David: In this video we're going to teach you about the 7 Chakras.
Heather: Plus stay to the end for a secret weapon to discover your personal Chakra identity.
I'm Heather.
David: And I'm David.
Heather: From Zen Rose Garden.
David: Dot com.
Heather: Yes.
David: Helping people create- Heather: Badass lives.
What is a Chakra?
David: So a Chakra is basically a vortex, a spinning wheel of energy that is used to
draw energy in and release energy out.
Heather: From your body.
David: From your body.
Heather: From the body.
David: From the body.
Heather: The Chakra is no longer a theoretical thing, there are actually imaging systems
that can show you these energy centers in your body.
David: There are thousands of Chakras.
The main seven that we're gonna cover have to do with seven different parts of your life,
that many.
Heather: Let's get into it.
David: Into the Chakras.
Heather: Yes.
The first Chakra is your Root Chakra which is located at the base of your spine.
The color is red and the purpose in your life is stability, foundation, grounding, root
sexuality, primal protection.
David: And letting your stuff go.
Heather: Yes.
David: Then we go onto the Sacral Chakra.
The Sacral Chakra is located around about your belly button, about a couple inches below.
Its color is orange and it has to do with the passion in life, your creative expression
and sensuality and sexuality in life.
Heather: It's really important that this Chakra is activated if you are a dancer or a creative
person or somebody that's very passionate about what they do, it's good to have it open.
David: Yes.
Heather: The next Chakra is the Solar Plexus Chakra and as the name states it is located
right about here where your Solar Plexus is.
The color is yellow and the purpose in your life is about power, it's about boundaries,
it's about feeling safe in your skin, it's about achievement, it's about mental capacity
even though it's not in your mind it's here.
David: This is a great Chakra for CEOs or any entrepreneurial type people.
Heather: Yes.
David: Next we come to the Heart Chakra which is located where?
About the heart.
The color is green and this has to do with your emotion.
A lot of emotions, a lot of relationships, a lot of love for the world, love for yourself
that would be the Heart Chakra.
Heather: Compassion.
David: Definitely.
Heather: And all the mushy, mushy stuff.
The fifth Chakra is located in your throat and guess what?
It's called the Throat Chakra.
Its color is traditionally turquoise, its purpose is you guessed it, speaking, singing,
expression, creative expression, writing, all those kinds of things.
David: This is great for singers or artists of any kind.
Next we come to the Third Eye Chakra which is located about your third eye which is also
called the Brow Chakra.
Heather: It's in the middle of your forehead.
David: Middle of your forehead.
This one is indigo and basically has to do with your intuition, your gut instincts even
though it's not your gut.
Heather: They all kind of work together.
David: Yeah, so it has to do with psychic abilities, it has to do with all that kind
of mystical awesomeness.
Heather: It also has to do with abstract thought.
Someone that is a philosopher might have a very active third eye.
The Third Eye is not just for mystical wooji people it's for anybody who's like genius
status.
David: Yep, Einstein would be very Third Eye.
Heather: I think everybody's genius status but ... The seventh Chakra is the Crown Chakra
and it is on top of your head.
The color is traditionally white or violet and its purpose is connection to the bigger
picture, connection to spirit.
David: You can call it God, angels, the universe, whatever higher essence of everything that
created the everything that would be the connection through the Crown.
Heather: That's what the Crown is all about.
David: Now it's time for the bonus tip.
Heather: Bonus tip.
David: Now we're gonna tell you a little bit about how Chakras spin.
Heather: Chakras spin right and they spin left.
The word Chakra means wheel of light and just like a wheel the Chakra spins, it spins right
and it spins left.
One way it's releasing energy and another way it's bringing energy in.
The Chakras that are in the body spin this way and this way, but the unique thing about
the Crown Chakra and the Root Chakra is that they spin up and down.
Heather: The Crown Chakra spins this way and the Root Chakra also spins this way facing
down.
The Crown Chakra is pulling in energy from the source, the sun, the universe, Root Chakra
is pulling in energy from the Earth.
You get energy from the source and energy from the Earth and they just kind of like
bring it all in.
Supernova Energy.
David: You just learned the basics to understanding Chakras.
Heather: Now it's time for that secret weapon.
David: We created a special quiz to figure out which celebrity Chakra you are.
Take the quiz to find out.
Heather: Click the link in the description to get it.
David: Go get it.
Heather: It's truth bomb time.
David: Truth bomb time.
Leave your truth bomb moments and any questions you have in the comments below.
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Hunter Street DIY: 'Make Your Own Mystery Messages!' | Nick - Duration: 1:31.
Here's how you can make your own mystery messages
using things you can find at home just like the Hunter Street kids.
Here's everything you'll need for the first mystery message.
Grab a white crayon and a white piece of paper
and write down your secret message.
Paint over your message with a bright water color.
I wonder what it says.
Yeah, there's something fishy there.
Looks like there's a new mystery.
And next you can even try your hand at a secret painting.
Dip your cotton swab into a mixture of baking soda and water.
Use your swab to draw something secret.
Wait for the ink to become invisible.
Now you have your friend paint over it with some grape juice.
And voila!
Hey, that looks just like the crown Jake was holding.
I wonder what that could mean.
Hey, wanna see something you don't know about yet?
What is it?
It's good.
This last secret message is a real page turner.
This is all you'll need.
Stack two sheets of paper on top of each other.
Write your secret message on the top paper.
The trick is to press hard.
Take away the first sheet
and have your friend shade on top of the second sheet.
Now you can ask them burning questions without anyone else knowing.
Hmm, wondering who framed Erik?
Well that's a whole other mystery to figure out on Hunter Street.
Later, peeps.
Er... To be continued.
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AMO-TE COM TODAS AS LETRAS(I LOVE YOU WITH ALL THE LETTERS) - Duration: 1:55.
Words are unable to express every feeling I have for you.
I LOVE YOU SO MUCH
It's my life.
But the heart is yours.
The smile is mine.
ut the reason is you.
i love you
I love you. With all the letters, words and pronunciations
In all languages and accents
In every way and way
With all the circumstances and reasons.
I just love you.
Do you know when you want a moment to last forever?
So it's like this when I'm with you.
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ما لا تعرفه عن القرآن ! - What you don't know about the Quran - Duration: 47:19.
-Chapter One- -Preface-
Over many years before the beginning of Islam
Christians debated about an important topic. which was about "The divinity of Christ"
"Was Jesus a son of god, and has the blood of gods, etc?"
"or was he a normal human being?"
That topic led Christians to differ between each other and led to many different denominations
That was until 325 AC. In this year in Nicaea, Turkey
The roman emperor held a council in which all bishops from around the empire met to discus that topic
and find a final answer for that question
In that council there was a famous priest named "Arius"
Arius said a very different opinion
He said that Jesus is not neither a god nor a son of god like many people believe
But rather, he was just a human being sent from god to guide humanity to the right path
Just a prophet
Arius's opinion led to a chaos in the council as expected
Until the other bishops decided to dismiss him and called his opinion a "heresy"
And although Arius's opinion was well known and many Christians even used to believe in it
But it spread even more and many more believed it
To the point that they almost turned against the empire and make their idea dominate even more
But the roman authorities saved the situation and started to persecute them
So, they started to leave the country as the persecutions started to increase
And traveled to other places like the east and the Arabian Peninsula
But in fact those who believed Arius's thoughts weren't the first to believe in it
Those were a very old beliefs. Started to appear as early as the beginning of Christianity under many names
Like, for example, the "Ebionites" denomination
In fact, until today, until this very day
There're still christian denominations that believe in that
Those are Christians, but they don't believe that neither Jesus is divine
nor there's something called the holy spirit
nor there's anything called the Holy Trinity
That's why, unlike many people think
The belief of "one god" and that Jesus is just a human being
is not an "Islamic belief", I mean it's not an idea that Islam made it
This's a very old belief and it's origin is Christianity
And there was and still are many Christians believe in it
But the question now is..
If that belief was already there before Islam appears
What's the need of a new prophet to come and say it?
Why's the need for a third new religion?
A religion with a new story, scenario and wars
Just to say something that was already there and many people even believed in it
What's purpose of that third religion?
a religion that said nothing new
That's a question. But what does this has to do with the topic of the video?
Or.. what does the story of Arius.. has to do with the Quran?
"What does this has to do with the topic of the video?"
Arius and those who have been prosecuted
When they left to the Arabian Peninsula, took their christian books with them
As predictable
But these books were written in a language that was the primary one for the writing at the time
Not "Arabic" of course, Arabic was barely known at the time
Instead, it was another language, the "Aramaic" language
Which had a sub language called "Syriac"
The Syriac language was one of the primary languages for writing at the time
Now, what happened for that third new religion to appear
is that this new third religion was not new at all
It's nothing but the ideas of those christian denominations
The christian denominations that believed that god was one and Jesus was just a human being
And that "Quran", most of it,
Is nothing but a translation of the christian books that entered the Arabian Peninsula
By the people who have been prosecuted and left the empire
The books which were written in Syriac
-Chapter Two- -Is the Quran a translated christian books?-
Have you ever wondered why the Quran said many times it's an "Arabic Book"
Why would a book that's supposedly clearly written in Arabic..
Says so many times "I'm an Arabic book"?
Why do u need to say the language of the information u say?
For example, the Greek authors who wrote the new testament in Greek
Didn't have to say even for once that their book is written in Greek
Because it's clearly written in Greek
Beside, the information itself is useless
The repeating phrases in the Quran saying "It's an Arabic book"
Is suspicious and an evidence of a very different scenario
Something like that there were people who knew that the Quran.. was not really an Arabic book
And that's exactly what was happening
Many people said that whoever wrote the book heard it from christian priests,
translated it and claimed it's his
That's why you'll find verses saying: "Some people are abusing Moh. saying he's an ear"
Meaning he's claiming what he heard from others to himself
"Yes, he's an ear" meaning he admitted it! "But an ear of goodness for you"
"And anyone who'll abuse Moh. again will be rot in hell when he comes to us!"
