It’s such a great comfort to me to know that there is (and apparently has been for ~2000 years) an entire school and way of living that addresses every thought and concern I’ve had my entire life. This school is free of monetary cost as well. I spent my entire life attempting to avoid Christianity without ever knowing what it is.
I'm really curious, can you share anything about what was shared that stuck out? Or, even better, what was an occult practice that you felt that troubled your soul?
This is the best comment on new age spirituality I've ever watched coming from a Christian - and I've watched and read a lot. Fr. Zechariah is a Priest.
That’s true!!! I was searching myself materials that could explain all those new age spiritual experiences, or any type of experiences outside the Orthodox Church because those experiences still seem miraculeuse to us and people hold really tight to them, so much that they are scared to change their beliefs, or church. And especially the « Born Again » experiences of people that encounter Christ outside Orthodoxy. They interpret everything as an act of the Holy Spirit, and this scares me a lot.
It’s so true that New-Agers are looking for something deeper. The intuition to search is evidence of it in itself. That’s something I’ve thought about for a while, as these more esoteric forms of belief come to popularity. The “spiritual but not religious” types. It’s just an amalgamation of individualism, paganism, and Christian heresies. If only they knew that what they’re really looking for is what they’re running from…Lord have mercy.
My aunt taught me how to read tarot cards and I was doing it for a while until I found Orthodoxy. She calls God my imaginary friend but still has her foot in the occult. 😢
I love how he described that love & trust relationship because it helped me understand when Jesus says he comes not to abolish the law, but to fulfill the law
I did Tarot readings for years. Then I had a revelation and threw them into garbage. I prayed holy prayers and one night demon left my body, all connected to reading Tarot..not kidding ! Scary experience..
Oh yeah. I’m still having issues from converting. A lot of mental warfare, a lot of wanting to go back, a lot of fighting against the conversion. Faith is key
I've always thought how amazing it is that people don't believe in God but at the same time believe in tarot and crystals and moonlight dancing and other nutty things.
They do believe in God, but they don't want the "mean" God of Christianity. Instead they want something that allows them to do whatever they want. This literally happened to some of my family.
As 'organized religion' is sadly retreating in the West, it is not atheism that will fill the void and take hold, but 'disorganized pseudo-religion.' Millennials replaced religion with astrology and crystals. Don’t believe in God but ascribe God-like powers to stones, crystals and stars. His creation. While seemingly a new concept, it really isn’t.
For me, my first contact with spirituality was astrology, I was atheist all the way but I gave it a try and after many months of research I concluded that there's too much truth in it, I would even read natal charts to people I see for the first time and they would be in disbelief how accurate it was, all of them. Then I did a few of guided kundalini energy and microcosmic orbit meditations which gave me absolute proof that Eastern religions have much greater understanding of mechanics of human body/soul. Then I got the glimpse of the Ultimate as Hindus say or uncreated light as orthodox say. Then my absolute disoriented spirituality took hold of me, in this phase I also contemplated crystals and home altars, I did everything under the sun that promises spiritual powers or elevated energy level. It worked but spiritual beings started visiting me, disturbing me and my life lacked any structure or direction, I was just chasing spiritual high. I got to experience many things people would call supernatural: astral projections, energy shifts in people, seeing beings without a physical body in fully awake state, seeing something happen in advance and many many more crazy things. But although I had all those highs and abilities I absolutely lacked peace or structure, I was honestly suffering from confusion despite all "progress" I was making. It all came to an end when demonic attacks got too strong and frequent, at first to my deranged self it was fun as anything that moved me out of ordinary and physical world was good and most of the fights with those beings I won or at least I thought so. How stupid I was. It came to a boiling point where there would almost be no night without spiritual attack, many false awakenings, sleep paralysis and even hallucinations after waking up. Maybe I would still be doing this kind of practices if I didn't literally see two horned giants, classic Christian depictions of devils. One was ram horned and was much scarier, aggressive and boastful than bull horned one who was a false teacher talking me into living materialistic life to the fullest, common thread to both of them was: "do as you wish" and "you are your own god". I literally had to see ancient deities in all their power and single-mindedness to be scared into grounding myself with Christianity. Since I threw all books and suspicious objects out of the house, stopped eastern practices and astrology proclaimed Jesus Christ as my lord and saviour and started praying regularly I had no serious attacks from these beings, only was tempted sexually by a few in 6 months time which is a far cry from the frequency and seriousness of these attacks I had before. I am a sinner still but what I guess attracted demons in my life was insatiable wish for spiritual powers and no wish for purity, recepy for disaster. Weirdly enough with purity of heart and actions and devotion to our Lord I got even more as I would call it in my spiritualist days "energy" and even some glimpses of extrasensory perceptions, not that I chase those things right now but even on christian path we can get "gifts".
