Hi, you guys Lindsay here. We have got a new collection from our friends at New Look So today I'm going to do what I do my first impression video We are going to go through the new look collection one by one And see what we think of the fall Collection what it's happening Here we go Okay, first things first we have a Mrs. Dress pattern cute it's a little um beginning like 1800s vibes this whole little bodice But I think it's really Darling, I love it in brocade That looks awesome very romantic You know Cute cute alternate versions, too. I love this little tie Waste thing that's a really nice detail So we've got a flutter sleeve. We've got kind of a Fuller sleeve here we've got Looks like a is that a back yoke type of deal lots of great seeming side seam pockets Center back zip Yeah, this is a really well-designed little pattern We're not going to get too many pictures though But that's okay. Yeah very Victorian Cute Very cute. I like that one off to a good start Okay, now we've got this little jumper Kind of 90s vibes if we're Talking in decades Yeah, obviously meant to be kind of layered we've seen that look before Let's get the pictures first Yeah, I mean they did a very kind of literal obvious, you know plaid with a turtleneck underneath. We've seen that before Cool. Here's the other versions. We've got Three lengths it looks like some patch pocket detailing And pretty standard Back and this one has a vent at least so you can walk. I don't know. It's kind of me I'm a little uninspired by it But I'm sure that you could do some really great things with corduroy or suede or denim You know and I bet it's really quick to sew up to Okay, Mrs. Dress and wrap See what this guy is all about very Boho It looks like a princess seam dress with some additional darting That's a really great little detail with or without sleeves. This might be a pocket. I think And then you've got these little wraps here simplicity does Like a solid like they do to illustrations even though it's the same pattern once a solid and once a print So this isn't like two different versions. I don't think Yeah, so pockets here a little side slit Well, it's kind of like a poncho. I guess we've got our Um Back darts so happy to see that as you guys know I Think that this would be a really really great Little shift dress if you've got the fit right This could be a sloper that you could use and modify a good Jillian in different ways Yeah, it looks really good on her and it's not that I think that looks really sharp personally This might be like a pontine. That's kind of a cool idea. I'm not so sure about the styling here with like the hat and everything It's a little much but And this little Kaftan, I don't know that seems like a lot too. It's just very overwhelming Not really my style, but if you like that kind of you know cover-up I don't know. I guess it's cute. I don't know. There's nothing really special about it. It's just rectangles You know So Alright, that's that Here's a little dress I love flowy long-sleeve dresses in the fall It's one of my favorite Things I think because here in Charleston, you know, we can wear those dresses Probably like six months out of the year Maybe more maybe eight But this one has a really cool on pier waist Seeming detail with gathers to create volume for Debussed It's got a wide neckband Raglan sleeves a little cuff center front seam You can't really see that on this one. I guess you can it's right there And then we have options. So this is the solid version. This is the print version This must be shorter and This has a shorter sleeve. Oh, and I missed the little button detail This is a really sweet dress It's even got some Shaping in the back waist Which is nice Yeah, I think that these on pier waist whenever it's like Shaped like this is really flattering in the tummy area if You've got like an apple shape or pear shape or even like a boy shape I think that this line here creates some really flattering Happenings on in the skirt. I Wish they showed her like more like dead on so you could see what I'm talking about but Not so lucky. I Like this one. I Like this one a lot Alright tunics Let's see About this guy so Yeah, your basic v-neck tunic, but it does have that higher waistline So create like a lot more volume all through your whole men drift area This one is doleman sleeves. So it's kind of a come. It's like a kimono I'm getting kimono very festival very Comfortable, you know for Thanksgiving whenever you need to leave a lot of extra In this area for all the food you're going to eat at least those of us in the States Yeah, this is a cute little tunic. I think that you could Definitely style it and make it Work for you a little deep though getting a little low cut there I don't know. Okay, so I Don't never seen a version that has this sleeve. I don't really know what the difference Would be between this sleeve and this sleeve. I Don't know which one she did. I'm guessing it's this one since the fabric matches I don't know what that would look like. They don't ever give us enough pictures. That's my biggest complaint about simplicity, but I Don't know what that would do. I guess it would just make it tighter on the arm This one doesn't have a sleeve at all This has maybe we should be reading some just very low and simply doesn't do descriptions either arg Let's see Your choice of sleeve variations the neck ties above the waist comfortable fully top will be your go-to for lounging casual incisions Hmm So they don't give us much information. You kind of just have to go for it Could be cute could be really cute a leggings skinny Jean moment for sure Alright, oh lord still Photographing velvet crush development Nothing will look as bad as that Mimi G one though if y'all saw that video a few months ago okay, so this is a cowl neck Top and dress and we have a flutter sleeve and a long sleeve And these are the same version They're both a okay, let's see here, so we've got Yeah, pretty standard stuff here. This one does have the side ruching So between this and this I do think that would be very flattering The dress has no seaming, but it's a knit so you know, it could be shaped through here and that would help Be must be tunic length Yeah, that's what the chicks wearing. This is be the longer length. I think that could be cute I again, I'm not convinced of the velvet anything But I think in the right kind of knit I do think that The tops could be really cute and if you've got a slim figure or at least like Not pear shaped. I think that these could be really good You could make this work for a pear shape by grading out, but I mean it is knit so It gets a little clingy But I do love a cowl neck gives it does draw the eye up and away from any of these problem areas you have So, I mean it could be cute. It just depends on I guess what you're Comfortable in and kind of what your style is but this one could be really great in a myriad of fabrics Even everything from like Jersey all the way up to like some sweater nits like some lightweight sweater nits Hocchi knit, you know, you could really make this one into a lot of different Fabrics which would be good Because you know variety Okay, now we've got ooh a cute little skirt. I think I Love a skirt with some pizzazz. This one has like a little ruffle detail. You guys know I love ruffles so Let's see It looks to be your basic, you know, wide waistband skirt sits at the natural waist We've got, you know paneled six panel skirt It looks like your your options are these Like I guess sort of patch pocket type Then you've got welt pockets and Then you've got no pockets, but this little It's not a ruffle. It's a I can't remember what it's called. Oh Shoot it's almost a tip of my tongue But yeah, see they're suggesting all kinds of like heavier weight fabrics. So dinner, micro suede twill wool I imagine Corderoid, you know, you're you're typical fall fabrics And