Welcome, everybody, to a deep adaptation Q&A. I'm Jim Bendell, and joining us this month is John Doyle, who works at the European Commission and lives in Belgium. Hello, John. How are we doing? Good. Thank you for joining us. I've just been watching you on YouTube recently. You've got a double bill of... Yes, yes. Not too many people get invited back twice, or it could be that the interview was so long that it had to be cut into, you know, I'm claiming the former. Right, so I was impressed that you were really not holding back. I mean, having met you in 2019 in Brussels at the event that you organized that I spoke at, I realized you don't hold back. You do share your view on where we're at as a society. And so you didn't in that interview as well. But could you just give us a bit of a context in terms of the role you have and the freedom that you have in that role to give your views on how you see the human predicament at the moment? Oh, OK. Well, the freedom is relatively easy to articulate because, as I think I explained near the beginning of part one of the Stuart Scott interview, the European Commission is actually quite unique as a public sector organization. I mean, it does all those things that a public sector organization should do with soundly and efficiently managed funds and that is the guardian of our treaties. And there's one also kind of very pompous one that I can't remember. But above all else, and what makes it unique is the right duty, obligation and privilege, as I see it, to take initiative for the benefit of European citizens. Now, William Blake has said that good ideas always start in a minority of one. I'm not entirely certain of that because if you look at great songwriting teams, it's always two, it's Jagger and Richards or Len and McCarthy or whatever. But so the European Commission is unique in this sort of... I do want to come back to find out who your muse is, John. But anyway, as... Oh, William Blake. Did I say William Blake? Oh, who do I say?  Yeah, yeah. So the point is that in this extraordinary construct, which is the European Union, that at least can claim some credit for stopping the French and the Germans beating the living daylights out of each other every 50 years. The unique feature, something that you don't find in any of the history of Western institutions is the notion that this special thingy a commission takes the initiative. It comes up with ideas like literally, wow, wouldn't it be a great idea if? And then this is proposed essentially to the member states and the European Parliament and they say, well, awful, we won't do it. Or that's not bad. Let's try it or very often we'll modify it slightly. So when I first landed in the commission, not as a full official back in 91, but ultimately I transferred into being a full official in 96. I was stunned by this sort of ethos that permeated everyday life. No, what's the best idea to do something? Has anyone got a plan? How about if we did it this way? And the best idea very often, even at a very low levels, okay, let's do it this way. Or let's try it this way. So I claim that even though sometimes my views are quite radical and I always preface them by sort of saying these are my views, but this is the sort of input I'm giving into the fora in which I am active in the commission, particularly foresight work. These are only my views. They are not the position of the European Union yet. Though I am an example of somebody who is particularly attached to the, this right duty privilege and honor to take initiative for the benefit of European citizens. I mean, the classic one is why don't we make common the assets over which the Germans and the French keep fighting? So essentially, you know, nationalizes the wrong word, but essentially by nationalizing coal and steel in Alsace and so on and so forth, the Germans and the French kind of lost their raison de guerre. Like it's a common asset. So it's both an invitation to be wildly, wildly I suppose, idealistic in proposing something that might work. And yet it's always extremely practical. So, yeah. So I'm hearing something from you there and I'm thinking, okay, creativity, free thinking, ideas coming from everywhere, ideas that can be bold and strange and that can actually bring peace to the world. And then I think that this is the John Doyle I know who's been preaching to all his colleagues for years that we're fucked. Yeah. So in that case, I think I might even have to use that word in the European Commission. That's a bit of a joke. So what's going wrong here? Like, why is it that with people with your freedom and your intellect and working on foresight that we are in such a difficult spot in terms of we are looking at societal collapse. We're looking at possibly even descending into mega death and war and fighting for the future of the species itself. Yes. What? And I'm not going to put all that at the door of the European Commission. No, no, it's a lovely question to ask. Why do we start with an easy one? Yeah, I mean, having said that and being quite attracted to many of the insights of the philosophers both East and West, the simple fact that one has the right to do something or the simple fact that one may even be right doesn't confer on one the blessing of being listened to or one's ideas being acted upon. I mean, I always give the example to my climate change friends of, for about the last seven or eight years, I've been whole food plant based. Now, at least since the China study, the wonderful Esselstyn and Campbell work, or Campbell in particular, I guess, we know even our Western rational mind knows perfectly well that the human species should not be eating the rotting decaying flesh of tortured animals, nor should it be feeding itself on dairy products like the breast milk and colostrum of genetically modified buffaloes is somehow an important constituent of our diet. It's going to be nonsense. Now, we deeply know this, but who acts on it? A couple of lunatics, a couple of the mad vegan crowd, but human beings were not built to consume meat. We are physiologically not that way. And yet, that's okay, we push that to one side. And this is what we do. I think it's possibly a characteristic or simply, I wouldn't say a flaw of the species. I've seen it written that we're the only species condemned to wander the earth, obsessed with our own mortality. Now, with that notion of mortality in our minds, therefore we have to kind of literally cordon off parts of it. I mean, it would be very difficult to walk from one end of the street to the next in any large city and be truly affected by the poverty and misery that you see sitting on the sidewalk. So you have to push it away. You have to not think about it. So I think part of it is that we literally, to kind of get through from day to day, we have to not think a lot. So it's something like that. Why should people listen to me? I'm reminded that when I spoke at the event you organized, I asked the people who were mostly European Commission people who here believes that societal collapse will happen in your lifetime. I would say 90% of hands went up and I just thought maybe they were just being nice to me, made me feel welcome. But then I think, so yeah, I think when I hear you talk then, I'm thinking, so you're saying that there's this cognitive dissonance. We kind of know how bad things are, but we're going to work as normal. I'm wondering then, how do we shift? How do we create change? Is it that change is coming anyway? What's your model of change? With the foresight that you've got, you've been talking about the potential wet bulb events, you've been talking about COVID-19 being something that will keep coming back again. So your view of the future is very troubling to quite a lot of people. What's your theory of change? Is it through speaking out more? Is it through trying to collar the politicians? Is it through just waiting for collapse? Oh, I think no one's above. I think what I've increasingly found is that first and foremost, one does what one does. And I think that may seem trite, but it's also very true, no matter how much you reflect on it, no matter how much you may think you have pre-planned, no matter how much you think of yourself as goal-oriented or driven or aimless and wandering, you do what you do and so does the rest of the universe. So one of the notions I think we have to move slightly away from or back away from the notion of total human agency. We are the very pinnacle of evolution success. Therefore, we should be able to handle this one. There's more to a notion of actually we're surfing the wave, whatever that particular wave is. Now, at this point, it seems to me to be so brutally obvious, given what has happened with COVID, that the pretense to engineering some sort of a soft descent, if I can put it that way, and it's only a descent for humans. We're one manifestation of life and of nothingness, depending on which way you're looking at it. The notion of manufacturing a soft descent seems to me to be fundamentally erroneous. We've had over the last few months kind of seven to 10% drop in economic activity, maybe as much as 14 by the end of the year, which is roughly speaking the absolute minimum that even hopelessly conservative organizations like the IPCC would have said what was necessary year on year for the next 10 to 20 years to give us a tiny chance of avoiding the worst effects of climate change. Now, when you see what that has actually meant, and when you see how desperate society is to get back to normal, you realize that at no point was there actually any chance of agency in all of this. There was the delusion of agency. We manufacture green cars or electric planes or something like that. We should be able to do it, but this is much more like the world we will have to live in or will be living in should we survive. So for me, the change now, as I think I probably said to you when we met, I would have rated our chances of still being here as a species 15 years and say this date is zero before COVID. But bizarrely enough and horribly enough, this brutal parent, which is our biosphere out of which we come, has decided almost to create something which perfectly gives us a chance of survival while at the same time causing unimaginable grief and hardship. So the flow of the way things are are precisely the way things are. I do not see that there was any agency to begin with. The delusion of that agency has now been taken from us. We are not the creators of the ocean, but we've got to surf for it and we've got to learn to surf. Okay, so I'm hearing quite a challenge to this idea that we have agency that we can have theories of change and strategies and that we can have them all. It's great fun. But they're not necessarily going to get us anywhere. It's marvellously entertaining for intellectuals like you and me.  