All right. So welcome to our session today. I must admit, feeling tremendously excited, both on a personal level and a spiritual level. And I'm looking to discover some wonderful answers to all of the wrestlings of my soul today. Our world right now feels fractured. We're seeing a rise in nationalism. We're seeing divisiveness around political discourse at the societal levels. We're seeing difficult conversations, a sense of tribalism emerging in many parts of the world. The question of today, what is the role of faith in helping us heal those wounds, heal the fractures that many societies are experiencing right now? And we have the wonderful opportunity today to hear from really some of the world's leading experts and faith leaders who are going to hopefully certainly share some insights into that domain. So let me start by just introducing an alphabetical order, our distinguished discussions for today. So first, we have Ms. Bonnie Dougal of the Baha'i International Community. And she's the principal representative to the UN. Second, we have Ms. Cristiana Fergeras, who is convener of Mission 2020 and former executive secretary of the UN Convention on Climate Change. We also have Dr. Brian Grimm, who is president of the Religious Freedom and Business Foundation. Sheikh Hamza Yusuf Hansen, who's president of Zaituna College and vice president of the Forum for Promoting Peace. And we also have with us his eminence, Cardinal Peter Kodwo Turksen, who's of the Decastery for Promoting Integral Human Development at the Vatican. So we have an extremely distinguished and thoughtful group of leaders with us today. So let's jump right into the conversation. How can faith guide us in dealing with and healing the societal fractures that we're experiencing in many parts of the world? And your eminence, might we start with you to hear some thoughts on that? Thank you and welcome, all of you. I think faith helps us navigate and helps us mend all of these, by providing us with the basic underlying principles. The basic underlying principles of human life and basic underlying principles of society, living, and all. I mean, so being a Christian and therefore making the Bible and its account of creation as a point of departure, creation basically establishes the fact that humanity is a family. It belongs to a family. And that its variegated forms are based on the principle of brotherhood. Fraternity is the one thing that was created by God on the basis of which humanity spread. So belonging and therefore guided by brotherhood, humanity belongs together. And belonging together, the first offense against humanity was a fratricide, a brother killing a brother. That can happen, but it's a fratricide. It's a brother diminishing his life as a brother by eliminating a brother. So the principles which bind us together is just this. Having a common father, we are one of a family. One of a family meant to live together. We call to coexist in the pursuit of a common good as brothers. Having this as basic principles, we can go and develop other whenever there are challenges that the principle of solidarity would want to bring us all back together. The principle of appeal for a common good and the fact that everything that God has created was meant to make us all happy universal destination of the goods of the earth. All of these become principles that help us mend whatever fractured relationship can result in our various experiences in life. But essentially, the fate of religion is to provide these basic background of principles that describe what we are as a family and as people living together, called to live together in pursuit of our common good. Yes. So the family is the basic fabric holding us together. If one should, if divisiveness should erupt, wait a minute, we're family. And you start with that as the basic principle. That's what we are. Thank you. What's your perspective on you? So the purpose of religion is to unite people. And we from the Baha'i perspective believe that all the manifestations of God were sent to earth to bring unity, to build upon each other's the previous messages, and to bring new truth to mankind, as mankind matures to receive it. And we are possibly in an age where humankind is at its stage of adolescence, and we are seeing those tendencies playing out the tendencies that are associated with adolescence and the uncertainties in others. Unfortunately, the narrative that is playing out is there are these corrosive narratives about the world is falling apart and there's very little that can be done. And mankind cannot live in peace. And the conflict is going to be the nature of it. And I think as the different religions and the faith groups and those that believe are really the ones that can bring about this sense of unity and a better understanding of what is the purpose of faith, what is the purpose of religion, the true nature of religion is to unite and to inspire their congregants, the individuals they work with, to rise to that higher level and to build communities, strong communities at the grassroots levels, communities that are resilient, that can withstand these fractures and the forces that are impacting societies that are causing those fractures. We also believe in the equality. And I think all religions speak of equality. But I think that equality has to be at all levels. The equality of women and men is a very important principle for us. And until we can realize that and advance the role of girls alongside that of boys, we will not have the united, the strong community that's required to mend those fractures. And the same thing goes for economic security as well. So this magic doesn't happen just automatically just by saying that there's religion or faith in a community. We have to work and we have to think very critically as to what are the structures that need to be reexamined. Because often we hear people say, oh, if only we were to educate the people. But I think some of the educational systems themselves are flawed and need reexamination. And again, we've heard it from world leaders just a little while ago, but others as well throughout the forum, the role of the media is one that we need to examine. And I think the media itself needs to do an examination as to the role it can provide alongside religious actors. Because often it is religious media too that can sometimes perpetuate these narratives that I think we can overturn. Gotcha. So ultimately it's once again looking at a set of values, unity, resilience and community, equality. And then looking at how those can be applied both at the personal level and at the structural level. Great, thank you. And let's turn next to Shachar. All right, Ms. Meena, the first thing I think it's important to, we talk about the terms like faith and often don't define them. And faith obviously has dictionary meanings. One of them is just belief without any proof. And there's a lot of people that that's how they view faith. In fact, a lot of skeptics and secularists think the people of faith are simply, they just have no proof and they're believing and it's irrational. But there's also reasonable faith. And I think most of our traditions actually are founded in reasonable faith. Everybody this morning got up with reasonable faith that they were gonna make it to the Congress Center. We got on airplanes with reasonable faith that that pilot knew what he was doing, that Boeing knew what they were doing when they put it together. Basically everything we're doing is faithful. I mean, we have immense faith. We had faith in our teachers when they told us that five times five is 25. We have faith in Klaus Schwab that he's a good organizer and this thing's all gonna work out. So faith is just part of life. Reasonable faith, there's a lot of unreasonable people. It's probably wise maybe to ask your spouse where you fair on that. But faith is just part of life and how we bring faith into a type of reasonableness. In terms of healing the world, the world has always been fractured. The Jewish tradition has tikkun olam which is the idea of healing a fractured world. In the Islamic tradition, there's a verse in the Quran that says, do not corrupt the earth after we have made it whole for you. So humans have the capacity to actually create an immense amount of fraction. Now, fracture is interesting because we have a mathematical term fraction. And if we want to add fractions, we have to find common denominators and bring those, that's the way we bring things together. So, and also to reduce, to get things down, kind of Occam's razor down to what are the fundamental problems on the planet? And if I was gonna identify the fundamental problem, I would say it's arrogance. Human beings need to learn humility towards one another. And then I totally agree with his eminence, the cardinal that family is at the root of it and families are dysfunctional. Part of the reason why we have dysfunctional families is to learn how to live with people we don't agree with, right? I mean, everybody has the uncle that nobody wants to come to the holiday, but he still comes and we kind of deal with it. And so that's part of just learning to live together. We are a human family and having contempt for others is a major problem. And just in conclusion, our prophet said, none of you will enter paradise until you have faith. And he said, but you will not have faith until you love one another. He said, can I tell you something that if you practice it, you will come to love one another? And then he said, spread peace. Let's turn to you now, Christiana. You have led tremendously complicated negotiations over incredibly important issues in our world and the sustainability of our world. How does faith fit into the work you do? Well, you know, I come at this from the realization that we have not just reached planetary boundaries, we have overstepped them. And once you realize that, you begin to say, so what is the consequence of that? And you begin to understand that what I was taught as a young child, as a young woman, as the definition of the zero sum game in which what you win is my loss and what I win is your loss. Frankly, it doesn't have a place anymore because if you have reached and overstepped planetary boundaries, the fact is either we all win or we all lose together. That's the new interpretation of zero sum. And I think it was that understanding that we frankly all have to win together, which was at the basis of the development and the delivery of the Paris Agreement where 195 nations came together, together not just the governments, but all of the sectors, the spiritual leaders were there all the time. The scientists, there was not a fraction between science and religion. The business people were there, the NGOs were there because we came to understand through a very difficult and complex dialogue that we're all in this one planet together and that if there's anything that is gonna move us forward, it's solidarity. So the main lesson, I think, that I had from that is as we rise, we converge because as we rise in our awareness of our deep