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CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from SPECIAL REPORT: THE SBF TRIAL 9-19 Update
"Welcome to the SBF trial, a Coindesk podcast network newsletter bringing you daily insights from inside the courtroom where Sam Bankman -Fried will try to stay out of prison. Follow the Coindesk podcast network to get the audio each morning with content from the Coindesk regulation team and voiced by Wondercraft AI. Sam Bankman -Fried stands accused of committing wire fraud and conspiracy to commit several other types of frauds. His once mighty crypto exchange FTX collapsed in dramatic fashion nearly a year ago shedding billions in value and in two weeks he'll begin his effort to convince a jury of his peers that he didn't commit any of many alleged crimes while running the company. If convicted of even one of the charges Bankman -Fried faces years in a federal prison. If convicted of all of the charges he could well spend decades if not the rest of his life behind bars but there are some nuances here. The maximum prison sentences are just guidelines and like any criminal defendant Bankman -Fried is innocent until proven guilty even if the evidence made public so far seems damning. This discussion itself may be premature given his trial hasn't even begun yet. So how did we get here? Samuel Bankman -Fried who is 31 years old was arrested last December a few short weeks after his empire filed for bankruptcy and ejected the Stanford and Jane Street alum who helmed it. Federal prosecutors in the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York filed an initial indictment bringing 8 charges including wire fraud and conspiring to commit securities fraud, commodities fraud and launder money. They later filed a set of superseding indictments which the defense team led by famed attorneys Mark Cohen and Christian Everdell successfully argued can't be brought at this time due to international extradition treaty obligations. A second trial is tentatively scheduled for next year to address these charges. Over the estimated six -week trial prosecutors will place members of the FTX inner circle including former Alameda research CEO Caroline Ellison, former FTX chief technology officer and co -founder Gary Wang and former FTX engineering director Nishad Singh on the stand to testify against their former colleague, boss and roommate. They'll present information from FTX's systems and balance sheets and share audio recordings over the course of the trial all while the defense tries to poke holes in the case. In the lead -up these teams of attorneys will try to find 10 or 12 jurors out of a selection of hundreds most sympathetic to their case. Once Sam Bankman -Fried's criminal trial begins putting these months of paperwork docket fights behind us his fate will hinge on his jury's opinion. Is the former FTX CEO a crypto criminal or perhaps merely a victim of circumstance? They'll have to decide based on the facts of the case but their ranks haven't been filled quite yet. Right now the lawyers are debating how to determine who can make that decision. The process of jury selection heated up late last week after government lawyers blasted the defense team's proposed questions. A good number of them could influence potential jurors. They argued in a letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan. Some were too prying, others too specific the feds said. A handful are a thinly veiled attempt to advance a defense narrative the government claimed. Many of the questions they took umbrage with shared a common theme. They were about appearances. Sam Bankman -Fried is or was a master of appearances. From the first time this author spotted the sneakers and shorts wearing wild -haired billionaire on a yacht in To his final television interviews preceding his arrest the crypto wunderkind cultivated perceptions. He shuffled between personas that bolstered this image of approachable greatness. Sam was the guy you could trust to get it right even though he couldn't tie his dress shoes. I think it's important for people to think I look crazy the government quoted Sam as saying his crazy playing video games during interviews dressing like a dorm room schlub sleeping on a beanbag chair and oh yeah those disheveled curls made his greatness speaking on Capitol Hill pioneering massive philanthropic endeavors and oh yeah the crypto exchange FTX all the greater. But the government doesn't want to let the defense highlight any of that before the trial begins. They're calling on Judge Kaplan to reject jury questions that probe the righteousness of philanthropic philosophies and campaign finance. Sam's ADHD should be left off the table they say and don't even think about interrogating jurors FTX specific opinions. Real or engineered, Sam's game of perceptions has ended. He'll begin the trial as a well -dressed defendant just like any other. The government doesn't want his old image to dictate who might eventually put him in a khaki jumpsuit. We'll be in the courthouse each and every day of this trial bringing you news as it happens and keeping you updated. Want to follow along? Sign up for Coindesk's new daily newsletter, the SBF trial, bringing you insights from the courthouse and around the case. You can get the podcast each day right here by following the Coindesk podcast network. Thanks for listening.
Spellcaster: The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried
Fresh update on "samuel" discussed on Spellcaster: The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried
"Front of an imposing library of legal books. Next to him was a large cardboard sign that said U .S. versus Samuel Bankman Freed. We charged that from 2019 until earlier this year, Bankman Freed stole billions of dollars from FTX customers. He used that money for his personal benefit and to cover expenses and debts of his hedge fund, Alameda Research. He said Sam was being charged fraud with along with a campaign finance scheme that sought to influence public policy in The eight counts carried a maximum sentence of 115 years. As he took questions, a reporter asked if Sam fit the profile for a crime of this nature. You can commit fraud in shorts and t -shirts in the sun, that's possible too. Williams hinted strongly that more charges were to come against both Sam and anyone who'd worked with him. We are not done. A number people of had helped or
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from IDL82 Part 3 Chapter 38 Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales Discerning Hearts Podcast
"Discerning Hearts provides content dedicated to those on the spiritual journey. To continue production of these podcasts, prayers, and more, go to discerninghearts .com and click the donate link found there, or inside the free Discerning Hearts app to make your donation. Thanks and God bless. Part Three, Chapter 38 of the Introduction to the Devout Life by St. Francis de Sales. This is a Discerning Hearts recording read by Corey Webb. Chapter 38, Councils to Married People. Marriage is a great sacrament both in Jesus Christ and His Church, and one to be honored to all, by all, and in all. To all, for even those who do not enter upon it, should honor it in all humility. By all, for it is wholly alike to poor as to rich. In all, for its origin, its end, its form and matter are wholly. It's the nursery of Christianity, whence the earth is peopled with faithful, till the number of the elect in heaven be perfected, so that respect for the marriage tie is exceedingly important to the commonwealth, of which it is the source and supply. Would to God that His dear Son were bidden to all weddings as to that of Cana? Truly, then the wine of consolation and blessing would never be lacking. For if these are often so wanting, it is because too frequently now men summon Adonis instead of our Lord, and Venus rather than our Lady. He who desires that the young of his flock should be like Jacob's, fair and ring -streaked, must set fair objects before their eyes, and he who would find a blessing in his marriage must ponder the holiness and dignity of this sacrament, instead of, which too often weddings become a season of mere feasting and disorder. Above all, I would exhort all married people to seek that mutual love so commended to them by the Holy Spirit in the Bible. It is little to bid you love one another with the mutual love. Turtle doves do that, or with human love. The heathen cherished such love as that. But I say to you in the apostles' words, Husbands, love your wives even as Christ also loved the church. Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as unto the Lord. It was God who brought Eve to our first father Adam, and gave her to him to wife. And even so, my friends, it is God's invisible hand which binds you in the sacred bonds of marriage. It is He who gives you one to the other, therefore cherish one another with a holy, sacred, heavenly love. The first effect of this love is the indissoluble union of your hearts. If you glue together two pieces of deal, provided that the glue be strong, their union will be so close that the stick will break more easily in any other part than where it is joined. Now God unites husband and wife so closely in himself that it should be easier to sunder soul from body than husband from wife. Nor is this union to be considered as mainly of the body, but yet more a union of the heart, its affections and love. The second effect of this love should be inviolable fidelity to one another. In olden times, finger rings weren't want to be graven as seals. We read of it in holy scriptures, and this explains the meaning of the marriage ceremony, when the church, by the hand of their priest, blesses a ring and gives it first to the man in token that she sets a seal on his heart by this sacrament, so that no thought of any other woman may even enter therein so long as she who now is given to him shall live. Then the bridegroom places the ring on the bride's hand, so that she in turn may know that she must never conceive any affection in her heart for any other man so long as he shall live, who is now given to her by our Lord himself. The third end of marriage is the birth and bringing up of children, and herein, O you married people, are you greatly honored in that God willing to multiply souls to bless and praise him to all eternity? He associates you with himself in this his work, by the production of bodies into which, like dew from heaven, he infuses the souls he creates as well as the bodies into which they enter. Therefore husbands, do you preserve a tender constant hearty love for your wives? It was that the wife might be loved heartily and tenderly that woman was taken from the side nearest Adam's heart. No failings or infirmities, bodily or mental, in your wife should ever excite any kind of dislike in you, but rather a loving, tender compassion, and that because God has made her dependent on you and bound to defer to and obey you, that while she is meant to be your helpmate, you are her superior and her head. And on your part, wives, do you love the husbands God has given you tenderly, heartily, but with a reverential confiding love? For God has made the man to have the predominance and to be the stronger, and he of his flesh, taking her from out of the ribs of the man, to show that she must be subject to his guidance. All holy Scripture enjoins this subjection, which nevertheless is not grievous, and the same holy Scripture, while it bids you accept it lovingly, bids your husbands to use his superiority with great tenderness, loving -kindness and gentleness. Husbands dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel. But while you seek diligently to foster this mutual love, give good heed that it do not turn to any manner of jealousy. Just as the worm is often hatched in the sweetest and ripest apple, so too often jealousy springs up in the most warm and loving hearts, defiling and ruining them, and if it is allowed to take root, it will produce dissension, quarrels and separation. Of a truth, jealousy never arises where love is built up on true virtue, and therefore it is a sure sign of an earthly sensual love, in which mistrust and inconstancy is soon infused. It is a sorry kind of friendship which seeks to strengthen itself by jealousy, for though jealousy may be a sign of strong hot friendship, it is certainly no sign of a good pure perfect attachment, and that because perfect love implies absolute trust in the person loved, whereas jealousy implies uncertainty. If you, husbands, would have your wives faithful, be it yours to set them the example. How have you the face to exact purity from your wives, asks Saint Gregory Nazianzen, if you yourself live an impure life? Or, how can you require that which you do not give in return? If you would have them chaste, let your own conduct to them be chaste. Saint Paul bids you possess your vessel in sanctification, but, if on the contrary, you teach them evil, no wonder that they dishonor you. And you, O women, whose honor is inseparable from modesty and purity, preserve it jealously, and never allow the smallest speck to soil the whiteness of your reputation. Shrink sensitively from the various trifles which can touch it, never permit any gallantries whatsoever. Suspect any who presume to flatter your beauty or grace, for when men praise wares they cannot purchase, they are often tempted to steal. And if anyone should dare to speak in disparagement of your husband, show that you are irrecoverably offended, for it is plain that he not only seeks your fall, but he counts you as half -fallen, since the bargain with the newcomer is half -made when one is disgusted with the first merchant. Ladies, both in ancient and modern times have worn pearls in their ears, for the sake, so says Pliny, of hearing them tinkle against each other. But remembering how the friend of God Isaac sent earrings as first pledges of his love to the chaste Rebecca, I look upon this mystic ornament as signifying that the first claim a husband has over his wife, and one which she ought most faithfully to keep for him, is her ear, so that no evil word or rumor enter therein, and not be heard save the pleasant sound of true and pure words, which are represented by the choice pearls of the Gospel. Never forget that souls are faithfulness lead to familiarity and confidence, and saints have abounded in tender caresses Isaac and Rebecca. The type of chaste married life indulged in such caresses as to convince Abimelech that they must be husband and wife. The great St. Louis, strict as he was to himself, was so tender towards his wife that some were ready to blame him for it, although, in truth, he rather deserved praise for subjecting his lofty, marital mind to the little details of conjugal love. Such minor matters will not suffice to knit hearts, but they tend to draw them closer and promote mutual happiness. Before giving birth to St. Augustine, St. Monica offered him repeatedly to God's glory, as he himself tells us, and it is not a good lesson for Christian women how to offer the fruit of their womb to God. Who accepts the free oblations of loving hearts and promotes the desires of such faithful mothers? Witness Samuel St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Andrea Deficile, and others. St. Bernard's mother, worthy of such a son, was wont to take her newborn babes in her arms to offer them to Jesus Christ, thenceforth loving them with a reverential love as a sacred deposit from God. And so entirely was her offering accepted that all her seven children became saints. And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This the good queen Blanche did most earnestly by St. Louis her son. Witness her oft -repeated words, My son, I would sooner see you die than guilty of a mortal sin, words which sank so deeply into the saintly monarch's heart, that he himself said there was no day on which they did not recur to his mind and strengthen him in treading God's ways. We call races and generations, houses, and the Hebrews were to want to speak of the birth of children as the building up of the house, as it is written of the Jewish midwives in Egypt, that the Lord made them houses, whereby we learn that a good house is not reared so much by the accumulation of worldly goods as by the bringing up of children in the ways of holiness and of God. And to this end, no labor or trouble must be spared, for children are the crown of their parents. Thus it was that St. Monica steadfastly withstood St. Augustine's evil propensities, and, following him across sea and land, he became more truly the child of her tears in the conversion of his soul than the son of her body in his natural birth. St. Paul assigns the charge of the household to the woman, and, consequently, some hold that the devotion of the family depends more upon the wife than the husband, who is more frequently absent, and has less influence in the house. Certainly King Solomon, in the book of Proverbs, refers all households' prosperity to the care and industry of that virtuous woman whom he describes. We read in Genesis that Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren, or as the Hebrews read it, he prayed over against her, on opposite sides of the place of prayer, and his prayer was granted. This is the most fruitful union between husband and wife which is founded in devotion, to which they should mutually stimulate one another. They are certain fruits like the quince, of so bitter a quality, that they are scarcely eatable, save when preserved, while others again, like cherries and apricots, are so delicate and soft that they can only be kept by the same treatment. So the wife must seek that her husband be sweetened with the sugar of devotion, for man without religion is a rude rough animal, and the husband will desire to see his wife devout, as without her frailty and weakness are liable to tarnish an injury. Saint Paul says that the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband, because in so close a tie one may easily draw the other to what is good, and how great is the blessing on those faithful husbands and wives who confirm one another continually in the fear of the Lord. Moreover, each should have such forbearance towards the other that they never grow angry or fall into discussion and argument. The bee will not dwell in a spot where there is much loud noise or shouting, or echo, neither will God's Holy Spirit dwell in a household where altercation and tumult, arguing and quarreling, disturb the peace. Saint Gregory Nenzen said that in his time married people were wont to celebrate the anniversary of their wedding, and it is a custom I should greatly approve, provided it were not a merely secular celebration, but if husbands and wives would go on that day to confession and communion, and commend their married life specially to God, renewing their resolution to promote mutual good by increased love and faithfulness, and thus take breath, so to say, and gather new vigor from the Lord to go on steadfastly in their vocation.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from POA4 Extraordinary Activity Put On The Armor A Manual for Spiritual Warfare with Dr. Paul Thigpen Ph.D. Discerning Hears Catholic Podcasts
