I guess I'll pay some attention to them since this video shows how into teaching English they are and that since I run an ESL school:
Always (well most of the time) enjoy watching DeerMeatForDinner's videos. Makes me wish to own a boat in Florida/tropics and go fishing with my dad (and my brother if he's into that sort) on it.
Funny they get to just eat half a Tuna thanks to the shark!
Interesting feed. That Pelicans need to roost on a tree and spread their wings to dry up.
How to handle a Pelican.
After Thought:
While reading Psalm 13, I thought to myself...could the reference to God in pronouns "Thou" and "He" in the same passage be hinting to the Holy Trinity? (Thou = 2nd person; He = 1st person).
Because "my heart shall rejoice in THY salvation" v. 5. "rejoice in THY salvation" 9:14.
Of course, the rule of this is not consistent throughout the Psalms. That "you" does not always refer to Christ while/if "he" refers to the first person.
Update 3/11/2023:
Recalling Paul Murphy's take on this during Thursday Bible Study long time ago, of MERF in Time Square New York. He called this one of the most depressing Psalm, as if the psalmist has lost hope. His point, perhaps, was to describe the depth of a Christian's suffering. But Murphy never gave a clear ending, as if this is just how it is. I've always wondered why he purposely missed the last two verses: Psalms 13:5,6. Because that's the key to the whole psalm and completely opposite of what Murphy was leading. Murphy was not the only one, Michael Keller also alluded to similar faulty exegesis. So I don't know from which America genius theologians (if any) they got this from.
So what is this about? It certainly rebut the other extremes: That those who never experience pain and suffering yet thinking themselves in piety would assume that there's no pain in this world could cause them to mourn to God. As some fundamentalists kind I've seen in even my current church. These would never go to New York City, they would stay out of it. They would think that no one is ever called for complications in life, and they believe those who do are foolish.
This passage rhymes with Tong's take on James 5:13. Pray in secret when afflicted; Rejoice in public when merry. Contrary to the world's announce in public when afflicted; Seek after self fulfilment. Such is also the lesson from Romans 5:3-5. Overall, we do rejoice in our sufferings. There is good reason for such joy, as David did: "I shall rejoice in thy salvation".
This is not just about trusting God or the fact that God wins. This is about one's relationship with God. How one should want to see clearly and truly rejoice in spite of opposite circumstances one MUST face. Emphasis on MUST. And because of this "MUST", being confronted rightly, would only cause the saints to mourn. The same way Christ exclaimed in Matthew 23:37:
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
Therefore, if one just simply says: Trust God, God wins, there should be no pain felt, no meaning in suffering, one cannot truly fathom what Christ meant without going off-rail in hermeneutics. On the other hand, in the same way, should this be treated a depressing thing, one accuses God of being so just that He is unjust.
This even the secular understood: An Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living. Suffering is not welcomed but it is a must, for learning, for spiritual growth, for sanctification, for battling the wicked. One extreme considers suffering not welcomed nor a Must; the other extreme considers suffering welcomed (irrelevant for God wins) but not a must (run away from it by calling it foolish). Of course, the flagellants in their ascetic practices view suffering welcoming and a must, but this error is of old, not worth mentioning here. This is the context to understand "Rejoicing in our suffering".
v.5-6: This psalm is a reminiscence of Job. A better response for Job is given in verses 5-6. Especially in verse 6, indication the chief end of man, which Job did not in his agony relate.
The wicked (ungodly) רָשָׁע (rasha) generally refers to those who knows God to some extend but then denies God. They are proud, they are rebellious against God. They are more willing to challenge and test God than the mere fools. Psalm 10:11, 13.
The fools נָבָל (nabal) depicts those who are ignorant, who do not connect themselves to wisdom or things in life that matter. Those who do not seeking after important things. The useless. In their ignorance, they would regard God does not exist. Psalm 14:1.
The Heathen גֹּי (goy) are the foreign nations, the gentiles, who knows not nor seek after the true God.
