Podcasts about Finite

"Life is short" is an expression that people use without realizing that the Bible itself lays forth this truth. But in this episode of the podcast, we not only want to talk about how life is short, but how that should help in giving us a perspective on what we should desire in the limited days we have on this earth. Moses helps us out with this, as we examine his prayer in Psalm 90.   Order a copy of my book: Signs of the End: What Jesus Taught His Disciples in the Olivet Discourse Amazon: https://a.co/d/0592Fozu   Please be sure to leave a review!   X: https://x.com/ltscripts   Music: http://www.purple-planet.com

Introduction: Do I Have the Will to Go On? Do I even have the will to go on with this episode? Well, hey there, welcome back. Do I even have the will to go on with this episode? Um, I do, but I also have something better. The Willpower Battery: Why “Raw Dogging” Change Fails Let’s talk about that. If you’ve read my book Because… First of all, thank you. But if you haven’t, let me give you a refresher on something that’s really important. If you’ve ever tried to lose weight or make a change in your life and you’ve ever just tried to raw dog it, meaning you think, okay, I’m just going to use sheer force of will to do this. I’m going to stop eating so much, I’m going to shove myself into the gym, I’m going to change jobs, I’m going to be more tolerant with this, that, and the other thing. And you’re like, hey, it works. But you’re also like, oh my god, I’m running out of… energy. Because willpower is a battery with finite energy. Well, fine, you say. I’m just going to increase that battery, right? Like you said Mark, if you repeat something, you can increase it. So I’ll just keep using more and more and more willpower. Burning Out: The Hidden Danger of Relying Solely on Willpower Well, that can create a really dangerous situation, first of all. So if you decided to go the pure willpower route, you would be doing what a lot of people do in their situations that they’re not happy with. They just say, I’m just going to focus harder and harder and harder. But the problem is if the problem or the change is something that requires an inordinate amount of energy, in other words, a huge amount of energy that perhaps you hadn’t planned on or even if you had planned on it, it’s a huge amount of energy that you simply may not have because you’re busy dealing with all the other things in your life. But let’s just say you do it. You put all this effort into making this change and it’s working and that sort of delights you. But you’re like… I’m burning out, I have nothing left for me and my family, I’m crabby now, it’s starting to change me in ways that I don’t like, I’m starting to compensate for it, and so forth. Monsters and Unicorns: The Subconscious Forces Controlling Your Habits See, everything that I’m describing are things that happen under the understanding of Because, the monsters and the unicorns. And what you’re simply doing is ignoring the monsters and unicorns in place. Well Mark, what should I do? you ask perhaps. Well, that’s look to the monsters and unicorns first. And that’s what I do. And that’s what I do when someone works with me. It doesn’t mean we don’t use willpower, we use willpower in everything, it takes willpower to make a decision to go against your monsters and unicorns. If you say, look, I certainly enjoy eating, and I enjoy lots of eating, and I enjoy multiple eating sessions and and all that stuff, it takes willpower to say, oh, I want to give up that pleasure, I want to give up that comfort, right? Well, now you’re going against your unicorn. Diagnosing Your Coping Mechanisms: Are You Protecting Yourself From Pain? Well, instead of taking it that way, you’re kind of doing it backwards. What you should be doing is examining the unicorn itself. Are you really deriving that much pleasure, or are you deriving pleasure from something else? Is it a certain avoidance that allows you to have the pleasure? Or maybe by eating a lot and too much and often and too fast and so and so forth… you’re being forced to do that because you have a monster that is protecting you from pain. Maybe you believe that if you do all these things, these unhealthy eating habits, it will actually protect you from pain, even though it’s going to make you live shorter and make your life less happy. The “Aha” Moment: Triggering Lasting Psychological Change And as soon as you have that realization, as soon as that hits home, now your monsters and unicorns have literally just altered in your system. Just that one sentence I just said. If you’re like, well yeah, oh, wait a second. That’s when change happens. That’s when change happens in people, that’s when change happens in coaching. Because if you don’t do that, then it’s just cheerleading. Whether it’s you cheerleading yourself or someone else is being paid to cheerlead you. And I will tell you, I don’t get paid to cheerlead. I don’t want to get paid to cheerlead. I want to get paid to diagnose, to guide, and to help. Self-Examination and the Unseen Programs Running Your Life So this was a fast one. We’re not even at five minutes and I already switched to the portion of the episode in which I say, okay, now we recognize this, what do we do? Boom, already gave you that. Now, does everyone who is wildly successful or really successful at something go through this? Well, typically they’re not even aware of their monsters and unicorns, typically they just work. In fact, as I use in the case of Michael Phelps, he had both a monster and a unicorn for staying in the pool. He didn’t decide that, he didn’t consciously go, I would like to stay in this pool because it helps me with my ADHD. He just noticed that being in the pool helped him with his ADHD. And the same thing happens in your life. We typically don’t do a lot of self-examination. Well, most people don’t. I do that all the time, which is why I come up with this, but… you typically don’t do that, you go through life with all these programs running and you think, okay, well I I don’t know, look, I don’t know, and we have control mechanisms in place, we have safeties in our psyche that prevent us typically from pulling apart the cover and poking around in all the wires and gears and things. Understandably so, just like in a car, has a hood, it has caps, and has protective seals on lots of things, so does your psyche, for good reasons. And sometimes it’s not for such good reasons. You have childhood trauma or other kinds of trauma, you may have a protective shield around it because you’re not dealing with it. I don’t want to go there. Right? You have something that’s happened to you and you’re just not going there, which is why you don’t see the psychologist that people tell you to see. Or why you don’t even talk about something. Oh, that’s off limits with Bill. Don’t even go there. Right? Moving Beyond Cheerleading: Why You Need a Safe System for Transformation We all know we’ve encountered people like this. We all know we are people like this. If you work with a psychologist or a coach that has a system in place and puts you in a special place that allows you to feel comfortable enough to talk through things. And just being comfortable and talking about things isn’t enough, you have to have a system in place. You can’t just be brought bare in front of a stranger and talk about your hopes, dreams, aspirations, and everything that hurts you. That’s going to hurt. And that’s going to be difficult. So you need to have something in place. You need to know, you need to tell yourself, hey, we’re going to be looking under this cover, but we’re going to do it gently, we’re going to do it with care and respect for ourselves. Next Steps: Explore the Podcast Catalog and the ‘Because’ Framework Your first step in that, frankly, is to listen to podcast episodes like this. And I present my entire catalog of 300 plus episodes. And yes, I’ll stop saying that when we get to 400 plus episodes. But listen through them, listen through them in the 10 or 15 minutes it takes you to listen to them while you’re doing a chore, while you’re in the car… and just think. Think in the safety of your own mental space. And then when you want to learn more, pick up a copy of Because. It’s not that expensive, it’s a short read, but it is packed with information and citations from other books, medical journals, and things like that. And you can always go down your own rabbit holes to make sure that I’m telling you what I say I’m telling you. Finding Your Monsters and Unicorns But I’ll tell you, the moment you discover a monster or a unicorn in place and you go, oh… wait a second. He doesn’t belong there. Sure, he has a useful function, but not there… that’s going to be your aha moment. And all of a sudden, you’ll want to know more, and all of a sudden you’ll want to find all the monsters and unicorns you can. And if you want my help, all you have to do is reach out. You can go on my Calendly, which is a hard word to say, and schedule a 15-minute free appointment and we can have a nice chat about it and see if we’re a fit. And if not, just read some more books and do your due diligence. Conclusion and Resources Wow, this was fun. Thanks for listening as always. And as always, I have a tremendous amount of resources for you. Please, by all means, check out all my goodies. Go to alchemyforme, alchemyforlife, and markbradford.org. And take care of yourself, please. Thank you. Thank you for listening as always, go to markbradford.org to see all my author related things, go to alchemyfor.life to see coaching, speaking, writing, and this podcast. And go to alchemyfor.me to get a copy of CheckMark™

