The past is a many-splendid and dreadful thing, for within its deepest and darkest reaches, lurks knowledge that, would simply, could shatter the world. It has been noted by some, in some cases recently and very deliberately, that one's actions, both personally and as an oculus investigatus of the Logos Historica Vertia, risk opening up that which is best left closed. Like the Pandorica of the ancient Greek and mythic tracts, I shall damn creation with my actions, all because my own curiosity cannot be sated. It is not something I am unaware of, despite what the Ordo Hereticus may believe. My Librarium is a dangerous place, and I am not referring to its less than stable construction, or position beneath what I can only assume is half a planet-crust deep of rock crit. No, it is a place containing such a plethora of knowledge, known only to the most select of the select, that where its mere existence become known beyond that smallest of circles, it would invite a full-scale pergation task force to redact not only the material herein, but my own life besides. The Logos' operations are known, yes, but the material we are oft mandated to scrutinize and record, well, they are not. They are of natures that would damn those without our clearance level, for even being aware of, let alone mentioning. They are, to the wider Imperium, to the uncountable billions of humanity's flock, heresy most foul. For what they reveal about the past directly contradicts the innumerable lies the flock are daily, nay, hourly told, all in the name of preserving their sanity, and preventing their being drawn into the morass of temptations eldritch that ever claw at the scheme of our world from the halls beyond. But my role remains, and my remit remains, and while I ever continue to exercise the most strident caution in secrecy, I will not waver in my commitment to the chronicling of that which the luminaries of ages past have deemed, through their senseless zealotry, should be heretical when it is vital, profane when it is pious, blasphemous when it is priceless beyond reckoning. My previous studies upon the ancient epochs of humanity, the dark age of technology, and what potentially lay even before that, have thus far gone unremarked upon by certain viewers of these records, something I am not unaware of, may hap the eyes of the Inquisition do not consider them by their conjecturing and broad strokes, especially sacrilegious. Let us hope that that leniency will continue with this one, for the Oculus is about to cast his eye into the depths of the impossibly distant past. As a recently uncovered scrap of info-fiche that has found its way into my possession, has opened a line of inquiry I should wish to follow, as far as one may. Know then, that this is a record of the distant past as committed departement by one keeper creepiest, of the men of gold, and the men of stone, and the men of iron, and the dreadful implications of the existence of all three. Recently uncovered, and delivered to me by adepts of the Adeptus Terra, I now hold in my possession a document that purports to be the surviving history of the ancient past, before even the dark age of technology that preceded the horrors of the Age of Strife. It is apparently committed to paper, in 993 and 41, by the Keeper of the Library Sanctus here upon Holy Terra, a master Cripias, the successor of Master Phineas, himself the successor of Master Shediel, and so on and so forth for 836 generations of succession. This is for one a fascinating revelation, if it be true, for one does not know of any such place upon Terra, or within the boundaries of the palace, either inner or outer. This is not in and of itself enough to disqualify the source, however. If there is one thing I have learned in my life upon the throne world, it is that there has existed organizations, sects, cults, offices, bureaus, societies, institutes, ordos, and departmentos whose existences have simply been forgotten about, whether through clerical error, deliberate obfuscation, or simply the grinding passage of time, coupled with the sheer enormity of Terra and the Imperium. It is quite possible that this Library Sanctus does indeed exist, and has as storied a history as the document claims. I shall attempt to verify this independently, but considering this is Terra, I do not expect to have much luck in that regard. The document raises one's eyebrows, and indeed I'm sure the eyebrows of many who will parse this very record is the claim that Keeper Cripias makes subsequent to his statement of lineage. Their lifelong goal has been, and has always been, a full and true compilation of the history of the human species, and that the Keeper himself has within his own lifetime, being granted the task of completing it by none other than the God-Emperor himself. Before we examine that particular section, further context is needed. The Keeper notes that he is the last of his kind, that the lineage of the Library Sanctus shall end with him, hence the commitment of its ultimate knowledge to parchment. Additionally notes, rather crucially in this humble chronicler's opinion, that the tradition of the Library has been one of oral record-keeping, not written. I can see the virtue of such a thing. It should not be necessarily a shock to one's acolytes that such a tradition of historical oratory could have persisted within the Imperium. After all, are you not all transcribing my own words into true and noble parchment? Noble vellum, more resilient than simple paper, impossible to tamper with once committed, cheaper than data stacks and certainly less prone to memetic corrosion than cogitator banks. Parchments upon parchment's upon which the wheels of the Imperium turn, while its production and usage may necessarily scale to a size that verges upon insanity. Is it not worth it for the recording of purest data and most sacred history? May have this particular order took this one step further, that only through the harnessing of that most unique and sacred of things the human mind could the most genuine veracity of the past be found? Perhaps I am indulging in the sin of romance, however. The human mind is capable of wondrous purity, but also corruption most dreadful, as we all well know. Given the nature of this Library's keeper and their devotion to their craft, it would make sense to take Keeper Krippias' statement about his god-emperor-given task allegorically, as opposed to literally. He does his work through us, his mortal servants, but rarely directly. It is likely the last Keeper was interpreting the signs he was seeing, as the Emperor bidding him to become the Great Compiler. And it was certainly true that at the close of the 41st millennium there was much in the way of potential signs for any who wished to interpret them. In order for one to grasp the scope of the Keeper's tale, one truly must relate it through oratory. I hope that the order of the Library Sanctus will forgive its commitment to any medium other than their own voices, but one also hopes that they would see it as a necessary step for the preservation of such knowledge in as dire a time as this. And so it was that in the first age of man, the Golden Age, there was the Emperor Unseen and Unheralded, as he prepares the old earth for the coming of mankind, and he watches and he waits. He is joined by the first men of the Golden Race, fine of limb and strong of mind, yet still the Emperor is content to wait in shadow. To watch and learn from mankind, the Golden Race spreads across the face of old earth, multiplying and establishing order and civilization upon the anarchy of nature. In time, the second men of the Stone Race appear, and in their wake come many miracles and marvels of technology that strengthen the stone men's power, but are also harnessed by those of the Golden Race. Although physically inferior to the Golden Race and not of philosophical temperament and disposition, the stone men have in them the conjurations of great artifices and mechanisms. In time, the Golden Race looks to the stars to expand their dominion. The Stone Race builds great machines of power that send both men of stone and men of gold into the ether. However, once the burgeoning race of mankind has taken its first steps into the greater cosmos, the Golden Race dwindles in influence through their dependence upon the artifices of the Stone Race. This, the Golden Age, comes to an end, and the stone men prevail. Here, the Keeper adds an addendum that, through the library Sanctus's calculations, drawn from the most distant and archaic records, have through Constellar Comparison, accounting for significant warp vagaries and stellar drift, dated the end of the Golden Age at 20,000 years previous to the present, at approximately the 20th to 22nd millennium. The record continues, for the next 5,000 years the Stone Race lives through the Dark Age of Technology. Little can be determined from the Dark Age of Technology, for the majority of existing records concerning that period are gathered in the Liberarius Omnis of Mars and none outside the highest ranks of the Adeptus Mechanicus can gain access past its most determined guardians. Keeper Malrubius tried once, but to no avail. We have surmised that during the Dark Age of Technology, the men of stone created the men of iron to help them in their building of their great empire. At first, the iron men are as servants, willing to do the bidding of their masters with no thoughts. However, the iron men, as all creatures do, evolve and grow until they are the equal of the Stone Race, and beside each other they set about conquering the galaxy. The Dark Age of Technology is an era of machines and artificial devices used by the Stone Men and later the Iron Men in their endeavors. Many of the technical marvels that the priesthood of Mars sustain can be traced to their origins in the Dark Age of Technology, and it is at the end of this period that the great organization now known as the Adeptus Mechanicus was founded. During the Dark Age of Technology, the austere ancestors of the Imperium's Navus Nobility are born, and through their unique prowess, mankind forges through the stars. Weapons of great destruction cower the aggression of alien enemies, pushing back the frontiers of mankind's dominions. The end of the Dark Age of Technology is the most obscure region of mankind's evolutionary tale. For whatever reasons and differences in ideology, the Stone Men and the Iron Men fell to warring with each other. The Iron Men are possessed of no soul and anathema to any true man. The Stone Men in their final acts of self-preservation annihilate the Iron Men who have turned from ally to foe, and even those of the Iron Race who retain