Welcome everybody. We'll just give a few more minutes.  And the homework was to write it down and to get real with God over this list of things you don't like about yourself and repent over them. And so what I'm wondering is, did anyone get any breakthrough this last week? You did your homework and maybe God revealed something to you that you didn't know before or some type of breakthrough happened. Is that anybody would like to share? You did the homework over this last week and God brought some healing to your heart or something like that? Anybody? Anybody, anybody? Okay, don't all speak up at once. All right. Well, it's important. Hey everybody, the more people are hopping on now, if you go through the list and do what it says, it will definitely work for you. But if you don't do it, it's not gonna work. So I'm gonna be talking about rebellion and curses. This week's item on the list is talking about rebellion against our parents, but I'm gonna talk about it, an aspect of rebellion that I think we all can relate to. So we'll just kind of wait another minute. Is this the Renju on? I saw her. I don't know if she's still on, I don't know if she is. Hey, Renju, if you're available, maybe you wanna pray and cover us before we start. Uh-oh. She's on mute. Sorry guys, I'm outside and I don't know how to get this filter out. Oh, I see the filter. Okay, I can pray. Awesome. We'll get us started. Thanks, Renju. Father, thank you for this day, Lord. Thank you, Father God, for every sister here, Lord. Thank you for our hearts, Father God. We come before you, God. We ask, O God, that you help us, O God, connect and tune in with your Holy Spirit tonight, Father God, and hear what you got for our hearts, O God, as we work on our deliverance, Father God, as we work on being more like you, Lord. Help us, Father God. I pray for Julia, she talks, O God, I pray that her thoughts and words will be in alignment with what you have to say today, God. Help us, Lord. We bind every spirit of interference and a witchcraft, fear, doubt, unbelief. Father, we ask, O God, that you dig down into our hearts and help us to see the roots of rebellion and anything that we need to hear today to work ourselves through the miracle, Father God. So we can be more like you, and we can be in the image of Christ, and we can have the identity that you have bought on the cross for us, Father God. We humbly ask, Father, we ask, O God, that everything that is out of alignment, we come with Godly sorrow, Father.  Give us a heart that breaks for what breaks you, what breaks yours, God. Lord, I ask, O God, that we lose that wisdom, that counsel and understanding. We agree with heaven today. We agree with angels. We agree, Father God, with your ministering angels, and miss us, O God, and your Holy Spirit as we work through these things, as we work through our heart towards you, Father God, being in alignment with you, Father. Thank you, Father God. We cover all these sisters with the blood of Jesus and the mind of Christ. And I ask, O God, that you give us one heart, one mind, one accord before you, Father, because we are your children. Help us, O God, be united in one mind before you. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen, amen. All right, good. I wanna share something that I experienced last night about one o'clock in the morning. It was a reminder that the spirit world is real. I don't see things in the spirit, but sometimes I hear things and sometimes I can smell it. Well, last, I live on like a ranch and sometimes we have coyotes yelping about. Typically coyotes, they make a bunch of noise early in the morning or at sunset. If you don't live in Arizona or you're not in a place like where they have coyotes, California's got coyotes, New Mexico does, I know. But if you're not in a place where they have coyotes, you might not know that. So typically coyotes, yeah, they're out at night, but they make that sound, that yelping sound, typically at daybreak and at twilight in the evening. If I'm wrong, do I have any zoologists in that group? Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that's correct. So it was an odd time to hear what I heard, but I was kind of, I wasn't feeling very good. I got up to pray and I was walking around and in my living room, I heard what sound like a pack of coyotes and we have horses on the property and we have horses on the property.  I don't know what I was gonna do, but I just went out to see, do I need to call for help? Because sometimes the coyotes will try to attack the horses.  I was wondering where the coyotes are.  I'm sure walking out my door, they were far enough away that I doubt they would hear me. So when I came back in, I realized that I was under attack and the Lord opened my ears to the spirit world. Great, be quiet please. And I could hear, I could hear that they're like a pack of whatever, spirits, often the distance, but they are ready to attack. And so I just want you to agree with me, I say in the name of Jesus Christ, that pack of wolves or coyotes or demons or whatever you are, I rebuke you and I command you to leave, leave us all in the name of Jesus.  We rebuke you in the name of Jesus. And all of God's daughters said, amen. Amen, yeah. It's easy to think maybe our war that's not against flesh and blood is against flesh and blood, but I was reminded last night that our war is in the spirit world and we have authority over the spirit world. So we don't have to be afraid. My attack also came with pain for about an hour. Yeah, it was witchcraft, I know. Yep, come against us, that's what happens. And so it's an attack. We're doing a lot of things. Look, we are 41 of us in one accord, seeking God altogether. Unity is a powerful weapon against the enemy, okay? And wherever you have people, you're gonna have problems. And so it is important for us to humbly go through life and say sorry when you need to, maybe apologize when it was their fault, okay?  She doesn't really know the Lord. She knows about the Lord. She used to go to church at one time, but she doesn't wanna talk about the Lord. And I was trying to explain to her that we can hurt God's heart, and when we hurt somebody else by, you know, going off the handle or getting a little excited, angry, saying things wouldn't really mean to say, we hurt that person, but we also hurt the Lord. And that it's important for us to recognize, confess it to God. Gosh, Lord, I am so sorry. I lost my head. I lost my cool. I got a little too excited. I let my emotions take over for a minute, and I'm sorry, God, that I lost control.  He loves that when we confess our sin to him, he wants to heal us and he wants to clean up the mess we just made with our mouth, but we have to confess.  This is why we don't talk very often. I'm like, okay, Mom, I love you. I'm so sorry, you know, I don't mean to preach at you. And I just quickly tried the backpedal out of that because I don't wanna hurt her, and I don't wanna cut off the communication. And maybe I said a little too much, you know, for her to handle, and she's dealing with her own stuff. And anyway, I'm just sharing my real experience. I think that if I would have tried to push her and I didn't try to make peace, then maybe I could fall into the area of dishonoring her, but I quickly recognized her frustration.  And I just kind of backpedal, let's change your subject. I apologize and quickly got out of there. That was my way of, you know, let's keep talking, but let's move into a different space. So anyway, what I wanted to talk about tonight, I thought it was appropriate. Let's talk a little bit about rebellion and curses.  And that is possible. You might say, well, how's that possible? I thought only witches and warlocks could curse people. Well, the scripture tells us differently. So let's take a look at it. So I wanna share with you, there is a dictionary that's written in 1828. You're here with it, the dictionary 1828. It takes its definitions from the Bible. So this dictionary has many, many references from the Bible. It's called the 1828 dictionary. Maybe someone can drop that in the chat. So it defines rebellion like this. Open resistance to lawful authority, to treat the king's authority with contempt. We have a king. We have a president, but we... Oh yeah, okay, it's Webster's 18.8, thanks Ellen. We have a president, but there's a king of this world, the Prince of Darkness. He's really the kingdom of this world we live in. But we, as children of God, we have a king, heavenly king. And when we treat his authority or his law with contempt, meaning we go against it, we are in rebellion. All have fallen short, all have sinned, and we will continue to do so. But what we have is the opportunity to repent, right? So remember Stahl, he became king and he rebelled against God's ways. What he was told to do, he didn't do it. And for Samuel 1523, I believe this is Samuel speaking, he said, for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he also has rejected you from being king. And so Stahl was rebellious against, he was openly resistant to a lawful authority. God, the Father, right? He gave him instructions about how to handle the spoils from a war, I believe. And he didn't do what he was supposed to do. He did his own way. The word says there's a way that seems right to a man that its way ends in death. And so in Saul's case, he rebelled and Samuel, the prophet told him, this rebellion is like, it is as, it is like the sin of witchcraft. And we know that the sin of witchcraft brings a curse. And that curse can travel three and four generations. And he was rejected, he rejected the word of the Lord. The Lord rejected him as king.  