Windows can natively support rearrangement of taskbar active thumbnails of different groups, not individual windows of the same group. For that, You need this hack.
I need this because I usually have minimum of two chrome browser windows opened and I need them arranged according to my 3 monitors in the taskbars and sometimes, windows mysteriously (low memories?) rearranged them in the taskbar automatically.
水 Water, the entity which flows between blood vessel walls.
《黃帝内經》- 中醫的源頭:
地氣升為云 上焦如霧 中焦如漚 (水汽混雜的狀態) 下焦如凟
Besides water, now it is discovered in the West, something called interstitial fluid 組織間液, which also flows between blood vessel walls. 《黃帝内經》:
營氣走在血管内;衛氣走在血管外
as taught in《傷寒論》
So, our Qi/Chi/氣, rises from feet to head as it heats up and dropped back down as it cooled, such is the circulation of Qi. If this is halted/slowed down (i.e. Air Conditioning), then pain begins. So the whole process of recovery is a matter of changes in pressure 壓力 and temperature 溫度.
Tong: The tenth is God's. It is not offering. It is minimum. Christians should give, more willingly. Only the surplus after the tithe, is true offering. True love giving is not restricted by the text.
Learned of Holy Post's long time guest (French Friday series), David French (American political commentator and former attorney), being an ex-PCA member. He left PCA because he was attacked by PCA elders and members for adopting a black Ethiopian girl and his New York Times critique of Donald Trump's character. I don't know him well enough, but I think I'm beginning to like this guy, because from what I read, his PCA enemies sounded more like Christian Nationalists. Wish we could connect. I think I first encounter French in the Holy Post episode on the 2025 Superman movie.
12/03/2025 Wednesday
I don't know how I pulled off between SPG and NYGC, I attended The Morgan Library's Roundtable Talk on Impressionism at 6pm and AAA's lecture on extrasolar comet 3i/Atlas at 8pm. The Morgan Library is situated about 3 minute walk from SPG where I work. And they are exhibiting Renoir's works from Oct 17 to next year Feb 8. I learned from one of their exhibit that Pierre-Auguste Renoir was caught on film. The footage is part of a 22-minute silent documentary film by Sacha Guitry titled Ceux de Chez Nous (Those of Our Land), filmed in 1915, rediscovered in Harvard in 2001:
12/01/2025 Monday
Some Chinese guy saw IP addresses as scarce resource and took a whole chunk of it out of Africa to lease to non-African organizations. Obviously, this made him unpopular as well.
This raises my alarm: AI (Aristotle) proved a conjecture: Erdos Problem #124. It's concerning not that AI will become self-aware, but proving conjectures is normally in the realm of creativity, not brute force logic. If it is by brute force logic, then we are talking about solving proofs, not solving conjectures (recollecting this as something some Indian retards at Drexel/UPenn's graduate level program couldn't distinguish - "oh we solves conjectures all the time in high schools back in India".) If a conjecture remains unsolved, that means either no many know about it (thus brute force would be possible here), or it requires immense creativity (human ingenuity) which is unlikely in AI's domain. But sometimes, creativity is just a matter of applying various not previously relevant fields together, so in that case, AI creativity may be sufficient. AI creativity is good, in that it pushes us better than just being clever.
American: Showbiz, uncertainty of willingness, not understanding true forgiveness, by the textbook. Erika Kirk forgiving her husband's alleged murderer:
Christian: To the core of the heart, Gospel-centered. Nigerian widow forgiven her husband's murderers:
(Side note from the video above: Judd Saul, Executive Director and Founder of equippingthepersecuted.org, seems legit. It's the first non-profit organization I know who full staffs are all volunteers.)
On Persecution/bearing the cross:
Wayne Cordeiro sharing a testimony of his trip to China and his experience with underground Christian leaders there. He is the founding and former Senior Pastor of New Hope Christian Fellowship in Honolulu, Hawaii:
Seems to be a popular topic lately, thanks to the late Charlie Kirk. So after mentioning it a few times in my journal, I'll gather all continuation of it here.
I wouldn't equate Christian Nationalism with White/European Christian Nationalism. Besides, Christianity is of Eastern origin (which resulted in the word "middle-EAST"), not Western, if we're really playing that game.
But Christian Nationalism = requiring everyone to be Christian/abiding Biblical laws (as interpreted by certain group) as if they are all Christians. With the inevitable belief that their country is also #1 in the world.
It actually despises the Gospel by using the Bible. Thus, it's anti-intellectual, anti-gospel and anti-biblical. And lots of self-righteousness with a sprinkle of having a god-complex.
Christian patriotism/patriot is just a Christian who loves his country. Which is alright.
Take your time to do your study of it, but Christian Nationalism is anti-intellectual from a biblical sense, violating Gospel principle in Hebrews 11:6. Jesus never said to the gentiles "It is written...", J.G. Machen knew it well against public school Bible reading.
