dog then in Islam that's not allowed meaning you know a dog has a nature to it right like some dogs are naturally good shepherds some are naturally good guard dogs when you take that and you put little bows on them and you put them around little kids and you act as if it's like a mouse it's not and that's why you have every year so many children that are killed by their own dogs masters that are bit and so on because they're taking something Allah made with a certain role and giving it a different role right and that's wrong it's oppression to the dog if you have a dog for shepherding like I said or if you have a dog for hunting or if you have a dog to protect your house or if you have a dog because it helps you get around as a seeing eye dog or any of those things that's halal that's fine no problem with that but you know don't take a dog and a little kiss it on the mouth and act like I make it your baby make it your baby yeah I see a lot of that in the west before you proceed I just want to clarify quickly why I'm so interested in those little nitty gritties the details because the thing is I'm completely honest here with you and transparent I always conduct myself like that on youtube as well I treat my subscribers as friends the point is that I always dive into everything I do deeply so I will find out about everything even if I would take Shahada I would make research my mission on a daily basis I would have to actually and this is why those little things that are now on my way I have to discuss them prior before taking no problem I will explain all those things the reason I was saying is because sometimes what happens is shaytan gets you to procrastinate and this is one of the tricks of the devil that we know so if you have the belief you shouldn't procrastinate but any question you have I'm here for you until we do your Shahada and then after that as well thank you very much okay next one after dorks let's go with music or some music even though if I look at pop culture I could already assume why it is haram but excellent what an explanation so in Islam we have certain forms of music that's halal right one of them being the what we call spoken word meaning poetry and beautiful wording that comes out nothing wrong with that some of the greatest scholars like a chef and others were great poets some of the companions of the Prophet peace be upon him like Hassan ibn thabit was a great poet the Prophet was not a poet peace be upon him because Allah chose somebody that wasn't a poet that wasn't literate to reveal the Quran to show is a miraculous book he didn't write it but there were later people who became Muslim like Hassan ibn thabit radiallahu anhu was a great poet so nothing wrong with that there is an instrument called the duff and that is permissible in certain situations and there are hadith on that and there's references to that so that is also permissible now when we go with general music it has it scientifically we have researched this issue it has an effect on people meaning your mood your like you said about hip-hop or even heavy metal culture i have seen a mosh pit i don't know if you know what a mosh pit is yeah okay i have seen people that i knew in high school they were very timid gentle good people and when they were in that mosh pit and the music was blurring and the wording was such they were punching people they were picking they were and i was shocked at how different they became became because of that i don't know if you know marvin gay is but we call that baby making music because it would have an effect on people of course that would lead them to certain things so in his his father sorry to interrupt again his father allegedly killed marvin because he was a believing christian and he thought that his music is not permissible so that is the conspiracy behind that that's interesting i didn't know that i learned something from you um so so this is why music generally is not allowed in islam because it has an effect on people that can take them to decisions that would regularly not be good for them right not that this happens every time right but islam is a religion that looks at the general good for mankind right so there are certain things that were left permissible to give you that leeway the duff in certain situations and poetry and and spoken word and those things that's fine but other situations would then for forbidden like guitars and things like that because then it's very hard to draw the line right where do you stop somebody from saying okay this is now becoming into something that's making you uh you know into a satanic weird mindset like you know very recently there was a rap concert in the us i forgot the name of the rapper um but you know there was such a frenzy made that people were stomping on other people and he continued the music you know that right it's there's you have to kind of step away from your own personal desires to see the bigger picture i mean i can tell you i come from a background where i was involved in gangs and many times when we were about to do something violent or a fight we would put on a rap song that had some really violent because it would get you pumped up for it no get you pumped up so yes yeah so so this is why that is something forbidden in Islam but there are permissible forms and again if a muslim does listen to music it doesn't make him a taffer it doesn't make him not muslim everybody has their shortcomings some people they may become muslim