to 60 headlines in your state. How many of those 60 headlines we actually read through the retail news? Again a very small percentage. Now, the interesting point to be which particular headlines you decide to read in details. That is your decision. And there have been very interesting observations on this. But sadly it so happens that negative happenings are reading great details. In every newspaper or newspaper, media or even television channel, there are positive happenings reported. The mind is not attracted to it. So, how many of you who TV watch Animal World for example or the History Channel. We don't. So, whether the media is creating some kind of machine or mind, I do not know.  That is what I mean. And what I want to say. I think both these things have to be taken back. Sorry about taking your time. But the previous thing may talk because a whole lot of ideas have to be discussed in the queue. The moral of the story is do go beyond the first page of any survey. And we do read a few more news items in details rather than just keep it over the end. That is useful in life, that's all. So, neither what I want nor what I need. But I am suggesting that going through larger pieces of information may be more useful. But we are going to decide both what I want and what I need there. Jyoti Shankar. Of experience versus memory. The TED talk was presented by Daniel Kahneman. What basically is happiness. So, the speaker, he presented two notions of happiness. The one notion was the experiencing self and one notion was the remembering self. So, actually what he presented was the experiencing self, it deals with the experiences.  And the remembering self, it deals with the memories. So, he specified that both are very different aspects of happiness. The experiencing self, it deals with the experiences that a person, he experiences in his or her life. And the remembering self, it deals with the memories. He gave a lot of examples illustrating his talk. One example was, he just went through a study for two patients. And he told that the notion of happiness, it got reflected by how the experiences end. And he also told that the experiencing self and the remembering self, they differ from each other by handling of time. And he concluded his talk by saying that it is a very big, the horizon is very big of these two aspects. And he told that both of these aspects are very different. And he tried to give this idea that happiness, it just cannot be the notion of the happiness. It just cannot be illustrated by asking a person how he grates his or her life. I mean, if he said that, if he say like, he rate his life 8 out of 10, it doesn't mean he is actually happy. It is his experiencing self that according to which he is saying that he is happy. But what the speaker tried to say that the notion of happiness is very different. I mean, both the two notions, the remembering self and the experiencing self, both are two different aspects. Can you figure out what is happiness? Sir, he... No, not him. I'm satisfied with my life. Very simplistic but very effective image. How happy and how satisfied I am in my life. And in your opinion therefore, does nothing to do with that is your experience or memory or it has to be both. Sir, it has to be both. Both of them comprises how I feel and how I am satisfied. Okay, so let me ask this question generally. How do you feel thought explicitly about analyzing the term happiness in the meaning of it? Each one of us feels happy, feels unhappy, a different life in life. But have you ever analyzed the notion of happiness? Or the root cause of happiness or unhappiness? Anybody? Sir, according to me actually happiness is not some product of what exactly happened with you throughout your life. Happiness is the spurts of events that occur. It's just the events that occur just before that makes you happy, makes you unhappy. That's what defines happiness or unhappiness. Now we cannot put happiness as the term as the person is always happy or the person is happy because the environment around him is right. A person is happy only for a particular moment of time. There might be some moments in time when you are happy that is all happiness is. Now you cannot say that happiness stays with the person or has been touched. Unhappiness is a part of the life. Sir, he has given us an important attention. At what time is he equal to zero in the world? Who is equal to infinity when we die? For us that's the word for it. So what he is suggesting is there will be a reason. So let us say I will put happiness in there. And I would like to add something more to what he is saying. He is suggesting that there are moments in our life when we are happy, there are moments when we are unhappy. Are there any moments when we are neither? So do you believe that there exists a state which is neither happy state nor unhappiness state? What do you call that state? Sleepy car. Psychologists say that the human mind is at the happiest level when the human body is sleeping. Because there is no disturbance. Have you heard the word Sita Prangay? There is a Hindi verb. That's a very difficult