Curses, now curses the Webster dictionary of 18.8 says, it's the expression of a wish of evil to another, to utter a wish of evil against one or to call for injury to fall upon, to injure, to subject to evil, to vets, to harass, to torment with great calamities, to condemn. That's cursing, that's cursing. When you do something just to harass somebody, just to get under their skin, you are cursing them. When you wish evil to befall another, you wish something harmful to happen to another.  Have something terrible happen to him.  Oh Lord, like he's riding that motorcycle. Lord, I pray that he get into an accident to teach him a lesson that he shouldn't be riding a motorcycle without a helmet. You have just sent a curse, wow. Remember, life and death is in the power of your tongue. And when you say things like, teach him a lesson, let something bad happen to that person, you are cursing them, just like a witch curses. Yeah, so we should not pray that they go through a trial to humble them, no. Lord, bring evil upon this person to teach him a lesson to humble them, that is a witchcraft curse. That's a witchcraft prayer. And so you gotta repent, okay? You gotta repent. Let's keep our comments on the chat to a minimum. If you have a specific question, you can wait to later or direct message. One of the ministers, please. So here it says, Exodus 22 says, thou shalt not curse the ruler of thy people. How many of you have wished for President Biden to keel over? Yeah, how many of you have wished for something negative to happen to the president? All right, you've heard people talk like that though. Yes, that is a curse that's sent out on the wings of demons to bring it to pass. Deuteronomy 28, 47 and 48 said this, because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart. For the abundance of everything. This does not say because you did not serve the Lord. It says because you didn't serve the Lord with gladness, for the abundance of everything. Therefore, you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will stand against you in hunger and thirst and nakedness in need of everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. So the king's law rule the way of the Lord, right? In the 10 Commandments we have this Exodus 2012, it says honor your father and your mother that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God has given you. I went to a funeral when I was in high school. There was a girl named Stacy Krieger, I remember this. We were in 10th grade, I sat next to her in history class and she crossed the road one evening as she was working. I don't know what happened, but she got hit by a car and she died. We were in 10th grade. And I remember going to the Catholic funeral and the priest said, well, she was too good for this world and God needed her in heaven. Now there is a story which I haven't been able to find yet. If someone knows where it is, let me know about a young person who died early because his dad was the king and he was an evil king and God spared him. I don't know where that story is, but I heard that that's in there somewhere. I don't know where. If anyone knows where it is, please let me know.  We have a promise to live long if we honor our parents. Now, I would venture to guess that half of you in some way dishonored your parents. I know I did. I used to break the rules all the time.  Like it was just a little too overboard. You know, it was too much and I don't know, maybe it was a nervous laughter, but I think most of it was like, are you kidding me?  Like it's not a big deal. But it was dishonoring to her. And so when I first learned about this, I had to go back and repent and I called her and apologized to her. I apologize for many things, especially my teenage years that I was fought with her a lot and argued with her a lot. So then in Deuteronomy 5, 16, it says something a little more. It's a more explanation. It says honor your father and mother as the Lord your God has commanded you, right? He commanded us in the Ten Commandments that your days may be long and it may go well with you in the land. So not that you'll have a long life only but that your long life will go well. No, I don't think your grandmother counts as your parent. Just a quick answer there. Because it says, it talks about who gave birth to you in the scripture. I could be wrong about that, but I think we should honor the people who raised us for sure. You can't go wrong by honoring. And if you did dishonor, if it was your grandmother, your grandparent or aunt, uncle, whatever doctor parents to apologize to them.   Now I'm gonna stop here for a second. Some of you are taking notes. What I want you to do is I want you to jot down when you hear a blessing, write it down on one side of the page when you hear something that sounds like a curse, write it down on the other side of the page. So here it says honor your father or mother, right? So that it may go well with you so that you may live. So your days may be long upon the earth. That is a blessing, right? That you would live a long life. Another blessing is that it your life may go well with you. So you have two blessings there. Long life and a good life and a good life. Okay, some instruction, right?  The mom can be a little irrational sometimes. And the scripture says, don't despise her. Don't despise your mom when she tells the same story 15 times. Don't despise her when she's old. Matthew 15 says, for God commanded, honor your father and mother, whoever reviles, which means criticizes in an abusive or angrily insulting manner. If you criticize your mother or father in an abusive or an angrily manner, you are reviling them, okay? Or with contempt, you're arguing. It's an arguing. It says here, this is Jesus, right? He said, anybody who does that, whoever reviles them must surely die. That would be a curse. More instruction here from Ephesians 6-1 says, children, obey your parents and the Lord for it is right. For it is right.  I'll stop there for a second. This scorns, I had to look it up. So the eye that mocks a father and scorns, this is a belief or a feeling that one is worthless. So when you scorn, when you kind of look upon somebody like it says to obey a mother, you kind of look at them like, what you're telling me to do is worthless. I have no need of that.  I'm not gonna obey what you're telling me. It says, the eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures. This is the eye. Now think about the eye. The eye is the thing that gives light to our body, right? The word says, the eye gives us vision for the future. Our eye helps us see what really is. If the ravens and the vultures, which are predatorial birds, what are those things? Those are evil spirits. They can take away our vision. They can affect us if we're a mocker. So if we're gonna, if we mock their parents or we fall into that trap of mocking or just thinking whatever they're saying is completely worthless, I'm not gonna listen to you. Then you risk, you're at risk for this curse of your vision and life being locked out. That would be a curse. Proverbs 2020, interesting, 2020, vision, think about that. If one curses wishes evil or harm, his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness. Where is utter darkness? Does anybody know?  I believe that. The dogs are in utter darkness. Wow. Wishing harm upon your mother or father can put you at risk of ending up in utter darkness. Ouch. So that would be a curse, right? Yeah. Proverbs 18, 21, here it is, death and life are in the power of the tongue and those who love it will eat its fruit. I, my mouth has gotten me in trouble in the past. Can anybody relate to me? I'm like, no, don't, I hope you get out of there. We all should be wearing masks sometimes so we don't let it out of our mouth. Yeah, when that, I'll call it, it's anger, right ladies? When that frustration and that anger and that irritation just bubbles up and your mind, the devil's been working on your mind, negative thinking, oh, they did it because of that and they are trying to manipulate me and I shouldn't fall for it.  Oh man, it's bad. I'm just saying, maybe somebody can relate to that. It is death. It is death. James three, two. This is a very good reminder and I might talk a little bit more about this. Oh, and Ecclesiastes, okay. So James three, two. It says, we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. Indeed, we put bits in her horse's mouth that they may obey us and we turn their whole body, look at also at the ships.  Even so the tongue, it is a little member and both great things.  The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature and it is set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird of reptile and creature of sea is tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no man can tame the tongue.  