Podcasts about this age

Jazz88's Peter Solomon speaks with three of the musical directors involved in an event commemorating George Floyd called "Weather: Stand the Storm." Participants include Dr. G. Philip Shoultz, conductor of Singers of This Age; Waigwa, director of One Voice Mixed Chorus and Elevate Vocal Arts and Elevation Ensemble; and Dr. Rollo Dilworth, director of Singing City. Dilworth composed the musical setting for Claudia Rankine's poem “Weather,” which is the centerpiece of Saturday night's program. More details about Saturday's program are available at www.mnonevoice.org. Image: Waigwa

Jazz88's Peter Solomon speaks with three of the musical directors involved in an event commemorating George Floyd called "Weather: Stand the Storm." Participants include Dr. G. Philip Shoultz, conductor of Singers of This Age; Waigwa, director of One Voice Mixed Chorus and Elevate Vocal Arts and Elevation Ensemble; and Dr. Rollo Dilworth, director of Singing City. Dilworth composed the musical setting for Claudia Rankine's poem “Weather,” which is the centerpiece of Saturday night's program. More details about Saturday's program are available at www.mnonevoice.org. Image: Waigwa

A lot of Christians ask whether we're living in the end times. Max Lucado believes God wants us to be prepared, not scared; informed, not intimidated. Ed Stetzer talks with Max about his book What Happens Next: A Traveler's Guide Through the End of This Age and what the Bible says about heaven's timeline that will empower you to face the future with faith and hope on Ed Stetzer Live. Ed Stetzer Live is a listener supported program. To donate, click here. To learn more about Ed Stetzer, click here. To learn more about Ed Stetzer Live, click here.Donate to Moody Radio: http://moodyradio.org/donateto/edstetzerliveSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This week, we welcome back beloved author and pastor, Max Lucado for a meaningful conversation about a range of topics, including the emotional landscape of shame and guilt, the nuances of addiction and how it manifests in various forms beyond substance abuse, and Max's new book What Happens Next: A Travelers' Guide Through The End of This Age. In this episode, we explore: the distinction between guilt and shame and how these feelings can impact our relationships with ourselves, others, and God the nuances of addiction and how it manifests in various forms beyond substance abuse how the Twelve Steps offer a transformative path for everyone, regardless of their struggles what eschatology is and the significance of understanding end times in a contemporary context Whether you're navigating personal challenges, seeking deeper understanding of yourself, or curious about the intersection of faith and psychology, this episode offers valuable insights and encouragement.

A lot of Christians ask whether we're living in the end times. Max Lucado believes God wants us to be prepared, not scared; informed, not intimidated. Ed Stetzer talks with Max about his book, "What Happens Next: A Traveler's Guide Through the End of This Age" and what the Bible says about heaven's timeline that will empower you to face the future with faith and hope on Ed Stetzer Live.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bible Prophecy Under the Microscope-Episode 7. Gary deals with Max Lucado's new book, What Happens Next: A Traveler's Guide Through the End of This Age. Nothing Lucado writes is new or different from what has already been written hundreds of times by a multitude of other authors over the last two or three decades. Click here to get a free PDF study guide for this episode.

Pags Interviews 'America's Pastor' Max Lucado—They Discuss How to Move Past Challenging Times and Dive Into His New Book, What Happens Next: A Traveler's Guide to the End of This Age!

Pags Breaks Down Kamala Harris's Talk at the NABJ, Highlighting Key Moments and Insights from the Conversation! PLUS...Pags Interviews 'America's Pastor' Max Lucado—They Discuss How to Move Past Challenging Times and Dive Into His New Book, What Happens Next: A Traveler's Guide to the End of This Age!

Pags Breaks Down Kamala Harris's Talk at the NABJ, Highlighting Key Moments and Insights from the Conversation! PLUS - Pags Interviews 'America's Pastor' Max Lucado—They Discuss How to Move Past Challenging Times and Dive Into His New Book, What Happens Next: A Traveler's Guide to the End of This Age! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“The future is not frightening if you know the future. And you can know the future when you know who holds it.” says best-selling author Max Lucado. He shares from his book “What Happens Next: A Traveler's Guide Through the End of This Age.”  *Originally aired August 14, 2024*  Faith Radio podcasts are made possible by your support. Give now: click here 

Most business speeches are very definitive.  We did this, and it worked for us and you could do the same and also get similar results. Usually, we are asked to speak because we have had good results and have rich experience in our industry. The hosts believe that others will be interested in hearing what we did, so that they can take lessons from it and they will be able to pull a crowd.  The problem is today we are in the Age Of Distraction and the Era of Cynicism. If what we are offering doesn't sound valuable or sounds dubious, then the audience loses interest immediately and lunge for their phones to hit the internet and escape from us.  Once upon a time, listeners would sit there politely and absorb what we were saying and wait to reach judgement.  Now we have to win them over from the very start. They are also more sceptical than in times past and are constantly on the prowl for fake news. No wonder though, given the barrage of scams and fake information hammering us every day.  I constantly get fake emails trying to get me to click on something that will allow them to take over my computer and clean out my bank account.  The fakes have become more and more sophisticated and sometimes I have trouble telling if they are real or not.  I have had to ring my bank or my credit card company to check that what I have received is legit or not. They are now that realistic. Little surprise people are on guard. This combination of short attention spans and cynicism about what we are telling them makes it very much harder to advance our arguments when we are speaking.  One approach is to use a couple of simple tools.  One is the rule of three and the other is recency.  Basically, audiences cannot take in more than three points and remember them, so to prove our arguement, we should assemble the strongest three points we can come up with.  The way to use these three points, though, is not to just list them and explain what they mean.  This Age of Cynicism demands that we offer more balance.  We should list the pros and cons associated with each point we are making.  So as we go through them, we offer the pluses and minuses for each point.  I remember when I was an undergraduate student doing Modern Asian Studies at Griffith University in Brisbane, we had a guest lecturer come in to talk about the causes of the Battle Of Sekigahara.  Tokugawa Ieyasu won that battle and set up a dynasty which lasted for hundreds of years and it was a major turning point in Japanese history.  He started by going through a long list of the usual explanations for the events leading to the battle, and it was all very convincing. I was sitting there in the front row busily making notes.  He then proceeded to pull down each of these standard arguments and replace them with his own interpretation of events. It was a powerful intellectual example of providing balance and therefore becoming much more convincing than if he had just rattled off what he thought explained the situation. We should do the same with the points we are making in our talk and provide balance. This invites the audience to observe that we are not being dogmatic and that we are considered and looking for fairness in our argument.  It is very disarming. We don't present a static target to be attacked because we are demonstrating our intellectual flexibility. Additionally, the recency phenomena is a key contributor to being believed.  We all tend to remember best what we heard last.  So, of the three points, the strongest recommendation should come last.  We do the same thing with the pros and cons for each point. Finally, we offer the last point as our strongest recommendation for the audience.  They heard this last, so it has the impact of being the most memorable argument and therefore more likely to be accepted. Is running it last cheating?  No, we are just adapting our order to best suit human psychology to have the best shot at convincing the listeners of our argument.  We have shown balance by going through the pluses and minuses and we just order the points in a way which is the most convincing and effective. So next time you give a talk, consider how you can introduce more balance in the argument you are making. If you do, the chances are much higher that you will be believed and well regarded as an expert in your field.  This will advance your professional and personal brands.  

"The future is not frightening if you know the future. And you can know the future when you know who holds it." says best-selling author Max Lucado. He shares from his book "What Happens Next: A Traveler's Guide Through the End of This Age." Faith Radio podcasts are made possible by your support. Give now: click here

Topics: Same-Sex Attraction, Gender Identity, Grandparenting, Dating, Finances, Engagement Hosts: Becky Brown and Special Guest author, speaker, and pastor Max Lucado Caller Questions & More: Max Lucado talks about End Times in his latest book What Happens Next: A Traveler's Guide through the End of This Age.  What can a grandmother do when the public schools have introduced homosexual education and The post New Life Live: August 14, 2024 appeared first on New Life.