their former loyalties to their one-time masters are destroyed in the fire a crucible of battle. Still the Emperor, in his eternal wisdom, awaits the moment to reveal the true path to mankind's destiny. Thus the start of the Age of Strife is heralded. The Age of Strife sees the collapse of the ancient empire built by the Stone Men. Mankind is split asunder. There is no race of man just warring factions contending with each other in the direst perils the galaxy could offer. Seeing humanity's weakness, alien dominance grows in power once again. The arms of the Stone Men left to ruin, the protection of the Iron Men destroyed in the last years of the Dark Age. For five millennia the human race exists in a twilight of its former greatness, bickering and fighting for the scant resources at hand. With no guiding will, no manifest destiny of lordship, mankind is left in turmoil. Even earth, the bedrock upon which humanity's empire was founded, is gripped in the throes of a generation-long internecine war. The foul aliens who had been held back by the might of the Iron Men and the Stone Men surge forth from their heathens and lairs, destroying mankind's defenses. Killing or enslaving the emperor's wards, mankind is engulfed by a plague of mutation, physical deviance and those possessed of psychic talents appear throughout the galaxy, bringing more havoc with them. But no overreaching authority, the lost souls and psychers sprawl unchecked across the human race. It is at this time that the emperor reveals his true nature and sets about his plans of deliverance from anarchy. The last 10,000 years we have been in the glorious age of the Imperium, the reign of the beneficent emperor of mankind. Using his vast intellect and knowledge of ages past, the emperor creates a race of warriors to quell the warring factions on earth, renaming our homeworld Terra and affirming its place as the center of the known galaxy. Having established rulership over mankind's birthworld, the emperor sets about the recreation of mankind's righteous fate. With his legions of space marines, the emperor leads the great crusade of reconquest. It is a long and arduous war, but world after world, seeing the emperor the rightful ruler of mankind, they fall to his service. The space marines, now numbering in their many thousands, establish outposts in the furthest reaches of the galaxy and from these bases on asteroids and moons and planets, launch forays into the darkness, bringing the light and word of the emperor with them. Through this turmoil, the base treachery of the war master and the sacrifice of the emperor, the contact with the noble offices of the priesthood of Mars, the establishment of the Navist nobility and other noteworthy assemblages that we now take for granted, as well as the purges of mutants and psychers the imperium is forged in blood and death on a thousand thousand worlds, the rightful and just rule of the emperor is reasserted. And so it is, ten thousand years since the great crusade, we are able to live under the guiding light of the emperor. We have the guns of the imperial navy, imperial guard and adeptus astartes to guard against betrayal and foul aliens. The chronicle of this last keeper is, as one's acolytes can no doubt see, commendably pious and quite fascinating. His elitry is notable if his few errors sometimes jarring. The adeptus mecanicus was not, as we all well know, founded in the dark age of technology but sees its gestation in the darkest days of the age of strife, millennia later. Some of the information is genuinely any scholar's guess, such as the date of the end of the golden age of humanity before the steady decay of the dark age of technology. The revelation about the nature of that time, that time so utterly occluded from the sight of those of us in this present era, well they demand scrutiny. The keeper alludes to three main groups, the men of gold, stone and iron. This is the first reference one has come across for the former two, but interestingly not the third. By the records telling, the men of gold would harness the power and capabilities of the men of stone, but importantly the latter was not begat by the former. They grew separately and apart, rising upon old earth in tandem. It would appear the men of gold or a subset of humanity that are highly distinct from the rest of the species, albeit of a smaller number. The keeper refers to them as fine of limb and strong of mind, and based on what scraps we have of this era of human evolution, it is highly probable that they are ultimately a form of genetically engineered humanity. Perhaps the first ever stably genhanced subspecies to become extant. Indeed, they may have been humanity's first mutation, a potential evolutionary branch brought about by the changing ecosystem of old earth. Whatever their origin, it clearly rose to a position of ascendancy and in doing so, bent the capabilities of the men of stone to their will. This latter group was apparently highly adept with technology, very much appearing to as the precursors of our glorious mechanicus, and perhaps the original founders of Sacred Mars, being referenced as one of the architects of the first stellar exodus. They propelled themselves and their golden masters to the stars, although in doing so it clipped the golden men, causing the latter to wane in power in influence as the technology of the men of stone drove the species ever onward and ever outward. It is they, through their science and their technology, who usher in the dark age of technology, an era of unprecedented human advancement, an unmatched human ignorance, for in their colossal arrogance, the men of stone gave birth, the queeting unto the human race, the men of iron. If any of you have parsed one's record upon the dark age of technology, you will have recognized the keeper's allegorical term for what it really is, a mythic scale name for the truest horror of the dark age of technology, abominable intelligence, the machine that thinks. Not the true and holy cognition of the flesh, but a mind artificial and utterly monstrous for it. The stone men crafted copy minds to mimic their own, to ease their burdens, to run their worlds, to fight their enemies. And for a time, it was good. The races of man and machine flourished and cast back the Xenos empires that threatened them. And from there, well you doubtlessly know the tale. The keeper appears to lay the blame on ideological differences between men of stone and iron as responsible for the machine wars that caused untold ruin to the species, but does point out quite correctly that the men of iron did not possess a true soul that those of us in truest humanity do. The warring ended with the purgation of the men of iron by their own creators, even those who yet remained loyal to the cause of stone. Abominable intelligence was declared just that, abominable, and its creation forever outlawed throughout the realms of man. But the damage had been done. The empire of the stone men was collapsing, and the enemies were both at the door and within the house already. For further context, the Chronicle of the Last Keeper must be taken in tandem with an altogether obscure source. Passed on to me by a colleague, it is apparently a legendary tale originating from a bondsman of the Navus Imperialis, told to a shipmate during transit, and lightly further rendered into the sort of pleasing naval mythic legend that propagates so well amongst shipboard ratings and crewmen. I shall relate what I have of it below. Once long ago, man lived on just one island. The broad ocean surrounded him, and he believed himself alone. In time, man's stature grew, and he caught sight of other isles far off across the deep ocean. Since he had seen everything on his island, climbed every peak and looked under every stone, he became curious about the other islands and tried to reach them. He soon found the ocean's too deep and cold for him to get far, now nearly a hundredth of the way to the next island. So man returned and put his hand to other things for an age. But in time, food and water and air ran short on man's island, and he looked to the far islands again. Because he could not bear the cold of the ocean deeps, he fashioned men of stone to go in his place, and stone men fashioned men of steel to become their hands and eyes. And the stone men went forth with their servants and swam in the deep oceans. They found many strange things on the far islands, but none as strange or as wicked as the things that swam in the depths between them. Ancient, hungry things, older than man himself. But these beasts of the deep hungered for the true life of man, not the half-life of stone, so the stone men swam unmolested. At first all was well, and the men of stone planted man's seed on many islands. And in time, man learned to travel the oceans himself, riding in stone ships to keep out the cold and the hunger of the beasts. All was well, and man spread to many islands across the ocean, such that some even forgot how they came to be there, and that they had ever come from just one island at all. The tale apparently winds on, telling of how the stone men became estranged from humanity by their journeys through the void, leading further to a time of great conflict when the men of steel turned against their stone masters, and mankind was riven asunder by wars. A thousand worlds were scoured by the ancient terrible weapons of those days, before the men of stone were overthrown, and a million more burned as flesh fought against steel. This tale was of no true interest to me until the revelation of the last keeper's record, and the similarities are stark, it goes without saying. It is the second reference to the men of stone one has encountered, and from two vastly different sources as to put paid to the possibility of an outright fabrication on the part of either. The tale of the bondsmen does what the chronicle of the keeper does not, account for the presence of entities of the warp and their existence, but does so in a way that is truly fascinating and indeed revelatory. According to it, the intelligences of the immaterium were not interested in the men of stone, for they did not possess the same life or vitality as the rest of humanity. As we all know, the demonic creatures of that most foul of dimensions pray upon one thing, the soul of the living. The light of one's very life for their sustenance. The passage of the men of stone through their dimension did not elicit such hunger, is something that by its very nature invites deep contemplation and speculation. If one may indulge in such, one believes this points to the men of stone being at least partially artificial in nature. The adeptus