With it we bless our God and father and with it we curse men. Who have been made in the image of God, out of the same mouth proceed blessings and cursing. My sisters, these things ought not be so. Like I said, our words are heard in the spirit world and I'm gonna read you Ecclesiastes 10, 20 to prove it. Curse not the king, no, not in thy thoughts and curse not the rich in your bedchamber or in your bedroom, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice that which has wings shall tell the matter. Moreover, okay, this is the amplified version. Moreover, I'm just gonna read it again. Do not curse the king even in your bedroom and in your sleeping rooms, do not curse the rich, for a bird of the air will carry the sound and a winged creature will make the matter known. Now, people ask me, they get concerned. Well, is it gossip if I talk about the harm someone's doing to me? Am I cursing somebody if I just talk about how I'm being affected by what they're doing or saying or whatever? To curse, like I read you, is to wish harm upon somebody. So I've had issue with some people in my life and one person was talking, I don't know, they were not saying nice things about me and that hurt my feelings. So I shared it with a friend and then that friend said, oh, that person, she said some not nice things to me too. Okay, we're sharing information, that's not gossip. And it's not, I mean, we're not cursing her by sharing this stuff. These are facts. This is the facts, this is what happened, okay? Oh, I'm sorry, Patricia, what'd you say? Please someone list these scriptures in the chat. Oh, I'm probably going too fast for that, but maybe someone can. Patricia asked if we could list the scriptures in the chat. Gossip then is when you're talking, talking about a matter is one thing. Going on and coming to conclusions and then spreading information for the purpose of spreading information, that is gossip. Think about it this way. There was a football player, no, excuse me, a football coach and he worked at a college, I don't know what college, but it came out that when some of the athletes that he had, they grew up and one of them shared that this football coach had molested him. Well, another athlete heard about it and said, oh my gosh, he did the same thing to me. And then another person came forward and it turned out that there were scores of young boys who had been molested by this coach. But they didn't say anything when they were 10, 11 years old, but when they got older, one person spoke up and then another and then another and it became a big deal. And that man went to prison. I kind of see it the same way. When a person is causing harm, right? I've had it, I've had it where someone, let's say the sister I'm working with is kind of acting in a bully type way. I have been in that atmosphere where I was bullied in the workplace and I had to write up a grievance and it was a big mess. I wouldn't have done anything, but it was so grievous that I had to do something. So I got a taste of what it felt like to be bullied as an adult. So I get into ministry and this is a few years ago where I noticed the same type of behavior was happening from this one individual and I didn't say anything at first and then one person came to me and shared a concern that the way this other sister was treating them. And I was like, oh my gosh, she did the same thing to me. And then in another conversation, somebody else revealed and then I shared it with a friend and they're like, the same thing happened to me. Next thing we know, we have this whole acknowledgment of people who had been essentially being bullied by this one person. If we didn't speak up, if no one said anything ever, that person still be hurting others. Were we gossiping? Did some of the conversation maybe border gossip possibly? But when you're working through it, you're like, I don't understand. I was right behind you and the door slammed in my face. What was that about? Because you begin to kind of like analyze each situation and say, wow, what is going on here? What is going on? And so I think the gossip is, you reveal it, you talk about it. When you get to the point where you start speaking evil of that person, you start judging them. I admit, I probably did say, this person is a bully. I came to a conclusion. I was like, I can't trust this person because of everything that I saw happening. Eventually that person was ushered out, but it happens. If you're in a grouping of people, and a lot of times just women, right? Men don't typically deal with this stuff. If a man's got a beef with another man, they usually deal with it. And sometimes, not the most godly way they deal with it, but they deal with it and it's over. Women, and a lot of prayer went in and what did I do wrong and how could have I acted differently? And I'm gonna apologize. And you go through all that stuff. And was I perfect in the situation? Now I can't say I was. I cannot say it.  And of course, it wasn't the person, it's the spirit working through the person. So it was really easy for me to forgive the person and release those negative feelings because no one likes to be disrespected or dishonored. You are muted. How could I possibly be muted? It's just you. Okay, can you guys hear me?  Okay, she just said I was muted. Oh, thank you. Well, I think what I wanna do, I'll just read this. So another scripture I wanna share is Ephesians 4.29. I'm gonna move off this topic, okay? It says, do not let unwholesome, and this is the amplified version, so it's not your new king James, okay? I like how it spells it out. It says, do not let unwholesome, foul, profane. This is all unwholesome talk.  But only such speech as is good for building up others according to the need and the occasion so that it will be a blessing to those who hear you speak. 1 Peter 3.10 says, for he who would love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit. Deceit is deception, falsehood or misleading. You know, we can say things that lead a person to conclusion. We have to be careful about that. That is dishonoring. That is dishonoring, okay? Proverbs 21-23, whoever guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from trouble. That sounds like a good plan. Let's keep our souls from trouble. Proverbs 15-1, a soft answer turns away wrath but a harsh word stirs up anger. I recently had someone use a harsh tone with me and it was unnecessary but it stirred up something in me. It really did, I had to really forgive that person. I had to pray for them. This person's getting a lot of prayer. I got one person in my life right now. He is getting a lot of prayer.  They just know how to say things at the right time, the exact thing. They know how to say it with the right tone just to push your button. That's God's way of recruiting you as an intercessor for them.   This woman's getting blessed because whenever there's a little exchange and there's a bad attitude or there's a little something and not to say, we all got stuff going on in our own lives. Like I was up in the middle of the night, fighting coyotes and you gotta get up early and you gotta do your work and then your person who you work with or whatever or you live with pushes that right button and you're like that. God doesn't want us to dishonor anybody though, but sometimes we need to ask for help, all right? Sometimes we have to ask for help. I'd like to read Proverbs 12, 18. There is one who speaks like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise promotes health. Kids are quick to tell on each other. Mom, he said this, he said that, she, kids are quick to tell. I think we as children of God should be slow, slow to tell unless of course there's some physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, spiritual abuse, even. I think a couple, a few years ago, I heard someone complain, they felt like this other minister was spiritually abusive. And when I heard that term, I said, now is time for me to get help. It's time to get help. And I did, I got that person's help. So I think also if you're in an organization and you're all working together and maybe there's that one person who's just not a team player and there's one thing just someone's got a bad attitude. Okay, whatever, but when someone's malicious and it happens to multiple people, you end up talking about it because this one person is affecting five, six of you. Not, I think you got to go to leadership. You got to go to leadership. Maybe someone needs to hear that, so. I did want to tell you a quick story. How much time do I have? Okay, good. I want to tell you a story about the birds of the air carrying a message. I don't know, maybe it was a year ago. I did a woman's seminar. And the seminar was basically on the personality, demonic personality. There was a little teaching I put together, whether it was good or not. I don't know, but I know after I did the seminar and a lot of people got healed, it was good. I felt bad. I had a lot of like chatter in my mind about I could have did this differently and I could have spent more time on that and you know how the enemy is, right? Attacking your mind, criticizing, and I'm like, yeah, I should have did this, maybe that, okay, next time I'll change. And so it was a lot of chatter in my mind, but the next day I felt uncharacteristically sad. I felt depressed.  I just felt very heavy. I felt very sad. And I even called a friend to get prayer and I was like, I don't know what's wrong with me. I mean, I know maybe the seminar wasn't the greatest and okay, but I don't understand why I feel so sad and I felt very, very depressed. Well, and this was like I said over a year ago, there was a person at the seminar who I guess didn't like it. And I got a call Monday morning. So Saturday was the seminar. Monday I fell in this dark depression and I was awakened Monday morning to a phone call and it was one of the sisters at the ministry and she was crying. And she confessed to me that she had been speaking very poorly about the seminar and she had been talking bad about me. And I said, she's asked me for forgiveness and of course I forgave her, but once I forgave her, I felt the depression lift off me. I felt a real physical release from that spirit of depression. Now, it says that we need to be careful of what we say in the secret in our bedroom. And I don't think it means just the king. I think it means, I think King Solomon is trying to teach us something about how the spirit world works. And when we talk evil, slanderous, I don't know what she said, what she was saying. I have no idea, Lord, I could have done it better. I don't know, maybe she, I have no clue what she didn't tell me, I didn't ask, I didn't know it. But what I do know is she confessed to me and it lifted. And so she said I was speaking bad, she was basically cursing me and a bird of the air carried those words and dropped it on me. Okay. And you might say, well, you know, a curse without a cause isn't gonna land, you must have been in sin in some way. I don't know, I don't know anybody that doesn't have any open doors, even a little crack. Okay, introduce me to them. The point is this, when we speak negatively about a person, it has real spiritual consequences. When you cursed your mother, when you cursed your father, you set in motion spiritual consequences.  