Get notes on this podcast here:  https://churchleaders.com/podcast/491746-max-lucado-elders-changing-mind.html Max Lucado joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to discuss what he believes about the end times and how he and his elders have navigated Max changing his views on secondary doctrines. Priscilla Shirer joined us last week to discuss being a true disciple of Jesus, the importance of accountability for church leaders, and her new movie, “The Forge.” Check out our conversation with her here: https://churchleaders.com/podcast/491149-priscilla-shirer-church-leaders-mentorship-accountability.html   ► Listen on Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-churchleaders-podcast/id988990685 Visit ChurchLeaders Website: https://churchleaders.com Find ChurchLeaders on Facebook: https://facebook.com/churchleaders Follow ChurchLeaders on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChurchLead Follow ChurchLeaders on Instagram: https://instagram.com/churchlead/ Follow ChurchLeaders on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/churchleaders/   “What Happens Next: A Traveler's Guide Through the End of This Age” by Max Lucado "In the Grip of Grace: Your Father Always Caught You. He Still Does." by Max Lucado "The United Church in a Divided World" by Max Lucado Oak Hills Church Check out Max's website Follow Max on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, X/Twitter, and YouTube

Topics: Same-Sex Attraction, Gender Identity, Grandparenting, Dating, Finances, Engagement Hosts: Becky Brown and Special Guest author, speaker, and pastor Max Lucado Caller Questions More: 1. Max Lucado talks about End Times in his latest book What Happens Next: A Traveler's Guide through the End of This Age. 2. What can a grandmother do when the public schools have introduced homosexual education and gender transitioning for 2nd and 3rd graders and even younger? 3. My ex-boyfriend is still in control of my finances; is that okay with the Lord, or does God want me to have financial breakthrough in my life? 4. I have been with my girlfriend for 3yrs, and friends and family are telling me to propose. At 21yo, how can I know if God is telling me yes or no? 5. Thank you, Mr. Lucado, for your years of ministry and wisdom! You helped me understand the humanity of Jesus. Suggested Resources: What Happens Next Healing Is a Choice How We Love To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/451/29

Topics: Same-Sex Attraction, Gender Identity, Grandparenting, Dating, Finances, Engagement Hosts: Becky Brown and Special Guest author, speaker, and pastor Max Lucado Caller Questions More: 1. Max Lucado talks about End Times in his latest book What Happens Next: A Traveler's Guide through the End of This Age. 2. What can a grandmother do when the public schools have introduced homosexual education and gender transitioning for 2nd and 3rd graders and even younger? 3. My ex-boyfriend is still in control of my finances; is that okay with the Lord, or does God want me to have financial breakthrough in my life? 4. I have been with my girlfriend for 3yrs, and friends and family are telling me to propose. At 21yo, how can I know if God is telling me yes or no? 5. Thank you, Mr. Lucado, for your years of ministry and wisdom! You helped me understand the humanity of Jesus. Suggested Resources: What Happens Next Healing Is a Choice How We Love To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/451/29

Tuesday, August 13, 2024 In the second hour, Kerby welcomes author and pastor Max Lucado. Max joins Kerby in our studio to share his newest book, “What Happens Next: A Traveler's Guide Through The End of This Age,” releasing TODAY. Connect with us on Facebook at facebook.com/pointofviewradio and on Twitter @PointofViewRTS with your opinions or comments. […]

One of my favorite faith leaders, Max Lucado, is on the show today chatting with me about his latest book, What Happens Next: A Traveler's Guide Through the End of This Age, which comes out on August 13. Today's show is a conversation about faith, and about the end times—but it's anything but doom and gloom and frightening and scary. It's quite the opposite, actually—I've never felt more peace about what will happen to me when it's my time, and I've also never felt more peace about those I love that have already gone home. Max writes in What Happens Next that “God tells us what to expect not to scare us, but to prepare us” and reassures us that it's all happening right on schedule, writing “Be assured, God is at work. His plans are proceeding at the right pace, in the right places, and according to His will.” In this conversation and in this book, I learned more about paradise, and left feeling so filled with hope of what is to come. I have listened to Max's voice for so long, as I am a listener of his “Encouraging Word” podcast, and it was such a thrill to have Max speaking directly to me. Max is a bestselling author and minister at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, and Max has written almost 100 books—100 books!—and regularly appears on the New York Times bestseller list. He was named “America's Pastor” by Christianity Today and “The Best Preacher in America” by Reader's Digest; he has appeared on programs like NBC Nightly News and Larry King Live, in the pages of USA Today, and has even been a featured speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast. His voice is so, so comforting to me, and, as the Olympics wrap up this weekend, don't miss what Max says about our loved ones that have gone before us cheering us on as we run our race, like spectators in an Olympic stadium. I hope you will get as much richness and goodness out of this conversation as I most certainly did.   What Happens Next: A Traveler's Guide Through the End of This Age by Max Lucado

Episode #230 of 15 Minutes and a Big Idea. A Podcast by The Mended Collective. In this episode, we examine 1 Corinthians 2:6-9. Big Idea: We Speak Wisdom 3 Supporting Ideas: 1) Our Wisdom is not of This Age 2) The Rulers Misunderstood Wisdom 3) God's Wisdom is Transcendant Facebook Page:  https://www.facebook.com/15bigidea/?view_public_for=110691360592088 The Mended Collective: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSlUSkU2N0UEy4Bq1HgpFEQ Email: 15bigideapodcast@gmail.com Theme Music: "Advertime" by Rafael Krux

For many believers, talking about the Rapture tends to spark concern, worry, and confusion. But that doesn't necessarily mean you need to fear the future.   NYT best-selling author Pastor Max Lucado lays out the reasons why we should have hope at the end of this age as detailed in his new book, What Happens Next: A Traveler's Guide Through the End of This Age. Pastor Lucado addresses the divided and dismal times in which we live and explains how listeners can navigate this world and the next, with faith and optimism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Too often, the message we receive is "You don't fit in. You are broken!" and yet the real message should be: “There's nothing wrong with you. You're OK.  It's true!  There's something wrong with the village.” On this PRIDE Sunday, the passage from I Corinthians reminds us that although we each serve different purposes in ‘the body', each part is critical, valued and of equal import to the whole body.  A youth choir, Singers of This Age, performed a powerful song “Something's Wrong With the Village” earlier, so we reflected on those words.  It's our culture, some people and even some churches that tell our LGBTQIA+ siblings that something is “wrong with you”….whereas we believe EVERY person is created in God's image.  And God has a message for ALL of us, for YOU:  You are my beloved child, loved just as you are…and you belong…and you matter!  This message is presented by Pastor Tania, and the relevant scripture is 1 Corinthians, Chapter 12, verses 12-20, 26.

Bible Basics with Mike Roberts Ep334 - God's Challenge for This Age

Subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon to listen to this premium episode, and all of our bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/knowyourenemy It was inevitable that Know Your Enemy would eventually discuss Arguing the World, the 1998 documentary about four Jewish intellectuals who emerged from the alcoves and arguments of City College in the 1930s and influenced American politics and letters for much of the rest of the twentieth century, and beyond: Irving Howe, Irving Kristol, Daniel Bell, and Nathan Glazer.Why now? Most of all, it's the kind of documentary we love—the personal rivalries, the gossip, the self-conscious intellectuality, and the, well, arguments. But we'll also be publishing an episode next week with historian Ronnie Grinberg about her new book, Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals, and while the overlap in subject matter is not perfect, this documentary would make for a great primer for listeners (since we know you're the kind of listeners who do not despise homework). It's also an excellent chance to revisit the history of the left, old and new, and their fraught relationship with each other; to consider the place of intellectuals and thinking in a time of urgent action; and, as ever, to talk about the ways the subjects of Arguing the World might fit into America's right turn and "how we got here."Watch:Arguing the World, dir. Joseph Dorman (1998); YouTube, PBS, IMDBRead:Irving Howe, "This Age of Conformity," Partisan Review, Jan-Feb 1954Irving Howe, "Socialism and Liberalism: Articles of Conciliation?" Dissent, Winter 1977Irving Kristol, “Memoirs of a Trotskyist,” NYTimes, Jan 23, 1977

A new MP3 sermon from Alpha and Omega Ministries is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: This Age is Passing Away: the Emptiness of Secularism, then Hebrews 10 for Resurrecti Subtitle: The Dividing Line 2024 Speaker: Dr. James White Broadcaster: Alpha and Omega Ministries Event: Podcast Date: 3/26/2024 Length: 71 min.

