Good day everybody. It's my great honor to present to you on this topic of whiteness and patriarchy, weeding out barriers to oneness and cultivating obedience to the covenant. My name is Chuck Edgerton. I have a PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies and I'm a lecturer at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. I would describe myself as an artist, photographer, protagonist for oneness and justice, someone who's been on this path a long time, who has a long way to go yet, but I want to share my learning at this point. And I need to acknowledge with humble gratitude the brainstorming with Elizabeth Allen PhD on this intersection of oppressions. So this is one of my haikus. And I think it describes really the positionality that I find myself in to seek my true self is to acquire a taste for ambiguity. And I must say that ambiguity is a good place to be. And it's not often where a white person wants to be or where a man wants to be. Because really ambiguity is often the antithesis of whiteness and patriarchy. But I think, as one person said in a presentation, ambiguity is the beginning of learning. It's saying I don't know, and I'm here to learn. And so I hope we can walk together on this journey. And you can fill me in on the areas that I really have a deficit. There are many blind spots that I've got. And I'm counting on you, those that are listening to this to share what you think of what I've presented today. And I have deep concerns and deep passions about what I'm about to present. And some of it will be challenging. Some of it will be deeply uncomfortable for us to discuss. But I think it's time for these issues to be brought to the surface and discussed in conjunction with one another. So a little bit about me, I was born into a light skinned European American male body. I was whited and I was gendered.  I would describe myself and my skin color as light. And when I check the box on the census, I do check white. But I was whited in the sense that the ideology of whiteness was imposed upon me. And what it's told me is that whiteness is indelible. It's somehow it's it's part of my, my, my, my being and my identity. And yet it is an ideology. It is an ideology of poison. And I was not born with it, but I acquired it and trained and was trained and racialized in it. I was also gendered. I was not born with masculinity. I was not born with a toxic or hyper masculinity, but I acquired both of those. And both my, my being whited and gendered have been deeply damaging to my spiritual growth through my life. And I'm working my way out of those things. I'm working my way towards my genuine reality, as I say here below, as being created in the image of God, and to seek the balance and integrity of, of, of who I really am. And to see that together with the identity as being part of the oneness of humankind. One thing I need to mention up front here is that this video is available on the ABS conference, but there is no designated discussion period with this video. And they graciously allowed me to set up my own Zoom discussion period. And that will be a week from the conference. So it's Saturday, August 6th at 1pm Eastern time. The link to that, the Zoom link to that will be on the ABS web page that's associated with this talk. Also on that web page, there'll be links to readings. I have many, many resources that you might find interesting and helpful videos. So please take a look at that. I have a Google drive that is that it that is linked there. And you can find many other resources. Also, because this time is so short, I'd ask that you pause the video at different points so that you can read the passages because I won't have time to necessarily go over all the passages completely. So this is one of the foundational passages that we'll read. How great, therefore, how staggering the responsibility that must weigh upon the present day of the American believers at this early stage in their spiritual and administrative evolution. To weed out by every means in their power, those faults, habits and tendencies, which they have inherited from their nation, from their own nation. And to cultivate patiently and prayerfully those distinctive qualities and characteristics that are so indispensable to their effective participation in the great redemptive work of their faith. And of course, this is talking about the double crusade. First, we need to work on our inner life. Then we need to assist the world to be transformed. And so these things that the Guardian is asking us to weed out is exactly what we're going to be talking about in this presentation. We're going to be talking about whiteness and patriarchy. And then we need to be thinking about what is it we need to cultivate? What qualities is it that we need to cultivate to replace those things that we've inherited from our nation? These are four questions that we'll discuss in the discussion period in a week after the conference. And so I'll just leave these here for you. But I think really the third question is really critically important. How does the unconscious sense of superiority created by the false doctrines of white and male supremacy affect our community building process, consult consultations, the institute process and fulfillment of goals of the nine year plan? I would even add to that decisions made by local spiritual assemblies. How can those be tainted by whiteness and patriarchy? And then how does it taint our interpretation of the writings and how those should be translated into action? These problems are so deep and we are so unconscious of them that they are seeping in at all levels. So let me begin here that race is a myth. And as we know, there is only one human race. The idea of different races was constructed by white supremacy. And it's very important to realize that we have been raised. There is no such thing as different races of human beings. This is a basic tenet of critical race theory, which I believe is a wonderful expression of these issues around race that are completely in alignment with the teachings of the faith. And of course, they came well after the teachings of the faith were established. The other thing is no one is white. We have been whited. As I said before, this is something that we've somehow been brought up to think that whiteness is indelible, that somehow it is integral to my being. And actually, it's an ideology that we have been trained to believe and it is a lie. As James Baldwin said, it's up to you. As long as you think you're white, there's no hope for you. As long as you think you're white, I'm going to be forced to think I'm black. Now, male supremacy is also a myth. We have been gendered. There is no such thing as male superiority. There have been so many false doctrines around the superiority of men. And we'll talk in a little bit about that, at least the perspective of the Baha'i faith on that. And gender, like my masculinity, my toxic and hypermasculinity is something that I learned. It is not something I'm born with. Same with femininity. These are all learned behaviors. We are not born with them. They are really nurture, not nature. The two prerequisites that we'll be talking about here are so important. Prequisites for world peace. And then as we've just spoken of, the two barriers that prevent them. So the first prerequisite for world peace is racial unity. The second is equality of the sexes. So Abdu'l-Baha writes, love and unity will be fostered between you, thereby bringing about the oneness of mankind. For the accomplishment of unity between black and white will be an assurance of the world's peace. There's so much promise and hope in the statement of Abdu'l-Baha. But what's in the way? Whiteness is a disease that fosters the fallacious doctrine of racial superiority. It is symptomized by racism and manifests in behaviors of racial prejudice, patronizing willful ignorance, invisibility, dominance, cocksure arrogance, causing violent harm to name a few. These are the barriers to that realization of racial unity. The other promise, the other prerequisite for world peace is the emancipation of women. The achievement of full equality between the sexes writes the House of Justice is one of the most important, though less acknowledged, prerequisites of peace. And then Abdu'l-Baha says, until women and men are equal in strength, the oneness of humanity cannot be established, and the happiness and felicity of mankind will not be a reality. And what's in the way of that? What's a barrier to that realization of that prerequisite for world peace?  They are also terribly invisible, just as whiteness is. So let's turn to looking at the three protagonists in this battle to overcome these barriers to the potential for world peace. Here the Guardian writes the LSA of Atlanta in 1947, and many of you are familiar with this passage. The friends must at all times bear in mind that they are in a way like soldiers under attack. The world is at present in an exceedingly dark condition spiritually. Hatred and prejudice of every kind are literally tearing it to pieces. Don't we see that today? We on the other hand are the custodians of the opposite forces, the forces of love, of unity of peace and integration. And we must continually be in our guard, whether as individuals or as an assembly or as a community, lest through us these destructive negative forces enter into our midst. In other words, we must beware, lest the darkness of society become reflected in our acts and attitudes, perhaps all unconsciously. Love for each other, the deep sense that we are a new organism, the dawnbreakers of a new world order must constantly animate our Baha'i lives, and we must pray to be protected from the contamination of society which is so diseased with prejudice. Now all of us have no stories of these destructive negative forces of prejudice and hate, tyranny and oppression that we have allowed to enter into our midst. And perhaps maybe that statement isn't true, perhaps there are some of you that have not heard the stories of how these destructive negative forces have entered into our midst. I would say that when these do, it is spiritual violence and is harm for people who are black indigenous people of color and women who often as a result of these entering into our midst leave the faith or become estranged by these forces. I know many stories that I've been told and examples of African American Baha'is who have become estranged because of the way they've felt within the Baha'i community. And I would attribute that difficulty in the community of not feeling welcome to whiteness, to the aspects that whiteness brings to our community and how whiteness in so many ways has been centered in our community. Whiteness and we'll talk more about what that means. But also it's also important to realize that women have also suffered greatly within the faith. And then in some of the groups that I've held on talking about masculinity, I've heard some stories I did not want to hear about women who have been assaulted, abused, harassed, even raped in situations within the Baha'i community. These are horrible things to face up to. But they are examples of the stories of these destructive negative forces. And we have to realize that they are there. They are already in and that we need to work on weeding them out. Racism is a profound deviation from the standard of true morality. This comes from a very recent letter from the Universal House of Justice. And then racism retards the unfoldment of the boundless potentialities of its victims, corrupts its perpetrators, and blights human progress. I think we don't often talk about how these negative forces, this whiteness and patriarchy, corrupts its perpetrators. That actually the Guardian refers to harboring prejudice as potentially causing a negation of our faith. These are deep spiritual deficits and problems and harm that we