Podcasts about japanese samurai

In another of Frame To Frame's traditions, we look at the highest films on the IMDb 250 that we have not seen, alighting on two Japanese Samurai movies - the Kurosawa classic Seven Samurai and the Masaki Kobayashi thriller Harakiri. Timings for this week are: Seven Samurai: (04:50) Harakiri: (32:14) Next episode our theme will be gangs of New York - but not that one. Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Threads Bluesky Letterboxd Facebook Email: frame.to.frame250@gmail.com Support Film Stories Podcast Network on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/simonbrew Twitter: @filmstories Facebook/Instagram/Threads: Film Stories Website: https://filmstories.co.uk/ Gothamlicious by Kevin MacLeod Link License Leave us a review on Podchaser or Apple Podcasts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recent video game trailers and releases are being trashed online and in comment sections. Naughty Dog's “Intergalactic” was criticized so heavily for their protagonist, a shaved head unidentifiable, the company turned off comments on the trailer. Games like “Concord” lost $400-million and were completely shut down. Countless gamers are furious how Ciri from “The Witcher” has had her look completely changed from female to, maybe female, while others are equally furious over “Dragon Age Veilgaurd” and its totally amateur production. Turns out its director is no surprise, an activist. “Assassin's Creed Shadows” was delayed until February 2025 due to criticism and a Japanese petition to cancel the game due to its cultural insensitivity to Japan. Why? Because Yasuke, a real black man who lived as a vassal to the warlord Oda Nobunaga, was turned into a full-fledged Samurai as the main protagonist of a game set in Japan. It doesn't help that half the staff have literally never made a game before. Defenders of the game say it must be racism, because Japanese didn't care that the other character, Naoe, a female Ninja, wasn't real - yeah, but she's also Japanese, not black. This is the same type of argument made by Corrine Busche of Dragon Age and by the outgoing CEO of Sony, Tony Vinciquerra, over Madame Webb: these things failed because people hated them, largely because of hate campaigns directed at minorities. Or, people hated them because they sucked. On the other hand, there were Onna-Bugeisha in Japan, noble female Samurai warriors. In some battles, up to a third of the warriors were female, though it was uncommon. So the same anger directed as AC-Shadows is not justified when we look at “Ghost of Tsushima 2,” which features of a female Japanese Samurai. Whatever your option is, however, the fact is AAA games are on average failing with massive budgets, often incompetent staff, and inflated promises. That's why games such as MiSide are totally dominating with virtually no budget or staff. -FREE ARCHIVE (w. ads)SUBSCRIPTION ARCHIVEX / TWITTER FACEBOOKWEBSITEPAYPALCashApp: $rdgable EMAIL: rdgable@yahoo.com / TSTRadio@protonmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tst-radio--5328407/support.

Today's episode introduces a special guest! Eric talks with his son about what lessons can be learned from Japanese Samurai:)

Assassin's Creed Shadows is putting the "Yasuke the Black Samurai" narrative on blast with Japanese politicians. Apparently, the story of Yasuke is predominantly a work of speculative fiction by white author Thomas Lockley, an Associate Professor at Nihon University College of Law in Tokyo. Not only is there a AAA game on the way and an anime on Netflix, but there's even a BROADWAYS MUSICAL in development. ➡️ Tip Jar and Fan Support: http://ClownfishSupport.com ➡️ Official Merch Store: http://ShopClownfish.com ➡️ Official Website: http://ClownfishTV.com ➡️ Audio Edition: https://open.spotify.com/show/6qJc5C6OkQkaZnGCeuVOD1 The Japanese government is considering investigating the historical accuracy and potential disrespect of the portrayal of the Yasuke Black Samurai story in the game Assassin's Creed Shadows. 00:00 Japan investigating fictional story of black samurai Yasuke in Assassin's Creed, author facing blowback. 02:16 The story of the Yasuke Black Samurai is being investigated by the Japanese government due to its presentation as historical fact in Assassin's Creed Shadows. 03:25 Japan may investigate the historical accuracy of the Yasuke Black Samurai story due to concerns raised by Assassin's Creed Shadows. 05:05 Japan's government might investigate the disrespectful portrayal of Japanese history and culture in the game Assassin's Creed Shadows. 06:32 The author of the Yasuke Black Samurai story is accused of editing Wikipedia to promote his book, leading to backlash and accusations of historical revisionism in the game "Assassin's Creed Shadows: Japan." 08:38 Author wrote a 400 page book on Yasuke based on few references, leading to widespread misinformation and pop culture adaptations. 09:52 A musical about Yasuke, the first non-Japanese Samurai, is being developed despite lack of historical evidence, sparking debate about diversity in feudal Japan. 11:46 The English author is facing criticism for claiming feudal Lords in Japan used black slaves, leading to concerns about rewriting Asian history, with potential for the Japanese government to investigate. About Us: Clownfish TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary channel that covers Entertainment and Tech from a consumer's point of view. We talk about Gaming, Comics, Anime, TV, Movies, Animation and more. Hosted by Kneon and Geeky Sparkles. Disclaimer: This series is produced by Clownfish Studios and WebReef Media, and is part of ClownfishTV.com. Opinions expressed by our contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of our guests, affiliates, sponsors, or advertisers. ClownfishTV.com is an unofficial news source and has no connection to any company that we may cover. This channel and website and the content made available through this site are for educational, entertainment and informational purposes only. These so-called “fair uses” are permitted even if the use of the work would otherwise be infringing. #Ubisoft #Games #AssassinsCreedShadows #News #Commentary #Reaction #Podcast #Comedy #Entertainment #Hollywood #PopCulture #Tech

BEST OF: This special edition episode of TST is a carry over from Ryan hosting Ground Zero. The full two hours are separate but part of a 5 hour marathon Wednesday night, August 16, 2023. Tonight, we discuss the DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN: MAGICIANS OF THE SAMURAI with Antony Cummins. The full episode of Ground Zero can be found at Aftermath Media. August 15 marks the day when Japan remembers the end of WWII. Although most of us remember only fragmentary and carefully selected historical points of this time period, like Hitler burned books and Hiroshima was the site of an atomic explosion, there's always more to the story. The occupying Allied forces in Japan also burned books and engaged in harsh censorship. This continues to this day, where the history not only of WWII has been obscured, but of the Japanese Samurai, along with the Jomon culture which provides us with some of the oldest artifacts in the world - making this a matter of human history. Furthermore, Japan itself is a spiritual and magical repository on the level of Egypt and yet it gets left in a very obscure past or a superficial present. Antony Cummins, author of Dark Side of Japan & How to Become a Modern Samurai,  joins us to discuss: https://www.youtube.com/user/TSOAS2008

Was Mulan real? Did Mulan exist? And, if so, how accurate is the movie Mulan? This week we get down to business to uncover the history behind our favorite female warrior. We meet other important women from East Asian history. Tamoe Gozen, a Japanese Samurai from the 12th century, whose bravery and romances were featured in Heike monogatari (The Tale of Heike), and Murasaki Shikibu, the author of what's thought of as the world's oldest novel, Genji monogatari (The Tale of Gengi). And, of course, we sing a couple of lines from that killer movie soundtrack (singing podcast?). Women in history had something worth fighting for!

Meet Moshe Chaim Shinohara. He hails from a Japanese family of Samurai (Yes, you read that right) and he has chosen to become an Orthodox Jew. There's actually a lot more in common with Samurai's than you realize. He explains it all.   ✬ SPONSOR OF THIS EPISODE ✬   ► PURPLESTAIRS: Your OPPORTUNITY Platform   "Get noticed by your next employer. Hide from everyone else." Really smart way to go about your next career step in life.   Find your next full-time job here → https://purplestairs.com/   ► FELDHEIM: The Making of a Halachic Decision, The Making of a Mentsch & The Making of a Minhag   Delve into the depths of Jewish law, custom, and ethics with Rabbi Moshe Walter's enlightening series of books. R' Walter guides readers through the intricate processes behind Jewish legal rulings, the roots of customs, and the moral dilemmas of our time. These pivotal works provide profound insights into daily Jewish practice and you'll loce reading them.   Get 20% OFF you order!  With code: WALTERLL Buy Here→ https://bit.ly/3WH3WtH   ► BITBEAN: Industry Leading Enterprise Software for Innovative Businesses   Seeking to optimize operations and scale your business? Bitbean empowers ambitious businesses with tailored software solutions.  Automate workflows, streamline data management, and empower your workforce all while reducing your employee overhead by 30% or more.   →  Contact Bitbean today for a FREE CONSULTATION https://bitbean.link/XtX84D   ► TWILLORY: Your Spring Wardrobe is Here   Get $18 OFF your order. Look great, feel great. Use promo code: INSPIRE for $18 OFF    →  Here: https://Twillory.com/   ✬ IN MEMORY OF ✬   This episode is in memory of: • Shimon Dovid ben Yaakov Shloima • Miriam Sarah bas Yaakov Moshe   Help Support our Episodes with Dedicating an Episode in Memory of a Loved One or As a Zechus for a Refuah Shleima!   → Here: https://www.livinglchaim.com/in-memory   EPISODE YOU WILL LOVE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdSwng4s0_A&ab_channel=LivingLchaim   ✬ Donate and Inspire Millions (Tax-Deductible) ✬  Your generous donation enables us at Living Lchaim to share uplifting messages globally, enrich lives, and foster positive change worldwide!    Thank you!

We here at Tales From Aztlantis would like to issue the following public service announcement: PLEASE DO NOT rely on social media posts as your sole source of historical and archaeological information. This should not be a controversial statement. Yet every day, social media feeds are inundated with well-meaning individuals uncritically sharing and reposting pseudohistory without bothering to check the sources or seek outside information.Tik Tok, in particular is easily the worst offender when it comes to the spread of pseudohistory, pseudoarcheology, and general conspiracism. The speed with which a short video containing absolute nonsense can be created and shared on Tik Tok is truly impressive. And thanks to its algorithm, those who consume such disinformation are repeatedly inundated with more and more nonsense, creating a never-ending loop of paranoid conspiracism and pseudo historical group-think. One such outlandish claim that frequently pops up on pseudohistory-promoting social media sites is our topic for this episode: the battle of Cagayan. For those unfamiliar with the general narrative, it usually goes like this: “In 1582, a small, battle-hardened group consisting of 40 Tlaxkaltekah and Spanish soldiers defeated a thousand Japanese Samurai at the Battle of Cagayan in the Phillipines.” At face value this story sounds super badass. But is this actually what happened? Did a small band of spunky Tlaxkaltekah and Spanish soldiers really vanquish a THOUSAND Japanese Samurai in a Thermopylae-style beat down in the Phillipines? Let's find out! Your hosts: Kurly Tlapoyawa is an  archaeologist, ethnohistorian, and filmmaker. His  research covers  Mesoamerica, the American Southwest, and the  historical connections  between the two regions. He is the author of  numerous books and has  presented lectures at the University of New  Mexico, Harvard University,  Yale University, San Diego State  University, and numerous others. He  most recently released his  documentary short film "Guardians of the  Purple Kingdom," and is a  cultural consultant for Nickelodeon Animation  Studios.@kurlytlapoyawaRuben Arellano Tlakatekatl is a scholar, activist, and professor of history. His research explores Chicana/Chicano indigeneity, Mexican indigenist nationalism, and Coahuiltecan identity resurgence. Other areas of research include Aztlan (US Southwest), Anawak (Mesoamerica), and Native North America. He has presented and published widely on these topics and has taught courses at various institutions. He currently teaches history at Dallas College – Mountain View Campus.   Support the Show.Find us: https://www.facebook.com/TalesFromAztlantis Merch: https://chimalli.storenvy.com/ Book: The Four Disagreements: Letting Go of Magical Thinking (Amazon)

In this episode, Elliott addresses the issue of becoming increasingly angry and frustrated with the ignorance and stupidity of others, particularly regarding texting and driving. He argues that allowing oneself to be emotionally triggered only empowers those causing the frustration and perpetuates negativity. Drawing on examples like the Japanese Samurai, he emphasizes the importance of maintaining emotional control and detachment to promote inner peace and effect positive change in the world.