A lecture given at the 2024 UK Convivium by Oliver O'Donovan entitled "The Children of This Age and the Children of Light: A Biblical Apologia for Political Theology and a Critique of Its Traditional Defenders" In the keynote address of the 2024 Davenant UK Convivium on "Renewing British Political Theology", Prof. Oliver O'Donovan delivers an exposition of the Parable of the Dishonest Manager from Luke 16 in defense of the practice of political theology.

Andrew Newman is a Children's Book author and Creativity Coach who, once upon a time, didn't think he was creative at all. Today Andrew teaches us all about the “creative cycle” where he helps to untangle the struggles of creatives, entrepreneurs, and anyone trying new things and making big changes! This special episode is a must listen for anyone creating anything ever at any age, which is literally everyone all the time. A rarity on a show for people over 40.Andrew's children's books, Conscious Stories, is a line of 20 books and can be found online at https://consciousstories.com/ along with his Creative Coaching program. Follow our show on instagram @iamthisage_podcast!Email for transciption info@jellyfishindustries.comBuy me a coffee! (AKA donate to the show)  https://www.buymeacoffee.com/IAmThisAge

My guest today is a running coach who made a big life change around the age of 40 when she left her marriage and then her job at NPR to become a running coach. She now has two of her own running podcasts and says she's living her dream life. Listen up to hear how Coach Christine Hetzel handled her big transition into the life she always wanted. Christine's PodcastRunning Scared With Coach Christine PodcastTime For Brunch PodcastContacts for Molly and Jellyfish Industrywww.jellyfishindustries.comwww.mollysider.comEmail For Transcription: molly@jellyfishindustries.com  

Both the 7 Practices and the 40 End Goals use the term “Humble Confidence” but what does that mean? Join Mark and Julianna in a discussion with Rev. Trevor Sutton about his study on Humble Confidence available on YouthESource right now. Bio: Rev. Trevor Sutton is a senior pastor at St. Luke Lutheran Church in Lansing, Michigan. He is also a PhD candidate at Concordia Seminary and teaches in the digital humanities graduate program at Concordia Ann Arbor. His most recent books include Redeeming Technology and Clearly Christian: Following Jesus in This Age of Confusion. Sutton's writing on technology has appeared in The Washington Post, Religion News Service, The Lutheran Witness, The Christian Century and elsewhere. Find the LCMS Youth Ministry resource website at youthesource.com.

A new MP3 sermon from Meadow Creek Presbyterian Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Rich in This Age...Look to Jesus Subtitle: 1 Timothy Speaker: Richard Steele Broadcaster: Meadow Creek Presbyterian Church Event: Sunday - AM Date: 8/28/2022 Bible: 1 Timothy 6:16-21 Length: 42 min.

--{ "Reason Battles for Logical Conclusion in This Age of Manufactured Confusion"}-- Laboratory Rats - The Natural Order - Mainstream and Alternative Media - Relativity - Mystical Thinking - Deliberate Confusion and Expert Advice - Maximizing Profit - Reasoning Abilities - Soviet Union - Propaganda - Austerity Program - Club of Rome - Facts Don't Matter - United Nations Climate Talks, COP20 in Lima, Peru - UN Green Climate Fund - Immunity from Prosecution - UNFCCC - Scientists and Social-Political Agendas - Soviet Agriculture, Deliberate Starvation and Lysenko - Creation of the Soviet Man - Forced Evolution - Use of Statistics - Surveys of the Public - Bioengineering - Lenin's Brain - Worship of Scientists - Psychopathy and Categories - Actors and Politicians - Casting Off the Old Morality - Scandals - Globalist Advisors - Bail-outs by Taxpayers - Inflation - Bail-ins - The New System - Housing Bubble - Lifetime Monitoring - Scotland, Health and Social Information Sharing - New Verbiage - Mental Health Testing - Pre-crime and Thought-crime - Managed Society. *Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Dec. 14, 2014 (Exempting Music and Literary Quotes)

65-BBWC 04-24-2022AM - Series: The Epistle to the Romans - Title: The God-Given Authority of the Rulers of This Age, Part 2 - Scripture: Romans 13:1-7

64-BBWC 04-03-2022AM - Series: The Epistle to the Romans - Title: The God-Given Authority of the Rulers of This Age, Part 1 - Scripture: Romans 13:1-7

The reigns of Thai Sa and Borommakot were peaceful and prosperous. The half-century before the city's fall thus became a golden age for art, literature and religion. This "Age of Culture" would last just until the collapse, but would forge Thai culture as it exists today. Series website

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In the midst of global apocalyptic collapse, the so-called solutions on offer from the imperial core are miles away from even marginal forms of dignity. The disdainful refusal to muster anything more than symbolic misdirects buried under bureaucratic mazes of means testing illuminate how deeply incapable the neoliberal boot-strap ideology is of addressing basic human needs. An anxious capitalist class and its corrupt, craven supplicants are waging an all-out war against any measure of “socialist” “entitlements” that might help build the social infrastructure desperately needed in this age of climate chaos and psychic despair. To acknowledge that everyone deserves The Golden Square—the unconditional and universal provisions of Food, Shelter, Healthcare, and Education—should be as common sense as sunshine. As Peter Kropotkin detailed in The Conquest of Bread at the end of the nineteenth century, if society was organized around first meeting human needs, we could easily be living in a world of abundance and leisure for all, all while working much less. But instead of cooperatively creating a rational and egalitarian world of post-scarcity, the cult of propertarians and their armies of indoctrinated worshipers & wage-slaves have foisted upon us polluted cities and poisoned water, expecting us to be grateful for fast fashion and fast food, the complimentary side-dishes of batshit construction and bullshit jobs. What we need, instead, are walkable cities, shorter work weeks, balanced job complexes, and a post-scarcity economy based on care and freedom. Imagining such a future involves asking a series of questions that must be fully explored . . . How would our lives be different? How would work get done, and who would do it?  Would meeting The Golden Square require a focus toward centralization or decentralization? In this second of a three-part series envisioning The World of The Golden Square, Jesse and Matt investigate the experiences and methods of a world re-made to meet human needs in a rightful relationship with the planet. We live in capitalism – a patriarchal social order forever insisting that there is no alternative –  a system that has been violently curtailing ideal innovation for more than two centuries, just as feudalism and the divine right of kings did for so many centuries prior. The heartless handmaidens of this system are tyrannical mega-corporations living as “para-states,” floating above the world's so-called democracies, leeching every available drop of use-value from the earth and its inhabitants in a callous competition for monopolies of power & profit. These corporate parasites will continue to destroy everything in sight as long as the deeply irrational market-logic myths about “Supply & Demand” and “The Rationality Economic Man” are the organizing basis of our shared reality. This Age of Techno-feudalism – to borrow Yanis Varoufakis' neologism – is a bullshit system that makes batshit products, based on horseshit ideas. The urgent existential responsibility that we now face – to heal our scars and secure a livable future – will require nothing less than birthing a real global utopia as quickly as humanity can muster – an open-source world designed around The Golden Square.   Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com   Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram

In this episode, https://hmapr.com/team/abbie-s-fink/ (Abbie Fink) and https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianmcintyre/ (Dr. Adrian McIntyre) talk with https://www.linkedin.com/in/olsoncomm/ (Michelle Olson), APR, chair of the https://www.prsa.org/ (Public Relations Society of America), the nation's leading professional organization serving the communications community. With nearly 30,000 members, PRSA is the principal advocate for industry excellence and ethical conduct and provides members lifelong learning opportunities and leading-edge resources to enhance professional connections and support them at every stage of their career. Michelle began her tenure as national chair of PRSA in January 2021, having previously served on the national board of directors and as a leader at the chapter and regional levels. As chair, Michelle aims to help equip PR practitioners to identify and combat mis/dis/malinformation, break down barriers for diverse students and professionals to enter the industry, and set the tone for civil discourse across the country. With more than 30 years in public relations and integrated marketing, Michelle has served clients across the U.S. and internationally, and has significant experience in corporate communications and issues management across industries. She is managing partner of Lambert, a full-service integrated communications firm with offices in Michigan, New York, Houston and Arizona. The nationally recognized firm works with clients ranging from global brands to emerging leaders in a variety of industries including automotive and mobility, consumer, education, financial, B2B, and food and beverage. Michelle leads the firm's automotive and mobility practice. PR News named Michelle to the 2020 and 2021 classes of the Top Women in PR. She was named one of Arizona's Most Influential Women in Business by BizAZ Magazine in 2018 and in 2003, she received the Phoenix PRSA chapter's prestigious PERCY Award for her achievements in the public relations industry. Michelle is a past chair of Counselors Academy, PRSA's international section for agency owners and leaders and served for two years as an advisor and mentor to the organization's nearly 10,000-member student body, PRSSA, providing counsel to its national committee. If you enjoyed this episode, check out the https://www.prgnpodcast.com/ (PRGN Presents) podcast, hosted by Abbie Fink, featuring conversations about PR, marketing, and communications with members of the https://prgn.com/ (Public Relations Global Network), "the world's local public relations agency.” Additional Resources https://voices4everyone.prsa.org/ (Voices4Everyone) by PRSA https://hmapr.com/prsa-combat-misinformation/ ("How To Combat Misinformation") by Scott Hanson https://hmapr.com/control-misinformation/ ("How to Control Misinformation") by Annelise Krafft https://hmapr.com/fake-news-crisis/ ("Are you being fed fake news during the coronavirus crisis?") by Marissa Baker "What is “News Literacy” in This Age of “Fake News?" by Scott Hanson Need to hire a PR firm? We demystify the process and give you some helpful advice in Episode 19: https://copperstateofmind.show/episode/how-to-hire-public-relations-agency-phoenix-arizona ("How to Hire a Public Relations Agency in Arizona: Insider Tips for Executives and Marketing Directors") Copper State of Mind is a project of https://hmapr.com/ (HMA Public Relations), a full-service public relations and marketing communications firm in Phoenix.   The show is recorded and produced in the studio of https://phx.fm/ (PHX.fm), the leading independent B2B podcast network in Arizona.

Pr. Trevor Sutton, author, “Redeeming Technology” Clearly Christian: Following Jesus in This Age of Confusion Authentic Christianity: How Lutheran Theology Speaks to a Postmodern World Being Lutheran

Would you describe yourself as religious or spiritual?... and do you have to pick just one? Join Mike and Jessica as they talk with Dorothy Glenn and author Trevor Sutton author of Clearly Christian: Following Jesus in This Age of Confusion.

Would you describe yourself as religious or spiritual?... and do you have to pick just one? Join Mike and Jessica as they talk with Dorothy Glenn and author Trevor Sutton author of Clearly Christian: Following Jesus in This Age of Confusion.

What does it mean to be a Christian? Spoiler alert: it's not "being a good person". Join Mike and Jessica as they talk with Dorothy Glenn and author Trevor Sutton author of Clearly Christian: Following Jesus in This Age of Confusion.

What does it mean to be a Christian? Spoiler alert: it's not "being a good person". Join Mike and Jessica as they talk with Dorothy Glenn and author Trevor Sutton author of Clearly Christian: Following Jesus in This Age of Confusion.

It's more important than ever to become "news literate" and to develop the critical thinking skills needed to evaluate the sources of our information. In this episode, https://hmapr.com/team/abbie-s-fink/ (Abbie Fink) and https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianmcintyre/ (Dr. Adrian McIntyre) talk about news literacy, "fake news," and the responsibility we all have to be smart, active consumers of news and information. Read Abbie Fink's blog post for this episode: https://hmapr.com/why-it-is-important-to-be-news-literate/ ("Why it is Important to be News Literate") If you enjoyed this episode, check out the https://www.prgnpodcast.com/ (PRGN Presents) podcast, hosted by Abbie Fink, featuring conversations about PR, marketing, and communications with members of the https://prgn.com/ (Public Relations Global Network), "the world's local public relations agency.” Additional Resources https://hmapr.com/prsa-combat-misinformation/ ("How To Combat Misinformation")  https://hmapr.com/how-can-games-enhance-news-literacy/ ("How Can Games Enhance News Literacy?") https://hmapr.com/news-literacy-age-fake-news/ ("What is 'News Literacy' in This Age of 'Fake News'?") https://hmapr.com/trusted-news-sources/ ("Trusted News Sources") Need to hire a PR firm? We demystify the process and give you some helpful advice in Episode 19: https://copperstateofmind.show/episode/how-to-hire-public-relations-agency-phoenix-arizona ("How to Hire a Public Relations Agency in Arizona: Insider Tips for Executives and Marketing Directors") Copper State of Mind is a project of https://hmapr.com/ (HMA Public Relations), a full-service public relations and marketing communications firm in Phoenix.   The show is recorded and produced in the studio of https://phx.fm/ (PHX.fm), the leading independent B2B podcast network in Arizona.

Last but not least, this week we are interviewing Evelyn, the E of This AGE. Listen in as we ask her about her definition of a good life, her vacation plans, and the strangest internet rabbit holes she's been down. Find us @thisagepodcast on Instagram. Subscribe to us @thisagepodcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Do you remember your first Puppy Love Experience? Wasn't is so endearing? Notice how when I bring it up, fond memories tend to come to mind. Well can you experience Puppy Love only Once in your Lifetime? Or can it be Puppy Love at Any Age, at This Age? Checkout the latest episode. I hope this Episode encourages Someone! Enjoy!

Pr. Trevor Sutton, author, “Redeeming Technology” Clearly Christian: Following Jesus in This Age of Confusion Authentic Christianity: How Lutheran Theology Speaks to a Postmodern World Being Lutheran

In today's episode, Marsha shares some new and valuable information on AGE! This AGE has been around for years, but not many people are talking about it and the role it plays on our health. This process of age happens everyday within the body as well as in our kitchen. Marsha will discuss the process of AGE and what we can do to manage it.   Research shows that AGE occurs naturally in the body and is needed for cellular energy. But it also occurs externally in the foods we eat and how we prepare our foods. This process of how we prepare our foods are linked to chronic disease and inflammation as well as cancer alzheimiers and the aging process   Could Western society change the way they see food? French fries, burgers, bacon are all tasty and have that dark color which gives the flavor, but could you give it all up if you knew the effect it has on your health? Change begins by being informed and taking action. Slow modifications in our diet is what it takes for better health.   Marsha hopes that you will change the way you see and prepare food for the likelihood of improving your overall health. Knowledge is power, but if you don't use it then it's worthless! Relevant Links: Health Coach 4 Women Podcast Work with Me   #HealthCoach4Women #VoiceforChange #SelfEmpowerment #SelfLove #Healthcare   

She is the A in This AGE. You guessed it - it's Angie! In this episode, we pick Angie's brain on friendships, love, and other random things so that we can ask her some questions we've always wanted to know and to get to know her just a little bit better. Find us @thisagepodcast on Instagram. Subscribe to us @thisagepodcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts!

Hello and welcome to our first episode! Today we will introduce This AGE and how it came to be. We also do a deep dive into who we are individually, with a few rounds of deeeeep questions. We hope you'll enjoy learning more about us as much as we did! Find us @thisagepodcast on Instagram. Subscribe to us @thisagepodcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts!

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The Challenge of the Spirit of This Age_1

What did Jesus mean when He announced, "The Kingdom of God is at hand" (Mark 1:14-15)? What is the Kingdom of God? The Kingdom of God is not a place believers go when we die; it is the present, active, and effective reign of God that transcends all realms of existence. The Kingdom of God is wherever what God wants done is done. It is an invisible Kingdom that has a visible effect. Romans 12:2 (YLT) says, "Be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what [is] the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect." How on earth can we live in The Present Evil Age but yet not be conformed to it? In his book, The Gospel of the Kingdom, author George Eldon Ladd writes this powerful statement: "The Kingdom of God belongs to The Age to Come. Yet The Age to Come has overlapped with This Age. We may taste its powers & thereby be delivered from This Age & no longer live in conformity to it. This new transforming power is the power of The Age to Come; it is indeed the power of the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is future, but it is not only future. Like the powers of The Age to Come, the Kingdom of God has invaded this evil Age that men may know something of its blessings even while The Evil Age goes on" (1959, p.42). We who are born-again have been delivered "from" something, and we've been delivered "into" something: from the kingdom of darkness, into the Kingdom of God (Colossians 1:13). In this message we discuss the implications of being delivered into the Kingdom of God, not just for our Sunday, but our Monday through Saturday, too. Get your hopes up, child of God - you are not abandoned. You have a voice with God! You are seated with Christ in heavenly places. Be of good cheer - the Kingdom of God is at hand!

