Shadowing Practice: The Most Destructive Attack Against Abolition - Learn English Speaking with Video

Hey, what's up everybody?

I'm out for a walk and it's been a while since I've made a video.

I mean, I guess it's not been that long.

I still got this beautiful eye that's going away.

But I wanted to make a short video just to talk through something

that needs to be talked about

and I want to talk about it in such a way where I'm allowed to be permissibly vague

because I don't want to say anything about anyone who does this in particular,

but I want to talk about what I believe is the number one form of attack on abolitionists.

The number one attack that is made against abolitionists

that does the most harm to the cause

when i mean the cause i don't mean just like the cause of abolitionist rising

or the success or this or that group

but i mean the overall cause like the thing that makes it hardest for abolitionists to pass bills

establishing justice and gain sort of cultural ground the number one attack

made against abolitionists is simply accusing us of being divisive

or of being harsh or of not working well with people the attacks from the world the attacks from

you know people who say that we are going to be bad for women

or bad for culture or the economy or

that you know like people who want to come up against us with various kinds of arguments

that you might think need answering the primary thing

that hurts the cause is whenever people say things like abolitionists don't work with people,

or abolitionists have beef, or abolitionists won't get along and stuff.

What that does, and usually it's totally unprovoked,

it's usually like somebody somewhere is just doing their thing, and someone says, hey, what do you think about abolitionists?

Have you ever worked with these abolitionists or whatever.

And they, without any provocation, just a question, say, oh, well, the reason I don't work with those abolitionists is because they are divisive.

They don't work with us.

They don't work with other groups.

In fact, all these other groups, we all work with each other just fine, but not those abolitionists.

Now, and you might be thinking, why is that the number one attack?

Well, I'll tell you, I have been watching for the past 15 years, just pretty much everything going on.

And we're talking about like to the level where you've got bills not passing,

where you've got legislators that have like been supportive and working hard all of a sudden lose their ground, lose their support, lose their strength.

when you start digging into what it is

that kind of broke them down made them less confident made

them less sure made them less unified made them less connected to abolitionists

that are helping them it was the constant whispering

and statement of doubt and accusation of bad character against abolitionists this is the primary thing

that pro -lifers did against us in the early days we

came on the scene calling for the total immediate abolition of

abortion saying basically we don't need to pass any new laws

we just need the laws against murder to be applied equally to everybody we were saying

that they were realizing that they were guilty of not doing

that and rather than saying hey you know what these abolitionists have a point they bristled up their pride

and they said well instead of saying i mean like those

guys got a point they said oh well those those people

are bad people don't listen to them don't talk to them

because they thought maybe if they would assassinate our characters it would protect them from criticism

and we've seen this kind of follow us throughout the whole

work um even to this day you see it leveled against

us i the reason i'm making this video is i saw

it today just out of nowhere like i'm not doing anything i'm not saying anything about anyone

and you know i just see a screenshot where somebody somewhere is asked a question about whether they

you know ever work with russell um you know

and uh the response isn't oh yeah you know like uh

i'm an abolitionist he's an abolitionist let's work together it's just

a sort of kind of push button repetition of yeah well

that guy he he he has conflict with us

and it didn't start with us

and he's just the kind of guy who has conflict with people

and uh and um you know in fact uh You know, we work really good with all sorts of other groups and ministries, but not with him.

And I'm just kind of like, okay, I didn't do anything.

I didn't say anything, like, to create that.

And this is just somebody asking a question.

But what happens there is somebody asks the question, do you work with this guy?

And rather than just saying, well, you know, especially if you agree with me, rather than saying like hey well yeah you know in various

ways we do you know we support the same bills we do the same work

and you know we've done some things with them in the past

and we should work to do some things in the in the present

and in the future and rather than saying something like that

or if you couldn't say that because you didn't think

that you could just say nothing just not answer the question

or at maybe the most best still negative

but the best less divisive less destructive thing you could say is something along the lines of

yeah you know um there may be some issues there

but we'll work on we'll work on it christ prayed

that we'd be unified so we should be unified thanks for the comment or something like that I don't know, acknowledge that things aren't perfect,

but that we would like them to be here, something like that.

