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ALERT: McCain Busted Trying to Frame Trump For Horrifying Crime. Should McCain Resign? | Top Stories - Duration: 2:46.
Let's not forget which party Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), really belongs to…
When McCain heard the rumors about potentially damaging intelligence regarding Trump, he
took action and sent an emissary across the ocean to get the dirty dossier.
He read it and handed it over to the FBI (via The Daily Mail).
The firm behind this dirty dossier has been revealed as Fusion GPS.
The co-founder of the organization has been asked to testify before the Senate Judiciary
Committee.
He refused (via MSN).
Why would McCain fly someone across the ocean to follow-up on a ridiculous lead about his
own party's candidate?
What a waste of time and effort, unless your goal is to bring down Trump.
It seems clear now why both McCain and Fusion GPS would like us to forget about this incident.
The co-founder of Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, has the reputation of his whole firm on the
line.
The "intelligence" in the dirty dossier was so laughably fake, that I bet few will
be willing to trust the firm's word in the future.
The dossier didn't exactly include the kind of detail that encourages trust– especially
considering that the whole thing was made-up.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has warned Simpson they will begin the process of compelling
him to testify, because he has refused the committee's original non-compulsory request.
Senator Charles Grassley (R- IA), who heads the committee, is doing a great job explaining
the significance of this firm.
He said, "When political opposition research becomes the basis for law enforcement or intelligence
efforts, it raises substantial questions about the independence of law enforcement and intelligence
from politics."
Senator Grassley is referring to the fact that this inane document started a political
witch hunt.
The Democrats have long called for President Trump to be impeached, and for rumors to be
treated like crimes worth investigating.
Once Simpson is forced to testify, I imagine we'll learn who concocted this document,
which is important.
Whoever they are, we can be sure they are out to get President Trump.
Who else would publish such patently fake material?
It would not be surprising if it were discovered they had strong connections to John McCain.
It makes you wonder if the man is a Democrat plant.
He takes money from George Soros, after all.
He also acts against our President's best interests.
He pretends that laughable material, like the dirty dossier, is worthy of anyone's
serious follow-up.
Do you think Senator McCain should resign from politics forever?
Please share this news and tell us what you think!
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Tandem Stance Head Movement Up and Down - Ask Doctor Jo - Duration: 0:27.
For a tandem stance with head movements up and down, make sure you have a chair or something
sturdy next to you just in case you need it for balance.
Place one foot in front of the other, and then move your head up and down.
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MLP Lyra Heartstrings Coloring Book Pages My Little Pony Lyra Coloring Page MLPFiM Kids Art - Duration: 3:27.
Welcome to Happy Magic Toys and episode 86 of our My Little Pony coloring book series.
Today's coloring page is Lyra Heartstrings from My Little Pony Friendship is Magic MLPFiM.
Lyra is one of the background characters in MLPFiM. Lyra's best friend is Bon Bon(Sweetie Drops).
Please check out my playlists to see more My Little Pony coloring book pages, color swaps and customs.
Don't forget to check out the rest of the channel to find videos based on other TV shows and films.
Please like and subscribe for daily videos, and leave any coloring page, color swap and/or custom requests in the comments section below.
Thanks for watching.
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PHORCYS UNDERWATER ACTIVITIES - EPISODE#23 - Duration: 12:38.
Rupture of the tympanic membrane
Rupture of the tympanic membrane is not always accompanied by pain,
feeling of a blocked ear, vertigo-dizziness
or presence of blood in the external canal.
The only positive way to establish the diagnosis
is to perform a Valsalva Maneuver and hear the whistle of the air escaping the fissure.
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THE CHESSA SONG - Tessa Brooks, Chance, Erika Costell, Jake Paul (Team 10) - Duration: 3:19.
Chessa is a beautiful thing We know that their love is destiny
Some say that they don't belong together now
But it ain't true They go together like waffles & OFC
Chessa don't lie to me Said your only just friends and then you got
married I knew it wasn't fantasy
When she went to Ohio & met his family Double dates with Jerika
It's a team 10 love that I hope will never end
Hope will never end
Put your hands up in the air, oh yeah for this love affair
Between Tessa Brooks & Chance Put your hands up in the air, oh yeah all
you Chessa fans Show 'em just how much you care
If you like this song, subscribe & share And they will see just how we much we care
Jake Paul and Erika Costell I know that some people don't agree
Don't feel, like you have to go & pick a side
Cause it's ok If you ship them both equally
Chessa don't lie to me Said your only just friends and then you got
married I knew it wasn't fantasy
When they went to Ohio & met his family Double dates with Jerika
It's a team 10 love that I hope will never end
Hope will never end
Put your hands up in the air, oh yeah for this love affair
Between Tessa Brooks & Chance Put your hands up in the air,
oh yeah all you Chessa fans Show them just how much you care
If you like this song, subscribe & share And they will see just how we much we care
Chessa is a beautiful thing We know that their love is destiny
Some say that they don't belong together now
But it ain't true They go together like waffles & OFC
Oh yeah between Tessa Brooks & Chance Put your hands up in the air, oh yeah all
you Chessa fans Show them just how much you care
If you like this song, subscribe & share And they will see just how we much we care
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The Sacred Meaning And Deep Symbolism Of The Pyramid - Duration: 4:34.
The Sacred Meaning And Deep Symbolism Of The Pyramid
By consciousreminder
Walk into any crystal shop and you will most likely see pyramid shapes on the top of crystal
clusters, orgone pyramids or even crystals fashioned into the shape of a pyramid.
This is not just because pyramids are a pretty shape, there is a deep symbolism here that
goes back centuries, all the way back to the time of the Ancient Egyptians and beyond.
I have always felt drawn to the pyramids of Egypt and while I haven�t yet visited them
in person, it is definitely on my bucket list!
It has long been believed that the pyramids were used as burial tombs for the Kings and
Queens of Egypt, however many researchers claim that this is just not true.
An alternative belief about the pyramids is that they were used as powerful healing chambers
and not as burial sites at all.
Perhaps the Egyptians had access to some advanced knowledge that we just don�t yet know about�
Pyramids are believed to be extremely sacred in many cultures around the world.
Many churches are built with pyramid-like steeples and ancient pyramid structures can
be found not just in Egypt, but in South America and parts of Asia.
The Native Americans also sat in tipis to conduct rituals and ceremonies, which have
a pyramid like shape to them.
It was believed that this shape helped to connect them with the earth and the heavens
above.
In fact, what makes a pyramid so powerful is its ability to channel or collect energy
from the higher realms of the stars, the planets and the Universe and deliver it down to earth.
The bottom of the pyramid represents a solid, earthy foundation, whereas the pointed top
represents being able to reach into higher realms of consciousness.
Because of its shape, any energy that enters the pyramid has the ability to be cleansed
and purified.
Almost like the pyramid acts like a filter of sorts.
This is because pyramids are said to generate negative ions which can balance the body�s
electromagnetic field and deliver healing.
By sitting inside a pyramid, it is believed that your energy centers can be balanced and
it becomes easier to receive messages from your intuition and higher beings.
Your aura can also be recharged and can appear much brighter.
Placing food, herbs and other supplements inside a pyramid has also been shown to increase
their effectiveness and can actually help to preserve their structure.
Crystals can also be more effectively charged in a pyramid structure and meditating inside
a pyramid is also said to enhance the benefits and reduce stress.
Pyramids also have the ability to absorb harmful EMF�s and other energetic frequencies that
are damaging to your health.
We live in an energetic Universe, and geometrical shapes have the ability to change and influence
the direction of energy.
Different shapes hold different energies, and these energies can influence us in subtle
and also profound ways.
It is a still a mystery as to how the ancient Pyramids of Egypt were built, but it definitely
seems like they had some type of healing power that we have perhaps forgotten.
