Here I'm hearing quite some echo from your side Now it's now it's better. I was hearing my own voice, but this is good now. Okay. I hope it's good okay, so Thank you for your time, and I'll ask you a few questions. I read about Taiwan's reaction to COVID-19 and your work. So I'll ask you a few questions about that So first of all, let's talk let's talk about masks I know you had a problem of shortage of masks in the beginning of the pandemic. Yeah, it was in February and March Yes, yeah, and in some point you decided to release to people to the public The data about the inventory of the masks all over Taiwan. Yeah, the real-time API is yeah So I guess any normal government would just create a map themselves, but you decided to release it to the to the public Not What why did you do that? Why did you what do you think it's better to give the public? Because people have different preferences, right the civic tech people who originates the idea of Maps is one slide, but there are also people who are more elderly that would prefer a chat bot or people who have seen Difficulties that would prefer a voice assistant not to mention the 20 different national languages It's just impossible for the government to deliver more than why a hundred different kind of services For all the kind of people. So if we open up the API for each person that says hey What you have provided is not accessible or inclusive enough We can say hey, here is the source code and API go ahead and do your own version and we will include it in our Portal, so I personally coded up this portal that lists more than 140 now different applications using that APM because it was not possible for us to be all things to all people But people can be all things to all people Yeah, so the government cannot Create all the solutions, but if you give the data to other people they can create a lot more solutions than that That's right. That's right There's no like reference Implementation if that's what you're asking about because if we do a reference Implementation and it's updated in its data more regularly than the citizens version then of course everybody will use the Official version and then people who feel excluded will still feel excluded But by having essentially the official version just be a portal to whatever need that you want and co-created with the Community then people want to be locked in to particular imagination and people who want to do You know chatbars and voice assistants wouldn't be limited to the map developers Imagination on the same API Yeah, I understand Another thing that you do in Taiwan or Is to use the cell phone location data? Yeah, it's the cell phone signal strength Yeah, same for single straight to just check if people are staying in the court in that's right But we don't use contact tracing or other GPS Apps like other countries. Yeah, our contact tracing apps are human They're medical officers that performs the interviews and such so it's not a application now yeah, but Do you think if if things were getting more serious in Taiwan? There were more people infected you would stop wanted to stop the epidemic. Will you? Consider using something like contact tracing or where where do you think the line stands between fighting the epidemic and keeping people? you see the the reason why we use cell phone strength is that It's already used before the pandemic, right? We use it for earthquake warnings for sending SMS to people to Evacuate from a flood potential vulnerable place when a typhoon hits and so on the whole point of reusing that Geofenced technology with SMS only is because people understand the perimeter people understand the properties of it people would not Fear that their chat log or their SMS messages will be read By the SMS sending cell phone towers because they understand that's not how it works because we've been having that for for years If not decades so the ideas of appropriate technology is that we make sure that people work with technology They're already familiar with so even if the pandemic Because more serious in Taiwan we would do whatever we can to reuse components That are already tried and trusted instead of writing new code This is not about cyber security for cyber security alone This is about the social trust of the mechanisms that were already in place and therefore trust more So not sure you will use contact tracing because there's not this is not something you did Didn't use before so you will not introduce new we use contact tracing that is interviews, right? And we do use as you said the cell phone tower strength the triangulation And that's because the data is being collected anyway, right? We we don't collect new data in the form of an app or a Bluetooth dongle or things like that because that would be new data collected But it as long as you turn on your cell phone the cell phone towers already know your rough Whereabouts anyway, and so there's no new data collection therefore no new Privacy or cyber security threat surface so to speak and that's the important part We will of course do whatever we can to fight a pandemic But the important thing is that we don't see it as a zero some tradeoff that you can Give up some human right or some sort of democracy to fight a pandemic We need to keep exactly the same line because we've never declared Emergency state and so we operate firmly within the constitutional limit every single Administrative action we do must be pre approved by the parliament explained to the MPs and therefore there was no lockdowns Entire year in Taiwan and even if there is community spread in the future We'll just do a kind of very small district level lockdown to make sure that it doesn't spread But mostly we rely on you know hand sanitation must use to keep the R not value under one So the community transmission will never become a community spread if more than three-quarter of people wear their mask and wash their hands It's funny I have a friend who lives in Taiwan and he said One day in the future when everybody talks about the the quarantine experience that they had he would not have any stories because Taiwan is one of the only countries that didn't use this so Yeah Yeah, so use I heard you said that one of the success one of the secrets of Taiwan success is listening to the Citizens in some way the government listens So maybe you can say a little bit about what kind of feedback from the public did you get the government? And how did you maybe incorporate that? How did you use this feedback or change things? Yeah, the mask availability map for example when we first introduced the idea of mask rationing It was six thousand pharmacists Trusted by the community having professional credentials during the rationing and the mask map was designed as something to save their time Right because people don't have to run to four different pharmacies only to find the first three have run out of masks that that was the idea But it was the ideal. It doesn't work that way that the first day we get Literally hundreds of angry pharmacists messages through the feedback form and calling the one night to do Toffery number saying that this so-called time-saving device actually wastes everybody's time because as opposed to what we thought Which is people would use their national health insurance card to swipe it and collect the mask and therefore the map numbers goes down in real time Many pharmacists choose to just take the NHI cards and give them numbered plates And tell them to collect the mask at the evening So and then they will swipe the NHI card slowly during the day and as to you know Not to make the queue so long, right? so you basically you visit the pharmacy twice once to get your NHI card there in exchange to a plate and At the evening you get your NHI card back and then hand back the plate and many pharmacists do that But when they do that they may run out of the mask quota of the day by 10 a.m But on the mask availability map it will go very very slowly and only runs out Maybe at 1 p.m. Or something because they were you know handling the card without the People right in it and so everybody who visits those pharmacists will see a very large mismatch between what's on their app and what's really in the pharmacies and many Pharmacists at the first week write very large words Paintings even in the front door. This is don't trust the app And so it was not it was not a overnight success We work with pharmacists in weekly iterations literally changing the app the data structure and Working with all the map designers and so on and changed every week and it only stabilized maybe three weeks later Because of the feedback that's co-created by the pharmacist So the opening hours will become additional notes on the map is feature Prominently that says collect back at evenings when they run out of stock They can eventually press a key to disappear from the map. I can go on But this is a really a co-creation journey This is not some like magically good idea that works on the first try This is like us literally looking at the feedbacks and the call centers