and they still listen to music and then slowly slowly they replace that with the quran and things that are more beneficial and so on mm-hmm okay interesting answer how about chess i don't find anything negative in chess actually during this whole pandemic i stopped playing chess a lot and i thought that it is a great benefit to me personally right regarding chess there is a hadith in sahi muslim um some of the scholars of islam like imam eshafi he understood it to not reference the game itself but rather the waste of time that comes with it um other scholars like imam ahmed and malik they took it but the thing is in islam you have to be careful when anything kind of distracts you so much that it takes away from the purpose of your life like i have seen people including some relatives of mine that play chess for hours and hours a day until they start missing prayers until they start you know missing and not just chess i mean many other video games i mean you can take anything take talk videos whatever so in essence the issue is that when those sorts things start taking you away from your obligations then it becomes a distraction to the purpose of your life like i said regarding chess there's a difference of opinions among scholars of islam about the game itself imam eshafi one of the very early and amazing scholars he considered the game it itself impermissible and the hadith to be more in reference to the general games that waste time and take you away from your obligations than anything else yeah that makes absolute perfect sense again especially if you project that onto modern day games such as video games i mean obviously we don't even have to talk about how that is one of the greatest distractions we have nowadays there are kids that play 12 to 14 hours a day i'm not talking about an extreme case you know in japan and china there's actually they have actual mental health facilities to get kids off of games and things so so of course and again if you were to play some games in moderation and other than like dice games or games that have gambling not like other things nothing wrong with that but when anything gets to be where it starts to distract you from the purpose of your life that's problematic that makes perfect sense i think it wasn't japan that a player of world of warcraft he didn't move for a few days and that's how they realized that he died alone in his apartment in this little cubicle yeah that's scary because of dehydration he just kept on playing yeah it's scary okay next one is pictures or slash drawing animated beings so regarding drawings to draw scenery or to mountains or things like there's nothing wrong with that when you draw things that have a soul if you draw it complete this is something islam forbids because of the fact that it does lead to things not that it by itself is worshiping an idol but it could lead to it and we know in the past like the calm of noah noah those things like building making pictures led them after generations but it led them to worshiping idols so we don't allow that but if you are an artist you can make pictures but you leave some things like either you leave part of the body undone or you don't make a full picture or as many muslim artists that will do they'll they won't make the eyes or they'll leave like something some imperfection in there so it doesn't start to lead to being something that would take you towards idol worship or something like this and again if there's a benefit to the drawing like ibn khuddamah one of the great scholars in al-mughni says that if it's to teach people for example then it's permissible so you could draw but you will have some restrictions in the sense that you don't make it so perfect as if you're trying to imitate the creation or you're trying to make it where you want it to be something that draws your attention so much that you now want to hang it look at it and maybe your kids will come and start looking at it and go you know maybe that was some amazing being or something like this you know so you have to establish and prevention instead of cure so you can still draw within those constraints inshallah that's beautiful man this really clarified a lot for me personally because i just saw this black and white world where now there are no pictures anymore there is no song no i mean like i said i mean walk a dog no no we have i mean if you go to muslim countries like my uncle he's a hunter he has many great dogs my family in the village they all have dogs because they have farms you know i have friends in san diego that are very good practicing muslims that have dogs for legitimate reasons and you know we have some rules and regulations with them they're muslim artists that are well known throughout the world you know in all kinds of art and obviously the nasheed the islamic songs within the boundaries of nasheed are beautiful they're used i mean we we hear them in all muslim countries alhamdulillah okay perfect now we come to the christian questions the last remaining christian christians if jesus is not the son of god who is the father he was born of mary and god impregnated her so to speak through the holy spirit according to christianity so who is the father excellent question uh jesus peace and blessings be upon him was a prophet and he was born miraculously without a father he doesn't have a father and that's not something strange if you look in the bible you will find adam didn't have a father you will find eve didn't have