And some said that the words of the Quran were copied from another place
Because we know we've heard it before
That's why you'll find verses saying: "When our verses are recited to them, they say we've heard it"
Meaning they've heard it before
And others said whoever wrote the Quran copied it from a non Arabic source
Because it contains many non Arabic words
So the Quran responded and said:
"Yes we know that some say: There's a foreign human being teaching the prophet"
"No that's not true, the Quran is an Arabic book"
The accusations that the Quran is not an Arabic book is a lot
To the point that the Quran kept defending itself and threatening anyone who says it's not Arabic book
Not once or twice.. but more than 10 times!
But let's just put all these infidel accusations aside
And try to understand why they said so
What led not 1 or 2 or even 10..
But so many people to say that the Quran has a non Arabic origins and contains many foreign words
There're battles between researchers and people of knowledge
regarding the question: "Does the Quran contain non Arabic words in it?"
But before i show you the non Arabic words in the Quran
First, You have to know how to read the Quran correctly
And to be able to read the Quran correctly
You've to read it as a raw text.. You have to take it to it's first origin
Meaning you've to remove all the doting
Then you've to remove the punctuation marks
Then you've to remove all the letters that were added later
Because all of this were added later, over 100 years after the death of Muhammad
When you do this you'll find that the Quran looks so weird
You'll notice that almost all letters look the same
To the point that among the 28 letters of the Arabic language
Only 6 letters.. that you'll be able to recognize them
And the other 22 letters, you won't be able to
For example, You won't recognize the letter ع from the letter غ
The letter ـة which refers to the "female" will be the same as ـه which indicates "ownership"
The letter س will be the same as ش
Both the س and ش will be the same as many other 3 letters which together look like them
The letter ب will be same as ت and ث
The letter ج will look like the ح and خ
And so on. what i'm trying to point is..
The possibility to mistake something if you tried to put dots in the Quran in it's raw version
after more than 50 years from the death of Muhammad
"The time which they say the doting process of the Quran started"
Is very high!
Especially because you're not dotting a letter or two or even a few words
You're dotting more than 77,000 words!
Of course they were more than 77,000 words
But there are so many parts of the Quran that have been lost over 150 years of the death of Moh.
But we'll discuss that in detail at the end of this video, so just keep watching
That's why those Specialists in the study of the Koran
And i mean by Specialists, those who dare to criticize the Quran without fear or taking sides
Those people when they see a word that has hundreds of interpretations
Or more precisely, no body knows what it means but they're just making assumptions
They take that word and then remove all the extras..
Like the doting, the punctuation marks, ..
And if there's a letter that was invented after the death of Moh. they remove it too
From there they take that word and read it again
And maybe after they add a different dot or remove one,
add a different punctuation mark, or remove one
As if those who dotted the quran made a mistake
That word starts to has a different meaning from the one written in the Quran of today
Okay, give us an example, Sherif
-Chapter 3-
-Where are the non Arabic words in the Quran?-
Like, in the Quran 6:146 when he says:
"..and of the cattle and the sheep We prohibited to them their fat, except what adheres to their backs or..
..الحوايا"
What does الحوايا means? do you know what it means?. you don't.
Let's take that word into it's raw version, and remove all the extras like we said
And play with the dots, as if they missed one or added one by mistake
Let's put one under the letter ح
Then the word will be الجوايا. That word is Syriac one.. which means "entrails"
Okay now let's take that word and put it back in the sentence, "..to their backs or the entrails"
Now that sentence is clear in Arabic
Now Of course if you looked that word in the Arabic dictionaries
You'll find a 100 Interpretation for it
That is very predictable
But think about what "Interpretation" really means
All the thousands of interpretations of the Quranic weird words that exist in all Islamic books and dictionaries
are nothing but mere imagination
They're just trying to find a meaning that can work in the context of the sentence
Or in the Quran 19:24 when he was talking about the birth of Jesus.. says:
"He called her from below her, "do not grieve, your lord has provided beneath you a (stream - سريا)!"
What does سريا means ?!
*different Interpretations*
the word سريا in arabic means a river
but here it's meaningless if you'll take it's meaning as "river"
So, some tried to make up another meaning that can go with the meaning of the sentence
So they said "سريا can also mean Generous"
You mean a Generous one? you mean Jesus?!
That word as many others is meaningless in this sentence
But it has a Syriac meaning!
The word سريا in Syriac means "legitimate person"
Now the sentence has a meaningful meaning
The baby is saying to Maryam his mother, "do not grieve, your god..
..made the birth of your child legitimate"
Meaning don't be sad you gave birth to me without anybody sleeping with you
Meaning i'm a legitimate baby
legitimate. not generous.. or river.
Or in the Quran 12:88
when they entered upon Joseph, they said, "O 'Azeez, adversity has touched us and our family..
..and we have come with goods (مزجاه - poor in quality)
what's the meaning of مزجاه ?!
That word is not an arabic word
*different Interpretations*
So some said it can have the meaning of "poor in quality"
But this meaning isn't right in the sentence
What do u mean they went to the King and said to him we've a poor quality goods so give us money!
It doesn't seem right
So what we'll do is remove all the extras and take it back to it's raw version
and try with different dots, we may find a new meaningful word.
It'd be مرجية
The word مرجية is a Syriac word
It means fresh or moisturizing
Now the sentence became much more clear
"when they entered they said, "O 'Azeez, adversity has touched us and our family..
..and we have come with fresh goods, so give us some money"
If we wanted to name all the Syriac words in the Quran, we will take forever
There're tons of books that talk about the amount of Syriac words in the Quran
All the religious names in the Quran are written in their Syriac form
Names such as Soloman, Ishmael, Isaac, Yaaqob, Zakaria, Maryam and Noah
The pronunciation of these names in the Quran is in it's Syriac form
And not only the names but even the religious terms were written in it's Syriac form
Among them are words people think they only exist in Islam
Like Ayah, Kafer, Salah, Nafs, Ganna, Sai'at
Even when the Quran call Christians "Nasara"
There were no other language that call them that, other than the Syriac
And of course there're other words that has no meaning neither in Arabic
nor in any other language
nor even if you tried to remove the doting and tried to find new words from it
Like for example the word "Kawthar" which has a whole Sura named after it
Nobody knows what it means and as usual, hundreds of Interpretation
So some said it means "the war booty"
And some said it means "the good and the blessing"
Or someone like "el-qurtubi" who gave 7 different meanings for the same word
Or "Ibn elnaqib" who gave 26 different meanings for the same word
This huge number of meanings and interpretations for many of the Quranic words
itself indicates that nobody really knows what they actually mean
Or for example in the Quran 80:31 when he says "And fruit and أبا"
What does أبا means?
It has no meaning
*different Interpretations*
Or in the Quran 11:75 when he says, "Abraham was forbearing and "أواه"
أواه! what's the meaning of أواه!
And as usual.. hundreds of interpretations
Some said it means he used to say "oh" because he fears god so much!
And some said it means "Merciful"!
And some said it means "He guides others to good"!
Notice that even though nobody really knows what it means
They always come up with "good" meanings
Why? because the meaning's supposed to be on Ibrahim
That's why it has to be "good"
But if he said "The infidel Pharaoh is أواه"
Then it'd be different They'll say أواه sometimes can mean cruel
And sometimes can mean oppressive
They just imagine the meanings
Or in the Quran 26:63 when he says:
Then we inspired to Moses, "Strike with your stick the sea" and it parted and each portion was like a..
..huge mountain (الطود)
الطود؟!
what does الطود means?!
They said it means "mountain"
Logically, he said he split the sea and every portion was like..
a mountain
Makes sense
They did imagine the right meaning
On a ward that was originally written wrong
It was supposed to be الطور not الطود
The ر instead of د but it was written wrong
And the evidence is that the word الطود was never mentioned somewhere else in the Quran
But the word الطور was mentioned.. 10 times
And in every one of them the meaning has the same meaning that's supposedly in this sentence
Means "mountain"
Coping the Quran from other non Arabic sources Led to many errors in the book
Not only in the meaningless or nonsense words
But also in the Syntax of some sentences
There are so many sentences in the Quran that makes no sense at all
Like in the Quran 60:11 when he says:
"The Quranic verse in the picture is an imaginary translation, the Arabic one makes no sense"
What does it mean? what does وإن فاتكم شيء من أزواجكم إلى الكفار means؟
I want you to try to understand this verse by yourself.. you won't be able to
Something doesn't seem write in the Syntax of the sentence
And as usual, hundreds of interpretations
Most of them say it means "Escaped"
Meaning "If your wives escaped and went to the infidels"
But in fact that's just an imaginary interpretation
And even if this was the meaning of it, "Escaped"
Then why didn't he just say "If your wives escaped" or "If your wives escaped and went to the infidels"
A simple, clear sentence that nobody would doubt it's meaning
And there won't be a thousand interpretations for it
Or in the Quran 24:61
"There is not upon the blind, nor the ill, nor yourselves any constraint when you eat from your own houses"
Meaning that it's okay for the blind, the ill and you all to eat from your houses
I don't understand
You mean that the one who created the universe, made all these wars, stories and chaos
to send a book and write in it, "it's okay people, you can eat from your houses"
That sentence is so pointless
And at the same verse it says "There is not upon you any constraint to eat from houses whose keys you possess"
So if i stole some house's key, i'm allowed to go and eat from it?
And at the same verse it says "There is not upon you any constraint to eat alone or together!"
"Okay guys don't worry god allowed you to eat alone or together!"
We're allowed to eat alone or together..
Can there even be any other option?
So just 1 sentence contains tons of nonsense topics
And beside that, the whole sentence is pointless, there's no use for it
And if you deleted it from the Quran, the Quran won't be affected at all
And those who won't read it won't miss anything
-Chapter four-
- Unclear book -
There's a verse in the Quran that says:
"We did not send any messenger except in the language of his people to state clearly for them"
But that verse was contradicting to what's really happening
Mohammad himself didn't know the meaning behind many of the Quranic verses
Which's supposed to be Arabic
And was sent by the language of his people
And his mission was to explain it to them
Al-tabari once said that Aisha "Moh.'s wife" said that Mohammad had this habit..
Which is not explaining any verse in the Quran except for a very few
"Which were obviously the clear verses that need no clarification"
And that's true even if what Al-tabari said was a lie
Because if Mohammad explained the Quran to the people he was "sent" to
There wouldn't be tons of thousands of interpretations
Which increase every time a new sheikh's born
Simply we'd have only the Quran and it's a clear book for all people to understand
And even if it needed an interpretation, there'd be only one..