KIB 274 – The Spirit of This Age and the Secret of the Remnant Kingdom Intelligence Briefing   In 2 Kings 11, we read the story of Jezebel’s daughter, Athaliah.  This same spirit is in the ascendancy in America today.  The Word outlines the overthrow of Athaliah, and these details are a prophetic image of what can happen in these United States today! The Remnant's rising and the releasing of David’s (i.e., Messiah’s) weapons from the temple are upon us in this supernatural hour!   Dr. Michael Lake is the Chancellor and Founder of Biblical Life College and Seminary. He is the author of the best-selling books, The Shinar Directive:  Preparing the Way for the Son of Perdition, The Sheeriyth Imperative:  Empowering the Remnant to Overcome the Gates of Hell, and the newly released, The Kingdom Priesthood.  Dr. Lake is a popular speaker at national Christian conferences and is a frequent guest on many Christian TV and radio/podcast programs in North America.   Mary Lou Lake has worked side by side with her husband in ministry for over 30 years and is the author of the book What Witches Don't Want Christians to Know - Expanded Edition.

Are the 10 plagues of Egypt over with back then in the time of Moses? What if the plague of flies has come down NOW in our age? Are you prepared? You must understand God's will for this age through the eternal gospel that is the new covenant declared through the Spirit of Truth and turn away from all unrighteousness and lawlessness. "The abominations are standing on the pulpit preaching, and people who hear their sermons are defiled and deceived into sinning even more. That is why God has compared them to 'dung and abhorrent things'. that is where people who are like flies gather. Now is truly the day when people who are like flies are judged and punished. Let us all return to the Truth." - Excerpt from [The Plague of Flies Coming Down in This Age]

______________     ________________                       The  Age to Come                        __________________             This Age___________________ 1 Peter 3 13 Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good?  Stop Fearing Blessing 1 Peter 3 14 But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear their threats; do not be frightened.”  Antidote of Suffering Righteousness Ready to spell out F-E-A-R-L-E-S-S 1 Peter 3 14 But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear their threats; do not be frightened.”  1 Peter 3 15 But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,  suffering vehicle for intimacy  set apart 1 Peter 3 15 But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,  Authority - Autonomy Unity - Uniformity Submission - Inequality 1 Peter 3 16 keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.  Christ WorldviewSpiritWords 1 Peter 3 17 For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. 

The God of This Age - 2 Corinthians 4

Did you know that it is our birthright to access the power of the Age to Come? This week Andrew looks at Hebrews 6, where he identifies the portion of every Christian is more than what we have been accustomed to. We are exhorted to taste the power of The Age to Come. Honing in on Hebrews 6:11-12, we see how, living in-between This Age and The Age to Come, we can lean in to God and access the Kingdom resources of heaven made available to every child of God.Here is the link for the SERMON NOTES

In 1887, in New York, two female con artists opened a phony “bank for ladies”. They then swindled over $1 million (in today’s money), from dozens of the richest women in the city. This episode shares the story with you – told entirely in Whisper, by Kit Caren. ==== BECOME A SUPPORTER OF THE PODCAST! Simply go to: Patreon Page – Whispered True Stories and contribute whatever you can. Hear a bonus Episode, for only $1. There are extra rewards, for any donation of $5 or more! ==== HISTORICAL REFERENCES: Lyons, Sophie, Why Crime Does Not Pay (book, 1913), at Chapter 4. Segrave, Kerry, Women Swindlers in America, 1860-1920 (book, 2007), pp. 128-135. Robb, George, Ladies of the Ticker: Women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression (book, 2017). Eldridge, Benjamin & Watts, William, Our Rival, the Rascal: A Faithful Portrayal of the Conflict Between the Criminals of This Age and the Defenders of Society, the Police (book, 1897), pp. 373-375. ==== CLOSING THOUGHT: Source - attributed to humorist Damon Runyon. Sophie Lyon's book was titled: Why Crime Does Not Pay. ==== Episode includes Whispered recommendations for these podcasts: Naptime Nancy - True Crime Podcast. Active Shooter: The Podcast. ==== HOW TO CONTACT THE HOST - KIT CAREN E-Mail: WhisperedTrueStories@gmail.com Twitter: @WhisperedTrue @KitCaren

Dr. Walter Martin - Bible Studies - CalvaryTruths.com - Spirit of This Age

Welcome to Fire and Water, Coming of Age in This Age, with Quanita Roberson and Tenneson Woolf -- cultivating wise leaders one show at a time. We are busy getting ready for our new podcast, learning how to work all the bells and whistles. Check out some of our thoughts on our hopes for this journey together.

Maybe the most powerful show yet? pastor Monty Mulkey gives a POWERFUL teaching with prayer entitled, Prince of The Power of This Age

Welcome to Fire and Water, Coming of Age in This Age, with Quanita Roberson and Tenneson Woolf -- cultivating wise leaders one show at a time. We are busy getting ready for our new podcast, learning how to work all the bells and whistles. Check out some of our thoughts on our hopes for this journey together.

Welcome to Fire and Water, Coming of Age in This Age, with Quanita Roberson and Tenneson Woolf -- cultivating wise leaders one show at a time. We are busy getting ready for our new podcast, learning how to work all the bells and whistles. Check out some of our thoughts on our hopes for this journey together.