people and working with initially angry Pharmacists to make sure that we did end up saving their time by early March Hmm, but but you yeah still operate this one nine two two hotline. Is it still available now or yes? Yes, I can call it There's more than 90% chance that it will be immediately picked up and you can get all your questions Answered and make suggestions like the pink mask thing that you probably have heard already and and that continues to operate now Even though there was no new effect infections for a long time in Taiwan And because people worry about the rest of the world also, right? And so there's also overseas visitors, right? We just had a 90 people delegation from the Czech Republic And we're the head of the Senate visited and and say that in the spirit of He said I am Taiwanese, which is how I read But because of the visits from the US from Japan from Czech Republic And and more in the future people also want to know like what's the procedure of keeping The visitors from the public transports How is the foreign service making sure that everybody properly wears the mask especially the journalist that comes with the visitors and so on So there's there's endless, you know question to ask of when I to to and make suggestions too Yeah, but and and the daily press conference. You don't do that anymore. It's not weekly. It's weekly now But it's still It goes on and if there's new developments and things like that We just have a press conference that day. Yeah Yeah, nice So, you know Another thing that is very crucial is a trust between the government and citizen to fight COVID-19 In some countries, maybe Israel included The government lost a lot of the public trust because of 40 steps So what do you think is like the secret or what steps should the government do in order to restore this trust? Yeah, I think I think the citizens may or may not trust the government I don't really think the citizens should trust the government really I think the government should trust its citizens The government should make itself transparent to the citizens and not to make the citizen transparent to the government That's why we insist on new new data collection is a no-no when we do the constitutional review of the Counter this is plan. We basically reuse existing data collection under our GDPR Hopefully adequate soon Data privacy protection law and so this is important because then people feel that They have a say Considia agenda will be responded in a here-and-now or at least next Thursday And and that's builds trust by showing our trust to the citizen. It's like the pigmalion effect, right? so for example when a MP the name is Angle Gaohong An who basically Questions in a parliamentary interpolation our minister Chen Shizhong About the mask availability distribution unevenness right and things like that because she was a VP of data analytics at Foxconn and She used this Civic technologies built map called joping and that shows that even though it looks like is spread very evenly From a city to city viewpoint Actually, if you are elderly or taking public transportation in the more rural places Although the distance looks the same it would take you actually a lot more hours to get to the nearby pharmacy so that Algorithm that we use was biased because not everybody fly helicopters. You see answer because of that and Interpolation went really well because ministering who enjoyed great popularity did not even for a second Defend our existing policy rather he remarked legislator teach us and then immediately revised the system So the day after working with Miss Gal the MP posted quote in the wake of yesterday's questioning is today's Improvement and quote so the more trust the government has in its citizens including parliamentarians the more trust worthy citizens become Yeah I'm interested to know. I know that you were involved in the sunflower movement in 2014 Do you think? Maybe the this Taiwan's reaction to COVID-19 was was influenced by this movement, you know, if this protest was not happening in 2014 you think Taiwan will react differently Well to be perfectly honest, I think the more influential event is the stars pandemic well epidemic not pandemic epidemic back in 2003 Because in Taiwan we had to lock down an entire hospital Unannounced with no fixed state of ending the lock down That led to like 37 people directly dead because of this 73 Indirectly at least one nurse try to jump out of that hospital It was very traumatic for everybody over 30 years old and because of that we have a natural aversion to lockdowns so when the rest of the world look at the first episode of Wuhan and Because they did a lockdown right and so people were like oh lockdown is how we counter the virus we're like no We tried that, you know hoping a hospital it although it may work. It's very traumatic We're not going to do that and and so that is kind of what really influenced that said I think the sunflower showed that even through video conference only live streaming only Telepresence only people can still get a useful rough consensus on things So it doesn't You know, it doesn't matter if people are in the most rural places the offshore islands the highest mountains and so on because we have broadband as a human right everybody have a equal state a equal say in the Public policies that consoles us all at a time. It was a trade agreement So I would say that the demonstration back at time serves as a demo, right? It makes the government easier to trust the citizens because the citizens at the time did produce something useful For example asking the government to to ban PRC components from our then new 4g network, right? The clean network thing that I'm sure that the rest of world is now slowly catching up, too But that was a useful consensus from the street was very compelling argument that was eventually adopted by the government So this trust in the citizen is easier when there is precedent of things actually working that way But I think the traumatic starts experience is still the more important one But the sunflower movement in some way they created the government caused the government to trust the citizens more Exactly. Yes. Yes, because it shows that these are not violent mobs, right? Not only they clean the street And the 20 NGOs having very orderly useful Deliberations at the end. It was also a night market and anyway, so it's a it's a real Demonstration of nonviolent communication and I stress the nonviolent part. So after that Mayors that says, okay, we want to run open government listening a skill and so on did get elected Sometimes surprisingly to themselves and the mayors that use the traditional tap-down way of policymaking as their platform lose their Elections and that changed the political culture in Taiwan Very interesting. Yeah And I don't think that impressed me when I read about it is the human versus rumor strategy that In order to to respond to fake news or conspiracy theories about the corona virus But the most the thing surprised me the most is the speed you say that sometimes the government They the government offices they react in in a matter of two hours. That's right Yes, and that's maximum average is about one hour one hour They create any and they see like fake news running in the internet and then they decided to react So that's really really fast. How do you do it so fast? You know government offices Traditionally are very very slow That's right.  So you can use the F word in conjunction with news I'm not a journalist though. I will say disinformation That's because in in Mandarin Journalism is literally news work. So there is no way to say quote fake news I'm quote without offending journalists Immendering and both my parents are journalists. So out of video piety, I cannot use the F word So disinformation in Taiwan and misinformation We managed to counter it with no takedown And the idea is that administrative takedown much like an administrative lockdown One for the infodemic one for the pandemic, right? It's very similar, right? It may offer some Like on the surface solutions to the to the epidemiologically affected people Whether it's virus of the mind or virus of the body, but it doesn't educate people There is no vaccination. The lockdown is not a substitute for vaccination And the takedown is no substitute to Clarifications that are funny because when people laughed about something they cannot feel outraged about the same thing anymore They're mutually exclusive in our minds. And so we have professional comedians in the ministries We have what I nicknamed hashtag offices, but the actual name is participation offices in each ministry For example, the persuasion office and a minister of health and welfare literally lives with a dog a Shiba Inu So whenever there's a new dog meme that need to be produced They just take a photo of the dog of the companion animal and they roll out those funny memes And so it means that it need to be pre-cleared to a very high level that these timely responses doesn't need like five levels of Approval within the bureaucracy