state to achieve. I would say that most of the time we are either happy or unhappy, but we are different beings. So I would like to mention that it is not like happy, unhappy, unhappy. It's not like that. So happy to this extent, happy to this extent. Unhappiness is also happiness at the zeroes. And extreme happiness is when I get as birds. But each and every human mind is sort of float over these things. This is what liking, this is what we are. What should be objective in life in terms of happiness? We are all optimizers. Like what is the objective of which spring corresponds? The fundamental objective. Secondly, the objective also means that we learn something. So similarly, the fundamental objective of human life appears to be to be at the highest level happiness always. Now if that is the objective, how do we achieve it in our different ways? In our own ways. One possibility of looking at it is we tend to avoid doing things which we believe might bring unhappiness. We tend to spend time in doing things which we believe will bring us happiness. Is that what that here correct statement? He does. Maximizing happiness in my own opinion is an individual phenomenon. My own conviction is that the day I let my happiness be decided, by anything outside me, I will do. Happiness in my opinion is a state of mind. And if I don't control my state of mind, then I am saturated with all these things. My life is not under my control. So I would submit that one should try to feel happy in each and every situation.  You should still be able to walk and you are like, yes I can do this. Not easy thing. Not easy. These are personal opinions. But I am happy that people are looking at different take talks in different ways and at least contemplate. From the communication point of view, I would like to mention that these primitive talks that I have just seen this summer, and the last time I went to the videotape. I hope that you have researched, you have not researched, but you have practiced sufficiently to give these primitive talks. Have you practiced sufficiently at home to give these primitive talks? So how many of you did two or more iterations of speaking with a watch, primitive? Two or more times. Once many people were trying. That's all. Nobody has attempted to do this twice or more. Practicing speaking for three minutes. Okay, forget two or more times. How many of you have tried it with one sentence? Not even once. That is not the way for effective communication. Let me assure you that. We all give practice. And it is the practice, preferably with someone else in attendance. Because as you know, when we are speaking, it is less likely that we will notice over errors. Somebody else is more likely to notice over errors and point out. So such things should always be done in pairs or in larger. That is the reason why these videos according to my situation that you come here and speak for three minutes is merely to give always a chance to look back at ourselves. What did we do? What did we speak? When we are speaking, we believe that we are speaking coherently. Only later when we look at the video recording, we notice the arc and mistakes in English that we make and so on. And that should tell us that we have not sufficiently practiced. Practice is absolutely essential. I will tell you what I did when I became a teacher here. I actually purchased a tape recorder and practiced for speaking for one hour giving lectures after preparing for that lecture. Recorded it and then heard that lecture here. And then heard was full of mistakes which I did not realize by speaking. So I re-recorded it and re-heard it again. This is the Godavari you have to do to be able to communicate properly and correctly.  Three minutes is not an arbitrary number. It is not long enough so that you can flow in your thoughts and somehow can prove properly. Three minutes is not very short. Then it becomes only an impressive communication. Three minutes is a substantial time. But to use those three minutes is not easy. I think did I mention it? Plus Prakash said you mentioned last time that I wanted to write a short later. But I did not have time so I wrote a long one. So that is the meaning of this three minutes. I would strongly suggest that you should prepare yourself for these three minutes. I wanted to conclude this. But I would like to suggest that those of you who have not yet been randomly shortlisted to speak here will get one more opportunity next time. But I would not like anybody to come here and speak for three minutes without any preparation.  