Which will be Mohammad's. Because it's his main mission as a prophet, to explain it to the people
Now how do you claim that the Quran was sent by the language of his people
And his own people didn't understand it
And contains many words that neither Arabic nor make any sense
And if you'll send a book that's not clear at all
That neither the one who claims that it's revealed to him understands it
Nor those whom the book was sent to them understand it
Nor after 1400 people agree on it's meaning
because it has hundreds of meanings and interpretations
Then why did u send it?
That's why it's almost impossible for anyone to translate the Quran to any language
Not because the quran is supposed to be written only in Arabic
Or because Arabic is the best language out there
Or because Arabic is the favorite language for God
No, it's just because it contains nonsense words
That are not clear neither in Arabic, nor in any other languages
So obviously you won't be able to translate them
"Are you allowed to translate the Quran into English" -No!
- No, it's forbidden
You can't even translate the word Quran itself!
I mean, here's a question for you.. Do u know what the word "Quran" really means?!
The book which you're willing to die for don't know it's meaning
And if you tried to look for it you'll, as expected, find a hundred meanings
That's because the word Quran isn't actually Arabic, it's a Syriac one.
It's origin is the word "Qurian" which means..
"A liturgical christian book"
-Chapter five-
-The Quran is a christian book?-
Have you ever wondered why did the Quran mention Jesus 36 times..
..and Muhammad only 4 times?
36 times the Quran mentions Jesus and his life
And only 4 times does he mentions Muhammad
As if the book was made for Jesus
And even the 4 times where he mentioned Muhammad in them
The name can also refer to Jesus
If you took "Muhammad" as a meaning, not a name of a person
And the evidence is that the only time he mentioned the name of a prophet (claiming to be the final prophet)
He didn't say his name is Muhammad
He said his name is Ahmed!
Of course Sheikhs say they're one. Both Muhammad & Ahmed have the same meaning (a great person)
But if that was the case then he wouldn't have said "His name is Ahmed" (61:6)
He would've simply said "A great prophet.. or a good prophet"
But he said his name is Ahmed. meaning he called him by his name
Or the Quran is very precise in all of it's verses except here, here it's not very precise?!
And in another verse he said, "Muhammad is not the father of any of your men"
And that applies to Jesus
Jesus wasn't married and never had any children
But Muhammad? he had kids and married 12 times!
And in another verse he says: "Muhammad is not but a messenger..
.. other messengers have passed on before him"
The problem is that there's another verse that says:
"Jesus is not but a messenger.. other messengers have passed on before him"
The two verses are identical, except the word Jesus was only replaced by the word Muhammad
You're not convinced yet, right? okay..
There was an old coin that was found in Palestine dates back to the year 647-658
Meaning after Muslims were supposed to have entered Palestine with at least 10 years
The name "Muhammad" is written on one side of the coin
But on the other side there was a man holding a cross!
I want you to think about this for a moment
How did the coins of a country that's supposedly Muslim Contain both the name Muhammad and a cross on it?
The cross which Islam refuses completely..
..because it says that Jesus wasn't crucified and all this is just a lie..
.. is the formal coin of the country.. How?!
Or you'll tell me that this's a sign of the forgiveness of the Arab rulers?
The rulers whom when they entered those countries prevented any new churches to be built
And prevented any crosses to be put neither on someone's neck nor even on churches
Same was found on a Syrian coin between the year 686 to 687
That coin has the name Muhammad on it, and a person holding a cross
I'm not here to tell you how did this happen Cuz literally no one really knows what happened
All opinions on that matter are just thoughts about what happened at that period of time
All what i'm trying to tell you is that, that history you think is the real one of Islam
is very different from the real history. The real history is very vague.
All i'm trying to tell you is that all evidences point to the fact that
most of the Quran is translated from Syriac christian books
Not only in the words, sentences or even the name of the book itself
Even most of the stories in it were translated and copied from other religions and legends
-Chapter six-
- The sources of the Quranic stories -
Let's take for example the story of Uncle Adam and his wife Eve
When god created Adam and then ordered the angels to kneel to him
Then the devil refused and said "no, Adam was made from clay and i'm from fire"
"I need to kneel to someone on my level, lol"
Then God got mad and kicked him out of heaven
That order of events wasn't mentioned in the bible
It's true. But it's mentioned in the Rabbinic literature
The Rabbinic literature isn't the Torah to say that God borrowed a story from his other book
No, the Rabbinic literature was written by humans
It's a Jewish literature about creation and life that was written more than 300 years before Islam
That means that the Quran copied the story of Adam and Eve from Human books
Or the people of Saturday's story, that famous story
It was written in the Torah thousands of years before Islam even appears
In Exodus, Chapter 16
Or the story of the Cow in "Quran 2"
It was written in many Jewish legends long before Islam appears
Or the story of Gog and Magog, which people think it only exists in Islam
That story existed in the old Testament in Judaism
And in many other Syriac legends aside from Judaism
Or the story of Noah and the ship
That famous legend was mentioned long before the 3 religions took it
The first mention of this story goes back to the year 1600 BC
More than 2200 years before the Islamic religion appears
Or the story of Cain and Abel, when Cain killed his brother Abel and killed him
Then the Quran said, "whoever kills a soul unless for a soul it is as if he had slain mankind entirely..
..and whoever saves one - it is as if he had saved mankind entirely"
The verse which many repeat it and take it as a sign for the mercy of Islam
And some upload it as a Facebook cover and beside it some red hearts
Fact is, the Quran isn't the source to neither the story nor the sentence itself
That sentence and the story were mentioned in a Jewish book named "Mishnah Sanhedrin"
That book was written 400 years before Islam
a Jewish book that talked about the laws that the Israelis should live by
In chapter four that book talks about murder
And says that the Israelis shouldn't kill, especially an innocent person
Because by killing someone, you kill all the people who can be born because of him
And by forgiving him, you'd be saving all the people who will be born because of him
Then he gave the story of Cain and Abel as an example
When Cain killed Abel he killed all the people who could've come from him
The story was taken from this book
And the evidence is that in the story of Cain and Abel in the Quran the "Israelis" were mentioned in the middle
Have you ever thought what's the relationship between the Israelis and Cain and Abel?!
You're talking about the story of creation and Cain and Abel
What does the Israelis have to do with any of this?!
The Israelis were mentioned because they're mentioned in that book
Where the advice was meant for the Israelis?
So those who copied that sentence in the Quran translated it and also advised the Israelis
The irony!
Or the story of the people of the cave
That's an old story that was mentioned in Greek legends and has many versions with different details
But it's source was probably a christian under the name of "The seven Sleepers of Ephesus"
In it there were 7 christian men escaped from an emperor named "Decius" and hid in a cave
But the emperor discovered their place then closed the door of the cave on them
So that they could die inside
Those seven kept praying for Jesus so that he could save them
So Jesus made them sleep for 1 year and then woke them up
That story is not Islamic!
Even the story of Youssef which a whole Sura in Quran is named after it
And some believe it's the best story anyone can ever write
That story was mentioned before in the Torah and bible with just a few changes
Meaning it was written before and was written many times
Or the story of Solomon and the King of Sabaa
The same story was mentioned in a Hebrew book titled "The book of Esther"
The same story in the Quran was mentioned there except for a small detail
Instead of the hoopoe that was mentioned in the Quran
The story in the book has a rooster
So it seems whoever translated the book confused the rooster with a Hoopoe
And so on. Take any story in the Quran and look for it's origins
And you'll find that it was mentioned hundreds and sometimes thousands of years before the Quran
You only find it meaningful because it's mentioned in the Quran
But if it wasn't written in the Quran and instead was written in the Torah
and then you read it, you'll laugh at it
-Chapter Seven-
-Is the Quran a good book from a literary point of view-
Now let's look at the Quran from a literary point of view, as a normal book
Let's remove all the enticement and intimidation
"You say that the Quran itself is okay to be criticized?!!"
"This is blasphemy!"
Let's take it as a normal book to be fair while judging it
In fact, the Quran from the literal point of view is a very poor book
For many reasons, like what?
Like the repeated overrated unusual amount of the enticement and intimidation in it
Almost in every page of the book you'll find either..
insults and threatens with death and hell
or promises of different rewards and heaven
Using the enticement and intimidation repeatedly is known to be a helpless way
used by someone who can't convince you to do something
So he has no choice but to threaten or reward you
There's no order in telling events or stories
The Quran, at least compared to the Torah and Bible,
Doesn't have an organized order in telling the stories or events
Many stories are mixed together
And you'll always find a cut or a part missing in almost every story in the Quran
For example in Quran 2:221–242. For seventeen straight verses
these passages discuss women, marriage, and divorce
but suddenly verses 238-239 interrupt the discussion to exhort the Muslims to maintain regular prayers
in war times
Then, just as suddenly, the passage returns to the subject of divorce
Those two intervening verses have nothing to do with what came either before or after
And they distract the reader in unnecessary way
Now apply this to almost every page in the Quran
While reading it you'll always find yourself going from one subject to another and then get back to the first one
And there's no focus in one particular topic
That's not a good way to write that's like collecting parts from other sources and mixing them together.
There's no literary sense in finishing sentences or stories
More than 90% of the sentences end with assonance
And they're only there to add a tone to the sentences
It's like someone copies and pastes a particular few words with assonance
and then puts them in every sentence he doesn't know how to end.
There's too many unnecessary words and verbiage in the Quran
And if we removed it, neither the Quran will be affected
Nor the lives of those who won't read it will be affected
On the contrary, there're things in the Quran if we removed it..
a lot of negativity things in the world will be decreased
Take terrorism as an example, which became a daily thing in our days
Now say "Terrorists don't understand the Quranic texts well"
Or say "They don't represent Islam"
Say what u want, what's important is that these verses that those terrorists use
to kill the innocent
Doesn't benefit anyone, except for the terrorist himself
That means, removing these violent verses is better than keeping it
It's disadvantages are way higher than it's advantages, if there's actually any
The Quran is full of unnecessary repetition
Not only in the words, sentences or even the assonance
But also in the stories
For example, the story of the prophet "Lot" was mentioned 8 times
The story of "Noah" was mentioned 11 times
"Ibrahim" was mentioned 69 times "Pharaoh" was mentioned 74 times
"Mosa" was mentioned 136 times and his story was mentioned 7 times
Why?!