mecanicus has a long and hallowed tradition of cyberization and mechanical enhancement of their human forms, but strict delineation between the human and the machine intelligence, regarding the latter, quite correctly, as abomination. No matter the modifications that may be made upon the brain of an adept, its core must remain organic. Anything beyond this is heretical and against the most holy of mecanicus dogma. But, as we are no doubt aware, the men of stone were of a different era. One typified by a belief that in the fullest and most unrestrained harnessing of technology, will the destiny of the species be found? What if they took to modifying their own minds? What if they, through means unspeakably foul, imprinted their human intelligences onto the cold, unyielding bodies of the machine? One does not simply refer to the transferring of a brain from a organic body to a mechanical one, like the servitor or the dreadnought. No, no, I fear the truth is far more horrible. Imagine the mind of a man of stone inhabiting a whole starship or a planetary new sphere. Imagine, throne, imagine a collective of such minds working in disgusting, gestalt tandem, yet separate identities within the whole. These ideas may seem absurd, but no ye that we call at the dark age of technology for a reason. The blasphemous horrors of that era were manifold and likely far beyond our ken, and rightly so. With minds so utterly torn apart, rent asunder, they were rendered unseed to the things of the warp. May have they were closer to machine than human, even. Maybe the passage of millennia, constant divestment from different elements of humanity, maybe it rendered them abominable in their own way. Code, as hallowed as the Mechanicus considers it, is as prone to corruption as biology. Perchance after thousands of years of creeping and compounding errors or data evolution, the end product is something for which the lines between organic and artificial have ceased to be. There is, of course, an alternate hypothesis here. The stone men were not, in fact, men at all, but rather machine intelligences of their own right. Why then, you may ask, do neither records speak of their gestation as such? Allow me to posit. A dreadful fusion of man and machine. Machine intelligences piloting human bodies like the princeps pilots a titan. A hideous symbiosis, beginning first as augmentation before effectively becoming a newer and altogether more unholy subset of the human race. This would account for why the tale of the bondsmen refers to the men of stone as possessing a half-life, and why the Chronicle of the Keeper specifically refers to the men of iron as solace. It would also corroborate a bizarre turn of phrase held within the first record. The stone men have in them the conjurations of great artifices and mechanisms. Before this idea came upon me, one considered the Keeper a speaking metaphorically. For in just the same way their golden compatriots were of a philosophical temperament, the men of stone were of a technical one. Not so anymore. No. For this sentence takes on an altogether more dreadful character. The men of stone were truly half-humans, formed of a despicable union of man and machine. Their very name is indeed then rendered more literal, for they were truly men birthed of stone. The silicate wafers employed by the Adeptus Mechanicus' war robots are, after all, derivatives of the silicon pathways that once so despicably aped the human brain. Sciences both genetic and technologic, wielded to create this half-breed race that would serve as the artificers and pioneers, builders and researchers, those concerned with the broadening of the species' possibilities, but so completely unhindered by the morality and humanity that they had now excised. For they were, after all, not of philosophical temperament or disposition. Imagine. Humans who could excise all that they desired in order to render themselves as unto the sacred machine, but in doing so, utterly defiling the purity of both. Perhaps then it is no wonder that the men of iron, the abominable intelligences wrought by those stone hands, eventually rose against their masters. Per the introduction to the Emerald Testament, that suppressed work of the techno-archaeologist Sinicius Thorn from M39, fools have asked, why did the dark age of technology end in the fall of humanity, and other fools answer back folly or pride or the worship of progress, as if these things alone had any meaning? The answer, as the wise know, is simple.  What one must ultimately muse to at this point is the fates of these three groups. One would hope, given their descriptions herein, and the long, terrible arc the fate of our species underwent whilst our fates were in their hands, that they had all met their ends long, long ago. But, as you may well know, the galaxy is an incomprehensibly vast space, and there exists within that space many dark and hidden corners where lost things often come to dwell, or deliberately seek out to remove themselves from the eyes of others. If certain reports issuing from the station of precipice, that ramshackled den of villainy orbiting the newly emerged Blackstone Fortress are to be believed, we may not be as free from the presence of the men of iron as we would like ourselves to believe. Of the men of stone? Well, I must add that I am about to relate comes from the mouth of a man deemed heretic by the Adeptus Mechanicus, and the recording of it should not be considered an endorsement of those beliefs. It is my job to question, and given the nature of the men of stone as discussed earlier, well you shall see for yourselves. For his removal from office, Mechanicus historical Majos in question, was well known amongst his colleagues for his persistent pursuant of the origins of the silica animus, the dwells within modern imperial battle automata. In doing so, it is said he even managed to persuade the Synod to grant him access to the oft forbidden records of the ancient legio cybernetica, pursuant to the operation and formation of said during the times of the great heresy. Subsequently, he vanished into the catacombs of Mars, a subject for a full chronicle in their own right, and was expected never to return, or few do. To the shock of many, he emerged several years later, irrecovably changed, and speaking of the machine spirits present in our technology, in ways the Mechanicus simply could not allow. According to the rantings, he had attempted to promulgate throughout the Martian new sphere. The machine spirits we all well know, and beseech each and every time we harness the power of our technology, are in fact shards of ancient intelligences, remnants clinging to perilous existence within millennia old STC patterns, eternally replicated and manufactured, but never in totality. Slivers, billions of them, fragmented splinters of a million machine minds scattered throughout thousands of years, across millions of devices, encased in maddening multifaceted prisons across infinite space.  One piece dwells in the auspex array of an adeptus, a starty's helm, another within a rendering cogitator at a nutrient reclamation facility, neither remembering anything of their past or purpose, mute half something's dwelling only within a present mundanity. What an utterly wretched existence. Naturally, such supposition was quickly and quietly and very definitively quashed, but given the nature of the men of stone as entities who had potentially diffused intelligences, perhaps there is some truth to it? Could our machine spirits be sections of those ancient humans, trapped within our cogitators, our lumen systems, our vox networks, our lasguns? Are we an empire whose technology is merely built upon the bones of our foul ancestors? I provide this merely as supposition for discourse, nothing more. Pray to whomever views this do not let your mind wander into such foul places. They are best reserved for those of us who know how to tread them, for if you do not, therein lies only damnation. There remains one exceptionally glaring question amidst a sea of admittedly also glaring questions, the men of gold. Even what scraps we know of the men of stone and iron provide ground for academic conjecture at the very least, but of the men of gold, our material may as well be apocryphal. Only the record of the last keeper even names them as such, and a scant little else. He notes that they were fine of limb and strong of mind, yes, but crucially that they joined the emperor as he waited on scene, watching the long arc of our species for his moment of ascension to his rightful place as sole ruler of humanity. Could it be perhaps that these men of gold were in fact humans of a similar character to that of the emperor? Is fine of limb and strong of mind a reference to perhaps a genetically engineered subspecies or an extraordinarily beneficial mutations frame? Have they always been amongst us dwelling undetected, only choosing to emerge prior to our first cellar exodus, while the emperor chose to remain hidden? If so, why did they lapse into obscurity as the men of stone rose as the last keeper seems to believe? What happened to them? Not for the men of gold, the fires of a damnation war, no, but seemingly a slow drain to relevancy. This, if one may say, does not seem fitting. Such a race would not go quietly into the night, especially not if they were compatriots of the future master of mankind. No, no, this will require further inquiry, further excavation of the ancient to the last for the forbidden. During one's examination of the shall we say more esoteric aspects of the great heresy, there has been a word that has dogged the most explained, the most miraculous, and most reason defying events. A word that appears to promise revelations myriad about our species, our history, even our god emperor, if one can determine its truest meaning. A word that may yet unlock the secrets of the men of gold and of the ancient past, perpetual, such a lone archaic word, and yet it has appeared with a disturbing regularity amongst the most secretive of texts dredged from the depths of the most forbidden of archives, given what it appears to portend to and taking into account all that one has related here concerning the legends of those ancient humans. It seems beyond doubt that connections exist between all these strands cast a drift across gulfs of time. All it needs is answers. I thank you for your patience in considering my musings worthy of inclusion in your studies. I promise worth, if not now then in future, one only needs the time. And until such a time as my duties permit such a indulgent work as this, Ave Imperator, Gloria in Excelsis Terra. Keep the lights running and the scripts flowing.