all the FAQs frequently answered questions materials are already there and The ministries including the premier who literally made himself the butt of the joke Pre-clear those images for use for comedians and so on so they do not need to seek additional approval And so we rely on people even on end-to-end encrypted channels Which of course the state cannot see people can volunteer like flagging something as spawn right long press something in the line It's a name of a end-to-end encrypted communication system If you long press it and flag it as spawn then eventually it goes into a dashboard for the international fact-checked Network members to fact-check and so we know what's going to trend as a rumor on public social media Long before it actually goes viral on the social media when it was just a be testing on the end-to-end encrypted channels with no State surveillance but rather relying on people to voluntarily report them. So that is like an early warning system That's very impressive to do it because a lot of governments use humor But sometimes they will publish the the the reaction like a day two days a week after that It doesn't work right because vaccination only works before you develop symptoms And and later than that of course that is the Pharmacology work and of course we have that too, right? We would invite people who are most vocal opposing some of the government's policies Into co-creation basically asking the people who complained the loudest to be co-creators of policies That works too, but it takes more time and is far more time-consuming Easier would be just to vaccinate so people don't travel their image their imageries Outrage and can just discuss the matter in the book part of Facebook not the face part of Facebook Okay, yeah So basically the Taiwan government doesn't ask Facebook to take down a lot of stuff But we would do a notice and public notice like if there is a trending rumor that says for example, and I quote It's a real one before our election. I think last November and I quote Hong Kong Mobs are paying Teenagers $200,000 to murder police Unquote and with a photo of young people in the protest looking I don't know young but it's a Reuter photo by the way, but the caption is a Cyber information warfare the original caption says nothing about being paid or things like murdering police But a new caption says that this teenager is being paid so that he can buy new iPhones and recruiting his younger brother And things like that so instead of a administrative takedown the international fact check network very quickly traced first It's the Reuters photo right and a miscaption actually original came from Zhongyang Zheng Huawei the central political and law unit of the Chinese Communist Party in the people's Republic of China regime that is to say it is state propaganda It came from their Weibo account And because of that instead of taking anything down We basically just ask Facebook to show a prominent notice whenever anyone shares that story It would say basically this is probably sponsored by the Chinese Communist Party Well, it doesn't quite say that but you get the idea like the the frame of their story Changes because of the notice and public notice because if you take it down people lose the chance to learn that there is something like this Propaganda going on but if you frame it as the propaganda as it is And stay sponsored at that then people understand that oh Someone is trying to change our outlook on Hong Kong. Maybe because it's the most important topic in our presidential election one last question before we I know that you worked after the sunflower movement V Taiwan You worked on this to create collective dialogue between people and that Created some laws in that I want about selling alcohol online or Lead before before my ministerial position now it is V Taiwan is still carried on by the social sector And they are now I think deliberating how to open up the parliament Not just the administration but the parliament which is great, but I don't run V Taiwan anymore But we use what we learned from V Taiwan like the Polis AI Conversation is the one into the join that GOV that TW platform, which has more than half of population as visitors And V Taiwan initially talk about digital economy issues and the but on the Polis use in the join platform We talk about things like what's our ocean policy was our mountain policy It's even used with the de facto US embassy the AIT on the digital dialogues about Trade relationship military collaboration people to people ties and things like on the diplomatic front And so my main work now is on the join platform But they share the the same methodology which is get people a safe space to reflect on each other's feelings Before jumping from the facts all the way to interpretations because if you jump to the interpretations It may look like our position is very diverged But actually they come from the same shared feeling the same shared value So with the shared value there may be innovations that they can take care of both our positions like the join platform has been used for example to Solicit feedback on marriage equality, which is a highly debated topic back at the time In in Taiwan and at the end our regulation Our law law actually is nicknamed the hyperlink act Legalized for same-sex couples all the bylaws the rise and duties But none of the in-laws that is to say they wed as individual but their families don't wed The heterosexual couples their families wed And their individuals wed but for same-sex couples only the individuals wed but not their families And that is the kind of innovation that gets much more support from all the different generations Because it protects the family value for all the different stakeholders Even though their position may look very different, but they all respect family values. Otherwise, they will not go to marriage So this is very good in creating consensus between Something that looks like opposition sides, but they find the common ground anyway Exactly. Yes Okay, the join platform. I mean yes And and it was a prototype and researched in v-taiwan. Yeah Okay, so thank you. Thank you very much for the time. Yes. Yes. Yes. So would you like Me to embargo the publication of our conversation after you write your report This is very important. Yeah, of course You know often we publish the magazine Interview and then you can just use the video. Okay. Okay. So I'll put it on youtube as unlisted And that's it and then I will wait for you to tell me when to publish Okay. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. Cheers. Bye


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I follow him, but he didn't believe he was a guru and he didn't believe in disciples, so that's what we put an end to those kinds of things. Countries love what he said and it's so profound that they try to claim it. Do you live here, right? No? But you live here, no. India, London, and Ohio, California. When he would speak, he would speak of all these things, institutions, government, relationships, and all these things from such a detached point of view as if they were just a bunch of ideas. As if they weren't real in a solid sense, that they were just a bunch of ideas that could be sunk beneath and gone beyond if there was enough attention. And as I've gone on in my life, I mean, that's literally the way it seems. It seems like this cause and effect thing has now started to turn around in the sense that, you know, more and more, it's like as I start to just travel the course, travel the country and just speak about the course and just do what I've always wanted to do that I never knew what it was. Just follow the sentence to the very depth and to speak on it. It's just a delight meeting the people and going into things and feeling the connectedness and everything that everything else just starts to fall away. And, you know, we got into, whether you get into male-female issues, whether you get into issues that the world sees as important, abortion, or gun control, or nuclear stuff, or political stuff. You know, you, more and more, you start to see things as ideas, and that these things are ideas in my own mind. It's a radical idea, because it just so much seems like, wait a minute, I'm just one teeny little person walking on this globe, and there seems to be these vast forces outside of me, you know, economic forces, you know, how's the job market going, and there are forces like diseases, and nutrition, and shortages of water, and war, you know. But now I'm saying, as far as his message goes, there's a lot of, oh, what if he goes after the oil and cuts off the oil and has to do this to the economy?   And it's all seeming to be external forces.   You know, here's that friendship thing. Oh my gosh, I've got beliefs in laws of friendship. Maybe I don't even know my friends as they are. You know, he says that you're involved with friendship, we're all tied in with reciprocity, you know. That's the only relationship we've known in this state of mind.  