Monthly Archives: August 2025

Learning Vietnamese

This is a funny start:

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Journal of the Week

8/30/2025 Saturday Today at noon, I attended the Passport to Taiwan cultural festival in Bridgewater Commons. Parking lot 9 right outside Lord & Taylor (which is already shutdown). It's an extension of the NYC version which has been around since … Continue reading

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When is Leaving a Church Appropriate?

I find this topic more and more interest after encountering Catholic/Orthodox theology, because they have no sense of discerning visible and invisible church, nor would they want to. So in the Invisible sense of the Church, no true Christians would … Continue reading

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AI in the Music Industry: Suno

Thanks to Mr. You(尤靜波)'s demonstration: the SUNO is getting incredibly "talented" in music. I've longed for this technology, since I learn slow in music theory. This AI obviously makes full use of chord progressions in various styles and genres, by … Continue reading

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Hillsdale College Imprimis: Is J.D. Vance Right about Europe? Christopher Caldwell

A while ago, I received this June 2025 Volume 54, Number 6: Imprimis newsletter (physical) from Hillsdale College (the best and hardest college to get into, according to Charlie Kirk), I was a big news in on Feb 14 when … Continue reading

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Journal of the Week

8/23/2025 Saturday The GCC Men's Fellowship was led by Frank and I was impressed because Frank of all people, his topic of the day was on Fanny Crosby. He had us singing "To God be the Glory" and "Blessed Assurance". … Continue reading

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General and Special Revelations

Many Christians and Reformed wannabes are generally very poor in distinguishing the two. Yesterday, Rob from church: "Isaiah speaks of Earth being a sphere", "Science affirms the Bible" This is an example of a bad understanding of general vs. special … Continue reading

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The Wellerman, Sea Shanty genre, popularized by Nathan Evans' Acapella version

This swing style version of this (wish I can find the sheet) I heard on FB reminded me of the original: Level of difficulties from easy to hard: This is quite impressive: Of course, what's humanly possible on a single … Continue reading

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Journal of the Week

8/15/2025 Friday Alex posted this on Facebook 呼應老友葛牧之《反智主義》一書:〈《基督教真偽辨》在中國教會的受容〉and I think it's worth checking out (Telling The True Gospel: The Reception of...) as I think I'm behind with names such as 趙天恩. Tong has a little bio on the late 趙天恩, … Continue reading

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On True Marriage

8/12/2025, Yes, this is my birthday. On our way to Pittsburg from Cincinnati, my wife and I had some disagreement on the definition of marriage, when the subject of some church attendees who were allegedly "unmarried" (did not go through … Continue reading

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