What did we gain from you telling us that Mosa turned his stick into a snake
or split the sea into two or made his hand glow
What did we gain?
Especially when these stories are not only not logical, have no evidence to support them
and were repeated many times in the same book
But because they're copied from other legends and religions that came before Islam itself
And even after they were mentioned all these times no one actually benefited from them
And even if there was a small benefit to gain from them, it doesn't deserve to be mentioned that many times
But not only is there a repetition in words, sentences, assonance and stories
But also in repeating whole topics
Like for example, the prohibition of eating pork. That was repeated 4 times
2 times of them were typical in words!
Why ?! Why do you have to repeat the same command 4 times ?!
Haven't you say it once? and your message was received? then u don't have to say it again.
Didn't the prophet say: "Good brevity makes sense"?
You delivered your message, then u should remove all these repetitions
In short, and like the orientalist payoneer Theodor Noldeke said:
"Muhammad is not in any sense a master of style"
But the most important point to mention about the Quran
Is that it's not a complete book, but many parts are missing from it
Let's mention for example
The Hadiths "In El-Bukhari, Muslim, Muwatta and El-sunan Elkobra"
Which say that there were verses in the Quran about Stoning adulterers
But after Muhammad died and people were busy burying him
There was a chicken or a goat that went and ate the parts which contained those verses
I mean it's funny to think that a goat ate what's supposed to be the most important book for god
And if you were from those who will say that it's one of God's great plans
Okay, then why did he send it from the beginning?
Why did he send it as "revelation" and then after Mohammad died he decided to delete it?
Why did he send it from the beginning?
And if god was really planning to delete it..
Then why didn't he tell Mohammed before his death to take those parts and remove them before he dies?
Why after his death the Quran changes and many verses gets deleted from it?
Omar Ibn Elkhatab (A companion of Mohammed) said himself that the Quran are missing many parts
Among them is the part that talks about the Stoning
And said that we must Stone as God said even after the verses got deleted from the Quran
Because we did stone others when Muhammad was alive
"Omar said, and the Hadith is very correct as I've shown to you"
"God sent Muhammad and sent the Quran to him..
..and a part from what he sent to him was the verse of the stoning..
..and Muhammad did stone and we did stone others after him"
So now i want to understand something
"Sorry, i'm a thinker and i have to know the answer for this"
Now the part that was talking about stoning was lost, right?
Okay, so now should we follow that command that was deleted by god from the Quran?
Like ISIS and like what some sheikhs dream to apply
And like what Omar said?
Or not?
And if we should apply it..
Then why did god delete it?
If god wants us to do something that's in some verses
Why would he delete it?
"God removed the verse itself but the command itself remained"
"Like the stoning verse"
And if for example god felt guilty and noticed that the verse is a little bit barbaric
and he should remove it
Okay.. then why were some people stoned by the hand of Muhammad..
When these verses were in the Quran?
Why should these people get killed
and then god removes the verse and those who come after them won't get stoned?
And not only the stoning verses
Aisha "Muhammad's wife" once said that there were verses in the Quran
that talked about breastfeeding adults!
The topic of breastfeeding adults
The hadith is in the Bukhari, and it's a correct one that was said by Aisha
It means that if a man and a woman wants to be together alone in any room
Then the solution for it to be "Halal" would be for the woman to breastfeed the man 10 times
"What a logical solution to be honest"
So Aisha said that the Quran used to have a verse that talked about breastfeeding the man 10 times
"Aisha said that the Quran used to have verses..
that talked about breastfeeding the man 10 times"
But then god changed his mind and made them 5 not 10 times
"Then god made them 5 times not 10"
But then after Muhammad died the whole verses that contained that part
Were lost.
The same with Sura 33 which Aisha also once said that it used to have 200 verse
But after Muhammad died most of the Sura was lost
Now that Sura have only 73 verse.
And not only some few verses or Suras that were lost, no!
Al-Bayhaqi for example once said that a whole partition of that Quran was lost
And that Sura 33 was as huge as Sura 2
There's also Hadiths that say that there was a Sura in the Quran which was as huge as Sura 9
But it was lost.
That's beside the parts that were deliberately deleted for political reasons
Like when "Othman" showed his people his Quran which he collected and claimed it was complete
Some people rebelled against him because they said he deliberately deleted 2 Suras from it
A sura named "Alwlayah" and another one named "Alnawrain"
I want you to go look for those Suras and compare them with the other Suras in the Quran
You'll realize something
Either those 2 Suras were from the Quran but someone removed them
Or they are nothing but hoax..
But whoever wrote them was a genius because if they were put in the Quran no one would've doubt them
because they've the same style as the rest of the Quran
And that alone contradicts the challenge you always hear that no one can write a Sura like those in the Quran
Thomas Patrick in his book "A dictionary of Islam" said:
"No one really knows how many verses were lost from the Quran but they're many..
Al-Suyuti for example said the number could reach up to 500 verses"
That's like double the Size of the largest Sura in the Quran.. disappeared
All this editing in the Quran with the adding and the deleting of verses
Was enough to let the son of Omar Ibn Alkhattab once say:
"Nobody say that he has the whole Quran..
..How could he when many parts were lost from it?..
..instead, let him say i've what's left from the Quran"
-Chapter Eight-
-The story of collecting the Quran-
The traditional story of how the Quran was collected
Starts with a person named Muhammad
Who went to a cave, and then an angel appeared to him
And said: "From now on you'll be the one who'll save the whole humanity from it's corruption..
..and i'll give u a book which contains the cure for all humanity"
According to the Islamic texts that book was already with God
But all what Gabriel did was just giving it to Mohammad
"Do you really believe that the stories in the book were already written in it before humanity came?"
- Yes, it were in it by the knowledge of god
"Most of them were personal stories related to specific people"
And Of course for some reason he didn't give it to him at once. He kept dictating it to him for over 23 years!
"Especially when it wasn't sent to Muhammad at once.. it was sent over 23 years".
And as expected when do u think it was finished? of course.. right when Muhammad died.
And by then the Quran was finished, right?
Wrong. In fact it wasn't even begun!
But after 20 years of the death of Muhammad
There were "Some" Arab rulers who thought of collecting all these verses into one book
And i'm saying "some" because many other rulers thought it was a heresy to do so
Why? because Muhammad didn't collect them when he was alive, so why would we?
And i'm saying "Collect" because those verses weren't together at all
No. That book was split into two parts..
The first part was written on the bodies of animals, sheep and the leaves of the trees, etc
And the second part was memorized by some people
Now the one who ordered to collect the verses of the Quran and put them into one book
Was someone named Othamn Ibn Affan
After Othamn finished and collected the Quran
He made many copies of them, and then sent them to every Islamic country
And by that time the Quran was finished and it's the one we have now, right?
No, not really
After 50 years from the time he collected it and sent it to every Islamic country..
The process of putting dots on the Quran Started
The process "Started"
And for over 50 years from that time the process of dotting the Quran continued
And after 50 years from the time of collecting the Quran and sending it to every Islamic country
The process of putting punctuation marks and adding extra letters started
Like the letter ء
And of course the story ends here saying that the Quran from that moment till now
Hasn't been changed or altered at all
Not in any letter, dot or punctuation mark
And no one should doubt anything in it.
Of course this complected story alone should make any rational person
doubt the whole story about collecting the Quran
However, the real story of collecting the Quran is much more complicated than this
That story is full of gabs. Like what?
Like when Othan wanted to collect his Quran he burned two things
1- The many versions of the Quran that were made by others claiming it's the real Quran
"Now Othman collected the Other versions of the Quran..
..after he did so..
..he said burn any other version other than mine"
And burned the parts that were supposedly written in the time of Muhammad
"Other companions didn't think this's right..
..and it's a matter of opinion, Othman thought it's the right thing to do"
So Othman burned the sources
Like the animal skins and tree leaves that people wrote some parts of the Quran on it
And that alone should make anyone doubt the intentions of Othman
Why did you have to burn the sources?
The supposedly priceless sources that you took your version of the Quran from
The sources that were written at the time of Muhammad
Those sources are considered your best evidence, in fact they're the only evidence..
to prove that the old Quran is as same as the new one.
Why did u have to delete those sources?
Unless you know that your version of the Quran is different from the sources u burned
Now if the Quran was so important and many copies of it were sent to different countries
And everybody knew it, like some hadiths claim
We'd have at least found non Islamic sources or foreign historians from the countries Arabs invaded
Wrote about the Quran or at least mentioned it's name
But that's the opposite of what happened to the Quran
Nobody ever mentioned even the word Quran in any historical record till the beginning of the 8th century
The first mention of the word Quran from a non Arabic source was in the year 710
Meaning after at least 80 years from the time in which the Quran was supposedly completed
And after 60 years from the time in which the Quran was supposedly collected and sent to many countries
and everybody knew about it
That makes no sense
Because the Arab rulers invaded many countries in these 60 years
If they invaded those countries to invite them to their new religion
while holding the Quran in their hands, etc
then how's it possible that not a single historian or even a normal person mentioned the word Quran
even once in his books?
It's like the Quran wasn't even there
But not only is there no mention of the Quran
There's also no mention of a religion named "Islam", or even the word "Muslims"
for over 70 years from the time Muhammad died
Now the historical evidences we have say that the Quran was collected by The Umayyad caliph
"Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan" and his assistant "Al hajjaj ibn yusuf al thaqafi"
"Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan" once said "I fear to die in Ramadan..
..because i was born in that month, i was weaned in it and i collected the Quran in it"
So Abdel Malik admitted to have collected the Quran in the month of Ramadan
Now if Othman really collected the Quran before him
then why would some Muslim leader like Abd al-Malik
collect it after at least 40 years since Othman collected it
Why and how did he collect it again after it was supposed to be already collected
and was in every Muslim country
and everyone knew about it?
