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I've chosen our episode from November of 2019 on cockney rhyming slang. This is one of those silly episodes That's also packed with a lot of interesting information and I remember Chuck and I having fun making it So I hope you'll enjoy listening to it, too enjoy Welcome to stuff you should know production of I heart radio And welcome to the podcast I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant right there. There's Jerry Roland right there So that makes this stuff. You should know right Can't top that I was trying to think a way to say welcome to the podcast in cockney rhyming slang Can you make an attempt my I'm my brain is so broken right now. I can't even try. Okay, good good Well, welcome. It's a good good time to record a show You're gonna do some cockney in here, right? We want to offend as many Londoners as we can I don't know just just channel a little Dick Van Dyke. Oh You know Yeah, the American Doing a bad cockney accent. Well, I did recently rewatch the limey Yes Casey's for benefit. Yeah, the great great movie from Steven Soderbergh. Never seen it. It's awesome. Is it really? Yeah, I mean, I know it's like a classic and everybody loves it. But I mean, it's really that good Yeah, because a lot of people liked I don't know the hangover. I Like the hangover. Well, how would you how would you like the limey and the hangover same level? Yeah, they're the same movie almost. All right, it's weird. Well, then I've seen the hangover so I don't need to see the limey Lemmy's great and Terence stamp is Awesome, and it then uses some cockney rhyming slang and one great scene My big exposure to cockney rhyming slang is lock stock in two smoking barrels Snatch. Yeah, which I think are both directed by Guy Ritchie, right? Wasn't lock stock like his first attempt and snatch was the one that like Got him married to Madonna you a fan of his yeah, I mean as much as I Like his movies, I don't like him personally necessarily cuz he like hunts bore like a jackass does it like yeah No drunk with his friends in the most like disrespectful way of murdering a pig. I admit his movies But yeah, I do like his movie sounds like he's a creep, too I'm not gonna go on record saying that but Yeah, those movies are okay and then I guess what's his name Don Cheadle a little bit in Oceans 11 sure he did a little bit of that right and I mean like It's code to Americans. It's oh, there's like a criminal a British criminal, right? That's all that means these days Yeah, I think so in movies. It's definitely Like all of those are criminal right criminal people in the movies They're like, you know kind of slick cool criminals that wear leather coats and stuff like that Not dumb criminals that wear like football jerseys or anything like that. They're like, you know smooth criminals That's I think what I was looking for. Yeah, but This this idea of associating it with cockney is not necessarily associating it with criminals. It's more associated with like Lower class working class less educated definitely not the aristocracy over in Britain yeah, or the upper class sure and that by by speaking with a cockney accent or More to the point using cockney rhyming slang you could really differentiate yourself To as a point of pride, right? Like you were speaking like your group your in -group which was at the time cockney, right? But the big surprise to all this is it's really possible and even probable that it wasn't the cockney that came up with this Rhyming slang that it was somebody else altogether. Maybe who knows should we say what it is? No Not for the rest of the podcast cockney rhyming slang Wasn't even Very clearly defined in this piece. Okay, did you think it was? It's in there. Okay, you got to just kind of separate the wheat from the chaff So it is a two -word phrase and is a slang phrase Consisting of two words so far so good where the last word of that phrase rhymes with the original word and It can be and I think the best way to do this is just to throw out a few no. No keep describing Well, the two -word phrase it can be it can be a lot of things it can be a person's name It can be just something random can be a place could be a place. It could be a lot of things it can be anything Yeah, sure. I guess it can be But shall we illustrate it through? Well, there's a second part to it. Okay, the second part and this is very important the Two -word phrase that you're using to that where the second one rhymes with the word you're actually saying Yeah, the original word the original word. Thank you Usually has nothing to do with it. There's no metaphor. There's no connection. There's no Nothing, there's no there's no context to it It's supposed to just be random or in most cases. It is just random words right one of which rhymes with the word you're replacing and To further complicate things sure In a lot of cases and no one knows why sometimes this happens and sometimes it doesn't a lot of times that one of the words Of the two -word phrase is dropped. Yeah, and then you're just left with the one word Which doesn't even rhyme with the original word anymore, right? That's I mean, that's probably the best description of cockney rhyming slang anyone's ever given So I think we should illustrate it with a couple of examples. I pulled some from From something called the internet Here here's one the the tip and tete That's how long it took me to come up with that Tip and tete for internet, but in ten years, it'll just be called the tip I'm gonna log on to the tip governor So let's say your word was and this was in oceans 11 specifically trouble is the word that you're trying to say Cockney rhyming slang for trouble is Barney rubble awesome And so you would say you're making a bit of the bonnie rubble again, right when somebody that was kind of Who was that? Making a bit of bonnie rubble not the see I already did it wrong No, but I think you that's not like a real person to an American for sure. Oh, yeah Um, I can't I can't I'll shout it out. Later. Oh, man. I finally did a good one No, but it wasn't a cockney person, okay for Another example Queen They would use the term baked bean Look who's on TV. It's the baked bean And that's the Queen. I like that one or in the case of one that's been dropped What is Ed use here bees and honey? That one is not dropped for money. Okay, but which one was apples and pears right? Right, so you would say I'm gonna go up the apple and stairs Apples and pears. Oh, man Let me retake this everybody You would say I'm going to go up the apples and pears to go get my wallet to pay for this pizza Or something to that effect. Okay, but then over time people drop the pears And so now the word for stairs in cockney rhyming slang is just apples Which if you're just standing there on the outside like a normal American bloke sure, which by the way means person You have no idea why this person just called stairs apples You got what they were saying because the context is there you're going up the apples to get your wallet to pay for the pizza But why would you just say that did you did you hit your head? Is there something wrong with you? What's the problem? Why would you just call that apples? Yeah, that's why it's so confounding But the great thing about cockney rhyming slang and in particular the great thing about researching cockney rhyming slang is you learn How you get from apples to stairs and then it makes sense sometimes Yeah, that's true. It's not always. Yeah, sometimes there's It's not documented which ed points out is one of the problems sometimes you can draw the line the through line But because it's not documented and sometimes these things take years and years to morph into its final version right unless you unless you're you know on the What would you call street on the dole? No on the streets, then I wouldn't know but I don't know what streets is you can't just make stuff up like there's real words I'm the drums and beats So you're on the drums right, but they probably have a word for streets like that's the whole point You can't just make anything up, but the you could if it hasn't been taken yet sure Also, that's the other thing about cockney rhyming slang is it evolves right so old celebrities that that no one even knows about anymore Fall away to new celebrities whose name also rhyme with you know whatever word you're saying right? I thought you meant old celebrities who maybe used to talk this way like Michael Caine no He's never said any rhyming slang in his life. No of course you got to see the movie Alfie Maybe that's who it was it might have been Michael Caine. I'll take that Michael Caine. I think it was as a matter of fact Thank you, I'm glad you did it. Noel always says a good joke is to say Michael Caine in the correct accent say the words my cocaine And it sounds like Michael Caine saying it then it sounds like that the correct accent for Michael Caine all right say it my cocaine Well you just blew that one out of the water You Gotta set me up in the future Okay, well there's I've got it two ways now, man, okay, here's the thing my cocaine That's my cocaine That's pretty good Michael Caine. It is good. You're right. No. You just got to say it the right way and not like a robot Josh So here's that one of the things is sort of confounding if you want to look up a like a glossary and Say well, here's what I'm gonna. Do I'm gonna learn cockney rhyming slang so for my trip to England I'm really you know. I'm really in with everybody First of all bad idea yeah second of all it's it can be very localized Mm -hmm and the accents are all different Yeah, so even people in London sure who both who all use well people in London Do but the people who use cockney rhyming slang in London yeah might not even agree on what word is means What I'm just picturing all the people walking around England laughing their arses off. I can't wait to get to that one As we stumble through this um yeah, it had a really good Example of why there's no codification of the cockney rhyming slang He said that when people are creating a language especially informal ones like slang They don't write it all down quote dear diary referred to my house as a cat and mouse today because it rhymed We all had a good laugh might try. Just calling it cat tomorrow and see how it goes It is it sounds funny, but that's that's how it works stumbling across the diaries And here's the other thing too is there are cases where there is a little bit of a reflection of the original word and the example that it gives here is twist Yeah, like to call a woman a twist mm -hmm Which I don't know if that's derogatory or not or just some weird slang that no one uses anymore I don't think so although I don't know so yeah these are also the people who use the C word like it's nothing Man I can't wait to go back there Which we're gonna do soonish right? I'd love to do in 2020. Maybe yeah, all right So twist came from twist and twirl which meant girl which is They were talking about like dancing with a girl twisting and twirling in a nightclub Let's say so there is some connection in that one. Yeah, so girl and ended up becoming twist So that sort of makes sense there's another one called on your Todd After a guy named Todd Sloan and it means on your own Right and the thing is is like on your Todd it makes sense Sloan rhymes with own It doesn't have to have any connection, but that one actually does yeah Cuz Todd Sloan was a famous jockey in the 19th century like horse jockey. Yes, okay? What other kind is there disc jockeys? Oh, yeah, sure So his book his memoir was called Todd Sloan by himself Which is weird to refer to yourself in third person for your memoir Hmm, but there was a line in it that apparently East End East Enders in London like really picked up I was left alone by those. I never ceased to grieve for It's still like the idea of being alone or on your own Became synonymous with Todd Sloan his name just happened to rhyme with that So it's one of those rare ones where there is a connection to it and also rare Chuck in that This is a 19th century horse jockey and still today on your Todd is recognized as on your own Whereas a lot of people probably have no idea exactly who he is and when that happens That frequently that person gets moved out for potentially another celebrity or another word That's a little more understandable or recognized another new jockey two people today, right? Yeah exactly which can you name one? Nope? 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"Discerninghearts .com in cooperation with the Oblates of the Virgin Mary presents The Letters of Saint Therese of Lisieux with Father Timothy Gallagher. Father Gallagher is a member of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, a religious community dedicated to retreats and spiritual direction according to the spiritual of exercises Saint Ignatius of Loyola. He is featured on several series found on the Eternal Word television network. He is also author of numerous books on the spiritual teachings of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and the Venerable Bruno Lanteri, founder of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, as well as other works focused on aspects of the spiritual life. The Letters of Saint Therese of Lisieux with Father Timothy Gallagher. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome, Father Gallagher. Thank you, Chris. Always good to be here. Talk to us about Saint Therese. What is the little flower to you? One thing I've noticed if you look at the writings of most people when they write or speak about Therese, they always start with how they first encountered Therese. If you look at Dorothy Day's book on Therese, for example, that's the way she begins, but you see this as kind of a pattern. In my own case it's very simple. This was before I entered the seminary and at a certain point, I'm a reader, I love to read, and resolved that I probably should do some spiritual reading, a little reluctantly because what I really like are stories and those sorts of things. Maybe it was Lent, I don't recall, but I remember going to a shelf bookcase with spiritual books, going through them, not really being drawn to anything, and then I saw this title that said, Story of a Soul, and it was the word story that caught my attention because I love stories. So I thought, well, maybe that'll be a little easier to read than some of the others. I began reading it and immediately fell in since then, very much at the origins of the process that led to entering the seminary. After theological studies, perhaps having read the basic sources, it felt like something done and kind of there, but more recently has opened up in a wonderful way again that leads to what we're doing now, and a rereading of the sources and amplifying that reading, and just coming to see in a new way the remarkable figure that she is. And so that's what leads us to do this now. You know, it was Pope Saint Pius X who called her the greatest saint of modern times, and I think we can easily not agreement at that now, declared a doctor. There's so much there. So I have the feeling that as we dive into this huge sea that is the life and teaching and writings of Saint Therese, that you can't go wrong. You know, wherever you enter, there's always going to be richness. You know, it strikes me that some of our listeners may be thinking, what's Father Gallagher? And he's an expert on Ignatian spirituality, and yet they may not realize that there's a heavy Carmelite influence in the Oblates of the Virgin Mary through the spirituality and the life of their father. But it's not a real push to see where in the charism of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary, this calling, as it were, to also come to a ability to be able to communicate aspects of that Carmelite living. Does that make sense? Sure. Yeah. I mean, as I mentioned, I initially came to her before I even knew Venerable Bruno. But once I entered and got to know him well, I discovered, exactly as you said, that he was essentially Ignatian but not exclusively Ignatian. And you do see a lovely Carmelite component. For example, as he is approaching his ordination to the priesthood, you see amongst his spiritual proposals the plan to read in its entirety the writings of Saint Teresa of Avila. Also familiar with Saint John of the Cross, of course, Saint Therese comes after his lifetime. So that component is very much there. What is contemplative, what involves growth in prayer and deep prayer, and the kind of things that lie at the heart of the Carmelite vocation, all of that is very real in him, not only in his learning but very much in his own experience as well in his own prayer. It's so fascinating that, as you said, Pope Saint Pius X would say that she is, again, one of the most significant, one of the most important saints of the 20th century that she would be. At a time and era where the family has been so much under attack, the fact that this little flower can bloom in a garden of a family, as it were, that they themselves have become saints, not only her mother and father, but it looks as though her sisters are on their way in this area of the cause of canonization. Well, the cause of her sister Leonie, who would have seemed a very unlikely candidate of all the sisters, the most unlikely candidate for sanctity, that cause is underway now. She's the servant of God, Leonie Martin. And yes, there is a movement to try to promote the cause of the other sisters as well. In God's time, we'll see where all of that goes. But you have a family which is very much built on faith, on the search for holiness, on love for the church, on the desire to respond to God's vocation, in which all the members strengthen each other. And you see that in the letters that we'll be looking at. And of course, you see it in Therese's deep gratitude to her parents and her love for her sisters. Their family is simply a remarkable witness to a family as a family. It's the kind of family everyone would hope for, where there's a deep unity and bond and love between the members, and not only the immediate family, but also with the more extended family, very specifically Therese's aunt and uncle and their two daughters. And you see the great love there amongst all of them. You can go through all of the letters, and that's two volumes, 1 ,300 pages. And all you will see is there are times when there are some disagreements about this decision or that decision. You see some of that. But enveloping everything and underlying everything and above everything, what you see is a deeply united and loving family. It's a beautiful witness to the family, very much. The letters of Saint Therese are absolutely remarkable. If you are a devotee of the story of the soul, that in itself can sustain you for a lifetime. But letters the give us a fullness, a beautiful, rich imagery. And I say this in all reverence, but a more complete picture of Therese, doesn't it? Well, as you've said, Chris, I think it's obvious that the real center to get to know Therese is the story of the soul. That's the real heart of it. And then around that, there are other primary sources as well. What's called her last conversations, where her sisters and some of the others in the convent recorded her sayings and doings in her last months. The book entitled Therese by those who knew her, which is a large extract of the witnesses that were given on the diocesan level as her cause for canonization was begun. So these were people speaking out of their own personal recollections of Therese, about Therese. If you want to have there a real richness as well. But our initial focus will be the letters, probably because they don't get cited all that much, you know. We may have the feeling that looking at passages in the story of the soul, which we'll get to, that this is familiar territory. The letters might be less so. It does take a little bit of energy and persistence, I'd say, to read them because it is fairly lengthy, but they are remarkably well done, amply annotated with very helpful footnotes, with introductions. So they are a very rich resource to take the next step. The first step would be the story of a soul, but if a person wants to take the next step, then the letters would be the next step. There is a remarkable heritage that we've received from the lives of the saints through their letters. I think of the letters of, of course, Teresa of Avilot, Ignatius of Loyola, but we've seen through the letters of Venerable Bruno Lanteri, the letters of St. Elizabeth of the Trinity. The list could go on and on, and I have to say the letters of Catherine of Siena. When you read those, you get a real sense of the friendships, the, the family relationships, their interaction with those around them and with the world, don't you? Soon -to -be Saint John Henry Newman says at one point in his writings that his sense of the best way to get to know a person is not through a biography, but through reading the person's letters. And I think, as is generally true, he is right on the mark, and generally true of what, I'll call him, St. John Henry Newman says he is, I think, right on the mark. Today, I suppose, we do this more digitally, but if you were to take a selection of 30, 50 emails of a correspondence between two friends or two family members or two people who love the Lord and whom, you know, sanctity is evident, you would get, with a great immediacy, you would get a feel for the person. And that's what you get here with Therese. Now, there are qualities about her letters that I'll just mention one now. As I read through them over a number of months, it dawned on me after a while, all of these letters are other -centered. Just, it's remarkable. This is not a woman who is writing because she needs to write for her own sake. But you look at all of these letters, commemorations of family members' birthdays, encouragement to her father after she's left home, and she knows he's suffering her loss, and her sister, Celine, who is caring for her father and his illness. It's remarkable that we think of her as the one who practiced love, a very loving person, which she certainly is. If you want to get a concrete feel for that, of course, after the story of the soul, you can just read these letters. You know, most of us, when we write emails or letters, there'll be something that's a bit self -centered. I don't want to criticize that too much. Our friends, family members do want to know. But we may have some complaints here or there or be unhappy about something here or there, be angry about something here or there. In Therese, the one thing that you see is love. And after you go through this, after a while, a vision arises of, if this woman who is writing this way so consistently in every relationship that you see portrayed in the letters, lived this way within her community, her presence must have been a very beautiful thing. If she lived, there's no question that she did, but what you see when she spontaneously expresses what's in her heart in the letters, if that's what was in her heart as she actually interacted with the people with whom she shared life day by day, for us, we can think of our families or workplaces or parishes, then you get the image of what love can really mean in very ordinary, humble, concrete ways, as we'll see.
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"Hello, everybody. The Xfinity 10G network was made for streaming, giving you an incredible viewing experience. Now you can stream all of your favorite live sports, shows, and movies with way less buffering, freezing, and lagging. Thanks to the next generation Xfinity 10G network, you get a reliable connection. So you can sit back, relax, and enjoy your favorite entertainment. Get way more into what you're into when you stream on the Xfinity 10G network. Learn more at Xfinity .com slash 10G. Hey, and welcome to The Short Stuff. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and this is Short Stuff. And we are going to talk about something that has been overlooked for far too long, which is the origins of the plus, minus, multiplication, division, and equal symbols. I thought this was really cool, by the way. You put this together with help from FASCO, Caltech, Science ABC, among other places. And I had never thought about this stuff because I'm not a math person, but I love origin stories. And so I thought this is really neat, especially the fact that these symbols came about to begin with because people, before they had these, you wrote out a math problem like this long word problem. But not like, you know, a train's traveling in this direction kind of thing. It's more like I have divided 10 into two parts and multiplying one of these by the other. The result was 21. Then you know that one of the parts is thing and the other is 10 minus thing. Right. That was an excerpt from a 9th century algebra book by the mathematician Muhammad ibn Musay Al -Kharwazmi. I'm pretty sure that's his name. Today, you would take that same formula and write it out as x times 10 minus x equals 21. Yeah. So simple. That's it. And that reveals why these things were so important. It just saves you so much time. So not only did it make writing an algebra book that much more attractive, it made teaching it that much faster. You might not have necessarily learned it any faster, but you definitely could teach these things faster with these notations rather than writing it out. And I also saw, Chuck, that some of those sentences that they would write, some people would put it into verse, metered verse, like poems. That takes a lot of time and it's unnecessary. Yeah. And especially at the time when you're writing with an eagle's feather and an inkwell. Sure. You know what I mean? That really drags too. It's not like you're just dashing this stuff off with a pencil. Nope. So some folks came along and changed all that. According to the VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics, hot read, the origin of the equal sign goes like this. A man named Robert Ricord, or Ricordae, was the royal court physician for King Edward VI and Queen Mary, and very influential mathematician in Wales. And he got tired of writing out equals over and over. So he thus proposed the equal sign because it is two little equal lines, and that's parallel equal lines. And I never thought about it, but it's brilliant. Yeah. He said a pair of parallels or twin lines of one length, and then he shows what he's talking about because no two things can be more equal. And there's a lot of extra vowels in those words, but he gets the point across. And he was saying like, this is such a great time saver. I'm so tired of saying is equal to. And he wrote it in a book called The Wet Stone of Wit. And of course, a wet stone is what you sharpen things with. So it sharpens your wit to read this book. I love that title. And it actually became very influential and well -read as far as 16th century math books go. And Robert Ricord is credited with coming up with the minus symbol and introducing it to his people back then. The equal sign, you mean? What did I say? Minus sign. Oh, just wait, Chuck. All right. Well, we're there. Plus and minus are what we use to indicate adding something and subtracting something, as everyone knows. The terms themselves come from Latin, where plus means more and minus means less. And the other thing is the plus symbol itself is also from the Latin word et et, meaning and, like this and that equals that, which is pretty great. So at one point there was a French philosopher named Nicole Oresme from the 14th century who used that plus sign as a shorthand for et, which is what they used to write. And at first it didn't take, right? I think like people weren't universally accepting this. Yeah, it wasn't until like the 16th or 17th century that it started to really kind of take off. I think the 16th century. And apparently there was competition at first too, that it wasn't just the plain old plus sign, that equal cross, that there were other crosses in the running too, including the Maltese cross. It's a great looking cross, but it takes a lot more time to write the Maltese cross out than it does to make a plus symbol. And the whole point of these things was to save time. So everybody said, yeah, Maltese cross, we like you, but we're going to go with the plus sign. That's right. So that's plus. We got equals, we got plus, minus now. In Europe, there was an Italian mathematician named Luca Pacioli. And Luca was using the symbol P with a little line over it for plus, an M with a little line over it for minus. And no one's exactly sure, but it seems to be that the M was just dropped, right? And then the minus sign, because we already had a plus sign, became the minus sign. Yeah. So you don't need the plus sign. Forget you P with the tilde over it. We're going to take the M instead. And it wasn't Robert Ricord who came up with that, but he was the one who introduced it to England.