a father or mother doesn't mean god is their biological father you will find people referenced as children of god like solemn as the son of god israel as the son of god in the bible it is a term of endearment used for them so we say that jesus peace and blessings be upon him has no father god is not the physical father of anybody god orders and we are right in a term of endearment maybe in aramaic you could call god the father in the sense of endearment maybe i don't know aramaic well enough to say that but no doubt that physically god is not the father of anybody he is above needing children or a wife or mother or dad or any of that kind of thing um as adam and eve had no father and no mother they were miraculously born by the order of god jesus was miraculously born without a father by the order of god so the differentiation is essentially being created and not being made by the father or exactly all of us were created by god's order before we were in the wombs of our mothers we were souls right a lot ordained in this world that we have a father and mother but if a lot orders it like adam and eve you're born without a father and mother as jesus was peace and blessings be upon all of them speaking about adam and eve this is something again of particular interest to me personally the christian narrative of adam and eve eve essentially convicts basically adam to sinning she brings him to sin she listens to the devil to the snake and adam starts listening to her this story is actually very dear to me because i've seen it in my personal life so this is going to sound very misogynistic but at the same time every time we as men we start listening to women rather than to god so to speak rather than to understand to ourself right and then to god we kind of get of stray i'm sure that plenty of men have experienced that and if not then i would even make the argument that then you haven't listened closely and haven't observed closely what is going on within your life and even within islam obviously we have a male and female structure the man is of course i believe the leading person so this is why this this story of origin made so much sense to me that instead of listening to god adam listened to the woman but in islam it's a bit different in islam it's different islam we don't actually blame eve for it rather we say they both were tempted by the devil and they listen to the devil instead of listening to god we based our narration on authentic sources and so on we don't go with biblical sources because they have so much of the changes in it and so on having said that the prophet peace be upon him did warn us that one of the first things that destroyed the earlier nations like bin israel was the fitna the trials and tributions that came through women and a lot of the jealousies and misinformation they gave to husbands and so on and this is something that we should be very careful about women are in many ways very intelligent and very capable in many ways there's certain things that they have weaknesses and and men have their own strong points and weaknesses everybody has their role in islam the man is the leader he's the decision maker yes he can consult his wife and his children but he is the head of the household he's responsible for the household and he needs to make those decisions and those decisions are the final decisions in a household all right yeah so in islam that is no different right yeah yeah now i just simply like the analogy because it made so much sense to me that adam actually listened to the woman enough to god this how he went off stray anyways another question for me and this is really important for me to understand is you mentioned the injil at the beginning of our talk we don't really know what the injil is because we don't really have it now right the question that i'm having is out of an islamic perspective jesus preaches monotheism but he's preaching that in the land of the jews right so they are already monotheistic they already worshiped one god so what is the injil what could it have been what did he really preach in those lands excellent jesus peace and blessings be upon him he preached monotheism as every prophet preached monotheism the jews were monotheistic but there are many sects amongst jews that worshiped idols they worshiped the golden calf for example they worshiped wealth in many ways they corrupted the law in many ways they charged as we know historically they charged people to go to church or in the synagogue or in the place of the worship in the temple which was wrong so he came to rectify the law he came to correct the law and that's what many prophets did before him even moses preached monotheism two jews were monotheistic but they had gone astray so he came to correct the people and to bring them back on track the injil is the revelation that was given to the prophet jesus peace and blessings be upon him aspects of it may be in the new testament today meaning certain teachings from it may have come down in those traditions but we know the new testament as it is today was written in koneik greek as you mentioned and was written centuries later so it is not the injil itself but some aspects of those teachings could be there how do we know what's right from wrong we evaluate with the Quran okay all right plenty of questions that are written down you already answered whilst speaking about it so i want to jump to my last chapter of questioning so to speak questions about reverting and i