Can I get the most out of those three minutes? Can I exactly tell everyone the gist of what I have understood from that test of? In exactly three minutes. I will submit that if I were you, I would practice speaking it four point times. I will actually write down the reading. It is not by heart. It is not by heart but it is definitely prepared in time. You know the best speakers that you listen to and their talks appear to be natural talks, free-flowing talks. It appears as if they have not prepared at all. Those are the most well prepared. Those are the talks behind which a huge lot of effort should come and that is important. If you cannot speak well for three minutes, then you will not be able to speak well for 15 minutes making a presentation on your research report or on your other life. What is the most dangerous thing to happen would happen. Namely, you will end up reading your slides. Or you will end up only stating facts that you have found out in your research. Not stating the conclusions with the right advisor. Not being able to dissect the basic idea behind whatever you have written. You only are taking facts. That is not what you want. You want to get across, capture the mind of the listeners. And that requires efforts. So may I request those? Why are those, although everybody actually? I mean those who have been randomly selected and are very given their freedom to talk they should not open their head. That is not fair because the idea in each one of us through this course gets a chance to become better coming. So this is my request. It will not take you long. But it will take about two hours. It will not take less than two hours. So prepare for a three minute talk. Two hours is the reasonable time that you spend. If you are looking for a 15 minute talk, you will not require any time to talk. You will require only three hours. But preparing for a three minute talk will take you long. You will have notice, although the speaker would not have notice but you would have noticed that there were errors in playing English, French, etc. I still appreciate the time that you came and spoke. And most of the people who spoke, they speak for three minutes. So that extent they had a sense of time. It is very good. It is good news. Given an opportunity to talk for three minutes, I would not talk for twenty minutes. And I am still able to conclude, generally, what I want. That is good point. But it needs to be suffered, really. It needs to be perfect. And the perfection will only come when I practice again. You have a mirror in your room.  You do not require a tablecloth. I had a tough time. My salary was three hundred and fifty rupees. The tablecloth cost seven hundred and fifty rupees. And it was a heavy investment for me as a young teacher. But today you have your mobile phones and laptops and whatever. You can handle it all. But please do that. The next time, a few more suffers that you would have. Thank you so much. You might have heard old Hindi songs, which are still popular. The length of the song used to be exactly three minutes ten seconds. Because that was the number of gurus which would permit. And one Bishmilla Khan, who also you must have heard, was he mentioned, the three-hour-maker face, that girl, I do not know how to say, was created in three minutes. It does not mean that three hours is not useful. Because you want to enjoy this kind of life. You have to spend three hours. But anyway, it just tells us that communications requirements come in various forms. What we are trying to do with this mechanism is to understand how to present something in a short time. We will also have a career to understand how to present it in normal time. Everybody working on that research survey work that I have mentioned, they all started working on it. All of them have gone through Sannabhuti lectures. No. The links have been put up. Oh my God, this is very serious. Now I understand why a teacher in a classroom is required. That's the only time when you are forced to listen to editors. At home, when you are not home, you won't listen to them. That's not right. By the way, the objective of those two lectures is actually to help you do something better. It's not for the sake of the course of the day. You know that there are no ways in this course. It's a past fail course. You also know that I have not failed somebody unless there is a very compelling reason for failing them. Like if a friend did not complete the course. You will have to fail the course. And the fact of life is that those two lectures are two of the best lectures given in the East Coast. How to go about a certain method. Can I expect that at least in this weekend also you will go through those lectures? I mean, certainly you will have to print out the papers so that you have the printed papers near you when you listen to them. I believe it is very important for you. So, this is not what you want to do in the area. But this is what you need to do that much. And if passing or failing the course is the only reason why you are doing things, so be it. So, I will standard the quiz in the next class. Fail on those two lectures. And the quiz results by and by will decide whether people will pass this course or not. Is there a failure of compression? No. There are only two choices. Either you do something on your own or you do something because it will all over again. And women generally don't make both choices. I give you both choices. And then you do it on your own or going because it will all over again. But to listen to those two lectures. That should help you actually in writing your own literature Surveying a better pencil in marketing. Thank you.