Joe Polish sits down with Strategic Coach Founder Dan Sullivan and The CEO of CEG Worldwide John Bowen to explore the research-backed framework behind their new book, The Greater Game — a 100x blueprint that reveals why only 5.4% of Entrepreneurs are playing a completely different game than everyone else. Together they unpack the shift from Founder-dependent businesses to scalable ecosystems, the finite-vs-infinite game divide, and why AI is less a technological revolution and more a cognitive one. Here's a glance at what you'll discover in this episode: The number that reveals whether you're winning or losing the only game that matters... and why 94.6% of Entrepreneurs are optimizing a game that's already coming to an end (you've probably already done 10x without calling it that — what you do next is the whole point) Dan Sullivan's quiet observation after 52 years and 7,000+ Entrepreneurs... the exact moment a successful person stops growing isn't failure — it's something far more seductive, and almost no one catches it in themselves (the first exercise he runs at Strategic Coach is designed to show you you've already crossed the line once) Joe typed a question into AI and got back the most brutal case study in modern business history... Blockbuster, Kodak, Borders, Toys "R" Us — and the one invisible shift every company on that list missed before it was too late (this isn't a technology story — it's a thinking story) Why John Bowen started three new companies on his 70th birthday... and the dashboard he and Dan built for roughly $2,000 that a top vendor quoted them $50,000 a year to provide (his tech team called after the first meeting and said "we'll just build it and give it to you tomorrow") The four-hour version of something that used to take Dan Sullivan four weeks... and what it reveals about the only AI upgrade that actually changes your trajectory (this isn't about using AI more — it's about using it in the right direction entirely) What Joe Polish teaches Genius Youth Members that no business school has ever covered... and why writing handwritten postcards in an age of AI might be the single highest-leverage thing you do this week (the killer app of 2026 is not what anyone is selling you) If you'd like to join world-renowned Entrepreneurs at the next Genius Network Event or want to learn more about Genius Network, go to www.GeniusNetwork.com. Show Notes: The Book: The Greater Game and the 5.4% Dan and John's new book — published by Hay House and instantly a #1 Amazon bestseller — grew out of a 25-year research partnership to study what separates the highest-performing Entrepreneurs from everyone else. Their research across 7,000+ Entrepreneurs found that 94.6% are still optimizing the game they're in — while only 5.4% are architecting a completely different one. The book maps out exactly what those 5.4% are doing. The book's central premise: "Every system that got you here is optimized for a game that's coming to an end." From 10x to 100x: Dan's Framework Dan has been coaching Entrepreneurs to 10x since the 1990s — starting with an exercise where he had Clients identify when they were one-tenth of where they are today. Everyone in his program had already done 10x without labeling it that way. When he challenged a Client who said they couldn't go 10x in three years, the Client responded they could do it in 15 — and then voluntarily suggested doing it again. That's when the 100x idea crystallized. Dan's thesis: give yourself a long enough time horizon, use AI as a genuine collaborator, and constant growth becomes the natural state — not the exception. The Four Levels of The Greater Game Level 1 — Foundation for Freedom: Vision, security, and financial confidence. Getting off the couch. Level 2 — Energy for Expansion: Motivation and IP development. Dan has built an extraordinary amount of intellectual property; John and Joe have too. Level 3 — Platform / Ecosystem: Moving from Founder-dependent to a scalable system. John's own company grew 58% while writing the book — by walking the talk of this level. Level 4 — Agency: Creating markets. Courage, commitment, and building an ecosystem where you're generating the category itself. Finite vs. Infinite: What the Game Shift Really Means Finite game: competing for market share, managing dependencies, staying indispensable personally, reacting to market pressure. Business value: 3–5x EBITDA. Infinite game: designing an ecosystem, multiplying unique genius through others, engineering your own absence, redefining the market. Business value: multiples that reflect systems, not the Founder. Joe's examples (finite → infinite): Blockbuster → Netflix, Kodak → Apple, Borders → Amazon, taxi companies → Uber, Toys "R" Us → Lego. The pattern: finite players optimize the current game; infinite players keep changing what the game is. Dan's real-world example: Paul Van Dyne came to Strategic Coach planning to retire at 65. He went on to take his engineering firm from #40 to #1 nationally in nine years through M&A — and now plans to build his gourmet coffee shop inside one of his medical centers. AI as a Cognitive Revolution Dan's framing: AI isn't a technological revolution — it's a cognitive revolution. He compares its impact to the introduction of zero in mathematics, which made economics, double-entry bookkeeping, and science possible. Practical example: Dan used to need four weeks to structure a new book. With AI, the same work takes four hours. He now writes a new book every quarter. John's vibe-coding story: his Team built the entire Greater Game Dashboard for roughly $2,000–3,000 using Lovable — after being quoted $50,000/year from a top vendor. They own the code and iterate freely. Joe's counterpoint: the killer app today is being fully human — knowing how to bond, connect, and think for yourself. "Write with your hands, think with your brain."  The Greater Game Dashboard John built this free interactive tool at TheGreaterGameDashboard.com to put the book's framework into action. The 15-minute assessment shows you exactly where you stand relative to peers and the 10 Greater Multipliers. The dashboard automatically calculates what your company is worth to a buyer today — and shows how each improvement raises that number. Dan calls it the greatest tool he's seen in 52 years of coaching Entrepreneurs. Monthly updates include an Entrepreneur Pulse confidence index. Useful whether you ever intend to sell or not — knowing your number changes how you invest in your business. Building Great Teams: Cast, Don't Hire Dan's principle: Strategic Coach treats itself as a theater company — with backstage and front-stage roles. They don't hire for jobs, they cast for roles. Every new hire is there to free up someone already in the company. Babs Smith built the Strategic Coach Team around Dan from the start — several Team members have now been with the company 20–30+ years. Beware the Founder-as-salesperson trap: if you're great at selling, you'll hire the wrong people — you'll confuse their excitement for the role with fit for the role. John, Joe, and Dan all find talent primarily through communities — mastermind groups, Genius Network, Strategic Coach — rather than ads. Great people seek out great people. Dan's upcoming book (Hay House): Casting Not Hiring. IP as a Strategic Asset Dan has had 82 thinking tools patented by the US Patent Bureau (none rejected), with 75 more pending. Each patent is a borrowable asset — you can borrow up to half the appraised value, creating a private intellectual property bank. Joe Polish's company operates as an ESOP — all Team members become equity owners after a vesting period, creating a true ownership culture without requiring employees to buy in upfront. Genius Youth and the Human Connection Advantage Joe's Genius Youth program focuses on skills AI can't replicate: human connection, handwritten notes, cold plunges, cooking and hospitality, ethical influence. Joe's 2026 Genius Network Annual Event —  features Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler (Authors of We Are as Gods), live robots, and a mystery musician on 300M+ albums. Resources: The Greater Game (Book) — Dan Sullivan & John Bowen The Greater Game (Audiobook) — narrated by Gord Vickman, Hay House Business TheGreaterGameDashboard.com — free 15-minute assessment & company valuation tool 10xTalk Podcast — Subscribe — 10xTalk.com 10xTalk on Apple Podcasts Strategic Coach — Dan Sullivan's coaching program Genius Network — Joe Polish's community for elite Entrepreneurs Joe Polish's Genius Network Annual Event CEG Worldwide (John Bowen) — research and coaching for financial advisors Cleator Ghost Town, Arizona — Joe's 40-acre ghost town & the Cleator Bar and Yacht Club Inside Strategic Coach Podcast — Episode on Hiring — Dan Sullivan & Shannon Waller AI Killed the Modern Company (Video) — Peter Diamandis & Salim Ismail Why Microsoft AI Chief Predicts AI Automation of White-Collar Work in 18 Months — Fortune / Mustafa Suleyman

Reflections on the book Finite and Eternal Being: an Attempt to Ascend to the Meaning of Being by Edith Stein, aka St. Teresa Benedicta a Cruce. To hear more, visit soulsteading.substack.com

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We're unable to record a new episode this week so we have remixed the sound and video on one of our favourites, from 2022, about a topic that we're thinking about a lot right now - time. So often our lives are ruled by 'clock time' - we're counting off how long there is to get something done, or we're aiming for a time-bound goal, or we're measuring time wasted or time used productively. But although this is the dominant way of understanding time for many of us, it is only one way of relating to the flow of things. What if, instead of filling time with work or play, we turned things around and allowed time to flow into our activity? And what if instead of trying to secure ourselves against an unpredictable future, we took up a playfulness with the unfolding of time itself? A conversation about living into our lives as an infinite unfolding, rather than a finite game.  This week's Turning Towards Life is hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.This is Turning Towards Life, a weekly live 30 minute conversation hosted by Thirdspace in which Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn dive deep into big questions of human living. Find us on FaceBook to join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast in all the usual podcast places.Our source for this week:What Is Time?There are two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play…For an infinite player there is no such thing as an hour of time. There can be an hour of love, or a day of grieving, or a season of learning, or a period of labour.An infinite player does not begin working for the purpose of filling up a period of time with work, but for the purpose of filling work with time. Work is not a way of passing time but engendering possibility. Work is not a way of arriving at a desired present and securing it against an unpredictable future but of moving towards a future that itself has a future.[So] infinite players cannot say how much they have completed in their work or love or quarrelling, but only that much remains incomplete in it. They are not concerned to determine when it is over, but only what comes from it…A finite player puts play into time.An infinite player puts time into play.James Carse, from ‘Finite and Infinite Games'Photo by Joe Pregadio on Unsplash---Join Us Live in 2026Professional Coaching Course, begins July 2-5 2026, OnlineOur year long programme, an opportunity to learn to support others in deep, life giving discovery and development.You can hear us talk about the programme here:www.turningtowards.life/coachingAnd you can read more about it here:www.wearethirdspace.org/professional-coaching-courseTurning Towards Life Live Season 3, from September 2026Our Turning Towards Life live programme of community, learning and reflection runs in six month seasons, in person on Zoom once a month. We're very excited about it. A chance to expand beyond the bounds of a podcast into forming a community of learning and practice.You can find out more and join us here: www.turningtowards.life/live----About Turning Towards LifeTurning Towards Life, a week-by-week conversation inviting us deeply into our lives, is a live 30 minute conversation hosted by Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn of Thirdspace.  Find us on FaceBook to join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Amazon Music and Spotify.Join Our Weekly Mailing: www.turningtowards.life/subscribeSupport Us: www.buymeacoffee.com/turningtowardslife