And yet compromise is based on give a little, lose a little. And he's saying, there's a way in which everyone gains. There's a way of seeing the world in which everyone gains. Besides the laws of economics, the laws of nutrition.  Some of us have gone through some interesting routes in diets. And not only is he kind of just says, like he said 2,000 years ago, it's not what you put in your mouth that defiled the heart. He gets real specific in the court. And he basically says, the laws of nutrition are made up in your own mind, you know. But there isn't somehow an objective world out there with objective nutrition laws. You know, you've got to eat from five food groups, or have balanced meals, or eat macrobiotic, or this and that. But these are laws that are made up in our minds. And you know, the yogis with some of the eastern actions have kind of, you know, gone some of them, gone without eating. But Ram Dass's, you know, the story about his viewers putting all these drugs down, his mouth is just being unaffected by all these hallucinogenics and everything. That clearly there's lots of those kinds of things that point to mind over matter. And that's what Jesus is doing in the court. You have a very powerful mind, and you've given it to a lot of foolish beliefs.  And when you're able to see how foolish they are, like I did, then you'll have dominion over the earth.  There's a lot of parts in the court that are mind boggling. For instance, if this is true, if the world is a projection from my own mind, you know, then the problem is entirely in my own mind. That there aren't the national deaths and world hunger and, you know, the AIDS crisis and so on and so on and so forth. You know, it seems like there's enormous problems on so many different levels. There's interpersonal conflict. There's, you know, disease where they study the micro levels of the molecule and the cellular level. They seem to find all these mutations. There seem to be problems down there. There seems to be, you know, at the national level, at the global level. And basically, in lesson 79 Jesus, 79 maybe, Jesus said there's no way that the problems could ever be solved the way you perceive the problems. Because they occur on so many different levels that it just would be impossible. But the good news is, is that there's only one problem and there's only one solution. So it doesn't make sense that if there is such a thing as truth, it would be simple and not complicated.  If you watch the news or, you know, you get caught in this, it seems overwhelming. And here it comes down to one problem, one solution. The one problem being the belief and separation.  And that's the one problem. And the one solution is the Holy Spirit that's literally sitting right next to where the problem is and the mind is shining at a wedding. Just like when you go into it. When you go into a dark room and you turn the light on, the darkness is gone. And the Course teaches us that as soon as the belief and separation seems to happen, Holy Spirit has given us an answer. And the whole thing was solved in an instant. One instant. Not trodden this year, and so on and so forth. One instant. But the mind, instead of accepting the Holy Spirit says the answer, the mind already took off running. And was running to the world. Running towards the form. Terrified, you know. So, it's like the Holy Spirit is constantly in our minds just reminding us. He loves you. It's a silly idea. You could never separate from your father. It's impossible. It's literally impossible. It's a gentle reminder in there that even though the mind is kind of run and formed, and stacked on layers of complexity to build up all these makes-a-leaves laws of time and space and bodies and diseases and architectures and buildings, and just a constant layer of complexity, there's still this simple little light in our minds telling us that it just couldn't happen. It's an impossible thing. And also calling us to return. Calling us back to where we truly live, which is in heaven. So, this cause and effect has to be reversed around. And when the mind is in its deceit state, it needs, it's completely forgotten the Holy Spirit and it's completely forgotten heaven. So it needs to, the Holy Spirit knows that it believes in specific now. Specific now. The Holy Spirit knows that the mind believes in bodies and things and objects and all these different kind of things. And so these are like symbols that the Spirit will use to help guide the mind back to that place of abstract knowledge, or of what's of course called first of all the real world. And he uses the symbols to come back. So, you know, that's why it's important for us when we first started talking, we were talking about, we were talking about drawing it back, is that I always throw that out as the underlying metaphysics. And it just seems to be helpful to go over and over because it always comes back to that. I mean, but it doesn't seem that way. If you're having a temper tantrum, if you feel like you've got to pay the rent and the rent's coming due, you know, that's like, well, that's a nice story, but I need some whole part cash here in a month or whatever, that it certainly doesn't seem to be what's happened. Things just don't seem to be what they are. But we need to start with problems that we're perceiving in our lives and then work it back. The first thing you can do if you're perceiving a problem at work or you're perceiving a problem with a relationship or whatever is remind yourself this is a perceptual problem, you know. In other words, instead of trying to define the problem as the situation, you know, as I don't have enough money to pay the rent or as my boyfriend said he would leave me, you know, if I don't do this and I can't do that, so what am I going to do?  Those are all defining the problem as a specific situation. And the first thing you can do is just remind yourself this is a perceptual problem. The way I'm seeing it is the problem. There's nothing inherently wrong about what's going on in the world, the way things are unfolding. The national debt may be going billions, billions. Ah, but I have a perceptual problem. AIDS may seem to be spreading and spreading and spreading. Ah, but I have a perceptual problem. I need the rent money in two days and I don't know where to get it. Ah, but I have a perceptual problem. You know, if you could just remember, ah, it's a perceptual problem. And, you know, I give some examples of this to try to break it home a little bit. I gave the example at the group about, you know, going to a movie and ten people singing a movie and then afterwards you go out to eat or have a cup of coffee and you hear all these, but what do you think? Oh, what do you think? You know, I like it. Well, it didn't do much for me and, you know, there we go down the line. I also give examples when my sister got married and she invited me to her wedding party and it was one of the first times in my life where I really went perception. Like, I got a graph on what perception means. It sounds like one of these psychological words, you know, just like projection. Well, what are you talking about? Projection, you know? Give me some concrete examples. But I was sitting next to the TV and all these people from all these different generations who were invited from the wedding party were there and they were all watching the TV and I couldn't see the TV. And basically, I think it was Eddie Murphy-Raw. It was a video. And I'm looking now just watching all these faces turn red and lips getting tight and, you know, face high shifting around. Some of it like, you know, embarrassment, humiliation. Some of it just outright anger and rage. My brother-in-law falling onto the floor is rolling over, laughing. And it's kind of like a painter watching the scene of Kansas full of emotions or different reactions and thinking they're all watching the same images and they're all listening to the same sound. And look at the variety. I mean, it clearly came to me that obviously they were reading, they were each seeing something different. They had such diverse reactions and they were giving the meaning to those sounds and those images. It wasn't just the images were making them laugh, making them, you know, cry. That's the backward thinking again that we've all grown up with.  They had their perceptions based on their own past experiences, right? I mean, they were comparing it with whatever happened to them or something like that. So, then what I'm just saying about perceptions and what you could do is not, I mean, just kind of separate yourself from the past and just try to be here now and not develop a past. Well, that's exactly, that's the next thing we'll go into because if you can first just say it's a perceptual problem. I mean, that's like lesson two, I've given everything I see all the meaning. Then we can take some of the early lessons as a core and it's like they'll light up because what these early lessons are about is literally helping to make connections that my mind is full of past thoughts and these past thoughts are projecting out the world.