Yo, what's good Josh your boy Ross back again with another video So I had to make a separate video to talk about Bray Wyatt's return and what Will WWE do with him moving forward? Will they actually do Bray Wyatt justice? finally this time I Had to talk about this only because one everyone's talking about Bray Wyatt's return into it's been on my mind After watching the clips over and over and over of his initial return at extreme rules and how the crowd Literally went insane. I started to think How would they do this differently? How would they do Bray Wyatt justice? This go around and hopefully it works in its sticks because we all know Bray Wyatt will go down as one of the greatest Like creative minds in wrestling the things that he has done with his gimmick alone in the way He's been able to repackage himself From complete oblivion multiple times is is truly stunning So first things first I want to talk about the aspects of his initial return and the things leading up to it I know I didn't get a chance to really go and dive into it in my My thoughts and opinions on extreme rules this year, but I wanted to really just give credit to how WWE was able to make his return Feel so different and unique and captivating they use social media to their advantage Never did WWE or Triple H ever say hey, he's coming back The way they repackaged him or brought him back. It was just QR code Just QR codes Bunny rabbits in the crowd When you scan the QR code, it sends you to a either a video clip or a mini game And then they give you coordinates to the next show the next Friday night smackdown or the next Monday night raw So you want to check those the shows because you want to see where you can find the QR codes and the QR codes Are not even obvious sometimes sometimes there's in the background sometimes they're on the microphone Sometimes they're on commentary desk. They just randomly just randomly pop up or sometimes the screen glitch out and you get like a little animation And that to me is very creative in getting the height going Cuz people already all this has got to be brave this gotta be brave people are already buying into the fact That this is Bray Wyatt, they built up the hype then when Then they announced in these little vignettes that the rabbit will be at extreme rules That automatically probably increased sale tickets because people wanted to I gotta go see this I gotta go check this out because Bray Wyatt's probably gonna be there. So I want to be there for that And you know the hype was at a fever pitch Because during the main event between Matt Riddle and Seth Rollins the match. They were chanting we won't why it We won't why it the entire match down there their match got overshadowed by that I quit match which was fantastic and then the prospect the idea of Bray Wyatt coming back So they did his return perfect the crowd Showed tremendous love through each of the stages of his return Fantastic, I've watched the clip so many times if you haven't seen the clip go watch it It's goosebumps inducing easily one of the best returns of this year. It's up there. Definitely up there with the MJF return It may even be just slightly a little bit better in the sense of how they set it up You know overall, but either way the MJF return and why it returned Mega mega pops huge pops great fantastic. That's what that's what wrestling is right there Just that moment was legendary. Well, that would be synonymous when you think of extreme rules 2022 when Bray Wyatt returned So now the question moving forward is how do they not repeat the same stuff they did previously? Well, one, you don't have Vince McMahon there. So that kind of helps out a lot I have a lot more faith that triple H will do Bray Wyatt justice finally And here's the thing about Bray and his opportunities he's had in the past. I feel like Vince Would listen to Bray and take some of his ideas But didn't really know ultimately Vince and maybe you know the people that are in charge of booking and creative They didn't really know ultimately how to I guess you can say Keep his momentum going Right now from what we've seen Bray seems he doesn't seem I guess you can say like the theme with the supernatural aspect because They're showing all his different supernatural characters and stuff like that from the firefighting house But when you when you see him It's Bray with the lantern the man, you know I'm saying so I'm not sure if they're gonna take it that route I me personally hope they do. I hope they don't go with the supernatural route like they did with the theme only because You kind of book yourself in the corner when you do that type of stuff when you go supernatural to realism Book yourself in the corner. I don't think Bray needs that to get over it If anything Bray can be more of the psychological mind game kind of like what he was in his original Like his original repackaging of him as this like cult leader They could go that route but kind of expand on it. Maybe have some supernatural aspects in the sense of like Maybe like vignettes and stuff like that promo package