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Sketchy Things Everyone Just Ignores About Kevin James - Duration: 4:56.
Thanks to the CBS sitcom King of Queens and films like Paul Blart: Mall Cop and The Zookeeper,
Kevin James earned himself a reputation in Hollywood as the "Everyman" actor.
And since he doesn't use any profanity of provocative material in his stand-up routine,
he's earned a reputation as a squeaky clean celebrity.
But does he deserve that reputation?
Here's a look at the shady side of Kevin James.
He got his co-star fired
In 2016, James returned to CBS with a new sitcom Kevin Can Wait.
The series was savaged by critics for being a King of Queens ripoff, but despite that
- or perhaps because of it - the show did well in the ratings.
So it was kind of a shock when James got his co-star and TV wife Erinn Hayes fired from
the show.
As Decider pointed out, "What's even stranger is how integral Hayes' character is to the
series.
Kevin Can Wait is very much a family comedy that features a happy, stable, 20-year marriage
at its center.
Ditching one of two key characters in this dynamic is odd."
Why did he do it?
Well, apparently he wanted to clear room for his King of Queens co-star Leah Remini to
step and take Hayes's place.
That's... pretty cold.
"Ah, you know what?
You won this my little Care Bear.
You won this one."
His boss quit because of him
Shortly after Kevin Can Wait debuted, CBS gave it a full season order, which was great
news for everyone involved.
Except things went sideways when showrunner Bruce Helford quit halfway through the season
over "creative differences with James," according to Deadline.
It must've taken a lot because Helford had previously worked with Hollywood bad boy Charlie
Sheen on Anger Management and still managed to take the show all the way to syndication.
How bad could James be to work with?
An interesting anecdote from Remini might shed some more light.
The groping thing
In 2014, Remini told Buzzfeed that the first time she met Kevin James, he just straight
up groped her.
"I think he called me a nasty name and grabbed my t*t in the first 30 seconds.
From that point on, I was hooked.
There was just something in his eyes that was indescribable; I fell in love with him."
Remini doesn't seem to have an issue with James's behavior, but just to be completely
clear: groping your co-workers is both wrong and illegal, and will likely get you fired
or arrested.
That is, if you're not a powerful Hollywood celebrity like Kevin James.
Politically incorrect
One of the big criticisms leveled at Kevin Can Wait is that it reinforces the same kind
of tired gender stereotypes that pretty much all of James's projects have been knocked
for, especially what Vulture called the sitcom cliché of "the nagging, much hotter wife."
In fact, James has become an unofficial poster boy for that kind of institutionalized sexism,
with stars like Amy Schumer openly mocking him for his habit of getting much better looking
co-stars to appear as his romantic partners.
"I definitely don't think she's protagonist hot."
"But Kevin James is?"
That unrealistic privilege came to a head in 2015 at the Cancun premiere of Hotel Transylvania
2, where James and frequent collaborator Adam Sandler caused a media firestorm by showing
up looking like total schlubs, while their co-star Selena Gomez was forced to spend hours
dressing to the nines for the red carpet event.
Promoting casual sexism is bad enough.
Arguably worse, though, is the not-so-casual promotion of what Uproxx called blatant homophobia
in James and Sandler's 2007 comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry.
USA Today warned moviegoers to
"Steer clear of the film unless you like your summer movies laced with a heavy dose of homophobia,
sexism and racism."
...while The Washington Post called it "an oafish chance for audiences to laugh at gay-bashing
jokes and then feel morally redeemed for doing so."
"yes, we're, ah, we're ah.."
"Gay?"
"Yea, we're ah, marrying each other."
"Gay."
James clearly doesn't care who he offends in his pursuit of a cheap laugh.
But those laughs only seem cheap because he isn't the one paying for them.
He's allegedly a jerk to fans
If you do a google of Kevin James, don't be surprised if it autocompletes with the phrase
"…is a jerk."
That's because the internet is practically overflowing with anecdotes from fans who claim
the star was a total jerk when they encountered him.
Stories abound of James telling people not to talk to him or even look at him, with fans
describing incidents where he simply laughed in their face or told them to "get the hell
away."
They say you should never meet your heroes, because you're always going to be disappointed.
So if you ever wanted to meet James, maybe you should think twice.
"Is there a kickstarter campaign for Kevin James to NEVER make another movie?"
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Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Train For Mar-a-Lago - Duration: 2:47.
(Jared sighs)
- Fore! (chuckling)
Just kidding, I'm not gonna hit it
that hard, I'm gonna hit it soft, that's the,
putting is the soft one,
see, I'm learning
how to putt
to impress my...
daddy, father,
Mr. Trump, President Trump.
(Jared clears throat) (ball rattles)
- Ouch, Jared!
You hit my fucking foot again!
- My goodness, my darling, I'm so sorry.
Here, I'll kiss it and make it better.
- No, don't kiss it.
There are Jimmy Choos. - Right, of course.
- I don't want your slobber all over the patent leather.
- Yeah, no slobber on patent leather.
That's something I say all the time.
I mean honestly, I should crochet it on a pillow
at this point, I say it so much.
- I don't think anyone would wanna see that.
Jared, please try to get good at golf, okay?
Daddy invited you to Mar-A-Lago with Rex Tillerson,
Sean Hannity, and Steve Harvey.
I don't want you to embarrass yourself as usual.
- No, and I don't want to embarrass myself.
Or you, or yourself or Daddy's self.
So I will get better and I will, you watch, right now.
- He's not your dad.
Let's try to do something right for once!
- I do love Steve Harvey. - Oh my God, he's hilarious.
- And underrated, too. - Yeah.
He needs to be in movies and more TVs.
- Okay, here we go.
(dramatic music)
- Jared.
No.
- Mm.
- You look like a cartoon of a drunk camel.
Aren't white people good at golf?
Now I understand why your dad went to jail.
- You watching, Ivanka? - I am.
- You watching, look,
trick shot!
- I should've married Topher Grace.
(upbeat music)
- Do over!
Bad Jared, bad, you're doing bad at putting!
- Just pretend that the hole is money
and you want more, I don't know.
- Okay...
last one.
- Ow, Jared, you hit my foot again!
- Ooh, my foot, ooh.
Ooh, baby, kiss it please?
- I'm not gonna kiss your foot.
I'd rather go to Nordstrom Rack.
- I've been to Iraq.
- No, you haven't.
You've been to Afghanistan.
- No wonder they haven't gotten my mail.
- What have you put in the letters?
- Just secrets. - No, Jared!
Never secrets in the mail!
- I have a pen-pal in Kabul.
- Never secrets in the mail!
goddammit!
- You wanna play more putting?
- It's called golf.
- Let's play putt, swinging and putting.
- It's called golf, Jared.
- Ivanka, let's play putting.
- (laughing) It's not putting, Jared, it's golf.
I'll take your dick out of your cage if you get it in.
Jared, you cannot be sending mail.
- I made pen-pals when I was there.
- No. - Lots of 'em.
- [Ivanka] Mm.
No, no, no. - All boys, don't worry.
- [Ivanka] (chuckling) No, that's bad, Jared.
- Am I good at petting? - No, you're very bad.
- Mm, what am I good at?
Putting? (Ivanka sighs)
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Russia scandal goes well beyond Trump GOP leaders definitely knew about hacking — did they benefit t - Duration: 7:20.
Russia scandal goes well beyond Trump GOP leaders definitely knew about hacking � did
they benefit too
Despite Europe�s clear disdain for President Trump it seems as though he�s over there
every other week. In fact he�s arriving in France on Thursday at the invitation of
President Emmanuel Macron to help celebrate Bastille Day and have dinner at the Eiffel
Tower. Considering that Trump has implied repeatedly that Paris is nothing but a hellhole
these days, it�s a testament to just how desperate he is to get out of Washington.