That's certainly how I answer those questions when people ask me

if I work with people that maybe I don't work with well, or there's been some kind of issues.

At minimum, if it's a stranger and the stranger just says, hey, do you work with this person?

If there's any kind of issue there, usually I won't answer it.

Or if I do answer it, I'll say, yeah, man, I would love to and, you know, whatever.

What I don't do is create conflict or create doubt,

division, confusion, or a poor reputation for whoever it is that I'm being asked about.

Because whenever somebody just asks the question simply, you know, do you work with that person? like the way

that i saw this today what happened there is they took

the opportunity to tell this stranger a stranger asking a question

in the comment section they took the opportunity to tell this

person who is probably thinking well of both the person he was asking

and of me wanting us to work together they took it as an opportunity to tell this person that i create conflict,

that I don't work with them.

And by the way, all these other people, they all work well together, but not this Russell guy.

That is them in a very creative, covert, maybe not even intentional way.

I don't know their motives at all, but that is them telling somebody that they need to adjust their filter.

If they were thinking well of me

and thinking well of like abolitionist rising they now need to think differently about

that they now need to think oh that group I like

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that group I see their fruit I see their work I

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hear their heart I hear their words I see what they're

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doing I think well of them now I think well this

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person has told me not to think well of them in fact this person has told me

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that not only should I not think well of them

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but all these other people don't think well of them I

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don't want to be on this I don't I you know and so it creates this filter.

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And then once that filter is put on people's eyes, they're going to then filter everything they see through that.

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And so now, moving forward, after having this sort of reputational filter put on them,

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they're going to look at everything that I do and kind of be thinking, hmm, I wonder what he's really like.

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I wonder if he's really not wanting to work with people and all this kind of stuff.

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And the whole thing's just a lie.

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The whole thing is literally slander.

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Like there isn't a single abolitionist on this planet who agrees with abolishing abortion to the glory of God,

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seeking to establish equal justice under the law for pre -born fatherless children who are,

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you know, legally aborted that I don't want to work with.

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I want to have full unity.

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with every abolitionist with every christian okay um now that doesn't mean

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that i don't believe certain things or think that there are good things

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and bad things biblical ways and unbiblical ways and things

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that you know that i would point out with the people that i'm truly

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unified with like if somebody i'm actually unified with

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and they're a brother they're a sister we're working in the battle

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and they're doing something that i think is you know maybe erring this way

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or that way

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and I want to say something about it that's not me like to be unified with them I would point

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that out and that has been the genesis of a lot of this you know conflict

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when somebody somewhere is maybe they're in a debate they're in a discussion they're planning a project

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and they're putting forward some kind of idea that's unbiblical either myself

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or some other abolitionist may point that out may say hey actually the way

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that you're answering this question is is inconsistent with the word of God

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or it's inconsistent with the the principles

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that we're you know all putting into play or whatever

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and may point that out and so a person who's in unity

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when they're given correction in humility they look at the correction they look at the critique

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and they say okay come let us reason together

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this is a biblical critique i see the error in what i'm saying

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and even though it's kind of difficult you kind of just

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say okay i see i see how i need to change the way i answer

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that question or change the way i put together that project or whatever it was and in humility

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remain unified and thank the brother who brought the correction like

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that is one way to do

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that the other way is to bristle up in your pride act like you've been attacked

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and instead of admitting

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that you're wrong saying you know what the people who are

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correcting me are mean bad people i can protect myself from

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their correction by telling everybody on the internet how bad they are

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so that maybe they won't listen to them whenever they bring other corrections.

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So I don't know if it's like a person that's wanting to continue to walk in error.

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I think most of the time it's not.

