 Let's check it out, let's see, we are live on Twitch, we should be going live on SensorTube and we're live on SensorTube and Rumble should kick in within the next few seconds. Nice, and we'll wait until notifications go out, until Rumble kicks in, checking the sound because we're recording on a lapel mic and hopefully we're gonna have a nice chill stream because today's Monday morning and we're doing book readings. Let's see, SensorTube is in, Twitch is in, and we're just waiting on Rumble. Fun, you had a good stream yesterday. Map stream, yeah, and Rumble has kicked in. Hi everyone, this is Chicho. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another live stream. Today, today is November 6th, 2023. Macman salutations, hope you're doing well on SensorTube, Bronson maniac on SensorTube, good afternoon, good afternoon and everyone and Keanu Weaver on SensorTube. Hey Chicho, how are you doing well? Thank you very much. SensorTube people kicked in right away today, way earlier than what do you call it, Twitch and Rumble kicked in. Eagles and cycling, salutations, hi from SensorTube, salutations to SensorTube and we got pork cooked, pork cooked salutations from Twitch. KittyCats were sleeping and they just woke up and I didn't open the door to the patio. Viya's gonna go crazy, I might have to take a little walk away and open that patio door for him. Alert, God, 6th November 2023. Let's read, let's read. Yeah, I'm Chicho. Today is the 6th of November and we're gonna continue doing our book readings, right? We've read nine books so far. We picked 21 to read. We do a little mathematics, we've got 12 more to go, right? Microtwist, politics, let's keep it on politics. On yesterday's stream, we talked a tremendous amount of politics and I'm uploading a ton of politics videos, little short segments right now and we do have political readings here left so maybe we'll do political readings, temporary peace, salam brother, salam from Rumble, salutations, Louis on SensorTube, SensorTube gang, SensorTube gang, anti-socialist behavior, salutations on Twitch, MTL beat, salutations, very nice sweater, thank you, I got two of these. This is my fall-winter sweater, right, wear these two a lot. When one's dirty being washed, waiting to get washed, and I bring out the other one where it's just cozy, it's great for reading. Wow, this is like a research reading sweater, right, so fantastic, fantastic. Gang, I'm gonna do my little quick little intro thing as you get here and then we're gonna get into the readings because let's lose ourselves in some literature, right? Gang, we're on Patreon, Substack, SubscribeStar, you're definitely welcome to join us there, you can definitely support the work on those platforms and for those of you that are supporting this work on those platforms and more, on Gilded, on SensorTube, on Rumble, on Bichute, on Odyssey, on Twitch. Gang, thank you very much for the support. It is in large part because of your support that we're able to do what it is that we are doing. Plutonic Plurus, hi, I'm gonna work, we'll join later. Awesome Plutonic Plurus, enjoy your work. The video will be up. I'm not gonna, I was making these videos private when we were uploading to Rumble. When we were just doing Twitch, they were available on Twitch for two weeks to watch the full live streams and then when we were uploading to Rumble, I was making them private because I wanted to release everything in one shot, but now that we're uploading to Twitch, Rumble, on Odyssey, live stream on all three platforms, I'm not making them private. I might reload them up as videos. These platforms are doing weird things. They're making a distinction between live streams and videos uploads, so you'll be able to watch these live streams. I'm not gonna make them private anymore right off the bat on Rumble, SensorTube, on and on Twitch. Ryan F. SensorTube, he says on Rumble. Temper please, glad I'm able to make this live. I'll need to re-watch yesterday's. I hope it was a juicy one. It was a juicy one, Temporary Peace. It was very juicy, very juicy. Pretty heavy, pretty heavy, but needed to be, needed to be dealt with, really. Needed to be dealt with. Gang, we are recording this on all the lapel mic. I hope I pressed button. I did press the record button on the lapel mic, so this audio will be available on soundcloud.com slash chicho as a podcast, and it should be available in your favorite podcasting platform. We're on Twitter, we're on Mines, we're on Mines, VK, Gap, Getter and Substack Notes. You can definitely follow the work there. And again, gang, thank you very much for the support and a huge thank you to the mods for having our backs, being here, taking care of business on all of these platforms and Gilded, where we're sharing a lot of information. Salute gang, welcome to our live stream and our community. That intro done. Let's take these guys down and get into some readings. Nice and chill. Let's see if we're going to lose ourselves in some writings. Let's see if we're going to lose ourselves in some writings. Oh yeah, let me do a count. I like doing a count right off the bat. Oh, we only got, well, that can't be correct. We got, it says we only got one on Rumble, but I already know we got at least three on Rumble. So it says we got six people, five, seven people on Sensor 2. We got supposed to be 15 people on 16 people. That will slowly go up. I'm assuming once notifications go out on Twitch and we're still one on Rumble, but definitely the count is wrong there, I think. Micro twos, the fifth of November. Yeah, the live stream is up on Sensor 2. We didn't cut the stream on Sensor 2. So if you go to the live section on Sensor 2, it's there. It's on Rumble. You can watch it there. And it's on Twitch. It was a good live stream. Needed to be done. Needed to be done. Anti-social behavior. Yeah, we covered it. Remember, remember, the fifth of November, indeed. One strong, temporary peace, one strong. Well, it's got to be more than one, because I'm on there and temporary peace, you're on there. And Ginger, no, this isn't Ginger. And we know Ryan is on Rumble as well. So that's three, but Rumble says one, so the count is off. This is actually water with electrolytes. Electrolytes and water. So I was extremely busy last week. So I'm doing a little replenishing of electrolytes and what not. Salute gang. And I have my tea as well. Always have my tea. Almost always have my tea. And I got apples. I'm eating apples. I'm eating apples a lot lately. It's good. Oh my god. It's so early tonight. I just popped up for my evening snooze. Nice. I like afternoon snoozes. Anti-social behavior. Conclusion. Chicho, stop the steal. Rumble is compromised. Possibly. Possibly. And we're not attached to any platform. I tell you the truth, I really like Bichu. I watch a lot of my videos if the content creator is there. I watch them on Bichu. I do enjoy no walnuts today. Ryan on Rumble. And I don't know if Rumble is compromised. Some people say it is. Some people say it's not. For me, they've treated us well enough. And I appreciate that. I just don't want to be abused as a content creator. As a human being, I don't want to be abused. SensorTube abuses its creators. Abuses people. Like, by the way gang, I'll give you heads up on this. Last few videos I've loaded up. We're getting a fair bit of views. The live stream as well as the little shorts I'm loading up, right? So we're getting into the top end of the views we usually hit. And SensorTube puts a cap on it so soon as we hit a certain number, they reduce it again, right? But one thing I've noticed is