think this is the most important part obviously excellent if i would revert would i need to circumcise first and foremost big question um regarding circumcision for men it's a part of the tradition that has been there from the time of the earlier prophets and in Islam um and the general rule is that if somebody does revert yes they go and get circumcised but we also know that due to age and time and place that may not be possible for everybody right so we would have to look at the situation whether you are capable whether there is a medical facility or ability to do it safely in a way that wouldn't harm your health then yes if that is not the case then you are not held accountable for something that's out of your capability you don't just you know fork this is a beautiful thing that was done Allah never burned the soul more than they can handle if you are capable and able and there is a there is a way then yes you would and if there isn't due to your being of older age and not having the medical facilities or that around you then we don't worry about that i mean Allah doesn't burden you more than somebody can handle so that's not an issue i'm not 20 anymore so i'm a bit older i'm 35 already and circle circumcision usually when you're very young i mean if you're past 10 uh that that just becomes a problem later so yeah but that's my question as well so for me as the head of the household right i'm a father now my son is almost one and a half years old if i would revert what would i have to do with my son i would have to bring him to circumcision right i mean so if your son is young enough that you can get him circumcised then you should i mean there are also great health benefits to it i mean from the cleansing aspect of it and so on but again depending on your country and depending on resources like in america for a child that's past six months it's very difficult to find a place that they can get circumcised so a lot of the brothers that revert if their children are one or two or three or 10 or 12 um it's just not possible for them or it's very expensive so we don't push the issue because a lot doesn't burden them more than they can handle um but if in the country you're at you can find a medical facility that will that will take care of it in a way that's safe and sanitary then definitely you should right on another question that i have and this is especially important for me personally because coming from an orthodox christian background right this already a sect so to speak of christianity even though orthodoxy would claim that it is the original christianity of course but then you look deeper into it maybe it was the gnostic christians maybe it was arius etc etc we don't know that i got very fed up with sects looking into catholicism protestantism it was annoying so when i read the quran and it claimed this is for the believers right this for the muslims and you shouldn't divide into sects i said oh thank god this is beautiful yeah exactly what i want i don't want to belong to any type of sect but then you look deeper into it and then you see sony shea etc etc different schools of thought could i become just a muslim and not a shea sony whatever for sure and that's what i suggest is you just become muslim um we as muslims the vast majority of muslims are not in any sect they're just muslim sometimes we're called ahlu sunnah and jama'ah because the prasulam said said aleykum by sunnah to the japanese sunnah to be on the way of the prophet and a jama'ah means actually to come together as one group not to separate right shea is a sect uh ismaili qadiani uh nation all these little groups these are sects that break away and that's wrong we give them advice to don't break away from the bigger muslim body that is one muslim body but if and inshallah when you do today become a muslim you will be just muslim that's all you got to worry about yes we have schools of thought that is not sect those are just different ways of deriving rulings and all of those are in agreement all those four great scholars were in one belief they were all i mean they weren't they didn't separate themselves in belief is this you know when we get into some details of you know should you put your hand here or here and you look at the different narrations like those things it's a scholarly work right but they're not sects um hanafi shafa e maliki hanbali these are schools they're not sects those bigger sects that we do have unfortunately these are people that have split away from the majority muslim body we would say to you don't worry about any of those you are muslim and that's all the title you need far enough that's really good to hear because yeah coming from the christian background it is extremely annoying so now i have a question this is something that i heard from sheikh asim al khakim and he was speaking about the muslim that is very weak at this stage and that once it becomes strong there could be an expensive jihad extensive jihad so this is something that i'm paraphrasing here but we were speaking about expansionist wars etc etc so my question is truly and i really mean this what am i signing up for right if i become muslim no really honestly i i got you i got you no problem i'm completely transparent here if i sign up is it is it my personal belief or do i sign up hey now we are strong enough we have plenty of people on board let's conquer the world let's go to war what is happening great question uh regarding uh sheikh asim's statement