Interesting journal forwarded by my dad.
Cheap train...rare, as trains are more costly than planes nowadays.
Interesting journal forwarded by my dad.
Cheap train...rare, as trains are more costly than planes nowadays.
Let me start with an illustration of these two verbs:
"I believe in the Gospel"
"I trust His promises"
After a simple Socratic Method I did on LigonierConnect, and reading Peter Enns' Why I Don’t Believe in God Anymore, I come to the conclusion that (yes semantics is important because we are human beings who communicate with words):
Believe: Relates to truth. Any representation of truth.
Trust: Relates to action.
Trusting a person means I am about to do something very specific according to that person.
Believing a person however, is more general if not specified. It can be an easy cop out. "Yes I believe you...good bye." Instead of "Yes, I trust you with my life, tell me what to do."
So, ironically, I have to agree with Enns:
I see the Bible focusing a lot more on something far more demanding: trust.
However, I do not agree with the way Enns discard the word "believe". Believe can be used as a foundation. Thus, "Believing in the Gospel" is necessary as a foundation. "Trusting the Gospel" sounds vague, but "Believe" here would cut it. Now, "Believe in His Promises" sounds too complicated, as if we are making room for many interpretations of these "Promises" of His. "Trust" is more simplistic and hands-on.
So each word has its own emphasis and use. To simply discard this as semantics is rather irresponsible, as the commenter (Terry) did at the Ligonier course I participated in. This is also something the charismatics often overlook. They conclude that they already have the right heart and any scholastic investigation that challenges their heart or their words is an affront to God. Hmmm...Come to think of it, that sounds like some extremists from certain other religion.
Nadia talked about visiting Philadelphia and the Amish Country (it's really the Indonesian food she wants), last Thursday. I did some late night research on Friday for the trip.
I realized that The Sight & Sound Theaters is located right in the middle of the Amish Country between Lancaster town and Intercourse. Then I looked up for a good church (Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, preached by Dr. Liam Goligher) and a good lodging (Comfort Suites Amish Country - $89 and 4.4 google review, not bad for a 2-star hotel), even though we've decided to not to do overnight stay this time. We were also too night for the Amish all you can eat restaurant buffet (for $10-$12 per adult) at Dienner's Country Restaurant. Of course, there could have been more places to visit: Downtown Lancaster, Tanger Outlet (Not sure if it's worth visiting), Philadelphia Premium Outlets (off the main course but could be push on the way), lots of other Amish farms and farm views.
For the right routes to take, I referred to PaulRabe's comment:
I'll give the same advice I've given to the people who come to Philly and want to see the Amish. Drive out US-30 west of Philly until you just enter Lancaster County. When you get to Gap at Hiway 41, go south, and then almost immediately head west on Hiway 741. After doing so, you'll see several Amish farms. Get off the main road and you'll see more. Stop at any one that's selling stuff (quilts, pies, farm products), and you'll get as close as any visitor will do so. Continue doing the above as you go west on 741, and as you go north on Hiway 896 at Strasburg. Go past US-30 till you get Hiway 340, then head east. When you get to Hiway 772 in Intercourse, head southeast until you return to US-30. You won't see a lot of scenery or nature (it's all farmland and shops) or viewpoints (it's pretty flat) or anything mysterious or original (people have been farming here for over 150 years). But the above route will allow you to see authentic Amish farms.
So, here's the actual plan for the three "stooges":
Left home around 9AM. Picked up Willy. Ate Peanut Butter Jelly sandwich A Les Willy. Drove to Costo Gasoline for gas. Ate Indonesian food at Sky Cafe (very good, very authentic and cheap for Indonesian restaurants here). We had Sate Kambing, Mie Bakso, Nasi Lemak Rendang. Went to Pendawa Indonesian Deli/Grocery.
Got to Route 30 West, turned South at Gap. Took Hiway 741, enjoyed Amish scenic farm views. Arrived at Old Windmill Farm. It's family run. Huge property. Had to drive inside the inconspicuous entrance to park by the farm. Sign board wasn't clear, so we went overboard - good thing we kept asking around or we would end up with the Children of the Corn. I could certainly sense that this family like all Amish, live and talk in in their traditional Dutch culture. The farm tour was $10 per person, for no more than 30 minutes. Our tour guide was a 10 year old boy (埃立加姆斯/杰米) and his occasionally following but necessary for cuteness younger sister (埃丽萨贝特) who probably just wanted to hang out with and help out her brother. Though it may not be as informative as the adult tour guide (their father perhaps?) We had a great time, despite one of us couldn't handle the farm smell at some point. I got to milk the cow, play with little chicks and get to be guided by two young Amish children around their family farm. Tour costs $10 per adult, we started from around 4:30PM to 5:15PM.
Then we went North on the scenic farm road again from Route 340 and through Intercourse and returned to Route 30, going back to Philadelphia's Pendawa to get more stuff and Sky Cafe for our dinner. This time I ate just the Sup Buntut - Oxtail Soup. All of Sky Cafe's meal that I had cost around $6-$8. We had dinner around 8:00PM-9:00PM
We filled the gas near the George Washington Bridge, Willy got home at around 11:20PM, We arrived home at around 11:45PM.