so yeah, the six panel skirts are really nice guys, I do like the way they fit I do love how wide this waistband is this waistband also looks curved You know not straight. So one less alteration that I'd have to make the pattern pieces You got a lot of different lengths this would be good in like a lighter weight denim You know leather I can see this in a lot of different fabrics and being really cute I do love this detail. Although it's nothing like spectacular It's literally just top stitched on You know, you don't really need a pattern To tell you to do that, but it's nice that they showed that It doesn't say what that darn thing is called y'all leave it in the comments if y'all know what That's called is literally on the tip of my tongue But it's kind of like a ruffle in that you use a basting stitch down the middle of the seam And then you gather it all up to make that little frilly frill But that's a good basic skirt pattern. I think you could do a lot with that All right. Now we've got more. Oh a circle skirt and they've gone kind of fancy with the The one that they're highlighting looks like a couple layers of chiffon or something But you don't have to do it that way you could I mean circle skirts you could do with Any fabric honestly, I've never met a fabric that doesn't Do well in a circle skirt It just depends on how close like these lighter drapery fabrics are going to be really close to the body and then like more Firm stable fabrics are going to float away from the body. That's really the only difference Now again the waistband looks to be curved. It's really hard to tell Just looking at the illustrations circle skirts don't have pockets. They're usually just one seam I'm not seeing any seams so they must have put theirs on the side, I guess Yeah, here's one And this is interesting is this a belt or is this the waistband? Did they do the waistband in the underlining of the fabric, I guess so That's pretty Probably pretty finicky. I don't know that I would feel very confident in doing that I would rather do a waistband in like a more stable fabric and then do a belt over personally But that's just me The best part about circle skirts are the hems. They are miles and miles long Very squishy a very flowy Optional over skirt graceful feminine gorgeous Yep, that's really it kind of basic There are a lot of circle skirt patterns already out there though. There's even some free ones. I want to say oh One of the Australian indie patterns Has free ones you can just search free circle skirt And they'll either teach you how to make it how to design your own pattern pieces or there are some patterns that are already Written golly. I wish I could remember Okay, we've got a a easy knit sportswear you guys I love these separate patterns that come with so many different options This isn't Totally that I like the ones that come with like a dress a top pants and a skirt and a jacket You know, you get like a whole wardrobe in one pattern. This isn't really what I thought I guess but either way You've got this like robe-looking thing and then some pull-on elasticized waist pants It's what we're working with here So the little robe thing comes in two lengths It was like hip length and then knee length maybe longer and then your kind of basic pull-on pants This looks like fancy pajamas if you did this in Ponty and then this like like they've done in a rib knit or any kind of knit Many more medium to heavy weight knit so that it would be more stable Yeah, that's like pajamas for sure It does lay nice here and this is kind of high on her which is nice for a wrap It's just not my style. I don't wear Stuff like this but I does look really good on her very sharp. I like the color combo Wrap dress tunic and pants. Yep, perfect together or a separate pieces Okay, now we've got a lined jacket I love little crop jackets in the fall and winter again because I don't need a super heavy-weight jacket here for except for like maybe a month I will make up a bunch of jackets like this For the fall and winter. I've got two planned already For this year. So that's exciting Okay, so this one is Interesting so we've got our basic princess seam, which is nice. We've got a little collar. We've got a pocket But this Sleeve is a little bit Specific, you know, it's like you don't have to do the sleeve. It looks like B has that but a Has your regular set in sleeve. So it just depends on what you like I don't typically love a sleeve like this. It's just a little 80s to me a little dated Especially in this kind of fabric with the covered buttons like I'm kind of getting a little bit of an 80s vibe, but Maybe that's your thing So if you like that by all means But yeah, the seam details are nice, you know, you have the back princess seems to which is good The roughly sleeve 10 we've seen a thousand times now Nice pocket detail. It's just a single breasted three button Nothing super super special, but it could be depending on your fabric, which I guess is what they kind of counted on here This looks like some kind of like silk, maybe Yeah, I don't know But it's got a little shine to it a little holiday flair. I mean looks really cute with these ponty leggings So I do think these jackets are very versatile and it's nice to have that in your pattern stash All right, now we've got Pants top and a little bag. That's fun Okay, so our top is kind of just your kind of basic Bishop type of top look at that Dart way too high It needs to be like way down here and shorter, but okay either way So, you know, you've got the gathered sleeve hem kind of fuller sleeve ties at the top Probably just a facing There and then you've got these pants with the split hem. Those are nice very on trend Um Try to think of them not in sequinies sparkly fabric. I've seen them in everything from just like your lightweight polyester All the way up to like more structured fabrics not super structured like Like heavyweight denim or corduroy or anything like that, but I have seen them in a bunch of different weights of fabric Um Very trendy. I don't not like this It's just very specific. I guess you can only really wear that a few places but this can be very wearable Depending on the fabric that you choose and then you've got this interesting little bag It looks just like a barrel cosmetic spag With a little loop handle or is that like a bracelet handle? That's kind of cute Yeah, it looks like this is a purchased like wristlet ring thing Side pockets on the pants It looks like Okay, so the back of the top has no seams the Everything looks the same. It's hard for me to tell what's happening here. I think the pants Well, obviously, I mean you can sew up the side seam all the way if you want I can't tell if that's what they're trying to say with this I think these are two fronts I don't know they kind it's all very similar looking front to back. So it's hard to tell what's going on. Let's look at her pictures Yeah, you will be able to see all of your inside. So keep that in mind She is again. It is a cute little holiday outfit. I will give them that Um, but it doesn't necessarily have to be these darts though, man That's bad They need to be like The dark point needs to be like here But either way you get what they're going for Okay, now we've got a coat with a hood For all of you that need coats Um, this is one of your like minimalist kind of coats which I do like I do like it wears more like a cardigan than a coat So it looks like we've got a really like maybe this is even yeah ankle length shin length These are probably knee length and this is probably hip length I'm guessing it's just the same coat three lengths This one has a different kind of pocket though because it couldn't fit the patch pockets on when it's that short raglan sleeves um Yep Pretty basic hardly any seams you could sew this up in a couple of hours Easily it even looks like they used some kind of like