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I think most of the time it's just somebody who missteps, has like a wrong thought, wrong action, and instead of correcting themselves,

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just can't do that or something.

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And then they decide

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that they're going to protect themselves from criticism by creating a

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bad reputation in the minds of all of the people that might listen to the critics.

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This is certainly what pro -lifers have done.

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Pro -lifers have sought for over a decade

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and a half to protect their ideology and their strategies and their practices by telling everyone who will listen,

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don't listen to those abolitionists they're bad people

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and it has done a lot of harm to the cause

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it has set us back we're talking about millions upon millions of babies lives have been lost

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because of the delay that this kind of sinful behavior um causes and so it's continuing today i see it frequently

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me and my you know you know brothers

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that you know the guys abolitionist rising we are trying real

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hard to figure out how to navigate this constant accusation um

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you know there's almost at various periods like whenever people are planning projects

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or you know gearing up to to do things and

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and wanting the support of other people and all

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that kind of stuff it seems to sort of bubble up this spirit this attitude

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and during those times all of a sudden it's like not

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a day goes by where you can't get on facebook or twitter

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and see some comment from somebody out there saying you know

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hey um by the way can i tell you about these bad abolitionists

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and how um not only do they not work well with people they you know me

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and all my friends we work well with each other And we're like, we're real.

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We're all good.

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But these these abolitionists are bad.

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They do that all the time.

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And you don't really know how to respond to it.

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We've tried different things in different ways at different times, like over over the past, you know, five years or so.

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It's like kind of like, well, do you respond to it there and then and try to like engage the person and say, no, what you're saying isn't true for the following reasons.

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When you do that, people see it as infighting

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and they accuse you of infighting

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because they've embrace the filter like someone has given him the filter

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that you are an infighter that you are all about conflict

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and so because they've gotten

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that filter from the person who creates division this is creating division

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and the reason i think this is so bad is also

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because god hates it um god hates like god lists this

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sort of uh discordant causing behavior in the list of things

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he hates right there along with murder child sacrifice shedding innocent blood right

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because of its disastrous effect but not a day goes by where you don't see a comment from someone

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who i you know i don't know what their motives are

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but if their true heart of heart motive is to abolish abortion they need to know

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that what they're doing in laying down this bad reputation against abolitionists is they are pushing back success in the cause.

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Ultimately, God knows when that's going to happen and we don't have to really freak out about it, but we all want to see the abolition of abortion.

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And when it comes time to like stand up and you unify a ton of people together, you've got a bill, you've got a legislator, you've got people in unity and

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you know filters are being created

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and you've got people saying those abolitionists are bad those abolitionists are bad

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and then you have other supporters of abolition

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and abolitionists saying well these particular abolitionists are bad

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and then you've got legislators who are like well listen I was going to work with them

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but now I've got the world and I've got these guys

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and I got all this stuff like now I need to distance

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and then they distance themselves from us

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and it weakens them it weakens us it weakens the cause

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and then instead of standing in strength and unity and power

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and abolishing abortion you know what happens tails go between legs people like look at everything through

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that filter and they decide well i don't really want to be like working with people

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that are you know full of conflict and division and i'll divide from them or i'll lessen my strength with them.

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I'll lessen my unity with them.

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And so ironically, the people who are creating the most discord

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and disunity are the people who are accusing us of being divisive.

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It's very clever.

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It's very hard to deal with.

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And oftentimes, if you deal with it, it's considered infighting

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so i don't know what to do how to deal with

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this i for the past you know few years i've primarily

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tried to just sort of focus on the work put my

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head down do what i can to go around these gatekeepers knowing

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that a lot of people everywhere will be setting a filter by

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which people are supposed to examine you know me

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and whenever they go and they look

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and they watch hours upon hours of footage online they're like

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man this guy doesn't strike me as the divisive evil person

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that they told me he was

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and um you know that's what I've decided to do just kind of focus on the work

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but when I see just so much

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so much harm being done by this kind of constant assault

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and accusation I do want to say something about it

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so the reason I made this video is just just to tell you that this is,

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in my humble opinion, the thing that Satan, the world, the evil ones,

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like this is the number one thing that is being used to set back the abolitionist cause.