@@0utc4st1985it's just crowleyianism. ("Do what thout wilt") But then again so is most modern protestantism. (Right of private conscience and all that).
Please keep making these videos. Such valuable lessons so easily available are probably one of the best things coming out from the invention of the internet.
I love listening to Fr. Zechariah, i'm so thankful I found this channel....amazing people believe evolutionists talking about 350 million years ago but have a hard time with Jesus and so much written information 2000 years ago!!!
Waw this interview was the best I could hear now!!! What a great explanation of created and uncreated energies. I was struggling the last months/ last year with those ideas, especially different people experiencing internal positive changes outside Christianity ( for example: someone encounters Islam and his life changes to a (morally) positive way, or someone becomes member of jehovas whiteness and gets healed from that passion that struggled for many years etc!) - or the power of prayer outside Christianity etc. I understand that the creation doesn’t operate only in physical laws but spiritual laws as well, however still couldn’t grasp the difference between those created énergies that are part of creation (but still feels miraculeuse to us) and the uncreated énergies of God that someone can experience only after true Union with God. 🙏🏻 Please please please keep up with your great work of creating those videos! God bleed you!☦️
One way that I thought about tarot card is the idea that almost similar to the venerating the Saints, and using saints intercede on your behalf. Now this might seem blasphemous or heresy, but just hear me out. God uses people to enact his will and spread his love and message and so on, which is why the Saints are venerated and worshiped, but used to intercede on your behalf with god. The Saints and the icon are not worshiped. They are abused as “tools” of worship. Now put a pin in that and think about this really quick, if God can also communicate through simple dreams and vision and such, and can communicate to humans using symbols, it’s not, to me, that far of a stretch to say one is not putting faith in the cards, but the holy spirit which enables the cards to be used as such and the symbols on them to communicate. now this being said this is obviously a very contentious topic but tarot cards are not that old, They only go back to 16 or 1700s these aren’t ancient pagan practices. that being said, plenty of people use them for selfish and bad reasons, but I could also argue that people pray for selfish and bad reasons as well.
I want to share something, i was stupid i know, i have been tricked into someone doing me tarot cards without me knowing, how can i ask forgivness for this? I'm a little worried, never liked this stuff, and more now that i am a christian
It’s hilarious that people don’t believe in Jesus, but they will use tarot cards, which were made by CATHOLICS with their beliefs involved in the making of tarot cards. (Not that tarot cards are legit, just think it’s ironic. )
I don’t believe in the tarot per se but I do believe they are an insightful tool for introspection through story telling… that being said a lot of the fathers here quote 12step a lot wich is a jungian concept I believe… based on surrendering to a higher source, Jung also studied the tarot and its relationship to archetypes and different personalities… nothing to actually do with magic or beliefs, just observations through time. I absolutely love this channel but I simply cant agree with the fathers commentary, it is a bit too surface level imo compared to my own research… im a huge fan of theology and occultism, history and psychology, no expert but I’ve read a few things.
With respect father, your assertion that Christianity is the only religion with a trinity is mistaken. Hinduism has the trinity of Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma, that predates Christianity by more time than Christianity has been in existence. This trinity represents different aspects of the One God.
The Holy Trinity is not aspects of God, there's an old "Christian" heresy by the name of Sabellianism that believes this. There are 3 Persons in Christian Theology, not aspects. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabellianism
Hinduism does not predate God, for one, for two, they do not have a 'trinity' like the Christian trinity per se. The three gods of the trimurti are three individual gods who are aspect of, what is considered a god by many but also just a concept by many others... it is not a trinity if three persons who are all God, but not gods themselves, but are all the singular God. There is no other where the three persons are not gods themselves, but are themselves all God
@@pmadams65 i never said you did, however; while Hinduism may predate the organized structure and word 'Christianity', it does not predate the trinity, in that the Word at creation, the Father, and the Spirit, all existed as three persons of the one Godhead.
