Welcome to a new sewing video
in this video we will see how to sew the sleeve of the shirt
not how to attack it but how to prepare it
because the shirt sleeves in tailoring are prepared separately.
The so-called cross stitching is used at the factory to sew the shirts
that is, you sew the front, the back, the sleeves and then you close
instead in tailoring you prepare the shirt body and the sleeve is attached later.
When I sew a shirt, I first prepare the collar and sleeves
this because the collar and the sleeves have interfacing
in addition, the sleeve also has the placket
which requires a little more precision processing
so they are those jobs that I prefer to do at the beginning.
let's see how to cut the interfacing of the cuff
The cuff will be 21 centimetres
plus two centimetres of overlap
then 23
23 cm coincidence is just the space we have here on the interfacing fabric
you have to use it up to the last centimetre
Let's mark seven centimetres in height
and 2 centimetres of bevel.
It can be bevelled either rounded
or bevelled at an angle
I prefer to bevel it at an angle because then it is easier to sew it
there is the risk that on the curve you cannot make a straight stitching
instead making it cut diagonally the stitching we are sure that it is straight
because you do not have to accompany the sewing machine on the round edge
As we will see later in the case of the collar also in this case
we cut it along the lines of the drawing without adding centimetres for the seam
Here we have cut the interface of the cuffs
now you can move on to attack them with the iron
interfaces are a bit the pain points of the not really super professional tailoring
because some people for who I made the shirts, then complained
that the fabric then makes the bubbles
that is, the canvas washing comes off a little from the interface fabric
now I bought this heated vacuum ironing board
that should help a little bit: see how it leaves all around this sign
but in reality, to have the interfaces well attached, it takes the press;
on the board you can press the iron a little
but it is not the same thing as the press attached interface
well, you see that it comes off again
let's raise the temperature...
eh, in fact, the heat of the iron is still the most important thing to attack them
For the placket instead
to remind me how to iron it I always use one that I have unstitched from a shirt
first of all it should be folded in half...
I had to make it a little narrower because I had forgotten to cut it
let's check that it makes a nice tip
The important thing when ironing the placket is to leave the usual gap
that is, to bend the part of the bottom a little more abundant than the part above.
It is always better to iron both of them to avoid making two left plackets or two right plackets
Here we have our two plackets; in this point it will not be folded
because it will be the part that will go then under the cuff
Now let's move on to the sewing machine
as you can see, here we already have a sleeve already made and finished
we will now make the left sleeve
let's start from the cuff:
we have ironed this part
and we fix it with a seam to a centimetre
then...
let's cut this one straight
You leave a centimetre away
and you begin to sew
you sew on the edge of the interface
only slightly pinching the interface with the needle.
Now, on this long side
I pull the bottom part a little bit
you see that the part above is curling
because
otherwise the interior would curl up
in this way you will see that then working with the iron we will absorb this curl
and the inside will not be defective
it will not curl when you bend the cuff.
Now, let's cut half a centimetre
here you cut a little more
and let's move it to iron it
you turn the cuff
and let's make sure that the seam goes underneath; then from the wrong side...
we pull the seam a little so that the interfaced part of the front gets slightly rounded
here you see that having pulled the canvas is not defective here on the back
and you see also here on the front you do not see the seam
not just because it is obviously made on the other side of the fabric
but because the seam we will see in this side here of the cuff, on the inside i.e.
on the outside everything is clean.
First thing on the sleeve you will have to sew this little hem to the small side
here I had made a mistake so I sewed and unstitched for that there are seams
and then, instead, from the part where there is more fabric you put the placket
you put a pin, let's see if it is two centimetres away
because the other one I sewed it at two centimetres, so that's fine
and you sew it right to the edge
because we have a little more of it underneath
which makes the needle also take under the seam
let's make the tip
here ahead and back
and so is how it remains to the back
now you make the flat felled seam on the sleeve.
Flat felled seam means that you sew 7 millimetres apart
and you make a first stitching
I usually let stick out the part where there is more fabric
I let it match to the end
so that it remains the same length
Then
you turn the sleeve
and you put it in the arm of the machine
at this point you make the flat felled seam
the flat felled seam you'll see it better perhaps in the video where we will sew the shirt body
however, substantially, you fold it back
and you make a second stitching after the fold
there are other various ways to finish the sleeve or anyway the shirt
you can use the overlock machine: in industry they usually use the overlock
or you can put a bias tape
perhaps in women's shirt, the bias is sometimes placed on the inside of the sleeve
if perhaps it is a curled sleeve you put the bias tape
instead of doing the flat felled seam that would ruin the curl.
You must sew with patience because obviously with the sleeve there is little operating space
and then you have to lay down the fabric slowly...
The flat felled seam is perhaps the most comfortable for those who use the machines at home
with two seams you get a clean seam
without needing to bias or zig zag...
We have closed the sleeve now we just have to seam the cuff ...
Let's measure the length of the sleeve
13 and a half
let's multiply by two: they are 27
so we have to remove about 4 centimetres
then you measure 5 centimetres on this side
always to the side of the placket
you remove two centimetres
no, but I have to turn them on the other side
Then it will pop out a half centimetre that we will use as abundance.
Here we measure a distance of 3 cm
and take another two centimetres away, a little more, this way
now you close them this way
and you put the pin back on
you also close this one.
Now let's sew the cuff inside the sleeve
leaving a little bit of sleeve pointing out from the cuff
this is the one centimetre we've left
and it's one centimetre of the seam
also here we left a little bit more sleeve
you remove the pins
and you see that having left a bit more sleeve
the sleeve fills very well the cuff
even if it takes a little bit of bending it does not matter because it will not be seen so much
now you close it
and you make a topstitch
Here is our sleeve ready
we will only have to sew the rest of the shirt and attach the sleeve
I hope this video can be useful to someone
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Introduction | William E. Pannell - Duration: 17:42.
The material that you're about to listen to and engage with came from our 2017 missiology lectures,
when myself, along with my colleague Johnny Ramirez Johnson said,
we need to do this next 2017 Missiology Lectures on this topic of race, theology, mission.
And we invited Dr. Love Sechrest to engage with us in that process.
We wanted to explore the challenging questions regarding racism
and ethnocentrism and xenophobia and all of those issues from the perspective of
world Christianity with regard to how these realities have existed in many
parts of the world and also as part of the colonial mission endeavours.
It is fascinating to think that the realities we were talking about are not the
experiences of one individual or even one society.
We're talking about whiteness as a way of defining the world.
And the conference and the conference presenters addressed time and again this epistemology;
this way of making meaning. It has also been described as colonization and post colonization.
The question is not about guilt it's about engagement; it's about what
are we going to do with what we have inherited. So the fact that we're having
a conversation should not point a finger at you as a listener or viewer.
But these are hard conversations the conversation about race is one that has been deferred
for so long and so often over and over again. As soon as we get close to having
a meaningful conversation about race we recoil from the pain of it. And so in our
lectures there you'll see some of that pain emerge; you'll see some people
who have long experienced racism express and again declare and name experiences
that they have had that have been deeply formative—deformative even.
So this conversation is not a pretty one, but we're having it
As observers, as listeners you will be engaging; and we invite you to invite the Holy Spirit.
The three of us pray a lot about this series. We humbly submitted it to God
and pleaded for God's mercy to lead us. We are feeble and combined we are
imperfect and we have prayed that the Lord will fill the gaps.
And the conversation is only a starter; it is in your hands; it is in your community;
it is in your family and most importantly it is on your knees.