There are serious losses that we encounter that's part of being alive. If your favorite team did not win a contest, it's not an upset and does not mean that anybody suffered a loss. It just means that the contest ended with one team having more points, or other defining measurement of that sport, than the other team.  That's why in this week's episode we're talking about how we reference losing sporting events. And as always, thanks for joining us on Pickleball Therapy - the podcast dedicated to your pickleball improvement. If you have not yet subscribed to the podcast ... wait what?? you haven't subscribed? ... you know what to do.There's an old Japanese Samurai proverb that says, Do not speak bad of yourself, for the warrior within hears your words and is lessened by them. Language and the words you use is so important, it affects us and it's how we interact with our mind.Listen to this episode as we talk about how we can guard ourselves from the resistance inside our mind to events are nothing more than normal expected events  Episode 182- Remove Your Mental Plaque and You'll Play Better; https://youtu.be/bxnby2E3QDI

In this episode, Brett sits down with his good friend and Anfield alumnus, Pepper Uchino. Pepper is now the President of the Florida Shore and Beach Preservation Association, but he has a wealth of experience from his days as the staff attorney, and then Staff Director, of the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee. Pepper is unique in that he's the direct descendant of Japanese Samurai as well as Mayflower passengers who landed at Plymouth Rock. They discuss his early life in New England as the son of an environmental activist; the health struggles that nearly derailed his future early on; the successful and growing Resiliency Conference he hosts; and they commiserate on the life of legislative committee staff and how laws are made from the perspective of someone on the “inside”. Did we mention his childhood home was haunted? More about that as well. To find out more about FSBA's 37th Annual Conference on Beach Preservation Technology National Conference coming up in February, head here: https://www.fsbpa.com/tech-conference.html And save the date for the 3rd Annual Florida Resilience Conference coming in September. To learn more and get registered, go here: https://floridaresilienceconference.org To keep up with Pepper's old Senate Committee and their deliberations, visit the Senate's website here: https://www.flsenate.gov/Committees/Show/EN/ Pepper talked about his work with the Trust for Public Land before he joined the Senate. To find out more about what they do, go here: https://www.tpl.org/state/florida When you're in Connecticut, why not visit some of New Haven's most haunted sites? Perhaps Pepper's childhood home is on the list somewhere. To learn more about that, go here: https://blog.gardencommunitiesct.com/blog/most-haunted-places-new-haven-county-ct/ This episode of Water for Fighting is brought to you by my friends at Sea and Shoreline. Sea and Shoreline is the Southeast's leading innovator in protecting coastal communities from devastating storms and restoring ecosystems that once faced ecological collapse. Visit their website at www.Seaandshoreline.com. This Episode is also thanks to my friends at Resource Environmental Solutions. RES is the nation's leader in ecological restoration, helping to restore Florida's natural resources with water quality and stormwater solutions that offer communities guaranteed performance and outcomes. Check them out at www.res.us Please be sure to check out the Florida Specifier Podcast hosted by Ryan Matthews and myself as part of a new venture where we're striving to become Florida's first source for environmental news, educational tools, and unique perspectives on our state's natural environment and the events that shape it. To learn more about its flagship print publication and more, visit The Florida Specifier. You can follow the show on LinkedIn and Instagram @flwaterpod, and you can reach me directly at FLwaterpod@gmail.com with your comments and suggestions for who and/or what you'd like to know more about. Production of this podcast is by Lonely Fox Studios. Thanks to Karl Sorne for making the best of what he had to work with. And to David Barfield for the amazing graphics and technical assistance. And finally, a very special thank you goes out to Bo Spring from the Bo Spring Band for giving permission to use his music for this podcast. The song is called Doing Work for Free, and you should check out the band live, or wherever great music is sold.

August 15 marks the day when Japan remembers the end of WWII. Although most of us remember only carefully selected historical points of this period, like Hitler burning books and Hiroshima being the site of an atomic explosion, there's always more to the story. The occupying Allied forces in Japan also burned books and engaged in harsh censorship. This continues today, where the history not only of WWII has been obscured, but of the Japanese Samurai, along with the Jomon culture which provides us with some of the oldest artifacts in the world – making this a matter of human history. Furthermore, Japan itself is a magical repository on the level of Egypt and yet gets left in a very obscure past or a superficial present. Tonight on Ground Zero, Ryan Gable talks with Antony Cummins about DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN – MAGICIANS OF THE SAMURAI.Originally Broadcast On 8/16/2023This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/4878838/advertisement

August 15 marks the day when Japan remembers the end of WWII. Although most of us remember only carefully selected historical points of this period, like Hitler burning books and Hiroshima being the site of an atomic explosion, there's always more to the story. The occupying Allied forces in Japan also burned books and engaged in harsh censorship. This continues today, where the history not only of WWII has been obscured, but of the Japanese Samurai, along with the Jomon culture which provides us with some of the oldest artifacts in the world - making this a matter of human history. Furthermore, Japan itself is a magical repository on the level of Egypt and yet gets left in a very obscure past or a superficial present. Tonight on Ground Zero, Ryan Gable talks with Antony Cummins about DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN - MAGICIANS OF THE SAMURAI. #GroundZero #ClydeLewis #Japan https://groundzeromedia.org/8-16-23-dark-side-of-the.../ Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis is live M-F from 7-10pm, pacific time, and streamed for free at https://groundzero.radio and talkstreamlive.com. For radio affiliates near you, go to talkmedianetwork.com. To leave a message, call our toll-free line at 866-536-7469. To listen by phone: 717-734-6922. To call the live show: 503-225-0860. For Android and iPhones, download the Paranormal Radio app. For additional show information, go to groundzeromedia.org. In order to access Ground Zero's exclusive digital library which includes webinars, archived shows/podcasts, research groups, videos, documents, and more, you need to sign up at aftermath.media. Subscriptions start at $7/month. Check out the yearly specials!

This special edition episode of TST is a carry over from Ryan hosting Ground Zero. The full two hours are separate but part of a 5 hour marathon Wednesday night, August 16, 2023. Tonight, we discuss the DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN: MAGICIANS OF THE SAMURAI with Antony Cummins. The full episode of Ground Zero can be found at Aftermath Media.August 15 marks the day when Japan remembers the end of WWII. Although most of us remember only fragmentary and carefully selected historical points of this time period, like Hitler burned books and Hiroshima was the site of an atomic explosion, there's always more to the story. The occupying Allied forces in Japan also burned books and engaged in harsh censorship. This continues to this day, where the history not only of WWII has been obscured, but of the Japanese Samurai, along with the Jomon culture which provides us with some of the oldest artifacts in the world - making this a matter of human history. Furthermore, Japan itself is a spiritual and magical repository on the level of Egypt and yet it gets left in a very obscure past or a superficial present. Antony Cummins, author of Dark Side of Japan & How to Become a Modern Samurai, joins us to discuss: https://www.youtube.com/user/TSOAS2008This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5328407/advertisement

Roman code or Mos Maiorum Mos maiorum means the way of the elders 8 virtues Fideas - Be trust worthy The Latin word fides encompasses several English words, such as trust/trustworthiness, good faith/faithfulness, confidence, reliability, and credibility. It was an important concept in Roman law, as oral contracts were common.  Pietas - Be respectful Pietas was the Roman attitude of dutiful respect towards the gods, homeland, parents, and family, which required the maintenance of relationships in a moral and dutiful manner.  Religio and Cultus - Be religious Related to the Latin verb religare, "to bind", religio was the bond between gods and mortals, as carried out in traditional religious practices for preserving the pax deorum (“peace of the gods”). Cultus was the active observance and the correct performance of rituals. Religious practice, in this sense, is to be distinguished from pietas and its inherent morality. See religion in ancient Rome and imperial cult (ancient Rome). Disciplin - Be diciplined The military character of Roman society suggests the importance of disciplina, as related to education, training, discipline, and self-control. Gravitas and constantia - Self Control or Temperance Gravitas was dignified self-control. Constantia was steadiness or perseverance. In the face of adversity, a good Roman was to display an unperturbed façade. Roman myth and history reinforced this value by recounting tales of figures such as Gaius Mucius Scaevola, who in a founding legend of the Republic demonstrated his seriousness and determination to the Etruscan king Lars Porsenna by holding his right hand in a fire. Virtus - Core values Derived from the Latin word vir ("man"), virtus constituted the ideal of the true Roman male. Gaius Lucilius discusses virtus in some of his work and says that it is virtus for a man to know what is good, evil, useless, shameful, or dishonorable. Dignitas and auctoritas - serve others with dignatity Dignitas and auctoritas were the end result of displaying the values of the ideal Roman and the service of the state, in the forms of priesthoods, military positions, and magistracies. Dignitas was a reputation for worth, honor and esteem. Thus, a Roman who displayed their gravitas, constantia, fides, pietas and other values of a Roman would possess dignitas among their peers. Similarly, by that path, a Roman could earn auctoritas ("prestige and respect"). Us military Code of Conduct The Code of Conduct provides guidance for the behavior and actions of members of the Armed Forces of the United States. This guidance applies not only on the battlefield but also in the event that the service member is captured and becomes a prisoner of war (POW). The Code is delineated in six articles. Article I: I am an American, fighting in the forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense. Article II: I will never surrender of my own free will. If in command, I will never surrender the members of my command while they still have the means to resist. Article III: If I am captured I will continue to resist by all means available. I will make every effort to escape and aid others to escape. I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy. Article IV: If I become a prisoner of war, I will keep faith with my fellow prisoners. I will give no information or take part in any action which might be harmful to my comrades. If I am senior, I will take command. If not, I will obey the lawful orders of those appointed over me and will back them up in every way. Article V: When questioned, should I become a prisoner of war, I am required to give my name, rank, service number, and date of birth. I will evade answering further questions to the utmost of my ability. I will make no oral or written statements disloyal to my country and its allies or harmful to their cause. Article VI: I will never forget that I am an American, fighting for freedom, responsible for my actions, and dedicated to the principles which made my country free. I will trust in my God and in the United States of America. Spartan code of Honor The Spartan hoplite followed a strict laconic code of honor. No soldier was considered superior to another. Suicidal recklessness, misbehavior, and rage were prohibited in the Spartan army, as those behaviors endangered the phalanx. Recklessness could also lead to dishonor, as in the case of Aristodemus. Spartans regarded those who fight, while still wishing to live, as more valorous than those who don't care if they die. They believed that a warrior must not fight with raging anger but with calm determination. Spartans must walk without any noise and speak only with a few words in the laconic way of life.  Other ways for Spartans to be dishonored include dropping the shield (rhipsaspia), failing to complete the training, and deserting in battles. Dishonored Spartans were labeled as outcasts and would be forced to wear different clothing for public humiliation.  In battles, the Spartans told stories of valor to inspire the troops and, before a major confrontation, they sang soft songs to calm the nerves. Bushido code Righteousness (義 gi). Justice is the most important virtue for the samurai. A true samurai does not attack the enemy without an important reason. Loyalty (忠義 chūgi). Loyalty is the 2nd most important thing in life. The samurai should always be loyal to his master. The samurai should also believe his duty to protect his master is the meaning of life. Honor (名誉 meiyo). A life without honor is not a life. If a samurai makes a mistake, he should honor his name by committing suicide. (Example: The story of 47 samurai (the Ako Incident). Respect (礼 rei). A samurai should always respect his enemy. A samurai respects his opponent before and after the fight. Even if a samurai kills his opponent, he is very respectful to the corpse. Honesty ( 誠 sei). A samurai never lies. “Deception” does not exist in the Book of a Samurai. Courage (勇 yū). A samurai fights until the end. A samurai is never afraid of anything. He is not afraid of death. A samurai is always brave because he fights for something he believes in. Consistency (誠 makoto ). A samurai never change their path. He is like a dragonfly, he always moves forward, he never moves back. What is your code? Why do you need a code? What is in a code? 00:00:00 Exploring Different Societal Codes of Conduct 00:00:37 Introduction to Relaxed Male and its purpose 00:10:52 The impact of parental expectations and disappointment 00:14:30 The erosion of respect and the need for a code of conduct 00:16:44 The importance of discipline in education and self-control 00:19:13 Virtus: knowing what is good, evil, and honorable 00:19:59 Roman Values: Dignitas, Auctoritas, and Core Virtues 00:24:53 Spartan Code of Honor: Equality and Prohibited Behaviors 00:26:18 Valor and Calm Determination: The Spartan Code of Conduct 00:28:17 Inspiring Troops and Calming Nerves: Singing in Battle 00:30:16 The Bushido Code: Values of the Japanese Samurai 00:33:19 Building Your Own Code: Why You Need a Code of Conduct 00:36:27 Importance of Writing and Displaying Core Values

*First of, our hearts go out to everyone affected in the Emilia Romagna region.*Join us for an Eras tour of Alonso's epic life on and off track!We start with Alonso's humble, uber competitive beginnings. That set the stage for his ascendence as the god of mischief, the Loki of Northern Spain. That somehow unfolds into a $1m Japanese Samurai inspired luxury watch.Next, we try to summarize 20 years and 2 (5?) championships in a matter of minutes. That includes many records, his rivalries with Schumacher, Hamilton & Vettel, and the curse of Alonso which he's finally broken with his Saturn's return a la Aston Martin.The rabbit hole continues with his role in F1's two biggest scandals. Note: his net worth is almost at par to the amount of fines he has generated in the sport. Finally, what's his secret to making 40 the new 20? That may include his spicy life off track including philanthropy (to the Fernando Alonso museum) and a stacked dating history that further intertwines him with Lewis Hamilton and Cristiano Ronaldo. That and more on this bonus Fernando Alonso episode!On his love life: How Fernando Alonso became ultimate Formula One playboy as supermodel-loving star fuels rumours of Taylor Swift romance Other profiles:BONUS episode: Are we ALL George Russell? BONUS episode: Esteban Ocon - F1's Undercover PrinceBONUS episode: Daniel Ricciardo - the Italian stallion from down under BONUS episode: the man behind the memes, Valtteri BottasFor more content or to dish tea, reach out on:twitter: @modepushf1 instagram: @modepushf1 web: www.mode-push-f1.come-mail: modepushf1@gmail.com