One from two scenarios happened,
Either the Quran wasn't collected from the beginning
Or it was but Abdel Malik didn't like it
Maybe he needed to change something in it
Like forbidding something under the name of God, or making something that was forbidden, legal
And like the story of Othman
Al Hajjaj (Abdel Malek's assistant) ordered every other version of the Quran to be burned
And again, like the story of Othman,
He made copies from his Quran and sent them to every Islamic country
Even this is mentioned in the Islamic books
When someone came to "Anas Ibn Malik"
Asking him: "Where's the version of Quran Othman is supposed to have collected?"
He said, "it disappeared"!
That means that Abdel Malik burned the Quran of Othman to make a whole new Quran for him
That means that the new Quran which Abdel Malik made
is different from the version of the Quran Othman made
The version which is itself doutable because it was made after more than 20 years after Moh.'s death
and many things were lost from it
many verses, Suras and whole chapters disappeared
and many political chapters were deliberately deleted
-Chapter Nine-
-Is the version of the Quran Abdel Malek made, the same as the one we have today?-
But the question now is..
Is the version of the Quran Abdel Malek made, the same as the one we have today?
I mean, is the version Abdel Malek made
the last version of the Quran that has been edited?
or did this too changed?
To be able to answer that question
We must have a copy of the Quran that dates back to Abdel Malek's era
to be able to compare it to the Quran we have now
to see if something changed from it or not
Luckily for us we have one of the oldest manuscripts of the Quran
which dates back to after the era of Abdel Malek Ibn Marawan
"We did already found a few manuscripts that dates back to before Abdel Malek's era"
It's name was the "Sana'a Manuscripts"
And we did find signs of alteration in it
But as we said, it's okay, we'll forget about all the old versions that have been altered
and focus on the version that was collected by Abdel Malik and his assistant Al Hajjaj
These new manuscripts contains roughly 2/3 of the Quran
And dates back to over 100 years after the death of Muhammad
A whole century
These manuscripts are in the British library one of the largest libraries in the world
So you can log in their site and see them by yourself
and compare them with the Quran we have today just to make sure of every information i'll say now
The first thing you'll notice is that this Qurant doesn't have any punctuation marks
even the dotting is not complete
That means that even after 1 century from the death of Muhammad
The Quran didn't have neither dots nor any punctuation marks
So it wasn't complete by then
The second thing you'll notice is that many verses aren't in it but exist in the Quran we have today
And in it many verses that aren't in the Quran we have today
For example if you looked at Sura 8 in this old Manuscript
You'll find that it has 77 verse
Sura 8 in the Quran we have today
has only 75 verse
that means there're 2 verses that were lost
Sura 9 in this old Manuscript has 130 verses
Sura 9 in the Quran we have today has only 129 verse
That means there's 1 missing verse
Sura 11 in this old Manuscript has 122 verses
Sura 11 in the Quran we have today has 123 verse
That means 1 verse has been added
Sura 20 in this old Manuscript has 140 verses
In the Quran we have today it has 135 verse
Meaning there's 5 verses have been removed
Sura 21 in this old Manuscript has 111 verses
In the Quran we have today it has 112 verse
Sura 22 in this old Manuscript has 74 verses
In the Quran we have today it has 78 verse
That means 4 verses have been added
Sura 26 in this Manuscript had the name "Taa Sen Elshoaraa" not Just "Elshoaraa" like today
Sura 27 in this Manuscript had the name "Taa Sen Elnaml" not just "Elnaml" like today
And it had 94 verses.. not 93 like the one in the Quran we have today
And it's not just about some altered or deleted verses
If we wanted to talk about how many alterations whether in the letters, words or sentences
Trust me we'll take forever
What's important is that you've got the idea
Until the time of the Abbasids
The Quran wasn't complete yet
And it's not the one we have today.
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Do I Need to Report My Accident to My Insurance if it Wasn't My Fault? | Collins, Collins, & Ray - Duration: 1:41.
We all pay for insurance, it's required under the law.
And it's true that of the other driver hits you and causes you injury and damages, their
insurance company should be providing the payment.
There are a couple things about this, though, a lot of us don't think about a whole lot.
We in our position, of course, see this regularly and let me share a couple things about that
with you.
One, of course you report this to your own insurance company.
One reason being is you may have medical payments covered under your own insurance policy that
will pay directly to your medical care provider in a fixed amount, usually around five thousand
dollars without any indication of liability or fault, that's simply there, it's a benefit
that you pay for, definitely call and get the benefit of that.
Now your insurance company would do its best to try and recover those payments against
the other driver's insurance company.
So in truth, the liability and responsibility for that payment will rest on the other driver.
But it's important that you document it with your own insurance company to make sure that
you're getting the benefit of your policy.
The next thing is that your own insurance company will need the benefit of your good
reporting so they can make sure and document the claim on your behalf.
That's why you have insurance.
Make no mistake about it, every accident claim is an essence in injury claim involving insurance
company.
Call them soon.
In fact, many people call attorneys and then call their insurance company, you can make
that choice.
We often can help people even in dealing with their own insurance company because they may
have other coverage that applies as well.
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There's a Disco Ball in Space! Yay? - Duration: 3:49.
Hey Space Friends! This week I'm talking about disco balls in space! It's not a
spacetime warp or some weird balls sent over to us from a mirror universe but
instead it's a 65 panel highly reflective ball that was sent into space
by a commercial space company. That company is Rocket Lab with a launch site
in New Zealand and they're trying to make space exploration more accessible
or at least more accessible for more satellite launches. The three foot wide
carbon ball is called the Humanity Star and it was developed by Rocket Lab's
founder Peter Beck in hopes that it would inspire humanity to think about
our fragile place in the universe. But this admittedly seems at odds with
the choice of form and lack of function of the Humanity Star itself. Peter Beck
himself actually admits that the inspiration for the Humanity Star didn't
come from our pale blue dot but actually came from Iridium flares, the bright
flashes of light that human-made satellites make as they orbit the Earth
and the Sun bounces off of them. That is causing some annoyance for astronomers
that already have their observations sometimes obscured by passing satellites
that are unintentionally strobe lights. There's also the fact that we have an
incredibly inspiring human-made thing in our night sky already: the International
Space Station which regularly houses astronauts in it. It's incredible that
you can see it with your naked eye in a city or out in the country or wherever
and if you haven't done it yet I definitely recommend it. I didn't used to
know that you could actually see the International Space Station with your
naked eye and you totally can. There are endless apps and websites out there that
will help you track down where it will appear and what times it will appear and
if you haven't done it yet please definitely try it. Essentially all this
is to say is that putting a physical <blink tag> in space leaves a lot to be
desired. Art just like science should be
exploratory. If you're interested in art in space I did an entire video about
art satellites that you should definitely check out, including my
personal fave, ArtSat-2, which was a 3D printed sculpture which was sent into
deep space that actually generated poetry about its experience in deep
space which is incredibly cool. I also dive into Planet Lab's satellites, one of
which actually launched on this Rocket Lab rocket, but the cool thing about
Planet Labs is that they have an entire artist-in-residence program where they
actually employ full-time professional artists to do awesome
things with their satellites. As a one-off the Humanity Star is probably
fine. This disco is dead in about nine months, by which I mean the Humanity Star
itself is going to burn up in the atmosphere in nine months so it's not
creating more space junk which is good. But as a trend there's cause for concern
because we are living in the era of billionaires sending their cars into
space for lulz and commercial companies increasingly making entire areas of the
sky inaccessible to radio telescopes due to their transmissions. There's also
other people who are looking to create even more reflective surfaces in space
which could be a real problem for any observations with optical telescopes.
Overall I think it's fabulous to experiment and try new things in space
and I think that's definitely what's needed but in their quest to make space
more accessible I hope a lot of these commercial companies actually consider
how they might be actually making space inaccessible for others in their quest.
And so in that way, please do experiment in space but also be considerate of
others as you're exploring our universe. The Humanity Star definitely achieved
its goal of making us think about all of our fragile places in the universe but
probably not as it originally intended to. That's it for me this week Space
Friends! Leave a comment this week with what sort of artwork you would send into
space if you had been given the chance and remember to subscribe on YouTube and
join Patreon and I'll see you next time.
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Do I Have to Turn Over My Medical Records in an Accident Case? | Collins, Collins, & Ray, P.A. - Duration: 0:47.
Do I have to turn over my medical records in an accident case?
This is a very common question that we get.
The short answer is, "Yes."
A personal injury claim is just that, it's personal.
And what that means is the way that this accident affected you personally is the main topic
of discussion when determining how to value your claim and pay it.
Therefore, under the law, if you are presenting a claim like this, the other side is entitled
to access to your medical records.
But that should help you.
Those people who are truly injured, that have suffered truly life-altering injuries, these
things are well documented in your medical records more than any other place.
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Stay Focused S2 Ep4: How to Create Wealth Through Real Estate - Duration: 2:30.
All right! Welcome back everybody to Stay Focused, our weekly video blog. I'm
Randal Engelmann. I'm Erik Gould. I just wanted to chat
with you guys just for a few moments today about creating wealth through real
estate. How to create wealth through real estate? It sounds like we're gonna come
up with some really big secrets. Right?
No. It's pretty basic.
Yeah, it's pretty basic indeed. Basically, to give you the boring
statistics to begin with, the average net worth of a homeowner in the
United States today is $231,400.
It's a fairly significant amount of net worth. Yeah, that's a nice chunk of
change versus the average net worth of a renter is only $5400.
That's quite a bit of a difference. Yeah.
That's forty five times greater wealth a homeowner has on average than a renter.
You want to create some wealth in your life: buy a home. Yeah, we could say,
personally, that has been one of our driving forces when we bought our first
home quite a few years ago. It's quite scary. Yeah. But it was also life-changing
in many ways and a big help for us and changing our perspective around wealth.
And for many of our friends and family and our clients that we work with, we see
how that that really helps them and change them. Yeah, that was a huge shift
for us and that was part of the reason that both Erik and I entered into real
estate was buying our first home it made a difference for us and we really
influenced our friends to make similar purchases of multi-family homes or what
they could afford. And it doesn't take a lot of money to get into real estate
believe it or not. Yep. You don't need 20% down to make a down payment.
You don't need to have a 780 credit score.
There are certainly programs available for those that have less down and lower
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Episode 5 Gather and Glean: Publicity Mistakes - Duration: 8:38.