humanity, of the divine in us, of the spiritual in us, of the best of the human in us, that's where we converge. That is what we have in common and in as much as we reflect that and live with that, then solidarity comes as a natural next step and then agreements are also a natural next step. Yes, and agreements can stick, Paris Agreement, or some countries can drop out of these agreements. How did you engage faith communities in dealing with some of these kinds of complications? The faith communities were there actually and were just, I am truly grateful. Laudato Si of course is the most famous, but it's not the only, the Bahá'í community, the Muslim community, everybody was there, the Buddhist community and truly supporting this process very, very deeply in addition to all of the other communities in the other sectors and that is why the Paris Agreement is a strong agreement. It cannot be fractured to use your word which I actually don't like. It cannot be questioned by one person sitting in any particular house because it came, it rose out of a higher consciousness of humanity and therefore it is not prone to electoral cycles. It will be with us for a much longer time and it is in fact, without wanting to minimize the difficulty of the Paris Agreement and of the world coming together on climate change, a job which we have not finished by the way and we must finish. But I very fundamentally believe that it was the first very successful effort that humanity made to truly address a global issue that needs a global solution. It is definitely not the last and we know that we have biodiversity to deal with. We have poverty, we have water, we have migration, we have food security. The list goes on and on about global issues that we will all face in the 21st century. So the fact that we came to an agreement on climate which we're still implementing is I think humanity's gym. We're just at the gym of strengthening our muscle, of rising and converging with each other. Right, fabulous, thank you. And Brian, we are here at the World Economic Forum. In other words, there is a business perspective to faith as well. Or there's at least some relationship between the two. Can you help us understand more about that? Yeah, so the connection between faith and the economy is that when people give each other freedom, religious freedom to be who they are and you respect the other person to be who they are, that creates a society that's good for sustainable business. And when you don't have that condition, you have a conflict economy. So it's a very clear connection and so there's a connection between religious freedom in society and business. I'll give one example. A president of Raj Wally Corporation in Indonesia had his employees come to him and say we can't get our children into school or get healthcare and they were missing work. And so large corporation and a lot of people were having this problem. He said, well, why not? They said, well, we don't have a birth certificate for our children. Why not? We're not married. Why not? Well, in Indonesia you have to be married in a religious ceremony and get a government certificate. The religious ceremony requires a dowry and a large party, it's too expensive for them. And the government bureaucracy just doesn't have the forms on hand to give the wedding licenses. So people just don't do it. But they can't get the birth certificate, their children can't get schooling or healthcare. So he said, let's do something about it. And he's a Catholic in a Muslim majority country and he had the freedom to contact the Muslim leaders, the Buddhist leaders, the Hindu leaders, Christian leaders, bring them all together and have a mass wedding for thousands of couples. And they had a big party business paid for it. And then the government made sure the bureaucrats were there to stamp their papers. And he's done this three times, marrying 5,000 couples at a time. And now the government has said, we have a problem. He estimates there's 40 million children in Indonesia without a birth certificate. So that's the connection. So imagine the economic drain there is on society when the kids can't get educated and they can't get healthcare. And then when you have the freedom, see I think of religious freedom as the freedom to do good, setting your faith impulses free and giving that space to do good in society. And that's exactly what Genardi, YW Genardi did in Indonesia. Right. Let's go a step deeper. Individuals have divisions within us. As the Sheikh pointed out a bit earlier before we came on stage. But institutions do as well. And each of the institutions represented here in this room as with any religious institution can have points of division. And these institutions have indeed stood the test of time. How do your institutions, and I'm curious, three of you, and then perhaps your reflections as well, how do your institutions understand conflict and division? How do they deal with it? In ways that really get to the heart of it, keeping consistent perhaps with the kinds of ideas we've been talking about, unity, walking the faith consistently, family. How does the family deal with conflict? Might we start with you once again, your eminence? Yes. The beginning statement I made, seeking to establish the basis, kind of the basis of the foundations, incidentally also becomes the appeal for motivation. Because of what we are, when we get into situations we want to settle this, we appeal to that. That's what we did in Davos. The nations got it together. We needed to come to an agreement. And what is it that drives us to want to come to an agreement? Because essentially we belong to the one family, and the earth is our common home. This becomes a motivation. So what was a principle of our origins in difficult times or in terms of need also becomes a motivating factor. That drives us to a solution. The thing about division again, in the light of the principles that I was talking about foundations, it also belongs to the stuff that this story about creation that we read in Genesis, very soon talks about the entrance of sin. Okay, talks about sin entering the situation which ruptures relationship. First between man and God, between man and man, other man and Eve, the man and the woman, and then between even humanity and the earth, which is supposed to sustain his life. So this reality we call sin is the source of fracturing. This manifests itself in the lives of individuals. He talked about arrogance, but that's not the only manifestation of the sinfulness in the lives of the human person. So sinfulness become a big factor and leads to ruptures and ruptures and ruptures. And if we're going to stay beyond this, we will call, our tradition will call for a conversion. They need to recognize what this does to our lives, and they need to want to repair this and stay beyond this. Okay, so our traditions, yes, they do know of this. So in the Catholic Church, we know, for the most current division of fracture and which very many of you in this room would be, knowledgeable about is that about Protestantism and Catholicism. Okay, when on the Martin Luther, there was a fracture. Okay, we had a Protestant Church and then within the Protestant Church the fracturing continued. So there's the Methodist, there's the Anglican, there's the Presbyterian. So the fracture, the fracture goes on and on and on. How do we deal with that? Once this manifestation of sin is taking place to break us all up, the only way we can deal with it is by dialoguing. The true dialog, recognizing and establishing the common roots and foundation we have to still bring us together. So when we begin to dialog, we recognize what we may all have done wrong. And then be open to ask for pardon for each other and begin to get reconciled where we have hurt each other. It is in this process that we begin to heal relationship and begin to fashion unity and our common lives to get it again. Well, I would agree, so Pervia, Pride, Dante put it at the top though. So at the Mount Purgatorio. You know, I would say that the human being is, we're a triune creature. We have a reptilian stem in evolutionary psychology. It's at the base, it's survival, fear, instincts. And then we have this midbrain, which we share with dogs, have emotions. We've got dogs in America on Prozac because they get depressed in families that are kind of depressing. And then we have this neocortex, which is riding over these two. Now, in a traditional scheme, like Plato would have said, the whole purpose is for that rational brain to control the irascible, the concupes at these lower cells. And if we look at this triune self, you know, human beings do basically three things. We know things, we do things, and we make things. And this was the understanding. One of the things C.S. Lewis said that he lamented the loss of a holistic view of the world that the ancients had. The moderns have become fragmented because we fragmented knowing, doing, and making. And that's why we were meant to know the truth. We were meant to do the good. And we were meant to make the beautiful. And this is a holistic way of viewing the world. I don't think you can get a better definition than for happiness, which is what ultimately people apparently are all looking for. Happiness is the soul's conformity. It's the soul's activity and conformity with virtue. So all of our religious traditions are calling us to be virtuous. Last night we had an exercise where everybody was told to imagine the person most influencing in their lives and then imagine a quality that defined that person. There were probably about 100 people in the room, maybe. Every single one of them gave a virtue, right? That was what they saw. They didn't say, oh, he went to Harvard and had a 4.0 degree or he made a billion dollars or he invented a rocket that got us to Mars. It was compassion, humility, equanimity, love, wisdom. These are the things that really all of our societies have cultivated. And I think one of the things, we're the first human society that exploits the seven cardinal sins. Other societies really saw that you need to help people get over these things. We obey your thirst, not control your thirst. Just do it, right? Within the institutions, and there are many, many institutions within Islam, but from your own perspective, how is conflict outweighed within the institution? I mean, obviously not very well right now, right? But conflict, the Quran talks constantly about reconciliation. I mean, Mandela was successful because of the truth and reconciliation. The idea of bringing people together. And that is something I think that the Muslim world is grappling with. But when you look at the Muslim world today, what you're seeing is the absence of the practice of the principles of the prophet. You're not seeing the practices. The Quran constantly says, do not go into sex to love one another, to treat people. And all of humanity, we have a famous tradition. I've got two ayatullahs in the room, but we have a famous tradition from Ali that said that all of humanity can be divided into two types.  