Introduction Oh hi. You must be here to learn about our world of Niisii. Awesome. Unlike many campaign settings who’s history and design were created by a small group of designers, Niisii is a shared world where the future, and the past, is constantly being created by those that play in it. So when I say our world I do mean our world. Whether you were directed here because you play in one of the many games that are run in this campaign setting, you are listening to this on the Dave & Gary podcast, or you have stumbled across this some other way, consider this a primer to the lands of Niisii. This will not be an exhaustive overview of the world and its history but it will hopefully get you comfortable enough with the world so that you can play with us or follow along with the podcast games. In this short introduction I will try to cover: The origins of the campaign setting Games Played In The World What the average character would know about the world including The Ages, or history, of Niisii And finally, for those interested, some of the design choices made for the world (but don’t worry, I’ll give you a bit of warning before we get to the dry stuff). That’s a lot to cover so let’s get started. Origins The world of Niisii is one of constant growth and change. It was first designed around the end of 2011 by Randy at the request from a group of friends that wanted to start a campaign. Many had not played RPGs for years, and a few were novices to this style of gaming. So we talked a little about what kind of game and world they wanted. They all wanted to play a fantasy, D&D like game but didn’t want something very heavy or expensive to get into. So I came up with a very light and simple system to use. Furthermore, they wanted was a world were their lifestyle choices were the norm and not the exception. Many of these players were members of sexual minorities and participated in alternative relationship models. Finally, there was some discussion about some of the players being able to tell their own stories if they got brave enough. With those three requests Niisii was designed (originally called Niise). The world was designed from the ground up to support multiple storytellers and to be one with a bent towards more mature and developed themes. Sadly that group didn’t last long. So Niisii got put on the shelf to be forgotten. Flashforward a few years. In the fall of 2014 my wife started to try her hand at DMing. D&D 5e had just been released and we were involved with a local game shop running adventure league games. We met some awesome new people and soon a new gaming group was formed. We all quickly found that we wanted to play games that weren’t so … scripted. Adventure League is great for some people, but not us. We all wanted to play homebrew. As the most experienced DM I stupidly opened my mouth and said I would run the game. They said great, how about that Friday? Two days to come up with a game and a world… sure, no problem. So I did what every DM does; I stole. I went to the last world I had worked on, Niisii, and pulled it off the shelf. These were different players with different styles so I toned down some of the mature themes. There were also mostly players in their 20’s who hadn’t been around in the early days of D&D so I reached way back in my early days of RPGing and pulled a touch of Sci-Fi into the world. That choice would be, and continues to be, the primary catalyst for change in the world of Niisii to this day. That was 2014 and Niisii has grown from a small world with a single DM to a massive world with almost a dozen different DMs and several times that number of players. We each add our own spin on the world. The history of the world reflects the desires, demands or passions of different people to have the world reflect their own vision. With so many voices and colors in the mix, Niisii could have been… it should have been… just an unwieldy mess, but it isn’t. It should have collapsed a dozen times, but it didn’t. It works! And it works because no one person owns this world. Not the first DM nor the latest DM. We all share, we all work to make room for each other’s voices and we all do it because we love this game and we love the people we play it with. With that being said there needs to be a warning here. This homebrew world isn’t for everyone. Our style of play isn’t for everyone. For every person who has found a home in Niisii, there are two that didn’t. Role-playing games, as a hobby, represent a huge range of styles, interests and options. No one can tell you that are playing them wrong or that what you want to see in your stories has ‘no place’ in gaming. If the group you are playing in doesn’t fit your style, that’s cool. Don’t knock one group for playing different than you do; just find, or even make, a different group. Niisii can be dark one game, light hearted another, slapstick the next. It can get confusing, mistakes will happen (and they’ll have to be ret-con’d), rules are bent (or broken), change will always happen and the story always comes first. Furthermore, our group isn’t one for the shy, quiet, unassuming or easily offended. The bold and daring thrive here. If these things aren’t for you then no problem. We actually see that as a positive. Honestly. Because we have been able to help someone find the game they want to play in. We love seeing people play the games they want to play. So enough of reality and warnings, let’s get into the make-believe. The Games People Play Our primary game system, for the primary stories, is Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition. But it isn’t the only system in use by our gaming group. Aside from the standard fantasy game that we play, there is also the story of a world hidden to most humans and elves and dwarves. A world of sentient mice. That story is being told using the Savage Worlds system and the Burrows & Badgers system. And tomorrow we may find another system we want to try, and then it may be incorporated as well. The styles of games played in the world vary by location and DM. From the combat focused to the intrigue driven to morality plays, from light-hearted and positive to the dark and mature, the games run in Niisii span a wide range. What The Average Character Knows About The World… In No Particular Order. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Gravity is just slightly greater than the Earth standard. There is a single moon. The days are 24 hours long. There is 360 days in a year. There are four months, Plant, Tend, Harvest and Rest, of 120 days each. Cows and horses are rare. But there are more gods than you can shake a stick at (and do they like mettle). The current year is 2172. The greatest Empire on the planet is the Hythain Empire in the north. It is bound by the lands of Xora and the Shimmering Shores in the north, the Sister Islands in the west, the Rud Coast in the South and the Gateway Islands in the East. The largest city in the world, Bondment, is its capital but that city, and its empire, has seen better days. Most of the common gods are from the Hythain Pantheon. And the most commonly used calendar is the Hythain Reckoning Calendar (HRC). The next greatest empire was the Stone Empire, centered around the Tiber Isles in the south, but it too has seen better days. Magic is not as common today as it was in the past because of an event called the Upheaval. From 1459 to 2166 HRC the vast majority of gods were banished from the world. In their absence, magic, as it was known, became highly unstable. It took decades of research during the early part of the Upheaval to find new forms of magic that were not so chaotic. But by that time the damage had been done, arcane magic had developed a superstition to it that last to this day in smaller parts of the world. Religion had a similar superstition during the Upheaval but is now experiencing a revival. When the gods were banished they took all clerical powers with them. For over 700 years the healing powers of the gods that people had relied on for Ages had abandoned them. So much knowledge was lost during the wars and strife of the Upheaval that most believed gods granting powers to their followers were just a myth. In 2166 we first saw the trickster god Wit returned in Xora, and then a follower of Uxie in the Gateway Islands began to show divine ability. Soon gods, old gods, new gods and some that had changed, began to make themselves known throughout the world. This has sparked a golden age of belief. But enough about that, let’s talk about the people of the world. By and far humans are the most common race in Niisii. They are on every landmass and have a great diversity of cultures. Elves, dwarves and orcs are the next most common races. And within these people there are multiple species. Some of these are familiar to role-players as they are found in D&D 5e’s player’s handbook and some are custom to the world of Niisii. Those that are custom are original creations or borrowed from other worlds. In each case they tend to be rare. Examples include the River Elves in the Land of the Keats, the Gully dwarves of the Gateway Islands, and the Scro lords of the Orc. There are many races in the world known collectively as The Little Folk.These include Gnomes, Halflings and Kenders. They are most commonly found in the western half of the world but they can be found in coastal cities anywhere. Kenders are a special race in Niisii and they require a bit more explanation. They are a race of people without a homeland. As a people, they believe in an extreme form of sharing which for other races borders on thievery. They are the smallest race of people and are seen as a nuisance. They are frequently mocked, beat or even enslaved. As such, the Kender have learned cultural ways to defend themselves. They are extremely hard workers, talk very fast and tend to play the clown out of necessity. They are also the only race that cannot bred with other races; there are no half-Kenders. There is a lot more about Kenders but that will get you started. Next are those that come from a mix of racial backgrounds. Half-Orcs, Dragonborn, Half-Elves, and others. These people are much more rare in Niisii than perhaps in other fantasy worlds. And in many parts of the world these people are viewed with open hostility. Finally there are the rarest of the rare. Races that make up far less than one percent of the PCs and NPCs. These include the Drow, Gnolls, Tabaxi, Tieflings and Aasimar. The sizing of the races tend to run: Orcs a head taller than humans, Humans a head taller than elves, Elves are a head taller than dwarves, Dwarves a head taller than Gnomes and Halflings, Gnomes and Halflings a head taller than Kender. These are of course general guidelines. Of all the races, tieflings and aasimar might be the most important to the story of Niisii. They are the rarest of all PC races and we have homebrew rules in place to determine if a player can even play one! Aasimar and tiefling never give birth (they are sterile) and are born from other races (which can be a huge surprise to the parents). They are driven with two main passions; a hatred for the other and an insatiable wanderlust to find ‘home’. No tiefling or aasimar has ever been recorded to find this ‘home’ but many have been lost as they tried. But to understand all of this you need to know some world history. What The Average Person Knows About The History Of Niisii “Those religious types tell us that the world is old. A hundred thousand years or more.” “My mentor once said that we were living ‘the Broken Age’ but now that the gods are listening to us I’m sure they will fix everything.” “I heard a cleric once say that long ago there were only Tieflings and Aasimar but I don’t know much about that. I know that I’m not descended from any freaks.” What A Scholar Knows Of The History Of Niisii Our world operates according to a plan. From the smallest mouse to the greatest beast, all things follow the plan of the Creator, the Ohm, the One that is many, the God of the Gods. This plan is beyond the understanding of everyone. Even the mysterious order known as the Keepers have just the beginning of an idea about the plan (although they may say otherwise). What we do know is that the world must go through a number of Ages for this Divine plan to come to fruition. History starts before the first age. During this ‘Zeroth Age’, the Wild Time, it is said that the Ohm created two siblings, Nii and Sii. Nii, the brother, shaped the lands while Sii, the sister, shaped the waters. Once their works was done they asked the Ohm to allow them to people the world. The Ohm said it was of the Plan and the siblings did as the Plan dictated. Two peoples, the Tiefling and the Aasimar were birthed from the siblings. While no one can ever know the exact times, most scholars agree that this happen about -150 000 HRC. For 50 000 years the two people lived and loved as one. They learned to tame the great Hoora, they learned to write and they learned the secrets of agriculture. Things changed with the First Age. The Keepers call this the Age of Ancient Rule. It was a time of the greatest empires the world has ever, or may ever, know. Every landmass, every waterway, every city was under one of these two great governments. It was a time of learning and development. But while this growth was happening, something else was going on that no one noticed. The divine siblings, Nii and Sii were growing apart. And as they grew apart, so too did their children. They grew cold and distant from each other. Sometime around -40 000 HRC the separation went from cold to hot. With magic and technology not since seen in the world, the two Empires waged terrible war. When the two peoples finally agreed to a cease-fire, for no peace was ever signed, less than a thousand people inhabited the planet. Those survivors were driven out of the homeland of the Sibling gods and that land was buried under the Great Western Desert. The Ohm called the Siblings from the planet, broke the survivors into new tribes with new ways and new forms. These tribes, or races, the Ohm sent to forge across the face of a broken world. From -40 000 HRC to -15 000 HRC, the Great Change, or the Second Age, each of these new races continued to change and evolve. The Tall Folk left via the land, the Small Folk took to the oceans. For tens of thousands of years the races spread, changed, evolved and began to re-people the plant. Around -15 000 HRC, the progress of people across the planet began to slow. This age is known as the Birth of Divinity. From what little is known from that time, it seems to be at the request of a handful of new beings; gods. For it seemed the Ohm had felt that the mortals had been punished enough and were in need of guidance. For the Ohm created a family of gods to guide the peoples of the world. This was time of slow, inner growth. Each people developed a sense of identity. This age end when one people began to form a new Empire, the Hythainian Empire. In -15 000 HRC a human who would come to be known as Emperor Hythain the First founded the empire that bares his name still. The Age of Man started when this new, Second Empire, began. The Hythain Calendar was put into place by a later ruler, Empress Treish The Builder, who left her mark on history by creating and adopting her calendar to commemorate a war victory. This was also during the Second Empire. This Second Empire ended in 1459 with the beginning of the great dark age known as the Upheaval. Records became confusing, facts broke down, and much knowledge from this time and before has become lost. The Keepers calculate the Second Age should have lasted for centuries beyond the current year but something happened to spark the Upheaval. That spark broke the plan of the Ohm and put the world on a path it never should have gone. Today we live in a non-Age; The Uncertainty. This Age started in 2166 and no scholar knows why it began and what its ramifications are. What’s Really Going On There are two types of people in gaming. Those that love to know what is going on behind the scenes and those that want to learn the mysteries for themselves via games or stories. If you are the later, a person who hates spoilers, then stop here. Oh, and this is also the warning that dry stuff lies ahead. You’ve been warned. Are you still here? Good. Let’s clue you into the full story. For the most part the Ages of Niisii occured as the Keepers believe. They are wrong on the dates, they are missing major parts of the history and they have drawn all the wrong conclusions but for they most part they have general gist of things right enough. But what they can’t know, and the Ohm never expected, was other life in the universe. The Ohm made Niisii to fit their plans. The Ohm put it far from others in the Prime Material Plane. The Ohm seeded it with the best ideas from other worlds and they sheltered it. But while the Ohm were hard at work, other worlds were advancing in ways they could not have predicted. In the late part of the 29th century on Earth a great disease sweep over the various worlds that the humans had populated. All people were wiped out except those still resided on Earth. The best technology raced to keep this seed population stable. What was discovered was that the disease was genetic; a fault in the most fundamental structure of our genetic code. No medicine could stop the mutations and death it caused, no technology could edit the fault out of the species. Hundreds of ideas were tried; nothing was too crazy. A group of three companies developed a plan to save the species. They would guide the breeding and development of a select population of individuals through a process that would, at its conclusion, result with a new species of human. This species would have the genetic fault worked out of them. The process was very risky and the slightest interference could ruin the result of thousands of year experiment. But the A.I. in charge said it would work, the bio-mathematics checked, and it was the only hope people had. So the population was screened and those the A.I. thought that would be the best candidates to recreate the better human were sent to the isolation zone: the whole of Australia. And thus the experiment began. But there was a complication. The owners of the three companies who discovered the technology also learned that neither they, nor their families, fit the required genetic profiles to be included in the experiment. So while the official experiment was starting on Earth, they siphoned resources from the project to fund a secret, secondary project. This project would use a similar A.I. but would not be based on Earth. This A.I. would guide the adaption of the test subjects’ genetic code while aboard an interstellar craft. The A.I. would find a suitable planet in deep space, far from the Terran Systems, for the new group of humans to rule. The families of the three corporations would become like gods. At this point in human history, the species had the ability travel vast distance but the human form was still limited. Fortunately, other technologies existed that allowed for the storage of person as information. This information could later be reconstituted into a physical form using material found in-situ. A small collection of people would be kept awake during the journey to assist the A.I. These generational workers lived their lives in service to a plan they would never see come to an end. They lived, bred and died according to the plan of the A.I. For you see, the A.I. was constantly looking for a world for the humans to inhabit. There was incredible technology aboard the ship that could reshape a world as needed, but it was resource intensive to make use of them. The A.I. was designed to be very patient and frugal with its resources, but the lives of the human servants were cheap to it, very cheap. Furthermore, this physical crew was never designed to take part in the new world. The humans that were to be part of the plan, were stored digitally and were constantly being modified to make them suitable to candidate worlds as this worlds were discovered by the AI. And if a world didn’t pan out, or would require too many resources to modify, then the digital changes would be rolled back and the process would start again with the next world. These changes included new memories, new forms and new knowledge. If a world was found that already had intelligent life on it, the A.I. was designed to make sure its flock would not only adapt, but thrive in that environment. This worked surprisingly well until two accidents happened at the same time. The first, was that the A.I. encountered something that caused a glitch; the second, was that one human servant was there to see it happen. The glitch in the A.I. came when the probes the ship had been sending out encountered something they could not understand. On one world, in a distant system that the ship almost didn’t probe, it received data that didn’t make sense. It had seen worlds with strange technology. Worlds with unusual cultures. But this world broke the laws of physics. The A.I. was designed to handle such oddities. It would study it remotely, learn what it could and move on. But this world was so odd that the guiding intelligence needed time to reprogram itself. During that time, one man saw what was happening and instantly knew how to use it to his advantage. On a ship completely automated and scheduled, right down to when the human servants ate or mated, one had plenty of time to read and consume media. This man knew magic when he saw it. So while the A.I. was in a vulnerable state, he reprogrammed a change of plans; the ship slowly turned towards this new system. It would take hundreds of years to reach, but during that time the machine would learn all it could about this strange place, begin to put in place the mechanisms it needed to modify the planet, and get the passageners ready for their new life. And the rogue human servant? Well… if the technology existed to turn a digital human into a physical one, made from found raw materials, it could easily work the other way around. Minutes before his physical death, the rogue human was digitized to start the special modifications he had programmed all of his life. He would rule in this new world. He learned from the A.I. probing of the world that it was called Niisii. The first major campaign of Niisii was the story of a group of adventures that were, unknown to them, from this interstellar ship. The human rogue, who became known simply as the Merchant, broke not only the ship’s A.I beyond recovery, he also broke the careful and loving plans of the Ohm. The world is now suffering for it. There are satellites in orbit of Niisii that the inhabitants will never know about. The A.I. orbits the system trying to follow its last, poorly written program. Whenever one of the original, digitized passengers dies on Niisii, it begins the process of interfering with the world to see that, through genetic selection and physical modification of the resources on Niisii, that person is reborn. The process tries to help them retain memories of their most recent life but it usually just causes confusion at best. Most players in Niisii do not play a character that has its origins in these digitized interlopers, but there are a few recurring characters that you might notice campaign to campaign. To make matters worse, these enhanced visitors to Niisii were modified by the A.I. to have unusual powers. The most surprising one is the ability to kill the Gods that the Ohm created. After this was discovered, the Ohm removed the gods from the world for their own reasons and returned them likewise. So there you have it. History, the smallest taste of back story, and hopefully enough information to feel like you can follow along with a podcast or sit in as a new player. Welcome to our world. Welcome to Niisii. A Couple Of Notes About The Tools We Use And Our Style Of Gaming This section is for those of you who are coming to play with us. We are a rather large gaming group. Our ‘main game’ can have over a dozen players and a couple of DMs going simultaneously during our bi-weekly group games. But this is not the only way we play. Our gaming group is a network of players and DMs. There are many campaigns going on at the same time. Some meet weekly, some bi-weekly, some less frequently. Some of these campaigns have a large number of players, others only have three or four players. There’s many different styles and sizes of games that have formed from our primary group. Over the years we have build beautiful maps and elaborately designed scenario documents. But we don’t do that anymore. We use simple, easily accessible tools and wikis. As DMs we love a beautiful map, and as players they make us feel special. But not everyone can afford software that can cost hundreds of dollars or the countless hours it takes to first develop the skill, and then to actual produce, lovely hand drawn maps. We would rather make it cheap and easy for people to tell the story they want to tell. To us, the story is the most important thing. And this spawns another ‘feature’ of our games. For the sake of the story we make we make frequent use of ‘Rule Zero’. Some players don’t like this. They like to ‘win’ a scenario, or they enjoy the process of maximizing the potential of their characters. And we understand this and try to cater to those desires. But at the end of the day, the story comes first. Rules are important but nowhere near as important as getting together with friends and making an interesting story. And THAT spawns another aspect of our gaming style. We believe in making stories together. For thousands of years humans have gathered in a circle and told stories. For us, this game is one way we connect to that tradition. So while the DM will often have notes about things that might come in a session, our games are more improv than plan. This means that those who are more active in a game tend to have more influence in the way the story unfolds. For better or worse, the careful, slow planner and the quiet audience member style of player can often get upset in large group play. To combat these we strongly promote running spin-off groups where a slower style of play is possible. We have run games with more than a dozen players at the table. It is a chaotic madhouse that moves at a thousand miles an hour and is a massive amounts of fun… as long as no one gets hurt that the moment they wanted to give a big speech passed by ten minutes ago while they were thinking on it. There is nothing wrong with that style of play; it just simply doesn’t normally work in one of our large group sessions. And finally we are an adult group. We have zero problems with open sexuality, alcohol and deep, complex storylines that are not explained to death Hollywood style. We have had players get upset by a beer at the table, a magical item used as sexual device in a slapstick manner (don’t worry, only on themselves, not on another player) and over the fact that others in the party got the clues given but they missed. Again, nothing is wrong with preferring PG rated games that are straightforward and geared to the lowest common denominator. Hollywood makes billions doing that. From Adventure League to published modules to other homebrew systems, there are many ways to indulge that style of play. This group is usually not a group for that. Sure we have our exceptions (the above mentioned sentient mice game is an example… a game that’s run by the DM who is also known for the darkest, complex morality play style) but for the most part that isn’t for us.