as you can kind of go that route But I want to keep I would hope they keep him in a grounded state We actually see Bray and we kind of go from there And maybe you can do some one-offs with the theme if you want to incorporate that at a later time That's just my personal opinion. I think We need to see the man himself actually out there in the ring putting in the work dropping people off I would love that. That's just my personal take on it Let me know down below if you guys would like to see more of his supernatural aspect But ultimately when it comes down to it a trust Triple H to do Bray Wyatt justice That's the only reason why I'm okay with this return obviously because they executed it perfectly and the simple fact that Triple H is Going to be in his corner triple H is in control of this if it was Vince McMahon in Controls still I would not be comfortable with this at all But it's not so I'm I have a little bit more faith that triple H is going to do him right and For the first time in a very long time with Bray. I have high hopes for him I really do and what they they plan on doing because the thing about Bray that we've seen so many times His character would be at such a high and then they would book him into something stupid or have him lose a match That he should have worn and it would drop him down even more And he would find a way to get himself back over just to be dropped down once again And then ultimately he got released. So I think this time they're gonna treat Treat his character and what they're trying to do carefully and I'm looking forward to it and Then the biggest question of all Who does he face who does who is his first opponent? I'm not sure Does he ultimately at one point faces Roman Reigns? Honestly, I would love to see that That's how we saw him. He was getting wrecked by Roman Reigns He ended up losing the championship. So I would love to see a Oh, I guess you can say a Recurrence of Roman Reigns and break cuz they have so much history with each other Romans in a different place now Bray's in a different place now. I would love to see that dynamic. I Would I would I don't think you do that immediately, but I would love to see that dynamic I would love to see the dynamics a Cody Rose comes back He actually does win the championship and then break it into the mix with Cody. Oh Or Brand Seth they got some history to this this opens up so many possibilities for different matches in different feuds It fused to be restarted to fuse to be rekindled. I'm excited. I Am so excited Monday Night Raw I can't wait to check it out because I we don't know what Bray's gonna say What version of brave we're gonna get? How is it gonna play out? Is he gonna be the version we saw at extreme rules?  What what's the significance of the mask he had on like there's so many things and people are buzzed about WWE again, it seems like every single pay-per-view so far out You know so far that Triple H has had you know taken over There's always a buzz after every single pay-per-view in a great way and I'm looking forward to it So I had to make this video because I just wanted to kind of get my thoughts out on Where I would like to see the fiend and you know saying who I would like to see him facing just my I guess you could say my my confidence in what Triple H has been doing now that I feel like The fiend will be in a much better place this go around I just have a good feeling Triple H is not gonna bring him back to screw him over again I think ladies and gents we may get the Bray Wyatt run that we've always wanted to see and We were so close to seeing event few times, but it never really panned out I think we may get it ladies and gents and I'm looking forward to it So comment down below. Let me know. Are you guys just as excited as I am to see Bray Wyatt actually back and actually May will actually will get the proper run He's always deserved in his career. Are you guys feeling that excitement as well because I know I am Let me know down below. Also, who do you guys think he should feud with first and you know We have that discussion broke is I really do think This is gonna be something different. I know I've said in the past I don't want Bray to come back But that's because Vince McMahon was there and I figured they were gonna do the same thing to him anyway Now I'm glad that he has come back I'm glad we have Triple H in charge and I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with Bray But I appreciate y'all kicking with me. See y'all next one