Sinners חטּא (chatta) refers to those who breaks the law (missing the mark).
Scorners (mockers) ִלוּצ (lus) those who conduct verbal assault and judge unwisely.
This will be a botany entry. Time to learn about the botany around my house.
There's this purple flower plants growing around my Pineapple Pear tree when Spring comes. They also grow near my front lawn's Japanese Maple (Red Dragon - Acer palmatum) and Weeping White Cherry Blossom tree. These short purple flower plants are pretty, but unfortunately, they are considered weed. They are called, Purple Deadnettle.
Apparently this weed has medicinal use:
It has multiple medicinal purposes, and is considered a diuretic, diaphoretic, astringent, purgative, and styptic. The fresh leaves are helpful for external wounds or cuts.
Edible leaves:
Only the leaves are edible. In the spring, the young leaf shoots are harvestable and can commonly used within salads. Some people also use it within smoothies. The leaves are also useful as a good tea, which helps treat chills and promote kidney discharge and perspiration.
I thought it was Henbit at first, but it's not. Because the leaves are different. Henbit's leaves look like fingers and rounder.
So I'm forced to learn and install Windows Server 2012 R2, quickly. Thanks to some hacker's ransomware for my school. It happened once before, but files were encrypted through a regular user's account. The server's system weren't affected. But this time, they are.
This happened right after I restricted inbound RDP to certain IPs in the firewall. So the hack must have gotten in from one of the networked machines, which I did not block. With Win Server 2018, it seems that there was no way to monitor this type of attack.
Hopefully, Windows Server 2012 R2 can do a better job. Had to put this on a 64-bit machine. A few changes for the users: be serious about hard to guess passwords.
Something that always bugs me is this CAL licensing. I think now I understood a bit: A CAL (license) is what allows ONE user to logon to the server (locally). Remotely, you need an RDS CAL (on top of the one CAL), because RDS CAL is only for the user's remote session while the CAL is what allows the server to allow the user to logon on it. Of course, RDS CAL is also differentiated between RDS user CAL and RDS device CAL. What was described above is for RDS user CAL. For the Device CAL, it just means instead of the user being licensed, it's the user's device that's been licensed (so I guess it doesn't matter who logs in as long as it's the licensed device).
Somehow it took me a while to find out information about purchasing such licenses. I think Windows Server has its own license (around $100 for now). But for a Windows Server 2012 R2 10 User CAL, it's around $130 now, while 10 RDS User CAL costs about $370. They are apparently valid for a lifetime.
That means, from square one, a Windows Server 2012 R2 with 10 RDS user licenses costs about: $100 + $130 + $370 = $600. 10 is enough for my school for now, but 20 would be preferred, which would cost $1,100 total.
Nevertheless, there are some sites that claim that we can reset the grace period of 120 days of Unlimited RDS CAL. One is to delete a value in the registry:
Delete the REG_BINARY (i.e. L$RTMTIMEBOM****) in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\RCM\GracePeriod
To delete the key you must take ownership and give admin users full control.
After a restart of the server RDS will reset the grace period to 120 days. This has worked for me.
slmgr /rearm
in powershell as administrator. In case the previous method fails.
To find out how many grace period is left, run powershell as administrator and use this command:
(Invoke-WmiMethod -PATH (gwmi -namespace root\cimv2\terminalservices -class win32_terminalservicesetting).__PATH -name GetGracePeriodDays).daysleft
As for Windows Server 2012 R2 itself, there's also a way to keep reactivating it:
I tried the KMS product key (D2N9P-3P6X9-2R39C-7RTCD-MDVJX) for my 2012 R2 Standard edition and it seems to work (for now).
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Lawson has a good point on rebuking preachers who are:
- Lecturers - We love lecturers in the classroom, we hate them in the pulpit! Instruction of the minds.
- Devotional/motivational speaker - heart reaching heart.
- Legalistic - Will reaching will.
Versus: Word of God addressing the mind, heart and will.