And a lot of you, I even know, I know some of you personally on here, you made the phone call.  I know I had to apologize. I broke the rules, I'd sneak out of the house, I didn't help around the house, she wanted more help, I didn't do it. I didn't wanna be home, whatever my reason was, right? But I called and I said, you know what, I'm sorry that I wasn't more helpful. I'm sorry that I wasn't more cooperative, mom. I'm sorry that I was a rebellious teenager and I asked you to forgive me. And it was a real beautiful phone call between the two of us because she didn't cry, but you know, I was crying a little bit and I was really saying, you know what, I messed up. And I recognized that and I wanna say, I'm sorry to you for that.  Okay, yeah, you have to, you know, you gotta just go, you can just gotta call him and apologize. Okay, what if you already did that? Then you're good. Don't worry about it, okay? So does that mean you're off the hook for the week?  If you have not dealt with the sin against your parents, then you need to deal with that, okay? It's the number three on the miracle list is this. It says, if you were raised by dysfunctional parents and you rebelled against them in your youth and dishonored them, the demons put a curse on you. And so I read some scriptures that hopefully helped you think, well, do I have a curse on my life? Are my finances always falling through? That's a, that is a sign that you might have a curse. Do you have a bunch of physical ailments that could be a curse? Do your relationships always fall apart? That could be a curse, okay? So like I said, what this miracle list is doing is helping you investigate what do you need to deal with in your life? Even if your parents were at fault, your parents were dysfunctional, they were, you had a single mom, she was yelling all the time, she worked a couple jobs, she was never home, you rebelled, did your own thing.   We took care of that hopefully number one and now you have to recognize, wow, I never really dealt with this with my parents, maybe my life is in shambles because I have a curse on it, okay? So you have to renounce and repent for the sin of rebellion against your parents, okay? If you just read over this and not do anything with it, the curse is gonna stay and now you have more information, it actually could get worse, okay? So you're gaining knowledge here. It says, apologize to them, your parents, if they're alive, apologize to God. Release them out of your soul to God and let them go. That's not a one, two, three process, it can be very difficult to let go of the awe and the yuck inside, okay? So you've got to really work this and I'm giving you one week to do it, okay? Like make it a priority this week. You've been trying to get through, you know, if they're deceased then you're apologizing to God and you've got to release your parents out of your soul, okay, you can't apologize to them but you can still release them out of your soul those negative feelings you have towards them still. And you know, you have a heavenly father now, you don't need parents, we're all adults here, right? We have a heavenly father now and we don't need a mom and dad.   Are you speaking word curses on people, okay? You might have a curse on your life cause somebody's been speaking word curses on you but I want you not to focus on that. I want you to focus on yourself, deal with yourself and how's your language? When we have negative thoughts about somebody and we speak them out of our mouth or we pray prayers that maybe you didn't know you were praying some word curse prayers.  Yeah, no, don't pray like that. We don't wanna, we don't want any harm to come to anybody. We do want our, you know, we want our loved ones to come to know the Lord and I do pray, Lord, do whatever you have to do to bring them to the knowledge of Jesus, you know? But we don't want to wish evil upon anyone. Okay, and that would be cursing them. Which head source? Okay, someone's writing in the chat. All right, does anyone have any questions for me about this topic? Any questions, any comments? Okay, here, serious iniquity. Yes, what about my dad? Okay, Patricia, right? So your, your dad's, she would essentially be your stepmother, right? Is that right? Yeah, so you have to forgive her. And you could call her up and ask her for forgiveness if you did something to hurt her. And you got to release all the bitterness that maybe she did bad things to you or made you feel a certain way. That, that bitterness, it, hey, where's Sister Renju? Is she on still? Hey, Renju, I got a question for you. She's busy. Okay, where's Ellen, is Sister Eleanor? Yes. Oh, good, thanks. Hey, what is it that isn't there a type of cancer that can come up, can, can manifest in a person if they have bitterness towards a woman in their life?  Breast cancer, sorry, Julie, yeah. Okay, breast cancer, yeah, it's on one, what side is it on? I believe it's the, if it's your mom, it's the right. Okay. And if it's another, another woman, it's the left. I may be wrong on the right and left, but it's specific like that. Okay, Ellen, can you confirm or deny? Yes, I confirm. I would, yeah, I would have to double check the right left, but yes, one is immediate family member. Like one would be your mother or your sister, and then one would be your mother in law, you know, would be a good example of the non-blood relative. Or like a stepmother. Yeah, yeah. I gotta tell you, thank you ladies so much for that clarification. I don't know how long ago, maybe five or so years ago, the Lord revealed to me that I had serious, serious anger and ought towards my step sister. And I remember the day that well, I know when it started, and then I remember specifically the deliverance I went through to release the anger and the bitterness towards her. I mean, she rejected me from the day I met her. And it was really terrible. So yeah, okay. So like my step sister, I wanted, I wrote her a letter to apologize and she refused to receive any communication from me. Okay, so essentially she's like saying, you're dead to me. Even though I knew her since I was five years old and we graduated together, I mean, we went to the same school, everything. Like she was my step sister my whole life. But I tried to make amends with her when God was dealing with me about this and she refused to hear anything from me. So of course that was another rejection, right? I had to deal with that, but I remember that it was a very, it was a very powerful deliverance of releasing the pain and the rejection and the bitterness out of my soul. And then afterwards I just confessed, I actually love her and I spent some time praying for her and her children. I used to feel a little jealous or envious of her when I see my step mom post some Facebook pictures, but all of that negativity is gone. And I thank God because that is a prime example of setting me up for breast cancer, 100%. Okay, what are some tips to do with angry parents if you're living with example, they yell, move out? Okay, if you can't move out, if maybe you're, whatever reason you can't move out, you want to pray for them, you wanna keep your own mouth in check, right? And you wanna learn how to bind the spirits.  Jesus called it the keys to the kingdom and they really work. You can bind the spirits in another person. I bind that spirit of anger. Yeah, how do I bind and lose? Could somebody, maybe that wouldn't work. We have a teaching, sister Renji and I, we did a little, have a little discussion about binding and loosing on the YouTube channel. And when I send out the email for next week, I'll include that, okay? You can go on hardcorechristianity.com on YouTube, go to the Steps to Freedom channel on there and look for binding and loosing. It's probably the only teaching on there about binding and loosing, but it's just a really simple practical teaching about this. We're just talking really, talking about it, about how to essentially do this binding and loosing. And that will really help. You're living with people who are anger, their spirits are causing them to say things and do things that are not loving and godly. Then you wanna bind the spirits in them so that when I say binding, you're essentially tying up the spirits, okay? Who are you limited to with that? Nobody, nobody. So when we bind, we bind, say, the spirit of rejection and I lose the spirit of acceptance. I bind the spirit of fear and I lose the spirit, I lose the power of power, love and a sound mind, okay? So I take the thing that I see in the person operating that spirit of anger and I lose peace. And I lose peace. I bind the spirit of anger and I lose the peace of God. I lose cooperation, okay? I lose love, absolutely, yeah. You can make a big long list. Okay, there it goes. Sister Renju posted it in the chat. I don't know how you get that downloaded, or maybe you can copy and paste it, who knows? But that should help. And I need to get back to doing it because what occurred for me last Friday, I definitely now, I'm like, I need to bind the spirits that are operating at my workplace so I can have more peace. So maybe you need to do that too. We just need a reminder, okay? I would like to pray for you ladies.