Therefore, those who like to begin politics in the public settings with "The Bible says so", they are not really saying "Thus saith the Lord", but rather, "You better listen to me, because you are wrong and I CAN NEVER be wrong, for I am a prophet of divine element" in disguise. In a way, they maybe blaspheming the Lord's name by secret implication of having god-complex toward any opponent, but hey, gotta be humble about it, so "Because the Bible says so" is more apt, right?
If you sense of community can only be spoken of through state/federal laws, then your community is on a self destructive path. The Pharisees did this, and Jesus called them out having no love for the poor, their neighbors, etc. Church fellowship is the true family and it should act like so. Not the reverse, not from a national level down to family unite.
Update 2/2/2026 Christian Nationalism definition by Allie Beth Stuckey:
Slightly different than Charlie Kirk's definition (America is the best country in the world) but ultimately not far in principal meaning, Stuckey: Christians who put the priorities of their nation first. I'll respect that she is finally willing to define it. And the definition is fair enough. Which does allow me to debunk the entire term Christian Nationalism as unbiblical, as the Bible only teaches putting the priorities of God's kingdom, which is obviously not limited to nor has to be my own country, first. It's also good that Allie clarifies that Christian Nationalism doesn't mean America as the chosen nation/new Israel of God. What she was wrong, was to assert that MOST Christians who are called Christian Nationalists derisively don't believe those things i.e. USA = new Israel, hence her double standards here. Again, she does not seem to know how to distinguish Nationalism and Patriotism, so while trying to justify herself, she could not call out the selfishness of Nationalism:
This was my comment on her Video:
Good that Allie finally defines her version of Christian Nationalism (which is slightly different and perhaps better than Charlie Kirk's USA #1 definition), so I can respect that. Nonetheless, You couldn't distinguish Patriotism & Nationalism, hence the problem where you fail from a Christian perspective. A Patriot loves his country and does things sacrificially for his own country; A Nationalist prioritizes his own country over other countries, which is not much different than a mother who puts her children first above other children who are not her own (i.e. A mother who support all acts of her own children over other kids unjustly, etc.), which is actually unbiblical as a generalizing principle.
We have responsibility to our children, our family, to prioritize raising them well, but not at the expense of absolute. As Jesus referred His brothers and mother to be not of blood in Matthew 12:46-50. God's family come first before our immediate family. Something most American Christians don't usually get in the Bible. Sorry to say that.
A Christian prioritizes not his own country, but God's kingdom first, which may call attention to other countries first sometimes (i.e. give credit to where credit is due). At least you have admitted that America is not the new chosen Israel, which is generally what Christian Nationalists basically want to be true. The "majority" of what Allie's referred to as those being called "Nationalists" derisively that aren't really Nationalists do not exist. At best, I can distinguish some Christians as patriots, which is a good thing, Christian Patriots, not nationalists.
My advice, maybe go visit Christians in other countries, especially ones who won't flatter you as an American. Have fellowship with them. You should have enough money and time to do this by now.
Update 03/14/2026: My comment for Jim Cassidy's critique on Christian Nationalism on Facebook:
Not sure whose Report this is. But it's still in the passive, reliance on historical statistics.
I suggest whoever interested in this topic to start with J. Machen's "The Necessity of the Christian School": Basically, a Christian State is unbiblical because it's an attack on the Gospel treatment by enforcing a lazy, perverse form of evangelism, which is the only kind of evangelism you will get from this setup.
There's also a clear need to distinguish Christian Patriotism (good: I love my country) from Christian Nationalism (bad: God loves ONLY my country because..., typical American sports cheerleading culture. Not talking about professional cheerleaders.)
Calvin's Genevan Statehood would also be a bad defender for Christian Nationalism because all Genevan citizens came from the same idolatrous church (Rome) under reformation (i.e. Prince-Bishopric -> consistory -> public servanthood, Rome's ecclesiastical wealth -> civil magistrates -> Christian charity, etc.), so it was inevitable. Calvin's phase one experiment was never meant to be permanent and we are now far from that level now.
questions for conversations:
Must we vote/buy only Christians?
This is more serious than just denominational differences.
Update 4/11/2026: Presbycast talks about Christian Nationalism in a better light because of D. G. Hart's new book: Protestants and Patriots: Presbyterians in the age of Revolution. Here are some of my take with Gemini's help:
1788/89 American revision of the WCF [01:01:44] - While the original 1646 version gave the civil magistrate power to call synods and preserve church unity (Ch. 23), the American revision strictly limited the magistrate's role to protecting the church without interfering in its internal affairs. Basically removing the state-church concept by giving civil magistrate less power.