SensorTube is shadow banning. Censoring a lot of comments. Like on all sides, right? I stopped going to where it says moderation needs to be approved or something like this. I forget what it's called. I stopped going there, but because we're getting a lot of views on some of these videos, I went, let's see what's in there. What's SensorTube's censoring? And I went in there. I couldn't believe the number of comments that were censoring. I might have approved one. I didn't bother approving the rest. It doesn't matter, right? I mentioned that I wasn't going to moderate that anymore. But one person had commented testing shadow banning and I mentioned, and I just commented. I think I said, yeah, I'm not banning you. It's SensorTube. Like, that's what it is. And it's the comments that were being banned or put on a bad list by SensorTube, they were pro-Palestinian, pro-Israeli, neutral, people who didn't care, who were talking about different things. Tons, right? So anybody that's on SensorTube, if you're wondering if your comment is being shared or not, it's out of my control. If I see certain things, then I do comment. But there's a lot of stuff that is, even from members or members who are following us and have been a long time subscribers to my channel on SensorTube, they're being blocked. Just so you know. Just so you know. On SensorTube, Keanu, hey Chicho, I have a personal situation regarding my career that I want your opinion on. Can I start started with you? Keanu, come to our Gilded Server. I'll definitely help you out there, give you my feedback on it. If it's really quick that I can comment right now, I will. But if it's something more intricate, then and it's not bad to get an opinion from other people as well. There's a lot of great people we have on our Gilded Server that come from different walks of life, who have had experience beyond my experience and beyond my knowledge, right, beyond my lens, right, perspective, reality tunnel. However we want to think about it, right? So put it up to our community. We have a question or section or go to general. There's got to be a folder there and people have asked questions before regarding jobs and careers and stuff like this. And people chime in. Why not? It's always good to have different perspectives, right? As a friend of mine that used to always say, two heads are better than one. There's always something someone else knows that you do not know. Okay, usually a lot more than just one. Okay, let me take this down. Let me bring the chat back up. Plague worship high. She showed, hope you're doing well. I finally catch one of the live streams. Aha, right on, right on. Salutations. Ryan and Rumble, hmm, perhaps I should join the Gilded server. The Gilded server is really good, man. Again, I like it. It's the first place I go to in the mornings. One of the first places I go to, I check my email and the Gilded server to see, you know, news and stuff like this. Messages and whatnot. So it's pretty good. Lark Bark on sensor too. What you doing over there, brother? What other one in Gicho? Awesome. A steal of Lord of Iron. Lord of Iron. Salutations. Thank you very much for the Twitch Prime sub. Subscribe for 12 months. Greetings from Switzerland. Greetings, greetings, brother. Greetings, greetings. Elder God, I hope Auntie was joking. I don't know, Auntie. What was Auntie saying? Evening to the conclusion. Of course, EG. Auntie, Auntie. I don't know what Auntie was saying. Who's Auntie? What's going on? Temporary fees, 100. Special bonus this week for Anja. Did you guys see that? $3,500, $3,500 load. Money, money. $3,500 load. Really? Okay, gang, let's get to some readings. Let's get to some readings. That's the 15 minutes of intro. It's good. Zara salutations. Hope you're doing well on sensor too. I'm still on sensor too because having my mouth taped shot is a personal kink of mine. Dralax, first time chat, salutations. Hope you're doing well. Welcome to our live stream on Twitch. And gang, do not forget, do not forget. Free Assange, Free Assange, Free Assange. Julien Assange is a publisher and journalist that is being crucified for trying to bring transparency and accountability of capitalist power to humanity. Something that we desperately, desperately need in our societies. For more information, see wikileast.org, defend.wikileast.org, or countless resources available online. Let me bring this back up again. Oh, where's my scent? Hold on a second. What's going on here? Come to the server. Yeah, Heligastown Riot to come to the server. Okay, gang, let me tell you what we've read so far. So, grab 21 books, right? So far, this is the stack that we've read and we've got the rest of the numbers in here, right? So we've got 12 numbers in here. Lord of Iron can stay long but want to drop in and say hi to everyone. Hope everyone is safe and doing well. Thank you very much for dropping in. Lord of Iron on Twitch. Gang, we've read book number six. Book number six is God's Equation. Okay, we've read book number 14. Book number 14 is the Tower of the Eaching. Okay, we've read book number 15. We've read book number 15 is Wilhelm Reichenhall, right? I'm not pulling them out because we want to get to the new readings, right? We've read book number seven. Book number seven was Gorvidal's perpetual wolf or perpetual peace. We read book number five. Book number five was Dragonwing, Margaret Wise and Tracy Hickman, right? The Deathgate cycle. Ten Genjin. I don't know what that means. Ten gang, ten gang. Book number 21. Complete Golden Dawn. Book number two, Mere Christianity was C.S. Lewis. Book number nine, The Real Anthony Fauci by J.F. Gate Jr. And book number 10, Beyond the Green Zone by Darjumal, right? So those are the ones we've read. Let's pull these up, put them on the side because we're going to put them back in the in the hat again after we've done the reading, right? Bronson, Maniac, Heichi, Cho, Han, Sensor II. Do you have any book recommendations that are similar to perpetual war for perpetual peace, similar to perpetual? If you want a heavier read that's more domestic oriented, but it does have a little bit of foreign policy involved in it, is Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco's Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco and we've read excerpts from it as well, right? Depressing, depressing. And it was a few years ago and it's predicting what is happening or documenting what is happening with the collapse of the western world. That's specifically related to the United States economically, right? So perpetual war for perpetual peace. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, fast read. Perpetual war for perpetual peace, long read, but it also has Joe Sacco's comic book journalist. He really coined the term comic book journalism with his graphic novels Gaza, Palestine, with his graphic novel Palestine really. He coined the term comic book journalism, right? And Palestine, gang, and he came up with that book. When was I have it here? Where is it? Maybe I don't have it here. It could be in one of my boxes. No, I must be here. Where is it? I haven't pulled it out for a long time because it's really depressing. I haven't read the whole thing. I've read about a third or quarter of it and it's so depressing. So depressing. And you can look at the situation right now and what's going on in the Middle East. Where is it? Oh, here it is right there. This book. Okay, Palestine. Joe Sacco. Okay, Palestine. This was put out a long time ago. First printing, 2001. So 22 years ago. I thought it was in the 90s actually, but 21 years ago. Okay, so 21 years ago he wrote Palestine. Like literally, I haven't finished this because it's just it's just deep. And Joe Sacco as I've read, I don't know, three or four of his graphic novels, right? Very good. What do you call it? The letters from anyway, I forget the name of it. The one about Yugoslavia, Sarajevo. Sarajevo was really good. But I couldn't get through this. I was just like, oh man, it was breaking your heart. So I've only read about a quarter of it. But he's the artist. Days of destruction, days of revolt. And I read all of that. And it was very good. Very good. Highly recommend. Highly recommend. Okay gang, let's pull a number. Let's pull a number and read excerpts from one of these books. What number we're going to pick gang? What number we're going to pick? What number we're going to pick? What number are we? Oh, hell to god, you rock on rumble. The window from Palestine somewhere just these far to whatever. Yeah, whatever. Put those two books on the buy list. Okay, awesome. I hope you enjoyed the press. They are depressing. Nine, nine, nine. We already read number nine. Number nine was Anthony Fauci's. Oh my god. Baseman on Twitch. Hope all are doing well. So happy for the stream today. Me too. Me too. Gang, I'm pulling a number. No numbers coming in. I'm pulling a number. I'm pulling a number. What do we got? What do we got? Number eight. Number eight. What's number eight? What's number eight? Oh, this is a book I haven't read. This is a book I haven't read. We never make mistakes. We never make mistakes. Noble prize winning author of the first circle and cancer ward. I haven't. Sorry, it's 19. It's always 19. I haven't read anything from this writer. Okay. It's, I've known about this writer. Okay. And I've heard he does amazing writing. Translated by Russian by Paul W. Blackstock. Two short novels. So, gang, what page should we read? Random moose brains on Twitch. Salutations. Salutations. What page should we read, gang? What page should we read? What page should we read? While you think about it, I'm just going to read the back cover. Okay. Alexander Solosensky, the Nobel Prize winning author of the first circle and cancer ward, first published these two works in the January 1963 issue of the Sylvia Library Magazine. Novi Mir, which also first published his one day in the life of Ivan, I've heard about this, Ivan Dinozovich. Ivan Dinozovich, the book that catapulted him to world attention. Now translated into English and published in paperback for the first time, we never make mistakes, comprises two powerful short novels that further confirm Solosensky's plays in the tradition of the great Russian novelists. In quote, in accident at VK station, and quote, Red Army Lieutenant, Velisy, the name, I'm going to brutalize all these names, man, Velisy, this Lychik Sotov is confronted at his World War II rail junction command with the problem of a of a disturbing army strangler. The young lieutenant's decision and the events leading up to it are presented with the same attention to realistic detail and a quiet emotional impact of one day in the life of Ivan Dinozovich. In Matrono's Matryono's house, Solosensky portrays an old peasant woman who lives in her isba with a goat, a lame cat, and numerous mice. Matryono's tenacious and humorous struggle against cold hunger and greedy relatives are predicted with unsparing honestly told by a young man who after her death finally understands who she was. Right? Who she was. Oh, thank you. A key watchers. Give me the right pronunciation. Sol Zen Nizd in. Sol Sol Sol Zen Nizd in. Sol Zen Nizd in. Sol Nizd in. Sol Nizd in. Sol Nizd in. Sol Nizd in. Sol Nizd in. Sol Nizd in. Sol Nizd in. Sol Nizd in. Sol Nizd in. Sol Nizd in. Sol Nizd in. Elgar's coming in with page 38. Let's go to page 38. We're going to read this. Squishy guy, Chishol, your stream is perfectly timed. Just got done with a uniform inspection and they effed me up for missing a spot shaving. Oh no. Hello Lucas and welcome Lucas Palm to first time chat. Nizd in. Nizd in. Ah, nice. Thank you, Pathfinder. Sol is in. Nizd in. Man, I'm getting all my stomachs sensitive. Pathfinder. Sol is in. Nizd in. Sol. Sol Zen Nizd in. Sol. Sol Zen Nizd in. Sol Zen Nizd in. Gang, let's go to page 38 and page 38 is from the first. So, page 38 is going to be from the first story. Okay. As an incident at Kretchatovka station. Okay. Hula Milk Boy on Twitch. Oh my god on Twitch. It's like Chishol in Russian. I'm afraid. Me too. Page 38 gang, let's go to page 38. Let's go see if there's a break here where we can start off at a good place. Yeah, it doesn't look like there are any sort of segment breaks in this. So, okay, let's start it from here. I'm starting from midway, midway from page 37. Okay. It looks like it might be a good place to start, right? So we do, I'm going to read a few pages. Hopefully there isn't too many crazy words, Russian words in this. Okay. So, an incident at Kretchatovka station by Sol Zen Nizd in. Sol so Nizd in. Alexander Sol so Nizd in from the book. We never make mistakes. And this is the first story in incident at Kretchatovka station starting at page, in the middle of page 37. But this was impossible. Although it wasn't really bothering him, he straightened his collar with the red square on the green tab and adjusted his glasses. No, Volia, I won't go anywhere else. However, our work is waiting for us. What are we sitting here talking for? He put his cap back on his head, whereupon the expression on his, on his open, nub-nosed face became very serene. The girl looked at him, solemnly, and agreed. Well, all right. She sighed, with great difficulty, she raised herself from her, her leaning position and holding the list in her hand went out. He blinked, confused and perplexed. Maybe if she would come back and ask him once more, firmly he would agree. But she didn't come back. Zoltov couldn't explain to anyone why he lived in a poorly heated, grimy isba with the old woman and her three grandchildren and slept on the short, hard, uncomfortable chest. The enormous, cruel mob in the barracks where he lived in 1941 laughed at him on the few occasions when he said that he loved his wife and would remain true to her during the entire war and that he hadn't completed and he had complete confidence in her too. His practical-minded friends all laughed wildly, patted him on the shoulder and advised him not to waste himself. Since then, he had never spoken to anyone about this, but he was very lonely, especially when he woke up in the dark in the dark of the night and thought about his wife and about how things were for her there, far, far away, awaiting the birth of his child and under the German occupation. But it was not because of his wife that he refused Volia. It was because of Pauline. Not only because of Pauline either, but because of he really didn't know. Pauline, a dark, short-haired woman from Kiev with a dull, lustless face, was the one who lived with Antfrosia and worked at the post office. Whenever he had time, Vasily would go to the post office and read the latest newspapers. The bundles were always a few days late. He would frequently read the news in all the papers, not in just one or two. Certainly, the post office was not a library and nobody was obligated to allow him to read, but Pauline understood how he felt and always brought the newspapers to the end of the counter where he stood in the cold and red. As with Zoltov, so also was Pauline. The war was not an incessant swing of an ever-moving wheel. Rather, it touched the vital center of her life now and for all future time. In