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Welcome to the fifth episode of Gather and Glean, where women's ministry leaders
gather and glean tips to help them better serve the women in their church and in their community.
Today we're going to be talking about publicity mistakes
and I'm going to be sharing the top three publicity mistakes I see
ministries makes - many of which I'm guilty myself!
We're also going to take an in-depth look at a Valentine icebreaker game.
We're going to review a great tool that will help you with your graphics and publicity.
I'm going to share with you the one thing you should always do when you're publicizing an event.
And then I've got a little bit of show-and-tell.
Today's icebreaker game is all about Valentine's Day!
Real quick, if you hop on over to the website you'll see.
Hover over the ice breakers, slide down to Valentine's and we're gonna scroll just a little bit.
Today we're gonna focus on the Heart to Heart icebreaker game.
Have you ever made one of those connections with somebody that you meet?
You know, a heart to heart connection, where you instantly bond over trivial stuff.
Well that's what this game is going to try and provide for your women.
It's gonna help bring out those connections that they have - those shared experiences - those shared likes.
Perfect for a group of eight or more, it only takes about 15 minutes to play.
You'll see where that red is, you just click on that and what pops open is the free PDF.
All you need to do is print this sheet off and you'll be ready to go!
So you're going to give your ladies directions
to connect and collect one signature per line from those in the room who can say:
That they have watched the movie Sleepless in Seattle.
Decorate their home for Valentine's Day. Can recite John 3:16.
Traveled outside of the country for their honeymoon - and more.
Quick, fun, ready-to-go icebreaker game that your ladies will absolutely love!
Today I'm focusing in on three publicity mistakes that I see teams make all the time.
I admit, we've made them ourselves many, many times!
So the first mistake is not putting all the crucial details on there.
Missing info is so important! Think about your target woman - the one who's never been there before
and is not going to know where to go or what the routine is.
So even if it's an event that you hold monthly or weekly, make sure you've got those critical
when, where, ,why, what, how questions answered in your piece of publicity.
The second publicity mistake is not sending out the publicity early enough.
I recommend that you send your publicity out at least three weeks in advance for smaller events.
And big events, like a retreat or something, you're going to want to send those - especially depending on the cost - out months in advance.
And that partners with our third publicity mistake -
not sending those pieces of publicity out often enough.
You want to send them out on a regular basis. Your women are going to need to see those
publicity pieces repeatedly - over and over and over again - before they remember,
"Oh yeah, we've got operation sandwich coming up this Friday."
We all need reminders. Don't be afraid of over-publicizing an event. It's almost impossible to do that.
There are lots of other publicity mistakes that we could discuss and
I'm going to link to some posts that are going to help make sure you don't miss a
single detail of the publicity that you're sending out for your next event.
In today's question and answer session we're going to talk about -
what's the best way to publicize an event? The one publicity method that I recommend you
always use - every single time with every single event - is email.
Your women are used to getting informational emails. Whether it's from you, the catalogs they
subscribe to, or any other organization. Make sure you give great details in the emails that you send out.
Yes, make sure you also include it in the bulletin, on the website, save-the-date cards, at Bible study, and in Bible study announcements.
Hit all those other areas, but always always make sure you send an email out.
It's going to give your women all the information they need right at
their fingertips, especially if they carry it on their phones.
They're going to be able to go back and refer to it. With a lot of the other publicity methods we use
they're not going to have instant access to it and they're not going to be able to refer to them easily.
My recommendation this week is publicity-related.
One of my favorite tools for creating publicity is PicMonkey.
I will tell you it used to be free, but it's not anymore.
There's a small monthly fee. I believe right now it's $5.99 per month if you purchase it annually.
But I feel like it's totally worth it. Maybe, perhaps, even your women's ministry budget can cover that cost.
So I'm going to take you inside my account just so you get a glimpse of how this all works.
Let me take you inside. Here we go!
So I'm going to actually go inside the hub which saves things online on the PicMonkey - site up in the cloud.
You can see some of the different graphics and whatnot I've created.
But what I want to show you that is really cool is I can go back and edit those things that I've already created.
So when I create a new post for a new Question of the Day on Facebook, I just go in here and I retype it.
You can edit photos, you can create graphics, you can do a lot of really really cool things.
It's not all that difficult to learn.
You could create logos, you could create graphics you, could create memes for posting to your Facebook group.
One of the things I did when we were in Kentucky
was to create this poster for our Bouquet of Tables event.
That quilted piece is a collage and you can make collages in PicMonkey.
We sent these off to Sam's and printed them as a photo. I think they were like maybe 11 by 17, or so.
They were bigger than a regular sheet of paper. They may even have been bigger than that.
Those were the signs that we hung up. Technically they were photos
that we hung all over our church advertising that event.
I just wanted to show you a good example of things that you can do and make in PicMonkey.
Everything that I post on the Women's Ministry Toolbox Facebook page,
everything I can think of, was made in PicMonkey.
So that is my recommendation for you if you are looking for a great resource for publicity.
I want to actually share a really neat publicity idea with you.
This is something that I received at the church we've just recently started going to.
I love that it's not just a plain card but there's a pencil attached to it. How cool is that?
A few Sundays ago women were standing with baskets as we exited the worship center
and handed one of these to each woman who exited.
I love publicity that catches your attention and gives you a tiny little gift.
The neat thing - when I went to the actual event - those same pencils are ones that they used in their decor
and ones that they gave us to use as we worked on writing our stories.
So think outside the box!
Consider what could you pair with an announcement for your next event.
I've done some really cute things with candy in the past.
Like we're "bursting with excitement over our women's ministry fellowship that's coming up on June 8th."
You could attach mints - "you were mint to come to the women's ministry retreat."
You'll find all kinds of ideas on Pinterest for things like that.
Get creative! It will catch your woman's attention and it will help them remember the event that's coming up.
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#CareerTipTuesday - How To Network Like A BAWS To Land That Dream Job - Duration: 2:29.
Welcome to Career Tip Tuesday
My name is Peter Lane.
I'm here at RED Academy
I'm the General Manager here.
And I created the PPD program,
which is the Personal and Professional Development Program
So it's not just enough to learn Digital Marketing, Web Development
UI or UX Design.
You actually have to learn skills to help you get placed in those jobs.
To greatest part of my day is hearing from students in our program
who have gone out and landed that dream job.
That's what I'm here to help you do.
So, first things first, traditional networking is terrifying
I'm going to talk a little bit about how most people network
and I'm going to tell you how you should be thinking about it differently.
So, first of all, it is terribly scary.
I don't know about you, but I've been a lot of networking events
And I go out, and people are scary
even for an extrovert like me.
I end up going with a friend of mine.
I don't talk to anybody.
which completely destroys the whole point of networking
It's also very transactional.
You go out there and it's all about me.
It's all about me. it's all about me.
which is the wrong way to think about it.
And lastly, it's unqualified.
You have no idea who you're going to talk to there.
So you just get into a room. There's a hundred people.
You have no idea. You just wasted four hours of your time.
Instead you can be doing something more effective.
I want you to kind of flip the script.
I want you to start thinking about being effective.
So instead of thinking transactional
I want you think about building relationships with these people.
There's a couple of things.
Networking is not easy.
Number two, it's a life-long process.
I often see my students, once they get their job
They completely stop their networking.
They want to move on or they get stuck in their job.
And they have no where else to go.
This is something you should be focusing on everyday of your life.
And last but not least, it's about relationships.
It's not transactional
This is the most important thing that I always coach my students.
You don't ask someone to get married after the first date.
Why are you asking people for a job after one interivew?
These are my three things I want you to keep in mind
as you're going out to networking.
Super important. There's a lot more things to talk about.
And good luck out there.
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Pay Per Click and When You Should Get a Paid Media Campaign | Clix - Duration: 1:33.
Hi, my name is Jared and I'm a senior account manager at Clix.
A lot of times when I'm talking with prospects or new clients, the question comes up, "When
is a good time to start a pay-per-click advertising campaign?"
To answer that question, we have to take a step back; Is you website ready for us to
start paying to drive traffic to it?
Do you have an effective sales funnel set up?
Are all of your services represented?
Do you have a system in place that's ready and capable of handling those incoming leads?
If the answer is no, you're not ready.
Paying sometimes 2, 3, 10, 20, 50 dollars a click can add up very quickly.
And that traffic is just normal people; we're paying to place an add at the top of the search
engine results.
When people click on that and they come to a website that's incomplete, broken, or lackluster,
it's not going to change anything.
The people will probably just bounce or leave like they would if they came via organic search
engine results or any other type of advertising.
It's no magic bullet.
So if you think you want to start a pay-per-click advertising campaign, take that step back
and make sure that everything is ready to go.
We like to say, "Is the table set?
Is the turkey done?
Is the silverware polished?
Are you really ready to invite these guests into your house, have them sit down and make
a judgement about you and your business?
If not, go ahead, take a step back, collect yourself.
Meet with your digital agency and make sure that it's time for you to start this.
If you have any questions, reach out out me: 314-222-2582.
Or: help@clix.co.
I'd be happy to answer your questions and help you navigate whatever problems you're
having right now.
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This One Thing Will Make You A Better Photographer: Exploring Photography with Mark Wallace - Duration: 6:11.
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If there was one thing that you've learned over the years that you could go back and tell yourself
What would it be?
It's just hair
It's just hair?
If I would have known
that I was going to look like this
I wouldn't have worried about the parts and you know whatever
I would have just done everything!
It's just hair.
Christine you know more than you think you know.
And if you would just trust yourself
just that that much more
you got this
I'd probably just say
don't study philosophy
Take a deep breath
don't take everthing so seriously
don't take everything so personally
I think that's probably what I'd tell myself
Find some good mentors
Is to follow your passion.
I would go back
and I'd be a little bit more diligent
in picking people and realize
that I couldn't treat them like a commodity
You have got to be passionate
about what you are selling
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What Medical Records Should I Provide After an Accident? | Collins, Collins, & Ray, P.A. - Duration: 0:42.
Can I just turn over the medical records that I believe are relevant?
Short answer: "Probably not."
The way that these claims are evaluated by the insurance companies, their goal is to
try to pay the least amount of money that they can pay on a claim.
One way that they often can discount a claim is by saying that, "This injury that you suffered
in an accident did not happen from the accident.