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Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from Episode 11 The Drama of Atheist Humanism Fr. Joseph Fessio S.J., Vivian Dudro, and Joseph Pearce FBC Podcast
"Welcome, and welcome back to the Forum Book Club, with Vivian Deutero, myself Father Fesser, and Joseph Pierce continuing to discuss Henri Robach's classic, modern classic, the drama of A .K. Schumann. The last session we actually finished on the end of the chapter. Let's see what we can do this time as we begin chapter three, Positivist Transpositions. The previous chapter was about the alliance that he sought with the Catholic Church as an instrument of promoting the final status of civilization, namely the positivist order. So let's see how the transpositions take place. Joseph? Well, yes, at the top of page 12 and 16, again, I like there's an irony, a role irony, I think, in Henri de Lubac's voice here. He says, then, speaking of Comte, then the new Aristotle, so the philosopher, had changed into a new Saint Paul, so basically a religious zealot, in order to complete the edifice. Quote, I have systematically devoted my life, he says, in the systeme de politicians positif, to making real science ultimately provide the necessary basis for the sound philosophy, according to which I should then build up the true religion. So we have the evolution here. Real science leads to sound philosophy, which leads to true religion. This is where this positivism is going. And I would like to back up, if I may, to the very first page of the chapter, where de Lubac points out that this alliance that Comte wants to create to bring about his true religion was intended to be purely temporary. He thought it expedient because he no longer hoped that the triumph of his own church at any rate among the masses was as near as he had at first predicted. And I would just like to editorialize that every time people outside the church try to co -opt the church for their own purposes, for them, it's a temporary phase. You know, think about concordats with Mussolini or Hitler or any of these attempts to co -opt the church. Ultimately, the end is to destroy the church or replace it with this regime having total power. And so, thankfully, as we pointed out in the last chapter, de Lubac said this temptation will come again and again, but that it won't in the end. The church will, because of the Holy Spirit, will not be prevailed upon. But it's important to know that that temptation is a perennial temptation on the part of people seeking power to use the church and on the part of people inside the church to seek a legitimization on the part of the powers that be that want to use the church for their own ends. Yeah, but again, I do love, and this is such a, we might say, a dry topic, that I do like the Lubac's raw sense of humor. So even the first part of this, the true Catholicism, positivism through Catholicism. On page 219, three lines down, according to Kant, the new Catholicism is modeled on the old. The church had her sacraments. Skipping a couple of lines, positive has his rights to consecrations or social sacraments. And he says there are nine of these sacraments in positivism, including one that is received after death. That's an innovation. Right. Yes, he, so the transposition that's happening here is, you know, for everything that the Catholic Church offers its flock, he's going to transpose that with something of his own invention that resembles it, but is actually emptying it of all of its original meaning. Well, only these got out. Yeah, just these got out. No big deal, right? Including a liturgical calendar with saints, the cults of saints, prayers. All of this is spelled out in the next few pages of all the things he's going to make. It's sort of, as Lubac says, again, perhaps broadly, this process of incorporation after death, which may rather be compared with canonization. And in fact, it is, in fact, I think canonization, it's secular canonization. These people will be immortalized as heroes. It's going right back to paganism, right? You build statues of them all over the place. You put them on the calendar. And so, you know, if you're a good servant of the positivist religion, you will be immortal, not in the sense of going to heaven, but in the sense of being remembered and revered. Yeah, I'm going to jump way ahead to the conclusion of everything here. That's fine. Just one little sentence, 266 at the bottom, where the little box says here, Cohen's spiritual itinerary is that of man himself. Lost faith cannot long remain unreplaced. You know, you leave out God, something, some idol is going to take God's place. That's right. My father going right back 46 pages, you see it on the top of page 220. He's talking about that man becomes, quote, a veritable organ of the great being, capital G and capital B. I mean, what on earth is the great being if we're not allowed to believe in God? Is it Comte? Or if it's not Comte, is it humanity in some sense? Yes, it's humanity. The abstract deity, the great being. Yeah, yeah. That's I think, Chesson referred to that as similar to being on a crowded tram, as you would say, humanity. Amorphous mass all around you. I have something on page 229. Anybody before that? Let's go for it. Like the last part of that paragraph at the top. Apart from all questions of doctrine, this is Judelbach speaking. One cannot take seriously the musings of a man who never understood a word of the gospel and who sank deeper every day into the monstrous egocentricity. The crude and lacrimose consolations to which Comte innocently abandoned himself in his sanctuary cannot be taken for genuine spirituality. Telling it out how it is, basically, that's somewhere at the end. This is a madman, egocentric, narcissistic madman. And here's the Judelbach exercising that discernment that he says needs to be when we're dealing with these intellectual systems or ideologies, there's an intellectual discernment you have to go through and think about it. But then there's the spiritual discernment, right? That's what he said in the previous part of this book with respect to you. If we can go back perhaps to 224, just a footnote there, because this, I think, is very interesting and it has this wonderful phrase moral eunuch. This is somebody writing about Comte in a pejorative way, in a negative way, I should say. Comte is a man whom the exclusive culture of scientific ideas has reduced to a true degradation. He is a moral eunuch, all feeling, all poetry, which is to say, all manifestation of feeling is something he has completely disregarded or rather that is completely unknown to him. And now this whole different moral eunuch, not only is it a good phrase, a powerful poetic phrase, but it's really, I think, also a description of many of the worst psychopaths, right? Is that they actually have no moral compass. They have no moral feeling, no moral emotion. They can do hideous, horrible things dispassionately because they're morally impotent. Yeah, it's a strange thing. We all have a moral sense and we can't be human without it. And yet it seems to be a submersion of something. I remember years ago, I heard a confession of a young woman who is from a good family and actually lived a pretty good life. But this priest kind of seduced her. And so she was spending time in his factory bedroom and she confessed it. But it wasn't like it was something really serious. She didn't feel any moral seriousness about that, even though she did come to confession. But it just seemed like, for whatever reason, there was a colorblindness almost, you know? She could see some things, but couldn't see others. So it happened. A desensitization, which is, of course, dangerous, right? When you suddenly become so habitual, you no longer see it as being anything unusual and therefore nothing too much of an aberration, right? If you do it all the time, we excuse ourselves for it. I want to jump back to 229, unless there's something in between. The second section is called The Priesthood of the Scientist, which is a good description here. So far, only the most general of the transpositions in Catholicism has been considered. But there are two others that complete it, although he divides it into three here. A form of worship, a dogma, and a regime. In other words, it has poetry, it's philosophy, and it's politics. Those are the three transpositions I'm going to talk about. Here's one on page 232. You mentioned the thing I brought up before about the specialization of science. The new paragraph there. For what type of scientist would be worthy to belong to such a priesthood? Well, keep going. Comp never cared for empty learning. See, this is this dismissal of the theoretical pursuit of knowledge just for its own sake, which is what the pure sciences are. He has no time for that because that's just empty learning. And another quote from him, cloudy erudition that contents itself with mechanically accumulating facts and which is equally fitted to serve the most contradictory opinions. Well, that is right. When people are, you know, you might have run into somewhat the different theory from your own. Anyway, he just can't abide that. The irony is that, as I understood it from our early discussions of Comp's philosophy and positivism, was it was building a philosophy which denied the existence of metaphysics. In other words, the empiricism and scientific materialism were the only building blocks upon which any truth could be built. And yet he seems to outgrow that and sort of like a Saturn five rocket jettisons, the very thing that got him into orbit. And so the next sentence there, the true positive spirit, as he conceives it, is at bottom just as far removed from empiricism as from mysticism. So he seems to have no real connection with the very, very ladder by which he's climbed. And that's a brilliant expression of the fact that he rejects what he sees as wrong in empiricism, being too specialized. And he rejects mysticism, which is a transcendent, basically. And in the middle is what? Something's going to take the place of the mysticism, which is humanity, and him he as as the pontiff of them all. At the bottom, a couple more lines down, he blames, quote, the exaggerated intellectual narrowness that comes from an empirical specialization. And that is true. But what he says on page 233, about 10 lines down, the aim in view should be systematic generality. Analysis should be subordinated to synthesis as progress is to order in egoism to altruism. At bottom, the whole thing should be one single science, namely human, or rather social science. Social science. There it is. There it is. That's how we have departments of social science on every university campus. That's where it came from. But look how scary that is, that basically all analysis, in other words, all reason, is subject to synthesis, which is, again, it's the inversion, perversion and reversion of the whole Hegelian thing, right? Where you're using reason, you have a thesis, then you have an antithesis, and then you come to a synthesis. Well, now you get to a synthesis. This is the final synthesis. We will have no more theses and antitheses. This is this synthesis and all future reasoning, all future analysis is subject to this final synthesis to which we've arrived, right? That's absolute ideological tyranny and totalitarianism of the 20th century encapsulated. That's right. But ironically, on 233, he wants the scientist to be, this is the top of the second paragraph, to be a man with an encyclopedic mind. Well, I thought you just said you didn't want all these, you know, this detail, this clutter, you know, with, no, I guess he's going to handpick the details that are important. Yeah, the encyclopedia would be the positivist cataclysm. That's the encyclopedia, and you can't read anything other than that. But again, you know, facts themselves, you know, mathematical quantities, these have to, we have to exercise our faculty of judgment to decide of all of this litter of facts, what's really important and what's the hierarchy of value that they have and what is all of this knowledge to be in the service of in the first place, but to God. So you take that out. Now you're just going to have an arbitrary selection of facts. Okay, what does this sound like? It's going to be settled science. We're going to arbitrarily pick the facts that fit our program. Anyone who makes any questions or complaints about it is antisocial, by definition, going to be canceled, right? Like what you just said, Joseph, this is exactly the totalitarian ideological mindset that we're up against, even now. Which is putting the template in place, which will lead to the murder of millions of people or several decades later. We'll return to the Forum Book Club with Fr. Joseph Fessio, Vivian Dudrow, and Joseph Pierce in just a moment. Thank you. Did you also know that you can listen to Discerning Hearts programming wherever you download your favorite podcast, like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, iHeartRadio, Spotify, even on Audible, as well as numerous other worldwide podcast streaming platforms. And did you know that Discerning Hearts also has a YouTube channel? Be sure to check out all these different places where you can find Discerning Hearts Catholic podcasts, dedicated to those on the spiritual journey. 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Your feedback fuels our mission to help others climb higher and go deeper in their spiritual growth. Like, review, and let your voice be a beacon of light for fellow seekers on this spiritual journey. We now return to The Formed Book Club with Father Joseph Fezzio, Vivian Dudro, and Joseph Pierce. Well, on page 234 in the middle, this is what I mentioned before. He talks about the heredity and its characteristic of science only in its academic degeneration, when dispersive particularity hampers ascetic culture and the moral urge. Genuine science, on the other hand, establishes a double synthesis, first between the various branches of intellectual research and then between poetry and philosophy. But it's true that genuine philosophy would seek to find the hierarchy of sciences and show where aesthetics require human anthropology and therefore where poetry fits in. That's what true philosophy would do. But he subsides for true philosophy a kind of mechanistic social synthesis of all these dispersed facts, with no principle except his own ego. Right. And so this is the reason why we call totalitarianism that expression because of the word total. So these men who presume to be able to see the whole, right? And now they're going to impose their view of the whole on everybody else. But it can't help but be reductionist because no human being on Earth can see the whole. That's why our knowledge is in fragments. Yeah, who wouldn't like to see the whole thing? Well, when we get to heaven, even then, we won't be able to... You know, God is so beyond us, we're going to spend eternity reaching the whole, I guess. I don't know. It's why we should not trust politically or philosophically anybody who doesn't trust mystery, right? If someone hates mystery and we have to get beyond all mystery to some totality, which is encapsulated in the human mind, that person is leading himself and others to destruction. Because it can't help but be reductionist. It can't help but be reductionist. So what does that do? Oh, the man doesn't fit in this bed? Then we have to chop off his head and chop off his feet and make him fit. And it's true what Joseph said that, you know, this leaves out the transcendent in God. It also leaves out the cross. So the two main pillars of Christianity, Trinitarian God, incarnation and redemption to the cross are still rejected by him. He wants to have a utopia where there's no cross and no God, just us. Oh, by the way, and I'm in charge. That's right. And his priesthood is on 235 to spell this out even more. This priesthood in the middle of that graph on 235, in all things, this is the total, right? In all things that will decide what should be thought. Man's understanding will be subjected to it. In the positive regime, in fact, there can be no more question of free thought or of freedom of conscience. Just look at these attempts at lawmaking going on in our own country, taking away from doctors the freedom of conscience not to perform or to perform certain procedures or certain medicines or whatever. I mean, there is an all -out attack on freedom of conscience in medicine in this country going on right now. And this is a little box thesis for this whole book, the drama of atheist humanism, namely if you leave out God, you destroy man. That's right. Because the very thing that's being done here is everything which is really human, freedom of thought, freedom of choice, freedom of conscience is being subjected to some abstraction. The look -back kind of sums this up on page 237, sums up this section actually at the bottom there. Furthermore, there's nothing now to fear from complete subordination of the reason to faith because according to Kant, it's a kind of faith, but you can actually prove it if you had to, but most of them aren't capable, so they have to submit themselves. It is tantamount to that of the mind to the heart. That is to say, it subordinates personal to social instincts or more briefly, man to humanity with a capital H, and then the look -back asks the question, can humanity be a tyrant? And that the next chapter is spiritual. That's when you say, where does this lead when you suppress man's freedom of conscience? Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, that question, can humanity be a tyrant, should be an essay prompt, really, because an abstract concept itself can't be a tyrant, but those who subject themselves to the abstract concept can become and do become tyrants. That's the way I would ask it, if someone sent me an essay prompt anyway. Yes, well, and humanity can't be a tyrant because abstractions can't do anything. Right. If you claim to be the sole reliable exponent of humanity, well, then, of course, you will be a tyrant. And you can certainly, yeah, humanity is the totality. Of course, you can sacrifice people on the order of humanity, right? And on 241, de Lubac points out that it all, the purge was beginning, de Lubac says, meaning Comte was already threatening to, quote -unquote, unmask his false adherents, you know, already the purge was beginning. So this wasn't even something that was going to be saved for later. Comte was already beginning in his own circles to weed out, you know, weed out the unbelievers or the people who aren't the true believers anyway. Yeah, on 239, about six lines down, he's quoted some of this. The social order will always be incompatible with permanent freedom to reopen at will, an indefinite discussion of the rare foundation of society. So that systematic tolerance cannot exist, and it's never really existed except in connection with opinions regarded as indifferent or doubtful. So in the bottom of the page, in short, positive faith is not open to abuses because it is always demonstrable, but people cannot demand that it should be demonstrated here and now. So we've come to the truth. We're brilliant ones. Yeah, take our word for it, or you'll be shocked. Again, this quote, I'm backtracking again to 238, the beginning of this section, that block quote there, an indented quote by Mr Jean Lacroix. Competent men are so far ahead of the masses that all sorts of political and social catastrophes have tried to happen before the latter have reached a positive stage. Besides, the community as a whole must always lag behind the elite. And here we have something which is sociological and in some sense sort of socialist and certainly secular humanist, which is also elitist. And again, that also is very much what we have now, right, where basically the socialists used to be, and I think authentically, certainly in British history, was the working class. The Labour Party was a political organisation begun by the working class in order to give the working class, to enfranchise the working class politically. But now we see the elites have completely and utterly hijacked the machine and treat the masses with complete contempt. So a word like populism has become a swear word. You know, heaven forbid that a member of the elite should be popular. You know, that people might actually like him or he might be speaking for them. So this is just really systematic elitism as now the voice of the people. Right. And yes, so we must listen to the experts and suppress any opinions that are different from those of the self -appointed experts. That's right. And these experts, we see it now, cannot tell that what's in a woman's womb is a human being or can't tell what sex a person is or whether there are only two sexes. They're the experts. If you can't figure those things out, I don't want to hear your opinions on taxation or foreign policy. Well, with the famous line by William F. Buckley, he'd rather be ruled by the first 20 people randomly chosen out of the phone book than by the faculty of Harvard.
Anything is Possible
Fresh update on "century" discussed on Anything is Possible
"It's interesting cuz i i think back to our first born and there was just simply no adjustment i mean it changes your world and entirely yet it just seemed like from the minute uh... our first on john was born this is the way it always was always should be and we always like my parents did with us tonight my wife's parents did with with her we always had a lot of fun a lot of faith uh... and and discipline together but i will say i think that has led us to uh... to do enter and he put in our lives remarkable people jack like you and pam like so many other families so many others who were witnesses to our kids we were always very intentional about who we had for dinner at our we traveled with uh... who our kids were with and they had tremendous role models uh... you know in our larger family with siblings cousins and with the the friendships that just got his bus to swiss so you know a lot of life is serendipitous and i and i feel that the the beautiful kids we've been given an entrusted with our uh... have enriched our lives so much we love them so much and uh... they're a product of god's goodness and grace first and most so and many witnesses from family and your friends in our lives let's talk about building that you've been in hundreds of times it was started in 1506 it was completed friends in 1626 i think that's a hundred and twenty years under construction it's called saint peters basilica when you go in there and see the pieta and what amazes you most the most about saint peters basilica it's overwhelming and jack you hit it on the head i think it's the commitment that people have had to build beauty for the purpose of praising god uh... you know a lot of people think wow you know this big building couldn't you have done something with this in any other way well think all the people employed think of all the people that brings in the tracks and think about first and foremost the beauty you know the beauty here on earth is only meant to inspire us to the the fraction of the beauty that is god uh... the transcendence and that space doesn't mean you look up uh... toward the ceiling and you see the latin written and those those mosaic words letters are seven feet tall each and they look like they might be you know a centimeter you know about the foot uh... it's it's really hard to get your mind around when you're you're in that space but what's most remarkable about it is that uh... you know secular archaeology has confirmed that we have always believed by faith and that is it is built over the remains of saint peter the first pope and we know that because there are iterations of the tombs one on top of the other dating back to the first century with graffiti from the first century that says patrice is here and in the nineteen twenties the pope began excavating what called the scavi excavations two stories down below and below the the dome and the baldachino or and the main altar directly in the middle is the tomb saint peter that's what's most remarkable to me is that for hundreds of years we accepted that this was that the the place of burial of saint peter and now through these excavations over the last hundred years we actually know it to be true then you walk into this vatican museum unbelievable and there's a little room one right before christmas you let pam and i come in with a bunch of ambassadors and cardinals because the sistine chapel choir the oldest choir in the world was giving a concert the sistine chapel wow talk about the sistine chapel is overwhelming and again that the idea of that beauty is to draw us back to god and you know to be in that place uh with a guide with a dr liz lev who can explain it theologically what you know happens through the old testament and then back up to the main altar of the last judgment with mary interceding for us at side the of christ is overwhelming but it's like all things you know you have to understand the context and understand the reason behind it which is what we feel privileged to do on on all of our experiences yes it's very special to be in there after hours and we'll be doing that several times even this fall and you know we have the privilege to go into the sistine chapel often alone with our groups but unless you know the why behind the what uh... it's out of context and so really whether it's a a family pilgrimage for a few or four hundred or a thousand what we always endeavor to do is to be able to explain the importance the significance it's much like what you do jack with your collections it's it's not just what you're seeing it's the story behind them the story and that is what's meant to motivate us and the sistine chapel is meant to motivate us to bring ourselves back to god that life will end there will be judgment where do we stand if you want to learn more or go on a cruise or go on trip a pilgrimage www .ctscentral .net you take people to the holy land Steve Ray many many times what's the best part of the pilgrimage to the holy land well it has to be the holy sepulcher to be in the place where christ was crucified laid out and then buried and to to celebrate mass in or adjacent to the tomb again you have historical records outside of biblical records that confirm that this happened and you know going to see us louis you stand there and you say he's either lord liar or lunatic when you're standing in that place and you know that he rose he was crucified and he rose all within it's very they're very close to each other they're within the same church the holy there's no doubting it there's your faith is never the same you never attend another mass or church service the same again once you've been to the holy sepulcher for the last few years you've created these good news conferences with word on fire bishop baron talk about what that consists of well over the years we've had many opportunities personally to attend conferences where I consider it like a vitamin b12 shot in your arm and we've been members of a great organization called legatus for catholic business owners and we leave very inspired by the other attendees by the speakers and you want to go out and offer your life for the the good of others and from that we thought it would be great to have these opportunities open to anyone willing and wishing to come that you get nourished in your faith you you have a sense that hey I'm not alone I'm not the only one struggling with X Y & Z I'm the only one who's far from perfect but hearing stories and speakers who really inspire you and then you come out of that conference or those conferences and events to inspire others in your life that's the main goal of those conferences www essential John .net Hale thanks for being a friend thanks for all the ways you've helped me through the years thank you Jack what a privilege to be here very grateful to you please join us next Saturday until then I'm Jack Prusula thanks thanks for listening make it a great week because with God
The Aloönæ Show
A highlight from S13 E10: City of London & Equal Opportunities Discussion
"Alright alright yeah they might join us well hopefully yes that'd be good yep so I'm ready when you are alright let's go okay so I've been looking at lighters and cigars lately oh yeah mainly the point lighters and yeah the point lighters st. the point the point later it's just been curious might be something I might want to do I might want to collect lighters for some weird reason I think it might be cool don't like the smoke I don't really have anything to celebrate so maybe not smoke them but it might be good to try one at least once yeah sweet I'm hoping that Faith be joins come on ask her what's her why she it's on your teeth yeah that'd be interesting I mean I on one hand I can understand where she's coming from with what's being said about him but on the other hand I think it's important to do research because you never know unless you understand the full context not not to say everyone doesn't understand but you never know if you'd be lied to what if what we see right now is just an illusion true make to believe what we want to believe then you can live in your own fantasy land yes and a matter how hard you tried to be red -pilled you're always gonna get blue pill out of nowhere yep you gotta have a sharp mind yes yes I don't get why she thinks that men thinks she was much who I don't get what she was talking about earlier well and get understand that she doesn't want men to take over but the country of the world was built by men it was built by it every major corporation was built by a man or the vast majority of them I'll give them that I'll give the there have been some very famous male sign to female scientists Madden Curry Mary not to mention I will give them the fact that they a woman did help create the atomic bomb well I did help Einstein create the atomic bomb basically finished the Manhattan Project so they did help build that I'm not saying they can't become the biggest richest man the richest person in the world but I don't think it's gonna happen anytime this century I could be wrong I think it takes determination for women to show that they could do whatever man can it's just that that little amount of determination that there is representation on their behalf they need they need they need there needs to be something that's shown that it is possible regardless of gender religion sexuality at most whatever people group whatever people group there is a chance that you can make it I am gonna say this not all women were Putin present not all women were given their position because they're a talent a vast majority of them and this is sad to say but it kind of means women success but which is true happenstance is the fact a vast majority of these women they were put in positions that they had no business being put into didn't have the skills enough talent they were just put in there because it what's fp they want to say oh we hired a first female VP yeah oh bug off this also experience was her background exactly they don't know it they do what they do it's just ridiculous I know there are people I'm not saying all women are all women were put in this position like this I'm sure there's some ones are very qualified for the jobs and they were put given this corrosion given these opportunities but you've got a quick question of a lot of them were they truly given this jokes of our talents or they just get promoted for worship for virtue like the GM CEO Mary Barra she's unqualified unfit and quite honestly I'm surprised she hasn't been sucked and she's gonna be one of the main reasons why General Motors probably goes under that's just one not to mention I think that will be there I personally believe the future of American companies are all being run by Indian India like so basically yeah Google Indian feel Microsoft Indian there's probably offers swells is there so uh have you heard the news what news up Obama might be gay well I already know that I'm talking about another thing what's over news okay you see no there's this new immigration rule for the UK what's the immigration law so basically in short even if you're a foreigner where you're allowed to enter the UK visa -free you still need something that's called an ETA so you need permission even if you're a foreigner in a country where you can answer enter the UK visa -free you'd certainly permission to come into the country to do whatever and you can stay no longer than six months with the exception of going there for work or even long or long -term study so even if you so they have to get they actually have to go for citizenship yes you need to ask permission to the government to enter the country apply for citizenship by it seems how's the vast majority taken that well what do you think well I shouldn't you should you should know that unless we don't have a fucking field day but let's be real here yes is a little bit concerning but something has to be done about immigration yeah but but not like this so what so what so what let's repeat what they're doing again so basically blocking anybody from coming into the country technical yes what they are promoting is they need to ask the government permission to enter the country even to foreigners in countries that are given free to free access into the UK you still need to ask the government hey can I come in and then if they say yes then you can go in I wonder how that I wonder if I'll stop the boats I don't think I don't think it's about the boats what do you think that that's a separate story what do you think it's about then what do you think it's about control or for it is well has soon that killed his opportunity of staying in in power or is he oh no he's killed his chances ages ago at this point people can people are safely saying then the next election labor majority as I'll never fucking happen that'll never fucking happen well the odds say otherwise I know you don't believe I don't believe everything here in the media I wouldn't trust I wouldn't trust stormer without ever could touch him with two pennies oh no I'm not I'm not painting this in the media the the book he's saying that well the bookies are always the bookies said but Trump would never win and he did win so he's still got his chances if he can fucking fix the economy cuz trust me it's not gonna get better under stormer storms a fucking idiot if you're under stormer Jamie you're gonna be getting rid of your oil and gas you'll be dependent on the thingy and we'll be literally sucking up will be sucking will be the LGBTQ will be plastered around every fucking set will be plastered all around England you've seen the state of Scotland don't let it come to that point I feel sorry for Scots we are gonna hit I hate the LGBTQ I think some a lot of nonsense called mentally ill people doesn't help fun to smoke the representative in my stay in my down the road representative in like one of my districts that is transgender I never happens it is very important to ask people why why are you feeling the way you are why are you doing the things that you're doing I think it's a lot of it I think it's mainly really for attention at least if what we need to do is stop giving these people attention stop giving these people stopping knowledge in their existence because we acknowledge your existence we're just encouraging their behavior it's like saying when you are when a baby when a cries baby cries you don't give it attention cuz it just it you're just rewarding it what we need to do is figure out a way to lower prices on properties what we need is cheap food we need the pricing on food to be as cheap as possible need the prices on property to be cheap so what I'm thinking to stop to solve that I'm thinking what if we were to create a bond what we were to create like a special thing right about basically help give give give everybody give people everyday people an opportunity to basically buy a house so basically cutting the prices in half right and give and give it it's only a certain type of thing that's only allowed for everyday people for the everyday people for the people and not and called big corporations can't use let use it what I'm suggesting we do is give like give massive loopholes for everyday people but bar and control property it's limit them at property but but like the likes of Blackrock the crop price Warhouse Cooper TSB and all these banks in Britain can buy so I've heard rumors that TSB is looking to get into the property market rental property markets which is quite interesting I so else's sir be bought into any new companies lately good strategy the changes in the stock market or the economy for that matter you got anything in pharmaceuticals besides John and Johnson and Johnson there's not much big father I'm investing in it till right now sure if things go away I think is you might be getting a shitload of money off Johnson Johnson soon because of the the sniff yes a district in California basically banned masks in backseat basically banned wearing on masks let's start yeah but it's a district that's always mainly Republican okay okay that makes sense you'd be surprised but there's a lot of Republicans in in California the only thing is so it's not enough to clear the state I do think that California is not big it should be split into two states I'm saying like it should be the north and the east of California one side we should do north of California and east of California and split it down the middle and basically one I personally think that should be it give more delicate seats but remember give more opportunities but not to mention it might be a thing that it might give over can I think all the all the side with Ellie I think everything to do with Ellie and Cupertino should be Cupertino LA California Cupertino all of that should be under one state and the rest of it should be the number let San Francisco I kind of like the north -south California divide yeah well I think in San Francisco part of California oh yeah it's a famous coastal city of California why can't we make that and why can't we make that and it surrounds areas its own state I don't think it's big I don't think it's big enough to be its own state I think it'll be as close as Rhode Island or Delaware it's it's the smallest area let's go but I'm saying the Bay Area maybe California big you know yeah I think I think San Francisco Bay and other neighboring neighborhoods that I think that should be enough to it for it to become its own stuff yeah it could be the next Washington DC what do you mean a shithole well yes but it's also like a district that's predominantly Democrats Washington DC ever since the u .s.