And the great poet Hafiz said, how would you treat others if you realize that you were all invited by the Creator to a banquet and each one was a guest? How would you treat them? What right do we have to oppress other people or to denigrate or look down on other people? So institutions, we need to learn from our religions. The Catholic institution has been incredible in navigating modernity in many ways. It's survived intact for centuries. Pascal reminded us that governments don't last and history proves that we don't know how long these governments are gonna last, but if history is any indication, they won't last forever. But he said the reason, but religions do last. The institution of religion lasts. And he said the reason for that is that the ground of politics is compromising principles, but the ground of religion is principle. So I think we really need to examine the role of the institution. What do we mean by that? And I think that's what the people of the world are also looking at. What is it to be a leader? And what does that comprise? In the Baha'i conception, a leader is really a servant. You're serving the community. It's not about, it's not a top-down approach that we have. We don't have clergy in the Baha'i faith. And so if the Baha'is are dissatisfied with the way things are being handled, well, there'll be an election in a year. And those that are serving the community will be replaced by somebody else. By election, we are not permitted to electioneer and stand for elections, there's none of that. It's just a very prayerful process where the members of the community come together and write down nine names of individuals, men and women in that community that they think are capable of serving the needs of the community. And then the ones that receive the most votes are the ones that are elected. And every five years we have an international body that's elected to. So I think there's a great deal of importance on the role of institutions that Baha'is place. But we also believe that if religion in itself becomes the cause of disunity, it's better not to have that religion. Disunity, dissension, whatever. So because again, as I'd mentioned earlier, the purpose of religion and the purpose of religious institutions is to help mankind, humankind advance. And that is what we should all be aspiring to do, rather than moving backwards. We are moving forward and trying to bring about a better world, a better, and as we have a better understanding, I mean, we are advancing in science, so too, why not in our conceptions of how to promote well-being for our communities. Right. And, Christiana, could you share with us, there's been any examples that come to mind of specific situations where you felt stuck or you were dealing with a situation that was just, it felt somewhat intractable and faith of some kind, whether the kind you were talking about that were with every day or faith of a deeper kind helped to move that situation forward? Well, unfortunately, or fortunately, there were many of those. Okay, okay. But you see, I'm a trained anthropologist. And so for me, differences, I just thrive on differences. That is the beauty of this fantastic planet. And I think every time that I saw myself in a very difficult situation, I always reminded myself, I have a choice. And it's about making a choice. I can choose to see difficulties, whether it is the difference between me and someone else that I have in front of me, or whether I am witnessing and trying to bring two people together. There is always a choice about whether you see that difference of position, of economic interest, or anything else, whether you see that as leading to conflict, or whether you see that difference as actually leading to a fascinating exploration of the differences. And that's a choice. That is the attitude that you bring toward what you are witnessing or what you are in the middle of. And frankly, it's a choice that we make almost every minute of the day, sometimes with huge consequences and sometimes with smaller consequences. But it is a constant choice. It is the attitude with which you see everything that is out there, if you see it as actually life is happening for me, to teach me something new that I didn't know, or is life happening against me. Or, so it is very much of a choice and once you make the choice to be enriched by differences, to be enriched by challenges, then there is an unlimited number of lessons that can be learned and your life is all the richer for it, not diminished by it in any case. Yes. So you have faith in humanity and the curiosity, deep curiosity that helps to move you forward in certain kinds of ways. Brian, what's your take? How does faith play more specifically into the work you do, your own life? Talk personal. Who are you? Yes. So, well, I'm a quantitative sociologist. It's perfect. You're just the one I want to interrogate. Yeah, I study religion as an economist would study society. Now, I do that because I care about faith deeply and I'm a Catholic and used to be a Baptist and that's sort of what gets me interested in religious freedom. I've exercised it in my own life. And so, taking those skills and looking at religion, I did a study that looked at the socioeconomic contribution of faith in American society. This could be done in any country. And at the very basic level, we begin not at the Vatican, which is a very meaningful, important institution, but at the local congregation. And across the United States, there are nearly 400,000 local congregations of all faiths, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, all different faiths. And the study looked at what they do and what it's worth. So, how can you put an economic value in faith? Well, my daughter recently got married in a center city church in Baltimore and that started off with love, resulted in marriage. I can tell you exactly how much money that cost. And how much money went into center city Baltimore to a Catholic church there that wouldn't have gone in if they'd gotten married in the country club outside. So, what the study found is that faith groups across the United States, across the world, are engaged in mental health programs at the local congregation. They're engaged in jobs programs. They're engaged in programs that help people with HIV AIDS. In the United States, across congregations of all sorts, there's one HIV AIDS ministry for every 46 people infected with HIV AIDS. Can you imagine a government trying to put that in place? So, all of that has a value, and I won't go into the details, but we estimate that the economic contribution of the faith sphere to American society is $1.2 trillion with a T every year. Now, that comes as a surprise to many people, and it was covered by the Guardian newspaper when the study came out. And in that study, 18,000 people shared it, not just viewed it, many more viewed it. Now, that's a statistic. When Donald Trump was elected, we just came from hearing him speak. When he was elected, that was big news and surprising to many people, maybe shocking to some. Their story was shared only 17,000 times. So, that faith has a socioeconomic benefit to society was more shocking to Guardian readers than it was that Donald Trump was elected. So, faith is more popular than Donald Trump. I have some numbers to... I won't comment more, you can't. No, good. Well, first, any thoughts so far from... You can tag on to this. Here in the United States, you're familiar with the cereals. The stuff you take for breakfast. Its origin is related to faith and its practice. The quickest and those who invented and came up with cereals. Quicker oats. Because of that was your religion that led to that inventory, that invention and the development of that. Secondly, lately, in South Africa, didn't used to have an embassy to the Vatican. So, one gentleman who is now the ambassador brought this to the government and they thought, you know, what use is this? So, he went back and did just what he talked about. He went study the contribution of the church to the South African society. And when he came to parliament and showed them the figures, he said, go. So, that's how now there is a South African ambassador. This on a lighter note. South African ambassador in the Vatican. That contribution, you know, faith inspiring people to do things even with economic effect and implications, so very many. Right. And also, I think it's really important to point out that a lot of what we cherish about modernity, about individual rights, inalienable rights, human dignity, all these things, these come out of Christian Western civilization. I mean, this idea, in many ways, the modernity is a Christian heresy just simply because it removed God, but it retained a lot of the principles. And I think that's something modern Westerners tend to really forget how much religion informed that. And then also the participation of religion in the credit unions were faith-based. They came out of a faith-based tradition in Germany and then in America and Canada. Life insurance was a Catholic initiative to protect families that suddenly lost a provider. The evangelicals were the ones that eliminated the Atlantic slave trade. William Wilberforce in Parliament was entirely informed by his faith. So we forget all of these things. But I would say one of the most important things about faith, I mean, as somebody who studied theology, I'm very committed to reasonable faith. But there's also satisfactory dogma. You know, there's this idea that people get a great deal out of faith. You know, Marx is often quoted saying, religion is the opiate of the masses. But he didn't actually say that. It's a completely misinterpretation of what he said. What he said was, is that religion is a protest against an unjust world. That religion is the sigh of the oppressed. It's the heart of a heartless world. It's the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opiate. It's the opium of the people. In other words, it numbs the pain of living in the world. Now, we have replaced religion with real opium. We have an opium crisis in America because people have such a hard time dealing with religion. Now, I think if Marx was writing today, he probably would not have said, religion is the opiate of the masses. He would have said something like, Facebook is the heart of a heartless world. That Netflix is the opium of the people, right? Because we're in a different type of world. But I think faith, we forget how much faith enables people to navigate. I mean, Buddhism, the first truth of Buddhism is the world is suffering, right? And people forget that, that there is great suffering in the world and religion has always been a source of solace for people. So Marx's idea was, look, instead of having religion, let's just get rid of the suffering in the world, which is a utopian idea that ended up killing millions of people. So faith has a practical component to it and that may in fact be measurable. Christiana. I just wanted to add, if I'm assuming that we have to close very soon, that when we talk about faith in the fractured