I'm so pleased to be here and I'm glad that this occasion has taken on the tone that it has.
I have been a part of conferences on missions for more years than I can remember, here and there, now and then, and most of them eminently forgettable.
We've had our share of lows here at the seminary.
Most of the consultations on missions that we've had here at the seminary, were scarcely attractive to African American students or pastors.
It really didn't have a whole lot to do with our reality or some of the themes that were being addressed.
This one does, this is different, this has enormous potential for new beginnings.
I had thought that the theme that includes the issue of race was rather unique for us in our time
and then I remembered another use of the term at least, of which I was a part, going back to 1966.
We met in Berlin, Germany, it was a consultation on evangelization, a kind of a worldwide consultation on evangelism.
The theme was one race, one gospel and one task,
and it was kind of a who's-who of the evangelical, evangelistic world.
It was incredible, it was a who's who, a name's name, incredible gathering of folks.
Even Haile Selassie made it, yeah, really, and he sounded every bit like an evangelical.
I don't know who wrote his speech, but it was neat. Everything was nice.
In fact the whole dag-gone thing was too nice, in a way, but it was groundbreaking. It was significant. It really was significant.
Carl F. H. Henry kind of crafted the thing. Mr. Graham baptized it with his name and his presence.
It was a gala affair and it was quite serious.
One race, one gospel and one task.
There is a paragraph in the closing statement on race. I'll read just part of it to you, to give you a sense of the feel, of that event.
You'll pardon the masculinity of the language here...1966, a couple of years ago:
We reject the notion that men are unequal because of distinction of race or color.
In the name of scripture and of Jesus Christ, we condemn racialism, wherever it appears.
We ask forgiveness for our past sins and refusing to recognize the clear command of God to love our fellow men with a love that transcends every human barrier and prejudice.
We seek by God's grace to eradicate from our lives and from our witness, whatever is displeasing to Him in our relations with one another.
We extend our hands to each other in love and those same hands reach out to men everywhere with a prayer that the Prince of Peace may soon unite our sorely divided world.
That's part of the literature of the conference, it was not a part of the conference.
Most of the time and energy was spent talking about one gospel and one mission, one task.
The issue of race or racialism was not dealt with at all.
In fact, a group of African Americans decided that they would object to the absence of that conversation,
and so we cornered Colonel Henry and said, in so many nice words: What's, what's going on?
And he waffled around with it like leaders can do sometimes, as you know,
and assured us that there was a lot of goodwill, a lot of.. and that he understood it and...kinda stuff,
and so we just kept pushing the guy to see: Can't you craft a statement, can't you wake, can't you get this on the agenda?
And then he did what a lot of white folks sometimes do when black folks get angry.
This is what (present company excluded of course), what he did, was to assign the task to the black folks that were there.
It's your problem, you solve it, alright.
So we said okay, so, a group of guys were there, there weren't any women. Massey, I think Howard Jones.
A nice group of guys, representing some serious evangelistic ministry, including the Graham Association, got together and spent half the night trying to craft some kind of a statement that we thought would give integrity to the theme itself: one race and so forth.
It was a nice statement. I have no idea what happened to it.
It was, one of those things that got lost.
It's probably somewhere in the file, somebody's evangelistic missional archive.
The theme that we're working on this week here, that we together are working on, it's a large and terribly crucial and important theme.
Somewhere between our first cup of coffee and the slice of toast this morning, my wife said:
Is it true that we are more aware of what's going on in the world? Is the world really that worse off now than it was then, or do we just have better communication?
I scarcely knew how to answer. We do have better communication,
but we are not really doing too well in the world, getting together that is, which by the way, is the key issue of our time.
It was uttered most graphically by a black guy that got beat by some white cops in Los Angeles,
and when he regained consciousness and some kind of coherence and tried to figure out what in the world he could say about the way he was treated,
he did ask the question, you recall it: Can't we just get along?
That question is no longer, no longer pigeon-holed in Los Angeles.
That's the global issue, that's THE global issue today.
Does it have nothing to do with what we call missions or a missional task, that has nothing to do with the gospel?
Does that question have nothing to do with what we might think of as evangelical?
Do we go to sleep on this thing again or what?
Well, excuse me, the other day I got old, you, yeah yeah...grace.
I've come to this conclusion, if you live long enough, you get old, yeah.
And two years this side of 90, can you dig that? It's crazy, isn't it?
And you say how in the world and what in the world's an old guy like you doing in a place like this, and I say, I don't know.
Let me situate this question again...let me see if I can suggest that there is a connection between one race, one gospel, one task, 1966,
and today, I'm going to flirt with this connection.
When we got off the plane in Berlin, somewhere between the plane and luggage, we were met by a German woman, the "we," being the black guys.
Once you hear her question, you'll understand why she sought us out,
Jones, Massey, Lewis Johnson, pastor of the baptist church in Detroit, a good group, Bob Harrison, about eight of us,
she looked at us trying to figure out which one she should address, and finally she just said this:
Is, is Dr. King on board?
Now we're trying to figure out in an instant which one of us is going to answer that question.
I'm not sure who did, I think it was Massey.
No, he's not...no he wasn't on board.
Then she says, but he'll surely be here, won't he?
Uh, probably not.
Now it's been several years since 1966 and I have felt for a long time that I still owe that woman an answer to her question.
Why then, nor now, has Martin Luther King Jr. not been on the agenda?
Why has he not been invited?
Why do we not make room for that man?
Of course, it's understandable why he wasn't in Berlin, he was in Cicero, you know Cicero, right next to Wheaton, you know Cicero, just down the road from Chicago,
trying to figure out how to bring the kingdom of God in some form to the city of Chicago,
trying to figure out how to marry justice and reconciliation, and to do it nonviolently.
The Jesus way, he said.
Now, I do not know whether Mr. King was invited to Berlin or not, perhaps if he was, he couldn't make it.
We still have to ask ourselves the question though, as members of the body of Christ,
of people who are deeply committed to the gospel, who considered to be mastered by Jesus himself, who follow in his train:
What are we going to do, in our time, with this question of race and gospel?
That's what makes this gathering so important.
This is not a large gathering, there probably won't be more than 6 zillion people listening in.
It's not important how many, it's how well.
It's not about numbers, it's about influence.
We always thought at Fuller, that we might not be many, we hope we are much, but at least we would be influential.
On this question, in so many ways, we've dropped the ball and I've been here for almost all of that, more conferences than I care to remember.
This is an issue we still don't...we don't know whether to spit or whittle on this one, so we need all the help we could get.
We got some real help. We got some real champions on this thing.
We've got some serious folks here who are doing some serious work on this thing, and on the implications of this throughout the world.
The integrity of the body of Christ is seriously at stake in our time, as probably never before.
If Pentecost really means anything today, it really needs to mean something today.
It needs desperately to pulse relevance to every condition of the human race.
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Close your eyes
Will you dream for me
Some paradise
Tell me who you see
Cause i think i do
want you next to me
Want you next to me
But does this work?
Cause no one can get to you
I like the chase
And i know you do too
And im just in love
with the idea of you
Cause I'd cross a million seas
Would you do that for me?
I I oh
I I oh
Yea I'd fly this whole word twice
If i could be your paradise
Close your eyes
Will you dream for me
Some paradise
Tell me who you see
Cause i think i know
What you mean to me
What you mean to me
But does this work?
Only cause we never say
What we think
Waiting for the perfect way
Time some speak
Got me on delay
Cause I'd cross a million seas
Would you do that for me?