The heat is on and he wants out of the kitchen.
You have certainly heard that Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort met with
a Russian lawyer to get some promised dirt on Hillary Clinton that was represented as
being part of a Russian government program to help Trump get elected. Now we know their
breathless protestations that they didn�t know nothin� about no Russians were lies,
and we also know that this particular tawdry scheme reached into the highest levels of
the campaign. We�ll have to wait for the next shoe to drop. There is always another
shoe.
There was one new story on Wednesday that added an interesting detail to the saga and
points to a possible larger conspiracy. McClatchy reported that House and Senate investigators
as well as the Justice Department are looking at the Trump campaign�s digital operation,
one of Jared Kushner�s pet projects (financed by big-daddy benefactor Robert Mercer), to
determine if it may have worked with Russia�s sophisticated micro-targeting and propaganda
program during the 2016 campaign.
McClatchy also reported that the Justice Department is looking into �whether Trump�s campaign
pointed Russian cyber operatives to certain voting jurisdictions in key states � areas
where Trump�s digital team and Republican operatives were spotting unexpected weakness
in voter support for Hillary Clinton.� That�s an issue I�ve written about previously here
on Salon, based on some post-election investigative reporting by the New York Times.
This raises once again the question of just what was going on in the Republican Party
during this period. After all, it wasn�t just Donald Trump who benefited from Russian
hacking. The GOP-dominated House majority was a major beneficiary as well.
Remember, the congressional leadership knew in 2015 that it was happening. Reuters has
reported that the so-called Gang of Eight (Republican leaders in Congress) was told
that Russian hackers were attacking the Democratic Party but that the information was so top
secret they could not share it. As we know, hackers attacked the Democratic National Committee
and the personal email of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta. But they also hacked the
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and information gleaned from that hack was
put to use in some 2016 campaigns for Congress.
Also recall that one month before Donald Trump Jr. took that meeting with the Russian lawyer,
House Majority Leader Kevin �loose lips� McCarthy was talking about Trump�s connections
to Vladimir Putin in a room full of Republicans:
A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress
� House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy � made a politically explosive assertion in a private
conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders: that Trump could be the beneficiary
of payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
�There�s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,� McCarthy (R-Calif.)
said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016 exchange, which was listened to and
verified by The Washington Post.
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately interjected, stopping the conversation from
further exploring McCarthy�s assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy.
This was the day after news had broken that the Russians had hacked the DNC and Ryan and
McCarthy had just come from a meeting with the Ukrainian prime minister, who �had described
a Kremlin tactic of financing populist politicians to undercut Eastern European democratic institutions.�
Republican leaders kept this from the public for a year, then lied repeatedly about it
when confronted until someone produced an audiotape, at which point McCarthy, Ryan,
et al., said it was just a joke. Maybe it was. But we know for sure that this idea about
Trump being under Putin�s thumb was in the ether in GOP circles even as the party was
getting ready to nominate him as its presidential candidate.
Fast forward to late August when the intelligence community was becoming frantic over the evidence
of Russian interference and Director of National Intelligence John Brennan held private classified
briefings with eight top congressional leaders, telling then that there was evidence the Russians
were helping Donald Trump and that unnamed advisers to the Republican nominee might be
working with them. In September, intelligence officials convened a big meeting with the
Gang of 12, meaning the House and Senate leadership along with chairmen and ranking members of
committees on intelligence and homeland security. It was assumed this would result in a �show
of solidarity and bipartisan unity� to protest this threat to the integrity of the American
democratic process.
That was an erroneous assumption. The Republicans refused to sign anything that implicated the
Russian government, only agreeing to tell state elections officials to beware of �malefactors�
attempting to hack election software. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly
said he would consider any effort by the White House to challenge the Russians publicly �an
act of partisan politics.� That was that.
Since the election, when Republican officials aren�t actively helping the White House
cover up and misdirect, as House Intelligence Committee chair Devin Nunes did, with a few
exceptions they still dismiss the scandal, even in the face of documentary evidence like
the Donald Trump Jr. emails.
There�s a lot of punditry every day bemoaning the fact that President Trump refuses to admit
that the Russian interference in the campaign happened, seeing it as a stubborn (and insulting)
rejection of the U.S. intelligence community and a dangerous unwillingness to take needed
action to prevent it happening again. But really, why is Trump the only one on the hook?
The Republican leadership has turned a blind eye to what was happening since 2015. They
knew. They may have even known more about it than Trump did, at least in the beginning.
They did nothing about it then and have shown no signs that they plan to do anything in
the future.
It�s not all on Donald Trump. He may been the principal beneficiary but the leaders
of his party aided and abetted the crime. We may just learn that they benefited from
it too.
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A handy 90-second recap of Game Of Thrones Season 6 - Duration: 1:43.
- Hey AV Clubbers and Game of Thrones fans,
here's a handy video recap of season six
so you're all caught up going into Sunday's premier.
Obviously, we're discussing the last season of the show,
so if you don't want the series spoiled,
please note the night is dark and full of spoilers.
Alright, here we go.
In the north, House Bolton is no more
and Winterfell is finally back in the hands of a Stark.
Or Targaryen.
Anyway, Jon and Sansa are back in control with Littlefinger
waiting in the shadows to act all Littlefinger-y.
Is Jon the prince who was promised?
Melisandre may never find out as she's been sent packing.
Ramsey, dead, Rickon, dead, Wun Wun, dead.
What about the Wall, you might ask?
Well, at Castle Black, we've got the lord's head
in charge of the 10 remaining men of the Night's Watch.
Meanwhile, on the north side of the Wall,
we've got our new three-eyed raven Bran
being dragged around by Meera.
Oh, and an army of white walkers.
In the Riverlands, we've got a roving Hound
who's met back up with Berrick Dondarrion and Thoros of Myr.
Additionally, we saw Walder Frey get the most violent
Scott Tenorman treatment when a faceless Aria
fed him his sons and then slit his throat.
Also, the Blackfish might be dead
and Edmure is still a name you need to remember.
Meanwhile, across the Narrow Sea, Daenerys quelled a revolt
led by the slavers in Meereen with the aid of her
new Dothraki family as well as her three dragons.
Then she named Tyrion her Hand, made deals with Yara
and Theon, Olenna Tyrell and Ellaria Sand, and lastly,
she left Daario and the Second Sons behind to run things.
Dragons are coming home to roost.
Oh, and Jorah, he's still got a case of the greyscales.
Then there's King's Landing.
Or what's left of it.
Boom goes the wildfire as Cersei forcibly removed
most of her enemies, Margaery, old man Tyrell,
the High Sparrow, Kevan, and Lancel all in one fell swoop.
Collateral damage, Tommen.
Rest in peace, Grand Maester Pycelle,
felled by a gaggle of Qyburn's little birds.
Oh, and Jaime got back from the Twins in time to witness
his sister-lover assume the Iron Throne.
Well I think that's all.
Yep, nothing else.
Oh, Gendry!
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Continue the Story: Dennis Cartwright - Duration: 3:13.
Some of the most significant experiences I had, when I was a student at NNC,
was as a biology major we did a lot of field work.
My emphasis was really on natural history, and so when we were taking courses like mammalogy
or herpetology or plant taxonomy, Dr. Mick Dean would load us all into the back of his
1960s Chevrolet Station Wagon and we would head for the coast for spring break,
or we would take a long weekend and we'd go up into the Lick Creek country above McCall and look
at some of the glacial features and some of the ecosystems that are there.
Those were so meaningful to me because it tied the information I was learning in books
into real life and the real perspective, and that gave it a grounding and a meaning.
Probably the highlight of my experience was when we were actually doing field work,
and the opportunity to really get to know as a person somebody of the quality of Dr. Dean.