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And unfortunately, it is not just the world or the pro -life movement that is engaged in carrying it out.

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So I just want to tell you about it so that you can be aware when it's happening.

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And hopefully whenever you hear people say, oh, like if they say it about me, like, oh, that Russell, he's,

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he creates conflict and he doesn't work with people.

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And me and me and all these groups, we all work really well together, but we don't work well with him.

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Please just at least consider this filter by which you can look at that.

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Perhaps that is something they're saying

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and it's not true and that you need to at least be aware

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that they're creating a filter by which you are going to look at me

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and the work that I'm doing and the work that others

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that I work with are doing

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and it is going to make you less connected less unified

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and guilty if you repeat it or

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if you follow it guilty of the very thing

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that we're being accused of

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so it's very clever it's very it's very uh it's the way it's the way sin works

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and it's usually you know we can't talk about motives but it's usually like sin begetting sin begetting sin.

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There's whatever's at back of it, whether it's jealousy, rivalry, all the things that the word of God tells us to be on the lookout for.

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You have to take that serious.

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When the Bible talks about rivalrous strife, jealousy, that sort of thing, lack of humility, and the sin that begets more sin,

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and the way that this leads to discord among brothers, you gotta realize that's talking about something that really does happen.

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And so that's all for your consideration.

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Thank you for watching my short video.

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Next time I come to you, maybe that thing will be gone.

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All right.

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See you later.

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Love you.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 259 sentences and 3252 words to shadow. The speech runs for 20:35. The speaker talks at a natural 158 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 87% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
filter noun	/ˈfɪltɚ/	A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from…
abortion noun	/əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/	A spontaneous abortion; a miscarriage.
unity noun	/ˈjunɪti/	Oneness: the state or fact of being one undivided entity.
correction noun	/kəˈɹɛkʃən/	The act of correcting.
motive noun	/ˈmoʊtɪv/	An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action.
accuse verb	/əˈkjuz/	To find fault with, blame, censure.
harm noun	/hɑːm/	Physical injury; hurt; damage.
reputation noun	/ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/	What somebody or something is known for.
critic noun	/ˈkɹɪt.ɪk/	A person who appraises the works of others.
accusation noun	/ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/	The act of accusing.
humility noun	/hjuːˈmɪlɪti/	The characteristic of being humble; humbleness in character and behavior.
abolition noun	/ˌæb.əˈlɪʃ.ən/	The act of abolishing; an annulling; abrogation.
establish verb	/ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/	To make stable or firm; to confirm.
sudden adjective	/ˈsʌd.ən/	Occurring quickly with little or no warning or expectation; instantly.
connect verb	/kəˈnɛkt/	To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
work together verb	To be coworkers with someone; to share a workspace with someone.
come up against verb	To face (someone, something) in a match, problem, competition or fight.
figure out verb	To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
get along verb	To interact or coexist well, without argument or trouble.
go around verb	To move or spread from person to person.
go away verb	To depart or leave a place.
lay down verb	To give up, surrender, or yield (e.g. a weapon), usually by placing it on the ground.
move forward verb	To cause to make progress.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if I do answer it, I'll say
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've made · we've seen · we've done
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	be talked · is made · be applied
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	anyone who does · people who say · people who want

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 113 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, they're, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: abortion /əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/, correction /kəˈɹɛkʃən/, reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, accusation /ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/, abolition /ˌæb.əˈlɪʃ.ən/
Long words — get the stress right: reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, accusation /ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/, humility /hjuːˈmɪlɪti/, abolition /ˌæb.əˈlɪʃ.ən/, inconsistent /ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənt/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like filter, abortion, unity.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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