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Most of matchups three and oh teams, and we've had some interesting results already. We got some big games coming up. Actually, this is a matchup of a three and oh and a four and oh team. That be would Ohio State on the road against Notre Dame. This is this is a little rough for me because as a kid growing up, the son of a Trojan, obviously, Notre Dame was a regular on the schedule. I hated Notre Dame. And then USC seemed to play Ohio State in the Rose Bowl every year. So I didn't like Ohio State. So obviously, these are two of the most esteemed programs in the history of college football. Very interesting matchups. Only the eighth time ever that Notre Dame and Ohio State have actually met each other. If you don't, you've always heard that term game of the century. The first game of the century in college football was back in 1935, the first time Ohio State played Notre Dame. Notre Dame was down 13 -0, came back to win 18 -13. That game's still a legend in certain circles, if you're over the age of 100. And then, the next year, they had a rematch, and Notre Dame won again by a score of 7 -2, which is a 1936 -type score. They would not meet again until 1995, the year that won the Heisman at Ohio State. Ohio State won that day, and they've won four games since. So the last time Notre Dame defeated Ohio State was 1936, but this is a different Notre Dame team. Ephraim, they got, first of all, a Hartman at quarterback, which is exciting to me, Sam Hartman. Have we traced down the lineage there? Are we related to them? Okay, here's the one thing, and I was talking to my son Garrett. My younger son is actually a year older than Sam Hartman. So, I I mean, mean, this guy could easily be my son, obviously, but that facial hair, that perfect, thick, beard black that he has does not run in my heart. We just can't really grow that facial hair, I'm but gonna take, but they also have a guy that's leading the nation in rushing yards in estimate. So they have a lot of weapons on this Notre Dame team, and it's gonna be at Notre Dame Stadium. Let me ask you this, since you grew up with a dislike of both of these teams, Yes. Who are we pulling for? Mm -hmm. That's a great, I gotta root for the Hartman kid. No, you know, with obviously Sanders today and the misfortune of running to the buzzsaw in Oregon, vacating his heist and slot next week. Sam Hartman And obviously a big win at home against Ohio State, could put him at the top of the list. That might put him at the top of the list. He has 13 touchdowns, no picks so far this year, over a thousand yards pass. Yeah, because he's going to have to be outstanding to pull this off because Ohio State has something to prove. Oh yeah. They have something to prove. They can taste and feel the football playoffs and that's why I love him. And having all these undefeated and ranked teams playing against each other, I can't stand when the teams are playing against the Citadel and Northeast Western Tech University the, and I want meaningful college football games every week. And I think with the expansion of the 12 team playoffs next year, you'll see more top tier football games earlier on in the season because teams will know one loss won't eliminate you from an opportunity to play for a national championship. Yeah, and depending on who you lose to, two losses may not take you out of it. Can you imagine us sitting here a year from now getting ready for a 12 school play, like the first legit playoff in the history of college football division one? It's out of control. Too many teams. I know you like eight. Eight. Give me eight. Twelve doesn't deserve it. I told you, I told you, Rich Armberger won 68 like they have in the basketball team. Well, Rich Armberger's crazy, man. He's trying to get his Nittany Lions in there. You need to get them in there. So we do have that matchup. Notre Dame, I put it this way. When it comes to the big schools, and I have to say this about or USC in Alabama or in Ohio State or Notre Dame, and same it's thing the in college basketball with a Kentucky or a Duke or UCLA, when you in carry schools a certain sport and they're relevant, that's good for the sport. It's great. I mean, it's like right now with like in Major League Baseball with the Yankees not making the playoffs. That's not good for baseball. You want the Yankees to be in the playoffs even if you're rooting against them.
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"Discerninghearts .com presents The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. For over 20 years, Dr. Bunsen has been active in the area of Catholic social communications and education, including writing, editing, and teaching on a variety of topics related to church history, the papacy, the saints, and Catholic culture. He is the faculty chair at the Catholic Distance University, a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and the author or co -author of over 50 books, including the Encyclopedia of Catholic History and the best -selling biographies of St. Damien of Malachi and St. Kateri Tekakawisa. He also serves as a senior editor for the National Catholic Register and is a senior contributor to EWTN News. The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome, Dr. Bunsen. Wonderful to be with you again, Chris. Thank you so much for joining us to talk about this particular doctor of the church who, it's rare, isn't it, in our lifetimes to have those saints elevated to the status of doctor who have quite a background like St. Hildegard Bingen. Yes, well, she is, of course, with John of Avila, one of the two of the newest doctors of the church proclaimed as such by Pope Benedict XVI, who has, I think, a special fondness for her. And as we get to know her, we certainly can understand why he holds her in such great repute and such great respect. It's easy to overlook the fact that in her lifetime, she was called the Sybil of the Rhine, and throughout that, the whole of the 12th century in which she lived. She was renowned for her visions, but she was especially loved and respected for her wisdom, the greatest minds of her age, and, of course, was renowned also for her great holiness. So this is a formidable figure in the medieval church, and somebody, I think, that we really need to look at today as we proceed with the reform and renewal of the church. I'll try to put this very sensitively when I say that her presence in our time is one that, unfortunately, was relegated maybe into a back corner by many because of those who tried to hijack, in some ways, her spirituality to try to move forward to certain agendas. Yes, I think that's a very diplomatic way of putting it. Hildegard, in the last 10 years or so, and Pope Benedict XVI, I think, helped lead the charge in this, has been reclaimed by the church. Her authentic writings, her authentic spirituality, and especially her love for the church and her obedience to the authority of the church have all been recaptured, reclaimed for the benefit of the entire church. It's absolutely true that over the previous decades, much as we saw with a few others, I'm thinking, for example, of a Julian of Norwich in England who lived a little after Hildegard, were sort of kidnapped by those with real agendas to try to portray Hildegard as a proto -radical feminist, as somebody who was hating of the church, who attempted to resist the teachings of the church, who rejected the teachings of the church. And yet, as we read her, as we come to appreciate her more fully, I think we can grasp her extraordinary gifts, but also her remarkable love for the church. She was one who allowed herself to be subjected to obedience, that wonderful, can we say it, a virtue, as well as a discipline. Absolutely, yeah. It's one of those ironies, again, to use that word, that here was somebody who was falsely claimed by feminists, who I think would have been just shocked at the notion of herself as a feminist, that she had instead a genuine love for the church, a profound mysticism. And you've hit on one of the key words that we're going to be talking about with her, and that is a perfection of the virtues of love for Christ and her obedience to the church, to the authority of the church in judging what is and authentic what is pure. And that, I think, holds her up as a great role model today when we have so many who are dissenting from the church and continue to cling to this notion of Hildegard as some sort of a herald of feminism in the church. I don't think I would understate it by saying that it was breathtaking in the fall of 2010 then when Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, began a series of Wednesday audiences on the holy women of the Middle Ages. And he began those reflections, especially on those who had such deep mystical prayer experiences, he began the audiences not with just one but two audiences on Hildegard. Yeah, he has made it very clear. He certainly did this as pope. He's done this throughout his life as a theologian, somebody who wants to make certain that the church recognizes and honors genius in all of his forms, but also profound holiness. And Pope Benedict, in that there's the set of audiences, especially regarding Hildegard, but I mean, when we run through the list of some of the great figures that he was looking at, he talked, for example, about Julian of Norwich, he covered Catherine of Siena, Brigid of Sweden, Elizabeth of Hungary, and of course Angela of Foligno, who just recently was canonized through equivalent canonization by Pope Francis. The gifts to the church, the contributions to the life of the church, to the holiness of the church by these remarkable women. It's something that we need to pause, and I really appreciate the fact that you want to do that, to credit Pope Benedict for doing that, but also again to turn our gaze to these extraordinary women. And it is significant that Hildegard of Bingen was included in that list. If you could, give us a sense of her time period. Well, she grew up in Germany and really was a member of the German nobility, and she belonged to the German feudal system. In other words, her father was a wealthy, powerful landowner at a time when owning land was everything. His name was Hildebert, and both in the service of, as the feudal system worked, a more powerful lord by the name of Meggenhard, who was Count of Spannheim. These are sort of dazzling names to people today, but what's really most important is that medieval feudal life in Germany was one of service, it was one of status, but this reflects on the upbringing of Hildegard, I think, in a into this noble environment. She had the opportunity to learn, to understand what it was to command, to know what it was to have special status, and yet from her earliest times, she displayed extraordinary intelligence, but also very powerful spiritual gifts and a desire for status conscious, as so many of the members of the feudal nobility were, and yet they recognized in their daughter the fact that she was called to something else other than the life of service and of status that they enjoyed. And for that reason, they offered her up, as was the custom of the time, as sort of a tithe to the church, as an oblet to the nearby Benedictine abbey of Disobodenburg, and she was only eight years old at the time, but that was the custom. And her life changed from that minute, but it was, I think, the greatest gift that her parents could have given her, because they placed her in exactly the environment that she needed the most to foster, really to develop her spiritual life, and all of the skills that she was given by God that she came to possess as an abbess and as a leading figure of the medieval church. The stability of the Benedictine role, that way of devoting time in your day, not only to work, the discipline of action, but then also to prayer, it really served her so well, didn't it? It did, and especially crucial in this was the fact that, as was again the wisdom of the Benedictines, they gave her over for her initial training to other women who were experienced in life, in the spiritual life, in the discipline of the Benedictine community, but also in the spiritual life they saw, I think, immediately needed to be developed in her. There was the first by a widow by the name of Uda, and then more important was another woman by the name of Uta of Spannheim, who was the daughter of Count Stefan of Spannheim. Now why is it that notable? It's notable because in Uta, not only did Hildegard receive a kind of spiritual mother, as well as a spiritual guide and mentor, but Uta was, being the daughter of nobility, clearly aware of Hildegard's background as well as her immense potential in dealing with other members of the nobility in future years. The position of abbess was one of great power. We don't encounter abbesses and abbots very much anymore, and yet because of the status of the Benedictine order, because of the lands it accumulated, but also because of its importance to the life of the community wherever you had a Benedictine monastery, abbots and abbesses acquired and wielded great influence in society and political life, economic life, and then of course their spiritual power. And Uta would have understood all of this, and over the next decades she helped train Hildegard in a life of prayer, of asceticism, but also of training the mind and personality to command, to lead with charity, and then of course to have the level of learning with the best they could give her to prepare her for the immense tasks that lay ahead. Let's talk about some of those tasks. It's an incredible time for a monastery life, and it would be affected by her example of how it could be transformed. Well Hildegard always seriously underestimated and sort of downplayed her own learning. She referred to herself as an indocte mulier or an unlearned woman, and yet while she may have had formal academic training that one might think of today, she nevertheless understood Latin, certainly the use of the Psalter. The Latin language of course was the language of the church. It was so much of the common language of ecclesiastical life, but she also continued to train other noble women who were sent to this community. And so when she was given, as they say, she took the veil from the Bishop of Bamberg when she was about 15 years old. From that point on, we can see a direct line of progress and advancement for Hildegard. This wasn't something that she was craving, but it was something I think that she took to quite naturally, both because of her training, both because of her family background, but also just because of her genius level IQ. I say genius level IQ because if you spend much time reading the works of Hildegard, the unbelievable diversity of which she was capable, and we're going to talk a little bit about that, you appreciate the sheer level of her intelligence and how in that community life, in the wisdom of the Benedictine life, they were able to recognize that, to harness it, to train it, and then put it to the good of the community and the good of the wider church. Not just for the church's benefit, but to make of Hildegard's immense gifts exactly that. A gift to the church, a gift to the community, but especially a gift to God. And so we're seeing her move rapidly a from humble young girl, somebody who was then trained to become a teacher or a prioress of the sisters, and then of course, around the age of 38, she became the actual head of the community of women at Disobodenberg. I think it's so important to honor that intellectual aspect of Hildegard, I mean the fact that she would have this ability like a sponge to absorb everything around her, as though it seems, and also to wed that with her spiritual life and those mystical experiences, and when she had, how can we say this, it was very unique in that it wasn't that she would have a vision of something. She would even say she doesn't see things ocularly, I mean something that she would have in front of her. No, it was something much more compelling in which it incorporated all of her. I mean not only the the spiritual aspect, but it brought in to play all that intellectual knowledge so that you would end up getting tomes and tomes and tomes of writing. Yes, that's exactly it. For her, while she was certainly conscious of her limited education, she understood that the knowledge that she possessed came from what she always referred to in the Latin as the umbra viventis luminis, or the shadow of the living light. And for her, this is not something that she was too eager or all that willing to write about, which is, as you certainly know, Chris, of all people, that's one of the great signs of the genuineness of spiritual gifts, that she was reluctant to talk about this extraordinary series of visions and mystical experiences that she began having as a young girl, but chose not to speak of until she actually began to share them with Jutta, then with her spiritual director who is a monk by the name of Vomar, who really I think was a good influence on her. And only when she was really in her 40s did she begin to describe and to transcribe so much of what she saw. And part of that I think was because here was somebody who was receiving these these visions, these mystical experiences from a very young age, but who wanted to ruminate on them, who wanted to meditate on them. And for her, then, it was the command to talk about these. And as she wrote in the shivyas, one of her greatest of her writings, she talks about the fiery light coming out of a cloudless sky that flooded her entire mind and inflamed, she said, her whole heart and her whole like a flame. And she understood at that moment the exposition of the books of the Psalter, the Gospel, the Old and the New Testaments, and it was by command that she made these visions known. But it was again out of humility, out of obedience to the voice that she did this. And the full scale of what she saw and what she began to teach to transcribe took up almost the whole of the rest of her life. And yet even at that moment, as she did so, what was she doing? She sought additional counsel in the discernment of the authenticity and the truth of what she was seeing. Why? Because she was concerned that they might not be of God or that they were mere illusions or even possible delusions brought on by herself or by the evil one. And that commitment to obedience, I think, stands her in such great standing in the history of the church among the mystics. But it also tells us that, as often has been the case with some of the mystics in history, there have been those positivists and scientists and psychologists who try to dismiss these mystical experiences. In Hildegard's case, what have they claimed? They have said that she was receiving these simply psychological aberrations or they were various forms of neurological problems leading up to migraines or a host of other possible issues. And yet the clarity of her visions, the specificity of them, and also the theological depth of them, demolish any such claims by scientists today and instead really forces to look at what exactly she was seeing. I don't doubt that there will be many out there over the next century particularly that could achieve their doctorates just by writing on different aspects of her work. And if you are at all a student of the Benedictine rule, you can begin to see in those visions those connections with the life that she lived out. I mean, this was very organic. It wasn't like this were just coming. Though they seem foreign to us, when you, potentially, when you begin to look at those visions, if you understand the time, if you have a proper translation and you know the rule, you begin to see a little bit better the clarity of what she's communicating. Yes, exactly. And we also appreciate the staggering scale of what she saw. I mean, she beheld as well the sacraments. She understood the virtues. She appreciated angels. She saw vice. She saw, as Pope Benedict XVI talked in his letter proclaiming her a doctor of the church, what did he say? He says that the range of vision of the mystic of Bingen was not limited to treating individual matters but was a global synthesis of the Christian faith. So he talks about that this is a compendium of salvation history, literally from the beginning of the universe until the very eschatological consummation of all of creation. As he says, God's decision to bring about the work of creation is the first stage on a long journey that unfolds from the constitution of the heavenly hierarchy until it reaches the fall of the rebellious angels and the sin of our first parents. So she's touching on the very core of who we are and the most important aspects of redemption of the kingdom of God and the last judgment. That the scale of this again, I think, is difficult for much of a modern mind to comprehend. And it tells us that we have to be very careful from our perch here and surrounded by technology and modernity that we perhaps have lost our ability to see the sheer scale of salvation history. That this abbess sitting on the Rhine in the 12th century was able to and then was able to communicate it with language that is surprisingly modern. Oh, let's talk about that language not only with words but with music and with art. I mean, this woman was able to express herself in all manners of creative activity. Yes, I mean, this is somebody that designed, created her own kind of language. It's sort of a combination of Latin and German, which is a medieval German. But she also composed hymns, more than 70 hymns. She composed sequences and antiphons, what became known as the symphonia harmoniae celestium, the symphony of the harmony of heavenly revelations. And not only were they simply composed because, well, her community would need music, they were very much a reflection of the things that she had seen. And she wrote a very memorable letter in 1178 to the prelates of the city of Mainz, and she talks about the fact that music stirs our hearts and engages our souls in ways we can't really describe. But we're taken beyond our earthly banishment back to the divine melody Adam knew when he sang with the angels when he was whole in God before his exile. So here she's as seemingly simple as a hymn, and connecting it to the vision, connecting it to salvation history, and connecting to something far deeper theologically. So her hymns ranged from the creation of the Holy Spirit, but she was especially fond of composing music in honor of the saints, and especially the Blessed Virgin Mary. Yeah, as we're coming to a conclusion on this particular episode, I just don't want to miss out on just a little bit of a tidbit. We could have called her a doctor, I mean, in a very real way, a physician. This woman, this wonderful gift to the church, gift to all of us, I mean, she had that appreciation of creation and actually even how it will work to heal. Yes, yes. Again, it's hard to overestimate her genius. Why? Because beyond her visions, beyond her abilities as a composer, here was somebody who combined her genius with practical need. Her community had specific needs for her gifts. And so what did she do? She wrote books on the natural sciences, she wrote books on medicine, she wrote books on music. She looked at the study of nature to assist her sisters. So the result was a natural history, a book on causes and cures, a book on how to put medicine together. And it's a fascinating reading because she talks about plants and the elements and trees and birds and mammals and reptiles. But all of it was to reduce all of this knowledge to very practical purposes, the medicinal values of natural phenomena. And then she also wrote in a book on causes and cures, which is written from the traditional medieval understanding of humors. She lists 200 diseases or conditions with different cures and remedies that tend mostly to be herbal with sort of recipes for how to make them. This is all from somebody who at that time was an abbess of not just one but two monasteries along the Rhine, who was also being consulted on popes to kings to common people who came to her for help. And this is somebody who at that time was also working for her own perfection in the spiritual life and in the perfection of the virtues and who is also continuing to reflect and meditate on the incredible vision she was receiving. So this is a full life, but it was a life given completely to the service of others. And of course, she'll have to have two episodes. We do. Thank you so much, Dr. But looking forward to part two Chris. 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"Discerninghearts .com presents The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. For over 20 years, Dr. Bunsen has been active in the area of Catholic social communications and education, including writing, editing, and teaching on a variety of topics related to church history, the papacy, the saints, and Catholic culture. He is the faculty chair at the Catholic Distance University, a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and the author or co -author of over 50 books, including the Encyclopedia of Catholic History and the best -selling biographies of St. Damien of Malachi and St. Kateri Tekakawisa. He also serves as a senior editor for the National Catholic Register and is a senior contributor to EWTN News. The Doctors of the Church, the terrorism of wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Welcome, Dr. Bunsen. Wonderful to be with you again, Chris. Thank you so much for joining us to talk about this particular doctor of the church who, it's rare, isn't it, in our lifetimes to have those saints elevated to the status of doctor who have quite a background like St. Hildegard Bingen. Yes, well, she is, of course, with John of Avila, one of the two of the newest doctors of the church proclaimed as such by Pope Benedict XVI, who has, I think, a special fondness for her. And as we get to know her, we certainly can understand why he holds her in such great repute and such great respect. It's easy to overlook the fact that in her lifetime, she was called the Sybil of the Rhine, and throughout that, the whole of the 12th century in which she lived. She was renowned for her visions, but she was especially loved and respected for her wisdom, the greatest minds of her age, and, of course, was renowned also for her great holiness. So this is a formidable figure in the medieval church, and somebody, I think, that we really need to look at today as we proceed with the reform and renewal of the church. I'll try to put this very sensitively when I say that her presence in our time is one that, unfortunately, was relegated maybe into a back corner by many because of those who tried to hijack, in some ways, her spirituality to try to move forward to certain agendas. Yes, I think that's a very diplomatic way of putting it. Hildegard, in the last 10 years or so, and Pope Benedict XVI, I think, helped lead the charge in this, has been reclaimed by the church. Her authentic writings, her authentic spirituality, and especially her love for the church and her obedience to the authority of the church have all been recaptured, reclaimed for the benefit of the entire church. It's absolutely true that over the previous decades, much as we saw with a few others, I'm thinking, for example, of a Julian of Norwich in England who lived a little after Hildegard, were sort of kidnapped by those with real agendas to try to portray Hildegard as a proto -radical feminist, as somebody who was hating of the church, who attempted to resist the teachings of the church, who rejected the teachings of the church. And yet, as we read her, as we come to appreciate her more fully, I think we can grasp her extraordinary gifts, but also her remarkable love for the church. She was one who allowed herself to be subjected to obedience, that wonderful, can we say it, a virtue, as well as a discipline. Absolutely, yeah. It's one of those ironies, again, to use that word, that here was somebody who was falsely claimed by feminists, who I think would have been just shocked at the notion of herself as a feminist, that she had instead a genuine love for the church, a profound mysticism. And you've hit on one of the key words that we're going to be talking about with her, and that is a perfection of the virtues of love for Christ and her obedience to the church, to the authority of the church in judging what is and authentic what is pure. And that, I think, holds her up as a great role model today when we have so many who are dissenting from the church and continue to cling to this notion of Hildegard as some sort of a herald of feminism in the church. I don't think I would understate it by saying that it was breathtaking in the fall of 2010 then when Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, began a series of Wednesday audiences on the holy women of the Middle Ages. And he began those reflections, especially on those who had such deep mystical prayer experiences, he began the audiences not with just one but two audiences on Hildegard. Yeah, he has made it very clear. He certainly did this as pope. He's done this throughout his life as a theologian, somebody who wants to make certain that the church recognizes and honors genius in all of his forms, but also profound holiness. And Pope Benedict, in that there's the set of audiences, especially regarding Hildegard, but I mean, when we run through the list of some of the great figures that he was looking at, he talked, for example, about Julian of Norwich, he covered Catherine of Siena, Brigid of Sweden, Elizabeth of Hungary, and of course Angela of Foligno, who just recently was canonized through equivalent canonization by Pope Francis. The gifts to the church, the contributions to the life of the church, to the holiness of the church by these remarkable women. It's something that we need to pause, and I really appreciate the fact that you want to do that, to credit Pope Benedict for doing that, but also again to turn our gaze to these extraordinary women. And it is significant that Hildegard of Bingen was included in that list. If you could, give us a sense of her time period. Well, she grew up in Germany and really was a member of the German nobility, and she belonged to the German feudal system. In other words, her father was a wealthy, powerful landowner at a time when owning land was everything. His name was Hildebert, and both in the service of, as the feudal system worked, a more powerful lord by the name of Meggenhard, who was Count of Spannheim. These are sort of dazzling names