Good day, fellow investors. Over the last weeks, there has been a very interesting battle going on between David Einhorn and Elon Musk. David Einhorn is the famous short seller when it comes to Tesla and Elon Musk is refuting his thesis and I think that there are three key things that we as independent investors can learn from either position. I'm not going to go into who's right, who's wrong. I'm just going to give you three key takeaways that are going to improve your investing, your long-term investing returns and this is an excellent story to learn about investing and how to protect yourself and how to increase your long-term returns, which is all this channel is about. So please click that like button and subscribe. The three key things that we're going to learn from this are one, we have to be long-term investors. That works all the time, always. It worked for Einhorn and that's something we can do. If we can find those things, we don't have to do anything. That's also something we can learn. Secondly, before investing, we have to understand the business model. What is the business model based on how it works and what are the most important keys and then see how that fits our portfolio. And the third thing to understand is we have to avoid time bombs but don't short them. So let's start. So David Einhorn, a hedge fund manager that delivered 16% per year up to 2016 and since then preferred miserably is short Tesla. And he has explained how Tesla doesn't make any annual profits, how robotexes are what Tesla is promising or the analysts are bullish on Tesla, are expecting, must attack back how he lost money over the last years, how he doesn't have other things to do than to short Tesla and write false accusations. Einhorn again replied, discussed how the accounting is not OK. Tesla is losing money and blah, blah, blah, all that story you probably know. However, what can we learn from it? Let's start on long-term investing. This is actually what I focus on, Greenlight's letter. On August 31, we saw the last of our Apple stock at 228 per share. The first purchase was at 36 per share. For a number of years, it was the largest position in the partnership. They made a billion and compounded the 26% annually over the last, what, 10 years. And this is the message. He bought the stock, he invested a lot of money in it. It compounded what, 26%, it is a seven-beggar. And the thing is that he is a long, short-value investor. So his portfolio is 160%, 106% long, 76% short. He's a lot of position constantly doing something, constantly trying to be smarter than other guys. What is our investment advantage as independent investors? We don't have to be constantly smarter. We just have to be smarter a few times here and there. Imagine if he would have said in 2010, okay, I'm putting my money in Apple and I'm forgetting about everything else.  So that's a disadvantage he has that we as investors have. So investing long term, finding those good businesses that will do well, that have the opportunity to do well because it was, Apple was very cheap back then. Now he says we are selling because it's expensive. But if you don't find anything like that, you can simply wait. Sooner or later, you will find those great investments. And that's all you need. You just need a few stocks like Apple over the last 10 years and your portfolio returns will be amazing. So let's dig deeper into their fight. So the second message is we have to understand the business and the perspective. They are attacking Tesla and they are doing it rightly because there are accounting issues. There have been facilities, there have been many promises that were broken. But here we have to understand really the business model when it comes to investing. What is Tesla's business model? Tesla has to reach scale. And when Tesla reaches scale to achieve profitability based on the technology that will come there, then yes, they might create market share, they might turn profitable and they might do really, really well. Before that, they used a lot of capital, they are still using capital. They will probably need more capital in the future. But as long as the story is there, they will continue to grow. And that's something you have to understand. Whenever it comes to businesses, you have to understand, okay, what are they doing and how does that fit my portfolio? Tesla, am I going to invest in that even if I know it's based on promises? There are no yearly earnings. And as we have seen in Ray Dalio's last letter, there is so much money flooding the market that investors are forced to invest in those promises. I don't know, 3 million robotaxis or something like that. And Elon Musk knows that. That's why he's so strong and worthy when it comes to protecting Tesla. Because that is his business model. He might make it, he might not make it. But he is about selling those dreams. And I really hope he makes it. Because electric cars, he has created by himself the electric car revolution or other car makers are now following. So I really hope he makes it. But when investing, you have to understand the risk and reward of the business model. If there is a liquidity squeeze, liquidity crunch, Tesla can go bankrupt very, very quickly. And that's something you have to understand when it comes to investing. What is the risk and reward? And how does that risk and reward fit my portfolio? Einhorn is completely right. Tesla is trying to do whatever they can to keep the story strong, to keep the promises strong. Even their sales are going down, but their receivables are going up. And things like that, like Einhorn discusses. And that's something you have to be very, very careful about. But as I said, let's hope Tesla makes it because I think somehow they are improving the world. And they have improved it because a lot of people think about CO2, less mog electrification, improving technology, so improving lives. And that's what really, really matters. Whether they will do it, whether their businesses will succeed, whether the investors will make money is another story. But the second message is try to understand the business model. And the third message where Einhorn is often wrong is avoid time bombs as a value investor because something might happen, it might not happen, but if there is a high possibility that it might happen, like with Tesla, then value investors don't invest in it. But don't go short. Let me tell you a story about Einhorn. So Einhorn wrote a book, a long short story, when he short lied capital. He started shorting it in 2002 and he was wrong until 2008 because he looked at accounting, he said, okay, this is wrongly accounted, the fair value is not like that, this company will go bankrupt and it actually went bankrupt. But not in 2002, it went bankrupt in 2008. Similarly, he is on Tesla that it's not right, it will go bankrupt if the markets are rational. Well, if the markets would be rational, Tesla would not even be on this level. There is so much money, so much printing that is keeping all those companies alive. And that's also something that Deilio said. And here it comes, when it comes again to investing. If something is irrational, like Tesla, it doesn't matter, it will go your way and it will go your way immediately. If you are just long, if you just buy a stock, like he did by Apple in 2010, Apple fell 40, 50% when Samsung came out with a new phone and then it's recovered. But when you're just long, you just need to be right about direction. When you're short, you need to be right about direction and timing, because being short costs and if you're wrong on your short, as John Maynard Keynes said, the market can remain irrational, much longer than you can remain liquid. And starting with 15 billion is his fund and now having 5 billion, liquidity is a big issue for Einhorn. Allied capital, he shorted it from 2002 to 2008, legal battles and everything. He was right at the end. Did he make any money? No. Similarly for Tesla, he might be right, but he might not make any money because of the timing issue. He might be wrong on the timing and therefore, he's not a value investor, he's a gambler. Value investing is something where you don't accept such risks and that's a huge risk. And what we can do as investors, we can avoid such time bombs. Okay, Tesla, yes, it can go to 900 billion to 3000, 4000 as a stock. Let's hope it goes, but it's not a risk I'm going to take with a large part of my portfolio. So the three messages are very simple. The easiest thing is to find good businesses, be a value investor and when you find something good, buy it. If you don't find anything good, don't buy it. And that's an advantage Warren Buffett has and has had over everybody else. In 1960s and the 1960s, he simply dissolved his partnership because he said, I can't find investments. So here is your money, I'm stopping hedge fund managers, other people can do that. We as independent investors can do that. 1986, letter to shareholders, Warren Buffett said there is nowhere to invest, but he didn't had anybody tell him, he's the owner of Berkshire. Nobody can tell him what to do and what not to do. Now again, he's sitting with 120 million in cash and nobody can tell him what to do because he's independent. Hedge fund managers, fund managers, your bank advisor, nobody's independent and there is constantly somebody bombarding. Be independent is the key message. Secondly, yes, something can go right, something can go good. Understand the business model before you invest. Understand the risk and reward.  The upside is limited, the downside is unlimited. Check my stock market research platform where you have my portfolio, all the stocks, research reports and everything that I do that fits the value investing long term perspective. Thank you for watching. Subscribe. And I'll see you in the next video.


