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馃憢 Programmer and Theology Major in University.
馃實 Iowa, US
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It's kinda funny how blunt Thomas Merton is. Although I don't always agree with him, he does have some good points: "Do not think that you can show your love for Christ by hating those who seem to be His enemies on earth. Suppose they really do hate Him: nevertheless He loves them, and you cannot be united with Him unless you love them too" - Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
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It is unfortunate to see how slow countries are being to protect Ukraine, especially given that this slow response also happened during the Holocaust and led to ~6 millions Jews and others (those with impairments, disease, etc.) being killed. It is also disheartening to see people stereotype all people who come from or have ancestry from Russia. Not everyone of them supports Russia and it is wrong to assume such things.
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My server at gemini://auragem.space is back up and running. Had a power outage months ago and been too busy with school to get up the energy to bring it back up.
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"The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. He obeys the attractions of an interior voice but will not listen to other men. He identifies the will of God with anything that makes him feel, within his own heart, a big, warm, sweet interior glow. The sweeter and the warmer the feeling is the more he is convinced of his own infallibility. And if the sheer force of his own self-confidence communicates itself to other people and gives them the impression that he is really a saint, such a man can wreck a whole city or a religious order or even a nation." - Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
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"Within religions, even at their most extreme times, there are those who offer a gentler reading of God's Will." - David J. Wolpe, Why Faith Matters
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Doing a Fasting project for my "Christian Spirituality and Prayer" class. My partner and I chose to fast from all digital technologies for 1 hour per day. It starts in 3 days, so we'll see how this goes :D
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Psychology doesn't work by just declaring someone is mentally ill because they think differently than you. I will say this flat-out - this is a dangerous ideology that led to the oppression and killing of *a lot* of people, and goes against the very core of what we have established with modern science. Homosexuals were once considered mentally ill, for example. Christians and Jews were killed for the first 300 years of Christianity's existence because they were different from the polytheistic greek/roman religion that was popular at the time. At least have the decency to recognize the damage the Enlightenment had, leading to racism via Social Darwinism, and co-opting of evolutionary theory to justify oppression.
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Fun Fact: Some Jewish traditions have developed the notion that God gives you your soul (spark/breath of life) at/near birth. Therefore, your soul already pre-existed your physical body. Additionally, when you sleep, your soul goes back to God for the night, and then when you wake up, your soul is given back to you, and that's why you thank God for "giving me back my soul in mercy" right when you wake up. There are similar-ish conceptions of this in other religoins like Hinduism where everyone has an Atman - a divine spark - that reincarnates with the goal of getting off the cycle/wheel of life (samsara) and merging with the Brahman - the transcendent divinity within the world.
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"charity is a two-way process. One receives even as one gives. This should remind us, according to the Vilna Gaon, that one who gives today may have to receive tomorrow." - Etz Hayim (p. 523, Intro to Ki Tissa Parshah)
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Got my first IPFS site up! http://auragem.space.ipns.localhost:8080/
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"Avarice suggests a lengthy old age, inability to perform manual labor, famines that will come along, diseases that will arise, the bitter realities of poverty, and the shame there is in accepting goods from others to meet one's needs" - Evagrius Ponticus
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Being "nice" on the surface means nothing if you veil your insults under sarcasm, jokes, "politeness", and snide remarks.
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Fun Family History Fact: My mom was born in California near a military base, I believe, since her father was in the military. He was also a pastor.
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AuraGem Search now has a page that lists all the twtxt feeds it knows about: gemini://auragem.space/searchengine/twtxt
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Who can you give to if you never allow taking?
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An apple is not an orange, but they are both fruits.
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The irony of criticising people that are sharing their views for not allowing others to share their views...
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If I say Apples are bad, I'm not saying everything in the world is bad... I'm saying *Apples* are bad.
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The irony of using a written story to prove that writing things down have decreased human memory capacity...
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My AuraGem Search Engine (formerly Ponix Search) is back to crawling again! More info here: gemini://auragem.space/devlog/20211205.gmi
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Writing a crawler is the most annoying thing ever, lol
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For any gemini server developers here, make sure that the matching/checking of the domain name is case-insensitive. It looks like a few servers are case-sensitive with this, which goes against the URI spec.
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I have created a new page on my gemlog that contains my own notes for book readings, classes, and other various things: gemini://auragem.space/~krixano/notes.gmi
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Gemini History Must-Reads: gemini://auragem.space/GeminiHistoryMustReads.gmi
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Solderpunk's gopher article where Input and Input Prompts were first talked about for Gemini. Occurs a month after Gemini's first server. gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/gemini/inputs-and-client-certs.txt
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I have brought back up my server. It's now rebranded as AuraGem! gemini://auragem.space
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Soon my Ponix server will go through a rebranding, so lookout for that. The certificate and domain name will also change.
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Wrote a new issue for Microsoft :D https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/5561
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10GB file. Casey's refterm prints it in 41 seconds, Windows Terminal takes over 6 hours, and still counting.
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Just wrote an issue about how Windows Terminal is terrible and that they keep making excuses when it has been proven that all their excuses are wrong because someone wrote a program in a week that can do many things Windows Terminal can't: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10623