《小酒馆·大世界》-世界各处的文化和精彩，在小酒馆触手可得哦~ 欢迎关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，可以查看更多精彩内容，查看英语全文稿哦~Hi everyone, and welcome back to Global Village. 欢迎回来【小酒馆·大世界】. But this time instead of inviting a new guest speaker to come on the show, we are talking to one of our own regulars. 如果你听过Geek Time或者是来上过酒馆的口语直播课程, 就肯定知道他,资深 geek-Brad, welcome back Brad. Hey, how's it going, Lulu? I'm good. I heard that your life has changed quite a bit. You're in Japan now, right? That's right. I'm in Kyoto. Oh, one of my favorite cities in the world, so I thought it would be interesting to talk about your experience in Japan because you plan to stay there long term, correct? Yeah, probably, that's the whole point. So could you, first of all, give us a little bit of an explanation or idea or ideas of your current life? Like when did you move to japan? What are you doing right now? Sure. Currently I'm living in Kyoto as I mentioned, I moved here just about a year ago, I think it was about 10 months ago. I came here on a student visa. I'm studying Japanese. I just passed one of the Japanese language proficiency exams that's gonna help me with my future. But I've just been studying full time and then working part time teaching on the side while I do that. So in the future, am I to assume that your plan is to get perhaps another degree in Japan and then maybe find a job there and then just settle down?Yeah, that's pretty much the plan, I've been looking at schools. I'm in engineering, I really like cars and racing, so I kind of wanna combine my engineering and my knowledge of cars, so I have to get some sort of like certification or degree to do that. So I've been trying to apply for engineering schools related to cars or some sort of car related program like motor sports engineering. I see, that's pretty cool. I mean you do have engineering background anyways, right?Right. I have a degree in electronics engineering. Okay. So I thought it would be fun in the next few episodes. Let's make this a series to talk about your experience in Japan, because Brad, you have a quite unique experience. You're born and raised in the States, you are an American, and then you lived in China for, on and off, for a decade. Yeah, 7 years, the first time; and then 3 years, the second time. OK.And now you're moving to Japan. There are lots of cultural comparisons, cultural topics that we can explore. But first things first, why Japan, like when did you become interested in Japan? Was it a childhood thing or what was it like? I kind of became interested in China and Japan at about the same time. I grew up in a really small town in America. There is only about 7,000 people. So there was no like outside foreign influence there whatsoever; and every now and then I would just see like a kungfu movie with like Jackie Chan or Gordon Lew or like a Japanese Samurai movie with Toshiro Mifune; and I just kind of became like who are these people and where are they from? Like, why don't I see this in the US?It looks so cool, the kungfu thing, martial arts. So did you actually learn Asian martial arts like kungfu or maybe like karate as a child or as a teenager? Yeah, after the karate kid movie came out in my childhood, I learned karate for a while.Then I moved, so I couldn't continue that. But I did start learning like Taekwondo for a while; and then once I found a school for kungfu, I learned kungfu for about half a year or so, but I didn't really have time for it. I got a job. And then I saw school that did like Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is like a Brazilian form of a Japanese martial art. And then when I moved to China, I did 咏春拳.So you're just like really into martial arts. Yeah, I also did kendo when I was in the US and then when I was a student in Japan, I did that as well. So I've done like a variety of different martial arts through the years. For those of you who don't really know what kendo is, 就是日本的剑道. That just sounds like you have always been interested in the same type o

Welcome to another podcast episode of Merkaba Chakras. I'm your host, Von Galt. Today, we bring back Dr. Steven Hairfield to discuss the characteristics of what makes a good Jedi. The Japanese Samurai word “Jedi” is adapted for the Star Wars movie series, which many Buddhist and Hindu monks believe is a depiction of humanity's ancient Star Wars past as written in our folklores, which lead to Earth being seeded as the new multicultural experiment and also, as a planet of asylum for refugees of the intergalactic-multiversal wars. Dr. Steven Hairfield, welcome back to Merkaba Chakras! Click on link to watch Part 1 of my interview w/Dr. Steven Hairfield to uncover Jesus (Yeshuah Ben Yosef's) missing 18-years as a Buddhist monk studying metaphysics, Jedi training, and energy healing: https://youtu.be/3PFtBvyvgh0 PLEASE diversify where you get information by adding these free speech platforms. https://rokfin.com/MerkabaChakras https://rumble.com/c/c-889303 https://www.bitchute.com/merkabachakras/ https://odysee.com/@merkabachakras:4 https://www.brighteon.com/channels/merkabachakras https://utreon.com/c/MerkabaChakras https://www.youtube.com/merkabachakras There are over 65 podcast sites to listen to the audio only version. The main one is: https://anchor.fm/merkabachakras For more information about Dr. Steven Hairfield offerings, please visit his website: http://hairfield.com/ To learn more about Von Galt's metaphysical work: https://merkabachakras.com/ Theme music, "Promised Land" copyrighted by the composer, Olive Musique, and authorized by https://www.premiumbeat.com/ #StevenHairfield, #jedi , #buddhism , #starwars , #ascension, #starseeds , #metaphysics , #transcendentalmeditation, #5thdimension , #consciousness , #kungfu , #bodhidharma , #tulkuchildren, #reincarnation, #newearth , #medium , #spiritualawakening, #channeling , #3rddimension, #frequencies , #yeshua , #yoda , #americanmonk , #yeshuahbenyosef , #zen , #brucelee, #kwanyin --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/merkabachakras/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/merkabachakras/support

Today let's have a talk about how you can develop your personal code of success. The ancient Japanese Samurai lived with a Bushido Code - a code of conduct. Let's design yours today. Get my new book at www.chrislianos.com/unchained Register for the free NLP masterclass, The NLP Experience, to supercharge your coaching skills, grow your business and empower your life. Register here www.chrislianos.com/masterclass

When the country is suffering, the least you could do is pretend to care. Pros vs. Joes. The Japanese Samurai and adapting to your enemy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When the country is suffering, the least you could do is pretend to care. Pros vs. Joes. The Japanese Samurai and adapting to your enemy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome back to your favorite film podcast where we reexamine some of the most notorious movie bombs of all time. Oh boy, do we have a doozy for you this week…I promise, you won't SEE this one coming. On this week's show, we welcome Josh from The VHS Files podcast to discuss 1989/1990's action, comedy - Blind Fury. Loosely based on the 17th film from a classic Japanese franchise, Blind Fury stars the legendary Rutger Hauer as a blind, sword-wielding veteran helping a young boy reunite with his father. Oh yeah…..freaking Sho Kosugi shows up to deliver some flippy Ninja action at the end. Luckily, Rutger can't see what he's up against (ok, last bad pun…promise).Timestamps:Intro - (0:35)Remakes of Japanese Samurai and Ronin films - (05:39)Box Office and Critical Response - (13:25)Behind of the Camera - (17:20)In Front of the Camera - (25:03)Production and Development - (34:56)Discussion of Blind Fury - (37:08)Is it a bomb? - (86:23)Discussion of Zatoichi Challenged - (88:20)Listener Feedback - (107:15)Outro - (134:50) Blind Fury is directed by Phillip Noyce and stars Rutger Hauer, Terrance (Terry) O'Quinn, Lisa Blount, Randall “Tex” Cobb, Noble Willingham, Brandon Call, Meg Foster, and Nick Cassavetes.Please sure to check out The VHS Files wherever you get you podcasts and subscribe to their YouTube channel - The VHS Files YouTube.If you want to leave feedback or suggest a movie bomb, please drop us a line at NotABombPod@gmail.com. Also, if you like what you hear, leave a review on Apple Podcast. We want to hear from you for our 100th episode, be sure to reach out and let us know some of your favorite moments from the first 100 episodes. Cast: Brad, Troy, Josh

Millions of spiritual seekers have, in their library, a dog-eared copy of the spiritual classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation. Here is an intimate and first-hand account of the way master teacher Shunryu Suzuki Roshi taught, as told by his student and now Zen teacher himself, Tim Burkett. These delightful stories are not to be missed. Tim Zentetsu Burkett, Ph.D. is Guiding Teacher of the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is also a licensed psychologist and a former director of People Incorporated, a large mental health agency in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has been a student of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and later Katagiri Roshi, in whose linage he is a dharma heir. Suzuki Roshi's book of talks, Zen Mind, Beginner Mind (Shambhala 2011), is a classic for all spiritual seekers. Tim Burkett is the author of Nothing Holy About It: The Zen of Being Just Who You Are (Shambhala 2015) and Zen in the Age of Anxiety: Wisdom for Navigating Our Modern Lives (Shambhala 2018)Interview Date: 9/24/2015     Tags: Tim Burkett, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, Katagiri Roshi, San Francisco Zen Center, aspiration, longing, boredom, stillness, contact high, chatterbox café, spiritual bypassing, concentration meditation, Japanese Samurai movies, kindness, attention, fear body, Zen stick, Tibetan Buddhism, Vajrayana Buddhism, Zenefit, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Meditation, Spirituality

The Last Samurai is an under-appreciated masterclass in filmmaking and storytelling. It tells the incredible story of an American soldier riddled with guilt and shame who embraces the traditional Japanese Samurai culture that he was hired to destroy and becomes a part of their beautiful way of life. 

In this week's episode Dean and Mike discuss the case of a man wrongly accused of making love to a pig, the shocking ongoing case of internet LOLcow Chris Chan and some of the issues surrounding it and finally they ponder the case of  a lawyer who accidentally killed themselves proving how someone could accidentally kill themselves (also a brief dive into Japanese Samurai).

Today we're talking with Professor Thomas Lockley about his critical work in reinvigorating the story of Yasuke, the only non-Japanese Samurai. From starting riots in Japan with only his appearance to eventually chopping off the head of the greatest warlord in Japanese history, Yasuke's story has experienced a resurgence in recent years, with a new Netflix anime bearing his name as well as a major Hollywood movie currently in production. Thomas Lockley is Associate Professor at Nihon University College of Law in Tokyo, where he teaches courses about the international and multicultural history of Japan and East Asia. He has published several dozen research papers and articles, including the first in the world regarding the life of Yasuke. He cowrote the groundbreaking book “African Samurai: The True Story of a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan” with Geoffrey Girard in 2019, and is currently working on his first educational manga series. When it comes to Yasuke, Thomas is THE expert, and it was an immense honor to have him on the show. Check Thomas out at Academia.edu, and support him by buying his books! African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1335044981/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_Z3KCKY5MCRZ1E4W2AR0K?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-History-Twenty-Lives-ebook/dp/B084TF6S2V 0:00 Intro  5:20 The Growing Popularity of Yasuke 10:15 Yasuke the Baseball Player 11:00 What makes Yasuke Special 13:49 Common Misconceptions about Yasuke 17:57 Yasuke's Arrival in Japan 21:50 Gaining Favor with Nobunaga 23:30 The Warring States Period 29:50 Yasuke at War 33:33 Revolutionizing Firearms 36:16 The Death of Nobunaga 42:03 Yasuke After the War 46:27 Yasuke as a Symbol 52:58 Book Recommendations 54:18 Advice on Teaching in Japan Please give us a 5-Star rating on your favorite podcasting app, it really helps the show! If you're watching us on YouTube, giving us a like or a sub would be amazing and help us bring your more of that sweet sweet content. Find us on Twitter! Podcast: @BrotakusPodcast Pax: @PaxLillin Hal: @Royal_Barnesss Henry: @Shankitystick Anna: @AnnaChicco2 Intro Song: F*** You, Pay Me (Instrumental) by Akira the Don Cover Art by Khori Allen Instagram: @khori_allen To send us episode/guest suggestions, feedback, hate mail, love mail, fanfic or business/advertising inquiries, shoot us an email at BrotakusPodcast@Gmail.com. Find out more at https://brotakus.pinecast.co

Hattori Hanzo, legendary Japanese Samurai turned Ninja commander whose battlefield prowess and incontestable skill with a sword earned him the nickname Demon Hanzo. A figure from history that has been repurposed in a variety of modern popular culture from films to video games, but the true story of Hattori Hanzo remains the best. So, who was this legendary ninja, and what made him so special? Let's find out together... Here at Raconteur, we bring to life the greatest stories from history and mythology to both entertain and educate. We are also on YouTube! For video versions of each story visit and subscribe https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU4yfCCgXTUYcSPI0_5rP9w/?sub_confirmation=1 Video version of this story - https://youtu.be/SABf66Q99bs Music by Scott Buckley – www.scottbuckley.com.au New stories weekly. Thanks for listening!

Miyamoto Musashi was Japanese samurai and philosopher. When he was 15 years old, he left his home for musha shugyo, which is a warrior's pilgrimage. In his life, Musashi fought 61 duels out of which he lost 0 fights. After fighting his most difficult opponent and some minor fights, he retired and went to live in the mountains where he started written down his philosophy. In his last work, Dokkodo i.e. The way of walking alone, he wrote 21 rules for living a good life. So, in this podcast segment, we will be discussing these 21 rules written by one of the greatest Japanese samurais.

There are two sides to every blade! This week Daniel is joined by YouTuber Nathan Jones to dive into 1960's Japanese Samurai movies. Together they discuss Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri (1962), and recommend more Samurai films to check out. Whether you're a seasoned fan of the genre, or need an introduction, we hope you enjoy this dive into Kobayashi and Japanese film. Email the show at cobwebspodcast@gmail.com to say hi and tell us what you think of the show! Cobwebs on Twitter: @cobwebspod     Cobwebs on Instagram: @cobwebspodcast Daniel on Twitter: @eplerdaniel  Nathan on Youtube     Nathan's Not Jonesing Around Blog Nathan on Letterboxd: @drjones23     Daniel on Letterboxd: @Dan_Epler www.cobwebspodcast.com

JuicyChef sits down with Jamaica's first knife maker, Jabulani Johnson of Karma Knives. Jabulani's story began a few years ago after a frustrating search to purchase a decent quality chef knife. He decided to learn how to create his own designed knives. With no classes being offered on the island, he started researching the prized skill to expand his knowledge through literature, YouTube videos and interacting with other knife makers abroad including a stint on Cape Cod. Inspired by Japanese Samurai history which informs his design aesthetic and functionality, paired with his Caribbean sensibilities, Karma Knives has become a cult hit with the island's top chefs, food influencers and home cooks. Jabulani shares his process with Jacqui, the intimate connection he feels towards his knives, the keen focus on ergonomics and longevity plus the intentionality that each knife becomes a legacy item for his clientele. Jabulani also raises his dream to pass on his skill set to others including unemployed youth. Drink of the episode: 8 year old rum with white cranberry juice.