Those relationships—both with the students that were on those trips, but also with the
especially with the faculty member—had a huge impact on my life.
After I started teaching at Vallivue, and that was my first teaching job, I was the
sponsor for the Science Club, and that science club did weekend trips over to Malheur Bird Refuge
We would also take a two-week trip usually where we would hike through Bryce and Zion
and backpack from rim to rim the Grand Canyon.
You know when you're camping with a group, and you're eating each other's burnt pancakes,
and so forth, you just get to know people in a way that you don't get to otherwise.
The root of my work there at Vallivue came all the way back to the experiences I had
here at NNC as a biology major.
Even though this institution has changed drastically, and the faculty has changed over time,
those values are still here and continue to be shared with students.
I count it a great privilege.
I can't help but wonder how my life would've been different, and I'm sure less... good,
had I not had the opportunity to experience this place—both as a student and as a faculty member.
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Song of Phoenix (思美人) - Episode 31 [Eng Sub] | Chinese Drama - Duration: 44:34.
Subtitles and Timing brought to you by The Gone with the Shirt Team @ Viki
♫ The far and long roads, the man I miss is at a distant place ♫
♫ Seeking the truth in heaven and on earth, opening up the words deep in my heart, not looking back ♫
♫ Thinking of a beautiful woman, if one's heart could be fragrant ♫
♫ Thinking of a beautiful woman, desolate like the moon ♫
♫ I worry, when can I appreciate the grasses and flowers with a beautiful woman ♫
♫ The ancient people didn't have time to leave some Yimoxiang (a type of plant) ♫
♫ Thinking of a beautiful lady, heart becoming fragrant on its own ♫
♫ Thinking of a beautiful lady, fragrant dreams ♫
♫ The whole world is drunk, one's whole life just follows the blue water ♫
♫ I'll drive and go away for an adventure, flying as I want to in the nine skies ♫
Song of Phoenix
Episode 31
Ascending to a height, I'm not happy; going down to the water, I also can't. - Thinking of a Beauty from Nine Chapters by Qu Yuan
I cannot wait anymore. I cannot keep waiting here any longer!
General, calm down a little.
How am I going to calm down? Father is not doing anything about it.
Right now, Little Brother Yuan is there alone, dead or alive is still unknown.
How am I going to stay calm? No!
General, you must not.
If we keep waiting, Younger Brother Yuan might...
I can't care about that much anymore! I must go save him. Get lost.
Wait!
You are...
Qiu Xin?
You are Miss Mo Chou. Why are you here?
All of that is not important now. What's important is saving Qu Yuan.
I know where he is being locked up.
What? Yuan'er is being captive on a cliff?
Right. I heard that he really is such a bad state. Not eating or drinking. Let's hurry and think of a way!
You'er, how were you able to know about this?
It's...because I sent someone to investigate.
How dare you! You actually sent someone to the investigate the enemy camp without my permission?
Father, just one order from you, I will immediately lead our men, charge into the Qin's camp, and rescue Younger Brother Yuan!
No, this plan won't work.
Is there still any better plan right now?
The Qin camp is like the den of tigers and wolves. If we act recklessly like that,
I'm afraid that we might fall into their traps.
This can't be done, that is not allowed too.
Are we then going to just watch him die in the Qin's camp?
You'er, go to the enemy's camp tomorrow morning. I want to meet Zhang Yi.
Yes.
How is the investigation about the fire in the horse stable?
I already sent men to investigate it. It wasn't done by our men.
Then it means that there are Chu soldiers that have infiltrated our camp.
If they really dare to come, I will surely make them come in standing,
but go out horizontally (as corpses).
Prime Minister, the Chu general Qu You is requesting an audience.
Why is he here?
He also came just in time.
Today, let's pierce him and Qu Yuan together!
Prime Minister Zhang.
Isn't this the famous General Qu?
What wind blew you here?
The reason I came here is because I was ordered by War Minister Qu
to invite Prime Minister for a meeting to discuss some important matters.
See that?
They can't take it anymore. The Chus are just like that.
War Minister Qu wants to negotiate peace?
If Prime Minister goes, you'll then know what it is about.
What if I don't agree with it?
You will agree.
Why does General say so?
It's because if Prime Minister doesn't plan to negotiate,
you would have killed Qu Yuan long before.
How did you know that Qu Yuan is still alive?
If the heavens and earth know, then we Chu people surely will know.
Stand right there!
You have such bold words.
How do you treat this place?
You think that you can just come and leave here as you want?
Don't think that we didn't kill Qu Yuan because we were afraid of you.
Today, I'll let your and Qu Yuan's brains both move to another place! (T/N behead them)
I came here today with such messages.
If the General and Prime Minister aren't afraid to be laughed at by the world
for daring to kill an emissary,
then just go and take my life then.
Minister of War, long time no see.
Let's skip the courtesy words.
If you have any conditions, just say it.
Minister of War indeed is a straightforward person.
I'll go direct to the point then.
I want you to return to us the three cities you just occupied.
Three cities?
Prime Minister Zhang, you are putting too much importance to my son, Qu Yuan.
Minister of War, could it be that the head of your son Qu Yuan
isn't more important than three cities?
It's down there.
Zhang Yi that bastard should be killed by the heavens. He dared to hold my younger brother here?
Let's go.
Prime Minister Zhang, if you have to say it that way,
then we won't have anything to talk about anymore.
Since time immemorial, the victor becomes the king and the loser becomes a bandit.
There aren't that many moral principles when it comes to the battlefield.
The Minister of War just needs to tell me if he is willing or not.
Why must you still say so much?
Prime Minister Zhang, aren't three cities too much?
How about we just meet halfway?
What Minister of War Qu means is he is going to give me two cities,
and I'll give him half of Qu Yuan?
Zhang Yi! You have no sincerity at all!
Minister of War seems to be talking a lot today.
What is this Qu Bo Yong babbling about?
He keeps dilly-dallying. Not being straightforward at all.
Zhang Yi, if you have the capability,
just come and claim these cities that you lost back.
- Wei Zhang. - Prime Minister.
Go and look at Qu Yuan.
Yes.
Mo Chou, it's really you.
Archers!
Be careful!
Release the arrows!
Mo Chou!
Younger Brother Yuan!
Let go.
Let go!
Otherwise both of us will die.
There is no way I'll let go!
What stupid things are you saying!
There are still people waiting for you.
Let go.
I'm telling you to let go!
But I only have you in my heart!
Release the arrows!
- Hold on! - Hang on!
Quickly go up!
Mo Chou, are you okay?
Everyone hurry, we won't be truly safe until we get back to the Chu camp.
Let's go! Go!
Give chase!
Give chase!
Prime Minister, Qu Yuan got away.
Minister of War managed to save Qu Yuan without losing a single city or county,
joy be with you.
Thank you for permitting the win.
To have a competitor like the Minister of War,
this battle will be interesting.
But this scheme of yours is rather underhanded.
If you have the skills, then let us meet upon the battlefield.
How is it?
Grand General, General Qu.
I have finished dressing the wound. I'll return tomorrow to change the dressing and check on Miss Mo Chou.
Okay, thank you.
I shall take my leave.
Miss Mo Chou.
Mo Chou greets the Grand General.
Miss Mo Chou,
You'er has told me everything that happened.
You saved Yuan'er, you are the Qu family's savior.
Grand General Qu, you've over-stated the matter.
How did she get injured so badly?
Father, that day when we faced off with Bai Qi,
the one who risked her life to try and save me was Mo Chou.
To see such patriotism from a girl,
I am very impressed.
It's good that you came back. I am relieved now that you're back.
Okay, have good rest.
Why have you come to the military camp?
I came because of my Father.
Then why didn't you tell me?
What would telling you do?