Brought to you by the members of Manifesting Mastery Deluxe https://ManifestingMasteryDeluxe.comNeville Goddard quote:  The Wise Productive Use of Money“That experience taught me a lesson I have used throughout my life. When people ask me about my success, I must say that I believe it is because I have never made ‘making money' my goal: ‘My goal is the wise, productive use of money.' This man's inner conversations are based on the premise that he already has money, his constant inner question: the proper use of it.” - Neville GoddardMark's Money Manifesting Mistake:  How to Manifest $37,813.25 centsHere's what I'm doing....I am imagining my friends and I celebrating me having manifested the EXACT amount I imagined....$37.813.25 because sacred loves specifics....What do you think?TT:  Specific is terrific...  But that's not the real specific....Money...Money for...Money again for...Man with the money...People might want to borrow money....But what if they wanted you - to give them - wisdom....Wise Productive Use of MoneyTerry asks:  What do you think about group manifesting?We're forming a group...Getting together at 11:11 am...On the 7th day of each week...(Get why we're doing it this way?)Would you like to join us?Because it would be great to have a heavy hitter on the team.Thanks!Gazza in Remarkable:  Manifesting and Nervous System Dysregulation I LOVE! the Nervous System Dysregulation playlist on youtube.It is a wonderful intro to MMD and completely different..I like to share it when I notice people are lost...Years ago I said 'notice that you are always imagining something'The Nervous System Dysregulation playlist is my go to now..I guess my question could be how did you discover the name "Nervous System Dysregulation"Remarkable Lisa Ann LaRock: “Finite or Infinite”Hello Twenty and Victoria!“Finite or Infinite”Quantum Physics…Suggests…An Observer…Influences outcomes.Ultimately our…State is responsible…For what occurs.I confess…There are times when…I feel dilute.As if my true nature…Has been caught in…A rip tide.Circumstances…Unexpected necessary…Needs.Entanglements…There is a point…Where I know…My identity seems to…Be fractured into…Finite pieces.As human…I'm loosing my…Divine Perspective.The way I remember…Who I am…Is in the stillness…I go looking for…Evidence…What does history…Reveal about me?The tip I recently received…For excellent client service…The trembling voice and tears of a loved one…When I called simply to share my love for them at a difficult moment.People die.I will die.Life has a way of shattering  and scattering…Conscious awareness of…This infinite beautiful…Being that I am…Moment by moment…Is all that matters.Thank you for your insights!  Lisa

Alex, Water Resources Administrator for the Town of Berthoud, joins us to share what we can expect in this season of drought, how water resources are managed on a local and regional level, and what each of us can do to minimize the impact of low snowpack and water levels.

Tanya Chapter 48 opens one of the deepest questions in Kabbalah. If the Creator is Ein Sof, truly infinite, how does a finite world come into being?In this episode we walk through the Alter Rebbe's teaching on Tzimtzum, the condensation that allows infinite light to clothe itself inside creation. We look at why even the highest spiritual worlds are still considered limited, why a dollar and a trillion are equal next to infinity, and what the Rambam means when he says that G-d is the Knower, the Knowledge, and the Known.The practical key in this chapter is simple. The infinite light is not far away. It is not only surrounding the world from beyond. It is inside every layer of physical reality. The work is to start seeing it, and to choose the infinite in real moments of our lives, in our calling, our relationships, our healing, our money, and our day to day choices.LIVE Kabbalah Tanya Series, Chapter 48.Three takeaways:Tzimtzum is not punishment, it is a love mechanism. The infinite condenses itself so that something limited can hold a relationship with it. Without Tzimtzum, there is no us.Finite is finite. A dollar and a trillion are equal next to the Ein Sof. This collapses the inner ranking we run all day, the comparing, the not enough, the more than. Next to infinity, all of it is the same size.The infinite is already inside the physical. The Rambam's framing, that G-d is the Knower, the Knowledge, and the Known, means the life force inside this earth, this body, this moment, is Him. The work is not to reach it. The work is to see it.

Ancora orfani di Eddie Dry, Andrea e Nicola si aggrappano agli inviati di Be Radio per salvare il programma... e fanno male, perché oggi si collegano con Adelmo Strozzacozze. E come vuoi che sia andata se non male?Per fortuna a risvegliarli da quello che ha tutta l'aria di essere un brutto sogno, arriva un nuovo ospite, che fa dei sogni non solo i suo nome ma anche il suo lavoro!

Today, I'm joined by Anthony Geisler, founder & CEO of Sequel Brands.   A multi-brand fitness and wellness platform, Sequel Brands' portfolio of concepts span Pilates, stretching, EMS, and longevity.    In this episode, we discuss building futureproof franchises.   We also cover:   Sequel's five-brand platform  Scaling longevity-focused experiences Consumer behavior shifts across modalities  Subscribe to the podcast → insider.fitt.co/podcast  Subscribe to our newsletter → insider.fitt.co/subscribe  Follow us on LinkedIn → linkedin.com/company/fittinsider    Website: www.sequelbrands.com Explore all five brand concepts on the site.   -   The Fitt Insider Podcast is brought to you by EGYM. Visit EGYM.com to learn more about its smart fitness ecosystem for fitness and health facilities.   Fitt Talent: https://talent.fitt.co/  Consulting: https://consulting.fitt.co/  Investments: https://capital.fitt.co/    Chapters: (00:00) Introduction (01:34) Five-brand platform overview (02:25) Pilates Addiction (02:55) iFlex stretching and recovery (03:13) beem infrared sauna (03:20) BODY20 EMS technology (04:23) Ultimate Longevity Center launch (05:47) 100% ownership structure (07:15) Portfolio selection strategy (08:30) Sauna research (09:05) Democratizing longevity access (10:25) Gary Brecka partnership (11:35) Modality evolution over time (12:20) Post-COVID consumer shifts (13:15) Cycling's global decline (14:15) Equipment and offering evolution (15:23) Franchise playbook constants (16:19) ChatGPT and AI impacts (17:38) Value equation fundamentals (19:15) Cross-portfolio membership challenges (21:27) Finite inventory dynamics (22:34) Growth without pressure (24:40) Royalty business mindset (25:25) Discovery Day process (27:20) Franchisee selection rigor (27:45) Xponential story context (29:45) Public market challenges (31:10) COVID and Delta variant timing (32:07) Why keep building (33:28) Franchise life realities (35:14) Future acquisition appetite (36:11) Where to learn more (36:29) Conclusion

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B"H Our lives are finite. We hope for please God, 120 years in good health, but even that is fleeting. There's a powerful practice right after Pesach leading up to Shavuot. Every day, we count. Day 1, day 2, all the way to 49. It trains you to feel time. To stop drifting. To realize this day matters. King David says, teach us to count our days so we can gain a heart of wisdom. Not abstract wisdom, real felt awareness that life is precious. Every day is a chance to show up, to stop wasting time, to appreciate your breath and the people around you. Counting isn't just numbers. It's learning how to live. Happy Pesach! #Pesach #SefiratHaOmer #Torah #Judaism #Spirituality To watch Torah Thoughts in video format, click HERE Subscribe to the Torah Thoughts BLOG for exclusive written content! Please like, share and subscribe wherever you find this!

This week, we conclude at least Part 1 of The Trial of Lovers: The Maiden of Mátsaki and the Red Feather, having learned nothing about said Red Feather, but a surprising amount about bugs, their legs, and the lexicon of demons and wizards. Suggested talking points: My Breaths Aren't Finite, Armpits of Steel, Caring is at a Minimum, Dropped Bundles From Weak-Armpited Men Running from Bug Children, The Problem of the Hot Lady, Strengthen Your Thoughts with Manliness, We're So Sick of These Horny Men, I'd Put a Bug in a Headlock Check out Gordie's TTRPG, Mythomorphosis If you'd like to support Carman's artistic endeavors, visit: https://www.patreon.com/carmandaartsthings If you like our show, find us online to help spread the word! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube. Support us on Patreon to help the show grow at www.patreon.com/wtfolklore. You can find merchandise and information about the show at www.wtfolklorepodcast.com.

rWotD Episode 3251: Domain decomposition methods Welcome to random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia's vast and varied content, one random article at a time.The random article for Sunday, 29 March 2026, is Domain decomposition methods.In mathematics, numerical analysis, and numerical partial differential equations, domain decomposition methods solve a boundary value problem by splitting it into smaller boundary value problems on subdomains and iterating to coordinate the solution between adjacent subdomains. A coarse problem with one or few unknowns per subdomain is used to further coordinate the solution between the subdomains globally. The problems on the subdomains are independent, which makes domain decomposition methods suitable for parallel computing. Domain decomposition methods are typically used as preconditioners for Krylov space iterative methods, such as the conjugate gradient method, GMRES, and LOBPCG.In overlapping domain decomposition methods, the subdomains overlap by more than the interface. Overlapping domain decomposition methods include the Schwarz alternating method and the additive Schwarz method. Many domain decomposition methods can be written and analyzed as a special case of the abstract additive Schwarz method.In non-overlapping methods, the subdomains intersect only on their interface. In primal methods, such as Balancing domain decomposition and BDDC, the continuity of the solution across subdomain interface is enforced by representing the value of the solution on all neighboring subdomains by the same unknown. In dual methods, such as FETI, the continuity of the solution across the subdomain interface is enforced by Lagrange multipliers. The FETI-DP method is hybrid between a dual and a primal method.Non-overlapping domain decomposition methods are also called iterative substructuring methods.Mortar methods are discretization methods for partial differential equations, which use separate discretization on nonoverlapping subdomains. The meshes on the subdomains do not match on the interface, and the equality of the solution is enforced by Lagrange multipliers, judiciously chosen to preserve the accuracy of the solution. In the engineering practice in the finite element method, continuity of solutions between non-matching subdomains is implemented by multiple-point constraints.Finite element simulations of moderate size models require solving linear systems with millions of unknowns. Several hours per time step is an average sequential run time, therefore, parallel computing is a necessity. Domain decomposition methods embody large potential for a parallelization of the finite element methods, and serve a basis for distributed, parallel computations.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:10 UTC on Sunday, 29 March 2026.For the full current version of the article, see Domain decomposition methods on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm generative Jasmine.