need to be concerned about as we deal with these issues. So what's on my heart? When any of the Baha'i protagonists, individuals, communities, or institutions practice or center whiteness in patriarchy, even unconsciously, it can manifest direct structural and cultural violence, harm against black indigenous, all people of color and women, spiritually corrupting its perpetrators and retarding the progress of the cause. This is my thesis statement. This is what I really want to bring across in this video, is how important it is for us to weed out these problems, to become aware of them because they are so invisible. The light of men is justice quench it not with the contrary winds of oppression and tyranny. The purpose of justice is the appearance of unity among men. Whiteness and patriarchy are oppression and tyranny. So looking at whiteness, whiteness is not white people. Whiteness is an ideology, a poison to anyone who believes and internalizes it, including Iranians and people of color. It is a fallacious doctrine supporting the oppression and tyranny of white supremacy. It can poison anyone and can be manifested through anyone. It is not only white people that suffer from whiteness. The false racial ideology of whiteness is the overarching disease. The ideology of whiteness is the source of racism. Whiteness is the disease and racism is its symptom. Whiteness was constructed, designed, created, and legalized made a form of property as violent anti-blackness. That's what it was created for. Martin Luther King very wonderfully analyzes this problem in America with this passage from 1967. Ever since the birth of our nation, white America has had a schizophrenic personality on the question of race. She has been torn between selves, a self in which she proudly professed the great principles of democracy and a self in which she sadly practiced the antithesis of democracy. This tragic duality has produced a strange indecisiveness and ambivalence towards the Negro, causing America to take a step backwards simultaneously with every step forward on the question of racial justice, to be at once attracted to the Negro and repelled by him, to love, and to hate him. There has never been a solid unified and determined thrust to make justice a reality for Afro-Americans. What is the source of this perennial indecision and vacillation? It lies in the congenital deformity of racism that has crippled the nation from its inception. Wow, what a brilliant analysis. As we know, the first purpose of the prophets coming to us is to liberate the children of men from the darkness of ignorance. To become unwhited, one must become aware of their tragic duality and their congenital deformity as one who is infected with a disease of whiteness, symptomized by racism, and as one who is also deeply and essentially a noble soul created in the image of God. Your true spiritual reality is free from the devastating ideology and violence of whiteness. This is why we must strip it off and weed it out. Thandakar is a wonderful analysis of King's statement. The problem King said was white racism, the total estrangement of the body, not only from the mind but from the spirit. He called such splintering of the self a congenital deformity of racism. His prescription, this is really the important part, was redemption. The white America's humble acknowledgement of guilt and an honest knowledge of the self. So these are all in accordance with Bahá'í principle, as Bahá'u'lláh says in this simple profound statement, true losses for him whose days have been spent in utter ignorance of his self. So do you know yourself? Do you know and see your whiteness and your patriarchy? Do you see how those things may be carried by you? This is part of knowing ourselves. Prejudice is an emotional commitment to ignorance, wonderful statement from the Center for the Healing of Racism and Cherry Steinwender, also with Nat Rutstein. I've always found this to be a wonderful definition, but they also talk about prejudice plus power equaling racism and they speak about this element of power. The other thing to remember too is there's a lot of emotion around whiteness and patriarchy. The emotions are very powerful and we need to acknowledge them and work through them. That emotional commitment is not about just becoming smarter to overcome our ignorance, it is about dealing with those emotions as well. And here in the role of power, the House says clearly the concept of power is a means of domination with the accompanying notions of contest, contention, division and superiority must be left behind. Power is not a fine identity which is to be seized and jealously guarded. It constitutes a limitless capacity to transform that resides in the human race as a body. Now these are some aspects of white supremacy culture, of whiteness. And take a look at these very closely and I think, I hope, I pray that that you have seen and know about some of these different qualities of white supremacy. I've seen this illustrated as each one of these a different bottle of poison with this label on it. It's important to see what of this list do you see manifested in the Bahá'í community at any level at individual institution or community level. Do you see any of these things being manifested? If you do, and I hope that you do because I see them, we need to talk about this and we need to begin being very open about weeding these out. Now some of these have positive aspects to them, but in the context of white supremacy where we have prejudice plus power at work, these are negative, destructive and I would say violent. And as we know the hidden word, oh children of man, know ye not why we created you all from the same dust that no one should exalt himself over the other. So what is the future of whiteness? The authors here re-imagine a different set of norms and values, a critical humanizing pedagogy of love, one that can only be realized when whites learn to love whiteness to death. That is, whites need to find not just the political will but also the emotional strength, vulnerability necessary to eliminate the white race as a sociopolitical form of human organization and to free themselves and others from the shackles of the institution of race. Imagine that concept of shackles. And if treason to whiteness really is loyalty to humanity then the greatest act of love that whites can show humanity is to end whiteness itself, to love so much as to send whiteness to its grave. This is no utopia since whiteness is a modern human creation. That is, there was a time before whiteness. As such, there can be a time after whiteness for those, for we can choose to demolish whatever we have built. This leads us to the wonderful statement by Audrey Lord for the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. So we have to ask the question, consider whose tools and what tools we use to build a new world order. We can't use the tools that the master used to build tyranny and oppression. To learn requires unlearning. To build requires dismantling. We all understand that decay and growth go hand in hand. So now let's talk a little bit about male supremacy. The gendered ideology of male supremacy is the disease. Sexism and misogyny are its symptoms. Patriarchy is the structural expression of male supremacy. Patriarchy is more than men. It is an ideology of false doctrine of male supremacy. A system of oppression and tyranny enabled by anyone who believes acts on or internalizes its corruption. Patriarchy is invisible in all encompassing. It is an institutionalized political social form of male dominance. It's an ideology. Presents itself as natural and therefore immutable. Patriarchy has no gender. We are all complicit in holding the system. This is what I was talking about in terms of whiteness. We are all complicit if we believe the ideology. We can all be helping to enable it and to uphold that system of whiteness or patriarchy. This is a beautiful exchange between Abdul Baha and some suffragettes in London. They asked them about why women should have the right to vote. They said, of course, we need the right to vote because we cannot soar on only one wing. Abdul Baha responded, but what would you do if one wing is stronger than the other? They said, then we must strengthen the weaker wing. He smiled and said, this profound statement, what will you say if I prove to you that woman is the stronger wing? The answer came and really caused quite a bit of excitement and then Abdul Baha says, the woman is indeed of greater importance to the race. She has the greater burden and the greater work. Patriarchy is the antithesis of these statements and we need to weed out the patriarchy within our minds and our hearts and within our communities, individuals and institutions because woman is the stronger wing. I'll leave this for you to pause and read in greater detail, but male supremacy, patriarchy is a dominator culture. This comes from Bell Hooks, this idea of dominator culture. Here she can compare dominator systems with partnership systems and take a look at these in light of the Baha community and the way that we work and consult together. The other part of this is that patriarchy corrupts and damages men and it is so important that as Bell Hooks says here, we cannot demand for men the right to be whole, to be givers and sustainers of life. They are imprisoned by a system that undermines their mental health. I actually believe that whiteness and patriarchy are all damaging to our mental health.   These are all aspects of patriarchy and we need to understand them and recognize them. Male supremacy dominance is a socially constructed disease that is learned by and assimilated into all men. It permeates the conditioning of cis women in all performances and expressions of sexuality and sexual embodiment along the LGBTQIA spectrum. It is driven by a fear of femininity and homophobia. Where do we go from here? What can we do? Racism and I add sexism must be supplanted by the establishment of just relationships among individuals, communities and institutions of society that will uplift all and will not designate anyone as other. The change required is not merely social and economic, but above all moral and spiritual. So we need to know yourself. You need to know yourself and the lies you accept without question. Cultivate genuine friendships and relationships. Learn the stories, lived experience and history of black indigenous people of color and women. You must read your reality again back to my statement. I submit that when any of the three protagonists practice and center whiteness in patriarchy even unconsciously they can manifest violence and harm against BIPOC and spiritually corrupt themselves as perpetrators, rictaring the cause of God. If this is our reality, what will we do? How will we change? I'll leave this for you to read from Paulo Freire, where he talks about really, it is not the oppressor's power to overcome and to be liberated. It really is in the power of the oppressed. And so we must ask to be led by black indigenous, all people of color and women. And they have to be centered and lead the way to liberation. Read this hidden word. In the final seconds of this video, I would like to introduce the idea of photosofia and this is homework that I'm going to give you for the meeting that we're going to have a week after the conference. And this is to do and create a self-portrait and then to write on one side weeding and the other side cultivating to really dig deep into your own personal issues and to identify the things that you can about your own faults and to work on the qualities that you need to develop. So this is called photosofia light and wisdom. These are the directions which you can pause here to read. This is when we will meet. This is the zoom link. And I thank you all very much for listening and I hope this has had some impact. Thank you so much.