I know, you're still blaming me.
Blaming you?
In my heart,
you no longer exist.
Then why risk your life to save me? Blocking arrows and swords for me?
Wishful thinking.
Yes, I am wishfully thinking.
But I would not go against my true heart!
You want to know the reason?
Okay,
I'll tell you. I saved you,
because you were hindering military operations. I don't want you to drag Chu down with you!
You're lying!
We've missed everything already.
None of us can return back.
Just accept this fate.
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I want to sleep for a bit. You should go.
I'm going. You rest well.
Have you brought the person?
Rest assured General, we've settled him already.
Prime Minister, a Chu emissary is requesting an audience.
- Bring him in. - Yes.
Sorry to not have received you, Chu emissary.
The Prime Minister is too courteous.
What is your name, Sir.
Who I am is not important, Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister needs only to know who sent me.
Oh, was it not Grand General Qu?
Prime Minister Zhang jests.
Grand General Qu hates that he couldn't hack you to pieces,
why would he send an emissary?
This person is an old acquaintance of yours.
Who?
Grand Adviser of the Chu court, Lord Zi Shang.
For the Grand Advisor to put in such effort,
is it really only to kill Qu Boyong?
Is the Prime Minister afraid that I'm setting a trap for him?
Of course not.
The Grand Adviser and I are old friends.
He would not put me in a hard place.
Then I shall await the Prime Minister outside the tent.
- General. - How dare you!
Is this a place you can enter at will?
It has only been a few days, have you forgotten me, General?
You? Zhang Yi!?
It's good that you've come, saves me the trouble of looking for you on the battlefield!
In coming here today, I've not thought about returning alive.
But before you take action General Sima,
would you allow me to finish my words?
Who's General Sima? What are you talking about?
Could you still not know your real identity, General Sima?
And so Sima An died in this manner at Qu Boyong's hands.
What does Sima An have to do with me?
I believe you've guessed it General. What need is there for me to point it out?
General...
How dare you!
You speak nothing but nonsense! Fickle, inconsistent turncoat!
Are you trying to undermine our army's morale again?
If you don't believe me General, go ahead and kill me.
But I've always believed that you are one of loyalty and righteousness.
I never thought that you also cannot differentiate between kindness and enmity.
A foolishly-loyal child who takes an enemy as a father.
Shut up!
Why do you think I'll believe you?
Would you allow me to take you to see someone.
You're trying to trick me into leaving the camp.
Could your sword not be faster than my legs?
General, you are skilled in martial arts. It would be easy to take my life.
Old Sir, we are here.
You know me?
Alike! So very much alike. You look just like the old General.
What are you doing? Do you know me?
Foolhardy fiend, are you trying to stab me in the back?
Young Master, Young Master! Forgive me!
I wanted to see if you had a birth mark on your back.
How did you know?
It's purple-colored, in the shape of a leaf.
Who are you?
Young Master! Young Master, I have finally found you!
Eighteen years! In a flash, eighteen years have passed, Young Master!
Good wine!
General Sima, you cannot drink anymore.
We signed an official military order today from General Qu.
If we hinder the operation, General Qu would seek our fault.
Do I look like I'm drunk?
I'll drink another three cups with you!
General Sima, you have fought on campaigns with me for many years. I cannot bear to kill you.
But if I don't kill you today,
then how am I to face the twenty-thousand men who died?
And what face would I have to go see the King of Chu?
As a soldier, military orders are paramount.
Hindering operations due to drinking, it's a crime punishable by death.
If I live on in degradation,
then what face does the Sima family have!
Qu Boyong lost the battle, so he had to find a scapegoat.
Qu Boyong is the Grand General, if he did not kill General Sima
the Chu King would have handed punishment to him.
What about my mother?
Young Master, Madam was overcome by grief and hanged herself.
When I brought you out of the manor, we ran into ferocious bandits
and you were lost during our escape.
I... I am useless...
I have disappointed Master, I have disappointed Madam.
All these years, I kept hoping that I could find you, Young Master.
You must avenge the General and Madam, Young Master.
Why has no one told me about this?
Qu Boyong killed your father, how could he have told you?
He's afraid that you'll avenge your father.
So they've, so they've always been lying to me?
Eighteen years. A whole eighteen years!
Eighteen years! Qu Boyong lied to me for eighteen years!
A whole eighteen years.
♫ Thinking of a beauty, the road is long and endless, unreachable. ♫
♫ Wiping away tears at the ends of the world, no date for return. ♫ Mo Chou!
♫ So many words, choked in the heart, threads of sorrow entwine day and night. ♫
Let go! Let go!
Otherwise, we'll both die ♫ Thinking of a beauty ♫
♫ distant floating clouds deliver me. ♫ There is no way I'll let go!
♫ Yet the passing wild geese do not understand me. ♫ What stupid things are you saying!
♫ Returning birds ride the winds and fly far ♫ There are still people waiting for you.
♫ while I remain in the same place with a broken wing. ♫ But there is only you in my heart.
♫ Watching my longings score across the sky to the horizons. ♫
♫ A man's aspirations, heartache through all ages, overflow within the heart. ♫
♫ Toss it into the waters of the east-flowing river. ♫
♫ Smile not a smile, worries still be worries. Who in the mortal world can understand? ♫
♫ Flick the sleeves and walk alone, not looking back. ♫
♫ Ethereal orchids of peculiar fragrance, caressed by the breeze, even shadows are redolent. ♫
♫ I ask thee, can you discern the traces she leaves. ♫
♫ While the years have yet to pass, pick a lotus so as to share. ♫
♫ Do not let regrets dwell in your heart. ♫
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Tomorrow's attack is critical. For this plan,
I will be personally leading the army.
Your general is here.
Tomorrow you will be my subordinate general. Tomorrow you will go with me.
I accept.
Qu You, listen to my order.
Father.
Brother is not here.
This unfilial son. Go find him!
Brother, where did you go? Hurry and come in.
Qu You, listen to the command.
Tomorrow's attack is a life or death plan. I command you to take ten thousand men,
and attack from the flank. When the time comes the signalling arrow will be your sign.
Qu You, accept the command.
I accept.
Qu You, accept the command.
I accept.
Generals, go prepare yourselves.
Yes.
If Qu Boyong loses the war, he will find someone to take the blame.
Qu Boyong is the Great General. If he didn't kill General Sima,
the Chu King would blame him.
Brother, what are you doing here?
Drink with me.
Tomorrow's battle is important.
Don't drink anymore.
If you go to battle when drunk and lose, you'll lose your head.
What is wrong with you today?
Tomorrow's battle, whether I live or die,
I'll accept what the heavens dictate.
Elder Brother, you've never backed out of a battle before. Where has all your bravado gone?
I want to go home.
Okay okay, don't drink anymore.
Look at yourself right now. How will you go battle tomorrow?
Okay.
That's right. Brother, let me tell you,
tomorrow when we go to battle and win,
and kill Zhang Yi that bastard.
Then, we can go home and see Mother.
Why scowl and frown? Let's see a smile. Come on, a smile.
Be a little happier.
When will you return home?
It should be soon.
Be careful. You don't know martial arts.
When you're on the battlefield, don't try to show off.
Why did you come here?
Don't hide it. I already saw it.
It's just a normal protective pendent.
Let's go out and walk.
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Does she treat you well?
Mo Chou. These few days I have been thinking,
about if we can start over and be together.
Tomorrow's battle, we don't know if we'll live or die.
Tomorrow, even if I have to die, I'll protect you well.
This kind of war, our State of Chu can only win.
We cannot lose.
Nothing will happen to us.
If,
if I die tomorrow.
What I would hate to part with,
is our past.
You'Er, what are you doing here?
Nothing.
You'Er!
You look like your soul is lost. What is wrong?
General Qu.