order to guess what the future might hold, Pauline would open the newspaper anxiously and with trembling hands and would reach for bits of news that would tell her how the war was progressing. They often read together and showed each other the most important places in the news. For both of them, these newspapers replaced the letters which neither ever ever received. Pauline read carefully through all the reports of military episodes, trying to guess if her husband had been involved. On advice from Zoltov, she even read the articles about machine gun and tank tactics in Red Star, the army newspaper, wrinkling her smooth forehead over them. Vasily read aloud to her, excitedly, articles by Ilya in Rinburg. Sometimes he asked Pauline if he could clip some articles for himself from papers that were not delivered. He fell in love with Pauline, her child and her mother, in a way that people who have never known misfortune cannot understand. He always brought some sugar from his own rations for her little son. During all the times that they read the newspapers together, he never once dared touch her pale hands, not because of her husband, nor because of his wife, but because of the sacred grief that united them. Pauline was the person closest to him in Kretsch, Tovka, No. On this side of the entire front, she represented the eyes of his conscience and his truth. How could he go to live with Valya? What would Pauline think of him? Even without Pauline, he could not have casually consoled himself with any woman when everything he loved was in danger of being lost. It was also not easy to admit to Valya and to the lieutenants on the shift that there were evenings when he read a particular book, the only one which he had taken from some library during his bustling travels that year, and which he always carried with him in his duffel bag. The book was the thick blue first volume of Carl Marx's capital, printed on the rough paper of the 1930s, which had turned dark with age. During all the five years of his student days, he had dreamt of reading this most desirable book. More than once, he got it out of the institute library, and I tried to make a synopsis of it. He kept the book out by the semester, by the year, but there was never any time. There were always meetings to attend, social burdens, and examinations. Without having finished the single page of his summary, he returned the book at the time of the June examinations. Even when they were studying political economy, the best time to read capital, the teacher talked him out of it, saying, quote, you'll drown in it, end quote. Instead, he advised him to use lapitos as a textbook, and to take notes from the lectures. Really, there was not time for anything else. Now in the autumn of 1941, in the glow of great anxiety, Zoltov could find time here in this hole for capital. So he did, went off duty in hours spared from his general education, or from district party committee tasks. In his quarters at Avdev's house in the living room, which was filled with phylendron and aloe, he sat at a rickety little table. He read by the light of a kerosene lamp. A small diesel engine wasn't adequate to provide power for all the houses in the settlement, stroking the rough rough pages with his fingers. He read it the first time, his comprehension, the second for mark, marketing and underscoring, marking and underscoring, and the third for a rapid summary, trying finally to get it all through his head. The worse the news from the war became, the more he buried himself in the thick blue book. Vasily thought that if he could assimilate everything in just this one volume and memorize all of it in an orderly fashion, he would be invincible, invulnerable, and could not be overcome in any ideological skirmish. But there were few such hours and few such evenings. He made notes on only a few pages because Antonio Ivanovva got in the way. She, too, was living at Avdev's house, having come from Lysok and remaining there in Krzysztovakka. She soon became the manager of a dining room. She was very enterprising and such a boxum and strong woman that there wasn't much scandal connected with her dining room. As Zotov later found out, in exchange for one ruble, she covered the bottom of a clay bowl with hot gray, greaseless water in which a few noodles were swimming. For a deposit of another ruble, those who didn't want to drink all this out of the bowl could use a crocked wooden spoon. For herself, Antonio Ivanovva would tell Avdev to set up the samovar and then would bring bread and fresh butter to her host's table. She couldn't have been more than 25 years old, but had the appearance of a mature woman with her blonde hair combed straight back from her face. She always greeted the lieutenants warmly and cordially. He answered her absentmindedly and for a long time thought she was a near relative of the owner of the house. Leaning over his volume, he didn't hear her returning late from work and didn't notice that she kept walking through his living room, which gave access to her own bedroom, from there to the owner's room and back again to her own. Suddenly she came up to him and asked, What are you always reading, comrade lieutenant? He covered the volume with his notebook and answered her reluctantly. On another occasion she asked, What do you think? Isn't it dangerous for me to leave my door unlocked at night? Zoltok answered her, What's there to be afraid of? I'm here with my pistol. Again, a few days later, sitting over his book, he realized that the walking back and forth had ceased as if she had left her room. He looked up and was dumbfounded. Right there in his room, she had fixed herself a place to sleep on the the van and was already lying down with her hair falling over the pillow and her bare white shoulders uncovered. He stared at her and didn't quite know what to do. I'm not disturbing you here, am I? She asked with a little laugh. Vasily got up and his wits end. He had already started to walk rapidly toward her, but stopped at the sight of her fat, thievish face. It revolted him. He couldn't speak. His throat tightened with revulsion. He turned, closed the volume of capital, found the time and strength to put it back in his duffel bag, and rushed over to get his cap and coat which were hanging on a nail. On the way he took off his belt, which was cumbersome with his pistol on it, and carrying it in his hand dashed out the door without a backwards glance. He went out into the pitch black darkness. Not even a glimmer of light could be seen. Neither from the masking paper covered windows nor from the darkly overcast sky, and the cold autumn wind still whipped and lashed at as it had all day. Stumbling through puddles, holes and mud, Vasily turned into a side entrance of the station, not realizing at first that he was still carrying his belt and pistol. He sieved with such helpless resentment that he almost wept as if carried away by the dark stream of his emotions. This continues really nicely. Nice read. I don't want to read anymore on this because I'm getting lost in it, which is great, but we're supposed to be reading excerpts. What a nice read. What a nice read. Aside from the names that are stumbling me, it flows beautifully. And we went to page, by the way, we went to page 42, almost at the end of page 42. Okay, almost at the end of page 42. Bronson Maniac left the censored tube string, figured this was the better platform to support from alongside Rumble. Indeed, thank you very much. Dr. P, greetings, greetings. Alla God, you've read this. Fantastic read, gang. Nice read. I really