In fact, it was something that you had before, that this accident is of no consequence to
that."
Of course, people that have been in accidents, they know themselves, that's not the case.
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Treat Your Resume As A Living Document - Duration: 2:01.
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My goals for 2018 + SUBTITLES [LET'S TALK] - Duration: 6:21.
Am I focussed?
I'm really overexposed!
I think I'm just going to sit on the floor.
Is that weird, if I do that?
I can't focus.. Oh!
Am I focussed now?
Hi everyone! Welcome to a new video on Equine Motions!
This time a talk video.
And in this talk video I will talk about what I want to achieve in 2018. And what my goals are for this year!
Number one: Something I really want to do in 2018.
I want to upload more on Equine Motions!
I want to show you guys so much more.
I need to film more. Every time I think: "No this is crap" if I film.
My expectations are just really high. I want to upload a high quality video.
And sometimes that's just not possible, because I film alone. You need someone who wants to film for you.
I'm always alone in the stables since they stand at home. I've no more people around.
I really love it but with filming I miss company.
So that's my number one goal.
Upload more!
Number two is working more with Yakari in tricktraining and liberty.
Some new exercises.
Number three is making Yakari boomproof in traffic.
We already walked outside, faced traffic but I want to make a beachride with him.
If this happends this year I don't know but I want to make a start with it.
Number four is something I'm going to do!
I'm really excited about this!
Last year I also particepated.
In october I'm going to Nalanta camp again. From Jesse & Eva.
I'm so excited!
Last year I learned so much, and met so many nice people.
Last year I enjoyed it so much.
I figured out some new stuff in tricktraining.
And it was the first holiday ever with my horse.
So for me the first time staying on unfamilair territory. I slept there for two nights with Topshot.
It was amazing!!
Last year I went with Topshot and this year I will go with Yakari.
So a new adventure a head.
So now I can prepare him for october.
Number five is something for at home. We want a new paddock. My dad arranges everything.
But that's on my wishlist for 1 year now.
Because I start to notice that I need more space for the horses to stand outside.
When the weather is horrible I want them to come outside.
It's just nice to have space were you can put them outside. Without worrying that the field is to wet.
Now they stand in the riding area. But you notice that the riding area needs more attention.
I don't care about my riding area, the horses need to come outside. They need to stretch their legs.
(Ian is scratching his butt) Ian?
That the riding area needs more attention..
The horses just need to come outside!
That the most important thing for them.
But the rain is not working with me, it's been 3 weeks since everything was dry.
So I need to make a decision. Now in the stables or in the summer.
Because if I put them on the field right now they will destory it because it's to wet.
So that's why we want to make a paddock for them!
And my father is arranging everything and making it happen.
So I hope on a brand new paddock for next years winter.
I have one more aim! And it's a big one.
It's my biggest dream with the horses, I dream about it my whole life since I know it's possible.
Together with Yakari or one of my other horses..
I want to give a show, clinic or demo.
Horse Event is my biggest aim.
So that they contact me if I want to perform.
That's pure magic to me.
I want that so so so bad!
Inspiring people with your work.
In the horse world everything is already done.
But in my opinion everyone thinks about a horse differently.
So everyone can teach something to an other.
For an example, I ride differently then my neighbor next door.
Nothing wrong with that. But we can learn from eachother!
But the problem is that some people are not that openminded.
And they think they're the best.
I try let..
.. myself inspire a lot of people.
I won't do something if I feel uncomfortable with it. Then I will not do it.
But Horse Event is my biggest dream.
To give a show on Horse Event. And to invite my whole family!
To a show I will give!
That's something I want to do so bad.
Do you have some ideas for me, for a talk video or music video? Let me know in the comments. I love to read that!
Sometimes I don't have inspiration for a new video..
Just..
let me know. You only make me happy if you do.
That's it guys!
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VO B.O.S.S. - Episode 30: Trolls - Duration: 18:33.
VO: Today voiceover talent is more than just a pretty voice. Today's voiceover
talent has to be a boss. A VO B.O.S.S. Set
yourself up with business owner's strategies and success. With your host, Anne Ganguzza.
Along with some of the strongest voices in our industry. Rock your business.
Like a boss. A VO B.O.S.S.
Anne: Welcome, Everybody, to the VO B.O.S.S. Podcast. I'm your host, Anne Ganguzza,
along with my beautiful co-host, Gabby Nistico. Hi, Gabby. Gabby: Hello, Anne.
Anne: You know, Gabby, the other day I had a very interesting comment
on one of my Facebook posts, and it seemed to come out--seemed to come
from nowhere, out of left field, and it was so
hum, how should I say? Upsetting? Gabby: Ohhh. Anne: And I think the only way that I could
classify this type of a comment, on a thread, would be
trolling. Trolling! Gabby: [Deep whisper] Ohhhh. Trolls. Anne: Have you had an experience
with trolls? Gabby: [Mock laugh] Have I had experience with trolls? Let's see,
the ones that live under the bridge or the-- Anne: Yeah. Gabby:--one's that live all over social media?
Both. Anne: [Sing-song] Trolling. You know. Gabby: Yeah.
Anne: I don't know, there's a whole psychology, Gabby. I mean, we could talk about the psychology of trolling and why people do
it. But trolling essentially, guys, for anybody who's not familiar with that term,
is... Gabby? Gabby: It's bullying! Anne: Yeah.
Gabby: I mean, it's really what it is. It's a form-- Anne: Mm-hmm. Gabby:--of online bullying, and it's a way for
people to...in a slightly removed,
somewhat anonymous fashion, start
lots of sh--[beep] on the internet, and potentially
do everything from ruining someone's day and their mood, if you let it of course,
to being very condensing, and being very mean, and,
I mean, really there's so many different levels of this process, but
in a sense, anytime someone just kind of comes out of left field on a social
platform and takes it upon themselves to be
very critical without that criticism having any
constructiveness about it-- Anne: Or validness, yeah. Gabby: Yeah, or
yeah, or validity, or-- Anne: Yeah. Gabby:--really anything other than just a mean
spirited opinion. [Soft laugh] You have a troll on your hands. [Anne] [Scoff]
Anne: First of all, you don't even know that it's a troll sometimes. You know what I mean? And you're like, "Oh
well, that's odd." And sometimes it may start off being very timid,
but then it might just escalate very quickly into--you know the first time
I had it happen it was, oh my gosh, it escalated out of control. Post,
after post, after post, you know, calling me--actually, and I'll tell you what it was about, somebody was
calling me a fraud, selling my vocal throat spray. Talking about, "Oh
the FDA was gonna crack down--" They had called the police on me. You know, by-- Gabby: Oh my God.
Anne:--that time, when it got to that level and it was posting all over my groups
and it was coming from a particular person, which I couldn't validate. And, I think
we need to talk about that. On Facebook, like I don't even know who this person was,
and there's no information on them. But it was so upsetting, because
I didn't even know how to stop it. I kept tryin' to delete the post, and then you're like, "Oh my gosh, how
do I block this person?" It was really, it was traumatic. Gabby: So I think for voice actors
the thing to understand first and foremost is the more
you put yourself out there, the more you promote, the more active you
are on social media, the more you open yourself up-- Anne: Yup.
Gabby:--to these types of individuals. So the first time, or the first
couple of times, it happens it can be really, really
upsetting. Anne: Ye--Absolutely. Gabby: It's emotional, it--
Anne: Mm-hmm. Gabby: And so a lot of things happen very rapidly that we wanna help you
kind of navigate and be prepared for. Anne: Yeah. Gabby: Especially if this has never happened
to you. The first is shut down your emotions. Do not allow yourself to become-- Anne: Yeah.
Gabby:--reactionary. Because becoming reactionary is typically exactly what these individuals want.
Anne: Well, yeah. Absolutely. Gabby: Yeah. And it creates a situation that
then rapidly spins out of control and becomes child-like, and that's where you get into
name calling and it all just goes to hell. Anne: Right. And you don't want that to reflect badly you.
That's number one. That's why you wanna leave your emotions out of it and try to understand
that it is a troll. And, when that happens, if you start to feel yourself getting emotional and
out of control a really good thing to do is to, maybe, call someone. Gabby: Mm-hmm.
Anne: And let them talk you down off the cliff, the proverbial cliff, so to speak, because you might very
well wanna just be so angry and respond. But I think, for me, it's helped for me to
either text somebody or call somebody and say, "Oh my God, did you see this post!" or-- Gabby: Mm-hmm.
Anne:--"Help me. What's going on?" Because, sometimes, when you're not recognizing that it's a troll, they will.
Gabby: Well, there's two sides to that coin, too. Anne: Mm-hmm. Gabby: So there's the
reactionary defensive side that you're talking about, where,
yes, I mean you initially go on the defensive and go, "Oh my God, what the hell is going on here?"
And, like you said, a friend, a colleague, can help you to sort of see the situation
with a little more clarity. Anne: Yeah. Gabby: But there's another. And it's the uglier
side to this, to which I say trolls are bullies. It's the
emotional side that causes really negative, depressive, type
symptoms, or causes someone to kind of
go within and-- Anne: Yeah. Gabby:--become sort of devastated. Equally
important to have a buddy system. Equally important. And I've had to do that. I've had to do it
with Anne, as a matter of fact.-- Anne: Yep. Gabby:--I've called you up and gone, "Um, I
don't know what's going on here, but I'm really, really upset and I feel horrible."
Anne: Yeah. Gabby: And I feel bad about me, and you need
someone to help you in that moment-- Anne: Oh you do. Absolutely. Gabby:--to give you perspective, and go, "No,
this is not you, this not a-- Anne: It's a troll. Gabby:--reflection of you and you're awesome!"
Anne: Yeah. Gabby: And don't allow this to play games on your psyche.
Anne: There are times when sometimes it becomes so out of control that you need to block that person.--
Gabby: Mm-hmm. Anne:--Or report that person to the authorities. And
before that actually happens, because sometimes that's not easy. Like we don't, again, it's something we don't do everyday.
So, it's like, "Oh gosh. How do I report, how do I stop, how do I block? I don't know technically
how to do this." So in the mean time the posts continue, and so you do need that
support, that extra support of your friend, your colleague. And, I'm gonna tell ya, a lot of times your friends or
colleaguesonline will come to help you-- Gabby: Yes. Anne:--or come to your defense.