Lil Baby energetic type beat

Matt Carter, CEO of Aryaka, is a cloud and technology industry veteran, leading Aryaka's long-term market strategy and day-to-day operations, while guiding the company's vision for an increasingly connected world.  Matt has also served in senior leadership roles at Inteliquent, Sprint Corporation, Sprint Enterprise Solutions, Boost Mobile, Coca-Cola, BellSouth, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.   Matt earned his master's degree in general management from the Harvard Business School and his bachelor's degree from Northwestern University. Matt's LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cartermatt/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/cartermatt/ ) WHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER FROM THIS EPISODE: How Matt's first job as a grocery bagger informs his leadership style today. How transitioning industries several times throughout Matt's career helped accelerate his growth. The key to becoming more resilient in your career. How Aryaka is supporting leaders who are going through a big digital transformation. How to go from being the “best kept secret” to becoming well-known in your industry. Looking to history to motivate your team - David and Goliath and Japanese Samurai. Why creative thinking is the one trait that Matt would instill in every employee. A sure-fire strategy to get your team thinking creatively. An unexpected twist or failure in your career? How did it lead to growth or success down the road? What Red Auerbach, renowned NBA coach of the Boston Celtics, told him about leadership. The real job of a leader. HIGHLIGHTS: Pros and cons of working for different organizations and not sticking with one for a long period of time: Different companies offer different pieces of leadership experience. You must constantly rebuild your reputation and your credibility. What Matt does to foster creative and disruptive thinking in his employees: Has a lot of small meetings with people. Encourages them by saying how valuable they are to the team. Tries not to be the guy that has all the answers. Encourages people to be their best selves. QUOTES: “Be bold.  The time here is short, so be bold and get the most out of it.” “Don't be so hard on yourself.  You're going to be okay.  Have the resiliency to keep moving on." “Believe in yourself and develop the fortitude to keep moving.” “We're paid for what we know, but it's what you don't know and how you pursue it that makes the difference.” “Failing is part of growing.” RESOURCES: David and Goliath https://www.amazon.com/David-Goliath-Underdogs-Misfits-Battling/dp/0316204374 (https://www.amazon.com/David-Goliath-Underdogs-Misfits-Battling/dp/0316204374 ) Age of the Samurai – Battle for Japan  https://www.netflix.com/title/80237990 (https://www.netflix.com/title/80237990) 

Caitlin Bloody Mary and I review the Japanese Samurai horror film Onibaba. Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deep-focus-cinema/id1527503262 Email deep.focus.cinema.podcast@gmail.com Social Media Deep Focus Cinema Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deep.focus.cinema/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepFocusCinemaPodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/deepfocuscinema Personal https://www.instagram.com/ibi8588/ https://letterboxd.com/ibi8588/

Episode 077 - 21 Life Rules From The Greatest Samurai WarriorLast week, I read The Book Of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi. Musashi is often credited with being one of the most elite Japanese Samurai to walk the earth. He also was one of the first to translate much of their art into written form. Today I break down 21 rules he set forth on how to have an amazing life. My name is Hunter Williams. I have a HUGE passion for studying how to optimize health in order to improve cognitive function. I am a former division 1 college football player, and love studying how we can use biohacking and ancestral health protocols to improve our brain and unleash the brain's total horsepower.Video Link: https://youtu.be/ub04VdanmdQYoutube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEkqz4gWjlIRaQx_zWgTZqQ?view_as=subscriberNeuroEdge Facebook Group: https://hunterwilliams.convertri.com/neuroedgegroupIf you join our community:

In this episode, we look at the Bushido Code which outlines the eight virtues Japanese samurai aspired to live their life by. This code of living has never been more applicable, especially for today's men and youth. If you liked this episode, please share it with your friends / write a review - it goes a long way! :) - To work with me 1:1 click here: www.theoptimalbeing.com You can find me online on Facebook & Instagram here: @theoptimalbeing

What was the Old West? How did Westerns emerge as a quintessential American art form? What are the greatest Westerns and what accounts for their enduring appeal—in America and around the world? In this Conversation, Paul Cantor explains how the Western rose to prominence—and the philosophical, political, and cultural themes that the greatest Westerns address. Cantor shares an extended interpretation of the films of John Ford and particularly Ford's two masterworks, The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. He also explains how Ford's work and other Westerns influenced Akiro Kurosawa's Japanese Samurai films. Cantor and Kristol also discuss how the Italian Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone influenced Clint Eastwood and other more recent American films. Here we see how an American art form spread around the world and later returned to reshape American culture. This is a must-listen Conversation for anyone interested in American culture and popular culture around the globe.

What was the Old West? How did Westerns emerge as a quintessential American art form? What are the greatest Westerns and what accounts for their enduring appeal—in America and around the world? In this Conversation, Paul Cantor explains how the Western rose to prominence—and the philosophical, political, and cultural themes that the greatest Westerns address. Cantor shares an extended interpretation of the films of John Ford and particularly Ford's two masterworks, The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. He also explains how Ford's work and other Westerns influenced Akiro Kurosawa's Japanese Samurai films. Cantor and Kristol also discuss how the Italian Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone influenced Clint Eastwood and other more recent American films. Here we see how an American art form spread around the world and later returned to reshape American culture. This is a must-listen Conversation for anyone interested in American culture and popular culture around the globe.

What was the Old West? How did Westerns emerge as a quintessential American art form? What are the greatest Westerns and what accounts for their enduring appeal—in America and around the world? In this Conversation, Paul Cantor explains how the Western rose to prominence—and the philosophical, political, and cultural themes that the greatest Westerns address. Cantor shares an extended interpretation of the films of John Ford and particularly Ford's two masterworks, The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. He also explains how Ford’s work and other Westerns influenced Akiro Kurosawa’s Japanese Samurai films. Cantor and Kristol also discuss how the Italian Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone influenced Clint Eastwood and other more recent American films. Here we see how an American art form spread around the world and later returned to reshape American culture. This is a must-listen Conversation for anyone interested in American culture and popular culture around the globe.

Amid concerns that coronavirus could keep voters from turning out for the 15 March local elections, the people making mayoral sashes are still gearing up for business. Also, a look at sexual violence and working for gender parity in French cinema, after a tumultuous Cesar award ceremony. And a little-known incident between France and Japan in the 19th century that both countries might like to put behind them, given their current good relations.   The spread of coronavirus in France is overshadowing campaigns for the upcoming local elections, the first round of which are to be held on 15 March. But regardless of turnout, one industry is hard at work: the sash-makers who provide mayors with the blue, white and red striped ribbons they drape diagonally across their chests. We visit Baqueville, one of the few remaining companies that still make sashes in France, to talk about the symbolism of the sash, and how this year's election might lead to a lot of business, as a third of mayors are not standing for re-election. (Listen 0'00) The French cinema industry lit a tinder box at the recent Cesar awards (France's equivalent of the Oscars) when it awarded Roman Polanski, wanted for rape charge in the US, with best director. Opinion in deeply divided over the decision, but one thing is sure: the film industry is very male-dominated. The 50/50 collective is pushing for more parity and measures to counter sexual harassment on film shoots. We talk to the group’s co-founder, independent film producer Sandrine Brauer, about what needs to change, why she welcomes actor Adèle Haenel’s decision to walk out of the Cesars, but fears a backlash. (Listen @16'20) The story of the Sakai incident of 1868, involving French sailors, Japanese Samurai and Hara-kiri, told to us by Gary Girod, host of the French History Podcast. (Listen @9'40)   Spotlight on France is a podcast from Radio France International. Find us on iTunes (link here), Google podcasts (link here), or your favourite podcast app.

A long-awaited visit from our friend Perry Constantine. The mastermind behind Japan on Film podcast joins us to discuss the Japanese Samurai film Twilight Samurai. Check out Perry's podcast at Japan on Film.

It’s Not If You Die, It’s How You Face the Inevitability of Your Death It is said that Japanese Samurai warriors reminded themselves of the inevitability of loss by using the phrase, “Die before going into battle.” This practice allows a warrior to enter combat without fear of death because he has brought himself to the acceptance of death ahead of time. Because death is an inevitable outcome, and by accepting the absoluteness of that inevitability, the warrior fully gives himself to his mission without concern for survival or victory. Tracy Goss wrote a book called The Last Word on Power (1996), and talks about the paradigm most of us live in. It goes like this: if things are going great - Yay for us! If things are not going great, there must be something wrong with them, it, or me! Goss points to the fact that there is very little room in our current paradigm for the Isness of life. She says life doesn’t turn out the way it "should", but rather life turns out the way it does. Most of us don’t like that message, and so we avoid the whole subject completely until we can no longer deny the inevitability of life ending in death. There is so much we cannot control in life, but that doesn’t stop us from trying! Death is just one of those fates that, although undeniable on a very obvious level, tends to lead to humans creating a tremendous amount of fantasies of "beating the odds". I find that fascinating. What would life look like if we, like the Samurai Warriors, admitted that death is inevitable? I suspect we would get on with the task of fulfilling our mission of bringing about the vision we imagine for the world. I believe we would stop living in fear and begin expressing compassion for ourselves and others. I don’t really know. But it beats living in fear for the rest of my time on the planet!  In the end, life will end as it does, not as it should. That’s a big fat be-with! So now what? For me, I’m going to get on with letting go of how life should be and how life should end, and just live one day at a time, making it the best day ever. How are you with the topic of death? Let's talk about it over on Facebook! - - - -  For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com

Sometime back, did a first impressions and mini review on a comic series called Ronin Island. A series revolving around the Japanese Samurai time period but being plagued by mutated monsters of unknown origins. On this episode, will be doing a follow up and touching on stuff in Issue #2. Of course, plenty of spoilers in this one. Let's go! Previous Episode- Ronin Island - Issue #1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urk6hvm06-s ===== Links- SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/301gnYYXmjVGSUEN12ixd4 FACEBOOK www.FACEBOOK.COM/COSMICFURYSG/ INSTAGRAM www.instagram.com/cosmicfurysg/ www.instagram.com/TRIBALCAST/ www.instagram.com/FIAZGRINDER/ =====

Twelve words. Millions of 11-year-old boys, and now young girls, learn it when they join Boy Scouts. It was something that I had to memorize in order to earn my first step along the way to my Eagle Scout medal. Each weekly meeting started with everyone saying them aloud. We were expected to follow them at all times. When a person achieves Eagle, they stand in front of people attending their Court of Honor and recite them and committing to continuing to follow them. This could sound like indoctrination or maybe even a cult. Some organizations could take a lesson on how to establish and then reinforce a culture within their organization. A culture must reinforce its core values and the Boy Scouts did that at every opportunity which for me meant more than 500 times standing with my peers and adults and reciting these words from memory. So what are these twelve words?  The Scout Law. A Scout is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent. Over the years I found myself returning to them again and again whenever I ran into those ethical dilemmas we all find ourselves in. Why? Through experience, when I stayed true to the law, things just went better in life and -- it was the right thing to do. Following a series of high profile ethical lapses that occurred at companies like Enron, a number of universities and colleges added ethics courses to their MBA curriculums. Why MBA courses? The theory being that their graduates would become the future corporate leaders and these courses would then create ethical corporations. Most recently engineering and science majors are following suit. The logical reaction of high profile cases like Theranose, the shocking increase in the number of scientific research work that has been retracted for fraudulent results and more recently the ethical lapses in the use of personal information at social media and search companies. Will these new courses suddenly transform ethics in business, science, and engineering? I’m afraid not. Waiting until someone is college age to start teaching them ethics puts way too much of a burden on the course instructors. If we want to ingrain the societal expectation of ethical behavior, the foundations of ethics are something that a person internalizes and commits to over many years. I don’t believe one or two courses is enough. Is the Scout Law just some random words aimed at creating a false ideal - or is is there some basis to why these specific 12 words? The law came from the Bushido code of the Japanese Samurai, laws of honor of the American Indians, the code of chivalry of European knights, and from the Zulu fighters that the founder of Boy Scouts, Lord Baden-Powell, had fought against. What does this talk of ethics have to do with innovation and creativity? With the possibility that artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies being used unethically, we are being asked to confront the ethics of what we invent. Is an innovation ethical or unethical? It could be argued that any innovation could be created with the best of intentions but applied and used unethically. Chlorine is used in many industrial and household items that are beneficial yet in WWI it was used as a chemical weapon. Is chlorine ethical or unethical? It's not the innovation but how we use the innovation that defines its ethics. What standard should we use as a global society to define ethics? We sometimes just need to recommit and remind ourselves of what it means to be a positive ethical contributor to society, to be someone who others see as setting a standard rather than blindly following others. To be someone our kids and grandkids look up to. Why not the Scout Law or something close to it? I’m fully committed to the Scout Law given my years in Scouting. Like all previous Eagle Scouts, I recited the Scout Law during my Court of Honor as an 18-year-old and committed to following it. Here is a modified version of the Scout Law for all of us … I commit to being Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent. Am I perfect? No! If each of us held each other accountable in a loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous and kind way, society would be a better place. To understand what I mean by each word in the Scout Law, I will be including an expanded definition in my blog post for this episode. What standard of ethics have you defined for yourself and your team? Does your team know the ethics you expect from them? Do you hold everyone, yourself included, in your organization to that standard? As the saying goes, You get the team you deserve based on the worst actions you permit to happen. Let’s set the standard for ethics in innovation. I’m Phil McKinney and thanks for listening.

Before Connor runs out the door to get to work, he and Dan manage to sit down for a brief, impassioned chat about the philosophy and culture of Japanese Samurai. Of course, a lot of their information comes from cool movies they like, but there is some concrete info in here from books like Bushido: The Soul of Japan and Hagekure. Hopefully this is interesting to someone besides Dan! Only time will tell!