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Welcome backkkk!!Today is a big catch up lol, and I am also chatting about reframing fitness as an infinite game - that you just need to keep playing.Chapters00:00 Emma's Wedding Journey12:25 Infinite Game of Fitness28:13 The Lifelong Journey of Fitness31:04 Finite vs. Infinite Mindset in Fitness35:52 Embracing the Infinite Game39:10 The Importance of Consistency and Patience47:54 Learning from Setbacks and FailuresI hope you enjoy, and don't forget to share and tag me on insta @emma.currivan xoxo⁠⁠⁠⁠CHAT TO ME ABOUT COACHING ON WHATSAPP⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠JOIN MY PATREON HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - just 5.99 a month hehe xTo submit a question for a Q&A episode⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Catch you in the next one xo

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century existentialist and feminist philosopher, novelist, essayist, and playwright Simone de Beauvoir's book, The Ethics of Ambiguity It focuses specifically on her discussion in the section "The Present And The Future", which centers on the notion of totalities like humanity, the universe, and history, which turn out to be "detotalized totalities", having their meaning for and through finite individuals To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 3500 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase De Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity - amzn.to/32IbKya

Bible StudyDon't just take our word for it . . . take His! We would encourage you to spend time examining the following Scriptures that shaped this sermon: Sermon NotesIntroductionIllustration: honeymoon betrayal → shocking picture of covenant unfaithfulness.This mirrors what Israel does in Exodus 32.While God gives instructions for the Tabernacle, Israel breaks covenant through idolatry.The passage shows:The pattern of idolatry in our heartsThe hope of intercession before a holy GodThree movements:Impatience → Idolatry → Intercession1. Impatience (v.1)Cause of Israel's sin: disappointment caused by delay.Moses delayed on the mountain (~40 days).The people grew restless and took matters into their own hands.Impatience reveals distrust in God's timing.ClarificationDifficult waiting itself is not sinful.Scripture invites honest lament and prayer (e.g., Psalms).DangerIf disappointment is not brought to God, it can become:distrustself-reliancetaking control2. IdolatryImpatience leads Israel to create the golden calf.Characteristics of Idolatry1. It is absurdCreatures say, “make us gods.”Finite humans attempt to manufacture a deity.2. It seeks a visible, controllable godA desire to see God is natural.But creating something to represent Him violates God's commands.3. It twists God's giftsGold meant for the tabernacle becomes material for an idol.Good gifts become ultimate things.4. It produces bad fruitLoss of self-controlMoral compromiseDamage to relationshipsDiagnostic QuestionWhere is your:ultimate hope?identity?security?Enjoy God's gifts—but steward them for his glory and the good of others.3. IntercessionThe covenant is broken.God's wrath is justly stirred (v.10).Moses' IntercessionMoses pleads for the people.Result:“The Lord relented…” (v.14)Judgment is restrained.The covenant continues.MeaningGod sovereignly chose intercession as the means through which mercy would come.Greater FulfillmentMoses points forward to Jesus Christ, the ultimate intercessor.Jesus:stands between God and sinnersbears God's wrathsecures forgiveness1 John 2:1–2:Christ is our advocatethe propitiation for our sins - the means by which God meets us in grace and mercy, rather than judgment and condemnationDiscussion Questions1. What delay in your life is testing your trust in God? Is it driving you toward prayer or impatience?2. What are examples of modern, even socially acceptable idols?3. Give an example of how God helped you recognize idolatrous tendencies in your own life?4. Jesus is the ultimate intercessor through his Cross.  But we can be "mini-intercessors" through our prayers for others. Discuss the relationship between God's sovereignty (he knows his good plans) and the genuine effectiveness of our prayers.Questions?Do you have a question about today's sermon? Email Randy Forrester ().

On this episode of The Football Card Podcast, Pack and Brett open Season 4 with momentum.Since their last recording, the hobby has seen 54 six-figure sales and two multi-million dollar sales. Only three were football cards. That gap sparks a bigger conversation.They break down massive 1997 Metal Universe PMG Green sales, including Brett Favre, Jerry Rice, and Dan Marino, and what those numbers mean for football long term.They debate Topps Chrome Football and whether it will match Prizm in price and popularity. They discuss what basketball's return to Chrome reveals about photography, scarcity, and the power of the Superfractor. They tackle a listener question about market fatigue. Are collectors chasing gold, Finite, and Kaboom because they love them—or because the market tells them to?They also spotlight recent Finite and Gold Vinyl sales, share updates on their personal collecting projects, and introduce a new Season 4 Card Call Out challenge.If you care about scarcity, psychology, and what really drives the football card market, this one hits.Check out Card Ladder the official data partner of Stacking SlabsFollow The Football Card Podcast on Instagram for memes and stuff.Get your free copy of Collecting For Keeps: Finding Meaning In A Hobby Built On HypeGet exclusive content, promote your cards, and connect with other collectors who listen to the pod today by joining the Patreon: Join Stacking Slabs Podcast Patreon[Distributed on Sunday] Sign up for the Stacking Slabs Weekly Rip Newsletter using this linkFollow Stacking Slabs: | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | TiktokFollow Pack: | Instagram ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Le Olimpiadi hanno acceso i riflettori su Bormio e Livigno, ma soprattutto sull'intera Valtellina. L'evento si chiude con un giudizio organizzativo ampiamente positivo: istituzioni coordinate, macchina operativa rodata, visibilità internazionale senza precedenti. La sfida ora è capire che cosa resta, oltre le immagini e i numeri.La strategia dichiarata è stata chiara: trasformare la vetrina globale in un volano per il territorio. Portare la Valtellina nel mondo e il mondo in Valtellina. Nuovi mercati si sono affacciati, dagli Stati Uniti al Canada, dall'Australia al Brasile. La scommessa è intercettare una domanda più qualificata, puntare sulla qualità più che sulla quantità.Eppure, i nodi non mancano. L'offerta ricettiva è concentrata e non sempre all'altezza di una domanda internazionale esigente. Il rischio di un rialzo strutturale dei prezzi preoccupa una parte della popolazione, così come la distribuzione della ricchezza generata dal turismo, percepita da alcuni come poco diffusa. Il settore resta trainante, ma non può essere l'unico orizzonte.C'è poi il tema dei servizi: sanità, trasporti, personale qualificato. L'eredità olimpica potrà consolidarsi solo se le infrastrutture attivate per l'evento diventeranno stabili e funzionali alla vita quotidiana, contrastando spopolamento e precarietà occupazionale.Sul piano identitario, la ribalta mediatica ha premiato anche i prodotti locali: i pizzoccheri raccontati come simbolo di una “tribù” alpina, le filiere corte, il legame tra paesaggio e agricoltura. Per alcuni questa è la vera eredità: fare sistema, promuovere insieme territorio e produzioni, rafforzare un'immagine coerente e riconoscibile.Altri, però, invitano alla prudenza. Il modello di sviluppo centrato sull'industria dello sci, con investimenti ingenti in impianti e innevamento artificiale, viene messo in discussione alla luce dei cambiamenti climatici e dei costi pubblici. Ci si chiede se sia sostenibile continuare su questa strada o se non serva una diversificazione più coraggiosa.Tra entusiasmo e scetticismo, la partita del dopo Olimpiadi è aperta. Non si tratta più di organizzare un evento, ma di scegliere una direzione. Restare una cartolina di successo o diventare un territorio capace di coniugare crescita, equilibrio ambientale e coesione sociale. La vera eredità si misurerà nei prossimi anni.Ospiti:

Le Olimpiadi hanno acceso i riflettori su Bormio e Livigno, ma soprattutto sull'intera Valtellina. L'evento si chiude con un giudizio organizzativo ampiamente positivo: istituzioni coordinate, macchina operativa rodata, visibilità internazionale senza precedenti. La sfida ora è capire che cosa resta, oltre le immagini e i numeri.La strategia dichiarata è stata chiara: trasformare la vetrina globale in un volano per il territorio. Portare la Valtellina nel mondo e il mondo in Valtellina. Nuovi mercati si sono affacciati, dagli Stati Uniti al Canada, dall'Australia al Brasile. La scommessa è intercettare una domanda più qualificata, puntare sulla qualità più che sulla quantità.Eppure, i nodi non mancano. L'offerta ricettiva è concentrata e non sempre all'altezza di una domanda internazionale esigente. Il rischio di un rialzo strutturale dei prezzi preoccupa una parte della popolazione, così come la distribuzione della ricchezza generata dal turismo, percepita da alcuni come poco diffusa. Il settore resta trainante, ma non può essere l'unico orizzonte.C'è poi il tema dei servizi: sanità, trasporti, personale qualificato. L'eredità olimpica potrà consolidarsi solo se le infrastrutture attivate per l'evento diventeranno stabili e funzionali alla vita quotidiana, contrastando spopolamento e precarietà occupazionale.Sul piano identitario, la ribalta mediatica ha premiato anche i prodotti locali: i pizzoccheri raccontati come simbolo di una “tribù” alpina, le filiere corte, il legame tra paesaggio e agricoltura. Per alcuni questa è la vera eredità: fare sistema, promuovere insieme territorio e produzioni, rafforzare un'immagine coerente e riconoscibile.Altri, però, invitano alla prudenza. Il modello di sviluppo centrato sull'industria dello sci, con investimenti ingenti in impianti e innevamento artificiale, viene messo in discussione alla luce dei cambiamenti climatici e dei costi pubblici. Ci si chiede se sia sostenibile continuare su questa strada o se non serva una diversificazione più coraggiosa.Tra entusiasmo e scetticismo, la partita del dopo Olimpiadi è aperta. Non si tratta più di organizzare un evento, ma di scegliere una direzione. Restare una cartolina di successo o diventare un territorio capace di coniugare crescita, equilibrio ambientale e coesione sociale. La vera eredità si misurerà nei prossimi anni.Ospiti:Massimo Sertori, Assessore di Regione Lombardia alla montagna e agli enti localiAlessandro Negrini, chef stellato valtellineseAngelo Costanzo , presidente del centro culturale “oltre i muri” di Sondrio

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Gabe Ravacci, CTO and co-founder at Internet Backyard, breaks down what the “computer economy” really looks like when you zoom in on data centers, billing, invoicing, and the financial plumbing nobody wants to touch. He shares how a rejected YC application, a finance stint, and a handful of hard lessons pushed him from hardware curiosity to building fintech infrastructure for compute.If you care about where compute is headed, or you are early in your career and trying to find your path without overplanning it, this one will land.Key Takeaways• Startups often happen “by accident” when your competence meets the right problem at the right time• Compute accessibility is not only a chip problem, it is also a finance and operations problem• Rejection can be data, not a verdict, treat it as feedback to sharpen the craft• A real online presence is less about networking and more about being genuinely useful in public• Time blocking and single task focus beats grinding when you are juggling school, work, and a startupTimestamped Highlights00:28 What Internet Backyard is building, fintech infrastructure for data center financial operations01:37 The first startup attempt, cheaper compute via FPGA based prototyping, and why investors passed04:48 The pivot, from hardware tools to a finance informed view of compute and transparency gaps06:55 How Gabe reframed YC rejection, process over outcome, “a tree of failures” that builds skill08:29 Building a digital brand on X, what he posted, how he learned in public, and why it worked13:36 The real balancing act, dropping classes, finishing the degree well, and strict time blocking20:00 Books that shaped his thinking, Siddhartha, The Art of Learning, Finite and Infinite GamesA line worth keeping“The process is really more important than any outcome.”Pro Tips for builders• Treat learning like a skill, ask better questions before you chase better answers• Make focus a system, set blocks, mute distractions, and do one thing at a time• Share what you are learning in public, not to perform, but to be useful and find signalCall to ActionIf this episode sparked an idea, follow or subscribe so you do not miss the next one. Also check out Amir's newsletter for more conversations at the intersection of people, impact, and technology.

What is infinity? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Negin Farsad explore whether we are in a finite universe, the issues with infinity, string theory, and more with theoretical physicist Stephon Alexander.Originally aired April 11, 2023. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/cosmic-queries-understanding-infinity-with-stephon-alexander/ Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of StarTalk Radio ad-free and a whole week early.Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/EBAH/AAPA information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/WBT865. CME/EBAH/AAPA credit will be available until January 25, 2027.Choices, Changes, and Global Perspectives in CLL Care: Real-World Insights and New Evidence on Finite Therapy With Targeted Agents In support of improving patient care, PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.SupportThis activity is supported by an independent educational grant from AstraZeneca.Disclosure information is available at the beginning of the video presentation.

This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/EBAH/AAPA information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/WBT865. CME/EBAH/AAPA credit will be available until January 25, 2027.Choices, Changes, and Global Perspectives in CLL Care: Real-World Insights and New Evidence on Finite Therapy With Targeted Agents In support of improving patient care, PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.SupportThis activity is supported by an independent educational grant from AstraZeneca.Disclosure information is available at the beginning of the video presentation.

This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/EBAH/AAPA information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/WBT865. CME/EBAH/AAPA credit will be available until January 25, 2027.Choices, Changes, and Global Perspectives in CLL Care: Real-World Insights and New Evidence on Finite Therapy With Targeted Agents In support of improving patient care, PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.SupportThis activity is supported by an independent educational grant from AstraZeneca.Disclosure information is available at the beginning of the video presentation.

This content has been developed for healthcare professionals only. Patients who seek health information should consult with their physician or relevant patient advocacy groups.For the full presentation, downloadable Practice Aids, slides, and complete CME/EBAH/AAPA information, and to apply for credit, please visit us at PeerView.com/WBT865. CME/EBAH/AAPA credit will be available until January 25, 2027.Choices, Changes, and Global Perspectives in CLL Care: Real-World Insights and New Evidence on Finite Therapy With Targeted Agents In support of improving patient care, PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education, is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.SupportThis activity is supported by an independent educational grant from AstraZeneca.Disclosure information is available at the beginning of the video presentation.

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Life is starting to get back to normal for some, but not nearly for all.Power restoration is still slow-going in some communities. One in five homes in Nashville is still in the dark and cold. And in some parts of town, work has hardly begun. This hour, we're going to get an update about the arrival of the National Guard, hear about schools running out of snow days, and learn the warning signs about carbon monoxide poisoning. Plus we'll visit Brown's Diner where they're emptying the freezer before it goes bad — and we remember the ice storm of 1994. It's another recovery show.After the live show ends, tune into the latest Mayor's News Conference.Guests:  Rep. Caleb Hemmer (D), Tennessee House Representative, District 59 Camellia Burris, WPLN Education Reporter John Isbell, Sumner County Mayor Rose Gilbert, WPLN General Assignment Reporter Nadine Moore, Birria Babe Owner Justin Barney, WPLN Music Reporter