world, I think it's important to remember, although we have these three fantastically distinguished leaders of institutionalized religions, that when most people think about faith, the gamut is much broader. It is either those who are part of these institutionalized religions and it goes all the way to people who feel that they are on a spiritual path of self-discovery that not necessarily is in any of the traditional religions. And I think that is equally as important. So I think we should keep in mind that this is, fortunately for all of us, a very, very wide gamut. And the wider we make it, the more inclusive it can be and the more healing it can bring. And I hear you saying, unity, how does this connect, Bonnie? How does that resonate with you? Very well. And that's something that we believe that young people are being, again, we hear that young people are being alienated and they're turning away from organized religion, et cetera. However, I think what young people are yearning is a sense of purpose in life. And where there is, I think, Islamic relief worldwide. I've heard them talk about how their young people are doing a lot more in the field and going out and serving and there's a lot of energy there. They may not be sitting in the mosques and likewise with the churches and other communities as well. So I think there is this search and we have to learn to be inclusive and reach out to everybody because I think faith is a very deep, what makes us human. That's the distinction between the animal world and us because we have the comprehension to understand. And I think it's really important that we be reaching out to everyone. In terms of unity, I have to throw out a quote at this point and it's from the Bahá'í writings and the well-being of mankind, it's peace and security are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established. And I think it is that sense of unity that we need to be inculcating in order to arrive at this peaceful world that everyone's looking to build. And our time is ticking, you were right. We have about 10 minutes left and I really want to learn more. I could get lost in this conversation, we could go for hours, except everybody would have to leave. I think we all struggle in our own personal lives.  So the divisiveness is very internal as much as it might be global as well. What's your advice? In a minute or two is worth of thinking. What is your advice to all of us on how we might deal with that internal pain, that suffering, whether it's family fracture, I won't use that word, family division, whether it is a conflict you've gotten in with a friend on a political issue, how do we personally deal with these things? What's your advice or your guidance to all of us? And I open it up to any of you. Please. I'll jump in, please. So something that's not well known, the organization is, but its principles aren't, is alcoholics anonymous in the United States and worldwide. So it's recommended by health providers as one of the best hopes for people who are addicted to not only alcohol, but other addictions to have recovery. What's not well known is that of their 12 step principles, about eight of them involve God. It's not a religious organization. I mean, it comes out of people with Christian experience, but they bring people in and the first three steps are recognizing you have a problem and then recognizing there's somebody above who cares, God, whatever that is.   But the very first step is, hi, I'm Jim, I'm an alcoholic. Probably have seen that in TV shows where maybe some of you have been to an alcoholics anonymous meeting. So that is the beginning stage, is recognizing we've got a problem and then faith has solutions that are missing from many other things. And people lose, people often drop out of alcoholics anonymous. And I know some about this because my next quantitative study is studying the value of faith communities to addressing addiction and mental health issues. So I'm looking into this and what they do is that they really understand that if you don't reconnect with each other and reconnect with God as you see him, and it might even just be a spiritual force, like you were saying, it might not be an organized faith, but they begin there. So I think that there's, faith is addressing a lot of problems and many of us aren't aware of it. And I have to admit to I started this study, I wasn't aware of how faith imbued alcoholics anonymous. So when we are struggling, when we feel lost, we remember faith as a potential guiding source. Yes, any of you, please. I can jump in. Suddenly everybody, that was bad facilitation on my part. Yes, please, Christiana. Yes, why don't we maybe go this direction? I must say I have been struggling with a deep personal pain for quite a few years. And I'm sure I'm not the only human being who is in that situation. And so your question is quite pertinent. And for me in my spiritual growth, which follows the teachings of Tignaton, the Buddhist master, what I have learned or what I'm still trying to learn, because I have to relearn it about every minute of my life, is that those situations of pain that are present in our life are very fertile ground for learning and that there never is a pain, there never is a difficulty that is present for us from which we cannot learn. If we choose to do so, but it's a choice, we can either decide that we're victims of it and the world is unfair, he, she, it, whatever, is unfair to me and poor little me, I'm never gonna get out of this hole. Or we can decide to look at this and say, what is the lesson that is trying to emerge out of that for me? And learning that lesson, you enrich yourself and are better equipped to understand others who are in very similar situations. Tignaton has a beautiful way of saying that and he says, no mud, no lotus, because the lotus flowers grow in the mud. And if you don't have any mud, if you don't have anything to struggle with, you will never be able to bloom a lotus. So, you know, be grateful for the mud because we can all harvest a lotus. Right, so suffer more today. Yes. Bloom the lotus. No, bloom the lotus, that's much more appropriate. Yes, please.  Everywhere there's pain, what's wrong with me? He examined and he said, your finger's broken. And some, you know, the meaning behind that obviously is we need to identify the source of the pain and the suffering where it comes from. And a lot of people don't know where their pain comes from. Melancholia can be intrinsic. You know, there's exogenous where your father dies and you have pain, but there's also a type of inward pain and suffering and in our tradition, we actually believe that that's part of the design and that pain is to drive you to seek solace and the only solace that you will find is in truth. And so it's, you know, one of the verses in, well, the relationship of pain and knowledge is in the Arabic word, ilm and alam. They're actually cognates, so they're related to each other. Immense learning comes out of suffering and we believe in redemptive suffering. The idea, there's two ways to look at the world and both have a lot of evidence. One is that this is meaningless, randomness, madness and we'll all just do, you know, John Lennon said, whatever gets you through the night, you know. And then the other is that it's meaningful and it's purposeful and I have a meaning and I as an individual have purpose and I'm in a universe of purpose. That each individual that comes into my life has a purpose and meaning. Those are two choices and there's not enough time to sit around and debate about it. For me, personally, I made my choice but like I said, they both have arguments. So once again, choice and the value of choosing. Please, you're on minutes. Yeah, thanks. I think like a ship or a boat on a storm-toothed sea, you always need a keel. That's tears that keep the ship balanced on the stormy waters and keeps going and I think that's the role of fate in the lives of human beings. We all need to be keeled into something that stabilizes us, that drives us and that gives us an orientation in everything that we do. And that kind of fate, again, in talking about choice, it's a fundamental option. He said it's made our choice and that's the way, that's a fundamental option. In our tradition, it's a fundamental option to commit oneself in relationship to a personal God. A personal God who is good and loving. It's not in our commitment to oneself to anything but to a personal entity who is good and loving and who is displayed or manifest at this. So fate is very fundamental. I recognize what Shakespeare said at the beginning, manifest different forms of fate. Like we all come here to diverse trusting that we're gonna be here and that's an act of fate we eat. It's an act of fate. Those are acts of fate, manifestations of fate but they're all rooted in a more fundamental fate which orients our being to, in this case, as a Christian, to a personal God who is loving and all. And it is this relationship which inspires other types of relationship on other activities and functions of my life. So if I should get into a difficult situation or whatever, I know how to orient that, I know how to orient that. And so it's not a ship stomp tossed on the sea not knowing where to go, there is a cue to my life. And that cue to my life and that can be the cue to anybody's life is this fate commitment. In a personal being who's good and who's loving and who's interested in me. Basically, that's, you know, it's not about this alcoholic or an animal type often. This is the presentation. This is what fate actually in this type of thing does mean radically to me as a God in one's life. Yes, and our time is just about up. Is there any final thought that's been burning on your mind that you'd like to share before we close? We have about three minutes. I think the underlying concept is love and not treating the other as the other. And I think we're living in a world where there's this tendency to get nervous when, you know, we're living at a time when there are other communities, the world is getting smaller and people are coming in, et cetera, and there's this tendency to close in. And as Brian mentioned, the Alcoholics Anonymous Program is one of those great equalizers where you could be the wealthiest man or the person really from Skid Row and you're there together and there's one common fraternity which gets you through this illness, whatever it might be. And, but at the core of that is the concept of love and we have to love each other and love mankind and that is the only thing that's going to unite us. I think that is a beautiful place to close for the moment. I just didn't reflection upon hearing and learning from your perspectives. There's so much noise in our world. There's so much noise that we are facing every day. How do we find that guidance on this boat of life? And you've more than reminded us, I think you've deepened our understanding.  So really, thank you all so very much. It's a true honor to be here today with you. Would you join me in a show of gratitude to our eminent guests.


