2/6/2025 How to make $1 in 5 years of web making. Funny but interesting. I haven't read it, just put it here for fun.
Came across this Christian (Red Pen Logic) response to The West Wing clip where Martin Sheen's character, the U.S. president giving Bible (or rather anti-Bible) lecturing an allegedly Christian woman for being to conservative on OT topics like selling one's daughter, working on sabbath, touching the unclean, planting different crops together, going linsey-woolsey. And I commented:
This 5 min video was painfully boring to listen to. Let me try, don't even need to be a Christian to solve these, like it's hard.
"I don't say homosexual is an abomination...the Bible does."
Me: Stop blaming the Bible.
"...what would a good price for her be?"
Me: Is this country really that poor?
"...obligated to put him to death for working on sabbath?"
Me: Who's sabbath?
"...can wearing gloves play footballs made of unclean dead pig skin?"
Me: Who's doing the laundry?
"...stone my brother for planting different crops side by side?"
Me: Maybe teach him about crops instead of stoning?
"..burn grandma for wearing two different threads garment"
Me: Maybe show her some compassion for poor fashion?
And about standing, there're tons of viral videos about asking a handicap to spare seat for pregnant ladies, you'll figure that one out, I'm sure you're clever enough.
2/5/2025 Into Ruby? Be a fan of someone like Victor Shepelev could be a good direction. 25 years as a developer had 20 years experience in Ruby. He also shares his experience in a video:
Beej's Guide to Git. I had another link to GIT/GitHub tutorial on my 4/4/2024 Journal entry, so this is a plus.
2/4/2025 Apparently I downloaded this from youtube two years ago (5/23/2023), watched it briefly, intended to re-watch it comprehensively, but didn't until now: Heated Debate on Pornography w/ Dennis Prager @PragerU, by Matt Fradd:
And here's my summary of it:
This is a critique on Dennis Prager on Jordan Peterson's Exodus series, when Prager disagreed with Jesus' statement: if one looks at a woman with lust he's already committed adultery in the heart. That is, Prager doesn't think adultery is a matter of the heart but of an actual organ that has nothing to do with the heart @3:00. [Here lies the Jewish problem, that they believe, like all other religion, that deed is greater than intention. This lack of distinguishing unwilling deed from true deed by accusing lack of deed from true intention is their downfall. True intention will always create true deed, it should be a given, otherwise the intention is problematic, not the deed. Christianity is the only one that speaks of the theology of motives, and not running away from motives with excuses.]
@5:30 Fradd tried to respond to that with Aristotle's 4 level of virtuous to vicious man in Nicomachean Ethics. Summarized from Google AI below:
- Virtuous: The highest level, representing someone who consistently acts with moral virtue and finds doing good to be natural.
- Continent: Someone who knows the right thing to do but must struggle against their desires to do it.
- Incontinent: Someone who knows the right thing to do but gives in to their desires and acts immorally.
- Vicious: The lowest level, representing someone who has developed bad habits and finds it easy to act immorally.
@7:00 the distinguishing of lust and sexual desire is mentioned. I think it's semantics here, ἐπιθυμέω epithumeō can be good desire and also bad coveting. For Fradd, lust = porn, desiring the perversion, not just desire. Not what Jesus meant anyway. I think Prager gets points here for not playing that kind of word game between desire and lust. I believe Jesus was referring to sexual desire with ἐπιθυμέω or lust. Only the Lordship focus can cure this. The Catholics find the cure in will power instead.
@19:00 The real elephant in the room that they seemed to miss was is how is the aesthetic of human body porn or not porn. Fradd doesn't seem to understand aesthetic of God, he needs a causality to explain everything. A Catholic thinking.
@25:50 They both erroneously labeled Protestantism as no understanding of gradation of sin. Of course, there are some faction of Christians who fail on this, but this is not Protestantism.
@31:17 Prager's definition of objectification is simply grammatic, while Fradd's is inferiorization. Hence, their confusion with each other.
@32:30 This is interesting when Prager brought up the Jewish philosophy of "It is more virtuous for a person to be tempted and not sin, than a person to not be tempted and thus not sin". This shows the Jewish mind on behavior is better than motive. Christianity turns this around. Thus a mere contract is not enough, because the heart behind the contract matters. If it's just by smart contracts without motives, then no wonder why the Jews are such a popularity in law firms. Fradd definitely touched on motives, as a Christian that he is, unlike Prager the Jew, in calling out a thought as evil or not: @34:00 "You didn't do evil if you thought evil...I won't call a fantasy evil". However, I think Fradd, as a Catholic, would struggle with a form of legalism in judging what is indicated as sinful motives, i.e. a person reading Playboy for lust or for aesthetic, not that I'm saying Playboy is good, just that when it comes to motive of someone dabbling in the nudes, it is complicated from Michelangelo to Hugh Hefner.
In this debate, I think it's a win for Prager, though I disagree with him. The winner I judged here upon the level of understanding and IQ in the matter. Fradd couldn't respond to Prager's challenges on multiple occasions and had to somehow switch topics to get away from the defeat (i.e. @36:00 when challenged with Prager's case of a man masturbating (a no no for Catholics apparently) because of his handicapped wife, Fradd would switch topic to women being sexually abused in the world - probably intending to show that had the industry of porn be abolished, that man wouldn't need to masturbate - if that is what Fradd was doing, then it's a very bad logical train of thought. Another example @39:18 Is a lingerie model losing her dignity? Fradd obvious just answered yes but instead of debating why yes and Prager obviously would object, Fradd quickly side tracked again to let's talk about gradations of sin, which again Prager had to play along and say he had no issues on those off topic subjects Fradd kept wasting time on).
@37:30 I think Fradd also confuses evil with curse. i.e. "A man born blind is natural evil", I would call it curse. Evil is something actively against God's glory. Curse is the condition of the victim from the sovereignty of the agent.
Fradd cut the last part to get viewer subscription when he asked "Why isn't the Rabbi who said a husband and wife can do absolutely anything sexually in a bedroom, oppose to pornography?" I think I could answer for Prager easily: Because porn is not made/done in a marriage much less in a marriage bed. This shows that Fradd couldn't really follow the genius of Prager well enough, so he kept diverging. While Prager was able to pin things down with Fradd better. In the end, it's a win for Prager in the debate, but I obviously lean closer to Fradd's camp rather than Prager's, because everyone would essentially agree that motive matters, but Prager just doesn't want to really care about it.
2/3/2025 A good way to look into how GPS location is collected from apps.
2/1/2025 Flat tire again. This time right after I picked up Nadia from work at 12:26AM. I believe the metal shrapnel (rather huge) was located at the traffic light junction of Bordentown Ave. & S. Pine Ave. as that's when I started hearing rocking sound from the tire. It's the back tire behind the driver (Rear Left tire). I'll have to either do a spare tire replacement tomorrow morning or perhaps I could even attempt replacing it with used tire on the rim. I think we have at least one used tire stored in the shed. I'll find out in the morning.
I noticed that pastor Chris has a remarkable resemblance to American actor Charlie Day.