Ooh ooh ooh ooh oh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh oh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh oh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh oh
If i'll cut to more three times
I'll run all the red light
I'd cross a million seas
Just to have you next to me
Paris and Tokyo
Look at where i have to go
Screw geography
Would you do that for me?
Ooh ooh ooh ooh oh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh oh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh oh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh oh
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Well, looked around?
Everything is clear?
"Torba"
Look
Try to open
Resists
Check the switchboard, most likely there is no power supply
It looks like an abandoned bunker
Lets go, maybe finds something valuable
What is that ..
What the fuck in the middle of the bunker does the mirror
Look, there is not even dust on it
Don't touch!
Damn, no one knows if it appeared it here before or after the second explosion
Lets go, there's another door
What was it
Nothing.Go.
By the way, how do you keep a shotgun in your left hand
At you she recently was..
"Torba"?
What the..
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General Mattis Orders Pentagon To Cut All Soldiers Who Don't Meet New Requirement
James Mattis is a leader who puts America before politics.
America hasn't had a Secretary of Defense like that in a long time.
The Pentagon is taking its job seriously under his direction.
That means holding our troops to a high standard.
If they are not ready to fight when called on, then they shouldn't be serving.
So Mattis has instituted a strict new rule.
Itt's going to have a huge effect on the military as a whole.From PJ Media:
Defense Secretary James Mattis said the new Pentagon policy that will remove service members
who have not been deployable for a year or more is about fairly sharing the burden within
the forces…
In other words, if you're not being deployed, you're not in the military.
En route to Washington on Saturday, Mattis told reporters that there is a "higher expectation
of deployability by our forces" and the policy isn't "to make change for change's
sake," as he vowed when coming into the department…
Mattis noted that if there are 100,000 troops and 10 percent are not deployable, "then
90,000 deploy more often, obviously to meet the same deployment standard — so that's
unfair."
With a lopsided deployment burden, he added, "If you can't keep the family together,
then you're either going to lose the family or you're going to lose the soldiers, and
that's a net loss for our society and for our military."
It makes a lot of sense when you think about it.
There are numerous service people who are on the military's payroll—but they're
not serving!
Imagine having a staff that gets paid, but does not work.
How long will that work out for an office or company?
Not very long.
Under Mattis, our military is meant to be as lethal and effective as possible.
It's about men and women who work hard to keep us safe.
The military is not a nursery school for entitled children to collect a paycheck.
Make no mistake, liberals will complain about this move.
They will make excuses for service people who refuse to work, but still want to be on
the payroll.
Yet, as always, it's a front to drain America of its resources and strength.
Thanks to Mattis, our military is formidable again.
We are seeing victories around the world once thought impossible.
This latest move is only about improving our Armed Forces and ensuring our troops are pulling
their weight.
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This is so cute but what does it say?
I want to die.
I want to die?
Oh.
While I'd never been afraid to take a few risks in the name of fashion,
there's a new style popping up in Tokyo that's, frankly, a little scary.
In Japan, conformity and rigidity inform everything,
from social customs, to the way people dress.
Standing out is not exactly something
everyone strives for.
Here on Takeshita Street,
style is defined by defying norms.
But a new look is challenging one of Japan's deepest taboos:
depression and mental illness.
The style is called Yami Kawaii and it means "sick cute".
Can fashion break the silence that surrounds an epidemic?
My first question:
What exactly is Yami Kawaii?
What does it look like?
To find out, I tracked down Kuua,
an artist and influencer with over 56,000 followers
on Instagram.
"Kawaii" is the Japanese word for "cute."
"Yume Kawaii" means "cute like a dream."
"Yami Kawaii," is what happens when "Yume" goes dark.
Is that a fan?
Did she just recognize you?
Oh, that's so fun!
Fans are drawn to Yami Kawaii.
But honestly, I just don't get it.
To better understand the appeal
I'm going to visit a pioneer of the look,
an artist named Bisuko.
But then it says, "I love you."
Kill you?
Okay.
Changing your mind a lot.
That's Yami Kawaii.
Can you tell me who this is?
Meet Menhera-chan, the Yami Kawaii heroine
of Bisuko's comic.
She gets her name form Menhera,
a term that refers to people who suffer from mental illness.
To understand why this is a look someone would want
to project, I decided to try the clothes on for myself.
I need a jacket and then I need bottoms.
This one?
How's that?
Kawaii?
A jacket?
What makes this one Yami Kawaii?
I think I'm getting it now.
Accessories?
Okay!
Kawaii!
I'll go try it on?
As I put on my Yami Kawaii outfit,
I really notice the dark details among all the pastels,
the bandages around the girl's wrists,
the droplet hanging off the syringe.
I don't feel Kawaii.
I feel uncomfortable.
Is this Kawaii?
For some, this look is empowering.
But why?
Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world.
Even talking about mental illness and depression
is considered taboo.
So what is Bisuko trying to say?
Is there something deeper going on?
Oh my god.
There's so much pink Kawaii!
It's such an interesting mix of sweetness
and pink and then this is terrifying.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, that's probably the most Yami Kawaii.
I mean, when you see it, does it remind you about
those who have died by noose or is
it just, again, decoration.
Yami Kawaii is fashion,
but it's also a coping mechanism for complex emotions.
I wanted to know if other people were using fashion
in the same way.
Hanayo, a former teenage model,
might have some insight.
She was once a finalist in the nationwide Miss iD
competition, an alternative beauty
pageant that celebrates differences.
Until she was disqualified
for discussing her suicidal past.
What do you feel when you come here?
It's nice to meet you.
Did you say you had multiple attempts?
Her openness won her fans on social media
and has won her a new kind of support system.
Do you feel like there are a lot of people
who feel the same way that you do?
She uses social media to create a community,
where she feels free to talk about her art,
her clothes and her raw emotions.
You have a lot of pink.
Do you dress to make yourself happy
or do you dress to make other people happy?
This, amazing.
Sex Suicide Baby.
Yeah.
It feels bad to hide who you are, right?
What's one thing that you want people to know
when they hear your story?
Hanayo sees cute clothes as a form of therapy.
Maybe, that feeling isn't an accident.
Joshua Paul Dale is a professor
who specializes in the impact of Kawaii culture.
"Cute" can mean "clever" in English,
so we can look at somebody and say,
"oh, that's cute", or "don't be cute."
But Kawaii in Japan doesn't have that negative connotation to it.
It's simply a pure, happy feeling of cuteness.
So instead of, "You look Kawaii,"
it's like, "I feel Kawaii because of how you are."
Yeah.
When you express Kawaii,
you are expressing a desire to appeal to other people,
to get closer to other people,
and expressing a desire for healing.
So maybe that can help people with those dark and more difficult issues that can't be
openly expressed in Japanese society.
Talking openly about painful experiences
feels better than keeping it in.
When you talk, powerful things can happen.
I see now that Yami Kawaii can help people heal,
people like Bisuko's number one fan.
So I came to Tokyo expecting to learn something about this new style of subculture.
What I really didn't expect to learn
is something about love.
You know, in the United States, asking for love
isn't really a thing we're very comfortable
with doing but in Japan, it's pervasive.
It's normalized. It's Kawaii.
And especially when you have a hard time practicing self-love, asking for love is a really, really
brave act and that's what Yami Kawaii is at the end of the day.
And that's pretty rad.
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The trouble with history is that people are terrible eyewitnesses.
And before humans developed a written language, centuries of moments were lost in time.