So it's been a great experience, so from the beginning, from the planning stages leading up to deployment, to the bed down, sustainment while we're here, and then we've been planning redeployment since we got here, so we're always trying to be a few steps ahead. It's been mostly smooth, but it's been a great experience and we're just here happy to support maintenance who's in turn supporting ops. The logistics functions for this BTF consist of supply, log plans, and POL. So log plans first, they are the ones at home station before we even leave. They're coordinating with all the different units. They're coordinating with the MAGCOM, they're coordinating the airlift, they're coordinating with the deployed location, and then whenever we get to the deployed location, they're doing all that in reverse as soon as bed down happens and everybody's supporting operations here and they're focused on here and now. They're already thinking ahead about how we're going to get back home. And then when it comes to supply, they're in charge of 18 pallets worth of parts and supplies that are going to help support these maintainers. So whenever we have an aircraft needs parts, they're going to be there, they're basically in charge of a mobile warehouse called a mobility readiness spares package, and so they're here to order, track, issue, and turn in all the bad parts. So one of their crucial functions while we're here is to order parts that we don't have on hand because they're usually coming from the states and it's going to take quite a while to get here.  And then finally we have our POL, so our fuels. They are working not just to support the B-52s, so they're coordinating with maintenance to support the B-52s, but they're also refueling transient aircraft and then the Marines while they're here too. So they have a little bit broader mission, so most people here are supporting B-52s but they're doing a little bit more encompassing type missions so they're here to support everybody here. So it makes me proud as the logistics lead to see all the hard work that all of our people are doing behind the scenes. When it comes to supply, maintenance has to work with them all the time so they interact with them quite a bit but we know that the air crew needs the support from the maintainers and we're supporting them. So as MSG or mission support we're used to being kind of more behind the scenes. You know we'll let the air crew and we'll let the maintainers be the tip of the spear but we're there to get them whatever they need. So whether it's our supply folks, our log planner or POL, it really makes you proud to see all the hard work that they do to take care of everybody else so they can get their mission done. So personally it's been a great experience coming from Dias and then having to go to Barksdale shortly before departure, had to spend a little bit of time integrating with the team, meeting some of the key players in everything but ever since I got involved whether it was just the logistics or MSG, maintenance or ops, the whole team has been incredible. Everybody's been working together extremely well. If our overall mission could be summed up as a sure and deter to our allies here in NATO and around the world, our main function is once again going back to that making sure that the maintainers can do what they do so that the air crew can do what they do. So having the B-52 in theater to help build those relationships with our NATO allies once again as long as we're a little bit further back on that spear supporting, that's okay with us. We're happy to give the glory to everyone else and support in any way we can. So in the immediate future, we're wrapping up operations here, starting to pack up, get all of our equipment, all of our cargo, all of our supplies back home so that it can support home station operations but future BTFs in the late summer, fall and into next year will be the priority to make sure that we have the people who are trained and equipped to go wherever that is in the world to support the next B-52 BTFs.


Is it really effective or is it some barbaric old ritual? Find out right now. Hey, what's up guys, it's Josh here. Today I wanna do a little review of my experience doing cupping for about two years. A little bit of my backstory with cupping. I went to a massage parlor that offered it and I think I paid like 20, 30 bucks or whatever it was for like a little cupping session and it was nice, it was decent. After that, I went on Amazon and found my own cupping set for about $35. And ever since then, I've been just kind of using that periodically and it's been one of my most used tools for over or underused muscles. And I did do a video on cupping a few years ago. I think I was actually at the beach and a few months into COVID randomly, the video was deleted by YouTube without any explanation. So let's get it out the way. I'm not a medical expert. This is not medical advice. Do your own research, be safe. There are wrong ways to do cupping. So it's not like however you do cupping is gonna 100% safe. For me, the way that I do it following a few rules, I have absolutely no issues. I think it's one of the safest things ever, but there are wrong ways to do it. So be very careful, do your own research before you get into cupping yourself. So some of the effects that I noticed from cupping, I think it's one of the best remedies to over or underused muscles. And it's really good at pinpointing target areas, areas of pain. If you have like a knot or a specific spot that's sore, you just put the cup on that spot, pump it up. And almost every time the tension goes away 100%. Again, I found it to be generally very safe. Cupping is very taboo. It's almost kind of like a religion or politics. People have their own opinion made up and it's like, I don't even wanna argue with them. There's no point in arguing. And some of the procedures that I follow to make cupping more safe are, make sure to clean the cups every time that you use them.  So your skin is more susceptible to any sort of toxins.  I think they say to use rubbing alcohol. Also, don't leave them on for too long. Like I would say, the longest you'd wanna do is about 20, maybe 25 minutes. Go ahead and Google like cupping chart or cupping map. It'll show you the best points to put the cups on your body. And you could kind of put them anywhere. But I found that if you follow those dots or the ways that they suggest online for you to do it, it's just more effective, it's more safe. You're not gonna be putting on a weird part of your body that's not good for cupping. Another thing I like about this cupping set from Amazon is I could reach almost all areas by myself. It comes with a little pumper and it's like got a little tube and then the cup's on the end. So you could just put the cup like right here or right here and just pump it up. So like, I mean, I could get almost every area of my body. Now, maybe I'm more flexible than other people, but even if I was less flexible, I could get almost all the areas. It's actually really easy to do cupping on yourself. Okay, another thing I like about cupping is you could kind of see the issues that your body's having based on the cupping marks that it leaves. And also a lot of the times if you're hitting an area that needs a lot of work, the area that you cupped will actually be cold. And I've heard that multiple times when people have seen my cupping like older people, they're like, oh, it gets the cold air out. And so my thought process is like blood is warm. And so the area that I'm cupping probably doesn't have the best blood flow because I'm having knots and pains. So it's kind of sucking up all that old blood, all the old toxins that's not really getting circulated. I'll put a little picture on screen, but based on the mark that you get, it means a lot of different things. And it's really interesting to see which parts of your body create which spots. Okay, another thing to watch out with cupping is that it makes you really tired. So it's kind of a good thing because it'll help you go to sleep. Like you were probably tense, so now you're relaxing, but it's not something that I would do before I had to do tons of work just in case you get tired. Now, I haven't gotten super tired from it in a long time, but I remember when I first started, that was a big thing. And I remember my friend bought his own set and he got tired too. So that's just something to keep in mind. Okay, another thing is drink lots of water because you basically have toxins in your body and now the toxins are up and into the skin. And so your body's natural defenses and immune system can now start flushing them out. So make sure to drink lots of water afterwards. I always drink lots of water so I don't have to really worry about that. For most people, I don't think they do. Also be careful about where you expose your cupping marks right after you get them. Your pores are more open. It's easier for toxins to get back in. If you're wearing like a really dirty shirt, I wouldn't wear that. If you're going out in the wind or you're going in the shower because our drinking water has lots of bad stuff in the water, I would just keep the cupping marks clean for as long as you can afterwards. So there have been a few times that I've gotten blisters while cupping, but it's always in a specific area and it's always when I've left the cup on for a long time. Like I don't know how long, maybe it was 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 60 minutes. I just put the cupping on and got busy doing something and was like, oh my gosh, I got a bunch of blisters right there. But when you do research on it, apparently there's kind of like damp toxins. I don't really understand it fully, but there's damp toxins. And when you have a lot of damp toxins, the body will actually make