herringbone Maybe it is a coating. I thought at first might be a sweater knit, but maybe it is a coating But here she is with the hood on very cloak-ish, you know like a cloak We're of a cloak than a jacket But yeah, real basic Real basic. I don't even has what one two Three three pattern pieces maybe Four with the hood. Maybe I can't tell how the hood is attached. It might be all one This makes me think it's all one, but anyways very few pattern pieces So, you know, if you get it cut out quickly um Double faced coat with a hood can be made in multiple lengths and includes pocket variations intended for double faced or reversible fabrics only so Yeah, keep that in mind But you could also do with like sweatshirt fleece Um, I think it would still look fine if you did like a french terry because the insides of those fabrics still look presentable If you see them on the outside, you know But they do have some really cool wools when we were in new york city. We saw a whole bunch at mood Where it was like burgundy on one side and like orange on the other double faced fabrics So that could be something really cool where it would be like a bold contrast for the inside of the hood and this lapel Okay Now we have a little coat or cape. I can't believe the capes are still Doing their thing I have one that I cut out like three years ago. I never sewed it. Maybe I should do that. Okay Let's check out this one. So we've got a little I guess mandarin collar Oh, we've even got these little shoulder appellettes We've got options for sleeve tabs And then these are the same I mean, it is really cute. I just Like how do you drive? You know, like where do your arms go if you need to like give someone a hug or something Like you have to keep your arms by your side That seems so unwarable to me Um, I do like the doubt that it's double breasted that it crosses over Um, you know, it's got the princess theme detailing Same in the back with this button tab. I mean, there are a lot of really great details, especially to the jackets Um Look at how it's a dolman though. That's interesting.  I see the jacket and a cape are so different like Just giving us pictures of the cape is really not doing this pattern very much justice But it is cute if you were going to go somewhere where you didn't need to raise your arms a lot Uh, I'm trying to think like oh gosh, like you're just going to go walk around somewhere This would be a cute thing to wear if you didn't need to raise your arms more than your elbows, you know what I mean So keep that in mind But I want to see the jacket I do I wish I could see the jacket with that interesting Um sleep this just isn't enough For me to like fully understand How that would look Oh Okay, now we've got unisex tops So his and her Which is kind of fun for the holidays, you know, if you're going to make your Son husband boyfriend Brother father whatever Something might as well make yourself one too Um, it looks like we've got a pullover Half plackets hooded or not hooded or not Pockets hers. I thought had some little doodad right there Yeah, there's definitely an elastic kind of cording In there that's kind of cool I like this one I only make stuff for myself. So I wouldn't use it for a man, but I do like I don't know for some reason This is just looks comfortable Yeah I think it's cute. There's a lot of fun options in there I mean even this one this is um, very kind of preppy. I'm getting like a vineyard vines kind of Vibe, you know how you could do I bet they have some really cute. Um inspiration on They're On a website or from a company like vineyard vines or gosh, I'm trying to think of Some other like really really preppy stores That's what I'm getting from this very, um, man. Tuck it. You know what I'm saying Cute. Okay. Here are our other pictures of our guy And I think this is that anti pill fleece that they sell at joan's for like three dollars a yard So you could make it real cheap This is like some kind of sweater knit. Maybe like some kind of knitted sherpa or something. I don't know but um But it's cute. It does look a look it does look high into me like I feel like that looks expensive And then here they are walking around together in the woods or something Holding hands and they're matching tops. So cute Well, let's see what they suggest for Um, great for a plaid or solid fleece fabrics. Let's see what the Double-faced fleece Fleece minky. Oh, can you imagine a minky sweatshirt fleece? Okay All right. So now here are the kids and the teens And is this a woman's? It says mrs. So let's take a look at that Wow Okay, well pretty basic Pretty basic. We've got a I'm assuming this is all knit. Uh, maybe not v-neck top elasticized skirt Uh, I think b has some flair to it and a is straight Oh, and then you've got a shorter version over here and then you've also got pants So here she is. Yeah, that's definitely knit Yeah, rural basics and that's okay Everybody needs a good set of basics in their pattern stash because you can Modify it and do a bunch of different stuff to it And make it look very different. It's kind of like a sloper in a way Um Looking at this t-shirt. I think that that would be a very great basic t although This facing that's odd. That makes me feel like it's not No, it is knit. Why wouldn't they do a band? I wouldn't face that I would do a band. So maybe not so much on this one Okay, now we've got This dress I'm assuming it's knit again mrs. Dresses with neckline and sleeve variations Let's see the fabrics real quick cotton cotton. Oh no all Um wovens, okay so Let's go here and here So it's just got some neckline variations. It's got princess seam No waist seam. I do like dresses like that very flattering again if you're pear shaped And then the backs have the same princess seam Center back zip long sleeve short sleeve, or I'm sure you could do it sleeveless too. That's an edc enough modification So yeah, just a bunch of different neckline variations, which I mean, I mean it's easy to do your own necklines So I don't know if new look went on sale a bunch. It might be nice to have it already done for you, but Again a really great basic that you could do a bunch of different things to And make it out of a bunch of different fabrics too, which always makes it look different Here's another version again, like once you get it to fit right It's gonna look great in a bunch of different ways and a bunch of different fabrics um Yeah, so this is just bust starts You've got a high neck. You've got a bit of a scoop Um And then this kind of squared off and then they have these little Side vents, I guess And then our back is just plain so basic basic, but Again, basics are good. I have nothing against basics If you don't if you're a new order to sewing or you haven't ever really kind of explored basics I would try some of these for sure Here's another dress Sew up in just one hour All that so it is your standard shift I will say though. Well at least based on the illustrations. It does have some shaping here, which is nice. I do like that And then just depending on What length you want And sleeves or not you could style these all go julien different ways. You can make them out of a bunch of different fabrics um You know, there is no back darts But you could add those something like this is super easy. It has Two or three pattern pieces depending on whether or not you sew the sleeves. Oh, and maybe a facing Um, they are suggesting here everything from gauze cotton silk crape Um rayon blends All kinds of stuff you could I mean anything in the woven section probably you could make I mean even denim and corduroy and leather and you know, it's just your basic shift So that could be another good option for you And then this takes us to their I guess summer or late fall collection. So that's it for our new look patterns What did you guys think? I think it's a cute little collection for fall. There's some that I definitely stand out to me Um, I look this is for the holiday look. This is my my pick for the holiday look more so than the um circle skirt Or the pants with the slit Um, I do really like this long sleeve dress Um, and this skirt is really nice. So I think there's a lot of really great stuff in here Let me know if you guys are going to be purchasing any of these patterns Um, which ones was your favorite remember to kind of Point out something about the pattern rather than just the pattern number because I don't have the pattern numbers memorized And when I'm reading the comments, I like to visualize which one you're talking about without having to look it up It's much quicker But yeah, let me know what you think And until next time I will see you guys very soon. Bye