But every now and then some new, tantalizing details emerge from archaeological record,
a previously neglected document, or even from someone's DNA.
And sometimes those details are so surprising, they completely change our understanding of
history.
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Genetically modern people sometimes mixed with Neanderthals, and since genetically modern
people were probably also responsible for the eventual genocide of the Neanderthals,
such liaisons were probably the caveman equivalent of Montagues and Capulets, only hairier.
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to Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.
According to recent discoveries, there were multiple species of hominids living on planet
Earth at the same time.
It's starting to become clear that intermingling of species was far from just the occasional
secret affair between star-crossed lovers — it happened so frequently that it's possible
that you personally owe your jawline, sense of smell, or preference for hanging out in
caves to an ancient, almost-human ancestor.
Coming to America
The idea that the first Americans crossed the Bering land bridge, also called Beringia,
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"You keep that in mind.
The moment you think you got it figured, you're wrong."
Lady vikings
If you're a fan of Vikings on the History Channel, you'll probably find this information
to be about as obvious as it gets because duh, everyone knows shield maidens were a
thing, and Lagertha could totally kick your butt, by the way.
In the 1880s, the skeleton of a Viking warrior was unearthed in Sweden, and everyone just
assumed the skeleton belonged to a man, mostly because Xena: Warrior Princess wouldn't reach
the airwaves for more than a century.
The warrior, who was buried with weapons, shields, and two horses, helped historians
imagine what the quintessential Viking warrior might be like, except for the part where he...
was a she.
The skeleton remained incorrectly gendered until recently, when an osteologist noticed
the fine cheekbones and "feminine hip bones" and decided to do a DNA analysis.
What they discovered will not surprise Vikings fans, but as far as most everyone else's understanding
of Viking culture is concerned, it's right up there with Vikings not wearing horned helmets.
The wooden teeth that weren't
The composition of George Washington's dentures isn't exactly the sort of historical detail
that brings down regimes or rewrites entire textbooks, but like the cherry tree he never
chopped down, it's a myth so beloved that it seems immune to logic.
George Washington did not have wooden teeth, though it's possible that as he aged his dentures
became so disgusting that they looked like they were made out of wood.
Researchers decided to settle the argument by subjecting a set of Washington's surviving
dentures to a series of laser scans.
At long last, the answer: Washington's teeth were made out of ivory, gold, lead, and actual
teeth, some of which were human and some of which were animal.
Now one wonders why they weren't all ivory, all gold, or all donkey, but we may never
know.
"That don't make no sense!"
King Tut's death
Egyptian kings, ancient curses, buried treasure — the story of King Tut has everything … except
murder.
The thing about the boy king is that he's famous because he was buried with a buttload
of treasure and no grave robbers were ever clever enough to figure out where it was,
until 1922 when some British guy helped break in and subsequently died from a mummy-cursed
mosquito bite.
Because he died so young, some people thought Tut must have been murdered — theories ranged
from a blow to the back of the head courtesy of a political rival, to poison.
Then researchers rained on everyone's murder mystery parade with DNA tests and CT scans,
which revealed that the king suffered from severe malaria and an infected, broken leg.
And the poor kid wasn't just sick, he also had a cleft palate and a club foot, which
were inherited conditions — the genetic testing also revealed that his parents were
brother and sister.
So the real story here is not how King Tut died, but that he was a Targaryen, or possibly
one of Cersei's kids.
"We don't choose whom we love."
The Clovis got crafty
The Clovis people were some of the first migrants to reach the Americas, somewhere around 13,000
years ago.
The culture was short-lived — a couple hundred years after they arrived, their characteristic
spear-points disappeared from the fossil record, which seemed to indicate that the Clovis people
also disappeared from planet Earth.
Why?
A 2006 theory suggested that a comet had struck the Earth, which caused wildfires and mass
extinction, and that included the Clovis.
But in 2011 a pair of archaeologists called foul on the theory, citing a lack of extraterrestrial
particles at many Clovis sites and no indication whatsoever that the population of North America
declined around that time.
The new theory is simple: The Clovis people just stopped making that particular sort of
spear point and came up with a new design, never really going anywhere.
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Nullification isn't specifically listed in the
Constitution. But that doesn't mean you can't do it.
Every once in awhile, someone tells us,
"The Constitution doesn't say anything about nullification.
That means states simply can't do it."
But they've got things totally backwards.
It's true that the federal government has limited
powers and is only authorized to do the things
delegated to it in the Constitution.
As James Madison put it in Federalist #45,
"the powers delegated by the proposed constitution
to the federal government are few and defined."
If a power isn't delegated, the federal government
simply is not authorized to do it.
On the other hand, states have reserved powers.
As Madison put it, "Those [powers] which are to
remain in the State governments
are numerous and indefinite."
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But when it comes to the U.S. Constitution there
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So, what does the Constitution prohibit
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♪ Been a minute since high school ♪
♪ And I still kinda miss you ♪
♪ Is it weird that I do, I do ♪
♪ Are you still in your basement ♪
♪ Smoking weed with the same friends? ♪
♪ Just living for the weekend ♪
♪ Like we used to ♪
♪ Up all night, mattress on the floor ♪
♪ Wasting time, Nintendo 64 ♪
♪ Shouldn't think about it anymore, anymore ♪
♪ Where would we be ♪
♪ If we were still passed out on your sofa, watchin' TV? ♪
♪ And it was still my head on your shoulder ♪
♪ Where would we be if in another lifetime ♪
♪ I didn't move to California for the limelight? ♪
♪ I wouldn't have to wonder what it would've been like ♪
♪ If we'da only ******* got it right the first time ♪
♪ Where would we be? ♪
♪ (Where would we be?) ♪
♪ And I know I shouldn't reminisce ♪
♪ But I've been drinking and I miss my accomplice ♪
♪ I know it's late ♪
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♪ Wasting time, Nintendo 64 ♪
♪ Shouldn't think about it anymore, anymore ♪
♪ Where would we be ♪
♪ If we were still passed out on your sofa, watchin' TV? ♪
♪ And it was still my head on your shoulder ♪
♪ Where would we be if in another lifetime ♪
♪ I didn't move to California for the limelight? ♪
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♪ If we were still passed out on your sofa, watchin' TV? ♪
♪ And it was still my head on your shoulder ♪
♪ Where would we be if in another lifetime ♪
♪ I didn't move to California for the limelight? ♪
♪ I wouldn't have to wonder what it would've been like ♪
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Letters to an Asexual #55 (Mocking Asexuality) - Duration: 22:04.
Hey folks, it's swankivy and I'm here with another Letters to an Asexual.
This is number 55.
And um, here I am in my uh, fireplace room.
And uh, I think I made one other video in here before, but, I kinda like this room for
videos but the lighting is really weird, so, sorry if it looks strange.
Today's letter is going to be a letter that was not written to me but it did mention me,
actually it just, it mentions my book.
Uh, and it is a few years old, I believe the information I have here says it's from 2014.
But I was rereading it recently.
I had saved it to my computer and I decided this is something I wanted to talk about.
Um, so this was kind of an article-slash-uh-attack piece in a funny way of phrasing, like he
tried to act like it wasn't really an attack on asexuality because it was all humorous,
but to me it wasn't too humorous, and uh, I will explain to you why, um, you may have
seen this back when it came out in 2014.
It was published in Taki's Magazine.
Uh, I don't know if you're familiar with that publication.
I was not really, but uh, you know, other people were saying that this is very typical
for that author.
And he published an article called "Asexuality: It's not just for plants anymore."
Hilarious.