i won't comment because i don't know the context i don't know the exact wording but generally what i will say in islam we don't have a mindset of just conquer right that's not something ever in islam if you look at the time of the prophet peace be upon him he made treaties he made peace treaties he made alliances if you look at the companions of the prophet like abu bakar umar othman ali in their times they had different treaties they made with different nations and so on but at the same time when somebody attacks a muslim land then yes to defend it is a part of our responsibility if muslims like in spain if you look at the history are being tortured and killed then yes to defend them and even non-muslims to stop the oppression upon them is our responsibility but the muslim is never about just conquering and fighting this has never been the case this is not in the quran or hadith rather what we find is that even the muslim armies when they would go out in the time of the companions they would give options they would say look either allow us to spread the message let us get this message out and if you're going to stop us you know then there's going to be a problem if you want you keep your government you keep your kingdom you become muslim you stay in power but you change the your belief set and system to what Allah has ordained not to force the people if you don't want to do that don't don't become muslim we're not going to force people pay the jizyah you know you have your tax which as muslims we pay zakat you will have your jizyah that's how the government runs just like you pay taxes in america and the uk or in europe you everybody has different taxes and different brackets and all of that i rather pay the jizyah than the taxes trust me you know even if even if you look at jizyah and zakat many times depending on the how much wealth you have zakat will be more as a muslim why do we have jizyah why don't we make non-muslims pay our tax system like i live in america i pay tax i don't say hey i'm muslim i'm not going to pay taxes no this is our system but as muslims zakat is a religious obligation if we were to force a religious obligation on another religion then we would be forcing our religious religion on them so for them to live in the muslim land and not pay zakat and use all the facilities would not be fair so to put them okay you have your place you're here you're enjoying the services but that doesn't mean that you're going to take advantage of it you have to pay into the system as well if a non-muslim is not benefiting from those services there's no jizyah like in america we have non-muslim we don't tell them pay jizyah why because we don't have those services so the point being that you're not signing up to join any army there's no halifa there is right now i mean unfortunately in the time that we are we're pretty much scattered everywhere it's really a belief system if we get a united muslim body and everything in your lifetime and everything it doesn't mean we're just going to be like marching into countries no there has to be reasons there has to be negotiations there has to be treaties there has to be suburb for what we do right if somebody's stopping people from entering the paradise and stopping the message then yes we as if we have that power we give them that notice look you can't you have people have to be able to recognize their creator right if people are oppressing a people oppressing muslims and yes we defend them but unfortunately right now that's not even a factor because of the state that we're in even when the muslims had power if you look at historically in the time of salauddin ayubi they didn't just go and attack spain and russia and stuff like this no even in jewsland you can look at history they allowed christians to have their churches they allowed jews to have their synagogues they allowed them to even practice their own personal law in according to their religious tradition a freedom that i don't have in america in america i cannot say i'm gonna as a Mormon or as a muslim i'm gonna marry a second wife legally you cannot even though that's in the Mormon tradition it's in the muslim tradition it's in many other religious traditions but they cannot i they're not given that right but under islam non muslims would be given that right to have their personal family law by their tradition right yes yeah that's actually correct i looked into the ottoman empire obviously coming from the Balkans and it's true otherwise we wouldn't have all of those old churches still intact i mean think of this what wouldn't the spanish do at the inquisition when they took spain from the moors they massacred all the muslims and all jews and other christians that didn't fit their minds that they genocided them right if the muslims had done that in spain you wouldn't have any of that if the muslims at the ottomans had done that if if salauddin a yubi had done that those muslims were not just looking at taking over lands or you know trying to enforce that's not the way islam works it's never worked like that i'm done now fair enough my last question is simply how would applied sharia ideally look like because right now i don't think we have many countries if at all that follow proper sharia how would that look like an ideal world for you excellent excellent um when we look at historically um like the times of the khulafa the the companions of the prophet peace be upon him uh and the time of the prophet