liked it. This was number eight. This was number eight. Fun. Fun. Let's read another excerpt. And it's an easy read. And it's an easy read. Alla God, a straggler, a person, or animal that is last in a group to do something or the last to get, get to or leave. Fennec 628. Hi, Chicho. Glad to finally catch a live stream. Cheers from Alberta. Cheers, brother. Salutations, neighbor. Elder God's going. Book number 19. Book number 19. Book number 19. Let's roll. Let's roll. Let's see what we're gonna read. Christian Koppel. Salutations from censored tube. What do we got? Book number one. Book number one. It's a C.S. Lewis book. Which one is it? Which one is it? Fernseed and Elephants. Book number one. In the last stream we read, I'll pick that up later, in the last stream we read a C.S. Lewis book as well. No, not C.S. Lewis. This is very good. It's not Christian based. Okay. It's not Christian based. Random moose brains. I always enjoy these streams and the book assortment. So this is a book by C.S. Lewis. C.S. Lewis, Fernseed and Elephants and Other Essays on Christianity. Well, I guess it is on Christianity. Okay, but I don't remember it. I've read this a long time ago, like so long ago, like three and a half decades ago. Okay, and I've read a little bit since then as well. I'll just come back to it later. Read a little bit. I don't remember it being too heavy on Christianity, but this is God. How many does this have? Membership and address. Preface. That's the membership. Okay, so there's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. There are eight essays in here from what I understand. I really like Fernseed and Elephants because it's really about the elephant in the room, right? When people, here's the whole thing. Let's see if I'll remain focused, right? So Fernseed and Elephant is the essay that really stuck with me because it was really about, the premise was this, that if you're in a room, there are people who will be able to see a Fernseed in the corner, right? But they won't see the elephant in the room. So should I pick the page in this or you guys want to pick a page? And this has got, you know, a hundred and something pages. Fernseed and Elephant starts in page 104. So maybe we should just start reading page 104. Do you guys agree? Should we read just the intro, the beginning part? So the sections are this. Membership, learning in wartime, that might be great as well. On forgiveness, that might be great as well. Historicism, the world's last night, religion and oracotry, the efficiency of prayer and Fernseed and Elephants. 104 sounds good. All the God, we're going with 104. So gang, Fernseed and Elephants, a collection of essays by C.S. Lewis. Okay, and we're going to the last essay, and we're going to read a little bit of it. Okay, just a few pages, probably around three or four pages. Fernseed and Elephants, starting at page 101. Oops, let me do it over here. Fernseed and Elephants, starting at page 104. And this is one of the longer essays, so we're not going to read the whole thing. We'll read until a nice break presents itself. And I don't know when this was written. Do we have the date for this? No, we don't have the date for when Fernseed and Elephants was written. I'm assuming it'll be sometime in the 1940s, maybe. Fernseed and Elephants. This paper arose out of a conversation I had with the principal one night last summer. A book of Alec Wittler's happened to be lying on the table and express my reaction to the sort of theology it contained. My reaction was a heasty and ignorant one, produced with the freedom that comes after dinner. One thing led to another, and before we were done, I was saying a good deal more than I had meant about the type of thought which, so far as I could gather, is now dominant in many theological colleges. He then said, I wish you would come and say all this to my young men. He knew, of course, that I was extremely ignorant of the whole thing, but I think his idea was that you ought to know how a certain sort of theology strikes the outsider. Though I may have nothing but misunderstandings to lay before you, you ought to know that such misunderstandings exist. That sort of thing is easy to overlook inside one's own circle. The minds you daily meet have been conditioned by the same studies and prevalent opinions as your own. That may mislead you, for, of course, as priests it is the outsiders you will have to cope with. You exist in the long run for no other purpose. The proper study of shepherds is sheep, not save accidentally other shepherds, and woe to you if you do not evangelize. I am not trying to teach my grandmother. I am a sheep, telling shepherds what only a sheep can tell them, and now I start my belating. There are two sorts of outsiders, the uneducated and those who are educated in some way, but not in your way. How you how how you are to deal with the first class if you hold views like Lucy's, or Schwitzers, or Boltman's, or Tellich's, or even Alec Wittler's, I simply don't know. I see and I'm told that you see that it would hardly do to tell them what you really believe. A theology which denies the historic city of nearly everything in the gospels to which Christian life and affections and thought have been fastened for nearly two millennia, which either denies the miraculous together or more strangely, after swallowing the camel of the resurrection strains at such nuts as the feeding of the multitudes. If offered to the uneducated man can produce only one or other of two effects, it will make him a Roman Catholic or an atheist. What you offer him he will not recognize as Christianity. If he holds to what he calls Christianity he will leave a church in which he is no longer taught and look for one where it is. If he agrees with your version he will no longer call himself a Christian and no longer come to church. In his crude course way he would respect you much more if you did the same. An experienced clergyman told me that what that most liberal priests faced with this problem have recalled from its grave the late medieval conception of two truths, a picture truth which can be preached to the people and an esoteric truth for use among the clergy. I shouldn't think you will enjoy this conception which when you have to put it into practice I'm sure if I had to produce picture truth to a parishioner in great anguish or understand fierce temptation and produce them with this seriousness and fervor which his condition demanded. While knowing all the time that I didn't exactly only in some Pickwickian sense believe him myself I'd find my forehead getting red and damp and my collar getting tight but that is your headache not mine. You have all, you have after all a different sort of collar. I claim to belong to the second group of outsider educated but not theoretically, theologically educated. How one member of that group feels I must now try to tell you. The undermining of the old orthodoxy has been mainly the work of the vines engage in New Testament criticism. The authority of experts in this discipline is the authority in difference to whom we are asked to give up a huge mass of beliefs shared in common by the early church, the fathers, the middle ages, the reformers and even the 19th century. I want to explain what it is that makes me skeptical about this authority. Ignorantly skeptical as you will all too easily see but the skepticism is the father of the ignorance. It is hard to perceive in a closed setting close study when you can work up no prima faca confidence in your teacher teachers. First then whatever these men may be as biblical