What did you call me?
How did my father die?
You'Er, some things I will slowly tell you.
It's already been eighteen years, will you still tell me the truth?
You'Er. You'Er!
You'Er, the battle is at hand, you must not be rash.
Other things, when we return to Ying Du I'll explain it all.
Mother, how about I pull out these white hairs?
I don't care about white hairs.
As I age, even if I pull them out, there's no point.
Mother, you're not old.
You young ones are already this big. As a mother, how can I not be old?
I remember when those two were young,
and kept clinging to me and wanted to eat this and that.
In the blink of an eye, Yuan'Er is already wed.
This time, goes by very fast.
Things they did when they were young, Mother remembers it all so clearly.
Of course. When they were young, Yuan'Er was the most troublesome one.
His father wouldn't be able to control his behavior, he would go against his father.
His father would always end up glaring at him with steam coming out of his ears.
He couldn't deal with him.
Now, it's our turn to take care of him.
BiXia, Mother has something to give you. Here.
I must have put it there.
BiXia
BiXia, I thank you for this time
and for the care you've put into our family.
I know I'm not worthy of you.
In the case I don't return, don't waste yourself on me.
Signed, Qu Yuan
BiXia, this is our Qu family-
What do you have there?
Qu Yuan's Farewell and Thank You Note to Zhao Bixia
This reckless boy.
He doesn't know to cherish such a wonderful wife, his words are filled with nonsense.
BiXia, please don't mind this.
Mother. Please don't say more.
I understand.
♫ Day and night, summer and winter, nonstop changes ♫
♫ Herbs and trees, prosperity and decline, would still depend on a beautiful woman ♫
♫ Rumors brought by wind from all over; inciting ministers with different dreams ♫
♫ Asking Heaven if it can bear witness to one's loyalty ♫
♫ Muddy and clear, beautiful and ugly, overturning all living creatures ♫
♫ Angelica and magnolia, orchids and quan, have a hard time emitting their fragrance ♫
♫ Why must you proceed against the current? Why must a lonely flower admire herself? ♫
♫ No one knew that one's birthplace has become someone else's territory ♫
♫ Outstanding in a chaotic world, who can understand one's desire? ♫
♫ Going far to travel, yet one's heart is tied with one's home ♫
♫ Drinking one 'Li Sao', the pain of separation ♫
♫ Getting drunk for a lifetime of dedicating oneself for one's country ♫
♫ Coping with the long, long road; hard to beg the heaven and the earth ♫
♫ I lamented the numerous sorrows in the life of the citizens ♫
♫ Singing one 'Li Sao', pain of separation ♫
♫ Sighing how hard it is to keep a bosom friend ♫
♫ For the ideal that I hold dear to my heart, I'd not regret a thousand times to die. In the end, turning into ashes.
♫ If this dream is difficult, let's just leave it to the next generations to ponder ♫
♫ Outstanding in a chaotic world, who can understand one's desire? ♫
♫ Going far to travel, yet one's heart is tied with one's home ♫
♫ Drinking one 'Li Sao', the pain of separation ♫
♫ Sighing how hard it is to keep a bosom friend ♫
♫ For the ideal that I hold dear to my heart, I'd not regret a thousand times to die. In the end, turning into ashes.
♫ If this dream is difficult, let's just leave it to the next generations to ponder ♫
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What is the Bible? | Dr. Ed Young - Duration: 28:30.
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Dr. Ed Young: My wife, Jo Beth was shopping with a friend
a few days ago, and they were being waited on by a clerk.
She was probably 21, 22 years of age, and Jo-Beth's friend had
a tee shirt on that is the theme of our Bible listening session.
It says, "For You've Got Time."
You've seen that, "For You've Got Time"?
She had that tee shirt on, and the clerk said,
"What is that about?
'You've Got the Time,' what does that mean?"
And she said, "Oh, in our church, we're listening to
the New Testament 28 minutes a day, 40 days."
And she said, "Wouldn't you like to do that?
I'll get you a little Bible stick where you can do it?"
She said to the clerk, and the clerk said,
"Oh, no, no, no, no, I don't wanna do that."
She said, "I've got faith, but not that kind of faith."
And so, and Jo Beth, always being someone who wants
to be conciliatory, she said, "Well, maybe one day,
you'd like to read or listen to the Bible."
And the clerk says,
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe one day, maybe after,
you know, after I get married."
I wonder why she had no interest in
listening to the New Testament, the Scripture.
I don't know the answer to that.
I've thought about it, 'cause I thought that was the most
interesting conversation.
Could it be that somewhere along the way, she had a father or
mother or friend, and when she'd do something wrong, they would
use the Bible as a whip, "Well, the Bible says," so she resented
the Scripture?
Or could it be that somewhere along the way, she picked up the
Bible and read something from Revelation, and she said, "Boy,
I don't understand this, this is a crazy book," and put it aside?
She thought it was above her intellectually, her ability to
comprehend?
Or I would guess that the reason she was wanting maybe to listen
to the Bible and read it when she got married that she was
afraid that the Bible would speak to her and would set down
principles that perhaps were from God that would keep her
from having a good time until she got married.
It's almost as if when you get married, you stop having really
a good time, and between now and then, "I don't want anything
messing up with my pleasure."
I would guess that's it, afraid to get a clear word from God.
A lot of people are like that with this book.
Now, I do not know her name, but let's just say her name was
Susan.
If Susan were here today and she wanted to talk with me about the
Bible, I would take her through a little quiet kind of
conversation, the conversation that I wanna have with you
today.
And I would say, "Susan, this book is a library.
Let me tell you about the books that are in the library.
There's the Old Testament. There's 39 books there.
There's a New Testament.
There are 27 books there." Then I would say,
"Susan, let's look at these 39 books.
Look, Genesis," everybody has your Bible, look at it.
Don't look at me, look down.
"You've got Genesis through Deuteronomy, that's the books of
Law, the Torah, the Pentateuch, Genesis through Deuteronomy.
And then, Susan, you've got the books of history, Joshua through
Esther, history.
And interesting, you've got the history recorded from Genesis
all the way through 2 Kings.
Then you have history is repeated of Israel in 1
Chronicles all the way through Nehemiah.
So, you've got five books of law.
You've got the books of history.
Then beginning with Job, all the way through Song of Solomon,
everybody see it, this is the book of poetry, or the book of
wisdom, the books of wisdom.
And then in the library, there are the major prophets, see it
there, Isaiah through Daniel, you got it?
Then you've got Hosea through the Malachi, minor prophets.
And by the way, the differences in between major prophets and
minor prophets is not that the major prophets said something
more important.
It's that they had longer books.
That's the difference in the major and minor prophets,
longer books, shorter books.
So, here you have 39 books in these categories: the books of
law that comes, the book of history, the book of poetry,
the book of wisdom, the major and the minor prophets.
That's it, that's the Old Testament, all right?
Look at the New Testament, Susan.
Look at, you've got 27 books, see 'em there?
Everybody look down.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, that's the Gospels,
story of Jesus.
Acts, that's history of the early church.
Then you begin with Romans and go through Philemon.
You see it there in your--?
That is called the letters of Paul.
Paul has written letters to churches, to individuals.
Then you've got the general letters or the general epistles.
That's from Hebrews all the way to Jude."
I wouldn't tell Susan this,
but I think Hebrews belongs up with the letters of Paul.
I think Paul wrote that, but that's a controversial factor
so I would not tell her that.
But that's my opinion.
"Then you have Revelation.
It's the book of poetry.
And what do you do?
What is the New Testament?
Break it down, it's 5 stories, 21 letters, and a poem, okay?
So there you have the Old Testament and the New Testament.
Now, Susan, the Old Testament," I would say to her, as I would
say to you, "is the story of God uniquely cultivating, building
a nation, a peculiar people, a God-fearing people.