If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts or needs someone to talk to, please seek help. Here in the U.S. you can call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline @  1-800-273-8255. If you don't call them, then please call or talk to someone else. You can even contact us. We're here for you and you matter! This week, Erica and Billy dive deep into the centuries-old Japanese Samurai ritual of preserving or reclaiming one's honor by self-disembowelment. Whether voluntary or ordered as capital punishment, the Samurai had to be one bad mofo to cut open his belly without showing any signs of pain. Want to know how it felt? Then buckle up because all the grisly details and history will be spilled (much like the Samurai's intestines). It'll be a bloody good time-if you can hack it. (See what we did there?) When you're done listening, let us know if you think you could pull it off on our social media! The new show artwork was created by Chris Axmann. Thank you, Chris! And thank you to Murder.ly for giving our show a home! Thanks, as always, go to MinimusNoah (Phazer765) for the music at the end of each episode. Be sure to listen until the end for the new song-Views-the title track off of his new album Views, which is now available for purchase on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/views/1368735476. It’s also available on Spotify, Bandcamp, Google Play, and many more! Help support a truly creative independent artist! You can also find him on our website, www.MartinisandtheMacabre.com, on the music page, along with a fully playable track listing of all his songs that have been used in previous episodes. To show your support, please leave a 5-star rating and review on iTunes, or any other podcatcher or social media platform that has the option to do so, to help boost the show. It really helps us as podcasters and we would truly appreciate it! And, if you send us a screenshot of your review with your address, we will send you a free Martinis and the Macabre sticker! Another way to help support the show is to become a Patron! Visit our Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/MartinisandtheMacabre, and with even a $1 pledge you will get a shout out on the show and access to Patron exclusive audio content each month!  Please mention or tag us on Facebook or Twitter to share as well! You can like and follow us on Facebook and Instagram @Martinis and the Macabre and on Twitter @Martini_Macabre. Be sure to join our fan-made page on Facebook as well: Friends Who Like Martinis and the Macabre. Post, share, and interact! E-mail questions, comments, or topic suggestions to MartinisandtheMacabre@gmail.com. You can also reach us through the contact page on our website, www.MartinisandtheMacabre.com.  Other music and sound effects provided by:http://www.purple-planet.comhttp://www.jewelbeat.com/https://www.pond5.com/  murder, mystery, true crime, comedy, macabre, morbid, dark humor, humour, paranormal, disappearances, Sake, Tenchu rocks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week! Strange Adventures 185 Cover date February 1966 Cover Price 12 cents Cover Artist: Jack Sparling Edited by Jack Schiff Featuring Star Hawkins in “Gangsters, Inc.” Writer Dave Wood, artist Gil Kane And The Immortal Man in “The Man Who Died 100 Times” Writer Dave Wood, Artist Jack Sparling Fox and the Crow 96 Cover date February/March 1966 Cover Price 12 cents Cover Artist: Jack Sparling Edited by Murray Boltinoff Featuring Stanley and his Monster in “Please Don’t Pet the Monster” writer Arnold Drake, Artist Bob Oksner Brat Finks – Don’t Knock the Rock penciled by J. Winslow Mortimer Fox and Crow – Money Mad writer Cecil Beard and Alpine Harper, art Jim Davis. Star Hawkins appeared in 21 issues of Strange Adventures, first in #114 (March 1960) in rotation with two other series, The Atomic Knights and Space Museum, and appeared in every third issue of Strange Adventures from #119 – 158. He was brought back in issue #173 (February 1965), featuring him again in every third issue until #185 (February 1966), this time all written by Dave Wood and drawn by Gil Kane. Star Hawkins never featured on the cover of Strange Adventures. Star Hawkins is a down-at-heel private investigator living in New City, Earth in the 21st Century. He is first shown in 2079, with a robot receptionist, Ilda (Robot F2324), bought from the 'Super-Secretary Robot Factory'. Because Star is always short of money, Ilda is regularly pawned (although Star always promises that was the last time). Although a sharp detective with athletic skills, it is normally Ilda who exhibits the intelligence and power to solve the crime or is critical to defeating the 'zips' (criminals), using low-powered telepathic ability— 'standard equipment in all models the year of Ilda's manufacture'—or other robot powers. Immortal Man first appeared in "I lived a Hundred Lives" in Strange Adventures #177 (June 1965), an eight-page story drawn by Jack Sparling. It is not clear who created him. Although not a regular character in the title, Immortal Man then featured in Strange Adventures #185 in a 16-page tale and Strange Adventures #190 and #198 in 12-page tales. Jack Sparling drew all four adventures, and Dave Wood wrote at least two of them (#185 and #190). Immortal Man also featured on the covers to all four issues. When he first appears in modern times, Immortal Man is an orphan named Mark with a mysterious past he has little memory of and many skills in areas such as bullfighting, Japanese Samurai culture and culinary arts without knowing why. Eventually he returns to the orphanage where he was brought up and is given a jewel amulet that shows him his past lives and powers. Shortly afterwards he instinctively uses similar powers to save a town when a reservoir bursts, but dies when a school boiler explodes during the rescue. The Fox and the Crow are a pair of anthropomorphic cartoon characters created by Frank Tashlin for the Screen Gems studio. The characters, the refined but gullible Fauntleroy Fox and the streetwise Crawford Crow, appeared in a series of animated short subjects released by Screen Gems through its parent company, Columbia Pictures, and were Screen Gems' most popular characters. Tashlin directed the first film in the series, the 1941 Color Rhapsody short The Fox and the Grapes, based on the Aesop fable of that name. Warner Bros. animation director Chuck Jones later acknowledged this short, which features a series of blackout gags as the Fox repeatedly tries and fails to obtain a bunch of grapes in the possession of the Crow, as one of the inspirations for his popular Road Runner cartoons. The Fox and the Crow were going to have a cameo in Who Framed Roger Rabbit but were dropped for reasons unknown. The Fox and the Grapes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWbWKNmaXp0 The Fox and the Crow starred in several funny animal comic books published by DC Comics, from the 1940s well into the 1960s. They starred with other characters in DC's Columbia-licensed funny animal anthology Real Screen Comics (first issue titled Real Screen Funnies) beginning in 1945, then did likewise when DC converted the superhero title Comic Cavalcade to a funny-animal series in 1948. The duo received its own title, The Fox and the Crow, which ran 108 issues (Jan. 1952 - March 1968). Until the 1954 demise of Comic Cavalcade, Fox and Crow were cover-featured on three DC titles. They continued on the cover of Real Screen Comics through its title change to TV Screen Cartoons from #129-138 (Aug. 1959 - Feb. 1961), the final issue. The Fox and the Crow itself was renamed Stanley and His Monster beginning with #109 (May 1968), after the back-up feature, begun in #95 (Jan. 1966), that had taken over in popularity. For the last ten years of its existence, The Fox and the Crow was written by Cecil Beard, assisted by his wife, Alpine Harper. The illustrator was Jim Davis (b. 1915), although it was generally unsigned.

This week! Strange Adventures 185 Cover date February 1966 Cover Price 12 cents Cover Artist: Jack Sparling Edited by Jack Schiff Featuring Star Hawkins in “Gangsters, Inc.” Writer Dave Wood, artist Gil Kane And The Immortal Man in “The Man Who Died 100 Times” Writer Dave Wood, Artist Jack Sparling Fox and the Crow 96 Cover date February/March 1966 Cover Price 12 cents Cover Artist: Jack Sparling Edited by Murray Boltinoff Featuring Stanley and his Monster in “Please Don’t Pet the Monster” writer Arnold Drake, Artist Bob Oksner Brat Finks – Don’t Knock the Rock penciled by J. Winslow Mortimer Fox and Crow – Money Mad writer Cecil Beard and Alpine Harper, art Jim Davis. Star Hawkins appeared in 21 issues of Strange Adventures, first in #114 (March 1960) in rotation with two other series, The Atomic Knights and Space Museum, and appeared in every third issue of Strange Adventures from #119 – 158. He was brought back in issue #173 (February 1965), featuring him again in every third issue until #185 (February 1966), this time all written by Dave Wood and drawn by Gil Kane. Star Hawkins never featured on the cover of Strange Adventures. Star Hawkins is a down-at-heel private investigator living in New City, Earth in the 21st Century. He is first shown in 2079, with a robot receptionist, Ilda (Robot F2324), bought from the 'Super-Secretary Robot Factory'. Because Star is always short of money, Ilda is regularly pawned (although Star always promises that was the last time). Although a sharp detective with athletic skills, it is normally Ilda who exhibits the intelligence and power to solve the crime or is critical to defeating the 'zips' (criminals), using low-powered telepathic ability— 'standard equipment in all models the year of Ilda's manufacture'—or other robot powers. Immortal Man first appeared in "I lived a Hundred Lives" in Strange Adventures #177 (June 1965), an eight-page story drawn by Jack Sparling. It is not clear who created him. Although not a regular character in the title, Immortal Man then featured in Strange Adventures #185 in a 16-page tale and Strange Adventures #190 and #198 in 12-page tales. Jack Sparling drew all four adventures, and Dave Wood wrote at least two of them (#185 and #190). Immortal Man also featured on the covers to all four issues. When he first appears in modern times, Immortal Man is an orphan named Mark with a mysterious past he has little memory of and many skills in areas such as bullfighting, Japanese Samurai culture and culinary arts without knowing why. Eventually he returns to the orphanage where he was brought up and is given a jewel amulet that shows him his past lives and powers. Shortly afterwards he instinctively uses similar powers to save a town when a reservoir bursts, but dies when a school boiler explodes during the rescue. The Fox and the Crow are a pair of anthropomorphic cartoon characters created by Frank Tashlin for the Screen Gems studio. The characters, the refined but gullible Fauntleroy Fox and the streetwise Crawford Crow, appeared in a series of animated short subjects released by Screen Gems through its parent company, Columbia Pictures, and were Screen Gems' most popular characters. Tashlin directed the first film in the series, the 1941 Color Rhapsody short The Fox and the Grapes, based on the Aesop fable of that name. Warner Bros. animation director Chuck Jones later acknowledged this short, which features a series of blackout gags as the Fox repeatedly tries and fails to obtain a bunch of grapes in the possession of the Crow, as one of the inspirations for his popular Road Runner cartoons. The Fox and the Crow were going to have a cameo in Who Framed Roger Rabbit but were dropped for reasons unknown. The Fox and the Grapes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWbWKNmaXp0 The Fox and the Crow starred in several funny animal comic books published by DC Comics, from the 1940s well into

This week! Strange Adventures 185 Cover date February 1966 Cover Price 12 cents Cover Artist: Jack Sparling Edited by Jack Schiff Featuring Star Hawkins in “Gangsters, Inc.” Writer Dave Wood, artist Gil Kane And The Immortal Man in “The Man Who Died 100 Times” Writer Dave Wood, Artist Jack Sparling Fox and the Crow 96 Cover date February/March 1966 Cover Price 12 cents Cover Artist: Jack Sparling Edited by Murray Boltinoff Featuring Stanley and his Monster in “Please Don’t Pet the Monster” writer Arnold Drake, Artist Bob Oksner Brat Finks – Don’t Knock the Rock penciled by J. Winslow Mortimer Fox and Crow – Money Mad writer Cecil Beard and Alpine Harper, art Jim Davis. Star Hawkins appeared in 21 issues of Strange Adventures, first in #114 (March 1960) in rotation with two other series, The Atomic Knights and Space Museum, and appeared in every third issue of Strange Adventures from #119 – 158. He was brought back in issue #173 (February 1965), featuring him again in every third issue until #185 (February 1966), this time all written by Dave Wood and drawn by Gil Kane. Star Hawkins never featured on the cover of Strange Adventures. Star Hawkins is a down-at-heel private investigator living in New City, Earth in the 21st Century. He is first shown in 2079, with a robot receptionist, Ilda (Robot F2324), bought from the 'Super-Secretary Robot Factory'. Because Star is always short of money, Ilda is regularly pawned (although Star always promises that was the last time). Although a sharp detective with athletic skills, it is normally Ilda who exhibits the intelligence and power to solve the crime or is critical to defeating the 'zips' (criminals), using low-powered telepathic ability— 'standard equipment in all models the year of Ilda's manufacture'—or other robot powers. Immortal Man first appeared in "I lived a Hundred Lives" in Strange Adventures #177 (June 1965), an eight-page story drawn by Jack Sparling. It is not clear who created him. Although not a regular character in the title, Immortal Man then featured in Strange Adventures #185 in a 16-page tale and Strange Adventures #190 and #198 in 12-page tales. Jack Sparling drew all four adventures, and Dave Wood wrote at least two of them (#185 and #190). Immortal Man also featured on the covers to all four issues. When he first appears in modern times, Immortal Man is an orphan named Mark with a mysterious past he has little memory of and many skills in areas such as bullfighting, Japanese Samurai culture and culinary arts without knowing why. Eventually he returns to the orphanage where he was brought up and is given a jewel amulet that shows him his past lives and powers. Shortly afterwards he instinctively uses similar powers to save a town when a reservoir bursts, but dies when a school boiler explodes during the rescue. The Fox and the Crow are a pair of anthropomorphic cartoon characters created by Frank Tashlin for the Screen Gems studio. The characters, the refined but gullible Fauntleroy Fox and the streetwise Crawford Crow, appeared in a series of animated short subjects released by Screen Gems through its parent company, Columbia Pictures, and were Screen Gems' most popular characters. Tashlin directed the first film in the series, the 1941 Color Rhapsody short The Fox and the Grapes, based on the Aesop fable of that name. Warner Bros. animation director Chuck Jones later acknowledged this short, which features a series of blackout gags as the Fox repeatedly tries and fails to obtain a bunch of grapes in the possession of the Crow, as one of the inspirations for his popular Road Runner cartoons. The Fox and the Crow were going to have a cameo in Who Framed Roger Rabbit but were dropped for reasons unknown. The Fox and the Grapes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWbWKNmaXp0 The Fox and the Crow starred in several funny animal comic books published by DC Comics, from the 1940s well into