King George III famously referred to the American Revolution as a "Presbyterian Rebellion" [01:37:31]
I would question if Hart's comment was a joke, that the Christian Nationalists should go all the way for traditional Reformed Christian values:
Whole day (Morning & Evening services)
Singing the Psalter
No praise bands or sway babes (derogatory/slang term used in some conservative Reformed circles to describe the singers in contemporary worship bands (often young women) who sway back and forth to the music)
Unless Hart is that kind of fundamentalist, I would think this is just a joke, to turn these 3 relativistic practices into real policies as if they are objective requirements of an obedient believer. But Hart could be that kind of fundamentalist. No big deal, it's still a good point he raised against the hypocrisy of Christian Nationalists.
Finally, the host's comment is worth taking note, a new phrase I learn is Right Wing Social Gospel: You gotta (1:35:16) have twelve kids. You gotta do head covering...
Sky's categorization of Christian Activism from Christian Nationalism is an interesting take:
C. Activism - Promoting Christian values. C. Nationalism - The country should exist for and be dominated by Christians. So it's not about ideas or values, but shared birth and background.
I don't vote simply if someone claims (or some famous preacher's son's testimony of others) to be a Christian, because it's likely I don't know the person well enough to call him or her a Christian, and we live in a time and place where just saying it means jack especially in politics. As far as character goes, it matters chiefly only if that person is trust worthy of where we align, and where we align is for the good of the nation.
From an evangelist's standpoint, one needs to be able to call out against Right or Left and fear only God, not men, in public, in such a way that when the crowd hears it, it is as if God is speaking, rather than just some rant. The same goes with giving blessings for the leaders as well.
As for God's favoring of America, I do believe that is so for now, but not because of the rise of Trump. But because there are still many who are zealous for God in evangelism. Nevertheless, this is not a Christian nation, America has never been. By definition a Christian nation is either a State religion or majority Christian. It's obvious that America is not a State religion (enforced or otherwise), and since the nation's founding, America has been full of Christian heterodoxies and heresies (i.e. moralism, deism, etc. A Christian Heretic Nation). At best we can say is that American is a Christian INFLUENCED nation. The only way forward for Christians in USA is Evangelism. Study the Bible, study apologetics, spread the Good News. We can still do this and still be for the country.
Update 4/14/2026: I commented on one of Alex Tseng's Facebook post commenting on the Trump healing America image, and his mother (Iris Lin) liked it LOL: When cultural Christianity becomes Christian Nationalism. Image shown below:
Update 5/26/2026: Some would ask, if America is a Christian Nation. This is the question that was also asked by Crossroads Church's Men's Flag and Nation event on Saturday 4/25/2026, which was an interesting debate and I will expand here when I have time. But this is ESAU MCCAULLEY's take on it (basically, depend on the time in American History and what Christians do now in the present in this country):
As for Crossroads Community Church's little event on this, which was a group breakup "debate" with 1 minute on anyone in the group after a question was posted for each to vote AGREE or DISAGREE, the overall outcome was well praised in its methodology, "civil" as some called it. I certainly give high marks for any desire of a fellowship to engage in deeper relational discussions or debates. But for now, long story short: I listened to myself talking later, and man, I really need to learn to talk because half of the time I don't even know what I was trying to say. Be straight to the point, be clear! As for the others, it's not easy to get everyone's points when they have some diverge levels. But in my group, I think James was the smartest (and youngest too). The one who's not so bright was probably the older with the white hair who went from confusing Christian Nation with Christian influenced, to confusion of him asking why government cannot be in charge with spreading the Gospel because if not the government that someone else (i.e. Christians) has got to. The elder's reaction is the result of a serious lacking in evangelical ministry. I can say more, but that will be all for now. Recording's there, AI summary's saved, Pastor Dan's PPT was graciously provided.
Update 6/9/2026: Saying more, this is my summary, hopefully a final one: How we use words in any language matters. Though some words can be allowed to be subjectively nuanced, we must still to our best intention use terms most apt for the context of our communication.
Christian Nation defined: A nation/country that officially declared Christianity as her official religion; Or, A nation/country with a majority population of Christians.
Therefore, I cannot call America (USA) a Christian Nation because she has not declared official religion federally; Nor can she be considered a majority Christian country if you included Roman Catholics and Protestants together, not to mention Mormons and other Christian cults. So America is a Christian Cult/Heretic Nation at best. Not a Christian Nation.
Although the term Christian Nation is often misunderstood to be more practical than it is, it is actually more innocent than the term Christian Nationalism. So it's important to distinguish the two as two very different topics with separate discussions between them.
Christian Nationalism defined: Self-proclaimed superiority over other nations using legalistic biases from Christian-like justification.
Christian Patriotism defined: The desire and actions of a Christian to extend of self-sacrifice for the betterment of all his/her neighbors in the context of the nation.