himself peace and blessings be upon him and later like umber of adul aziz and those that applied the sharia correctly we saw a beautiful society a society where christians and jews can live according to their own traditions if they like and they can be productive members of the society a society where you have a safety even in the country that have some sharia law like saad arabia and others you will find much more of a safe society for your wife for your children as a father uh as as the leader of a household you'll feel comfortable in those societies more than societies where you have uh you know robberies and carjackings and you know i was recently in london when you look at the stabbings you go to la you go to i was in tijuana you look at the murders you wouldn't have that under sharia under sharia you have see it's not it's not pure it's prevention so let me ask you a very simple question and i'm i'm blunt like i'm straight about it like i'm i'm so sure you know if you knew that you could rob somebody and let's say in norway or sweden or one of those countries and you might if you get caught you might go to a jail where you have a tv and you have a workout bike i mean we see videos i mean i haven't been to a prison there but that's what we see yeah you might take that chance you know if you're you might take that chance but if you know that if you go and rip a woman's purse and take her stuff and even though you're not starving you're not in any kind of need you're mentally fine you're going to get your hand chopped off you're going to be walking on like this you're going to be overly honest because you don't want to take that chance now in the sharia we have checks and balances we check mental health we check with person who's in need person who's underage is not going to punish you have those checks and balances crimes have to be proven but the punishment is such that it prevents the crime in america we have a huge problem with prisons and prison gangs and people going to jail setup is wrong right everybody's like huh if i get locked up so what there's this and then you get locked up and then some guys trying to rape you and then you got to stab somebody and then it just rule the whole system and you don't rehabilitate you sit in prison for 10 years get stronger and build the club criminal network and come out and be a better criminal that's why the the rates of people going back to jail are sometimes in the upper 90s that's insane what are we doing in the sharia we don't have a jail system we're only we don't have a prison system we have a jail system you read somebody you check if it's proven if they get lashes if they get whipped or they nothing if they're innocent whatever you're done you go back to being a productive citizen and you remember those lashes you're like man i'm not going to do that again you know right i didn't know that that's very interesting i didn't know there would be a prison system at all we don't have a prison system yeah we have a jail system that you arrest before the case can go right it's the point of putting somebody in prison for 20 years uh what does society benefit your taxes pay 70 80 000 a year to keep somebody in a hole that you know mentally being tortured no benefit and in islam like in muslim countries where there's some aspects of sharia look statistically look at the rape rate look at the uh the the crime rates look at the murder rates there's the lowest in the world so society with practical mission of sharia your wife could walk around without being worried your your children complained the playground without drug dealers and all of that you wouldn't have to worry about uh you know people robbing you people ripping you off motorbikes and doing all the things that we see you wouldn't have any of those and i can tell you from having visited countries that may not even have some sharia but there are there's a strong muslim presence like a vast majority people walk around at 2 a.m i was in the ua 2 a.m people walk around else in saudi in pakistan children families no fear man uh there's places in america it gets dark you can't be out you're worried right same in europe yeah that was my experience as well in malaysia it was so family oriented absolutely beautiful yes i hadn't seen that anywhere else right i mean you go to places and you you have a son i mean think about it your son's going walking down streets in france you see fully naked women you see uh in germany you have daytime porn being shown i don't want your son being raised in a society like that right in the sharia look you have you have that piece of mind yeah now i found that beautiful i think that sexual imagery or whatever has nothing to do on the outside bikinis and bras advertisements everywhere it's absolutely repulsive yeah can't go to a park without worrying that something will happen it's terrible that's why i left for now that's basically it we went through all of the questions man we have been hit it for a long long time and you answered everything all right so i got a question for you yes arabic first or english first brother i'm going to tell you one thing as much as i appreciate it and it would be a great honor to do it with you yeah i i have a thing that i wouldn't like to do it online you know for me personally for me personally right now i'm in thailand next week next week i want to visit some masjid see myself i want to see it in real life because up until now everything has been happening online