This week! Strange Adventures 185 Cover date February 1966 Cover Price 12 cents Cover Artist: Jack Sparling Edited by Jack Schiff Featuring Star Hawkins in “Gangsters, Inc.” Writer Dave Wood, artist Gil Kane And The Immortal Man in “The Man Who Died 100 Times” Writer Dave Wood, Artist Jack Sparling Fox and the Crow 96 Cover date February/March 1966 Cover Price 12 cents Cover Artist: Jack Sparling Edited by Murray Boltinoff Featuring Stanley and his Monster in “Please Don’t Pet the Monster” writer Arnold Drake, Artist Bob Oksner Brat Finks – Don’t Knock the Rock penciled by J. Winslow Mortimer Fox and Crow – Money Mad writer Cecil Beard and Alpine Harper, art Jim Davis. Star Hawkins appeared in 21 issues of Strange Adventures, first in #114 (March 1960) in rotation with two other series, The Atomic Knights and Space Museum, and appeared in every third issue of Strange Adventures from #119 – 158. He was brought back in issue #173 (February 1965), featuring him again in every third issue until #185 (February 1966), this time all written by Dave Wood and drawn by Gil Kane. Star Hawkins never featured on the cover of Strange Adventures. Star Hawkins is a down-at-heel private investigator living in New City, Earth in the 21st Century. He is first shown in 2079, with a robot receptionist, Ilda (Robot F2324), bought from the 'Super-Secretary Robot Factory'. Because Star is always short of money, Ilda is regularly pawned (although Star always promises that was the last time). Although a sharp detective with athletic skills, it is normally Ilda who exhibits the intelligence and power to solve the crime or is critical to defeating the 'zips' (criminals), using low-powered telepathic ability— 'standard equipment in all models the year of Ilda's manufacture'—or other robot powers. Immortal Man first appeared in "I lived a Hundred Lives" in Strange Adventures #177 (June 1965), an eight-page story drawn by Jack Sparling. It is not clear who created him. Although not a regular character in the title, Immortal Man then featured in Strange Adventures #185 in a 16-page tale and Strange Adventures #190 and #198 in 12-page tales. Jack Sparling drew all four adventures, and Dave Wood wrote at least two of them (#185 and #190). Immortal Man also featured on the covers to all four issues. When he first appears in modern times, Immortal Man is an orphan named Mark with a mysterious past he has little memory of and many skills in areas such as bullfighting, Japanese Samurai culture and culinary arts without knowing why. Eventually he returns to the orphanage where he was brought up and is given a jewel amulet that shows him his past lives and powers. Shortly afterwards he instinctively uses similar powers to save a town when a reservoir bursts, but dies when a school boiler explodes during the rescue. The Fox and the Crow are a pair of anthropomorphic cartoon characters created by Frank Tashlin for the Screen Gems studio. The characters, the refined but gullible Fauntleroy Fox and the streetwise Crawford Crow, appeared in a series of animated short subjects released by Screen Gems through its parent company, Columbia Pictures, and were Screen Gems' most popular characters. Tashlin directed the first film in the series, the 1941 Color Rhapsody short The Fox and the Grapes, based on the Aesop fable of that name. Warner Bros. animation director Chuck Jones later acknowledged this short, which features a series of blackout gags as the Fox repeatedly tries and fails to obtain a bunch of grapes in the possession of the Crow, as one of the inspirations for his popular Road Runner cartoons. The Fox and the Crow were going to have a cameo in Who Framed Roger Rabbit but were dropped for reasons unknown. The Fox and the Grapes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWbWKNmaXp0 The Fox and the Crow starred in several funny animal comic books published by DC Comics, from the 1940s well into the 1960s. They starred with other characters in DC's Columbia-licensed funny animal anthology Real Screen Comics (first issue titled Real Screen Funnies) beginning in 1945, then did likewise when DC converted the superhero title Comic Cavalcade to a funny-animal series in 1948. The duo received its own title, The Fox and the Crow, which ran 108 issues (Jan. 1952 - March 1968). Until the 1954 demise of Comic Cavalcade, Fox and Crow were cover-featured on three DC titles. They continued on the cover of Real Screen Comics through its title change to TV Screen Cartoons from #129-138 (Aug. 1959 - Feb. 1961), the final issue. The Fox and the Crow itself was renamed Stanley and His Monster beginning with #109 (May 1968), after the back-up feature, begun in #95 (Jan. 1966), that had taken over in popularity. For the last ten years of its existence, The Fox and the Crow was written by Cecil Beard, assisted by his wife, Alpine Harper. The illustrator was Jim Davis (b. 1915), although it was generally unsigned.

In an increasingly violent modern society, can a man who teaches physical combat be a positive role model? There is a seemingly obvious contradiction in studying a combat art and claiming to be a peace-loving individual but, just as the personalities and moral characters of builders, actors, footballers and politicians vary greatly, so too do those of martial artists and boxers. Much as the balletic grace of stylised movie martial arts – which can often be beautiful to watch – contradicts the bloody savagery of mixed martial arts contests, so too can the outside-the-ring gentleness of pugilists appear contrary to their chosen profession. Although martial arts were formulated as battlefield techniques and were honed in countless wars and violent upheavals, they also contain elements of philosophy and codes of conduct which provide a blueprint for a way of life and morality. The most obvious example of this would be China's famed Shaolin Temple warriors; the Buddhist monks who preached peace whilst training in potentially lethal methods of hand-to-hand and armed combat and yet their skills were born from a need to defend themselves against the violent street-robbers of the period. Likewise the 'gentlemen warriors'; the Japanese Samurai, who practised poetry and flower-arranging, alongside their swordsmanship and wished only to engage the very best of opponents in battle. Perhaps the Shaolin monks' desire to learn the skills to physically protect themselves against bigger and more aggressive tormentors, is the very same one replicated today by millions of people the world over, who live in constant fear of violent assault, every time they tentatively step out from their front doors? But, what if those very tormentors also aspire to learn the combat arts in order to enhance their brutality? In centuries past, the Masters of the various arts would accept a student based upon their character as much as their potential for mastering the physical aspects of the particular martial style / system but, in today's money-motivated society, can we still rely upon an instructor's morality to determine their acceptance of a new student? I myself have trained with a few 'dubious types' over the years – including several instructors who abused their positions and physically hurt and humiliated students – but the vast majority of people I trained with have been a pleasure to know; with no obvious psychological or emotional problems. On his website renowned martial artist Simon Lau reflects upon the negativity often directed against the martial arts: "The image projected is generally one of violence. Stories have been reported of attacks involving 'Samurai swords' and 'Ninja throwing stars' which, whilst appalling to everyone, in all probability did not involve trained martial artists, yet it is exactly that section of our society which suffers as a result of these stories... This perception must be reversed but the only true way this can be achieved is by education of how martial arts can be of real benefit to a person's whole being. As martial artists we should relish the opportunity to show the world the enlightened ways of martial arts and to ensure that we show our arts and ourselves in the best light, with integrity and dignity. Like any other art form, be it painting, dance or acting we should celebrate in what we do and in what we have to offer society". Much emphasis is placed upon codes of conduct and the immorality of deliberately hurting an adversary in traditional martial arts and some schools actively promote non-violent resolution to conflict; teaching methods of understanding emotional and aggressive behaviour and learning how to 'defuse' an aggressor's violent intentions. Like any other art form, be it painting, dance or acting we should celebrate in what we do and in what we have to offer society

The in-gallery events of “Art Matters | Santa Fe”, hosted by individual galleries and museums and sponsored by the Santa Fe Gallery Association, will feature the diversity of artwork in Santa Fe as well as critical discussions and lectures regarding the specific artists and art historical time periods presented by the host galleries. These events, intended to focus on the galleries, their artists and curatorial programs, will appeal to collectors and art enthusiasts as well as academics and historians and showcase the depth and expertise of Santa Fe gallery collections and owners respectively. The artwork ranges from contemporary abstraction and figuration, modern masters and French Impressionists, film, installations and interactive presentations to historic and twentieth-century Native American art, Japanese Samurai warrior armor and Japanese painting. Artwork

In this episode, Cem and Wayne explore the Bushido Code (武士道?), Literally “the way of the warrior,” the Japanese Samurai philosophy and how we can apply these eight ancient moral codes (not the killing parts) to becoming warriors of the web, loyal to serving others through their entrepreneurial endeavours.