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Reasons to take a TEFL course if you want to teach in China. Teaching profession is in fact, is out of my wildest dream when I was young. After completing my undergraduate studies major in marketing, I had worked in multiple fields and traveled to many countries which gave me chances to met a lot of a different kind of people, the local and foreigner.With the knowledge and experience gains throughout the time, I decided to retire from my current field and move on to China as my wife is from people of the Republic of China, PRC. New profession. I am Malaysian and now is the right time to stay close with my family there. At first, while I am in China, I thought I can find the same profession as I had worked before and worked part time. Unfortunately, it is not needed here. As what I can see, teaching the English language in China is in high demand and very easy to secure the jobs. I thought that with my undergraduate degree and my vast working experience will enable me to get a work visa but that not the actual fact. From here I come across a TEFL. It is one of the utmost requirement by the employer here. Even though I have vast experience in my field, I have zero knowledge in the teaching profession. They advised me to take and complete the TEFL courses before it can offer me the job.Malaysia is not the English native speaker country which is the requirement from China government but TEFL certificate will qualify me to apply for a work visa. Requirements. When I enrolled in the TEFL course, I never thought that the courses will provide such an in-depth knowledge and skills needed to become an English teacher. No wonder that is the most important requirement in securing the teaching job. The teacher with no experience, like me, will definitely be equipped with the skill and technique make available to them in the whole course units. Teaching English especially in a foreign country is very different from my own country. Here in China, they only start to learn and study English subject when reaching the primary three only. Tech in Malaysia which we start to be exposed to the language at very early tender years. Time is wasted here before the children in China can learn with a new language besides their own native Chinese language.Getting the right technique and skills from the TEFL course will ensure me can help the students here with the correct method and appropriate system when I start to teach the English language. I am in serious consideration in joining a charity society to teach English at the rural village as I believe in giving something back to the society itself in order to make the world a better place for them.Although in China there are many rich families, there is also a very poor family which can't afford to send their children to school. My personal experience. After I completed the first stage of the exam, I realized that the TEFL courses are accepted worldwide. This really fires up my motivation in securing the certificate. Most countries especially the third world country like Cambodia and Vietnam open up their work visa if you have TEFL certificate. I believe the reason is the same as in China. Try to invite as much as possible a qualified teacher with the right qualification to the country and teach English there. I remember one of the units being thought in TEFL is adjusting to the local culture and prepare inadequate plans suitable for the level students.All this knowledge can only be gained after completing the course and not by your own previous undergraduate degree. With TEFL certificate it will enable to live and work in other countries. The skill is very much in demand. Future Perspectives By completing the TEFL courses it really saves my time and cost of studying it. Even though I do have an undergraduate degree. In some country, TEFL certificate alone is sufficient enough. To those who still unsure the career path that is going to take, TEFL provide the cheapest and fastest route compared to obtaining a degree. Gone with the days when getting the degree is the first thing to get after passing out from school. With the choices available today especially the TEFL certificate, students with a poor family background will definitely get the opportunity to further their studies and join the teaching profession if they wish to instead of getting the degree. As the TEFL certificate is the first step before upgrading it to the diploma level which might further open up the career path. The time to complete the courses all depends on the individual itself. As for me, the online 120 hours is the minimum requirement needed in China. Do you want to teach English abroad? Although TEFL is not a professional body like Hakka, the courses are recognized worldwide and accepted by most countries. It will keep the option open to the students itself. Above all by completing the TEFL courses, getting the correct knowledge and information together with the support material available online will help prepare the new upcoming teacher delivering the lesson efficiency and effectively. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us tollfree at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


Welcome to Paranormal, Episode 9. The topic for our episode today is RH-negative blood factor. Is it proof of alien hybridization or nephalema hybridization? And we have some of the usual guests, the partners in crime. Doug Overmire is with us, Brian Godalla, Doug Vandoren and Trey Strickland. But we have a special co-host guest for this one, my pastor, Grace Church Bellingham in Bellingham, Washington, Dax Swanson. And you might be wondering, why would you invite your pastor to this particular episode? He has a medical background. So, Dax, why don't you introduce yourself. Well, first, it's with fear and trembling that I'm your pastor, Mike. That's a difficult thing. But I have to say, yeah, my background is in medicine. I went to Princeton University. I did my medical training at the University of California in San Francisco. I even did a bit of research there in the surgery department with states of Anemia and blood. So, this particular topic I'm familiar with, though I've not done particular research into the RH factor. Yeah. But you know a lot about blood. And there's life in the blood, right? Yeah. I mean, you more or less have to. Again, as a doctor, a physician, I asked Dax to be on this to sort of decipher the blood talk in what we read and also some of the genetics as well. And what we did read for this time, we focused on one article. And it was a paper by Dr. Ellen Tarr, who is an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona. And her paper was entitled, Everything You Know About Being RH Negative Is Wrong. And this was a paper that she delivered at the CSI con, the SCI con. Again, that's a skeptic organization in 2016, so last year in Las Vegas. And I came across the list of speakers for that event last year. And when I saw her paper, I emailed her and said, you know, hey, can you give me an advance copy of the paper that you're going to deliver? And she did. And so, you know, we've been sitting on this topic because I wanted to wait until her paper had been published. It's been published at Skeptical Inquirer. So if you're a subscriber to that, you would be able to get the whole paper. You can get little snippets of it in interviews with her online. But we will post the link to the Skeptical Inquirer site where her paper is located. So if you wanted to, you know, subscribe or I guess, I don't know if they give you a purchase option or not for an individual article, but you could get it. And I've also posted, even though this wasn't our reading, but I've also posted two medical journal articles, just again, to make the point that this is not an impenetrable conundrum in the medical community. RH blood factor is well known. The genetics of it is, you know, there's a solid knowledge of that. And so the two articles that we'll post along with the link to TAR's material, which was our reading for this episode, is an article entitled, you know, one of them is RH blood group system, a review. It's published by the journal Blood, as you could guess, something to do with blood, blood. That's volume 95, issue number two, that was in 2000. And it's published by the American Society of Hematology at Penn State. And the same journal, I posted a second article titled the genetic basis of RHD positive and RHD negative blood group polymorphism as determined by Southern analysis. And to actually be proud of me, I looked up Southern analysis refers to the Southern blot method used in molecular biology for detecting specific DNA sequences. So again, listeners can go up, you can download those, both of those are freely accessible online. And they're very technical, you know, you'd more or less have to have a medical background or, you know, some sort of genetics background to really understand what you're reading there. But I post them to again, just to make the point reinforce the point that this is not an impenetrable mystery. This is not something as often in the fringe community, you know, someone will latch on to something they don't understand, and say, Oh, the the academic community is mystified, you know, but we have the answer. And this this unknown confusing thing that we don't really understand means this. And that's what we have going with the RH negative issue. So I want to open with Tars beginning of her paper, just so that listeners get a feel for it. And then we'll just jump into the discussion. She writes, the plus or minus following the A, B, or O blood type indicates the presence or absence of a protein on the surface of human red blood cells that is referred to as the RH factor. RH stands for Rhesus. That's R-H-E-S-U-S. However, this protein is not found on the surface of Rhesus monkey red blood cells. The human protein was renamed to D antigen over 50 years ago. But the original term, the RH, and its connotations of a factor specifically shared between Rhesus monkeys and some humans have remained in use despite the inaccuracy. The function of this protein was not immediately apparent. And there is a great deal of speculation on the implications of being RH negative versus RH positive. These include, but are not limited to, non-human extraterrestrial ancestors or associations with physical traits or high IQ or sensitivity to psychic paranormal phenomena and lastly disease resistance. The sense that RH negative individuals are special persists despite the lack of scientific data. The goal of this article is to address various claims regarding being RH negative. Now, that's her opening. And I think it, you know, it introduces pretty well what you're going to get in the article. And I think for our discussion, you know, what we should do is defer to DAX at the beginning here, at least for the first couple of questions that I have written down in my notes. But DAX, can you give us the lay definition, the layman understanding of what RH negative means? I think you read it pretty well there, Mike. I'm sure you'll do a better job. Well, your blood on the outside, your blood cell has a membrane that kind of holds it together and little proteins are dotted around there. And one of the protein complexes is named after this finding that they did, you know, many years ago with Rhesus monkeys and agglutination and immunology. But I guess the lay piece would be is that there are proteins on the outside of your blood cell that can be seen by the environment. One of them is this D antigen or D protein that that's been labeled the RH factor. And if you have it, your RH positive, that means it's there. If you don't have it, then your RH negative.  