to people today, but what's really most important is that medieval feudal life in Germany was one of service, it was one of status, but this reflects on the upbringing of Hildegard, I think, in a into this noble environment. She had the opportunity to learn, to understand what it was to command, to know what it was to have special status, and yet from her earliest times, she displayed extraordinary intelligence, but also very powerful spiritual gifts and a desire for status conscious, as so many of the members of the feudal nobility were, and yet they recognized in their daughter the fact that she was called to something else other than the life of service and of status that they enjoyed. And for that reason, they offered her up, as was the custom of the time, as sort of a tithe to the church, as an oblet to the nearby Benedictine abbey of Disobodenburg, and she was only eight years old at the time, but that was the custom. And her life changed from that minute, but it was, I think, the greatest gift that her parents could have given her, because they placed her in exactly the environment that she needed the most to foster, really to develop her spiritual life, and all of the skills that she was given by God that she came to possess as an abbess and as a leading figure of the medieval church. The stability of the Benedictine role, that way of devoting time in your day, not only to work, the discipline of action, but then also to prayer, it really served her so well, didn't it? It did, and especially crucial in this was the fact that, as was again the wisdom of the Benedictines, they gave her over for her initial training to other women who were experienced in life, in the spiritual life, in the discipline of the Benedictine community, but also in the spiritual life they saw, I think, immediately needed to be developed in her. There was the first by a widow by the name of Uda, and then more important was another woman by the name of Uta of Spannheim, who was the daughter of Count Stefan of Spannheim. Now why is it that notable? It's notable because in Uta, not only did Hildegard receive a kind of spiritual mother, as well as a spiritual guide and mentor, but Uta was, being the daughter of nobility, clearly aware of Hildegard's background as well as her immense potential in dealing with other members of the nobility in future years. The position of abbess was one of great power. We don't encounter abbesses and abbots very much anymore, and yet because of the status of the Benedictine order, because of the lands it accumulated, but also because of its importance to the life of the community wherever you had a Benedictine monastery, abbots and abbesses acquired and wielded great influence in society and political life, economic life, and then of course their spiritual power. And Uta would have understood all of this, and over the next decades she helped train Hildegard in a life of prayer, of asceticism, but also of training the mind and personality to command, to lead with charity, and then of course to have the level of learning with the best they could give her to prepare her for the immense tasks that lay ahead. Let's talk about some of those tasks. It's an incredible time for a monastery life, and it would be affected by her example of how it could be transformed. Well Hildegard always seriously underestimated and sort of downplayed her own learning. She referred to herself as an indocte mulier or an unlearned woman, and yet while she may have had formal academic training that one might think of today, she nevertheless understood Latin, certainly the use of the Psalter. The Latin language of course was the language of the church. It was so much of the common language of ecclesiastical life, but she also continued to train other noble women who were sent to this community. And so when she was given, as they say, she took the veil from the Bishop of Bamberg when she was about 15 years old. From that point on, we can see a direct line of progress and advancement for Hildegard. This wasn't something that she was craving, but it was something I think that she took to quite naturally, both because of her training, both because of her family background, but also just because of her genius level IQ. I say genius level IQ because if you spend much time reading the works of Hildegard, the unbelievable diversity of which she was capable, and we're going to talk a little bit about that, you appreciate the sheer level of her intelligence and how in that community life, in the wisdom of the Benedictine life, they were able to recognize that, to harness it, to train it, and then put it to the good of the community and the good of the wider church. Not just for the church's benefit, but to make of Hildegard's immense gifts exactly that. A gift to the church, a gift to the community, but especially a gift to God. And so we're seeing her move rapidly a from humble young girl, somebody who was then trained to become a teacher or a prioress of the sisters, and then of course, around the age of 38, she became the actual head of the community of women at Disobodenberg. I think it's so important to honor that intellectual aspect of Hildegard, I mean the fact that she would have this ability like a sponge to absorb everything around her, as though it seems, and also to wed that with her spiritual life and those mystical experiences, and when she had, how can we say this, it was very unique in that it wasn't that she would have a vision of something. She would even say she doesn't see things ocularly, I mean something that she would have in front of her. No, it was something much more compelling in which it incorporated all of her. I mean not only the the spiritual aspect, but it brought in to play all that intellectual knowledge so that you would end up getting tomes and tomes and tomes of writing. Yes, that's exactly it. For her, while she was certainly conscious of her limited education, she understood that the knowledge that she possessed came from what she always referred to in the Latin as the umbra viventis luminis, or the shadow of the living light. And for her, this is not something that she was too eager or all that willing to write about, which is, as you certainly know, Chris, of all people, that's one of the great signs of the genuineness of spiritual gifts, that she was reluctant to talk about this extraordinary series of visions and mystical experiences that she began having as a young girl, but chose not to speak of until she actually began to share them with Jutta, then with her spiritual director who is a monk by the name of Vomar, who really I think was a good influence on her. And only when she was really in her 40s did she begin to describe and to transcribe so much of what she saw. And part of that I think was because here was somebody who was receiving these these visions, these mystical experiences from a very young age, but who wanted to ruminate on them, who wanted to meditate on them. And for her, then, it was the command to talk about these. And as she wrote in the shivyas, one of her greatest of her writings, she talks about the fiery light coming out of a cloudless sky that flooded her entire mind and inflamed, she said, her whole heart and her whole like a flame. And she understood at that moment the exposition of the books of the Psalter, the Gospel, the Old and the New Testaments, and it was by command that she made these visions known. But it was again out of humility, out of obedience to the voice that she did this. And the full scale of what she saw and what she began to teach to transcribe took up almost the whole of the rest of her life. And yet even at that moment, as she did so, what was she doing? She sought additional counsel in the discernment of the authenticity and the truth of what she was seeing. Why? Because she was concerned that they might not be of God or that they were mere illusions or even possible delusions brought on by herself or by the evil one. And that commitment to obedience, I think, stands her in such great standing in the history of the church among the mystics. But it also tells us that, as often has been the case with some of the mystics in history, there have been those positivists and scientists and psychologists who try to dismiss these mystical experiences. In Hildegard's case, what have they claimed? They have said that she was receiving these simply psychological aberrations or they were various forms of neurological problems leading up to migraines or a host of other possible issues. And yet the clarity of her visions, the specificity of them, and also the theological depth of them, demolish any such claims by scientists today and instead really forces to look at what exactly she was seeing. I don't doubt that there will be many out there over the next century particularly that could achieve their doctorates just by writing on different aspects of her work. And if you are at all a student of the Benedictine rule, you can begin to see in those visions those connections with the life that she lived out. I mean, this was very organic. It wasn't like this were just coming. Though they seem foreign to us, when you, potentially, when you begin to look at those visions, if you understand the time, if you have a proper translation and you know the rule, you begin to see a little bit better the clarity of what she's communicating. Yes, exactly. And we also appreciate the staggering scale of what she saw. I mean, she beheld as well the sacraments. She understood the virtues. She appreciated angels. She saw vice. She saw, as Pope Benedict XVI talked in his letter proclaiming her a doctor of the church, what did he say? He says that the range of vision of the mystic of Bingen was not limited to treating individual matters but was a global synthesis of the Christian faith. So he talks about that this is a compendium of salvation history, literally from the beginning of the universe until the very eschatological consummation of all of creation. As he says, God's decision to bring about the work of creation is the first stage on a long journey that unfolds from the constitution of the heavenly hierarchy until it reaches the fall of the rebellious angels and the sin of our first parents. So she's touching on the very core of who we are and the most important aspects of redemption of the kingdom of God and the last judgment. That the scale of this again, I think, is difficult for much of a modern mind to comprehend. And it tells us that we have to be very careful from our perch here and surrounded by technology and modernity that we perhaps have lost our ability to see the sheer scale of salvation history. That this abbess sitting on the Rhine in the 12th century was able to and then was able to communicate it with language that is surprisingly modern. Oh, let's talk about that language not only with words but with music and with art. I mean, this woman was able to express herself in all manners of creative activity. Yes, I mean, this is somebody that designed, created her own kind of language. It's sort of a combination of Latin and German, which is a medieval German. But she also composed hymns, more than 70 hymns. She composed sequences and antiphons, what became known as the symphonia harmoniae celestium, the symphony of the harmony of heavenly revelations. And not only were they simply composed because, well, her community would need music, they were very much a reflection of the things that she had seen. And she wrote a very memorable letter in 1178 to the prelates of the city of Mainz, and she talks about the fact that music stirs our hearts and engages our souls in ways we can't really describe. But we're taken beyond our earthly banishment back to the divine melody Adam knew when he sang with the angels when he was whole in God before his exile. So here she's as seemingly simple as a hymn, and connecting it to the vision, connecting it to salvation history, and connecting to something far deeper theologically. So her hymns ranged from the creation of the Holy Spirit, but she was especially fond of composing music in honor of the saints, and especially the Blessed Virgin Mary. Yeah, as we're coming to a conclusion on this particular episode, I just don't want to miss out on just a little bit of a tidbit. We could have called her a doctor, I mean, in a very real way, a physician. This woman, this wonderful gift to the church, gift to all of us, I mean, she had that appreciation of creation and actually even how it will work to heal. Yes, yes. Again, it's hard to overestimate her genius. Why? Because beyond her visions, beyond her abilities as a composer, here was somebody who combined her genius with practical need. Her community had specific needs for her gifts. And so what did she do? She wrote books on the natural sciences, she wrote books on medicine, she wrote books on music. She looked at the study of nature to assist her sisters. So the result was a natural history, a book on causes and cures, a book on how to put medicine together. And it's a fascinating reading because she talks about plants and the elements and trees and birds and mammals and reptiles. But all of it was to reduce all of this knowledge to very practical purposes, the medicinal values of natural phenomena. And then she also wrote in a book on causes and cures, which is written from the traditional medieval understanding of humors. She lists 200 diseases or conditions with different cures and remedies that tend mostly to be herbal with sort of recipes for how to make them. This is all from somebody who at that time was an abbess of not just one but two monasteries along the Rhine, who was also being consulted on popes to kings to common people who came to her for help. And this is somebody who at that time was also working for her own perfection in the spiritual life and in the perfection of the virtues and who is also continuing to reflect and meditate on the incredible vision she was receiving. So this is a full life, but it was a life given completely to the service of others. And of course, she'll have to have two episodes. We do. Thank you so much, Dr. But looking forward to part two Chris. 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This is only like a few weeks ago, right? It's it's good, man. I love having kids. Kids are the best. I I think parents like to complain about having kids, but like I do with the you know, it's like there's this George Peterson quote, which is like if you weren't going to have kids, like what the fuck would you be doing? That's so special. Like most of us are. Yeah. Yeah. It's not like I'm going to be inventing, you know, a new a new like equation for quantum field theory or something like I'm not doing any of that. So like, yeah, string theory is just a bit above our heads as well, you know? Right, exactly. So hanging out with the kids and, you know, playing Uno or goofing around is like, that's where I'm at. That's my song, right? The other thing you are, but I think of my kids just went back to school. So now I have like full days with nothing to do, but what I want to do. And you start to realize, like, what do people without kids in their thirties and forties do? There's just, oh, yeah, exactly. Yeah. You basically just get drunk in different locations. You're like, yeah, I went to Dublin and I got drunk and then I went to Istanbul and I got drunk and then I went to Rio de Ignar and I got drunk and you're like, okay, that's I didn't get drunk here. I got beer here, you know? Uh, yeah, people, people end up and I don't want to shit in the mouth of, of non parents here right off the bat, but fuck it. Let's do it. Everybody should have kids. It's well worth it. And I think at least based on my circle, most people I see that don't end up having children really, really wish they did. They get into their late thirties, forties and fifties and they realize, oh, I see what this whole thing's about. Um, highly recommend it. Get out there. Fuck everybody. Start fucking, start reproducing. Let's expand the species. Let's get more Bitcoiners. Yeah. Listen, if you don't have a, if you don't have kids, I consider you weak hands, you know, cause there's no one to get a huddle after your debt. So what you only got like max, you know, 40, 50 years of huddling there. All right. Like we need to extend that out. Seven generation thinking like my boy, Marty bent says, you know, I listened to you with, uh, the, your most recent chat with Peter and Peter was spending some time saying like, I love smart huddle. I like the glasses. I like the refined civilized huddle and Josh were like, Josh and I were like, fuck that shit. We want total huddle. If you don't deliver that today, you fucked up. Cause we need you fully unleashed my friend. All right. I mean, I'll do my best. Let's see what I got. Firehouse humor. Yeah. Oh yeah. I think you'd fit right into the firehouse based on some of the stuff I've heard you, uh, spew over the, over the years, I think you'd fit right in, especially coffee hour, eight o 'clock in the morning, just a bunch of degenerates. I don't know if you guys have seen the new Shane Gillis stand up on Netflix, but that's like my barometer for humor. Just like extremely immature playground humor, the way we used to talk to each other, you know, third grade. Yeah, exactly. Those are sort of litmus tests for like how far you can go culturally. You're like, Oh, we weren't allowed to say that 10 years ago. He just went that far in that, in that Netflix special. I guess that's the, that's the tip of the spear for how far we can go. Chappelle broke some boundary. A lot of people have broken boundaries on Netflix in the last, comedy in general has been regressive over the last 10 or 15 years. Like every, so many things have been taboo to say, especially for comedians, which really ruins comedians and only like Dave Chappelle can get away with it and a few others, but comedy has really been shit on in the last 10 years. I think the left went too far and they canceled basically too many people and you can't cancel everybody because then now you just have like half the country that's canceled. Right. And so, you know, all the canceled people, it's not like you killed them. Like they're still alive and they're just like, you know what? I don't give a shit about being canceled. And that's like where everybody's at nowadays. And so I am starting to see, like, I think the, you know, canceled culture has peaked and now we're on the other side of canceled culture. And there's a bunch, bunch of people who basically realize like, if you don't cancel yourself, nobody can really cancel you. You just, you just choose not to give a shit about it. I think it was actually Trump that taught everybody that maneuver. Right. Which is like, you know, whatever, I don't care, whatever you say about me, I don't give a fuck, you know, whatever. Uh, and you know, he's just going to, he's just going to keep going out there and calling you stormy horse face Daniels or whatever. He doesn't keep a shit. And you can be like, you know, you were the worst president ever. He'd be like, that's false. That was the best, best president. So you just don't let any of it get in there. You just go, no, he broke a ton of clown barriers. Trump did. He was masterful with the way he could do that. And if that guy had one characteristic that I admire, it's his ability to spin move out of any accusation by calling the other person, an ingenious nickname that stuck, like just nailed it every single time nickname ever. I think it was low energy Jeb. Who comes up with low energy Jeb. And then you would look at him and you'd be like, man, he is really low energy. Yeah, these things work a cup of coffee, you know, shortcut narratives are really effective. Speaking of presidents, you guys see Biden the other day and it was a yesterday in Vietnam. He literally got hooked off the stage because he started mumbling nonsense about something that was far off of what they were talking about. They turned his mic off while he was talking and he kept talking. And then they had an announcer get on and basically say, oh, you're done here, Mr. President, get, they got the hook out and they pulled him off stage. It was like, watch, watch this clip. Yeah, it was, it was insane. Shepherd came out. It was full blown, like, all right, get this fucking guy out of here before he makes us look even dumber. Unbelievable. You know, in a nation of 360 some odd million Americans, I think many of us are very intelligent. Uh, the last two presidents have been kind of, you know, not up to snuff, right? Like where are our good people, you know, like, yeah, we're not sending our best anymore, unfortunately. It is comical, but it's also downright embarrassing because, and I've heard enough out of you to know that you'll agree with this, I'm still very proud to be an American, I think there's a lot of wonderful things that this, this country stands for and imbues and, and it's done and it's, it's a downhill slope right now on both sides. And I just laugh at, I mean, obviously like most Bitcoiners and Josh and I are aligned on this, I just, both sides are in full blown, full frontal clown mode and, and anybody that's latching onto either candidate at this point, I almost lose respect for it. It's like, how can you take either of these guys seriously? But we need to dig out of that. Like that, that needs to be fixed to your point. That's not something that that's healthy for the average American citizen to just be resigned to the fact that the leader of the entire nation is a complete idiot, we need to dig out of that and hopefully reverse that trend. Well, you know, in general, I lean conservative usually, but I actually have been, uh, you know, found myself very intrigued by Robert F Kennedy Jr. And it's not just because he's a Bitcoiner, but I think he really has the discourse into the Overton window, right? Like by basically being like, why am I not, I'm a Democrat my whole life. My father was, you know, a president, a Senator, a presidential candidate. My uncle was killed. He was one of the most popular democratic presidents of all time. Why am I not allowed to say this? Why am I not allowed to have opinions or questions? And yet in America, I feel like anytime we lose our foundational principle, which is, you know, free speech, anytime we're losing that we're losing our soul as a almost anything you want without significant repercussions, that's, that's just how things are. Like, obviously if you say something that's very racist or hateful or homicidal or genocidal or something, then people are going to be, they're gonna have a lot of feelings about it, but there's very little speech. That's actually illegal speech, right? And we should be able to, yeah, just get together in a room and discuss things as Americans. That's a very rare thing. Like that's, that's not something that you find in almost any other culture on earth. You know, I was talking to Peter McCormick McCormick about this, but like the British sarcastic, dry humor that they're all known for that is because they don't have free speech. So they have to be sarcastic. That's never occurred to me before that either. Right. They have a shield to hide behind and they can be like, Oh, come on, mate. I was just taking the piss. Whereas we as Americans can just say what the fuck we actually think, which is a more effective system. They, they have to, I mean, I'm glad it happened because I love British humor. Yeah. They have to show a side boob. They can't go full frontal. You know what I mean? Exactly. Gentlemen. I'm sure you guys will both agree with this point as well. So we've got these clown puppet leaders that we're, we're just accosted with every four years and have to deal with the shit sandwich or the giant douche. And we've got to pick between the two of them. But then there's also like every time there's like, I mean, I'd say most times there's a new law, some new bullshit with COVID that happened in the last couple of years, I'm stunned by the stupidity and heavy handedness, which a lot of this stuff comes down. And it's like, it's like, I'm disappointed by how bad these takes can be and how bad these real changes are and how overbearing a lot of this has been, especially in the last few years. But it seems like every time a new law is, is instantiated, it's just feels wrong on its face. And I feel like people are so numbed to it at this point that they just say, they just expect it to be the wrong thing instead of what we would prefer to have. Or I think people from our circles would prefer to have at least. What are your thoughts on that? About how there's just like this numbness about how these people operate. Well, there's, you know, we're recording this on nine 11 and one of the reasons I wanted to record with you guys, cause you're both firefighters and I think not, you know, we're all around the same age. Nine 11 was the seminal moment of our young lives. And obviously like certainly had an effect on both of you, I'm sure. And I'd love to hear your stories about that. Um, but you know, to me, I'm, I'm, I have a good, I have a great memory. That's it's a gift and a curse. And one of the things that, uh, I remember is the world pre nine 11. I remember what it was like, and we're now living in an entirely different world. That's not better. It's a worst world. You know, we have an, a heightened security state, a heightened surveillance state. I mean, you used to be able to just, you know, what is TSA really accomplished? Like, did they prevent any new, uh, atrocities? I don't think they did because one guy tried to bomb a shoe bomber shoes, and now we are going to take off my, I got to take off my fucking band, slip -ons every time, you know what I mean? And your belt crying shame. Yeah. Yeah. Fucking shoe bomber. I mean, it is, it is like, we appreciate you bringing that up. It is, uh, in the fire service, it's, it's the day of the year. Um, and it, it's been said for a couple of decades now, never forget. But I feel like the fire service, Josh has done a pretty good job of not forgetting. Like you still see it on a lot of fire trucks. Every single firehouse around the country is honoring it today. There's a moment of silence that comes over dispatch. There's events that happen every year and yeah, I don't know. This is just a complete sidebar on nine 11, but it was fucking insane. Fucking insane. I was in sixth grade. I remember where I was as everyone does. Um, and wasn't fully able to appreciate the magnitude, but as the years have gone watching back in the documentaries and thinking through just like from our vantage point, um, I, Josh, we've talked about this before with our career. Like there is a degree of submission to risk. It doesn't happen very often. We don't want to overplay the hero card here. And the vast majority of our job where paramedics, we rotate ambulance to fire truck, but when this shit happens, it's real. And you've kind of sworn an oath to not have a choice, but to go into that, if that happens in your career, that second story bedroom to risk your life for a kid or whatever, all those men and women that went into that building, obviously hindsight's 2020, but if we worked in New York at that time and, and had the badge on, we would have had, we would have done the exact same thing. So, um, yeah, the heroism that existed by I agree, like to, to get, to get back off the nine 11 is just like, what, how has the world improved in any way, shape or form since then? And it has not in many ways, it's devolved in the opposite direction and we need new currents that flow the opposite way that, that get us back to a lot of American ideals, which is part of what we've latched onto the most about what you've said. And spoken into this community. Totally. We see, uh, so the Patriot act was instantiated right afterwards, which took away a whole, it added surveillance, took away a whole bunch of fundamental rights. And it was supposed to be sunsetted. I don't remember if it was five or 10 years after nine 11, but they extended it and they've continued to extend it since then. It's again, back to what we were just talking about. Like these, it's almost like a peg in, they get a foothold in and the politicians never relinquish any power whatsoever. It's always another step up. Another squeezing of, of the populace. They peg a shit coin into, into American ideals, kind of like potentially pegging shit coins into Bitcoin with drive chains. I don't know. Maybe we ended up today. Smooth transition there. I can't think of a worse way to honor all of the brave guys, you know, who ran into the towers when they were on fire. Then what we've done in the aftermath of nine 11, you know, I just can't think of a worse world. I saw it. I saw an Instagram post that actually made me pretty emotional. It was a, you know, young, pretty girl. She's probably in her like late twenties now. And she went to visit the Memorial cause her father was FDNY and he ran into the building. He ran into tower two and he collapsed on him and she grew up her whole life without her father. Right. And he made the ultimate sacrifice. And that's something that you guys have to, you know, that's an interesting conversation actually like around risk.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Higher Education Fuels Blind Trust in Authority
"Are losing faith in the value of higher education. Isn't it interesting? This is a logical choice, whatever side you're on. The more you have attended university, in other words, gone even on to graduate school, the more likely you are to trust authority. I had an hour interview yesterday on the show, the third hour. What is that terrific man's name from Chile? Axel Kaiser. Axel, that's his first name? He is a serious thinker, a relatively young man, early 40s. We were talking about the acceptance of authority in the West. When I bounced off this man, my theory, Germany is always wrong. Not every German. He, who was half German, half Chilean, said absolutely that's correct. The collective fools with many, many individual, intelligent people. He believes that the genesis of the love of authority is in great measure owing to Germany in the 19th century, which I have often said. For example, U .S. universities were not issuing PhDs almost ever, so people went to Germany to study, and there they picked up the idea of collectivism and the love of authority. The United States was founded by people who don't trust authority except divine authority. They trusted no human authority because they knew that humans are so profoundly flawed.