Churches all over the world have done a lot of damage to people. Misuse and abuse of power. And people did not forget. The new age is another trap and even uglier. I have crystals, but I don't rely on them, I have tarot cards but my intuition has first place, I love the ideas of the orthodox church, but stay alert. So my question would be; would you love me, just like God and Jesus Christ, if you found out I have crystals and tarot cards and using them, if you find me a witch, the woman healer? I wonder...
Yes but we would hate the sin and delusion in such crystals and tarot lead to. Your truth claims are subjective to you, as your are the arbiter of truth in place of God. So the question becomes how you come to know truth at all? Which your worldview cannot justify.
How is the God who is ever present and fillest all things only manifested within the confines of Orthodox dogmas and doctrines? Is God a deceiver of genuine believers of other religions and or spiritual paths? To someone standing before an idol worshiping it are they actually worshipping a demon hiding behind that idol? According to Orthodox teaching, God shouldn’t work this way yet man, priests, and bishops took God and restricted him to the confines of working only in the Orthodox Church context. Orthodox beautifully forget or neglect to acknowledge what the the political implications were to have the Roman Empire consolidate into one unified “Church”. The world and what the church came to be are far more complex than we realize but we take everything at face value without any deeper thought.
How about trying to achieve more harmony in humanity without pretending to know what God is, or worse, what its “will” is? Also, just because a person is not Christian, doesn’t make the rest of humanity ignorant or out of touch with a creative force. Humanity has suffered unimaginable injustices, pain and persecution because most religions, in particularly the Abrahamic ones, pretend to know what God’s will is. To refer to God as a “he” shows that we have created the idea of an “entity” in our image, not the other way around. Why not live by example, and let others be. To be a good person it’s not that complicated.
"The heart of man is not content" is you projecting your stuff onto the world and calling it truth. Nothing more newage than a man crying on camera in self pity and calling it spirituality. If he understood the difference between belief and faith, then he wouldn't speak this way. He criticizes materialism, yet his "Pope" goes down to visit Antarctica with American politicians... And why that is an issue is way over your head only because you haven't read Genesis and understood it.
Justify morality, metaphysical truths, and how you come to know truth at all. Also, this priest is Orthodox, whom have no pope. Your ignorance is actually hilarious and sad at the same time.
@@xAzureXHazex I was a christian, and surprise, your god never is found to exist. Just like how other gods aren't found to exist and the claims of supernatural nonsense from crystals, tarot cards etc. I do love when christians accuse each other of "false teachings" since poor ol' Zech here can't do what jesus promises per his own bible. He's a fraud like all of the rest of the christians.
@@Eternal1811 Actually quite a few people care about what I say about christianity and so do you since you felt the need to make this comment. It's not a surprise that you can't show that I'm wrong.
It’s such a great comfort to me to know that there is (and apparently has been for ~2000 years) an entire school and way of living that addresses every thought and concern I’ve had my entire life. This school is free of monetary cost as well.
I spent my entire life attempting to avoid Christianity without ever knowing what it is.
Welcome home.
Yes, there is no rationale Father. You are entirely correct. It’s just easier. The gate is very very wide. ( being facetious).
same
I just attended my first service today, and while words can't quite encapsulate what I experienced, your comment rang true to me.
As a former occultist , this was a very insightful talk
I'm really curious, can you share anything about what was shared that stuck out? Or, even better, what was an occult practice that you felt that troubled your soul?
If you have faith why not have it in Christ other than Satan? Material things such as cards.
@@MattigityIsBombigityand you can open up doors you don’t want opened.
Be careful with your curiosity of the occult brother@@MattigityIsBombigity
Guys I'm not asking to replicate it. I'm genuinely asking. I've never been into things like that lol
There's hope for America with priests like this father.
Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future by Fr. Seraphim Rose goes into a lot of this as well. A great book.
This is the best comment on new age spirituality I've ever watched coming from a Christian - and I've watched and read a lot.
Fr. Zechariah is a Priest.