There are signposts to what's actually happening or to the reality around us. I think I shared one other thing with you today which was my former withdrawing from the groups that I have animated for the last three or four years within the commission. Because I was profound. I found myself writing something one day about COVID. I think it's in the Stuart recording. And I found myself writing. The future will be composed of, will certainly not have anything to do with ideas or meetings or men with beards having chats on Zoom, but will unfold as it unfolds. And the words now almost have become a distraction to me. And I suddenly realized so why am I still talking and why am I trying to animate something? So I've withdrawn. I will now work on very specific things as they attract me rather than feel like, I don't know, like lead my men to the top of the hill and back down again. I hear you. I hear you. And of course then what is in our power is sort of sense making and meaning making out of it. And you talked about Earth as a brutal parent and that stood out for me a little bit there. Of course we have lots of different stories about where we're at and maybe that's a bit of an anthropomorphic view of planet Earth and also as some kind of strict parent. Is that something that you've, it's not something I share. Is it something you hold, is that meaningful for you? Is that connected to a tradition? Cause I've also heard you talk, you know, in what you just said also sounded quite tat and Taoist in terms of, you know, or everything is just as it should be and emerging even if it's painful in the process. Yes. The brutal parent, I'll have to think about that. It's an interesting insight. I am an Irish male, so I will revisit that with my counsellor of choice. Yes. I think that makes sense to me now, but it might be my age. Next Thursday I'm 60. But a thing that makes sense to me now is, is much of what is in fact, you know, either Taoist or Eastern or Zen. I've become a huge fan of Alan Watts. But the notion, but I wouldn't say that it's in any way anthropomorphicising. It's exactly, in fact, it's exactly the opposite. It's an acceptance of the way things are and including the limitations. That seems to be something that human beings shy away from. When you gave me this wonderful, rather dry list of topics that we should talk about, I came back being a smart ass as is my want and suggested that the destruction of modern science by Newton might be a far more interesting thing to begin with. And I gave you the reference to the wonderful Noam Chomsky's lecture on the ghost of the machine. So, a thing that people, that we cling to as thought generators is that humans have infinite potential. We don't, of course we don't have infinite potential. Life has infinite manifestations, but as soon as something becomes physical and manifest it is limited. You get to have opposable thumbs or gills. You don't get both. So, do you share the view that COVID is like a great humbling for humanity and it's in that humbling that perhaps there is this opportunity for change? Because you're saying that you give us a slightly better odds because of what's been happening over the last few months. Well, it's not a great humbling for humanity. That's an anthropocentric view. It's what's happened. And even the notion that it's sort of unnatural that this has happened, but again, that's a human construct here. We may be the creatures who will utterly destroy the current biospherical paradigm from which another will emerge. My feeling is that, anything that's in sort of the dynamic equilibrium that the Earth is in so beautifully wants to more or less stay in that dynamic equilibrium. So, the Earth doesn't particularly want to jump to an average temperature of 22 degrees centigrade rather than 14 or 15 or what we're at now. So, it would rather stabilize like any organism. It doesn't want to have to get sick to get better again. So, it's not really about humans. It's about what is. We talk in terms of it being about our lives, next generations, the less favored nations. But these are the very limitations of where our thinking and our words can go. John, I'm interested in you as somebody in your position, you just said coming up to 60, and quite some people call you a maverick. But what's interesting is that you are one of the few people I've met within an establishment organization who can think big and talk about the future in ways which might be upsetting to some people or it's certainly a bit taboo. Yes. I have talked to quite a lot of people over the last two years in senior positions who do believe that it's not working. Reforming capitalism in order to keep societies together to be sustainable, it's not working, it can't work. But they don't find a way of talking about that publicly, let alone then finding a way of working on it, like trying to find out what to do about that. And so, they're walking around with this sort of anxiety about the living one world, publicly, professionally, and then they've got this private... Slawed up inside, yeah, yeah. Some of those people, I presume, if they're not on the call now, we'll be watching afterwards. And so, what do you say to people who... And because you must meet them in your work all over the shop. What do you say to such people? Absolutely. There's very little, if anything, new to be discovered. It's all just revealed, you suddenly see it. You know? Wow, it's like waking up at the moment in Brussels. And suddenly, I woke up the other morning and there were bees buzzing, the bedrooms on the first floor. I could hear bees buzzing, or I thought maybe I'd tinnitus. And I'm like, wait a minute, this is my garden I'm hearing. Wow. I think reality... Reality is a big word. I think the world endlessly gives you these things to kind of go, wow, isn't that amazing? And I think the important thing is to be consistent in your articulation of what it is you feel and believe. Because, ultimately, that leads you to the position where those who are desperately clinging to whatever it is that causes them in place for the time being. Ultimately, the absurdity has become manifest. So, I can give you an example. At the inception of one of the climate groups that I used to belong to within the commission, I was arguing very forcefully that half a snowball's chance in hell we need to stop the common agricultural policy, no more subsidies for German car manufacturers and agriculture within the next five to ten years had to go to being a net sequester of CO2. And then the IPCC 1.5 report came out which to me is a horrendous whitewash. But my colleague sort of said, wow, this is so good. It says we have to reduce by 7% year on year or maybe 10% year on year. This is what we should hang our hats on. I said, oh, it's not good enough. Now, in the end, something I don't necessarily regret because, again, this is a group of people talking and saying, okay, and I stayed in that group for long enough to find other groups. No, listen, we have much greater political traction if we just say we need to stick to the IPCC figures. And I said, okay, because I mean, I was thinking to myself, well, 7% year on year is pretty much what we have now with COVID. I said, well, if they even did 5%, it'll be an incredible change. And if they did that year on year, well, who knows. But of course, the minute we get anything approaching that, everyone kind of goes, God, we can't live like this. Which is fine because it's extremely difficult to see how we can live like this or how we can engineer this. And my feeling is that we don't engineer it, that the reality emerges. We adapt or we don't adapt. Some do, some don't. We never actually had the control we thought we had. You know, as white privileged males perhaps, rather than, you know, poor, underprivileged people from some other part of the world who were very well aware of the fact that they didn't have any agency. So for me, what it is, and then I maybe go back to my friends and sort of saying, well, one guy was really funny. He sort of came back and said, well, this shows, John, that you were completely wrong for trying to force the commission to do 7% reductions. I said, I didn't. That was a massive compromise for me. It's clear that we're only able to do one or 2% per year. But that's suicide. It's all that's possible. You're kind of putting soap on the rope, so you don't get a neck burn. Why would you do that? So ultimately what happens then is people sort of leave me alone, which is okay. I think I'm more of a John the Baptist character. It's probably best that I be left alone. And it's more a combination of characters that make things happen. I don't think I'm a leader. I may be a visionary or an annoying prophet outside the walls, but it would be for different types of people to sort of say, you know, Doyle does have a logical point here. You know, if, you know, if we actually need to be massively sequestering within the next five to 10 to 15 years to have a snowball of confidence and hell, you know, new green deal really? Is that really enough? Which, and so privileged as I am to work in the European Commission where I can articulate these points of view, it's not difficult for me because I think I'm always logically consistent. When somebody points out somewhere that I'm wrong, I'm delighted. I don't have to live with that dissonance. I sometimes have to live with compromises, say agreeing, you know, at the inception of one of these groups that, okay, we'll just argue for, you know, for the IPCC figures. But I don't have to live with the dissonance that those around me do. And I do a good job and the day job. You know, I'm a pretty effective functioner, you know, give me a load of tasks and I tend to do it about twice as fast as anybody else. So I don't make myself fireable. Yeah. Yeah, I seem to remember when, when you were, when you were speaking at that event, I was actually said, look, if you're good at your job, you can get it done quickly, get it done quickly, and then move on to the stuff that, that really matters. Yes. But I think you've also just explained there how, if people are sitting around a table with you and having to make decisions, then they're, they're trying to be strategic and calculating. They've got their right, you know, what is possible to say, given the dominant paradigm and, and, and so forth. And, and in a sense, this also leads you to the blockage. Sorry for interrupting, but as an example, I say I'm not a militant figure. Sorry, I'm going to stop, I'm going to stop you there, John, because I do, I do want to move on. And there was a point I was going to make there, which is that those conversations in a sense are, are leaving people with a dissonance. You're seeing that. And also the distance was there before we had the conversation. Ah, yes. But is it also, it's in you at all. So for example, that, that reduction year on year, well, it's, it's not just the doing what's happened right now with COVID. It's more than that every single year for the next 10 years, at least. So it's, it's, so where you're going with this with people is to help them realize that it's not really possible. It's game over already. Isn't it? Isn't that what you're really inviting your colleagues to see? No, no, as I say, I think it's very, you know, aimlessness is massively underrated. You know, the objective driven life is, is, is not necessarily a productive one. Again, this is a little bit doused, but I'm not trying to do anything other than bear witness to my truth. And people can do precisely what they want to do. Everyone can do what they want to do. And not only can they, but they will. You know, in, in, in, you know, in some spinos and senses, maybe deterministic in, you know, in the Buddhist sense, it's, it's, it's, it's possibly the non-existence of the individual and simply those actions, which I manifest on the individual being some sort of fractal representation of. So, I mean, from, from my point of view, I'm not trying to lead anybody anywhere, but I am trying to be me. And I find, I kind of came to, I kind of, I made peace with who me was. My first of many peace treaties with me, but the first of my many peace treaties with me was, okay, I'm probably not going to become a director general or the secretary general or the head of the European commission and be able to drive my projects through to, but okay, so that's not who I am. And this was, this was a first massive degree of freedom that I didn't have to weigh what I said against the next promotion. Then increasingly, what I've been able, you know, and this has been both in my personal life and my, my, my public or professional life. Increasingly, there was the notion of seeing things for what they are, and thou art that if you like, or that art thou. The, wow, this is simply the way it is. And, and once one is consistent with that, and sometimes I'm not, I get, oh God, why can't I make, you know, I don't know, the energy commissioner see that we need to use the existing methane gas networks under most major European cities as hydrogen storage for renewable electricity. I mean, I happen to have been working on that this morning. You know, and I do passionately work on specific projects. But if he sees it, he sees it. If he doesn't, he doesn't. I mean, that's, that's what it is. And this, and this is only my interface to what the reality is. This is my interface. This is not necessarily sort of truth. It's how I see it. And that's okay too. Okay. Thank you, John. Yeah. I'm making an awful lot of sense here. You are in the sense that you've, you've prioritized in your work telling your truth. And that's led you to the position you're in. It's led you to your, sounds like your spiritual philosophy as well. And it's also led you to a place where you're not sort of scheming about how to win battles or, or convert bureaucrats to your cause. There's some very, very hard lessons in the doubt. Just on that, you know, you know, the kind of good and evil left and right. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Cause we've got quite a few people who've joined us. So I want to go to other people. I'm really bored. Oh yeah. Must be. Yeah. Okay. So I'm going to go to Gary, I believe. So Gary, if you unmute and ask your question for John, say where you are as well. How you doing? Gary, how's it going? Oh, I see something very Buddhist in the background. I'm impressed. Right. I believe you have said the current economic models will disappear in 10 or 15 years. Yes. Something of that nature. I presume you understand that this will not happen without resistance and a considerable amount of pain. Can you fill in any detail you care to about the process of shifting to a different model? And what will that model look like? Okay. For the second part of the question, brilliant question. For the second part of the question, having a clue. As I say, I suspect you may have seen the Stuart Scott interview or you wouldn't have asked me this question. That there would be great resistance. I suppose my deeper point is that it doesn't matter how much resistance there is. This is the way it's going. I say to my friends now, so I know somebody is quite high up in one of the car companies and so on and so forth. The real thing is, oh, we've got to get back on the road, get on those flights out to Wuhan to sell some cars to our wealthy Chinese people in Wuhan and could get into. And there's all sorts of people saying, I don't want to travel anywhere. Now, so my suspicion is that if you can't travel, well, what does that do to globalization? It's like people are sort of saying you can go to Irish pubs, but you have to stay kind of four meters away from somebody else. That doesn't sound like an Irish pub to me. It's not an Irish pub unless somebody spills a pint of Guinness over me and we get talking. That's the function of Irish pubs. So the change is simply happening. And I find myself sitting here in somewhere like Belgium and being blown away by the service that I get from people like the Uber Eats driver or, you know, the girl in the supermarket who's still there with a little mask serving me. I'm asking myself, what do I need to live? So I don't know what evolves and I'm certainly not painting, you know, Dorothy and Kansas type picture of what it'll be. I'd imagine it's going to be massively, I mean, to call it an upheaval is the very least you could call of it, but I think it would become massively local because the only real way of protecting yourself from infection is kind of limiting the amount of, therefore, how do you do that? Okay, you kind of retreat. If you retreat, maybe nature gets a shot to come back. That sounds good. So I don't know what this looks like. I have no idea what it looks like, but I can feel it happening. And I'm not entirely sure that it's necessarily negative. After all, if we go back to the way things were, well, that's what got us here in the first place. And we will try and get back there. And as I think I've said elsewhere, I've huge sympathies for governments desperately trying to keep some money in people's accounts. And I think that'll go on for a while. And then at some stage it's going to be what, how many macroeconomists do we need? How do you stop yourself dying if you, if you get the next version of COVID, looks like it's a resilient, a resilient healthcare state. You know, am I fit? Am I well? Okay, change the diet. Not because you want to be, you know, a holier than thou vegan.  So, so, so just, I don't know what it looks like. People think profits are people who, who prophesied the future. There's nothing to do with it. A profit is somebody who sees the present as it is, because it's always now. And the present as it is right now is the European central bank bailing out one of the, some of the largest polluting industries through their corporate bond buying. So what I invite people to see when they talk about what could the next green system be? Should it be green new deal? Should it be degrowth? Yeah. Actually look at what's already happening. What's already being agreed. Business as usual is being rebooted. So. But can it be rebooted? The disk is destroyed. Sorry? Sorry. You said, you said business as usual is being rebooted. You can't reboot business as usual when the hard disk drive is broken. Yeah, you can try. You can keep slotting in the old floppy disk. But you can keep doing it. I mean, let's inventing the more money. I hope you get to talk to people who talk to the European central bank because then it's just, they're just pouring money down the drain then, aren't they? And in that case. Yes. And no, because again, it's very important. Like what do you mean by money? You know, this was again a key part of what. Well, I can tell you what I mean is, is that they're creating money from nothing, which basically dilutes our relative spending power by buying in the number of billions corporate bonds. So, so we know that money is created by, by the banks for the issue. Yeah. But let's, let's, let's move on there to another. We've got Alexandra with a question, Alex. Can you undo your. Unreach your thingy microphone. Can you hear me? Yes. Yes. How you doing? I'm saying hello from Edinburgh today. Oh, wow. Love Edinburgh. I want to just get a bit of understanding of what you were talking about when you're talking about lack of agency. Of course I like to believe maybe like all of us do, that we have some agency. And actually today, when I was cycling here, I remembered last weekend when I found myself walking in a park with a friend of mine who's a care worker. And because she was down and wanted to talk to someone. And it was hard to say no. And we were working. We were walking.  I'm good. And yeah, I had it. Yeah, it was stage two. Nasi, Nasi, don't go there. I wouldn't recommend it. But I thought that I was immune. And then I found out from my flatmate that she'd been in touch with someone who'd had it. And then I found out actually you could still be shedding virus. So this idea was going through my head because I've made this decision not to break lockdown, go for a walk with my friend who's a care worker. People could die because of that. Or maybe I don't have it. Or maybe nothing will happen. But maybe also people seeing us walking would clock in and go, oh, it's OK now. We thought it was a lockdown. Things are loosening up. So I was struck with the idea that there's a viral, our actions have a viral nature to them. And that you can't say that for definite that something that you do will have this effect. But on the average, if you look at us sort of collectively, that it's going to have an effect. And I was just wondering if we apply the same things. What if we live more compassionately, less destructively? Truly, there is kind of just the balance that these ideas will be viral. Thank you, Alexandra. So I saw two parts of that question. One is, John, is the way you're being, speaking your own truth, is that infectious? And also this idea of being more compassionate and how people are thinking about what is the right action at the moment and how that can have ripple effects or viral effects. Well, if I'm absolutely honest, I think, Alexandra, it was a very beautiful description. And I think you probably know the answer better than I do. So I'm not going to give the answer, what my version of the truth is because I think you've articulated it far better than I could. I notice here in Belgium, it's so strange, the lockdown, so quiet, the gentle smiles amongst people, the clapping every night rather than just Thursday nights, the politeness and the beauty of people standing in queues, the occasional asshole who insists that he has to get to the front. But there is that deep for me. And I think what you're trying to, what you're trying to, what you beautifully articulated is this strange sense of a different sort of awe. I think it was Kiki D, as well as that awful number one at Elton John, she had this beautiful sound that spoke of the rainfall of another planet. And there's that feeling of experiencing the rainfall of another planet, of something opening up. And I think it's that opening and it's that seeing that is the genuine manifestation of what you're saying. You don't have to make it causal or linear. If we lived more, blah, blah, blah, it's just, wow. And then you see cat somebody's eye and you smile at them. This is you fumbling with your silly mask. And you know your relationship has changed. And I think maybe that's where we are. But I think you knew that already. Thank you, thank you, John. Yeah, that reminds me of when people discuss like Charles Eisenstein invites people to think about how we can sort of have ripple effects. But then other people say, well, it's just, it's just good to live in love and live kindly and openly and in awe anyway, no matter whether it's going to have a ripple effect, whether it's going to add up to some impact to somehow save humanity. It's just good to do anyway. Just on that one is clearly living without attachment. Attachment to outcomes is fun. I mean, it's just feeling the awe and being part of the wave. Catch the wave, feel it. Yeah. How come did you want most of the things I have specifically pursued in my life in terms of say energy efficiency directors. I've worked in all the stuff since 2005. I've been a climate obsessive. I've been involved in so many climate initiatives. I would say 100% of them have been, have done more harm than good. I'm utterly certain of that. Right. Everything that I did with an aim. It's interesting, isn't it? Because some people say that, that, that you really need to have a vision that in a strategy to work for that vision.  And actually there's so much evidence that, that it's not about that. So the visions here is the heart. A vision of being how to be rather than what to achieve in future. We're coming to Paul. Paul, you've got a question for John. Yes, thank you. Thanks very much, John. Paul, how's it going? Hello. Yeah. In England, in these midlands. Oh, well. I'd like, you've obviously got a lot of experience of pressing into the resistances that people have in governments. And I'd like to explore your experience of what creates those resistances. So there's obviously a kind of elephant in the room factor, talking about collapse. Jen talked about, you know, those conversations that you will have in the corridor with individuals. But it can't be spoken or there's no place for it somehow in the boardroom or in the committee room. So what is it that's preventing that truth being told? I think my theory and you picked it up is, I think Newton's got something to do with it. I think it's about the enlightenment progress and all that. Very good. More to the point, what do you think is the solution? How do we break into that? What are the methods that you feel need to be deployed? In dialogue in government, what methods, environments, cultures need to be created to enable these conversations to happen in public? Excellent question. Bluntly, I think it's the wrong question. I think what happens and the response I tried to give to Alexandra's insight, which certainly wasn't a question, is that you start to feel it.  