Hey guys, let's build something out of this log that monkey found the other day Okay guys, we kind of Straighten this off a little bit. It was at an angle. It still is somewhat, but I think it'll be all right for what we're going to use it for This is that log that monkey found Saturday I mean Sunday and When we went to the fire tower And she was looking for a log for me because we've been we saw a video on YouTube about this These logs that you can buy that have cuts in them Like three X cuts right in the middle and it's supposed to burn for a couple hours like a Like a little bonfire That was kind of big we may have to cut it down I don't know but let's go ahead and see if we can get some plunge cuts down through the center of this thing At least halfway through it and then then if I have to all cut it You know cut it in half.  Let's see how this burns, but we're gonna have to wait till the weekend Well, it's Friday now. I don't know if I'm gonna do anything with it tonight, but Next time you see it We'll be getting ready to light it up and see how well it does.  All right guys. We have stuffed the log. I can't do a review on them reading them But we are live streaming While I'm finishing this video So what I done guys?  Okay, cuz I don't have a very big hole in the bottom I really didn't go deep enough with the chainsaw but So I don't this thing is never let me down your gas coming out of it. There goes Not very good though. Oh, there's the dryer net. Now, let's stand this up Oops, now let's see what happens We got anybody on there. See we are live live streaming while making a video All right, so I'll be back with you in just a minute. We'll see how this is doing. I may have to resort to Ah Chorco lighter fluid, I don't know cuz this is homemade so we can do how we want it. So I'll be right back with you Okay guys we cheated I just put a bunch of lighter fluid in there, so there we go, and I got this working What it is this little piece right there if you turn it like that it's safety blocks there off It won't let it light But if you turn it there Oh Okay, so we're gonna let this burn for a minute and We'll get back with you and see how it's doing. We have one viewer. We've got Edward up there. He's on here All right guys, I'll be back with you and just just a minute for you guys will be a couple minutes for me Well, actually a split second for you guys All right, so we're still live streaming Yeah, and I'm filming here. We go we got it going It took a little bit To get it going cuz I had a pack so tight so I did cheat I did use some charcoal lighter fluid did I already say that on Anyway, so but it's going it's starting to come up through now, so I'm going to check the time I'm not going to put the timer on because I have my phone Use it during the live stream So I'm going to check the time. We'll see how long it's going to burn I'll be back with you. Wait a minute. This will tell me the time. Yeah When you finish no Right there, what's that say? 833, okay, it's 833 now So and if you don't believe me you can go to the live stream video Link in the description below I doubt it, but anyway, so it's burning So we're going to see how long this is going to burn and I'll be back more to come More to come more to come more to come guys. Oh, they're live See you guys are actually watching me live Do some filming this is how I do it. I'm still recording. See look I'll show you I Don't know if you can see the record light up there Ha, this is fun. We've had a fun day. Yeah All right back with you Okay, so here we go. This is what we got here guys This has been this log is 14 inches length I Don't know what the diameter is. I'm thinking Probably 12 Don't know what the circumference is, but it's been a little over 45 minutes still going pretty strong It's starting to rain. So just in case I'm going to go ahead and end this here And I'm going to do something a little different Okay, but I'm going to do something a little different on my outro on this one So Now it's starting to rain. Okay Okay, we have Edward here So this is Edward. He's live with us right now. So I'm gonna say she bear the myth man legend. I'm gone for now Monkey says she's out for now. Bye. And I'm sure Edward. What's that saying? What is the most weird scary Phenomenal experience paranormal Okay, I'll tell you about that in a second. So all right guys, I gotta go As you can see I'm live streaming so I'll catch you guys in the next one. Shea bear the myth man legend gone for now. Bye. Bye guys. Take care


Hi and welcome to the session. I am Shashi and I am going to help you with the following question. Question says, is the function f defined by fx is equal to x if x is less than equal to 1 and fx is equal to 5 if x is greater than 1. Continuous at x is equal to 0 and x is equal to 1 and x is equal to 2. First of all let us understand that function f is continuous at x is equal to a if function is defined at x is equal to a or we can say f a exist. Left hand side limit of the function is equal to right hand side limit of the function is equal to value of the function at x is equal to a. This is the key idea to solve the given question. Let us now start with the solution we know fx is equal to x if x is less than equal to 1 and fx is equal to 5 if x is greater than 1. Now clearly we can see function f is defined at all the values of x less than 1 greater than 1 and equal to 1. So we can say function f is defined at all the real numbers. Let us now check the continuity of the function at x is equal to 0. We know fx is equal to x if x is less than equal to 1. So at x is equal to 0 fx is equal to x. So first of all we will find value of the function at x is equal to 0. So we get f0 is equal to 0. Now we will find limit of the function at x is equal to 0. First of all let us find out right hand side limit at x is equal to 0. This is equal to limit of x tending to 0 plus fx which can be further written as limit of x tending to 0 plus x which is equal to 0. Similarly we can find left hand side limit of the function at x is equal to 0. This is limit of x tending to 0 minus fx which can be written as limit of x tending to 0 minus x which is further equal to 0. Now clearly we can see value of the function is equal to right hand side limit of the function is equal to left hand side limit of the function at x is equal to 0. So we can write limit of x tending to 0 plus fx is equal to limit of x tending to 0 minus fx is equal to f0 is equal to 0. Now using key idea we get function f is continuous at x is equal to 0. Since these two limits coincide each other and they are equal to value of the function at x is equal to 0. So the function f is continuous at x is equal to 0. Now let us take the continuity of the function at x is equal to 1. We know for x greater than 1 fx is equal to 5 and for x less than equal to 1 fx is equal to x. Now first of all let us find out the value of the function at x is equal to 1. This is equal to 1. Now we will find out right hand side limit of the function at x is equal to 1. Now this is equal to limit of x tending to 1 plus 5 which is equal to 5. We know fx is equal to 5 for x greater than 1. So we have written here 5 for fx. So we get this limit equal to 5. Now let us find out left hand side limit of the function at x is equal to 1 that is limit of x tending to 1 minus fx which is equal to limit of x tending to 1 minus x. We know for x less than 1 fx is equal to x. Now this limit is equal to 1. Clearly we can see right hand side limit is not equal to left hand side limit or we can say that two limits do not coincide each other. So the given function is not continuous at x is equal to 1. Let us now check continuity of the function at x is equal to 2. We know fx is equal to 5 for x greater than 1. So first of all let us find out value of the function at x is equal to 2 that is f2 is equal to 5. Now let us find out left hand side limit and right hand side limit of the function at x is equal to 2. Now right hand side limit is given by limit of x tending to 2 plus fx which is equal to limit of x tending to 2 plus 5 which is equal to 5 only. Now similarly we can find left hand side limit of the function at x is equal to 2 that is limit of x tending to 2 minus fx is equal to limit of x tending to 2 minus 5 which is equal to 5 only. Clearly we can see that two limits coincide each other and their value is equal to value of the function. So we can write limit of x tending to 2 plus fx is equal to limit of x tending to 2 minus fx is equal to f2 is equal to 5. Now this implies function f is continuous at x is equal to 2. So our required answer is function f is continuous at x is equal to 0 and x is equal to 2 and function f is not continuous at x is equal to 1. This completes the session hope you understood the solution take care and have a nice day.


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Welcome to Hard Questions where we gather pastors together to take on your tough questions and answer them right from the scriptures. I'm Tom Hollis, the moderator, and today our panelists include... Dr. William R. Glaze, Bethany Baptist Church in Pittsburgh. Tim Bergen, pastor of the Christian Center in Ross River Township. Pete Giacolini, pastor of South Hills Assembly Guy Church, Bethel Park, PA. J. Anthony Gilbert, pastor of Another Level in Mount Washington. These pastors are raring to go to answer your questions that I can hardly keep them under control here on the panel, but it's great, guys, to have you here. I love this time. I love when we get to answer these questions. The first one is from Matt. He called in to ask, how can I be sure that Jesus is the true God? Dr. Bill. Amen. Amen. I love this question right here. And the fact is, is that Jesus claimed to be God. In John chapter 10 in verse 30, he said, I and the Father are one. In John 8.57, Jesus said that I am, which we know he was referring back to Exodus 3.14, where God said I am. But somebody will say, well, you know what? It's easy to make that claim. It's easy to say it. Let me just speak to Matt for a second. Not only did Jesus say it, but he backed it up. Jesus lived a sinless life. No other leader of an organization or movement lived a sinless life. Jesus performed miracles to back it up. He healed the sick. He fed the hungry. But probably the greatest thing that Jesus did to back up his claim as God is that when they put him to death, he rose from the dead. And that's the greatest claim to support, the greatest act to support the claim that Jesus made, that he was God when he rose from the dead. So I would say those three things and probably more will be said by the other pastors, but the fact that he lived a sinless life, that he performed miracles and that he rose from the dead, not only showed that he was God, but backed up his claim to be God. That is really good. Pete, Pete, your Bible is falling apart here, I notice. So you're one I really want to hear from here. Theology 101. Seriously, doctors gave a perfect explanation of why we believe, what we believe. Only one person could live up to that and that was Jesus Christ. But you know, we also believe that this entire, please don't buy me a Bible. There's a few chapters missing in here probably. We also believe that the entire word is inspired from beginning to end. And along with what you said, Doc, there are 44 portions of scripture of the Old Testament that prophesied Jesus would be the Messiah, the true Son of God. And they're seen in the New Testament. So it's not an argument with us. It's fact. Jesus is Lord. Well, let me turn to this side of the table and kind of change the question up a little bit. I don't want to mess up your answers that you prepared, but I want to know, like, so the Bible clearly says, and if we use the Bible, we understand, what is he saying here? Is he saying that how do we say that Jesus is God even apart from the Bible? I don't know, Tim, where do you go with this? That's where I would go. I mean, it's one thing to say to someone, this is what the Bible says, and you should believe it because of that. I mean, there's historical evidence from scripture that 500 people saw Jesus alive and they didn't refute that or things like that. But for me, my own personal journey was one of, I was raised a Christian, but I wanted to make sure that what I believed was really the truth. And so I went on a journey, I have a degree in religious studies, and so I went on a journey and studied the world's religions. And it comes down to this from a very logical standpoint, what's his name, Matt? Matt, it comes down to this from a very logical standpoint. According to all the world's religions, if I live my life as a Christian the way that Christ outlines it, I'm going to make it to a place of perfect nothingness, to heaven, to, you know, even Allah can will that I get to heaven because I've been such a good person. In all the world's religions, if I live as a Christian, just logically, taking faith out, taking the Bible out, then I will make it to, if these other religions are correct, I will make it to this place of heaven or perfection or whatever.  