Giants in the Land Just before Israel was to enter the Promised Land, Joshua is on the other side of the Jordan River and was thinking ahead to what faced them, what lay on the other side? There was the Jordan at flood stage. There was the walled citadel of Jericho. And beyond that lay all of their fears and concerns, the very things that had derailed them a generation before that, 40 years before that. And those people at that time, that generation before, were terrified of a specific race of men of warriors that waited for them on the other side, the Anakim, they're called. The descendants of the Rephaim, they were gigantic people, they were tall in stature, they were mighty warriors, and they were the object of terror and fear on the part of the Israelites. When they spys came back they said they looked like grasshoppers to them and they looked that way in their own eyes too. So think Goliath, think 9 feet tall, think throwing a spear that looked more like a small tree than a javelin, and they were terrified. These were the giants in the land. Now this morning as I come to Hebrews 13:4-6, we are going to face two of the greatest giants that face us in the conquest of the spiritual Promised Land that still awaits us. The sanctification of our own hearts. The battleground there is not the soil of the Promised Land, it is our own hearts and these giants are idols. And we're going to face this morning in the text, the two greatest idols I think that tempt hearts away from faith in Christ, sex and money. We're going to look at these two through the eyes of the Gospel, and we're going to try to understand how God has provided for us in each of these areas and how God's promise is enough for us that he will never leave us, and he will never forsake us, that he is, as we've already sung this morning, more than enough for us. And that we can be content with God's provision in these areas and not yearn for more or go beyond the boundaries that God has set up. I. The Battle for the Heart So I say with confidence, the Lord is our helper. What have we to fear? We can face these two great giants in the land, sex and money, and we can conquer them by faith. John Piper speaking of the heart, the human heart, said, "The heart is a desire factory. The human heart produces desires as fire produces heat. As surely as sparks fly upward, the heart pumps out desire after desire for a happier future. The condition of the heart is appraised by the kinds of desires that hold sway, or to put it another way, the state of the heart is shown by the things that satisfy its desires. If it is satisfied with mean and ugly things, it's a mean and ugly heart. If it is satisfied with God, then it is a Godly heart." We were designed by God to be satisfied in him. God crafted our hearts to find all of our satisfaction and joy and pleasure ultimately in God. And so, Eric had us read Psalm 63, please listen again to Psalm 63:1-3, we were made for this. We were made for God, and this Psalm, I think, better than any other Psalm, any other portion of the Scripture captures this for me personally. "O God, you are my God. Earnestly I seek you, my soul thirsts for you. My body longs for you in a dry and weary land where there is no water. I've seen you in the sanctuary and I've beheld your power and your glory, because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you." Just meditate on that. God's love is better than life. I'd rather have God's love than be alive. That's what the psalmist is saying. I can't imagine life without God's love. It would be meaningless to me, it would be empty. We were designed for that. Our hearts were made for God. We were made to find our deep rich, full satisfaction in God. But for all of that, there's a great battle going on, it's going on in our hearts right now. The world, the flesh, and the Devil are assaulting that ground, that battleground of our hearts, trying to get us to yearn for and desire and be satisfied in something other than God. The Grave Danger of Idolatry Here we come to the grave danger of idolatry. Throughout the Old Testament, the Israelites wandered again and again into idolatry, the worship and service of false Gods. And frequently, they would shape and craft some kind of statute to represent their Gods and then they would fall down and worship them. So often, we in the 21st Century, we in the church see that act and say, "Well, we know that idolatry is not much of a problem anymore." Oh, don't fall into that trap. Idolatry is still alive and well. 1 John 5:21, "Dear children, keep yourselves from idols." It's still there, whether we make statues or not. For me, the best verse in the Bible for describing what idolatry is Romans 1:25. "They exchange the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served created things more than the Creator who is forever praised. Amen." Oh, there's so much in that one Verse. But fundamentally, when someone gives themselves over to a created thing and puts ultimate value on that thing and worships and serves it, they have become an idolater. And it's in the face of the God, the eternal God, who they exchanged for that created thing that they do this, this God who should be praised for ever and ever, Amen. So, that's idolatry. So you don't have to make a physical idol to be an idolater. And in this text, I think we have two of the greatest idols that assault our hearts, the idol of sex and the idol of money or possessions. And both of them promise pleasure apart from God. Both of them burrow down to the root of our nature, like some kind of diseased worm, and they eat at the vitals of our spiritual walk with God, the vitals of our spiritual health, and they make us sick. The lusts of our lives primarily reside in these two, the yearning for sexual pleasure, and the yearning for material possessions. And they promise delight, they promise pleasure, they promise happiness, but apart from God and his righteous laws and his boundaries, they leave the idolater's worshipper of them crushed and spiritually dead, devastated and empty. And the shocking tragedy for us in the church is that we can so often imitate those that are spiritually dead because of idolatry. We can actually take in the concepts of the Gospel. We can take in the fact that we have been blessed in the spiritual realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ, and every good and perfect gift that's in our lives has come down to us directly from a heavenly Father who loves us and we can take all of that spiritual and material blessing, and we can turn away from it, unfulfilled to seek something else, to seek some idol. How tragic, how unnecessary is that to be dissatisfied with Christ and to go after an idol? And so, this is the battle and the author to the Hebrews is concerned about this congregation of Jewish people who had made a profession of faith in Christ, who are being pressed by the hard treatment of the world, the persecution of the world, pressed by persecution to turn away from Jesus and go back to Old Covenant Judaism. But the real lure in the trap, the real bait is pleasure, earthly pleasure of which sex and material possession's a big part. And so, to be lured away from Christ into idols, idol worship, that's really the temptation and the pull. And the author to Hebrews is giving them this warning. And so, here in this text, we have provision from God, everything we need to fight these two idols. We have the gift of marriage that God's given us. The gift of marriage, that God ordained means for sexual fulfillment, and we have the gift of possessions and within that contentment in what God has given us. But fundamentally, even before that, after in the text, but primary before it is God's promise. II. Central Promise: I Will Be With You! So look ahead, we're going to kind of skip to the end of this section we're looking at. I'm going to look at Verse 5-6, and I want to bring out the Central Promise in this text that should feed us and strengthen us in our battle against idolatry. It says in Verse 5, "Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, 'Never will I leave you. Never will I forsake you.' And so, we say with confidence, the Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid, what can man do to me?" Fundamentally, idolatry is what we do when we're not satisfied with Christ. We run to sex and we run to possessions when we're not satisfied with Christ. Scripture's battle plan to the defeat idolatry is faith in the Lord Jesus as our all sufficient supplier and refuge and friend, that would satisfy the deepest parts of our soul. And to give us that faith God gives us his word, the word feeds the faith, faith works on the word. The word of promise, specifically, and so, God gives us a promise. Faith rises as a gift from God, rises to meet that promise and fulfills us with confidence that you see right in the text. God's given us a promise. Faith rises to meet it. We are filled with confidence and we live a different kind of life, not an idolatrous life. And so, what's the promise here? "I will be with you," that's the promise. I will be with you. I will never leave you. I will never forsake you. I am the satisfier of your soul. I will meet your deepest needs. I will protect you. I will uphold you with my sovereign right hand. I will feed you, I will love you, I will provide for you, I will filter all of the attacks, so that nothing will come on you accept what you are able to bear and in the middle of the battle, I will strengthen you and you will be victorious. I will be with you, trust in me, put your confidence fully in me. I will never leave you, I will never forsake you, no matter what you're going through, it could be a physical trial, it could be emotional, it could be a relational, it could be financial. Home base here is financial. You could be facing significant financial trials and God is saying directly to you from this text, "Do not be afraid. I will never leave you. I will never forsake you. Trust in me, I will be your helper. And no one will be able to fashion a weapon against you that will succeed. No weapon formed against you will prosper. What can man do to me?" That's what he's saying. Let me satisfy your soul, trust in this promise and don't run after the idols of the land, money, and sex, earthly, fleshly pleasures. Now, the origin of this promise was something said to Joshua, right before he entered the Promised Land. He's just there, as I said, on the other side of Jordan, at flood stage about to face the conquest of Jericho, and he had probably one of the hardest ministries ever. Just think about this one statement. I've often meditated on this in Joshua Chapter 1, "Moses, my servant is dead." Now then, you Joshua, take over. I mean, how would you like to follow Moses? This great figure, this incredible man who goes up a mountain of fire into the very presence of God and comes down with his face radiantly shining bright, how would like to follow him, be his successor? "Moses is dead, now then, you take over." It's terrifying. It would have been easy for Joshua looking ahead for his heart to quail and to fail, but God spoke this promise to him. Joshua 1:5-7, "No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will never leave you nor forsake you. Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their forefathers to give them. Be strong and very courageous." So Jesus is now speaking those words to you, O believer in Christ. He's speaking directly to you those same words. Be strong and courageous, because never will I leave you, never will I forsake you. This is the promise of the incarnation, isn't it? What was said concerning Mary, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son and they will call him, Immanuel. What does that mean? It means God with us. And as Paul said in Romans 8, "If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also along with him graciously give us all things." And so here, I just want to speak to you, if you are outside of Christ, may this be your invitation to come in. Don't stand on the outside of this promise, this promise isn't for you if you're not a Christian. If you're not in Christ, God will be against you, he will condemn you to hell, but if you are in Christ, then God is for you. And what else matters than that? That's where it makes perfect sense. What can man do to me, if God is for me? How could Satan's accusations mean anything to me? And so, if you have up to this moment been outside of the Gospel, outside of Christ, don't let it be that way any longer. Come to Christ, God sent his son, his only begotten Son into the world, who lived a sinless life, who died on the cross in the place of sinners like you and me, idolaters like you and me, who have made idols of sex and idols of money, and he died for idolaters like you and me. And all you have to do is put your faith in Jesus, and he will forgive you of all of your sins, and he'll transform you. So let that happen right now, so you can listen to the rest of the sermon as a Christian, how is that? And for those of you who years ago were justified, you're still battling idolatry, aren't you? And Jesus is promising, because I have cleansed you of all of the... Forgiven all your sins, I've given you a new nature. Stop acting like you don't have a new nature. You don't need these idols. So just... I plead with you don't leave this place unregenerate. You don't know how much longer you have to live. Come to Christ. And wouldn't it be great if I were speaking to 100% nothing but regenerate people right now? Wouldn't that be awesome? You say, "Oh Pastor, then you wasted your talk." Not at all. Just you guys... You 100% regenerate people, you guys go take this same Gospel and go preach it in the workplaces and the neighborhoods, what do you say? Exact same thing. Never will I leave you. Never will I forsake you. And so, this is the central joy of our lives, God with us. Psalm 16:11, "You have made known to me the path of life, you will fill me with joy in your presence with eternal pleasures at your right hand." So that's it, that promise, your faith in that promise is the dynamo that enables you to have the power to conquer these two great giants in the land, the idol of sex and the idol of money. By this promise, God is enough for me and he'll never leave me, you can defeat him. So now let's look at them. III. Crushing the Idol of Sex by Purity in Marriage First, crushing the idol of sex by purity and marriage. Look at Verse 4. "Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral." So we come now to the significance of marriage and when we come to marriage, we're coming to one of the truly vital issues in the Christian life. From the very beginning of redemptive history, marriage was at the center piece of what God intended to do with the human race. Other than personal conversion, there is no more important moment in someone's life than the moment they make that pledge saying "I do" in front of God. It's a vital, a vital moment. And therefore, because of its significance, it's hugely the focus of Satanic attack, hugely. The Godly healthy marriage can be an incredible pipeline of spiritual and material blessings. But a sinful un-Biblical disobedient marriage can be devastating for a lifetime. And there is no healthy society without healthy marriages, and there is no healthy church without healthy marriages. This is vital, this is no overstatement. These comments in this Verse are especially poignant for us who live in the state of North Carolina, in that we recently had an opportunity to consider the public view of marriage. And if you look again at the verse, marriage should be held in honor by all. Okay, well, it seems like it's the church's job as the pillar and foundation of the truth to work toward that end, that marriage will be held in honor by all. And the more I've looked at that problem of gay marriage, so call it, so the more you look at that issue and try to understand it, the more I am convinced that apart from the Bible we can have no lasting definition of marriage. Frankly, the definitions of marriage will get weirder and weirder. Can I marry myself? Can I marry my pet? I mean, why not? What's going to stop it? What ethic... What meant... What stops it? And so, we go back to the Scripture and say, God defines marriage, he did it from the beginning. And that's how we must argue. We must not be afraid to say, the Bible says. This is how marriage will be held in honor by all who listen to God. And so, we come to a positive view at the beginning of the Verse, marriage should be held in honor by all. The word honor here is related to the word frequently translated, precious or valuable, such as in 1 Corinthians 3:12, building with gold, silver, or costly stones, precious stones, same word. Or even better in 1 Peter 1, it talks about the precious blood of Christ that was shed for us, by which we are forgiven. So, marriage should be held in honor, it should be seen to be precious and valuable like the blood of Jesus is, should be esteem. So it has to do with an estimation. Held in honor, means how people think about it. Only as the society or the church esteems marriage properly, will husbands and wives understand their immense responsibilities to uphold it honorably, and primarily I think it's husbands and wives that need to esteem marriage properly, Amen. As we... As I as a husband esteem marriage properly, then I'll behave a certain way, as my wife esteems it, then it will be held in honor, that's how it is. But it doesn't mean that single people can't and shouldn't esteem marriage, they should. And why is marriage so honorable? Why is it so precious? Well, because the triune God has said so, how about that? God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit. God the Father by creating marriage and being specifically involved in the first couple getting together, so pointedly involved, the Creator made them male and female. He crafted Adam out of the dust of the earth. He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and he created him alone. And for a time, he was alone to establish his headship in the relationship and Adam's headship over the whole human race. But though God said again and again, in terms of creation, it is good, it is good, it is good. The one time he says, it is not good is, it is not good for the man to be alone. I'll make a helper suitable for him. I tend to think putting the whole Biblical council together, it was not good for man to remain alone. It was clearly good for him to be alone for a little while, to establish headship and leadership, but it wasn't good for him to remain alone, because then he could not fill the Earth and subdue it and rule over it. He needed a wife. And so, God the Father was directly active in that. Animals were brought, helper suitable was not found, a deep sleep, God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, he took a rib portion of Adam's bottom and he fa... Body and he fashioned a woman out of the rib. And out of that he brought her to the man. And I always think in terms of a distance travel, how God brought her to him, like she was made in a different place and they were brought together and Adam was delighted in her. This at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman for she was taken out of man. And then God the father made a statement about that saying, this is the norm forever, right there in Genesis 2. For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. And the two will become one flesh. So, marriage is to be held in honor, because God the Father does. Marriage is to be held in honor because God the Son does as well. Jesus was born in the context of a marriage. Joseph was betrothed to be married to Mary, and though Joseph was not his biological father, God was his father, yet he grew up in a home in which Joseph took Mary as his wife, and had other children by her after he was born, and Jesus was submissive to both of them because of honoring marriage. Who is Joseph to Jesus, except his stepfather? I guess, an unusual relationship. But because of the significance of marriage, he honored him. And Joseph's genealogy given, I think they're in Matthew's Gospel. Secondly, by Jesus doing his first miracle at the wedding at Cana in Galilee, changing the water into high-quality wine, by doing that and by speaking of himself as the bridegroom. How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn when he is still with them? The time will come on the bridegroom will be taken from them. So, he honors marriage by using this language, and by his parables, the way he told parables, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a king who wanted to throw a wedding banquet for his son. And so, the consummation in Heaven is spoken to be like a wedding banquet and the king is God the Father and the Son is Jesus and the bride is the church. And by Jesus' teaching on divorce in Matthew 19. "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?" "Haven't you read, that at the beginning, the Creator made them male and female and said for this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two but one. What God therefore has joined together, let man not separate." Jesus honored marriage in all of these ways. And God the Holy Spirit honored marriage in so many ways, but through the teaching of the Prophets and the Apostles. In the Old Testament, the Prophets, speak as though Israel... God's people is God's bride. Marry to God. So Isaiah 62:5, as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you. There's this analogy between God and Israel of marriage. So also with Hosea, when there was immorality, there was adultery, because of the idolatry. But God would restore in Hosea 2:16, "in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me my husband." Jeremiah 2, "I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the desert, through a land not sown." And so, also through the Apostles. Paul's teaching on marriage in Ephesians Chapter 5. "For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This is a profound mystery, but I'm talking about Christ and the church. Revelation 21:9, the Holy Spirit speaks, "one of the seven angels said to me, 'come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the lamb.'" And so, in a very mysterious way, even the sexual union between a husband and wife is a picture of God's perfect spiritual union with his people. It's not something our minds can completely handle because we're corrupted, but we're still given this profound mystery as an analogy. And in heaven, when there will be no procreation, no physical union, no need for it, the consummation will be very much like the perfection of a marriage. So God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit have all set apart marriage and esteemed it as a high and holy thing. And this is true even if you are single, and even if you have the gift of singleness, 1 Corinthian 7 talks about the gift of singleness, where, there are going to be some brothers and sisters in Christ who have given... Been given this gift and they will never be married and they're set apart according of the Apostle Paul for the Gospel and for Jesus, and total focus on him. But even they should honor marriage and hold it in honor and esteem, that's what the Verse says. God has many purposes in marriage, procreation, because he desired Godly offspring, pleasure because he just loves us and wants us to enjoy things and marriage is pleasure. For purity, because this is the only way that we sexual beings can be sexual and not sin. Elizabeth Elliot was once asked to write a book, the title of which was "Sex And The Single Christian." She wrote back saying it's going to be a very short book. Really short. This is the only way we can be pure. For partnership, because two are better than one. For progress, because it's a workshop of sanctification and how, talk about that another time. But we just keep learning and growing in Christ. Those of you who are about to get married, you're not marrying a perfect person, you know that, and you know who you are, but I think you know that. It's for sanctification, for progress and for proclamation, because it's an incredible platform for the Gospel. Both to our children, as they are raised in our home, and we can share the Gospel with them, and then to the outside world. That's six Ps. I usually don't alliterate, some day that might be actually in a wedding. Procreation, pleasure, purity, partnership, progress, and proclamation. Satanic Attacks on Marriage Alright, if marriage is so important, then you can see why Satan is going to come after it hard. Satan's been hammering on human sexuality, organized satanic attacks. I've counted many of them. I think seven, maybe. And on the way here, we came up with three more, organized satanic attacks against marriage. Fornication Two in the text, fornication, pornos in the Greek and adultery. Fornication is sexual activity between unmarried people. Our world is filled with fornication these days, our culture is filled with it. It's just accepted a normal, it seems. Colleges are rife with it, it's just accepted and normal there. And then after college years it's just accepted to extend singleness as long as possible, because there's so much sexual immorality and there's no need. As one writer put it, "Why buy the cow when you can sneak in at night into the neighbor's pasture and steal his milk." You don't have to care for the cow or protect it. And so, single men and women are not making the sacrifice in the covenant of marriage, because they're getting whatever they want selfishly. And so also adultery. Adultery is sexual relating between two people when one or more of them are married to someone else. Adultery Again, adultery is down played, but I think we see more of the damage that that does. It could be somebody very famous, maybe even an athlete, doing incredibly well in his career, commits multiple acts of adultery, and his life spirals out of control. He loses basically everything that he valued in this life and can't even perform well in his sport any longer. Now, you think I'm talking about such and such, and I may actually be talking about somebody else. It's happened again and again. And these two are mentioned in the text. Prostitution, Polygamy, Legalistic Celibacy, Divorce But there are others, prostitution, polygamy, homosexuality, legalistic celibacy. Colossians 2, forbidding of marriage is a Satanic attack on marriage. Divorce and others, besides. Homosexuality I want to say briefly two specific things from this list. There are some that trouble us more than others. First about homosexuality. It's not directly addressed here, but we need to know the signs of our times and we need to know that out there, this is a huge issue. And we, the church having the Gospel, have the only remedy that there is for homosexuals. The only remedy. And you know what the remedy is? Ephesians captures it better than... This one phrase, speaking the truth in love. That's the remedy. We need to be willing to speak the truth, both to homosexual people and to our culture. The President of the United States said that gay marriage is a civil rights issue. We need to speak the truth about that, it's not. Scripturally homosexuality threatens people's souls with eternal damnation, just as much as the sin I'm about to talk about does, covetousness. So our church needs to be as welcoming toward people who are being saved out of homosexuality as we are welcoming to we who are being saved out of covetousness. Amen. Because they're all listed in those lists. And so, we need to speak the truth and not get swept along to the point, not just a tolerance, but of embracing and celebrating homosexuality. It cannot be. I cannot celebrate something that's going to destroy my neighbor. How could that be loving to the neighbor? I can't celebrate that. But what I can do is speak the truth and there has to be a demeanor, a tone of voice, a facial expression of love and sensitivity and humility and compassion that draws people into the discussion and helps them to see that at some point, like in 1 Corinthian 6, it can be said of homosexuals and such were some of you, but you were washed, you were redeemed, you were cleansed, you were saved by the blood of Jesus, so briefly. Pornography And secondly, I want to talk briefly about pornography. The word pornos is right in the text, and this is something that is assaulting the soul of churches like ours. Even our church. Frankly, one of the biggest attacks on the sacredness of the marriage bed that... And that's... The text, marriage... The marriage bed, koite is what it is in the Greek, that marriage bed, the sexual relationship between the husband and wife held sacred, held in honor. This is an assault and it's really accelerated in our lifetime to the point where people can without sacrificing their dignity, basically go to the wrong side of town and get whatever they want on the Internet. Staggering. While Christi and I were students at Southern Seminary, there was someone that lived in our block of apartments, we didn't know them well. But it was a student there and he basically threw it all the way for Internet pornography, threw it all away, his marriage, his parenting, his seminary career, everything, so he could sit and look on a computer. Al Mohler, speaking about pornography said, basically, what you have, picture a single guy alone in his room and he doesn't have to look after his hygiene, he doesn't have to look after his bad breath, he doesn't have to look after his appearance or his weight, he doesn't have to build a relationship with a woman, he doesn't have to sacrifice or in any way be a Christ-like head to her. He can have an array a smorgasbord of beautiful women who will do whatever he wants them to do and then he can dismiss them. It's wickedness. And there's no place for it in the church, and we have to fight everything that we have. Go back to the original promise with which I began. God is enough for you. He will never leave you, he'll never forsake you, that means he's with you always and it says right in our text, a serious warning. God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral. If your right hand... If your right eye caused you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than your whole body to be thrown into hell, and if your right hand caused you to sin, then cut it off and throw it away. It's better for you to lose one part of your body than your whole body to be thrown into hell. The Joys of Marriage Finally, on marriage, be delighted in what God has provided for you. Be delighted in it. Have a lifetime of marriage together. Grow old together. If you're a husband, be a Christ-like head to your wife. Love her as Christ loved the church, sacrifice for her. Train her up, wash her with water through the word, sanctify her in that way. Love her, lay you down your life for her. And as it says in Proverbs 5, be satisfied with her sexually. Don't read it, I've got it here, but I don't have time, but just read it. Let her body, let herself satisfy you, and don't want any more, be content with her, and develop that. And wives submit to your husbands, and love them and follow them as Ephesians commands. This church will be as healthy, in part as healthy as our marriages. IV. Crushing the Idol of Money by Contentment in God The second great idol that we have in this text is that of money. And as I've looked at this, I'm... Sometimes I'm not sure which of the two is bigger. Verse 5, "Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, 'Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.'" We come here to the struggle that we all have with covetousness, with greed, material possessions. And in the New Testament several times greed is called idolatry, it's directly connected. The author is laying open our sin and giving us the remedy and the remedy is contentment based on the promises of God. What is Covetousness? So what is covetousness? The word used here is literally money love or the love of silver. But money itself is just a means to an end. What does the money buy? What is it that the money buys? Very few people are just straight Ebenezer Scrooge misers that just collect money for its own sake. It's like, if I could just have a huge box of silver coins on a desert island, I would be just in 7th heaven. Nobody thinks like that. You can't eat the silver, and after a while you're like, what I wouldn't give for a steady supply of bread and water, just to stay alive. So most people, I understand, it's not the money, it's what it can get for you. Well, what does it get for you? It gets you some kind of earthly pleasure. Whether by buying the clothes, the fancy suit, the fine house, the fast car, the lifestyle, it's the lifestyle of pleasure of self-seeking pleasure. That's what we're at here, earthly pleasure. And so, covetousness then is an over eager desire for the things of this world. It's a lusting after either what God has forbidden, that's just straight out sin or what God has not provided for you. I mean, do you really believe that everything you have has come to you as a gift from God? Well, that's what it says in James, right? Every gift has come to you from God, right? Well then, do you believe the corollary to that, that everything you don't have has come to you from God, or has not come to you because of God? God did not want you to have it up to that point. God is able to do anything. He can snap a finger and do anything for you. If he has not chosen to make you filthy rich, it's because he doesn't want you to be filthy. And so, God is putting a boundary around you and in Psalm 16 David says, "the boundary lines in have fallen for me in pleasant places." And so, you just are happy within what God has provided. But a covetous heart is constantly looking at his neighbor's house, his neighbor's wife, his neighbor's man servants or maid servants and all that, and violating the 10th Commandment, wanting something that God hasn't provided. Now, it's a requirement for elders that they not be covetous. 1 Timothy 3:3, not given to drunkenness, not violent, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. Not a lover of money, same Greek. 1 Peter 5:2, "Be shepherds of God's flock that is under your care, serving as overseers, not because you must, but because you are willing as God wants you to be, not greedy for money, but eager to serve." But it's also for all of us, that we would not be lovers of money. That you would keep your conversation, your daily life, the way you live your life free from consumption, free from idolatry, covetousness. And so, we have this warning to the rich, 1 Timothy 6:9-10 says, "People who want to get rich fall into temptation and into a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people eager for money have wandered away from the faith and have pierced themselves with many griefs." Now, you've probably heard a version of that before, right? Money is the root of all evil. You ever heard that? So, I want to correct two errors concerning that, alright? First and less significant is the exact phraseology. It is not money is the root of all evil, it is the love of money that is the root of all sorts or categories types of evil. That's the lesser error. The greater error is that it's not a problem for you, that you don't actually struggle with covetousness. It's not really a problem, it's for those other people, that's the greater error, and the more dangerous of the two. For you to say, "I have no love of money, it's not a problem for me, I'm completely free from that, I'm not a materialist. I don't live for possessions." Do not say that. But rather take seriously these warnings. Some time ago, I was in the house of a church leader, not our church, it was somebody that we had met and it was a very, very, very, nice home. And I was looking at through a stack of magazines and I came across one I had never seen before, Connoisseur Magazine. So I was interested in Connoisseur Magazine. Maybe some of you have a subscription, please don't come and tell me you have a subscription to Connoisseur Magazine. What is it? It's the best of the best of all the stuff there is in any category there is. So there were articles in this particular magazine, there were articles on kitchen cutlery. I mean, there was like an $825 knife, kitchen knife. I'm thinking, "Oh my goodness." First of all, I'm kind of used to a dull knife, anyway. I'd probably cut right through my hand with the first swipe. I'm holding a tomato and it's going on, swish, right through. It was made in Japan with the highest quality Japanese Samurai steel or something like that, $800 and whatever it was. I thought, "Oh my goodness." Then I flipped the pages, and there was article on Italian shoes, men shoes, or English bespoke suits that are of the best quality, the best vacation packages. Now, if you'd been in the home of a church leader and seen a Playboy, would it have bothered you? I would hope so. Should that magazines being there, bother me? Even worse, why was I so interested in it? Why was it so alluring to read it. I was interested in every article, all of them. There was an article on fine red sports cars. Captured my attention for a while. The fact of the matter is, this is a blind spot for the American church, it's dangerous. The ground of a certain man produced a rich harvest, because the harvest was too big for his existing barns, he said, "I don't know what I'm going to do. Oh, I have an idea, I'll tear down my barns and I'll build even bigger barns and then I'll have stuff for years to come, and I'll say to my soul, soul, you have stuff laid up for years to come." Then the Word comes down from Heaven, "you fool, this very night your soul will be required of you. Now, who's going to get all the stuff you've laid up for yourself?” what I have... The idea I have here, is not build bigger barns or build bigger vats, let's build bigger diameter pipes and let the stuff flow right through us. There's nothing wrong with earning lots of money, there's something wrong with it accumulating all in one place, does that make sense? And so, let's keep our lives free from the love of money and let's be content with what we have. Jeremiah Burroughs said that contentment is a sweet, quiet, settled inward disposition of the soul that rests in God's providence for the soul. It's a heart work, contentment is, and you're saying what God has given to me as the song says, is more than enough for me. I have enough, I have plenty, I don't need any more. And so, if you have enough to eat, and enough to wear and basic provisions and that plus contentment, you are rich, according to Scripture. Contentment's way better than money, isn't it? I mean, it travels easily, right? I mean, no one can steal it from you, it's secure. And so, therefore, we could just go right over into the statement. Because I'm content in Jesus and in the promises of God, "the Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid, what can man do to me?" Well, frankly, man can do a lot to me. I mean, really, he can. He can insult me, he can persecute me, he can take my possessions, he can beat my body, he can imprison me and take away my freedom and then he can kill me. So that's actually a lot. Do you think the author of Hebrews is not aware of all the things that man could do? Oh, he knew very well what man could do. What is he saying? He's saying, compared to the riches we have stored up in heaven, of forgiveness in Christ and rich abundance stored up treasure in Heaven, where moth and rust cannot destroy, and thieves cannot break in and steal, what can man do to take away my peace with God? What can man do to take away my justification and my forgiveness? What can man do to take away the indwelling Holy Spirit and what can man do to take away my contentment in the promises of God? If that's taken away, man didn't take it from me, I gave it away. And so, the Scripture just stands and defeats these two great idols, sex and money. How stands it with your soul? Are you battling these idols? Are you in Christ? And are you going to the promises of God and getting the strength you need to fight these battles and not live for sex and live for money? And be freed up to a whole radical different kind of lifestyle, where you are open to anything God calls you to do and serve him in radical ways. Like going on a mission trip. We're going to have a chance in a few moments to commission a mission trip. Just be free, open-handed with your money, be pure in your mind, be healthy in your marriage and be open-handed with your money. That's what the text is saying to us today. Close with me in prayer.

