It's so bad. It's so shallow. No, I'm not talking about the 2025 anime movie by SONY that plays on Netflix: KPop Demon Hunters. I'm talking about some Christian takes on it. I'll just use one example for my critics of other Christians' view on this, Allie Beth Stuckey's, as I think at least she's the thoughtful type on issues from a fundamentalist's perspective, I'll draw my criticism of the popular Christian take on this largely from Allie's take:
The other Christians have a mixed love-hate opinions on it which I wouldn't go over too much. Basically they love the fight of good vs. evil, the sacrificial salvation ideology, etc.
But first, my own take on the movie. Two things that strike me as old but not recognized by the majority are 1. worship music, 2. the true value of sacrifice.
On worship music: This is where many Christians today fail. One side looks for what's popular, pop music, while the other side looks for what's considered obedient, obedient music. They both gone to some sort of extremism, because the true value is in the quality and they do not seek it. In fact, they pursue that which is quantitative, despite their opposition against each other: More hip, more $, more publicity vs. more scriptural verses, more restrictions, more obedience. This aligns very well with the theme and attraction of KPop Demon Hunters. It's boyband vs. girlband, it's makeups, it's who's cooler, it's who has the more fans, it's who hides their flaws better, it's who's less wicked, it's who has more love, etc. Christian music is simply one: It's why we create. It's why beauty matters. And I don't mean just music about Christianity, I mean music in general viewed by the right standard.
On sacrifice: "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13. This is a common concept that Jesus affirms. It's common because it's a concept given to Adam and he failed it when he showed his lack of love for Eve. When he did not lay down his life for Eve for her sin. Jesus affirmed it by accomplishing it. Now, Hollywood and Disney used this concept to seduce their fans, because it's the ultimate story, to sacrifice oneself for others. And many Christians have failed to see the point of these stories, because all they care about is being saved by Jesus' cross, not to carry His cross. They told Jesus "it's not my burden, but thank you for your burden."
Rumi, basically the half-demon half human messiah figure. Now fundamentalists would cringe at the coinage of "demon" and "messiah". I don't relate this to the sinless Messiah. Just some main hero. Her demon side can be seen just as human sinfulness, there's no need to analogize this into supernatural involvement. The same goes to Jinu.
Now the idea that bad humans turn into demons (or ghosts/evil spirits) is not a new thing. Nor necessarily a Buddhist/Oriental thing (The Grudge movie, Japanese folklores, etc.), but of Gnostic traditions and Eastern Orthodoxy (viewing sin as a disease).
If 58 is the continuation of 57, then here we see David stepping out of the refuge of his cave hiding and challenge the corruption of his attackers (i.e. Saul's army) head on.
Many label this Psalm as one of those imprecatory Psalm. Verses 6-9 show David's fierce visceral judgment against the wicked.
I like this 成語。Reminds me of the times I had to deal with fundamentalist folks like Keith Graham, the latest being on the concept of "Universe" and "Cosmos", which Keith using conditional anachronistic terminology (cosmos being the modern universe rather than the solar system) to accuse Galileo of being wrong about his heliocentric system.
On this date (June 22) A.D. 1633, the papacy forced Galileo to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the universe.
If the universe is infinite, both Galileo and his opponents are wrong because the idea of centrality is meaningless for an infinite universe!
But though our puny science cannot find its limits, the universe is not infinite. It is a finite creation of the eternal, omnipotent Creator God Whose only "limit" is the perfection of His divine nature in all its unified attributes.
And God took humanity to Himself in a special way. That would be the incarnation of the Second Person of the Trinity, God the Son. After Jesus had made purification for the sins of His people and risen from the dead (never successfully refuted; no remains ever found), He was seen ascending upward from the Earth and out of sight of those who saw that.
Wherever Jesus Christ is now is the spiritual center of the all things, whether or not there is some point among the galaxies that might be determined to be physically central to the cosmos.
Me:
The 1633 affair was concerning the solar system, not the universe in the 20th century sense.
To call Galileo wrong by changing the vocabulary of his time using modern terminologies is like saying the whole planet, even the Chinese, Americans and Mexicans were taxed in Jesus' time because the Bible says Caesar Augustus decreed that ALL THE WORLD should be taxed - and oh by the way, only Jesus is King and the greatest one.