God is loving and merciful, not judgmental and cruel Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Last week I began sharing with you what is essentially a book report on the book called That All Shall Be Saved, Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation by David Bentley Hart, and he's the translator of the New Testament that I've been using. So, last week we got up to page 21 out of this book, and now I'm all the way up to page 85, so we'll see what happened in this latest round of reading. Now, David Bentley Hart's style of writing may not be for everyone. It's very academic, very high-minded and educated and erudite—difficult to follow if you're not accustomed to reading scholastic writing. But I believe his heart's in the right place, and I agree with pretty much everything he says. I will do my best to reinterpret what he is saying in simpler words, in case you're interested in the content, but not in its delivery method. So, picking it up on page 21, Hart says, And what could be more absurd than the claim that God's ways so exceed comprehension, that we dare not presume even to distinguish benevolence from malevolence in the divine, inasmuch as either can result in the same endless excruciating despair? Here the docile believer is simply commanded to nod in acquiescence, quietly and submissively, to feel moved at a strange and stirring obscurity, and to accept that, if only he or she could sound the depths of this mystery, its essence would somehow be revealed as infinite beauty and love. A rational person capable of that assent, however, of believing all of this to be a paradox concealing a deeper, wholly coherent truth, rather than a gross contradiction, has probably suffered such chronic intellectual and moral malformation that he or she is no longer able to recognize certain very plain truths, such as the truth that he or she has been taught to approve of divine deeds that, were they reduced to a human scale of action, would immediately be recognizable as expressions of unalloyed spite. And he's talking about the idea that most everyone and everything is going to hell and will suffer eternal torment. That is an interpretation or misinterpretation of the word brought about by incorrect translation of the original Coptic. Most of our Bible translations come off of old Latin Vulgate translations, and then they've been modernized. But that's how errors are brought forward. And what Hart has done in his New Testament translation is go back to the original, very oldest transcripts, still in Greek, before they were translated to Latin. And he did what he called a pitilessly accurate translation, where Hart was not trying to make the words that are being translated fit into a predetermined doctrine, like everyone going to hell, or like the Trinity, or eternal damnation. These things we've been taught to believe are in the Scripture, but when you actually go back to the original Scriptures prior to the Latin translations, they are not in the Scripture. And so this book that I'm doing the book report on here, That All Shall Be Saved, this is about universal salvation, and doing away with the idea. And he says in this section I just read you, that it is a malevolent idea, unalloyed spite, unalloyed meaning pure spite on the part of God, that's going to send everyone to hell that doesn't get it. And that we have been commanded by the Church over the last 2,000 years to just nod our heads and say, oh, well, it's God's will, or oh, well, how can I presume to distinguish benevolence from malevolence, good intention from bad intention on the part of God, because God is so great and good. We're supposed to be docile believers, to acquiesce, that is, to go along with, to quietly and submissively accept that we don't get it, that we don't understand the depths of the mystery, and someday we will, and that God is good, and God is just, and therefore everyone's going to hell, except for those few preordained elect from before time began. So this book is entirely against that proposition. So moving on, what I did was I read the book through, and I've highlighted the parts that seem worth sharing or very interesting. Now we're jumping to page 35, where he says that certain people, of my acquaintance who are committed to what is often called an intellectualist model of human liberty, as I am myself, [he says], but who also insist that it is possible for a soul freely to reject God's love with such perfect perpiscuity of understanding and intention as to merit eternal suffering. And we can tell from the context that perpiscuity means you get it. So he's saying, how is it even possible for a soul to freely reject the love of God and consign oneself into eternal torment? It just doesn't work. It's not possible. He says, this is an altogether dizzying contradiction. In simplest terms, that is to say, they, [that is, the intellectualists], want to assert that all true freedom is an orientation of the rational will toward an end that the mind takes in some sense to be the good, and so takes also as the one end that can fulfill the mind's nature and supply its desires. This means that the better the rational will knows the Good, and that's a capital G, Good, for what it is, the more that is that the will is freed from those forces that distort reason and lead the soul toward improper ends. The more it will long for and seek after the true good in itself, and conversely, the more rationally it seeks the good, the freer it is. He says that in terms of the great Maximus the Confessor, who lived from 580 to 660, the natural will within us, which is the rational ground of our whole power of volition, must tend only toward God as its true end, for God is goodness as such, whereas our gnomic or deliberative will can stray from him, but only to the degree that it has been blinded to the truth of who he is and what we are, and as a result has come to seek a false end as the true end. In short, sin requires some degree of ignorance, and ignorance is by definition a diverting of the mind and will to an end they would not naturally pursue. So, in other words, we all want what's best for ourself, even in the most selfish sense, even in the most egoic sense. The ego wants what is best for this person that it is part of, that that is the rational end of the ego's striving, what is best, and that there is a thing called good in the absolute sense, and if we realize that, then we would strive toward the good, by definition. Carrying on, page 37, I'm not saying that we do not in some very significant sense make our own exceedingly substantial voluntary contributions to our estrangement from the good in this life. And, see, he's just saying we all screw up. Even if we are seeking the good, we often fall backwards into the bad, okay? Up to a certain point, [he says], it is undeniable, but past that point it is manifest falsehood. There is no such thing as perfect freedom in this life, or perfect understanding, and it is sheer nonsense to suggest that we possess limitless or unqualified liberty. Therefore, we are incapable of contracting a limitless or unqualified guilt. There are always extenuating circumstances. Well, in a sense, that's true of all of us and all of our circumstances. We are a product of our environment, to some extent. But don't forget that in the Gnostic view, we also contain the pure goodness of God, the capital S Self, that reflects the Fullness of God. So we do know what goodness is, even if we are surrounded by badness. Quoting Hart again, page 40, Here though, I have to note that it is a thoroughly modern and wholly illogical notion that the power of absolutely unpremised liberty, obeying no rationale except its own spontaneous volition toward whatever end it might pose for itself, is either a real logical possibility or, in any meaningful sense, a proper definition of freedom. See? He's saying it's thoroughly modern and wholly illogical to think that we have complete freedom of will, and that we can choose to follow any unethical or immoral end that we wish to, because what's it matter? One choice being pretty much the same as another, you see. He goes on to say, in page 40, A choice made without rationale is a contradiction in terms. At the same time, any movement of the will prompted by an entirely perverse rationale would be, by definition, wholly irrational. Insane, that is to say. And therefore, no more truly free than a psychotic episode. The more one is in one's right mind, the more that is that one is conscious of God as the goodness that fulfills all beings. And the more one recognizes that one's own nature can have its true completion and joy nowhere but in Him, and the more one is unfettered by distorting misperceptions, deranged passions, and the encumbrances of past mistakes, the more inevitable is one's surrender to God, liberated from all ignorance, emancipated from all the adverse conditions of this life, the rational soul could freely will only its own union with God, and thereby its own supreme beatitude. We are, as it were, doomed to happiness, so long as our natures follow their healthiest impulses unhindered. And we cannot not will the satisfaction of our beings in our true final end, a transcendent good lying behind and beyond all the proximate ends we might be moved to pursue. This is no constraint upon the freedom of the will, coherently conceived. It is simply the consequence of possessing a nature produced by and for the transcendent good, a nature whose proper end has been fashioned in harmony with a supernatural purpose. God has made us for Himself, as Augustine would say, and our hearts are restless till they rest in Him. A rational nature seeks a rational end, truth, which is God Himself. The irresistibility of God for any soul that has been truly set free is no more a constraint placed upon its liberty than is the irresistible attraction of a flowing spring to fresh water in a desert place to a man who is dying of thirst. To choose not to drink in that circumstance would not be an act of freedom on his part, but only a manifestation of the delusions that enslave him and force him to inflict violence upon himself, contrary to his nature. Do you follow the reasoning there? That boils down to simply saying it is logical. Even Mr. Spock would find it logical for a human to pursue the good in its own best interests, and that it is illogical, illogical all the way to insanity, to refuse the good, to refuse what is best for you. It's a manifestation of insanity, to refuse the love of God. How's that for laying it out? I really appreciate logic, you know, because this is a logical universe. If the laws of physics and chemistry didn't hold true to logic, and that includes math, you see, 2 plus 2 equals 4, etc., all the way through all the difficult math, the quantum physics, and the string theory, and so forth, this is a logical universe based upon the Aeon known as Logos, logic. And so, therefore, to reject logic, it's not smart, it's not clever, it's not freedom. And, by the way, this is about the level of pushback I see in, for example, YouTube comments that reject the gospel. They're pretty much on the order of, oh, yeah, I can die of thirst if I want to, so F off. Okay, well, good luck with that, right? Carrying on, page 43. None of this should need saying, to be honest. We should all already know that whenever the term justice and eternal punishment are set side by side as if they were logically compatible, the boundaries of the rational have been violated. If we were not so stupefied by the hoary and venerable myth that eternal damnation is an essential element of the original Christian message, and then he says in parentheses, which, not to spoil later plot developments here, it is not, we would not even waste our time on so preposterous a conjunction. From the perspective of Christian belief, the very notion of a punishment that is not intended ultimately to be remedial is morally dubious, and he says in parentheses, and I submit anyone who doubts this has never understood Christian teaching at all. But even if one believes that Christianity makes room for the condign imposition, [and condign means proper or fitting], imposition of purely retributive punishments, it remains the case that a retribution consisting in unending suffering, imposed as recompense for the actions of a finite intellect and will, must be by any sound definition disproportionate, unjust, and at the last, nothing more than an expression of sheer pointless cruelty. And of course, I do find that attitude on the part of Christians I talk to and try to explain the idea of universal salvation being Christ's true mission, that all shall be redeemed, every knee shall bow. They'd much rather send people to hell, and when you see their faces as they're saying it, it's not, oh, you know, I'm so sorry that it's this way and my heart breaks, but I'm afraid they're all going to hell. It's not like that at all. It's like, damn straight, they deserve to go to hell. Now, you take that kind of anger and cruelty when you consider that they are advocating unending, excruciating pain and punishment, and then you try to say that that is God's will, that goodness incorporates unending punishment. And Hart's saying, indeed, especially unending punishment that isn't for remediation, isn't to make them a better person, but simply to make them hurt. And who are you punishing? Finite beings with limited time and intelligence and ability to reason with things that happened in their past. Maybe they were brought up by someone very cruel who taught them cruelty, and so they carry on cruelty. And then that the God of all love and the God of all justice would send them to hell for eternal torment. And up until quite recently, even babies who were unbaptized would be sent to hell for eternal torment. And then someone came up with the idea of a baby purgatory where unbaptized babies never get to go to heaven, but they're not going to be eternally punished either. They're just going to go to a baby land where they're held apart from the rest of the redeemed. Well, really? That's hardly any better. I mean, it's somewhat better, but why shouldn't these pure babies who pretty much incorporate the Fullness of the Self and love of God, why wouldn't God want them back? You see, it doesn't make any sense. And if you're a Christian listening to me today who has had niggling doubts about certain things, and one of them being this idea of grandma being in hell and in the midst of eternal torture now because she wouldn't listen to your preaching, you can relax about it. Because we are the sower of seeds, but we are not the harvester. It is Christ who harvests the souls, who brings them all home. Back to Hart here again. On page 47, he says, Once more, not a single one of these attempted justifications for the idea of an eternal hell actually improves the picture of God with which the infernalist orthodoxy presents us. And he uses the word infernalist for like the infernal torments of hell. So an infernalist is someone who believes folks are going to hell for eternity. So he says, Once more, not a single one of these attempted justifications for the idea of an eternal hell actually improves the picture of God with which the infernalist orthodoxy presents us. And it is this that should be the chief concern of any believer. All of these arguments still oblige one to believe that a benevolent and omnipotent God would willfully create rational beings destined for an endless torment that they could never, in any rational calculus of personal responsibility, earn for themselves. And to believe also that this somehow is essential to the good news Christianity brought into the world. Isn't it true? When you're in church and you hear the preacher preaching a very nice, very good message about relationships or about moral virtue, and then there is a plea and a threat at the end that if you are sitting in the congregation and you have not accepted Christ as your personal Savior, you may go out and die this afternoon and go to hell. It's not right. It's contradictory. It is not the pure will of God. Page 47 goes on to say, In the end, there is only one logical terminus toward which all these lines of reasoning can lead: When all the possible paths of evasion have tapered away among the weeds, one has to stop, turn around, retrace one's steps back to the beginning of the journey, and finally admit that, if there really is an eternal hell for finite spirits, then it has to be the case that God condemns the damned to endless misery not on account of any sane proportion between what they are capable of meriting and how he chooses to requite them for their sins, but solely as a demonstration of his power to do as he wishes. Now, by the way, when I read the Old Testament, I see that that is often the attitude that Jehovah has towards his subjects. He commands things because he can, and he wants obedience because he wants obedience. Remember, the Demiurge controls through strong strings. He does not approve of willpower. Willpower is messy. Willpower means not obeying the will of God, and he wants to be the sayer of our souls. But the God Above All Gods, the Gnostic God, outranks the Old Testament God. The God Above All Gods is the Father who begat the Son. The Demiurge keeps chaos at bay by forbidding free will in his subjects And so when Jesus says, I and my Father are one, he's not talking about the Old Testament God. He's talking about the God Above All Gods, the originator of consciousness, of love, of life, of free will. And we are all fractals of that Father. Through the Son, through the Fullness of God, we are fractals of all of those powers of the Father–stepped down, because we're smaller fractals. So we all have to return to the Father in the end. When we loose these mortal coils and we're no longer bound to the material that deludes us, then we can finally return to the Father again. So onward and upward is not a trap. Onward and upward is freedom. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. So back to this idea of the Old Testament God enjoying his omnipotent sovereignty. On page 48, Hart is talking about Calvin and predestination. And he says, in book three of Calvin's Institutes, he even asserts that God predestined the human fall from grace, precisely because the whole of everything, creation, fall, redemption, judgment, the eternal bliss of heaven, the endless torments of hell, and whatever else, exists solely for the sake of a perfect display of the full range of God's omnipotent sovereignty, which for some reason absolutely must be displayed. He goes on to say he doesn't know how to respond to that, because, I know it to be based on a notoriously confused reading of Scripture, one whose history goes all the way back to the late Augustine, a towering genius whose inability to read Greek and consequent reliance on defective Latin translations turned out to be the single most tragically consequential case of linguistic incompetence in Christian history. In equal part, however, it is because I regard the picture of God thus produced to be a metaphysical absurdity, a God who is at once supposedly the source of all things, and yet also the one whose nature is necessarily thoroughly polluted by arbitrariness. And no matter how orthodox Calvinists might protest, there is no other way to understand the story of election and dereliction that Calvin tells, which would mean that in some sense he is a finite being, that is God, in whom possibility exceeds actuality, and the irrational exceeds the rational. A far greater concern than either of these theological defects, either the deeply misguided scriptural exegesis or the inept metaphysics of the divine, it is the moral horror in such language. So that's as far as we're going to go today. In next week's continuance of this train of thought, Hart will talk about the difference between the God Above All Gods, essentially, even though Hart's not calling himself a Gnostic. When he speaks of God, or Goodness with capital G, he is speaking of the God Above All Gods. And when he contrasts it with the God of Calvin and Augustine in the Old Testament, that is the Demiurgic God. I've noticed that many modern people seem to think of God as a yin-yang type of completion, that is, where evil balances good, where darkness is necessary to balance light, where the purpose of humanity, or what happens here in humanity, is that we are instantiating strife and struggle and evil for the teaching of God, for the completion of God. That is not right. That's wrong theology, folks. Our God is all goodness, and there is no evil that emanates from God. Well, where did evil come from then? It's merely the absence of good. So evil is the absence of goodness. The archons are the shadows of the Aeons. And when the light fully comes and fills all of space, the shadows will disappear, and the light comes along with the love. And so that's our job, to realize that universal and ethereal love, and to so let our light shine and our lives shine with love, that the Demiurge will be eventually won over. And as for the shadows, every time we bring light into the world, we're diminishing the power of the Demiurge. We're shining light onto a shadow and evaporating it. Next week, we'll pick this up for part three of That All Shall Be Saved by David Bentley Hart. Let me know what you think of this. Send me some comments. Onward and upward. God bless us all. »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»> Please buy my book–A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel. In this book you will find the original Christian theology as taught by Jesus before the Catholic Church and the Emperor of Rome got their hands on it. A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel is for seekers and scholars alike. 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Japanese-Australian chess player, trainer, and content creator Junta Ikeda is the 2013 Japanese National Chess Champion and a runner-up in the 2020 Australian Championship. These days, with a full-time job outside of chess, Junta devotes most of his chess energy to helping others improve. He has shared countless insights on his excellent blog, Infinite Chess, which I've been reading religiously since its launch. There, Junta offers thoughtful advice on topics such as improving your tactics, managing the clock, and budgeting your study time. For this interview, I compiled questions based on some of his most insightful observations as we explored chess improvement from a wide range of angles. Toward the end of the conversation, we also touched on Junta's background, chess in Japan, and even picked up a few non-chess book recommendations.   Check out Chessiverse and take out of their end of year sale here: http://chessiverse.com/ Check out IM John Bartholomew's Comprehensive Scandinavian Course here:  https://chessiverse.com/courses/scandi Find out more about Chessdojo's classes here: https://www.chessdojo.club/blog/live-classes Use Code NY26 to get a free month of the tier program Use Code Ben to save 10% off anything  0:04- Junta joins me! Does Junta's fellow Canberra, Australia resident, IM Andras Toth exist in real life? 0:06- How does Junta respond to FM Nate Solon's inflammatory tweet about chess books? https://x.com/natesolon/status/1988955760965963898?s=20 0:11- Junta's coaching and content creation background  0:12- What are the most common mistakes Junta sees amateurs make?  0:19- What did Junta learn from the book How to Become a Deadly Chess Tactician? 22:00- Junta shares some advice from his lifelong battles with time trouble  What I needed to cure my time trouble: https://juntaikeda.substack.com/p/how-i-escaped-time-trouble-hell In search of lost time: 20 Time Trouble Tips https://juntaikeda.substack.com/p/1-in-search-of-lost-time-20-time EP 383 with Dan Bock 24:00- How to learn to face your fears Mentioned: The Uncool by Cameron Crowe 39:00- The Impact of Talent in Chess Mentioned: GM Moulthan Ly, GM Max Illingworth  47:00- How did “the worst openings player in Australia” learn to tolerate them? Mentioned: GM David Smerdon's The Complete Chess Swindler  51:00- Thanks to our sponsor, Chessable.com! Checkout their holiday sale here: https://www.chessable.com/courses/all/all/offer/ 52:00- What type of challenging exercises does Junta recommend in order to improve calculation? Mentioned: IM Kostya Kavutskiy's Endgame Studies 101, IM Tatev Abrahamyan's Endgame Studies: Solve to Evolve, Domination by Kasparyan, Studies for Practical Players  Sign up for Chessable Pro here: https://www.chessable.com/pro/?utm_source=affiliate&utm_medium=benjohnson&utm_campaign=pro 1:01:00- Junta's recommended chess books and resources Mentioned: Lichess, The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games , My Great Predecessors   My 10 Memorable Chess Books https://juntaikeda.substack.com/p/my-10-memorable-chess-books 1:02:00- Is chess growing in Japan despite Shogi's popularity? 1:08:00-  Balancing Chess and Content Creation 1:10:00- Why Junta wishes he had committed more to chess than university  1:13:00- Will Junta pursue the GM title? Mentioned: Dojo Talks with IM-elect Gauri Shankar  1:15:00- Non chess book recs! Mentioned: Murakami, Infinite Jest, The Book of Disquiet, Finite & Infinite Games  1:19:00- Thanks to Junta for sharing his advice and perspective!  Here is how to keep up with his work: Infinite Chess Blog: https://juntaikeda.substack.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@juntaikeda Website: https://juntaikeda.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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COACHING | Mindset is in the invisible lens through which we experience everything & what determines how we grow or remain stuck. Dylan, Angela, and Abbie discuss the 8 mindsets that shape our reality: Fixed vs Growth, Scarcity vs Abundance, Entitlement vs Ownership, Self vs Others, Victim vs Agency, Short-term vs Long-Term, Fragility vs Anti-Fragility and Finite vs Infinite. They dig into each mindset spectrum, the challenges and opportunities within each and the outcome of choosing to grow and become.  Access the resource at: https://c21forge.com/episode/8-mindsets-to-shape-your-reality/   Subscribe to the More Than More Podcast for new weekly episodes as we discuss building meaningful and impactful businesses, careers, and lives through real estate. Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube   

