Are the beliefs you inherited bringing you closer to Yahowah ~ or keeping you under someone else’s control? Yada joins Deepo and Kevin to explore “Out of the Night,” Africa’s beauty, and an invitation to the Covenant Family while examining how religion, politics, poverty, and cultural conditioning can suppress Neshamah ~ our capacity for conscience and reasoning. A preview of the Yahowah timeline connects their interpretation of creation, relative time, light energy, prophecy, and Jacob’s Troubles to a deeper question: what must we leave behind to discover the truth?
00:00:00 ~ Intro ~ Topical
00:08:58 ~ Africa and Civilization ~ Religion and Power
00:16:34 ~ Out of the Night ~ Music and Africa
00:23:04 ~ Yahowah’s Timeline ~ Jacob’s Troubles
00:26:04 ~ Creation and Relative Time ~ Six Days and Billions of Years
00:36:26 ~ Nigeria ~ Religion Literacy and Culture
https://yadayah.com/
https://x.com/YadaCraig
Music, lyrics, and video provided by Craig Winn and used with permission from the YAHOWAH MUSIC GROUP through CC 4.0.
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00:00:00 ~ Intro ~ Topical
00:08:58 ~ Africa and Civilization ~ Religion and Power
00:16:34 ~ Out of the Night ~ Music and Africa
00:23:04 ~ Yahowah’s Timeline ~ Jacob’s Troubles
00:26:04 ~ Creation and Relative Time ~ Six Days and Billions of Years
00:36:26 ~ Nigeria ~ Religion Literacy and Culture
https://yadayah.com/
https://x.com/YadaCraig
Music, lyrics, and video provided by Craig Winn and used with permission from the YAHOWAH MUSIC GROUP through CC 4.0.
Yada Yahowah, Ask Yada LIVE, Nigeria religion and literacy, Yahowah timeline, Out of the Night music video, Covenant Family, Neshamah and conscience, Christianity and Islam in Africa, religion and political control, creation and relative time, biblical prophecy, Jacobs Troubles
#ReturnToTheGarden #AfricanWildlife #MusicWithMeaning #QuestionInheritedBeliefs #ConscienceAndReason #ReligiousControl #DivineTime #LightAndProphecy #NigerianCulture #ValuesWorthKeeping #TimelineMovie #vlog|ask|024
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00:13Oh, good morning, Depo.
00:27Hello, Kevin.
00:27It's always a pleasure.
00:29We normally dedicate these programs to questions and answers,
00:33and if you have questions, I will do my best to answer them.
00:37But we also do shows with Depo that are show and tell
00:40because of the beauty he's able to create that tell us a marvelous story,
00:46and we just enjoy chatting about them and saying what they mean to us
00:52and why they are important going forward.
00:55And Depo, as you know, this is a special request.
00:58First, because of the Timeline movie that I think is the most magnificent thing that I think I've ever witnessed.
01:06I truly love it, and we're going to today talk about what it conveys and ways that we can make
01:16it even more magnificent for people.
01:18But good morning, my friend.
01:20Good morning, Yadam.
01:21It's a pleasure to be here.
01:23Yeah, it's great.
01:25We're going to begin, actually, in a little different place.
01:27It is the song out of the night.
01:30It is an appeal to Africa to come out of the darkness of Christianity and of Islam, even of animism,
01:40into the light of Yah.
01:42A genuine request to be inclusive.
01:48We want the covenant family and that mortal remnant of Yisrael to represent cultures from around the world,
01:56all with a similar agenda, coming to know Yahweh and being part of this family,
02:02but with many different vantage points and experiences.
02:06And I know Leah had written songs in English and French, English and Greek, English and Italian.
02:16And I think there's even one other.
02:19It's this one that I found is the most moving.
02:24And I think it's the most moving to me, Deepo, and I know you created the visuals for it,
02:29which is why I wanted to start the program with it, is for two reasons.
02:33One is we're going back to Africa.
02:37God says we're going back into the garden.
02:40Earth's garden is Africa.
02:42For those who have not been there to enjoy its splendor, you're missing one of the great adventures in the
02:50world.
02:50It is, from a geography and presentation of wild animals, it's the most beautiful place on Earth.
03:02And our return to the garden is going to celebrate Earth in its original beauty and its viability with animals.
03:12And there will be experiences with animals that will be very much like what you see in this movie.
03:17And the second reason is to emphasize the importance of having our invitation into the covenant be all-inclusive.
03:26More different personalities and perspectives and experiences the richer it becomes.
03:35So those are the two reasons.
03:38I know you collaborated a lot on this with Leah.
03:42One of your favorites you mentioned to me before the show was the expressions of Nesalma,
03:47of man with a conscience, that still resonate throughout Africa.
03:53Yes.
03:56And, you know, there is...
03:58And I guess that's why religion, you know, is actually quite thick there.
04:06Because people have this, you know, that kind of feeling that their roots is somehow connected to, you know, a
04:19supreme being.
04:21They don't know, it doesn't work there.
04:24So they're just latching on whatever way, you know, they feel is the right thing to do.
04:31But they have that connection.
04:34Yeah.
04:34Yeah.
04:35Yeah.
04:35Yeah, that first, when at first you said that you can see the connection between the Nesalma and religion,
04:40at first I wanted to, you know, scream because God wants exactly the opposite from us.