There's no option for me. So from a logical standpoint, Matt, just taking scripture out of it from a logical standpoint, Christianity is the only way to go. It's the only way, the only truth, the only life. In Christianity, Christ is the only, it's the only religion that celebrates the death and resurrection solely of its founder. Jesus not only came, he died, resurrected himself. You know, there's no other religion. It's documented and proven. Another thing, how do I know that Jesus is true, God? Jesus said he's the Word.  So I would encourage you, Matt, to study current events and study the Bible. You'll see that what was prophesied 4,000 years ago is starting to happen now in this world that we live in today. That's really good. You know, when I was a young man in college, I read Evidence of the Man's Verdict by Josh McDowell, which really helped solidify my faith. And you can get another book called More Than a Carpenter by him that's kind of a distillation of those things that kind of gives you this foundation of, yes, there is solid reasons to believe, not just to say I'm taking my parents' religion here, but solid reasons to believe yourself. I think it's important, before we leave, Tom, I think it's important that people understand there are historical records that can point us to Jesus as well, that prove what the Bible has to say that are outside of the Bible. Josephus' writings and things like that can prove to us that Jesus was really a person that lived, he really died, and he rose again. Yes, they did. Well, moving on, Jerry called in to ask, why can't I stop looking at porn even though I pray and ask God to help me? Now, this is an epidemic in our society and in the church even, Pete, so could you please tackle this for us?   I remember Dr. Richard D. Dobbins years ago talked about the, not so much the evils, but the destruction of porn. First of all, we're told that in the signs of the brain, you can't stop, so that's addiction.  They're proving this, that no woman could ever live up to what's being portrayed to you by porn.  And again, there's, I don't know all the facts on this doc, you can help me out here, that there's a pleasure spot in the brain. And once that's released, and if it's watching porn, you will be addicted to that until there comes a complete breaking away of that addiction.  Job said, I will set no wicked thing before my eyes.   I heard a story, day one, walked down the street, fell in the hole. Day two, walked down the street, fell in the hole. Day three, walked down the street, fell in the hole. Day four, crossed the street and went down the other side. What's that saying? That's saying, you gotta stay away from it.    He's saying, whatever it is that's causing you to stumble, you need to get rid of it.  But to me, one of the steps is, you know, if it's on, if you're looking at it on your phone, then maybe put your phone down for a while. You know, if you're looking at it on your computer, maybe you don't go to your computer. You know, I mean, find other ways to connect with social media. That's right, you gotta make the right choices based on where your trip points are, right?  So, he's talking about, it's a war, you know, you gotta be willing to fight.  There's accountability that you can put in place. There are different technologies you can put on your iPads and iPhones and things on the line. And listen, I don't do this very often, but if you're struggling out there and you want some men to walk you through this, you contact us at another level ministries.  You need somebody to walk with you.  You can't keep it quiet and say, God, take this away from me. You need some practical steps, because we are inundated as men with this sin. It's crazy. I like that, I tell people, you know what, you're on this cycle of things happening. You need to throw this monkey wrench into this, a cycle to break that and to stop that. Tim. People just need to understand that this just isn't a normal, it's boys be boys or a normal type of addiction.  Then it kicks those dopamine levels, so each time you need more and more and more of a rush to get there and to see more. And then it becomes abusive and aggressive behavior toward women, toward children, and it devastates and ruins people's lives. Pornography ruins people's lives, and I don't think people take it as seriously as they should and like Jay had mentioned and Doc and Pete both had mentioned. We, this isn't something you can just pray away. Yes, do I believe in deliverance? Do I believe that God can, you know, that there can be demonic forces and things like that? They can be involved, they can type it. Yes, I do, but more often than not, this is an issue of the flesh that we need to deal with, with accountability that we need to deal with, with, you know, blocking your phone, bringing yourself into people, making sure that you are accountable to people and filling yourself just like anything else, any other addiction, you need to fill yourself with something else that will meet that need. And, you know, it just encourages, you know, men are turned on by what they see, bottom line, and so pornography feeds into men more likely because of that. It's so true, I think we're talking about a lot of different things. I think that all of these things are necessary. You need accountability. Really, accountability is humility. It's humility, and humility is an important Christian aspect of your life. You need, you know, in the final analysis, guys, they need to be able to say no. They need to be able to take a stand to say no. They'll just say no thing, but you have to have a lot around you, a lot of tools in your arsenal to fight with. So, a very important question. I'm glad that you asked it. So, let's go on to take a break and we'll be back with more hard questions. Welcome back to Hard Questions. We have a question now from Jenny who wants to know, am I allowed to marry outside of my race if God said, don't intermarry? All right, so let's take this one on. Pastor Jay. Well, if that's the case, then I'm the product of sin because my dad was black, my mom was white, and when he's talking about intermarry, he's talking about people outside of the belief of Christianity, or if you're looking in the Old Testament, the Jewish law and things like that, because he said, they will seduce you away. They'll pull you away. You know, it's funny how a lot of times people get into relationships with somebody and they think they're going to proselytize them, but it's funny, God warns the opposite. He's like pretty much saying, you don't have that power to pull them because even Jesus said, except I'm drawing them, he goes, they can't come. So, you don't know that heart and they'll more likely seduce you away from your God than you're going to pull them from theirs to yours. And that's just the way that it is, especially if you're in a marriage with somebody. But there's nothing in Scripture that supports only this race can be together. I mean, take a look at Moses marrying an Ethiopian woman. You can go on and on and on of places in Scripture where it shows us that God doesn't forbid to marry within race, but in regards to our belief structure as Christians, we need to be aware of intermarrying then. That's good. And I would just add this caveat to it because I'm a part of intermarrying. My wife is Pueblo Indian. And I know that early on, we received criticism and we received opposition. You mean your wife did? Oh, yeah. I mean, we'd be sitting in a restaurant and people just make comments. So that was something that we had to deal with as a part of being married in between two different cultures. But again, I would go back to what Jay said. There's nothing in the Bible that says that you can't do it. As a matter of fact, Acts 17, 26 says that every human being has one blood. So no matter who we are, we all have the same blood running through us. It may manifest itself different in our hair, our skin color, whatever, but we got the same blood running through us. So I see some things to support it more than things against it. I agree with what both guys said.   And I love her. So to say that it's a sin, you're reading from the wrong Bible. Because my Bible doesn't even touch that as far as declaring it to be a sin. Well, my question is that, who would I marry?   You can't marry nobody but them. You have to stay single. You have to stay single. You have to stay single. That's what I was saying. I loved one day, a Veldicang was in the green room here, and we were having a discussion. And she said, how can you marry outside of your race? There's only one race, the human race. It's funny the way we as human beings do things. When I pastored one church, where there was a racial divide between the English and the Germans. So we look for things to divide. We look for ways to create division in church, in the world, in whatever way we can. And I think we need to begin. The only hope for America, the only hope for the world, is for the church to be the church and to start acting like the church in every way. My wife, I'm English. My wife's Scottish. I told her one time, hey, our relatives were fighting each other 300 years ago across that. Some things never change, I guess. But it is, I think you hit on it, Tim. We try to separate ourselves. We look for something to separate. Good question, guys. Lizzie called in to ask, why doesn't God heal my mom from cancer if I prayed in Jesus' name? This is an important question. It's one I think we've all asked, one I think we all know people who have asked. Pastor Tim. Well, we know that God does heal. I mean, we know that He does do that. And without knowing the particular situation that Lizzie's mom was going through, I used my own life as an example.  And I've traveled the world praying for people and literally seeing blind eyes open, deaf ears open, people get healed, cancers fall off of people, all kinds of miraculous things.  And we're fully expecting God to heal. But He didn't heal her that way. But what He did do was He used us to minister to so many other. And there was a woman from Croatia that was getting chemotherapy at the same time that Paige was. And I would meet with her and her husband and I would pray for them all the time. And I prayed and she got healed.  