That's the story of the Old Testament, God tabernacling
over, building into the lives of individuals, into the corporate
structure, a nation.
And God built that nation, that's the Old Testament and
that nation is Israel, so that in the New Testament, he could
send his Son Jesus.
That's the New Testament.
A special nation prepared by God, presided over by God,
so that he could send his Son in that nation that had been
prepared for the birth of his Son Jesus Christ.
And who is Jesus?
He is God's Son.
It is God with flesh on.
Therefore, we see in Jesus the full revelation of God to man,
the full nation."
And by the way, I would say to Susan, as I would say to you,
"If you're going to understand the Bible,
you have to understand progressive revelation."
It's like, "What is progressive--?"
Let me explain. It's very simple.
The longer I know Jo Beth, the more I reveal myself to her.
I am progressively revealing myself to her over 49 years.
She said to me today, she said, "Show me the other side.
I've seen enough of this--" No, no, no, but that is
progressive revelation.
It doesn't mean that one part of the Bible is more inspired
than the other.
It's not progressive inspiration.
It's progressive revelation.
Therefore, there is a gradual process.
If I had revealed myself totally to Jo Beth when we were dating,
she wouldn't have gone out with me again.
See, I've just slowly--God, in his infinite patience, through
time and years, progressively revealed himself.
And this is what you see in the Bible.
"By the way, Susan, did you know you can read through the entire
Bible in 78 to 80 hour, pulpit rate?
Did you know that?
Read through the entire Scripture in 78 hours, a little
slower, 80 hours, read through all the Scripture, interesting.
And the Bible," I would say to Susan, "it's a miraculous
piece of literature.
It really is."
The Bible was written by over 40 authors, over 1600 years.
It is written in Hebrew and Greek
and a little bit of Aramaic.
It was written by scholars and by fishermen.
It was written by prophets and priests and by tax collectors
and common workmen.
It was written by farmers.
It was written by those who sat at the feet of the scholar
Gamaliel in Jerusalem.
The Bible was written by people in all walks of life
in all places.
Some of it was written on top of a high mountain, Sinai.
Some of it was written in the wilderness of Judea.
Some of it was written in the desert of Arabia.
And others were written in a marketplace.
Some of it was written in a prison.
Some of it was written in a palace.
Some of it was written when everything was going wonderfully
well for the people and for the nation.
And some of it was written when the bottom had fallen out of the
life of anybody and everybody.
Some of it was written when some of these were young writers.
Some of them were very old, and probably the last thing they did
was to write down these particular words.
Some of it was written, if you look at the modern nations of
the world, some of it was written in Lebanon.
Some was written in Syria.
Some was written in Iraq.
Some was written in Iran.
Some was written in Greece.
Some was written in Rome.
Some was written possibly in Egypt.
It was written on three different continents.
By all these were varieties of people, different cultures,
different understanding, different situations in life.
This is an amazing book.
And by the way, it was written without a human plan.
In other words, there wasn't some master plan.
Some architect of truth would say, "All right, we want a
Word from God written down through all this period of time.
It would have some kind of pattern to it."
Now, what would you expect to find a book written
over 1600 years by 40-plus authors
in all these different situations with all of
these different environments?
What kind of book would you expect to find?
You would expect to find a book that was filled with numerous
contradictions and numerous kinds of inconsistencies.
It would be sort of a helter skelter kind of thing you
couldn't understand.
But what do we find?
We find a book that has a master theme from Genesis to
Revelation, and the theme is Jesus Christ, God's revelation
to man.
You can virtually find him with some biblical insight on every
pages of this remarkable book.
Also, it's a remarkable book of literature.
You have poetry here in the Bible.
You have didactic poetry.
You have epic poetry.
You have all kinds of prose here.
You have historic prose.
You have theological prose.
You also have didactic prose here.
And you have so many forms of speech.
You have letters.
You have parables.
In the Bible, you have proverbs.
In the Bible, there is allegory.
In the Bible, there is hyperbole.
You have all forms of speech in the Bible.
You have a kind of prose that would be written down like
someone would be giving an oration or a speech.
So, here's the Bible, it is an amazing book of literature
in and of itself.
And the fact it has in its diversity this great unity that
is around the person of Jesus Christ is absolutely miraculous.
So, Susan needs to understand that.
Perhaps Susan and perhaps many of you have never really put all
this together before.
So, the Bible is a library, but it's not just a library.
The Bible also, Susan, all of you Susans, all of us Susans,
it's a landscape.
You know, what is a landscape?
A landscape, you see a great perspective.
You see the whole view.
You see 360 degrees.
The Bible is a landscape.
When you read and study the Bible, that's fine, but
sometimes you move from reading and studying to exploring, and
that's a better word.
When you begin to explore the Bible, you know what happens
to you?
Slowly but surely, you see that you're in a conversation
with God.
Slowly but surely, you'll begin to see, you know, God is saying
something to me here.
I see it in this event.
I see it in that person.
I see it in that story.
I see it in what's happening.
I relate to that.
God has enough patience and insight with you and me to speak
to us, and we learn how to listen to him.
And we see things that, you know, I'm not particularly
smart, but, oh, I get that.
There's a wisdom that comes as a byproduct of this that's
absolutely supernatural, absolutely supernatural.
Oswald Chambers said, when you study the Scripture, he takes
just those books of poetry, the books of wisdom in the Old
Testament, he said, "You wanna know how to suffer?
Read Job."
We're gonna study Job in a few months, by the way.
"Wanna know how to suffer?
Read Job.
Wanna know how to pray?
Read Psalms," you'll learn how to pray, how to listen to God.
You'll see passion, you'll see tears poured out to God.
Read Psalms, "Wanna know how to pray, talk to God,
listen to God? Read Psalms.
You wanna know how to live practical, down-to-earth life?
Read Proverbs."
Yeah, tell you about happy marriage.
Tell you about how to conduct your business.
Tell you how to bring up a family.
It'll tell you how to relate to people.
It'll tell you how, when things are broken, you can back--
I mean, read Proverbs.
Read Ecclesiastes, you'll learn how to enjoy life.
Read Song of Solomon and you'll learn how to be a lover.
A lot of you men need to read that this afternoon.
You see, the Bible is a living, moving book, a Word.
It is a library.
It is a landscape, Susan, it really is.
It really is.
And more than that, the Bible is a law.
You said, "Oh."
Susan, "That's what I was afraid of.
It's gonna lay down--" No, the Bible is a law.
It's like the Hebrew word "Torah."
And the law there is a loving Father
who has lived a long time gives principles down
upon which the family is to use in having an effective life.
See, a Torah is a loving Father who's got a lot of experience
that says, "This is how you live."
That's the law.
That's the principles.
And that's God Almighty.
And so, this is stuff here we put down that we come to
an intersection of a decision-making moment and we
know which way to take because we have these principles built
in us.
We have hidden some of it in our life.
Oh, what else is the Bible?
We've talked about that it is a light, a light, a light.
By the way, I carry one of these around with me all times.
You just can't be too sure or too cautious.
For a long, long time, ethics were prescribed and laid down
on the basis of transcendent values that became imminent that
were recorded in this book.
No one can intellectually argue with the fact that, since the
birth of Jesus, this book has been the heart of how ethical
principles are come to be valid in all of Western civilization.
This book, nobody can debate that.
That is an intellectual fact.
We get these transcendent values, these infinite values
from Almighty God, then we're goin', "What happened to that?"
The 18th century tells this story.
Three philosophers, the first one is a guy named
Immanuel Kant.
Immanuel Kant said,
"You do not get transcendent values from up there."
He said, "You get transcendent values
from in here."
And he says, "The way you decide what's right and wrong
and you get morality and ethics, you just use your head.