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Here at the Open Metalcast Headquarters we're awaiting the next bout from Mother Nature and her minions of winter to deposit more wintery mix (read: ice) over the land. But the metal must flow and we have a great line-up of metal music for you. We have tracks from Within Destruction, Homicidal Raptus, Enthrallment, Kekal , Stolen Lives, Electric Valley, This Age, and Slugdge. Hopefully it'll keep your ears warm and filled with Creative Commons Metal Music goodness. (00:10) Human Defect by Within Destruction from D E A T H W I S H (BY-NC-ND) (03:33) Disemboweled in a Public Toilet by Homicidal Raptus from Erotomanic Hallucinosis (BY-ND) (08:05) Fruits of Pain and Blue Sky by Enthrallment from People from the Lands of Vit (BY-NC-ND) (11:59) Blessing In Disguise by Kekal from Acidity (BY-NC-ND) (17:33) Budoucnost sviní by Stolen Lives from Budoucnost sviní (BY-NC-ND) (20:07) War of Cosmos by Electric Valley from Two Realities at War (BY-NC-ND) (27:15) Fri[End] by This Age from 'Till The End Of Time (BY-NC-SA) (32:08) Eyehatesalt by Slugdge from Born of Slime (BY-NC-ND) Please support the bands in this show! Buy a T-Shirt, buy an album, or head to the shows. Whatever you can do to help these bands keep making music, please do it! If you have any suggestions for Creative Commons licensed metal, send me a link at craig@openmetalcast.com. Open Metalcast #172 (MP3) Open Metalcast #172 (OGG)