Or basically like saying: Ancient navigators often lost at seas because they didn't have portable batteries to charge their GPS, so the idea of GPS is meaningless if you don't even have the batteries to charge it - Only God is the true source of power!
Keith:
Timothy Law you are right as far as the scheme for which Galileo argued. By the use of the term "solar system" you are essentially identifying that scheme.
However, scripture "centralized" Earth in the sense that the sun, the moon, and the stars (including the wandering ones we call planets, and we can reasonably include comets et. al. in the star category) all had an Earthward purpose.
We can use a simple hand held compass to create a circle with a central point. Imagine the circle spinning and you've got a sphere with a central point. But do we know the central point of the entire cosmos?
If not, how can one claim that the Earth, the sun, or some point within the so-called Milky Way galaxy is "central" in any meaningful way, even if we can discover how bodies within the cosmos move in relation to one another?
To keep us in the godly mindset to which the 131st Psalm exhorts us, let's consider a couple of the inspired, infallible, inerrant Bible's accounts of miraculous events:
1. Joshua 10:12-14. The sun "stands still...and doesn't go down for about a whole day."
2. 2 Kings 20:8-11. The shadow on a SUNdial goes BACK ten degrees.
Whether conceived in the 17th or any other century, any astrophysical model which ispo facto must deny or scoff at these historical wonders is in error.
Me:
Keith Graham So nobody's is claiming the kind of geometric center you are talking about. To insist on that is bordering slander, unless you bring in some wacko nobody recognizes to stand trial.
For any man of letters, we know that theological/literary centrality does not equate geometric/physical centrality. Just because God created the universe with an "Earthward" purpose, does not mean Earth is the physical pivot point of the cosmos. Spiritual importance does not equal geometric centrality. To not see this is to punish the blessing (i.e. creativity) God breathed in man and even to limit God's sovereignty. Implying that God is bound by human definitions of geography and geometry to show favor.
Miracles don't break honest understanding of God's general revelation. Acknowledging that the Earth moves around the Sun does not mean God couldn't miraculously pause that movement in the days of Joshua. In fact, God demanded this kind of discernment from Job until he repented, Jesus mocked the slacking away from natural application due to this false dichotomy in Matthew 16:2. We can say God is sovereign over His laws and creation, but it is wrong to imply God a liar.
I never denied that Earth orbits the sun by asserting the Earthward purpose of the heavenly bodies. Do you agree that a geometric/physical "center" of the entire cosmos cannot be determined?
Me:
Keith Graham I believe you called Galileo's heliocentric system wrong by twisting his definition of terms. Hence the argument. You want to both accept and deny something at the same time. Classic Ken Ham move. It's like saying 2+2 = 4, but by God, 2+2 can also not equal 4 but 5, therefore both Tim and that kid who answered 5 are wrong, if the equal sign can have infinite meaning, viz. "both Galileo and his opponents are wrong".
Which essentially means you're the only (and only those who agree with you) right one no matter what because only your version of sola scriptura is correct. This was actually how the Roman Church erred...in their denial of the noetic effect of sin.
As for a geometric center of the cosmos as we define it today, nobody (not even Galileo) is claiming that basing on the current model of the universe, it is as uneducated as asking a child to determine the center of a balloon on its surface, or asking to determine the four corners of a ball. So there really is no need to go down that road, because it's an embarrassment. Just because we can utter words doesn't mean we must validate any series of words to be meaningful, as someone wise once said "The ability to speak does not make you intelligent", cool quote, you like? I can play it for you here.
Keith:
No, I'm asserting that anybody is wrong if they assert that any point in the cosmos is central. And "the current model of the universe" is just that...a conjecture about its structure (and one that usually includes a cosmogony contradicts Scripture's Earthward focus and time of origin.)
(And see above, I did note that Galileo's scheme related to what is called the "solar system," not the entire cosmos.)
Me:
Keith Graham As I've mentioned before, it is embarrassing to make that kind of assertion.
It's like saying "IF THE UNIVERSE is infinite, then both Keith and Joe are wrong about a wheel having a center - oh...what I meant was if the wheel is the universe...and now that I'm being caught, I shall note that I recognize Keith's scheme relates to what is called a steering wheel, not the entire cosmos...". It's really bad English to be honest on top of a very irresponsible communication motive.