"Discerninghearts .com, in cooperation with TAN Books, presents Put on the Armor, A Manual for Spiritual Warfare, with Dr. Paul Thickepen. Dr. Thickepen is an internationally known speaker, bestselling author, and award -winning journalist who has published 43 books in a wide variety of genres and subjects, including The Rapture Trap, A Catholic Response to End Times Fever, and The Manual for Spiritual Warfare, the book on which this series is based. In 2008, Dr. Thickepen was appointed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to their National Advisory Council. He has served the Church as a theologian, historian, apologist, evangelist, and catechist in a number of settings, speaking frequently in Catholic and secular media broadcasts and at conferences, seminars, parish missions, and scholarly gatherings. Put on the Armor, A Manual for Spiritual Warfare, with Dr. Paul Thickepen. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Well, we've talked about the ordinary act. We do need to touch upon the extraordinary demonic activity. Well, this is the kind of stuff that, you know, that Hollywood likes to glorify. It's extraordinary in that it really isn't as common as just temptation, which is common to every man, woman, and child. By extraordinary activity, we're talking about a destructive work that's more powerful and that manifests itself not only in our thought realm, but also in the physical realm. Most observers of demonic tactics agree that there's certain activities that occur. They often use different labels for them, and so I allow for that in my book. I have a certain terminology. There are others who would use a different terminology. The kind of a whole series of levels of activity, each one a little more serious than the last, that kind of finds its worst form in possession, which is what most people in the world, when they think about demons, that's what they think about. But the first is called infestation. It's demonic activity that's connected to a particular location or an object. So if there's a house, for instance, that's infested, and people often think it's, you know, they call it ghost or something, but it's actually demonic activity. But folks, witnesses in an infested house, may see physical objects moving on their own or seemingly on their own, levitating, flying through the air, disappearing and reappearing in other places. They may smell offensive odors, often like sulfur. They may hear noises they can't explain, like crashes or laughter or screaming. So when people talk about, you know, a haunted house, often that's what we're talking about, something where there's a demonic association with that building or that location. The next level then is what I would call oppression. It describes demonic attacks on a victim's exterior life. So it may be influences on their bodily health, influences on their finances, on their work situation, on their family relations and other social relations. In some severe cases, it may even include physical assaults, invisible blows to the body, a push out of bed or downstairs, mysterious scratches appearing on the skin. I've seen all of these before. A number of saints throughout the ages have spoken about enduring this kind of thing. So St. Anthony of the Desert, St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Ante, Padre Pio, St. Pio of Pietrelcina, a few of those. Next, then would be obsession. That refers to a more severe and relentless form of the struggle in the victim's interior life. It's a wrestling with disturbing thoughts planted by the enemy, but to a degree, not just temptation. So it's an inner torment that can be suffered while you're awake or in nightmares, becomes so intense that the sufferer may seem to be going insane to themselves and to others. There may be visual and auditory hallucinations, persistent temptations to suicide. We have to note that symptoms like this may well have physical causes and mental causes rather than spiritual ones. That's why the church is always careful and insists that those who experience these kinds of afflictions should first approach medical professionals for help before just, instead of just concluding that they're under attack from evil spirits. But then the most serious is possession, the one that's most dangerous and most rare form of extraordinary demonic activity. It involves periodic episodes in which an evil spirit controls the body of the victim, though the victim is usually not aware of what's taking place during that control. And we have several accounts of that in the Gospels, as we've talked about before. So the demon -possessed person may engage in bizarre bodily contortions that would normally be impossible. The body may levitate or act with superhuman strength. The victim may groan, hiss, make animal sounds. An alien voice may speak through the possessed person, sometimes without even the use of their vocal cords. Often they reveal knowledge of hidden things. Are they talking a language unknown to the victim and the victim's never studied? And at the same time, as in cases of infestation, often disturbing and even violent physical phenomena may take place in the victim's presence. And then finally, the victim of demon possession exhibits an extreme, sometimes violent, sense of to revulsion holy things, like the name of Mary and the name of Jesus, to the rites of the church, to a consecrated host, to sacred relics, to sacramental, such as holy water. So that would be the most serious thing. And I always like to make the point that a demon can never possess someone in the sense of owning that person, because all human beings, no matter what they've been through or what they've done, all human beings belong to God. They are his personal possession. Well, we speak of cases of demonic possession in which the enemy has basically become a usurper occupying the human body that was created to be indwelt by the Holy Spirit instead. Now one of the reasons why we are going over again this particular part of our conversation is to know the battle. And it doesn't necessarily mean that we're called to be the Navy SEALs that are called to go out there and engage in, OK, now we know what it is, so we're going to go out and deal with it. It's important, as you said, at certain levels that, yes, medical professionals absolutely have to be working in relationship with a person afflicted. In many cases now, Paul, isn't it true that in dioceses around the United States, as well as around the world, that if there are those who feel that they are encountering this, that they can go to the Chancery or maybe even to the local parish, and they will be able to work together to help bring that person once again to wholeness? Yes, and that's so important. If you're at the place where your sense is that it's beyond the ordinary and these other things, you find a priest that you're confident in and you trust, and lay it before them. If you have to go to several priests, but go and give them a chance to help you figure out if it may be something else than what you're thinking. They can make references, refer you to medical professionals who can help you to kind of rule those things out, and the church won't allow you to go through something of a major exorcism without having kind of ruled out the other things. But the church is there, resources are there to help you. Our Lord Jesus, who cast out demons very easily, has given his authority to them, and powers don't always come out with just a word because they're complex situations that involve kind of healing that has to go on in the soul, and sometimes a renunciation of certain things before it can all happen, but completely. If you have a trained exorcist, they'll know what to do. So the church has that help, and go to the church for sure while I'm meeting more and more folks who, you know, are, well, I hear there's this spiritual healer, you know, and often it's someone who's not even of a Christian background, but some kind of New Agey thing. Either you don't want to go that direction because folks who don't have the authority that Christ gave to, you know, leaders of his church, they can just get you into worse trouble than ever. Yeah, you can look at the Scriptures for an example, the one that jumps in my mind is Saul, King Saul, when he chose to go to an oracle because he was feeling, can we say, maybe oppressed or something like that, I'm not trying to diagnose this situation, but to the point where he went to the oracle to summon up Samuel, and it ended up leading to not only her madness, but to his. Well, it's just a very dangerous thing. Like I said, you know, in the book of Acts, you know, the other example where you have the seven sons of Seva who fancied themselves exorcists, and they see St. Paul casting out you out in the name of Paul or Jesus or whatever name they used, and the thing just looks at them and you can just hear the smirk and the words, Paul I know and Jesus I know, but who are you? And then jumps on them, you know, but especially folks, you know, kind of occult healers and that kind of thing. There's certain cultures that, you know, just have a tradition of this, it's extremely dangerous. Sometimes, you know, people accuse Jesus of casting out demons by the prince of demons, and in this case, it's almost like that, that they're not really casting them out, but by, they themselves can be demonically influenced in a way that will, you know, if there's actually a demonic power that's somehow oppressing someone, and they go to one of these healers who's actually demonically connected, yeah, that person can appeal to the demon, lay off of them for a while, and they'll seem to think, you know, they'll look like maybe they've been healed or helped. It's the wrong way to go about it because it's not the authority of Jesus that's overcoming the thing. It's just, you know, orders from a higher demon, so to speak. You have to be really careful. And I think it needs to be said, too, here, and I hope you agree, Paul, that as we spoke about the ordinary activity, that of temptation that is done, that even in this extraordinary activity, demonic activity, that trained exorcists will say that there, it usually begins with an entry point, you know, a demonic entry point. There's a point in which it's not necessarily where the guy's just walking down the street and all of a sudden, boom, this happens to him. I'm not going to say that it can happen that way, but most of the time, the overwhelming majority of the time, it's because there is some type of activity, whether it was an assault as a child or it's something that the person agreed to participate in, it might be a violent act that was perpetrated. There's usually some moment or a series of moments where this activity enters into the person's life and then it manifests itself into a greater situation. And that's when those who are trained in this area are able to untie those knots to get to those layers. Am I presenting that properly? Yeah, I think so. I'm certainly no expert in exorcism and I've never trained and I'm not a priest, so I couldn't be an exorcist, but I hear the same thing from those who are trained that often there is some particular point of access. And again, it's not necessarily that the person makes a choice to do something, but something could be done to them or they could even just move into a house that is infested for whatever reason because there's some earlier resident called some of the powers and into there by what they did, maybe the Ouija board or something, who knows. And that's why you do need some trained folks because it's not just so simple as snap my fingers, the devil's gone. There are certain kind of principles that seems to be of demonic activity like that that an exorcist is trained to look at, to understand and to begin to, as you say, untie the knot because these things usually are complicated knots because you still need the will of the victim to cooperate with what's going on. There needs to be some part of them that is saying, I want to be free of this and I will do what I need to to be free of this. And if it means renouncing what I did, you know, by going to that channel or going to the Ouija board or whatever, or if it means forgiving this person who did this to me or as a part of it, or if it means forgiving myself, making reparation in something, some demonstration that my will is to do the will of God and to be free, you know, always gets to me that one time, I don't want to read too much in it, but in the gospel where there's a man who's been ill all his life, he's lame all his life and Jesus looks at him and says, do you want to be healed? And that's always struck me that sometimes that's a question he has to ask us through the priest, through the counselor, through the exorcist that we go that far, do you want to be healed? Because it's going to require some cooperation on your part.
The Garden Question
A highlight from 125 - Cultivating History: Exploring George Washington's Mount Vernon Garden - Dean Norton
"The Garden Question is a podcast for people that love designing, building, and growing smarter gardens that work. Listen in as we talk with successful garden designers, builders, and growers, discovering their stories along with how they think, work, and grow. This is your next step in creating a beautiful, year -round, environmentally connected, low -maintenance, and healthy, thriving outdoor space. It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or an expert, there will always be something inspiring when you listen to The Garden Question podcast. Hello, I'm your host, Craig McManus. Dean Norton fell in love with the Mount Vernon Estate Gardens 53 years ago and never left. After receiving a degree in horticulture from Clemson University, he began his career as the estate's boxwood gardener. The historical gardens of the first president of the United States, George Washington, became his responsibility in 1980. His promotion to horticulturalists allowed him to apply the latest plant science and horticultural management techniques for historical gardens. Dean has devoted considerable time to researching 18th century gardens and gardening practices. He has received awards for conservation from the DAR and the Garden Club of America, as well as the Garden Club of America's Elizabeth Craig Weaver Proctor National Medal. He is an honorary member of the Garden Club of Virginia and the Garden Club of Providence. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Washington College, serves on several historic property boards, and lectures nationally and internationally. This is Episode 125, Cultivating History, Exploring George Washington's Mount Vernon Garden, with Dean Norton, an encore presentation and remix of Episode 64. Dean, why did General George Washington, the first president of the United States, garden? Well, he really gardened for necessity. The earliest gardens were called gardens of necessity for health and survival. Of course, the most important plant to be planted within a garden were vegetables, something that you were going to have at the dinner table to eat. Vegetables were huge to him. Even during the Revolutionary War, he wanted to make sure that his troops were getting as many vegetables as they could whenever possible. I would not actually call him a gardener per se, but for a year and a half, he became a designer. He totally redid his country seat from a very simplistic design to one following naturalistic design principles. Then that landscape were four very fine gardens that he oversaw. What story does the Mount Vernon Garden tell? Tell us the story of a man that wanted his gardening world to be complete, I would say. He had a very small botanic garden, which he fondly called his little garden. When he was here on site, he was typically doing that work himself on his knees, planting seed and seedling saplings. He kept such good records in that little tiny garden that we were able to recreate that quite nicely. His earliest gardens were a fruit and nut garden and a kitchen garden, but when he changed his design, the kitchen garden remained as it is. The fruit and nut garden became a pleasure garden with vegetables in there as well, which is kind of an interesting combination. He had a vineyard for a while, but the grapes failed, and that became a fruit garden and nursery. The nursery was for plants that he could grow to plant on other areas of the estate and also to grow things just for collection of seed. What is today's mission for the garden? Today's mission for the garden is interpretation. We are trying to share with our visitors what life was like in the 18th century, why these gardens were important. Certainly after 1785, the gardens took on a new role, which was for people to come when he had created here at Mount Vernon. The story of gardeners themselves, the gardeners that Washington hired through the Articles of Indenture, also the enslaved gardeners that worked with the professional gardener to cultivate till to harvest. It's a great story. It's one that we thoroughly enjoy telling. Gardening really hasn't changed much from the 18th century, so the more we're out there digging in the earth, we think of those gardeners from the past. Today's visitors, how do they respond? I'll tell you what, when they come through the gates and they get to the Bowling Green Gate and see the house for the first time, that's exactly what they were expecting to see, this beautiful house that Washington lived in. But then the further they go into the landscape, they're really totally blown away by the amount of landscape and gardens that Washington had. They weren't expecting that at all. I think the gardens are well received, and I think that the stories we tell throughout the estate in so many different areas are certainly appreciated by our visitors. The garden's been there for about two and a half centuries. You've told us that there's four gardens that make up the Mount Vernon Garden. Could we walk through each one of those and you tell us about them? Sure. The panic garden is a simple garden, very small. It was intended to plant things that Washington was not familiar with, although sometimes other things that he knew quite well ended up in there as well. He received 500 Chinese seed, which he planted in one of the beds. None of them came up. So actually, we could show one of the beds with nothing but bare dirt and we would be exactly correct. That was his playground, and he truly loved getting plants he wasn't familiar with and planting them in there, and he did most of the work in there himself. There was an area that he started a vineyard, hoping to get some grapes for making wine, but that failed. That four -acre area became a fruit garden and nursery. Washington kept such good records that the fruit trees are planted exactly as he describes in that particular enclosure. Part of it is a nursery as well, where he grew trees and shrubs, also some other grasses and things just for the collection of seed. The kitchen garden was the first garden laid out in 1760, and that has been cultivated as a kitchen garden since 1760. It's never changed in its purpose, which is the only garden like that on the estate. Both the kitchen garden and fruit nut garden were an acre in size, so that's a significant garden. The nut garden changed from a garden of necessity to a pleasure garden, and that was meant to be the aha moment. When people were strolling around the Bowling Green, they could look through that gate, they saw a beautiful conservatory. The idea was to walk in there and just enjoy the beauty of the flowers, and those flowers were there for their enjoyment and not for their use. I think his gardening world was quite complete. You said the conservatory, would that be the greenhouse? That's correct. It had a greenhouse that he copied from a lovely property called Mount Clare, just to the north of Baltimore. The owner was Margaret Carroll. He asked for permission for some information, and she was thrilled and gave him all that he needed, even his first plants for his collection, to get his greenhouse started. I started studying that greenhouse in pictures. When I think greenhouse, I think a glass top or a plastic top or something like that, and this was constructed quite different. Could you tell us about how it was constructed and it was heated? The greenhouses in the 18th century typically just had glass panes on the south side, this was southern exposure. Also typically they were triple home windows, so you could open top and bottom to allow for good air circulation. This was quite modern, very good. It had a vaulted ceiling, so hot air didn't get trapped up at the corners. It had a wood door on the west side of the structure to keep afternoon sun from coming in. It was too hot. A glass door on the east side to allow morning sun in. It had shutters that closed very tight, so in the wintertime when you got whatever heat you could get from the solar energy, you could close those shutters and retain the heat overnight. It was heated by a stove room on the opposite side of the structure. The fire pit was quite low, and that hot air and smoke would go underneath the slate floor in the greenhouse and then rise up along the back wall and out the chimney. It was very efficient. It housed the semi -tropical plants and citrus trees in the winter. Not for them to continue to fruit, so he had lemons and limes and all that. Just to keep them alive in the wintertime. In all these gardens, he's combining beauty with necessity. How did he accomplish that? The one garden that really does that beautifully is the upper garden, or pleasure garden. He wanted a pleasure garden. He wanted the aha moment when someone walked into there. It's a 10 -foot -wide path, edged in boxwood with this greenhouse at the end. He was concerned, though, in that he didn't want to lose a lot of space to the growth of vegetables, which were still the most important plant that he grew on the property. 