And that's always a nice thing to see. Because sometimes it could turn, you know, into
something good for you. But in the mean time, while that person is
recklessly, you know, out of control with, like, left field comments,
you know, your online buddies can also try to help sway it too. Gabby: Well, I think what's
interesting is anytime you have a situation
where the community can come to your aide, allow them
to, and back out of the conversation. Anne: Yeah. Yeah. Gabby: The more you
retreat and allow others to sort of-- Anne: Take over for you.
Gabby: Yeah, take over for you. The more it kind of vindicates you.
I mean, it definitely allows you to not
make a mistake you can't take back and then escalate the situation, and it
gives it outside perspective as to what exactly might be going on.
So anytime I've had a troll situation that's what I do. I literally retreat and I let the community take over.
Anne: And then-- Gabby:--And I've been fortunate enough to have folks come to my defense.
Anne: Yeah. Ultimately, it will make the troll look for who they--
Gabby: Oh, foolish! Yeah. Anne: Yeah foolish, you know, and to be the jerk that they are
for the most part. And then during that time when you're retreating that's when you can find
out steps that you may want to take, in terms of
either blocking the user or reporting the user, if that's the case.
Anne: A lot of times these people will create fake accounts. You know, so... Gabby: Yeah. I think--
I think block is definitely an essential tool, but-- Anne: Yeah. Gabby:--Anne, just out of curiosity,
because I don't know the answer to this even, is there an official way
to report someone? On some of the various socials? Is there a protocol?
How does that even work? Anne: On Facebook there is definitely a way. Actually on every social
platform there is a way to report and block. It's just not easy to find. You know, for-- Gabby: Mm-hmm.
Anne:--example, Facebook, if you've ever tried to contact technical support for Facebook, or
help, you know, if you have a problem with, I don't know, anything. With, and you know,
your post isn't going through, your video's not uploading, you're not verified, whatever it is just trying to get
in touch with them in general is difficult.-- Gabby: Yeah. Anne:--But there is always, if you
delve deep into the Facebook there's a way to block user. Usually on
the comment or the post there's little--in Facebook there's three buttons
where you can find out more options. And those options right away could be
to block the user. Sometimes blocking is not always the best
the best thing to do right away, because then it might still continue but you're blocking them so you can't
see what they're doing. So, it's kind of a weird, you know, what came-- Gabby: Well, but at the same--
Anne:--first. Gabby:--time, sometimes too, I mean, I know Jon Bailey who's a
really well known voice actor, Honest Trailers, very illustrious
career. You know, Jon has been very active on social media since day one.-- Anne: Yeah.
Gabby:--He's been all over YouTube since day one, and he
probably has the most extensive database of troll stories--
Anne: Yeah, for sure. [Laughing] Gabby:--of any of us. Anne: Well, you can't say you made it unless
you've been trolled. That's--there's your-- Gabby: Right. And, he, you know, Jon really,
I think, handles it with a bit of graces and a sense of humor and so-- Anne: Yeah.
Gabby:--you know, take a little inspiration from that. Definitely try to have a sense of humor
about these things. I think it really helps. Social media managers
at large corporations, as well, this is their job. This is what they have to contend
with all day long, because trolls attack everyone. In every
setting, and social media managers are often times
very quick with a witty retort or comment or something to just
immediately shut that person down. And so, you know,
if you have that opportunity definitely take it. Anne: Yeah, and so what used to be,
you know, back in the day when you'd have a--that--maybe that bully at school,
now it's become online. Online bullying. Gabby: Yeah. Anne: And it's a real thing.
And we want you guys to know that we get it. It is a real thing. It can be
truly upsetting and, you know, it's something that does
occur, and I think that we need to be able to be prepared to take proper steps and to try to--
Gabby: We do. Anne:--just, you know, calm down and understand that, you know, maybe this
is not a personal attack on you. It reflects more on, maybe the person-- Gabby: It never is.
Anne:--that's doing it. Right? Gabby: Yeah. Anne: And their--whatever their issues
or insecurities are. Gabby: Well, I think too it's important to understand that it
really does happen to everyone, and I think where it's the most disturbing is when
whatever you wrote or did or...
whatever your part or piece of it was, when it's so mild
or so innocent, and you go, "Holy cow, where did this come from?"
Anne: Yeah. Gabby: And you really do have to understand at that point it doesn't have
anything to do with you, but there is another piece to this.
And, I think, it's important to note that there's a line, there's a
distinct line, in the sand between when someone's being a troll or a bully and when
they're being threatening and when it is clearly grounds to call in
law enforcement. Anne: Yeah. Absolutely. Gabby: Because there is. There is a legitimate
line there and you have to be cautious. That if someone is making threats
against you, bodily harm,-- Anne: Right. Absolutely. Gabby:--you know, or your family,
you know, that is when all of that content needs to be taken to the police. And you need to go,-- Anne: Absolutely.
Gabby:--"Look, I need to take steps to protect myself, because this is just now dangerous." Anne: And to not engage.--
Gabby: Yeah Anne:--And to do everything in your power to not engage, because a lot of times that
will just encourage more-- Gabby: Mm-hmm. Anne:--of the actions.
And, really, you guys take that to heart what Gabby just
said that when it becomes threatening--And the thing of it is, is that these days
it's not really hard to find out-- Gabby: No. Anne:--but there's a lot of
social engineering that goes on. Before the internet was so popular, I mean, there used to be--
they would call social engineering and people would hack into your systems, because that was when people had face to face
interaction, and a social networking, or a social engineer
for a hack would be you met someone face to face and you kinda stood behind them
while they were, you know, typing their password, maybe. Or you noticed the entrances
and exits to the building that weren't locked at certain times of the day. Or you noticed
the pattern of when people went into work. That was what social engineering was when you were
intending to do harm. And now-a-days it is now online.
And so it's something that you just need to be aware of that exists. And be
of the mind that when you start to feel uncomfortable, really uncomfortable,
it really is time to sit back, disengage, and think about, you know,
possible reporting or getting authorities involved. Gabby: Yeah, because understand too there is
an odd, you know, piece of celebrity and fandom to what we do. Anne: Mm-hmm.
Yeah. Gabby: You might be sitting back and going, "Oh, I'm not well known yet."
Or, you know, "I haven't really done anything that would make anybody pay attention to me."
That's not how crazy brain works. [Laughs]
Anne: Right? Gabby: If you're talking about an unstable person, or someone who's a, you know,
a potential threat, it doesn't work that way. I mean, you know, they
could just become obsessed with you, your voice, your persona,
a job that you did, and it can rapidly spiral out of control. And, I mean, yes we
do have stalkers in this industry. Sometimes a troll can
literally move from a totally cyber environment into a real life. Anne: A physical.
Yeah. Absolutely. Gabby: Yeah, and that's when it becomes scary. So, you know, you just--
you just have to be away, be smart. Outside of that though, I think,
you know, for the troll environment, and this is where it kinda gets a little
wacky too, sometimes these folks are people we know. They're other-- Anne: Yeah.
Gabby:--people in the industry. They might be a fellow voice actor. They might be a coach. They could be any number of people.--
Anne: My last one was somebody I knew. Gabby: And so--Yeah, same here. So the-- Anne: Yep.
Gabby:--question really then becomes, Anne, what's the etiquette moving forward? Meaning
if you have to find yourself in a social engagement with this
person in the real world, face to face, then what? Anne: Well,--
Gabby: How do you approach your troll later? Anne: I don't know, Gabby, if you knew this about me or
not, I know you do, actually.-- [Both laugh] Anne: I am not shy about just
directly addressing an issue, if I don't comfortable, it's just in my
personality. And, so for example, one of the--
one of the past incidence that happen was a very passive aggressive post. A few
of them, as matter of fact, and then a text. And I know this person, and so if I were to
see this person in a social situation I would have no idea, or excus--no idea?--I would have
no problem saying, "You know what, that really wasn't funny. And I'm not quite sure where
you were going with that and, you know, what's wrong with you?"
Gabby: Right. Anne: And that's how I would do it. But I was not, in this particular instance,
it was a mild troll but it was definitely a troll. It did not
effect me, or I did not feel as though I was physically threatened, in
this particular instance. If that were the case, then I would make every effort not to even--
Anne: [Inaudible] Gabby: Well, yes, of course, of course, of course.
Anne: For sure. But I would have not problem addressing and saying, "Look, it wasn't funny." And then just
see where it took me. What about you? Gabby: Okay. You know, it's interesting, because I don't
know if I have a good answer for it. My last troll experience
was so bad, I mean, you know, I think there's a part of my personality that,
yeah, wants--would go, I'd just march right up and go, "What are you doing?"-- Anne: "Like what's up with that?"
Gabby:--"What was that?" You know, why? Anne: Yeah. Gabby: And there's a part of me that wants to
almost say, you know, you know me but you don't know me well enough to
understand how your words may have impacted me. Anne: Yeah.
Gabby: And that's really the most upsetting-- Anne: Very true. Yeah. Very true. Gabby:--thing. And then there's,
you know, there's another part of me that goes, I would probably just
smile, nod, and do my best to not--
Anne: [Inaudible] Gabby:--actually have to engage. Yeah. And to basically dance around
them most of the night. Or skirt around them and not have to actually have that kind of conversation
because at that point I've gotta go, "You're no friend of mine." We don't-- Anne: Right.
Gabby:--there's no need for us to communicate further. So, yeah. Anne: Right. Exactly.
Anne: So, good stuff. Gabby: But, yeah, it's true guys. I mean, you really, honestly,
in a weird way, ya have to kinda go, "Well, I haven't made it 'till..." [Laughs]
Anne: Been trolled. [Laughing] Gabby:--somebody, yeah, somebody on the internet has decided it would be fun to cut me
down. Or to attempt to. You know, laugh about it, find the
humor in it and know you're not alone in that. And, again, we're a great
community. We come to each other's-- Anne: Yes! We do. Gabby:--defense. And trust me your
friends will--they'll rally behind you. Anne: They will rally, and all will be right. [Laughs]
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We'll see you next week. Gabby: Bye! Anne: Bye!
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