Well, it reached out to develop the vast resources of the far west, decided to strike at the heart of the Barbary Coast. In an effort to stamp out the viciousness, Gerson stopped for and found the Lone Ranger. This masked rider of Ms. Frito, reluctant to leave the plains and mountains of the cattle country, answered the call and smashed the forces of evil in the Barbary Coast.  They turned with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. A mile to pass from a thundering hoof deep into the Great Horse Silver, the Lone Ranger rides again.  Directly over the main entrance, there was a small triangular sign, Colt's Happy Firearms Manufacturing Company. That was the building's official name, but the most ever one in Hartford, it was Big Armory, a familiar and well-known bit's owner, Mr. Samuel Colt. One morning in early spring, a clerk entered the Armory's private business office. And he said, let's go to see Mr. Colt. We got to. Where is it? I don't know. I think you want to go to Colt. We took him to the bank. See? It was his place. Where's the bank? Oh, Colt. It tends to come right in. This way, Mr. G. Hello, Colt. Mr. Payne, I needn't tell you how pleased I am that you answered my note in person. Won't you be seated? Thank you. I heard only yesterday that you and your young son are going west, but you're on your husband. I didn't know it myself until I received Bill's last letter. You didn't make all the arrangements. Jerry and I will meet at the independent Missouri. I know you'll have a pleasant trip. Did you used to see me about something in particular, Colt? Yes, I do. And I make my request as brief as possible. As you know, your husband is one of my best friends.  A gift. Oh, Jerry will be very pleased. Yes. Hey, you're the best. You're the main and great guy. What a wonderful gift, Colt. More than that, Mr. Payne. Your husband will understand because he knows the story. Story? Well, I've been manufacturing firearms for almost 20 years. In all that time, I've made only three guns exactly like the one you have in your hand. And three? Where are the other two? Well, I mean, that's a secret. I can't divulge. But I can tell you that wherever they are, they're leading thanks and truth in my personal theory about firearms and telling and retelling ever since I made my first gun. What do you mean? A fine gun has the same quality as human intelligence. Directed by a good man, it's a powerful force for law and peace. Directed by a bad man, it becomes an instrument of evil and destruction. And that's why you're sending this to jail. You know, you did it. As both of the two silver guns are being used for law and peace. Tell them to keep it. Other than risk a fine gun like that falling into the hands of the wrong man, I prefer to see it at the bottom of the deepest ocean, or very under the mountain. Yeah, everything looks that calm. And I wish you and your family all the good luck in the world. So, a satellite of our business prepared the ride. It's been very calm, Mr. President. You moved down tonight. You moved to a bar. Do you know what name? A side-runner called Kat Slater. Nobody's seen Hyde and Heron for two weeks. Yeah? Never. I don't remember that name. Excuse me, ma'am. What are you and the door going to do? Going back in? No. No, you can't do that. You're having the money. I happen to know your husband was thinking on heading for California. To go and see him. Yes, I know. I haven't had that way. I just thought of something. What do you mean? My life passed away about a year ago. I've got a girl about the same age as your boy. You want to go to California. You'll help take care of her. The boy and you are welcome to ride in my wagon. Why? I don't know what I have to do with my. No thanks for staying here. So great. Of course, I'm a little previous mother than I should get to. Who's here? I'm big. This is both of you are. Yes, a lot of people. I'd say they're having my horses. Yeah, they're delivering babies. Those boy names. I'll find an odd beyond them. I just thought of something. You know what I mean? Then I suggested it might be worth some money. What are you talking about? Yeah, my coat. Yeah. I like that. It'd be a pleasure to come out and help them. It's a pleasure to come out and help them. But now? Yeah. That's a mighty thought. He shouldn't have had it. So that's why I did it. Is it more than a lot of money? I'd say it's more money. I never thought I'd like this one before. Is it worth enough to pay your bill at the living room? No, no, no, no. I couldn't take it. I couldn't know you. It's the cost to take off to California. I'll have to take care of your little girl. Sure, but I... Alex, that's the writing. I'm an equal partner. Take the gun. Well, I... Come on, Mr. Knot. I'll impart me. The cold blood. What's that to you? I happen to know that the sheriff is still looking for a witness to that killing. One thing? Oh, there you are. Call it anything you're a man through. You know, back to town today was golden years battle back. Throwing a gun on me.  I'd take the whole thing.  What's with my arm? You're on the bus with me, man. And we'll look him over. You hear me, Mr. Puckett? You've been played in. That's the one before. They give it to me. Pick it up. There's a name engraved around the pound. Gerald King. Who's that?  We're moving out of this town tonight. I can't. I can't. You're about two killings only a month apart. Get a move on. Anything you say. Which way we head west. California. There ought to be a spotless number in those gold fields. Or America. California fears. Great cousin, hasn't he? Home more than that, Beth. Great. Wonderful. And somehow, if you can pass the California line-up, I feel a little bit of the long here.  