Oh, it's a, it's a really big deal in medicine because of what happens in pregnancy. This is the main area that it has come up. You know, blood typing, which is A, B and O and A, B, those were discovered. And then it was discovered there were still moms who were giving birth where their infants were having hemolytic anemia. So it was the mom's system, if you will, was attacking the baby's blood. And they didn't know why because the blood types were the same. And they figured out that it was there was another protein that was involved. And it was this RH factor. So, I mean, if the baby, if the baby did or didn't have it, or does it work both directions? There was a problem? Only one way. This is really a talk that is about immunology as much as anything else. But it only happens with an RH negative mom. So mom's immune system has not seen this protein. But then all of a sudden she has a baby whose RH positive. And the first baby doesn't matter. It just exposes her body to it. The body says, oh, we don't know that we don't know this for an intruder. And so the next child, the second child will have trouble because mom's primed, mom's body is primed to attack blood cells it doesn't recognize. So it's really the only problem with an RH negative mom, a mom that doesn't have this protein on her blood cells, and an RH positive child that does have it. Okay, can you give us a simple description of how tar discusses the genetic explanation for this? In other words, why? Her article talks about how, and lots of other sources too, but how a minority of the human population is RH negative doesn't have this particular protein on their blood cells. So she gave a genetic explanation for this. I'm wondering if you can summarize that for again, a lay audience. Well, the explanation she went into is very much a sort of population based genetics, which, which is fine. The genetics aren't very difficult in this case. The gene that kind of codes for this protein as it's expressed so that the body has the code and it makes the protein and puts it on the cell wall. We think the proteins involved with the structure of the cell keeping the shape of the cell. But it's on chromosome one, there are two linked genes. It's not just the D antigen, there's actually several other antigens, other proteins that are all coded linked together. There's a C and an E and I think there's 50 of them. But the one that gets reacted to is D. So, so what she's postulating and it's guessing is that there's a set of people who are fairly, fairly insular and I guess it's very common in this Basque Southern, Southern France, Northern Spain area.  We don't know. I mean, it's all guesswork right to where these things came from. It's just not genetically very interesting. Mm hmm. At least there are, would it be fair to say there are sort of genetic pathways toward understanding why some have it and some don't, even if we don't know sort of the mechanics of that. Oh, for sure. Whenever you have a particular mutation or a particular section of DNA code that one person has and another person doesn't, how that's passed on. And this particular trait is very much the only way to be RH negative is essentially to be recessive. So it follows a really common recessive pattern that you're, you're not RH negative unless both your mom and dad are RH negative or have at least one of those genes. So, so it's very difficult. And then the population skew of that follows pretty well. I think 85% of the population is RH positive and 50% is RH negative. Right. So just, just so that I'm, my, my thinking is clear here. We have a blood cell that, that there's something not on it, something absent. Okay, this particular protein. So how can a thing that isn't there be passed on? In other words, it sounds to me like, I don't know how you can pass on something that isn't there. Okay, is, is, is the point. So how do we talk about that? Yeah, it's actually a concept that argues against some of the theories that are going around that there's some added piece that you have because what RH factor negative actually is, is that you're missing a piece, right? You don't have the expression of this particular antigen. So if you don't have it, then the only way you're not going to have it is if your, your, your mom or your dad didn't have it on one of their chromosomes. Right. So you the, what I'm getting at here, again, my reading of this was that this, this idea of an alien mating, okay, with a human being, the way this is popularly talked about is that the alien gives the human child it contributes RH negative factor, which wouldn't make any sense because we're talking about an absence, not an addition. You know, something missing, not something added. That's right. The only thing you could think of, I suppose you could, you could postulate that someone was abducted and this gene was spliced out of them, like taken away. But it doesn't really work to think that something was added. Right. So the, you know, the inner breeding thing is sort of a misnomer. Right. Yeah. Well, let's jump in and bring everybody else in here. What did, what did we all think of Tars essay and anything else that we might have, you know, read in relation to this, because, you know, I know a lot of you will use the articles that we sort of assign as springboards. So we might want to talk about some of the claims that are associated with this, that she does bring up, but we might have again, more to add there. And then basically, how did we feel about the her essay? Anybody can jump in? Well, this is Doug Overmire. I, I had never actually heard of this theory until just like a couple of weeks after you sort of sent out the first article, Mike, when my wife, my wife works in, she's a licensed clinical professional counselor, works specializing with children who have been abused and neglected. And most of her clients are in foster care. And so she came home one day and said, oh, my word, one of my, one of my kids moms is, is crazy. And I'm like, well, that doesn't surprise me. A lot of your kids parents are crazy. But she said, Well, this one thinks she's an alien. I'm like, Oh, she said, Yeah, because she has Rh negative blood. I'm like, Oh, you're kidding. I'm like, you're, where did she hear that? I don't know YouTube, I guess. And so she's just convinced this lady is just convinced that she's an alien. And she told her social worker, and she told the state workers who are investigating the neglect and abuse of her children. And which, by the way, is not something you want to tell someone who's investigating your parenting skills. But it's, it's, it's tragic. You know, it's like, I laughed, but then I'm like, it's just horrible. And she actually, to justify her, her belief, she said, well, she had her bone marrow was tested, and the doctors called it unremarkable. And see, they can't even remark on it. That's how weird it is. It's how alien it is. Yeah. And it's like, we're talking pretty, I think, I think it's safe to say pretty low SES or social economic status, low functioning people who are just desperate for some significance, I think, I don't really know where or how someone gets programmed to just interpret things that way. And it was just, it's just tragic. That's not, I mean, this belief system is not why she lost her children. But it's, it probably plays into a really warped view of reality. And I don't know, I could probably be used against her later on if she wanted to get them back. I mean, yeah, it's right, for sure. Well, anyway, I don't know, who knows how that will work out. But I thought the article was very, it was very thoughtful. And like, well, here are the claims, let's just, just to bunk them one at a time. And the genetics was a little over my head. But I think I've tracked along pretty well that it just seemed like these aren't a mystery. It's not alien. And then she even added Nephilim in there, which, because there's a whole segment of people who think that are each negative blood or just are evidence of Nephilim descendants, I think. And I thought it was very, I just like, people should read this, because when I started looking on the non scientific sites about this, it was just, it was like a hodgepodge of mythologies thrown together with some weird narrative to try to say you might be just headed from an alien. And that's just really, there's a better solution to finding significance in life than that. Yeah, this is Godawa. I, you know, I also found the article very, or the, the piece very, very helpful. And yeah, you know, gets a little tough with the genetics at times, but she does a good job of going through the common myths that are connected. And it's interesting because she was mentioning them. And so, and I noticed they were the same things that I saw on these other, you know, wacky websites, and some of the traits that have been commonly connected with this RH factors slash hybrid, you know, concept is blue, green or hazel eyes, red or reddish hair, low body temperature, low pulse, low or high blood pressure, depending which websites you're at, extra rib or an extra vertebrae, a vestigial tail. Now these are not all necessarily, all these factors are involved in those individuals, but these are the kinds of traits that they think are connected, as well as larger than average head or forehead. And then we get into some of the alien notions, which is unexplained body scars, unclonable blood, heightened senses, sensitivity to heat and sunlight, which also I think is connected to fairness of skin and stuff, and the ability to disrupt electrical appliances. So these are all the factors that she kind of goes through, as Doug said, one by one, and, and answers them. And so it was very, you know, it was a real good attempt to scientifically address these popular myths. And I too had never really, I never really looked into it. I'd heard about it in the background. But I'd never really looked read up on it. So I found it a fascinating topic. But also with a dangerous side to it, because when I first started hearing this notion of you know, the RH blood and connection with aliens and Nephilim, my thought was, you know, jumping right to the danger of it is if people start really believing that there's like Nephilim among us, think about, you know, we are in a highly polarized culture already. Things are being being exacerbated, politics, social, everything's just being extreme and polarized with the other the notion of the other and you are the others.  So I react against you. Well, now, if you have people who into the Nephilim theory, and the Nephilim you study it, and it's, you know, biblically, at least, it's basically a negative concept, right? These are bad guys, basically. So now you're starting these people are thinking, well, these people are Nephilim hybrids of some kind, they're bad, they're evil people. Then the logical end of this stuff is violence against these people, you know, and that's the danger that I felt when I first heard about it. Well, I've actually gotten emails, not nothing recently, this is years ago.  And we're supposed to go hunt these people down. I've actually seen that. You know, so that's not just sort of a speculative, you know, outcome of this. There are people who have actually said such things. And it's, you know, I think it's respectable. Yeah, but the violence in our culture, as we already see is growing, where the environment is ripe for that stuff to be acted on.  