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Are they Israelites? So I am. Are they the seed of Abraham? So I am. Are they ministers of Christ?  I am more in labor, in labor's more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in death often. From the Jews, five times I received 40 stripes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stunned, three times I was shipwrecked at night and at day I have been in deep In journeys often in perils of water, in perils of robots, in perils of my own country's men, in perils of gentiles, in perils of cities, of city, in perils of wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils Among false brethren, in wariness and in toil, in sleeplessness, often in hunger, in fastings, often in cold and nakedness. Besides the other things, what does, what comes upon me daily? My deep concern for all the churches, who is weak? I am not weak. Who is made to stumble? And I do not burn with indignation. If I must boost, I will boost in the things which concern my infirmity. The Lord, the God and the Father of all just Christ, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying. In Damascus, the governor and the arresters, the king was guarding the city of the Damascus with a garrison, desiring to apprehend me. But I was laid down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped from his hands. Amen. Amen. Thank you. So here we see how Paul now goes into this kind of debate or comparison between these other opponents, those who are coming against him and calling themselves apostles. And he talks in their way, like on his, on their standards, but he also shifts. So he starts with what are just some, some fleshly qualifications, right? Are they Hebrews? Are they Israelites? Are they the seed of Abraham? Those are the first three questions he asks, but then he goes into, are they ministers of Christ? And if so, what is it that proves that they are ministers of Christ? Or what is it that proves that Paul himself is a minister of Christ? While these, these other ministers were boasting in themselves, were boasting in their abilities to teach, to speak or were boasting in the practice of financial support. Whatever it is that they were, they were comparing themselves to one another. Those are the things in which they were boasting and finding reasons to be proud of themselves. Paul, on the other hand, boasts in his weakness, right? He boasts in the challenges in the sacrifices that he made as proof that he's doing all of this. He's going through all of this suffering as someone who is truly genuine, truly wants to serve Christ. And it doesn't matter all the suffering that he goes through. He is willing to do that because he is a true minister of Christ. And that is proof of the fact that he's a minister of Christ. It's not in his speech or in his, in his skills or in how he compares to other ministers in outwardly appearance, right? Like what he talked about earlier. So he lists, there's a long list of a lot of things that we know, the different things that Paul experienced from the different letters from the Accountant Acts. Things that he went through. And this provides that kind of a summary or list of all the things that he went through. But he goes all the way right back by the end of the chapter to what happened in his first time when he reached Damascus and he began to preach there. So almost saying that right from the start of his ministry, he has experienced persecution. He has experienced challenges and that has been the mark of his ministry, has been the suffering, has been the persecution, has been the sacrifice that he has made. So we see different kinds of challenges that he faced, right? So he talks about persecution. He talks about physical danger as he's traveled overseas. He talks about as he's traveled in the wilderness as he, then he talks about challenges from false, false brethren. So challenges coming in from within the church as well as outside the church. He talks about physical challenges. So tiredness, sleeplessness, hunger, thirst, fasting, cold, nakedness. So just those physical ways in which he's experienced suffering in his own body. Then he talks about emotional challenges, his concern for the churches. When he, as he continues to oversee the churches, when he hears about things that are going on there, he himself experiences the pain that they are experiencing. If they are weak, he feels weak. If someone is in sin, then he feels concerned over their sin. And so he has that emotional, that spiritual burden for the churches as well. And then his confidence is in the Lord himself knowing that whatever Paul is talking about is truth. So verse 31, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ knows that I am not lying. So that is where he can be confident in what he's saying. He's not boasting in frivolous things. He's just giving an account of what he has experienced. He's talking about what he's actually gone through for the sake of Christ. And then verse 32 and 33 talks about that first account of being in Damascus. So from there, we go into the next chapter. And Paul will talk a little bit more about his weakness and why he's talking about these things and boasting in these things. So we can read chapter 12. Someone can read from verse 1 to 6. It is doubtless, not profitable for me to boast. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ who 14 years ago, whether in the body, I do not know or whether out of the body, I do not know. God knows. Such a one was caught up to the third heaven. And I know such a man, whether in the body or out of the body, I do not know. God knows how he was caught up into paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for man to utter. Of such a one, I will boast, yet of myself, I will not boast, except in my infirmities. For though I might desire to boast, I will not be a fool, for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, lest anyone should think of me above what he sees to me to be or hear us, to be or hear us from me. Thank you. So here Paul begins to talk about a vision and he doesn't mention clearly whether he's talking about himself or someone else because he just says, I know a man in Christ. But from the way he continues to talk after this, it is clear that he is actually talking about a vision that he himself had. The reason why he's talking third person is to not take glory in this. He is talking about this experience, but he doesn't want to be glorified beyond what is right for him. So he says in verse six, think of me above what he sees me, doesn't want anyone to think of him more highly than he actually is. He will only boast, he will only speak the truth and he will boast in his weakness. If he's boasting about himself, he will boast in his weakness. That's what he says in verse five. So he had this vision 14 years ago, which was probably about 10 years after he had become a believer.  So we see this in a lot of the visions even in John in Revelation where he's taken up to the presence of God. And so Paul seems to have had a similar experience. He was caught up. He isn't even sure if he was physically there or it was just a spiritual thing. But it was so real, so vivid that he knew that he knew that he definitely took place. He doesn't know how exactly he was there in spirit or in body, but he knows that he was in the heavens. So he says the third heaven. This in Jewish thought was the highest heaven, which was where God himself was. Paradise that would come down to earth at some point where heaven would be on earth. But at this time was a place that was where God's presence was. And so Paul is taken up into this place. And verse four, he says, I heard inexpressible words, which is not lawful for a man to utter. So he had not talked about this experience at all until this time. So we see here another example of what Paul is choosing to boast in, right? Just to see that contrast between those other ministers and Paul. Here again Paul is talking about revelation that God had given him and experience that God had given him. Something that Paul had never talked about before. But in this case, he's in such a difficult position of having to defend himself against these opponents and to prove himself to the church at Corinth too for their own good, for their own protection. And so he chooses to talk about this. He doesn't give a lot of information. But enough to say that he had this experience with God and had received great revelation. That was too much for him to talk about, which is why he has not brought it up until now. He'd never talked about it. We'll go on from there versus seven to ten. If someone can read that for us, please. Unless I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of revelations. A thought on the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to perfect me. Lest I be exalted above measure. Concerning this thing, I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart for me. And he said to me, my grace is sufficient for you. For my strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore, most gladly, I will rather boast in my infirmities that the power of Christ might rest upon me. Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distress for Christ's sake. For when I'm weak, then I'm strong. Thank you, John. So here Paul continues and now he talks about why he is boasting in. So he boasted in a lot of the challenges, the sacrifices, the suffering that he had experienced. And here is where he explains why he talked about all of those things. So he starts in verse seven saying he had received this great revelation 14 years ago. So it was a long, long time ago, right? 14 years ago, when someone had not at all talked about it. He had received such great revelation. And because the revelation was so great, there was also a thorn in the flesh given to him. Now he goes on to explain what that thorn in the flesh is. So we have seen so many people think, try to explain what was that thorn in the flesh. And usually people think about it in a more physical way, like talking about some kind of sickness, some kind of physical illness or informity that Paul experienced. But Paul himself talks about what the thorn in the flesh is. So he says a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me. So this seems to be an angel of Satan, right? Someone who was sent by Satan to buffet me. So the meaning of buffet is something to oppose, something to strike, something to come against him. And so what we can understand from buffet is that all of those sufferings that he talked about before this are the ways in which Satan was opposing the work he was doing. And so he again lists all of those things here in these verses that we just read. We look at that again. So why was that messenger of Satan sent? So that Paul would not be exalted. He would not receive more glory than was due to him. So that revelation was from God. It was not something that Paul could boast about in himself. And so that he would not start to glory in himself or other people would not start to give him undue glory that was not right for a human being to receive. He was given these challenges to keep him humble, to keep him dependent on God. So one thing for us to take away from this is a lot of times people use this as an explanation for why sickness may not be taken away from them or something is left with them even though they've been praying for God to take it away. But we see here in Paul's example that it was not taken away for a very specific reason. So Paul had received a great abundance of revelation. He was someone who God used mightily. If we look at the New Testament, Paul has written a major part of the New Testament, right? And Paul had experienced this great, this vision, this experience of being in the presence of God, hearing a revelation in the presence of God. And because he had such great revelation, these challenges were, God allowed him to have these challenges to keep him in a place of humility and dependence on God. But none of us can claim to have that kind of, that kind of authority, spiritual authority or revelation that Paul had. Right? So this was given in a very specific reason for Paul himself. And so we shouldn't have the same expectation that God will send or God will allow such suffering on us because we don't have that same level of revelation that Paul had. So it was in Paul's specific case that God allowed it and God himself speaks to him about why it was allowed in his case. Okay, so this should not be used, this verse or this experience of Paul should not be used by us to say that we can stay in a place of sickness. We can stay in a place of suffering because God is allowing us to be weak so we can depend on him. That is not the context in which Paul was experiencing it. So we'll continue into verse 9. So Paul prays for that thought to be taken away, for that messenger of Satan to be taken away. And God speaks to him and says, my grace is sufficient for you for my strength is made perfect in weakness. And this is why Paul boasts in these sufferings because when he experiences this kind of suffering, when he experiences these challenges, at the same time the power of God keeps him going, carries him through every suffering, every challenge that he has faced in that long list of challenges that we looked at. And then verse 10, he gives a summary of what those challenges are. He says, I take pleasure in informities. So that is the physical challenges that he faced, right? We talked about the hunger, the fasting, the coldness, the nakedness, the sleeplessness. Then he says in reproaches, reproaches are from within the church, the challenges that were coming in sadly that was coming in even from within the church in needs. So in his, whether it be his financial needs, his physical needs in persecution that was coming from outside the church in distresses. Like he talked about while traveling by sea, while traveling in the wilderness, traveling through all of these different places, the actual threats of nature itself, right? Traveling through storms, traveling at risk, right, in the sea. So in distresses, all fork rise sick, right? So this is how we understand what the messenger of Satan was. The messenger of Satan was somebody sent by Satan to hinder the work that Paul was doing through all of these ways, through those informities, reproaches, persecutions, needs, distresses. But in all of that, in his human weakness, he was able to experience divine strength. Okay, so that is, that is why Paul, even in his boasting, though he chooses to boast in all of these previous chapters, his boasting is not a human boasting. He is boasting in the challenges and the weaknesses because in all of that, he learned that God was sufficient for him. Just depending on God, the power of God was sufficient for him to continue his work. We will continue from there versus 11 to 13. Someone can read that for us.  Truly the signs of apostles were accomplished among you with all perseverance in signs and wonders and mighty deeds. For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong. So here he concludes this whole part in which he's talking about himself and his ministry. And so he starts in the beginning says, it is foolish to boast, but I will boast and then again he concludes with I have become a fool in boasting. So he he in no way is saying that this is the right way to do to talk about ministry, but he says, you've left me with no choice. You should have been the one who was supporting me when these other leaders came and talked about me in this way. You should have been the one who was talking about all these things that proved that I was a true minister of God. But because you didn't do it, I am having to do it for myself. And then he says in no way in nothing was I less than these apostles who he uses a lot of sarcastic language. So he's talking about eminent apostles later he talks about super apostles. So these people who are who are acting like they are great ministers of God. So in there's nothing, no lack in the ministry that I did in the way I serve.  And then he says the signs of an apostle were accomplished. So if we look at all that he's talked about, those are the signs of a true apostle. Someone who has worked with purity with true motivation to serve Christ to serve the church. Someone who has suffered for the sake of the gospel. Someone who has been trustworthy in all that they have done, who has been open with the church, who has not manipulated them, has not deceived them, has not used their authority to control or enslave the church in any way. So all of those things are the signs of a true apostle. And he told, he proved that he is a true apostle by the way he ministered to them. And apart from the way he ministered to them, there were also signs, wonders and mighty deeds. So it wasn't only the signs and wonders and it was not only the ministry, but both those things together proved that he was serving in the power of God. And then this last part is, in no way were you inferior except that I didn't choose to receive financial support from you. And again, he's using sarcastic language here. So he's saying, forgive me for not becoming a burden to you. Maybe I should have become a burden and then you would truly trust me or you will truly believe that what I am doing is for your sake, is a genuine work. We can go on from here versus 14 to 21. If someone can read that please. Now for the third time I'm ready to come to you and I will not be burdensome to you, for I do not seek yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for their parents, but the parents for the children. And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls. Though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved. But be that as it may, I did not burden you. Nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you by cunning. Did I take advantage of you by any of those whom I sent to you? I urged Titus and sent our brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps? Again, do you think that shall we read full till 21? Yes, till 21. Okay. Again, do you think that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ, but we do all things beloved for your edification. For I fear less when I come.  