That’s true!!! I was searching myself materials that could explain all those new age spiritual experiences, or any type of experiences outside the Orthodox Church because those experiences still seem miraculeuse to us and people hold really tight to them, so much that they are scared to change their beliefs, or church. And especially the « Born Again » experiences of people that encounter Christ outside Orthodoxy. They interpret everything as an act of the Holy Spirit, and this scares me a lot.
It’s so true that New-Agers are looking for something deeper. The intuition to search is evidence of it in itself. That’s something I’ve thought about for a while, as these more esoteric forms of belief come to popularity. The “spiritual but not religious” types. It’s just an amalgamation of individualism, paganism, and Christian heresies. If only they knew that what they’re really looking for is what they’re running from…Lord have mercy.
My aunt taught me how to read tarot cards and I was doing it for a while until I found Orthodoxy. She calls God my imaginary friend but still has her foot in the occult. 😢
I love how he described that love & trust relationship because it helped me understand when Jesus says he comes not to abolish the law, but to fulfill the law
I did Tarot readings for years. Then I had a revelation and threw them into garbage. I prayed holy prayers and one night demon left my body, all connected to reading Tarot..not kidding ! Scary experience..
Oh yeah. I’m still having issues from converting. A lot of mental warfare, a lot of wanting to go back, a lot of fighting against the conversion. Faith is key
@@Gman12959 have you gotten baptized yet? going to confessions helps a lot!
Tell me more! I've been addicted to tarot for years. What was your revelation? What was scary about it leaving?
Спасибо батюшка очень важные лекции
Honest, plain speaking and inspiring.
I've always thought how amazing it is that people don't believe in God but at the same time believe in tarot and crystals and moonlight dancing and other nutty things.
They do believe in God, but they don't want the "mean" God of Christianity. Instead they want something that allows them to do whatever they want. This literally happened to some of my family.
As 'organized religion' is sadly retreating in the West, it is not atheism that will fill the void and take hold, but 'disorganized pseudo-religion.'
Millennials replaced religion with astrology and crystals.
Don’t believe in God but ascribe God-like powers to stones, crystals and stars. His creation. While seemingly a new concept, it really isn’t.
For me, my first contact with spirituality was astrology, I was atheist all the way but I gave it a try and after many months of research I concluded that there's too much truth in it, I would even read natal charts to people I see for the first time and they would be in disbelief how accurate it was, all of them.
Then I did a few of guided kundalini energy and microcosmic orbit meditations which gave me absolute proof that Eastern religions have much greater understanding of mechanics of human body/soul.
Then I got the glimpse of the Ultimate as Hindus say or uncreated light as orthodox say.
Then my absolute disoriented spirituality took hold of me, in this phase I also contemplated crystals and home altars, I did everything under the sun that promises spiritual powers or elevated energy level.
It worked but spiritual beings started visiting me, disturbing me and my life lacked any structure or direction, I was just chasing spiritual high.
I got to experience many things people would call supernatural: astral projections, energy shifts in people, seeing beings without a physical body in fully awake state, seeing something happen in advance and many many more crazy things.
But although I had all those highs and abilities I absolutely lacked peace or structure, I was honestly suffering from confusion despite all "progress" I was making.
It all came to an end when demonic attacks got too strong and frequent, at first to my deranged self it was fun as anything that moved me out of ordinary and physical world was good and most of the fights with those beings I won or at least I thought so.
How stupid I was.
It came to a boiling point where there would almost be no night without spiritual attack, many false awakenings, sleep paralysis and even hallucinations after waking up.
Maybe I would still be doing this kind of practices if I didn't literally see two horned giants, classic Christian depictions of devils.
One was ram horned and was much scarier, aggressive and boastful than bull horned one who was a false teacher talking me into living materialistic life to the fullest, common thread to both of them was: "do as you wish" and "you are your own god".
I literally had to see ancient deities in all their power and single-mindedness to be scared into grounding myself with Christianity.
Since I threw all books and suspicious objects out of the house, stopped eastern practices and astrology proclaimed Jesus Christ as my lord and saviour and started praying regularly I had no serious attacks from these beings, only was tempted sexually by a few in 6 months time which is a far cry from the frequency and seriousness of these attacks I had before.
I am a sinner still but what I guess attracted demons in my life was insatiable wish for spiritual powers and no wish for purity, recepy for disaster.