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--{ "Reason Battles for Logical Conclusion in This Age of Manufactured Confusion" © Alan Watt }-- Laboratory Rats - The Natural Order - Mainstream and Alternative Media - Relativity - Mystical Thinking - Deliberate Confusion and Expert Advice - Maximizing Profit - Reasoning Abilities - Soviet Union - Propaganda - Austerity Program - Club of Rome - Facts Don't Matter - United Nations Climate Talks, COP20 in Lima, Peru - UN Green Climate Fund - Immunity from Prosecution - UNFCCC - Scientists and Social-Political Agendas - Soviet Agriculture, Deliberate Starvation and Lysenko - Creation of the Soviet Man - Forced Evolution - Use of Statistics - Surveys of the Public - Bioengineering - Lenin's Brain - Worship of Scientists - Psychopathy and Categories - Actors and Politicians - Casting Off the Old Morality - Scandals - Globalist Advisors - Bail-outs by Taxpayers - Inflation - Bail-ins - The New System - Housing Bubble - Lifetime Monitoring - Scotland, Health and Social Information Sharing - New Verbiage - Mental Health Testing - Pre-crime and Thought-crime - Managed Society. *Title and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Dec. 14, 2014 (Exempting Music and Literary Quotes)

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Today's buzz: Industry 4.0. It's 2014 and we're witnessing the rise of the Industrial Internet and orchestrated manufacturing. This Age of the Smart Factory brings a new generation of systems delivering real-time awareness and autonomic interactions among machines, systems, assets and things aka The Internet of Things. Is your business ready to adjust and take advantage of the opportunities - or will you be left behind? The experts speak. Dave Westrom, ThingWorx: “And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things” (Niccolo Machiavelli). Quentin Fisher, CSC: “In 10 minutes, the equivalent data from the dawn of creation until 2003 is generated and there is plenty of idle data in the system. Cisco has quoted that 1% of what can be connected is connected.” Join us for Industrial Internet: Real-Time Capabilities to Grow Your Business.

Today's buzz: Industry 4.0. It's 2014 and we're witnessing the rise of the Industrial Internet and orchestrated manufacturing. This Age of the Smart Factory brings a new generation of systems delivering real-time awareness and autonomic interactions among machines, systems, assets and things aka The Internet of Things. Is your business ready to adjust and take advantage of the opportunities - or will you be left behind? The experts speak. Dave Westrom, ThingWorx: “And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things” (Niccolo Machiavelli). Quentin Fisher, CSC: “In 10 minutes, the equivalent data from the dawn of creation until 2003 is generated and there is plenty of idle data in the system. Cisco has quoted that 1% of what can be connected is connected.” Join us for Industrial Internet: Real-Time Capabilities to Grow Your Business.

--{ Governance -- Sovereign Subversion by Soft-Power Coercion: "The Dominant Minority, Human Debaucher, Used to Put on Displays of Ruthless Torture, A King's Dread Symbol was His Tower, Where He Exercised His "Hard Power", Being "Force Unto Death" So His Seed Would Inherit the Land, Satisfy Greed, But in This Age, There's Much Reliance On "Soft-Power" Agreements for Compliance, With Professionals in Processes of the Mind Aiding Dominant Minority in Ruling Mankind, It's Been Growing for Over a Hundred Years, Playing with Drives, Love-Hate, Fears, Creating a Hybrid Out of Vast Variety, A Compliant World-Citizen for "Great Society", These Re-Engineered, Chemicalized Hybrids Hear of Draconian Laws, Yet Flutter No Eyelids, Plundered by Bankers, Never Complaining, X-Rayed, Body-Searched, Need No Restraining, Nor Need for Torture, Firebrand and Mace, We've Soft-Power Professionals with Smiley Face" © Alan Watt }-- Creation of One Standardized Global System - Countries Passing Same Laws at Same Time - Objective of Power, Use of "Actors" in Theater of War - Revolutions (Require Money, Organization and Time) - Guise of Terrorism, Keeping You "Safe" - Use of Soft Power and Pavlovian Techniques to Alter Behaviour - Punishment by High Prices - Start of Taxes on Food - Populations Controlled by Food Restriction, Limited Protein and Caloric Intake - Socialist Experiments in Europe - "Nudges" to Program People. CFR-RIIA - Internationalism, End of National Sovereignty - Transatlantic Policy Group - Public-Private Partnerships (Formerly Called Fascism) - Unelected "Experts" Rule through "Soft Law" - Private Organizations (Run by Bankers) Making National Laws and Policy - OECD - Authoritarian System (Non-Democratic). (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Nov. 15, 2010 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)