Thank you Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I must first indicate to the member for Kashi's office that I think he did very good with time considering how lengthy this bill is. Mr. Speaker, it's a deputy speaker. I must indicate that there are very many progressive elements in this bill, a lot of them, but I think there is quite a few areas that are concerning and obviously over time the department, the minister will hear from the stakeholders as to how some of these things will affect their business going forward. As he mentioned during the closing part of his contribution, the member indicated one of them for example was the high cost of living, high cost of doing business in St. Lucia. I'm very happy that that came to the fore because I remember in a previous life one of the things that was looked at very critically when trying to assist some of these entities was the ability to manage some of these high costs of utilities, particularly electricity. But there's something Mr. Speaker and I should confess that I will not be very long in my delivery, but there's something that concerns me and the minister or the member rather for Kashi's south spoke in several ways towards the issue but he never really hit it and I'm referring to the environment as to the merits and the merits of various stakeholders and how they can be rewarded and how they can be also penalized. I remember Mr. Deputy Speaker what 35 years ago when I first visited the UK and I remember going to one of these fast food outlets and my cousin who took me to the to the outlet indicated to me that one of the laws regulating these entities was that they were obligated to keep a certain circumference around the building clean and neat and tidy and ensure that any wrappers or boxes or anything with their logo could not be seen within that circumference or they would be they would be penalized they would be charged and so long ago Mr. Speaker that has always stuck with me as it relates to how various corporate entities get away with so much in our small in our small island and while you may visit some of our hotels that are right on the beachfront and you will say wow an immaculate beach because they have people taking care of the immediate surroundings. I think we need to go a step further in rewarding some of these particularly the larger stakeholders where they can adopt a beach that's not necessarily next to the place of operations and have a crew every now and then you know to go and address the environment and not necessarily beach it but you know a couple of miles away from their business and they could get points they could get merits for that I think it's you know we should kind of hone it into the environment in some of the the merits that we would want some of these stakeholders to address because we cannot just have the the entity taking care of the immediate surroundings and so many other areas in St. Lucia when our visitors go to you know they see it as so untidy and one of the things you know maybe they should also encourage programs and not just speak to keeping St. Lucia clean for tourists but for ourselves you know and I spoke about it in our last sitting we must endanger a feeling of pride in our community in our people and a lot more needs to happen now more than ever the young people growing up to create that sort of spirit of pride we celebrate in 45 years this year of independence and sometimes people still feel it's okay you know because it's not in my backyard I can just throw something out of a vehicle so I thought that maybe the whole issue of incorporating the upkeep of our environment not necessarily in the immediate surroundings of these stakeholders that we speak to should somehow be incorporated into the whole legislation to encourage that sort of behavior and education for our people that being said Mr. Devin I thank you


Well, the fall season is back with the Bemidji girls tennis team. High expectations come with it. They already opened up the season on Monday, but now they are home sweet home today, hosting a four team in Vi playing Pequot Lakes first this morning. Let's start with one singles in the Jacks Abbey Kelm. Look at the forehand winner down the line here. Nicely done. Kelm dominates in straight set 6-1, 6-0. Two singles, Bemidji's Laura Palmer. She gets the backhand working. Nice touch bastard opponent for the points. 6-1, 6-0 in straight sets. And finally, one doubles. Samantha Edlin and Taylor Offerdahl. And look at the strong play from Netbuy Offerdahl. Puts it away with authority. They take it 6-3 and 6-1 in straight sets. Good start for the Lumberjacks. They hit 6-1 over Pequot Lakes. Then 4-3 over Alexandria. And in the third game, they beat Becker 4-3 to start the season 4-0. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


We can just start about in time with Ankush for the storage management in OpenShift. Thank you. Thank you everyone. So the topic that we are going to talk about today is the management of storage in OpenShift. As we all know that management has been always a trivial task for the storage admins and the developers, whether it's deploying a cluster, whether it's doing a monitoring of a storage cluster or whether you are doing any of the day to operations, you have to go to the CLI. As we have all seen that there has been a number of presenters that have came and played with the CLI and then all the stuff. I'm not going to do that. I'm a developer working in storage department in Red Hat as a senior software engineer. I have been working on a storage product from last over four years, basically designing the storage and also implementing that storage and how user can easily interact with the storage systems. Initially, all started with a cluster where we designed a console for a cluster, then we transitioned to SAVE and designing a console for SAVE and now the world has transitioned to containers. So here I am designing a UI for the container storage in OpenShift. I also love playing table tennis, snooker in my free time and also like exploring places, food and cultures. So that's about me. I just want to ask a question. How many of you have faced the problem of setting up a storage cluster or doing a day to operations or doing the managing in the storage cluster? Please raise your hand. We have been trying to address this problem and I have some solutions that I have implemented in the OpenShift and I'll be trying to demo it today. I have a few slides that I can take you to and show how we have done that. The first part of it is how easily we can deploy a container storage on OpenShift. So these are the few steps that I have done in the OpenShift cluster. So there is an operator in OpenShift named as OpenShift container storage. So in that operator what you need to do is you have the nodes. You need to select the storage node that you want to deploy on. You have the storage class. Why the storage class is required? So let's suppose you are on a cloud environment like VMware or AWS. You will need the storage from those cloud environments because you don't have the bare metal cluster with you. So OpenShift is designed for that. So that's where you need the storage class to be there. And the last one is the capacity that you want from the cluster storage. So let's suppose you have the three nodes and you want... I have taken an example of 2TIB. I want to deploy on this one using this GP2 because my cluster was AWS and AWS by default provides the GP2 storage class. So that's where these three things are important. And then you can directly go ahead and click on create and it will start bringing up all the... So back end of the OCS is backed by CIF. So it will start bringing up all the CIF storage cluster and provide you the storage that you decide for. So that's mainly about the installation. And moving on to the next part. Yes, my cluster is deployed. Now what we should do? Rather we want to monitor our cluster now. And we have certain capacity like... We have 2TIB of capacity and our capacity is full now. What you should do? How you should monitor that? Either you need to... On the CLI you need to run a few commands, do a DAF or those kind of a command on a system. But what I have done is I've created a dashboard on a storage where you can actually see how much of a capacity you have been utilizing, how is the IOP performing, how are your storage being used and a few of the things that are related to the Kubernetes. This particularly is a Prometheus architecture. We use Prometheus for storing our time series database so that we can take that data back and we can display it on a dashboard. So if you see, this is a Prometheus server. What it does is it pulls the data from the different services like FluentDB, a few from the Kubernetes and all that. And it tries to show, display the information on the Grafana. If you know Grafana, Grafana is a chart graphing tool where you can see all your data very cool and very effective manner. So that's where it is trying to display. On the other side, if you see there is an alert manager. In the alert manager side, what it does is whatever metrics that are there in the Prometheus, you push the, sorry, you put alerts on based upon that. So let's suppose if your cluster, if you have a safe cluster and your safe cluster is degraded, I'll put alert condition saying that if my safe cluster is degraded, please send out a mail to an admin or a user or you send out to a Slack or to different webhooks that you can configure to Prometheus. So that's pretty much about Prometheus. I'm not going to go into a deep into that because it's not of a story-related, not much of a story-related stuff, but I have simplified that explanation on how we do that. So we have dashboards. We pull the data from Prometheus if you see over here. And what Prometheus does is Prometheus pulls the data from the safe manager pod that is there in the, when you deploy the OCS cluster, this pod also gets deployed. This pod has all the exporters that are related to the safe. So it pulls the information from the safe manager and stores it into a time series database so that we can then pull the information in the dashboard and show it in a very effective manner. And this is the kind of dashboard that we have created where you can see all the information related to the time series and how much of a story has been used, what is the inventory of your cluster, how many nodes, how many PVCs, PVEs, and what are the events that are running in your Kubernetes cluster that are related to the storage. So I'll be showing this in a demo and how we are doing it. There are, if there are some alerts, you can see those alerts over here, but I'll be showing that in the demo. Right now there are no alerts for this screenshot. And moving on to the next. In the day-to-operations, we have implemented the expand of a cluster. So now you have monitored your cluster and your storage is almost full, how you can expand your cluster. So in a similar manner, how you install your cluster, you need to give the storage class that is backed by your infrastructure storage class. In this, my infrastructure was AWS, so I choose GP2, that is default provision by the OpenShift, and you can see how much capacity you want to enter. So you said four TIB of the raw capacity you want, and it will be having the three-way application, so it will, total provision capacity will be 12 TIB, and then you can go ahead and click on that, add, and it will take around one minute to add this capacity to the cluster, add this capacity to the cluster, and it will be, the cluster will be expanded. And that's pretty much it. I'll be taking you to the demo. I think that's most crucial. Maybe we can jump. Is everybody able to see