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A highlight from Glass Half Empty & Half Full - The Perspicuity of Scripture
"Do you struggle with understanding the scriptures? Do you frequently hit roadblocks in your Bible reading? Do you struggle from even having a basic sense of satisfaction in your scripture reading? in your scripture reading? Sana, sana, colita, derana. If you're a Spanish speaker here today, you would know what I just said. Sana, sana, colita, derana. Lalo, could you translate those words as literal as possible for me in English? Yeah, as literal as possible in English. Or he'll heal frog bottom, is that another one? Yeah, he'll heal frog bottom. Now, if you weren't a Spanish speaker, you wouldn't know that what I just said is objectively clear in context. He'll heal frog bottom, literally translated in English, means nothing to a person who doesn't know Spanish. Even if they could translate Spanish to English. So, in reality, this is a phrase that we would often, or Spanish speakers would often tell children when they've, say, fallen on the floor and gotten injured, right? It's almost like as if it's a call to courage, like, you'll be okay. Another example in the English language is a stitch in time saves nine. I don't know if you guys have ever heard that. Have you guys ever heard that, a stitch in time saves nine? Okay, so no one before the 1980s, or sorry, no one after the 1980s. A stitch in time saves nine is an expression that basically means if I don't fix this stitch right now, the nine ones later are gonna fall apart, right? So, it's really a call to prudence and saying, well, I need to do this right now so that things don't get worse down the line. What I said in Spanish earlier, once again, is utterly and objectively clear. Utterly and objectively clear. It's a phrase with a particular meaning, and yet, as I said before, only a native Spanish speaker would understand. To everyone else, what I said was absolutely obscure. we're So, several weeks now into our doctrine of the Scriptures in our confession, and having recently just covered the sufficiency of Scripture, we now arrive at the question of perspicuity, perspicuity, perspicuity. We can say everything we want about the sufficiency of the Scriptures, the sufficiency of Scripture for faith and godliness, but if Scriptures don't have what we will go into later as perspicuity or a degree of transparency or clarity, we couldn't access its sacred truth. Or we would at least need to depend upon someone else to access its sacred truth, and that'll come a bit later. If you do have a copy of the Confession of Faith, feel free to turn there, and that will be in chapter one, paragraph seven. Chapter one, paragraph seven. But if you don't, just feel free to follow along as I read. All things in the Scripture are not alike plain in themselves, nor alike clear unto all. Yet those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed for salvation are so clearly propounded and opened in some place of Scripture or another that not only the learned, but the unlearned in a due use of ordinary means may attain to a sufficient understanding of them. Now this doctrine here in our Confession deals with how clear the Scriptures are to the people of God. And that whole doctrine is called perspicuity. If you are paying close attention to this paragraph, and as I mentioned, this whole doctrine, not just part of it, but the whole, has to do with perspicuity, then you would realize that perspicuity or transparency or clarity takes into account two things. One, clarity, and two, obscurity. One, clarity, and two, obscurity. So if you've never heard of the word obscure or obscurity, it just means less clear or not as clear. So just as if you have a glass that's half filled with water, half it's simultaneously filled and half empty. So that old adage, are you a glass half full or half empty person? You can just go down the drain, right? A glass halfway filled is both half filled and half empty. Likewise, with the Scriptures and the clarity of the Scriptures, insofar as parts of it are extremely clear and parts of it are not as clear, the perspicuity of the Scriptures actually encompasses two things. Both clarity and obscurity. Very clear and also some parts not as clear. I have a few observations from our tradition, from Peter van Maastricht, I can never pronounce his name correctly, van Maastricht, Francis Turretin, and William Whittaker. But before I get there, just know that this doctrine of perspicuity is a major battle in the Reformation. 16th century Rome so emphasized the obscurity or lack of ease of understanding of the Scriptures that they argue that if you don't have the pope and the magisterium, you can't interpret the Scriptures because if you did, you're not skilled enough to do so and you would most likely fall into various forms of heresy. Now, understand that there is a sense in which that is not false. It is very easy for people who just pick up the Bible on their own and refuse any kind of accountability to a church or Christian doctrine or any kind of wisdom from the past to easily err on the doctrine of the Trinity and the doctrine of Christ. It's so easy to do that. And I'm sure many of you may not have been previously accountable to a confession of faith before or a creed, and how often may you have discovered later on, oh, I said this in a certain way about God that was very wrong. It's very easy to do that. Okay, so let's come back to van Maastricht, Turretin, and Whittaker. Whittaker says this, perspicuity or obscurity, notice Whittaker didn't just assume that perspicuity is the same as clarity. He also thought of it in terms of hard to understand, obscurity. Perspicuity or obscurity is either internal or external. By internal, Whittaker means the heart of the interpreter. By external, he means the objective clarity of the scriptures. So if we go back to sana sana colita derana, right, sana sana colita derana is objectively clear. It's an objectively clear expression which calls someone to courage after having encountered a mini tragedy. But it may not be clear to everyone interpreting that because they may not know Spanish, or even if they knew how to translate words of Spanish to English, they still may not know how that particular idiom or expression or saying translates in English. More would have to be taught to them in order for them to understand that. So, in the same sense, the scriptures, the clarity of the scriptures are objectively and externally clear. But at the same time, it requires work and effort on the part of the one interpreting the scriptures to be able to assent or come to that clarity. What's very interesting is that this chapter in our confession doesn't even talk about the obscurity of the scriptures to non -believers. A small aside, it's very easy for us to communicate the gospel one time to a non -believer, send them off with a Bible and expect them to just read things on their own. In reality, we really should be thinking about evangelism more so in the context of the local church, bringing them to church to hear the ministry of the word of God in the presence of Christ. Why? Turton quotes 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 3. 2 Corinthians chapter 4 verse 3. He says this. But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing whose minds the God of this age has blinded, who do not believe lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God should shine on them. The scriptures were not meant to be clear to those who are perishing or even those necessarily yet who will be saved one day. It is nothing short of the ministry of the Holy Spirit that is a requirement for someone to receive the message of the gospel, commit it to their souls, and assent or believe outwardly the doctrines of the Lord Jesus Christ. He goes as far as to say that ordinarily the ministry of the church, sermons, and commentaries are necessary. And despite all of this, he still wants the Christian to have the comfort of reading the scriptures. The Reformers understood just like with Roman Catholicism does. That there are difficulties in the scriptures, yet they came to a different conclusion. The conclusion that they came to was though there are difficulties and though a Christian should be interpreting the scriptures in the context of the local church, not to be expectant that the minister teaches them how to interpret the Bible in the sermon and they're supposed to do everything on their own afterwards. This is a conjoined effort. The doctrine or the expectations of interpreting the scriptures to our souls is very much a joint effort. You have the responsibility of hearing the word of Christ from the minister of the gospel to interpret and apply it to your conscience. He has the responsibility of aiding you and lifting you on Jacob's ladder. Our confession points to various scripture passages on this point. I'll just read to you two examples. The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple and also the entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple. Meaning, the scriptures have in themselves a light to be given to the Christian. We are expected to come to the scriptures as if they are a light to us, a lamp unto our feet, a light unto our path. I've stated this before and I will state it once again. It is entirely possible for something to be written with sufficient clarity and yet, because the reader may lack the ability, he may not be able to fully understand it. And likewise, when speaking of the clarity of the scriptures, not everything is as equally clear. Not everything is as equally clear. I hope you're seeing where this lesson is going. Partly, it's a call to encouragement to receive the basic truths of the Christian faith from the scriptures with a willing and submissive attitude. But on the other part, it's a call to humility and to have very reasonable expectations of what you can accomplish apart from your local church. That is where things get very interesting for us. Roman Catholics have often, at least in the past, accused the Protestants on their doctrine of perspicuity, trying to portray the Protestants as those who believe that every part of the scriptures is so easy to understand that even a farmer can read every single part and understand it as in the same way that a trained and spiritual theologian can. This is not the view of the Reformers. It is not the view of the Reformers that without the ordinary means, which was referred to in our confession, that one may easily attain to the highest of the heights of the mysteries of sacred scripture. That is not the belief of the Reformers. For that matter, even our scriptures have something to say about that. Our confession alludes, let me go back a little bit, to 2 Peter 3 .16. Feel free to turn there if you like. 2 Peter 3 .16. I'm going to read from verse 14. Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless. And consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation, as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction as they do the rest of the scriptures. Some things in Paul are hard to understand for Peter. Now, this would be very interesting if Peter was, in fact, the first pope, and had very difficulty understanding the apostle Paul, and would proclaim the ability to be the vicar of Christ to the church, and to not have the ability to understand parts of Paul would be very problematic, to say the least. That being said, we cannot escape the reality that some parts of the scripture are hard to understand for people by design. By design. And we will get to that, as to why I say by design, in a little bit. Whitaker emphasizes a very balanced approach to understanding the degree to which we can understand the scriptures. He says this, the unlearned can have some fruit and utility in reading the scriptures. At the same time, he'll say this, not even one jot or tittle is clear without the internal light of the Holy Spirit. And in the interest of humility, he closes with this. A man must be impudent, who would say that he understood even any one book thoroughly, and the same hath ever been said of the opinion of all of us. Do you understand what he's saying there? It would be the height of arrogance for Whitaker for someone to say, I even fully understand one book of the Bible. The height of arrogance. And despite that, despite that strong language, Turton and Whitaker often appeal to the church fathers about the ways in which scripture can be understood, the scope of their understanding. I'll read this quote from Francis Turton. The fathers frequently acknowledge it, although they do not deny that the scriptures have their depths, which ought to excite the studious believers. Chrysostom says the scriptures are so proportioned that even the most ignorant can understand them if only they read them studiously. All necessary things are plain and straight and clear. Augustine says, in the clear declarations, the scriptures are to be found, all things pertaining to faith and practice. Irenaeus says the prophetic and evangelical scriptures are plain and unambiguous. Gregory, a pope, says the scriptures have in public nourishment for children as they serve in secret to strike the loftiest minds with wonder. Indeed, they are like a full and deep river in which the lamb may walk and the elephant may swim. I just find that fascinating. How Rome can simultaneously confess full continuity with the church fathers and not say that, at least in the essentials of the Christian faith, that a lay Christian cannot read and understand the script, I just find that so difficult to just wrestle with. Like, how can you say that you have a sense of continuity with the church fathers when the church fathers themselves say that, at least in the elemental and primary doctrines of the Christian faith, they are clearly propounded in the scriptures? You know what's interesting? The major debater in the Roman Catholic world during the Reformation was Cardinal Bellarmine. You've probably heard his name in the past, maybe even last week.
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AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
A highlight from AI Today Podcast: CPMAI in the Real World, Interview with Dr. Philipp Schlenkhoff, CPMAI
"The AI Today podcast, produced by Cognolytica, cuts through the hype and noise to identify what is really happening now in the world of artificial intelligence. Learn about emerging AI trends, technologies, and use cases from Cognolytica analysts and guest experts. Hello and welcome to the AI Today podcast. I'm your host, Kathleen Mulch. And as you can tell from my voice, I'm a little under the weather today. So I will be on today's podcast, but Ron might be doing a little bit more of the talking than me. Yeah, well, sorry to disappoint you. You're here for Kathleen to hear her more than 50%, but you know, she will still be here. You're going to hear her questions, but you know, I'm going to do my best to channel Kathleen's voice when she's not speaking. So I'm your host, Ron Schmelzer. And if you're listening to AI Today podcast for the first time, you should know that this is the place to go to hear all the great interviews and thoughts about what is happening with AI Today. And for those of you that follow AI, you know that every day is like a millennium. You know, here in AI, things just change so fast. And we have been in the midst of a lot of series of different podcast series on talking about different things about AI. Of course, generative AI is like the hot thing of the moment because it's everywhere and in every product. I think it's in a toothbrush I have now, generative AI. You can talk to your toothbrush. It's going to be everywhere. It is everywhere. So we have a generative AI series, but we also talk about AI failures. We have an AI failure series. We have a use case series. We have a trustworthy AI series. We have our glossary series, which actually is now starting to come to an end. I think we've gone through almost all the terms we can get to. But of course, we also have interviews with thought leaders and especially those who have gone the next level and certified in the CPMI methodology, which is a best practice for running AI projects. And on that note, we are really excited to have with us today Dr. Philip Schlenkopf, who is co -founder of the AI Transformation Institute and is CPMI certified. Welcome, Philip. Philip, thank you so much for joining us on AI Today. Thanks for having me, Ron. Great pleasure and quite an honor for me. We're really excited for today's interview. We'd like to start by having you introduce yourself to our listeners and tell them a little bit about your background and your current role. All right. First of all, sorry for my accent. I'm calling in from Berlin in Germany. And my way, how I found to AI is sort of a bit surprising because in the end, I started with business administration and studied that, went into corporate restructuring, went into consulting or that one, and then shifted further into the part of sales and learned that from the very beginning. And then after, you know, in a role managing director of a medium -sized company for which was owned for private equity, after a couple of years, I felt it was time for something new. So then I got to know via a business angel, Hans Utzgerreit, who is a professor at the German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, DFKY. The name might be familiar because his son actually was co -publishing the Google paper, Attention is All You Need, Jacob Utzgerreit. And I got to know him and he had a spin -off out of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, which was called Giants Technologies in the field of natural language understanding, relation extraction. And we were doing at that stage, some kind of corporate intelligence service. So I got to know him. I liked the idea. And so I invested into the company, led the company, and we did a lot of things to scale it, you know, having an architectural frame, which would actually do the job, setting up a sales team and doing sales and getting the first customers on board. And that went quite well. So we could sell the company after something like more or less a year to a strategic investor, which was very, very fortunate and very productive. And then I had to stay on board for the post -merger integration for quite a while, another year. And after that was kind of the question, what do we do now? What's generative AI? We saw early, we saw from the very beginning in our job to understand information that we could use transformers to help to get our precision up and our recall up. So that was actually great. And then, you know, then was the phase it was after November last year. And then was the question, what do we do? Do we build a product? And at that stage, our problem was that, you know, we couldn't find a lake, a market, which was not too big, that the big players would go into that market and crush you. And which wouldn't be too small, which could actually sort of, you know, still have where you can have a reasonably scalable business. And in the end, in the application layer, we didn't find the business case who would do the job because we thought, and we saw that, you know, this application layer was very thin. If it's so easy to set up a product based on API, then the problem is everyone can do it. And then the product actually sort of gets less important than the market access. And then we thought, you know, if the product gets less, export and less important than the market access, the market access in the end is the more important thing. And that for that market access, you don't find a startup because market access as a startup is very expensive. So in the end, our analysis led to the fact that in the end, generative AI and the boom which comes along it and all the transformation and change will be something for the existing companies who can just incorporate the solutions into their current offering. So having said that, our solution to that was, yeah, well, that will lead to a massive need for re -upskilling in the field of, well, actually for all professions, more or less. And that's why we founded the AI Transformation Institute where we do, you know, partly something like you do at Cognalytica, training people to better understand the technology and how to use it. And on the other hand, we do quite a few consulting jobs with customers on sort of helping them in their project to challenge them to go into the project management and eventually even take over some coding paths to help them to actually get their product onto the street. Yeah, in the past, I mean, that's fantastic, by the way, and hard for us to disagree with any of what you said, because you're right, AI is so transformational. And as you said, AI will be a core part of every product, right? Even things you would never have expected in the same way that the Internet and mobile have been so core transitional that just selling something general about we will make the Internet work, we'll make mobile work doesn't do anything for you because it's so core to everything. And I like how you think about market access. That's very, very interesting. But yeah, what you were saying about, you know, really trying to implement these for particular industries and particular applications, I think that's sort of the rub. We always are so surprised sometimes when we talk to people in major companies as we spend time, some of our interviews even here, folks who are unfortunate 1000, some of the biggest companies, and you think to yourself, they surely must be implementing, you know, AI at some advanced level. I mean, these are fortunate 1000 companies represent like what percentage of the global economy, like what 90? I don't even know what the percentage is the vast majority of the global economy. So you'd think that they would be well, well, well ahead. And then when you talk to them, you find it's actually the opposite. They're much farther behind in their AI. They tend they're not the leaders as much as the fast followers and the ones that can figure out how to apply AI to their problems. Those are the ones that get ahead, not just some AI experiment. So I don't want to ramble on and on about that, but it's hard to disagree with everything that you've said to that point and actually really sort of like, you know, my question kind of follows up on that. And that is sort of like the the challenges because people see the promises. They kind of get wrapped up in the hype. Maybe they even do some small AI projects. A lot of them are proof of concept that don't really find their way to any sort of long term use. So something kind of gets in the way. Right. So what do you see as some of these challenges in making AI projects work data, advanced analytics, any of that in that realm? Yeah, thanks for the question, Ron, because well, thank for what you said earlier, because that's something I've always thought that was only the case in German large corporates. Yeah, some of them are quite far ahead, but some of them, there's really not happening anything. And if you say it's the same in the U .S., then I'm a little bit relaxed from the European perspective. Yeah, but that's what we see in companies quite a lot. Yeah. That actually the C level is because of their age. Yeah. They're not that innovative. Yeah. They haven't fully understood the impact of the technology. And then sort of they talk to their CTO and the CTOs are maybe not that open towards the technology either. And they say, you have so many projects already in my pipeline. Yeah, I cannot prioritize that right now. And then you talk to the legal departments and those guys as well say, well, yeah, but there are a lot of and, you know, in Germany, you GDPR, you know, data regulation, we are sort of very cautious about all of that. And then the legal your legal team tells you, well, that's kind of, you know, everything is quite unsure and, you know, there's not real legislation, you know, and then sort of things get postponed and there's no active pressure to change that. I'm not talking about all the companies, but there are a few which go in that direction. And then the problem is sort of the grassroots thing works against it. Yeah. People use it anyway. And then exactly what then is happening, exactly what, you know, legal and the tech department wanted to avoid, you know, all the private and the customer data flowing into sort of some model by sort of the open, by the free version of the tools. And that's kind of a challenge. Yeah. So first of all, valid point, it's a top -down approach. Yeah. There needs to be an AI strategy in the companies and that needs to be sort of carefully thought through, always depending whether it's the core value creation process where which is being transformed or whether it's just a support function like sales or marketing, then you'd rather go for a tool option. But if your core value creation processes are going to be transformed, you need to think about something between using tools or maybe sort of build your own AI and that needs to be understood and then implemented. And as you said, you know, it cannot be some kind of a pilot which never goes into operation because then you don't have a success. And if you don't have a success, you will never really put money on it. So it needs to be, and that's something I really love about CPMI, you know, think big, start small, iterate often. It's so true in the projects, yeah, that you cannot tell that often enough. And I know you guys pronounce it a lot, but it's really true. It cannot be said, you know, enough.