So first I will read you what he wrote, and try not to interject my commentary.
And then I'll go back through it and kind of skim it and read some of the parts that
I wanna talk about, and I'll give you a little summary at the end about why this kind of
thing, even if it's funny, it's, uh, not funny to us and can actually do damage.
So, okay, here's what he wrote.
"Asexuality.
It's not just for plants anymore.
Nay, it is now a designated sexual identity for humans who aren't horny.
But it is much more than merely an individual identity.
Because the Internet makes everything exasperatingly social, asexual individuals now also comprise
a community.
Even more aggravating-- aggravatingly, asexuality is a movement.
It's a moving community.
It's a community that's moving around, not having sex.
It is a living, breathing, moving community of sexually disinterested individuals whose
lack of shared attraction acts like a magnet drawing them all together under the same limp,
dry umbrella.
Members of the asexual movement are quick to distinguish themselves from celibates.
The latter, they argue, are innately horny yet restrain themselves from acting upon their
carnal impulses.
Asexuals, however, simply aren't interested in sex.
Whether that qualifies as a sexual orientation or a sexual disorientation is anyone's guess.
Asexual activists—yes, they exist, and c'mon, if they're not having sex they have to be
active doing something—successfully agitated the American Psychiatric Association to designate
asexuality as a legitimate identity rather than a medical or psychological dysfunction
in the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
They have also gone to great pains to buttress and legitimize their abject absence of libidinousness
and concupiscence with scholarly works such as 1977's pioneering paper 'Asexual and
Autoerotic Women: Two Invisible Groups' and 2008's 'Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating
Identity, Negotiating Desire.'
This month saw the release of a full-length book called The Invisible Orientation: An
Introduction to Asexuality, which will surely become the Mein Kampf of the chronically un-aroused.
The asexual community boasts an absurdly vast pool of resources for individuals who wish
to bond and network with the sexually disinclined.
This past June saw the second annual International Asexuality Conference in Toronto.
Asexual Awareness Week is coming in late October.
There are even asexual dating sites.
And Tumblr—which is ground zero for sexual insanity on the Web, the crossroads where
sexual deviancy and social-justice platitudes converge in one gooey rainbow-colored train
wreck—is a comic gold mine for hysterical asexual sloganeering.
By far the most prominent organization that propagates and disseminates asexual 'awareness'
is the Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN), which was founded in 2001 and hosts
a website that answers Frequently Asked Questions and a forum with over two million posts by
people who'd much prefer to shove cake in their mouths than someone else's genitals.
AVEN even designed an asexual logo—an upside-down triangle with purple piping that tastefully
encases a white-to-black gradient.
Like any community, asexuals have developed their own language.
I've considerately decoded much of the arcane terminology they employ to denote the vast
'asexual spectrum': ACE…shorthand for 'asexual.'
ACEVAGUE…someone who may be asexual as a result of being autistic.
ALLOSEXUAL…those who aren't asexual, otherwise known as 'normal people.'
AROMANTIC…those who don't desire romance, either.
AROVAGUE…someone who may be aromantic as a result of being autistic.
BIROMANTIC…those who desire romantic (but not sexual) relationships with either gender.
CUPIOSEXUAL…an asexual who wishes they were an allosexual.
DEMISEXUAL…an asexual who is able to muster sexual attraction only after first forming
a romantic bond with someone.
GREYSEXUAL…someone who inhabits a space somewhere along the vast spectrum between
asexuals and allosexuals.
PAN-HOMOROMANTIC POLYAMOROUS GREY-ASEXUAL GENDERQUEER…the highly specific sexual self-identifier
of the logo designer.
REPULSED ASEXUAL…someone who is actively disgusted at the very idea of having sexual
contact with someone else.
SQUISH…the platonic form of a romantic crush.
Well, if that list didn't kill your sex drive, I'm not sure what will.
Still, the asexual movement presses forward, fired up by its inability to get turned on.
Once someone has 'come out' as asexual, these sexually inactive activists tend to do what
members of every other allegedly 'oppressed' special-interest identity group does: They
lecture people.
DO NOT call them frigid.
DO NOT call them repressed.
DO NOT call them crazy.
DO NOT assume they were molested.
DO NOT suggest they have a hormonal imbalance.
And DO NOT insinuate that they merely haven't met someone who knows how to properly 'deliver
the groceries.'
Hilariously—because intersectional squabbling among self-designated victim groups is always
hilarious—asexuals have tried noodling their way into the so-called LGBT movement, only
to be rebuffed by many homosexuals, bisexuals, and transsexuals who scoff at the idea that
asexuality is a sexual orientation.
Many traditional 'queers' get their assless leather chaps chafed at asexuals who try to
claim the term 'queer' for themselves, arguing that 'queer' denotes non-hetero manifestations
of human sexuality—emphasis on the 'sexuality.'
Ironically, the asexuals—who refuse to take it in any hole—wind up getting it from all
sides."
Hohoho.
So now I'm gonna go back through it and see if I can pick out the parts that I wanna discuss.
Let's see.
All right.
"It is now a designated sexual identity for humans who aren't horny."
Funny how someone who mocked our need for definitions still isn't getting that right.
"Because the Internet makes everything exasperatingly social, asexual individuals now also comprise
a community."
Translation: It's absurd for people who feel isolated in their everyday lives to form online
communities and, uh, discuss common experiences they've had, right?
"Drawing them all together under the same limp, dry umbrella."
Haha!
Rimshot!
We're not having sex, therefore we're boring and prudish and that's the central facet of
what we're organizing about here.
Let's see.
Okay.
"Asexual activists—c'mon, if they're not having sex they have to be active doing
something."
Because if you're not having sex, there's nothing else to do and no meaning at all in
your life, of course, that's how it works.
So you have to desperately claw at meaning and try to squeeze some kind of meaning out
of your organization surrounding asexuality and ya know, fill the void in your pathetic
life!
So, okay.
I'm pretty familiar people who come onto, like, my channel or you know, quote me somewhere
else to talk about me, and try to say like, asexuality activism is the only thing I do
and it's my whole life and they're saying that based on specifically looking at my theme
channel, or my book, or the asexuality-specific things I've done on blogs.
And I'm thinking, how are you getting the idea that you're gonna see diverse content
in a place that you went specifically to see the asexuality content?
I mean, if you had, if they had any idea, like, how mind-blowingly diverse the things
that I do, even just stuff that I do online, not even stuff that I'm not documenting, like
how many different things I do.
Like, I like to think that they wouldn't claim this is the only thing that I do, but it's
just, it's really funny to me how consistently they will look at, like, a specific slice
of my online presence and then claim that that's the only thing that I do.
Um, and also, like, it's, it's really frustrating when they think it's silly for us to want
to talk about these things, like, that even if that was the only thing that I was doing,
or the major thing that I was doing, or did actually occupy most of my time and attention,
like, helping other people with, like, difficulties surrounding a major aspect of social interaction
in how we communicate in our society?
That's not a useless goal.
So even if it was all I did, it wouldn't be pointless or pathetic.
So, yeah, that's really funny to me.
Okay.
"They successfully agitated the American Psychiatric Association to designate asexuality as a legitimate
identity rather than a medical or psychological dysfunction."
It's hard to tell if, like, he's kinda mocking us there, it seems like, just, the way that
it's framed, he's playing us as if we're a bunch of busybodies, like, quibbling about
something that doesn't really need discussion.
But, you know, like other detractors are always, like, yammering at us about how we don't experience
institutional oppression and, you know, therefore have no business joining forces with other
queer groups and other marginalized sexualities.