18th century horticulture said, look, George, you can do both. Plant your vegetables and then surround them with a border of flowers. The border could be three feet, five feet, whatever you so decide. It's the border that's actually the pleasure garden. So you're really not losing that much space to growing vegetables. How did Washington change his gardens to enhance Mount Vernon's natural beauty? He adopted the naturalistic style. There are four key elements of that. The curve line is nature's gift, management of surprises, random planting, and hidden barriers. If you can do those four things, you're well on your way to a wonderful naturalistic design. The management of surprises, the curve line helps you with that. Around each bend, you can do something different. The book that he's learning all these techniques from was written by a gentleman named Batty Langley. He wrote the book in 1728 called New Principles of Gardening. Washington purchased it in 1759. Langley goes in, he says, once you've seen one quarter of your garden, you should not have seen it all. There's nothing more shocking and stiff than a regular garden. He said every garden must have good shade. If you have to walk more than 20 paces in full sun, your walk is not worth it. Washington really took all these thoughts and comments to heart and made sure he put trees on either side of his serpentine avenues. Around each bend, he added shrubberies in wilderness areas and groves. It really was a complete landscape, and it was all just trying to stay within the qualifications or the requirements of a naturalistic garden. There are many historical events that took place away from Mount Vernon. For long periods of time, Washington was gone. How did he stay in touch with his garden and its growing? Much to his demise, much to our benefit, Washington, during the 45 years he lived here at Mount Vernon, he was away for 16 years, only visiting his house a couple times during all that time. When he is away, he's communicating with the land manager with lengthy letters, three, four, five pages long, giving him instructions to do this, make sure that is done, have you planted this, I want to try to do this next. We have that exchange of letters. Gives us a tremendous advantage in being able to represent Mount Vernon as accurately as we do in today's world. You should be considered the current garden overseer, but there's been many that have come before you. Have you got any good overseer stories about your predecessors? Yeah, there's some. I'm number 37. I don't know if that number is exactly correct, but I'm honored to be the current gardener, whatever number I am. They were all pretty competent in their practices. Washington called one clever because he was so good at grafting trees. Probably one of the cutest ones is when Washington's trying to hire a gardener. He's writing to his land manager saying that the gardener should not have any children, but if he does, only one, but certainly no more than two. He just keeps going on and on, giving almost any option possible for the gardener. He was always looking for the Scottish gardener because they were some of the best. I'm thrilled to be following in the footsteps of so many great gardeners. I hope that I'm continuing their tradition of maintaining a beautiful Mount Vernon. Tell us about the people that worked in the gardens during Washington's time. He hired gardeners under the Articles of Indenture, so they would come over, he would pay their way, and they would have to work that to pay Washington back. Some of them stayed for many years. There was a German gardener named John Christian Eller who was here for a number of years. They had a bit of a falling out, but apparently after Washington passed away, he actually returned because there is something in the notes about a German gardener saying that he used to work here. There is one from Holland, England, and then of course you had your Scottish gardener at the very end of his life, which Washington said that he was dedicated, sober, passionate about his work, and that in short, he's the best hired servant I've ever had. What makes it even better is that he says he has never been happier. I think that's really wonderful, and it certainly rings true for me. For being here at Mount Vernon as long as I have, my life here as a gardener has been a very happy experience. What did the garden go through between Washington's death and until the time it was bought by its current owners? It started to fall and disappear rapidly. Visitors' accounts have been occurring since Washington lived here. People visiting, and they write in their diaries or letters to friends, which is tremendously valuable to us, for that is our Polaroid to the past. Washington died in 1799, and visitors in 1801, 1802 are saying that it's deteriorating, it doesn't look anything like it did during Washington's time, so things just started to fall apart a little bit. You didn't have the money, you didn't have the dedication maybe to do as well. Not to say that work wasn't being done and things weren't being cleaned up as best as possible, but definitely it was noticeable to visitors that it was in a bit of disarray. When the Ladies Association purchased the property in 1858, things started to change, of course, quickly. And of course, Mount Vernon is in their hands today, it's a beautiful, beautiful site. Did they buy it from the family? They bought it from John Augustine Washington, the fourth Washington that owned the property before it was sold to the ladies. It cost them $200 ,000, and with that they received 200 acres, where others said you should take everything down but the mansion, because that's all that's important. They made the decision that they wanted to keep everything that was there during Washington's time, which was absolutely the right thing to do. We have all the outbuildings. It's an amazing opportunity for visitors to come to see an estate, a plantation, as it was during the time of the owner. Are there new discoveries being made through modern archaeology and research, or do you feel like you've re -established everything there? No, there are new discoveries all the time. It's amazing. Archaeology, the science, is becoming more and more exact all the time, with radar and LiDAR flyovers and just all these wonderful techniques that they now have. We're still finding letters that we didn't have before. Eventually we may find the plan that Washington did for the Bowling Green. We have the plan's key that is in his hand, but we don't have the actual plan itself. You can never write the final chapter in this adventure that we're in here from Washington's time till now. We try to represent things as accurately as we can, but we may find a new letter or something that will totally alter our interpretation of what we were using or going on to create an area that we thought was accurate, but new information may change that, and we will go back and make those changes so that it's historically accurate. Where did Washington acquire his plants? Initially, the landscape was completed by nothing but trees and shrubs that he found in his wildernesses surrounding Mount Vernon. So it's certainly a native landscape, and he identified these plants in the wintertime by structure and bud and had them dug and brought back. He did say that he was looking for exotics. He loved plants of all sorts. Now, we don't know if an exotic to him was Mexico or South Carolina, but what we do know is he said he wanted plants outside of his geographic area. People sent him gifts of plants often. Also he ordered from three of the principal nurseries of the time, John Bartram in Philadelphia, William Hamilton in New York, and Prince on Long Island. He ordered a lot of these plants and that he was experimenting with and putting within his landscape. I heard a story about a Franklin tree. Was that ever a part of the estate? The Franklinia, I think it was actually ordered from Philadelphia, and we've tried to grow them any number of times. We can't get them to survive. They're very finicky. They need to be in a spot they're really happy with, and so far we haven't found that spot on the estate, unfortunately. What's the significance of the Bond Plan? A gentleman named Samuel Vaughan visited Mount Vernon in 1784, I think it was, or 83. He was a landscape designer. He did a good bit of work up in the Philadelphia area, actually did some work around Independence Hall. He came and visited Mount Vernon, and in his sketchbook drew the plan of the estate, and then went back to Philadelphia. We drew a beautiful big plan that was very, very accurate. Washington said that you've drawn my estate accurately except that you've enclosed the view with trees, and so the only problem that Washington states is when looking from the house down the Bowling Green, down a vista to the forest beyond, there were two willow mounds that were planted on the Bowling Green. They weren't meant to act as punctuation points. No planting would occur within that, so you had a wide open view to the west. Whatever reason, Vaughan decided to draw trees all in there. In Washington's eye, it was all correct except for that. So it's a beautiful plan, archaeologists have used it, and all the buildings that he shows on that plan are where they find them when they dig in the soil. So he was recording the existence and not proposing new things. There's been some debate about that because Vaughan was a designer, and some say, well, how do we know that this is something Washington had, or was Vaughan drawing what he thought it should be? The written account seemed to support what Vaughan was drawing was accurate. So it's all about interpretation. We could look at two passages somewhere and interpret it both totally differently. I think the Vaughan plan is amazing. I think it's as accurate as we can possibly get. You've mentioned the Bowling Green a couple of times. What grass did they use in the Bowling Green? Their grass was called goosegrass or speargrass. They also had rye, and it's even bluegrass. It was a very coarse grass. Coarse grass was kind of important, actually, because they mowed it with the English sigh, and a very fine -bladed grass would be very difficult to cut with that implement, whereas the wider -bladed grass, they could cut quite nicely if they had a good sharp edge on their sigh, and the sickle, of course, would have been the weed eater. The Bowling Green was meant for games and entertaining and would have been mowed on a regular basis, rigged, rolled, and mowed right up until you may have a drought or something where the grass would stop growing, just like we have in an experience today. What variety do you grow there now? Weeds. It's just, I'm serious. It looks great from a distance, but if you walk up on it, it's just clover and creeping Charlie, and if it's green, I'm fine. We don't want to use chemicals on the lawn. We have a lot of visitors, a lot of children running around, so it's just as natural as possible. We overseed and everything, but no, just don't look too closely. Well, that'd be more accurate to the period, I guess. You know, I don't know. It'd be interesting to see the grass back then. It was maintained in a way that it was intended for them to bowl. They had lots of games with the hoops and other things, so it was used a great deal as a green for entertaining. How do you cut it now? Oh, we have John Deere's to go 13 miles an hour. It's pretty nice. You know, front deck mowers, it's great. Is that a reel? No, my goodness, no. Years ago when I started, our only riding mower was a Toro reel. Now, nothing against Toro, okay, but that thing never worked. Poor man that was operating, he was a World War II vet, and he was always in the shop just standing here waiting for his mower to work. So no, it's not a reel. My dad had a reel mower, and he was always working on it too. My dad's way to fix anything was with a screwdriver, not to actually tighten any screws. He would just beat on it. He was so upset. You've got the serpentine pass. What materials did they use? It was a combination of gravel and clay, pea gravel, smaller grade gravel, and it was cobblestone up around the circle in front of the mansion. Washington said if he could find any alternative form of paving, he would certainly use it because gravel roads were constant maintenance of raking, rolling, adding new gravel to keep them from being muddy all the time. That's exactly what was used in the gardens as well, was a gravel type path. Is that gravel mine from the Potomac? Washington talks about a gravel pit. It would seem as if they got a lot of it from the Potomac, and they would have sifted it to get the right size stone that they wanted. I think there were a couple sources, but not real clear on it. What kind of staff does it take to maintain all this? In horticulture, my responsibility has to do with anything that deals with chlorophyll and manure. The gardeners, just like in the 18th century, they said a garden an acre in size will require one full -time gardener, and so every principal garden we have is one full -time gardener working in that spot. Then we have a swing gardener that does all the smaller gardens and helps in the other gardens as well. We have a landscape gardener that takes care of all the non -exhibition areas. It's truly bare bones. We have some summertime help, college students, some high school. College students love it. We give them as much opportunity to learn whatever they want if they want to work in the greenhouse or use equipment. It's a really great program that we have for that. Then we have our livestock crew. We have five full -time livestock employees that maintain the genetic line of three very rare breeds, and those animals are here for interpretation as well. One thing I just want to share is that Mount Vernon is a very special place. People come and they don't leave real quickly. I've got almost 53 years. Our five livestock staff combined have 92 years of service here at Mount Vernon. It's just truly amazing. Wow. What type of livestock? We have a milking red devon, beautiful reddish -brown cow, aussebal island hogs, hog island sheep, and a Narragansett turkey. So all these are on exhibition at our Pioneer Farmers site, which is a site that we created in the 1990s down near the river. That's a site where we interpret Washington the farmer. That's the livestock's playground. They get to take the animals down there, the oxen, the horses, and work the fields. So it's really very exciting. It helps bring the estate to life. Are you taking the manures and the straw and things like that and using it in compost, or how does that all work? 100 percent. That's all we use. We have huge piles that we are able to windrow with using a manure spreader. We always have these windrows, just these lines of the material that is whipped around by the manure spreader. The row is about maybe eight feet wide, ten feet wide, and it's about six feet high. The oldest windrow is used as the fertilizer used in the gardens. And once that's gone, we windrow the next row over to aerate it again. We just always have a source of compost that we can use in the gardens, and it just works out beautifully for us. How long does it typically age? It doesn't take long, really. We have a pile that's been here for so long that even stuff that is not that old, maybe three months or so, when you mix it up with the other, it turns out very, very well. In the 18th century, Washington would take manure from the stables and just put them in a dung repository for a fortnight or two. You're only talking two or four weeks, and then they thought it was readily available for the gardens. So it was much more rapid for them than it is for us. Are there any special approaches that you take to maintaining a historical garden? The approach to maintaining a historic garden really is visual. We want them to see a garden that is planted in the manner that would have been in the 18th century. We want them to see what an 18th century garden looked like. As far as our actual practices, it is really no different than what would have been going on in the 18th century. Our tools may be a little sturdier, a little nicer, rakes, shovels, soil life, and everyone has one of those on their bill. You can do anything with those. As far as planting, we're definitely concerned about height derangement more than color coordination. We want to make sure the plants we plant are appropriate to the 18th century. Paths, the box which should be trimmed, are very short. They were never intended to be a backdrop for perennials, just as a border. That's the main thing. We want it to look right. The way we take care of it, that hasn't changed for 250 years. What are your biggest challenges with the garden? People, compaction, really the damage that comes from, especially kids, I used to share that the worst pest we can have is a child that's been on a bus for five hours from somewhere, gets here and the chaperones go, go, go, and they just start running. Back when we had big boxwood, they would just go and run and jump in and break a branch of a 150 year old boxwood within 10 seconds and that's hard to control with any kind of spray or whatever. But I developed to have a hard trap that was a bit larger. I found out I put an iPad or something in there, I could catch five or six at a time and I would let them off at the West Gate. The chaperones would eventually find them, but at least we got them out of the garden.