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"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Dancic, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin conversation from Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Lynn Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohleit, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right, good morning to all of you Cafe Bitcoiners. It is Monday, November 13th, and you guys can probably hear my slack snapping off here. Let me mute that shit. Sorry about that. Monday, November 13th, 2023, and it is another awesome day. Looking forward to the week in Bitcoin. Once again, why are all these Bitcoiners so goddamn excited all the time? It's disgusting. What's wrong with you people? You know, I remember when you first started doing Spaces, Alex, and this is before I had extensive experience with Slack, and I could hear it going off all the time in the background. Every time we were having those Spaces discussions in the morning, I was just like, what in the hell are you picking up? My fault. My bad. Morning macro. Oh, sorry. How's it going, guys? I hope everybody had a good Veterans Day weekend, too, by the way. It was fantastic. I worked my ass off. That's all right, though. Good stuff. Good stuff. Good morning, Terrence. Bright and early. On a Monday at like 7 o 'clock in the morning. What's wrong with you people? Macro. Good morning, Peter. Good morning, Jacob. Shout -outs to Dr. Jeff, Joe Carlosari, in the audience. Obviously, we're throwing you guys invites, but you're welcome to just chill. Whatever. It's all good. So apparently, Bitcoin has taken a slight pause from its vertical acceleration and Bitcoiners are attacking each other once again. That didn't take long. Anyway, welcome to Cafe Bitcoin, episode 475. Shout -outs to our supporters on Fountain and Nosternes. By the way, when I say signal, I'm not trying to say it's just my signal. We're looking for the signal. Some people are like, eh, never let us on stage at Cafe Bitcoin. It's an opinion, all right? It's an opinion. It's an opinion. If I don't think your signal is that great, then maybe we might not let you on. I'm not sorry for that. Like we're here to provide signal. And yeah, it's a judgment call and yeah, you might think your signal is more important and that's fine. I'm not mad at that. I'm not even judging you. In fact, here's, Jacob and I were just talking about this earlier. I don't even disagree with you on many things. Some people are like, well, this issue is really important. You guys don't talk about it. It's like, it is really important. Totally agree with you, actually. What I don't agree with is complaining about stuff that you have no solution for, or if you're not building a solution for something. Like if you're building something and it's a solution, we will invite you on this stage and you can talk about it. But if all you're doing is whinging and complaining, like why are we going to waste everybody's time with that nonsense? Am I wrong? Am I out of line here? Serious question. No, you're not out of line and whinging is a good word. I think more people need to use it. Yeah, mewling. I love that word too, mewling, whinging, meh, meh, um, okay. Good morning, Mickey Koss. For today's show, we're going to talk about, apparently BlackRock is launching an Ethereum ETF, or they're applying to anyway. We're going to do a spot Bitcoin ETF approval update this week, maybe. And Joe Carlosari is welcome to come up here and give us his views on that. Otherwise we'll just read his tweets out loud. I got no shame with that. What else? Oh, ICBC, which is one of the largest banks in China, was apparently cyber ransomed last week. That's a thing. So maybe we'll talk about that a little bit. Here's an interesting little factoid. Every $6 ,313 move above $29 ,586 is a billion dollars for micro strategy. Wow. Well, indeed. But the naysayers are going to say every $3 ,360 move down is minus a billion dollars for micro strategy. I was just about to say, I could see the articles now as it drops from $100K to $95K, they'll be just, you know, slamming micro strategy. Meanwhile he's sitting there like up thousands of percent. It's completely absurd, but it'll continue. Just buy Berkshire Hathaway. It's better than Bitcoin. Anybody can buy it. Are you slamming Dear Point? No, I would never do that. Nate, you're so crystal clear this morning. You must be stationary and not driving anywhere. I'm using the updated desktop. They've improved it dramatically. And you aren't driving anywhere. That too. You can't raise your hand, but it is working pretty well. Okay. Question. Are you on Windows or Mac? I'm on Windows 10 or 11 and I forget what number it is. You can't raise your hand on Mac either. You can't raise your hand and can you do emojis? I can do a lot of emojis. A lot of emojis, wow. Like a thousand at a time, apparently. So are you retired now, Nate? For the most part, yeah. I love your story, man. For those of you who don't know, Nate's been hanging around, you know, he's been coming around Cafe Bitcoin for a couple of years now and back in the day, since it started and back in the day, back in them, Nate used to roll around as a, as a truck driver, if I understand correctly, saving his money, stacking sets, man, no, I, I, the reason I people double to check whatever wallet you plan on using and do never, ever, ever, ever enter your keys into a digital device that is connected to the internet. We've seen a string of new apps on these app stores like Apple and Google that pretend to be existing wallets that are only available on the desktop. They are not legit. There's a, there is a new string of them. This was brought to everybody's attention by Oscar P at O S C Pacey and there's a new Electrum wallet on the app store Electrum doesn't have a mobile app and there's all kinds of other apps Lumi, samurai wallet, Jack's Liberty, Jack's Liberty wallet management Phantom wallet of a protocol assets trade sparrow was spoofed the other day, these apps, there's no mobile app that you should be using with your seed phrases from any existing wallet that you're using that holds any significant amount of Bitcoin. If you happen to use a hot wallet, use a fresh, use a hot app, wallet, whatever. If you happen to use one of these devices, make sure you're using a brand new wallet that it has generated. And you're only going to use minimal amount of Bitcoin. If should you do it like if you're going to take cash and you're going out for the day, that amount of Bitcoin, not, not thousands and thousands of dollars or even your, your stack that these people are unscrupulous, they have the morals and they do not care. They want your Bitcoin. Please be careful. And even with sparrow, there are methods that you can verify that the app is legit. And I, I, I can put a link in the nest. I don't want to populate it yet, which it's cool with Alex. And super easy to do because I'm a boomer and I did it yesterday. Like super easy. It's a one, two, three, I think four steps. It involves your terminal and just copy and paste. Yeah. Yeah. There's, there's a, there's a path or an FAQ on how to do it on sparrow. Once, once you go to download it, it's how to verify right below it. So please take the time to learn. Um, yeah. And don't lose your Bitcoin.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "jacobs" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Is President Biden only running for the White House because President Trump is on the ballot. That is the question the president got last night at a closed -air fundraiser in Boston. According to reporters in the room the president said if Trump wasn't running I'm not sure I'd be running. After the event Mr. Biden was asked about his comments. Meanwhile the former president was on Fox News last night promising that if he's elected he won't be a dictator except for on his first day in office. He says you're not gonna be a dictator are you? I said no no no other one. than day We're closing the border and we're drilling drilling drilling. After that I'm not a dictator. The Biden campaign is downplaying recent polls that show that the president is trailing Mr. Trump in a head -to -head matchup. Meanwhile the shrinking field of Republican presidential hopefuls will gather on a debate stage tonight at the University of Alabama. It's the fourth Republican presidential debate this year. Former President Trump, the front -runner, is skipping it. The four candidates who will be on stage are Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. It starts at 8 and ear on will NewsNation. New this morning! I promise that you'll never find another like another win for the Washington and the re -release of two albums. She's now the first solo entertainer in decades to be chosen by Time. Time editor Sam Jacob explains why they went with Swift on
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from The Preeminence of Christ in Evangelism
"Corinthians chapter 1 and verse 17. Well, this verse, verse 17, is a Campbellite killer. But I'm not going to preach on that tonight, even though the part of me really wants to. Paul said, For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. But unto us which are saved it is the power of God. Verse 21, For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness, but unto them which are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. I want to preach tonight a message titled, The Preeminence of Christ in Evangelism. Paul the Apostle boldly proclaims that the primary function of his life and ministry was to preach the plain gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The personal work of the Lord Jesus Christ, especially as revealed in his perfect life, his sacrificial death, his burial and his glorious resurrection, would be the consistent theme of his preaching and his ministry. He said as much, Christ and Him crucified was the preeminent message in all of Paul's evangelistic endeavors. Look at chapter 2 and verse 1. And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling, and my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Now what does it mean when we assign preeminence to something? When I say the preeminence of Christ in our message, in our evangelism, what do I mean by that? Well, when we assign preeminence to something, we are saying that it is to be first in importance, rank and influence. It is to be above everything else, superior, peerless, supreme, the greatest and most noble of all missionaries in the Bible, consistently appointed men, women, boys and girls of every race, creed, and social position to the saving gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we should be committed to doing the same. I fear that much of modern day preaching that passes for evangelism does not assign preeminence to Christ and His finished work. Instead the focus has become so man -centered, it has devolved into a mere exercise of persuading someone to make a profession of faith. The focus is on getting a decision from that person, and as a result, religious assemblies all across the world, not just in America, but all across the world are filled with professors who responded to some psychological techniques and a promise of heaven. You don't want to go to hell, do you? No. You want to go to heaven, don't you? Yes. Well, just follow this simple formula. Follow these simple steps. Repeat after me. Embrace the formula of easy believism and voila! They are hastily assured of their eternal security. Do you really believe that exists? I've knocked on so many doors. I've visited house to house, found people who will tell me right to my face that they're saved. I said, well, tell me about it. Well, I went forward. When they had the invitation, I went forward. I shook the preacher's hand. He told me what to say and I said it. And I said, so are you faithfully serving the Lord? Are you attending church? Do you love the Lord? Well, I don't ever go to church. That's a huge problem. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new. When somebody is saved, their life changes forever. And that won't happen by merely repeating a formula. There has to be an inward work of grace in the heart. You're not saved by... You don't get people to be saved by psychological techniques. They're saved because God uses the gospel and the power of the Holy Spirit to bring men to an end of themselves and draw them invincibly where they desire to know Christ and the free pardon of sin. May God help us to see that we cannot, we must not trifle with or change the message or the methods that are prescribed in the Holy Book, in the Word of God, regarding evangelism. We are not to water down the claims of Christ and the gospel. We must proclaim it boldly, accurately, plainly. And praying that God would open hearts to receive the truth as it is in Jesus. The preeminence of Christ in our evangelism must be revealed, first of all, in the message that we preach. I'm going to tell you something. If you're wrong about the message, if you don't know and obey the gospel, if you don't understand, this is something you can't be wrong about and go to heaven. It's an impossibility. There are certain doctrines that you may not fully understand, but this is something you cannot be mistaken about because there's only one message of salvation. Paul emphatically states that the message of the gospel is centered around the cross. He's not talking about a piece of jewelry. It was an instrument of execution. It signified a horrific death. And the cross represents the death of Jesus Christ, His redemptive work for sinners, His suffering, His bearing our sins in His own body on the tree, His offering of His body and soul in order for us to be saved. The cross is a message of Christ's sacrifice that He offered Himself literally in the stead of His people. He, instead of me receiving all of the wrath of God, it fell upon His worthy head and body and soul. I'm the one that should have spent an eternity in the lake of fire, tormented day and night forever and ever. But while Jesus Christ was on the cross, He suffered the equivalent of what I would deserve in the lake of fire and not just for my sins, but for all that the Father gave Him, for all the way from Adam until the very last person is saved. Can you imagine the weight and the magnitude of that debt that He paid? But He did it with His life and His blood. His merits were offered. He died in the stead of His people acting as their surety, their substitute. You understand what a substitute is. It's someone who takes the place of another and assumes all of their obligations, all of their responsibilities. And that's what He did for me with regards to the law and the condemnation of God. He was my propitiation. He appeased the wrath of God on my behalf, and if you're saved, He did the same for you. You see, this message was considered by the world and by the elites and by the educated to be foolishness. To the Jews it was a stumbling block, and also to the unbelieving Jews and Gentiles. I'm going to tell you something. If lost people understand the gospel, then you're probably not preaching it right. Now, what I'm saying is this. Lost people, they want you to tell them, give me a little step -by -step formula, how to join the church, how to be a better person. We're telling them, here's the real issue here. You're wicked. You're broken. You're polluted with sin. Your only hope is to trust. You have no ability in and of yourself to save yourself. You're wretched. That's just not a popular message. But it's one that has to be preached. And then we tell men, women, boys and girls, don't look to yourself. Look outside of yourself. What did John the Baptist preach when he saw Jesus the first time? Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. The message was look to Him, trust Him, believe on Him. Not on yourself, not on your religion, not on your works. The message is all about Christ. He's the only Savior of sinners. And this message must be accurate. It must be biblically authentic and authoritative. It must be pure without the admixture of man's wisdom or supposed innovation. And he states it so clearly. You're not saved any other way than by faith in the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Nothing else qualifies. Here's what he said. I mean, I don't know how anybody can read 1 Corinthians 15 and not see what the truth is about this. Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel. By the way, there's not many gospels. There's not a gospel for different disciplines. There is one gospel. Which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand, by which also ye are saved. Delivered from the penalty, the power, and ultimately the presence of sin. That's the magnitude of this work that Christ did. You're saved. If you keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain, for I delivered unto you first of all, that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day, according to the Scriptures. It's according to the Word of God. This is our authority. this Look, was the message consistently preached by the early churches in the book of Acts. Think about the message of the book of Acts. You don't ever hear a preacher get up and say, God's done all He could do. I've done all I can do. Now it's all up to you to bow your head. They didn't even say, I've often thought about Noah, and he preached righteousness. And, you know, he was mocked, he was derided. But I don't think he ever put any bumper stickers on the ark that said, Smile, God loves you. I mean, he is warning people of the judgment to come. The wrath of God's about to be poured out. You need to get in the ark. There's only one door. Only one way. It's a serious matter. But let's look at just a couple of verses. Well, maybe more than a couple. But Acts 2, 23 and 24, it says, Him being delivered by the determinant counsel and foreknowledge of God ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain. Now didn't that sound just like something I was saying? You're wicked, you're guilty of the death of Christ, but he was crucified, he was slain, whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that he should be holding of it. And then the same chapter, Acts chapter 2 and verse 36, he says this, Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom you have crucified, both Lord and Christ. The message is all centered on the person and the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Look at chapter 3 and verse 13. The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his son Jesus, whom ye delivered up and denied him in the presence of Pilate when he was determined to let him go. But ye denied the Holy One in just and desired a murderer to be granted unto you and killed the Prince of Life whom God hath raised from the dead, whereof we are all witnesses, and his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know, yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. You see, Peter and John gave no credit to themselves. They were just pointing to the work of Christ. That was their mission. That was their message. It's all about Jesus Christ. Verse 19, repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "jacobs" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Studios in Friendship Heights you're listening to Washington's news traffic and weather station the WTOP producers desk is wired by IBEW W local 26 where electrical contractors come to grow good morning I'm Mark Lewis and I'm Michelle Bash Teddy Gelman is our producer and welcome CBS new special report Norman Lira TV writer producer and who brought social commentary to the small screen has died his masterpiece all in the family which aired for nine seasons in the 1970s 65 % of the people murdered in the last 10 were years killed by handguns would it make you feel any better little girl if they was pushed out of windows in an IBEW Lira explained we wanted to make an audience laugh and we also wanted to make them think another the Jefferson's about a prosperous black family in New York City and when you zip them up include your mouth it CBS is bill Whittaker asked did you plan to topple old taboos when you put these shows on the air when taboos to me you could hear anything we were saying on a schoolyard what was the surprise big TV's Norman Lear dead at the age of 101 CBS News special report I'm Deborah also new this morning Taylor Swift era shows no sign of ending Time magazine's editors have named her their 2023 person of the year editor Sam Jacobs telling NBC News today show it wasn't a tough pick we've seen in this year is someone who's finally comfortable in her skin I mean it's amazing this is only the fourth person of the year solo person of the year was born in the last 50 years she's 33 years old yet she's a 17 year veteran of this industry Swift this year has had months record -breaking success on her heiress tour the 12 -time Grammy winner beat out Barbie former President Donald Trump's prosecutors and Britain's recently coronated King Charles all three covers with Taylor Swift as the person of the year are available to view online physical copies of time hit newsstands December 15 and one of those photos appears to feature her cat search for answers continues this morning as officials try to piece together what led to house a major explosion and fire in Arlington on Monday we are learning more about 56 year old James Yu who police believe died in that blast in the past five years court records show James Yu filed for federal lawsuits and all were dismissed as frivolous in 2018 Yu sued his then wife younger sister in a hospital in New York where he said he was committed against his will he said he was surveilled harassed and threatened with a goal of inflicting emotional distress the 163 page suit that Yu filed himself included photos medical records receipts and an email he described as his will you denied any thoughts of suicide or prior depression but the judge threw out the suit saying the allegations are clearly the product of delusion or fantasy Neil Loikenstein TLP news now to the crisis in the Middle East and Israeli commander is calling today the heaviest day of fighting for his troops since ground operations began in Gaza CBS correspondent Chris Livesay has more from Jerusalem Israeli forces say they are now in the heart of Khan Yunis, city a they believe hosts many Hamas leaders as well as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians now left with vanishing options for safety rushed to
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Bull Run Activated? with Alex Stanczyk, Neil Jacobs, American Hodl, and the Caf Bitcoin Crew - November 9th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Dancic, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin conversation from Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Lynn Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohleit, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right, yes, yes, I know we're early, and you all probably know why, right? It's crazy. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Tomer. Jacob. Good morning. All right, anybody in the audience that wants to come up here and just start rapping about what's going on with the price, let's go. Request to come up. We'll bring you up. All right, I don't know who's watching this thing or not, but yeah, if you haven't seen it, we had a client last night, he called me at like, well, I should say he texted me at like 6 .30 in the evening, and I was prepping for Bitcoin Veterans, which we did last night with Preston Pish. By the way, you should check it out. It was a really great show. We had a lot of fun. Some great laughs, too, but anyway, so my client texted me, and he's like, hey, as long as we're around 35K, go ahead and buy with all the USD on my account. I'm like, I didn't see it because I'm prepping for this podcast, or I didn't see it till this morning. And then like 20 minutes or 30 minutes after he sent it, he goes, no, no, no, as long as it's under 36K. And then at some point last night, it busted through 36 and then busted right through 37, and here we are on our way to 38 right now. Pretty wild stuff.