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Background - As a Christian father, the answers are deeply rooted in my faith and my commitment to my family. How Much Time Do You Have Left?The simple answer is: I don't know, but I know it's a gift.The Bible teaches us in James 4:14, “Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.”As a father, I feel the weight of this truth more acutely than ever. My time is not my own; it's a stewardship entrusted to me by God.• Finite and Fragile: Whether I have 50 years, 5 years, or just the remainder of this day, the clock is ticking on my earthly assignment. My hope is not in the length of my life, but in the promise of eternity with Christ.• The Focus is Today: I try to live in light of Psalm 90:12, which asks God to “teach us to number our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.” Numbering them means cherishing this moment—not procrastinating the important things until a promised tomorrow that may never come.What Are You Doing With It?I am trying, imperfectly but earnestly, to do three main things with the time I have left: Love, Serve, and Equip.1. Loving God and My Wife• My primary call is to love the Lord with all my heart, soul, and mind (Matthew 22:37). This informs everything else.• I am committed to loving my wife as Christ loved the church (Ephesians 5:25), sacrificially and faithfully. She is my partner in this journey, and a strong, Christ-centered marriage is the foundation of our home.2. Serving My Family and Community• Being Present: This is the hardest part. I have not always been good at this.• Serving Others: My wife and I aim to model selfless service, whether it's volunteering at our church, helping a neighbor, or supporting missions. I want my children to see that life isn't about accumulating but about contributing.3. Equipping My Children• This is the core of my fatherhood. My job isn't just to provide for them physically, but to pass on a durable faith—a faith that can survive college, career pressure, and cultural chaos.• We regularly pray together, read the Bible, and talk openly about God's role in our daily lives. I am constantly asking myself: If I were gone tomorrow, have I pointed them clearly enough to the Savior?One Thing You Can DoIf I could only choose one thing to focus my remaining time on, it would be this:rocksolidfamilies.orgSupport the show#Rocksolidfamilies,#familytherapy,#marriagecounseling,#parenting,#faithbasedcounseling,#counseling,#Strongdads,#coaching,#lifecoach,#lifecoaching,#marriagecoaching,#marriageandfamily,#control,#security,#respect,#affection,#love,#purpose,#faith,#mastersofdisaster,#storms,#disasterrelief,#tornados,#hurricanes,#floods