04:46But you're correct, because the reason Yahweh regretted having created Nesalma man, humans,
04:53is that we took this ability to reason and we used it inappropriately such that men created gods in their
05:03own image
05:04so that they could lord over and control and please other men and women.
05:08And so it was the first thing that people did with their Nesalma is create false gods.
05:13That's why it is the ultimate tool for both good and bad.
05:18Yeah.
05:19And so you see elements of that.
05:22Yeah.
05:23So people have that, you know, literally there are, you know, places where there is the belief that, you know,
05:31this culture, you know, was created by somebody that came directly from everywhere, came down here,
05:37it did this, that, and then went back.
05:39So it's like that.
05:43And we, Africa, we kind of, you know, connect with religion, you know, when it came down because of all
05:54of that.
05:54Because what people just did was, okay, maybe the way we are worshipping this god, this supreme being,
06:02maybe we are not doing this right.
06:04So these people have just come to show us the right way.
06:07You know, they came with, they were talking about prosperity and all of that.
06:12So maybe this is the right way.
06:14So they all latched onto, you know, the new religion.
06:18Most of them still do what they do in the background, you know.
06:21Of course, all they were doing is trying to sell you a lie to control you.
06:27Yeah.
06:27So they all, you know, gravitated to the new religion.
06:33But, you know, for instance, I'm from a place called, I'm from Ugu State in Nigeria.
06:41And my town is Ijebu.
06:44You know, Ijebu, Ijebu.
06:46Now, that name, we actually believe is the Jebusite, you know, that was mentioned.
06:52Wow.
06:53In the Torah.
06:54So we have all of those kind of, you know, links.
07:02And it's going to do Africa a whole, you know, a whole world of good.
07:07Because really what is making Africa backward is, first, you know, greed.
07:14Now, greed is everywhere.
07:16I think greed is in every culture.
07:19That's, you know, the religion, the desire for power, you know, the desire to control other people.
07:29That's in every culture, too.
07:31Yeah, it's in every culture.
07:32But these are the things.
07:34Africa is good.
07:35Africa is great.
07:36But all these kind of things, they are not necessarily thinking about, you know, making life prosperous for everyone.
07:44You just have maybe like, maybe 0.5% of the people trying to control everybody, you know.
07:53So, and they use, they saw religion, you know, as a very good tool.
08:00Because that's actually the idea behind religion, anyway, to control people.
08:05So, they put themselves in the level of, you know, that's next to God.
08:14So, the people that are not doing good, the people that are poor, look up to us that are like
08:20the intermediaries, you know, between God and them.
08:25So, something like that.
08:26Those are the things.
08:27They just need to be showing the light.
08:29So, an interesting song and visuals that shows the beauty of Africa, that gets the harmony, the beat, the lyrics,
08:39the visuals, and all of it correct, and is joyous and inclusive, may serve as a very effective invitation.
08:49Yes.
08:50Particularly one that asks nothing from anyone other than the hope that they will learn more.
08:56Yeah, start listening.
08:57Now, I want to share a thought on Africa versus other places, and then you can correct me if you
09:06think I'm wrong.
09:08There's a lot of times where Africa is dismissed because civilizations did not materialize there at the same rate that
09:17they materialized elsewhere.
09:18And for the most part, civilizations developed elsewhere because without them, there was no survival.
09:26Africa happens to be a place where you can live off of the earth because the earth is extraordinarily rich
09:32and giving.
09:33The temperatures are mild.
09:36They're not like Europe where you would freeze to death without shelter in the wintertime.
09:45Crops grow easily.
09:47The animals are grazed easily.
09:49And so, there wasn't the need to develop civilizations.
09:54And when I say that, I want to be really clear.
09:58I'm not a proponent of civilization.
10:00I think that the more civilized humans became, the worse we became, that the history of every one of those
10:08civilizations is apartheid and genocide, and that they created religions that empowered cleric and king, and every aspect of them
10:18was to conquer and rape and plunder their neighbors.
10:23And that human civilization is the worst of humanity, and that human civilization is the worst of humanity, not the
10:27best of humanity.
10:28And so, it is not something to be striven for.
10:32And that Africa was able to endure without a lot of it because it was so, first, so massive that
10:43people didn't have to congregate together.
10:45So, you had more distance between people, which is a very good thing.
10:49And because it was so naturally productive and conducive to life.
10:57And so, I don't think it has been as assaulted.
11:02Now, when you get all the way to the north and it gets exceedingly dry around the Mediterranean, you see
11:07no difference between northern Africa and the areas of Mesopotamia and now Europe with the advance of really hostile human
11:15contrivances.
11:17Now, today, it's Islam.
11:20And you do see that there are tribal customs still in Africa where the enslavement of people and the control
11:32of people and even some brutality is still prevalent, that people are still people and we do horrible things to
11:42one another.
11:43It's just not as bad.
11:45You don't see in Africa what we're seeing, for example, right now in Europe, where people are just absolutely out
11:51of control, totally indoctrinated, irrational, having no morality at all is what we're witnessing in Europe.
11:59You just don't see that in Africa.
12:02What do you think about those thoughts, that perspective?
12:07No, it's what you have said is essentially, you know, right.
12:11It's what it is.
12:15What I'm just going to add is, you know, Africa in some places, you know, they have, you know, empires
12:25that have actually, you know, long-lived empires, like spanning over a thousand years.
12:33And yes, and even before, even before civilization, you know, came to Africa, they actually had a lot of structures,
12:45a lot of elements of civilization, you know.