Um, but you know, like, thanks to the efforts of the people who did petition those in charge
of making those changes, like, we're not actively considered a disorder by the book that tells
psychologists what is a disorder and what the symptoms are.
So, like, that's not a ridiculous thing for us to have done.
Okay.
Mmm.
I don't wanna talk about this one but I will.
"The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality, which will surely become the
Mein Kampf of the chronically un-aroused."
As if publishing something to increase understanding is in any way comparable to a manifesto by
the world's most famous bigot, where he describes how he incorporated hatred into his politics.
I mean, and he called it a struggle.
Not to mention as a Jewish creator, um, I don't even have words for how disgusting it
is to compare MY BOOK to the writing of HITLER.
Okay.
All right.
Going on.
"And Tumblr—which is ground zero for sexual insanity on the Web, the crossroads where
sexual deviancy and social-justice platitudes converge in one gooey rainbow-colored train
wreck—is a comic gold mine for hysterical asexual sloganeering."
Okay, like, I get that people like to mock Tumblr because it's a young population and
it has a certain culture.
But again, framing our conversations as inherently hilarious is just really shitty.
"Asexuals have developed their own language.
I've considerately decoded much of the arcane terminology."
No, you misrepresented most of our terms and pretended what's funny about your version
is our fault.
"ACEVAGUE…someone who may be asexual as a result of being autistic."
No, I've actually heard this one used by people who want to suggest that they believe their
asexuality is kind of a function of their neurodivergence.
But you know, this guy is using it as an excuse to take potshots at autistic people, because
autistic people are still an acceptable target.
Awesome.
"ALLOSEXUAL…those who aren't asexual, otherwise known as 'normal people.'"
Okay, if you don't understand why "normal people" as a term for the majority is not
acceptable, um, I'm gonna need another time slot to make a video about that.
That would need a whole separate lecture.
Buh buh buh, a few of these are actually not attempting to make a joke out of the definition,
a few of them are wrong but not necessarily in a deliberately gross way.
It's hard to tell sometimes.
Huh.
"Well, if that list didn't kill your sex drive, I'm not sure what will."
Pfft shut up.
"Still, the asexual movement presses forward, fired up by its inabil--inability to get turned
on."
You know, this kind of misrepresentation is frigging everywhere.
Like, that we're organizing about, like, the lack of anything happening in our pants, like,
that that's what we're organizing around.
And it's like, they suggest oh well, there's nothing to organize about if that's what,
you know, it's literally nothing, ho ho ho.
But like, let's say, okay, you're out there protesting against, like, extreme inequalities
that affect you as a low-income person, and like, you're trying to get mainstream attention
for, like, the special difficulties you face because you're in that situation, and then
like, some dipshit rolls on in there, and spotlights your footage on their crappy show
and like, describes it, ho ho, chortling all the way, like "These people made an identity
out of being broke, lol."
And it's like NO, THEY DIDN'T make an identity out of being broke.
THEY CREATED A FORUM TO SHOW YOU, like, all the problems that they're facing and access
solidarity, maybe, through that.
And like, the fact that you have to misrepresent their cause before you can laugh at it should
probably tell you something about whether you should really be laughing at that.
"These sexually inactive activists tend to do what members of every other allegedly 'oppressed'
special-interest identity group does: They lecture people."
Okay, so yeah, make it seem like nobody needs our messages and all of our discussions are,
you know inherently worthless.
But you know, as evidenced by that list that you offered of the supposed definitions and
lecture topics that we could use, this is like, obviously still pretty necessary because,
like, you're not listening.
"Intersectional squabbling among self-designated victim groups is always hilarious."
That is just a really gross sentence.
"Many traditional 'queers' get their assless leather chaps chafed at asexuals who try to
claim the term 'queer' for themselves."
Yeah, make fun of queer people in general and misrepresent their whole community as
if they don't accept us.
Okay, so, I think that's all I'm gonna talk about with like, specific examples pulled
out of the article, but like, some people have said that article's, like, it's harmless
because like it's just snark or it's really the, the problem is us not finding it funny
and not understanding that it's SATIRE.
But the problem with that is that for something to work as satire, the audience, by and large,
has to understand that it's an exaggeration or it's a reversal.
Like, they have to, they have to understand the basics of what you're even talking about
and some of what he said was identical to the things that actual detractors say to us,
so it doesn't work as satire.
Let me tick off some things that they're doing here.
They're misrepresenting us not understanding biology.
Um, they're laughing at us for wanting to organize.
They're mocking our efforts to legitimize our orientation through stuff like talking
to the DSM, um, they shame us with, like, digs about how we have nothing meaningful
in our lives if we're not having sex or our relationships don't look enough like theirs,
and they're spreading misinformation about our ways of talking to each other, um, and
the thing is, they're also using bigger stages than we generally have in our community, like,
occasionally one of us will get on a show or in a documentary or something, but by and
large they have access to bigger megaphones than we do, and they're, they're using those
big stages to say these things, so like, they're teaching that mainstream audience that it's
okay to laugh at us, that it's okay to mock us, that these are the memorable aspects of
us as individuals and us as a community.
And you know, painting us as if we're some kind of fad that came out of Tumblr that's
obsessed with victim mentality, it's like, that still, that damages us even if you're
kidding.
Because there is no way you can still say those things and frame them humorously but
not still make people think that that's what we're about.
And we still don't have the countering mainstream perspectives to make that kinda thing okay.
So like, that's really why I think it's not funny, and you know, I mean, you might chuckle
at one or two things from that because you might've seen it, but the, the overall message
of it felt like we were the joke.
He wasn't making a joke.
We were the joke.
So um, that's kinda my perspective on why that sort of thing was not okay, still is
not okay four years later, and um, you know, I recommend that if anybody is trying to write
satire about asexuality, uh, they might wanna consider you know, whether they're gonna have
a negative impact on us.
Um, so, that's what I have to say about that, and if you will excuse me, I've got a whole
entire life that I have to go to that only involves writing about asexuality and blogging
about asexuality and going out to march in a pride parade carrying the asexual flag,
and like, see if I can find some new ways to be obsessed with asexuality and do nothing
else, so I mean, like all good asexual activists, I've got some lecturing to do.
So I'll see you guys next time.
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「Nightcore」→ Ecstasy「Lyrics」 - Duration: 3:01.
I love you in LA I don't know how you did it
You stole my heart that night
You know just what to say To make me weak in my knees
But I'll be fine
Yeah I'm growing, growing up with you We're rolling, rolling down the hill
And I'm falling, falling hard for you Baby, you're my ecstasy
Only you can give me feels These drugs, they ain't enough
These drugs, they ain't enough They ain't, baby
Only you can give me feels These drugs, they ain't enough
These drugs, they ain't enough They ain't, baby
These drugs, they ain't enough They ain't, baby
I hate you in LA I took too many drinks
You'll never see me cry
I'm gonna walk away You got me poppin' these pills
But I'll be fine
[Lyrics from: https:/lyrics.az/deamn/-/ecstasy.html]
Yeah I'm growing, growing up with you We're rolling, rolling down the hill
And I'm falling, falling hard for you Baby, you're my ecstasy
Only you can give me feels These drugs, they ain't enough
These drugs, they ain't enough They ain't, baby
Only you can give me feels These drugs, they ain't enough
These drugs, they ain't enough They ain't, baby
These drugs, they ain't enough They ain't, baby
Only you can give me feels These drugs, they ain't enough
These drugs, they ain't enough They ain't, baby
Only you can give me feels These drugs, they ain't enough
These drugs, they ain't enough They ain't, baby
Ecstasy You're my ecstasy
Ecstasy You're my ecstasy
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not ALONE at the locomotive shed | HLP - Duration: 13:13.