The Garden Question
A highlight from 124 - Sculpting Nature: The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted - Kirk R. Brown
"The Garden Question is a podcast for people that love designing, building, and growing smarter gardens that work. Listen in as we talk with successful garden designers, builders, and growers, discovering their stories along with how they think, work, and grow. This is your next step in creating a beautiful, year -round, environmentally connected, low -maintenance, and healthy, thriving outdoor space. It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or an expert, there will always be something inspiring when you listen to The Garden Question podcast. Hello, I'm your host, Craig McManus. It's been over 200 years since he was born. People still absorb his parks and public gardens in more than 5 ,000 communities across the North American continent. The goal is to give the common man in this new world the same opportunities to experience creation as any king in his private preserve in the Old World. Frederick Law Olmsted is prevalently pronounced the father of American landscape architecture. In this episode, Kurt R. Brown interprets Frederick Law Olmsted. Kurt is a member of the International Garden Communicators Hall of Fame. He is a green achiever being recognized with many industrial awards. He represented Joanne Kostecki Garden Design as a leader in the design bill industry. At America's oldest garden in Charleston, South Carolina, he worked as national outreach coordinator. He is the past president of GardenCom. In the U .S. and Canada, he's delivered hundreds of keynote addresses, guest lectures, teaching symposia, and certified instruction over the past quarter of a century. He's also known to interpret historic horticulturalists and international dignitaries as John Bartram, Frederick Law Olmsted, among many others. He still finds time to cultivate his own private display garden. Join him now as he unveils his views of Olmsted. This is Episode 124, Sculpturing Nature. The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted with Kurt R. Brown Interpreting, an encore presentation and remix of Episode 63. Mr. Olmsted, would you take us back to when you were 36 years old and tell us what was your most valuable mistake up to that point? I sometimes have problems remembering what happened yesterday. Remembering what happened when I was 36 takes me to a point in time where I felt that I would never wake up, that somehow whatever hope I had of being properly engaged in an adult employment was never going to occur. However, it was at a time when seemingly everything in the world that I had touched or attempted had turned to dross. With that, when you are at the bottom, looking up from the bottom of that big black pit that you feel yourselves in, God smiles sometimes. And when he smiles, he puts in front of you an opportunity that unless you'd been in that pit of despair, you wouldn't think was a positive. I went over the brink of bankruptcy with a publishing company that my father had financed to put me on my feet in the world of communicating, largely garden communicating. But in that day, when publishers have cash in the drawer and decide that it's better in their pockets and they skip town, I was left holding an empty bag. When my sanity was at risk, there were a group of friends, Dutch elders from the state of New York, who looked at me in my circumstance and they said, without much thinking about it, we have a job for you, sir. And this was from Washington Irving, whom you might have heard, James Hamilton, the Cooper Hewitt later, and David Dudley Field, among many, many others, they said in response to my question, what is this job all about? They said, we believe that from your practical training as an agriculturist, from all of your horticultural writings, from your talents and from your obvious character, I took them at their word on that, we believe you eminently qualified for the duties of the Office of Superintendent of the capital T, the Central Park of New York. They wanted me to be a crew leader of one of the largest public works projects that had been undertaken since the construction of the pyramids. They thought by giving me this job, it would put my feet under my own table and allow me to support the family that I had inherited and adopted after my brother's death. So you see, this is a laugh because being a construction foreman on a landscape project the size of Central Park allowed me into other rooms and gave me the ability to meet other people, most notably among them, Calvert Vox. Of course, from that participation, from that connection, from that wonderful start at 36, climbing out of the black pit and going on into the greater international world of garden design. That's how you find me, sir. From that point till now, you have to consider all of the other doors that opened, designing the country's first great urban and public park. It was a democratization of space. That's the most important aspect that we were driving. All of the big parks of the old world were private preserves, were aristocratic in their founding or country homes of the elite and money. They were not open to the general public. Here we were designing a space, an urban space of green that would allow people at all levels of income to rub elbows and participate in a great and refreshing space. Out of that, the other things that came to my table were the obvious connections of making plans for residential subdivisions. I was ultimately asked to design a world's fair. And in that regard, I was one of the few who designed a fair that actually made money. Mostly the cities in which the Olmsted partnership worked were green belts. It wasn't just one isolated urban jewel. They were a necklace. They were a green necklace surrounding all of the major cities in which we did work, involving and parkways park sides with garden views. And with all of that, the infrastructure that necessarily came along with the design was an increasing awareness of public health and sanitation. I was also involved at the beginning of the American Red Cross with standardizing field operations, with organizing national outreach and coordination, and with putting women in nursing wards. I was also there at the beginning in trying to inventory the natural resources of Yosemite, and that began the National Parks Movement. I also encouraged managed forestry. I was the first person here in this country to hire a forester to help develop plans for management of 137 ,000 acres in Biltmore, not less. Governor Pinchot, as he later came to be known, was the first man that held the post at the National Center where he managed the national parks and forests. I was always involved in garden communication. I was a syndicated New York Times columnist. I was an abolitionist. I believe strongly in the development of cemetery arboretum where families could mourn the death of their loved ones. And I was the first one to be recognized for the design implementation and successful development of riparian restoration using early sustainable practices, because overarching all of these individual jobs, I believe that environmental health was also humanities welfare. Eventually, many of the things that we did for the first time or did for all of those who came later to ask us to repeat our success, eventually we codified most of the things that we were doing, and we were there at the beginning writing a syllabus for the American Society of Landscape Architects when Harvard graduated its first class. That's the beginning. And through it, we've tried to reach a point that you can look back and decide whether what we do, whether creating public parks, whether recognizing national parks, whether doing things as a green infrastructural implementation, whether that is garden design, whether it is landscape design or whether it is landscape architecture. I have certainly left the responsibility of that to all of the generations that came since the implementation of Central Park of New York. So let's look at the Central Park of New York. Where you started to turn around was when you got the job as superintendent. How did you make the jump from superintendent to being credited as the designer and builder of Central Park? I would never accept that title. I was mentored by a man far greater than I. His name was Andrew Jackson Downing, and he lived upstate New York. The concept of Central Park and the concept of public urban horticulture was his. He was the first man here in this country to successfully write that there was a model to be offered and followed in the development of landscape practices. He wrote and published a book in 1841 called A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. It was his idea in the 1840s what he called the picturesque landscape has great advantage for the common man. The raw materials of grass, water, and woods are at once appropriated with so much effect and so little art in the picturesque mode, and the charm is so great. You'll recall that 200 years ago I was born. It was also the same year that Napoleon died. There was a great turning where people decided it was no longer appropriate to design landscapes in the French style. The formality of trimmed hedges and topiaries and the development of boxed and hothouse grown examples of tropical horticulture. What they wanted was a natural or romantic view of the world. Downing's response to that was his development of the picturesque here in North America. So while the international turned on what was their term called romanticism, Downing's belief was that it needed to be picturesque. He brought a man from England who was just spectacular with the development of line and architectural standards. His name was Calvert Vaux. So we had Calvert Vaux doing all of the housing plans for Downing's models. Downing began a magazine called The Horticulturist where he promoted all of the values of horticulture and agriculture, how to design, creating a design for living. He encouraged all of us to plant spacious parks in our cities and unclose their gates as wide as the gates of mourning to the whole people. I was a very small part of the initial concept when they were looking for the construction foreman. Downing had been killed in a steamboat accident on the Hudson River. While they were searching for the plan, they had more than 30 proposals submitted for what Central Park was to become. Calvert Vaux had a concept and he asked me if I would join him in its presentation to the committee. My thought was that a proper city park should provide escape from the city. We solved all of the inherent problems of the design so that nature of the space would be one of unending vistas of green and the lawns would seem to go on forever. With Vaux asking me to be a partner, at that low point in my life, my answer was an unqualified sir, this partnership is on. We called our design and our proposal Greensward. I would still think of it with that name. Of course, everyone else has just taken it to heart and made it Central Park. I was 36 years old. I had a neighbor in Hartford as I was growing up and then on the speaking circuit in later years and Mark Twain, you might know him as Samuel Longhorns Clemens, said that age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. What were some of the challenges in the implementation of the Central Park design? The money was coming from Albany and the old Dutch money that still remained somewhat in the Tammany Hall organization of downtown New York politics would get their hands on the money before it would feed through to enrich, encourage and grow the project. The old Dutch burghers wanted an honest man as the paymaster. And so at the end of those long days, I was the man handing money to the day workers with cash on the barrelhead, paying them for moving the hundreds and hundreds and millions of cubic yards of soil that was transported to do those effortless looking hills and dales and rambles that became Central Park. The park itself is a democratic development of the highest significance. We can never, never, ever forget that public urban horticulture is that. It is the extreme expression of democracy. And simply put, we were looking at the three grand elements of Downing's definition of picturesque or pastoral landscape. Those three elements remain the same today as they were then. The symphony of grass, water and woods joined together with many, many artificial tricks of the trade into one uncommon space. At Central Park, we also added what would be in our concept the only sculptural element that was to be included in the final design. That was the Bethesda Fountain. With Bethesda, we wanted it to be similar to the quote from the New Testament, John chapter 5, verse 4, for an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water. Whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made well of whatever disease he had. This becoming a place of union for all of those tired and poor of the city who would otherwise not have a green space with good public water. It became that, certainly, after the Civil War and even up until these days when the symbol of the fountain, that angel of the waters that was given to the first woman who ever won a sculptural commission in the city of New York later to become angels in America. Through all of this, that symbol of health and well -being has been guarded through all of its artistic progress. What other, as you referred to them as, tricks in the landscape design were implemented in the park? There were requirements, as most things are. They had to have cross streets, but we didn't want to interrupt the view of green. We sunk the roads, and it was unique in its concept because all of those cross streets that were mandated in the design brief were not seen once you were at grade or at the park level, so that all of the sheep's meadow and the grand lawns of Central Park were seemingly undivided and the cars would travel underneath that layer. The other thing was fresh water. The 800 and some odd acres of Central Park had to include what was an existing reservoir. The walk around the reservoir had to be included in the acreage, and to do that, we made the north part of the park into what I called a ramble. If you take the word ramble, it puts me back into my childhood. I had rides with my father and mother in the woods and fields. In those days, we were in search of the, well, the picturesque. Any man then who sees things differently than the mass of ordinary men is classified as one who has a defect of the eye and a defect of the brain. Who would think that you could move mountains to create a distant view while the cross -street thoroughfares of a major urban environment would traffic unwitnessed with the calm and peace of nature around you? In later years, it gave the common man access to a broader world. In the early days, when the park first opened, what we discovered is that entrepreneurs of the city would get a chance to meet and greet people who were not of or in their class, and everyone came together on the lake to ice skate. That had never been accomplished in an urban environment before, where the lowest and the highest achieved self -standing stature over a pair of ice skates. What other ways did you incorporate the blending of the classes? There were several types of road. There were access roads for tradesmen, and then there were the carriage trade highways that would tour the park and allowed for another whole type of merchant in the hiring of horse -drawn vehicles that are still there, conveying tourists into and around the park today because of the way the layout was designed. We also included space for a zoo and for ornamental horticulture in the display of flowers. It also gave space for the Metropolitan Museum, and then as you'll see over all these years, many, many other opportunities for people to regard themselves highly by installing other busts and portraiture. There's Cleopatra's Needle, which was that large obelisk that came from Egypt that has its own following up above the museum. It's all part and parcel of creating the ambiance of nature in an artificial way. You had some experiences of your own in a walking tour in England. How did those influence your view of design, and how did you take those and implement them in the park? The only difference is that in England, what we were looking at in the assortment of grass, water, and woods was that most of the developed areas were done for members of the aristocracy. They were country homes at the time. Previous generation, they were landscapes designed and achieved by Lancelot. They called him Capability Brown. Those assortments of grass, water, and woods were no different in concept, really, for the public parks that we were designing. The only difference is that in public funded projects, they had access for people of all social classes. There was no admission, no gate. I've heard it said you become who you hang out with. Tell us about some of the people that you have surrounded yourself with.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from The LORD Is Faithful
"Would you please open your Bibles to Acts chapter 13. I'd like to begin reading in verse 13 and read through verse 25. This is a portion, a smaller portion than the actual sermon itself and for time I'm not going to read the whole thing. Again here we are in Acts chapter 13 verse 13 and following. Now Paul and his companions put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga and Pamphylia. But John left them and returned to Jerusalem. The going on from Perga they arrived at Pisidian Antioch and on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down. After the reading of the law and the prophets the synagogue official sent to them saying, brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people say it. Paul stood up and motioning with his hand said, men of Israel and you who fear God listen. The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt and with an uplifted arm he led them out from it. For a period of about 40 years he put up with them in the wilderness. When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan he distributed their land as an inheritance all of which took about 450 years. After these things he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet then they asked for a king and God gave them Saul the son of Kish a man of the tribe of Benjamin for 40 years. After he had removed him he raised up David to be their king concerning whom he also testified and said I have found David the son of Jesse a man after my heart who will do all my will. From the descendants of this man according to promise God has brought to Israel a savior Jesus. After John had proclaimed before his coming a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel and while John was completing his course he kept saying what do you suppose that I am? I am not he but behold one is coming after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie. This is the Lord's word would you bow with me and let's again ask the Lord's help. We thank you Father for your scriptures and we thank you for the hymns that we are blessed to be able to sing tonight and for the reading of scripture. Our Father we come to you asking that your spirit will be present with us to help the servant and to help these your people. Those who join who are here in this building but those who will join also from afar. Oh Father we ask that you will advance your kingdom in your glory and I pray that the Lord Jesus will be lifted up faithfully. I humbly ask these things now in Jesus name amen. We are long overdue to be back in the book of Acts here and I've been stewing on this passage for some time as and wondering boy how do you how do you cover this a sermon like this in a in a sense that's intelligible. Here Paul was has preached to the Jews and God -fearing Gentles on his first missionary journey. Recall that he is in Pisidian Antioch which is central region of Galatia and it shouldn't be confused with Antioch from which Barnabas, Saul, and Mark were sent. Mark having deserted them and having gone back to Jerusalem we're told that Paul and Barnabas went on the Sabbath into the synagogue and they sat down and we are told this by Luke after the reading of the law and the prophets the synagogue officials sent to them saying brethren if you have any word of exhortation for the people say it. The Lord here presented a wonderful opportunity for Paul an open door for the gospel.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from The TRUTH about Sam Altman and WorldCoin