As for your flaw in Scripture's Earthward focus, I've already given my rebuttal above regarding the confusion of literary/spiritual vs. geometric/physical.
As for your remarks on conjectures, I've already commented before regarding noetic effect of sin, so if you don't get that, I think I need not pursue this one further, lest you think anyone smarter than YOU is proving themselves smarter than GOD.
Just to add, the Chinese has an idiom(s) for just what you were attempting: 偷梁换柱 (顧左右而言他). Feel free to look them up.
Today, I received my headphone replacement for swimming. This one is ZOVIMAX X7 Max, $36.59, having 5.0 rating on Amazon and 60 reviews. Most bone conduction headphones have poor reviews. The last one I had was Fanisic 2026 $42.64, Amazon rating 3.8, 16 reviews, bought in February 2026 and broken (wouldn't turn on anymore) last week. I kept the charger as they look the same, so now I have 2 charging cables. I found and download a Youtube video acting as the manual for this new one (Zovimax) so I can discard the packaging and its paper manual. Digitizing everything to save physical space. The new headphone also comes with an adjustment strap, which I needed AI's help to figure out what to do with it. I didn't get the chance to use it today when I head to swim around 7pm because I needed to charge it full first.
Coming home from LA Fitness swimming around 8pm, there's a short thunder storm. I saw two trees downed: One on Rt.35 just before the Marina bridge, another around the corner to my left by the entrance into Highland Street. I felt only a little of the storm, a little wet, but it seemed that Nadia and Willy felt it bad at home. I saw the cloudy sky looked like scorched Earth as the Sun sets, thought it was beautiful so I took a shot:
7/2/2026 Thursday
In the morning, Nadia woke me up about the water leaking at the bottom of the fridge. We then found that the leak came from the rubber waterline in the back of the fridge. I felt the light spray when I went into the back of the fridge after we pulled it out of the wall. Took me about a minute to figure out it wasn't the fridge but the tiny cut in the rubber tubing (ice maker supply line). Nadia had this idea that I just cut the leaking part (of the rubber line along with the brass nut) out because it's very close to the end.
I didn't want to buy the entire supply line replacement which Home Depot seems to carry because it's integrated with the connector nuts. Thanks most part to AI and Youtube:
After unscrewing the tubing end from the pipe on the fridge's side, I was able to remove the brass ferrule first to then easily remove the rubber tube from the brass compression nut. I could then place this nut on the remaining tube coming out from the floor (the hole through the floor is only sized for the tube, not the entire nut, which was my reason not to buy the replacement from HomeDepot), by tapping the brass ferrule sleeve into the tube first, which secure the new end of the tube from leaking at the nut. So far so good. I believe I've notice similar leak for many weeks if not a couple of months and was troubled by the mystery for a few minutes and gave up on it until today.
Heat wave begins for these 3 days (Thurs to Sat) supposedly followed by thunderstorm for about a week. The heat goes as high as 109F. Living room's AC's not going to make it, so we just use upstair's AC and spend our time mostly there or outside where they have good cooling. Willy came this evening while I was on Zoom Bible study (Psalm 58 by Dan Ragusa).
At night, we went to the waterfront to watch fireworks (15 min late for the drone show and fireworks by Perth Amboy) then it's followed by another from Staten Island. The South Amboy emails I received the same day did not specify the day, but merely said that there will be fireworks at 9:15pm, so I had to assume today. We arrived at 9:30pm when Nadia insisted we go driving and parking at the park to watch it. She seemed to enjoy it as that is one of her favorite events.