I've had a terrific problem in the very limited of our reading of that in the book, with this concept that seems to be presented of ego as sort of an evil thing as opposed to all my also limited psychological readings which says, we've got a hell of a strong ego, we must be very personal and all that, and it's a real conflict in my comprehension. You sound like you're well prepared to deal with that. Well, we'll talk about the ego, but let's unveil the thing, let's go right at it. The thing about the ego too is something, it's like you don't attempt to fight it or combat it because it loves the fight. And the course is just saying is just look at it. Once you can really look directly at it, like fears, the only reason fears seem to be maintained is because we try to look away from them.  We can look right at it and it will be gone like a puff of cloud. But to address your question too about the ego strength and integrate and so on and so forth, that's pretty much when I studied psychology and started going through that, that was pretty much basically a psychoanalysis is basically saying that between the head all these unconscious forces and the supra-ego, the force of morality, there's an ego and that system is kind of like a mediator. And in that sense, if it's a mediator between these two combating forces that are in the mind, then that's where the idea of ego strength comes in, of wanting to build up ego strength. But what Peronian psychology really never got at was it just was really describing the dark side of the mind. It says yes, there were these intersection forces and there were these, you know, the moralities and everything, but that was all the three parts that were described as the ego and the supra-ego were all part of the ego. And then there's another part of the mind which Peronian psychology really didn't get into, which was spirit. That's one thing when I was in psychology, it was kind of like I just kept looking for where's spirit? Or where, how do we integrate religion or spirituality with psychology if they seem to be antithetical? Or science, a lot of times when I would go into science, I would wonder where does science fit into all this? And then I got into reading quantum physics. And some of the quantum physics that started talking in terms of the sound of psychological perception and that there's no reality in the world apart from what you think. Experiments with particles, when they tried to do double-blind experiments and they tried to take the experimenter out of the experiment and they would find that the thought and the thinker of the experimenter were moving the particle. And that they could no way remove the mind of the experimenter from, so it's like, oh, it's almost, all these things start pointing to there's no, it's subjective that the mind is influencing everything. So to get at that thing of, that's what really started, I started to see was that that whole thing about psychology wasn't really helping, it was very pessimistic that there had to be another part of the mind that I started reading when I was reading into Eastern philosophy and I started reading books about the higher self. I started to say, yeah, that resonates there.  And so that gave me a sense of stuff. There was something beyond that. Okay, but I think it went through the young man's approach as well. How did your approach to deal compare with the other? Yeah, Young seemed to really tap in to start to get in. He took this idea that Freud came along with the unconscious, called the collective unconscious, and he started to see that there was something, you know, the higher self, there was something beyond this unconscious. This higher self, Young said, was able to communicate through dreams and through symbols, with love, you know, architecture and so forth. And that in many ways, that was ways of kind of awakening towards this higher self. So I feel that Young really started to articulate more that there was something beyond. And when you really get into the course, I mean it fits well with Youngian psychology in the sense that Youngian psychology said that there was this unconscious with all these beliefs that were kind of under the surface. And that you had to get in touch with the beliefs. And that's what the Course of Miracles is saying, because Jesus was saying that there are a lot of unconscious beliefs. And until you can look at them, until you can become aware of them, then they like they run you. You had to ask about defining ego and there's one point at the back of the text where Jesus says that you can't have a definition for something that is nothing, which is kind of interesting, you know, that's kind of like if I define it for you, you know, like giving it a reality. But he says we can point to the opposite. And the ego's opposite in every single way in shape is a miracle. So then after he talks about the ego is the nothingness that it is, he starts once again pointing to the positive or pointing to the identity, the right mind.  I said, well, you can look at it that way, but it's like you have to believe that it has ever lived before you can believe that it can die.   And a lot of times people will perceive when they're reading the book, it seems like, boy, this thing is up to no good. But in a sense Jesus says that you may the ego by believing in it and you can dispel the ego by withdrawing your belief in it. You may the ego by believing in it and you can dispel the ego by withdrawing your belief in it. That's what bothers me a little bit. I think I feel sometimes there's so much emotion put into trying to destroy this ego like it's an entity. I mean, like it's replaced the devil and I can't do that. And he actually described this at the beginning. There's a point early in the text where he kind of goes through and he really describes the ego pretty well. And then he says, I had to do that so you wouldn't dismiss it too lightly. And that's when he starts introducing at that point that it's obviously it's just a belief and you made it to know it. But in the early part, the very early part it's kind of like so it's not just brushed away because that's part of the ego's defense mechanism is to just kind of brush fear under and kind of dismiss fear or repress it or deny it and then all of a sudden it just comes up. And this is of course in dispelling the ego, not in trying to kill it. That's what bothers me because, you know, some seem to be being fought and I don't I think it would be easier to withdraw your energy from that belief that some men try to fight it. In the end, that's all that's dispelling the ego is is remembering to laugh at it. And then it's not like you kill it at the end is you laugh at it. You laugh it away.  