it? Is it good? Perfect. So the cluster, the storage I talked about, the operator that I talked about, so my talk is basically about the operators plus the UI combination working together so that it can give you the seamless experience. So the screen that first I showed you was installation of a storage cluster, that is you can click on this great instance in the OpenShift, and you can see those nodes over here. I have already created a cluster so that I can actually show you the monitoring over here, but you can click on these nodes and you can select the storage class that you want to take the data from and also the capacity that you want to provision. Right now we have provided some default options that you can choose from, but you can also enter your capacity and then you can click on create. The one caveat over here is I have taken down one of the nodes so that I can show you the alerts if the node is down, how the alerts will be popped up in that situation. So I have taken down one of the nodes and that's why it's not allowing me to create the cluster right now because by default the replication is three and you need three nodes to be there. But that's how you do it. If you have three nodes you can select all from here and you can select the particular one and click on create after selecting these options. Once your storage is created, it will create few of the pods. You can go to the workload and see all the pods that have been spawned up over here. So these are all the pods, but I'll directly jump into the overview and the persistent storage dashboard that is mainly for the Chef cluster that I've created. This is the screenshot that you saw. I think I can close this one. Yes, this is better. This is the screenshot that I showed you up. So you can see that all the details for the cluster are here. You can see the inventory over here. You can click on the node that you have selected for the storage that is present over here. On the right you can see the status of the cluster that is degraded right now because I have bought down one of the nodes and it is showing me that the cluster is in a warning state from last 10 minutes because this device is down because I have taken down that node and your data is also not resilient. So if you can see on the right, data is right tower rebuilding and because there is not much of the data that I have pushed to the cluster, that's why it is not getting progress, but once I take it down to the original situation, it will be good. On the right we have the activity card where you can see all the activities that are happening in your cluster related to the storage, whether the container is started, how your replica sets are, how your deployments are and all that. Below that we have the capacity breakdown card where you can see how much of a storage is being used by each of your namespaces or the projects you can call it. You can also filter it by the storage classes. So you have one storage class that is being used and that is used in this much of a capacity and also by the pods, how much each of the pod is taking in the cluster. Going down, as I told you that you can monitor all the IOPS, latency, throughput and the recovery of the cluster. So all the charts are here. You can also click on these and you can see how by each project or by each storage class it is behaving and that's pretty much on the dashboard part. There is one more thing that, on the right side there is a dropdown that shows if you want to do CC utilization for 1 hour, 6 hour or 24 hour, I will click on this 6 hour one. You can see that there has been transitioning. I have actually created a cluster then I bought down few nodes. There was some IOPS that came on to this cluster and then that's how it was. So that's about it on the storage dashboard part. Another thing I want to show is how you can expand it like how I showed you up. So what you can do is you can go to the storage cluster that you have created. On the right you have a kebab menu. You can go over there and click on the add capacity. Add capacity will ask you the storage class and the raw capacity you want to provision. And you can click on this add and it will start adding the, it will go in the progressing state and it will start adding the PVCs for you. So you can actually come to the left menu storage. Storage has all PV, PVCs and storage classes. You can go to the PVCs and you can see that there are PVCs that are already bound and there will be few new PVCs that will be created. I think that's okay. You can see it. There are new device set that has been created and these are right now in the pending state. Once these are bound, you can see that the reflected state in the overview dashboard and this capacity will be increased. It will take around two to three minutes to reflect that capacity in this charts but that's how you expand your cluster. So that's pretty much I think about it on the management part of the OpenShift and how you can do it. Is there any questions we have? Yeah, yeah, background itself. On the background it is self, yes. Yeah. Okay. So the question is can any other story provider can also use this UI to deploy the story cluster? Right now not because you need to have a desired schema that is requested by the operator or the UI that I've written right now and if you do that and if you enable few of the things that will be possible in the later future. Yes. Exactly, exactly. So you need to define a YAML in a certain format so that it can pick it up and you can do that. Yeah. Yes, internally it is using Rook. Okay. The question is if I'm using the Rook inside can I use the different data sources that Rook has already has and right now, yes, we can do that but this is the first time functionality that has come into. So we have implemented in SIF. Yes, we can leverage it to the other story operators. Yes, we need to talk to few of the folks how the schemas need to be designed and how we can push it. Yes. That's about it. Yeah. Is there any other questions we have? So the question here is the second question was if there is a disaster recovery and the first question is is there abstraction layer on top of the open shift there, you can do that. Yes, this is abstraction layer on top of it and where you can manage your cluster easily and for deploying operator, you need to write few YAMLs and you need to apply those YAMLs to the cluster but this provides pretty much a very much abstraction on top of it and you can select those things but what it does internally is it adds those values to the YAML which you eventually will do and do that but it doesn't have any right now this disaster recovery kind of a thing. What we have right now is I'm not sure how to hide it up. There's a recovery thing that is here so if your cluster has gone down and it shows that and if you have bought down few of the new nodes and the port has been started transitioning it shows the graph saying that your data is being transitioned to another node and this is the rate with which it is being transferred so that's all we have right now. The upcoming things that we are applying to implement is kind of a snapshotting and cloning of your PV and the PVCs that is coming down in Kubernetes 1.17, it is getting alpha so that's what we are trying to implement by now. Thank you. Any other questions we have? Inside the Kubernetes cluster or inside the open trade not to attach any pre-existing set cluster to the open trade. Can you repeat it? So you can only deploy a cluster inside the open trade? Yes. Because this is a management layer on top of the Kubernetes so we needed a UI where we can add up a few things. So the question was is it just for the OpenShift or can it be provided on the Kubernetes? Kubernetes we cannot provide it right now because we have the OpenShift as a management layer on top of Kubernetes and where we had the UI available and we can add new things where it will be easy for the user to do most of the stuff that he is talking about or planning about. So basically the question here is can we attach an external cluster to this one? Yes, so this is something that is planned and we are already working on it you can deploy your external cluster and use that as a storage provider to this OpenShift to your pods or the deployments you can say. Yes, there are plans for it. Any other questions? Or are we done? I think that's about it. Thank you everyone. Thank you so much.


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Good evening. If you're anything like me you've been hearing a barrage of constant talk about something called skibbity toilet on your social media feed and from people you know for a while now. I honestly had zero clue what this was and upon googling it I was immediately met with what looked like gmod screenshots of people's heads coming out of toilets and I immediately closed the tab and dismissed it as some weird fad for little kids not worth my time that would pass by in a week or so. Only it didn't pass by. I've continued hearing about this thing for what feels like months now. I've started seeing posts of other people who are similarly bewildered by its existence and today I finally cracked and decided to look deeper into it and try and figure out just what the hell skibbity toilet is. Here's how that went. The first thing I did was look it up on YouTube and I discovered something kind of crazy which is that these skibbity toilet videos are getting millions, sometimes tens of millions of views in a matter of days. Videos getting that many views with almost no recognition elsewhere online is almost always a sign of it being popular on YouTube kids apps or the like. So the second thing I did was ask my discord server to help me figure this out and after deciphering as much information from their gibberish as I possibly can, I think this is probably as good of a job as I'm going to be able to do at explaining this nonsense. So the first thing that was made abundantly clear to me is that this guy, DaFuckBoom, is at the center of this. He is an animator who has been around since 2016 and it looks like before this whole toilet thing took off he was most well known for making GTA San Andreas big smoke memes and squid games animations. Some people I spoke to said he was Russian and that might be true but everywhere I looked online said he was based in the United States. Maybe he fled because of the war or something, I don't know. Anyways, this guy DaFuckBoom has a very successful YouTube channel with millions and millions of subscribers. Seven billion views, Jesus. He is the one who is responsible for spreading this thing everywhere and I'm all but sure he's the original creator as well. It being, of course, a series of animations where a guy has his head or sometimes three of his head stretched out through a toilet while he sings a weird song or makes weird noises. That's what we're dealing with here, okay? That is the heart of the Skibbidi toilet. But apparently there's a lot more backstory to it than that. After doing some digging around, I've discovered that the term Skibbidi appears to originate from this video, where a guy dances with his belly jiggling through a song where it sounds like someone is singing Skibbidi bop. That audio apparently got incorporated into a meme remix of Give It to Me by Timbaland and Nelly Furtado at some point, which makes me sad because I actually really like that song. And then DaFuckBoom made a video where Melo7 from Half-Life 2, who has his own lengthy meme history I did an old video on, sings that remix with insanely contorted facial expressions before jumping off a building into oncoming traffic. This went insanely viral. From there, toilets got involved. Apparently DaFuckBoom had been doing short