There is a limitation to what we can do with our thinking minds. Another thing I put on my list of things that I wanted to talk to, when Gem sent me his list, was my dog's nose and my dog's sense of reality. I mean, if you ask my dogs how to solve all the problems of the world, they would say it's all about smell. Honestly, you just need to perfect your sense of smell. You just need to be a little bit better with your sense of smell. I mean, if I was able to ask my dogs how to make an iPhone, they would say the key is all the different, every single molecule in that iPhone has to have a very specific smell. Maybe this is even possible. You're even running the software. Maybe you would smell slightly different running different apps. As dogs to smell, humans to thought.  But it's no more truth than a smell. It's one window on reality. Oh, I've had loads of thoughts today. Is it real? God knows. It's certainly it's certainly our interface and the way we function. But I don't think it's real. So in the sense that you're asking it, the notion of, could we just have slightly better facilitators in, you know, participate of working group. No, they're awful. The last time I went to another one of these meetings, it was one of these meeting climate meetings again. It was so earnest and so sincere. And now here are the best ideas and we want you to go up with little blue dots and put a blue dot against your favorite green dot against your second. I got so frustrated in the end. I started sticking dots on the back of people's heads. Like we're not getting there this way. So, but how do you get there? Straight enough, I was watching. I was watching something on a guy called Bodhidharma, who was the, who was an Indian. He was probably the 28th, 28th top man and one of the kind of Hindu sex. But he was the guy who introduced, who reintroduced about 500 AD, reintroduced Buddhist notions into China and out of which grew Zen and then moved. And so he's known as the first patriarch of the Chinese system. And his notion was like one in a million people get it, get it instantly or just to just get it. As I think Alexandra has, you're just gonna go, wow, okay, I kind of get it. But I'm not sure those words for it.  I don't think that works either. I'm reminded again of Lala's beautiful poetry where she says, Oh Lord, I have traveled so far in search of you. And it was only when I gave up and turned around, that you were beside me all the time. What did you have to travel? So I'm not sure there's an answer to that in words or as the first lines of the Tao De Jing say, the Tao that can be spoken isn't the Tao. That's very helpful. Sorry. I'm hearing an invitation to bring mysticism into the heart of bureaucracy. Is that me just trying to look for a theory of change again? But that's what you do. It's all right. It's like my dog. Oh God, I swear we could build an eye for it. If I could just smell one more bit. Okay. Maybe. I don't know. All right. You've given me a nice metaphor. Last month, we heard a bit of advice from sister Jan, Jayanti from Daddy Janki. He was a don't think that was one of her bits of advice. Don't think we're going to go to Deirdre. He's got a question for you. Hi, John. I'm in California, but I'm from. Fantastic. So it's Deirdre, not Deirdre. God help us. Can we ever train these English people? So I wrote my question for you during the week. It's not a very practical question about water. I just, you know, I'm always worrying about water.  And of course, future summers. I'm baffled why people aren't capturing water in Europe. And here, but even. You know, I don't, is that happening? Are people planning for water shortages? I, it's, it's a really good question because it's one of the things that I would like people to spend more time doing. It's a bit like you go outside your front door and I like, what should I be doing to save the world? And you see maybe the little old lady in the apartment opposite kind of go on. Would you need anything from the shop? So it's kind of, can we just do what's right in front of us? I can honestly say that the countries, the two countries I know best, Belgium and Ireland are not planning for water shortages. They're probably planning for the river Shannon to be about 50 miles wide at this stage.  And it's something I've been arguing for a lot. Water is not a strong point, but let me give you something that I do know a little bit about. So heat spikes associated with wet bogs. So, you know, it's not a strong point, but let me give you something that I do know a little bit about. So heat spikes associated with wet bowl temperatures. So I've been desperate. My dog is barking at the door. He's telling me I'm talking too much. But anyway, but the, and in Brussels, two years ago, yeah, in Brussels, two years ago, we were within one degree and 20 percentage points relative humidity of having wet bowl temperatures, which would have theoretically resulted in thousands of people, particularly in old people's homes here, because we don't have air conditioning, two or 3% of houses have air conditioning dying of heat stress. So I've been trying to look with some friends. Listen, what could we do? You know, if we get wet bowl this year, which is quite likely given we'll have an El Nino and rapidly, you know, even more reduced Arctic sea ice. And now I have a situation where even if we get them into, you know, a lot of people, the communal buildings. Well, how does that work with social distancing? So, so these very, very practical problems, I think are precisely the things you, we should be looking at. Okay. Where does my food come from? How do I do? So my answer is, are people looking at it? Not systemically, I would say. Should you be looking at it? Absolutely go for it. And as much as you can, you never know when you see, and it's the thing you're passionate about that you managed so I know that's not a huge help, but it's as good as I can do. That's also brings us on to a broader topic, which is that. If we're beginning to see more and more severe impacts are from climate change on our own lives, and you've mentioned a couple. Where, where do we go? Where do we, or who do we ask to act? Is it just to ourselves? I mean, do we try and engage the European Commission? Do we try and engage our government, local government? Are there organizations that you know of that are, like really helping on the practical level? Again, my feeling is that the more local you can make it, the better. So one of the things I absolutely adore is, the, oh, the, what is it? True food. Oh God, I forgot my guy's name. The initiative in the starting out of the States. I've forgotten this, but he's one of the great nutritionalist sons who has, who's got this. So anyway, it's all about, you know, helping people particularly in the States and so on and so forth, grow, eat their own foods. My, my feeling is local is best. So that's been around for a while. Yeah. I see someone on the call here in the rest. She was very involved in still is in transition towns. Yes. Exactly. Of course it comes. How do you scale that? And obviously there's been such great difficulty just working locally and often, often. I'm just going to let my dog in or he will scale the door. Okay. So just two seconds. Yeah. As long as you bring it on camera. So, yeah. So this is something that actually Matthew Slater is working on as well with me, which is, yeah, the question is, is that, if, if we're going to sort of, can there be, what do we do if we want to help scale local action? Is there no possibility for government or European level action for actually sort of a, some kind of quantum leap in localization, including growing local food? It's, it's an, it's an absolutely, I mean, it is the question, isn't it? I mean, how do we scale the, how do we go from the good that I would? I do not the evil. I would not that I do.  And at the minute you aggregated up, you seem to have this horrendous monolith. I have no answer to that question. And I actually feel that it's possibly the wrong question to be asking.  And I've been, I have been very close to serious centers of power. Never have I met such powerless people, people who are entirely and absolutely the product of the, of the box. In fact, they're not even the product of the box. They make up the four corners of the box. They are the box. And I feel, I mean, I probably shouldn't say this, but when I look at someone like Donald Trump, I feel nothing but pity.  I mean, I think he's bad just to see his father, apparently he was a 24 carat, bad person. So, you know, like if I had access to Donald Trump, could I change everything? I don't think so. Yeah. Of course it's not one access, would you want me to have, if I get the Pope to write a speech? Yeah. Would that work? So this then becomes a, we're going to come on to Matt Osmond then, we're going to have a final question for us. How you doing, Matt? Actually, this question's been preempted by others. So I think I'm just asking you to circle back on the same thing now. But I came here with a question in my mind, having watched your YouTube interview, the recent COVID related YouTube interview. And I was really struck by what you said about agency and how, how this pandemic has achieved, you know, like a kind of bullet point plan to fulfill all of Greta, Greta's demands. But no agency seemed possible of doing it. But rather than, for me, rather than framing it as we, we're realizing we have no agency. It seems to me it's more about getting better at naming where our agency lies and what we do have agency over. Beautiful. That to me, the whole of XR's work for me just seems about this regenerative work as communities of actually realizing we do have a choice here about how we live. It doesn't mean that I think that it's going to slow the climate. I just wondered if you had any, anything to say about that? I agree with you 100% feel your articulation of the point was far superior to mine. Thank you. Right. It was interesting, Matt, as well, you're saying that, yeah, so it's the way that XR organized has organized, particularly at local level, which is inspiring and meaningful for you rather than necessarily the way it seeks to interface with political power. That's what I think. I think a lot of people I talked to, and it seemed to share that view that it feels very problematic if you take it too literally, as if it really was going to do this or that. But when you look at how it's functioning in towns and villages and cities and communities across the world now, something really quite magical is happening there, something important. I would put in only one caveat. I'm good friends with Alison Green as well, who I'm sure has appeared on this. And in fact, I think Alison was at the same, at the same meeting as Jim was and maybe even prior to that. And I am massive admirer of XR and anyone who can organize anything together in any sort of way. It's wonderful. But I'm also quite aware of my own, you know, limitations and the character I carry through this existence, which is one of a kind of a semi-permanent outsider, which is okay too. You do need John the Baptist outside the gate screaming and shouting. I would probably be a lousy activist. I'd be fighting with everyone about everything all the time. And you have to kind of accept that. Like I said, we all have our roles. Maybe it's empowering the next person. Maybe it's just sort of saying, wow, that's really interesting. Glad I'm not him, but I'm good to organize something. That's all, all that's good. I, I, I do, however, claim exceptionalism for me and for absolutely everybody else. Do, do what feels good and do it, you know, and, and, and, and live it and let the others live too. Thank you for that, John. And I think that's also circles back to this issue because of, whether we can have this rather difficult outlook on the future, but also still stay creative, engaged, present to what's happening. Keep trying different things. Some people think we're defeatist, but, but I, I discover so much energy and creativity from people who do have quite a, a dark view of what's, what's, what's happening and what's to come. But they still stay present to it. And I think XR is all about that too. At least it was to begin with very much, you know, we are screwed, but we're going to do as much as we can. Yes. So thank you, John, and thank you everyone for joining. It was my immense pleasure. Thank you and thanks for all the effort yourself. And of course the incomparable Matthew Slater.