Therefore, Christian nationalism is ironically anti-gospel. What Scripture supports in current time, is a Christian influenced nation, not a Christian nation, which is God's heavenly kingdom, the one and only kind to be fulfilled by God alone in the future in the form of new heaven and new earth, not now and certainly not OUT of the form of America. The differential crux of these two kinds of nations is the Gospel, it is evangelism. A Christian nationalist uplifts extreme and heretical religious legalism over the Gospel; A Christian who influences his/her nation grounds everything in the Gospel. Christian patriots, not Christian nationalists, are among such Christians. Christians are to shine the light on the nations, not shine a nation to other nations.
Unfortunately, many devout and pious Christians have either confused or imprudently mixed these terminologies interchangeably. So I would caution that however we use these terminologies, we must leave ourselves the intellectual candor to call out and isolate bad actors wearing Christian title.
Update 7/1/2026, I like this quote from the Holy Post Media by Skye: Christian Nationalists claim to be returning to the founder's vision when in fact they try to reverse it. They want the old European model that the founders rejected. In America, it's trying to make America European again, not great again. They want to replace the founders' pluralism with religious tribalism. They don't want WE THE PEOPLE, but ONLY MY KIND OF PEOPLE.
Some Christians think they are using America's 250 anniversary to "rededicate America to God", But are they though? or asking Jesus to endorse our preferred vision of America? Real repentance vs. using God's name to seize power. ~ Holy Post Media. Also, their discussion on posting the 10 commandments in classrooms was a good take: Christian Marking territories vs. more charitable take on their motivation. I think Kaitlyn's charitable take is rather astute - that these Christian moms don't know anything better in the face of immorality.
Jim Cassidy's take on the Book of Job is so bad. Basically he's saying that Job blamed God for his suffering. I don't know how these people read Job, because Job (and his friends) clearly was aware of the blameless God, and God-fearingly avoiding that narrative and motive. So Job's sin is not how he view God but how he view man or God's created man and the lack of I-Thou relationship with God which David championed:
So I made this rhetorical comment on his Facebook when he said that Job thought God was not infinitely wise than he was.
11/26/2025 Wednesday
Kaitlyn Schiess a Calvinist. Though she's also supposedly an elder in a PCUSA church. So I'm not sure where she really leans, but so far, seems closer to conservative. She's smarter than Allie Beth Stuckey nonetheless:
11/24/2025 Monday
Of Allie Beth Stuckey's podcast:
Stephanie Gray Connors recommended by Trent Horn to be the best Pro-life debater. Not really in my interest but good to keep in mind of who this is.
On Death Penalty: Trent Horn, as a Catholic, obviously do not support capital punishment, now, because there's this thing called prison. "People are not hanged for stealing horses, they are hanged so horses won't be stolen." John MacArthur answered this using what Jesus said "those who live by the sword will die by the sword." She said Genesis 9:6, which would be similar beforehand. Perhaps Allie chickened out on this (not the same treatment she would others such as Tim Keller) here and let Horn teach her that you must have purpose to have capital punishment rather than just principle. Or it could also be that Trent did not see Allie's point from the Bible, as they probably are both very bad at general revelation. Not able to weigh in what the other is saying against his/her own view, but just full of themselves. One says God's command needs to be explained; the other says God's command needs to be obeyed, so they are talking across each other, so to speak.
The prison argument fails if you find imperfection in the prison system, which is plentiful (i.e. risks of another crime, prison cost, etc.) and biblical death penalty is never about future prevention, but testifying the gravity of the crime against the sanctity of human life.
Using ultrasound to induce smell. Using sound to mimic smell? What's next, taste?
11/23/2025 Sunday
This day marks our official departure from Grace Community Church, due to the sermons. Nadia felt that she wasn't being fed by Pastor Chris, and in order to have her not getting frustrated and looking down on the preacher, we decided to attend Crossroads Community Church which is about 10 mins away from GCC. I myself don't mind Pastor Chris' preaching (I'm used to it and know how to deal with it - it actually helps me learn how to deal with bad preaching, finding ways to attack bad messages, examining where there are biblical fails, etc.) though I could agree with most of Nadia's criticism of the sermons. They were typical of many OPC, PCA, reformed preachers of America, very boring, using sophisticated and many words for shallow context, and as some have already said though in well meaning but I'll treat this as a negative remark: preaching like a lecturer/professor, no life in their sermons and take on Scripture. When I told pastor Chris about our departure the day before, I commended him on his leading of the adult Sunday School, which was rare as he opens the floor not just for questions but criticisms as well, at least as far as I know. Not that he's well equipped for all challenges, but it was good enough to seemingly open for it. It's their loss if they do not challenge him because other pastors either lead a Bible discussion because of their job or have no interest in facing challenges. But it is no good for Nadia, so we must leave.