animations involving toilets in Melo7 for a while before this, but it seems that adding that Skibbidi song was the golden ticket to massive success. So now we started animating people's heads coming out of a toilet singing this song, birthing this Skibbidi toilet phenomenon which has become massively popular via YouTube shorts and TikTok, and now resides permanently in the mind of seemingly every child in the continental US. But that's not all because it's also become a series of some sort. A full-on narrative series that there are seasons of, though from what I can tell, one season consists of merely a few minutes worth of video, and there's really not much continuity between episodes. Anyway, it now appears to be trying to convey a story where the Skibbidi toilets are some kind of malevolent threat to humanity that's spreading or multiplying, and they're going to war with a race of people with cameras, speakers, and TVs for heads that are trying to stop them. There's apparently different kinds of toilets, like military toilets, g-man toilets, spider toilets, or flying toilets, and some of these videos are presented like straight up live leak footage with these toilets raining terror on the general public and blowing up buildings. So strange. The camera heads seem to have come in later in the story, so like I said, I think they're meant to be some kind of resistance against the Skibbidi toilets, though I couldn't tell you myself if they're a force for good or evil in this deranged story. Also, sometimes these things aren't even toilets. There's this one where the camera pans into an elevator and these guys are coming out of urinals, so at this point I honestly recommend against trying to rationalize or make any of this make sense in your head. There is one big thing everybody seems to be wondering though, and that's whether we as a society should be worried about the emergence of Skibbidi toilets. There seems to be a growing concern about whether there's anything malicious to this trend, and while I am a little curious how the future generation is going to turn out if this is what they're growing up watching 15 hours a day, it doesn't seem to me like there's anything innately sinister or predatory about it. It's obviously not teaching any valuable lessons to the kids who are watching it, but that's honestly true of basically all of the slop kids watch on YouTube these days anyway. Hell, I feel like the weird SFM videos I watched growing up really weren't that far off from this in terms of how absurd they were. It's just that this is formatted in the same insane sensory overload style that everything else on TikTok is. Which, don't get me wrong, is probably going to prove to be a very bad thing for our future generation's attention span, but it's also not unique to the Skibbidi toilet thing at all. There does however appear to be a ton of people online trying to profit off the trend. You'll notice tons of apps related to it on the Android store and places like that, and I wouldn't be surprised if that rabbit hole runs deeper than I know. It also looks like people have started making fan-made entries to the series and merch and stuff, but in all, I'm pretty sure all of this starts from that defuck boom guy just making weird ass animations. And there's not really anything wrong with that in itself. Okay, I just found out there's also apparently another series he has called America that's very similar, except the heads that come out of the toilets are those of Joe Biden, Brock Obama, and Donald Trump. And it seems to be some kind of attempt at political commentary where as soon as someone mentions oil, or the border, or developing countries, one of them shows up with an American flag, an army, and a bald eagle. So I guess if you're worried about your kid getting radicalized by Skibbidi toilet or something, then maybe keep them away from that, I guess?  I talked to more than a dozen people about it, and I still don't even feel like I really understand it, but if I were to have to try to put things into the most simple terms possible, Skibbidi toilet is a YouTube short series about citizens from Half-Life 2 coming out of toilets and singing songs, while camera and speaker people fight against them and are maybe trying to save the world from them, because they are evil and kill people and blow up buildings. Some guy who is possibly Russian is responsible for producing over 40 episodes of this, and children love it. I have no idea how people come up with stuff like this, but it's pretty hilarious to me that the guy who provided his real face for the Melo7 model back in 2003 is still around and has probably seen his younger face coming out of a toilet and singing a weird Skibbidi bop song on his daughter's iPad or something. Can you imagine? Anywho, what I've looked over here today is pretty similar in vain to nextpots and a lot of the other weird GMOD and SFM stuff I've seen crop up over the last couple of years, in that it's pretty clearly just insane nonsense whipped up for kids, but it also seems to confirm my suspicions that G-Man and the Half-Life 2 guys making funny faces is going to continue to entertain young people for generations to come, just as it did for me, which is kind of cool in my opinion. Although, at the same time, it also honestly kind of has nothing to do with GMOD, it's technically animated in Source Filmmaker, and I was able to find videos of what looks like live-action CGI Skibbidi toilet movies, so it's pretty clear to me that the appeal to this whole thing is nothing to do with the actual games these guys are from and everything to do with guy in toilet making funny face to catchy song. I don't know how long of a lifespan there is for a trend like this, but according to this website, Defuck Boom got 3 billion views in June 2023 alone off the Skibbidi toilet stuff and was the number one most viewed channel on the entirety of YouTube that month. So honestly, just fair play to the guy. He clearly found something that works for him, seeing as some of these videos have literally almost 200 million views, and I can't hate on that even a little bit, even if I don't really get it. This stuff isn't made for me after all, and if nothing else, at least it isn't weird fart slapping needle blood fetish stuff like the old Elsa Gate videos were.  Multiple lifetimes even. So I can only hope that if you were confused about what this insane Skibbidi toilet phenomenon that seemingly popped up overnight is, this video helped you understand it a little better. Thanks for watching, and have a nice day.


Greetings, this is Gerard Leonhardt from Basel, Switzerland, Futurist, CEO of the Futures Agency, a quick introduction to our event on November 5th in Sao Paulo at the Museum of Sound. This will be a great pleasure to see you there. So here's a couple thoughts of what I'm going to talk about then, and here are the details. I think you can find it on the website at GamesforChange.com.org, rather, I think. But in any case, I hope to see you there. And my work as a Futurist is about foresight, it's not about predictions. So what I'm going to share with you are foresight developed about looking into the topics of my work. They're not actually predictions, and I don't really like the term predictions. I prefer to call this a foresight work, and I hope I can share some foresight with you then. My next book is going to be called From Ego to Ego. And part of the conversation that we're going to have at this event is about this meme from Ego to Ego, becoming a global meme, and this is a good thing. But the topic is kind of difficult, actually, when you think about the ramifications of it. That business, as we know it, is broken, and that we have to reboot how we do stuff, do stuff in a very, very basic way. Global warming, as Al Gore said, it's clearly the biggest market failure in history. And so we have to ask the question, can this problem be solved by free market capitalism, by turbo capitalism, as we call it in America? I live in Switzerland. I spend a lot of time there. So global warming is a big issue, but not only that, but also in media we have the issues. I mean, basically, as John Elkin says in his book, The Zero Now, it's what you can see here, it's a great book I recommend, it has a world of 9 billion people, will demand fundamental different changes in our mindsets and the way we look at stuff. This is the discussion that we're going to have at this event. How can we shift from an ego system, from an economy to an economy? I think this is the crucial question. If you're looking at what's happening with our thought patterns being sort of aligned with industrial things and industrial-era things like perpetual growth and profits, and now all of a sudden the internet and, of course, the environment is forcing us to think of this more of an ecosystem, a connected interdependent system. And this may probably mean the rebooting of capitalism, not in the sense of the alternative, which maybe some people think about socialism, but rebooting capitalism in a sort of natural way of what people call natural capitalism or sustainable capitalism, if that even is feasible. I mean, what we're seeing in Brazil, of course, is that many symptoms of that capitalism rampant also in Brazil, but all over the world, including deforestation and the selling of natural resources. So responsible capitalism, natural capitalism, how do we do this? I think basically business as usual is dead, and that even as the U.N. Secretary-General says, Ban Ki-moon, the old model of economic development and growth is a suicide pact, a global suicide pact. And this has quite clearly become the true of this. David Courton reinforces over it. The S Magazine is basically opposed to the biosphere, and it's a suicide economy. So how do we build a new economy? What is the question? And Tim O'Reilly, as a publisher, has a great example, says, if you take out more than you put in, the ecosystem eventually fails. And this is very true about record labels. As you can see here, that ecosystem is completely dysfunctional. And it's true about oil when you're talking about all companies and what people do with energy resources. I think we're moving from independence to interdependence. There's a great movie I have to watch by Tim and Tiffany Schlein called Connected the Movie. And interdependence means creating an ecosystem that works for all of the parties or it does not work at all. Like, I think YouTube versus MTV shows the example that I'm talking about here, even though YouTube is far from being the perfect interdependent ecosystem at this point. But it's pointing in the right direction as opposed to centralized television. The music business I talked about earlier is just like the energy business. And it's kind of bizarre to see that people are still saying, you know, we're not ready for that shift because, you know, we want to amortize our old investments and, you know, we want to keep people, have people buying CDs or downloads or, of course, oil. So we're moving to a biosphere, not a myosphere. And I think this is very true. As you can see in this thing I found Antombla, fortunate I found this. I have no idea where it came from. But obviously people have been thinking about this. A biosphere in technology, in media, in arts and society, not a myosphere. This is a substantial difference. I think pretty much our only way forward is the creation of this biosphere. And to my view, Brazil could take a leadership position in creating a collective and a common approach that we're seeing. I mean, clearly we're going to need new energy ecosystems, new money ecosystems, new media ecosystems, and a new ecosystem for education. That's based on zero cost of distribution that