7/1/2026 Wednesday
Longest chat I ever had with anyone on the phone: With Tante Lyna (from 8pm to 4am - that's 8 hours!) Mostly listening to her talk. I do enjoyed it because when else could we do this? the pouring out of what's been bottled up, and for me, without an eloquent, precise and simple way to express myself until now. Unfortunately, I could only make out 60% of what she said because her voice sounded muffled the rest of the time as if she was lying on the pillow not talking directly or speaking too close to the mic. I tried to tell her that but she didn't seem to get it. But it was alright as I could pretty much guessed the general topics she was conveying. Sounds like blaming us for leaving despite their (her) kindness. I only spoke more intently in the last 5 minutes or so, I could also finally get what I needed to say out to her: That's CCCNY (herself included) do not preach the Gospel. When she claimed that she and I preach the Gospel differently, I corrected her that I wasn't talking about methods, but the nature of preaching the Gospel, which is an ACTIVE nature, not a PASSIVE one (waiting for people to come and only after that telling them about Jesus) which is basically teaching a class, not preaching the Gospel. I added the fact that no one from CCCNY ever asked us about why we left the church until now (14 years) as evidence of my point. After the talk, I reflected. I concluded that it is true, that they do not preach the Gospel, but what she's been talking about for 8 hours (and from what I've been hearing from the past), only shows that she was preaching 人情, not 福音。I'm not discriminating 人情, but we should prioritize the Gospel over 人情, not the other way around, which is a kind of idolization. Then the Buddhists or other non-Christians have been doing a better job (i.e. Ai Ai's Catholic priest - whom she was loyal to in her faith because she was helped greatly by them). I told her that the church is getting senile, and after her and Rev. Lin, the church's days are numbered unless they wake up and train the youth to preach the Gospel, or mutate into Charismatic church, liberal or something, or shut down.
6/28/2026 Sunday
Someone brought up the Jesus Myth on Facebook and this time I just had to respond:
Why does Christianity's gospel account story resemble the stories told in several Egyptian myths? Does this mean that it's a made-up story?
C.S. Lewis, a scholar of myth at Oxtord, once stated that Christianity has a mythical radiance, but he never directly commented on Horus and Isis in a major, standalone essay.
However, he frequently discussed them as prime examples of "dying-and-rising" pagan gods. Lewis grouped them alongside similar figures like Adonis, Osiris, and Balder, whom he termed "corn kings".Lewis believed that God used these pagan stories as "shadows" or "hints" to prepare the human imagination for the coming of Christ. While his early skeptic friends viewed these similarities as proof that Jesus was merely a copied myth, Lewis (guided by J.R.R. Tolkien) eventually concluded that these pagan myths were "real, though dappled, shafts of the divine light". He famously reconciled these "parallels" with the resurrection by asserting that Jesus is the "True Myth"—the single point where myth and historical fact became one.In addition to this broad view of dying gods,
Lewis specifically evaluated ancient Egyptian religion in his book Reflections on the Psalms. Interestingly, he focused his commentary not on Isis, Horus, or standard Egyptian polytheism, but on the Pharaoh Akhenaten, who instituted a brief period of monotheism by worshiping the sun disk, Aten. Lewis admired Akhenaten's Hymn to the Sun, comparing its deep appreciation of nature and creation to some of the Jewish Psalms in the Bible.
My response:
If by Horus you referred to his virgin birth, born Dec 25, resurrection, etc. All made up in the last century, but circulated as Jesus Myth virally online. Never originally told that way. I don't know why folks don't go to "libraries" anymore.
As for dying-and-living, analogy of perpetual season cycles, longing for eternity, that would be what John Calvin called "Sensus divinitatis" and general revelation, perceived by sinners.
However, the only truth of resurrection is only found in Christianity, and eternal life in Jesus' own resurrection, which was original in history. All pagan mythologies only show the longing of life but never got it right, so technically their resurrections were not really resurrections by definition - More like reanimation, transitioning or ascension of life which is basically transitioning, etc. They never grasp the concept of becoming THE SAME living person anew, again.
I admire Lewis' pursuit of "true myth" or even William Lane Craig's "Mytho-History", but we really don't need these parallelomanias as if the Bible needs saving from secular critics. And don't get me wrong, definitely appreciate the creativity of men in Narnia and LOTR, though LOTR a bit too Roman for me (elves = Sainthood, etc.) but still...
One exercise for us is to truthfully, with hard work (now you even have the advantage of AI) and study, judge these parallelomania, i.e. True myth & Mytho-history methodology, Epic of Gilgamesh, from the Bible as historical fact, not any form of myth, breathed out by a Sovereign God. And you'll see wonders, as I've shown with just the word "resurrection" in all pagan worlds.
