Many radical advocates (some hypocrites included) of charity and helping the "needy" (their own definition), often love to use the verse Matthew 25:40 to justify their cause and proudly raise their anthropocentric philosophy above everyone else's.
I would argue that doing so is a misapplication of the verse. For if they were right, then Jesus' prophecy of such (Matthew 25:30-46) would not be possible, for the righteous answer: Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? (verse 37)
Therefore, not to nullify good works just because the extremists used good works in their jealous and selfish causes, I would say this verse is far deeper than what the shallow-minded claim to understand.
I remember reading the Wikipedia article on Jews for Jesus, a group of Jews from America targeting mainly other Jews of Judaism faith for conversion into Christianity.
Obviously, this argument was not out of the truth and peace, but peace alone.
I believe that such stand of the Catholics (not to mention other Christian groups) against preaching the Gospel to the Jews lies heavily upon their corrupted doctrine on soteriology, electing saints of the dead, misinterpreting the fine line between God's gracious sacrifice with works of men. Perhaps out of cowardice in Evangelism, for our Lord Jesus Christ, and a proud assumption that anyone who does otherwise is radical and beneath them (Catholics, etc.) in terms of "humility" and "open mindedness".
It is know that SN 1006 (Lupus Constellation, southern hemisphere) is the bightest (-7.5 at peak) observed by naked eyes. Brigther than Venus (SN 1054 - formed Crab Nebula M1 also), seen for a few months during day time. Some would even claim one could read under its peak brightness at night. Source: the History of Supernova by Wikipedia.
Since the "advancement" of psychology, some have concluded such occurrence is due to psychological disorder and has nothing to do with the supernatural.
Some would think that it's a supernatural occurrence prominent only in the ancient times.
I would say, this sort of supernatural occurrence happens in order to keep a body dead to the Gospel. What need is there for a demon to possess a body, if the whole body of a church is a much easier target?
Appears to be a bug in Windows XP or Microsoft Office 2003.
I did two solutions at the same time. So I am uncertain which one actually did the job, if not both.
1. Regedit: Changed(not add) a key value at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
The value of key AppData was changed from %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming to %USERPROFILE%\Application Data
2. (I think this one actually did the job)
Removed Outlook email account and readded.
Finally installed XAMPP on my laptop so I could test PHP locally, offline. Have to do it, so I wouldn't have to wait for upload time while teaching Jeff at the library which seems to block all non-http protocols on its hotspot.
Doing a lot of delays these days. Need to keep myself up to speed, time ain't gonna be too merciful.
1. Apsides (Apogee, perigee), aphelion, perihelion Apogee: Farthest part of orbit around Earth Perigee: Closest part of orbit around Earth aphelion, perihelion ~ around the Sun, farthest and closest respectively. apocynthion, pericynthion for around the Moon, farthest and closest respectively. There are also terms for other objects (Check Wikipedia) such as Mercury, Mars, stars, etc.
2. Conjunction: When two objects are close (within 6 degrees) as seen by viewer. Inferior conjunction: When primary object is in front of the second (ie. the Sun) Superior conjunction: When primary object is behind the second Opposition: When primary is directly opposite to the second (ie. the Sun) from the viewer's point.
3. Greatest Elongation Greatest eastern elongation: When inner planets (Mercury, Venus) are furthest away from the Sun as viewed from Earth, going into inferior conjunction with the Sun. Greatest western elongation: When inner planets (Mercury, Venus) are furthest away from the Sun as viewed from Earth, going away from inferior conjunction with the Sun.
4. Eastern/Western Quadrature: For example, when the Moon and the Sun are 90 degree from Earth. Eastern quadrature is the time of first quarter of moon phase, western quadrature is the time of last quarter.
6. sub-lunar point, antipodal point: Tidal pull on the Moon's side, tidal rise on the opposite side, respectively. Tide at antipodal point is caused by the Moon pulling the Earth.
7. (Lunar) Libration: The reason we can see more than 50% of the Moon from Earth. Longitude due to eccentricity of lunar orbit; Latitude due to axial degree of lunar rotation. And diumal libration is when an observe observes from one side of Earth to another along Earth's rotation.
8. Lagrangian point (L-point, Lagrange Points): L1 (between Earth and the Sun), L2, L4, L3, L5 (plotted counter-clockwise from the right of Earth, if the Sun is on the Left).
I've replaced one's keyboard on an HP laptop last Saturday, thanks to this online instruction.
Basically, 5 screws in the battery side, two nearest to the back of the battery edges (back of laptop) and 1 in the memory compartment, need to be removed. Then the CAREFULLY pry away the top cover of the keyboard along its two frontal sides (left, right), carefully because there's fragile cable connected to the cover from beneath, same goes with the keyboard (remove by CAREFULLY sliding the keyboard towards the back of the laptop).
I've finally took the effort and found the picture taken in 1950, thanks to Corbis/Bettmann who owns the right. Added to my album.
The first time I read of President Truman rebuke was from an edition of Times magazine feature Billy Graham on the cover.
It is a good study, to see the repercussion of some great preachers' fault in public. I'm sure it played crucial impact to Graham's later attitude in faith and in the Lord's work be it good or bad consequences.
And then, to examine myself, less I be judged less by my Lord. That my righteousness exceeds such.
From wikipedia:
Truman wrote about Graham in his autobiography Plain Speaking:
But now we've got just this one evangelist, this Billy Graham, and
he's gone off the beam. He's...well, I hadn’t ought to say this, but
he’s one of those counterfeits I was telling you about. He claims he's a
friend of all the Presidents, but he was never a friend of mine when I
was President. I just don’t go for people like that. All he's interested
in is getting his name in the paper.
Instead of really repented of his action, regretting his 'counterfeit' as a sinner, he'd rather regretted as a victim:
The Truman story has often been repeated by Graham himself, usually to
justify his refusal to reveal the substance of his conversations with
other world leaders. (When Worlds Collide)
Have I seen micro-meteorites before back in Malaysia?
I could recall finding small round stones almost everywhere, I remember I was amazed by them, but I never thought to test them out with magnets or the existence of micro-meteorites.
But then again, they were around 3 mm in diameter, not in the measurements of microns.