the Internet affords us, but also creating an ecosystem of values. And this is very, very important. You know, look at this long list of what the ego from eco is going to entail. Distributed media, real time, invented anywhere, crowdsourcing, shared, open, hypercollaboration, it's about nodes and not pyramids. I mean, all these things we'll talk about at the event. Obviously we'll be there for two days, just kidding. But the limitations of the industrial age of stuff, they're gone now. I mean, we don't actually need physical product anymore from media. This is very good news for creators, in my view. But of course now we have to think about what it actually means to live in the age of ubiquity, not the age of scarcity as the little fish who's looking for the bait, you know, that is distribution. That is going to radically change. And I think this is so true also for energy. Distributed energy is the way forward. The future of business is a decline in empires and the rise of networks. And that is inevitable. I mean, not just with Facebook, but, you know, all businesses, especially at B2B, for example, LinkedIn is becoming the primary place of hiring now. It's going to be mind boggling the decline of empires and the rise of networks. And that is something I think that we're seeing everywhere, behavior change in mobile technologies, using what's called the personal tracking and the idea of creating a quantified cell and so on. I mean, this is going to be very interesting. Social media isn't enabling us to interconnect this way, especially in Brazil, which is crazy about Twitter. I think number two on Twitter or number one even on Twitter. I think we're sort of on our way to a global brain, finding ways to recycle and activism on social networks and sharing energy information. And as Zuckerberg says, his goal is a more open and connected society will create a stronger economy. But also, I think, emphasis would be on a better economy and a more equal economy. I mean, we're looking at all the stuff that's happening around the world, how people are sharing tools, and we're clearly shifting from this place of where everything was concentrated on profit and growth and industry and industrial to the next level of interconnecting and creating a valuable ecosystem. And this, in my view, could be the role for Brazil in the world, because clearly that's not going to happen in America, as we could see in the current election debates, where climate change isn't even mentioned. I mean, this is appalling, isn't it, in my view? But also in Europe, where we are completely stuck with regulation and with trying to change the system to go forward. Energy revolution will follow the communication revolution, as Jeremy Rifkin says in his great book, Third Industrial Revolution. We're going to see an integrate where we can actually have something like the internet with energy, feeding energy back and forth to each other, generating profit from this. But also, having the users become contributors and participants in this, distributed energy, distributed media, distributed business, that is our future. And it's clearly, as Marshall McLoone says, this could be quite chaotic because being a decentralized world is different, is going to take a lot more energy to organize it and to filter the chaos. So Brazil, I think, has a very special position here. I think Brazil should adopt the motto of Bhutan, which is not about gross domestic or national product, but about gross national happiness. I think this would be a great headline for Brazil to look at this. I mean, they even have a happiness commission in Bhutan. Check out the quote down here. It's quite mind boggling. So bottom line is I think we're going to have a global village. We're going to have a system that's switching to an ecosystem from the ecosystem, or we'll have a global desert, or rather, a global black hole. That is our alternative. It's time to hit this button. So I hope to see you at this event in Sao Paulo on November 5th. And thanks for everyone for putting this together for Gilson Schwartz and everyone else. And it will be a great pleasure to see all of you there. Thanks very much for tuning in.


So now we're going to talk a little bit about hurricane preparedness. We've got Wayne Larson, St. John's County Director of Public Affairs on the line. Wayne, how are you today? We're doing well. Thank you for the opportunity to share our story and our preparation information. Yeah, so what are the threats to St. John's County in particular given the parts between the ocean and the intercostal as well as on the river? Well, first and foremost, we want to communicate to your listeners that we need them to be prudent and proactive and purposeful with their preparation. This do not take this tropical event likely. This is going to be a significant weather event. And to that point, we're going to anticipate significant wind activity, tropical storm winds in the St. John's County area for a prolonged period of time starting on Wednesday morning and through the afternoon hours. And then, particularly to your point, St. John's County River, that's probably the area that we'll probably see the most impacts when it comes to potential flooding just based on the path of the storm at this point. And what about St. Augustine and Valano Beach? They haven't fared well in the past. Like, how's this looking for them? Well, we're in constant communication and coordination with our partners in both cities, City of St. Augustine and City of St. Augustine Beach. We have collaborated and we're providing self-serve sandbag operations in six different locations throughout the county, including those cities. So that's one proactive step we've taken since yesterday and it's again open today. And those are opportunities for the public to get sandbags to help them in their areas and they can go to Windswept Acres Park, Solomon Calhoun Community Center, Hastings Community Center, Mills Field, Palm Valley, and North Beach Park to get up to 20 bags per person to help them secure their property. In terms of further assistance, we will announce later today that we will open two storm shelters at 5 p.m. One will be at the Solomon Calhoun Community Center at 1300 Duval Street in St. Augustine and that will be for general population and pets. And then a second location for sheltering will be at the St. John's County Health and Human Services Building at 200 St. Sebastian View also in St. Augustine and that will be for our special needs folks that needs some assistance in our community. What are some of the household items that people should stock up on? Well, again, being proactive, being prudent, being practical, make sure you've got a five-day supply of your medicines, things such as insulin and if you're diabetic, make sure you've got it in a cooler. Of course, any personal grooming items, hygiene items, extra clothing, pillows, blankets, you know, a flashlight with extra batteries. And then, of course, always personal identification information, important papers, maybe some cash on hand if you can in case electronic payment opportunities are just deactivated or inaccessible for a certain period of time, cash or check that you might have on the other ways to make payments. So again, this is the time to be prudent and purposeful with your planning and not take this weather event likely. It will impact St. John's County in a variety of ways, but most notably with wind activity as much as tropical storm sustained winds for a period of time in our community. What do you recommend for homeowners in the area with the wind coming in? Does that mean that people should be boarding up their windows? What kind of actions should people be taking? Every and any precaution they can. I will tell you from personal experience, I picked up my house over the weekend and made sure that my wife's massive wind chime was taken down off of our back patio and picked up all my daughter's potted plants, even the small, the large ones from the back patio area in the yard. Took down all the bird feeders that were hanging from different things, picked up all the things in the yard. So simple, simple steps like that to not only protect your home, but be respectful to your neighbors and those in your neighborhood because those can be flying projectiles and can pierce homes, windows, and vehicles. It can be quite destructive. So just be reasonable, be realistic with your property. And this is not just for homeowners. This is business as well. You see a lot of these sandwich boards out and signage and things of that nature. So again, be prudent, be proactive and be purposeful with your actions today to help all of us get through this unscathed. What should folks do if they lose power? Well, there's a variety of opportunities. One, if you've got a generator, make sure you're practicing safe generator operation. And that is available on our special webpage. It's available to everyone in the public, which is sjcfl.us forward slash hurricane. You can go there and find a variety of tips and tactics to get through power outages. And one of those is generator safety. You've got a generator, plus other tips with the loss of power. Of course, you can always, and an example is just a personal example. We've got a propane grill and we've got some canned goods that we plan on heating up on our grill if we need to have some hot food. So there's always options there. But go to our special webpage that I mentioned to seek information. And then also we encourage the public to call if they have any questions about any utility issues or safety issues, call our special hotline. We have a citizen information hotline that's available 247. That's<PHONE_NUMBER>. That's<PHONE_NUMBER>. Give us a call. Talk to us. Let us know your questions or concerns and we'll help guide you through this storm. Big question. How will residents know if and when they need to evacuate? St. John's County, along with our partners in the city of St. Augustine and St. Augustine Beach, will make public announcements. The easiest and simplest way that the public can stay informed with the latest information is by signing up for our instant alert. We have two platforms they can sign up for. One is St. John's Alert St. John's and they can go to that special webpage. I just mentioned sjcfl.us slash hurricane and there'll be a button there. They can sign up to get email and text notifications through our Alert St. John's Emergency Notification System or they can also sign up for our free Nixle Alerts by texting the word with no spaces S-T-J-O-H-N-S-E-O-C, that's St. John's EOC, and text that to the number 888-777. That's 888-777 and they'll get text message alerts on the latest information on any sort of sheltering, evacuations, and additional information they would need to know to get through this weather event safely. And Wayne, I guess I'm wondering this being the beginning of the hurricane season. Does this one really stand out to you? Are you scared about this one or is this one like you feel like we're going to be okay with this one? The next one who knows so? With any weather event of this magnitude, we always want to respect the possibility and potential of impacts from a weather event. We never take any weather event lightly. And again, we need everyone to be prudent and purposeful with their planning and preparation with this weather event. So not one weather event sticks out from another, we treat all with the respect that Mother Nature deserves and has earned. And so we're doing that again with this one. Wayne Larson, St. John's County Director of Public Affairs. Wayne, thanks so much for calling in today. Thank you for the opportunity to tell our story. Happy safe, and we'll talk to you soon.