my journey has no problem by myself and that's why i want to see it in real life by myself and then make the right so let's make a deal all right uh visit mosques check out again you might find Muslims that are not knowledgeable or doing something wrong don't let that distract you but visit the community check it out thailand has a beautiful muslim community i've been there but when you're ready call me we'll do it on the phone no online we'll do it with me fair enough fair enough really i thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your questions and i think this is not only useful for myself but for the audience as well because you answered all of those islamic whole big comments confusions christian questions and whatnot i believe that this will be of great benefit to everybody i really appreciate your time i appreciate your honesty appreciate your questions your straight upness and i pray that allah guides me and you and puts us on the truth and i have a very good feeling that very soon uh you will be accepting what i think you already have in your heart the belief that there is one creator the belief that the prophet muhammad is the prophet of of allah uh there is a video i have about the splitting of the moon you should check it out if you haven't seen it already uh just you know i give the evidences and inshallah when you're ready for your islam after that give me a call uh i'll i'll email you my phone my personal phone number and inshallah we'll uh we'll we'll do your shahada inshallah don't protect procrastinate too much remember devil's going to make you want to just put things off but at the same time i want you to be comfortable with it hundred percent hundred percent i mean thank you so much again bro appreciate you for taking thank you have a great night or day we talk to you over there uh it's still better uh you


Hey guys, before we get into this video, I want you guys to go check out the link down there in the doobly-doo, the first one, and I want you to go check out Ritten in Bloods Channel. He is doing a horror-themed challenge right now, it's five decades of horror. I myself am not participating because I am booked up, as far as my TBRs are concerned, I am booked up all the way up until March. That's how much I have on the table, so I'm not doing this. But I wanted to, he asked me what I thought about it, I thought it was a great idea, and I asked him if he wanted me to boost the signal, and he said please do, so I'm boosting the signal. So hop on over there before or after the video, whatever, hop on over there and check that out and join his challenge. It's one book from every decade, from 1970 all the way to the 2010s, I think you guys would really like it. On with the video. Why? Why y'all do this to me? Hello everybody, Ian here, welcome back to another book review. It's another one man, two in a week, I don't want to be here for this one. Well, I can't wait for the comment section, we're talking about The Hunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. I'm going to, this is my last Halloween theme, I only got through two Halloween books, I'm so sorry.  Yes, yes, Donald, I know, I know you don't like the hat, Donald. I understand you don't like the hat, anyways. So I tried, my buddy Gregor said, you're an insane person for trying to force your way through books you know you're not going to like. But with books like this one, I keep telling myself, there's got to be a reason why people like this book. There's got to be a reason why people are enamored of this, why it's been made in the movies, why people have, you know, they're fanatics for this book. There's got to be a reason, it's the same reason I read Harry Potter, I didn't see the purpose of that one, I didn't see the purpose, well not purpose, I understand the purpose. The author had a story to tell, I don't understand the fandom is what I don't understand because the Harry Potter series was a very basic thing, but I respect the hell out at JK Rowling for what she did for young readers, she got people reading. I even respect Stephanie Meyer to an extent because she got people reading. I respect Shirley Jackson for cultivating the following that she has today, that's an amazing feat. I just don't understand the books, this is a very basic story about a haunted house, man I don't know if I'm just, it's probably just because I'm so desensitized, like these are the books that laid the groundwork for all the, now I don't like Dracula, I don't like Frankenstein, I don't like much of Edgar Allen Poe, I don't like Lovecraft, I don't like any of these folks. And this is kind of the same thing, the writing is so bland, I feel like these books have been done better later in life, like Jock Jemps with the grip of it, Stephen King's The Shining. So many different authors have done better with this storyline, but this book is a stepping stone, so I mean I can't hate on it too much because I understand intellectually that if it was not for this book, we wouldn't have the other books. So I respect it in that sense, it just isn't fun to read. I don't know, I don't understand it, I'm sure many of you have explained over and over again that you love it, you feel that it's creepy, you feel that there's a deeper narrative, I missed all of that, I'm not going to lie, I think I missed all that and we have always lived in the castle also, I completely missed that and I still want to read the lottery, I can't because I'm so stupid, I