12:48They had, like somewhere in, you know, in the Yoruba land, like the Oyo Empire, they had, like, a very
13:01mighty, like, it's a community, but they built walls around it, you know, like, very big, very massive, that they
13:12wouldn't be able to build all those without, you know,
13:16without the, without the civilized machinery and all of that.
13:21But they were able to achieve it, just like the pyramids of Egypt and that, that you'll be wondering, how
13:26did they achieve all of these things?
13:28So they had those kind of elements, you know, but it's because it's just the, this thing about people, of
13:40wanting to control others.
13:41And if you, if you are, if you're already in that space of, okay, you see yourself as royalty, you're
13:50going to want to do everything to keep that, you know, to maintain that status.
13:56So whichever way you're going to achieve that, if you can make the other people poorer, that would be great,
14:03so that they can always look up to you.
14:05You know, those kind of, those are the issues.
14:08And again, I'm not speaking of civilization as a good, I think it's destructive, not positive, what humans do with
14:15civilization.
14:16And clearly there were advanced civilizations all the way across Northern Africa.
14:21The Carthage Empire was, was far greater than Greece or Rome during its, its age.
14:27The Egyptian Empire, of course, was huge.
14:30And then south of, of Egypt, you had a number of competing kingdoms that were also quite powerful for a
14:40long while.
14:42I think that, and I'm sure that there were places further south.
14:47We don't have much of a, of a legacy of them, of course, because the environment is, is so moist.
14:53It, it, it's not going to, things will not be preserved and they're grown over.
14:58And you had so much distance between people.
15:02I mean, the, the continent of Africa is so much larger than, than any other.
15:07We just don't get the perspective of it on the Mercator projections that we look at.
15:11Yes.
15:12It's so big.
15:14It's so big.
15:15And it's, yes.
15:18And, and it is a place where people independently can live and thrive.
15:23They don't have to be part of a community where that was not true.
15:28When people are, even, even like in Mesopotamia, think it's a big area.
15:31It really isn't because if you get any distance from those two rivers, it's too dry to, to survive.
15:38So it's, it's just a very different kind of an environment.
15:43Yeah.
15:44And I think it has a different history, I think, largely because of that environment.
15:50And it's certainly more beautiful because of that environment.
15:53So let's go ahead and play the, the song, Out of the Night.
15:56I like to call it Out of Africa, but it's actually not out of Africa.
16:01It's into Africa, out of maybe the, the darkness of religion, because Christianity and, and Islam have,
16:08of, are currently at war across Africa.
16:13There's so many people, particularly Christians being killed by Muslims in Africa.
16:18That is one of the great tragedies of the, of the world.
16:22And it goes so hugely unreported that I'd like to celebrate Africa as, as it should be and as it
16:32will be.
18:35That's it. Yeah, baby. That's all.
19:29Yeah, baby. That's all.
19:58Yeah, baby. That's all.
20:08That is a celebration of life, my friend. It's just gorgeous, isn't it?
20:13Yes.
20:14You know, it's also extraordinarily similar to reality.
20:19I've had the great pleasure of traveling extensively through the game reserves, particularly of eastern Africa.
20:28I mean, I've been all the way from the tip all the way up, but that reminds me of Tanzania,
20:34of the Masai Mar, of the Serengeti as it stretches across the eastern plains.
20:43The great concentration of animals in Nagoro Crater.
20:50It's the way that the brown grasslands are punctuated with those trees.
20:59I don't know if they're mesquite or acacia trees, but those canopy trees on the vast plains with that grassland.
21:10And then zebra for as far as the eye can see and wildebeest and the elegance of the giraffe and
21:18the beauty of the lions.
21:19I didn't see any white lions, mind you.
21:21I know that's part of our story is the white lions that take out Rahab.
21:25But, and so they're beautiful in that scene.
21:29But, you know, to see a cheetah run for game and then haul the game up at trees so that
21:35the hyenas don't steal it and then taking care of its cubs.
21:40Oh, my.
21:41It's to see a rhinoceros in the wild, to feel the presence of just the size of an elephant and
21:47the grace of a giraffe, the beauty of a zebra.
21:53Um, it's, uh, it's unlike anything else in the world.
21:57Yeah.
21:59And then, uh, the, uh, the culture, the, the dancing around campfires.
22:04I just see that's going to be such a huge part of what we do going forward.
22:09Um, and I love the costumes, the colors and the textures, but then the children's faces and the expressions on
22:16the adults and the rhythm.
22:17Um, but, uh, dancing and singing around a campfire is going to be a big part of, of tomorrow as
22:22we return to the garden.
22:23It's a beautiful celebration of life.
22:26Yeah.
22:29Got to be one of your favorites at this point, I would think.
22:32Yes.
22:33Yes.
22:33It's, uh, you know, the rhythm of the song, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's pretty cool.
22:40I like it.
22:41Yeah.
22:42Lea says it's the one that makes her the most emotional, both laughing and crying at the same time.
22:47Yeah.
22:48Yeah.
22:48It can, it can actually give you that effect.
22:51It's, it's pretty nice.
22:53Yeah.
22:54Yeah.
22:54Yeah.
22:55I long, I long for that kind of, uh, of a simple life.
22:58I just think it's, uh, it's absolutely gorgeous.
23:01So thank you for creating that.
23:04Uh, we're going to transition now to the timeline.
23:06Um, we've had a timeline on our site for some time.