You do not wish. Lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbiting, whisperings, concedes, tumours. Lest when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I shall mourn for many those who have sinned before and have not repented of the uncleanness, phonication and lewdness which they have practiced. Thank you. So here we see Paul coming. He's finished that previous section and now he's starting his conclusion to the letter talking about his next visit to the church. So this will be the third visit to the church. So first time was when the church was established. The second time was when he had this big kind of debate with someone from the church. And then he sent Titus with the letter to them. And then Titus came back and again he wrote second Corinthians to them. And so now this is the third visit that he is preparing for. And here again he says he will not take financial support from them. He's talked about receiving financial support for the church in Jerusalem, but for himself he will not take financial support because he views them as a father and he views them as his children. And it is not right for the children to support the father, to support the parents. Rather he himself will give everything he will spend himself completely for their sake. And so he says, I do not seek yours but you, right? I'm not trying to take your possessions. I don't want anything from you. What I want is you yourself. I want your heart. I want your trust. I want to have a relationship with you that is strong. I want to be reconciled to you. So this is very, very important in Paul's ministry here to the church that his heart is for them. It's not for what they can do for him, how they can support him. It is for them to grow, for them to know Christ, for them to be saved. And he says, I would gladly give all that I am for your salvation, for your souls. But it seems that the more I love you, the less you love me. But even if that is the case, I will not burden you. That is, I will not start to receive financial support from you. And then again he goes into this language that is sarcastic of nevertheless being crafty. I caught you by being cunning. So that's the way some people were talking about him, that in some way he had tricked them. Or he's saying, that's the way you are looking at me. That's the way you're thinking about me, even though I didn't take any money from you. You're acting or you're thinking about me in this way that I somehow tricked you. Did I take advantage of you? So no one, I didn't take advantage of you. Neither did Titus whom I sent to you. Didn't he walk with the same spirit that I walked in the same way that I walked? I served you. Didn't he do it the same way? And then verse 19, we're not trying to prove ourselves. We're not trying to explain ourselves to you. What we are doing is speaking before God himself. So our final judge, our true judge is God. And so we can speak confidently about the work we've done, about the ministry we've done before God, knowing that God will judge us. God knows not only what we've done, he knows the heart with which we've done it. That we do all things for your edification. We do all things for your good. And then verse 20 and 21, he talks about the fear that when he comes, he's going to see continued fighting within the church, jealousy, anger, selfish ambition, distrust. So distrust in the form of backbiting, whispering, pride. So all of these things, he doesn't want that to be in the church. He doesn't want to see that in the church when he visits. And so this letter is so that all that might be dealt with before he goes so that when he visits them, he can visit them and there can be trust, there can be reconciliation, there can be righteousness within the church itself. And so with the fear that he will go there and see all of these things in the church and that he will have to mourn over the sin that is continuing in the church. He writes this letter to correct them, to rebuke them, to exhort them to deal with all of these things before he goes so that their visit can be a pleasant one. So that we come to the last chapter, chapter 13. We'll just begin verses 1 to 6. Someone can read that please. This will be the third time I'm coming to you. By the mouth of two or three witnesses, every word shall be established. I have told you before and for till as if I represent the second time. And now being absent, I write to those who have sinned before to all the rest that if I come again, I will not spare. For since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you but mighty in you, for though he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. Examine yourself as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourself. And know yourself that Jesus Christ is in you unless indeed you are disqualified. But I trust that you will know that we are not disqualified. Thank you. So Paul talks about his visit again. He says again, this is the third time I'm coming to you. And then he says, by the mouth of two or three witnesses. This is from the Old Testament where when they went before a judge, if there was any, anything that needed to be judged, anything that needed to be brought before the judge. There would always have to be two or three witnesses who would be able to speak about what had happened. So Paul is talking like a judge who's going to go to the church and people are going to have to have witnesses to share about what has happened where they are. What sin is happening in the church and he will judge what is happening in the church. He will deal with whatever is going on there. And then he says, so I've told you before and for tell as if I were present the second time and now being absent.  So he will deal with the sin that is happening in the church. If you are wondering about whether it is truly Christ speaking to me, you will see when I come that we will not be weak towards you. But the power of God in us will be at work and we will deal with the sin that is happening in the church. Any sin that is continuing in the church. So just as Christ was crucified in weakness and we ourselves are ministering in weakness, but Christ now lives by the power of God. We will also deal with the sin by the power of God. We will deal with what is happening in the church by the power of God. So before we come, examine yourselves. You yourself test what is happening in your midst. You examine as to whether you are walking in faith and test whether Christ is in you. But Christ will not be in you if you have already been disqualified from the faith. So you may prove to be someone who has been disqualified, but we will not be disqualified because we know how we have been serving God. We know that God himself will can stand for us. God knows us. God knows the work that we have done and we can stand blameless and confident before God. But you examine yourselves and see whether you can stand before Christ or whether Christ is truly in you. So these are very difficult words. I'm sure very difficult. What Paul was experiencing and what he's writing to the church to write to people you've ministered to and wonder if truly they are still in the faith. If they can stand and say that Christ is still in them. But he doesn't he doesn't try to sugarcoat anything. He's very, very open about what needs to be dealt with, what needs to be challenged and why he is doing it also because he wants them. He wants to be able to present this church as that pure bride to Christ. And so that sin, whatever needs to be dealt with in the church, he will do whatever needs to be done so that they can be presented to Christ as a pure virgin. Free from sin, free from blemish. So we read here Romans 8, 14 to 17 for as many as are led by the spirit of God, these are sons of God. We did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear but you receive the spirit of adoption by whom we cry out Abba Father. The spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God and if children then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. If indeed we suffer with him that we may also be glorified together. And so it is the Holy Spirit within us who will affirm to us whether we are children of Christ or whether we are not. And so when Paul is telling them to examine themselves, he is saying, do you truly have the spirit of Christ in you?  