critics I distrust them as critics. They seem to me to lack literally, literary judgment to be in in perceptive about the very quality of the texts they are reading. It sounds strange, charged to bring against men who have been steeped in those books all their lives but that might be just a trouble. A man who has spent his youth and manhood in the minute study of the New Testament texts and of other people's study of them whose literally your experience of those texts lacks any standard of comparison such as can only grow from a wide and deep and genuine experience of literature in general is I should think very likely to miss the obvious things about them. If he tells me that something is a gospel in legend or romance I want to know how many legends or romances he has read. How well his palette is trained in detecting them by the flavor not how many years he has spent on that gospel but I had better turn to examples. In what is already a very old commentary I read that the fourth gospel is regarded by one school as a spiritual romance, a poem not a history or to poem not a history to be judged by the same canons as Nathan's Parable, the Book of Joa, Paradise Lost or more exactly Pilgrim's Progress. After a man has said that why need one attend to anything else he says about any book in the world. Note that it regards Pilgrim's Progress a story which professes to be a dream and flaunts its allegorical nature by every single proper name it uses as the closest parallel. Note that the whole epic panoply of Milton goes for nothing but even if we leave out the grosser absurdities and keep to Joa the insensitiveness is crass. Joa is a tale with as few even pretended historical attachments as Job grotesque in incidents and surely not without a distinct though of course edifying vein of typically Jewish humor. Then turned to John read the dialogue that with the Sumerian woman as the at the well or that which follows the healing of the man born blind. Look at his pictures Jesus if I may use the word Bodling with his finger in the dust the unforgettable unforgettable I have been reading poems romances vision literature legend myth all my life I know what they are like I know that not one of them is like this of this text there are only two possible views either this is a reportage though it may no doubt contain errors pretty close up to the facts nearly as close as Boswell or else some unknown writer in the second century without known predecessors or successors suddenly anticipated that the whole technique of modern novelistic realistic narrative if it is untrue it must be narrative of that kind the reader who doesn't see this has simply not learned to read I would recommend him to read Orbach here from Baltan's theory of the New Testament page 30 is another observe in what unsimulated fashion the prediction of the Paros mark 838 follows upon the predictions of the passion 831 what can he mean unassimilated Baltan believes that predictions of the Parousia are older than those of the passion he therefore wants to believe and no doubt does he does believe that when they occur in the same passage from discrepancy or unassimilation must be precipitable between them but surely he foists this unantext with shocking lack of perception Peter has confessed Jesus to be the anointed one that flash of glory is hardly over between the dark prophecy begins over before the dark prophecy begins that the son of man must suffer and die then this contrast is repeated Peter raised for a moment by his confession makes his false false step the cushion rebuff get thee behind me follow follows then across that momentary ruin which Peter as so often becomes the voice of the master turning to the crowd generalizes the moral all this all his followers must take up the cross this avoidance of suffering this self-preservation is not what life is really about then more definitely still the summons to martyr them you must stand to your tackling if you this the soul christ here and now he will dissolve you later logically emotionally imaginatively the sequence is perfect only a bald head could think otherwise finally from the same bald man the personality of jesus has no importance for the kigman either of paul or of john indeed the tradition of the earliest church did not even unconsciously preserve a picture of his personality every attempt to reconstruct one remains a play of subjective imagination so there is no personality of our lord presented in the new testament though what strange process has this learned german gone in order to make himself blind to what all men accept him see what evidence have we that we he would recognize a personality if it were there for it is bolt boltman contra mondom if anything whatever is common to all believers and even to many unbelievers it is the sense that in the gospel they have met a personality there are characters whom we know to be historical but of whom we do not feel that we have any personal knowledge knowledge by acquaintance such as alexander atila or william of orange there are others who make no claim to historical reality but whom nonetheless we know as we know real people false staff uncle toby mr pickwick but there are only three characters who claiming the first sort of reality also actually have the second and surely everyone knows who they are play those socrates the jesus of the gospels and boswell's johnson our acquaintance with them shows itself in a dozen ways when we look into the apocalyptic apocryphal gospel we find ourselves constantly saying of this or that religion no it's a fine saying but not his that wasn't how he talked just as we do with all sudo johnsonia we are not in the least perturbed by the contrast which within each character the union and socrates of silly silly and scabrous titters about greek pedestrian with the highest mythical fervor and the homeliest good sense in johnson of profound gravity and melancholy with that love of fun and nonsense which boswell never understood though fanny burry did in jesus of peasant shrewdness intolerable severity and irresistible tenderless so strong is the flavor of the personality that even while he says things which on any assumption than that of divine incarnation is the fullest sense in the fullest sense would be appallingly arrogant yet we and many unbelievers too accept him as his own valuation when he says quote i am meek and lowly of heart and quote when those passages in the new testament with superficially which superficially and in intention are most concerned with the divine and least with the human nature bring us face to face with the personality i am not sure that they don't do this more than any other any others we believe his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the father full of graciousness and reality which we have looked upon and our hands have handled that wasn't quotes which is gained by trying to evade or dissipate this shattering in immediacy of personal contact by talk about quote that's significant which the early church found significance which the early church found that it was impaled to attribute to the master master and quote this hits us in the face not what they were impaled to do but what impaled them i begin to fear that by personality dr boltman means what he should call impersonality what you'd get in a dictionary of national biography articles or an obituary or a victorian life and letter of yashua bar yosef in three volumes with photographs ended there fernseed and elephants and this was the last essay in this book definitely heavy reading definitely heavy reading and i