23:10It has over the last few months, uh, been, uh, finished in terms of, of receiving almost
23:18all proprietary artwork so that all of the characters and the events, um, throughout
23:25represented what, uh, we thought was, uh, symbolic of that, uh, time.
23:30I wrote the copy for it almost two years ago.
23:33So, you know, we've learned some things and we can update a few things as we go along.
23:37Uh, but, uh, the copy is really pretty, uh, pretty darn good.
23:41It explains what we're, uh, what we're seeing and how it fits into the whole story that
23:45Yawa is telling.
23:47Um, and I was, uh, told about, uh, two months ago that you were collaborating with Lea on
23:56creating a movie of the timeline and my reaction was, uh, this could be really extraordinary
24:03because, uh, the timeline is far more than just putting us in the right place on Yawa's schedule.
24:11And that, by the way, it's a big deal that, uh, Jews who are our target audience, they're 206 years
24:17off
24:18being 206 years off when there's only seven years to go, that's a lot.
24:24And it's going to miss it.
24:25You're going to miss it.
24:27You're going to miss it.
24:28Yeah.
24:29You're going to miss it.
24:29Uh, and they don't know how God's time revolves around the Moadim or how, uh, it's, uh, it's told
24:36through the redeployment of the same characters throughout and what God's trying to achieve
24:42throughout time with us, um, which is ultimately to create the ideal relationship between him and his
24:49firstborn, and then to make certain that his firstborn has a community of family, uh, that he
24:54can also celebrate with.
24:55And that's the story we're telling.
24:57And I think that when you do the timeline correctly, you're not only established where we are in that
25:01time, which is central because we're now in the time of Jacob's troubles and there's only
25:0512 years left, uh, but, uh, you, you also set the theme for what God's trying to achieve with people.
25:12And you can introduce every player in a story.
25:16And, um, I, I think that by seeing the whole story from beginning to end from Yahweh's perspective,
25:24what he's trying to achieve, it also goes a long way to, um, destroy the credibility of
25:31Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, because they pay absolutely no part in God's story.
25:37They are actually corrupting of God's story.
25:40Uh, so to present it from his eyes, uh, quite a thrill.
25:45Um, so what we're going to do here, uh, is, uh, we're just going to play one segment from
25:51the website to show how it's been integrated with a voiceover so that we can hear it.
25:56And then we'll go from there right to the beginning.
26:04Creation 14 billion years before the common era in the opening volume of Yada Yawa beginning irrefutable
26:14proof is provided to demonstrate that 14 billion years and six 24 hour days are equivalent relative
26:22to the locations of the one at creation in contrast to us on earth, billions of years later, reading
26:29this assessment.
26:30Based upon the CMB from the big bang, citing Yawa's term, time was stretched to 10 to the
26:3712th power.
26:38When 14 billion years are divided by this factor denoting the difference in the rate time flowed
26:44at creation, it equals six 24 hour days as we now measure them on earth.
26:52Marvelous.
26:54And of course it'll go on, uh, immediately to the next one and we'll, uh, we will return
26:58to that, but on the, uh, on our other, um, uh, we can play a little bit.
27:02No, I'm just going to stop it.
27:03Okay.
27:04All right.
27:05And we'll go to the, uh, the other timeline.
27:07Uh, I am, um, uh, so tremendously, well, we can go ahead and play this and I'll comment.
27:14Uh, okay.
27:15You've got to stop.
27:16All right.
27:16Depot.
27:17Uh, so we're going to start with just that first one before we even go to this, the introductory.
27:22Uh, I, I think that there's very few things that we can say.
27:26That we'll get a thinking person to just stop and say, whoa, that is amazing.
27:37Then the correlation between the 14 to 15 billion years of, of time between now and what was the
27:48big bang is actually equivalent to six 24 hour days when you use the cosmic background radiation
27:58and recognize that it, um, reveals that time was stretched by 10 to the 12th power by someone
28:07conducting or near creation because time does not flow evenly for all, uh, viewers.
28:14It's, uh, it is, uh, relational to great velocity, great energy or, uh, uh, or great, uh, mass.
28:23And therefore we know that time was stretched to 10 to the 24th power at, uh, our 12th power
28:28at creation and simply math.
28:30You divide 14 billion years by 10 to the 12th power and you have six 24 hour days.
28:38And that's a jaw dropper.
28:41And so what a wonderful way to begin the timeline.
28:46Yes.
28:46And, you know, that's, that's something that, you know, people would need to, uh, come to
28:53terms with because, uh, they, they tend to, you know, see everything literally.
29:00They, they don't know that there is something, you know, uh, that is different in the way God
29:08views time and the way we view time here.
29:12So that's something that would actually, uh, be good to present.
29:16Yes.
29:16And it's, uh, it's even more than, uh, the cosmic microwave background radiation, uh, stretching
29:22time to 10 to the 12th power and therefore making 14 billion years equivalent to six 24 hour
29:29days.
29:29It is the very thing you just talked about that God does not experience time the same
29:34way we do, uh, because he exists as energy and light, uh, and on energy and light time
29:40exists.
29:41So he can experience the past, present, or future at any moment that he wishes to, he
29:46can see our future and report back to us in our past.
29:49What he has witnessed means that he's not predicting anything.
29:53He's actually seen the future and telling us about it.
29:56And that, you know, on a photon of light, what we have learned is that all time exists
30:01simultaneously.
30:02It does not flow the way it does for us here on earth in three dimensions.