Perhaps now you can try this "virgin birth" idea in pagan mythologies (i.e. How Iris actually conceived Horus by turning the dead Osiris into Frankenstein for her to copulate with). Try how Buddha was conceived. Compare them all with the very concept and definition of the "VIRGIN" birth the Bible offers. You'll see which ones are childish imitations, which one is the boss, regardless of chronological order, just by definition alone.
And now you can chuckle at the term: Comparative Religion, which some hold their PhD in it with great pride. God didn't create us to do comparative religion, He wants us to judge the world! (1Co 6:2). And there is a way to do this humbly, as Moses recalled of his own humility (Num12:3). Certainly wasn't easy (you may be tempted, or you maybe misunderstood), but also not without great joy in the Lord.
I just played with Google AI, after comparing my electric bills between 2019 and 2026 (doubling, and a complete flip of tier plan by the electric company - from rewarding more usage of power to penalizing it), I am very curious now with the power of AI, to learn about all creative ways to go around this electricity problem, particularly via solar energy. This entry will track all pertaining projects.
From a Christian perspective, the Bahnsen group offers this series (of 30 videos) upon sign up for free. A foundational principle on trading. This course is done in a way that it's not an optional elective subject. If you're a Christian, you must learn this. I am basically summarizing the entire course series using Granola and thus some of my summary is AI assisted. I skipped watching these videos myself because they work too slow for me. Saving it in a folder for my library drive.
I'll mention here some key take away:
Lecture 03: The goal is Human flourishing
Lecture 06: Foundation in Creation
God's created world prevents economic worldview of the false dichotomy of mere “wealth creators” vs mere “wealth consumers”.
Human purpose in economic life is a required mandate, even pre-fall.
Division of labor rooted in Garden of Eden - "fill the earth", diversity is creational, not accidental. Results in Adam Smith's "division of labor".
Macro systems working against creational truths must be resisted. - This is probably why the Bahnsen group's business approach is conservative. I think though the principle is sound, but applying those principles to policy is not straightforward. The principles may be fixed, but the policy conclusions often are not. Different societies can agree that dignity matters and still disagree on:
child labor
wage regulation
welfare systems
unions
environmental rules
trade policy
So the real dispute is often not over the value itself, but over which institutions best uphold it. Cultural differences matter. Creational truths may be stable; policy translation is contested.
Lecture 07: Anthropology
Asking why rather than just observe and discern patterns. This leads to incentives.
Viewing mankind as collective (not individual) or individual (not collective) in a mutually exclusive manner, is an error. The right economic system is one that aligns with all five anthropological realities (creative, rational, individual, social, sinful) simultaneously.
Lecture 08: Work is not a curse
The curse of work is only toil and anxiety, not work itself - parallels pain in childbirth, not bearing children. No work means idleness, purposelessness, and valuelessness. Ecc 5:18.
Work uniquely marries passion to skill:
Passion without skill, or skill without passion, yields little satisfaction
Their intersection is the “secret sauce” of happiness
Dignity argument: the strongest case against policies that make people nonproductive or noncontributory - I would say it depends on how you define dignity. Americans have fallen into a "don't judge" fallacy to really define dignity properly. Cross cultural evaluation of dignity is warranted, I believe.
The exponential happiness gain lies in unlocking creation’s potential, not in accumulating things. I can use this lesson, especially when you tend to become a hoarder.
Bahnsen's claim: Redistribution-focused systems are the truly materialistic ones. I think both capitalism (free enterprise) and communism fall prey to materialism. Communism is just conveniently worse.
Why many Christians don't learn from this? Laziness in discernment. They just want the list: Show me who are on the naughty list and good list (their version of unsaved vs. saved).
So I am about ready to install the long coaxial cable from attic to outside panel, now that the cables have arrived. I just need to visit Home Depot for a few items after checking with Google AI below:
What should I watch out for if I want to drill a hole from inside the attic through the wall to the outside aluminum siding, so that I can put a coaxial cable through?
When drilling from your attic through aluminum siding for a coaxial cable, the most critical risk is accidentally drilling into hidden electrical wiring or puncturing a water line inside the wall cavity.
Take these crucial safety and structural steps to ensure a clean, damage-free installation.