But when we look at things from God's bigger picture of God, what is it that you want to do here? I don't understand always why you heal some and why you don't heal others. I understand what your word says about praying in the name of Jesus and it will be done. You ask anything and I get that and I understand that. But there's also the understanding that God, I want your will to be done more than my will. And I realized that this life is just transient. This 100 years or 120 years or 70 years that I have is just a short period of time. And the impact that I have on people's lives is what's most important. Yeah, that's good. And you know, Catherine Coleman, Tim used to say the same thing. She used to cry, I mean, literally weep over it. She said that was the first question she was going to ask God, why are not all healed? But we do believe in healing. Like you, I believe healing is prevalent for today. And again, one of those mysteries. But in the end, he is trustworthy. You know, one thing, and my people accuse me of having all kinds of stories, but let me just tell a quick story. A guy was on a desert island.  It was cooking his food. And he was on there, you know, nobody knew he was there. He wanted to get rescued. One day a wind came, blew his fire out. And he said that the only thing I had to keep me warm and cook my food, God, why did you take it from me? Shook his hand at God. The next day he was rescued. And somebody said, he said, well, how did you know I was here? They said, we saw your smoke signals yesterday. And so when you think about it, you know, we might not know why God does not heal. But one thing we do know is that when the smoke goes up, he's working everything for good, you know? He's doing everything, you know, for good. Things that we can't see, because I'm like you, I do believe that God heals. You know, I prayed for people and they didn't get healed. But that hasn't taken my faith away from God's ability to heal. But I do know this, that whatever you're going through, he's working all things together for his good. That's good. And the part that we leave out is the last part of that scripture, though, that are called according to his purpose. So if we don't understand his purpose, then we can take that scripture out of context, you know? And you think about Hezekiah, who wanted to be healed, and who wanted to live longer, actually, rather. And he said, well, I'm going to give you what's the 15 more years. And next thing you know, he turned out terrible because of that. So many times we don't understand the end from the beginning. We don't see the big picture. And I went through the same thing you did with my mother. My mother, you know, I'm preaching. I saw a kid that was autistic, never spoke words. We prayed for him, started speaking in sentences, seeing all these things happening. And I started getting bitter towards God. Because I'm like, I'm serving you, I'm living right. I was single, I wasn't having sex. And I'm like, that's a big sacrifice in your 20s. You know, and I'm like, I'm doing it the right way.  I'm doing all these things you asked me to do. And my mother's still sick, what's the problem? And he gave me a message, always think praise. And I'll never forget that. And it brought me through that time. And I started realizing, even though my mother, I wish she was still here today, how do I know what the future held for us or for her that God said, trust me, I saved you. And when we know it better by and by, we'll be thankful for him being a doctor. If I could just add one quick thing. What the Lord walked us through and what he instituted in me was something very simple as he walked us through that whole situation. And I watched my dad die of Alzheimer's basically. And I see my mother's got the same thing. But what he instilled is three very simple things. God is always good. He is always faithful. And he always loves us. And when we get that. That's an anchor to him. When I feel the same way. When we're going through those, walking through those things, have an anchor that God is good.  It's a great question though, Lizzie. And we're glad to be able to ask it. We'll be back right after this. Well, we always end the program with a scripture. And today we go to Psalm 103 where it says this, The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in mercy. He will not always strive with us, nor will he keep his anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor punished us according to our iniquities. Just reactions, Pastor, I love that. I mean, I love hearing all that. Pastor Glaze. I'm glad that he has not rewarded me according to my iniquities, that I've experienced his grace and forgiveness, and that when I stand before him, I'll stand dressed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ. I love that. I owed a debt. I could not pay. He paid a debt. How'd it go? I did not. It did not. Amen. His great love. Thanks to you. I'm so thankful for God's mercy, you know? And the Bible says that we need to give mercy because, you know, I've learned, if I deal with people mercifully. When I'm fallen short, God will deal with me mercifully as well. And what's good to note too is that if we keep striving for, we're not striving against Him. It doesn't mean failing. But if we keep striving and working towards that perfection line, God will always stay with us as mercy will be new every morning. Scripture just reminds me of how God believes in me more than I believe in myself. More grace, more mercy, and is always looking to enable me to become the man that he's called me to be. And so that's what's important. And his anger, it's for a moment, you know, it says. But his mercies, they're new every morning. I just love that, that he abounds in a loving kindness. He abounds in his willingness to forgive and to strengthen. You know, again, my father just passed away. He was one that would run to rescue me if I was struggling. And that is God for you. He is running for you.   It's for eternity. We hope you enjoyed today's program and we want to hear from you. You can email your questions to us at ctvn.org.


Excellence is not having the best of everything. Excellence is doing the best with everything that you have. You can be excellent where you are now, and you can be excellent where you're going in the future. You can be excellent with a little, you can be excellent with a lot. In fact, there are many who have very little who walk in excellence, and many who have much who do not. Excellence is an attitude of treating what you have like it belongs to God because it does.


Ready.  It's up Corbin. This is Shah Rukh Khan, in case you don't know who that is. Hey, you had the pleasure of being with us today. Thank you for being here for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You wanted to say, I want to react to this with you guys. You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter for more juicy content. Threads. Thanks for watching. Follow us on Instagram to like button. You on threads yet? He is SRK on threads. And today, obviously, you know why you're here. Because the Jawan purview is dropping. Not to be confused with the Jawa preview, which is the dance club for Jawas on Tatooine. But whatever a purview is, is that a preview? Is that what it says? It's a preview. But it's not called a preview. It says preview. They're not calling it a teaser. Why don't you call it a purview? I like calling it a preview. You like the word purve. That's all purview. Yeah, it's the preview. Have we had that before? We've had their promos. This is what they're doing. They're trying to come out. They had the title announcement. This is the preview. Right. Then they'll have the teaser. Then they'll have the trailer. And then they'll have this. They're just trying to come up with more ways to do it. More ways to do it. Why not? To do it. Hey, it's Shah Rukh Khan. Yeah, the Shah Rukh Khan after Bhattan. This is going to be a very highly anticipated film. RDA's with the South Indian director, Ali. It's an interesting timeframe to do it. Because I'm looking at the clocks here. It's one in the morning in New York. It's 7 a.m. in Paris. People are getting up at the butt crack of dawn in London. It's an interesting timeframe for them to do the purview. They're going for India. It's 10.30 a.m. It is. That works. I guess that's the purve time of the morning. That's the primary demographic. How many people right now have just said, excuse me, Madam, I need to take a break. But they're at work and they're going to... The purview is happening right now as we speak. And it does look like it does have subs. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank the good Lord. But I'm waiting for it to finish now. Right. Before we can start this video. But I'm very excited. So am I. I don't know what to expect outside of action and... Yeah. SRK kick and ass, I hope, right? Yeah, like we said, when we initially saw the very first thing on this, the hope that this is going to be kick-ass action, but also going to get into some kind of the darker, and even maybe some thespianatic side of Shah Rukh coming up. I would still expect more action. Absolutely. More Pathan century. But more of a South Indian flair. Maybe. So he might get like the mass entries that Super Shah of Roshna Khan gets or stuff like that. But anyways, all right, let's just get into this enough yip-yaping from us. Come on. Purview time.  Don't do that. Okay. Here we go. Ready. Two-minute preview. Why does everybody, everyone look like that? Pathan. Wow. Oh. Daruka. Okay, that might be my favorite thing I've ever seen. Heck! Frickin' yeah. Okay, so let's go over that. One. That looked awesome. Phenomenal. But let's go ahead and talk about that.  That was phenomenal. And Johnny, what is this, what song is this? Hold on. She knows the words. Is it just like a famous Hindi? Yeah. Any semblance behind it? Like any symbolism behind that song? She got us particularly from maybe ringing a bell. I mean, she knew the words immediately. He'll show you this obviously later. Yeah, I want you to want to see this. I won't spoil it for you so you can see it in the trailer, but he's dancing to it. Like as an action star. This was, this, what did you think? I loved it. One, this exceeded my expectations. One, it's not surprising that, because remember when we saw the Pathan trailer, right? We're like, that looks awesome. That looks big. We're like, you still saw some CGI things that wanted to be cleaned up. I didn't see any in this, but this is also Red Chili's. So if there's one VFX company in India that I trust with VFX, specifically, it's going to be Red Chili's. Agreed. And so everything in this was... Especially when the man who owns the company, it's his film. Yeah, and it's produced by his wife. Exactly. Yeah. I loved that. The... Ready ladies? Yeah. Oh. I don't know the full... I'm going to watch this a couple of times over again. I'm guessing Ani, obviously, is going to have... Oh, it's going to kill. Ani is going to kill. He's really, really cool. I like this theme a lot. But the... I'm guessing he's this agent who has now gone rogue, right? It's a tale of his old time with spy movies, right? Yeah, I guess. And there's probably more. All I know is it's very rare. So there's times when I go to a movie and the movie ends, and I could walk right back into the theater and watch it again. Yeah. It's very rare for me to have a teaser or a trailer. I want to watch that over again right now. I enjoyed that so much. Maybe we will. This is... I think a lot of people are very happy with this look. Right here of Shah Rakan. That looks like young... That's SRK. The only thing he's not doing is the arm spread. Yeah. It's like the clean shaven. Yep. He looks really good there. Yeah. I think a lot of people are going to be very happy with that look of Shah Rakan. These look like mass songs, too. It looks like... What is this mummy look? I know, I know.  