30:08So that then opens up this whole opportunity for understanding how prophecy exists, why
30:16God uses that tool to prove his, uh, authenticity and his authorization of those things that he
30:22has inspired, uh, and why it develops the means that we can use to trust him, but also
30:28what he's offering us.
30:29Because if he can transform our physical bodies, uh, into light energy and they then carry our
30:36soul, then our soul can go visit every place else in the universe.
30:42So that happens to be a slide where if we could augment it with a button off to the side,
30:50say, that would talk more about it and to talk more about time and the relativity of
30:59time, but also how the Hebrew language is based upon the nature of light where every verb
31:06is liberated in time and what this means for us and being able to be empowered and enriched
31:12beyond the three dimensions we experience here in earth.
31:16Um, I think we can make it even a more profound teaching moment, but yet not burden the whole timeline
31:24down because if we, if, if that was naturally part of the whole timeline, it'd be a, uh, you know,
31:29a 20 hour experience
31:30to get from the beginning to the end of it.
31:32Uh, so I think we can have links off of it that augment what is said.
31:38What are your thoughts on that?
31:40Yes, yes.
31:41Um, you know, this actually is like, you have the, um, the, the entire picture that you're
31:50trying to paint right, right here.
31:52And then you, you are just able to branch off and say, okay, this is what happened.
31:57This is the details.
31:58And then you go right back, you know, so that's, you know, one document that shows you the entire picture.
32:05Yeah.
32:06That by the way is like the fifth voice that I've heard, um, narrating the, uh, the timeline.
32:10And it's actually quite, uh, good.
32:13The, um, the difficulty for it is that ends sentence phrasing.
32:19It is very difficult to know the tone and the pacing, the cadence to start a sentence and end the
32:25sentence, even when the sentence is relatively short.
32:29And so for an AI, uh, text to speech, that, uh, voice did a marvelous job of knowing how to
32:38begin and close a sentence.
32:40And you sound stupid if you don't know where that sentence is going before you start it,
32:45because you need that particular cadence and pausing and reflection, uh, throughout
32:51then to get to a, uh, an appropriate close, uh, something that most people probably never
32:56even bothered to think about, but it is, it's an essential part of effective communication.
33:01I made it, um, exceedingly difficult because I did not anticipate when I wrote this, uh, text
33:08that it would be narrated because long sentences are extremely difficult to begin and end with the
33:17proper inflection, the proper cadence.
33:20And there was a sentence in there that was probably 25 or 30 words long and it did a decent
33:28job,
33:28but it would have been easier for the voice and easier for people to listen if I had written
33:34shorter sentences now knowing that we're going to narrate it.
33:39Yes. The, the, the reading was, uh, the narration was fluid, but when you listen in between,
33:46you could pick out a couple of, you know, parts where you feel, you know, uh, the renderer didn't
33:55actually get the intonation, you know, of like where this sentence stopped, where the next one starts.
34:02Um, you know, what is essentially. Okay. Can you still hear me? I think it's frozen.
34:14Yeah. I, I hear you Depot. I hear you. Yeah. I, it must be frozen on their end.
34:22Well, let's
34:26give him a second. Let's just go ahead and run some of the timeline here, um, and see if rich
34:31can get that
34:32worked out. Okay.
34:40Oh, we're not getting anything from them. They just, they rebooted.
34:44Well, let's see. I happen to have the, um, out of Africa scene. We could, uh, maybe watch that.
34:53So everybody knows, uh, Yada's favorite scene with the flamingos and everything.
34:57Let me pull me off here and hold on a second.
35:12So at least they'll, uh, they'll be able to see and know what we're talking about. This is from 1985,
35:17uh, Sydney Pollux out of Africa with Robert Redford.
35:31So, uh, I think this was filmed in Rwanda or, or maybe it was Tanzania. No, Kenya. It's a,
35:38it's Kenya. So this is a little, uh, you don't have, do you have flamingos like this in Nigeria?
35:46So, because, uh, I think they, they stay the environment where you find them as, uh,
35:55has to be, you know, a certain kind of way. So
35:59in Nigeria, I don't think I've not seen a flamingo in Nigeria before, but then
36:04because they're, they're very tropic. They're very tropical, aren't they?
36:08Yeah, exactly. They are tropical. So that's, that's probably why we don't see them.
36:25Well, while we're here, tell me more about Nigeria. I don't know. I had a neighbor that was a Nigerian.
36:31He, he came, uh, came over, uh, their, um, village was actually, they were in a lawsuit against
36:37Shell Oil because Shell Oil had blown up most of their village and then paid the neighboring
36:42village to come massacre them. So, uh, they, uh, the, the attorneys that, uh, were having the, um,
36:49the lawsuit against, um, Shell Oil managed to, to bring all of them to the United States for safety.
36:55So that's, that's what I know about Nigeria. Oh, and Krishna Koye, of course, played for the chiefs,
37:00but other than that, well, um, Nigeria is, uh, it's, it's, it's, um,
37:12a lot like, um, like America, maybe because, you know, um, there is this, uh, people, people like,
37:21you know, foreign stuff and all that. So I, I, I see it, uh, you know, uh, a lot like,
37:29like what we
37:29have here. Nigeria was, um, colonized and, uh, given independence by the British, by Britain.
37:38So it was, yeah. So, but we tilt more to the U.S. than, than, uh, Britain. So, um, and
37:45it's,
37:46it's a very big place. The population is much like, uh, U.S. population with like two, the, at the
37:53last
37:53count, like 250, uh, 250 million. Wow. Yeah. Uh, yeah. It's like the same with, um, with U.S.