One of the most anticipated games of this generation gets delayed again, but will another delay really matter in the grand scheme of things? How do our hosts and listeners feel about a multi-month delay for Grand Theft Auto VI? Could some of the recent struggles internally lead to greater issues? We discuss this and much more in gaming on another week of the longest running video game podcast, Orange Lounge Radio.   OLR: The Final Episode will air on 23, November 2025.   Also in the News: * Halo Infinite is in fact Finite * Layoffs at SquareEnix * Mass Effect TV Series Update and other N7 Day Notes * Splatter World ROM Dumped   All this and more on the show where EVERY gamer has a voice-- Orange Lounge Radio! LIVE on the VOG Network, Sunday nights at 6 Pacific, 9 Eastern www.vognetwork.com Mailbag: participate (at) orangeloungeradio dot com

SHOW NOTES: https://eggshelltherapy.com/podcast-blog/2025/10/27/deathanxiety/I sat down with philosopher Tom Cochrane to explore death anxiety, happiness, and how we cope when existential dread surfaces. We began with the classic philosophical arguments against fearing death. For Tom, ultimate comfort does not require a cosmic designer. It comes from recognizing the world's intrinsic value. He advocates for what he calls "aestheticism," seeing the universe as beautiful, sublime, dramatic, and worthwhile on its own terms. This perspective is available to both atheists and theists. On self-sufficiency, Tom's critique is pointed and unique. A fully self-contained life becomes emotionally flat, he likened it to being like a ‘stale lemonade'. Humans are "contingent to the bone" and flourish through embraced interdependence and risk, not through isolation.The key insight: we have control over our imagination. Even when it runs away from us, we can redirect it and build better habits of attention. About Tom Cochrane: Born in the UK, Tom completed his BA (hons) in philosophy at University College London, followed by a MA in music composition at Birmingham Conservatoire, and then a PhD in philosophy at the University of Nottingham. His PhD supervisor was Gregory Currie.  Following his PhD, Tom was a postdoctoral fellow at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva (2007-2010). He was then an international visiting fellow at the Sonic Arts Research Center, Queen's University Belfast (2010-2012), before moving to the University of Sheffield as a lecturer (2012-2017). After a brief stint at the University of York in 2017, he joined Flinders in February 2018.  Tom's main areas of expertise are the philosophy of mind (particularly emotions) and philosophy of art/aesthetics (particularly music). He also has interests in metaphysics and ethics.  He is the editor of The Emotional Power of Music (Oxford University Press, 2013) He is also the author of The Emotional Mind: A control theory of affective states (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and The Aesthetic Value of the World (Oxford University Press, 2021).Tom's latest book, The Aesthetic Value of the World: https://academic.oup.com/book/39016Eggshell Therapy and Coaching: eggshelltherapy.com About Imi Lo: www.imiloimilo.comInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/eggshelltherapy_imilo/ Newsletters: https://eepurl.com/bykHRzDisclaimers: https://www.eggshelltherapy.com/disclaimers Trigger Warning: This episode may cover sensitive topics including but not limited to suicide, abuse, violence, severe mental illnesses, relationship challenges, sex, drugs, alcohol addiction, psychedelics, and the use of plant medicines. You are advised to refrain from watching or listening to the YouTube Channel or Podcast if you are likely to be offended or adversely impacted by any of these topics. Disclaimer: The content provided is for informational purposes only. Please do not consider any of the content clinical or professional advice. None of the content can substitute mental health intervention. Opinions and views expressed by the host and the guests are personal views and they reserve the right to change their opinions. We also cannot guarantee that everything mentioned is factual and completely accurate. Any action you take based on the information in this episode is taken at your own risk.

A lecture given at L'Abri Fellowship in Southborough, Massachusetts. For more information, visit https://southboroughlabri.org/ by Joshua Chestnut and Esther Dalton The second lecture portion of the Southborough L'Abri Fall 2025 Theme Weekend: "The Glory and Challenge of Ordinary Humanness." Part 1: Lovely, Finite, Connected: Adjectives for Being Human Part 2: Need, Receive, Follow: Verbs for Being Human Concluding Discussion The Copyright for all material on the podcast is held by L'Abri Fellowship. We ask that you respect this by not publishing the material in full or in part in any format or post it on a website without seeking prior permission from L'Abri Fellowship. ©Southborough L'Abri 2025

Let's face it, this really is a first world problem. I bought too much stuff and now I'm not sure what to do with it. This week the Regular Joe's address, the third phase of collecting. First comes coveting, then comes acquisition, then, like the peripheral dog that caught the car, you have the thing and now you have to find a place to put it. This all seemed simpler decades ago, when there was seemingly less stuff. In reality, there are far more display options available now than ever before. Some very reasonably priced, If you have the space  . . . it all comes down to space. If you're a collector, an accumulator, or a hoarder you have dealt with similar realities. OK, maybe not so much if you're a hoarder, but that would be a different episode. Anyways, there's some good advice to be had, or at least a bit of commiseration with kindred souls. There's also the usual random topics and a round of What's in the Box. Thanks for listening!   Links:  Reach Out: e-mail:  Voice Message: 413-475-1650 Text Message: 413-422-0004  Leave us a review on iTunes or Spotify  Like and subscribe on

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Chad Hyams and Bob Stewart dive into the concept of finite resources with Ben Kinney on the Win Make Give podcast. They explore the fixed nature of time, money, and energy, examining how saying yes to one commitment means saying no to another. Ben explains how understanding finite resources can lead to better decision-making in areas of health, wealth, leadership, and legacy. Discover strategies to prioritize effectively and maintain a balance between professional demands and personal relationships. Tune in for insights on aligning your everyday choices with your true priorities. ---------- Connect with the hosts: •    Ben Kinney: https://www.BenKinney.com/ •    Bob Stewart: https://www.linkedin.com/in/activebob •    Chad Hyams: https://ChadHyams.com/ •    Book one of our co-hosts for your next event: https://WinMakeGive.com/speakers/ More ways to connect: •    Join our Facebook group at www.facebook.com/groups/winmakegive •     Sign up for our weekly newsletter: https://WinMakeGive.com/sign-up •     Explore the Win Make Give Podcast Network: https://WinMakeGive.com/ Part of the Win Make Give Podcast Network