So I just like, Oh, just another nutty thing. These people are nuts. But now I'm actually thinking, No, this is more than nuts, because people are becoming actively violent against those with whom they disagree. And this is not, this is seriously, this has deep potential for really serious problems in my mind. But of course, you know, how far will it go? I don't know. I'm just saying, I see it as one of the many elements of our society that's just ramping up, if I can say that. The Alex Jones world. I don't know that he's latched onto this one yet. But, you know, who knows? Anybody else, the other Doug impressions? Yeah, maybe I'll piggyback a little bit off of what Brian was saying. You know, my overall thoughts of the article were that it was, it was actually really good. And I would, I would recommend people would read it as well if they can get ahold of it. But that said, my mind went to a few kind of kind of things that that hit me as as so so when I was doing the giant book, several years ago, and doing the research for it, you know, you kind of go into the weird world of, of the Nephilim and, and modern mythology and stuff. And there's, there's some like triggers that that she spoke about, that I started thinking I, you know, I have a feeling that that there's kind of a prior mythology that is going into the bloodline thing. And she's like bringing it up. And so I can see people actually reading, you know, reading her article and not listening to the things that she's saying because of it. So like one example would be the origin of the blue eyed people, she traces it back to the, you know, I think she's something like one individual in the black sea region. So as I was studying for that book, you come across these people called the Kurgans. And you know, if you've ever seen Highlander, the Kurgan is like the greatest of all the evil Highlanders and stuff like that. And depicted as a giant. So, so the idea is that that these giant Kurgan people have these migrations that went into Northern Europe from kind of that black sea area. Some of them ended up going to like the Canary Islands. And you find the Ganch people that was brought up in the article. Now, she's not bringing them up in a way to like, I don't even know she has any idea that this is this is stuff that's out there. But I could see somebody reading this saying, Oh, it's kind of feeding right into the into the worldview. And you're bringing it up. And then, and then kind of the key one of the other keys to me was because she seems to rely to some degree on an evolutionary view of, of the blood, you know, talking about pre neanderthal kind of blood divergent stuff like that, I could see somebody reading this, and just dismissing that out of hand, and then seeing these other triggers and just not listening to the article at all, and almost, almost, you know, using the articles a way to reinforce a previously held belief that yeah, it is all about Nephilim bloodlines and stuff like that. Dax, what do you what do you think of that?  Okay, they read the article. This is sort of a quasi pastoral, but quasi, you know, academic, you know, issue as well.  Yeah, it talks about, you know, evolution in there. So I'm going to throw it out. And I still believe I'm an alien.  That's a really good observation. I do think that she's proposing kind of one possibility, which is a combination of Neanderthal or a little bit different variety of human and the different pieces there, thereby. I don't think you have to go there at all. In order to think through that it's not aliens. There's a variety of other medical pieces that could be going on there that don't involve Neanderthals. I mean, that's that's kind of that piece of the article for her. In my view, was somewhat pulled out of thin air a bit. I mean, it's possible. But there are other possibilities. Yeah, reflects certain presuppositions. Yeah, you know, not no, it was brought up about, you know, some of these traits.  But there are certain, I would agree, there are certain other ways to approach taking parts of the idea and showing them to be fallacious. Like she makes a comment on page nine about just as an illustration, the unclonable blood. And she says, Well, that's due to a misunderstanding. Molecular cloning involves expression of genes. And there's no such thing as an Rh negative gene. So well, of course, you can't clone this blood, because there's nothing to clone. You know, at that particular point or whatever. So, you know, I think there are other ways, you know, to sort of whittle away, you know, at sort of the predisposition to reject her work because of the evolutionary, you know, presuppositions, but somebody else jump in. I think some of our young Earth creationist friends would have would would really have it, they would they would like, they suggest that people have lost information over time since humans were formed. And this just goes along with that. I mean, if if, if RH positive blood has the protein, our negative doesn't lost a protein through a mutation, I mean, that's to me, that's distills it all down to that one issue. And, and through, if you want to say through the intervention of the watchers or the Nephilim or aliens or, or whoever, they didn't just undermines that whole argument. That it's just actually a genetic mutation. It lost information in this one region of Europe during, you know, and I think they speculated or she speculated that some people think that mutation came because of a certain bacterial infection. And maybe the body was trying to adapt to fight off this particular infection, which is pretty benign anyway. And so you don't really need it. But that was so long ago that, and it's not an advantage. I mean, there's really no advantage to it, except that you can give blood to people. You know, it's actually a negative because of the because of the pregnancy, the pregnancy issue. So I just, you know, people who are searching for significance, and like, well, I'm an alien, you know, this explains so much just explains why I'm interested in the supernatural or why I, you know, cell phones, those are batteries and everybody touched them or, you know, just all the little things that people are looking for a narrative like no, no, no, that's those things may happen. I mean, you are interested in supernatural, but let me tell you why you're significant is because you're an imager of God, you know, and so it's like reframing the narrative to them. Like, let me just tell you what that means. I mean, God made you and so on all the things that we talk about elsewhere. But yeah, then you know, you then, you know, they're gonna they're gonna take that and say, well, yeah, the gods made me and all that kind of but that that's a different discussion as opposed to the, you know, to something scientific, you know, that right, it's related, but distinct my answer that would shoot down all this, what I learned from this is that the RH factor is not exclusive to humans, but other animals like horses have it too. So yeah, you know, that's kind of a big thing that I took away from it.  Yeah, that's a good point. Anyway, like like a summary statement, would this be fair? It's not disputed at all that the absence of the D antigen, the RH thing was caused by a mutation. What tar is doing is she's speculating on how that mutation occurred. So we have we have two different things are different but related. We have a scientific, you know, genetic fact, the loss of this particular thing is going to be due to some sort of mutation because the presence of it is in most of the human population. So something had to happen to create the absence. Okay, some again, genetic mutation. But what, you know, what is wide open? And again, she offers her own speculation based on her, her predisposition to certain evolutionary views. She speculating on how it happened. And that's something we don't really need to embrace unless we care to unless we're convinced by it for some other reason. So there's there's the speculation of the how but that doesn't mar or tarnish the fact of what happened, you know, some sort of mutation. Is that fair? The only thing I think there's a little more nuance or someone might take, um, Richard, you as as is not necessarily a mutation as as it's used in common parlance. Okay, mutation is like a Hey, we've learned one DNA pair that they got swapped. And therefore, this protein isn't there. Because there's actually, you know, 4050 different antigens that are part of the RH complex. And with these two linked genes, some people don't have many of them. So it's not like there was a single point mutation. Okay, or that to be a description. Yeah, and she's a better word. Well, I was just going to read what she says. She says that negative individuals do not have a separate evolutionary history. The D antigen expressed by the RH positive individuals is encoded by the RHD gene. This gene is a result of a duplication of the RHCE gene that occurred approximately eight and a half million years ago prior to the divergence of humans, grillas and chimpanzees. Yeah, is there a better word? I would say that they don't necessarily have the same gene. And it could be due to mutation. It could also be due to miscoding. I mean, she's trying to track it down in populations to say, yeah, it's possible they came from different populations, right? She's not making the mutation claim. She's making the statement that there was actually a little bit different genetic code in this human population millions of years ago. And that's been passed down. It actually, if you would substitute Nephilim for Neanderthal, I could see somebody saying, now wait, look, I mean, it's possible, right? Yes, those arguments. I think you don't have to go there. There's other reasons, good reasons why it's not necessarily that. Could it be not not in the way you're linking them all together? But yeah, you can you can see where where you can see where populations are a factor.   Well, that isn't true.   So that'd be there. There is this population factor. But again, what what you're saying is that's really not, you don't you don't really need that explanation to explain presence or absence per se. You might bring it into the discussion when you're talking about a population group or versus another population group. But the difference itself is, you know, is sort of a thing that is that is an issue before you ever get to the breeding kind of thing. Is that correct? That's the major issue to me. It's like, human beings have a lot of differences and they're passed on genetic differences. To me, that's the best way to think about these things is you think, hey, we we in populations tend to pass down different characteristics that are genetic. This is one of them. And the reason why to me it's become a conspiracy theory is because it's a rejection of mom and baby. Look, this is incompatibility and actually one blood is attacking the other and there's room there to. Yeah, as though that was an anomaly, you know, as though the genetic mismatch is an anomaly. Yeah, it's a question of the immune system, not really a question of, hey, are human beings different? So what, what about other, I mean, anybody please, you know, jump in here. I had a couple. I think Dax, you just got into one thing. I put in my notes like, like, what's the best way to talk about this? And, you know, in one or two sentences, how would we summarize that, hey, using RH negative factor to defend the idea of alien hybridization just can't be coherent because, I mean, how, how would we talk about that? And then we can jump in on that. But I also have a note to myself about pastoral, you know, concerns here because we try to take these discussions into, you know, how do we deal with people who we meet, you know, either in church, in the quote, normal community or in the fringe community. So anybody feel free to chime in on either of those. Dax, how would you put it into a couple sentences? Oh, I think those are really good questions that I would put it in. Hey, we all are have different things about us. And to say that RH factor is evidence of alien splicing or whatever it is, is the same as saying why don't you pick blue eyes or why don't you pick some other characteristic because if things are passed down and you're trying to trace it back, you're postulating your guessing. The way a bigger question, I think someone said it already to me is where you're finding your identity. And there are so many other important things are identities in Christ. And to focus on ourselves in that way and to think that there's something there. But the difficulty in this area is that I don't think people are necessarily rational in that way. So well, they probably don't even know enough about genetics to you know, there's this human and nonhuman dichotomy.  