Warning the audio and video recordings shown by us
can be disturbing for some viewers
the conspirators will...... die
like the alien ufo from aliens
oh no
who want blood from me ?
clarry
there is someone !!!
hello people here is horror lost places we get a hint
that the tower behind me is haunted
and that we watch closer today
here is horror lost places
and we must
get all this extrem of
extrem way down
we get on our maximal limit
wow there it just happend
everything allright ?
what is that ?? clarry
please push lever
this place should be haunted manfred tell us before
there is already something
what is this place ?
there is a little dog house ?
there a little house
and there a briefcase
what is this for a briefcase ?
what ? yes this i mean
that is maybe a thing for glass fiber distribution
fiberglass sleeve dont know what it is
should we knock ? what here ?
there at the door of course
where the demon is living
let us go to the tower
again something
a minion !
and the door look
the demon let himself go here
no keyhole anymore
what are this for
devil
gates
what is that ? a devil
a roller, a kettle ? i dont know
a kettleroller !
kettleroller *laugh*
look at this door
then look at the window next the door
hmm manfred what is the logic of this ?
when the door is closed
we dont get in and must drive home again
this is emergency power, when the cut your power at home
or your cellphone is empty and you are lost
you can go into the shop and buy a powerbank
they are already loaded
so when you open it new
you can use them
they are loaded 70-80%
then you can load your cellphone
if you run into a emergency situation
look there
what are this for halls
people look this go all around
like the alien ufo from aliens
that has the same shape
oh no
manfred when there are aliens inside ?
then we make the first contact !
manfred there stands SFO
what does that all mean ?
you get very much respect if you go inside this building
that is a real lostplace
no boarder
no nation
eule was here
and michi milchmaker
that is a service tube for a train
what is that ? a fridge
how this get here ?
closed
yes that did hurt
people there a mushrooms on the barrel
or eyes that laser ?
intresting
a fire place
look at this bolt
i really like this graffiti
you could print it on a shirt
mike look there it goes into a cellar
ok there are stairs... i already though
there it goes into cellar what is there
extinguisher
dead bodys ?
manfred should we really go down ?
on the limit
come on for the fans
horror lost place till dead or ?
like a cellar room
you want to watch this ?
i dont know
dont think there is much only a room
the alien champer
what
did happen here
here stand dead
people look this room, i cant see the end
echo, hello
people
my flashlight is like nothing
what was this place
a train ...
a train repair station ?
a locomotive shed
people it dont have a ending here
crasy
how many locomotive get in here
20-30 ?
as many that fit into
people there is the end
how this get here
someone can explain ?
what is here
all the glass
get destroyed
did you hear that
mega scary
noises
many the hint was right that this place is haunted
there again
there is a door
ahhh
manfred look
there is somebody
fast lets get away... what was that?
whatever a alien or a tramp
i dont know
what did you see ?
people we must look what we just filmed
hey what was that just before
i look at the video
there ! there is someone
manfred we must go back
that we must see again but it is dangerous
do you think this a good idea
i dont know but for our fans or ?
horror lost places till dead, lets find out
we go back !
there a sleeping place
and a fire barrel
ok we just watch it on the camera
there is no other exit then this
whatever it was, it must be here
here
look here
that looks like we see on the camera
was it really a contact ?
there stands
i want blood
who want my blood ? vampire aliens
there is no exit here
all windows are closed
maybe just a tramp ?
maybe there upstairs
or this way
oh manfred look there
an emergency exit
but
we dont go inside there ... im to fat
me too... whatever it was
now its away
the conspirators will
die
will die
HC ! that i see already outside on the tower
oh no who is HC?
do it have anything to do with WKG
i dont know really strange here
here is horror lost places we just were at
this strange alien station
i dont know what it really was
who could find nothing inside only what you watch with us
maybe something escape down the shaft
whatever it was now its gone
what... what is there
oh god the alien
hi clarissa
we just
prank you
why you look into my pockets?
should we find the paranormal
at the alien station
lets find out
yes we buy now coffee
yes
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Q & A on the Decentering of Whiteness | Andrew T. Draper and Erin Dufault-Hunter - Duration: 19:05.
The material that you're about to listen to and engage with came from our 2017 missiology lectures,
when myself, along with my colleague, Johnny Ramirez Johnson, said
we need to do this next 2017 Missiology Lectures on this topic of race, theology, and mission.
And we invited Dr. Love Sechrest to engage with us in that process.
We wanted to explore the challenging questions regarding racism
and ethnocentrism and xenophobia and all of those issues from the perspective of
world Christianity with regard to how these realities have existed in many parts of the world
and also as part of the colonial mission endeavors.
It is fascinating to think that the realities we were talking about are not the
experiences of one individual or even one society.
We're talking about whiteness as a way of defining the world.
And the conference and the conference presenters addressed time and again this epistemology;
this way of making meaning. It has also been described as colonization and post colonization.
The question is not about guilt; it's about engagement; it's about what
are we going to do with what we have inherited. So the fact that we're having
a conversation should not point a finger at you as a listener or viewer.
But these are hard conversations the conversation about race is one that has been deferred
for so long and so often over and over again. As soon as we get close to having
a meaningful conversation about race we recoil from the pain of it.
And so in our lectures there you'll see some of that pain emerge; you'll see some people
who have long experienced racism express and declare and name experiences
that they have had that have been deeply formative, de-formative even.
So this conversation is not a pretty one, but we're having it.
As observers, as listeners you will be engaging, and we invite you to invite the Holy Spirit.
The three of us pray a lot about this series. We humbly submitted it to God
and pleaded for God's mercy to lead us. We are feeble and combined we are
imperfect and we have prayed that the Lord will fill the gaps.
And the conversation is only a starter; it is in your hands; it is in your community;
it is in your family and most importantly, it is on your knees.
Andrew, I want to give you the opportunity to comment on the response that you got from Erin.
Yes, that...
It was me.
Very artistically done, nicely put together, thoughtful.
The piece of the puzzle that hit home for me at a very visceral level was the piece of it where the demon is saying:
If you can entrench white folks in a sort of circularity of self, they will be moved out of connection to the love of the enemy, who in this case would be the Father.
And there is something beautiful about recognizing that you are simply human, that allows you to accept grace as an extreme gift, to be a dog at the table, to get the crumbs.
You know kinda of, I don't care what you call me Jesus, so as long as you call me.
So I thought that was really special, really powerful, really nicely put together so, thank you so much.
Well I've gotten a few questions here and they're really all over the map so I don't have an opportunity to kind of describe themes.
Here's one that seems to key off of the title: If the end of mission is the decentering of whiteness, wouldn't that also be the end of Christianity?
(off microphone) Say that again?
If the end of mission, right that's the title, if the end of mission is the decentering of whiteness wouldn't that also be the end of Christianity?
I'm misunderstanding whether the question is asking if Christianity would be ended by whiteness being decentered or if mission is it,
so in other words, number one, mission was in quotation marks in the title so I'm not by any means suggesting that Christians do not have...
That's just the text...let me um, yea...
I'm sorry...
Those quotes were not on your title.
Oh the quotation marks weren't on it.