Weirdly enough with purity of heart and actions and devotion to our Lord I got even more as I would call it in my spiritualist days "energy" and even some glimpses of extrasensory perceptions, not that I chase those things right now but even on christian path we can get "gifts".
@@0utc4st1985it's just crowleyianism. ("Do what thout wilt") But then again so is most modern protestantism. (Right of private conscience and all that).
and politicians!
Glory to God
Glory to God thank you for the video
Really good on love for God. Avoiding sin only gets us so far. Cultivating love for God is the answer and naturally rids our lives of sin.
This is very helpful and so true. Thank you Father for your work through god bringing Christ to us all and making the internet a more holy place.
The marriage analogies were great in this talk.
Please keep making these videos. Such valuable lessons so easily available are probably one of the best things coming out from the invention of the internet.
One of the voices that speaks across and strikes the heart ❤
I love listening to Fr. Zechariah, i'm so thankful I found this channel....amazing people believe evolutionists talking about 350 million years ago but have a hard time with Jesus and so much written information 2000 years ago!!!
Thank you!
Tack!
Thank you! God bless 🙏☦️
I like this guy.
I like the if you love me than keep my commandments. I like to be motivated by love and appreciation rather than by fear.
Waw this interview was the best I could hear now!!! What a great explanation of created and uncreated energies. I was struggling the last months/ last year with those ideas, especially different people experiencing internal positive changes outside Christianity ( for example: someone encounters Islam and his life changes to a (morally) positive way, or someone becomes member of jehovas whiteness and gets healed from that passion that struggled for many years etc!) - or the power of prayer outside Christianity etc. I understand that the creation doesn’t operate only in physical laws but spiritual laws as well, however still couldn’t grasp the difference between those created énergies that are part of creation (but still feels miraculeuse to us) and the uncreated énergies of God that someone can experience only after true Union with God. 🙏🏻 Please please please keep up with your great work of creating those videos! God bleed you!☦️
Thank you
He speaks in such a beautiful manner. God bless his servant.
Danke!
Thank you! God bless
Jesus saved me from 30 years in the new age!! I was deep into it, believing I was serving God 😢
Some western council said the soul and spirit were the same thing. So sad
I love this video so much
This is flawless!!!!love it
It's a good lecture. I wish he'd finish all of his sentences. Sometimes he is saying something really interesting and trails off.
Спаси Христос, батюшка
It should be mentioned that tarot cards started out as literal playing cards for card games. The fortune telling divination stuff came latter.
When off topic of energy and Tarot
One way that I thought about tarot card is the idea that almost similar to the venerating the Saints, and using saints intercede on your behalf. Now this might seem blasphemous or heresy, but just hear me out. God uses people to enact his will and spread his love and message and so on, which is why the Saints are venerated and worshiped, but used to intercede on your behalf with god. The Saints and the icon are not worshiped. They are abused as “tools” of worship. Now put a pin in that and think about this really quick, if God can also communicate through simple dreams and vision and such, and can communicate to humans using symbols, it’s not, to me, that far of a stretch to say one is not putting faith in the cards, but the holy spirit which enables the cards to be used as such and the symbols on them to communicate. now this being said this is obviously a very contentious topic but tarot cards are not that old, They only go back to 16 or 1700s these aren’t ancient pagan practices. that being said, plenty of people use them for selfish and bad reasons, but I could also argue that people pray for selfish and bad reasons as well.
I want to share something, i was stupid i know, i have been tricked into someone doing me tarot cards without me knowing, how can i ask forgivness for this? I'm a little worried, never liked this stuff, and more now that i am a christian
It’s hilarious that people don’t believe in Jesus, but they will use tarot cards, which were made by CATHOLICS with their beliefs involved in the making of tarot cards. (Not that tarot cards are legit, just think it’s ironic. )
I don’t believe in the tarot per se but I do believe they are an insightful tool for introspection through story telling… that being said a lot of the fathers here quote 12step a lot wich is a jungian concept I believe… based on surrendering to a higher source, Jung also studied the tarot and its relationship to archetypes and different personalities… nothing to actually do with magic or beliefs, just observations through time. I absolutely love this channel but I simply cant agree with the fathers commentary, it is a bit too surface level imo compared to my own research… im a huge fan of theology and occultism, history and psychology, no expert but I’ve read a few things.