38:02and, um, you know, have, uh, many, uh, big cities like Lagos is just like New York, you know, like
38:13the same, right? Wow. Same high rise. You see a lot of, uh, almost the same thing. So yeah, it's,
38:21uh,
38:21Nigeria is okay. The, the only thing I just see, you know, in all these places is the, is, is
38:28religion and
38:29politics pretty much. That's what is actually, uh, messing up mostly everywhere. Nigeria, other
38:38states in, uh, in Africa. And I believe, uh, in, in, um, in the advanced world, uh, you may, you
38:45may say,
38:46okay, Africa is, uh, not as advanced as you have, um, you know, like U.S., Europe, you have, uh,
38:53China
38:54and all of that, but, uh, uh, what religion actually does, and that's why you have people pray
39:02more, you know, they pray more, they, they tilt more to wanting to know God, but they're just not
39:11doing it the right way. Uh, it's because of the poverty, uh, the people that are, that have been able
39:19to,
39:20you know, uh, uh, uh, control resources. They try to hold onto it so that they can use that,
39:27you know, to control every other person. Religion is a very good tool to deploy, you know, for things
39:32like that. So they made sure, you know, you have churches everywhere. They made sure you have, uh,
39:40that means of control, you know, so that people don't really grow. Uh, they don't, people don't really
39:47think, you know, about, like, uh, a social kind of, um, uh, arrangement that makes, like,
39:58everybody will not be of the same, uh, you know, uh, wealth level, but at least, you know, if, if
40:06most of
40:07the people are, like, average, I'm sure that drops the, the need to pray, to pray to God for everything.
40:14Like for instance, even mosquito bites you, some people will pray, you know, sure. You see your,
40:21your house is dirty. You have cockroaches. You say, Oh God, these are witches that are, that are
40:27tons of cockroaches that are disturbing me, you know, all those kinds of things. So, uh, those are the
40:32things that actually makes it a little bit dark over there, you know? Well, you know, it's, it's
40:37interesting because I didn't realize you, you mentioned 250 million people in a population. Um,
40:44so, so you could really draw some, some good correlations on those numbers is, do you think
40:49that, uh, what do you presume the, the literacy rate of Nigeria is? I mean, of course you have schools
40:55and stuff, but I mean, does everybody read books? I mean, or do you, would you say it's, it's, it's
41:00less
41:01than the United States or because even in the United States, you have places like New York with a
41:06literacy rate of around, let's just ballpark 90% and then you can go to Mississippi or you can go
41:13to
41:13Arkansas and places in that have a lower literacy rate. Do you know, you know what I mean? And so
41:20do
41:20you, do you think that, that people not being able to, part of the education, read and learn for
41:26themselves able to get out of the cultural religious and political systems? Do you think
41:30that's a little part of it? What would you say the literacy rate in? Well, I don't, I don't have
41:36the
41:36ad numbers, but I know that, you know, people actually have that desire and we actually have a
41:44lot of, a lot of literate people, you know, a lot, a lot. We have so many people that are,
41:51you know,
41:51literate, but what you, what happens is when you break Nigeria down and you begin to go in, inwards,
42:00where religion is thicker, you will see that the literacy rate drops because part of the problem,
42:08like, like in the north, the north of Nigeria, they, they are mostly Muslims and the literacy
42:16rates there is very low. Maybe, I don't know, I don't have the ad number, but it's really very low.
42:21And because they do that because they want to keep them where they are. So they don't understand
42:27what is happening. Like, for instance, Quran is not translated to English, you have to learn
42:36Arabic, and then you will be able to read the Quran. So in the north, a lot of them just
42:43tilts to
42:44going to Arabic school and just learning, you know, even learning Arabic. I know that back
42:50in the Iraq war, one of the big, big things that soldiers discovered is that they were,
42:55um, a lot of the jihadis were always passing around these, these audio tapes and they heard the surahs
43:01and they heard that their sermons or whatever you want to call it from their different imams
43:04on these audio tapes be in Arabic because they couldn't read, you know, and so that they would
43:10just, they would just listen to the audio tapes of what someone else said, you know,
43:14the literacy rate is 70, 70% in 20, uh, 2024. Uh, in, in Nigeria. Yeah. It's relatively high,
43:25but when you begin to go deep and you say in Northern Nigeria, in Southern Nigeria,
43:30then you begin to see the difference. Sure. Sure. Yeah. So that's the thing. And even the people
43:38that, that are, that are very literate, that religious culture, you know, which was what I
43:46was trying to point out at the beginning, that's a link to the roots. You know, what they feel this
43:54is the way it should be is actually blocking them to see reasons to see that. Okay. This thing that
44:03was introduced to us may not actually be what they say it is. Let me try and dissect it, but
44:09they don't.
44:10When you talk to some religious people like Christians, they will tell you to see Jesus.
44:16They are already talking to Jesus. They see. How do you, how do you talk?
44:21There was orange juice in my fridge this morning. Praise Jesus, right? It's like,
44:27So if somebody is already seeing Jesus, what are you going to say to him? He's not going to listen
44:31to you.