1. Identify Hidden Hazards First
Trace Utilities: Look closely at the attic floor and interior wall plates near your target zone. Ensure no electrical cables, HVAC ducts, or plumbing vent stacks run down into that specific wall cavity. [1, 2, 3]
Inspect the Exterior: Look outside to ensure you are not drilling directly into or right next to an outdoor light fixture, security camera, or utility meter box.
2. Avoid Binding and Tearing the Metal
Do Not Use Spade Bits: Wood-boring spade bits or wood-only drill bits will catch on the aluminum siding. This can violently twist your drill, warp the metal panel, or tear a jagged, dangerous hole.
Use a Standard Twist Bit: A high-speed steel (HSS) or cobalt twist bit safely slices through wood, insulation, and aluminum.
Drill from Inside to Outside: Use a long installer bit (bellhanger bit) to drill your pilot hole from the attic out. Once the tip of the bit pierces the aluminum outside, stop. Go outside and finish widening the hole from the exterior to prevent the metal from tearing outward. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
3. Protect and Protect the Coaxial Cable
Sharp Metal Edges: Aluminum siding creates razor-sharp edges when drilled. If you pull a bare coaxial cable directly through it, the metal edge will eventually slice through the cable jacket and short out your signal.
Install a Cable Feed-Through Bushing: Always insert a plastic coaxial feed-through bushing into the aluminum hole. This acts as a shield, protecting the cable from the sharp metal edge. [1]
Create a Drip Loop: Before feeding the cable into the house, leave a small, loose loop of cable hanging downward right below the hole. Rainwater will run down the wire and drop off the bottom of the loop rather than tracking straight into your wall. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
4. Seal Out Moisture and Pests
Water Intrusion: A hole in aluminum siding is a direct path for wood rot.
Apply Outdoor Silicone: Once the cable and bushing are in place, generously apply a premium exterior-grade 100% silicone sealant around the cable, the bushing, and the siding seam to make it completely watertight and insect-proof.
To make sure you have the right setup, let me know:
What tools do you currently have on hand (drill type, bit length)?
How thick do you estimate the wall is from the attic space to the outside siding?
I can give you the exact bit size and steps for your specific equipment.
6/24/2026 Wednesday
About SBC's Al Mohler's view on Female Pastors - when he declared that the function of a pastor is prohibited for women as well, not just the office of a pastor, he's using a very narrow definition: @41:00 "...function specifically preaching to the gathered assembly..." Though some might find skeptical, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he never meant to refer to the works women like Allie Beth Stuckey do on their podcasts. However, These female podcasters are "preaching to the gathered assembly" online. Hence Al Mohler could only take a very narrow minded, a very American view of a Christian Pastor, that is, his only job is just to stand in the pulpit and preach to a physical crowd who are to shut up and listen and not allowed to critique the preacher. I am sure, Mohler would deny this, but it is the only way you can define the kind of pastoral function he's defining. Since he would deny this, I'm sure, his only alternative to save face would be to live the contradiction he created for himself, namely, avoid dealing with the real pastoral function Allie's doing on her podcasts: i.e. giving advices, preaching (prophesying as used in scripture), etc. and still condemn it by painting a church pulpit and congregants around what Allie's doing. "Allie, if you're not doing your podcast from a pulpit, I'm fine with it". This is an IDOLATRY OF THE PULPIT or church building: common among Baptists, "reformed"-anything.
Mohler's inductive argument for allowing female pastors leads to allowing LGBTQ one generation later @52:47, is clearly unreformed. Paul grounds the prohibition of women in certain office both pre-fall in creation and AFTER THE FALL! ("it was Eve who was deceived...") They only focus on the former, because these fundamentalists do not know the depth of general revelation. To absolute Paul's principle sole on the pre-fall condition is to fail in the relativistic intend of the order of creation. Sure, churches that have female pastors tend to lead to LGBTQ doctrine but to generalize this inductive observation is simply bad logic (fallacy of the converse) Since P -> Q, then Q -> P. A common fail of the low IQs. That said, I also won't support electing women over men as pastors, but I would recommend listening to Allie's podcast over Al Mohler's podcast, pulpit sermon, or anything.