The Dan Bongino Show
Vivek Ramaswamy: Learning From DeSantis & Trump's Achievements
"You know everybody packs though it's interesting during primaries how everybody's got like a blood lust for the other guys but i'm going to ask you this question what do you do you think as a candidate you could learn from what ronda santas did in florida where i live a really turnaround miraculous in the state i mean a 20 -point win in florida is equivalent to a 700 -point win anywhere else and donald trump's administration with the abraham accords tax cuts judges regulatory reform i mean what can you take from the other candidates in the race rather than us kind of beating each other up to hell during a primary and it's a team effort i mean everybody here all of your listeners you donald trump ronda santas i'm going to rely on all of these people to play their role in our national revival i mean take the trump administration best of president the 21st century no doubt about it he actually grew our economy while keeping us out of war how about that that beats bush biden obama each his credit for the supreme court pick the fact that he gave us the supreme court that he has is what will allow me to now take on the administrative state because when we send those federal employees home and they sue us i know that that current supreme court that we have that trump gave us is going to back me up six to three so i give trump immense credit for that that's also why i've said dan want that i trump to be my mentor and advisor during my first year in office i want to work together this is a team sport i don't want to just do this single -handedly with an ego to the contrary we've got to build where we last left us off ronda santas excellent governor in the state of florida especially when it came to after the first phase of the pandemic to actually
Spider-Dan And The Secret Bores
A highlight from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) W/ Nathan-Hobley Smith
"Hello, Darlene Hello, Mr. Cox You ready to sing one? I'm always ready Well, alright In my dreams you're blowing me some kisses That's one of my favorite things to do You and I could go down in history That's what I'm praying to do with you Let's do it In ways that make us feel good Let's do it And make that sacred sound Put two and two together Perfect harmony we found We know it's only natural Let's do it I am from beyond Listen, and all you desire will be yours Welcome to Spider -Man and the Secret Wars Prepare for practice Welcome to Prattle World, I am your host the ever amazing, ever spectacular Spider -Dan And in this podcast I spotlight entertainment's best kept secrets that a mainstream audience may find boring And welcome to Secret Defenders where I task my guests to defend their favorite movies that are underrated, infamous or obscure And we are welcoming, it's been a long while since we've had this guest on, a very long time There's been babies, there's been marriages, there's been shows, there's been him playing Mr. Burns at one point It's been a wacky journey he's been on, he's been a busy boy, he's been a busy boy And not once has he ever paid for drugs, not once And he's here again, it's been literal years, I think the last one we did was Ginger Snaps I think It's Nathan Smith, welcome back sir Happy to be back It's been a long while and I think we've talked about this podcast for some time actually We've talked about this film for some time We're going to look at one of the best comedy films of the 21st century One of the best spoofs of the musical biopic It is Walk Hard, the Dewey Cox story We have danced around it and we've talked about it and both of us quite enjoy this film But why is it that you wanted to talk about it, bring it to people's attention Why should more people watch Dewey Cox? I feel John C.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Session 5 Evangelism
"Another somebody item just asked me coming in said is there any, I forget his wording, but is there any problem if we happen to disagree with some of the material in the books? Absolutely not. I probably disagree with a whole lot of it. That was particularly in connection with leading the church into the 21st century by Dr. Stoll. I think there's good material in there for us to consider whether we agree with everything or not. I think it's excellent material on how there's a difference today. We don't want to let that difference make us think that we have to abandon biblical principles. There's the idea abroad today you cannot do door -to -door work anymore. I'll tell you it's a whole lot harder. It's a lot more difficult. I started a church in Aurora, Colorado in 1952, a new church, the Church of Hoffman Heights Baptist. There were 8 ,000 houses in that community. It was East Aurora. It wasn't even incorporated into the city of Aurora at the time. 8 ,000 new houses and my wife and I were able to work out a deal with a finance company that we got one of those and started a church in the living room of our house. I made it a policy to just knock on doors and I knocked on doors. I tried to hit a minimum of 50 doors a week. I didn't always make that, but I tried to do that. If I knocked on 50 doors, you know what? I would have five new people in church the next Sunday. One out of every ten, I'd get a new person in church. That was in 1952. I've knocked on a lot of doors in Tucson and I don't hit that at all. Door after door after door after door, but we do find some. We've not done a whole lot of door -to -door work. That's really going to get going now in September in a definite way. When we came to Tucson, I used the telephone. Oh, Barna's book says the telephone doesn't work like people think it does. Well, it did for us in Tucson. We used the telephone when we first came. We had nine people in the church besides my wife and me. We used the telephone, got some of the people to call, worked it out. We used it, what's that program you can purchase? Telephones, forms for you. We used that. I didn't use all of their ideas. That's New Evangelical too, but the idea was there and I used it. For week after week after week, we had four new families in our church every Sunday. I'd say that lasted for three months. Week after week after week, we had four new families. Now, we didn't keep many of them. One dose was all they could take. They came the first time and they said, this is not for us and we'll not be back. Some of them wouldn't turn in a visitor's card. Some of them wouldn't go to their door and we made all of our visits by appointment. We'd get those phone calls and we'd make our visits by appointment. When they showed up for church, we made their visits by appointment, my wife and I. There were people who said, no, you don't need to come. When we got there, they told us we were wasting our time coming. But we stayed with it and we did keep some who became the Corps. In fact, we kept some that had stayed with us the whole time. Some decided after a while this is too much for them. But you just stay at it and use every means that's right and proper. I've tried the phones again since then and they aren't working as well now since we're going. Phones for You is built on the idea of a new church getting started. It goes along with the idea of the market -driven church where you find out what the people want, which is absolutely contrary to Scripture. You don't decide what people want, you give them what they need. But it did work. By the way, I mentioned that I started a church in 1952. I have had the privilege of starting 30 churches. Most of them I did not pastor. I'd go into a town for three weeks to a month as an evangelist, rent a building, put up a tent, whatever, and preach the Word of God out of it, get a church started, get a pastor called, and move on. I'd go out in revival meetings and let my love offerings build up until I had enough money to go start a church. Then I'd spend all the money I'd saved on starting a church and be back in revival work. I did that primarily in the West, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, that area, Rocky Mountain region. I did see churches started and still going for the Lord, so praise God. Some of them are not still going, but many of them are. We'd knock on doors, just knock on doors, and get people to come and get a nucleus to work with. You're not going to agree with everything in these books. Yes, sir? When you were knocking on doors for church planting, were you going soul winning or were you doing imitations to your church? The question was, was knocking on doors for church planting, was I doing soul winning or was I just getting them to come to church? When you're starting a new work like that, I made it soul winning. Now when I send our people out today from our church, it will depend on the situation. There are times when we say you knock on the door, you leave them the information, you're not there to win a soul, you're there to find out if there's any prospect possible so we can come back with a soul winning team to win them. There are other times we send them out and say, and we always say this, we ask them to cover a certain number of streets. We give them the street and how many houses are on each side of the street and how many we expect. We tell them that's their assignment for that day and we say we'd like to get this covered, but if you come to a house and it looks as though they're interested, don't go another door. You get inside the house and witness to them and endeavor to win them to Christ. But your main goal out here today is to get us contacts that we can follow up with soul winners in our regular visitation program to win them to Christ. But do use whatever opportunity you have. Do you think the day will ever come when door -to -door visitation will not be effective when other forms may be advisable or necessary or more effective? Well, the day may well come when you won't be able to do door -to -door visitation. It's getting close to that now where the apartment complex is. By the way, the question was, I'm sorry I didn't repeat it. The question was, do I think the day will ever come when we'll find that door -to -door visitation is not effective and we'll need to go other routes. I think we ought to use other routes now, but I do not believe we ought to do what a lot of fellows are saying, and that is abandon door -to -door visitation. I believe we need to stay at it and we're still having people saved. It isn't as easy as it was in 1952, I'll admit that, but I don't believe we ought to give it up.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Session 6 Evangelism
"Come to Lecture 4, now your notes for this I do not think are too valuable. You just got blanks there to fill out. Unless you've got a magnifying glass, you're not going to be able to read them. You probably can read it, all right. One of my ladies who was helping me do this came up with the idea, why don't we do it this way? We did that one and never got back to changing it. So I didn't like it, so I don't think they're any more like that, I hope not. All right, evangelism in the New Testament church, what do we find about that? And I mentioned that we had noted briefly some truths about the book of Acts and the growth of the New Testament church. And so here we're going to go into this matter of the growth in the New Testament church. The period covered by the Acts, about 30 years. Usher's Chronology mentions that it's AD 33 to AD 63. With this in mind, we see how intense was the activity of the early church. have I do a note by Dr. Stewart. The church in its first 25 years of existence accomplished more than at any other time in the history of Christianity. The startling fact is this, that if the apostolic church had continued as she began, she would have evangelized the world in the first few centuries. The church began on fire for God. Now the church had a very small beginning, the challenging test for the New Testament church. There are various tests that we have, the church had a small beginning. 120 members starting out, met in the upper room. From a human standpoint, that little group was doomed to failure. They could have said, will anyone believe our message? We are presenting Jesus of Nazareth, a man who died an ignominious death on a criminal's cross. Will anybody listen to us? We are preaching that just Jesus arose literally from the dead. We believe He's the Son of God. Will they hear that? They could have done that. They didn't do it, but they could have. Not only did they have a small beginning, the church lived in a hostile atmosphere. Everywhere they turned, a dreadful atmosphere. Acts chapter 4, in Acts 4 you find the priests and the captains of the temple and the Sadducees were grieved that they taught the people in the name and preached through Jesus the resurrection of the dead. Acts chapter 4, what is it, verse 2 I guess. They put them in jail, questioned them the next day. They heard Peter's clear message that Jesus Christ is the stone which the builders rejected. He's the only savior, verse 12, for there is none of the name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. A hostile atmosphere. Everything about it was opposed to them. The priests commanded them not to preach their message any longer. The message of Christ and they threatened them if they did. Thank God they said, well, regardless of what you say, we're going to go right on. We're going to preach the Word of God and take our stand for Christ. It's interesting how the church grows when persecution comes. It may be that the best thing that can happen to the church in America is persecution.
Audio
A highlight from Msgr. Esseff voice sample
"The Enthronement of the Sacred Heart is really the work, and what I really believe God in a very special way has called us to do, to enthrone Jesus in the hearts of every human being, to enthrone Jesus in every family, and specifically since the family is one of the most battered institutions in the world today, that this family can come together and He promises so much to the families. So the purpose of these videos and the purpose of our coming together is to present Jesus as the head of every family, and He wants to be, He desires to be, and He is calling to be and wanting to become the head of a father and a mother and a family. If there's a single parent or a widow or whatever your family unit is, the desire of God and His Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit through Mary's Immaculate Heart is being offered to us. Why the heart of Jesus? It's because what has been failed to be communicated by the Father in our day. When God the Father appeared to humankind, how did He appear? He appeared as fire. He appeared to Moses as fire. God is fire. Who are you? I am God. You are standing on holy ground. God, fire? God is love. It was very much revealed to us through St. John especially, that revelation of John. God is love. The greatest definition ever given for God is God is love, and when He appeared and came in our flesh into the world and His name is Jesus. So much so did He want to come in the first century, in the second and the third, fourth and fifth, and when it came, and so many people were just not getting the message. Every person who is listening, God loves you so much that He gave you His Son. The Son of God is the revelation of God's love, and when He came to you, He came and He showed His love by dying on the cross. When we see the cross, so many people again, God's love, I'm going to be crucified like Jesus, and that's what's going to happen. No, the cross is not suffering. The cross is love. So much did He love us, He's telling us, I would die for you. That's what love is. Love is laying down His entire life for us because the failure to communicate through the cross, through the teaching, so many people. I remember I used to go to Mass, and when I was a little boy, very few people went to communion because they somehow was reverent. You had to be perfect, and so what did the devil do? The devil so insinuated himself as God is so holy you can't approach Him. Then after a while, some people now just come to communion and they aren't aware of who they're receiving, and they may be very much in sin, but they still don't know how much God loves them. We just don't seem to get it right. We don't see the awesome love that we're receiving, or this awesome fear that we may have. Anyway, what did God do in the 17th century? He came to a woman. Her name was Margaret Mary. If you look at the image of the Sacred Heart, and I have one in every room of my home, I am inviting you. That's the purpose, to look at the image of the Sacred Heart. We become so familiar with it, but what was the revelation of the Sacred Heart? It's totally and completely love. Jesus came to Margaret Mary, and He said to her how much He loved us, and how He wanted her to tell the people about the love of His Sacred Heart. How did He appear to her? Look at the image. This is what happened. He not only rolled back His robe, but He actually rolled back His flesh. Can you imagine that? You're standing with Jesus, and He's standing there, and He wants to show you how much He loves you, and He rolls back the flesh on His side.
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1401: FIDELITY: Bitcoin Will Hit $1 Billion Per Coin By This Date
"In today's show, we're going to be discussing Bitcoin ignoring the CPI and FTX as the price action hit us a September high of $26 ,600 as the bulls are back in control. We'll also be discussing the court approving the sale of FTX digital assets, meaning the assets will be sold off weekly with special handling for Bitcoin and Ethereum and insider affiliate tokens. Also breaking news just in, Congressman Tom Emmer launches an anti -surveillance state act with 49 Republicans in a new push against CBDCs, central bank digital currencies. Also the SEC chairman Gary Gensler says crypto is a field rife with fraud, abuse, misconduct. It's daunting. We'll also be discussing breaking news, $800 billion asset manager Deutsche Bank partners to offer Bitcoin custody for institutions. Let's go. It virtually means that the bank can now hold crypto directly for its clients. Also in today's episode, we'll be discussing, can the Bitcoin price achieve fidelities? $1 billion price target by 2038. That's right, the $4 .5 trillion asset manager is predicting that one Bitcoin will eventually be worth $1 billion per coin. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. Yo, what's good crypto fam? This is first and foremost, a video show. So if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my YouTube channel at cryptonewsalerts .net. Again that's cryptonewsalerts .net. With that being shared fam, welcome to everyone just joining us. This is pod episode number 1401. So let's fricking go. Today is September 14, 2023 and the crypto market is back in the green. Shout out to everyone out there in the live chat. It's good to see the entire Bitcoin fam. So yeah, let's kick it off with our market watch. As you can see, Bitcoin is trading back above $26 ,600. We also have Ether trading back above $1 ,600 and virtually most all the major cryptos are in the green minus BNB barely in the red. And checking out coinmarketcap .com, the current crypto market cap sits just north of $1 trillion with $28 billion in volume in the past 24 hours, but the Bitcoin dominance at 49 .2 % and the Ether dominance at 18 .6%. So yeah, checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past 24 hours. We have Axly Infinity leading the pack trading at $4 .73 up 11 % followed by ThorChain up 5 .5 % trading at $1 .65 followed by Conflux up a modest 5 % trading just above or I should say just shy of 12 cents. And checking out the top 100 crypto gainers for the past week, we can see virtually everything is in the green minus a handful including Scamcoin FTT down 5%. Axly Infinity leading the pack here as well up 12%. And as you can see, the alts are pumping. That's what's up. How many of you took advantage of this recent price dip? Let me know. And how many of you are gonna be hodling into the next Bitcoin halving, which is roughly six months out around the corner. Holla at your boy chat. I appreciate the interaction. At the end of the show, I'll be reading everyone's comments out loud. And how you doing today for Christ's sake? Holla at your boy. Don't be a stranger. And with that being shared, now let's dive into today's Bitcoin technical analysis. Check out the charts and what is popping with the King crypto. Here we go. Bitcoin hit new September highs after the September 14 daily close as markets digested macroeconomic as well as crypto. Industry news, which you can clearly see here in the Bitcoin one hour candle chart. Now data from Cointelegraph and TradingView tracked the Bitcoin price highs of 26 .5 over on Bitstamp and Bitcoin had shaken off the higher than expected US CPI the day prior, which we covered here in the show, maintaining that 26 ,000 support. Subsequent confirmation that the defunct exchange FTX had received legal permission to liquidate its remaining assets likewise failed to dent Bitcoin's comparatively solid intraday performance. And a little later in the show, I'll be sharing that ruling directly coming from the courts in regards to the FTX assets being sold. Now coming up to the range highs and once we flip these levels, we can look to finally get into a safe position and long since popular crypto trader, Crypto Tony and fellow analyst, Dan Crypto Trade suggests that the overall Bitcoin market dynamics have changed versus the period of weakness seen around the monthly close. Quoting this gentleman here, market feels different this week. The dips are being bought up relatively quick and while the price keeps sweeping highs, it keeps crawling itself back and leaving the lows untouched. The spot bid is also stronger than the past few weeks, might be wrong, but I am optimistic. Let me know if you agree to disagree with the analyst and additional analysis predicts that the longer term Bitcoin price breakout should US regulators approve a Bitcoin spot ETF or which we all know is inevitable over the coming months. He also says that BTC .d is still holding on the previous range high, which is the Bitcoin dominance chart and in the CHOP region, but ultimately says, I think this would go higher in case of a Bitcoin ETF approval one day. Yeah, that's right. They can only push it back and delay it for so long. I believe the next day they have to acknowledge it is in October and more than likely Gensler and the SEC is gonna push it back till next year. That's just my two Satoshi's. Let me know your thoughts, fam. Now more cautious was Trader Sku who referenced the on -chain volume prime to cool once more after the relief rally, quitting him here. The daily structure looks fairly good here and decreasing volumes. So could definitely be looking towards a relief rally before lower as the commentary read, noting the Bitcoin was still holding the key 25 ,000 level. Now with Bitcoin up just 1 % month to date at this time, Bitcoin is nonetheless on course for its best performing September and years. As we know, it's usually September, pun intended. According to data from monitoring resource CoinGlass, the last time Bitcoin gained in September was all the way back in 2016. That's like holy moly, seven years ago, fam. That year was its best on record at a modest 6 % while its biggest red September bear month was two years prior when it lost a whopping 19%. Talk about total bloodshed, right, fam? Now in 2022, Bitcoin shed 3 % before climbing another 5 % in October, which is a popular month amongst the bulls who informally referred to it as Uptober. So hopefully, God willing, we have another Uptober here right around the corner as we're already halfway through with September. With that being shared, fam, let me know your thoughts and outlook on the current landscape of the crypto market. Do you feel we're likely to correct lower or do you think we'll continue rising back towards that $30 ,000 level psychological resistance? Let me know, chat. And now let's break down our next story of the day and discuss the latest judgment coming from the courts regarding the FTX asset sales. Here we have it. This is just in, the Delaware Bankruptcy Court approved the sale of FTX digital assets. We have Judge John Dorsey who made the ruling at a hearing yesterday, September 13th. Major changes were made to the draft order authorizing the sale the previous day. Now as you know, there's been a lot of FUD of people talking about all the assets, billions of dollars worth of crypto is gonna get dumped and it's going to wreck the market. Well, there are some caveats, so it's important I share them here. FTX will be allowed to sell the digital assets excluding Bitcoin, Ethereum, and certain insider affiliated tokens in weekly batches through an investment advisor under pre -established guidelines. There will be limits of $50 million for the first week and $100 million in subsequent weeks. There will be an option to increase the limit with prior written approval of the creditors committee and ad hoc committee or to raise the limit to 200 million weekly with the approval of the court. So they can't dump it all at one time which is good for the bulls, right? Now Bitcoin and Ether and insider affiliate tokens can be sold through a separate decision by FTX. After 10 days notice to the committee and the US trustee, the US trustee is appointed by the US Department of Justice. Now I'm curious what those insider affiliate tokens are. If I was to guess, I'd guess FTT, that scam coin, Bankman Fried created out of thin air and I'd also throw Solana in there, but what are your thoughts, fam? Let me know. Those sales will also be conducted through an investor advisor. Information about the sales will be subject to professionalize only and confidentially restrictions with a redacted version accessible to the public. The sales will be subject to written objection by the committees and the US trustee. And in that case, the sales will be delayed until the objections are overcome or the court orders a sale. Quoting Bak Ubu here, FTX adapts crypto sale plan to address the US government concerns. FTX, the bankrupt crypto exchange is making changes to its proposal for selling billions in crypto assets. That's right. And I just broke down ultimately what you need to know. The conditions on the latter sales were added in the draft submitted September 12th, a couple of days ago. They were regarded as cautionary moves to ensure the market stability during the influx of FTX assets. Some observers noted that the sales will represent only a small portion of the trading volume and may not have a heavy impact. But according to a recent shareholder update, FTX has $833 million worth of Bitcoin and Ethereum collectively. FTX can enter into hedging arrangements using Bitcoin and ETH with the private approval of committees and can use them for staking according to the guidelines. The FTX token, as we know, is FTT, cannot be sold without further court authorization. Well, good for them. Glad to hear they're not authorized to sell their scam coin and dump it onto the market. That's definitely a good sign, wouldn't you think? Now let's break down the next breaking story of the day. Gotta give respect and credit where it is due. We have US Congressman Tom Emmer who made a very strong anti -CBDC stance and we know that's the central bank digital currencies which the central bankers are gonna be rolling out and I know their pilots have already began rolling out around the world. So let's discuss this anti -CBDC push because I'm all for anti -CBDC. That's why I promote Bitcoin every day here on the pod. Bitcoin is the antidote to the CBDC. Let me know if you understand what I'm saying. Now Congressman Tom Emmer is leading the reintroduction of the bill that aims to prevent the Federal Reserve from creating a digital dollar. God bless him. Emmer says on the social media platform X that if it isn't designed to emulate cash, then a CBDC would dismantle the American's right to financial privacy while also emboldening the administrative state. Facts. The majority whip says that the new bill attempts to prohibit the Fed from issuing a retail CBDC while protecting innovation and any future development of true digital cash. This bill puts a check on unelected bureaucrats and ensures the US digital currency policy upholds our American values of privacy, individual sovereignty and free market competitiveness. The administration has made it clear. President Biden is willing to compromise the American people's right to financial privacy for surveillance style CBDC. I don't believe in compromising American rights. That's the bottom line. If not open, permissionless and private like cash, a CBDC is nothing more than a CCP, which we all know stands for, right? Style surveillance tool that will be weaponized to oppress the American way of life. Preach. I couldn't have said it any better myself. I stand by what he is saying because I know it's fact. Now while official, the concrete plans for the CBDC haven't been released by the US government as opposition has already formed, which is a good sign. We also have US candidates who are running for the presidential election next year in 2024, including current governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, who is running as a Republican. And we also have Kennedy Jr. who is running as a Democrat who are both pro Bitcoin and anti CBDC. So we must stand strong and oppose these weapons of financial mass destruction, which are better known as CBDCs. So again, much respect to the congressmen and those making this push. Now last month we also had Ohio Republican Warren Davidson said the CBDCs pose an existential threat to the Western civilization and was committed to fighting against them. Davidson said that he wants to prohibit the CBDCs because they threaten other digital assets like Bitcoin and impede the development of the beneficial financial technology. Facts, quitting him here. Central bank digital currency poses a serious threat, tall digital assets, as I said, at flyover FinTech. Many people wrongfully conflate even Bitcoin with a CBDC. Ignorance is bliss, huh? At least most agree that CBDC is evil, the financial equivalent of the Death Star. Great reference to Star Wars there. Don't become an accomplice to anyone designing, building, testing, developing, or establishing CBDC. Banning a CBDC is essential to the American's FinTech future. So there you have it. What are your thoughts on CBDCs if they roll out, which more than likely they're going to eventually at