BTV Simulcast
Fresh update on "jacobs" discussed on BTV Simulcast
"Conditions they as are, are you confident about the levels of CAPEX that would be required to continue investing in this project? no, Oh absolutely, no, it's a very good project and it's well down the road. Twenty -five years ago the ore was discovered and we have recently developed it very well. I was traveling to Guinea just four weeks ago and went out with helicopters and saw the good progress we are having. So we are basically at a point of sanction just subject to final approval by the authorities in China from our Chinese partners. You do expect that China will hit peak consumption steel sometime soon, so this is not entirely a bet just on China? No, well there's to a couple of say things around that. First of all, the rest of the world is growing and whereas China has been at what you call the peak level of steel consumption, you can see that India is now coming up the curve and they will need much, much more steel in the future as well. So, in aggregate, the world will be growing and don't forget, any mines, they are at some stage running out of iron ore, so you have to on keep investing in new replacement mines just to sustain the level of production. We are the world's largest producer of iron ore and as you would also have seen, we have just announced today a study of developing the road switch, we need to develop more in the Pilbara and we are developing Simandou. Are you looking at other assets at this point? Not in the iron ore area, are we trying to find a good balance between our leading business of iron ore and also being big, we are the western world's largest producer of aluminium and we have a strongly grown copper portfolio, so it's a matter of finding a good balanced it's the future. What is the future of China to you? Because obviously so much of that rashes appetite for iron ore for steel has been on the property market which is in the process of being delivered. Yes, it's always difficult to talk about an economy for the term long but of course the track record of the Chinese economy is pretty impressive and right now I've just been traveling around in China and I'm quite optimistic in a way the Chinese economy is growing. You're absolutely right, the property market has its challenges but then again China is spending more again on infrastructure and there are certain industries that are booming for example the automotive industry particularly the electrical demand. We attend to CEO Jacob Stossel speaking exclusively to Bloomberg. I want to move away from one corporate to an individual and this is out of the United Arab Emirates surrounding a high -profile tax case. This is Sanjay Shah who is a British national who is going to get extradited from the UAE to Denmark so now the final paperwork has been completed and that is going to basically initiate the process of his transfer. This is around the tax and fraud money laundering case according to the agency. Back in May Shah had lost an appeal over a 1 billion dollar tax bill. The decision is also in line with the applicable bilateral agreements This is what the news agency also adds. It will be interesting to see whether this is part of a larger trend to extradite of more the kinds of people who are evading some of the charges in their home countries. Anyway something to keep a close eye on. We still have much more to come of course on the program including our from coverage markets. This is Bloomberg and wherever your business takes you Bloomberg radio is here with you breaking economic news crossing the Bloomberg powered by 2 journalists ,700 and analysts. So let's get to some of the day's gainers. In more than 120 countries around the world. We are seeing a flatter picture for European stocks this morning. We're the only 24 -7 global business radio platform. The debate continues on the health of the US economy. Bloomberg radio the Bloomberg business app and Bloomberg radio .com. Context changes everything. From New York another day on Wall Street in fact records to London. UK businesses are feeling the effects of higher prices. To Kong. Hong The Hang Seng down about 1 .3 % right now. 24
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from "Fed Threatens to Sue Bitcoin Magazine" with Mark Goodwin, David Bailey, Shinobi and Chris Alaimo - November 8th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Dancic, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin conversation from Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Lynn Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohleit, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right, all right, well, Alex is still waiting to join us, so we're just going to, you know, play some shorts for a minute and then get rolling. Hold on a second. Hold on a second there, Jacob. All right, we're holding on for Peter. Was that a glitch in the matrix I noticed? Did that song like skip and then speed up, or was I imagining things? I think you're just imagining things. Maybe you had too much coffee. Well, that's unfortunate. Yeah, it's all right. It's all right. The people who have gold and silver's money can make more of that other money, but there's other people can't make more gold and silver at scale. They're like apex predators, they just dominate all the other money. Yeah, they're the lions of the of the community. It's been in the 1970s when gold went up in order of magnitude and price. If you look at the percent annual supply growth, you'd barely recognize that there was any change. You know, it's not like we started radically increasing our gold mining, at least on a percentage basis, because it's actually just it's fundamentally hard to do almost any price. It takes time for new techniques to kind of keep up with that. And there's like an ongoing difficulty adjustment, because, you know, people have been mining gold for thousands of years. And so they've already gotten a lot of easy surface deposits. And so now with all of our modern technology, we're kind of stuck with the deeper deposits. And so even as our technology gets better, you know, the low hanging fruits already picked. And so it's like this ongoing difficulty adjustment. That's why gold's been such a reliable story. Nature's difficulty adjustment is so hilarious. That's wild. Exactly what's going on.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from "Bitcoin's Purpose," SEC Hiring Woes, and Matt Hill with Start 9 - November 7th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Dancic, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Lynn Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohleit, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. What's up? More is up. What's up? What's up? That's ridiculous. Mike Terence with OneR, Jordan Tomer, Peter. We've got Jacob on the Pacific Bitcoin handle. However, he's doing best producer game things. He's doing, yeah, he's doing things. We've got Neil Jacobs on the Swan handle. Good morning to all you guys. Good morning, Mickey Koss. Good morning, and shout out to Lindsay Koss in the audience. I am throwing you an invite, young lady. If you want to come up here, you're welcome to do so. No obligation. We won't embarrass you. I promise. She's awesome. She's had several articles now published. And is it Bitcoin magazine? I think it's Bitcoin magazine. Alex, we know you're old, but Lindsay's the mother of three children. I think calling her a young lady is a little inappropriate. It's a compliment. Kiss my ass. Most gals are young ladies to me. It just is what it is, bro. Because Alex is old. I'm just glad that over the weekend with the Bitcoin Veterans handle, we had a space that kind of seemed like we maybe broke Lindsay into the comfortability of getting into spaces and getting into talking. So hopefully she engages more often. It's nice to hear from her and Mickey at the same time. How was the profanity in the space? I don't know. So probably pretty normal for us. Yeah, I didn't notice anything. So I guess it's probably pretty bad. But we got Lindsay to throw up the fist at the end there. It was awesome. Made it worth it. Yeah, I've been trying to encourage Mike to do some relationship -oriented spaces. I'd rather not. People need it though, man. There's so many confused people out there. I'm not sure. Yeah, we would probably get us in trouble. Completely off topic from Bitcoin. Alright, let's come back to Bitcoin. Welcome to Cafe Bitcoin. This is episode 471. Shout -outs to our supporters on Fountain and Noster Nests. Our mission for this show is to provide the signal in a sea of noise, teach the other 7 billion people on this planet why there's hope because of this bright orange future that we call Bitcoin today. We're going to be covering Bitcoin's purpose. is And this basically going to be opinions because nobody really gets to say what its purpose is. Satoshi had a white paper which states what Satoshi's purpose for Bitcoin is. But it's interesting how evolution and time and things like that. I mean, will Bitcoin change because of the people who continue to join it in concentric rings of adoption? I don't know. What do you think, Mike? I would say that Bitcoin does have a purpose in the sense that it provides an economic constant so you can accurately assess the economic viability and activity that's going on. It's like the analogy that I dropped in one of our recent episodes. The thing is episode 18 with regards to comparing it to if you were to constantly drift mercury into a thermometer and your AC is based on a thermometer. You're going to have an inaccurate reading. You're not going to understand why the system is not operating properly. So when you have something like Bitcoin that is not capable of being flippantly printed at the whims of whatever Federal Reserve governors or politicians want to do for government spending, you get a more accurate representation of what something is actually worth or what economic activity is actually doing.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Foolish Atheism (Partick, Glasgow Street Preaching)
"We read in God's holy and infallible words, from Psalm number 14, the word of God reads, to the chief physician, a psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, there is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand and seek God. They're all gone aside, they're all together become filthy. There is none that doeth good, no not one, of all the workers of iniquity, no knowledge, who eat of my people as they eat bread and call none upon the Lord. There were they in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous. He has shamed the council of the poor because the Lord is his refuge. Oh, that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion, when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice and Israel shall be glad. The people of Harvick become as believers in Jesus Christ to share this life -giving message. It is a life -giving message not because it comes from us, it is because it comes from the Lord Jesus Christ. It comes as revealed in the holy and infallible word, holy scripture. And in Psalm 14, it points out our nature. It points out and shows us that all have sinned short of the glory of God. It points out to all of us that it is a foolish thing to reject God. It is a foolish thing to say that there is no God. Psalm 14 verse 1, it says the fool hath said in his heart there is no God. Friends look around you, observe the creation, it has a creator. It has all the marks of a mighty and all -powerful God who made all these things, the sun, the moon and the stars, the clouds and all these good things that we enjoy have been made and ordained by almighty God. The heavens declare the glory of God and they show forth his handiwork that our friends all are without excuse. You look around you, you take a seat on a park bench, you know that somebody has made that. And friends as we look at the creation, at its beauty, its complexity, its order, we see that it has a creator, a wise, good, holy creator. And so it is a foolish thing as the psalmist tells us to say in our hearts that there is no God. That's what sin is friends. It's the rejecting of the rule of God. It's the rebellion against the rule of almighty God. It is saying no to God. And we would rather rule and reign over our own kingdoms rather than submit to holy God. That's resolved by nature. All of us have sinned. All of us fall short of the glory of God. And friends who come sharing a message, what's for the grace of God, so would you be there? You reckon me too would reject God as the psalmist is pointing out. The only way to have wisdom is by the mercy and the grace of God. The blue hat said in his heart there is no God, they are corrupt. That is us all. We have nothing made sinners but born in sin. We have all broken the law of God, born in Adam. And as soon as we come out of the womb, we are at war with God. We need the grace of God. They are corrupt. They have done a vulnerable work. There is none that do us good. Many of us think we're not that bad. Many of us when we look at the perfect righteous and holy standard of God we think, well I can't merit hell can I? But friends that's what we all deserve, myself included. The Christian realizes that by their own works they are corrupt. The Christian realizes that have broken the law of Almighty God. And recognizing their guilt, they see that they cannot save themselves. They deserve the wrath of God. But they can flee to the refuge and the salvation that is found in Jesus Christ alone. And so we come with this message that you too would see. Number one your sin. With number two that there is a Savior, a willing Savior who receives all that was found in Him and in Him alone the Lord Jesus who is the Christ. Because there's none good knowing that one. It says the Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that did understand and seek God. See friends none of us seek after God. There's none that do us good knowing that one that we may think well that sounds very extreme. It might even sound very harsh. But none of us by nature seek out after God. It is God who changes the sinner. Friends you need Christ and we pray that this day you would have eyes to see and ears to hear. Eyes to see your sin and to see a beauty in the Savior the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord looked down from heaven to see if there any that understand. Friends we call upon you to look to Jesus. But why do you need this Savior? What did Jesus do? Jesus who is through God and through men came into the sin cursed world. He suffered throughout his entire life the creator of heaven and earth. He assumed to himself a human nature and as one person through God and through men he suffered upon the cross bearing the wrath of God. It says in Isaiah 53 verse 10 get it please the Lord to bruise him. You see the Lord Jesus Christ took our penalty. He took our sin. He took the wrath of God. He was crushed, bruised for our iniquity so that whosoever looketh upon him shall not have to face eternal death. Friends we pray that you would see your need you would see this corruption in our in your hearts found in every human heart and see the perfect righteousness that Jesus offers to all who look to him and to him alone. Oh friends we pray that you would see this this day that you would see your need and seek after them by grace and by grace alone. They're all gonna sigh the psalmist right. They're all together become filthy. This is every single one. None escapes us. We've all broken the law of God. Part of the law of God says if you love the Lord to God with all your heart with all your mind with all your strength there's not one of us who has done that perfectly. Actually there's not one of us who has done it for any length of time all upon the face of the earth there is only one and that is the Lord Jesus Christ who perfectly loved his father in heaven. There's also the second great commandment to love your neighbor as yourself. And as you go through the commandments the fifth commandment to honor your father and your mother all the way down to thou shall not covet.
Elevation with Steven Furtick
A highlight from The Limp Wont Make You Late
"Hey, this is Steven Furtick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week. I hope you're blessed today. sitting with it all week, so I can't wait to get to it. So I'm not going to do any announcements. I'm just going to get right to it because I'm excited. We're going to revisit Genesis chapter 32. The scripture that I shared last week. We're going to jump in at verse 24. Some things that the Lord has been dealing with me about. And some things I believe he wants to assure you about. This will be a word of assurance for somebody today. Genesis chapter 32 verse 24. The Bible says so Jacob was left alone and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. The man said, let me go for this daybreak. But Jacob replied, I will not let you go unless you bless me. And I talked last week about the blessing of letting go. That sometimes it's not our strength, but our surrender that determines our ability to move forward in life. And specifically what Jacob was letting go of in this passage wasn't the man. It was letting go of a previous version of himself. Because watch this the man asked him. What's your name Jacob? He answered now. He had pretended to be his brother Esau and we'll talk about that in a moment. But now he's saying his own name. And when he said his own name verse 28, the man said your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome Jacob said, please tell me your name, but he replied. Why do you ask my name then he blessed him there. So Jacob called the place Tenniel saying it is because I saw God face to face and yet my life was spared last verse. I want to read key verse for today verse 31 Genesis chapter 32. The sun rose above him as he passed Tenniel and he was limping because of his hip. The sun rose above him as he passed Tenniel and he was limping because of his hip turn to your neighbor and say I've got good news. Tell him the limp won't make you late.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Evangelism and the Trinity
"Let's pray and ask God's blessing upon the preaching of his word. Father, we do come before the preaching of your word now. What a great blessing it is that we can have your word given to us in so many different ways. Lord, we hear it. We see it. And soon we will sense it, we will taste it, we will touch it. You surround us with so many great blessings, simple though they may be, simply water, bread and wine, and word, Lord, you use these simple elements to strengthen our faith, to point us towards our Savior Jesus Christ who is alive today in heaven. We pray you would do this through this sermon now, in Christ's name, amen. Well, Matthew chapter 28 verses 18 through 20, actually let's just begin in verse 16 and we'll go to the end. Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him, they worshipped him, but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go and therefore make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always to the end of the age. This ends the reading of the word of the Lord. So this week as I was preparing for our evening service and I was reflecting on us that we got to have a baptism today, our evening service, in the next couple weeks we're going to go over the question of how many persons are there in the Godhead? And as Christians we believe there are three persons. We do not just simply a singular person God, I mean he is one being in substance, but he is three persons. He's Father, Son and Holy Spirit as we hear in this text today. And as I was reflecting on this I thought, man, this is a great occasion. For a sermon on Matthew 28. But as I was thinking about it something interesting came across my mind of what happens in this passage. That here at the very outset of the Christian life is the name and the truth of the Trinity. Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In fact one of the most, if not the most, mysterious doctrines of the Christian faith is where we begin the Christian life. And so I'd like us to take a few moments to see what this means for us. And also that it has interesting implications, important implications for evangelism. That's precisely what Jesus is calling his eleven disciples here to go do. To evangelize not the nations. And how should we think about this? Well I'd like to point us in three different ways in this passage to what we see here. First that we receive a new name. And then what is that name that we receive? Secondly. And then lastly the benefits and calling of this name. We receive a new name. What that new name is. And the benefits and calling of this new name. So what does it mean to be baptized into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit? The first thing that you will notice here is that it's the word, the word for name is singular. Because it goes immediately after that and lists three people or three persons more properly. Father, Son and Holy Spirit. But it doesn't say baptize them into the names of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It says baptize them into the name. And this is where we begin to understand our doctrine of the Trinity. That there is one being, one God, one essence, one substance as our catechism says of who God is. There are not three different gods. There is one singular God. Come back this evening and worship in our evening service and you'll hear more about this. But there is one singular God. But we also have three names given to this God. And we see throughout scripture that there are three ways that God reveals himself. There are three persons that God has revealed himself. Three actors, if you will, in God. Three individual persons who do things. And in this we are receiving this three tripart name applied to ourselves. And so what does it mean to be baptized into this name, this one name of three different names, if you will? Well, as we just heard a moment ago, it means that we're identified as God's covenant people. We heard Acts chapter 2 verses 38 and 39 that this covenant is for God's people, for those who believe in him for their children and all who are far off. Now God is calling people not to come and join the nation of Israel and now he is saying no this word of our gospel is going out to the nations and call them to believe in faith in Jesus Christ. And as we saw in baptism, we're explicitly marked out as those who belong to God. In some ways, if you were here yesterday for the wedding ceremony of the Holmans, you got to see something interesting about a wedding ceremony is that a wife takes the name of her husband. It's like a wedding ceremony. But you're now in this, you're being incorporated into the family of God. You're being brought into his covenant as his child. And the Old Testament testifies to what it means to take the Lord's name. Isaiah chapter 44 says, this one will say, I am the Lord's. Another will call on the name of Jacob and another will write on his hand the Lord's and name himself by the name of Israel. That's what it means to have the name of God put upon you. It is identifying yourself with the Lord. It's the wife taking the name of her husband, identifying herself with her husband. She shares in all that belongs to him and she comes under his protection and care. This is a covenant ceremony. In the old covenant, you would make a covenant usually or most often with somebody who was more powerful than you, with a greater king. But God is the king making a covenant with us of protecting, of caring, of sharing all of his goodness, his benefits with us. And he is applying his name saying, you are now, you now belong to me. We belong in a covenant relationship with the Lord. And that's what's happening as God sends, as Jesus sends his disciples out into the world to apply this sign, to baptize them, to make them belong to the covenant that God has made. So we receive a name. That's the purpose of it. It's to show that we belong to the Lord. And some of that might already be understood by you, but it's important to establish this. But then what is this name that we receive? What is the name? Father, Son, and Holy Spirit? And like I said at the very beginning is that this is fascinating to me. And I hope it's fascinating to you that the very beginning of the Christian life is the most mysterious doctrine that we can conceive of. Three persons in one being, being applied to somebody at the very moment they are welcomed into the church. Jesus sets out the most profound mystery for his followers at the very beginning. And what's an implication of this is the importance of doctrine in the Christian life. If we begin with the doctrine of the Trinity, the most complex, the most mysterious doctrine, we must understand that we can't ignore doctrine as if it's not important for the Christian life. Too many Christians say, oh, we don't need to know doctrine. That's where people divide. That's where people fight. That's where people don't get along is when they talk about doctrine. And what Jesus is showing here is, no, doctrine begins at the very beginning of your Christian life. In fact, Father, Son, Holy Spirit is how you are identified. And it's essential as we grow as Christians to further and further understand this as best we can. So this is what is being called to as Christians. We are called to a doctrinal life as Christians who grow in our understanding. And as we see this, we grow in our understanding of how these names appear and what they do There's two particular places I'd like to point us to of how we can begin to understand this name, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. That what's happening here is actually in some ways a mirror of creation. You say, how in the world do you get that, Pastor Nate? Well, I'll get there. But in the beginning, God, Genesis chapter 1, created the heavens and the earth. In verse 2, the Spirit hovers over the waters. So we here have God, what we would refer to as the Father, creating all things, and the Spirit active in that work of creation, Father and Spirit. And then in the New Testament, the Apostle John tells us that also the Son was present there. This is John chapter 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. Then all things were made through him, through this Word. And without him was not anything that was made. And without him was not anything made that was made. So there at the very beginning, Father, Son, Holy Spirit active in creating and bringing into existence everything. So there we see the trifold God, or trifold persons of God, they're active at creation. But then another event that I will point to as showing forth a little bit more of this creative act of God is what's happening at Jesus' baptism. Mark chapter 1, verses 9 through 11 says, In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. Just as the Spirit hovered over the waters at creation now, the Spirit is hovering over Jesus Christ like a bird. And a voice came from heaven, You are my beloved Son. With You I am well pleased. Here we have the Son identified, we have the Spirit identified, and if there is a Son this must be the voice of the Father speaking, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit active in this moment of Jesus Christ being identified with the people of God. That ultimately he need to be identified with them truly in order for him to bear their sins. He must be one of them, he must represent all of them. And baptism is ultimately an act and a witness to both of those events. And it is those events coalescing into one. It is the act where God regenerates us. He brings us back to life from the dead. He is giving life where there is none. In creation God created everything out of nothing. There was no life, but he brought life into existence where there was none. And this is what he is doing in the baptism of Christ. Is that he is bringing life where there is none. Ultimately where he would bring it on the cross, pointing towards his work on the cross and resurrection. And then just so you know I'm not making this up, this is what our catechism says about our confession of faith says that baptism is to be unto him or her a sign and seal of the covenant of grace of his engrafting of Christ and his regeneration. Regeneration is simply to give new life where there is none. To regenerate something, to bring it back to life. And so we see Father, Son and Holy Spirit operative in both creation bringing life where there is none and doing this out all three of them at work again Father, Son and Holy Spirit as Jesus is baptised. And it is a witness to what God does in giving life. And this is where it relates to evangelism. This is how we get to evangelism. Now first off when we talk about evangelism our immediate feeling is we need to grow. It's like prayer. When somebody says do you pray and you obviously think well not as much as I ought to right. And they say well do you evangelise? Well not as much as I ought to. Evangelism is one of those things that we all want to grow in but it seems a bit of a struggle often. One pastor I read this week he talked about confession of sin and reading of Psalm 51 David's Psalm that he wrote after his great sin with Bathsheba and then killing her husband. And he said this one of the chief reasons we do not pray is because we don't know how to pray. He says we do not instinctually know how to pray. We do not instinctually instinctively know how to evangelise. We need to learn. And I believe that this tripart name of God given here, trifold name is a model for us. It is actually a framework for us to learn how to evangelise. There's two ways to do this or two things that I think are really helpful for us as we think about evangelism. There's what I say and many other reformed for throughout the generations have said is the law and the gospel and now also a Trinitarian framework. So you say okay what's my plan for evangelism? Here you go. The law and the gospel and the trinity. The Heidelberg Catechism puts it this way about law and gospel says how many things are necessary for you to know that this comfort that in this comfort the comfort of being united to Jesus Christ, that in this comfort you may live and die happily. What do you need to know? Three things. The first, how great my sin and misery is, second, how I am redeemed from all my sins and misery and third, how I am to be thankful to God for such redemption. And in this we hear the law and the gospel and then the calling that flows from this gospel. The law tell people that they're sinners, not fun business. Tell people that they are miserable without God. Without God in the world, without God in your life, you are lost in your sins and you have no hope. But then we tell them what God has done to save sinners, what God has done to rescue them and bring them into his kingdom. But as we tell this gospel there's a Trinitarian framework that we can set what God the Father has done. He sent his son to save sinners. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. We tell them what the son then does. God the Father sent his son to save us. What son the himself then does, being sent by the Father he came as a man like one of us to live perfectly for all of us who did not live perfectly, who failed in every way to keep God's commands. And not only did he live the perfect life that we needed, he paid the penalty for all the sins that we've committed. And then he gives us his eternal life, his righteous life for our sake, giving us his resurrection life. And then we tell them about what the Holy Spirit does. What God the Spirit does is then the Spirit comes into you as God applies all these benefits. He says, yes Jesus died on the cross but he died for you and he applies all these benefits to you. He comes and dwells in you. The third person of the Trinity dwelling inside of you. He takes the forgiveness that Christ accomplished and he applies it to you. So now you are one known as forgiven by God. He gives you faith so that you can know these benefits, believe in them and trust in them and rest in them. So that is this tripart name, the threefold name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit that refers to each person of him. And it is a calling for us as we evangelize that we are to go into all the world baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. And now the benefit and the calling. The benefit of this going into all the world is that the end of this passage, verse 20, teaching them all I command you and behold I am with you always to the end of the age. This is the great benefit of this calling as Christians. Not only has God called us into his family, baptizing us with his name, making us apart, setting us apart from the rest of the world, he has incorporated us and he makes this amazing promise to us, I am with you always. He has united us to himself, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Father, Son, Holy Spirit united to us in our whole lives. And because of that bond that is established between the Trinity, God cannot forsake us. We are surrounded in front of us, behind us, underneath us, above us, inside of us and outside of us, everywhere. We belong to Jesus Christ and to each person of the Trinity. He cannot forsake us because if God were to forsake us, he would be forsaking himself and it would undo the bond of God itself. You belong to him and Jesus Christ promises to you that I am with you always. But there is also a calling in this as we go into this world to evangelize. Now this phrase, I am with you always, shows up in an interesting place in scripture, in the book of Joshua. If you read the opening section of Joshua chapter 1, you'll hear this echoed in there. And it's interesting what's happening there versus what we see happening in Matthew chapter 28. Joshua, Moses' servant, who takes over as the leader of Israel right as they're about to enter the Promised Land. Moses dies and Joshua is appointed as the new leader in Israel to bring the people of Israel into the Promised Land, to go conquer it for the people of God. And Joshua is commissioning them to go in, to wipe out all the nations who are evil in there and that make this God's holy dwelling place. And then Joshua gives them this promise as they're about to go in. No man shall be able to stand, this is Joshua chapter 1 verse 5, no man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. This is God speaking. God says, just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you. And it's fascinating what is happening in that passage when we compare it with what's happening here. Joshua is sending all these people to go into the land of Israel to conquer it for the people of God, exhorting them to be courageous and not be afraid because God is with them. But what is Jesus doing here? He's not sending them into the land of Israel, this geographic place on the planet, to go conquer it, wiping out the nations that are there, the Romans. No, he does something quite different. He now turns it to the outside. Go into all the world, go into all the nations, go out. He does not send his people to conquer the land of Israel with the sword, now he puts that sword away because he has taken that sword in himself. And he gives his people a new weapon to go bring the nations in to God's kingdom. And he sends his disciples out from Jerusalem to all the nations as one who has already conquered all authority in heaven and earth has been given to me. Jesus has already conquered. And now he gives his church, his people of God, a new instrument. No longer the sword of judgment but the word of salvation. And we bring people into this kingdom not with a sword threatening them but with a word of gospel, a word of good news, a word of grace. That God is a God who saves sinners, that he has executed his judgment not against the world but against his son. Now that day is coming, the end of the age will come and all who do not repent of their sins will be judged. But this gospel is what is to go out. God's saying go into all the nations, make disciples of them, baptize them, teach them to observe all that I have commanded you. And the strength that we do that in now is like what was given to the people of Israel but it's far more. The strength we do that in now is that Jesus Christ is with us as we go into all the world and proclaim this gospel. That he is with us to the end of this age. Whether that is tomorrow or whether we die before that day comes. Jesus Christ is with us. So my hope for us today is to see that as we receive this name of Father, Son and Holy Spirit we belong to the Lord and he has united himself to us and now he sends us out into this world. Maybe we're not going to be evangelists, that is not very many people's calling in life but you certainly can't evangelize. You can tell people about Jesus. And the great promise that you have is regardless of how people respond to you, God is with you. He is with you always because he has shown you in your baptism. He has claimed you as his own and that is your hope as you go out into this life. So remember what Jesus Christ has done for you, uniting you to himself, giving you this beautiful sign of baptism that you can continually look back to as a sign of God's covenant with you, his promise to you and have hope as you go into this world and tell people about our Savior Jesus. Let's pray and ask God to bless us the word that we have heard preached. Lord, we do thank you for this word that we have from Matthew chapter 28. Lord, we pray that you would apply it to our hearts and make it fruitful in us that we would be those who would be bold and courageous, that we would not fear what this world throws at us but we would see ourselves as those marked out by you in our baptism and that we can give testimony and testify to the grace of God that you have shown to us in Jesus Christ. Give us the courage and strength we need. We pray this in the name of Christ. Amen.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from "Jerome Powell is Just as Confused by All the Different Data" + Michael Saylor Bullish on Bitcoin with the Caf Bitcoin Crew - November 2nd, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohleit, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. Good morning, all you Cafe Bitcoiners, Michelle up here, good morning, and first thing in the morning, Michelle, weekly, we got Mike Hobart, Dom Bay, Tomer, and producer Jacob. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Have fun staying apart, everyone. And apples. angry All righty then. Let's see. Welcome to Cafe Bitcoin. This is episode 468. Shout -outs to our supporters on Fountain and Nosternes. Our mission for this show is to provide the signal in a sea of noise, teaching the other seven billion people on this planet why there's hope because of this bright orange future that we call Bitcoin topics for today. We're going to be covering a little update on SPF. This trial is nearly complete. They're in closing comments now. There have been recent arrests of another shitcoin company, Unregistered Securities. We'll be covering that. Jerome Powell apparently doesn't know what to do. And then a little update on economic reality. So let's start with, oh, we don't have all the people here that need to hear this. So I'll come back to it. But let's start with the SPF thing. By the way, before I jump into that, is there anything you guys want to bring up that you think is important? How about Japan printing more money to fight inflation? And that makes a whole lot of sense. Well, it's just like just like it's I mean, California did the same thing. But a couple of months ago, like you don't fight inflation by putting more units of the of the currency out into the system. It's like the whole kind of like thermometer analogy that I dropped on Bitcoin veterans the other night. And you're not going to be able to assess the environment properly if you're just flooding the the entire environment with more units. It just doesn't make sense. It's only going to fuel it. It's going to make it worse. You know, there's a lot of people that would argue, well, but Japan's been doing this for two or three decades now and they're they're just fine. No rebuttal to that, Mike. Sorry, I know I was I was trying to get away from this fucking dog that keeps barking every morning. But like so like people that are saying that like Japan is just fine, it's like, OK, have you looked at the demographics? Have you looked at like how they're a lot worse? And like, in my opinion, that the US is they're ahead of the US is like all problems with like certain generations not being able to afford homes and like the cost of living and all this other stuff. Like, come on. Like, you could say that the system is still chugging along, but to say that they're just fine is not like the same thing. Yeah, the value of the yen has completely plummeted, and I feel like the people that make these arguments, you have the same arguments here in the US. They just categorically ignore the fact that the value of the currency is plummeting. I don't know how it short circuits my brain. I don't know how you can ignore that, but they do. It's the same argument here as it is there. It's the whole, well, it's not my problem situation, right? Paul Krugman is like the champion of this. Well, I'm not experiencing inflation, so clearly inflation doesn't exist at all. It's like, yeah, OK. All right, dude. These arguments, after you've studied Bitcoin for a while, these arguments start to sound really ridiculous. I'm reminded of this one. So we've got this guy. He might be in the audience right now. Wade, if you're here, shout outs to Wade Hook. He's in the Bitcoin Veterans Group, and he's very involved with Orange billing the state legislature of Alaska, and he wrote a letter to them that they responded to, and it was just the typical nonsense BS. And it's the same stuff every single time. It's quite ridiculous, actually. I feel like I should read it to you guys. I don't want to belabor it, but it's dumb. How about a couple of excerpts? Do it. All right, give me a moment. We all want to hear it now. Alex, while you find that, I want to reiterate your point. I think it's a really important point. It reminds me of my time in DC. I spent all these years in DC with these guys that I thought were so much smarter than me. They had worked on Wall Street and gone to Ivy League schools, and a lot of them work in economics and all this shit. And I remember not understanding all of it. I was like, well, I just work in tech, whatever. I don't understand the financial system. I make money. I pay my bills. And it's so interesting to me. People that are listening, don't let anyone tell you you're not smart enough to understand this because it's just bullshit. I think back, and I think to them trying to explain all these complex systems to me and being like, oh, I don't know. They must just be smarter than me. And now, fast forward 10, 20 years, you get into Bitcoin. You start understanding these systems and how they're actually intentionally designed to be complex and that it doesn't have to be that way. It's actually the most simple system, Bitcoin, that can solve all the problems. And so I guess the point really is just these people are not smarter than you. There's nothing that they know that you don't know. They just don't want you to understand it. It's like the Wizard of Oz, right, Michelle? If the dog pulls back the curtain, there's Terrence there pulling a bunch of levers and yelling into the thing. They're all humans. Hey, Michelle, do you think that it was because you were able to put in the work once you got to Bitcoin, whereas before you just weren't willing to put the work into trying to understand what they were telling you? I think to some extent, I definitely didn't make a lot of effort. I was like, oh, that's complicated. Let me just stay in my lane. I was working in big tech and I was like, tech and startups, that's my world. I don't care enough about that.
The MMQB NFL Podcast
A highlight from Raiders Fire McDaniels & Trade Deadline Moves
"The one thing we can never get more of is time. Or can we? This is Watson X Orchestrate. AI designed to multiply productivity by automating tasks. When you Watson X your business, you can build digital skills to help human resources spend less time generating offer letters, writing job recs, and managing schedules, and spend more time on humans. Let's create more time for your business with Watson X Orchestrate. Learn more at ibm .com slash orchestrate. IBM. Let's create. Tired of scrolling endlessly in search of the perfect holiday gifts? Look no further. CNN Underscored is your destination for holiday shopping. Our team of editors has carefully curated dozens of gift guides so you can find a special something for everyone on your list. Our holiday gift guides provide tailored recommendations for everyone from tech enthusiasts to pet lovers to help make your holiday shopping a breeze. Visit CNN Underscored .com today to discover the perfect gift to make this holiday season truly special. Happy shopping. Hello, everybody, and welcome into the MMQB podcast. I am Matt Verteram alongside Gilberto Manzano, as is the case every single Wednesday. And Gilberto, look, first things first. Here's the good news. We still have our jobs. The bad news is some people with the Raiders do not. Now, maybe if you're a Raiders fan, maybe that's not bad news. Maybe that's great news. I don't know. I'm not I'm not part of Raider nation. I would imagine that the frustrations at an all time high. You have covered the Raiders in the past as a Team Beat guy. They are now looking at Antonio Pierce as their interim head coach because Josh McDaniels is gone. Dave Ziegler gone as the general manager. And so we'll see who takes over that post eventually. This is not exactly new to the Raiders. This has been a revolving door, whether it was Jack Del Rio at one point, a head coach, or it was John Gruden or it was Tony Soprano or it was, I mean, on and on and on and on, you know, Mike Mayock at GM. And you can just keep filling in the names. None of them lasted that long. And so now the Raiders mid -season firing, of course, because it's happened with Gruden under different circumstances. Gruden, essentially, they had to move off of immediately. McDaniels are moving off of because he just flat can't coach. What are your thoughts on the Raiders and what happened essentially at like midnight for most of the country, these two out the door? Yeah, you know, I'll start there. It was like, I think, 10 p .m. on the West Coast. So, you know, I was still up trying to enjoy the last couple hours of Halloween. And Matt, I was watching the original Friday the 13th. I was carving a pumpkin. I had like maybe, you know, 50, you know, chocolate bars. You know, I was stuffed and I saw this from Adam Schefter. And I'm like, oh, okay. I was a little surprised. Mark Davis actually did it 25 games into the hiring of Josh McDaniels, which I think we all could say, yeah, it was a bad hiring a year and a half ago. But shocking that Mark Davis actually did it before the second year was over. And this guy, what, a month ago told a fan at SoFi Stadium, smart enough, smart enough, you can't fire Josh McDaniels. And all of a sudden you're the one that got smart enough. OK, I don't know. I have a lot of emotions about that, you know, the way it played out. But, you know, I wanted to give you my reaction about how I caught this on Halloween Eve. And I'm sure people on the East Coast, you're two hours ahead of me, Matt. So I don't know if you caught it right away, but a lot of people were sleeping and they woke up. So you probably like at midnight, OK, what the heck happened here? But I'll start there. I was just shocked that Mark Davis did it, but it was a right call. I Yeah, figured you'd do it after the season. But it's funny because I was assigned the Monday night game. And so the Raiders are playing the Lions and I'm sitting there and I'm thinking, like, what can I write about this game? I mean, the Lions are just rolling up and down the field. But like I've written about the Lions. I've been in a few of their games this year in person. I was like, look, there's not I feel like we're not learning anything about the Lions. They're a good team. And the Raiders are sitting there in Grappola, throwing for like 40 yards through three quarters and just hideous football. Adams is frustrated. McDaniels is just looking at his face like he knows the end might be near. And I said to our editor, John Bloom, I said, you know. How about I just write a piece that I just say they should fire McDaniels and just bench Garoppolo and be done with this? And we then both kind of agreed like, well, that's all right. You know, it's early. We'll pass on it, whatever. And we ended up not writing anything about the game because the game is kind of just a non story. And I was joking with John this morning. My God, we should have wrote that piece would have been the most prescient people in the country. I didn't think it was going to happen the next day. But I mean, what a what a just absolute tire fire. Look, Josh McDaniels. Is a terrible head coach, and he showed that in Denver, like he not only was bad in Denver, he ran guys out the door. You know, Jay Cutler gone, Brandon Marshall gone. Josh McDaniels from afar has the syndrome of being the smartest guy in the room. And he's not the smartest guy in the room. Not saying he can't be a coordinator. Had plenty of success as a coordinator with Brady. And I don't know if he could be a coordinator without Tom Brady. He had plenty of success with him. Josh McDaniels was a disaster in Denver. He quit on the Colts before he even got started with the Colts. And now you look at this Raiders tenure. They never got any traction. They blew a million big leads last year. They went six and 11 after making the playoffs. I might add the year prior. Runs their car out of town, runs Darren Waller out of town. Hunter Renfro is barely playing. And now you're sitting here in the three and five, and they're not even as good as a three and five record would indicate. They have not played well all year long. I just think the Raiders going forward here. It now becomes a matter of. How do you fix the process of finding the right guys? Because Mark Davis has not found the right guys over and over and over like this starts with him. You could fire the coach in the GM all you want. Mark Davis has been a failure of an owner since he took over for the late great Al Davis, of course, his father. That's where this thing starts. Like, does he bring in an outside firm to do these hirings? Because I think that's where this has to go at this point. He has proven he cannot make these hirings with any kind of success rate. Yeah, man, you know, I'm concerned about, you know, Mark Davis just, you know, being kind of a you know, he cares about what the public perception is. OK, what are they saying out there? And that's why he went off on that fan. And so if I say I'm saying smart enough and I'm like, why do you care? Let the guy just say whatever he has to say. And then you're the one running the show here. You know, you're the one has to make the smart decision for the team. And yes, he did the right call. Let him go. Josh McDaniel's. But his two last hirings, he wanted a big name. He wanted a big name with John Gruden. You already went down that road. You give the guy a 10 year contract like, you know, I think you want to make you want to make a splash. You're going to Las Vegas like that didn't sit right with me. And obviously that that went sideways for different reasons. And the same thing with Josh McDaniel's. You're going to get headlines regardless. Like, yeah, you know what happened with the Colts briefly with the handshake. And then you bail out and then what happened in Denver? Like these are all red flags for the guy. And you still go because you want to try to copy the picture away. That's the biggest thing right there, man. You can't copy something and try to replicate it. And that's kind of the worst way to do it, too. So, you know, and I'll say this about Josh McDaniel's, because, you know, I guess my rule and I get why you want to write that piece. But and I get what you guys decide is a little too soon, because it did feel a little too soon. But it was a right situation because Josh McDaniel's background is offense. And that is a horrendous offense. I think he's put out there. And reason number two, man, it was his guys. He finally said, you know what, Derek Carr, different regime. Let me get Jimmy G and I don't know what the story is about Jimmy G's being the number one, two or three option. Who cares? You picked them. You brought them in with Dave Ziegler and all these Patriot guys came in. And you're still that bad. Josh Jacobs was a reigning champion a year ago, and he's rushing for like two point four yards per carrier, something pretty bad. So that's your background. And the other the third point, Matt, you always need a scapegoat. And the defense has been playing pretty well. Patrick Graham cannot take the fall when his defense is actually producing. It's your office, your guys. So see you later. Yeah, I mean. I'm to the point with the Raiders. I'm thirty five. I know you're essentially the same age as me. They've sucked my entire life, say, for like three or four years with Rich Cannon. OK, and that's not that sounds like I'm just like taking some cheap shot out. My point is you got to do something differently. I mean, it's some juncture. You know, the Raiders have this weird pride about like who they are. That was great in the 70s and 80s. You there don't should be no pride in who you are now. You've been a losing friend. You've you've been the Lions for 30 years. You've been the Browns. That's who you've been. I mean, everybody talks about the Raiders like this is some unbelievable gold standard of a franchise. Yeah, it