You just think, use your brain.
That's how you make decisions." And that's where we get
the whole school of rationalism.
And a lot of people right here think that same way.
"Well, I could tell whether that's right or wrong.
I just figured it out.
I just decided for myself.
I used the firepower, the intellectual ability I have and
my experience, and I've decided what's right and what's wrong."
That's rationalism, that's Immanuel Kant.
Then another guy came along by the name of Rousseau, still the
18th century.
Rousseau said, "You do not get transcendent values from
Almighty God, from up there.
They're not recorded in this Bible."
He said, "You get values from your heart."
He said, "Just use your feelings."
That's romanticism, by the way.
That's the school of romanticism.
You just use your feelings and your emotions.
That's when somebody says, "Well, if it feels good, it must
be all right, you know, you know?
It feels good, you know?
If it seems to be okay, it's okay.
Just use your emotions, use your feeling, use your--" Rousseau
said that "every baby was born, that baby was perfectly pure and
had a perfectly pure heart."
He said, "It is the parents who twist the heart of that child.
It's the environment who corrupts that heart."
He says, "You need to take a child and just let the child
go with their feelings and emotions with no rules,
with no discipline.
Just let that child just flow right through life.
Don't mess them up.
Just let them--they're pure when they're born."
Footnote, Rousseau had five children.
All five of them, at different times, he gave them up to be
brought up in an orphanage, romanticism.
The third guy was a guy name Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.
Nietzsche said, "You don't transcendent values from up
there, from out there, that are recorded in this book."
He said, "In fact, there's nobody up there."
He said, "God's dead."
Nietzsche said, "The way you decide is that
there's a will to power."
He said, "Use your will.
Man, just suck it up.
Just get after it.
If you're strong enough, smart enough, intellectual enough,
can get enough influence, you just will to power.
You make that decision yourself.
Use the constitution that you've been given.
That's the will to power."
Incidentally, Nietzsche was Adolf Hitler's
philosophy and theologian, "No God."
Now, these guys have come along, and we see this operating today
in the lives of many of us.
How do we make moral choices?
"Oh, I use my mind," that's rationalism, that's rationalism.
"Oh, I just follow my feelings, you know, my conscience.
I let my conscience be my guide."
Well, we sure have messed-up consciences,
but you'll figure that out.
Or, "I just have my will and my plan, and I do it when I can.
I'm strong enough."
You see how this has come down to us?
Ladies and gentlemen, understand something.
If we live in a gray world, everything is gray as far
as crossroads and decisions, everything is gray, we make
decisions on the basis of that which is gray, we have a choice
between darkness and light, and we move in a gray world,
consistently, you'll make the lowest moral choice
possible when you live in a gray world.
Everybody will, everybody will.
But the Bible is a light that takes the gray world and
the darkness and illuminates it.
This is a flashlight that Jo Beth put by on my little
bedside table, I don't know, 2 or 3 years ago.
It's just been sittin' there for years.
When the lights went out a few nights ago, they did
at my house, I thought, "Aha, I'm ready."
And I reached over there
and got out this little flashlight, and mashed it.
It didn't come on.
I said, "Jo Beth," in the darkness,
"where are the batteries?"
She had her flashlight that had batteries.
It was working.
And she said, "Oh, that's one of those solar-powered
flashlights," and it's been under there a long time.
I didn't know I was green, but I am green, I'm green.
And so, it wouldn't work.
And day before yesterday, she took it and
put it out in the sun.
And guess what?
It works, hmm.
Amazing to me, solar powered, yeah.
But unless it stays in the light, it won't work.
If you walk in the light as he in the light, we have fellowship
one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ keeps
on cleansing us of all sin."
You see, the Bible is a lamp that helps us see here.
It is a light that helps us see way down the road.
Therefore, we need to understand, if you want light to
be in your life, the source of the light is from the S-O-N
that's revealed in the B-Double-O-K,
which is the Bible.
And then you'll have light to see here and light to see there
every time you come to a decision-making moment.
Say it after me: "Your Word is a lamp unto my feet,
and a light unto my path."
Susan, it really is, it really is, it really is.
>> male announcer: Has life left you feeling miserable, bored,
mad, or confused?
Do you sometimes say, "I just wanna be happy"?
And yet, no matter how hard you try, happiness
always seems to elude you.
The world tells us that to be happy, we need to be rich
and successful and healthy.
But in the Bible, Jesus used words like "humble," "meek,"
"broken" to describe happiness.
And when we live those words out, that's when
we find true happiness.
>> Ed: Do you want to live a life full of meaning and
significance, a life that is truly, genuinely happy?
Join me for the series "Happy People" as we study the best-
known, least-understood, and hardest-to-live-out
words in the Bible.
You find them in the Sermon on the Mount.
>> announcer: Get your copy of "Happy People Volume 1"
by calling the number on your screen, or go online at
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It's our gift to you for your financial support
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>> Ed: The Bible, God's Word, is a light for our lives.
Without spending time in God's Word, we're walking and
stumbling around in darkness.
Dive in, say, "Well, I don't understand it.
I don't get it." Just dive in.
Begin with the Gospel of John, begin with Mark, and just read
it every day.
You'll be amazed.
God will begin to speak to you.
To you, he may whisper.
To others, he may shout.
But read his Word.
It will become clear to you as you listen to him speak to the
very deepest needs in your heart and in your life.
Let us help you.
We would like to pray for you.
Call the number on your screen.
We have people who are mature Christians, standing by, ready
to listen to you, to talk with you, to give you wise counsel,
and to pray with you about that which God has placed
on your heart today.
And also, join us again next week as we continue to
explore God's Word, the Bible, together, right here on
"The Winning Walk."
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Authorities Continue Violent Crackdown on Last Day of 2017 G20 Summit - Duration: 3:20.
Estimates from 76-200,000 people, took part in a 'Solidarity Without Borders' demonstration
in Hamburg, Germany on Saturday, July 8th, as the world leaders ended the 2017 G20 Summit.
After the demo, a close 500 meters to the venue of the G-20 Summit,
many thousands of people mingled about in a same neighborhood, where intense clashes happened the night before.
They were attacked by large forces of police, who beat people, frequently used the water cannons,
and shot tear gas on busy thorough fares and back alley streets throughout the night. 7 00:00:37,998 --> 00:00:43,760 Some people fought back by throwing rocks, bottles, and fireworks at the water cannons and lines of police.
All in all, in the many days of NoG20 protests, which revolved around the systemic issues and disparities related to capitalism,
globalization, and the wars that the West continues to manufacture and fight.
An estimated number of 476 police officers were injured,
186 arrests were made, and thousands of protesters were injured by police.
As for the G20, after the two-day meeting, they released their Leaders Declaration,
an 18 page pdf which spotlit some of the workings of the G20.
Overall there were fifteen agreed documents and three aims,
that of building resilience, improving sustainability, and assuming responsibility.
Many leaders dubbed climate change as the most difficult problem that the world is facing,
yet United States President Donald Trump stayed committed to his rejection of the Paris Climate Agreement,
whereas all of the other leaders condemned that action and have committed to keep the course of the agreements.
[footage of water cannons against sit-in blockade]
The G20 Africa Partnership was launched "in recognition of the opportunities and challenges in African countries as well as the goals of the 2030 Agenda,"
– investment compact agreements with certain countries between the African Development Bank, IMF, and WBG
will push for privatized investments that "encourage the private sector to seize African economic opportunities in supporting sustainable growth and employment creation."
A womens empowerment initiative dubbed "#eSkills4Girls" was set to be launched in developing countries in particular,
to "promote opportunities and equal participation for women and girls in the digital economy," as the Leaders Declaration says.
Among other trade talks and outlooks, wind and solar power are set to become the cheapest form of power generation across the G20 by 2030.
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