It is fantastic. I see a lot of people... This may be what I dress up for is Halloween. Because there's like... Wasn't there... I didn't watch it, but Disney had this new character. Who's the one that got the guy from Star Wars played him? Who played Poe in Star Wars? The newer ones. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Everybody else? Oscar Isaac. Oscar Isaac. Was it called Moon Something? I don't know. I'm sure you didn't watch it either. I didn't see it. But he's covered in... He's mummified? Oscar Isaac. We're looking at 48 seconds in, by the way. You probably see it. You're recording the screen. Yeah, I'm recording the screen. What is it called? Moon Night. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know it. I haven't watched it, but that's what... Oh. That's what it looks like, right? Isn't that an actual comic hero? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they remade it into a TV show on Disney Plus. Yeah, there's a slight similarity to that. That's what I was talking about. I'm sure a lot of you have seen it. I'm not saying it's... That's what it reminded me of.  It does. I didn't expect him to be full hero. I also... What was that thing where everybody in the train station looked... And then he has a Phantom of the Opera mask? Yeah. That's interesting. So clearly something happened to his face. And he's out for revenge because of that fact, right? Yeah. That's what it feels like. Yeah, wow. Almost KGF there at the beginning. Yeah, and it almost kind of looks... Right there. Yeah, it almost kind of looked... That moment reminded me a little bit of Batman. The first Batman. Oh, and if this is like...  Yeah, right. And they're trying to protect him by blending in with everybody. I don't know. Or it's just like a dream sequence. Or that's his people. Yeah. I don't know. That is the... Oh, and how... Lady Superstar. Yes. What's her name? And how cool did VG Sarapathy look? Where'd you see him? It was... They showed... He looked like he was getting ready to fight right there. Oh, with his name? Yes. I thought you saw him at a different time. No, that's the only spot. And it looks like he's warming up to fight. He's gonna be the villain, man. That's gonna be... Ugh. This is... I hope... I mean, I'm sure... Like I said, I'm gonna expecting more action-driven. I'm hoping there'll be some good story. Yeah. And all that. But the VFX, look at that. It looked great. That's... And I know... Oh, it's like the biggest Hindi film now ever. But it did have some CGI stuff that I wish was better. It did. Yeah, me too. And this already looks better than the helicopter scene in Bhattan. Correct. The scene that I'm on right here. It sure does. Um... But we'll see how it goes, obviously. Everybody... Everybody connected to this. If you're not proud of this, I don't know what would make you proud. This is fantastic. All right, let's watch it again. Yeah. Here we go. Fantastic. Ugh, that's beautiful. The opening sequence is really pretty. The cinematography, huh? Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Such a cool look. Make a better action trailer. Get to the best part. Hold on. Get to the best part of the entire thing. I love this part so much. That's the best part of the entire trailer. It absolutely couldn't have been better. It's as good of an action trailer as... Wow. You could have hoped for it. Wow. I loved it. I loved it. Absolutely incredible. And also... I can't wait for you to see this bit. Also... Um... I'm showing this to the kids. I want... We've got to come see the film of us. Um, also... This is not a trailer. That was a trailer. This is the preview. Sorry. They can call it a preview. That was a trailer. Also... This is... That was a trailer.  It's a preview. No. So that means we're getting a trailer. Ah, it's fine. We'll get another trailer. And also... Call it a preview all you want.  Also, this film doesn't come out for two months. I know. Which is weird for... It's ShowerCon, so he has different rules than everybody else, right? But the fact that they're coming out with a... Basically a full trailer, right? Two months in advance. Which I think they did for Patan. I think they did. And I know why now. I know why now. 10 a.m. I know.  You realize when we drop this thing on a Monday morning, it'll be what everyone's talking about all day and what they'll be talking about the rest of the week. Yeah. I know I did it at 10 a.m. now. Yeah, yeah, that was pretty great. Yeah. Very, very smart. I'm very excited even more than I already was.  Is it going to break Patan's records? Just mine. Shahrukh Khan can. King Khan, baby. He can. King. Frickin' Khan. I always hope it's even better than Patan. Oh, of course. Because obviously we had issues with Patan. Of course. Even though we enjoy Patan, we had issues with Patan, I hope it's even better. Yeah. And I really hope it just does juggernaut business and just... The CGI looks Hollywood level. It does. It's as good as it gets. Let us know what you thought about it. Are you excited? Let us know what you thought about it down below.


If we are not intentional about reflecting on our deeper purpose, we tend to go day by day responding to other people's needs, responding to our to-do list, going to various meetings and just taking care of chores around the home. And it becomes a life that can be quite shallow. Eventually it feels to us to be quite shallow because we are using our energy for taking care of quote-unquote life demands. And then in the evenings and the weekends, we just decompress by all the entertainment that's available to us. I mean there's more than enough entertainment these days, whether it's Netflix, video games, or meeting with our loved ones. Nobody ever, well, rarely does anyone in our life ask us, hey, have you gotten some time to just reflect on the bigger picture, on your life's purpose? Now some of you are quite good about taking courses that kind of give you a structure to reflect on these things. But I don't feel like that's really enough because once that course is over, once that group is over, then if you haven't developed a habit, you resort back to just your regular, you know, being led by the demands of everyday life and not living as intentionally as you could. And that is where the real opportunity is for experiencing a deeply fulfilling and peaceful life and also a life of deepest creativity. So I want to encourage you to do two things. One is to schedule in your reflection time. Now you might say, well, I don't have time, George, to schedule in reflection time. I mean, well, first of all, those of you who are willing to schedule it in, that's wonderful. But if the scheduling isn't a habitual thing, if that's hard for you, then here's what I want you to do.  So a couple of ideas. I'm hoping that you exercise, that you at least go for a walk. And when you're going on a walk, do you just plug in the earphones and listen to a podcast or listen to music or an audiobook or something? And those can be wonderful things. But what if on your walk or on your commute to and from your office or if you're taking a trip or whatever, when you're out of the house anyway, going to grocery shopping, on your commutes and on your walks and your exercise, what if you don't listen to a podcast, audiobook, music? What if you're not talking to somebody and you instead use that time not to think about all the things you have to do today and all the things that you're behind on, but take that time to do bigger picture thinking. So I've got a list of 15 questions for you in the blog post associated with this video, so go ahead and look at that. But the questions are things like what, how can I best contribute to the world? And these questions aren't going to give you a right answer right away, but it's meant for you to reflect on that. Or another question might be, what kind of person can I most help in this world? Or just a more general one is, what am I here to do? Or what is my life purpose? Maybe it's not about doing, but it's about being. But these bigger questions, they don't have a single answer that is going to satisfy you for the rest of your life. You might find an answer that satisfies you for a month or for a year, maybe, but the beauty of these questions is that they, the answers and the reflections will evolve as you evolve in your life. So I invite you to take a look at those 15 questions in the blog post if you'd like. If you have more questions, if you have another question that is helpful to you, go ahead and comment below the video. But so that's, those are the two things I want you to do. One, if you can schedule in reflection time on a habitual basis at least once a week, at least once a week. And if you can make that a habit great, but more likely you need to build in reflection time in your down times. When you're showering, for example, when you're washing the dishes, when you're, when you are, you know, getting up in the morning before you wake up and you're lying in bed for a little while, you can think about, you can think about these things, not when you're trying to go to sleep, because then you might start thinking too much. But when you're wanting to get up, and, you know, then, then you might, you might spend, especially on a weekend or on a, on a day where you don't have to get up right away for an appointment, you can reflect in bed for, you know, five, 15 minutes, you know.  So that's, that's the first thing I want you to do is, is to, is to use downtime or mental downtime, I should say, for reflection. And second is to ask bigger questions in your reflection time. Don't, because if you don't use your downtime intentionally in your mind, it starts easily going to, I should have said that to that person. Oh, I can't believe that happened. I can't believe I did that. Oh, yeah, I still have to do this or that. It's so easy for our mind, monkey mind, sometimes people call it, to go in all kinds of directions that are not necessarily useful. And we don't give ourselves that, that bigger picture or that deeper reflection that leads us into the most energizing directions for our life.  So these bigger questions is really what led me into my business, into the most meaningful habits that I have in my life. And it continued, these questions continue to evolve me. So I hope you'll take these two things on one again, build in bigger picture reflection time into your down times get first get clear, I really invite you to do this, write down when your mental down times are, and start to intentionally say, ah, during my, my walk, during my dishwashing, I'm not going to be watching a random video or, or a good video, whatever, I'm not going to be listening to a podcast, I'm going to be using that time for deeper reflection. Number one, build that in and number two, use good questions that are big questions. And like I said, I have a list of 15 questions in the blog post that, that's located below or above this video, wherever you're watching this. So all right, I hope this is helpful. My name is George Cow, authentic business coach. I love talking about how do we build business in a way that feels deeply meaningful to us. And that feels really good to those that we're serving. So I hope this is helpful. And I look forward to your comments and your questions. If you do this, let us know below, inspire us with how it's helping you. And I'll see you in another video. Take care.