a theater near you, are you going to participate in them, is the million dollar question. What if they give you a stimulus and they promise you, we're gonna give every American $5 ,000 of this digital dollar, AKA CBDC, central bank Ponzi scheme currency. What are you gonna do about it? I say just say no to Bitcoin, or I'm sorry, just say no to CBDCs and fight it with the antidote, which is Bitcoin, by simply stacking stats today and preparing yourself so that you can fight the tyrants who are trying to take over our country. Just saying, fam, let me know if that resonates with you. And with that being shared, now let's break down our next story of the day and discuss the latest with Mr. Gary Gensler, the chairman of the SEC and what they recently shared with Congress regarding cryptocurrencies and enforcement. Here we go. The chairman of the SEC, everyone's favorite huckster, Gary Gensler talked about cryptocurrency during his testimony before the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on Tuesday, two days ago. Reiterating his views that most crypto tokens are securities, Gensler told the lawmakers without prejudging any one token, the vast majority of crypto tokens likely meet the investment contract test. Given that most crypto tokens are subject to the security laws, it follows that most crypto intermediaries have to comply with the security laws as well, quoting the chief right here. In terms of crypto, I've been around finance for 44 years now, and I've never seen a field that is so rife with misconduct. It is just, it's daunting. He further described the crypto industry right now. Unfortunately, he says there's significant noncompliance and it's a field which is rife with fraud abuse as well as misconduct. Now the Senator Bill Hagerty asked Gensler during the hearing what the SEC needs to see from issuers to approve a Spot Bitcoin ETF. Wouldn't you say that's a great question? Following the recent court ruling in favor of the grayscale investments, now the court found that the securities regulator, denial of grayscale Spot Bitcoin ETF app, was arbitrary and that the SEC Chairman Gensler replied with the following, we're still reviewing that decision. We have multiple filings around Bitcoin ETF products, so it is not just the one you mentioned, but there's multiple others. We are reviewing them and I am looking forward to the staff's recommendations. So there you have it. How do you feel this will likely play out regarding the regulators and crypto choke point 2 .0 as it continues? Do you think it'll keep pushing innovation outside the United States? Or do you feel that it's just a matter of time and Gensler's no longer gonna be able to push back these deadlines for the SEC approvals? Because we all know once the Spot Bitcoin ETFs get the green light from the regulator, it's game on. There's literally trillions upon trillions of dollars right now sitting on the sideline just waiting for that freaking approval. And if it wasn't for the SEC, we'd already had a Bitcoin Spot ETF a decade ago because that's how long they've been denying them, right? In fact, the very first Bitcoin ETF application was submitted by the Winklevoss twins of the Gemini exchange literally over a decade ago. And while they keep approving these futures ETFs which aren't in the investors best interest, but to keep pushing back the Spot ETFs which benefit everyone makes no logic except they're doing what they do because that's what they do and let's leave it at that. And with that being shared, fam, now let's break down the latest breaking news regarding Deutsche Bank. This is big news coming from another major institution and then I'll be breaking down the $1 billion fidelity price prediction for the King Crypto. That's right, they're saying that one Bitcoin will eventually be worth $1 billion per coin and then we'll dive into our live Q &A. So yeah, here we go, breaking news just in. The German bank, Deutsche Bank, was one of the handful of companies to invest in a $65 million Series B fundraising round for tourists in February of this year. The company offers enterprise -grade infrastructure to issue managed custody and trade, cryptocurrencies, tokenized assets, as well as NFTs and other digital assets. Let's go. Now according to Taurus' co -founder, Lamin, the partnership underwent a thorough and very detailed due diligence process before the German bank decided to use its infrastructure services, quoting them here. It started end of 2021 and ended somewhere in 2022. We won the deal a couple of quarters ago and as previously reported, Deutsche Bank has been brewing plans to offer crypto custody and trading services to its clients over the past three years, since 2020. The bank most recently applied for a digital asset custody license from Germany's financial regulator, Baffin, in June of this year, as it continues plans to offer its customers access to crypto markets as well as assets. Now brain, aka, confirm, whoever that is, the agreement is global in scope with tourists providing custody and tokenization tech in line with the local regulatory requirements. Let's get it. Good stuff. And I appreciate the live chat right now. I am tuned in and checking you guys out. Much love. Any questions, feel free to drop them. And again, at the end of our premiere story with Fidelity, we're gonna be reading those comments out loud. Anyways, announcing the partnership, Deutsche Bank Global Security Services head, Paul Maly, said that crypto space is expected to grow to trillions of dollars of assets and is likely to become a priority for investors and institutions. Preach, that's a given, right? Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank's asset management arms, DWS Group, had reportedly been in discussions to invest in two different German -based crypto firms in February of this year. This includes crypto exchange -traded product provider, Deutsche Digital Assets, and market maker, platform, Tradius, Deutsche Bank Singapore, and Memento Blockchain also recently completed a proof of concept called Project DOMA, which stands for Digital Asset Management Access, which allows for the management of digital funds and tokenized securities. And founded in Switzerland in 2018, Taurus' Series B round was led by Credit Suisse and included the likes of Deutsche Bank alongside Arab Bank Switzerland, indicating major interest from traditional financial banks. Let's go. The announcement of its Series B round also clearly outlined Taurus' aim to serve tier one banks in Europe. And they also told Cointelegraph that the platform serves close to 30 banks, with most deals going beyond cryptos to including tokenization of equity debt as well as other products. Deutsche Bank is set to offer customers crypto custody options through a partnership with the cryptocurrency infrastructure platform, Taurus. Now obviously, this is a major, major deal when you have a $800 billion asset manager, such as Deutsche Bank, partnering to offer Bitcoin custody for institutions around the world. The bank can now officially hold crypto directly for their clients. So there we have it. Another one bites the dust. And now for the moment you have all been waiting for. Let's discuss this $4 .5 trillion asset manager, Fidelity, which I believe, correct me if I'm wrong, is the second largest asset manager in the world, next to BlackRock that controls over 10 trillion in assets under management. They're predicting, their head of global macro, Julian Timmer is predicting that the Bitcoin price hit $1 billion per coin. So let's break this down, shall we? And then we'll dive into our live Q &A. Here we go. Fidelity's prediction for Bitcoin. We have Julian Timmer, director of global macro at Fidelity, put forth the notion that Bitcoin, the king crypto, has the potential to reach a value of $1 billion per BTC in roughly two decades, specifically around the year 2038. So there you have it. Right now we're in 2023. So what is that? Roughly like 15 years out. To supply the forecast, Timmer employed a combo of models and charts with particular focus on the stock to flow model and his own demand model. These analytic tools form the foundation for his primary prediction. And speaking of stock to flow, massive shout out to Plan B, creator of the Bitcoin stock to flow model. Now he believes, along with the stock to flow, the data, which doesn't lie, that the Bitcoin price is subject to hit between 100 ,000 and a million dollars after the halving in 2024. Let me know if you agree or disagree with the stock to flow prediction. And now we'll get back to this analysis from Julian Timmer of Fidelity. The above demand model employs Metcalfe's law, and according to the numbers of its users, grows linearly, the network's value, or interfiends, the Bitcoin price, grows geometrically. This means that the utility of the adoption of Bitcoin are expected to grow more rapidly compared to its network of users, exchanges, ATMs, and participating retailers. Therefore, this model predicted that the Bitcoin price will reach $1 million, which is seven figures, by the year 2030. Now I'd also like to throw out there, we also have Cathie Wood of ARK Invest predicting a $1 million Bitcoin price by the year 2030. In fact, if you've been following my show, then you know her bear case scenario is over a quarter million per BTC in 2030, her base case is over 600 ,000, and her bullish case is $1 .48 million per BTC. There's other big analysts and financial institutions as well, just as bullish as Cathie Wood. So I just wanted to throw that out there that there's others in agreement with Jurien Timmer thus far on this Bitcoin price prediction. So yeah, in contrast, Timmer's stock to flow supply model noted the event of significant price surges during each halving event. Consequently, when considering this model in conjunction with the other factors, it foresees a Bitcoin price range of $1 million to $10 million for Bitcoin defined by the year 2030. Timmer's demand model is more inclined towards reflecting the bottom of the Bitcoin price. But on the other hand, the stock to flow model seemed to provide a better approximation for the peak of Bitcoin. However, it's worth noting that the disparity between these two models widened significantly beyond the year 2030, which is where things get interesting. The reason behind this gap is expected to be the changing value of the dollar, as many, many economists are anticipating the crash of the dollar in which Jurien Timmer is as well. So Timmer proposes that the value of the dollar undergoes fluctuations over time when compared to other traditional assets. For instance, if just $1 was invested into the stocks during the 18th century, its present -day value would be roughly $4 billion. You mean to tell me $1 invested into stocks in the 18th century is now worth $4 billion? That tells you everything you need to know about fiat currency, folks. Now similarly, Timmer implied that if $1 million was invested today, it can grow to $1 billion in just a span of 20 years. This further revealed that the purchasing power of the dollar has significantly reduced due to factors like inflation and depreciation, and let's not forget, money printer continued to go. Just saying. Thus, Timmer's statement implied that keeping a fixed amount of dollars for many years may lead to a reduced purchasing power due to the assets' changing value, and over the last few years, an increasing number of are companies taking over the $1 trillion market cap, and as a result, it's foreseeable that in the next two decades, the concept of a trillion -dollar valuation will become more common. Yes, right, so much that individuals themselves could be worth a trillion dollars or even more. The scale of numbers may even reach the quadrillion range. Like, whoa, so is this milestone still achievable for Bitcoin is the million -dollar question. So despite Bitcoin's historical growth, it had recently faced a significant setback. Bitcoin's network activity had diminished, and it had fallen behind in comparison to Cardano's network, for example, the number of active addresses in the Bitcoin market had experienced a notable decline when compared to the levels seen in 2021, but we also gotta note that we're currently in a bear market, past couple of years. We hit the cycle peak back in 2021, and we soared. Remember COVID era? Bitcoin dumped all the way down to like $3 ,500 range, and within a year, by the end of the fourth quarter of 2021, we hit that all -time high, which is the current high of $69 ,000. So this just goes to show you how fast Bitcoin can climb during a bull market, and we know the past couple of years have been bearish as all hell, right, especially 2022. We had the collapse of Terra Luna. We had the collapse of FTX being the second largest crypto exchange at the time. There was mass contagion. Everything was impacted. We dropped to a new cycle low of 15 ,700, but I think the bottom is past us. What's your thoughts, chat? Do let me know in the comments so I can read those out loud here in a little bit, but let's finish up this prediction. The higher network activity, like increased transaction volume or active addresses, is viewed as a positive indicator for the growing adoption for Bitcoin. This can create a sense of confidence amongst investors, potentially leading to the rise in demand and positive effect on the price action, and although Timur's prediction may be considered far -fetched and lacks empirical evidence, it doesn't completely dismiss the possibility of Bitcoin reaching such levels. The concept of de -dollarization has gained stature, shifting global attention towards alternative currencies. The shift in focus is expected to drive the demand for assets like golden crypto, such as Bitcoin, and with BRICS pushing for the fall of the dollar, the BRICS currency and Bitcoin are expected to garner continued momentum. So there you have it, fam. What are your thoughts surrounding this whopping $1 billion price prediction for the king crypto by the year 2038? Do you think it's realistic? And before we even got to that billion prediction, what about $1 million by the year 2030? Do you think this is realistic? Do you think this is a pipe dream? Do you think this is conservative? What's your honest thoughts? And where do you feel the dollar is likely to go over the course of the next few years? Do you think it will not even be in existence and will be replaced by the digital version, which is the CBDCs, central bank digital currencies that Congressman Tom Emmer and many others are warning you about? Let me know your honest thoughts. And don't forget to check out cryptonewsalerts .net for the full premium experience with video and to participate in the live Q &A. And I look forward to seeing you on tomorrow's episode. HODL.
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A highlight from Acts 025 - The Spirit's Power
"Okay, well come on in. The water's fine. Good to see you all this evening. And welcome back to our Wednesday night Bible study. We took a summer break. And in the last quarter, we started a study on the book of Acts. Made it all the way through chapter 3. And this morning, not this morning, this evening, if you could locate Acts chapter 4 and verse 1. Sort of to get the cobwebs out. The book of Acts is about the birth and the growth of the church. So in Acts chapter 1, Jesus ascended. In Acts chapter 2, the church is born. Day of Pentecost. In Acts chapter 3, Peter and John heal a lame man. I think he was born lame. He was about 38 years old. And his legs were miraculously restored in Acts 3. Which gave Peter a chance to preach to a crowd. And Peter there condemns 1st century Israel for their rejection of the Messiah. And chapter 3, as you surely could imagine, flows right into chapter 4. Where Peter and John get arrested. So here's an outline of Acts 4. Even going into Acts 5, the Ananias and Sapphira incident. But you have the apostles arrested, verses 1 through 4. The apostles examined by the Sanhedrin. The Sanhedrin is the existing Jewish legal authority, religious authority in 1st century Israel. That's in verses 5 through 12. Then the Sanhedrin makes a decision, verses 13 through 22. And then the apostles go to prayer. And this is a very powerful prayer that they pray in verses 23 through 31. And then the chapter kind of ends with them, the church that is living in their communal arrangement. Which we saw develop in Acts at the end of Acts 2. And that sets the stage very nicely for the first 11 chapters in chapter 5. Because in that communal arrangement, it involved selling your property and giving the proceeds to the church. And there was a couple there, Ananias and Sapphira, who publicly misrepresented their generosity. And they were slain in the Holy Spirit. And when I say slain in the Holy Spirit, that's not a good thing. Okay. And God brought upon them maximum divine discipline. And that had, as we're going to see, a purifying effect on the early church. So anyway, that's kind of the lay of the land that we're moving into this evening. I don't think we'll be able to cover all of this this evening, but we can make a healthy start. First of all, the apostles are arrested. We have an interruption. The reasons for the arrest. The arrest and the results of the arrest. So notice, if you will, Acts chapter 4, verse 1. It says, as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them. So when it says they were speaking to the people, this is in reference to the sermon that Peter primarily was giving in Acts 3. Where they healed a man who was lame, born lame. He knew nothing but the lack of use of his legs for, I think it says, 38 years. And he's miraculously healed, not by Peter and John, but by Jesus through Peter and John. It's just Jesus is exercising his ministry now from the Father's right hand. Through the church, through the apostles. And a big crowd gathers and Peter uses the opportunity to condemn first century Israel. Their decision nationally to reject their own Messiah. So that's what it means there when it says as they were speaking to the people. So as they were speaking to the people, they're now interrupted by the religious authorities. Who are the religious authorities? It says it right there in verse 1 of chapter 4. The priests, the captain of the temple guard, and the Sadducees. So these are religious officials or workers. We have priests, the captain of the temple guard, and another group here called the Sadducees. And easy to remember the Sadducees is the Sadducees were always sad, you see. Sadducees. Basically, the Sadducees were people that if we were to try to parallel them today with somebody, we would call them theological liberals. A theological liberal denies what the Bible says. You know, it denies prophecy, denies miracles, and that kind of thing. And that's who these Sadducees were. The Sadducees only believed in the first five books of Moses. That's all they believed in. They didn't accept the rest of the Old Testament. So that's why when Jesus is talking to them about resurrection, the Sadducees, and the Gospels, he does not quote from Daniel chapter 12, verse 2 to prove resurrection to them. I mean, why didn't he quote Daniel 12, verse 2? Daniel 12, verse 2 is a great verse on future resurrection. It says, many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but others to everlasting disgrace, to disgrace and everlasting contempt. So why didn't Jesus, when he is arguing with the Sadducees and the Gospels about resurrection, why doesn't he quote that passage? That's a beautiful passage to quote from. Well, the answer is the Sadducees did not accept Daniel as authoritatively coming from God. They only accepted the first five books of the Bible. So it wouldn't do any good to prove resurrection from the Book of Daniel to the Sadducees. So instead, Jesus quotes the Book of Exodus. And I'm getting this from Matthew 22, 32 and 31. Here he's speaking to the Sadducees and it says, but regarding the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God? And now he's quoting Exodus. the I am God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. He is not the God of the dead, but the living. In other words, he points out that based on the Book of Exodus, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are alive right now. And he uses that to prove future resurrection. So why would he quote that passage? Because that's one of the books they would accept. He doesn't quote the more obvious passage because the Sadducees did not accept anything other than the Pentateuch, the Torah, the first five books of Hebrew Bible. The Sadducees were also sad, you see, not only because they denied all other scripture outside of Moses, but they denied resurrection. That's why Jesus is debating them about resurrection. They did not believe in angels. Acts 23 and verse 8 says, for the Sadducees say there is no resurrection, nor an angel. Matthew 22 and verse 30 indicates that the Sadducees didn't believe in resurrection. So you're dealing with people that only believed in the first five books of Moses. They didn't believe in angels. They didn't believe in resurrection. So Sadducee is a pretty good name for these people, right? I mean, I would be sad too if I had a limited acceptance of the authority of the totality of what God has revealed. The Sadducees are a little bit different than the Pharisees. In fact, they're a lot different. In the Sadducees, we can analogize them to modern day theological liberals. Pharisees were conservatives, but they were hyper legalists. They brought in, and this goes back to the Babylonian captivity, the Jewish rejection of the Sabbath sent the nation of Israel into the Babylonian captivity for 70 years. And when the nation of Israel came out of that captivity and came back into their homeland, they said to themselves, we're never going to let that happen again. And so they built what we call a fence around the law. Meaning we're going to pass so many laws against breaking the Sabbath that no one will ever think about breaking the Sabbath. So they had all these rules about how you couldn't eat on the Sabbath. You know, you couldn't rescue a man on the Sabbath. All of these things come into the life of Israel through something called Mishnah, and then Talmud, and there were two Talmuds. There was one in the land of Israel. There was a later one developed in what's called the Babylonian Talmud. And this is why Jesus said of the Pharisees, you make null the word of God through your traditions. Because what happened is the tale started to wag the dog. They started to read the law superimposed over the law were a bunch of man -made regulations and restrictions. So when Jesus is dealing with the Pharisees, he's always dealing with this issue. You know, he's feeding his disciples on the Sabbath. Pharisees are upset about that. He's healing people on the Sabbath. Pharisees are upset about that. And what are they upset about? They're upset about the fact that he's not respecting their rules. Where Jesus' point is the tale's wagging the dog. Your rules are being superimposed over God's actual law to the point where you're burying the original intent of the law under layer after layer after layer of man -made regulation. So Jesus, as the Lord of the Sabbath, was always trying to get back to what the Sabbath meant. It was supposed to be a blessing for man. Pharisees are saying, nope, you can't do anything on the Sabbath. You can't heal someone on the Sabbath, even though that's a blessing for man. You can't feed your disciples on the Sabbath, you know, pick crops and that kind of thing on the Sabbath. Even though that's a blessing for man, you're ruining our rules. So that's a little bit of who the Pharisees were. Pharisees are conservative, but they're beyond conservative. They're hyper legalists. Sadducees are just deniers of what the totality of God's word says. The Pharisees are going to be dominant in the synagogue. They had a higher sphere of influence in the synagogue. What was the synagogue? The synagogue were these places that Jews would gather, you know, all over the Greco -Roman world. And they gathered there during a time when there was no temple to go to. Remember the temple, the first temple that Solomon built was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and wasn't rebuilt until the days of Ezra, Haggai, Zechariah. So what did the Jews do? They would gather in the Greco -Roman world in these places called the synagogue. And the Pharisees were dominant in the synagogue. The Sadducees, as I'm trying to describe it, were dominant in the temple area. So that's why the people that are harassing the apostles in early Acts, really all the way up through Acts chapter 12, are the Sadducees and not the Pharisees. Because the Sadducees had ascendancy in the temple area. In Acts 1 through 12, the early church hadn't spread out yet. And it had a very strong sphere of influence in Jerusalem. So that's why the early church is dealing with the Sadducees, the Sadducees, the Sadducees, the Sadducees, until the Apostle Paul in Acts 13 and 14 goes out on missionary journey number one into southern Galatia. And then you'll start seeing him going to the various synagogues outside the land of Israel. And now the people coming against Paul are not the Sadducees, but now they're the Pharisees. So Sadducees, liberals, Pharisees, legalists. Sadducees dominant in the temple area, Pharisees dominant in the synagogue. Sadducees will be dominant as long as the church has a place of influence in Jerusalem. But the Pharisees as opponents of the church will become dominant as the church spreads out and moves outside the land of Israel. So verse one says, as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them. That's a little bit about who the Sadducees are and why they are the primary detractors of the church at this particular point. So Peter and John, Peter's conversation that he was having in Acts three, a very effective conversation is interrupted. The reasons for the interruption are given in verse two. It says being, now notice this, not just disturbed, but greatly disturbed. Being greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and in proclaiming Jesus the resurrection from the dead. So here are these apostles and if you drop over to verse 13 for a minute, you see the way that the religious authorities looked at the apostles. It says, now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus. So what is upsetting to the Sadducees is number one, these apostles are teaching the people and they never went to our Sadducee school. I mean, they don't have a Sadducee degree. In other words, they don't think like we do. I mean, if these apostles thought the way we thought, then they would only accept Moses. They would reject angels. They would reject resurrection. And here are these men who are untrained fishermen teaching the masses there in Acts chapter three. In other words, they don't have the authority to be teaching anybody is how the Sadducees were thinking about the apostles. And what really upset them is they kept talking about Christ's, but starts it with an R, resurrection, proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. Now that was really upsetting to the Sadducees because the Sadducees didn't believe in resurrection. And here they're claiming that the man that the nation of Israel just turned over to Rome for execution has risen from the dead and his tomb is empty. That doesn't fit our doctrine. The Sadducees would say to themselves. And this puts the apostles on a collision course with the Sadducees. The moment Peter in Acts 2 24, which is a wonderful sermon, said these words, he became, I think at that point, a marked man by the Sadducees. Peter said, but God, speaking of Jesus, raised him up again, putting an end to the agony of defeat, since it was impossible for him to be held by its power. Peter continues the subject matter in Acts chapter three and that sermon there in verse 15. And it says, but put to death, speaking of Israel, the prince of life, the one whom God raised from the dead. And he says a fact to which we are witnesses. Remember what Paul would say to the Corinthians. Now there's 500 eyewitnesses, 1 Corinthians 15. Check it out for yourself. They've all seen the resurrected Christ. So what they were saying is Israel rejected her own Messiah. That made the Sadducees angry enough. So then they said this Messiah rose from the dead and the Sadducees were upset even more because they didn't believe in future resurrection or any kind of resurrection. That's why when you look at verse two, it says they were being greatly disturbed, not just disturbed, but greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people. Here are these unqualified fishermen teaching doctrines that we, the religious authorities, oppose. Now you put all of this in motion and you can see why they're arrested. And their arrest is described in verse three. So they laid hands on them, that would be Peter and John, put them in jail until the next day for it was already evening. Now, why didn't they put them on trial right then and there? It's part of Jewish law. Jewish law says no trial in the evening hours. The only one that they violated that rule for was who? Jesus, because they couldn't wait to rush him through the judicial system to get him dead as quickly as they could. So they violated everything in their rule book. But here at least they're respecting the rule book and they're not having a trial in the evening hours because that is forbidden by the Mosaic law. And what is the results of all of this thing, all of this? Because we're kind of in the mindset that, oh no, if the mandates come back, which they could, they're talking about it, you know. And Sugar Land Bible Church stays open, which is at least my intention. I mean, I would like to stay open. I don't think a pastor or an elder board has a right to shut down a church because whose church is it? It's God's church. If God wants to shut down a church, it's his church, he's more than capable of doing it. A pastor doesn't have an authority to close down a church. So if all these mandates come back and hypothetically, let's say we stay open, my goodness, what if they come in here and they fine us? What if they come in here and they arrest us? What if they do like they did to that pastor of that Baptist church in Northern California where they actually chained the doors and keep assessing fine after fine after fine against him with an attempt to completely drive the church that he was pastoring, you know, under? You know, what do we do then? Well, this is where Acts chapter four is so instructive.
Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
"century" Discussed on Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
"The note signature, a doctor cram, suggested a man of medicine was its author. At first, the corner on the receiving end of this message thought it was ridiculous. Dance stott had died during an epileptic fit, one of the countless fits he'd had in his lifetime usually the fit subsided, but this one didn't. While the death was unfortunate, it was by no means mysterious. But the letters didn't stop. The doctor, whose name turned out to be cream, not cram, the misspelling of which eventually served as a clue for investigators, was adamant that Scott died of strychnine poisoning and that the pharmacy which filled his most recent prescription was to blame. Investigators finally acquiesced into some digging. It turned out that Dan stott indeed had strychnine in his system, and the pharmacist who'd provided his meds had received letters threatening to expose him as a callous killer. There was something confusing, however, both the blackmail notes and the tip letters sent to the corner were written by the same hand. Instead of casting suspicion onto the pharmacist, doctor Thomas neill cream had finally outed himself as a Victorian era serial killer whose eventual conviction would set legal precedent that would be cited in court's worldwide, for decades to come. Nothing in Thomas cream's early years suggests he would become one of the most infamous killers of his day. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1850 as the oldest of 8 children born to William cream and Mary elder. When he was about four, the family crossed the great pond to reach Canada, where Thomas was highly regarded by just about anyone who knew the family, and not in a passive, he just didn't seem to cause trouble kind of way. Crane was the son of a wealthy timber merchant in Quebec City. Grew up in privileged background, church going, taught Sunday schools saying in his church choir. That's dean job, author of the book, the case of the murderous doctor cream, the hunt for a Victorian era serial killer. For a while, Thomas worked alongside his father as a shipbuilder, though the work sadly dried up after an unfortunate fire that handicapped the country's shipbuilding industry. When Thomas shifted his focus from ships to medicine, it seemed a wise choice for the oldest son of a wealthy, respected family. He was from a wealthy family, lots of money to send him to the finest in medical school in Canada. That school was called the McGill medical school in Montreal, when cream arrived, he was a legit adult who had never been in trouble before in his life. And a lot of stories we explore on crimes this centuries, there's usually something telltale, at least in hindsight, pointing to problems with our eventual killers, but that doesn't seem to be the case with cream. Or maybe if there were towels, his family successfully covered them up to an amazing degree as in even after his name became infamous worldwide, there weren't people coming forward from his earliest years to say, yeah, I always knew he was a bad seed. He had detractors to be sure, but those mostly came from his days in medical school and beyond. He was in his mid 20s and something happened. At this distance, it's difficult to know, but you see over time is hatred of women intensified, perhaps because he was engaged to a young woman soon after he graduated from McGill. And she became pregnant. Correct the passive voice there. Cream impregnated her. She didn't just magically become pregnant. Her name was flora Brooks, and she was the daughter of Lyman Brooks, a businessman who ran the Brooks house, considered the best hotel in Waterloo. Flora and Thomas met in the spring of 1876, when Florida was 23 and Thomas, nearly 26. He told her he intended to marry her. Now this was the Victorian era, when rules about courtship were pretty strict. So as job writes in his book, the two weren't supposed to see each other without a chaperone, but it seemed they figured out a way. In September, flora fell horribly ill, her family doctor examined her and broke scandalous news to her father. She'd been pregnant and was ill from an abortion that cream had conducted. Abortions were illegal in Canada, but as a medical student, cream would have been taught how to perform one and had access to the necessary instruments and or drugs, but he was also an experienced because doctors in training didn't get much hands on experience back in the day, and this abortion was nearly fatal. Lyman Brooks was naturally furious and in a terrible position. If you went after cream criminally, he risked ruining his daughter's reputation and condemning her to a disreputable life. In retrospect to probably the decent thing to do would have been to turn him in. That would have ended his career pretty early because he could have been charged convicted of the abortion. Instead, they forced him to marry their daughter. Lyman gathered some policemen, went to Montreal, where cream was staying, and insisted that he come back the 60 miles to Waterloo and Mary flora. Cream didn't have much of a choice, he reportedly said he was happy to do it, that had been his intention all along to Mary flore anyway. But his behavior after the shotgun wedding suggests otherwise. Literally, the day after the nuptials, cream left Canada for London to supposedly finish his medical studies. He never saw his new wife again. Unfortunately for her, though, that doesn't mean the two didn't stay in touch, but we'll talk about that in a bit. As jobs said, something happened during the med school portion of cream's life, though there's never been a clear explanation of what that something was. What we do know is that cream's mother had died when he was entering adulthood, so just before he started med school. His mother died when he was 19. That's old enough that it shouldn't have had a, you know, it's not like he was really young at the time. But he was very devoted to his mother and by all accounts it was a horrible lingering illness and death and he was really badly affected by it. His adoration for his mother didn't translate to other women whom it seems he saw in black and white terms that whole Madonna horror complex we've seen in other cases. He began frequenting sex workers in med school and carrying around with him lewd illustrations that others found concerning. But the author job thinks it was the forced marriage to flora Brooks that perhaps triggered creamed darkest impulses. I wonder if that somehow started to snowball into a more general hatred of women because there's no question
Dressed: The History of Fashion
"century" Discussed on Dressed: The History of Fashion
"Whom he might be pleased to bestow the privilege quote and also there were similar dictates surrounding the wearing of trimmings silver and gold as well as louis the fourteenth signature. Les towel ruse. You know you mentioned the high heels earlier while these are special ones which had red high heels on them and he. I adopted these actually in the seventeenth century in sixteen fifty four and he later granted the privilege of wearing the towel route to select courtiers in his inner circle. So what about the women while women the royal family were expected to wear the whitest as quote unquote honored to where some of the most restricted. Of course it's known as the grandcourt described as quote extremely bothersome and fatiguing the highly inflexible grand corps. Words specifically by marie-antoinette was described by one of her ladies in waiting quote. A specially made corset without shoulder straps laced up on the back. Just tight enough. So that the leasing forefingers on the bottom allowed for a glimpse of chamisa of such fine batiste that would be readily apparent to everyone. If one skin underneath was not sufficiently white the front of the course it was laced as it were with rows of diamonds. Yes and there's quite a bit of price writing out there about the grand corps and some of these more restrictive forms that the women are the royal family war and everybody basically just talk again and again and again and again about like how horribly uncomfortable it was so basically the higher your rank at court the more room uncomfortable. You're honored to be. And i think that would that picture painted. We will leave off their today for our very brief snapshot of eighteenth century dress. There is so much more to say cast set on the trip. We were saying that we could literally spend an entire week doing a so-called kind of like advanced tour that kind of focused specifically and solely on eighteenth century dress. But one of the main things You know that. I just wanna leave off here in the context of eighteenth century address. It for cy is that you know. Fashion and dress were wielded as forms of social control and politicized as markers of class and status. And actually some century progresses. We see this question of what to wear become weaponized and marie-antoinette was frequently the subject of satirical and political cartoons at that time in the context of fashion and you know because she was after all as has been written quote french fashion's brightest star and it's unhappiest victim and if you'd like to earn more on that note we have a few episodes suggestions for you. We of course just recently re aired are episode entitled roseburg tan fashion. And the rain abry antoinette. With kimberly crispin campbell. You can check that out. From where emory internet and her stylus roseburg tan and as a follow up to that. If you haven't already you might consider checking our two part episode on fashioned. During the era of the french revolution part one is entitled fashion and politics. The french revolution. I'm part is on the sub. Cultural stylings of the post revolutionary. It kids the on crowd. That doesn't press today dress listeners. May you consider were the power resides in your wardrobe. Next time you get dressed we do love hearing from you all. If you'd like to write to us you can do so at dressed. I heart media dot com or us on instagram at underscore podcast which is where we post. Images to accompany each week's episodes you can also follow us on facebook at dress. Podcast without the underscore. An thank you as always.
Dressed: The History of Fashion
"century" Discussed on Dressed: The History of Fashion
"File a claim with geico. We hired a soap opera store. Gracious me my car has storm damage. And i had to file a claim could possibly get worse when my claims team leave me for someone else. Someone less intense. No actually when you file a claim with geico you get your own dedicated claims team. Who promises to stay with you throughout the process. I've never known such loyalty. I can't wait for the second season. Geigo great service without all the drama fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percents or more. Is that shakespeare. it's geico. Yeah that's shakespeare from one of his published works to be not for awakening may give the batteries for fifteen minutes. Could save you fifteen percent or more. No it's from geico. Because they help save money. Well i hate to break it to you but geico got it from shakespeare geico fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percents or more so finally one of the last pieces that a woman would be putting on with address itself which was more like an open robe because it didn't meet in the front it didn't close and that is exactly why the stomach or is there the center front of the dresses bodice. The edges of it would be pinned to the stomach to secure robe like dress to the body and that is kind of like the icing on the cake. You know covering this incredible under structure of all of these garments below. Oh yeah and if this counts time consuming it was. It was a lengthy process and one that for upper class women usually required at least one extra pair of hands. Women without servants could certainly dress themselves in similar garments and we highly recommend actually heading over to youtube and checking out a video produced by pass dress guests. Lauren stole of american duchess. She's getting herself dressed in eighteenth century attire. And actually there's a couple of different videos so super cool and we'll put a winner show notes. If you're interested you'll know in that particular video that the course that she puts on a frontline course it so she was actually able to lease herself in by herself but generally speaking you would probably get help from someone else when wearing late back lacing corsets as they would have done at the court oversight yes so while the types of garments worn that like the silhouettes of actual garments might be similar across class. Strata you know the courses and the petticoats and outer gowns if the materials of the garment in which they were made that is definitely not the same o'cl across class data and we cannot stress enough the importance of textiles in the eighteenth century. They could be incredibly valuable given and received as gifts and sometimes some of the more costly items. That person might own. Maybe not if you're an aristocrat of course because they're wearing tons of jewels and all these different things but the point being is that clothing with highly highly valued and not considered disposable. And you know even marie-antoinette had some of her own dresses refashioned because the tech sales themselves were so intrinsically valuable and this place a hand in hand with the wearing of those really wide as right cast yes so one of the most distinctive features of eighteenth century dress is of course the pani as which supported these incredibly wide skirts which could be six feet across the incredible volume of these silhouettes required. Copious amounts of fabric grads taking lee expensive fabric in the case of court dress and the silhouette was a status symbol. To show off your means. And money's you had to be able to afford a lot of fabric. Yeah and this brings up a a different matter entirely of the hierarchy of formality in eighteenth century fashion. And today you know the time of day is often what dictates what is appropriate in terms of what you would wear for a given occasion whether it was in the morning or were there was in the afternoon or whether it was in the evening but this was not necessarily so in the eighteenth century it was more about not the time of day but the formality of the occasion so for instance the same dress might be worn to a formal night out at the opera just as it might be warranted in aristocratic wedding held very early on a tuesday morning at church. So it's really the formality of the occasion that governed address not what time it was on the clock. Adverse cy official court ceremonies required formal court dress so for men. This generally consisted of the finest of their beat francaise frequently featuring mind boggling elaborate embroidery and perhaps trimmings of real gold silver. And of course it might be worth emphasizing that of course at this time everything is made by hand no sewing machines there of course mechanized ways of making textiles but it was all handmade. It all involved people pulling levers etc so just an incredible amount of work with into these garments and then women's court dress had further specifications which included tiers of lace at the end of the sleeves. Just below the elbow. These lay sponsors. Were called on john's on john's weren't exclusively worn for court dress but they were a required element and another required element for full court. Dress was a long train descending from the center back so in the eighteenth century court dresses. Were almost if not always robe all from says in silhouette yeah and actually cast if you think about it. This parlays all the way in to the nineteenth century as well that formality of the of the court dress and the train we even saw in downton abbey yup. Yeah yeah so. I think that where we are right now. Kind of leads us nicely to where we might pick up at a later episode which we should probably do an entire episode dedicated exclusively to marie-antoinette and so we might leave that for a later date. I do want to mention here. That even in court dress Which was warned by those with the right to appear at court in an official capacity even in that top tier formality in terms of court dress. There were actually most of dressing that were exclusive to the royal family and to other specifically honored individuals so for instance cast the sun king louis. The fourteenth declared that the use of brocade fabrics belong to himself the princes of his family and those of his subjects upon.
Dressed: The History of Fashion
"century" Discussed on Dressed: The History of Fashion
"Timer two. So i'm actually glad you brought up the point of men wearing diamond jewelry in this manner april because some of our listeners. Already know the wearing of jules lace floral matisse and other style devices while i guess all of our listeners know this right now largely gender feminine but this was not the case in the eighteenth century floral pastels. Jewels sequence. Bright colors plush velvet. They were all part and parcel to the mail. Aristocratic wardrobes as we're high heels which is such a wonderful snippet of fashion history lou. Fourteenth of course was renowned for high heels. We did a whole episode on the history of men inhales with elizabeth. Semel hat. if you're interested in listening but what's super interesting is that europe men were high heels before women. Yes yes and women were lampooned for wearing. Heels is wearing mannish attire. The seventeenth century. So it's super interesting. Hills of course are not a european invention. They arrived at europe at the turn of seventeenth century there an hundreds of years prior and western asian countries in the horseback riding cultures. But louis the fourteenth really took these hills to incredible heights and it really was not until the post revolutionary period that we see what has been referred to as secrete mel renunciation of decorative expression and trust. Yeah because loosely. Speaking it really wouldn't be until the nineteenth century that we see this change in menswear kind of denouncing all of these quote unquote what we think of now as feminine adornments and relegating those things like the pastels and the florals and the diamonds and you know ultimately relegating that to you. Know this feminine sphere. I put that in quotes and part of this all has to do with the french revolution. When the aristocracy or the austrian regime was toppled and all of a sudden they're decadent displays of wealth and the clothing that identified with them. It was literally during the revolution burnt and rips shreds in the aristocracies clothing. Really kind of became a symbol of their elitism in tyranny. Yeah moving forward into the nineteenth century yes okay for our eighteenth century aristocratic lady the process of dressing with a tad more complicated but one of her main looks at the corner of her side would have been for the eighteenth century. Women at court would have been open front gown. Such as the robe ullah francais or a robe along lays and the difference between the two is really hard to tell from the front but from the back you automatically know which is which because the robot on francaise has that really pleaded waterfall effect extending down from the center. Back and the robot anglaise lacked that draping panel and instead the back was very kind of tailored and fitted and a woman for start addressing process with a long linen shamir's undergarment just like her gentlemen counterparts. Then she would put on her knee high knit stockings. Which would have been secured by tying a ribbon just above the knee. No elastic here friends. We got a secure them with something. and then she would have added petticoat over her shimi's before putting on her corset or stays as they would have been called at the time because of course it was not so much a term that came into parlance until the early nineteenth century which trust listeners as promised for very many seasons. Were down for season right. So we've been promising an upset on the course that actually next week we are going to be bringing you one which addresses some of these myths surrounding this controversial garment. Which is the corset. And we will be bussing. These myths with corset maker extraordinaire. Cynthia of red thread. So i can't wait to show that episode with you but we really have to remember. During the eighteenth century the undergarment known as stays was worn by most european and american women across the class spectrum they were everyday garments and lacked. The fetish is connotation some people attached to them today. The really viewed as a utilitarian garment which provided the necessary posture support while simultaneously shaping a woman's torso to the fashionable silhouette of any given era an eighteenth century stays tended to support the bosom from beneath the pushed it. Up and out a fact emphasized by low cut necklines of the dresses of this period. So low in fact that an occasional nip slip was not unheard of nor was he considered overtly sexual. Maybe a bit flirty. Perhaps but normal enough that it is seen drawn into fine art and even mass produced fashion plates era. And i always love when you just come across an image from the eighteenth century. Where like oh hello. But they're they're actually more common than you would suspect so over her course. It would have been tied a women's pandey's which are also known as hoops which were kind of these little basket like structures that held out the very wide expansive skirts of the era. Over as perhaps then the outer petticoat would be put on and you can think of it more as a skirt which either match or contrast did address itself then the woman would add her stomach her and stockbroker stiffen triangle with usually sort of fine fabric or decoration which faces out and it's very very stiff. Undisturbed occurs served the purpose of helping to close open gals. And how that happened is the stalker would have been generally pinned on with long stick pins to the course itself and this also being steph. The course itself is protected. The women from getting poked by all these pins that they were using. And i also just want to say that. That's one of my favorite pictures or images from the kyoto fashion book that were constantly referencing on the show. Is they just have these. The section of stomach irs and. It's such an interesting garment to see or item of clothing to see on its own. Yeah for sure. And the fashions four stomach irs themselves changed over time to which is also really like interesting the shapes and the styles of decoration. So it's almost like this little microcosm of fashion history for sure. Feeling your best starts with what you eat and car helps you to not just eat healthy but truly enjoy. It was chef crafted. Plant rich meals that build a foundation for radiant health. Cicadas isn't attrition company that focuses on over wellness starting with what you eat. Their organic ready to eat meals are made with powerful plant based ingredients and are designed to minimize your sugar cravings. Boost your energy improve your digestion and get your skin glowing so car. Chef prompted breakfasts lunches and dinners are backed by cutting edge nutrition science to boost your health. 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"century" Discussed on WCBM 680 AM
"You're listening to 21st century radio with Dr Dzhokhar Hieronymus and I just loved being on this show, and she is such a great interview. I know you're going to enjoy whatever you listen to. Yes, also. And I We have a mutual fan club. I just absolutely adored his book on the left and right hemisphere the whole path. The whole brain path to pieces. I found it to be one of the more useful books for anybody, particularly people who are interested in bringing peace to the world and in their own life. And, you know, I think as as sort of a tag Priscilla to your own book, you You talked about something that Olson would categorize as the left hemisphere meaning? When the colonists came to this country, um, you know, seeking destroy was kind of the premise even though you know our wonderful movies make the The beginning of this nation rather than just killing all the Indians make it look like the colonists somehow or other We're really going to settle the land. Talk to us a little bit about your own research on that. Yeah, I grew up in Ohio. And, um I didn't quite realize that Ohio had been heavily forested and that the settlers really clear cut the land, and they did that throughout the northeast throughout the heavily that heavy North American forests. There seemed to be a frenzy to get rid of the trees to get rid of the forest and, of course they needed to plant their crops they needed to plow fields. But they really destroyed the trees. Um, a greater degree than was necessary if they just wanted to plant some crops, So I was intrigued and horrified by this urge to remake the landscape, and I discovered that it goes back that Idea or the conceit that we can remake nature actually goes straight back to the Roman Empire, Um Cicero boasted in the first century BC That we make irrigation. We plant we plow. We turn the rivers. We control the waters we make as it were another nature, he said, and that idea that we can conquer and control nature. Has been with us for a very long time. And so because it's a long habit, it's going to take some attention to move into new directions. I love the fact that you know, malady me So maybe because his book probably 15. Maybe 20 years ago when he joined me on his book of water and spirit of beautiful spiritual autobiography and aren't many that sort of stand in the tradition of Parma handsy Yogi Ananda, another Great spiritual autobiography. How did your work with the so maze? He and his wife impact your life. Well, I was called in to be a book editor. Actually, The very first contact I had with them was a workshop when they were still married, and they lived in Oakland, and they lead a workshop on grieving. And I was in a deep state of mourning and I was suffering depression. At the time. I had undergone a lot of losses and I attended their workshop on grieving and there I heard them talk about community. And they said in the village when a woman gets pregnant, we all get excited because we wonder who this new person is that the ancestors are sending us because obviously This person is bringing gifts that we must need. So they said, we work real hard to find out what this new persons purpose is in the world. And then it becomes our responsibility as a community to help that person remember their purpose. And I was so astonished because that was a very different understanding of community than I had grown up with, Um, community, um, where I came from, and to a certain degree throughout mainstream American culture. We tend to think of community is something that Needs to keep people in line. The government is what punishes wrongdoing and you can read it. Even in the documents of the The American Revolution in American history, Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet. Called common Sense, and in this pamphlet where he was agitating for revolution, he said, society namely our inter relationships with family and friends, society is based on our goodness, but But government is based on our wickedness, and we need government to keep us in line. So there runs this thread of thinking throughout political and religious history of Western cultures. That the community is something that that that it's a disciplinary force. It helps restrain the badness in people. And from Mala Doma and suburban Fu. I heard a completely different view of community completely different experience of community that the community whether the small community or the larger community Knows individuals and helps them supports them in carrying out their purpose in the world in bringing their gifts to through it fruition in the world and it was a very liberating moment. And then later I've been a book editor for years. I got called in to help Mala Doma, uh, to edit the book that he was working on next after water and the spirit and it became the book. Um Let me see if I remember the title. Uh, community which the I'm sorry I'm blank. That's all right. Um, but, um, in in as an editor, you know, one thing and editor does is get inside the head of the writer. So as I worked at that process of getting inside what melanoma was saying, I found The those ideas that came from his village. I found them taking root in me. It was a really wonderful experience. When I when I had the chance to talk with him on air on future talk and the zoo show to other shows I hosted before I found the clarity of his own life experience of having been sent away from the village to Be brought up in sort of the Christian theology and betrayed by the fathers, and then eventually having a calling back to his native tradition. It is it is really like I mentioned James Olsen's work. The difference between Using your left hemisphere primarily or your right hemisphere and one left, which is pretty much the dominant theme in our culture is very, um Very separatists. Very analytic, Very aggressive versus the right hemisphere, which, like his second book, which I have my producer look up was called ritual power, healing and community. That's really a very right hemispheric, very feminine approach to being in the world and James Olson's thesis in his whole perspective is that we really need to bring them together. It's not like Just having a right hemisphere of being intuitive and artistic and creative and integrative will work if you don't also have the analytic, the self preserved self preserving the the part that defends what's Holy And so when you look at your own work about defending what's holy, That's sort of what I think about your work. I love that. You told the short story of a 19 twenties Forrester, Adolf Leo. Paul was it Although Leopold Yeah. Mhm, would you share a little bit about that? Because I thought it was a really I love the way you wove so many beautiful historic truth into your own journey. Well, although Leopold was a forester back in the 19 twenties and thirties, and, um, the famous story about him that he told near the end of his life was that he was a hunter and he was hunting in the canyon country of Arizona and He shot a wolf down at the bottom of this canyon by the river and, um, he went down. He scrambled down the rim of the canyon and Came upon her to find she was dying. And, um, he went closer.
KQED Radio
"century" Discussed on KQED Radio
"Century, nearly half of global trade passed through these waters. But in the seventies, when international trade change technology change report, in effect collapsed and with that a big chunk of the city's economy The city collapsed economically, socially, politically and physically, That's Michael Parkinson from the University of Liverpool. He's a public policy professor who also serves on the city's World Heritage Task Force. And he's authored several books on the rise and fall of Liverpool's economy, he explains. In the decades since a drastic economic decline, the city has battled back. In the 35 years since then, instead of fantastic nestles, funded by European money, helped by national government, supported by some good local leaders. Indeed, nearly a billion dollars has been spent regenerating the so called Maritime Mercantile City and in 2000 and four UNESCO gave a World Heritage designation to six sites over 300 acres. That included peers, Docklands warehouses, produce exchanges and civic buildings. But recent plans to rejuvenate the northern part of the Docklands drew scrutiny from UNESCO, and last month it revoked the coveted status. Here's Rick of Iraq goes a specialist at the World Heritage Centre. Who helps prepare information used to make the final decision about Liverpool status in 2012, the World Heritage Committee considered that the proposal for a huge project that was called deliverable Waters project is threatening the property. Years after consultations with government officials took place. But plans for the nearly $7 billion project to include new offices, hotels, cruise liner and ferry terminals have gone ahead. The biggest point of contention for UNESCO was a nearly $700 million proposal to build a new soccer stadium for Everton Football Club at Bromley More doc, This is a large scale project that is not tailored to the characteristic of the values and the side. Virago says delisting. The site is a loss for the international community, and Liverpool's mayor Joanne Anderson agrees. But she says the city can't exist in a time warp. We have an area that is one of the poorest stages in the country. And so the football stadium is a massive investment that we can't afford to lose to tackle poverty in that area. We've got to still value our heritage. We've got to protect our future as a city but also make sure that we grow economically as well. The development at Grambling More Doc, including the stadium is expected to bring more than $1 billion boost to the local economy for the people running the city. The decision about moving ahead with this development for retaining the World Heritage designation. Came down to how Liverpool should value the economic well being of its people. Here's Professor Parkinson Again, the city never really got any added economic value of having the status. It didn't get more investment. It didn't get more tourists. North.