"Set summer in motion with the most adventurous Honda vehicles yet, like the Passport and Pilot Trail Sport and the Ridgeline, built for better off -road performance and engineered for more adventure. Summer is here. For a limited time, well -qualified buyers can get a 3 .9 % APR on a 2023 Honda Pilot, a 2 .9 % APR on a 2023 Passport and a 0 .9 % APR on a 2023 Ridgeline. Buy online, reserved from select dealers, or visit your local Honda dealer today. See dealer for financing details. My worst fears are that we cause significant. We, the field, the technology, the industry, cause significant harm to the world. I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. Artificial generalized intelligence. If you haven't heard of that before, well, I'll bet you probably have even heard of or used Chat GBT, midjourney or any one of the dozens of AI tools that have been taking the world by storm this year. In this video, we're going to be taking a closer look at the man behind the curtain, the mysterious wizard of Silicon Valley, Sam Altman, and we're going to be getting to the truth about him, his companies, what they're building, and, most importantly, what it all means for you and the future of humanity. This might be the most important topic in the world right now, so we want to make sure to bring the BitSquad up to speed. Let's get it! Welcome to BitBoy Crypto! My name has been today. We're doing a deep dive on the king of AI, Sam Altman, finding out what this awkward -looking startup junkie is really all about. Samuel Harris Altman grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He got his first computer at the age of eight. This was back in the 90s when computers were still using dial -up and Pets .com. In 2005, young Samuel dropped out of Stanford after one year studying computer science, co -founded LÜT, location -based social networking mobile application. Go ahead and smash that like button and turn on the channel notifications, which puts you in the BitSquad. Make sure you stay up to speed with the latest crypto news so you don't drop out of all the best gains in the next bull run. But as the CEO of LÜT, LÜT Altman raised over $30 million in venture capital at the business -savvy age of just 19 years old. Imagine being so rich, you think it's a good idea to give $30 million to a 19 -year -old. Anyways, LÜT failed to gain traction, but Sam was still able to sell it in March 2012 to the Green Dot Corporation for $43 .4 million. Not bad for a first -time failed startup. Just one month later, the dropout failed. The founder co -founded another company, Hydrazine Capital, with his brother Jack. And in February 2014, Sammy's startup was named president of Y Combinator. In 2014, Sam claimed that the total valuation of Y Combinator companies has amassed 65 billion. Their catalog is much more impressive than Sam's resume and includes Airbnb, Dropbox, Coinbase, Instacart, OpenSea and Stripe, among countless others. Altman set a target for Y Combinator to fund 1 ,000 new companies per year, which is so many it makes it seem like Sam is just slinging more and more bad ideas at the wall to see what sticks. In 2015, Altman donated $10 million to start Y Combinator Research, a nonprofit research lab that Sammy funded to research basic income, the future of computing, education and building new cities. All these topics seem related, almost like they're part of a larger plan. Sam co -founded OpenAI with Elon Musk in 2015 and in 2019 announced that he would be stepping back at Y Combinator to focus on being CEO of OpenAI. OpenAI has several products including Doll -E, a generative text -to -image AI tool, Whisper, an AI -driven speech -to -text tool and Codex. But the most famous AI tool that OpenAI built is called ChatGPT. A generative AI tool that returns text, images or videos in response to user input prompts. Now, you input your like and subscribe to the channel to get the latest in crypto news. About 27 % of y 'all aren't subscribed. I don't get it. Now, I don't have time to get into exactly how all this AI stuff works, but just from some basic understanding, generative AI is a broad term for any AI system that primarily creates content. Large language models or LLMs are a type of AI system that works with language and draws from a large set of data and computational power. These can create a foundational model which is a term for AI systems that can be applied to a range of purposes. So ChatGPT is a foundational generative AI model that's based on a large language model. Okay, so sorry if that was confusing. I think this stuff is pretty cool, and it's important to understand what all these geeks are talking about with this stuff. I got to research it. I guess they know it intuitively. Moving on. ChatGPT was so popular that it reached 100 million users just two months after launching in 2022, which set an all -time record for user adoption. In response to this unprecedented user demand, Microsoft, a longtime investor in OpenAI, decided to increase their investment and extend their partnership, announcing in January 2023 that they would be investing an additional $10 billion into OpenAI. By now, you might be wondering, Ben, that's all great, but what does Sami have to do with crypto? Back in 2019, when he stepped away from Y Combinator to run OpenAI, Altcoin Altman also co -founded Tools for Humanity, the company building a global IRIS -based biometric cryptocurrency system called Worldcoin. What is Worldcoin? Well, according to Sam, Worldcoin was conceived as a prototype for universal basic income, which Sam sees as inevitable due to the rise of the technology that Sam keeps building himself. Also, it seems like if he would stop building all these things, then we won't have to depend on him to protect us from them. So weird. Sam tried to keep this project quiet at first, probably because it sounds so evil, but the idea simply is this. Users get paid in Worldcoin in a wallet they can use in the Ethereum ecosystem and runs on Optimism's tech stack. WLD tokens will be claimed by people and to verify your identity and unique personhood, Worldcoin wants to scan your IRIS using a super evil -looking silver camera called The Orb. I swear you can't make this stuff up. Worldcoin has a kiosk in Barcelona, offering free french fries in exchange for scanning your IRISes. Good thing I only eat freedom fries. Some offer a $10 rebate on purchases. Some offer a chance to win a new car. Where's Bob Barker when you need him? But whatever paltry bribe Sam Altman and his Worldcoin henchmen are offering, I guarantee you that it's not worth it. Details on this project are still deliberately being kept under wraps, but basic human intuition should tell you whatever they're up to, it's dystopian at best and an evil conspiracy to control the world at worst. My friends at Altcoin Daily said it well. Your eyes will be scanned. You will give up your biometrics data. You will accept your UBI and WLD coin. Sounds like exactly what the World Economic Forum has been planning for years. The scariest part? It's working. Hundreds of thousands of users are being quietly onboarded to Worldcoin in exchange for one of Sam's silly little bribes. According to Nansen, Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution, Optimism Arbitrum surpassed in daily transactions for the first time since January. The spike in activity began on July 24. The same day Worldcoin token went live on the Optimism mainnet. Although Worldcoin is careful to try and hide this information, they definitely do not advertise what's really going on. If you look close at the privacy deep dive section of their website, you'll see they say they're collecting a lot more than just users' irises. They need lots of data to make sure that the orbs are trained to recognize eyes regardless of who had scans. Initial scans targeted mostly children in developing countries like Chile, Indonesia and Sudan. I'm all in favor of decentralized digital identity, but there are a ton of great projects that are working on solutions for that. And none of them have relied on this creepy system of bribing poor children in third world countries so they can harvest their biometric data. There has to be a better way. Now, if you're like me, this kind of behavior by one centralized company, especially a company run by Sam Altman, the man trying to build the world's first AGI, it should worry you. Apparently, it worries European regulators too. Last week, French privacy watchdog group said the legality of this collection seems questionable as to the conditions for storing biometric data. They're coordinating their ongoing investigation with German authorities as well. Britain's information commissioner's office also confirmed that it was making inquiries. Even Ethereum co -founder Vitalik Buterin warned Worldcoin has major issues and pointed out that iris scans could inadvertently expose a person's sex, ethnicity and maybe even their medical conditions. Talk about a privacy risk. How many of you incels living in your mom's basement want people to know that you never even had sex? Oh, that's not what they're talking about? Despite what seems to be nearly universal concerns about Worldcoin's operations, Altman says they're going strong and onboarding one new verified person every eight seconds. That's a bull run. A bull ride. Crazy to think about, but at that rate, it would take them five years to get to 20 million users. So Altman's plans to 5X Worldcoin's onboarding capacity, well, it's going to be done by the end of the year. And now we get to the most interesting part of the story to meet anyways, and that's Altman's ongoing and highly public feud with the Dogefather himself, Elon Musk. A short version of how this conflict started is in 2018, Elon approached the other founders of OpenAI and expressed concern that the company had fallen hopelessly behind Google in the quest for AGI. Musk proposed that he take over OpenAI in order to catch up. The other founders rejected his bid. Musk eventually left the company and withdrew his funding. Altman eventually took over, and the two have been in competition and even some conflict ever since. When Chat GBT launched in November of 2022, OpenAI instantly became the hottest name in tech. Musk was reportedly furious. In December 2022, Musk pulled OpenAI's access to Twitter's data, ending a contract sign before Musk acquired Twitter. February 17, Elon tweeted, OpenAI was created as an open source, which is why I named it OpenAI, non -profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source maximum profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft. On March 15, he tweeted, I'm still confused as to how a non -profit to which I donated about $100 million somehow became a $30 billion market cap for profit. If this is legal, why doesn't everyone do it? That's Bill Gates. He does it. Altman finally fired back in an interview saying about Elon, I mean, he's a jerk, whatever else you want to say about him, but I think he does really care, and he is feeling very stressed about what the future is going to look like for humanity, which is very interesting because a lot of this sounds exactly like conversations I had with Sam Bankman -Fried around the time of the FTX collapse. Things he said about me to me and to other people was he knew that I really cared about the stuff that I was talking about, but I just was going about it the wrong way. Very eerie similarities there. The reason for their dispute though seems to come down to both men wanting to prove themselves. Elon wants to be the man who took down Google and Twitter, and Altman seems to just want to make up for the fact that his first startup would fail. He tweeted in February, I failed pretty hard in my first startup. It sucked! And I'm doing pretty well in my second. The thing I wish someone told me during the first one is that no one else thinks about your failures as much as you do and that as long as you don't psych yourself out, you can try again. It's crazy the two guys with such big brains can be still so small -minded. So we talked a lot about Sam Altman, but what's the takeaway here? What's really at stake in this story? Well, I think it goes back to where we started. Fear. Altman is a prepper. He said in 2016, I have guns, gold, potassium, iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force and a big patch of land and big shore I can fly to. What is he prepping for? Well, he doesn't say. But the key is the answer to that question was asked in Congress on May 16, 2023. What's his biggest fear? My worst fears are that we cause significant. We, the field, the technology, the industry cause significant harm to the world. I think if this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. So it's clear that Sam is consciously aware of the risks of what he's doing, but he's doing it anyway. He's taking an attitude of technological determinism, the idea that anything can be done will be done. So why not do it first? Why not create the tools for a dystopian nightmare future and then have all the power you need to avoid it right there in your hand? There's just one problem with that. If you believe in technological determinism, you also believe that the path of technology is the same for everyone, which means that anyone else could go down the same path and beat you to the prize at the finish line. And what's that prize? Well, if you ask Sam, artificial general intelligence, AGI, which means a piece of software that combines solutions to new unfamiliar tasks, basically code that can actually think. It's likely that the creation of such a piece of technology would lead to what's known to sci -fi nerds as the technological singularity, got in a box. The singularity refers to a point at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to humanity and civilization. OpenAI published a paper in April concluding that the latest OpenAI model exhibits many traits of intelligence, including abstraction, comprehension, vision, coding and understanding of human motives and emotions. In June, The New York Times published an article alleging that many leaders of Silicon Valley are becoming concerned that the singularity may already be here, and we just haven't realized it yet. Altman himself stated during his recent appearance on Lex Freeman podcast that he believes that multiple teams will create AGI while working on different projects in different parts of the world at roughly the same time. In other words, Sam isn't just worried that he won't get to the singularity first. He's worried that even if he does, his creation still won't be enough to save him from itself. And that's Sam Altman's worst fear. Sam once tweeted, AI is the tech the world has always wanted, but we don't want it if it means we have to let him scan our eyes and unleash something on mankind that has the power to take over every aspect of our lives before we even realize we've lost control. Let me know down below in the comments what you think about Sam Altman and his plans to control the future of civilization. And let me know what you think about AI and which projects are using it in creative ways that might give them an edge in the next bull run. And most importantly, Sam Altman vs Sam Bankman -Fried in a cage match, who wins? That's all I got. Be blessed. BitBoy out.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Hadley Arkes' Lonely Crusade for Natural Law
"In a way, on a somewhat lonely crusade, because when you talk about natural law, you are, as we discussed previously, you're at least slightly at odds with friends of yours who we would think of as proponents of originalism. Samuel Alito, and others, who would quibble, you mentioned Scalia, maybe quibble is a nice way of putting it, but would argue with you and say that if it's not in the Constitution, we cannot go back to what the founders intent was, unless that's expressed in the Constitution, you take issue with that. Right. Well, Scalia said at one point, it's a bedrock principle, the First Amendment, we may not make restrictions on speech based on the content of the speech. Well, that's not that bedrock principle is not in my copy of the First Amendment. I think Scalia would often try to construe the Constitution, and determines what he thinks is the most sensible, which is say he's going, he's going back to natural law. I used to rib him and say, you know, for somebody, you offer sometimes handsome examples of natural law, for someone who professes up and down that it can't be done.
The Bible in a Year
1 Samuel 27: David Flees From Saul
"First Samuel, chapter 27. David goes to king Akshay in gath. And David said in his heart. I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines, then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand. So David arose, and went over. He and the 600 men who were with him to akshi, the son of Malcolm, king of gath. And David dwelt with akshi and gath, he and his men, every man with his household, and David with his two wives, a hint of jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, naval's widow. And when it was told Saul that David had fled to gath, he sought for him no more. Then David said to Ashish, if I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be given me in one of the country towns, that I may dwell there, for why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you? So that day actually gave him Zika. Therefore, zik lag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day, and the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months. Now David and his men went up and made raids upon the gesture rights, the gurus, and the amala kites. For these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as far as sure to the land of Egypt, and David struck the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, but took away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the garments, and came back to Akshay. When Akshay asked, against whom have you made a raid today, David would say, against the negev of Judah, or against the negev of the Jeremy lights, or against the negative of the canines. saved neither man nor woman alive to bring tidings to gath thinking lest they should tell about us and say, so David has done. Such was his custom all the while he dwelt in the country of the Philistines and trusted David, thinking he has made himself utterly abhorred by his people Israel. Therefore he shall be my servant always.
Truth For Life Daily Program
Saul: When Jealousy Grips a Mind (1 Samuel 18)
"Now notice what he says here, he says, I want you to show yourself strong fight, fight the lord's battles. Remember the law? You shall not take the name of the lord your God in vain. For the lord will not hold them guiltless who take his name in vain. What he suggesting here inferentially is that his mind and his heart are actually set on the defense and the advance of the kingdom of God. And so under the disguise of piety, he seeks to advance his own evil agenda. Wrap the dirty business up in a concern that is ostensibly for the vastness and the greatness of God. This is beyond crafty. This is actually cruel. Because he is prepared to use his daughter, actually his daughters, as we will see, to fulfill his own selfish ends. He said, well, how do you get that? Well, you get it from reading your Bible. This is what he said. Here's my daughter. I'll give her to you as a wife. You advance the kingdom of God, and we'll take it from there. But or far as the conjunction in the ESV for so thought, let not my hand be against him against David, but led by a hand of the Philistines be against it. You see what happens when jealousy grips a mind when jealousy takes hold, his words said we're planning a celebration. His heart was thinking in terms of elimination. Twist it. I'll leave it up to my enemies to do the dirty work. My hands are clean. It'll be the Philistines that take him out.
DIVORCING PATRIARCHY
Diego Rivera: Master Soul Communicator and Disrupter of Patriarchy
"The superstructure of patriarchy is a structure of power that organizes and operates to protect and privilege its primary beneficiary, males. Remember that the patriarchy problem is a problem of inequality. The critical project of the patriarchy is to be and to maintain absolute power. That absolute power can and should be disrupted. Disruptions to the project of patriarchy weaken its stability. This is a universal truth understood by master communicators of the soul. Our teaching for today will receive and consider the message that master communicator of the soul, Diego Rivera, carried to us. When the patriarchy came for Diego Rivera, he wasn't having it. The painter, Señor Diego Rivera, his full name was Diego Maria Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislo de la Rivera y Barrientos de Acosta y Rodriguez. He was the proud son of a minor. Writer, Cardona Pena said that, Diego Rivera contains in his blood, a cocktail of maps whose olive is in Mexico. It should be imbibed slowly to avoid sudden intoxication. His paternal grandparents were an Italian Jew, born in Russia, and a Portuguese Jewess who immigrated to Holland. His maternal grandparents were from Veracruz and San Miguel de Allende. Guanajuato, Mexico. There was a gentleman, he was born in El Salvador and raised in Costa Rica. A columnist, a science fiction writer, poet, narrator, and essayist by the name of Alfredo Cardona Pena. And every Sunday for 52 weeks in Mexico, he interviewed Diego Rivera, then age 63. The interviews were later translated into English by his younger brother, Alvaro Cardona Hein, 66 years later. Cardona Pena said, we can identify the painter with each of the deities that formed the Aztec pantheon with the Tlaloc, God of water, with Quezacotil, beneficent God of light, and with profound cotelique, goddess of earth and death, portrayed with eagle claws and a skirt of snakes. Rivera himself referred to the pre -Hispanic idols as his nourishment. Speaking about the aesthetics of Rivera's painting, philosopher Samuel Ramos said, it begins with the assumption that art must be the expression of an ideological content determined by the social conditions of the moment in which the artist lives. Rivera's painting involves a political thesis. His entire mural achievement is the visual objectification of a socialist idea based on Mexican history. Diego Rivera said that a painter is just as any artist the product of the society in which he lives individually, a being processing a neuro glandular system. And an ocular apparatus that aids him in his work, agents that are nothing but receptive conductors, transmitting apparatuses for the aspirations, desires and struggles of the masses that intervene in the medium produced. He said that art is meant to produce in a human being an aesthetic emotion, a unique phenomenon due to the proper and complete provocation that passing through the neurosympathetic system moves its adjacent glands so that these may yield their secretions to the organism. This is as necessary to life as those products that feed the digestive system. In consequence, if art is not made, there is a danger of death. Speaking about popular art, Rivera said that among the middle wealthy and aristocratic, there were those who inherited the mentality of those who divided the population of Mexico and Indians and people of reason. They consider popular art shameful. But before the Mexican Revolution, farmers, workers and artisans lived in a world separated from the middle classes by an abyss which became deeper in the period between 1862 and 1902 due to the influence of Europe in both the conservative and the liberal side. Cardona Pena writes that Rivera could look deeper into popular art and find strange forms of communication, roots, lost links, bits of shipwrecks and ships without a compass. That he could put the people to his ear as if they were a shell and then listen to the waves of the past voices, many of which only he could decipher. He he'd said stick his hand down the nearest feminine neck and pull out a gold necklace. He'd put the piece on the floor and with his naked ancient treasures, find an object that belonged to the night, place it next to the jewel and begin to smile slowly, because according to him, he had found between them a connection between yesterday and today. A hanging bridge over which, like the great belly gentleman he was, he could wander and sway up and down as he wished. Cardona Pena said that Diego Rivera showed us his investigative powers, bringing up things that philosophers would have to figure out on their own. Rivera, referencing the patriarchy, said that those in power rely on the collaboration of warriors, magicians or men of science, but that they also needed the help of producers of aesthetic emotion, artists. He saw painting as an essential function of human life, that wherever human beings lived, painting has existed and exists because it is a language as with words. And so he invented a particular style of Mexican painting. It could be converted into an effective weapon against lying to the people, teaching the people to discover through its contents the lies power uses to exploit it. That's what he called realism.