wasn't the 70s and 80s. It's not anymore. It hasn't been for a long time. I mean, they have not won a playoff game since the twenty two season. Two thousand and two. You're talking over 20 years now. And most of those years have been non -competitive. And you're now looking at this thing going, all right, look, you need a quarterback, you need a coach, you need a GM. That is that is a lot in a division where you're looking up at Patrick Mahomes and in a conference where you're looking up at not only Mahomes, but at Burrow and Allen and Lawrence and potentially the ascension of Tua and all these other guys. Lamar, right? And all these guys. They have miles to go, which leads me to this. I don't know how you feel about this. We haven't talked about this for a show. At the end of this season, I would trade Devante Adams and I would trade Max Crosby for as much draft capital as I could possibly get, because by the time they're really good, Adams isn't going to be there anymore. And by the time they're really good, I don't know what you're getting out of Max Crosby. Like those guys both fetch first rounders plus right now, maybe even multiple first rounders. Like if I'm them and I'm the GM there, man, I know it's going to be a rough couple of years. I get it. I would trade both those guys for the highest possible value I could get. Yeah. And you know, the concerning part about Mark Davis being so quick with the firing. Like, does he want like a quick fix? Like you think this roster is ready to win now? Yeah, you got Devante, Max Crosby and Josh Jacobs, three guys that are pretty good at the position, but you need a full teardown. Go get the draft picks like you mentioned, Matt. And, you know, and actually do a hiring where you're not trying to copy the old silver and black way or copy the Patriot way. Like find your own identity. Mark Davis, like, like it's been many years now, over a decade, your dad hasn't been around and you know, you can't copy things that you can't go with for the big name. You don't want to try to keep up with your, your, your owner friends and say, look at who I got here. And look how much money I'm getting on Las Vegas. Like the other bad thing too, like seeing the, the, the allegiance state of being taken over by the opposing fans. Like you're, you're the Raiders. You have fans all over your Raider nation. So even that part is really bad for where Mark Davis is doing. So like you mentioned, you know, hire somebody from the outside to help you out because you haven't been doing it right. Credit for owning your mistake and eating the money from the Gruden contract and now with Josh McDaniels, but enough with the copying, the quick fix, like I'm with you a hundred percent tear down this roster. Like, like yesterday, what are the Broncos doing? Keeping all these players, like go get the draft picks and do a full rebuild. So a lot of heads crashing moves. It's weird. Like the dovetail on the Bronx, that's actually a perfect segue into this, this next topic we're going to have here last. I'll say on the Raiders by the way, and all these things enough with the Patriot way, you know what the Patriot way was? It was Belichick and Brady. That's the Patriot way. So unless you're, you're turning back time, 20 years, it's not going to work. The Broncos though, you know, we want to talk about the NFL trade deadline, which of course was on Tuesday, winners and losers go. You did a great piece, man. I'm breaking that all down. I encourage people to check that out. I agree with you. Just about everything you wrote. It was excellent. Um, I sat there and thought the same thing you just said about Denver. What is the point of keeping all these guys like, do they think because they beat the chiefs in that game, that they're a contending team now? I mean, I don't know if, let me save everybody to suspense and drama. I sat through every snap of that football game. If you told me the chiefs had money on Denver, I'd be like, that makes sense. I could see that that was the worst game I've seen them play in the Mahomes era. And I'm not trying to gain away from Denver, but I'm going to be honest. That was not because Denver was some juggernaut in that football game. The Broncos went an average of 33 yards per touchdown drive.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Learning Evangelism from the Master
"Alright, John chapter 4 here this morning, John chapter 4, John chapter 4. I'm going to introduce this lesson this way. You've heard me say many times I'm not a big fan of the modern day soul winning manuals and all that kind of stuff because literally those are man -made philosophies because you know if it's a bunch of man's ideas with very little scripture mentioned then obviously it's man's ideas. Related to that, repeat this prayer after me, but the sayings, the statements that are made in relation to this, invite Jesus into your heart. Can you show me where to find that? Give your heart to Christ. They can't give their heart to Christ until they become a believer. Make a decision for Christ. That's for believers, not the unsaved. Surrender your life to Christ. Make a commitment to Christ. Those are all things that are extra biblical statements and what I don't understand about that is we have examples of Jesus Christ, the apostle Paul, all that in scripture showing us how they reach people with the gospel. So one of them for us to take a look at here today is the master evangelist. I think Jesus Christ is probably the best one we can learn on how to present the gospel. Notice John chapter 4 verses 1 and following again, just to pick up where we left off. When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples. Notice he left Judea and departed again into Galilee. Last time we saw that Jesus left Judea when John the Baptist was arrested. So obviously he's making sure the timing of his heavenly father is followed in relation to that. But notice it says here, he must needs go through Samaria. Obviously to seek the woman of Samaria and the others who would believe, but when you think about this also, it says he must needs go through Samaria. There are actually Jews that would actually go around Samaria, Jews from the southern kingdom of Judea. They would actually go around Samaria so they wouldn't have to go through there. Well Jesus did not avoid that, but it says here, then cometh you to a city of Samaria. Of course, remember Samaria is the old northern kingdom of Israel, which is called Sychar near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now why did the Jews despise the Samaritans so much? When we understand the history of the Samaritans in 721 BC, Samaria was conquered by Assyria. Well the king of Assyria actually repopulated Samaria with other nations, and of course then they intermarried with the remnant of the Jews that were left there, and so literally the Jews would consider the Samaritans to be half -breeds or whatever, so there was a prejudice against them. Notice in the context again that Jacob's well was there, Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well, and it was about the sixth hour, the sixth hour would be noon, again six o 'clock on is when the day was tallied. But notice it says here, first of all, as far as learning from the example of Jesus, secure attention with a common interest. Notice there cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water, Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. Well obviously he's going to get her attention, but says for his disciples were gone away into the city to buy meat. Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou being a Jew askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria, for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans? So first of all, secure attention with a common interest, and I really believe that it's important to do that as you start to establish a common interest, but notice then also he's answering objections. Let's look at 1 Peter chapter 3, this verse just came to mind actually, 1 Peter chapter 3.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Beginner Q&A with Tomer Strolight and the Caf Bitcoin Crew - October 30th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohleit, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right, all right. Good morning to all of you Cafe Bitcoiners. It is Monday, October 30th, and it's going to be Halloween tomorrow night. A bunch of people probably did their Halloween stuff over the weekend. There was a bunch of parties and whatever. Anyway, good morning, guys. Good morning, Aunt, Peter, Mickey, Dambe, and gals out there, Tomer, Producer Jacob. By the way, Producer Jacob said that he's thinking about mixing up the intro songs and mix and all that. If you have ideas, if you have songs that you would like to hear played in the morning as we intro the show, everybody sends your request to Producer Jacob. He's going to love me for saying that. What's going on, Aunt? I'm freezing. Are you really? What's the temperature? I don't know, probably like 60 or 50, but that's really cold for Houston. We got problems, Alex. What is this wee shit? Well, Kramer tweeted out yesterday that World War III ain't happening. Why can't everyone just chill? And if the inverse Kramer index is correct, we're in trouble. Oh, yeah. I'm not a big fan of war anymore. I mean, I'm a prior military, but I can tell you from my experience, it don't help much. And it wastes a lot of resources and lives. I saw this thing the other day. I think it was Poso was retweeting something and he was like, wow. You know, people, the Pentagon is basically complaining about the fact that we're low on ammo and bombs and all this other shit and we're expending it all in these foreign wars. And I'm like, bro, who stands to gain from war? Who stands to gain the most? If you are one of these people who own a lot of shares and Lockheed or whatever company is part of the military industrial complex that is building those cruise missiles and the bombs and all that other kind of stuff, and they use it up and it has to be replaced, I guess you're doing okay. You know, I don't know if you guys have heard the name of this dude, but I believe his name, if I'm not saying incorrectly, is M. Shell Meyer Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking empire. And I'm going to paraphrase him, but he basically said that the best customer in the world is a nation at war. I don't know. Huey Bono, man. Fight by war, not wars. Destroy power, not people. Well, I mean, one thing you can do is people are like, some people are like, well, what are you going to do about that? Like you can't change it. Really? Really? What if you took your capital out of the Fiat system and you put it into a different system that they cannot use to fuel these endless wars? What if you did that? What if everybody did that? Quoting tip NZ track right there, that's a quote straight out of the intro track. man. Yeah, I don't know. It's time. Feels like it's time. A lot of lizard activity going on lately with all of this, uh, you know, stuff with thin sand, et cetera. We did a bunch of stuff about that last week, but I mean, it's, it's an ongoing thing and will continue to be an ongoing thing. Some people are like, well, yeah, they should know everything about what you're doing. I'm not one of those people. I don't agree with that. I mean, that's bullshit. I think, I think government was created. Government actually exists. If you want to go back to first principles stuff, government exists because of people's desire for protection of private property and persons. That's where it comes from. It's an extension of that. And when it becomes perverted and bastardized and warped, then it starts to do things that you as an individual citizen can't do without being called a criminal. That's how you know it's broken and it's gone far beyond its original mandate. I'm talking about, well, the U S in particular, but many forms of government were, were meant to be that way. It's an extension of, of personal protection and private property. You know, Alex, I wanted to piggyback off that statement you just made with like taking money out of the Fiat system to, to fight like war propagation. Just consider like the, cause like most people think, uh, speaking in hyperbole generalization here, obviously, but most people think that they like to your, your point that they like, well, what can we do about like the system? Just like consider a small, like what a small movement or a small action across a large populace is capable of doing. Like if, if there's like what, 350 million people in the United States, if, if you were to remove $1 per person, that would just be $350 million taken out of like the Fiat system and put into Bitcoin, that's like basically acting as a, uh, as a, uh, protest against the system. Right. Like if we could, like, that's the point of getting like adoption kind of like to, to carry off and to take off like wildfire. Like if we could have a system where people or anybody was capable of just like buying a dollars worth of Bitcoin a day, like that would be, that would be like a, a monumental power shift. I think that would scare the system entirely between like the politicians and Lockheed Martin and all these different contractors. And like, it's, it's in a pretty powerful message in my opinion.
Elevation with Steven Furtick
A highlight from The Blessing Of Letting Go
"Hey, this is Steven Furtick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. I do want to just take a moment and say to each and every one of you that I don't wear a red hoodie for just anything. It's fall season, holiday season. God is going to give us a very strong end to this year. How many are believing for that? How many have got some catching up to do because it has been a really weird year so far? We're going to believe, God, that every blessing you haven't received that you're supposed to receive this year, God would compress it into these next few weeks for you. I'm believing that he's going to give you supernatural guidance, his wisdom, his reflexes, his response. In fact, that's what I want to preach about today. I want to preach about the blessing God wants to give you. Sometimes these things do come in unexpected ways, so prepare for it. Just tell your neighbor, real quick, get ready for it. Get ready for it. I want to share some time with you today in Genesis, chapter 32, and remain standing for the reading of God's Word, greeting to all of our campuses and our epham around the world. Let's thank God for all who are joining us today, that they would receive the flow of this anointing right where they are. Come on, Elevation Valentine. Put those hands together. Let's welcome our worldwide epham. Genesis, chapter 32. I had a hard time deciding how much of this to read to you, but I decided that we should go from at least verse 7, so buckle in. This passage of Scripture, wow! It's really for those of you who are wrestling with something. You've been struggling because you're wrestling. You've been struggling to rest in what you have and who you are because of what you're wrestling with. That's who I'm preaching to today. Genesis, chapter 32, verse 7. The Bible says, In great fear and distress Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups, and the flocks and herds and camels as well. He thought if Esau comes and attacks one group, the group that is left may escape. For everybody who is kind of a control freak, you can relate to this. You start making all of these plans and backup plans for your backup plans and all of these ways that you start working it out, but Jacob is doing that because it said in verse 8, that he thought Esau was coming to attack him, his brother. But look at verse 9. This is kind of a turning point in the passage. Then Jacob prayed. Verse 8, he thought. Verse 9, then Jacob prayed. The Devil shouldn't have let you get here today, because he has had you in your head and you've been thinking about the attack. But the moment that you started praising God today and lifted your eyes to him, come on, I declare a level change in your situation. Then Jacob prayed, O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, Lord, you who said to me, go back to your country and your relatives and I will make you prosper. I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness. You have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps. Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he will come and attack me and also the mothers with their children. But you have said, I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted. He spent the night there, and from what he had with him, he selected a gift for his brother Esau. I'm going to read you the whole list just so you can see how blessed Jacob was. Two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls. This old boy is doing pretty good. He said a few verses ago, I started with just a staff. Look what God gave him. And twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. He put them in the care of his servants, each herd by itself, and said to his servants, Go ahead of me and keep some space between the herds. He instructed the one in the lead. When my brother Esau meets with you and asks, Who do these belong to and where are you going? Who owns all these animals in front of you? Then you are to say, They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau, and he is coming behind us. He also instructed the second and the third and all the others who followed the herds. He's covering all his bases for this thing that he's got to deal with the next day. You are to say the same thing to Esau when you meet him, and be sure to say your servant Jacob is coming behind us, for he thought, I'll pacify him with these gifts I'm sending on ahead. Later, when I see him, perhaps he will receive me. So Jacob's gifts went on ahead of him, but he himself spent the night in the camp. That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons. That would keep you up all night. All of it. The eleven sons, the two wives, all of it. That would give me indigestion and insomnia.
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A highlight from Jesus Evangelizes a Woman
"In chapter 4 will be in chapter 4 number of weeks I'm not sure how many at this point well it will be in chapter 4 maybe a couple of months there's a lot here we did take a good bit of time looking at the discussion that Jesus had with Nicodemus and now we'll be taking a look at a discussion with the woman of Samaria so John chapter 4 the first 10 verses are our focus for this morning but I'll read through verse 26 here God's holy word now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John although Jesus himself did not baptize but only his disciples he left Judea and departed again for Galilee and he had to pass through Samaria so he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph Jacob's well was there so Jesus wearied as he was from his journey was sitting beside the well it was about the sixth hour a woman from Samaria came to draw water Jesus said to her give me a drink for his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food the Samaritan woman said to him how is it that you a Jew ask for a drink from me a woman of Samaria for Jews have no dealings with Samaritans Jesus answered her if you knew the gift of God and who it is is saying to you give me a drink you would have asked him and he would have given you living water the woman said to him sir you have nothing to draw water with and the well is deep where do you get that living water are you greater than our father Jacob he gave us the well and drank from it himself as did his sons and his livestock Jesus said to her everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again the water that I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life the woman said to him sir give me this water so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water Jesus said to her go call your husband and come here the woman answered him I have no husband Jesus said to her you are right in saying I have no husband for you have had five husbands and the one you now have is not your husband what you have said is true the woman said to him sir I perceive that you are a prophet our fathers worship on this mountain but you say that Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship Jesus said to her woman believe me the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the father you worship what you do not know we worship what we know for salvation is from the Jews but the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the father in spirit and truth for the father is seeking such people to worship him God is a spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth the woman said to him I know that the Messiah is coming who is called Christ when he comes he will tell us all things Jesus said to her I who speak to you am he thus far the reading of God's holy word the grass withers the flower fails but the word of our God endures forever let's pray for God's blessing our father we do thank you for the word and we thank you that you've sent your son into the world who is the living word and who is the life giving water and so father grant us your blessing now as your word has been read and as it is to be proclaimed we pray that we would hear and understand what you have for us and so father may that word work in us we pray it in Jesus name amen congregation of the Lord Jesus Christ one of the great things about the Gospel of John is how it records various encounters that Jesus had with different people in chapter three we spent time looking at the encounter and the discussion that Jesus had with Nicodemus now we know that Nicodemus was a Jew and not only was he a Jew but he was a ruler of the Jews he was a member of the he Sanhedrin was the type of person that most people in that day would have been looking up to he was considered then by his peers an honorable and a respectable person he thought of himself as good as pleasing to God but you remember what Jesus told him Nicodemus you must be born again in other words Nicodemus couldn't approach God on the basis of his own obedience and Jesus told him as well that the son of man must be lifted up on a cross and now as we get into chapter four we get to listen to a conversation now that Jesus has with a Samaritan but not just a Samaritan a Samaritan woman and not just a Samaritan woman but a Samaritan woman with a reputation for sexual immorality her community knew her as such and so three things about her she was a Samaritan she was a woman she was a Samaritan and she was a sexually immoral Samaritan woman and so what we really have here in chapters three and four is an incredible contrast between a respectable religious man and an outcast with a bad reputation that she did earn for herself James Boyce said if Nicodemus is an example of the truth that no one can rise so high as to be above salvation this woman is an example of the truth that no one can sink too low you see isn't it interesting two diversely different people both in desperate need of the gospel of Jesus Christ and so what else do we see in our chapter here well remember what we read in chapter three right the most famous passage perhaps in the Bible John three sixteen and seventeen for God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life for God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through him and so John puts these discourses together side by side to show us that all people need the gospel to show us that Jesus is not the savior of the Jews only salvation is possible and it's needed for all types of people Jesus came to save all types of people right he came for the world and so in chapter four we see Jesus evangelize a Samaritan woman of ill repute and through her really a whole village and so we see Jesus the evangelist and Jesus the savior indeed of the world three things that we're looking at this morning first of all then a divinely appointed meeting secondly we'll talk about loving the outsider and finally we'll talk about communicating the gospel and really that point we're gonna continue to build on next Lord's Day as well and so the first thing that we see this morning is a divinely appointed meeting it wasn't an accident it wasn't by chance that Jesus met up with this Samaritan woman at the well this was the plan of God here we see Jesus the evangelist going to bring the gospel to this woman and again not just to her but to her village Jesus had a plan Jesus went there with a purpose he was going to save lost sheep and so first four verses of John four again now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John although Jesus himself did not baptize but only his disciples he left Judea and departed again for Galilee and he had to pass through Samaria Jesus through his disciples was baptizing people and he was getting more disciples than even and John when word gets the Pharisees about this Jesus determined to go to Galilee and verse four specifically tells us that he had to pass through Samaria now the question for us to ask is why did he have to pass through Samaria some would argue that the point here is that this was the most convenient most direct route however the Jews chose to go trying to avoid Samaritans usually went around Samaria but I'm convinced that the reason Jesus had to go through Samaria is because of precisely what we learned in chapter three Jesus is not merely the savior of the Jews so he had to go through Samaria he's a savior of Samaritans as well God gave his son not merely for the Jews God gave his son for the world Jesus is the one and only savior he's not merely for the Jews so why did Jesus go to Samaria because this Samaritan woman was one of his own and not just she but many in her village he was going to bring the gospel and he was going to save so Jesus passed through Samaria because he had to to meet up with that woman because that was his plan because he came to save he passed through Samaria not merely because it was a convenient route he could have gone another way like the Jews usually did he passed through Samaria for the sake of the gospel for the sake of loving and outcast people and for sake of loving and outcast woman that others would avoid and so verse five says Jesus came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph when Jacob gave his patriarchal blessing to his sons he mentioned this place in Genesis 48 this was a very historically significant place because Jacob's well as we see was there and interestingly after two thousand years after Jacob dug the well it was still there providing water even for Jesus weary from his journey Jesus sat by the well. Now verse six tells us that this was about the sixth hour and that's important for us to take a mental note of that now what's the sixth hour now we might be tempted to say six a .m. right well they kind of did their timekeeping different than us the day started at about six a .m.