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"century" Discussed on Monocle 24: Section D
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Jewish History Matters
"century" Discussed on Jewish History Matters
"Today i'm joined by adam teller. Who's going to be speaking with us about the century jewish refugee crisis following the sixteen forty eight on. It's key pogroms. Aman how it helps us to understand the transnational transformations of jewish life in early modern times as well as when we want to think more deeply. Broadly about refugee issues on water scale both in history and also this is something which is still very relevant today. Adam teller is a professor of history and judaic studies at brown university. He has written widely on the economic social and cultural history of the jews in early modern pulling lithuania and his most recent book. Which we're going to talk about today is titled rescue the surviving souls the great jewish refugee crisis of the seventeenth century. This is going to be the starting point for our conversation today but in many ways it's not just about the book we're gonna be talking about the big issues that surrounds it. It's really an exciting book. It was recently a finalist for the national. Jewish book award in history is a pleasure to have adam here with us. Thank you so much. Adam for joining us on the podcast. Welcome really glad to have you. Here it's a real pleasure. Thrill pledged to be here. Jason absolutely i want to get us started by thinking about kind of what is this history in the first place when we look at the story of the malinowski pogroms and aftermath in the mid seventeenth century. What is going on here. And why does it matter when we wanna think about early. Modern jewish history well in the early period poland lithuania which was then called. The police between commonwealth was the largest wealthiest most develop jewish center in europe with in world terms. It was only rivaled by the ottoman empire and had gone through about one hundred fifty years very strong social economic cultural development. Making it this powerhouse. In the history of european jewry and the place where all of your looked in a number of different fails perhaps most particularly in terms of the jewish law. But not only that
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"century" Discussed on TED Radio Hour
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A century of money we heard about how buying on credit and making risky investments became the american way in the nineteen twenties. Let's fast forward now to an example of that legacy in this century the housing bubble of the early two thousands and a story about what happened to one family when that market began to go south. We're living in a time where people can have everything that they want. If they can make a payment people could trapped in that. This is tammy lalli and i am a money coach. Okay but tammy you weren't always financial advisor right like before that you had your own financial issues when you were growing up. What was the story around money that it was scarce. I grew up with a single mom with three children. I was the youngest in a predominantly catholic town in one thousand nine hundred seventy five. I was the kid of a domestic worker. And i lived in a neighborhood that was an upper class neighborhood so doctors lawyers and i went to school with their children. So we didn't my brothers and i really didn't know what we didn't have until we were told by the kids In from yeah but what happened to me then was that i internalized it to believe that there was something wrong with me and shame never went away. Money became a source of happiness. So i did become a high earner i chose my career in no a sales career in my early twenties so that i could become a high earner i was driving a mercedes by the time i was twenty three. You know how to very extensive wardrobe from nor strung. And i just covered up all the shame with materialism that was how tammy dealt with her issues with money until everything changed in two thousand six if you remember there were some early warning signs of a massive housing bubble for tammy. Those warning signs came in the form of a phone call from her brother. It was his fortieth birthday and he called me and it was so interesting. Because i was like. Hey your birthday you know. Let's get together like to take you out to dinner. And he was like no. No no no not gonna do that and i said what's up and he said i'm just really in dire straits you know i'm just really i was like okay. Okay and i didn't know where where the conversation was really going. And then he said. I need to borrow money. I need to borrow seventy five hundred dollars which you know. Seventy five hundred dollars is a lot of money. it was just a breaking point for him and i said well. I'm happy to lend you the money but let's get together. I'd like to know what's really happening. And see if i could have an in some other way because you knew he knew you were good with spreadsheets and budgeting and things like that. And i had been in the mortgage business and part of what was he was saying to. Was you know. Our mortgage is so high and We've got the short-term arm. You know back then. It was these two year arms because his credit had dipped which meant that. The payments would skyrocket within a couple years right and his credit score was low so he didn't have a lot of choices because he couldn't keep up with payments late payments and and so I really wanted to get together with them. And so i did. Within within a couple of weeks. I met him in his wife at us at a starbucks in a close to where they lived and it was very long meeting. I mean we were there for five hours trying to like help them. You know understanding. They brought their credit report to their bank statements. And we're gonna you're going through it. Yeah damn like bucks okay. Yeah and i just didn't know what was really happening between them. But i. There was a lot of attention. They started blade. Each other. And i just was kind of like what's going on with you guys like this is math on paper. It was a math solution. Spend less earn more but there was no way that those two could have done that with their emotional mental capacity because we all hide from our family so my energy got like buck up. Because you've got kids and you know kind of wrapping up that you know. We left it off with. He was going to take some action steps around looking for work that paid more and she was gonna start working more hours and they were going to cut back and it all seemed like it was a good. You came up with a plan and that was. That was a turns out to be the last time i saw them. Tammy continues her story from the ted stage. Two months went by when i received a call town. I have bad news kiss committed suicide last night days.
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"century" Discussed on TED Radio Hour
"Ron stopped. They stopped cold. And you know. The bank holiday was lifted. People had deposit insurance. It literally stopped it overnight now during the thirties you also had lots of other changes that were put in place. You had to creation of the skirt exchange commission. You had standardization of accounting rules. So there are a whole series of laws put into place and deposit insurance while it was putting. it's a fact is to make individuals have confidence. They can get their money out of banks but the real reason. The real purpose of deposit insurance is to keep the economy stable and prevent the kind of runs on banks that have d- stabilize the economy. So let's just take a pause here though because here. We are a century later in a different kind of financial crisis. But they do keep happening. I mean it used to be every twenty years now. It feels like it's every ten years. Is that why we should learn and understand what happened a hundred years ago because we never got the lesson and i guess if not what does that say about the american psyche i think. One characteristic of americans and of our culture is optimism and there is this amnesia and people believe things that if they thought about it. Just are too good to be true so i think two things that are often key ingredients in in financial crises are too much borrowed money. Instead of making good investments people start making riskier and riskier investments and lack of oversight By the government they regulators forget their duty to taxpayers. That's who they're there for. They're supposed to regulate the system in exchange for the system getting those benefits. so what. You really wanted a time like this and it's too bad. The government can't get it together to do it but what you want is to have some kind of relief that does not follow people forever as debt. Does you wanna be able to give people a means to to to tied themselves over during.
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Strength To Be Human --Literary Podcast, Hosted by Mark Antony Rossi
"century" Discussed on Strength To Be Human --Literary Podcast, Hosted by Mark Antony Rossi
"This is episode one hundred and ninety three making a living as a writer in his twenty first century. Now all the title high well. I didn't put a question mark on it because it is definitely possible to do so but it's an extremely difficult task and well outlined all of that on this show. It's going to have five different parts. The first part will go right into now. Here is the new writing world. Well we're we're in a completely different riding worldwide. In fact we're in a different world than we were even like sixty or seventy years ago. All right i'll give you example of sixty years ago. If you wanted to be a nurse. I mean people pretty much. Mock you behind your back. Thank you this low-paid slave or something and does laugh off. Meanwhile you're right here. You're somebody important and interesting and intellectual now sissy as later be you say you want wanna be right. Oh you're writing people laughing on care and nurses one of the most highest paid fields out there. I'm serious they really are and now many go driving in somewhere used to be almost a completely female dominated field. Now you got a lot of men in there too because the job any gender can do and other as humanly well medical field. All round pays very well especially in america riding. Well that's a different case. I really told have been told here. And you'll notice it when we do the publishing section of this show Doll writing world has been turned upside down on publishing because they got bought up. All kinds of different conglomerates as run the business into the ground because it's only about businesses longer about riding literary arts anymore. I'm sure all you might meet people here. And then they say otherwise. Don't believe them. They live in a fantasy from the nineteen fifties. It's not happening anymore where it used to be a a closing closeted place and now it's open of course but you don't have as many opportunities so lots of people going the route of a university press. Which of course is difficult and competitive. There might go some men less press possibly or some animal create on present is to publish publishing whether prannoy training books..
Capes & Lunatics: Sidekicks
"century" Discussed on Capes & Lunatics: Sidekicks
"In capture. Turner d century. We have to make good name aplenty name. It just says everything you need to know and russell yes. I did like the bumpers. I'll be allow one on the next episode. We do but i figured this spider spiderwoman had to give his shekel shadow. Do the spider babies right. Take a drink. I think that might be the game. Oh my god people might die. If we're about say ticket drink anytime. We mentioned ray but people might get hurt. I don't wanna be responsible for outweighs bland jin alright so century turner d century is a man garbed in early one thousand nine hundred clothing. Who has been terrorizing san francisco using violent means in order to restore the apparent decency and traditions of the early nineteen hundred. You know make america great again. Any we've been doing that since the foundation of about that. But you know it's an old person is just like out these kids clothing their music back in my day. I mean you can literally trace that back to like greece on the walls. Eight degrees these kids today. How their pottery. And told i swear plotter togas their bread and circuses. They're funny way. The funny ways of making well traveling the san francisco just drew real bad. Don't speak traveling to san francisco jessica. Drew takes the sights of the city. She has her first encounter with turner d century when he attacks a bar Little is still cold out out. Changing in the spiderwoman cost him elegant little though probably weren't a spiderwoman costumer to the bar Just stop her attempt to capture the croke. When the bar's patrons aren't endangered by the fire set by turner playboy just out now barlow. Dale no shame no got you might not all these perverts ghetto. Barlow varnish okay. You got me there. He's not wrong That scotty calls. Jessica gives her a hard time for living turner. Get away causing her to angrily. Hang up on him. While out on another patrol san francisco spiderwoman watch turner d century as he is sending in adult theater ablaze. All right. i'm pushing it leslie. Use this guys though. He's got everything i love. I don't appreciate this patron Adult theater rodgers low over twenty four hours though todd. Rogers that's the marshall also. Say that's the that's the captain. America movie little wants to watch all day every day russell month the playhouse phrasing a so yes he sets the adult theme fire and then she attacks him once more. She is forced to stop when some children aren't dangerous. Injured when a fire escape clown inspired dad with his mustache his frigging record set out the and the pike come now that kind of Yes but there's some children in trouble on the fire. Escape breaks allowing century to escape once more. This leads to yet another angry phone. Call between jessica and scotty. Who believes that. She still could have caught century. Baby girl who was who who this career low hellfire you want me to be their mentor. Oh no we put an outbreak pennyworth method. You get a backhand oh get back in and you get back in. You're gonna put a vibrant hand through someone's chest get by After a flower here modell after turner burns down a section of chinatown raises. Hourigan races got maga- at to we were waiting Brussels says shameless plug. Spider woman's trainer will be a future episode of tom's. Oh my lord. York deep dive in russell gets transformed other But man you do some deep dives wrestler. Doing the lord's work all right. So after turner burns not yet burnt down to chinatown. Spiderwoman and scotty tracked down a lead. That takes spiderwoman. Th-they abandoned home. This wasn't crazy to the abandoned. Home of morgan macneil. Hardy oh when we get to the notes. Yeah we're gonna. We'll get the morgan macneil. Hardy entering the home. She finds a fast complex underneath it with a giant dinosaur. Choose penny though. I understood that reference may be rated ohio well by the end of april. He should that man Yes an underpass Complex around yes. Mingle the glider wings yes but A vast underground complex it fashioned after the early nineteen hundreds there spiderwoman and turner clash until they are interrupted by hardy himself. Spiderwoman learns that. Hardy created this world so that he could relive what he believed. Were better times as spiderwoman. Explains the heartache. Because what the entertainment industry is doing right. Now yep nostalgia. Galore spider explains the hardy. What century has been doing sentry ascent into a frenzy and attack her during the fight a fire breaks out forced to flee on around the house. Explodes behind spiderwoman seemingly killing hardy and century. You're not getting off that he's hellfire is not that i know aligning i know. Oh lord a russell. We need a song. None anonyna- sausage poor. Rae rae. rae.
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"century" Discussed on Historically Thinking
"Hello elisa. lucas painting was born in seventeen. Twenty two on the island of antigua in the leeward islands of the caribbean one of the tinier colonies of the british empire and she died in seventeen ninety three and philadelphia. The capital of the new american republic those places of birth and death and the seventy odd years between the two events and capsule life that not only saw tumultuous change but helped to create it for is lucas. Pinckney was one of the wealthiest most respected and influential women of her era. This was not only to the legacy of her remarkable children and the labor of those she enslaved but because of her own intelligence entrepreneurship and keen understanding of the world around her in all stay versity and complexity with one or two important exceptions as glover makes clear in her new biography. Eliza lucas pinckney. An independent woman in the age of revolution. Laurie glover is the john fences. Bannon endowed chair in the department of history at saint louis university her previous books include founders as fathers the private lives and politics of the american revolutionaries and the fate of the revolution for jin's debate the constitution. This is her third appearance on historically thinking. Laurie welcome back to strictly thinking. Thank you so much for having me back. Well two more appearances and you get a gold lemay jacket or coffee mug. And that's the production budget won't bear. Go lemme jacket yet. So we'll probably get a coffee month So i think last we talked. You said you're working on this biography. And i've been so excited to read. It and my excitement was justified. I realized as i was taking notes. Why don't their salaries we don't talk to people. More often about cleo america one thing is is covert got there ahead of me and she does that very well. And ben franklin's world and the other thing is is my podcast would be too long. So i'm going to try to restrain myself so this podcast is under two hours. i think we should begin with Explaining why an elisa pinkney is why in some ways. I can't believe about to say this. Why in some ways. She's a much more important person and abigail adams and what i mean by that is That she has as you say. In the very title of your book she is an independent independent woman. An independent life. And what do you mean by that. Well most of the women from the eighteenth century The who people know about abigail adams martha washington and Eliza hamilton More recently dolly. Madison dolley madison. They are well known because of their proximity to powerful and influential man and elisa was certainly connected to powerful and influential man. Her her father in the caribbean or has been in south carolina. sons in the early republic but her principal influence and power and significance was not derived from those men. It was from the life that she led independently really As an independent planner patriarch in her teens and early twenties and then later on as the quintessential planner patriarch for being female Of heading a very powerful family in the late colonial and early national era so she was a as you mentioned an entrepreneur she traffic commodities globally. She was sort of atlantic wayfair and she left the largest record of writings. Any woman from the colonial south of or the english caribbean that. I'm aware of in fact her writing that i think are surprised. Maybe only by abigail adams and that because of that. Gilles extensive correspondence with john show. She is a woman of significance and power in her own right in a world that we often think of as dominated by men. And there's a people might be suspicious and say well you guys think he's important because she left a lot of information and historians are guilty that we are the drunk looking for keys under the streetlight often. That's with the keys. We dropped the keys elsewhere. But that's where the light is by this. What her her writings reveal is that i should say it's not just letters that she leaves behind all the she does have a letter book. Which which should say is remarkable for a woman in the eighteenth century. There aren't many if at all right But then she leaves these other interesting things like that. We'll get to like her spiritual writings to herself and other her. Her makes her lab notebook Other sorts of information that she leaves behind which is also extraordinarily unusual for man or woman. Right that's right so you know in the in the colonial world Letter books which you know if your listeners don't know what we mean by that. A book is a copy of letters. That are males. It's a collection of copies of letters and mostly the people who kept letter books in colonial america. Were you know. International conducting international business People traveled a lot of people. Who were you know. attorneys of or diplomats and. It kept those letter books because the letters they mailed were sent into a sort of a fraud world especially if you're sending them around the atlantic ships waylaid or lost at sea and so people who had important business to conduct kept copies of their letters in letter book and so it was very unusual for a woman to keep a letter book because it was fairly unusual for a woman to have a business of running international commodities markets for example or trafficking in goods from the caribbean to the mainland of north america over to england and so since allies was doing that she felt an obligation to keep a she was doing that as a teenager. She felt A letter book but then she took to writing. Energy pointed out she She recorded herbs. Bureau's thought she recorded private prayers that she created. She boarded of your daily resolutions and she kept what she called a recipe book and it did include recipes for foods but it also included recipes for medical treatments. So it was Guess a scientific log As much as it was a collection of food recipes. Sure and it shows us how cookbooks in lab notebooks textbooks. Kind of all have the same. They have the same origin. They are wants the same thing right. The way bars and pharmacies were sort of the same thing once So let's start with the the most important opening fact about allies in which i mentioned in the introduction that she comes from antigua so let's up the geogra- the terroir from which elisa lucas comes. So i begin the book by saying she was lucky from the outset of her life. She was born into a wealthy white family in at the locals call. Antiga americans usually say antigua. So i'm gonna say get She was warning in antigua to a wealthy family. A white family. The whites were the minority but overwhelmingly dominated the enslaved black majority and so Her her life from its very inception was marked by privilege. Her father was a Landholder sugar planter had three meals on different plantations as separate house in saint john's which was the capital of the island n so she grew up in.
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"century" Discussed on WCBM 680 AM
"Welcome to 21st Century radio. I'm Dr Sahara Hieronymous, Slower corners. Our executive producer. Anita Brockington, Our engineer. Joining us this hour is the gentleman who in the past spoke with us as his role as a senior fellow at the Worldwatch Institute. Eric Asadoorian Directive. Five editions is the state of the world, which I did every year and two editions of vital signs. And as a researcher, he study consumerism, corporate responsibility, sustainable communities, education. Global security, global sustainability indicators, ecological ethics and religion's role in sustainable development. The last time we were together, we spoke about their state of the world 2017 Earth, Ed. Rethinking education on a chance changing planet. He had authored the introductory chapter and the final chapter, talking about global education being redefined by the needs of our time. Now he leads groups taking shape around. What is called guy in is, um, a philosophical path through an ecological, unstable time. Eric joins us this hour to discuss his own trajectory into finding a guy in principle of movement building on efforts like Deep Ecology and James Lovelock Sky, a theory You better give us and our families and our societies the tools we need to keep our earth and to restore our earth and live sustainable lives. He joins us for lively discussion of how to do these kinds of things in our lives and what he's doing with his own family. In this direction. Thank you for rejoining us, Eric. It's been quite some time. Yes, Thanks for having me. One of the things that attracts me to you, year after year, and, uh, in the past the Worldwatch Institute itself. Is that your inaction person as well as a visionary, and they don't always go together, sometimes visionary, see the future, but they don't Do something. So I was fascinated to find out in preparation for our chat this evening that one of your projects was a reality TV show made in collaboration with big mouth productions that ran For four seasons, starting in 2014 called yard farmers. I mean, this is an example of a visionary moving into action. Talk to us about that. I would love to. Although I have to correct the record, because okay was a We tried to make it go. Okay. You know, I did a lot of reading on trying to do reality television and one of the lessons Even the biggest kind of producers and directors is that ah lot of its luck getting it produced on de especially on a topic like this. So what we did. We got further than I had expected truthfully, considering the topic. The topic was Not just yard firm, right? But I mean, everyone likes kind of local gardening and that kind of thing, But ultimately it was a little bit. Um Versus like. The idea was to bring millennials back home to live with their parents in often oversized from a global perspective, homes. You know, the average American household has 2400 square feet, and that's usually for two. Maybe three people on de so that's too much face for a family considering the ecological impact of that space, and there's large yards and most of the Yards faces just for long, which is actually the fourth largest crop by acreage in the United States. So how could we take all that unproductive space and start producing local food, which could help reduce the obesity epidemic, which could build local resilience as a global supply chains? Disrupted by different Challenges that we're facing on day actually create a non consumer livelihood half for those households, right? So I mean in the in the peasant era. People had multiple types of revenue stream, which was much more resilient. You know, not just going to not just having a trade but also growing some of their own food and all that, So it was an attempt to really move us away from the consumer era and make it And speaking of American language, Right, make it fun and sexy and have you know young young people from around the United States Come back home, and I have a great idea. Now I see why I thought you did it. You were writing from the future. Reading back, and I thought it was actually a true statement that these things that happened that but it's a brilliant idea on who knows? Maybe at some point, someone else will see the wisdom in it. Because, you know, forming communities. You point out And building resilience into the local economy. There's really nothing more important right now for any of us to be doing. I always say that you know to whomever's listening to focus on your local communities, economy networks and support systems because As you point out, the planet is changing fast and you write from a human perspective. Quote. You could even say the Earth is dying. But of course, switching to a hot state where the tropical forests and coral reefs disappear, etcetera, etcetera. But the truth is our our responsibility is to do as much we can to improve life on earth and to restore ecosystems and to live with the changes. We know that our upon a center prepare for them properly. When you launch this Effort at guy in ism and sort of the guy in philosophy. Health is about what your basic thought line is and what you hope to accomplish with this. I would love to and and just to give some perspective because it Zaveri different than the 18 years of researching that I was doing it at world much, but actually came the world Watch as a research in turn right out of college pretty much. After having studied psychology and religion and the director of research at the time, I wanted to understand the religious communities role in moving us toward a sustainable future. And he was focused more on the ancient traditions. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, that kind of thing and You know, I got a chance to study that as you mentioned, sustainable community building. You know that localizing economy and all that and whatever I studied Was always too little too late, and I don't know if that's just because I'm writing. I was writing in two thousand's right. And it was actually Dana Meadows back in the 19 seventies. Yeah, who wrote about the limits to growth? And if we listened, her and other Luminaries back then or visionaries, Then we might have been able to get to a sustainable future without Terrible transition. That's going to happen in the process now because we've waited so late, but the environmental movement right now, someone once said. I think one Palmer when actually comparing it again to religion, he was made this point that Environmentalism is like Like religion or church Without the joy, the community the celebration all that it's just the guilt. You know the dark side, right? I mean, because we're so worried about the future that we forgot. Or didn't take the time to build community That's fine, that higher purpose and higher calling and the joy from serving that higher calling. So for me, this is kind of Inevitable process, right? I've written about the changes we need to make. I don't feel supported in that in a sense on. I want to build community around this because they were my grand purpose, or, you know all of ours, I would argue. Is Seo recognize that were part of a living earth. On and independent on it. And if we don't Story. I mean, take care of it. Yes, but really restored because we've done so much damage, then our future is already written, and it's not a good one. I think your perspective is a fascinating one because I think I have suffered from ecological depression, my entire life and truthfully because I started as an activist at age 14. Handing out flyers in southeast Baltimore for talk when acid rain being given by Ralph Nader. And I like you and many others in our audience. Who are those you know who listen online have spent a lifetime trying to remind people that the air we breathe shared air and we shouldn't be dumping oil in our waterways and destroying our land and You know, destroying our seed bank and etcetera, etcetera, And you're right. I think that there is, um Great deal of sadness about the state of affairs because so many of us were wide awake from the sixties until today and tried to convince the rest of the world wake up, you know, Stop what we're doing, and That was unsuccessful. And so now we have much younger people who will inherit such a difficult challenge. With an earth coming undone. You know what species Celery with species extinction, ours and theirs. And I think your perspective and Diane is, um, is such an important addition to make. Uh s o that there is some hope. Thank you. Man in your writing you feet more and more articles about ecological anxiety or were ecological depression as you called it? I mean, in fact, I mean some of the stories I mean, Greta turn, but she she kind of went through this..
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"You're listening to 21st century radio, Dr Bob Hieronymus. What a fantastic host years He's lively. His questing in oath story can be the shortest route between a human being in the truth. Listen to the show you her many stories and you might just wake up. The deepest story of your life and find the courage in the world. Follow that that will change everything. Well, the book they were talking about tonight changed everything for me. We'll talk a little bit about that later on our guest, of course, histories cross. Secrets of the Druids from Indo European origins to modern practices. Second edition. This one is revised edition of these sacred cauldron in our traditions. Find a link to her website and order her book form 21st Century Radio Facebook page and subscribe to our YouTube channel, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Okay. Hi. Are you still there, dear? Oh, yeah. Okay. Commercials are commercials. There's nothing we can do about it. Um Did did the kilts and the East Indians have any contacts in prehistoric times? Nothing we know of, and You know why the time into European said, branched out geographically, all over Europe and all the way into Iran and India and into all the way to the Ural Mountains. God. What was now Russia, Um We No, the into Europeans branched off into many different People's as their languages. You know, hangs over the centuries s O. We have you know, for example, the vaulted people's will. It's a warning in sin Latvians and deal Prussians who were later German incised by the Germans, and then we had the Slavic people such as Russian and Polish and Ukrainian and so forth. And of course we had some languages die out like virgin. And Hillary and and so forth. They were into European On. I had a I like to give people list of the numbers one through 10 and then the European languages so they can hear how similar they sound from one language to the other. Would you do that for us? Yeah, for help it. Let's say we'll do. I IRA and Daughtry patter could shave shock. Huh? They a deck. Thank me, 10. We got a Latin. We get a little duel. Trace clock for Quinn. Poise takes said Come on cone on, Beth. Um No, it's a similar, Ari. Um As a drift. You go toe Gothic, a Germanic language. It died out. Uh, And Easter year from Crimea was the last place and they said all right. Why three US? Good war, then. Okay? Uh, Seven. After so nailed cavon. That that one through 10 and you notice some of similar is but even England? Yeah. And Sanskrit it second by science. Chuck got US puncher sauce, Satya. Nava Dasa. So, um, you know the similarity there? Um And then, of course, pronto under your pan itself. Let's say goes, I know, uh Uh, Duel. Okay. Okay. It's uh, quite borders on point. But Step through upto noon. Uh, death. Um No, no, no lurking and that Thank you very much from that. No similarities between those sounds. Yes, I did. I did. Of course, I've read your entire book, so I began to see some of those myself. You know, uh, one of the things that I think I've learned. There's so much I learned from you and I'd really do appreciate your scholarship. It really You know some of the books that I had read earlier concerning the Druids. They sounded really very nice, but I had some doubts about them. I remember a little bit too flowery in some areas, but what kind of deities did the Celtic peoples worship? Well, they will. Polly feels like most Pimples were in those days. They believed in many gods and goddesses, and they worship them with sacrifices and offerings. Uh, the couch weren't Didn't answer for more. Five there. Dear, is Aziz marches. Some of the other Europeans the dead. Then they crudely carved wood on Probably set up a few idols and Cem groves or name Aton. And The Greeks were really into anthropomorphizing there, there..
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