The Bible in a Year
1 Samuel 17: 19-36 David and Goliath
"But I probably will tomorrow. Just to let you know, just heads up on that one. Probably say it again tomorrow. But today is day one one zero. I don't know why I'm saying it like that. Day 110. Oh my gosh, you guys, this is the stop for a second. 810. Well done. Phenomenal work. I just, what a gift. Here we are, reading from first Samuel chapter 17, praying, psalm 12. First Samuel chapter 17, David and Goliath. Now, the Philistines gathered their armies for battle, and they were gathered at so called, which belonged to Judah, and encamped between soko and azaka, and FS Damien. And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered, and encamped in the valley of elah, and drew up in line of battle against the Philistines. And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side with a valley between them. And there came out from the camp of the Philistines, a champion named Goliath of gath, whose height was 6 cubits and a span. He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was 5000 shekels of bronze, and he had grieves of bronze upon his legs, and a javelin of bronze, slung between his shoulders, and the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and his spears head weighed 600 shekels of iron and his shield bearer went before him. He stood, and shouted to the ranks of Israel. Why have you come out to drop for a battle? Am I not a philistine and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me. If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us. And the philistine said, I defy the ranks of Israel this day. Give me a man that we may fight together. When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistines, they were dismayed and greatly afraid. Now David was the son of an epithet of Bethlehem and Judah, named Jesse, who at 8 sons. In the days of Saul, the man was already old and advanced in years, the three eldest sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle, and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were eliab the firstborn, the next to him, abhinav, and the third shamah. David was the youngest. The three eldest followed Saul, but David went back and forth between Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem. For 40 days the philistine came forward and took his stand morning and evening. And Jesse said to David his son, take for your brothers and ifa of this parched grain and these ten loaves and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers, also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand. See how your brothers fare and bring some token from them. Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Ella, fighting with the Philistines. And David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took the provisions and went as Jesse had commanded him, and he came to the encampment as the host was going forth to the battle line, shouting the war cry. And Israel and the Philistines drew up for battle army against army and David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the ranks and went and greeted his brothers. As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the philistine of gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines and spoke the same words as before, and David heard him. All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were much afraid. In the men of Israel said, have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel and the man who kills him, the king will enrich with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel. And David said to the men who stood by him, what shall be done for the man who kills this philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel. For who is this uncircumcised philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God? And the people answered him in the same way, social it be done to the man who kills him. Now eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men, and elie abs anger was kindled against David, and he said, why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness, I know your presumption, and the evil of your heart. For you have come down to see the battle. And David said, what have I done now? Was it not but a word? And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke in the same way, and the people again answered him as before. When the words which David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul, and he sent for him. And David said to Saul, let no man's heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this philistine. And Saul said to David, you are not able to go against this philistine to fight with him. For you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth. But David said to Saul. Your servant used to keep sheep for his father, and when there came a lion or a bear and took a lamb from the flock, I went after him and struck him and delivered it out of his mouth. And if it arose against me, I caught him by his beard and struck him and killed him. Your servant has killed both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised philistine shall be like one of them, seeing that he has defied the armies of the living God. And David said, the lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this philistine. And Saul said to David, go. And the lord be with you. Then saw clothed David with his armor. He put a helmet of bronze on his head and clothed him with a coat of mail, and David belted on his sword over his armor, and he tried in vain to go, for he was not used to them. Then David said to Saul, I can not go with these, for I'm not used to them. And David
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Saul's Unlawful Sacrifice (1 Samuel 13: 1-14)
"We're reading first Samuel, chapter 13 of 14, and praying psalm 58. First Samuel chapter 13. Saul's unlawful sacrifice. Saul was years old when he began to reign. And he reigned, and two years over Israel. Saul chose 3000 men of Israel 2000 were with Saul in mik mash in the hill country of bethel. And a thousand were with Jonathan in gibi of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent home every man to his tent. Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines, which was at giba, and the Philistines heard of it. And saw blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, let the hebrews hear. And all Israel heard it and said that Saul had defeated the garrison of the Philippines, and also that Israel had become odious to the Philistines. And the people were called out to join Saul at gilgal, and the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel 30,000 chariots and 6000 horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped at mik mash. To the east of Beth aven. When the men of Israel saw that they were in straits for the people were hard pressed, the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and entombs and in cisterns or crossed the forge of the Jordan to the land of gad in Gilead. Saul was still at gilgal and all the people followed him trembling. He waited 7 days at the time appointed by Samuel, but Samuel did not come to gilgal. And the people were scattering from him. So Saul said, bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings, and he offered the burnt offering. As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering behold, Samuel came and saw went out to meet him and salute him. Samuel said, what have you done? And Saul said, when I saw that the people were scattering from me and that you did not come within the day's appointed. And that the Philistines had mustered at Mick mash, I said, now the Philistines will come down upon me at gilgal, and I have not entreated the favor of the lord. So I forced myself and offered the burnt offering. In Samuel said to Saul, you have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the lord your God, which he commanded you for now. The lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. But now your kingdom shall not continue. The lord has sought out a man after his own heart and the lord has appointed him to be prince over his people because you have not kept what the lord commanded you.
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"The U.S. Supreme Court says it will allow access to a key abortion drug to remain in place, while it considers challenges to a Texas judge's ruling that imposed a ban on its use. The Supreme Court order is signed by justice Samuel Alito, keeping intact the federal rules that allow women to access mifepristone, coming just hours before a ban would have taken place. The nation's highest court tells lawyers on both sides to weigh in by Tuesday, on lower court rulings. The U.S. solicitor general says a Texas court order overruling the FDA's judgment would unleash regulatory chaos. The anti abortion group suing to block if a Preston say the justices should allow the ban to take effect. And New York's governor Kathy hochul, a Democrat, says women across this nation. Our sick and tired of being treated as though we have no rights. It's expected the high court will take up the challenges next week. I'm Jackie Quinn
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The Choosing and Anointing of David
"Samuel, as we saw last time, was immediately mistaken in his judgment about a replacement. If Saul was gone, who was going to take his place, well, the sons of Jesse were assembled, and Samuel made his first pick and got it wrong. And as the other brothers had emerged as we saw, none of them was an obvious candidate. And then the one who became the candidate was not an obvious candidate either. And as we find so many times in the Bible, God chooses to use unlikely individuals in unlikely ways to do what is often unlikely things. And this final pick has to be extracted from the hillsides, where he has been keeping the sheep. It hasn't even occurred to his father to invite the boy, the ruddy faced boy, to be part of that, because after all, we're looking for a king and nobody is less likely to be a king. And this fellow. And yet in actual fact, here he is, and he is anointed versus 13 in the midst of his brothers. As just a small ceremony, there's no big palava. There is no indication that the invited a lot of friends and neighbors in, but this is what had taken place.
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"The Supreme Court says a transgender girl can run girls track in West Virginia. The Supreme Court will allow a 12 year old transgender girl in West Virginia to continue competing on her girl's sports teams in middle school while a lawsuit over a state band continues. The justices refused to disturb an appeals court order. They made it possible for Becky pepper Jackson to continue playing on her school's track and cross country teams, justices, Samuel Alito and clarence Thomas, would have allowed West Virginia to enforce its law against the girl. I'm Shelley Adler
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Sebastian Talks to Investigative Journalist and Author Lee Smith
"Portions of the following program may contain pre recorded material. The deep state is not a theory, it's fact and you know it as of this morning. Why? President Trump has been talking about it for nigh on 6 years and now they're trying to take him down yet again. Who better to discuss it? The man who literally wrote the book, the plot against the president, turned into an amazing documentary and the permanent coup. My friend and investigative reporter and author par excellence, Lee Smith. Welcome back to America first. Sab great to be with you, as always. Lee, we usually jump straight into the meat of the matter. We have the luxury of a little bit of extra time today because this is one of our deep dives one on one. I got to know you, I don't know. Centuries ago, when I was doing national security, you were doing national security. Your original book that I knew you from was the strong horse power politics and the clash of cultures or Arab power dynamics in the Middle East. For those who aren't familiar with your prior work before you got into this analysis of domestic politics and the deep state, tell us a little bit about Lee Smith and your trajectory, how you moved from international affairs to what you're covering today. Well, this is, I mean, actually it was covering the Middle East. Covering Iran and Syria. In particular, in particular, that showed me what was going on in 2016. First of all, I was covering the Syrian conflict, very, very closely. And the reality was, is that Barack Obama officials were coordinating with Russia, with Vladimir Putin in Syria. I'm in Russia's Russia came in there and partnership with the Islamic Republic of Iran. And Hezbollah and the Obama administration was supportive of this. So when starting in the summer of 2016, we started to see stories about how Trump was close to Russia. And many of these leaks, many of these many of these statements were sourced to unnamed officials, who was it turned out were precise the same officials who were boasting about the Obama administration's coordination with Russia and Syria. It seemed absolutely ridiculous to me. And I knew there was something going on at that point. I knew it was what David Samuels described in a famous New York Times Magazine, article as Ben Rhodes and Barack Obama's echo chamber. So I saw something going on with that. But there's something else too that's even more significant. And that is, I started to see around that time how our press are free, our ostensibly free and independent press had started to take on the characteristics of the Arab, the Arab media. In particular that none of this was independent reporting, it was all done in coordination with intelligence services. And that's precisely what we saw in particular with The Washington Post and The New York Times, starting in 2016. It's coverage of Donald Trump. The press became the outward face of the intelligence services, and to see that happen, and our country said, in the United States, the Beacon of the Beacon of freedom, the world's greatest country, and oldest democracy, to see this happen here. It should get everyone not just alarm and alert people, but to get everyone out of their doldrums and get everyone to defend our country to see what to see what's happening and to see what people have in store for it. Unless we protect our country. Unless we defend our liberties. So just to remind those who may have forgotten those years, not too long ago, under Obama, this is the same president who on that notorious that infamous hot Mike moment with Putin's puppet Medvedev lent over didn't know the mics were hot and said to Medvedev, this is incredible. Tell Vladimir, I will have much more flexibility after the election. And met with dev in his central casting thick Russian accent says, yes, yes, I will tell Vladimir. Likewise, it's the same Ben Rhodes in The White House, the only official ever at that level in an administration to be refused even an interim security clearance by the FBI because of his shady background. This is the same Ben Rhodes, who in an article actually said it's so easy to quote unquote exploit the idiots in the press corps in Washington, D.C.. These are the same people Lee. Yep, absolutely. And this is something, of course, that as you and I say this, I've been, of course, we have our friends and allies who understand this, who've heard us say at who've heard others say it. But look, it's telling that there's no way that this will ever penetrate the media, right? And this is the issue that the media is the sword and shield. Not just of the Democratic Party, but most crucially, Barack Obama and not just Barack Obama's legacy, but Barack Obama's initiative, which is to utterly transform the United States of America and to come to the present. What we've seen the last 6 plus years, it's culminating to date in the indictment of Donald Trump. And I think it's really important for us to look at the role that Barack Obama has played in this over the last 6 and a half years. It seems to me this is a crucial piece that's been missing and we talked about at the beginning, the way that I see the prosecution of Trump beginning. It starts July 5th, 2016 when Christopher Steele first turns over some of his phony Trump Russia reports to the FBI. And we know that this was funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign for president. So Hillary's taken rightly, she's rightly held accountable for how this country has been poisoned the last 6 plus years. But that unfortunately by focusing too much on Clinton, we forget that all of these spy chiefs who were coordinating with the Clinton campaign who were leaking to the press, these people all worked for Barack Obama. It's inconceivable. As a matter of fact, we know that Obama knew what was going on. We knew we know from a handwritten notes from John Brennan in the summer of 2016. And we know him these White House meetings in early January 2017. Barack Obama knew what was going on. We know that we also know from the text messages between the FBI lovebirds. That's right. That they said at one point, the president wants to be briefed about everything with regards to operation crossfire hurricane in the targeting of Mike Flynn, correct? You're absolutely you're absolutely right. And I'm glad I'm glad you reminded me of that. I was moving so quickly through all of it. But you're absolutely right. And so I think that this is how we need to understand the indictment. And the strain, you know, everyone talks all the time about, oh, but especially Donald Trump's foes. Talk about, oh, he's an exceptionally bad president. He's an exceptionally evil man. And this is why he deserves this is why he deserves everything that's happening to him. This nonsense. Donald Trump is very firmly within the tradition of mainstream American politics, going back to the beginning, whether we're talking about economic nationalism, whether we're talking about a strain of rough and ready populism. This is part of the American mainstream. What is not a part of the American mainstream. And that's arresting other presidents indicting prosecuting other presidents of the United States. That's what's extraordinary here. Donald Trump is a great president. You and I and your great audience agrees on that. But what's extraordinary is not Donald Trump. What's extraordinary is prosecuting a president, a former president, and the FrontRunner for the 2024 nomination. That's what's different to you. Yeah, that's the key element that to use the British term here's the current leader of the opposition, not just the former president, but the individual who is right now, 20 to 30 points in front of the next next possible candidate to be the Republican nominee. We talked to Lee Smith, author extraordinaire, follow him on Twitter at Lee Smith D.C.. He's the author of the fabulous works, the plot against the president, which became a movie made by our friend Amanda milius and the permanent coup how enemies foreign and domestic targeted the American president.
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"samuel" Discussed on Serve to Lead | James Strock
"I wanna make sure that america is big enough and smart enough and looking forward enough to be able to have say texas in california but only coexist but prosper and make the whole country better. What does that mean for. The leadership approach a president should seek to instill in the country today. So my advice would be somewhat counter intuitive. So almost all. Recent presidents appeal to Unity and solidarity in ways that are surprisingly similar for a piece. I published recently in reason magazine. I looked at president biden and president trump's inaugural addresses and they actually say almost the same thing about about these these matters and it didn't work in either case as as we know. President trump was not particularly popular. When he was elected biden was briefly. A little bit more popular. But he seems to be descending quickly to a comparable level of unpopularity. So i would. I would advise presidents not to pretend that there is more unity and cohesion than there than there really is but rather to say. Look we disagree on a lot of things in a vast country with an enormous number of people. That's okay as your president. I am going to focus on discharging a much more limited number of tasks which are outlined by the constitution that can only be managed from this office and for the rest. I want you in your states. And i want your representatives in congress to try to figure it out for themselves now. I'm not totally naive. I don't think that would work. That would work overnight but we have learned over recent decades that presidents cannot bring about cohesion and consensus merely by uttering magic magic words. So my instinct would be maybe to try a different strategy. Lot of people here in this would go back. I'd argue at least thirty years at this point and certainly both of the legacy political parties that when they talk about unity. They're generally talking about submission to their point of view heavily respectful. That's right when when when most people talk about unity they mean everyone should agree with me. That's that's obviously not a sustainable of political situation. But it seems what we've been saddled with from who were producing as president in recent years. Let me ask you this. Samuel goldman you same. I think it's fair to say and this is not to only simplify your very nuanced views..
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"samuel" Discussed on Serve to Lead | James Strock
"Was inconceivable to him as as a frenchman where there was at that at that moment one official church and at different periods in subsequent friendship street nearly served this dominant church that you could not only choose for yourself. What church or other religious community to attend but that people were establishing as he thought in invent king whole new religious traditions and religious communities so that individualistic voluntaristic quality is not something new. What is new. I agree with. You is the technological condition that not only makes it easy to declare yourself in all of your individual particularity and then to seek out people who agree with you but also makes it easier for you to withdraw from the people that you live with ian in person So in a certain way we are becoming both more and less pluralistic at the same time more pluralistic because there is an ever expanding array of lifestyle and identity auctions but less pluralistic because you can create a sort of bubble or chosen community where you only have to live with or deal with or hear from people who already agree with you. And that's that's a very difficult situation to be in could argue that the capacity to have the separate identities is dependent upon shared national identity. At least insofar as other people are expected to respect those choices. Well at a at a certain at a certain point of diffusion or pluralism common institutions. Really do break down. And the possibility of coherent government begins to be foreclosed and a lot of people are worried about that right now and. I don't think that's a crazy thing to worry about that said. I don't think that we are there yet. And that's partly because when i compare today's conditions with those of the past i looked to periods like the early twentieth century. That look a lot more similar. Rather than the interlude of cohesion and solidarity in the middle of the twentieth century which i think was exceptional and cannot be repeated. But i also think that we have at our disposal a legal and institutional devices that can help us with this and one of the most important is federalism which is of course built into the constitution and is supposed to allow different states to legislate in ways that reflect the different interests and preferences of their populations so. I don't think that it's altogether an accident that we see both. The proliferation of particular identity is and increased political polarization as we depend increasingly on the national government and especially on on the executive branch on the white house to address the vast majority of our political problems. That's that's an expectation that our national government and especially the presidency is just not set up to meet so let's say that a president had the good fortune and was so well informed that he or she knew to call in samuel goldman to say Professor goldman i am really concerned about national identity..
Serve to Lead | James Strock
"samuel" Discussed on Serve to Lead | James Strock
"Do you think about that. Well you know just yesterday. I was preparing to give a lecture to my students at gw on monta skew. The french legal and political theorist who was among the most important intellectual influences on the framers of the constitution and montesquieu has a a remark. That monarchy's do well in in peacetime. Because they have a sense of of glory and grandeur that does not require a confrontation with enemies but republics he says aren't like that republics because of the greater freedom they tend to permit to individual citizens always tend toward corruption republicans citizens of course i mean smaller republicans citizens not supporters of the republican party republican republican citizens Ten to pursue their own interests and to indulge themselves rather than upholding the law and pursuing the common good and montesquieu's says the solution to this is war or military rivalry for republics. It's important to have an enemy to keep them straight. And he uses the the long rivalry of athens with sparta and rome with carthage. As examples of this phenomenon. I think something similar is true of the american republic in periods of war and military competition the imperative to cooperate in order to survive often imposes a a sort of salutary discipline and helps people to see what they have in common in addition to all the things that whole them pull them apart and in peacetime american culture and politics teng's to become more individualistic and diffuse. And i think that one of the things that's happening to us right now is that we take as normal. The period that begins in about nineteen forty one and extends through about the late nineteen sixties when the united states really wasn't a period of constant military mobilization. I against nazism and then against communist and that created an unusual degree of solidarity and cohesion. And since that time and maybe especially since one thousand nine hundred nine and the collapse of the soviet union. We've lacked that external discipline. And i think that helps explain. We seem to find it so difficult to get along now when our parents and grandparents and even even some of us today can remember period when it seemed to be a little bit easier of course many of these contemporary issues. That you summarize so well have echoes a century ago in the early nineteen hundreds and.