to begin so just wait yeah okay welcome back after the break just before we went for a break we were looking at Christ's ascension and you know when he went back to the father what was the position he received what was the glory he received back and what were the privileges so we see that because he finished the task he was given back his position his glory his honor of him God of him receiving back the glory that belongs to God alone and we also see that his name is declared as the greatest name under heaven and earth and all authority and power in heaven and on earth has been made subject to Christ Jesus okay and so we saw that Jesus received back the glory that he had or the position that he had before his incarnation and we know that he was and is and will always be the eternal Word the last point in your notes is the preaching of his resurrection we see that we looked at various references actually up to two and other references as well where the other apostles the other writers of the New Testament we see them you know talking or writing about Christ's resurrection and talking about the importance of Christ's resurrection what does it does to our faith and what are the benefits that we receive and Paul talks a great deal about it so we see that the early church boldly preached that Christ was risen and exalted even though they were asked by the chief priests leaders not to do so but they continued talking and preaching about the resurrected Christ the resurrected savior and this is something that we need to do as well this is a gospel that we need to preach this is the truth that we need to exalt we need to preach that Christ has resurrected and he is exalted compared to every other God man who's come here on the earth you know Christ is the first you know man we read about it in first Corinthians who is resurrected from the dead it's gone back to the father because he is God himself okay compared to the other God man that the other God men that we have here on earth we have lived but like Paul says you know like David his grave is still here we have all of their graves but we see that Jesus is no God man he is not a intermediary being between God and man who came to reconcile the world to God but he is God himself and he came down to this earth he was fully God he was fully man he gave up willingly chose to give up his certain privileges that makes him God or his deity he gave it up so that he can taste the fullness of humanity he can identify us with us in our weaknesses in our frailties fully identify with us and make the full sufficient perfect sacrifice because only a sinless man can make the sinless perfect sacrifice that will appease the wrath of God will pay the full penalty for sins once for all and we see Jesus doing that and hence we have this gospel that we do need to preach we need to share about to others which is talking about the truth of his resurrection and his exaltation okay and your notes in this chapter ends with that you will learn about the proof of his resurrection when you do the course on Christian apologetics okay but I just like to throw some light give you some insights on a few things maybe we can have a good discussion the nature of Christ's resurrection so we see that Christ this is not in your notes so if you just want to take your own notes so welcome to Christ's resurrection it's not something that he simply came back from the dead like others had experienced when he raised Lazarus back from from the dead or when he raised the widow of Nain her son back to life Jarius's daughter so it was not just Christ coming back from the dead like Lazarus that we read in John chapter 11 verses 1 to 44 so when we say that Jesus came back from the dead like Lazarus has experienced or Jarius's daughter had experienced or the the son of the widow of Nain had experienced and we're saying that Jesus would have been subject to again back to weakness and aging and eventually would have died again just like Lazarus died one day eventually Jarius's daughter died one day and he would have just died like any other human being but when we say that Jesus rose from the dead you know Paul mentioned Jesus as the first fruits of those who came back from dead to life we read this in first Corinthians chapter 15 verses 20 and 23 so can one of you read that please first Corinthians chapter 15 was 20 and 23 first Corinthians chapter 15 was 20 and 23 first Corinthians chapter 15 verses 20 and 23 20 but Christ has indeed been raised from the dead the first fruit of those who has fallen asleep 23 but each in his own turn Christ he made alive but each in his own turn Christ the first fruit then when he comes those who belong to him thank you it will be good to read even versus 20 and 21 sorry 21 and 22 so you can you can please read that as well 21 since death came through a man the reduction of the dead comes also through a man 22 for us in Adam all dies so in Christ all will be made alive thank you so here we see that Christ when he rose from the dead he became the first fruits of those fallen asleep that means all those who died before Christ he's the first one to have been risen from the dead and you know since he's the first fruit there are more fruits to follow and that is talking about all of us believers who would die in Christ after we receive salvation we will also have this assurance that we will rise again and that we will live eternally just as Christ lives eternally okay and verse 21 says that came through one man that is Adam and the resurrection also comes through another man and that is Jesus and Jesus is referred to in Paul in his theology as the last Adam and the the first Adam that got created you know Adam he's referred to as the first Adam okay so in the first Adam all died but in the last Adam who is referred to as Jesus Christ all will be made alive this but in each one his own turn Christ the first floats then when he comes those who belong to him so when we when Christ comes all those who are dead in Christ will rise again and we'll be taken up and we will live with him eternally okay and Christ being the first fruit of resurrection you know is a is somebody who goes ahead of us and whose you know shows us that there is life and the life that Christ received that you know he received he received a glorified body which is no he received a spiritual body or glorified body that each one of us will receive when we rise again we will no longer be subject to weaknesses frailties aging to death but we will live eternally like Paul writes in the same chapter in first Corinthians chapter 15 verses 53 he says you know put on that would put on immortality so can one of you read first Corinthians chapter 15 was 53 and before that you can read verses 42 to 44 where it talks about the ball is talking about the resurrection board resurrected body which will be raised imperishable in glory in power and all of us will receive a spiritual body so that he mentions he writes about in first Corinthians chapter 15 verses 42 to 44 so you can read 42 to 44 and verse 53 will be good so can one of you read that please first Corinthians chapter 15 verses 42 so will it be with the resurrection of dead the body that is a soul is perishable it is real imperishable it is so in dishonor it is raised in glory it is so in weakness it is raised in power it is so a natural body it is raised a spiritual body if there is a natural body there is also spiritual body verses 52 in a flash in the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet for the trumpet will sound the dead will be raised imperishable and will be charged thank you so here Paul is very beautifully talking about the resurrected body and he says that the resurrected body that is like a sown is you know perishable it's talking about our natural body will be raised will be raised imperishable that is talking about our spiritual bodies if you look at verses 46 verse 48 he says you know or if you look at verse 46 he says so it is written the first man Adam became a living being the last Adam a life-giving spirit the spiritual did not come first but the natural and after that the spiritual the first man was out of the dust of the earth the second man from heaven as was the earthly man so are those of the earth and as is the man from heaven so also are those who are of heaven and just as we have born the likeness of the earthly man so she bear the likeness of the man from heaven so even as we live in actual bodies we bear the likeness of the natural man that is Adam sin drains in us sin drains in our mortal body are given into the the law of sin we are you know slaves of Satan but when when we receive Christ you know we come like the spiritual man that is from heaven and we are born again in our spirit man and also when we die we will receive our spiritual bodies and we will no longer you know have to die an eternal death so he's saying here that you know those of us who are dead to sin and he talks about the baptism that you know immersed in water that is dead in Christ we will be raised up we will have the life of Christ and we have this hope we have this this assurance that we would receive the crown of life we will receive our glorified spiritual bodies will rain together with Christ we will reign with him eternally and all of this is because of Christ's finished work on the cross and because of which he was resurrected back from dead to life he's the first food and we are those to follow in what Christ has experienced we too will be raised from the dead we will receive our spiritual glorified bodies our bodies that are corruptible will will be non-corruptible bodies that are perishable will be become imperishable bodies that are mortal will become immortal and no longer any weaknesses aging or death when we will be able to live eternally with Christ and so Paul says that the resurrected bodies is raised imperishable in glory in power and we will have spiritual bodies okay so that's a great assurance that we have and this is cause of from Christ's completed work and his resurrection from the dead so we look at that was a nature of Christ's resurrection we look at doctrinal significance of the resurrection Christ resurrection ensures our regeneration what do we mean by regeneration regeneration what does it mean new life okay born again receiving new life a newness to the old nature that is there so Peter says that we have been born a new in in first Peter chapter 1 was 3 Peter says that we have been born a new to a living through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead okay so in his resurrection Jesus earned for us a new life just like his we do not receive all of this new life for this resurrected life when we become Christians because our bodies still remain same we still are in our natural bodies we are still subject to weaknesses aging and death but in our spirits we are made new we are born again we the of God we are made alive with the new resurrection power of Jesus Christ and so we see that it's through his resurrection that Christ earned for us this new kind of life when we can experience the eternal life here and now we do not receive all of that new life but you know because we are living in our same old bodies but when we are born again yes we do receive and can taste the eternal life even though we go through struggles we have to hope we have to join have shortens we have the the strength God gives us he equips us and we have the enabling power of the Holy Spirit who enables us undergirds us and helps us to do and fulfill God's purposes here on earth okay so it is through Christ's resurrection that it is he earned for us this new kind of life that we receive when we are born again and that is why Paul can say in Ephesians chapter 2 was 5 and 6 and even in Colossians chapter 3 was 1 says may God has made us alive together with Christ says by grace you have been saved and it also says in these verses that he has faced us up with him so can one of you please read Ephesians chapter 2 verses 5 and 6 please Ephesians