Monthly Archives: July 2024

Bible Study: Proverbs

This entry begins with GCC's Thursday Bible study lead by Pastor Chris. I shall do some in-depth study. A proverb is called a parable in Greek and a simile in Latin (Bede) The fear of God can dissolve our human … Continue reading

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Free Generative AI for chat

First we have OpenAI's ChatGPT, now we have Google's Gemini, Microsoft's Copilot, Anthropic's Claude. They are as easy as typing a question in a box and let them work wonders. I've tested all of them and they do prove to … Continue reading

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The erroneous criticism of "Doesn't fit a mathematical equation"

Since I came to Grace Church (Bridgewater), there's these sayings going around: "Life is not science", "The math folks won't get this", "You can't explain this with mathematical equations", etc. I think these stupid phrases come not from this church … Continue reading

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ESOP

The Company that's owned by its employees. This concept is new to me. When SP started this, I just saw it as some sort of internal IPO stocks. From the point of stocks, that's great, from the point of employees … Continue reading

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Rationality must be Spiritualized; Spirituality must be Rationalized

賈玉銘 (据唐崇榮):理性要霛性化;靈性要理性化。 The American/Western fundamentalists do not get this. They are easily turned off by the Scientism folks and embraced a kind of spirituality that is devoid of rationality. They would try not to be anti-rational, if they could, but … Continue reading

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Journal of the Week

8/3/2024 So the bathtub overflow cap broke off upstairs when Nadia was doing some cleaning. Apparently there are various overflow pipe, found this diagram from Amazon, red check is the one we have upstairs, I guess it corresponds with BIG-3SHO, … Continue reading

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Paintings Collection for free online

https://artvee.com Impressive, I could even download Hagar in the Wilderness by Camille Corot. However, not all arts are available, for example: Briton Riviere's Daniel paintings. Nevertheless, it's a very good source for study of painters as it can list paintings … Continue reading

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Bible Study: Psalm 73

This study began with Rodolfo leading the Men's Fellowship at GCC. Especially after the pastor's post end prayer comment/blunt critique of Rodolfo's context (v.25-26), I felt imperative to look this up as this is not a chapter I was that … Continue reading

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Fujitsu Scanner: fi-6130 roller replacement

Ebay sells those rubber roller exit tires, less than $10 for 4 pieces. Search keyword: fi-6130 roller tires. Just bought these because mine are apparently melting due to heat or something and causing the papers to jam up in all … Continue reading

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Bible Sudy: Song of Songs (Solomon)

The GCC pastor did a Sunday School series/survey on this book a few months ago. It wasn't in depth enough.

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