In today's podcast, we talk with Trevor Absolon, Japanese armor expert and dealer, author, documentary producer, and owner of Japanese armor website Toraba.com. Trevor talks about how he got into the armor business as well as what we should know about Japanese armor, some of the mythology surrounding Japanese Samurai armor, and advice for anyone interested in starting their own armor collection. Join us for this inside look into the world of Japanese armor. This episode is part one of two. Mentioned in this podcast: Toraba Japanese Samurai Armours: http://www.toraba.com Toraba Bookstore: http://www.toraba.com/samurai-armour-books.asp Sengoku Daimyo, Anthony J. Bryant's website: http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/ Bryant, Anthony J. Sekigahara 1600: The Final Struggle for Power Osprey Publishing (September 11, 1995) http://astore.amazon.com/samurai-20/detail/1855323958 Support this podcast: Shop Amazon.com, suport the podcast: http://amzn.to/wnDX2j Samurai Archives Bookstore: http://astore.amazon.com/samurai-20 Samurai Archives Shop (T-Shirts, etc) http://www.cafepress.com/samuraiarchives Contact Us: Twitter @SamuraiArchives https://twitter.com/#!/samuraiarchives Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Samurai-Archives/104533213984 Samurai Archives podcast blog: http://www.samuraipodcast.com Samurai Archives Forum: http://www.japanhistoryforum.com

May 31, 2011 - This week, Josh Ron Marz to the show to talk about his new creator owned series, Shinku. A modern day vampire-meets-Samurai tale, Marz has teamed with Lee Moder and Image Comics to bring this one to light. While vampires are no doubt en vogue right now, Marz assures us that this story has been kicking around for a long time. We also talk about how the writer keeps coming back to these Japanese Samurai stories in all their forms. Finally, we talk about what it really means to make a creator owned book, especially one that's an ongoing. Always fun, and always candid, Ron Marz lets you know everything you need to know to check out Shinku #1 this Wednesday. Shinku #1 Story by Ron Marz Art by Lee Moder $2.99 - Image Comics Music El Scorcho Weezer

Oxford trip scholar Michael Jay is only the second non-Japanese man to hold a Samurai rank. Hear about his journey to becoming a Samurai. Followed by a viewing of the actual logbook of the incredible voyage of William Adams, the first non-Japanese Samurai, housed in the Bodleian Library.