chapter 2 verses 5 and 6 Ephesians chapter 2 verses 5 and 6 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in times in transgression it is by grace you have been saved thank you so says God has raised us up with Christ and has seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus okay so you know we been made alive in Christ we're together with Christ and it is by grace that we have been saved and it also says that we have been raised up with him and we're seated where Christ is seated at the right hand of God so when God raised Christ from the dead he thought of us as somehow being raised with Christ and therefore you know when he looks at each one of us he sees us as people who were born again but deserve deserving the merits of Christ's resurrection and that is why Paul writes in Philippians chapter 3 verse 10 he says his goal in his life is that I may know him and the power of his resurrection because Paul knew that there's so much of power in Christ's resurrection the position that it's earned him the grace that has been bestowed upon him the favor that has been bestowed upon him the benefits that has been bestowed upon him. Siddiquanu can you kindly mute your mic thank you okay so and he says that you know he wants to know more of that resurrection power so Paul knew that even in his life the resurrection power of Christ gave him the new power for Christian ministry and his obedience to God so the power resurrection power of Christ not only gives us the God kind of life or the nature of God in our spirit man when we are born again it not only makes us alive together in Christ when we taste eternal eternal life in the future but also we can taste it in experience now we're also raised up we're seated with Christ in heavenly realms but he says that you know the resurrection power of Christ Jesus gives him the power that he needs to do his Christian ministry and also to live in obedience to God so Paul connects the resurrection of Christ with the spiritual power at work within us when he tells the the church Ephesus that he's praying that they would know and he writes about this in Ephesians chapter 1 verses 19 to 20 he says it's his prayer for the church at Ephesus that they would know what is the immeasurable greatness of his power in us who believe according to the work of his great might which he accomplished in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him sit at the right hand in heavenly places you know Paul has just been overwhelmed and just being excited just experience experiencing the the resurrection power of Christ in various aspects of his life and he's praying the same that for the church at Ephesus that the church at Ephesus with their eyes would be open they would know the immeasurable greatness of this power that is in each one of us who believe according to the working of his great might which he accomplished in Christ when he raised Christ from the dead and made him sit at the right hand in the heavenly places so here Paul says that the power by which God raised Christ from the dead is the same power at work within us and Paul sees us as raised in Christ when he says in Romans chapter 6 verses 4 and verse 11 can one of you read that please Romans chapter 6 verse 4 and verse 11 Romans chapter 6 verse 4 and 11 Romans chapter 6 verse 4 therefore we were buried with him through baptism into death that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father even so we also should walk in the newness of life verse 11 likewise you also recall yourself to be dead indeed to sin but a life to God in Christ Jesus our Lord thank you so when we partake in or when we take baptism it's not just an outward sign of our inward you know renewal or confessing that we have accepted Christ Jesus and making it known to other believers so that you know they have the authority or they have the freedom to check us or correct us when we you know fall away or when we go astray from God's ways or parts or live in sin or in disobedience having known that we have accepted Jesus Christ as our person Savior but he gives a new meaning or an understanding to the whole aspect of water baptism and he says that you know when we are immersed into water you know it is as if we are with Christ in his deck that means we are dead to sins the power of sin has no longer control of our what our body the dominion or the sin has no longer power and authority in our bodies we are no longer you know slaves of Satan and under his power and authority but we are dead to sin and when we come out of the water is like you know we have been resurrected with newness of life that we receive because of Christ's resurrection him being the first fruit of those were deducted from the dead we receive the resurrected life we receive the new life the eternal life we receive the blessings we receive the glory that the father had bestowed upon us when he created Adam and Eve in his likeness in his image in his perfection when he created Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and you know we too can acknowledge that and we are raised up just like Christ was seated in our heaven the heaven places so it shows us a position on authority that we have who we are in Christ what are the privileges that we have so that we can walk in the newness of life that we don't walk in our old sinful carnal nature old ways of life old ways of doing things when we were under the law of sin the reign of sin but we walk in newness of life and he goes on to say that you must consider yourself dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus this new resurrection power in a you know includes power also to gain more and more victory over the sin that is there in our mortal bodies our physical bodies and in our soul that is our mind built in our emotions okay Paul writes in Romans chapter 6 verse 14 he says sin will have no dominion over you because you are not under the law but under Christ or you are under grace now so as we are under Christ so we are born again you know sin has no dominion over us and that is because of the new resurrection power that is in us which includes the power to gain more and more victory over the sins that are remaining since that in our bodies in our in our souls a tendency to sin because we have the same old flesh the same old school but you know we have this promise that we don't that that sin cannot reign in our bodies we have the dominion over that we can gain more and more victory over the remaining sin and be transformed into Christ's likeness even as it will be made perfect in this life so the resurrection power also includes power for ministry the work in God's kingdom and also helps us to be to be to be sanctified to be more Christ-like so that we will be made blameless without spot of permission be presented before the most God okay so we see that it is after Christ's resurrection that he promised his disciples you know to go and wait in Jerusalem but we see you know Jesus rose from the dead when he came to the disciples it says in Luke I think it's Luke chapter 24 or 22 he's Jesus it says that Jesus breed on them and he said receive the Holy Spirit but we see other references and one of them in Acts chapter 1 was ages before he ascended back to the Father he says you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem in Judea in Samaria and to the other most parts of the earth or the ends of the earth now so you can say when Jesus already when we read in Luke chapter 22 I think it's Luke chapter 22 or it's 24 I think it's Luke in Luke chapter 24 of course he says in verse in verse 48 he says you are my witnesses of these things in verse 49 I am going to send you what my father has promised but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power on high okay I don't know if John okay so in one of those verses he's Jesus says you know and he breed on them and he says receive the Holy Spirit and you know that was their born again experience I'm going to find that was okay I'll I will share that with you but you know Jesus did that after he died and he rose again and it's basically so we have two words you know verses here where Jesus breed on them and they received the Holy Spirit and we also read in Luke chapter 24 verse 49 he says you know wait in Jerusalem till you've been clothed with power from an eye act chapter 1 was 8 he also tells them that so what are these two things okay so what we read when when Jesus breed on them is basically you know there's another instance where Jesus breed on man when was that anyone remembers this was in John 20 22 thank you yeah so John chapter 20 was thank you John so John chapter 20 was 22 says yeah 21 again Jesus said peace be with you as a father has sent me I'm sending you and with that he breed on them and said receive the Holy Spirit and if you forgive anyone is since they are forgiven if you do not forgive them they are not forgive okay so here this is Jesus appearing to his disciples after he he died and rose again and he breed on them and he said receive the Holy Spirit so when is another instance in the Bible when we see Jesus breed on mankind during creation thank you during creation when he breed he made Adam but when Adam was not was not a living being but when Jesus freed his breath you know he he received life so here it's talking when Jesus freed on them it's basically Jesus imparting something about himself imparting his life into the life of his disciples that is they're born again experience they could only be born again after he died for their sins and he rose again and so here when he's talking about this he breed on them said receive the Holy Spirit it is what happens when we are born again we receive the life of God so when he breeds the he's basically breeding his breath so it's their salvation experience the newness of life they're born again experience and we also read in John chapter 14 and 16 Jesus says the Holy Spirit will come and dwell with you forever so when they're born again the Holy Spirit comes and dwells in us forever but we read like we read in Luke chapter 24 verse 49 and also in other places and in Acts chapter 1 verse 8 and also we read in Acts chapter 1 verse 4 he you know Jesus says do not leave Jerusalem but wait for the gift my father promised which you've heard me speak about verse 5 it says for John baptized with water but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit and then verse 8 like I already mentioned was it so what is this again you know you will receive the Holy Spirit why should they receive the Holy Spirit second time when they've already received the Holy Spirit when we read in John chapter 20 verse 20 Jesus breed on them and he said receive the Holy Spirit so that is their born again experience your born again the Holy Spirit comes and dwells in us the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit and when they receive power that he's talking about here in in Acts chapter 1 verse 4 Acts chapter 1 verse 8 in Luke chapter 20 verse 49 he's talking about them being cloded with power that is the in a filling power of the Holy Spirit and Jesus clearly mentions that you know when you receive this power it's basically power to help you be my witnesses in Jerusalem in all Judea and Samaria to the uttermost parts of the earth or to the ends of the earth okay so this power is the intensified power for proclaiming the gospel for working of miracles and to triumph or overcome or be told over the enemy that was given to the disciples after Christ resurrected from the dead and was part of the new resurrection power that characterized the Christian life so we see that after you know Christ like Loubega said all of them had gone into hiding but when Christ resurrected and he came and he met them and he was there with forty days he spoke about various aspects of the kingdom of God and also talked about the promise gift of the of the father the coming of the Holy Spirit when they've been renewed with power and we see that after the day of Pentecost when they were baptized in the Holy Spirit