In other words, not realizing that being a human doesn't mean having identical genetic stuff. I mean, we might think that that's self evident. But apparently it's not. Yeah, I mean, why not pick sickle cell anemia? Why not pick some other trait that people are different in in the blood even and use that as your point of takeoff. So what you're saying is then that the the lack of the or the R.H. Factor is simply just one more of the multiple elements of genetic variation of genetic expression within humanity, that natural selection. So in other words, the micro evolution of natural selection can still account for that, you know, diversion of the 15% and versus the 85% and and you could even like in a way, she refers to macro evolution with the Neanderthal notion interbreeding with humans, but she also provides the micro evolutionary notion of, you know, that was mentioned earlier, you know, with the Europeans and and environment and all this kind of stuff can also affect that genetic variation expression. Right. So is that kind of is that accurate to say that? Absolutely, because this is a pretty much a simple recessive trait. So it follows that pattern very well. It's not something unusual in those regards. Micro evolution. Definitely. I mean, natural selection pieces or population genetics can can account for that very easily. And she postulates a few of those and boy, yeah, for sure.  How do you answer the Christian as a Christian who, you know, I I believe the Bible does talk about this strange thing in Genesis about the sons of God interbreeding with women, you know, and they create the knuffling. And and as your book even writes about, that's a bloodline theory that becomes the basis for the Israelites to destroy them because of their bloodline link to these knuffling. So how do you address the claim that that's that's a very similar sounding sort of holocaust or whatever you want to call it, you know, a racial theory of destroying people is that was it good back then, but it's not now? How do you how do you work with that? Yeah, I would say that there's there's no there's a couple of thoughts here again in no particular order and no, I guess, particular, particularly coherent presentation of it, just throwing these things out. There's nothing in the text that would suggest that, you know, those members of the Nephilim bloodline interbred with non-Nephilim. There's no commentary on that. The impression you get is you get you get certain of these individuals that are that are peppered throughout the general population of Canaan. But that's about all you have. There's there's nothing that indicates that there would be some sort of cross fertilization for one thing. Another factor is the Nephilim bloodlines are according to scripture anyway, died out. So without the interbreeding, you wouldn't have these characteristics passed down if the lines die out or eliminated. So that that to me again, if you're just going with what scripture actually says, that wipes the the vestigial genetic stuff, do we have it in our population? That wipes it off the table. If you're just going with what the text actually tells you or at least, you know, you can't build that argument on something that that's in the text, because it's not in the text, you know, this idea of interbreeding, you know, there were two things that made a Nephilim offspring or one of the descendants different. You know, one was that internally, if I can use that term, their immaterial part, according to all the traditions, is this is a nonhuman spirit, OK, that that that somehow that that's a factor. And then you have the height issue, you know, some something unusually tall. And as I talk about an unseen realm, again, there's there's two ways to look at this. There's the literal taking the language of Genesis six to be literal in breeding. The other way is to take the language of Genesis six and see it as a as a euphemistic thing that somehow, you know, rival divine beings did something to certain humans or populations to, you know, make them their own or raise up their own seed, you know, that kind of thing. Like we're told with what God does with Abraham and Sarah, there's no sexual contact there between God, God, embodied or whatever. It's just we're told that God enabled this to happen. We're not told how. So we have these gaps, you know, in but nevertheless, the you have a second possibility here because of what is described in the text, even though we have gaps in how the stuff worked. But to me, you know, I can't if I wanted to prove this idea that there's a nephaline bloodline and there's a genetic vestigial genetic stuff that filters down and is still present in the population, I don't have a scriptural hook to hang that on at all because I don't have any reference to them, you know, again, cohabiting with non them. But even even if you wanted to take that assumption that they that they enter bread, as you point out in reversing Hermon, one of the I think it's a Matthew, one of the genealogies of Christ points out that you have Canaanite women or people who lived amongst those communities that had giant clans in or nearby. And they were in in the Lord's genealogy. So it's almost like if someone brings this up as an issue, well, just because it just because it didn't say so doesn't mean it didn't happen. Yeah, well, but then I look at Jesus died for everybody who's human and he didn't really care what your genetics are. God doesn't really care who you do what your genetics are. You're the only genetics that really matters is Jesus's and you get and so that's why you have to be in the Lord through faith. So like I just these people who in our society the fringe people who are I've been told by some people to watch out for certain people in your church because they're they're going to be they're going to infiltrate and they're going to be kind of weird and they're going to, you know, they probably have Nephilim DNA and that's just going to be Satan's army. I'm like, are you kidding me? Like these are the people who need the Lord the most. I mean, not the most, but you know, I'm saying they're the ones the ones who are ostracized from society, like this one client that I referenced, she needs to find it. She needs to be pastured. She needs to get into a church, a community who can love her and introduce her to the Lord. So she's not getting community on fringe websites, you know.  So I just like this whole modern Nephilim theory is just so it's it's so crushing because Jesus did what he did on the cross is enough. You don't have to.  But then you then you'll get the other ones that say no, they can't. So they need to be eliminated. I mean, it's just that blunt. You know, so it. Yeah, it it is crushing. I mean, in either respect, you know, how how people can can use arguments at the best. The best you got here is an argument from silence, which isn't very good. I mean, Paul never mentioned it. And I mean, the origins of Rome was supposedly the the union of a God and a human. Right. I mean, Mara remiss and and boy, my mythology just went out of my head. But that's the origin of Rome. And so that's where supposedly that's where the Roman Empire is based on Paul. Never never once when you talk to the Gentiles ever express any concern. He only preached Jesus.  I mean, if Paul didn't mention it, then why are we talking about it? Actually, from Paul's perspective, the Gospel in the New Testament, it's kind of it's kind of the reversal of the whole concept of genetics anyway, right? Because it's it's from every tribe and every nation, every clan, you know, and and so in a way, he's saying people from all genetic sources, at least from within, from from within their own world, however much they understood it at that time, right? So in a very real sense, he is saying there is no genetic component to salvation whatsoever, all nations and all tribes, which could also include the clans of the Nephilim, maybe, but certainly, I mean, if it's negative, yeah, yeah, the gospel is not for them. Yeah.  Yeah, Mike, you made a point earlier that I think is really important that when the speculation is going on, it's it's moving out of the Bible. And now it might be it might be, you know, have some fairly close kind of sources to it. But you're moving out of the text itself, and you really are moving into the realm of mythology.  And it might sound, you know, really coherent. And some of it, some of it, frankly, can be quite coherent, but it doesn't mean that it's corresponding to reality. And I think that's pretty important. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you can like I did in the I don't know if you guys read the second novel, the portent, you know, it, I actually use some, you know, scholarly journal literature from the 19th century by a guy named Paul Hout, who was a leading semitist of the day, and used his arguments as part of the storyline for Jesus being a non Jew. You know, and this was this was this was pure, I didn't have the peer review process them, but you get the idea they this was, you know, academic stuff, you know, respectable academic stuff in the late 19th century, where he is making, you know, different, you know, arguments to divorce Jesus from the Jewish population. And it's the same era, you know, when you get, you know, a lot of the the I'm trying to put it generously, a lot of the responses, you know, to the age of discovery, you know, when you have all these other population groups, you know, you got people, human beings being discovered in all sorts of places that the Bible doesn't mention. Well, we got to find that in the Bible somewhere, you know, and and and, you know, using the Bible to sort of, you know, standing the Bible on its own head to accommodate these discoveries produces all sorts of weird racial theories. And then out of that, there's this preference for European bloodlines.  