The Breakdown
A highlight from The SEC Drops the Ripple Case: How Big A Deal Is This?
"Most of the crypto industry kind of is at the point of just a plague on all your houses. Burn it to the ground and let something new be built in its stead. There is not a lot of sympathy or compassion or patience left among regular crypto industry participants for all of these people who ended up causing such catastrophic destruction. Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Friday, October 20th, and today we are talking about the SEC dropping the Ripple case and the New York attorney general suing DCG. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review. Or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Well, friends, there is some serious excitement to close out this week. And no, I'm not even talking about JP Morgan's report that an ETF is likely to be approved in the next few months or Bitcoin's morning rally up above thirty thousand dollars. What I'm talking about, or at least where we want to start, is with the SEC dropping the Ripple case. Specifically, the SEC will no longer pursue allegations against Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and executive chairman Chris Larsen. The pair had been named as additional defendants in the Ripple lawsuit, with the SEC alleging that they had aided and abetted the company in violating securities laws. The issue was the sole outstanding matter in the Ripple case after the judge ruled that this part of the lawsuit should continue to a full trial due to disputed facts. Other matters were decided back in July, with the judge finding that public sales of XRP tokens on exchanges, as well as distributions to staff and subcontractors, did not constitute the sale of unregistered securities. Now, the court did hold that sales of XRP tokens to institutional investors did satisfy the Howey test and were, therefore, considered sales of unregistered securities. The SEC's Thursday filing said that the regulator would continue to pursue its claims against the company. Earlier this month, the court ruled that the SEC could not put forward an appeal of the Ripple decision until all outstanding matters were resolved. Now that next April's trial has been vacated, the path is cleared for an imminent SEC appeal of the decisions which went against them in July. Ripple, for their part, is treating this decision to abandon further claims as another small in their ongoing battle with the SEC. A press release from the company characterized the actions as a surrender. Garlinghouse said in a statement, For nearly three years, Chris and I have been the subject of baseless allegations from a rogue regulator with a political agenda. Instead of looking for the criminals stealing customer funds on offshore exchanges that were courting political favor, the SEC went after the good guys. He added, We look forward to the day this chapter is closed once and for all, now that the SEC has dropped the curtain on their absurd theatrics against Chris and me. Larsen said, Indeed, he went on and called the SEC's lawsuit, As well as dealing with an anticipated appeal, Ripple will also now need to pay penalties for their illegal sales of XRP tokens to institutional investors. The SEC filing said that the parties plan to meet in order to negotiate a settlement. They will set out a briefing schedule in November to proceed on a contested basis if no agreement is reached. This appears on the face of it to be a very good thing. And that may be true, but it's also maybe not the thing that it initially seems. Catherine Kirkpatrick, the chief legal officer at CBOE, wrote, This means they can proceed to appeal the Ripple decision much sooner. Otherwise, they would have had to wait until the conclusion of that trial in late spring. Gabriel Shapiro from Delphi Digital says, Now, once this interpretation got out, that the SEC was so focused on wanting to appeal the other part of the decision that they were willing to drop the charges against the execs, some people started to point out that that also seemed a little nuts. Alliance Dow's Jason Franek wrote, This is insane if true. It's equivalent to the SEC saying that either A. The exec lawsuit was weak or even frivolous or B. We think the execs broke the law, but we don't care. We'd much rather rush to appeal so we can crush the crypto industry at large. If the latter, it's emblematic of how a regulator at war with an industry would behave. Mike Vafchak, also of Alliance Dow, said, They have abandoned any pretense of neutrality. They don't give an F. Of course, that's not what the Ripple execs did. They are not bad actors. But that's what the SEC claims they did, what they argued in court, what they said before Congress. They don't care about protecting investors. They don't care about you. They care only about their power. Now, there is one other interpretation as well. On Jacob's post that I just read a moment ago, consensus lawyer Bill Hughes wrote, Or they hate trials. That interpretation was reinforced by Elliot Stein, senior litigation analyst at Bloomberg, who said, Now, it's not at all clear to me that the SEC can actually competently run a contested trial. Remember, we haven't actually seen them run a trial under Gensler, only pretrial motions and settlements. It may be that they just never had the stomach for it. And when it was headed that way, they had to back off. However, another legal action popped up at the end of this week, and we will come to that just after this quick break. Today's episode is brought to you by Kraken. For far too long, the whole financial system has been standing still, too slow, only on for certain hours, overly designed for some types of people, but not for others. Crypto, at its best, represents progress. It asks the question, what if? It invites people in instead of leaving them out. It's on 24 -7, 365, and moves at the speed of real life. Not everyone believes it. We've got our fair share of detractors, but that's the way it always is when you're building something new. Kraken is a crypto company that has been through the highs and lows of the industry, facing forwards towards progress throughout. And now they're inviting us to see what crypto can be. Learn more at kraken .com slash the breakdown. Disclaimer, not investment advice. Crypto trading involves risk of loss. Cryptocurrency services are provided to U .S. and U .S. territory customers by Payword Ventures, Inc., PVI, DBA, Kraken. New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against Gemini Trust, Genesis Global Capital, and Digital Currency Group for allegedly defrauding 230 ,000 investors out of more than a billion dollars. Also personally named as defendants in the lawsuit are DCG CEO Barry Silbert and former Genesis CEO Michael Morrow. James is seeking to ban Gemini, Genesis, and DCG from participating in the financial investment industry in New York. Now, A .G. James has definitely been rapidly filing lawsuits over the recent months with active litigation against CoinX, KuCoin, and Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky. The allegations here relate to the events surrounding the Gemini Earn product. The lawsuit claims that Gemini lent funds to Genesis, which is owned by DCG. These funds were then lent to counterparties, including now bankrupt trading firms 3ROS Capital and Alameda Research. It's alleged that these counterparty failures left Genesis with a $1 .1 billion loss. Now, it's not illegal for loans to fail and cause a lender's book to collapse. What James is alleging is that both Gemini and Genesis knew about the state of the lending business as it deteriorated and actively misled investors about the risks being taken. The lawsuit claims that Gemini knew Genesis was lending on an under -collateralized basis and had excessive concentration of loans to a single counterparty in Alameda Research. The allegations state that Alameda made up 60 % of Genesis's external loan book in July 2022 and that loans were mostly secured by FTT tokens, which of course collapsed in value surrounding the failure of FTX. Both Morrow and Silbert are accused of defrauding the public by attempting to conceal heavy losses which would be borne by investors. The lawsuit claims that the pair disguised $1 .1 billion in losses through a months -long campaign of misstatements, omissions, and concealment. It alleges that tweets sent by DCG and Genesis following the bankruptcy of Three Arrows Capital were false, misleading, and omitted material facts. The complaint claims that DCG did not simply assume the $1 .1 billion open -term liability related to Three Arrows, which could be called at any time. It replaced that liability with an illiquid 10 -year promissory note. Internally, a Genesis officer objected to claiming to counterparties that they had absorbed the loss because they would be unable to defend this statement from any level of scrutiny. Now, for Gemini's part in the deception, the lawsuit claims that even after Gemini decided to terminate Earn and provide formal notification to Genesis Capital, Gemini continued to take tens of millions of dollars worth of additional cryptocurrencies from Earn investors. These additional investments were passed on to Genesis while at the same time, Gemini employees were closing out their personal positions, according to the allegations. The suit claims that Gemini's internal risk management framework fall well short of their pledge to customers, and in fact, that Gemini had internally downgraded Genesis's risk rating to junk status in February 2022 and sought to terminate the Earn program in September. According to the complaint, these were material facts for investors which Gemini had an affirmative duty to disclose. Finally, while both Gemini and Genesis claimed to hold all necessary government licenses to operate their businesses, the lawsuit alleges that they should have registered under New York securities laws and failed to do so. A .G. James said in a statement, Now, of course, this lawsuit compounds active litigation for Gemini, Genesis and DCG. In January, the SEC sued Genesis and Gemini for offering unregistered securities in the form of the Gemini Earn product, a claim which the two firms are currently pushing the court to dismiss, saying that the details of securities offering are not sufficiently defined. And then, after negotiations broke down surrounding the Genesis bankruptcy, Gemini sued DCG and Barry Silbert in July. In terms of response, in a statement discussing this new lawsuit, DCG said that they had been, Silbert added that he was, Now, Gemini, for their part, tried to kind of have it both ways and say that this suit backed up what they had been saying about Genesis and DCG for a while, but they were, of course, innocent. They tweeted, of a massive fraud and systematically lied to by these parties about Genesis's financial condition. With that said, we wholly disagree with the NYAG's decision to also sue Gemini. Blaming a victim for being defrauded and lied to makes no sense, and we look forward to defending ourselves against this inconsistent position. Ryan Selkis from Masari summed up much of the community's reaction when he wrote, I'm no fan of the NYAG, but this is one of the most horrific and damning complaints I have read in crypto. Brutal, but I'm glad this final shoe has finally dropped. Separately, he also tweeted, The only difference between DCG and FTX is that FTX used QuickBooks. James Safart, an ETF analyst at Bloomberg, said, Historically, you'd say Genesis were the adults in the room, and it really did seem like it. But I feel like there is virtually no interest rate I'd be willing to accept using this stuff as such a large chunk of the collateral, not to mention such a large chunk of the book. Like if this stuff were disclosed, I suspect a lot of Gemini Earn users would have withdrawn their crypto from the program. I think overall, when it comes to this idea that Gemini are somehow the innocent victims here, the courts will prove whatever they prove and obviously Gemini gets to fight. But unfortunately for them, most of the crypto industry kind of is at the point of just a plague on all your houses, burn it to the ground and let something new be built in its stead. There is not a lot of sympathy or compassion or patience left among regular crypto industry participants for all of these people who ended up causing such catastrophic destruction. Now, of course, where a lot of people went was what this means for GBTC. Travis Kling, the founder at Aikigai said, This strikes me as enough for SEC to put GBTC conversion on ice, at least for now. And so that, friends, is I think the next thing to watch, whether we get any intimations of what will happen next in Grayscale's attempt to convert the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust into an ETF. Does the SEC approve another set of ETFs in advance and let the market do their work for them? That's kind of my base case, but we will just have to see. For now, that ends another crazy week in the wild crypto industry. One more big thanks to today's sponsor, Kraken. Go to kraken .com slash the breakdown and see what crypto can be. And until next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Gemini, Genesis, DCG being sued by New York AG for allegedly defrauding investors of $1B with Cory Klippsten, Joe Carlasare, and The Caf Bitcoin Crew - October 19th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohleit, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right, all right. Good morning to all of you Cafe Bitcoiners. Today is Thursday, October 19th, 2023, and it's another great day in Bitcoin. Good morning to Dom Bay, bringing you up, Ant, Tomer, Mickey, morning producer Jacob. Good morning, everybody. Good Peter. morning. Thanks for recognizing that I'm sitting here. Appreciate it. All right. You are listening to Cafe Bitcoin episode 458. Shout outs to our supporters on Fountain and Nostra Nests. Our mission is to show, for the show. Excuse me, is to show. Yeah, and to show people what the hell, you know, what the hell Bitcoin is. Provide the signal in a sea of noise. Teach 7 billion people on this planet why there's hope because of this prior during feature we call Bitcoin. I had a funny conversation with producer Jacob this morning. We were talking about how like right now there's just so much apathy in the markets regarding Bitcoin. It reminded me of like this camel in the desert and it's crawling its way across the desert in search of water right now. That's kind of what it feels like in Bitcoin at the moment. And then you get this like blip on the radar where like somebody, there's a rumor, you know, oh my gosh, the BlackRock ETF just got approved and the Bitcoin price goes fucking crazy, goes up 8 % in like 15 minutes. You know, the camel looks up over a ridge and it sees an oasis full of water. It's like, oh my gosh, here we go. I'm getting some water and it like starts hauling ass over the ridge and then it gets there and it's an illusion. But that's the vibe basically. So yeah, I mean, we're just showing up every day. Alex, I completely disagree with that. I have seen more discussion and notice of Bitcoin in normie world in the last six months than in the previous two and a half years that I have been in Bitcoin. I completely disagree with that. I think people are waking up. They're starting to see what is going on in the world. They're looking around for a solution and it is Bitcoin. And I think they're starting to see it. And it's not just the average Joe that is starting to see it. I think that large entities are actually starting to look at this thing and they're going hmm. Yeah, there's a mix. I mean, there's onesies and twosies and whatnot. There's a mix for sure. But there's not FOMO. There's not a sense of FOMO going on at all right now for sure. Shoutouts to Joe Carlasari, Corey Klipsit in the audience. Through both of you guys' invites if you want to come up here. All right, moving on. Today's show we're going to be covering a few news items as well as open Q &A for all things Bitcoin. This just came across my radar this morning. According to Watcher Guru anyway, Tesla still owns $312 million worth of Bitcoin. Any thoughts or comments? Good morning, Corey Klipsit. Good morning. Yeah, I just hopped in to say, yeah, you got to get the Carlasaris and the regulatory Jasons and everybody. Terrence, wake him up. I want to know all about the NYAG suit against DCG, Genesis, Gemini. And Nico needs to do a live stream today for sure. Yeah, totally agree with that. That's in our list of items we're going to be covering here really shortly. For those of you who did not hear, there was an announcement by the New York Attorney General and they have filed a sweeping lawsuit according to this article against a bunch of companies in the space. So why don't we just dig in right away. This is the beginning of this press release. It's ag .ny .gov under their press release section. The New York Attorney General, Letitia James, filed a sweeping lawsuit against cryptocurrency companies, Gemini Trust, Genesis Global LLC, its affiliates, and Digital Currency Group for defrauding more than 230 ,000 investors, including at least 29 ,000 New Yorkers of more than a billion dollars. It goes on to say, the investigation by the Office of the Attorney General found that Gemini lied to investors about an investment program it ran with Genesis called Gemini Earn.
Outer Limits Of Inner Truth
"jacobs" Discussed on Outer Limits Of Inner Truth
"And he will sit down and have a conversation with most people just about. Everyone walks off tom. It's pretty amazing. Yeah yeah he's and he's just he's still humble and still work in the eighty four years old still working crazy to be on a beach member. I remember it was just whatever it was on tv. And i think it was. It was pat buchanan That said the ron paul is saying he hasn't done enough liberty. Well ron paul hasn't done enough for liberty. Whatever the rest stop you know. That's pretty much. It jacob selected. Just ask you a question about your days as a professional wrestler professional wrestler kane wary. You didn't boast both amazing. He'll a baby face and in order to do that. In order to be professional you to be mastered psychology communicating provoking emotion..
TED Radio Hour
"jacobs" Discussed on TED Radio Hour
"It's the ted radio hour from npr. I'm newsom roti and today we're spending the hour talking to writer. Aj jacobs about his journey on the gratitude chain with ted talks that have inspired him along the way including one by benedictine monk david stein. No great food living. That is the thing. And how can we live gratefully experiencing becoming aware that every moment is a given moment as we say it's a gift you haven't earned it you haven't wanted about in any way you have no way of showing that there will.
TED Radio Hour
"jacobs" Discussed on TED Radio Hour
"It's the ted radio hour from npr. I'm a newsom roti. And today we're spending the hour talking to writer. Aj jacobs about his journey on the gratitude chain with ted talks that have inspired him along the way including one by benedictine monk david stein. No great food living. That is the same. And how can we live gratefully experiencing becoming aware that every moment is a given moment as we say it's a gift you haven't earned it you haven't wanted about in any way you have no way of showing that there.