that they went out with great power and you know that they're not only preach but their preaching was attested with mighty science miracles and wonders and we see that they did greater things than even what Jesus had done so this is the power that we receive the resurrection power of Christ which brings us newness with input for ministry and for the work of the kingdom and we're doing mighty science miracles and wonders and also being victorious over every power of the enemy okay another benefit of Christ resurrection or the doctrinal significance of the resurrection the first one we saw as Christ resurrection in ensures our regenerate Christ resurrection also ensures our justification we had just studied about justification in doctrinal foundation on on Friday the only passage that does talk about resurrection that ensures our justification is and connected with Christ resurrection is in Romans chapter 4 verse 25 so you know Paul connects justification our justification with Christ resurrection so are receiving you know of Christ or what he has done and him being resurrected from the dead it's a declaration that we are not guilty but righteous before God so Paul says that you know in Romans chapter 4 verse 25 that Christ was put to death for our trespasses and raised for our justification we read this verse on Friday Paul writes there he says Christ was put to death for our trespasses but he was raised for our justification so when Christ was raised from the dead it was declaration of approval of Christ's work of redemption because Christ humbled himself and became obedient unto death even death on the cross as we read Paul writes in Philippians chapter 2 was 8 and in verse 9 we also read that God highly exalted him so by raising Christ from the dead God the Father was basically saying that he approved of Christ's work of suffering of him dying for our sins and that his work was completed and that Christ no longer any need to remain there's no penalty for sin that was left anymore no more wrought of God to bear no more guilt no liability to punishment all has been complete paid for and there's no guilt that remains so in the resurrection God is basically saying to Christ that I approve of what you have done and that he has that Jesus has found favor in his sight so this actually explains to us how Paul can say that you know when he writes that Christ was raised for our justification if God has raised Christ with him as we read in Ephesians chapter 2 was 6 then because of our union with Christ because we have accepted Christ because we believe in Christ we become one in Christ God also declares or approves of Christ's you know Christ's work in our lives he approves it declares it as a done thing a completed thing so Christ when God declares Christ's work is completed as done it's also his declaration approval of us that we are complete now we stand redeemed or we stand justified means we are completely forgiven you know and we are seen as people just as if we have never sinned okay so when for the Father said to Christ that all penalty for sins has been paid and that you know he finds him not guilty but righteous in his sight you know God the Father is making a declaration that would also apply to us when once we trust Christ and we trust or we believe or we declared we believe in our hearts and declare in our mouths what Christ has done we trusted Christ in our salvation you know we are also declared righteous in God's sight made glad not guilty in the site because what Christ has done he has paid the penalty for our sins and just as God the Father declares Jesus Christ's work as completed as done him as righteous and no longer guilty in the site and reinstated back to his position as God we the God the Father also makes the same declaration about us or it also applies to us applies to those of us who are trusted in Christ and put faith in him and accepted him as a savior so in this way Christ's resurrection also gave the final proof that he has earned our justification so when Christ was raised up back to life the work was completed it's also you know proof that he has redeemed mankind paid the penalty and also that we have earned our justification that means we stand before God as if we have never sinned and that's because of the righteousness of God it is imputed on us because God the Father declared Jesus righteous once the work was completed once he resurrected him back from death to life the third area about we can see about the doctrine of resurrection is that Christ's resurrection ensures that we will receive perfect resurrected bodies as well okay so the New Testament several time it connects Jesus's resurrection with our final bodily resurrection let me read in first Corinthians chapter 6 verse 14 that it says and God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power second Corinthians chapter 4 verse 14 can one of you read that please second Corinthians chapter 4 verse 14 second Corinthians chapter 4 verse 14 can one of you read that please knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise you up with Jesus and will present us with you thank you so he says he will raise the Lord Jesus will also raise us along also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence so we have this assurance that even though we die physically one day that we will be raised up and that we will be assured into his glorious presence where we will live eternally okay but we see that you know if you want to know further about the resurrection of our bodies Paul discusses that in length extensively in first Corinthians chapter 15 and as we read that Paul says you know that Christ is the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep first Corinthians chapter 15 verse 20 and by saying that it is the first fruit of those who have fallen asleep is basically using Paul is using a metaphor here from agriculture which indicates that we will be like Christ just like the first fruit or the first taste of the ripening crop shows what are the the other crops of the other harvest that that we are going to receive or the rest of the harvest will be just like the first crop okay so as Christ is the first fruits it shows that what are resurrected bodies will be like when God finally comes back the final harvest takes place so to say and he raises us from the dead and brings us into his presence okay so after Christ is a rupture we know that you know the disciples were able to feel Thomas and the other disciples were able to feel you know the nail prints on his hand and his feet the mark of the spear in his side we read this about this in John chapter 20 verse 27 so sometimes people wonder if we will also in our new spiritual bodies or in our new glorified bodies will we also bear the scum of serious injuries that we have received in this life where it also remain in our resurrected bodies that's not true you know because we will be raised glorious bodies that are imperishable that is without any scar without any pain with no weaknesses with no sickness but you know Christ just bearing the wounds that he received in his life was able to show it in his body to the disciples to just prove to them he is not a ghost but he is he has resurrected from the dead it's just you know an eternal reminder of his sufferings and his death for us and the fact that he chooses to retain those scars does not necessarily mean that we too will just you know retain our emotional scars or you know pain or brokenness in our spiritual bodies rather we will be healed and we will all be made perfect and whole okay there's a fifth point that we will look at the eternal significance of Christ's resurrection we just have one more minute so I will stop here any of you have any questions out to what was said so far I hope all of you were through was it okay just made a mention of the Holy Spirit because there was a question asked by I think it was Paul I hope there was clarity on that Paul about the gift of the Holy Spirit empowering of the Holy Spirit you're able to hear me you're in class okay I hope today's class helped we'll end class if there are no comments yes Abu Bakr we've already finished ended our time but you can still raise your question I can answer you in the stream page or maybe answer it in the next class go ahead it's not it's not a question mark I just want a clarification about the assignment the status of my family missing and I submitted the assignment I want to I want to know me I want to know me my assignment was submitted or not yes I received your assignment under the status okay thank you ma'am yes I have received your assignments I'll correct your assignments I've just been doing the the ones on the e-learning I also teach other three courses so this just finish those on the e-learning and then get to those in the Google class too okay no questions no comments then we'll continue on this in the next class and then when we'll move 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Welcome to Rehash! On the internet, we're all news, and it's all news. We bring you the best and worst of what happens today. Hey, what is going on, guys? My name's CallMeYummy, and you're watching Rehash. Enjoy. Thank you so much to CallMeYummy for submitting today's Rehash introduction. If you guys want to be really cool like her, make sure to open the description. Don't worry, but of course, it's you guys who can submit your Rehash introduction. Or, of course, we'll talk about you guys towards the end of Rehash videos. Now, there is something we have to discuss. Really? Okay. You were gone for a couple of days, and there are some people in the comments below who have been theorizing as to why you have been gone. Alright, guys. So, I know Anthony told me not to tell you guys, but, unfortunately, Anthony locked me in the closet. And, uh, I just...he just...he just let me out. So, you heard it here first, people in the Freedom Family. Zach was in the closet, but he's out now. Okay. Okay, I set myself up for that one. So, no, no, no, no, you had newsy type, whatever. I did have a couple of newsy type, whatever. First things first, I wanted to talk about Snoop Dogg, who was recently caught with $420,000, and the Italian government would not let him out of the country with all of that cash. It was really cool about that. No. Go ahead. Now, it...it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it. Of course! Yeah. So, now, uh, he says that the money was to be used to pay his...his band. It is on Durage for this tour that he was on. But again, like you said, $420,000. So that's interesting.  And then you wanted to talk about? You know, I'm actually just curious, how much money have you ever been carrying around at one time in US dollars? Yeah.  Ooh. Well, it's like a hundred. Not much. Definitely not $420,000. I work on YouTube, people. Yeah. And then I wanted to talk to the freedom family about the first bilateral hand transplant on a child. Now, the thing that it is, you know, this is extraordinary because this was done on a kid named Zion. When he was about two or three years old, unfortunately he had a heart infection that caused both his hands and his feet to be removed. Now, we've seen many cases like this in the past, that there are tens of thousands of people in the world that unfortunately don't have their limbs.  I mean, and he talks about all the things that he would do when he gets his hands. And, you know, he would talk about how you wanted to climb on the monkey boards, but unfortunately he never could. And it just blows my mind. Now, of course this is an amazing story and this is a very brave young man. Yeah. But I couldn't help but notice while they were doing this, is the fact that initially when they attached the hand, it was a very pale, almost, you know, ghostly white hand.  