blisters in that area to help remove the toxins even more. The points that I've gotten blisters are always on the sides of my stomach and like the sides of my legs. I haven't got them anywhere else. And again, it's always been when I've left the cup on for a long, long, long time, I've never gotten a blister for leaving them on for even 15 or 20 minutes. You don't have to worry about it. If you end up getting blisters, I would probably try to get some sort of cleaner, like hydrogen peroxide, maybe rubbing alcohol. I'm not too sure. And then put that on a band-aid and then put the band-aid over the blisters. Some people say you could pop them. Yeah, but I mean, I would have something to clean it out right there because it's a lot of toxins. And once you pop it, it's pretty much like an open wound. So I'm sure you want to avoid it. And I want to avoid it too. Just make sure to not cup longer than 15 to 20 minutes and you'll be good. Okay, another little thing I noticed about cupping, kind of like a tips and tricks is there'll be times where you'll put a big cup on a problem area and you'll get almost nothing. Like it won't really show any marks or something. And you'll put a smaller cup in the same area and that smaller cup will just be completely dark. There are times where you need bigger or smaller cups and sometimes if you use a bigger cup than you need, it actually doesn't flush out the toxins, which is crazy, but I just kind of want to put that out there. Most of the time the big cups work, but sometimes you need one of those little ones. All right, then the last thing I noticed about cupping is there is like no discomfort. I totally get where you're coming from.  It looks like you literally just bruised your body and said, oh yeah, I'm doing some natural holistic thing that's helping my body when it's just like, nah, you bruised yourself. Cupping marks are not bruises. Whenever you have a bruise, it hurts and it breaks all the blood vessels. It's not good for your body.  And the times that I do feel a little pain is when I've used it on a weird area, like just some weird random area that I've never seen anybody use it on. I'm just kind of trying it out, which is why I recommended following the cupping chart. So you're never gonna put the cups in those weird areas. You're always gonna put them in the best area so you won't have that issue, but 99% of the time I don't feel anything. So anyways guys, that's been my experience with cupping after two years. There are some ways that you could do cupping wrong. There are ways that you could hurt yourself. I've never done the wet cupping, which is a whole another level to it. I don't know if I'm really ready for that. There's also fire cupping. So I assume there are some risks to that as well, but I don't use that. I use like the suction cups from Amazon. So anyways guys, I highly recommend it. Really flushes out the muscles, really gets those pinpoint problem areas. You could do it by yourself. It doesn't hurt, helps 100%, it's great. So my cupping set used to be $35 on Amazon. I bought two of them so far. And I do wanna say that I've dropped the cups numerous times and not one of the cups has ever broken. Anyways guys, I personally can't recommend it enough, but be careful, do your own research and make sure if you're doing cupping, you're doing it properly. Anyways guys, have you tried cupping therapy? Have you tried any other kinds of far out therapies like cryotherapy or sensory deprivation, tank, acupuncture, massage? Let me know all your body health tricks down below. We're on the road of 50,000 subscribers and I couldn't do without any of you guys. I hope you guys are the best. I'm having a great day out here. Hopefully having a great day at home. See you all in the next video, peace.


What's up everybody? Jason here, JaspysCasebricks.com. We just filled up our Jaspys high roller mystery crate, random hit number 10 where there's five spots and the chaser was this $4,000 plus Kobe Bryant patch autograph from 1718 National Treasures basketball graded at 9-5-10. So that was your chaser of course. It'll be the hits will be in this beautiful Jaspy crate that we have here. We do a lot of these on Instagram guys. We're also been giving away a free autograph of Vladimir Garot Jr. Jersey, which I have right here. And like I said, what a mystery crate. You're always guaranteed something, right? I'm not gonna walk them at the handed. This is a hefty price put of course at $1,500, but you have a one in five shot to potentially almost triple your money with that Kobe. The way it works guys is we're gonna showcase the five hits, right? Hits could be boxes, packs, cases, break credit, graded cards, autographs and more. Anything like that. Usually he's only boxes and cards, but you know we put that in there because we have done that in the past. Showcase the five hits then we'll ratomize the five customer names and the five list of hits that we type in and whatever you match up with guys is what you get. Now as I added bonus we're gonna give away that Jersey to the customers, to the four customers that don't hit the Kobe Bryant. We'll put you guys in a separate randomizer, the four of you, and whoever comes in at number one will win the Vladdy Jersey. Highest value hit in this crate was 4,200 plus. Lowest value hit was about 550. So that's you know Jaspy Valley we had here in the store. Which is pretty spot-on for the most part. You know comps always go up and down especially with higher end stuff, but for the most part you know we do a pretty good job of comping it fairly close. And the good thing is that a lot of these teams or a lot of these players in this product are studs, future Hall of Famers, you know obviously Call of the Bride. Now it's a Hall of Famer. Some really nice stuff and I hope you guys enjoy it. So good luck guys. With that further ado, Carl, Robert, William and Matthew bought him straight up and congratulations to Joe. He won that from a pack filler. So paid a fraction of the price. I think he might have maybe two or three spots. So paid less than 200 bucks to get in and now he's guaranteed at least one of these hits. So congrats man. And here we go guys let's do this. Let's smooth this camera up a little bit. So there's the mystery crate. Right we used to have locks and make it all legit but someone lost the keys to the lock so now we can't really lock it. If not we're gonna have to break it open. But why don't you guys peek a little bit? Oh, don't look camera. Maybe put it right here. Let's see if we can grab the first card. What I think you guys peeking at the top. Here's the first one guys. It is a 2007 Topps rookie Orange of Kevin Durant. That is an older PSA slab but a beautiful rookie and of course KD is one of the best players in the NBA. He'll definitely be a future Hall of Famer and going after another ring here with the Brooklyn that's potentially. That's a great card to start us off guys. Rookie Kevin Durant Orange which these are super super tough to grade so a PSA 9 is pretty awesome. Alright so there's the first hit. KD second hit. We actually have a box and it's probably one of the most popular years right now. How about 2019-20 Obsidian basketball hobby box where you can find two autographs, seven cards per box, Chase Jammarant, Zion Willimson and the great 2019 rookie class. Everybody wants that guy. So we'll ship this to you sealed. You can do whatever you want with it of course. There's a hit right there. Hit number three. Just freshly traded to the Denver Broncos. How about a Russell Wilson? That is an on card from Flawless and it looks like it is sealed and it served number one out of five. On card Russell Wilson from Flawless. That's a nice one right there. One out of five Flawless finishes from the NFC Championship game in 2014. There's that Russell Wilson. That is awesome right there. Very nice. Alright here comes hit number four. This was also a very nice one. You know I'm hoping this time they finally do make the playoffs but I'd love to see this guy in the playoffs with the Phillies. How about a 2011 Bowman Chrome Prospect signatures of Bryce Harper. That is graded a nine five and a ten autograph from Beckett. And of course very very big player right here. I think he won an OMVP last year right. Very very nice. And this was the other $1,000 plus hit right here. Very very nice. And of course last but not least your chaser. Your number one hit a 2017-18 National Treasures Colossal Jersey autographs of Kobe Bryant. Beautiful card. 45 out of 49. No sub grades on this but it did grade out a nine five ten autograph. And of course RIP to the Mamba. I wonder you know now that they actually just announced yesterday I think of the Bryant Estates just announcing a Vanessa that they had a partnership done now with the Nike so they're gonna be redoing his shoes now or continuing to make new shoes of his so it's actually not a bad time now to Kobe to your collection potentially because I think with that Kobe stuff will go up just a little bit with that announcement. So very very nice. Hey guys and there's the five hits. So let's switch scenes really quick and let's type in the five customer name or the five customer hits I should say and we'll go with 2007 tops Kevin Durant Orange rookie PSA 9. Next would have been a 2019 20 obsidian basketball. Hobby box sealed shield hobby box. Next one is 2020 flawless Russell Wilson autograph one out of five. Then we got a 2011 Bowman Chrome prospects. Bryce Harper auto BGS 95. And the last one here 2017 18 national treasures Kobe Bryant patch auto 49 BGS 95. All right so there you go so 2007 tops Kevin Durant flawless obsidian basketball sealed hobby box flawless Russell Wilson autograph one out of five as well as a Bowman Chrome prospect Bryce Harper auto BGS 95 10 and then 2017 18 national treasures Kobe Bryant patch