War on Dads The Demonic Reason Behind the Media’s Attack on Father’s Day Ep 1364 Did Al Mohler Really Condemn Female Podcasters? The Truth About His Argument | Ep 1364
Videos from my mother's sharing, worth some note:
The above video is an interview with Jensen Huang. Summarizing the AI industry into the five-layer cake: 1. Energy (i.e. nuclear power) 2. Hardware/Silicon (i.e. chips) 3. Infrastructure (i.e. real estate, data center land) 4. The Model layer (i.e. LLMs, OpenAI) 5. The Application Layer (i.e. AI tools startups)`
"You won't lose your job to AI; you will lose your job to someone who uses AI." ~Jensen Huang. He believes the Terminator sci-fi film conception is nonsense.
Of course, Jensen Huang only prefers to see the optimistic side of technology.
Second video is from the YouTube channel "澳洲Henry" (Henry in Australia) covers the shifting dynamics of the global AI race between the US and China:
Hardware Constraints Breeding Algorithmic Ingenuity: Because US sanctions block China from buying cutting-edge NVIDIA chips, Chinese engineers were forced to innovate on architecture. Companies like DeepSeek popularized Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) frameworks (splitting models into distinct "expert units" like math or coding, and only activating a few at a time), which radically lowered compute costs and energy usage.
Knowledge Distillation - vocabulary for training a smaller/cheaper model on the outputs of a larger model (data scraping), which is a widely known industry practice, though Western tech firms strictly forbid it in their Terms of Service.
These Chinese AI talks are really pragmatists vs. Christianity. Not that everything practical is wrong, but pragmatism is inherently anti-Christ. Even Google Gemini noted their similarity to the Babel-like Ambition (in building architectural and technological monuments to encourage reliance away from God for the sake of money making rather than gratitude for God). So we are seeing this as a battle of U.S.A. vs. China, rather than cultural mandate.
3rd video is a talk show Yuan Zhuo Pai (Roundtable Parlor, Season 6) features host Wang Wentao alongside guest speaker Prof. Cao Zexian, a theoretical physicist and researcher from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), discussing making higher science (quantum mechanics) accessible for the general public:
Vocabulary - Esoteric subjects: Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest.
Professor Cao mapped the Industrial Revolutions from thermodynamics (the steam engine) to electromagnetism (electricity) to quantum mechanics (semiconductor chips) to geopolitical/industrial competition.
Mathematical beauty in nature is recognized here. Thus, an opening for Christians to dialogue on God's aesthetics. The creation is an ordered one. What the professor is proposing, entering into the hard sciences, mastering quantum mechanics, is actually an act of obedience to God (Book of Job is full of this at the end), rather than some, I think, fundamentalists, view of treating these as secular distraction.
6/23/2026 Tuesday
Stephen Tong teaching kids how to draw:
Learning to Draw - Rev. Dr. (H.C.) Stephen Tong BCN 2026
Some view it as choosing heaven and hell. I would interpret the verses as choosing life or death. As for this painting, I suppose the skeleton figure on the roof is closer to biblical teaching.
6/22/2026 Monday
I asked my mother about my dad's back, it's still the same. She's feeding him in the master bedroom bed which is more comfortable. It is a bit of a relief that my brother was there close by and well ready to help.
6/21/2026 Sunday
News of my dad's back problem since yesterday concerns me. Only learned of it this morning before church from my mother. Old injury.
Sunday Sermon by Pastor Dan on Numbers 13. I read to Nadia earlier in the morning with dramatic narration. Pastor Dan came to us after the service so I was able to ask him about his father's "swim" - I was just joking that I thought it was a Pacific swim, I think he may have taken it seriously. Troy wanted to eat together the next week, possibly at Spice24. As for the sermon, theme was "Big God vs. Big Problems" but as he preached, I was raising other questions and getting fascinating with them using AI. I'll add this to the Numbers 13 Bible Study entry. But I did get a chance to challenge Pastor Dan a couple of them: If the land was promised, why even bother to send spies?If they would only occupy Canaan if there were no giants or weaker, wouldn't that seem to be a bully mentality? He seemed to just want to focus on his topic. Fine by me. His sermon was fun too, I don't usually stay awake so fully but not this time.
The music chosen for worship: Hillsong's Man of Sorrow was actually quite catchy. So I Sunonized it (wouldn't work with lyrics sung so I had to hum it):
I don't think I used my time wisely, as usual, in the night time when Nadia asked to watch a movie. She doesn't really watch movies in general. I should have done something else, but with her by the side, rather than REwatching Spiderman - No Way Home, mostly myself while she scrolled through Instagram or something. Tagging this as my fault.