Jung and Hume are cringe and cannot even justify the problem of the one and the many.
With respect father, your assertion that Christianity is the only religion with a trinity is mistaken. Hinduism has the trinity of Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma, that predates Christianity by more time than Christianity has been in existence. This trinity represents different aspects of the One God.
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The Holy Trinity is not aspects of God, there's an old "Christian" heresy by the name of Sabellianism that believes this. There are 3 Persons in Christian Theology, not aspects.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabellianism
Hinduism does not predate God, for one, for two, they do not have a 'trinity' like the Christian trinity per se. The three gods of the trimurti are three individual gods who are aspect of, what is considered a god by many but also just a concept by many others... it is not a trinity if three persons who are all God, but not gods themselves, but are all the singular God. There is no other where the three persons are not gods themselves, but are themselves all God
@@dougmasters4561 I didn’t say anything about Hinduism predating God. Is that even possible? A religion predating its divinity?
@@pmadams65 i never said you did, however; while Hinduism may predate the organized structure and word 'Christianity', it does not predate the trinity, in that the Word at creation, the Father, and the Spirit, all existed as three persons of the one Godhead.
Roots of Orthodoxy is roman paganism
How so?
@@Sealwithwificonnection study roman paganism, it is obvious
@@Sealwithwificonnection study roman paganism, then compare
Churches all over the world have done a lot of damage to people. Misuse and abuse of power. And people did not forget.
The new age is another trap and even uglier.
I have crystals, but I don't rely on them, I have tarot cards but my intuition has first place, I love the ideas of the orthodox church, but stay alert. So my question would be; would you love me, just like God and Jesus Christ, if you found out I have crystals and tarot cards and using them, if you find me a witch, the woman healer? I wonder...
Yes but we would hate the sin and delusion in such crystals and tarot lead to. Your truth claims are subjective to you, as your are the arbiter of truth in place of God. So the question becomes how you come to know truth at all? Which your worldview cannot justify.
How is the God who is ever present and fillest all things only manifested within the confines of Orthodox dogmas and doctrines? Is God a deceiver of genuine believers of other religions and or spiritual paths? To someone standing before an idol worshiping it are they actually worshipping a demon hiding behind that idol? According to Orthodox teaching, God shouldn’t work this way yet man, priests, and bishops took God and restricted him to the confines of working only in the Orthodox Church context. Orthodox beautifully forget or neglect to acknowledge what the the political implications were to have the Roman Empire consolidate into one unified “Church”. The world and what the church came to be are far more complex than we realize but we take everything at face value without any deeper thought.
How about trying to achieve more harmony in humanity without pretending to know what God is, or worse, what its “will” is?
Also, just because a person is not Christian, doesn’t make the rest of humanity ignorant or out of touch with a creative force.
Humanity has suffered unimaginable injustices, pain and persecution because most religions, in particularly the Abrahamic ones, pretend to know what God’s will is.
To refer to God as a “he” shows that we have created the idea of an “entity” in our image, not the other way around.
Why not live by example, and let others be. To be a good person it’s not that complicated.
"The heart of man is not content" is you projecting your stuff onto the world and calling it truth. Nothing more newage than a man crying on camera in self pity and calling it spirituality. If he understood the difference between belief and faith, then he wouldn't speak this way. He criticizes materialism, yet his "Pope" goes down to visit Antarctica with American politicians... And why that is an issue is way over your head only because you haven't read Genesis and understood it.
Justify morality, metaphysical truths, and how you come to know truth at all. Also, this priest is Orthodox, whom have no pope. Your ignorance is actually hilarious and sad at the same time.
All just as silly as this cult.
How do you know that?
@@xAzureXHazex I was a christian, and surprise, your god never is found to exist. Just like how other gods aren't found to exist and the claims of supernatural nonsense from crystals, tarot cards etc.
I do love when christians accuse each other of "false teachings" since poor ol' Zech here can't do what jesus promises per his own bible. He's a fraud like all of the rest of the christians.
@@velkyn1nobody cares what you have to say about Christianity! We don’t care! :) 🙏🏻❤️😇✝️🥰
@@Eternal1811 Actually quite a few people care about what I say about christianity and so do you since you felt the need to make this comment. It's not a surprise that you can't show that I'm wrong.