And if not then you need to deal with whatever it is that is going on in your heart, in your life. Whatever sin is there, you need to deal with it. You need to take that sin out. You need to change the way you are living and you need to turn to Christ again. We will read the last part. Let's read from 7 to 14. So we will read from verse 7 to the end of the chapter. Someone can read that for us please. Let's continue chapter 13 verses 7. Now I pray to God that you do more evil. Now that we have appeared approved that you should do what is honorable. Though we may seem to be qualified for we can do nothing against the truth but for the truth. For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. And this also we pray that you may be made complete. Therefore I write these things being absent, less being present. I should use sharpness according to the authority which the Lord has given me for edification and not for destruction. Finally brethren, farewell. Become complete. Be of good comfort. Be of one mind. Live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the saints greet you. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit will be with you all. Amen. Thank you. So we will just close with these last few verses. So he says, I'm praying that you will not do any evil. Not for my own sake. Not that I would prove to be someone who is approved. But that you will do what is right. So even if it seems that we are weak or it seems that we are disqualified. If you are walking in strength, that is sufficient for us. And then he says, for we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. This is such an important verse for us as believers and as ministers of God, right? That this should be what we, the way we walk, the way we serve. Nothing against the truth, but always for the truth.  Are we doing it for the truth or are we doing it against the truth? And if we're doing it against the truth, then we have to be able to confess that we have to be able to change the way we are doing things to be right with God. To be doing things the way Christ would have us do it. And then he says, this we also pray that you may be complete. So in these concluding verses, he uses this twice, verse nine and verse 11. That you may be complete and then verse 11 become complete.  Full restoration before God. And then he says, I'm writing this while I'm absent. So that when we come, we won't have to deal with with the sin with the authority that God has given us. We're coming with the authority that God has given us and that authority again, he says is for edification, not for destruction. So if we are dealing with sin, it is for your edification. If we are dealing with people in ways that are that may seem harsh. It is not to destroy you or to destroy the church, but it is so that you may be built up in righteousness. And then he concludes with his farewell again, calling them become complete, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace. So be of good comfort is encourage one another in the faith, be people who are building one another up, be of one mind. So live in unity, live in peace with one another and the God of love and peace will be with you. So as we are choosing to continue in unity and peace, God himself will be in our midst. The God of love and peace will be with us. Greet one another with a holy kiss. So that is greet one another with brotherly love, with brotherly affection. And then Paul sends his greetings from the ministers who are with him. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. So verses 14 affirms the Trinity, right? So we know that the teaching in the Trinity was right there from Paul's epistles from these New Testament writings. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of the Father and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. It closes with that blessing over the church. So we come to the end of our semester and first and second Corinthians. I hope that you've been blessed as we've studied these two letters together. As I said, we will have feedback so you can share anything, anything take away from the class as well, things that you've learned. I will be looking at all your papers and assessing all of that as well. Please do complete all of that before the deadline. So we'll just close in prayer. I'll pray over us and then we can close class. Father, we just thank you Lord for your word. We thank you for the truth that we get to study and learn from and receive, receive revelation from Lord that we encounter you through your word. We just pray Lord as we have read these two epistles Lord that the things that you have taught us will remain in our hearts and will bear fruit in our lives and in our ministries. Lord that you yourself will be glorified that we would walk as true ministers of God, people who are accountable to you and you alone Lord. Even as the pressures of serving people might surround us and might overwhelm us Lord that we would draw strength from you, that we would draw strength from your spirit, from your word, that we would walk in holiness Lord before you. That we would be able to say that we have served only according to the truth, that we have served only for the sake of truth, only for the sake of the people we are serving to see them walking in holiness, walking in righteousness before you Lord. We pray blessings over every one of us here, over every student Lord that Lord your truth would so surround them, would fully fill their hearts and minds that they would be able to walk in it Lord by the power of your Holy Spirit upon each one of us Lord. We pray blessings over the end of the semester as we continue to finish up the semester, finish assignments, finish classes Lord for your grace, your strength, your divine wisdom and understanding to do all that we need to do for your glory for your namesake. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Thank you all. So yes, please feel free to email me if you have anything you would like to share about the class or any other questions about papers, assignments, feel free to email me and please do also send in your feedback. Thank you. God bless you all. Thank you.


I have a sudden urge to make a lot of quips. Better get going, I suppose. I'm so pleased you were the one to find this corpse of you. And then you showed me my meaning. The right to solve it. That's half of a way an enterprise as you just nabbed. This is funny, huh? Did I ever imagine that? Oh no, we're never being so damn entertaining.  Do you not recognize me, Chris? Who you are? I'm looking for my shed.  It's Uncle! That's right, fucker. Where's Jack? Oh, you've been...definitely. What do you mean by that? Don't worry, it's not my business.  Don't worry, guys. I'll do it. Paulie, are we good for a moment? Yeah, we can save the Civil War parody for another scare. Okay. Anyone else want to try? Yes! Oh look, it's Spider-Man. It's Spider-Man, you big-headed bugger. Oh, not again. What is all this commotion I'm hearing? Ouch. Hey, does anyone know where my... Wow, death is kind of the more best if I cry. Ha! I've got my strength back. Round two, Duncan Donuts! Tom! I've got an emergency clause with your... ...fiddle sticks. What's in your guys' fighters? Destroy batarangs at him.  What would have his eyes to do something? But neither of us can do anything.  And you don't have a bat-wing. Which makes you useless in this fight as well. I guess we'll just have to hide here until someone kills him. Sounds good. You've got to have one of these, by the way. They're mine. Right, it's the most overpowered one here. I volunteered to take down this colossal prick. Cripp tonight! How come everyone has it? Isn't it supposed to be rare? And that's why you should stop trying to kill me for a bit. But this is not over. The law is to have a plan. If I go to someone, Dad. Okay, Tom, Davidson, Kapari and Eccleston. Join me and fire your projectiles at him. He crits in our alien bastard!  Visit! What are you doing? Your foes! It's not being competent!  Next time, it won't be so easy. That's what I get for having a cardboard prop. Bucking kid.