autograph to 49. So good luck guys here we go roll it's a four to four eight the hard way good luck one two three four five six seven eight so boom eight times had an eight William at the top down a car now it doesn't matter of course if this was a hit drive William would have been the winner of whatever he wanted but this is a random hit so it's a little different now you have to match up with what you want or potentially what you get sorry so hopefully it's what you want I know everybody wants a Kobe but there's some nice stuff here four to four eight times good luck one two three four five six seven eight boom 2011 Bryce Harper prospect autograph down to Kevin Durant wow did it happen what I said could happen William congratulations man you got a 2011 tops Chrome or a Bowman Chrome sorry prospects autograph Bryce Harper BGS 95 10 Matthew last Balmoja with the 2020 flawless Russell Wilson autograph one out of five Rob floors you got the 2019-20 obsidian basketball sealed hobby box and Joe oh my god congratulations buddy from a pack filler this is exactly why we advertise you just never know pack fillers that's the way to get in sometimes you never know guys congratulations buddy you just want yourself a $4,000 plus Kobe Bryant patch autograph that is ridiculous and Carl very nice 2007 tops Kevin Durant orange rookie PSA nine that also has a lot of chance to go up especially you know you know right now they're in the they're in the play-in little tournament they're probably the most dangerous eight seat on the East with Kyrie Durant and you know they're just they're just solid so congratulations guys everybody you still got something nice so Joe unfortunately you will not have the opportunity to win that bloody Jersey but I think you'll be okay with it so let's quickly just copy and paste the other four customer names that did not win the Kobe and we'll give away that Jersey we'll use a separate dice roller too as well so there we go we'll bold this for you that is ridiculous all right good luck guys roll it we got ourselves a three out of five eight times one two three four five six seven and even final time boom Carl there you go buddy nice Kevin Durant and you just want yourself the Vlad II autograph Jersey so we'll send that to you as well so nice little extra hit there for you so I appreciate you guys again this is you know like you said these are very exciting very fun it's just obviously you know this one was a very high risk at the end of the day you're still walking away with something at least $550 the valley and could go up in value so like I said I kind of want to create another one if you guys give me some feedback and want to do another one I can make it you know a little bit less maybe like a $3,000 hit then I can distribute you know potentially another $1,000 and another hits you know our boxes potentially and make it a little bit more more balanced I should say so it doesn't super high risk but of course that's up to you guys but I think I want to create one for tomorrow so thank you guys appreciate it jazby's casebricks.com


Elante Tambo, within Peru, is undoubtedly one of the most incredible ruins to be found anywhere on Earth. Although many people have been mystified by the site's characteristics, some even suggesting that its shelf-like construction was once created as steps for giants, its real original use however, being no less remarkable. The so-called pre-incas, responsible for its original build, did so with the intention of utilizing these layers of soil to slowly acclimatize plants that were once not used to a certain altitude through a process of selective breeding, eventually taking them far higher than they were ever found before, making it possible to cultivate said herbs, fruits, or vegetables within their high-altitude sanctuaries once virtually impenetrable fortresses so that with these newly adjusted phenotypes of plants, and with the aid of what is the subject of this video, could stay high in the mountains virtually indefinitely, self-sustained thanks to the incredible achievements of Elante Tambo. The Incomesana Water Temple, being the final piece of this now lost people's armory, for although the horticultural knowledge displayed by this lost civilization is evidence of advanced culture, their abilities to control the path of water is another of the pieces of evidence which not only proves that this people were highly capable, but were also unquestionably advanced in their execution of said feats. For although these irrigation systems, or drinking water inflows, are many thousands of years old, most still work to this day. Some of these water features were so well made that even modern re-inhabitors still use several of these systems as they even rival that of the modern system which would replace it, bringing water to the locations. Dr. Richard Meksaad, who studied the water sources of Incomesana in Ole Tentabo, led a team of researchers from the University of Virginia, known as the Right Water Engineers, from the Right Paleo-Hydrological Institute, and archaeologists Armenda Gabaja Oviedo, and Dr. Gordon McCowan, all of whom conducted reverse engineering in an attempt to back-engineer the remarkable achievements seen at the water temple. Located north of the Manjaraki Canal, in the sacred valley of the Incas, at an altitude of 3,000 meters, this sophisticated water complex consists of rooms, open spaces, beautiful complex pools, ornamental fountains, waterfalls, and buried channels. These pre-Incan accomplishments display an intimate knowledge of so-called modern hydraulic principles, even building their channels in such a way as to avoid hydraulic jumps. The water temple's architecture and hydraulic works define Incomesana as a high-status sanctuary for worship of water. Intricate and carefully executed cliff carvings parallel to the water temple add a mystical dimension to the temple's original purpose, which is currently claimed to have been the worship of water. Ancient roads also left by this same elusive group unquestionably tie Olentetabo and the water temple to this once great now lost civilization's empire. Who built the Incomesana water temple? How did they build it? Why is the Polygonal Masonry, something which ancient Peru is synonymous with, found at many of the world's ancient relics? Who were these ancient people? Where did they go? It is undoubtedly an incredible place, one which we find highly compelling. There are many astonishing ancient ruins which can be found throughout India. Ancient temples or caverns often carved into giant boulders or directly out of the bedrock of earth itself. Many of these ruins drenched in exquisite artwork, carvings created with such vision and accuracy that they boggle the minds of all who attempt to explain the methodology of their creator. We have covered a number of sites within India in the past, many of them so precise in their finish that they could have seemingly only been created using precision stone cutting technology, and our next side of interest is of no exception. And in the northern part of the state of Karnataka, in South India, the village of Hampi has some extremely captivating ruins. Dotted with large boulders, the site is also home to some extremely puzzling relics, one of which is the ancient chariot, clearly a depiction of a once astonishing creation. The cart itself was not only clearly massive, but was pulled with elephants rather than horses. Unfortunately indicative of a highly capable group, this incredible chariot is one amongst an array of marvelously preserved architectural artifacts, most of which display a level of refinement created with such precision that modern man could only replicate such feats using machines, something modern academia claims has only ever been utilized by our own modern civilization. Thus an explanation as to how the site, or indeed its smorgasbord of ancient precision made stoneworks were made eludes us to this day. And we hypothesize that the reason for this is due to mainstream historians' reluctance to consider what these ruins clearly indicate. That they were once the work of a civilization that was not only highly advanced but utilized stone cutting technologies, methods of transportation, lifting and placement, that rival even that of today's architectural capabilities. How can one peer upon such sites as that of Hampi, or indeed others, Pumapanku, Giza, Petra, etc. Sites created with such accuracy, that to suggest they were created with soft metal tools or with the use of primitive measuring equipment is simply absurd. Furthermore, none of these ruins would be possible simply with the use of the human eye. The only logical explanation is that just like that of modern day stonework, the stones were indeed machined, cut to such a high quality using precision tools, only then were they placed where they lay today. Hampi was predictably re-inhabited by ancestors based within permitted timelines, once being the capital of a previous Indian empire. What's intriguing about the site, however, is the mysterious, seemingly untouched boulders which dot its grounds. The question is, although they now appear to be geological, were they in fact once relics themselves, left by an even earlier civilization? If not, then why were these stones left where they are found today? Why were they built around rather than utilized, carved or shifted? They were clearly ones of significance, and due to the fact ancient sanctuaries and fortresses are often re-inhabited. The possibility that they were indeed once carvings would logically make sense. The questions would be, just how old is this civilization? Who built the ancient site of Hampi? How did they build it? Were ancient high technologies utilized in its creation? If not, then how was it constructed? It is a place which we find highly compelling. Ancient