Now when the mind is in the sleeping state, you know, then it's like part of its mind is where the Holy Spirit lives and the Course calls it the right mind and this is sanity. This is the connection back to Christ and to the Father and then the dark side of the mind is where the ego resides. So to say that to even say love the ego, you know it would be kind of to say to love nothing, you know to truly love something it has to be it has to exist. So the Course is definitely not saying love the ego and it's definitely not saying hate the ego because as we were mentioning earlier when you fight against it it seems to roar even more. It is important to see that the ego is up to no good in the sense that the purpose of the ego is sickness, fragmentation, guilt, sin, death and the Holy Spirit's purpose is healing and it's important to start to tell the difference between the two because until we can tell the difference between the two then we'll still think that the ego has something to offer us and as long as we believe it still has something to offer us then we'll still invest in its way of thinking and we'll still feel guilt we'll still feel pain and separation. And much of the Course talks about the ego not because it's real but because the sleeping mind believes it's real and to the extent that it believes in it it has a hold on it. So Jesus is just saying this is how this works. This is what to look for. This is what's going on for the mind that believes in the ego. When you can start to see what it is and recognize it for what it is then that's the way out. The ego doesn't know love. The ego doesn't understand love. That's why it's almost impossible to love something that is not loveable and does not love that. Yeah, but isn't ego our personality? No, it's your personality. All of our personalities do have our differences. Some people seem to be aggressive or outgoing. Some people seem to be shy and reserved. All the different skills. Some people seem to have great mental skills and other people seem to be more feeling and sensitive. When you talk about personality there is enormous variation. And these personalities seem to conflict at times too. Sometimes people think of them as complimentary but a lot of times in husband and wife or boyfriend or girlfriend or even in family there seems to be stark personality differences. And whenever there's conflict it's not the Holy Spirit that's involved. It is the ego. I mean there is an ego basis. And basically the personality self or the self-concept with the small S instead of the big capital S for Christ is part of a construction that when the separation seemed to happen the mind was so afraid of this life that it tried to run away from it into the darkness as far as it could have. So it started to stack beliefs because it's so dark and horrifying the thought that you can separate from your creator disconnect from your source. It was the most horrifying thought conceivable. It wasn't true in all of its sense but the mind believed it. It was horrifying. So the mind instantly the Holy Spirit was given his answer. So now we have a mind used to wholeness and completion in the Kingdom. It's used to wholeness all the time. Now it's got two completely irreconcilable thought systems. The Holy Spirit and the Egos in it. And the mind's used to wholeness it's intolerable to try to hold on to both of these at the same time. So what the mind did is the world was made up as like a movie screen. When you go to the movies and you see the screen and all the different images of it the world was made up as a screen and the Egos that project the split out there on to the screen and then you can forget about the split in the mind.  That is a duality that's not separate. So basically once the mind falls asleep it sees the world of duality. Male, female. Good, bad, right wrong. Hot, cold, fast, low, wide, skinny. Victim, victimizer. Victim, victimizer. It's kind of, that's part of this big optical illusion to instead of looking in my mind and saying I have a split in my mind that has to be healed that the trick is oh, the splits out there you know in the world and there are good people and there are bad people. There are it would feel like the Kelvin movie the good guys and the bad guys. And therefore as soon as I split the sunship all my brothers into camps and see the world of duality out there then I can project and blame and be angry at the victimizer and I can pity the victim. Of course it's saying it's a trick it's a scam. Whenever you blame your brother you blame the IRS or blame your parents or blame your spouse or blame your dog or blame the weather or blame your boss or whatever that you're trying to hurl the guilt or you're trying to hurl the feeling of unworthiness that you feel away onto them. It really doesn't solve anything it doesn't get rid of the problem because when you do that the mind also believes that somehow people are going to creep projections are going to creep back and then it starts getting real dissented kind of like if you've ever felt guilty or angry at somebody and attacked them and then it's feared that they were going to call or whatever you know as soon as the attack goes out then it's like oh my gosh what have I done you know I've got to be real defensive. Pride, Ethel. That's a good question because it's like a lot of the messages I got when I was growing up you know take pride in, take pride in, take pride in and it's like wait a minute is pride good or bad or sometimes good sometimes bad and it's on page 97 Jesus talks about the ego the basis for the world and the body and that's one of the three the three main things the ego uses the body for in a real subtle way the way it maintains the guilt is because pride is always based on form there's a body identification I'm proud of my ethnic heritage I'm proud to be an American I'm proud of my Cincinnati Reds I'm proud to have some real degrees status, proud of my wealth you can see where it's all form based and the reason that pride is so sneak is because just like you said survival that's what the ways of the world are the ways of the world you know bigger, better, more the fame, the wealth, the recognition, the


So our next speaker has a lot of slides he told me. What can I say about Marcos Becquedal? Just a round of applause for our speaker and for the year in review. So good morning. I have 40 minutes and 60 slides, and I tried to sort them out, but it wasn't possible because 2019 was a really chaotic year. So network politics has reached the middle of our society, and that doesn't make it more easy. And what we're missing or what we were missing at the beginning of the year was regeneration time from the Congress because the year began really quickly with a doxing scandal. Doxing denotes outing persons with their personal data on the web. So yeah, basically you're outing persons and you're kind of humiliating them with this, and it was for on prominent people and politicians. So anyone who is active and trying to establish a more open society, and of course the question was why do you do that? And the alleged perpetrator, as it quickly came out, was still living with his parents and did that from home, like from his parents' basement. And he confessed pretty quickly, and the government was eager to say it's not politically motivated, and the perpetrator said that he did it because he didn't like what his victims said in public. So from the official side, this was a lone move and there's no co-authors or co-properators of this. So it's been very quiet about this since a year. There's no criminal persecution, and it's unclear how a 21-year-old could access all of these data, and how is it possible that he acted alone allegedly? But it was a case that showed that we have a problem with right-wing extremism on the web. So we could say it was the first right-wing extremist attack this year. And if you think doxing is OK, let's look into the hacker ethics of the CCC. It is clearly stated there that it is not ethical to out people and to out their private data. And it's a breach of our values. So for anyone who thinks this is OK for whatever reason, it is clearly not. So one of the reactions was a draft bill on an IT security bill 2.0 that we published on