44:32So, you know, those are the kind of issues. They, they have sealed their minds. They are not,
44:40they are not open-minded enough to begin to look at things and, you know, reason. At times,
44:47some of these things are just basic reasoning. You know, when you, when you read and you can say,
44:53wait a minute, what's this person saying? You know, but, and because religion is a very good tool to
45:03control, the leaders, even if they know, it's possible some of them know some of these things
45:08are wrong, but they like it the way it is. So they will continue to create conditions that will make
45:14people not, you know, uh, get to that level that they, they begin to appreciate the, the real thing.
45:22So that's what is happening. And in a sense, it, it, it is the same problem worldwide. It has
45:30absolutely nothing to do about the culture that you come out of. It is all cultures bad. It's, it's,
45:36it's come out of that culture. It's not come out of, you know, someone else's house. And it is,
45:42every culture is bad. Come out of your father's house. Right. And so I think that's, that's where
45:49I like to, to correlate all of us as, as covenant members is that it doesn't matter where you come
45:57from. It doesn't matter if you were born in China. It doesn't matter if you were born in, in Nigeria.
46:01It doesn't matter if you were born in the United States, in Australia, wherever it was, your culture's
46:06wrong period. You know, I mean, that is, what's been keeping you away from, uh, away from knowing
46:11you to, to, to, to begin with, you know, it's, uh, it's, it's funny because I, I used to joke
46:19all the
46:19time about, you know, I, I worked with a lot of, a lot of people from around the world, but
46:24there was
46:24primarily a lot of Mexicans and, and, you know, they say, Oh, you should go to Mexico. You should go.
46:29It's so beautiful. I said, I know it's beautiful. Why don't you go to Mexico? And it's like,
46:34because it's full of Mexicans, you know, that's why I don't go to Mexico. Okay. Everywhere in the
46:39world is beautiful. The problem is, is there's just too many damn people there. You know, it's like,
46:43Colorado is beautiful. All right. You know, Missouri is beautiful. Florida is beautiful. You know,
46:47why I'm not in those places because it's full of Floridians, right? So when that's all cleared away,
46:55all these places are going to be, they're going to be great. You know? Yeah. When you, when you have,
47:00you know, when everything is cleaned up and you have people with the right mindset,
47:07it's going to be totally different. It's going to be totally different. It's, it's just in the,
47:12in the mindsets, you know, people clinging to what is wrong, you know, but for whatever reasons,
47:20they don't want to actually, you know, question their beliefs. Right. Well, he took the timeline
47:32video with, I'm trying to get ahold of Richard. You, you keep talking. Okay. Okay. So, so, um,
47:40yeah, so that's why I see, uh, when I want to say anything around it, I would just say,
47:45every culture is beautiful, but that religion and politics, if, you know, we're able to
47:56take, if everyone is able to, uh, uh, detach from these things, they would actually begin to
48:06appreciate the truth. They will begin to appreciate the truth. And people needs to,
48:13you know, not be unnecessarily dogmatic about, you know, what they think they know, you know?
48:21Right. Because when they are not open-minded,
48:27you know, they just begin to, uh, see the entire world from their own narrow perspective. So
48:39that's, that's, that's, that's it for me. Yeah. And I, I'll have to disagree with you that not
48:44every culture is beautiful. I'm going to say that every culture is bad. Okay. Because every culture
48:50is full of those people. I mean, what we have to, you have to kind of define what is, what
48:55is culture
48:55from that. You know what I mean? What you mean by the culture, because the culture isn't the people.
49:01Okay. Because at the end of the day, folks is folks, no matter where you come from. Okay. I mean,
49:06you either, you either got on a Shama and you're using it the right way, or you don't. That's kind
49:11of my defining, defining factor, right? I don't care how your mother cooks bread and how my mother
49:17cooks bread. You know, I don't care because culture is wrapped up in holidays, religion, politics,
49:23things like that. You know, I mean, you mentioned that, oh, the mosquito bit me and, and, and you pray,
49:29you know what I'm saying is there's people in Southern Missouri that do the same thing. Okay. I
49:35mean, so it's, it's, it's not just a Christian thing or whatever. So I'm really at a loss about
49:42what is the metric of what culture, what, what you keep out of, out of, you know, who you are
49:49and how
49:50you grew up. Because I think that, that in, in, um, Suka, we are resetting all that. Everyone will be
49:57the
49:57same culture. We're all there because we're yada, yawa. You know what I mean?
50:02Yes. You know, the basic definition of culture is like way of life, right? So, um, what is going to
50:12determine your way of life? Your beliefs is going to come into, you know, that determination. Your,
50:19the way you play, the way you interact with people, you know, politics, economics,
50:25all of that is going to, um, form what you see as a culture. So you are right. I agree
50:33with you
50:33because if you, if you have to stack them, you're going to place, uh, religion, politics,
50:40and all of that below culture, because the culture is actually coming from all of that.
50:48You know, the religion part is the, the desire of people trying to connect to that, uh, supreme being.
50:56A lot of, a lot of religions believe there is one supreme being. They just don't know how to reach
51:02that one supreme being. So that's religion actually influences the culture. And then the way people
51:09deal with themselves, which is the politics, you know, how you play games and people play politics,
51:14even in your home, you may like, you have, uh, different kids. You may like one more than the
51:19other. You have to find a way to play the game so they don't see, you know, the fact that
51:23you like
51:24one more than the other. So it's all there. So, but that's why there needs to be that foundational
51:32change because if you lay, if you stack them up, actually, yes, you're going to pick religion
51:37and, you know, the way people interact with themselves. But then you also have the values,
51:43for instance, because values is also part of, uh, uh, the culture. You may find somebody that is not
51:50religious, you know, is just there, but has some values, values like honesty. At times you don't know
52:01because it can be subjective. What somebody is saying is not to be honest to somebody else. So,
52:09but at least saying, you know, keeping your word, if you say, I'm going to be here tomorrow,
52:15I'm there at this time, you know, that's a value and it doesn't have anything to do with religion.