Driving routine was: Nadia drove us to Philadelphia. Willy drove until the last gas station, Nadia drove to Willy's, I navigated the whole time and drove both of us home.
We may do this again in two weeks with overnight stay and perhaps the Sight and Sound Show (on Jonah, this season).
I should just compile a list of what many who claim to be Christians today and perhaps in the past as well do not get in their own twisted logic:
After showing her video of the viral Time Square car crash, she had a bad dream at night, driving a car and crashing into some children. What's funny was then she dreamt that I took her back in time in a time machine I built to cause the car to break down the moment before the crash to avoid the accident.
This is for Inspiron Mini 10 (1010)Service Tag:1k5grm1
I got my hands on this device from Tante Lyna, to whom I'll be returning the device. With 1GB RAM, Windows XP, Win 7 both suck. This is a 32-bit/x84 machine. There was a suggestion to upgrade from 1GB to 2GB RAM in order to make it run better.
Note: Regarding WinXP, Installing a new version is not easy due to SATA support not available on XP CD. So, I should have left the original WinXP's recovery system intact. I tried Windows 98 SE, boot time error may be related to SATA support as well.
Online search lists these for me to test them. Example source: http://mashtips.com/lightweight-os/
Basic test area: Wifi, Browsers, Video, Audio, Office
OS Image file to USB loader: PenDriveLinux's Universal-USB-Installer or Win32 Disk Imager.
Video test: YouTube & Russia Today
I've tried Android 4.0 (Android 6 doesn't work), it seems to play well, but wifi and graphics appear to be poorly supported.
Xubuntu 16.04.2 has bad video support as well, though wifi works with third party free installation (bcm). Then it crashes a lot after a few more reboots.
ELIVE 2.0 of Debian appears to be the best (fast graphics), but no wifi and runs live on USB. If you want to install it on HDD, you need to pay, cheap shot developer.
LinuxMint 18.1 runs live on USB, then it gives you the option to install to HDD in the system. It seems better than Xubuntu. Video seems to work better but still breaks from time to time on YouTube.
*** Haitus: I'm working on upgrading the RAM to 2 GB or maybe even 4GB (according to ebay)?
*** Forget it...upgrading to RAM 2GB appears to be more troublesome than I thought: Instead of the memory chip, I had to upgrade the whole motherboard where the RAM is fused to the board.
Damn Small Linux 4.4.10: I couldn't load DSL-4.4.10-syslinux.iso to USB properly to install from USB. I didn't want the embedded DSL version on USB. I burned the iso to CD, booted fine but installation encountered error. I give up.
Lubuntu 17.04: Comparable to Xubuntu, not bad. Everything works. Just that YouTube videos are slow. Adobe Flash Player plays better.
Linux Lite 3.4-32 bit: ...
Puppy Linux
Debian + PIXEL
CrunchBang
Bhodi Linux
Peppermint Linux
Arch Linux
Slax
Solus OS 2017.04.18.0-MATE: Doesn't work, only supports 64 bit system.
Deepin
Q4OS
Cub Linux
LXDE
CentOS
AntiX
NimbleX
ZorinOS 12.1 Education-32: It comes with USB OS, but everything is very very slow. Installing Zorin 12 onto HDD experienced an internal error. So forget it, not worth the time. I read that someone did it but he still preferred LinuxMint.
GeeXboX
EasyPeasy
Remix OS (warning, this suggested RAM is 2GB)
Phoenix OS
CloudReady 56.3.80-32: Had to burn the bin image using Win32 Disk Imager instead of PenDriveLinux's Universal-USB-Installer. USB version: Wifi's fine. Video breaks on YouTube. Considered installing CloudReady onto HDD instead of USB, but Dual-boot option (I had Win7 on it) gives UEFI error. Some review commented: Dell Mini Inspiron 1010 (poor audio/video playback)
There is this cool website: https://kellertracker.herokuapp.com/
So in the attempt for career advancement, I shall setup my own portfolio here: http://nycphantom.com/projects
The Jakarta mayor election is over. Ahok has lost and now they want to put him in prison for touching the verse in 5:51.
What about those who manipulate Quranic verse for their own gain? Isn't that wicked? Isn't that blasphemy? Isn't that abhorred by Allah? So it is not when they are muslims themselves I supposed.
But the extend they would go to protect Quran and the name of Allah, as if Allah needs that sort of defense from mortals...makes me wonder and want to ask them:
The misleading idea today is that missionaries are those who work with a christian organization in a foreign country.
The error could be further from the truth. The idea of being a missionary, is to preach the Gospel to non-believers in the most active means not seen in other offices of ministries. It can be supported by a church, not supported by a church, if the primary goal of a missionary is not achieved, one either cannot be a missionary or that one is a failed missionary.
So when someone say to me they are missionaries or are missionary kids, unwittingly I would have to first wonder...because I might not have to take them as seriously as I take a true missionary. I would talk to them about: - So how's your "vacation" in foreign land like? What do you love to eat there most? Do you like the sunsets there? And they wouldn't be offended, I'm sure of it.