uparts are undoubtedly one of the most interesting subjects in regard to lost antiquities. Many of these artifacts, due to the locations in which they are found within, or the immense age displayed within the erosion seen upon the object, makes them one of the most controversial areas of study. How can one answer the question of how an iron pod is found within a solid lump of coal within a seam over 300 million years in age? Or how the clear imprint of a chariot wheel is found fossilized deep within a mine in Russia? These artifacts, found at hundreds of feet deep in sediment, or displaying a wooden handle petrified into coal, display an undeniably immense age, and as such, are solid pieces of evidence to support our posit, of there having been a series of now lost civilizations stretching far into the past. Nature is infamous in being cyclical. Why then would we not be permitted by mainstream academia to presume this be the case for the climates of the Earth as well? Regardless of this digression, however, the subject of tonight's video is an incredible artifact which we believe to be that of an ancient upart. However, due to its incredible characteristic, is being masqueraded as that of a much later creation by a far more recent ancestor. Known as the Sword of Gougeon, this intriguing artifact has somehow resisted the effects of time, and although it is enormously old, is seemingly as sharp and as shiny today as the day it was made. This remarkable characteristic, although unexplained, is not the only interesting thing about the sword. It also features an incredibly old form of writing. The characters are written in an ancient script, now known as Bird Worm Seal Script, literally Birds and Worms characters, owing to the intricate decorations of the defining strobes, it is very old and is attested to be a variant of seal script. In 1965, while an archaeological survey was being performed along the second main aqueduct of the Zhang River Reservoir in Jingxiao, Ubei, the series of ancient tombs were discovered. A dig started in the middle of October 1965, ending in January 1966, eventually revealing more than 50 ancient tombs. More than 2,000 artifacts were recovered from the sites, including the sword, having been found inside a casket together with a human skeleton. The casket was discovered in the December of 1965 at the Wangshan site number one, seven kilometers from the ruins of Ying, currently called Jinashang, once the ancient capital of Qiu. The sword was found sheathed in a wooden scabbard, finished in black lacquer. The scabbard had an almost airtight fit with the sword body. Unsheathing the sword revealed an untarnished blade, despite the tomb being soaked in underground water for over 2,000 years. How did this sword retain its incredible condition? Why does it seem as if it is resistant to aging? What sort of metallurgy did the swordsmith once use to create such an amazing object? It is clearly an ancient upart, and one we postulate has an origin now hidden within the bowels of history. It is a remarkable thing, and as such, is highly compelling. In Austrian explorer Arthur Posnanski performed a study on Puma Panku in 1926. He later hypothesized that it was, in fact, one of the oldest archaeological sites on the face of the earth, an ancient ruin dating back at least 15,000 years ago. Posnanski was one of the first explorers of the modern age to have ever investigated Puma Panku's incredible existence, but as our regular viewers would have predicted, his hypothesis is staunchly denied by academics worldwide. Yet regardless of this, his sound reasoning, and indeed that of many other critically-minded individuals, means that his theory is one many others have arrived at, thus it continues to have many supporters to this day. And although mainstream academia persists in their attempts to place this amazing and largely inexplicable site's date of construction within permitted timelines, claiming to have carbon dating done at the site which places its origins at around 500 BC, supporters of a greater age dismiss this dating as unreliable, and due to our own in-depth and many years of investigative experience regarding these ruins, tend to agree that the site is indeed far older, and due to their having been in Ice Age around 10,000 years ago, this dating made by Posnanski would put it right where one would expect to have found it if it was indeed the work of a pre-catechalismic civilization, with Puma Panku being a surviving relic of their incredible legacy. Additionally, archaeologist and researcher Neil Steed has also investigated a relationship with astronomical alignments. He discovered intriguing supporting evidence for this controversial opinion, finding that it was built to coincide with winter and summer solstice and a precise alignment with the spring equinox as well. However, these events would have only been perfectly aligned with the temples over 17,000 years ago. We have long argued against a field of study that is not only assumptive in method, but is also conspiratorial in nature. Any dating of any relic which cannot be explained is merely an attempt to muddy the waters of understanding. Often obscured with an in-depth volley of detailed and competent investigations into civilizations, we posit merely re-inhabited said sites within known recent well-studied history. This convincing tale of events, however, is short-lived if one explores any of the said sites with a logical eye. One soon finds that many characteristics on display are not only found globally, which on its own is compelling proof of a past global superpower, but the countless trilathons, enormous megaliths some reaching into the thousands of tons, along with highly advanced, incredibly accurate, yet unknown masonry techniques, all tell a story which academics who never seem to mention said features cannot explain. And to mention melting pots of ancient academic anomalies, such as that of Puma Punku. How can anyone logically claim that the astonishing precision on show at the site, along with the many basalt megalithic platforms weighing many hundreds of tons, all indicative of a past highly capable technologically advanced civilization once having been responsible and once one grasps just how many holes can be found within mainstream opinion? They can be forgiven for doubting said tale of events, especially when those who tell such tales actively attempt to conceal such unexplainable features. Who built Puma Punku? Is it really over 15,000 years old? How would one cut such precision stonework without precision machinery? It is a place which we find highly compelling.


what's going on guys it's your boy DPJ here today with another destiny video and in today's destiny video I'll be showing you guys how you can get the black spindle the exotic version of the legendary black hammer now we all complained when we knew the black hammer was gonna get nerfed but when you took that into account obviously made an exotic version of it and in today's video I'll be showing you guys how you can get this weapon now today's heroic story today being Wednesday the 23rd of September is last two light where you have to return to the chamber of night and steal the shard of the crystal that once had caught a soul you know where you have to grab that crystal and run like a motherfucker now in the background now you're seeing me and two of my buddies doing this very mission we was running through it from the start we did not wait we did not kill enemies we ran straight to that crystal room because I believe there is a timer from the start it hasn't been confirmed but a lot of people are saying that the door that you need to progress through to get this weapon isn't open so I'd suggest us running straight to that crystal room grabbing that crystal and running back now you will eventually come to a room where you have to grab a relic and open a door as you can see us running towards on screen now at 10 times speed seen on screen now once that door is open you'll then enter another room where you have to grab two relics to open the door as you can see on screen now once that door is opened you run through and you want to run towards the shadow thief strike where you bought the catch and finish the mission here once you fly up you'll see you'll get a timer you'll have 10 minutes to kill all the taken enemies and you'll progress through but there are more than one wave of enemies now once you've killed all the taken in the first room you'll then have to progress through to the second room where the walker spawns in this room you'll have to go through another load of taken enemies once these are taken down and you want to do this as quick as possible you then go to the final room normally where tanics the start is here there is a shit load of taken enemies I suggest destroying the orbs where all these taken spawn from then take down as many adds as you possibly can kill the boss and then take down the remaining adds you'll then see notified on screen that you have been rewarded the black spindle exotic sniper rifle the year 2 version of the black hammer you also get a shit and a couple of other things too now if someone has tried this on the standard lust to light mission on the moon and it works that way and you don't have to do it in a daily that's even better if you have tried it you could let us know down below in that comment section it would really help out try it out set the light level to a 240 so it's hard and see if it works that way if it does let us know down below in that comment section so we won't have to wait until this mission comes back around as a daily story to get this exotic black spindle sniper rifle but guys drop a like I do appreciate the support subscribe for daily destiny let me know down below if you get this weapon and peace out until next time post