52:21So, and that's also part of what forms your culture. You have people from a specific,
52:28you know, geography, like people that have lived together in that geography for a while,
52:33you see that they have those values, you know, they wear their clothes in a certain way. They cut
52:40their hair in a certain way, you know, all those things put together. So, if you actually peel off
52:48the religion, which was designed to control people, if you pull that off and that's greed,
52:59you know, that, that's, that is in politics, that makes you want to get everything for yourself.
53:06So, if you can pull out all of those, then there are some things underneath that you will say,
53:12okay, this is not bad. You know, this kind of people are friendly when you go to them,
53:18you know.
53:19Everybody's friendly. Everybody's friendly.
53:22You know, there are some cultures. People do crazy stuff. There are some cultures where
53:29if you go visit your friend at home, guess what your gift will be?
53:37Yes. You don't know? There are some questions that I know about. It's going to be the wife of that
53:43person. He's going to give you wife to spend the next week. That's the culture. That's the culture.
53:51Mikasa Tsukasa. Yeah. Okay. Right. So, those kind of things. Now, how did they come to that? How did they
53:59all accept to behave like that? So, that's what you need to question. People do different. Yeah.
54:06Cultures. They do a lot of things that when you look at this, even if you don't have any
54:12other, you know, supreme or superior idea, just basically looking at it, do you think this is
54:20good? If you say this is my wife, and somebody comes to visit me and I'll say, take my wife
54:26and
54:26go sleep with her. How did people come to accept? So, there is a whole lot. There is a whole
54:34lot.
54:37Well, that's interesting. Is it following a genealogical connection? You know? Is it following
54:45the story of Abraham? You know? I mean, when he goes into Egypt with, you know, where did they get
54:50this idea that this is a good thing, that this is a productive, you know, thing to continue?
54:57Yeah. And I think it has a lot to do with people seeing other people as their idols.
55:06If you respect somebody and the person does something, maybe the person is big, is prosperous
55:12and all that, you tend to want to do things the way that person does it. So, I think it's
55:20possible that
55:20it has, you know, some roots, you know, coming from those people. Right. And, you know, like I said,
55:28I have a feeling that, you know, during that period of creation, a lot of the shaman men actually
55:34went to Africa. They started some settlements, you know, some cultures that we have, and whatever they
55:42did actually influenced the people around there. And because people don't tend to utilize, you know,
55:54they don't tend to think, look at things deeply. They just keep accepting.
55:59In some cultures, they don't see any big deal in just waking up every day, like in the north. You
56:07just,
56:07there are a lot of people they call alimandery. They don't go to school. They don't do anything.
56:11They just go and stay in front of a rich man's house and hit. It's normal to them. They just
56:20see
56:20the rich man, they hail him. They can live the whole of their lives like that. So, but how do
56:25you
56:25accept something like that? Even if you are not literate, you should still be able to look at it
56:34like, can't I just do something? Maybe go clean the gutter or something. You don't understand.
56:42So, what makes you accept things like that? Though, in religion, they have a lot of mechanisms inside
56:49that actually forces people to behave like that. Because they will tell you, if you don't do this,
56:54this is going to happen to you. If you do that, that is going to happen to you. So, they
56:58have all
56:58those control mechanisms in there. But it's also all about people idolizing other people,
57:03you know. And because the mentality of everybody is tied to success. And by success,
57:11then they mean riches. If somebody is going to say you're successful in what you're doing,
57:16that you'll be looking at what's the value, what's your networks. To them, that is the success. So,
57:21and if you are successful, mostly, whatever you do, people will listen to you.
57:28Right. Well, and then you have the nature of online stuff today where it's all faked. You know,
57:36I mean, people go and, hey, you want to listen to me? And he shows a picture of him sitting
57:40on a
57:40Lamborghini. And he's like, you know, this is how I made all this money is I wrote a book. Here's
57:45for
57:4550 bucks. You can get my book, right? And it's all fake. Yeah.
57:53All right. Well, I just got, I got back from Richard. They have no internet at all. So,
57:58we're going to wrap it up here. So, I just, it just completely dropped out. So,
58:05unless you want to do Ask Depot day, I can ask, I can ask people to ask questions in the
58:09chat,
58:09and we can do Ask Depot day. No, it's okay. We'll schedule, you know, between some of the time.
58:14Okay. Right on, man. All right. Well, it's good talking to you. And I'm sure that,
58:20heck, we might just have you back on tomorrow. What's your schedule like tomorrow?
58:25Ah, tomorrow, maybe a little bit tight. Okay. All right. Well,
58:30oh, I'm still, if we can still do it, I don't know. If they come back, maybe in like another
58:35one hour,
58:36we can still come back. Oh, I think, I think he's gonna, yeah, they don't even, their internet,
58:42the whole internet is, so he can't even watch what we're doing now. So, yeah.
58:47Well, we'll just reschedule. Maybe sometime else we'll do it.
58:50Okay. Sounds good, man. Good talking to you. Take care.
58:53All right. See you later. Bye.
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