Like, you know, which means better than no hands. But, you know, I thought there would be a skin color, you know, change. But no, as blood, you know, moved into the hands, like they were of very similar skin tone. That amazed me. Anyway, if you guys wanna go watch the video, if you guys wanna have a sad moment, I cried like the whole time. It's the happiest sad moment I've had in a very long time. Yeah, exactly. But before we do wrap up the story, I just wanted to say be grateful that you have vision to be able to watch the sunrise over the horizon. The fact that you have your limbs, the fact that you're able to respond and hear and see and it's just a miracle. It's amazing. So try to never take that for granted. But nonetheless, if you guys wanna go watch that, the link will be down below by the description. Did you add another Newsy type or whatever? I do have one more Newsy type, whatever. North Korea's Kim Jong-un was recently awarded a Global Statesmanship Award. Now this is after he has told America to prepare for war. So this is a very interesting timing. This is, yeah, so I don't really know what to say about this story. There is a full article linked down below. Let us know in the comment section down below what you think about this award, what you think about Kim Jong-un. Was it given out of intimidation or being scared? I think it's probably best if people read the article. Because anytime we start talking about North Korea, Kim Jong-un, I would seriously hate for rehash to be kind of like, you know how there was a big stink over that movie, The Interview? I don't want us to be the next The Interview. All right, I got you. Love you, Kim Jong-un. Freedom family, in the interest of time, we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna skip over the comment section. Hell, we are, man. It's been a few days since we covered comments. We have to do comments, right? Freedom family? We gotta do comments. Fine, if you say so. All right, to the comments. And now, time for the comments. Yeah! Comment number one comes from me, the head TV, who says I love Breaking Bad. I have to say, I also, I agree. In fact, they started filming season six, just the other day. Yes, a little hit freedom family. He just started watching it. I actually, I finished the entire everything.  And I'm waiting on the new stuff. All right, so comment number two comes from Kaiser Herzen. We've actually spotted him in the past. If you guys wanna go see his spotlight, make sure to go watch some of the other rehash episodes. He says, Zach, where are you, home break? We need you to tear the description open. You murdered that, it's home break. There's no each. All right, home break. No, home break. Whatever, I went to rehab, guys. That's actually where I was over the weekend. Sugar rehab. Yeah, sugar rehab. Unfortunately, YouTube has contacted us and they ask that we stop ripping the description open. Yeah, they asked us kindly, and of course we have to abide by their terms of service. So that's where I was over the weekend. I was being rehabilitated. I actually no longer rip descriptions. I actually, I treat them with kindness and I open them generally. Okay, so comment number three comes from Deb Walls, who says, was the cyclist hit from Alabama? I can't find the article link in the comments. And she knows a young man who was from Alabama doing this for charity. No, mom. Oh, that's, yeah, that's my mom. She watches the show. And no, the guy was not from Alabama and no, it was not that guy. Yeah, it just goes to show.  Yeah, so transitioning into comment number four, the last comment of the day comes from Diamond Dog HD. That's me, you guys, it's huge. Her names are kind of unique. Diamond Dog HD, that's pretty cool. He says, I think Anthony is a vampire who killed Zach and George to make Rihash even better than before. Oh, yeah, I'm leaving now. Take a dang pillow with you too. So Zach and I were actually gonna try to harmonize and say time to do the partner, but we realized neither one of us can sing. Yeah. So time for the partner. As per usual, thank you so much to call me, Yummy, for submitting today's Rihash introduction. As we mentioned in the beginning, guys, if you want to submit a Rihash introduction where we spotlight you like we are now, just to open the description. You guys can make a Rihash introduction and we will spotlight you in a meaningful way. So nonetheless, let's dive into call me, Yummy. So she is a Minecraft YouTube content creator who produces content around Sky Factory. She just did a face reveal. She does update videos, vlogs, all kinds of stuff. Now I wanted to first dive into her logo and banner. But it's something that we actually talk about quite a lot. Something about branding. It's such a huge issue on YouTube. Some people who are gaming related, they don't have gaming banners. And normally when somebody comments and they hover over your name, they're like, oh, he doesn't do gaming. I'm not gonna subscribe. So it's very important if you're a YouTube content creator to do something relevant to what you're doing, if you're calling it, do a YouTube call of duty. I love the fact that everything in this banner screams Minecraft from the font to the graphical elements, the cake, the sword. It just screams Minecraft. And someone could possibly make the observation that it may not be the best. It could be more professional, but I don't care about those people because I love this. Call me, Yummy, you're awesome. And then for the most part, your thumbnails are improving. Now if you look at your older thumbnails to now, it's a very huge difference. Very stark contrast. Exactly, something I cannot stress enough, guys, is never use too many words. You don't have to use words in the descriptions. You can fade your message. If you get to a point where you can't make out the text in your thumbnails when it's at about 25% size, it's too much. If that's something that a lot of YouTube content creators, even myself, how to use issue on. When you guys are making thumbnails, whether it's in Microsoft Paint, Adobe Photoshop, or Wim Gimp. Gimp, hey, even Gimp. Or the new future in TubeBuddy, where you guys can feature. Yeah, the future. Not the future. The future. The future. Right, I say it right. Where you guys can make thumbnails. Taking consideration that just because it's big when you're making it, doesn't mean that everybody's gonna be able to see it because the thumbnails get shrink. Is shrink a word? Shrink and chunk. It is now that the thumbnails get shrink to super, super small sizes. So try to use big Minecraft characters or whatever it is that you're doing. I think that pretty much, oh, last but not least, I really think that you would do well to have a designated channel trailer. Yes. Just saying. Because I don't know. I'm looking at your channel. I see a lot of reasons to subscribe, but it would be nice if you were to address potential subscribers and let us know who you are and what you're doing. You know. Yeah. She'll pretty much wrap that up, right? Yeah. Oh, that means it's time to end the episode. Yeah, but you guys will see me again tomorrow. I'm back for. It's all about you now? No, no, no, no, no.  Wait a minute. Are you gonna do three episodes without me now? Because I mean, I'd like to do a couple of jobs. I can try. I don't know. Let us know in the comment section. Don't sign me up for that. Come on. Till next time, don't forget to like, subscribe, and do all those things that make us love our jobs. Also, be awesome to yourself and amazing to each other. See you guys later. Bye, friend and family. Blu, blu, blu. I fall in love with you, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I think I can see you guys again.


This is part two of the Citing Sources Tutorial, which will show you how to add citations on Wikipedia using the Site function in the Edit toolbar. From an Edit window, click the Site button, which brings down a bar of extra options. Here, you can click the Templates pull-down menu and then select which kind of source you're trying to cite, a generic web page, a news article, a book, or a journal. For this example, we'll go with a book. We're citing the part of this sandbox page that says being bold is important on Wikipedia, and I have a book that backs that up. So clicking Site Book brings up fields where you can put in the author, John Broughton, and the title, Wikipedia, the missing manual, and the year and publisher, and so on. Another way to go is to start with the ISBN. Then, you can press the Search button next to it, and it will fill in the rest of the info automatically. Another handy feature is the Ref Name field. Put in a short word or phrase to identify the source, I'll call this one Broughton, and it will be easy to cite the source multiple times without having to re-enter any info. If there's more you need to add to the citation, you can press the Show Extra Fields button, which lets you add co-authors, editor, and other details. Once you've added all the info you want for the citation, press Insert, and the wiki code for the citation will be added right where the cursor was when you started the citation tool. Add an edit summary, save the page, and you see the new citation, with a numbered superscript linking to the footnote, just like with a manually added citation. If you used the Ref Name feature, then when you make another edit to the page, you can click Named References in the Site Toolbar to pull up a list of all the named references in the article. Pick the one you want, press Insert, and it will add the code for another reference to the same footnote. Another feature of the Site Tool is Error Check. Press the button to pull up the error checking options. Select the ones you want, and press Check, and you'll get a Citation Error Report, listing any broken or duplicate references. And that's it! Happy editing!


Hi and welcome to the session. I am Asha and I am going to help you with the following question which says in figure 6.32 if AB is parallel to CD angle APQ is equal to 50 degree and angle PRD is equal to 127 degree find X and Y. This is now begin with the solution and we are given that the line AB is parallel to CD angle APQ is equal to 50 degree and angle PRD is equal to 127 degree and we have to find the values of X and Y. Now since AB is parallel to CD, PQ any transversal this implies angle APQ is equal to angle PQR since if two parallel lines are intersected by a transversal then the pair of alternate interior angles are equal. These two angles are equal since they are alternate interior angles. Now angle APQ is equal to 50 degree and angle PQR is equal to X thus we have X is equal to 50 degree we have to find the value of Y. Now since AB is parallel to CD and let PR be the transversal which intersects them then this implies that angle APR is equal to angle PRD since they are alternate interior angles. Parallel lines are intersected by a transversal then the alternate interior angles are equal. Now angle APR is equal to Y plus 50 degree and PRD is 127 degree this implies Y is equal to 127 minus 50 which is equal to 77 degree thus Y is equal to 77 degree hence values of X and Y here 50 degree and 77 degree so this completes the solution hope you enjoyed it take care and bye for now.


Hello, welcome to a database of the week. I'm Todd Quinn from the University of New Mexico University Libraries this week We're covering very short introductions These are concise expert written books on a wide range of topics for example coral home nanotechnology Beethoven marketing evil Anyway, you may have seen these all on print, but now they're all online Within this database you can do a search here in the form for a word or you can select subject and browse So I did a search earlier for Education I could go through this list on the left side. You can see that there is books book parts chapters And I can select any one of those And if we take a look at one of these I'm going to look at coral Coral reefs, there's an overview The abstract and then if you scroll below there's the list of all the chapters and usually there's somewhere between five and nine chapters and So if you're looking for a place to get a concise Expert written title you can't get any better than very short introductions