Serve to Lead | James Strock
"samuel" Discussed on Serve to Lead | James Strock
"Break fundamentally shooting no or people these banking business audience medical. The governor themselves to rule themselves to i believe my opponents do not. I believe in the right to the people i believe again. That'd be a medical people hours whole capable of self control and the learning by that mistake. Welcome to the serve to leave. Podcast on your host. James struck as we get started. May i ask a favor. Please help us reach a growing audience by taking just a moment and giving us a five star rating on itunes. This podcast is supported by listeners. Please consider joining me a subject where you'll also have access to frequent posts on current and historical events. It's an absolute delight to have samuel goldman with us today. Professor goldman as an associate professor of political science at george washington university in washington. Dc and the executive director of the. John l loeb junior institute for religious freedom and director of the george washington politics and values program. He's the author of a time ligand. Well received new book after nationalism. Being american in an age of division samuel goldman. Welcome to the served alita. Podcast thank you for having me central goldman. Please tell us how you conceived of the notion this book. What are you seeking to convey. And who is your audience. So i wrote the book as the idea of nationalism Was being revived and rehabilitated. About five years ago in the wake brexit and the election of donald trump. And although i understood the motives for that effort agreed with some of the arguments that were made about particular policies. I also had the feeling that some of the ways that the concept of nation and nationalism were being used were a better fit for classical european nation states than for for our country for the united states of america so in the book i set out to think through questions of what kind of nation This country is and what that means for the best way to respond to our current problems. When you're timing certainly good and it's only got better you turn very effectively in your book. In a highly readable way to point out that it was always a challenge throughout american history to create or conjure a single national identity and you laid out three useful categories covered until i mean i said that right but based on the covenant easier to read than say at least for me crucible and cradle. Would you please explain this and help us.
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"samuel" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Lincoln took the end saw handed him his briefs and through the brief in the trash basket without reading it and told the plaintiffs of the defendants. He has to go. i do so they are blunkett. Wow this is we're going to another break. We're gonna be back a few more minutes folks stick around folks. I'm talking to dr samuel mitchum Whose books have been translated into many languages. An historian who's written many books Documentum i'm just fascinated about so much of what you're saying they're such rich history here But it's disturbing. I mean the picture that you paint of Of lincoln i've heard such things but never In exactly this way he what would account for him putting stanton in his cabinet. Is that the basic idea that you put your enemies in your cabinet. That was it. If your friends close your enemies closer. He was lobbied by our william seward. you know you look at the penny you got abraham lincoln on everybody loves. The lincoln owned a penny Strong merciful determined integrity All of this has been buried. It didn't work that way on the ground. All the time and He felt that he needed stanton Because of the radical republicans who want him on the cabinet and they got him and he was quite frankly. Better secretary of war than this assessor The successors name. Kim rooney was a pennsylvania machine politician highly corrupt He's the one that had the famous quote. An politician is one. Who when he is bought stays out. But abraham lincoln spoke up far. the said Watch that. I do not believe would steal a red hot stove but we get how funny like was. At least i forget. He was full of those Would waza came up with a lot of witnesses but Stan did approve the efficiency improve the efficiency of the were department so he was an asset. You mean more effort until he had lincoln murdered well. He was involved in it. I believe sodas some other historians incidentally this lawrence baker. I told you about who i think. Stanton this being involved in the conspiracy. he was shot twice and lighter survived that but the county dead in his off apartment and the medical. Your topsy said he died of meningitis. Which means in those days had to seal the coffin and buried immediately which they did but the family finally got zooms and the cause of death was arsenic poisoning. He was murdered He wasn't the only one to disappear. John wilkes booth nineteen year old mistress one of them anyway else star She disappeared and so did john. power who was the policemen on duty. When like tonight at least he was supposed to be on duty. Went to a bar and Left lincoln unprotected. Now you gotta consider when booth went into box. She nobody a posting. The president united states didn't then anybody between him an assassin booth fired bullet or feet away and he went in there with one derringer single shot crystal one and i know that was all and the stove or something. He didn't expect any opposition would have been go ahead. That is truly astonishing. A single shot derringer. That was it. Do we know what was the gauge. What was the bullet pros by half an inch diameter forty four so it was a big bullet one shot where at a time So fascinating samuel mitchum. Thank you for being my guess. Congratulations on this new book. The retribution conspiracy to rise confederate secret. Service and congratulations on all your books. I look forward to reading some of them as soon as possible. Thanks also for your time..
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"samuel" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Book folks fascinating conversation the retribution conspiracy. Is the book. Don't go away talking to dr. sam samuel mitchum. The book is the retribution conspiracy to rise of the confederate secret service documentum. What was the You know the inciting incident for you as a researcher as an historian. What got you to say. There's something here that's worth a book. Well it was kind of brought home to me In an entrance that occurred in nineteen twenty four Robert todd lincoln lincoln surviving. Sean spent many years in the bureaucracy. They was secretary of war under garfield and I offer a couple of bundy's visit his home Harsh yang and nicholas murray butler. Who is the president of columbia university and they were appalled when they arrive because robert cod. lincoln's going. Through abraham lincoln. His father's papers and was barring some of them and i asked him. Why are you. Burn your father's papers. So because i have uncovered evidence of trees and in my father's cabinet and they appeal to not to burn it and lincoln asks washington. I bernard and i think it was butler. Who said for the sake of history and robert card lincoln said yes for the sake of history. They tossed another sheet of paper onto the flight. So was the confederate secret service working with a cabinet member. And what i don't understand is why in the world would would lincoln's son one destroy that kind of evidence and others. It's not evidence against his father. It's evidence against his father's Cabinet thus virga question. I wish i could answer it. But he never chose to reveal the reason he did and who wrote about this incident which of these men wrote about it all our a couple of books but Borsen day doesn't matter. I'm just i'm just fascinated data that there would be somebody in lincoln's cabinet who was working with the confederacy that's That's kind of big news. Do we know who it might have been. Yes edwin stanton secretary of war. Remember it was auto is commit. Who wrote while. Lincoln was murdered and that was a nineteen thirty seven and i was later reinforced by number books including one by major general. William may tidwell respect twenty three years in the cia along with a couple of co-authors and there was sort of a paper trail to stat For example on the last day of his life for fourteenth eighteen sixty. Five abraham lincoln went to visit stanton he wanted a bodyguard and one in particular in mind thomas After eckert was a big man. Strongly devoted to lincoln and extremely powerful lincoln want sawing break five owned bars over his own arm and he was the head of the telegraph office. Understand and stanton said no. You can't have him escort you to ford stare because Needing very important work tonight. And i'll lincoln said he wanted to eckerd himself eckerd her this conversation and not many people with bucks that because he was a ruthless and echo lincoln. I'd love to go to performance with you very important work to do tonight. Of course he didn't know what that work want and fifteen minutes after lincoln lap to stanton told aker. I don't have any anything else for you to do. I won't need you again tomorrow. And dismissing fifteen minutes after like left stanton later live to rational investigation. He said that You lash like rape or twelve. He lied to the press. And the public Stanton recovered john wilkes booth some diet and eighteen pages were ripped out and stan said they were ripped out when i got the diary but brigadier general law orange baker the head of the national detective beliefs. So that wasn't true they were there. Stanton s with iraq. He got it in. The diary disappeared Later lawrence baker said that He thought stan was involved. Stanton was behind their session ocean. Now why would stanton A northerner extensively. Why would he be involved in wanting to kill. Lincoln was it. Was it sheer hatred of lincoln politically. He hated lincoln from day. One but i think it was more of a love for power. I think stanton came off. The rails in eighteen was at time forty one. His wife and daughter died and even had his daughter exhumed and putting a special case and her body was his apartment off for over a year He changed completely. Who is Power mad after that and that's a good long time that said corner of a century practically before the events were discussing. Now he was a brilliant lager. No doubt about it. He was the first one to come up with the insanity defense. He got Dan sickles off was later union general. Who almost cost north war in the battle gathers 'but but he He pled insanity because he kill one of his wife's lovers and it was also related to francis scott key incident and he was involved in patent infringement case and they hired a lincoln as co attorney because the need to annoy turning trout supposed to be in chicago but then the chains have been to cincinnati. They forgot to tell lincoln so he showed up with a brief and stanton blistered gave him a blistering reprimand to his face calling giraffe gorilla. Which was pretty visuals.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"samuel" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"And that may apply apart in decisive nation of lincoln because com. They were oh you gotta go back really to may. Eighteen sixty two there was a russian was commanding righetti. The union troops and his name was ivan so find Church off and curtin off is going under the alias of john Purchase he allowed us troops to sack athens alabama which cleanup was partially pro-union and they destroyed the business district. I committed a number of rights. They ripe the pregnant woman and it caused heard miscarried. Both the mother and the fetus died right. Some slaves the rake the fourteen year old girl locker and the commander of the army dow. His commander was gone on carlos. You'll lose a gentleman He had him arrested and court martialled and convicted and eating sky sheared which today would be called a dishonorable discharge. That's all well for killing jewish. Just a minute what happened. Next was abraham lincoln overturned the court martial conviction pardon arjun and promoted into brigadier general and this sent a message to the indian army that the troops do pretty much anything i wanted to in the south and that was one of the causes of the retribution There was another array that you'll patrick album rate. Which was part of this happened in march eighteen sixty four Dow your dow was son of admiral. Dahlgren minute dog and heavy artillery piece. He was killed in on it on his body. They found a list of the people that they were going to hang without. Trials jefferson davis was at the top of it. All the confederate cabinet was And a senator and congressman. Who was too slow. Would be killed without trial. And davis was a believer in law and order and I believe that's when they put abraham lincoln as a target because prior to that the secretary of war james sidon had said that abraham lincoln is not a target We will not target ling personally and then reversed himself one hundred million degrees after that. I have to ask you. Because i'm confused. You're saying that lincoln new about these atrocities. These are really war crimes And that he approved of it. That doesn't seem to be in line. With what i have thought of as the character of lincoln. I'm surprised to hear this. Well today. thank you would have an easier time. Denying the divinity of christ than Criticizing abraham lincoln. He became a great barter and but he wasn't so popular in his own time. Edwin stanton his secretary of war habitually referred to him as long morella baboon draft as did many other union of political. Well let's Let's pause here. I mean i know that he was not well liked. But that really doesn't say much because Many great men and women are not well liked We're going to follow up on this folks. Don't go away exciting conversation. We'll be right back books. I am talking to dr samuel mitchum. The book is the retribution conspiracy. The rise of the confederate secret service I have to ask you more lincoln. I m fascinated one thing for somebody to be hated but some people are hated for good reasons. Some people hated for bad reasons. Lincoln may not have been perfect. But i have to say i am genuinely surprised to hear that he would sign off on what we would think of as war crimes. That the idea that he eh. This person was a court martial. Cashiered as you put it in then. that lincoln reversed that So lincoln intended to send a message to the union troops that they could rape and kill. Is that what you're saying and by the way is that well please go ahead. I think he did Whether or not he showed the message whether he meant to or not But the north was pretty well suppressed by the radical republicans under lincoln. An estimated thirty. Two thousand people were arrested and were not granted the right pay the corpus. He suppressed over three hundred northern newspapers. That opposed republican so Matter fact francis key howard run an interesting book. He was grandson of francis. Scott key who wrote the star spangled banner. He was one that was arrested and he was held in prison fourteen months. Ironically enough himself prisoner at fort mchenry baltimore harbor where his ancestor wrote the star spangled banner Lincoln even issued an order to arrest chief justice of the united states chief justice painting who was eighty four years old at that time and he couldn't find a federal marshal. Who would enforce the arrest store. Why did lincoln want the chief justice arrested because the jail some marylanders one in particular Who appeal to the chief justice to be granted his rights babies corpus due process and attained ruled in his favor. Lincoln ignored the ruling and ordered tiny. Rushden couldn't get anybody to enforce the arrest warrant. He could have gotten the army to do it but he didn't want the army arresting achieve justice. And i think he realized that he acted rashly because that would have been a major public relations disaster for his strife so they're just ignored it. It's extraordinary to hear these things I you know. I'm interested in the truth nonetheless. It's very dismaying to hear these things about lincoln. I think there's things we can overlook certain things that they're tougher to overlook the idea that Atrocities were committed by the union army. And that they were not dealt with as such things need to be dealt with It is horrifying. And i can understand how it would lead to the many confederacy to say. We've gotta we've gotta kill that guy So wh so in the book you link up As you say the confederacy with john wilkes booth acting on behalf of others is. Is that the main issue that he was not acting alone. All obviously he wasn't inducted alone. Non conspirators were put on trial Ada convicted the other one. John rat probably would've been convicted but by the time they caught him the statute of limitations that run out but Yeah four of them. Were executed three were given life frozen and one is given six years in prison. Earn basically his crime was holding. John wilkes booth horse outside food sitter after Like it was after booth went to kill lincoln. Well that's almost driving the getaway car so but that's you gotta ask yourself. This guy know that booth was going to assassinate like and the prosecution could not prove it but it didn't matter it was not and this is of course totally unconstitutional. But these people were tried by military court martial picked by when stanton and you probably heard military tribunals organized to convict And these people were civilians. But they were put in a military tribunal so then then then how does this. How does the pieces of your book differ from the general idea that there was a conspiracy that it originated in In the confederate secret service is that the.
Real Monsters
"samuel" Discussed on Real Monsters
"You know they just have fewer neurons in the hippocampus than normal people there. The brain and that area is underdeveloped. Y- you can't fix that. No no i mean. He can't now. Then there's the nurture part of it. Not all obviously not associate pastor into even criminals much less murderers even much s serial killers right almost definitely. That's where you get the ones who find a socially acceptable outlet right or the sociopath eli on. Ceo's ceo's lis lis military prison guards. Yep all there are a lot of there are a lot of ways and some people. Just don't do it in their professions. Are they find outlets in their hobbies. You know maybe they're thrillseekers or something you know. Yeah and then it just becomes something bigger and so so you know the difference between a sociopath who his becomes a senator in one who becomes a serial killer could be largely up to where how they grew up. Oh absolutely but we do know that for that one to become a serial killer somewhere along the line. The psychopathy guts fused with violence with which got fused with sexuality right. That's really the big difference here. These serial killers sees lest killers like samuel little. It is all about sexual psychopathy. Yeah right the end and you know. Part of it is is that you know they. They start experimenting when they're little insane seeing what they can get away with and saying what they like and and they don't get discovered 'cause they're very clever sometimes. Yep unless you're like a nine year old who burns his whole family to the ground and to read a bit more on that nine years old man. Yeah my understanding is. He just stood there and watched well. If that's like something out has the king level shit at is man. Did you see that other story the other day about the Couple who adopted. I think was said it was actually a midget that tried to kill them. Yeah it was an adult woman who was pretending to be a child. Well that's right out of the story line for orphan actually interviewed the woman who played in that digit. Did in my god. I feel bad. I can't remember her name right now. Just look it up talking. Well samuel little. I think we're gonna be coming back to talk about him again. Yeah there is so much info. And like i said earlier so much nine. Yeah exactly. it's still developing not yet verified is definitely looking like it's going to be.