netspolitik.org. And it still isn't official yet, like even the draft isn't official. It's clear that we need more IT security. And there are some good ideas in this draft for consumer protection, IT security. But then when you look into the small print, you have all of those surveillance measures and more control in the name of security and more restrictions. So like punishment up to five years and state torsions used against hackers and criminalization. So at the moment, it has halted this draft bill. And there is still no proper strategy to give the power back to the people and to promote open source tools and digital self-defense. And also, there are not enough measures that obligate providers to secure their software and also to make it open source so that anyone can have a look at what their programs are doing. So this is one of many progress processes started by the enormous ministry. And there was also a draft bill for reform of the Constitutional Protection Act. So in short, our Federal Constitutional Protection Office is supposed to get a state trojan supposedly to protect journalists. And if that draft bill had been passed, the Federal Constitutional Protection Office would have had much more power and the power to put trojans on people. But the draft bill has halted at the moment. And if you don't know what state trojans are about, state trojans are a measure by the state that essentially promotes insecurity by using tools that you buy from ominous sources and the collateral damage is immense because everyone becomes vulnerable. And this is one of the reasons why we are explicitly against state trojans here at the CCC. What is also connected to this is the perpetual repetition of hackbacks being postulated. That is something different than the hackback that Edward Snowden talked about two hours ago. It was known that we, as the community, needs to hack back against the system. And our government thinks that they can hack back when they've been allegedly hacked. And it is not clear whether they even are capable of doing that. And it's clear that actually is not a good idea. And it is a challenge also legally because they cannot really know where the attack was actually coming from. So this paper that we received is very interesting because someone from the German army was commissioned to write this paper. So basically, the German army is now apparently doing civil rights issues. And also, we received a restraining order. And I can only say that there was a talk about that today. That more clearly details what it was all about. One thing that is a bit of a running gag for us is the question of digital assistance surveillance systems. More and more people have one of these at home. It's easy. It's not much effort to use them. People who have lived their life with a keyboard and mouse have always longed for speech as an interface. But the current devices are not trustworthy and safe in any way, shape, or form. Because nobody knows where the data is, who has access to it. Our Ministry of the Interior says there doesn't even have to be a back door to get at those because we can just use the courts to get at the people who manufacture those things that people put in their homes because they have the data. But this also gives us a few other questions. Are we training a global voice recognition AI? What if those things end up everywhere? What if we go into business and are identified automatically? No, an offline data retention type thing based on voice biometrics. And if we're training an AI and we adapt to it, do we even have a chance to leave the world of Alexa and Google? Can we even trust these devices? Just not talking about horse seho for any silk. But the producers always say, trust us. Your privacy is important to us. This was a nice development this year. It emerged that somebody has to train those AIs or rather have a look at the training and see if it works. For example, if you have a Thuringian accent and see if Alexa understood that right.  And thanks to many journalistic ventures, this has become more prominent how they have lied to their customers and how we should definitely not trust them. Another debate that more or less dominated this year, we personally didn't see that much. But the political areas of newspapers did this. Their foreign internet politics was 5G and Huawei. It's a discussion that is important, but we were a bit irritated. Like, why does it work this way? Why does some minister do a press meeting behind closed doors and everybody else just only cares about Huawei? Those are the journalists who don't have any idea at all by digitalization. But big transit line debates, yeah, that's their game. And how we're going to get 5G into Germany is still a problem or rather a challenge. But the whole security thing isn't actually what this is about. If you want to make 5G safe and secure, then you'd use enter and encryption everywhere, encrypt everything completely. And do not implement surveillance technology in the network. They're not doing that. So Huawei is more of an industrial and economical debate that shows that we in Germany don't seem to have any or failed at building our own tech industry so that we can build our, buy our own and use it, our own trustworthy infrastructure. So in the end, if you look at Snowden, we know that Americans telling the Chinese that China uses backdoors is completely absurd if you look at how many backdoor Cisco gear has. Well, yeah, 5G was a big thing, mostly to distract us from not having 2 and 3 and 4G. But yeah, well done. Four cities in Germany now have LTE and widespread deployment. 2019. Dortmund often woke up on five. The bad news is the rest don't have it, at least not widespread. I live in Berlin. I got 16 megabit internet. I've met people today that live in Berlin and would be very happy to have 16 megabits. So if you leave Berlin, you're happy to have any mobile internet at all. But don't panic. 2025, we're going to have gigabit internet for everyone. At least that's what the federal government is promising. I'm looking forward to it. And apparently, you have to have that by law. It says so in the coalition agreement. But we've not seen anything remotely in that direction. And until that happens, we'll just have to deal with this promise being similar to all those other ones they made that at some point there would be internet in the middle of the country or in Berlin. And the largest debate from a point of view of the internet was Article 13. Actually, in nice development, I have been dealing with corporate law for many years. One of the most boring things. And 15 years ago, we dealt with this and prevented internet blocking due to corporate reasons. And that was the time when the media industry wanted to take away the internet from people to prevent fair sharing without actually providing any legal alternatives. And suddenly, this year, after a long time, we had a large demonstration for a new copyright law because the European Union, after 18 years, was going to touch copyright law. And they had a presumably modernized version of it under the way. But actually, this just set the old business models in stone and didn't really try it for anything else. And I have a short instruction set for politicians how to make young people take part in politics and engage in political walks. Yes, step one, just defame all the critics as social bots. Great opportunity. Then take your text and replace the word upload filter with a description of how upload filters work. And then claim that no upload filters are in the law. Now, that leads to young people reading illegal text for the first time and seeing that they still contained upload filters even if the word wasn't there. And then describe all the critics as being bought by Google because they were writing from a Google address. And if you've just had a demo with more than 100,000 