got a feeling when i said the fernseed and the corner elephant in the room maybe gets into it later or maybe it's in another i'm not i'm so sure now right i haven't touched these forever i haven't touched these forever sharyl how are you doing on twitch hope you're doing well first time chat yo mo mo salutations lonely piggy yo yo what's up everyone all the god originally titled modern theology and the biblical criticism 1959 1959 cool thanks all the god all the god published 1981 under the title christian reflections which is the name i read it under in 1986 okay okay cool good to know good to know in gang do not forget do not forget free assange free assange free assange julien sange the publisher and journalists that is being crucified for trying to bring transparency and accountability of capitalist power to humanity something that we desperately desperately need in our societies for more information see wikileast.org defend dot wikileast.org or countless resources available on what should we pick what should we pick or what are we gonna pick all the god says number 19 what is number 19 anyway guru leisure bar guru leisure bar is a twist and a half let's go number 19 i want 19 i need 19 free julien 19 free let's do this let's do this let's do this okay we can't read this one we can't read this one elder god wow maybe we should read this one okay we gotta read this one it is what it is it is what it is it is what it is i'll give you you guys one guess what it is elder god what is it tonic floors did you say it's 18 ready oh my god you're gonna need a drink on this one but this one i can tell you it's not direct as the other two were please no more with it number three cs luis screw tape letters it is the hat has spoken elder god the hat has spoken but this is feels strong putonic floors 18 divided by six is three screw tape letters this isn't direct talk about Christianity okay this book i really like this is aside from the fiction books that cs luis has written and this is sort of fiction i guess it's on the boundary theology thinking books and stuff like this this is my favorite book aside from the three sci-fi book out of thought this is my favorite book from cs luis this was brilliant this is a conversation that a demon superior demon is having with a lower level demon that the lord level demon i'm coming to remove your lower level demon is has been assigned to corrupt human being okay to corrupt the human being putonic floor cs luis is also great philosophy of course great philosophy great philosophy how fanant love what screw tape teaches about deception yeah it's this really this really made me sort of take a double take right and i remember trying to look look this up and i believe i came across writings where it says cs luis wouldn't discuss how he came up with this and why he came up with this right all the god this story has been used in a movie but i will not give the title is that the the one that al Pacino was in all the god is that the one you're thinking about what page should we read gang screw tape letters screw tape letters what page should we read what page should we read and it's got lots of beautiful little line work super cool here's picture of one demon oh that's page 19 or chapter 19 the one with qiyano the one with qiyano what page should we read devil's advocate is for children haha screw tape letters tape let's see here let's read this check this out just the beginning part so let's start reading a little bit maybe we'll read let's see if this is broken into chapters you know what we'll go to chapter 19 oh look oh so we get 19 in there as well yeah it was it was trippy right plutonic florist old brit old brit gang screw tape letters by cs luis letters from a senior to a junior devil okay we're gonna read chapter 19 or the 19th letter i guess but i'm just gonna read the beginning part here it's gonna read the beginning part here quote the best way to drive up the devil drive out the devil if he will not yield to texts of scripture is to jeer and flout him for he cannot bear scorn end quote and that's luther and then from thomas more the devil the prouder spirit cannot endure to be mocked mocked the devil mocked the devil chapter 19 here's 19 it's got some nice line work nice line art this is page 82 page 82 and it's just you know what one two three and a half pages it's just three and a half pages okay and we'll read it my dear warmwood i have been thinking very hard about the question in your last letter if as i have clearly shown all selves are being their very net or are by their very nature and competition and therefore the enemy's idea of love is a contradiction in terms what becomes of my reiterated warning that had that he really loves the human vermin and really desires their freedom and continued existence i hope my dear boy you have not shown my letter to anyone not that it matters of course anyone would see that the appearance of heresy into which i have fallen is purely accidental by the way i hope you understand too that some apparently uncomplementary references to slobgob were purely uh jokular jokular i really have the highest respect for him and of course some things i said about not shielding you from the authorities were not seriously meant you can trust me to look after your interests but do keep everything on under lock and key the truth is i slipped by mere carelessness into saying that the enemy really loves the humans that of course is an impossibility he is one being they are distinct from him their good cannot be his all his talk about love must be a disguise for something else he must have some real motive for creating them and take taking so much trouble about him talk taking so much trouble about them the reason one comes to talk as if he really had this impossible love is our utter failure to find out the real motive what does he stand to make out of them that is the insoluble question i do not see that that it can do any harm to tell you that this very problem was a chief cause of our father's quarrel with the enemy when the creation of man was first mooted and when even at that stage the enemy freely confessed that he foresaw a certain episode about a cross our father very naturally sought an interview and asked for an explanation the enemy gave no reply except to produce the cock and bull story about disinterested love which he had been circulating ever since this our father naturally cannot accept his implored he implored the enemy to lay his cards on the table and gave him every opportunity he admitted that he felt a real anxiety to know the secret the enemy replied quote i wish with all my heart that you did end quote it was i imagine at the stage in the interview that our father's disgust at such an unprovoked lack of confidence caused him to remove himself in infinite distance from the presence with a suddenness which has given rise to the ridiculous enemy story that he was forcibly thrown out of heaven since then we have begun to see why our oppressor was so secretive his throne depends on the secret members of his faction have frequently admitted that it that if ever we came to understand what he means by love the war would be over and we would re-enter heaven and there lies the great task we know that he cannot really love nobody can it doesn't make sense if we could only find out what he is really up to hypothesis after hypothesis has been tried and still we couldn't find out yet we must never lose hope more and more complicated theories further and further collections of data richer rewards for researchers who make progress more and more