don't know why, I don't enjoy this author's work but I do want to see where some of these, what these stories did to inspire things like The Hunger Games and Battle Royale and The Long Walk and all these other books that all point to Jackson's The Lottery and say, hey, this is where we get our inspiration from, just like with Jemps and King going, hey, this is where this book is where we got our inspiration from, can a piece of art that is inspired by something else be better than the source material? Oh yeah, at least I feel that way. In fact, most recently, the Child's Play remake is leaps and bounds of better movie and just thematic experience, period, than the original Child's Play. The original Child's Play is very hokey and ridiculous and the new Child's Play actually made you care about the characters. There might be some, there might be some seriously suspect, special effects but you like the characters more than you did in the original one because you don't really get to know the characters in the original. Well with this book, all the characters talk the same, all the characters felt the same, even though they each have their own, I constantly, constantly got Eleonora and Theodora or Eleonora and Theodore, whoever they were, I got those two confused constantly. I didn't know who the main character was, I was lost. And it took me, here's a testament to how much I didn't like this book. This book is 246 pages, it is very big font for a book of its size.  The audiobook itself is only six, seven hours long, which is, I had to cheat to finish the book and go lie. I broke out the audiobook. Luckily, Don, thank you so much for scribe because I do not give me scribe, I never would have finished this book. I was hoping something would come at the end and then the ending came and I was like, is it? Is all I get? Okay, so let's get to the end of this so that you guys, you're probably already raging at me down in the doobly-doo and that is fine. I respect your opinion and I respect the fact that you want to stand up for the stuff that you love. I respect that. I ain't gonna argue with you one iota about this one. But yeah, let me know what you liked about this book. Let me know what you didn't like about this book and expand on those things. Don't just say, I hated this book or I love this book. Either way, let me know why. Let me know what it means to you. Let me know what it doesn't mean to you. But until next time, I have been E, you have been U, this has been another book reviewer. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye!


Hey, what's up YouTube today? I'm going to be showing you the Google pixels 8.1 updates for augmented reality stickers It's also known as AR stickers. It comes on the Google camera And I'm going to be showing you how that looks like on the Google Pixel 2 XL And let me know what you guys think Okay guys, so the the first thing you need to do to make sure you get the AR stickers on your Google camera Is make sure you have two apps installed and updated. So if you go to the play store So I did a search here. You see the first one in the list is called AR core So make sure this one is installed and up to date The second one is AR stickers Now make sure you have this installed as well. If you have the Google Pixel 2 This should already be installed with the 8.1 update But just go in and make sure that they're up to date to the latest version of these apps Once you've done that, you can open up the Google camera and Then if you open up the left hand menu, you'll see on the second to last option You have AR stickers to go ahead and select that Now you've got various different options to play around with in the augmented reality feature So Star Wars is the first one. You've got a few options of adding different characters They've also added stranger things as well as the last menu The last thing to note is with AR stickers. It reduces the quality of the camera quite significantly That's just part of the AR core chip That's required to add these characters into the camera Although it does do a pretty good job when you play around with these characters as well So let's go ahead and and get some of these stickers into view So I'll add a stormtrooper Here as an example you can pinch to Reduce the size of them and you can add as many as you want all around You can change the size And they can interact with each other as well. Let's add this flying machine here overhead pretty large And then let's go ahead and add some characters from Stranger things We've got eleven There we go Let's make 11 a little bit bigger Too big. There you can see you can add some different types of food Lettering is pretty cool If you just drag that down it turns into type and then you can type anything Let's say Star Wars And bring that forward and move it around here As you can see all of these characters they stay in the same position no matter where you move You can interact with them by tapping on them tap on the plane He starts shooting getting crazy These guys they're playing around And you can always add a few more options as and when you want A little donut and a burger And to be honest is pretty cool feature I think they can go a long way with this introduce new things And let me know what you guys think have a play around on your Google pixels And if you have any questions do let me know Otherwise if you like the video please hit the like button And be sure to subscribe and I'll catch you guys at the next one