I guess if other folks can get burned out of these shoes and creeps and find the ship with pain in the middle it can get done soon. Hot new ship of clean humor. Or you've been a real friend, Beth. Very few men in your condition would have taken on the added responsibility.  It's just the other way around. There are a few women with a soul of valuable and a soul of sighted guns that help me in soliciting. That reminds me. I haven't seen a very eclipsed for over an hour. Don't worry about those kids. They can take care of themselves. Like it's not their life in that story as through the past up ahead. They'll wait for us.  What's the idea of stopping here? We're not moving away. Just a minute and enjoy the views. Oh, isn't it, Kevin Lee? The mountains are so tall you can hide it to the top.  There's gold inside of them, too, if we can find it. Yeah, I think it was the luckiest day of our life in day nine at Junior Mother. He's been wonderful to me. Just like my real mother. Yeah. And your dad has treated me fine, too.  Yo, you shorty. Put it full of tendon. Can't go no further. Too bad, Cat. My Brindler won't carry two of us. We've got a fat chance of finding another horse here in the middle of the cigarette. Yeah. Wait a minute. What's the matter? Look up ahead. It's off the trail above the canyon. You've got a couple of kids on two ponies. Yeah. Come on. We'll hoof it up there. This is where my fancy coat gun gets me a new horse. Look at the first act of our long range of stories. Before the next exciting scene, please notice the pause for just a few moments. These men do not quit until they've come. They want to raise ponies. You be with her. My father and Jade's mother are driving a wagon down on the main trail. I'll clear up here. There's no need for a lot. Why did you do that? Oh, you're mad at me.


The Parable of the Insults There once lived a great warrior. Though quite old, he was still able to defeat any challenger. His reputation extended far and wide throughout the land, and many students gathered to study under him. One day, an infamous young warrior arrived at the village. He was determined to be the first man to defeat the great master. For along with his strength and skill, he had the uncanny ability to spot and exploit any weakness in an opponent. He would wait for his opponent to make his first move, thus revealing a weakness, and then would strike with merciless force at lightning speed. No one had ever lasted in a match against him beyond the first move. Much against the advice of his concerned students, the old master gladly accepted the young warrior's challenge. As the two squared off for battle, the young warrior began to hurl insults at the old master. He threw dirt and spit in his face, and for hours, through every manner of insult, had his opponent known to mankind. But the old warrior simply stood there, motionless and calm. Finally, the young warrior exhausted himself. Knowing he was defeated, he left, feeling shamed. Some would disappoint it that he did not fight the insolent youth. The students gathered around the old master and questioned him. How could you endure such indignity? And how did you drive him away? They asked. If someone gives you a gift and you do not choose to receive it, the master replied, to whom does the gift belong? Although this parable has a different setting, it's fundamentally the same as the old Buddhist tale of the gift, where the great master is actually the Buddha, teaching a lesson, and the young warrior is a bystander who angrily disagrees. Whatever the context, the ultimate lesson and truth remains the same. To answer the master's question here, a gift would still belong to you if the recipient didn't accept it, because, after all, you bought it. The truth of this teaching, however, lies in allegory. See, it's the same with your anger or negative emotions.  You are then the one who becomes unhappy, not them, and all you've done is hurt yourself. The Buddha often beautifully concludes this tale by saying something along the lines of, just as a mirror reflects an object, as a still lake reflects the sky, take care that what you speak or act comes from a place of good. For goodness will always cast back goodness, and harm will always cast back harm. While notions of karma can sometimes be too abstract and philosophical to apply in our daily life effectively, I think the lesson here is about surrendering your emotions and living your life from a place of perspective and calm.  Perhaps the answer lies in being somewhat of a mirror, acting to reflect other's emotions back at them, showing them the truth of their actions. As always, a balance is required, though, as reflecting too much of others sometimes leaves little room for our own self and our own intentions.  This parable teaches us to be conscious of our response and remember that while we can't control others, we can control our responses to them. And if we're mindful to put our ego aside, then the power of serenity remains with you.