people, this is a good time to declare that these were all bought demonstrators as well. And these people then all asked for their money back. Point five, get your best informed network politicians out. On the left, you have Axel Foss, the rapporteur. And on the right, Guter Erntiger, previous commissioner at the EU and now who's going to be a lobbyist. And in these two years, Axel Foss has learned a lot. He now knows that Wikipedia can be edited by anyone. He has found a site function in Google that no one else knew. And due to he is the one, experts say, who brought the legal framework on the way. And he has studied law. And he is able to put a whole text online on Facebook because that's all closed. And he said, is that possible? He stated and said this was a private copy and everyone else who would try to do that truly would be followed by the law. And that led to people becoming rather enraged, people that had no idea about the whole thing earlier and saw that interests were being pushed through that were not in the interest of the community. And they saw that people were responsible that had no idea about anything. And these are the times when students in school are sued if they put an image that they have to report about in school, put that on social media. And the problem with such an upload filter, which was Article 13, now renumbered as 17, was and still is that automatic recognition is supposed to be there to recognize whether something that's supposed to violate copyright law or not. And that is very, what is very easily visible and the EU has presented it very well. And was Ansip, who was the vice president of the Commission, did Twitter at some point.  So no one would ban the memes. The problem is, according to German copyright law, ask five legal people, you get five different answers. But German copyright law, most lawyers agree, would make this picture illegal already because you didn't have the permission of the Star Trek rights holders to simply take a still out of that movie and turn that into new work in the form of a meme. And because, of course, people forgot to put a right to remix into the copyright reform. And in general, copyright law is fairly complicated, so complicated that even EU lawyers and presidents don't understand. So the German Center for Political Education published a long introductory text, and they will probably have to publish a new one because everything will change. And copyright law has been reformed. And while all parties said that they would like to take upload photos out of the national implementation law, it's not that simple. And we do not expect that that is possible under EU law. I will come back to that and give you reasons why. But this is something we should fight for in the implementation in Germany, that we would have a slightly better right to quotation that would allow remixers memes like this and put them on legal footing if we adapt the citation right in the implementation in the way that Austria and other countries have done because they have been able to do more. Because for now, we can't really do anything. And also connected to copyright law, we have these two people. Hardly anyone, none of you will know. On the right, we have Paul Spalham. He did copyright law. He was a producer for Sabrina Settler. He was a music producer. And on the right, we have Ralph Hutter. He used to be a member of Kraftwerk, the famous early electronic music band, and Pelham sampled a two second piece by Sabrina Settler for Kraftwerk. And they were fighting in the courts for years, whether this is legal or not. And that is a decision that upload filters will make in real time. And it took years in law. And the decision was actually finalized this year. And the good news is that sampling is not prohibited. And if they hadn't gone all the way to the German Court of Justice, then we would have still wouldn't know whether things like techno and hip hop are illegal. But this European court of law, European Court of Justice judgment said that upload filters cannot be taken out of the national reputation of the copyright law. So if you understand that, it doesn't matter to me. If you just take a look at something like this, this is an issue in copyright law as well.  You know it. You can easily buy these things on eBay or whatever. And you can easily see how with a copyright violation you can make a constructive contribution because you can constructively remix, take the firmware out and put it into this piece and have a nice Bobby car copyright law, be aware. So that shows you that we need a right to repair because this should be legal under the law if things that we buy don't work. And we should be able to repair them. And that should get us out of that dependency from the makers. And why shouldn't we be able to turn a toaster into a dishwasher through a software update? Another thing, finally, we have a federal data protection commissioner who is doing his work. Does any of you know who the last commissioner was who was in office until June this year? I have to think about it every time. Her name was Andrea Foss. She fortunately is no longer in office. And he finally is taking his office seriously. Yes, and you may applaud to this. So for a long time, we have the first data protection commissioner who's actually doing his job on. He will speak here, actually. So many people were afraid that bloggers would receive warnings. But we had the first cases. For example, Deutsche Wohnen got multimillion punishment because they completely ignored their renters' rights, their tenants' rights, and didn't take them seriously in terms of data protection. And we will see what comes out of this. But large providers that this regulation was made for are still sitting in Ireland. And we still have to see them in Ireland wherever they are. But we have motivated people like this person who won in front of Irish courts and who will continue to do his awesome work. And I congratulate him. So then we have the ethical commission. We were a bit skeptical about a commission shared by two parts of the government. But it was interesting that they actually published a report that reads kind of nice, which we didn't expect. There was a directive on algorithms by the EU and also on social media platforms. But the way it's going to be implemented is at least drafted or lined out. But it's not clear what our government will actually do with this proposal. But it presents a nice overview of what we can do with data. Then the anti-Cartel Office is fighting against, like, for example, Facebook and Instagram and what's fusioning into one big corporation. But it actually still happens. And the Cartel Office is still checking whether they can actually do that. But maybe they can only just file a complaint. And there was, well, they put a stop to this at the court in Düsseldorf. And we are interested and excited to see how this will go on. Then we have the state contract about the media. And that is also something based on 25 years old false decisions in my point of view that we federalize everything. And it was roughly parted by Helmut Kohl and distributed to the federal states. And now they think that they can level it up with Facebook and Instagram. Now, not everything's bad about this. Because before we had this contract, more than 5,000 users needed a license to stream or to use media. And that would require everyone to have a license of that sort. And now we have a draft that says only if you have more than 20,000 users at the same time for a certain period of time, you need a license. Now, it gets exciting when it's about intermediary platforms like Facebook. So for example, what if Facebook displays media articles or press articles? According to the federal laws, Facebook has to reform its timeline. And the media contract forbids Facebook from disfavoring local media or smaller media. But the