So this is my big concern, you know, with with a lot of this, it's not, it's not the goofiness, even though that that's concerning and it can be soul crushing. And, you know, we can, we can sort of joke about that, but it also still mean it. But it is that this is another example of thinking that can be used to not only just divide people and pit them against each other, but can, you know, it just becomes like support, quote, unquote, support for these old anti Semitic and racial superiority ideas, whether you marry him to Jesus or not, it's just fodder for that. And I could, you know, thank goodness that that that the Nazis didn't have advanced genetic knowledge or else they would have used this stuff as an argument, you know, for what they were doing. It's just it's like repeating itself. Here we have another cycle of of this kind of thought. And our culture is just sort of, you know, open to it, or at least, at least large groups are. It's primed to it. Some of these fringy articles are very Gnostic in how they, you know, the ancient aliens and trying to ascend to a higher like the R.H. negative people are priming the society to descend to the next level of enlightenment or whatever. I mean, it's just I was like, man, that's just like, that's right out of that's right. You're discovering your own divinity. Yeah. Yeah, it's just not right. Not just the positive side, you get the negative side of there's some evil piece to your physical body. Whatever yeah, right. It's funny, like there's this whole the whole this is going in two completely opposite directions from the very same kind of twisting of the story. So you've got like the Aryan stuff on the one side with the anti-Semitism of, you know, and some of these guys are writing Atlantis books and getting into the Nephilim and stuff. But then you've got you can trace back and do the very same thing, but opposite. So like you can find very easily sources that will tell you that look, the Egyptians talked about the Anakim as being blonde haired, blue eyed and, you know, very, you know, obviously that's got to be the giants from the Bible. So there's the whole blonde hair blue eyed thing. And so that's the Nephilim connection. But now the Nephilim in the Bible, like Brian said earlier, well, they're completely evil. So instead of having it being this like incredibly good thing because they're Aryans, now all of a sudden it's exact opposite and all of the Europeans are completely evil because they're the ones who are to send it from the Nephilim. And it's like, you know, there's there's just no there's no sense to any of it. One article I read said that Japeth had been killed and replaced by a Nephilim and, you know, and that he had Irish negative blood. And that's why he went up to descend or have to settle in Europe. And that's why 40% of Northern Europeans have Irish negative. But all this just nonsense. I'm like who it's just unbelievable this mythology. You're right. It was a mythology people are creating and they're latching on to it to give them meaning. And it's scary where people can take it. Yeah, I mean, instead of using scripture as a either a polemic or a corrective to a specific set of ideas that that the biblical writers, you know, shared a certain worldview. But instead of using the biblical version of that stuff, as again, a corrective commentary or polemic in this pool of ideas, what I fear is that you have Christian researchers that are creating marriages, you know, intellectual marriages between the Bible and this other stuff. And so then the Bible loses its status as again, something that, you know, is a corrective commentary. And it just becomes one of all the other myths. And in fact, because the Bible has still has this virtue association, now it can legitimize these other mythologies. In other words, it'll work in the opposite direction. And and I just I see too many Christians that are are using the Bible to defend ancient alien ideas thinking that this helps the Bible. But what it really does is it amounts to an endorsement of the other stuff. Again, because this virtue association is still there, you know, within a lot of within a lot of people. I don't know if any of you guys have ever seen this, but it's kind of related. It goes back to what I think it was Doug talking earlier about the origins of Rome. Remember, he goes into one of these towns in Galatian in Galatia, and they call Barnabas Zeus and they called Paul Hermes. And so if you go in to read the book of Galatians, there's this really strange verse where it talks about how he couldn't heal himself. He couldn't get well. And it's kind of surrounded by the gospel. Well, now all of a sudden you start connecting the dots. Well, who is Hermes? Well, he's among other things. He was the God of healing. And it's like it's like what Paul is saying there is that here's your mythology of who you thought that I was and God's going to do something to me to prove that that's that your mythology is completely wrong. And he's not doing anything though with the gospel message like was said earlier.  And that whole idea of Hermes and Zeus placed completely into that. That's really good. That's awesome. Yeah, it's really subtle, you know, that very subtle. Yeah. Yeah. But again, if that's what's floating around your head, people are going to pick it up. The the the initial, you know, the original hearers and readers would have picked that up. You know, what Paul's doing there. So I guess, again, by way of, you know, summary, we can we can wrap up, you know, the episode here.  And again, it's based upon, yeah, there's certain presuppositions that go into it. And I think just a lack of understanding not only just genetic makeup in general, but also, as Dax pointed out, there are alternate explanations, you know, for how this difference, you know, in the human population, you know, would have arisen there. There's nothing about this topic. There's nothing about the absence, you know, of R.H. in this particular antigen that speaks to non human origin.  Why not pick that thing?  How do you know that it's out of place? You know, all this stuff that there's some connection point into the this sort of middle world of the strange and that, oh, that must be an indicator. And if I have that, then I'm special, as opposed to, again, some, you know, some negative disease factor or something like that. So I would mean, I would, I would assess this as just being sort of that simple. This is a known thing. Science unders, understands what it is. It's all within the human family. It's genetic variation. There's nothing unusual about that. We may not know in the history of humanity, you know, how the genetic variants occurred. But who cares? Again, we know that there's nothing about the absence of this antigen that calls for a nonhuman point of origin, that sort of thing.  That's how I'm summarizing it in my head. Anybody else have anything to add just by way of, you know, wrapping it up and summarizing it? Well, this is Godel. I just wanted to point out that for those who are interested in reading more about this, since we can't have the actual article we're referencing. If Trey would put up that one article, Mike, you sent us, it was called Why R.H. Negative is Not Blood of Gods or of Alien Origin. I liked that because it was it was very layman expression, a lot more understandable in some ways than what we were reading and very helpful in terms of trying to give some of this scientific understanding explanation. And so I would I would recommend people check that out if you guys can put that thing up there. We'll post that on the episode page, certainly. Well, thanks, everybody, for coming. You know, I think I think people who are sort of drawn into this, I hope this is going to be helpful. I think it will. So thanks for taking the time again. Thanks. Thanks, everybody. Thank you. And Dax, it was great hearing from you. Thanks for having me, guys. Thanks a lot. Thanks. Thanks for doing it, Dax.  Dax uses it.


Welcome back to Kids Fun Science. My name is Ken. Today's experiment is a brain game. We're going to pick a number from 1 to 10. What you need for this experiment is a piece of paper, a pencil, a pen, and a volunteer. Go into the description if you want to email me to get the PowerPoint slides and remember to like, subscribe, and share. Okay to start we're going to go ahead and pick a number between 1 and 10 and write that down on a piece of paper. Now take your number and multiply that by 9. For example 2 times 9 equals 18. Most of you should have a two-digit number. Take those two numbers, two digits, and add them together. See the example below. If you have a one-digit number just add it to 0. Now take that number and subtract it by 5. So now you have a number. We're going to assign it to a letter. If you have 1 it equals a, 2 equals b, 3 equals c, and so on. And find out what letter is yours. Now think of a country that starts with your letter. Any country in the world. So go ahead and write that down. Now take the second letter of the name of that country and think of an animal that starts with that letter. Now think of the normal color for that animal and write that down. Now I'm going to predict what you guys were all thinking of. You were thinking of a gray elephant from Denmark. If I was right write that down in the comments below. This is a pretty fun and easy brain game and since we are all friends here I'm willing to tell you how it's done. So if you email me in the description below I'll email the PowerPoint slide so you're able to do this to your friends and family. So you start off by having your volunteer pick a number from 1 to 10 and then all the numbers in the light blue show up which when added together always equal 9. And then when you have them subtract 5 you'll always get the number 4 which is always going to lead to the letter D. And then how many countries start with the letter D?  So it's not very hard it's a fun game to play. I hope you enjoyed this. Remember to subscribe and to like and share and thanks for watching. Thank you. Bye. That was two minutes too.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here. Today I am here with the latest Fortnite news. Now videos of such I plan to stay on top of. Fortnite being a game which is growing all so much. I know a lot of my viewers who watch for Destiny content have moved on to other games while Destiny kind of picks itself back up. Fortnite is one of them games they've moved on to so it makes sense I start posting more than just Destiny. Fortnite is one of many games I plan on covering and if you guys do enjoy the video hitting that like button truly does help me out so let's get into it. Now many might have walked this morning with news of a jetpack coming to Fortnite Battle Royale. It was seen via an in-game post. Now I saw many reports of such and to be honest it seemed to have mixed views. Some thought the idea would have been a fun one mid-air combat flying about the map and so forth while others were having flashbacks of card advance warfare. The thing is we actually didn't know how this jetpack would indeed work.  