TED Radio Hour
"jacobs" Discussed on TED Radio Hour
"And we believe you and it was this letter from farmworker women to women enter an entertainment industry that helped the world see farmer women in a way that they'd never seen them before and it helped to bring together partners who an any other day might have been considered unlikely partners to take on an issue is difficult a sexual harassment. Farmworker women demonstrated the power of solidarity and empathy and by doing that. They helped spark a movement. A movement that brought women from other industries forward to also take action action as you were saying It's great to have gratitude. It's great to say thank you but without actually doing something to rectify the wrong words ring very hollow right exactly. It should not be. Gratitude should not lead to complacency. It should be a two-way street. It should be a spark to action. Okay so our next. Talk the one that you have brought us. It is by. David steidl roused he. He is a benedictine monk and teacher on the subject of gratitude. So we're we're going right to the heart of the matter here. His talk title is wanna be happy. Be grateful. I mean that's what we've been talking about right like all this. Gratitude made you happy according to david. We'll have to. Yeah i mean. Yes no i mean. It's still a struggle I've got the two sides and often you know blew me dick preston cranky especially during cove it but i just cannot imagine without gratitude. My mental state would be just a disaster. So i am grateful to gratitude for helping me but yeah you know i don't think it's all rainbows and unicorns. It is disciplined that you have to work at and that's exactly what he's saying so let's play clip. How is the connection between happiness and gratefulness. Many people would say well. That's easy when you're happy you're grateful but think again is it really are grateful the all quite a number of people who have everything that it would take to be happy and they are not happy because they want something else. Oh one more of the same and we all know people who have lots of misfortune misfortunate ourselves would not want to have and they are deeply happy irradiate happiness. You're surprised why because of eight so it is not happiness that makes us great food. It's gratefulness that makes us happy. If you think it's happiness that makes you grateful thank again. It's gratefulness that makes you happy. He is quite a figure david. Stein dole ross He's weirs these awesome birkenstocks on stage. And you really feel that. You are in the presence of clarity in some ways. But i have to say just hearing that clip. It reminds me like. I've only really known you since you've written this book and when i i remember when i first met you i was like so like. You're one of those people who radiates happiness. I don't know if that's a new thing for you. But you do will. That is very nice of you to say. And i would say that is not really. What's going on inside. But i love that there is the radiating i mean one of the most powerful lessons i've learned in runs through all my books is the importance of faking it until you feel it and i saw this in the gratitude project i would wake up in a very my default mode of grumpiness and and i would force myself call people and thank them and it was often very awkward but if you act in a certain here exactly yeah. I mean one of my favorites. Was i called this woman who does pest control for the warehouse where the coffee beans are stored and i said i know this is weird but i just wanna thank you for keeping the insects out of my coffee and she said that is weird but thank you. I don't get a lot of positive feedback. And she said it was like an anti crank phone. Call so the the idea of forcing yourself to do things eventually. You can trick your mind. So there's a great quote. I wish i had come up with that. It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting how important the external is to changing the internal. You know. i mean not always be happy. But i'm sometimes trying to trick my mind and say acting as if what would a good person do. What would a compassionate person do. What would a happy person do and trying to do those actions when we come back more from writer. Aj jacobs about how showing gratitude isn't just about being nice. It can actually change our brains. I'm a new summer odi. And you're listening to the ted radio hour from npr. Stay with us all this message comes from. Npr sponsor lincoln financial pursuing. Your dream starts with financial security. Lincoln can help. You get started whether it's protecting you and your family from life's unexpected events or planning for retirement. Lincoln can help you enjoy today while staying on track four tomorrow visit l. f. g. dot com slash get started to discover how lincoln financial solutions can help you plan protect and retire lincoln. Financial is the marketing name for lincoln. National corporation and affiliates copyright twenty twenty one support for this podcast and the following message come from american express business american express business offers a line of cards packed with features and benefits like membership rewards points. Flexible payment options employees cards and much more to help you take your business further because with needs like yours. You need a card designed for business built for business by american express. Don't do business without it. Terms apply learn more at american express dot com slash business cards. This message comes from. 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TED Radio Hour
"jacobs" Discussed on TED Radio Hour
"And we believe you and it was this letter from farmworker women to women enter an entertainment industry that helped the world see farmer women in a way that they'd never seen them before and it helped to bring together partners who an any other day might have been considered unlikely partners to take on an issue is difficult a sexual harassment. Farmworker women demonstrated the power of solidarity and empathy and by doing that. They helped spark a movement. A movement that brought women from other industries forward to also take action action as you were saying It's great to have gratitude. It's great to say thank you but without actually doing something to rectify the wrong words ring very hollow right exactly. It should not be. Gratitude should not lead to complacency. It should be a two-way street. It should be a spark to action. Okay so our next. Talk the one that you have brought us. It is by david steinberg roster he. He is a benedictine monk and teacher on the subject of gratitude. So we're we're going right to the heart of the matter here. His talk title is wanna be happy. Be grateful. I mean that's what we've been talking about right like all this. Gratitude made you happy according to david. We'll have to. Yeah i mean. Yes no i mean. It's still a struggle I've got the two sides and often you know blew me dick preston cranky especially during covert but i just cannot imagine without gratitude. My mental state would be just a disaster. So i am grateful to gratitude for helping me but yeah you know i don't think it's all rainbows and unicorns. It is disciplined that you have to work at and that's exactly what he's saying so let's play clip. How is the connection between happiness and gratefulness. Many people would say well. That's easy when you're happy you're grateful but think again is it really are grateful the all quite a number of people who have everything that it would take to be happy and they are not happy because they want something else. Oh one more of the same and we all know people who have lots of misfortune misfortunate ourselves would not want to have and they are deeply happy. Irradiate happiness surprised why because of eight so it is not happiness that makes us ghaith food. It's gratefulness that makes us happy. If you think it's happiness that makes you grateful thank again. It's gratefulness that makes you happy. He is quite a figure david. Stein dole ross He's weirs these awesome birkenstocks on stage. And you really feel that. You are in the presence of clarity in some ways. But i have to say just hearing that clip. It reminds me like. I've only really known you since you've written this book and when i i remember when i first met you i was like so like. You're one of those people who radiates happiness. I don't know if that's a new thing for you. But you do will. That is very nice of you to say. And i would say that is not really. What's going on inside. But i love that there is the radiating i mean one of the most powerful lessons i've learned in runs through all my books is the importance of faking it until you feel it and i saw this in the gratitude project i would wake up in a very my default mode of grumpiness and and i would force myself call people and thank them and it was often very awkward but if you act in a certain here exactly yeah. I mean one of my favorites. Was i called this woman who does pest control for the warehouse where the coffee beans are stored and i said i know this is weird but i just wanna thank you for keeping the insects out of my coffee and she said that is weird but thank you. I don't get a lot of positive feedback. And she said it was like an anti crank phone. Call so the the idea of forcing yourself to do things eventually. You can trick your mind. So there's a great quote. I wish i had come up with that. It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting how important the external is to changing the internal. You know. i mean not always be happy. But i'm sometimes trying to trick my mind and say acting as if what would a good person do. What would a compassionate person do. What would a happy person do and trying to do those actions when we come back more from writer. Aj jacobs about how showing gratitude isn't just about being nice. It can actually change our brains. I'm a new summer odi. And you're listening to the ted radio hour from npr. Stay with us all this message comes from. Npr sponsor lincoln financial pursuing. Your dream starts with financial security. Lincoln can help. You get started whether it's protecting you and your family from life's unexpected events or planning for retirement. Lincoln can help you enjoy today while staying on track four tomorrow visit l. f. g. dot com slash get started to discover how lincoln financial solutions can help you plan protect and retire lincoln. Financial is the marketing name for lincoln. National corporation and affiliates copyright twenty twenty one support for this podcast and the following message come from american express business american express business offers a line of cards packed with features and benefits like membership rewards points. Flexible payment options employees cards and much more to help you take your business further because with needs like yours. You need a card designed for business built for business by american express. Don't do business without it. Terms apply learn more at american express dot com slash business cards. This message comes from. 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Chachi Loves Everybody
"jacobs" Discussed on Chachi Loves Everybody
"Just as i was getting going with jacobs media and the classic rock thing so i think he kind of knew it was going to be okay and My mom is ninety two and a big fan. She was there that night at the hall of fame dinner. that's fantastic. Yeah it was really cool. It was really cool and she was the one who actually drove me up to the university of michigan to help me talk my way back in after you've been ousted for bad grades. Exactly right i am so your friend helps you. Get a gig at riff. And what made you decide at this point. You wanted your magazine incredibly well and running there. you said they're publishing research publishing for radio right for radio. Which is a huge gigs. He rose through the ranks. There really quickly. What about riff. What made you decide at that. Point to kinda jump from the research side of the business into programming. So maggie was the kind of place that honestly. You didn't spend your whole life there unless your name was frank maggot. After two years. I had really done a lot and it was becoming clear to me that if i didn't get online radio station experience. I would not be able to do as well as i needed to do. I just felt there was a piece missing. You know having not really worked in a radio station before. And so i did the study for riff and they loved it and tom came back to me and said you know. Would you come to work for us into this stuff all the time and it was like a dream come true so i took it and you're back in your hometown back in my hometown and the station was in in the trailers at the time. Those people who know detroit radio know that rare even though it was owned by abc whereas actually in a little building connected to three house trailers and was killing it in the middle seventies. It was just just an amazing time. And so yeah..
Gloss Angeles
"jacobs" Discussed on Gloss Angeles
"For so long. What is up here and i reached out to the brand. I didn't hear anything for about a week. And then here for the t. Posted that there was a conversation between a sephora dot com user and then a cast member at sephora and they were like what's up with marc jacobs beauty and the support cast member said unfortunately marci gives beauty has decided to quote unquote close up shop on their beauty brand absolute pandemonium. Who's this sephora employee. That is just trying to stir shit up. I mean if i were sephora it'd be legged collect your things and get out. I mean. I'm sure. Marc jacobs probably has something to say about that. But i reached out to kendo. I got a response and in short. The brand is not shutting down. There are changes on the way. That's they were being super cryptic. Wouldn't explain what but they said that. The brand is not disappearing. Thank you baby. Jesus of all this is the thing. I don't know what that means. Does that mean they're getting rid of like everything. Except for five core products right are they just focusing on fragrance going forward. So i think that to your point about fragrance. I think that that's a separate category. So there's fashion beauty and fragrance it's all separated and they specifically said marc jacobs beauty was not going anywhere so i'm wondering. Does this. mean like new formulations repackaging. The is that i got. Dmz gems from people that work at brands. That told me they wonder if it's going to be like a kat von d. thing where they're not exclusive to sephora anymore and they also pm apartment of the retailer like now kat von d's available at ulta right obviously takes a while to look brand right so it's now katy d. and they were exclusive to sephora. Obviously they were kendo and they are kendo brand and we talked a little bit about that on a past episode about kendo sephora relationship. All that good stuff. So i don't know my advice would be all if you love something from marc jacobs beauty by it. Now it's half off on sephora and their website and i don't know if a reformulation is on the way. I don't know if new products are gonna be replacing things like one thing that i was really bummed about when i- reformulated and rebranded essentially was that they changed the formula of their a ave lip mask and it's just not the same. It's not the same. And i think a lot of people agree with me on that so i just i'm like do not get rid of velvet noir mascara and do not change the formula for the love of god please. I feel like it's probably more of like a branding repackaging retailer situation because everyone loves everything about all the products. Like i told you this before. Kirby i feel like marc jacobs beauty out sells fashion and fragrance. It has to do so well..
MTR Podcasts
"jacobs" Discussed on MTR Podcasts
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MTR Podcasts
"jacobs" Discussed on MTR Podcasts
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MTR Podcasts
"jacobs" Discussed on MTR Podcasts
"Getting to the truth. In this art. I am your host rob lee and today's guest is noted content creator. Ricky jacobs. Walk them to the podcast. Thank you brother thank you. I'm happy to be humble idiot. Snot enough of it. So thank you. So yeah i see right now. You're you're in your like in some ways. I'll say this is in your creative space right now for some of the content or putting out there. I'm in my office. And i'm drinking i. I mean i'm envious. I like coffee. Or what have you. Because i was dragging and now i feel like i'm you turn the scotch and a little bit but so i came across you share slate in how instagram. We'll do that thing of you might know this person. You might not that person and just like following people. Don't say who's got good content here and i just started going through your page and i'm like okay. That's that's cool. Let's see what's what's more let me slide into the dmz hit this dude. Let me see what's good so see that you're doing good work. You're doing like really interesting stuff since like ovid's happening but if you will describe your word to the audience that may be uninitiated. Okay so i started really Taken more of initiative to Create more tap into you know just kind of finding my place you know in in an art room so you will I always been a creator But you know as you just kinda mentioned. Cove it since the breakout. I think that could a lotta people enough in space where we were. Just kinda more In tune with our like interior so to speak To the point where it's like we were digging and pulling from ourselves more than ever. And i'm only speaking from you know a creative point of view Now i'm sure other people who don't have hobbies that going crazy and just trying to figure out were they could do with their time but You know naturally As you know like we we. We have these things that we like to do. So i have a podcast Colleagues were friends with Like yourself The plan and a goal was to interview different. Creatives that Baltimore-based n baltimore natives as well bona raised and started at park has on a lot of people. Don't know i started a podcast in two thousand nineteen but the idea was different Benin was self explanatory. As far as it was it was initially initially was supposed to be a podcast with me and my friends and we were going to drink and just talk about whatever we wanted to talk about and You know shutout bravo shout in. I'm not throwing him under the bus but we shot the first episode at his crib. And i felt this nigga was to engage so like you know. Don't record enough. Oh good. Because i was drinking so sometimes don't i'm drinking. I'm not the productivity level is as far as like me being intuitive in the moment i know that the episode was shit. I went back home. Listen to it was a yo. We aren't talking about a damn thing i put on you know But the concept was a dope idea. You know what. I mean name the way i was branding it in all of that so i i just a lot of personal things was happening anyway so i took a break. Here comes two thousand twenty and this is actually before the pandemic I was talking about redoing rebranding podcasts and everything but i just didn't i didn't know where to record. You know what i mean. You know you you know the podcast and journalists will like you gotta space where you wanna record it and you know all those things. Intangible was that you know a makes a defend pockets. Yeah it could be one of those things where you know said it'd before we got started doing it. As long as i have over the years you just start accruing and you figure out what works for you so i have like. I am in my opinion. Have maybe three four different setups. I have low tier mobile. I have the home studio. I have a more of a combination between the two. I had had a birthday last week. My girl got beat has really don't mixer and and and it's like the mixer that you can take phone calls and everything and his mobile and i'm like oh this is this is crazy. This is a whole new world and then having that that background not to go away from the point. You're getting that background in it. You can flex but you're right when cove it hit the space dollars recording this particular podcast and it was a comedy club and things closed so because you know you wanna meet people you to be face to face and you get a different reaction when you face to face with somebody you know certain things translate a little different zoom is has gotten better over the time but at the very beginning it was as you probably paying for the premium to right. Because you've got a nice background. Oh i'll put that in a green screen. See a big. This is what i guess she do. Yeah no absolutely and but i was tweeting You know i wanted. I wanna i wanna reback this the pocket so Shutout to my guy. 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Health and Wealth Podcast with Carter & Tim
"jacobs" Discussed on Health and Wealth Podcast with Carter & Tim
"Of a and what. I'm going to bring up that. I really talking to many people around. And now we're gonna talk about it on a podcast but it's all it's all good on. I'm an open book but I'm forty years old and about thirty forty one next month and for the last five years i have gout flare ups probably every three to four months and as i learned more about my body my health i make changes. I've been making changes for a long time It slowly getting. I think into a a healthier routine in part of it is because all have something like doubt that comes up to where i have to change the way. I'm eating things. I'm in like you know otherwise. It persists but interestingly i do have stomach issues a little bit and you'll at that the dow is probably from some stomach issues. And i also think from from research that it could being from stress as well. You're out has been a pretty stressful ordeal for a lot of folks and you know the last year especially i add three really bad. Gal flare ups You know one of which had me barely able walk for about a month. Something to where. I cut out allred meets. I've cut out salt for the most are in things like that. Read anything that. I've felt that you know could give me inflammation and i've done a pretty good job. But i get micro flare ups all the time to where it will hurt in like my big channel on either one of my feet or my knees. Which is the worst with flare ups that i've experienced anyways. But you know from from your experiences. How could somebody like me. Sort of low kit rigaud of that sort of thing Well first off thanks for. Thanks for sharing that. I know like back in the day. Old school tim. I didn't share nothing with nobody. And i was literally you know. Poop in blood for two and a half years in eating sums is 'cause i had acid reflux so bad and i was i had i had problems man. I had to have surgery to get an order room. So my health was in the crapper and You know. I went to this health institute in florida. Called the hippocrates health institute on i learned about detoxing nutritional. My buddy got tom. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Which is supposedly incurable. Blood cancer so anyway I've learned a lot since then. I left the financial services industry. Because what i learned not only transform my life i was able to reclaim my health like beyond one hundred percent. I can't even tell you how good i feel today at age. Forty seven ten years later but my friend who had this cancer still alive that he kicked cancers but with no chemo. No surgery no radiation And is pretty awesome and he started this journey when he was forty three and now here he is fifty three got to see a son graduate. And i know you've got three little kids like are they one two and three. They are one two and three two and three. That's awesome. that's pretty awesome. So you want you want to be around for them. You want to set a good example for them. And if if you're if you're full on with gout you're not going to be able to run on the beach. Play flag football with them. Mario absolutely not. I won't get his info it is. It is the worst thing that i've ever experienced for long periods of time. It's absolutely horrible. You can't shoes on time if you can get your shoes on. You can't really walk that much. It's it's insane in it lasts. Sometimes it can last very long time very painful. for you. enriches out there listening. Familiar with gala just a form of arthritis caused by excess uric acid that builds up in the bloodstream. Basically your body's getting to acid so it's again Otis this is just it. Goes back to everything that i've learned that. Starting at hippocrates health institute is led by food medicine. Medicine food In just getting educated on the body. So i'm really happy you're cutting out some of the meats me disase it into the body Breads that type of stuff. These are they turn into sugar right in your mouth. That's why we like bread so much now. There are some breads that you can't get into that in a minute. But so what's happened is your you know Any type of arthritis like this. Whether it scout or osteoarthritis rheumatoid arthritis. These people just have a high level of acid into their body. So what is that. While they're eating a lot of cooked and fried foods. Lots heavy heavy on the meets They're they're eating things like pop. Sugar sugary stuff breads Alcohol alcohol's it converts to sugar right in the mouth. That's why you see these alcoholics. They're really not alcoholics to sugar addicts and just put things in perspective. I talk about this all the time. People go look this up. Sugar molecules are almost identical in structure to cocaine molecule almost identical very similar except sugars. Three times it's it's it's harder to get people It's more addictive than cocaine. So just to put this to set the tone. They were so people. Understand what we're dealing with here. In the promise is our moms and grandmas have been dishes devout to us since we were kids. So it's hard to think that it's bad. My grandma gabe candy is like my grandpa used to fly down the our driveway in the summertime succumbing to oregon from south dakota van. The first thing i did was give them a hug. And then look under my grandpa seat because he had a bucket of candy in their right and so When i would recommend for you the number one thing while you actually brought something up that was very very awesome which is stress and a lot of times. People are looking for you know. Changing the food get started exercising. Do all this stuff but what are you doing to manage your stress stress it. I've seen people that have done ever all this other stuff right. They changed their diet. They take supplements. They cleaned the gut. They do this and that drink the right type of water and they still can't quite he'll in it's always the case. They have high stress life on an autistic child. High needs child. Special needs Devote a marriage is not working. They're sleeping in separate bedrooms on taking care of a aging parents. Alzheimer's dementia stuff like that. And it it's tremendous amount of stress building a business You know all these things that we have to deal with cova so number one no matter whoever's listening today the number one thing no matter what. Your health issue is is focused on your stress because this is something you can absolutely do. We've done it before right carter. We've done some breath work. So i think this is a have you ever dentist breath exercises before otas absolutely and i've actually been studying a lot of the the wim hof nothing as well and how he does breathing techniques Something that i time to pick up over the last month or so actually awesome awesome so one of our core for secrets over here that we teach of course number four is actually doing breath work prior to a meal to take yourself fighter flight so the blood will leave the extremities. Go back to the organ systems in your digestive tract seeking. I actually digest your food in not end up with fermentation in gut rot. Which is where most of what we end up with We we're distressed out all the time so simply by taking a deep breath in the're knows like this at the top and then release south with the mile. Nice slow flow. Just let it all go then pause at the bottom of your lungs completely empty in back in through the nose.