interesting thing is who will control this and who will actually make sure that this is implemented. The way it should. Then our new director of the EU Commission was at our fund align. She has tremendous experience with data protection issues. But you should know one name. And that is the Digital Service Act. It is going to be the debate, the data protection debate for the next five years. It's about contracts being changed that the internet, as we know it, is based on. So there's going to be a reform that will make websites pay for illegal content on their websites that they're not even aware of because they're from third parties. And this is what the whole fight will be about, finding ways to regulate the big players on the internet without hurting smaller websites. Then on an EU level, we have a whole range of other debates, Christchurch, Halley, and so on. It is so easy to postulate easy measures. But we still have the whole debate about the Terrorism Act. And a whole lot of propaganda goes along with that. And I've talked about this often. It is a political debate that defines what terrorism actually is. Because in some opinions, the people protesting against forests being killed are terrorists. And for other people, people on the web can be terrorists. Even a blog with a commentary function can be labeled as terrorist. And whoever publishes the blog must react within short notice. So if you have a website and you can't react within one hour to a bad comment on your website, you have to take it down. And then we have the e-evidence debate about cross-border access to evidence. Because this poses a large problem if the rule of law is being overruled. And if Hungarian police wants access to what Hungarian people store on German service, this is not going to be nice.  But the debate has caused Facebook to, in the background, want to react to hate comments very quickly. And they want to deliver data more quickly. Well, a month ago or two weeks ago, we had a new debate pop up about how we could counteract Nazis on the internet. So telecommunication infrastructure providers should be obligated to surrender passwords. This is going to be a major debate in the coming years because it will lead to more surveillance measures. Jens Spahn has introduced the digital data. There will be a central database of health data of the publicly insured people of Germany. And what could possibly go wrong? Well, except for socially unequal data protection problems with algorithmical examination of the data, especially if you only have publicly insured people, pseudonymization can be easily broken. You can't object to use of your data. But as we saw in this Congress, what could possibly go wrong? Anonymization, downwork. The health system is relatively broken. Something should be done about this. There are other debates. The Internet Society has decided to sell the registry behind dot org domains to a hedge fund to make some money. And to spend in the next years for other stuff. The problem is, dot org was created for organizations oriented towards the public good. I'm from a platform called netpolitics.org. I have a bit of a weird feeling if it's a hedge fund that gives us that address. And this year, too, we had a debate about Julian Assange. Chelsea Manning and Jeremy are sitting in jail again, but to force them to testify against Julian Assange. There's a lot of criticisms one can make, but this is not that. What people say he did is something that people could say I did, well, except for releasing secret information from the US. But publishing leaked secret documents is of a public interest, has been, and will be. If he is punished because of his journalism-like activities, the work of the press will be severely endangered. So that is why we need to protect him, because this is about freedom of the press. But 2019 was also the year where nerds were suddenly role models for protesters, from Rizzo to Greta Thunberg to Joshua Wan. There were three role models for young people protesting. They were all nerds. At the same time, we have large protests for or against climate change. We're working for basic rights. We have freedom. We have democracy. But the best freedom and the best democracy doesn't help if what we do makes parts of the Earth uninhabitable. And we make our environment drastically worse. Net politics doesn't help if the ecosystems are falling over. So that's the danger of permitting this. The effects will be devastating. And that's why I like that this Congress has put such emphasis on the climate crisis. Then we have, I got a hurry bit, we have this big sort of damocles with the state deciding that certain organizations, such as attack and the federal union of those persecuted by the Nazi regime, were not public good organizations in the legal sense anymore, which causes stress with the courts and financial institutions. And that allows them to persecute these organizations. We do our best to remain public service organizations. We want Freifunk organizations to become ones. And with netpolitik.org, we basically have to say we're doing consumer protection, which is pretty absurd in times where journalism is under attack the way it is. There's also good news. The transparency law in Berlin took the first hurdle. They got 30,000 signatures. We'll see if the Senate actually does something or if we have to keep going. And well, there's something from the SPD led in a ministry not that good. Now they have someone for leading their party that apparently sees to know something about net politics. The guy next to him did something with whistleblowers because he paid for tax data back when he was Secretary of Finance. Then Angela Merkel realized that there is something that's a digital civil society. And normally, if she talks about it, she would do that with businesses. But here at the Internet Governance Forum, she held a huge speech and said how important civil society would be. And she was going to discuss this with everyone. So every time that she forgets civil society, we should remind the German government how these things work. And we had this funny situation as well. We have been calling for a long time for public code for free citizens. Free code for free citizens, that is. And suddenly, the Christian Democrats, the Conservatives and government have discovered open source and called for public tenders to keep two principles of open source and open standards. And this, again, is something that we should remind every single CDU parliamentarian of. Their party conference took place this November in these very trade fair halls. And we need a large alliance against face recognition and for mass surveillance in the public sphere. We're glad that there has been this initiative called Gesichterkennung Stoppen DE, so stopfacerecognition.de. And the risks, people have to realize, outweigh the potential benefits by far. This is a high-risk technology that will threaten our democracy. And we need a clear moratorium. And it's not an illusion to do that. San Francisco has managed it, so we need more protests to get San Francisco to Germany with a clear prohibition. And apart from that, digital freedom, we have a band now called System Absturbs. So System Crash translated, they have great lyrics. They may have a third appearance at Congress here, go and see them. And there may be more material from them. So we celebrated our 15th birthday this year at the Volksbühne in Berlin. We went to the parliament and thanked them for their great cooperation. And while we had the opportunity to use the chancellor's office to point to our party, that was good. But the party has now taken place. We are completely financed by donations. So through your support, you make our work possible. And we are motivated to keep on going. But we need your support. So thank you for listening. And have fun with your devices. Yes, and have fun.