Let me, you know what, Andrew, let me read more of the question because that might help, I think:
If whiteness is genealogically rooted in Christian supersessionism, it would seem that to truly discentral whiteness would require a negation of Christianity at least in its materially existing form,
so tearing down the idol is good but what ends does that serve if the idol producing factory remains intact?
And here's the end that was probably the most helpful thing,
perhaps we need the Jews to truly show us how to decentral mission.
That's good, that's where I would recommend Mark Kinzer's book and my conversations with him about bilateral ecclesiology in solidarity with Israel.
In other words that if we encourage or require, by Gentile Christians we require, Jewish brothers and sisters who are part of our congregations to sort of live like Gentiles
or encourage that adherence to Torah is works, righteousness or whatever the case might be,
that we are removing what distinguishes in a religious, in a particular, and in the sense of a people
and then the assimilation of Judaism to Christianity which is supersessionism mirrors the assimilation of black bodies to whiteness.
Erin, would you like to jump in on that one, no, let's leave that one alone, okay...
Here's one and this uh...this is a response, if it, I don't know if it's, okay I can do this cuz I'm...I got the mic, don't I ?
I want to read the comment, the question for this, for your presentation, but there's a previous one in the same stream,
it was from Thursday but it, they connect in some way so I want to get both of them out here.
This is directly to Erin:
Isn't Erin white? Why is she saying "they"? Is Trayvon Martin really a good example or is it knee-jerk?
Is there anyone here to defend whites? It sounds like prejudice if all whites are all privileged and also stupid.
Right so, what might have been missed, is that I was reading a letter not my own, right, so I'm talking about "they" talking about me.
So let me presume to talk about white people and evangelicals because I am one and I claim that title,
and we can talk about whether we should or not,
but I am seen as white and I think that the demonic does take us for fools.
I wasn't being...and I should say this, I don't know if you're aware of Michelle Alexander and the new Jim Crow,
and part of what Alexander has come to terms with is that there's a spirituality about the ravages of race and violence in this country,
and she doesn't mean that, and I don't think that Du Bois meant that, in some kind of ethereal hyper-safe spiritualized way.
I believe the demonic is real, so I don't think that this is baloney, that the New Testament is just like, well...they didn't really know what they're talking about, and that the spiritual is physical.
I don't believe there's a separation of those, right?
So, when I'm talking...I think the demonic, however we understand, that the demonic does want to devour us.
I mean it lives and feeds off of our activities and our very bodies. It lives off our institutions.
So I understand some of what Alexander to be trying to do is to say, cast out the demon! Right?
Don't just pretend it's about cleaning up the house of law because that's my, that's my objection to limiting our imagination to keep going back to the civil rights movement.
I don't know if you know this but we are more segregated now,
we are more segregated now, in where we live, where we go to school, who we work with, who our friends are, than we were in 1970.
So, hello...it didn't work, but what a triumph for the demonic, right, that we would look back to that and go, gosh, if we can only have 1968 back!?
No! As Christians we should know that there is good in that, there is a purpose in that but there is also a demonic casting out that must happen.
It must begin with us, we must begin to address that in our own churches, in our own lives, in our habits of heart and mind, and what we want.
And if we don't do that, I just think we, I mean I was writing it from the demons perspective, right.
In general, I think we don't actually believe in the demonic, we don't take seriously,
and I find that ironic when we talk about race because if there's any place that I know the demonic exists, it is the more I know about how racists function, right?
I mean to listen to Willie Jennings speak and to go, that is the demonic, the Prince of Darkness who owns this world, right.
I mean if you want to go into John and all that, right. There's a reason we have those texts. So that's my...sorry...
Thank you so much.
(audience applause)
I was just channeling Andrew cuz everybody else got to preach, you know...
Andrew I'm gonna...I want to put the second part of this question cuz they're dealing with the same tough issues.
I'm gonna give you a different version of it though and it's under the category of reverse racism,
like this may strike some as reverse racism...and Erin chose to engage it from the perspective of deception,
but how would you engage that --well, like that problem,
That's great so, it's important to distinguish language of white particularity from whiteness.
It's important to distinguish individuality from systems, and again that is not a self justifying move,
it's a move to say that multiple times in the paper, I tried to signal not a, "all white people are 'x',"
but rather that a focus on justifying ourselves and our intentions is antithetical to the gospel or it participates with the demonic.
So in other words, when a person of color utilizes symbols of, for instance black pride or black lives matter or whatever the linguistic formulation might be,
it is a statement of resistance against dehumanizing forces that categorize people according to a racialized logic.
So, decentering whiteness does not, it's not the same move.
You're talking to...when you're talking to whiteness or about whiteness as the demon is doing in Erin's paper,
you are speaking about a system of power, a structure that had to be learned.
As Jennings mentioned last night, it is maturity, it is progress, the myth of human progress,
and so I was trying to carefully distinguish those things in the paper but unfortunately,
many times it feels like white folks cannot hear words about whiteness or white privilege or whatever the case might be without just being so hurt personally.
There's the sense of white fragility where it's sort of like you know nobody was looking at you one-on-one and saying I think that everything about you is evil, racist and disgusting.
No, we're talking about a system and structure here that in which, that historically we've encapsulated the world in this way of of seeing things,
and that needs to be called idolatry, it needs to be called demonic, right, like anything less is not truthful, it's not honest and it's not prophetic.
Okay, so I'll say two quick things:
One is, part of my gentle push back against Andrew that's in my paper is, I'm not sure that decentering whiteness is a good idea,
because I think it sometimes presumes, gives whiteness too much, right.
So...I'm sort of trying to play with that while still recognizing whiteness, this is our double bind, right.
When I say that, I'm almost forced into a corner, right, because now I'm denying the power of whiteness right,
and if I do that, I've excluded myself from a certain kind of conversation.
The other thing I want to say about reverse racism is I have a white son and the other alternative was actually to write a letter to him,
because my son at 10, 11, 12 years old, that's when he he began to hear in social media about white boys, white men.
At 10, 11, or 12 years old this also makes not a lot of sense to him because a lot of his friends are not white and some are, some aren't, right,
but he thinks he's beyond racism, right. Bless him.
But what he's picking, but what he's picking up, is that something about him is terribly wrong,
and at 10,11, 12, 13, 14 years old...is he privileged? Yeah! But does he get that? No!
How is he gonna get that, right? How can his 10 year old, 11 year old, 12 year old brain get that?
But what he hears, is that there's something about which he cannot change, right, I mean black folk and brown folk understand this right,
but I'm a mother who's watching my son take this in,
and that's part of why I'm writing this to say I don't want my son to be defined by whiteness.
I don't want his relationships, his loves, his passions, to be defined by whiteness.
I don't want him to be seen as white, not in that way, and I would give anything for him to have a different life,
just like September Penn, who's the woman I was talking about, who told her story,
just like September doesn't want to have to worry about her son's walking to the store, right,
and that's what worries me about whiteness, as a mother,
and I married a big white guy too so I mean there's that, I'm not as worried about him right,
but I worry a lot about young white boys, as well as September's black boys, as well as Jillian (inaudible) nephew's, right.
So that's why whiteness disturbs me and why I feel like it's got us in this double bind.
We don't know how to break out of a recognition of its power and acknowledging it.
This is what I thought was genius about what Jonathan was trying to do in his paper, right, staying out of the fertility of the past.
Aquinas says even God does not change the past, God redeems the past.
God makes a new creation out of crap and that's what we have to figure out how to do,
and whiteness constrains that and says you cannot imagine something beyond what I created in the 1400s and damn you if you do.
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