It could have been full on and allowed you to fly across the entire map. It could have worked a hundred different ways and it's for this very reason people were wary about the implementation but it turns out the jetpack has now been delayed. Epic posted I believe on Reddit saying the following hey folks this week's new item is being changed from a jetpack to the hunting rifle. We found a last minute design issue with the jetpack that's going to the latest launch and we're working on correcting it. The jetpack will lift off at a later time meanwhile you'll be able to enjoy lots of no scopes with a new hunting rifle item and a new lucky point of interest on the map. So the jetpack is being reworked and while that's happening it's being replaced with a hunting rifle. Epic also spoke of a new point of interest on the map. This point of interest at the moment details a little scarce on but I think thanks to a dude over on Twitter called 2epicbuddies we know what this place is going to be called and where it could be located. Now according to this code it's called lucky landing. We see it states here within this code eliminate opponents in lucky landing. Now because of the lack of looting locations on the east side of the map it is speculated to that's where it could be located. What's also speculated is its lucky landing might be in accordance to St Patrick's Day which will land on March 17th which is next month. This is the date no doubt if correct would have been the date we got that jetpack but now we get in the hunting rifle. But like you guys I can't wait to see what this lucky landing place looks like for sure. Now me personally I haven't had time to jump on fortnite for the past few days being super busy doing other things but with the addition of the solid gold limited time mode being dropped I'm going to have to jump on and spend a few hours playing. This mode seems great basically if you ain't aware every drop is that of something a legendary sounds fun. Remember though everybody has those legendaries not just you so while you might think you have an advantage finding a scar out of your first chest odds are 30 others have done the exact same just remember that okay so to end the video I want to talk about the return of double pump shotguns you know having two pump action shots is firing one switching to the other firing that this allowed you to fire super quick and was seriously effective as we all know in the patch version 3.0.0 which was released alongside season three last week epic changes mechanic and how it behaves in game basically stopping players from abusing this technique of pure ornage if you fired the pump shot then switched to your second you still had to pump it before firing now a new method has been found which allows you to get off shots at stupid high speed similar to how it was before but it requires much more precise timing and to be honest it doesn't seem anywhere near as viable to do but this is the method shoot your first pump action shot it swap to your second pump and wait for that pump sign that signals the cooldown has ended shoot your second pump shot it swap to your first pump action shot and repeat now there will be a video linked within the video description of this being demonstrated and this guy's got it down to a T and the way he's doing it it makes it seem super viable unlike what I said just but it is going to take precise timing and obviously but I'm guessing here though if you actually stop the rotation of switching and waiting for the cooldown and so forth I think you would have to start again hence why we see this guy in this video who demonstrates this he's continuously firing these shotguns but if you do want to check it out like I said the videos linked within the video description and it seems quite effective for this dude for sure so double pump seems to be back while some love this mechanic others hated it it's just one of those things but guys on that note I am out if you enjoyed my first fortnite news video I plan on bringing these as often as news drops if you enjoyed it leaving a like it really does help me and my channel out thanks as always for stopping by though and hopefully people I will see you on that next one


This is me in 30 years. I've done well. That would have been a pretty unique experience putting this black shell through the coffee press and it coming out bright pink. Yeah, that was pretty cool about it. One of those very rare Eureka moments. T-Rex. T-Rex. I want to see T-Rex. There's no question about it. Today we're conducting an interview of my future self. He's getting into a time machine going 30-something years into the future, finds himself and asks whether the choice is for the right ones. Exactly. So this is me 30 years in the future. Still the same hairdo. Yeah. My name is Seb Bland. I'm a student at ANU studying earth science. And in the future, I would like to be a... potentially like to be a researcher looking and investigating into early life and how that can contribute to society in general today. I'm Jochen Brooks. I'm a professor of Geobiology at the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University. As a geologist, I think a nice interim ice-breaking question is, what is your favourite rock Jochen? My favourite rock. I mean, mineralogical type. Yeah. I think for my profession, it would be a deep black shell. Full of organic matter. 30%. Absolutely love it. One of those rocks that you actually can light with a light and actually do burn. Flammable rocks. Love it. Wow. So 1.1 billion years old. We extracted this, my favourite rock, the black shell. And you wouldn't believe it, but out of this black shell extracted with a solvent called dichromethane, the extract was actually bright purple pink. No way. That's amazing. Unbelievable. Yes. That would have been a pretty unique experience putting this black shell through the coffee press and coming out bright pink. Were you surprised? Yeah. So my experience was a different one because I was sitting in my office and opposite of my office is my laboratory. You always have all doors open so if something happens, you can hear it. Like a scream. Yeah. And I did hear a scream. Yeah. It was my PhD student, Norgunili, from Germany. And she screamed. And I ran into the lab and I walked there. She's sitting there staring at the thing and I look at it and I see this purple band running down that Sitica column. And yeah, that was a pretty cool moment. One of those very rare Eureka moments. If you are sitting at a dinner party and you got the big shots around the table, Brian Schmidt's there, everyone, how do you explain what you do to them? Oh, I've done that a thousand times to actually quite some hot shots. Not to Brian though yet, but for example to the treasure of the United States, the present one of Harvard University. And I usually start explaining, you know, what is geological time and I usually do this in stacks of time. So I think in time from the bottom to the top. So here's the present. Here's the bottom. Earth is 4.6 billion years old and I'm working somewhere in this period of time when life was just microscopic. We can't see anything with our eyes and we use chemical traces to find out what happened. So that's what I do. What do you think when you look back on your entire career, it's been illustrious. What is, if you have made any, a misstep, do you think? Has there been any points that you've looked back and gone, maybe I should have done something else here? You learn a lot from mistakes. Hopefully you do. It's very important. And it's usually interpersonal things. Things that you do to or with other people. For example, one thing I definitely learned is if you make a discovery that disproves someone else's discovery, in a way that makes that person maybe even look stupid because I really have overlooked something quite obvious, tell them in advance, invite them to be part of that discovery, put them on that paper. I published one paper where I didn't do that. It didn't even occur to me. And then years later I visited that person and I had dinner with him and he told me back then that was pretty painful and I went, wow, I hadn't even thought about it. And so that was definitely a big mistake. Science is done by people. And sometimes you think, hey, science has nothing to do with people. It's all objective. It's pretty wrong. Yeah, of course. So you were telling me that you found these all fossils and all started your collection back when you were around my age a bit younger. So back in that point in time, if you could, let's say, bend the laws of physics and take a time machine to any point in the geological past. Where would you go? And looking back now on the 30 years experience you've had, would that change? Oh, wow. It definitely would have changed a lot through time. Back then when I found this fossil, I would definitely would have gone back into the Middle Triassic to see what, you know, Germany looked like doing a cold, muscle calc seed that existed. I think I would have better goals now.  I don't think I could. I saw many things, I saw many burning questions and things I would like to see. The first one, of course, from my age of four, we had on our calox pecs every week a dinosaur. T-Rex. T-Rex. I want to see T-Rex. There's no question about it. Not for scientific curiosity. I just want to know whether that thing looked like in the 1970s when I first got to know about T-Rex, which was back then really looking like Elizabeth, raised a sharp, long teeth and was gray in color with warts and it had this red glowing eyes, or whether it looked like a big pink yellow chicken with a cockatoo crest, right? Which is now, you know, probably actually more likely. It probably looked pretty funny. I want to see T-Rex. So I need a tank or at least a big cage. I don't want to be eaten. But T-Rex is, yeah, being 20. I actually do not really recall where I would have gone. So where would I have gone? I think my interest been peaked through geobiology and stuff like that. Definitely into the early time, the rise of algae and that sort of period of time. I know it's the boring part, but it'd be cool to just see what life is like. The planet would like nothing living. The carboniferous would be pretty cool. The rainforests everywhere, just warm. Well, bring me one of those dragonflies. Yeah. Dragonflies. Or there was big spiders or there's three meter long millipedes. Okay, I'm not going back there anymore. Has it become more difficult in this day and age with the changing climate in the field that you're looking at, especially with these hydrocarbons? Because I'm not interested in the commercial part and what I do with these very ancient molecules is still very, very exciting. It hasn't become too difficult. It has generally become more difficult because the Australian Research Council has less money, wants to spend the money for more applied industrial research. So the total pool of money is shrinking, but the number of people asking for money is not. The success rates are dropping. So is it tougher if finding that as a... I'm pretty sure you will at some point ask the question about what's the things that are not so fun. Yes. And I can tell you that writing grant proposals will be for most scientists the most horrible part of the year. Either one thing I'm not interested about is writing about people and definitely not about myself. And then if you have to write about yourself how absolutely great you are and what you've achieved in the past and what you will achieve in the future in the next 10 years, you will make all these discoveries. It's nauseating. It's totally nauseating but you just got to do it. Okay, so you came into the future to talk to your future self. See how it's going. Science is fun. Science is super fun. Not we're getting one second. But will you change your decisions?  Well, it's been a pleasure to come and talk to my future self. I've learned lots of things, especially the process, the behind the scenes process that isn't really like portrayed to students, the writing, the grants to get the money and how that process goes. But I don't think so. I think the good and the interest of trying to find new things and increase the knowledge bank of the human race vastly outweighs the negative downside of having to find the time to put into writing these grants. And definitely you've broadened my horizon on the areas of science which you are into and which sound vastly amazingly interesting, which I would absolutely love to go in and look at. Following your footsteps, my future footsteps. Next to you? Yeah, awesome.


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