Health and Wealth Podcast with Carter & Tim
"jacobs" Discussed on Health and Wealth Podcast with Carter & Tim
"What's up richards. Tim james here with my co host carter wilcox and today we've got jacobson. The house and this guy has changed. His life by changing careers got into financial services. Kim stay on us. That's fifteen and ago and Man you've done some really cool stuff otis And you've learned a lot of cool technology in ways Plane with the big boys in now. You're partnered up with carter over here at csi financial so. What are you guys got going on. Here well allah. I'll just jump in just real fast. And i'll tell the enriches that the the one piece that we were missing right. The thing that otis was missing was our state. Planning you know platform in the technology that we have but the piece that was really the completion. It was the ice seen if you will it was. It came full circle and it's called a trust company. A corporate trustee trust company. That is going to be domiciled in one of the most pro trust friendly states in the union. i'm not going to give it away The whole the whole kit and caboodle right now because not all. The enriches have signed the a But as we're in formation for this for this one of a kind trust company we realize quite Fairly quickly that in order to let me take a step back. Everybody on this planet has infinite just a finite amount of time on this planet right so one of two things is is what we teach we get it down to very simple things one or two things when it comes to your estate plan. Family succession plan but For you and richards who have not heard me say this before an estate is simply everything you own so if you own something you have an estate just in case you thought it was just for millionaires and billionaires so if you have a four one k. of an. Ira you have a home a car. You know you've got collectibles whatever. Guess what you have an estate and what you need to do. Is you need to plan on your estate now. What that really means is how do you create a distribution plan for when you're gone to your beneficiaries so you have one or two choices either you plan on how you distribute everything when the inevitable happens or the state you live in has a plan for us well and they're to determine on how that's going to be ranked me guess what they have planned for you not much if you know what they have planned for us. They have a plan to take as much out of your estate. A everything you own and put it into their coffers right so What ended up happening. Is i realized that you needed to have it. It's one thing to have an estate plan. It's another thing on who's going to be the successor trustee of your trust. That's part of your state land. Who's going to be the successor trustee and all too often. What going back to conventional wisdom. What we've learned is all too often most families that get estate plan. Maybe they have one point. Two million dollars investable assets and they realized that it was important but what they didn't have is access because you have to be worth five million or ten million or thirty million to be able to have access to a to a trust company that will have corporate responsibility fiduciary responsible to follow by the letter of the law. Exactly what the grant ores intent was so. That was a missing piece for us. When it came to the estate plan we can get it. Created very simply with our ninety and ninety formula right otis. You remember what we were talking about earlier today but the ninety ninety formula yes sir ninety percent ninety minutes ninety minutes or less so there you go so that's how unique and it's all hand held. It's not like you go on there and you you know you you hit this button and it takes into this thing. They hit this button and it takes you to that thing. No estate planning has to be a little bit more intimate than that no matter what somebody might tell you so being able to get that down as one thing very simply cost effectively and efficiently but then to tie it all together to make sure that you have someone whose fiduciary responsible while at the same time not causing conflict or friction and potential fracturing of the family when one of the most responsible children which is what most families end up doing they their name their their most responsible son or daughter or brother in law or whatever as successor trustee. Well the problem is they don't know how to do that. You know what they ended up doing. Most of the time they end up going to an attorney who ends up have they. He's going to have his plan and he's gonna say hey you gotta do this. Gotta do that. Then he's going to be dipping that a state because guess what you're not around anymore so he can dip into that state and say that this is just part of his job which is in most cases So in order to to tie all these things together with Olympic companies and the technology that they have that's where the e state plant portfolio really comes into play and the thing that we are in formation of right now is a one of a kind trust company that gives you access connect and a personal touch to the masses of the working men and women of america who have been deprived of that type of access Before because typically relegated to the the multi millionaires that are out there in the industry. So if you want you want you talk a little bit about. Maybe how you saw that connectivity with your own technology that you had already been putting together yourself. Sure sure so You know a lot of what i've been doing over the last couple years is working with multiple other technology platforms. Basically bring a lot of these unique technologies together so that they could be offered to retirement plan participants or individuals out there That we're interested and basically what we've done is brought retirement plan technology together for advisors that is accessible by the companies that they work with as well as the plant purchase as well. They have the ability to go into a secure portal to enroll into their four one k. Plans to enroll into their benefits plans different lines of insurance as needed like term insurance or car insurance or different other lines that they would potentially need for.
Supporting Leaders
"jacobs" Discussed on Supporting Leaders
"Enjoy the show this interview with assistant chief. Carrie jacobs is fascinating. Not only is it's from somebody who's serving in a completely different career field in some of the other guest. I've had on the show but also to be female in a heavily male predominant field. She offers great perspective into her work. She tucks her career journey. We get into negotiation and conflict resolution. We talk about communication. And i love that everything. She shares is really relevant to so many other different organization in walks of life. So take a listen. I think you're really going to enjoy here is a little bit about kerry's background. She is assistant chief. Member of the iowa state university police department has also served the community since august of two thousand two prior to joining. Isu assistant chief jacobs worked for the city of iowa falls police department as a police officer for five years assistant chief jacobs currently oversees departmental operations which includes field services patrol and dispatch and investigative and threat management services. Other responsibilities include developing departmental policy and operating procedures assisting with command operations during large scale events assuming operational command of the department and the absence of the chief addressing acute and long term staffing issues and assisting in the development of the departmental budget including personnel resources and equipment and addition. She serves as an active member of the engagement inclusion officer team. The team is a group of twelve officers and staff that actively participate in campus initiatives that worked toward a more diverse inclusive community serve in a variety of capacities including initiation of outreach events educational presentations and discussion facilitators. Assistant chief jacobson the iot more closely with the isu vice president of diversity and inclusion office to assist in fostering a culture of respect and equity within the s community assistant chief jacobs received a bachelor of science degree in sociology criminal justice from iowa state ninety four and a masters of arts and criminal justice leadership from concordia assistant. Chief jacobs is a graduate of southern police institute. One hundred and forty first administrative officers. Course take a listen to my interview with assistant chief. Carrie jacobs welcome to the next.
TED Radio Hour
"jacobs" Discussed on TED Radio Hour
"And we believe you and it was this letter from farmworker women to women enter an entertainment industry that helped the world see farmworker women in a way that they'd never seen them before and it helped to bring together partners who an any other might have been considered unlikely partners to take on an issue is difficult sexual harassment. Farmworker women demonstrated the power of solidarity and empathy and by doing that. They helped spark a movement. A movement that brought women from other industries forward to also take action action as you were saying It's great to have gratitude. It's great to say thank you but without actually doing something to rectify. The wrongs words can ring very hollow. Right exactly it should not be. Gratitude should not lead to complacency. It should be a two way street. It should be a spark action. Okay so our next. Talk the one that you have brought us. It is by david. steidl roast he. He is a benedictine monk and teacher on the subject of gratitude. So we're we're going right to the heart of the matter here. His talk title is wanna be happy. Be grateful. I mean that's what we've been talking about right. I like all this. Gratitude made you happy according to david would have to. Yeah i mean yes and no. I'm is still a struggle. I've got the two sides. And i'm often you know. Blew me dick preston cranky especially during covid but i just cannot imagine without gratitude. My mental state would be just a disaster. So i am grateful to gratitude for helping me but yeah you know i don't think it's all rainbows and unicorns. It is disciplined you have to work at and that's exactly what he's saying so let's play a clip. How is the connection between happiness and gratefulness. Many people would say balance. That's easy then you happy. You're grateful but think again. Is it really the happy people the our law client number of people who have everything that it would take to be happy and they are not happy because they want something else more of the same and we all know people who have lots of misfortune misfortunate ourselves would not want to have and they are deeply happy. The radiate happiness surprised. Why because the tour so it is not happiness that makes us grateful. It's gratefulness that makes us happy. If you think it's happiness that makes you grateful thank again. It's gratefulness that makes you happy. He is quite a figure david. Stein ross He's weirs these awesome birkenstocks on stage. And you really feel that. You are in the presence of clarity in some ways. But i have to say just hearing that clip. It reminds me like. I've only really known you since you've written this book and when i i remember when i first met you like. She's so like you're one of those people who radiates happiness. I don't know if that's a new thing for you but you will. That is very nice of you to say. And i would say that. That is not really. What's going on inside. But i love that there is the radiating i mean one of the most powerful lessons i've learned runs through. All my books is the importance of shaking it until you feel it and i saw this in the gratitude project i would wake up in a very of my default mode of grumpiness and and i would force myself to call people and thank them and it was often very awkward. But if you act in a certain here exactly it yeah. I mean one of my favorites. Was i called this woman who does pest control for the warehouse where the coffee beans are stored and i said i know this is weird but i just wanna thank you for keeping the insects out of my coffee and she said well. That is weird. But thank you. I don't get a lot of positive feedback. And she said it was like an anti crank phone. Call so the the idea of forcing yourself to do things eventually. You can trick your mind. So there's a great quote. I i had come up with it that it's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting so how important the external is to changing the internal always be happy. But i'm sometimes trying to trick my mind than say acting as if what a good person do. What would a compassionate person do. What would a happy person do and trying do those actions when we come back more from writer. Aj jacobs about how showing gratitude isn't just about being nice. It can actually change our brains. I'm a new summer odi. And you're listening to the ted radio hour from npr. Stay with us. Hey everyone just a quick. Thanks to our sponsor first republic bank from buying a home to starting a business first republic bank is committed to offering you exceptional service for a lifetime of goals from day one. 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TED Radio Hour
"jacobs" Discussed on TED Radio Hour
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TED Radio Hour
"jacobs" Discussed on TED Radio Hour
"Manusha maroney and today on the show the gratitude one man's quest to deliver something as deceptively simple as a thank you to hundreds of people across the globe but doesn't come to be natural. Default mood is more. Larry david than mr rogers. This is writer and ted speaker jacobs an. Aj has brought us a selection of talks that have influenced his work talks them. He is grateful for with ideas about the benefits of gratitude. It is a disciplined the after workout. You might be familiar with age as work. His specialty is experimenting on himself. Trying out different kinds of behaviors and then documenting how they change him for better or worse so. I wrote a book about living by all the rules of the bible from the ten commandments. to growing alarmingly huge beers. I tried to be the healthiest person alive. I tried to practice radical honesty. There's no filter between your brain and your mouth so that was terrible. A interesting yes. One of his. Most recent experiments was about trying to see if gratitude really would make him happier and so in his book. Thanks a thousand. Aj documents his journey to thank every single person who had even the slightest hand in making his morning cup of coffee and that turned out the crazy amount of people. so i think the barista of course And i went to south america when we were allowed travel and and i thank the coffee farmers But i also think the logo designer the the botanist the truck driver who drove the coffee beans. I got a little out of control. I think the the per ended up sinking over a thousand people in what he calls a gratitude chain. The gratitude chain is the idea that it doesn't just take a village to make a cup of coffee. it takes the words and it doesn't have to be coffee. it could be anything this is. Aj jacobs on the ted stage. It's more about a mindset being aware of the thousands of people involved in every little thing we do remembering that. There's someone in a factory who made the fabric for the chairs. You're sitting in right. Now that someone went into a mine and got the copper for this microphone and in the spirit of gratitude chain. Aj has also done something pretty meta for this episode of the show. He has thanked everyone who helped make his ted talk possible so i actually went out and made the list. And in call the people linked up. Isaac i hey it's eight eight eight cups. Hello corey good. How are you so. I think michelle quint who edited the book on which the tedtalk was based strove rarely with voices corey. Hey jim the who helps choose. Who does the ted talk your curator of a your director producer editor cheerleader. So i thanked crawford hunt. Who's one of the producers. I think. Isaac newton who edited the ted talks. Thank you for letting me thank you. Thank you for banking. Brian greene who manages relative dot com website. You are very welcome. And there's many people behind the not. Just me to say i think. The folks at the epa microphones and your company made those amazing microphones. I wore francisco. Da's who is the fact checker. Been able to do that. Tim burners lee who invented the world wide web. With without which might ted talk would have been seen by about two people. You'll welcome because i tell everyone at time. So there are a lot of people to think. Tim burners lee the man responsible for making the web accessible. You really laughed. No one okay so. Aj you have actually brought us a selection of talks that inspired you an influenced you as you wrote your book and let's go to the first one that you brought us the speaker. Is tony fidel. His talk is called. The first secret of design is noticing. Why would you bring us a design talk To start a discussion about gratitude. Well yes tony is He's like a serious designer so he was one of the designers of the ipod. And the nast and these as that you've got a notice those little details in life that we take for granted and that is such a key to gratitude because the first step to gratitude is noticing. You can't be thankful for something that you don't notice. Why do we get use everyday human beings we have limited brainpower and so our brains encode the everyday things we do into habits so we can free up space to learn new things. It's a process called obituary and it's one of the most basic ways as humans. We lur now. Habituation isn't always bad. Remember learning to drive i sure. Do your hands clinched ten and two on the wheel looking at every single object out there. The cars the lights. The pedestrians is a nerve wracking experience. But then something interesting happened. As the weeks went by driving became easier and easier you habituated starting to become funding second nature. So there's a good reason why brains -obituates things if we didn't we'd notice every little detail all the time he would be exhausting and we'd have no time to learn about new things when i did my project about coffee. I couldn't believe all the little masterpieces out there. That i i totally glossed over Like even the the coffee. The lid for the coffee cup was the design the the the innovation that went into that the little crescent they thought about the way the little hole was shaped. And how your nose had to get in there and get all of the aroma through a whole it was just remarkable And i'll never look at a coffee live the same way. So his talk is just a brilliant summary of that brilliant exploration of this idea of noticing so we need habituation simply get on with our lives but then the flip side of that is that we stopped noticing the details and maybe take things for granted like that. Coffee lid absolutely. Yeah i i love that. He says it's it's got it's got his good side and it's bad side and I think the key is to fight against habituation. Some of the time so that you are really. I remember when. I was standing in line for my coffee for the book. And you know. I don't like standing in line but i said okay i'm gonna. I'm gonna try to notice things because i never do that. You know my face is buried in. I phone so anyway. Savoring is a big theme ingratitude. So i remember that one of the people i think was this guy. Who is the coffee buyer. So he goes around the world and buys all these coffee beans.
Encyclopedia Womannica
"jacobs" Discussed on Encyclopedia Womannica
"Although the veracity of her story was challenged for decades are storyteller of the day is now recognized as the true author of her work. We're talking about harriet jacobs. Harriet jacobs was born in eighteen. Thirteen endan north carolina to delilah and daniel jacobs. Both her mother and father were enslaved. Her grandmother had been emancipated by her former enslavers. When harry it was six her mother died and she was left in the care of her enslavers. Margaret horn blow margaret taught her to read and write an uncommon practice for the time but when harriet was twelve her fortune changed. Margaret passed away and instead of emancipating. Harriet bequeath. terry her three-year-old niece. mary matilda nor calm. Harriet subsequently moved into the nor com household. A family that did not share margaret's relatively more progressive views within three years. Though harry it was just a young teenager she had become the sexual fixation of mary's father. Dr james nor com. His sexual harassment was unrelenting and he refused to allow harry to marry. It was then. Harriet made a calculated decision. She decided to return the advances of another white man. A local lawyer by the name of samuel treadwell sawyer. She hoped that bearing the children of a different white man with spur her master into a rage her goal was to drive doctor nor com to sell her. Her plan did not succeed after bearing two of sawyers children dr nor com punished. Harriet by sending her to do backbreaking labor on his plantation while they're harriet. She fled to her grandmother's house and hit an crawlspace. Harriet remained in hiding at her grandmother's for seven years. During this time she revised her plan. Harriet wrote letters to dr nor com falsely claiming. She described to the north. This time around. She hoped dr nor comet sell her children to their father. Eventually this plan came to fruition and sawyer bought both of his children back from dr nor com soon after sawyer was elected to the house of representatives and moved with the children to washington. Dc desperate to reunite with her children. Harriet to fled north while searching for her children. Harriet found work. As a nurse. Made for the abolitionist. Nathaniel parker willis and his wife cordelia willis dr nor com continued to pursue harriet and. She was frequently forced to go into hiding often relocating between boston and new york eventually in one thousand fifty two the willis family was able to bhai harriet freedom during her time in the north. Harriet became involved with a feminist abolitionist group. It was there that she met. Amy post amy taken with harriet. Personal journey recommended that she read a book about her life. Harry agreed and decided to write her autobiography. Under the pen name brent. Her book called incidents in the life of a slave girl was published in eighteen. Sixty one with the rise of the american civil war. The book quickly faded from public discourse and remained relatively unknown for the rest of heriot's. Its lifetime harry. It was eventually reunited with her daughter. Louisa during the civil war. Harriet worked to aid former slaves who arrived as refugees in washington. Dc dedication to the recently emancipated community. Brought harriet back to the south in eighteen sixty five. Harriet and louisa settled in savannah georgia to continue relief efforts but due to persistent racial persecution forced to flee north once more this time harriet settled in cambridge massachusetts or she opened a boarding house. Not much is known about the final chapters of harry. It's life but we do know that she eventually returned to washington. Dc with her daughter. It was there that harriet died in eighteen. Ninety seven she was eighty four years old. It wasn't until the feminist movements of the nineteen sixties and seventies that incidents reappeared. Initially it sparked controversy. The books editor lydia. Marie child was a white woman. Common thought at the time was the autobiography was actually a novel written by child in one thousand nine hundred. Eighty seven historian. Jean fagin yellen corrected that narrative with her annotated edition of incidents yellen lays bare at the true identity of the author and the limited role child played in publishing the original manuscript at long last. Harry its name was attached to her work. Her role as auto biographer transformed. The significance of the taxed inherits writings. She describes her state of mind. She rejected the advances of dr nor calm in favor of sam sawyer. She explicitly discusses using her sexuality. As a tool to manipulate the white men who sought to further subjugate her harry it also acknowledges the judgement she received as a woman with two children born out of wedlock in her book. She argues that it is cruel to prescribe nineteenth century. Morality onto enslaved women as their fundamental rights had already been so profoundly violated incidents in the life of a slave girl remains one of the most important books of its kind. It is the only first hand account of the life of an enslaved woman at the time and gives unmatched insight into harry. It's perspective as she fought against forces of sexual and racial oppression in doing so. The autobiography occupies a unique space in both african american and feminist literature