We lunched at Asian Food Market first time in North Plainfield. No public seating, but the staff was nice enough to welcome us to their staffs' lounge to eat. Ate there because Nadia had something to return to Sierra which was near the area.
I measured and purchased two coaxial cables, to be setup for the attic antenna I bought last week. So far, everything seems to work well. Baby Room's TV may not be hooked to this system as I really don't want to drill too many holes in the wall/ceiling, and that TV can work with the portable antenna that came with the portable TV (for testing) I bought recently. Perhaps I would rescan the channels for this TV with the attic antenna just to store max channels before swapping back to the smaller portable antenna. I plan to drill a hole in the attic by the front window and pull the 20+ft coaxial cable from antenna down to the Verizon panel on the side of the house outside. There's a splitter for already setup cable to the master bedroom and the office. I should expect 71 channels at least, or I would need to get a signal booster.
I looked at my first successful potato plant (paperbag method) from regular potato that was growing "eyes" that Nadia gave me about a week or two ago. So 8 weeks to harvest would mean mid-August. Sign of harvest time is when foliage turns yellow, wilts, and completely dies back.
What does Alex Tseng, Stephen Chan and Samuel Ling have in common? I think Tseng has beef with Ling, I cannot say if it's rightly justified, because I really don't know Ling that much. Chan posted a video lecture by Ling, Alex considered Ling not critiquing others in good faith. All from the Facebook post link I highlighted above.
Men's Breakfast at GCC. R led the group on Contentment. I have Granola Meeting minutes. Glad at Pastor Chris' warning about being passive in contentment (too content to get better job, too content to fix washing machine), reminds me of the Drowning Man parable. Phil also questioned if we should practice contentment rather than just a mental recognition, so I had to double down on this concept, first time speaking for me after not speaking in these meetings for a while. Not sure why Frank got it side way - he quoted Peter "where else would we go", as if I was only saying "we can only rely on God", but I am sure I was clear, as Phil got my point completely and immediately connected from Frank, "Yes, active! Like Joni, bringing joy to others". I also had to deal with Matt claiming (falsely, I believe) that Stephen Tong said "do not go preach the Gospel in a whore house". As Matt had issue with his former church elder persuading the congregant go give water to people during pride month, to which I added - that's a great thing if you include the Gospel in that ministry. Matt wouldn't have it, basically for him, we shouldn't even do anything near these "wicked" people. I later thought, Matt reminds me of the Pharisees who had issue with Jesus eating with sinners. I don't see how else I can give him benefit of the doubt, because the only benefit of the doubt, would be that Matt was confused with participating in sin, almost like what the Pharisees thought, but for Matt, in the context of rewarding the Juneteen parade (wasn't mentioned) by giving them free water. And if so, that would mean Matt really was bad with evangelism, i.e. not Gospel centered. Yet, he certainly is kind with helping people, very initiative. So, he seems to be the moralist from the fundamentalist movement.
I need to reflect two things from this: Firstly, be eloquent, certainty with words and vocabularies. Next, how to respond charitably but sternly someone who was dumb beyond my expectation.
6/14/2026 Sunday
Pastor Dave Lee's sermon was a fun one. If you want to preach on Numbers, you definitely don't want to miss out Num 12 - Miriam and Aaron vs. Moses. Nadia enjoyed the sermon, she said that it really helped when I read the Bible reading a day ahead to her. I was reading it with dramatic tone. I was more fascinated (in a God-fearing manner) with verse 8 (not so with Moses...with him I speak mouth to mouth...), which wasn't quite expounded as it wasn't the focus of the theme of the sermon.
I joked about verse 3 also with Nadia before, and too bad Pastor Dave did not bring it to light either. That Moses (possibly) wrote of himself - Moses was more meek than all people who were on the face of the earth. I'll leave these to my own Bible Study entry on Numbers.
Second time met Logan and his wife. Thus far, he's my favorite person I like to meet at Crossroads church. That's because, the first encounter, I learned that he's into durians and picked up some Malaysian slang. The first "Malaysian" I've met. Even though he's white and technically from Jersey/NZ.