terrible punishments for those who fail all this pursued and accelerated to the very end of time cannot surely fail to succeed you complain that my last letter does not make it clear whether i regard being in love as a desirable state for a human or not but really warmwood that is the sort of question one expects them to ask leave them to discuss whether love or patriotism or celebs celebsy celibacy or candles on altars or titolism or education or good or bad can't you see there is no answer nothing matters at all except the tendency of a given state of mind in given circumstances to move in a particular patient as a particular moment nearer to the enemy or nearer to us thus it would be quite a good thing to make the patient decide that quote love is good or bad if he is an arrogant man with a contempt for the body really based on decency but mistaken by him for purity and one who takes pleasure in flouting what may most of his followers approve by all means let him decide against love instill into him an over viewing overweening eclectism and then when you have separated his sexuality sexuality from all that might humanize it weigh in on him with it in some much more brutal and cynical form if on the other hand he is an emotional gullible man fee him on minor poets and fifth fifth rate novelist and the old school until you have made him believe that love is both irresistible and somehow intrinsically meritorious this belief is not much help i grant you in producing casual unchastity but it is in incomparable recipe for prolonged noble romantic tragic adulteries ending if all goes well in murders and suicides failing that it can be used to steer the patient into a useful marriage for marriage though the enemy's invention has its uses there must be several young women in your patient's neighborhood who would render the christian life intensely difficult to him if only one would pursue persuade him to marry one of them please send me a report on this when you next write in the meantime get it quite clear in your own mind that this state of falling in love is not in itself necessary necessarily favorable either to use or or to the other side or either either to us or to the other side it is simply an occasion which we and the enemy are both trying to exploit like most of the other things which humans are excited about such as health and sickness age and youth or war and peace it is from the point of view of the spiritual life mainly raw material your affectionate uncle screw tape that's the lesser demon and that's screw tape the enemy is god our father is the devil the patient is the person that screw tape is advising warmwood to corrupt screw tape letters by c.s. lewis letters from a senior to a junior devil fun read you can consider it to be fiction fun read fun read interesting read interesting read interesting read as far as i'm concerned jack morris on sensitive salutations christian cocktail salutations oligot on the day of a scheduled execution a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims that's the movie you linked up oligot what is that movie i gotta look into this i'm gonna open this up hopefully it doesn't affect our stream let me check this out what is this have i seen this movie nefarious oh i've seen this long time ago long oh yeah this was trippy this was very trippy this was very good this was very good if i're creepy as hell right on the day of the scheduled execution a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon and further claims that before their time is over the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own plutonic pleurus family policy alliance nefarious is based on a the book a nefarious plot by christian christian talk show host steve which brings to light the devil's dark work in destroying lives written in a style similar to c.s louis the screw tape letters oh i didn't make that connection before what uh movie is with shan patrick flannery the young indiana jones okay we'll try out on occasion i gotta watch that again i gotta watch that again pisco's on twitch man of culture chiha certainly interesting interesting interesting have you got any have you got some brain food by any chance brother chicho brain food um brain food would be book 19 that elder god keeps on wanting us to read gudel ashur bah i read a hundred i've read only 105 pages of gudel ashur bah and this was 25 years ago and i realized i wasn't smart enough to continue reading because i was reading i would i would read a paragraph three or four times and then read a page and a half a couple of pages three pages and then go aha and then have to go back five pages and reread those five pages again so i must have read the 105 pages like three times over so that probably read it equivalent of like three or four hundred pages and i got exhausted at page 105 and i went off on a different reading spree and i read um string thing um um brian greens uh string theory uh elegant universe i read uh time and the techno sphere that we have multiple other books and i never got back to getting back to gudel ashur bah uh so that would be my brain food if you want some brain food if you want some brain food you the man chicho great streamers revolved the lonely oh my rumbled uh chat had stopped lowly low new york city salutations on rumble salutations on rumble so just some fun little reads gang fun little reads uh for monday morning why not why not after a map stream that we did right list 999 salutations on twitch eclectic nickel salutations gang we did three readings two c.s louis because i only got love c.s louis it's 804 in the uk and we read book read book three one and three and book number eight okay i'm gonna add this to our pile of books that we've read right and what we're going to do is return to these book readings so so far we've read 12 books so we've got nine more books to to read which is basically going to be three more book reading streams okay three more book reading streams uh which we'll do hopefully we'll finish it off by the end of the year next weekend we're gonna do a movie stream okay we have homework five movies we're supposed to watch i hope you've watched the five movies i got one more movie to watch so next weekend we're gonna do a movie stream for sure or next set of streams we and oh yeah it has to be sunday um as long as sharers available i'll check we share i'll now look at so most likely next sunday we're gonna do our movie stream and we'll see where we go from there i'll try to fit in maybe two i'm gonna try to fit in a math stream in there like part of plutonical as you watch tropic thunder in vulgar how did that look like you go oh my god you're all done nice nice i just have one more to watch i just have one more to watch aside from that gang uh nice chill stream after yesterday's heavy heavy stream right um so i'm gonna do my little outro uh our recording on lapel mic is still going fantastic and we're live streaming all three platforms fantastic gang if you want this work is about i'm on patreon substock subscribe star we do have a gilded server you're definitely welcome join us in gilded we are live streaming on twitch rumble and censor tube and this live stream in its entirety should be up on bitchu and nazi let's say by next week okay and i'll probably might reload it up again on rumble and on censor tube as well because uh they stay in the live section not on the video section weird weird weird uh the five movies we're supposed to watch gang eldegas putting it up the dirty dozen tropic thunder muppet movie 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