Software People Stories
"samuel" Discussed on Software People Stories
"And you know it's been a long journey since then do you know kinda looking index peace and Know many of the job professionals who have joined with the expedients have come from as a mother industries not necessarily grown So to speak acknowledging prospectively tennis your early times of being in the hospitality or manufacturing. How has that being in a jar compared to in the congee so it's it's they're completely different worlds to begin. That's right it's like you can be on. Different planets is started with the dannon. I used to be a management trainee with the idc group Many many years ending potatoes is a very very different industry from twenty five years back but what you see now and that was really about hands on getting into the nitty gritties getting into the details and it was extremely people intensive right. I'm your days would just about people talking to people in naples. I think i had machine. I think we all had shade computers that use to access from there. I actually moved on to a making in customer service. And you know these really not my obviously my three hr and it was. Then that i actually developed of wall in the nation to be and is when. I was actually looking to do my master's and the most accurate joyce for me was to graduate towards a discipline that got me to work with people and that obviously to me was hr. So that's how. I move my way. I can say into the diary out space. And you don't get my masters finish that up and started off in hr and interestingly even dan it was a mac and ninety nine is when i finished college and i started with executive search. It was just up coming those days. And then i was head hunting. Somebody foot and opportunity. They basically turned around and said you know. I'm not looking for a job. But i'm looking for someone for my teams cut more interesting conversation discussion than i ended out You know moving into what was a fairly sunrise industry back then. The two thousand which was the dot com industry. I was part of that was actually my first footy Technology florida dot. And i was part of the start up team and it was very very interesting. Because i was actually helping. And i'm saying stocked up. I mean i was actually helping even find spaces lookout off so it was that basic you know. Probably employee number four or five. Whatever it is you don't for that start division of much larger conglomerate. I was moved to bangalore and mangalore like you know. Israel league the capital so to speak of the country. So i kind of Here so much more buzz around the whole tech is then from dot com. I also but i do it to woods twingo the and what it was a retail dot com. So i kind of moved on to you. Know managing the and mortar stores. I was in a ford retail industry. Where i used to work on the walk in the stores rights retail stores. I helped set up stores the to extremely hands on game. I remember working out of the warehouse. Because that's very sad woods. There was nothing. fancy low. Fancy yeah it was really really interesting times By the huge amount of learning and the learning really came from this meeting people in reading and operations that led to me. Moving in breach are consulting. I continued to stay in the consulting space. I you know. The bit of consulting in the manufacturing industry worked with some big manufacturing houses though sparkle that journey in august to be that i you know we had some of appliance again in the expertise so that was my second inning so to speak a second interaction with technology again..
Sucias are my Favorite
"samuel" Discussed on Sucias are my Favorite
"Oj duke something other. There's a lot of commentators. There's a lot of youtube channels where there's males that react videos. I'll watch a video and this show. Hey well that's awesome. Well there there's a couple of 'em mediocre tutorials and reviews ochej duke. Something wanna say do johnson. I'm not a hundred percent on that one and then there's abbott and preach and so they all have a sometimes they'll they'll review the same video within a few days of each other and it's usually a similar take their more. These guys are more red pill in their views of things. So as so as kevin. Johnson or sorry kevin samuels. I agree with a lot of repeal ideals but to me red pill is basically my cheese mo- with more focus on sleeping with as many females as possible versus the traditional idea matiz cheese Of taking care of your family and being the provider being the the bravado d. Do you think Is it is it. Not okay for guy to ask another guy about like that. Sort of internal pain because a lot of issues and problems and things that come up for many people do stem from some kind of hurt and pain. I mean whether this applies to kevin samuels or not because obviously not a guy. I don't totally know how people communicate with each other. There's still a lot of stigma about getting help and the whole the whole hurt. Who hurt you thing. I think that there's a time and place for that. Ideally i think that would be a one on one conversation either through. Dm's or kevin samuel. Actually another thing. That i had mentioned is that. He advocates for therapy. A lot which Hopefully you might have seen on on some of his Interviews or whatever. But he is a proponent for therapy. And i have an issue with that not that i have an issue with. Therapy is just have an issue. With the way i was raised and brought up the whole gen xer and then also the michiel stuff is that you know. You're not a man you as you solve all your problems yourself. You don't need any help. And i agree that that's that's a problem in our society that we need to be able to deal with and take care of our mental health and with that idea that knowledge that yeah. We need to have mental health as well as physical health. I also the fucking doctor. I've been to the doctor. Maybe five or six times in my life. So i had Eye chicken pox pneumonia in the army. broke my hip broke my ankle or Reconstructive surgery on my ankle so surgery. and then..
Sucias are my Favorite
"samuel" Discussed on Sucias are my Favorite
"You are. Queen are this. We need to quit attacking females and you to quit doing this that and the other. I don't see. Kevin samuels as a tacking females. I see him as making statements are making realistic observations. Based off of what these emails one desire the whole high-value males higher earning males in so the funny thing is both or all of them. Essentially make their money off of females because the females are the larger group or at least with whom are johnson and kevin samuel females are the more consumers of their content. So so again. What's your take on the be for this situation with the to. Well i guess You're i. I heard speak spanish because they're just read something in spanish. Anyway i guess. I i really wonder about with. Dj envy and Kevin samuels like where all of this is coming from. And 'cause i i'm not. I've watched just a few episodes of the breakfast club in. I only watched it. Because i i read a charlemagne. The gods autobiography in. I thought it was fascinating. And that's even how. I first heard about him his from his book and so then i got curious about about more about what he does. And so that's how. I learned about the breakfast club. And so i've seen a few episodes on youtube in that's high Dj envy and found him to be very engaging and interesting. and i like his style. And when you're talking about and so hearing him kinda come after kevin. Samuels not super surprised. But this whole thing about who hurt you i. I don't know..
Sucias are my Favorite
"samuel" Discussed on Sucias are my Favorite
"Well i think kevin annuals Is very interesting. He's extremely well-spoken and he makes them really really good points. I can appreciate the way that he communicates with people. Now he is. He gives back when he gets so if he's talking to someone who is engaged in listening and you know keeping there's themselves on an even keel. He does the exact same thing which is cool a lot of times. People can't help themselves and they start to talk over him and then he he lets them. I mean he doesn't let them talk over him. he stops he listens to them. But you know like anybody that gets to a point where you can only take so much when you're doing you know you're being respectful and he'll kinda shut that down which is totally cool. I appreciate that he just the way he talks to women for the most part tends to to have a little respect in and you know he does that thing when he's talking to a woman where he starts to ask them about themselves and asked about their you know basically what they look lake right because his whole thing is it's what sexual marketplace's value right so he's trying to determine that and i appreciate that when he hears a woman who's clearly not in the best shape he he's never rude or unkind or anything but just kind of does a little reality check on their expectations which is fair. You know you get what you give for the most part. There's always exceptions but i think that's that's all pretty. Yeah on regarding. Kevin samuels so mike experiences kind of giving dating advice is is kind of a weird microcosm in san antonio in particular because i had a lotta skater friends most in shape like he like you know in roller derby. Skaters are not. There are some that are obese but mo- by and large the skaters at are competitive. The ones that are on the eighteen be team that are traveling and doing more than just being a part of derby to say. Oh i'm derby girl because that's another conversation but the ones that are quote unquote more fit in san antonio still have a difficult time finding a mate finding a boyfriend Speaking of the sis- hetero female skaters. There was a lot of times that they just couldn't find a guy that would commit some more attractive. Some weren't so attractive or feminine and my view at the time was more of trying to understand what the the males they were dealing with. Were saying and doing and whether they were serious and then try to. Effectively communicate to the skaters. Hey this is what he really meant. This is what he's trying to do this doing this or this way is doing that A lot of times. It was kind of a hard pill to swallow. Let her know. Hey you decide chick if he's not actively including you with friends or something else. Then you're probably aside chick you're probably not taken seriously or you're just you know a benefit. They're not seeing you a someone to date. And then there's a lot of variables there whether he's ready whether you present yourself as someone this ready or someone that serious there. There's a whole lot of things that go on there. I didn't see it as a big picture idea. I was dealing with the immediate problem. As a male as a problem solver and then listening to kevin samuels i realized..
Life Together
"samuel" Discussed on Life Together
"He stays in connection and even the first king of israel even saul loses that place and saw loses his connection with god he loses his righteousness and samuel house to watch the first king of israel fall and become this disobedient king. a king who is out of a relationship with god. Do you know what the last thing is in the bible that we see sanyal doing the very last thing at the end of his life. The bible says he lived into his nineties and this eleven year old boy in his nineties. Has one job left. And i love this job because even after his sons had gone astray even after the first king of israel had gone astray. Samuel gets one more call. From god. And god says samuel. There's a little boy that i need you to go. Anoint king goes over to a man named jesse's house and he says saul has turned away. And god is called me to bring a new king into israel. So let's line about and jesse lines up all of these. You know his oldest son. His most handsome son is biggest on and this eleven year. Old boy who has a connection to god stands there and goes nope nope no not. Not not this one. None of us. I want you to go find that little boy who is out in the fields taking care of the sheep. And that's the kid that's the one who is going to be the line of christ and that little boy's name was david he was the king of israel and david is the lineage of jesus. Christ he is the one who was the great grandfather that leads us to a baby born in a manger he is the path salvation and i cannot tell you the joy that it brings me to think of ninety nine year old eleven year old standing in that room and saying the kid get the kid. The kid is the one whose heart is turned towards towards god. He's the one who's going to make it. We all live world but we make mistakes. We are human people. We are going to make mistakes. We're going to fall to. We're going to mess up. There is going to be sin in our life and yet when you had a heart that is turned towards god. When you have a relationship with god that says i want to hear your voice and there was nothing in this world. That is more important to me. The maintain my connection with you to listen carefully to live justly and to love god seemingly taking a break. I'm not stepping away from this. I am always going to be in relationship with you. And i can see that through the waves of life for the people who make the people who don't i can keep having relationship with you. I can love god unceasingly. I want that. I want to be a ninety nine year old eleven year old and to know what it is to walk through life and love god unceasingly.
Life Together
"samuel" Discussed on Life Together
"You would be a minister of justice. The second sermon ends this way. Live justly live justly. I do not want to be an ally. I don't want my story to end this way. Ally dies in a very graphic way. There's one day where his two sons has wicked sons go to battle and they die in battle and the messenger comes back to tell eli and the bible describes it as a graphic way because it talks about the weight that ella had because of the sacrifices he had been stealing and this really heavy man sitting in his chair and when he hears the message of his sons dine. He falls back in his chair. Hits his head and dies. What a tragic loss from someone who wants heard the voice of god. It calls me to action. I want to be someone who is administering justice in the areas. That god has given me authority. Let's pray together father. I pray that you would call each one of us to recognize the areas of justice that you have given us space of the communities in our workplaces in our families and our neighborhoods that we can be a bringer of righteousness that we can be calling people to make your house a good house in our own houses and living space. If there are unrighteous our house tonight. I pray that you would help us to go home and get rid of them immediately. I prayed you would help us to cancel subscriptions. I pray that you would help us to shutdown open doors of sin in our life. We don't want you to call someone else. We want you to be us lord. Don't go away from us. Don't stand far off. Be someone who stays in relationship with us. God that we would be administer justice in this world and the name of your son. We pray amen. I'm going i'm going. I'm going our sermon tonight. Starts in psalm. Chapter ninety nine subchapter ninety nine for five and six out the lord our god and worship at his footstool he is holy moses and aaron were among his priest samuel was among those who called on his name they called on the lord and he answered them. Samuel was a man who had relationship with god who knew him who spoke to him and he spoke back and he stayed in this relationship. Because samuel did not always stay an eleven year old boy. He grew up and his surroundings changed but his relationship with god did not change. There's a dark side. What samuel story. Because samuel also had sons he also had two sons and something that i am positive that broke samuels. Heart is that he had to wicked sons and his sons cheated the house of god in a different way by accepting bribes by getting financially rich over the sacrifices that were bought and the people that.
Life Together
"samuel" Discussed on Life Together
"Way. And all of this is going on as you're watching a man who had a holy calling and farther away from his holy calling from administering justice he's leading all of this slide. He's scooting it under the rug as he's literally getting fat under atoning sacrifices of the people walking in the doors of the temple until one day allies there and he sees this crazy woman over in the temple and she's muttering and he's so confused by what's going on he assumes his i guess is that she's drunk and so he li- walks over in the middle of all of this wickedness sin going on in the temple walks over to this woman says what are you doing. I can't believe you're drunk inside the temple. Get out of here and this woman turns and says it's not what you think. I am weeping because my heart is heavy so that woman was hannah. And it is heartbreaking to me to think that allies. I guess when he saw someone who is pouring their heart out god who was weeping in humility before the true god. His first guesses that she was drunk. This was type of place that the temple had become and god was furious at this. We always tell this story about samuel being called the children. There's part of. I samuel chapter three that we basically never tell children and i'm going to make sure you know what it is because god call samuel samuel but do you remember what he tells samuel because it's kind of dark and i think we should read it. I samuel chapter three seven. So he goes samuel. Samuel samuel says here. I am and then the lord said to samuel. So he's talking to this eleven year old child he says i'm about to do a shocking thing in israel i am going to carry out all my threats against. Eli and his family from beginning to the end can you imagine. Can you imagine being this eleven year old child. What a devastating thing. It's the little boy who's growing up in church and the first thing. Here's from god. As god going samuel samuel there's unholy in my house and you my dear eleven year old boy. I am calling you to administer justice. There is unrighteousness here and i need someone who's gonna hear my voice and samuel. You're the guy you're the guy who is going to restore justice into my house there. Is this phenomenal conversation..
Life Together
"samuel" Discussed on Life Together
"Then. Eli realized it was the lord who was calling the boy so he said to samuel go and lie down again and if someone calls against speak lord your servant is listening and so samuel went back to bed and the lord came and called as before. Samuel samuel let's pray together tonight. Father we love your word we thank you that you are a god who does not stand far off your god who calls to your people and as we lean into your word tonight that you might speak to us that we might be honored to hear your voice we pray for your holy spirit guide every word that said and the name of jesus we pray amen twelve years before i samuel chapter three there is this woman and her name is hannah and hannah is in a relationship where she is married to a man that this man has two wives if anyone ever tells you that the bible is pro polygamy they're not paying attention because there are polygamous relationships in the bible but every single time they go very very poorly. It is god's way of saying you can try those but it's not gonna work and hannah and her sister wife is one of those moments that just clearly does not work because as they're going through this hannah sister wife whose name was peninsula has many children and in her age. When there was no way to succeed in life but through the descendants of your children she was not someone who could go and get a career. She wasn't someone who could pursue meaning in other ways in her life. There was this one path toward success. She was unable to be successful because she was infertile. And so every year hand and her family would go visit the house of the lord and it was a journey that they would make to bring sacrifices and when they would bring sacrifices. There was a special thing that would happen for each family member. And if you had children there were extra portions that would be given to you because the honor of having kids and so every year hand would come to this place and her sister wife would get these extra blessings because she had children and hannah did not and at this moment. That was supposed to be the celebration every year. It was this time that for hannah brought so much pain and sorrow because she was unable to find meaning in her life and so one day she goes at the temple and she is heartbroken before the lord crying out to help and there is a priest there who has mercy upon her and says god sees today. Here's your call. He is gonna grant your request for a son and so she goes home and by the time she comes back the next year she has a son has a baby boy and his name is samuel. In this great gift that hannah receives from. God she makes a promise to god to say because you have shown favor upon me because you have given me this sun going to worship you and my worship to you is. I'm gonna give you back this child. And what an amazing statement of faith to give interesting thing. God continue to bless hanna. Hanna ended up with six children by the end of her. Life is god healed her infertility and allowed her to find meaning and blessing in the culture that she lived in by having children. So samuel comes back and most historians are guessing somewhere between age three to age. Five is when hannah comes back with samuel. And then she leaves him there. This is not a place that is close to home..
Atmosphere Church Podcast
"samuel" Discussed on Atmosphere Church Podcast
"Live the life that god has called you to live. Enjoy the message introduce our guest speaker super excited to be able to spend some time with him. He is a brother of another mother. He he actually does look like my brother. So samuel laws is the lead pastor of brave church up in san ramon and a lot of people call atmosphere church baby brave because it was really an under the inspiration of his dad and himself and really our friendship together and our brotherhood together that really formed and shaped atmosphere church and we.