Got some things to say...

Feeling less sleepy nowadays. It was all those late nights and my going off coffee binges that probably led to the lethargic mind I had last week. Not to mention needy relations and family members in trouble and needing help. I was lying in bed half asleep for hours a day and buzzing from my room to the fridge every now and then, to stay sane.

After a good run and today's walk, my body feels regulated and healthy again. Exercise is so important when you're being blamed by evil witches like the Liew 6.

Redrawing my book cover was a big boost. I had no ideas for as long as the book was written and no money to hire an artist / designer who might charge $100 for it. I've seen many books with substandard covers that look generic and childish, a bit garishly Photoshopped. And I knew I wanted something better, just that I were a poor judge of my own style and I could never render a complex life-like scene myself or choose the right font(s) so I started dotting pixels in by hand and the result is pretty interesting -maybe somebody will browse its summary now.

Also, FastCN is fast becoming a reality the more I work, think of it -my concept is doable and useful for literacy in China. And the whole thing is free and open source. Don't really want to say GPL as that is protection that the software WILL always be 'FREE' and free is defined differently than normal. Just say you can do whatever you like with it, would be more useful and uncomplicated, IMHO.

The Simple Inclusive License by Yap : "Silly" -it says -free- in all senses of the word for anyone to do -whatever- (anything at all) they like with it. No warranties or guarantees implied as... nobody wants to check -free- stuff to death even if they paid me.

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FastCN is getting debugged. It's fast but not accurate and error prone. But I'm confident it's going in the right direction. All the indices were adjusted. Many are out of whack from not thinking well anymore. Fortunately it isn’t that complex for a fudger to figure out. Some minutes to kill before workout time. Could have a look at the code, I guess.

Time for my workout then iPad a bit before bed. I got the indices corrected and there is some logical output at long last. Now I have to concentrate on being clever with the 3x3 matrices to get more specific results. Lag is minimal.

Going on a long walk…

I’m stuck at home till 1pm since Dad wants to buy us lunch and it may rain at noon while the laundry’s out. Earlier, I took a prune laxative as I was backed up yesterday. Was effective. Coding is going slow due to prevention but the applet is so simple, it should get done by tonight. Was thinking of reducing the stroke dictionary to just the standout ones. The rest can be entered by the user, typing a longer string. The key here is memory improvement, not finding characters quickly, for which I wrote chiCN some years ago.

Will probably ride to the downtown mall then walk to the previous station to get some exercise in. Need breakfast badly. Had a slice of bread with Caesar dressing. Nose pimple popped, no longer sore / inflamed. Noticed I don’t need as much food lately. Pushing 50, I am cutting down eats and coffee too.

Think I may be getting Mom’s gastritis. Stomach’s churning a little despite the sandwich I just ate.

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Back from over an hour out to the flea market and walked some way back in the sun. Not too hot as there were plenty of clouds. I saw the satellite image of the cyclone that passed over north Malaysia, peninsular and it was huge. No wonder it rained virtually non-stop the past 2-3 days and today it's tail of clouds is left behind. Ditto the volcano erruption in Ethiopia which blew dust all over the Middle East and into India.

 

Wore my Garmin out. Nobody noticed it or me mostly, Dressed in earth tones. Bought Mom a small present as she was feeling underappreciated. Butt hole got stretched by evil kid geniuses and I was worried I smelt but I didn't. Came home and dabbed -it was clean.

 

Feeling a bit more energetic after the exercise and parts of me had a chance to heal tho the witchy Liews tried to follow me all the way there and back. Must do this again next week.  

All heaven…

3a - - 1 ䷀

 “Creative Action. Sublime success. Persistence in

the firm and correct is advantageous” —dr w k chu 

TABLE OF YEARS 20XX : (,/‘) We are Balanced.

Today, it’s the half moon, a balance of sorts between yin and yang. It is also 3a in the ABY which is the above excerpt.

It is also heaven upon heaven. 3 unbroken lines repeated. And once again, we head into uncharted waters when intrigue happens. That will be tomorrow and go on for 4 days. 6th or 7th December may be better for ventures and romances.

Tomorrow, a long walk in the sun is planned provided the digestion works well. May take a laxative tomorrow morning -dried salt prune chopped and several glasses of water.

 

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As per the I-Ching, I designed a new cover for my Christian eBook. Yea, "creative action" and "persistance" won the day. I have a unique cover unlike any others. Looks something like this:

I'm not sure how I chanced upon the design but I did it all myself, including drawing all the letters in the title pixel by pixel. Originally, I wanted 2 characters on the cover -the master and the seeker but it turned out to be Peter with his sword. Then I used an oilify filter in the GIMP over and over until the edges turned curved thus more natural-looking. Quite proud of this one. Almost pro grade.

Black Friday is tomorrow...

We'll be hitting the mall -which one we haven't decided yet. I have plans to get Dad something nice. Maybe a light nylon weatherproof jacket. The ones that look puffy and are a bit below waist. Could use a hood too.

Mom got her Sloggi undies and I got my Garmin smart watch. Will go online and scout out the prices now. Brush at 11:30pm and sleep by midnight.

Found a good jacket from Columbia for circa 160RM. It just might do. Dad’s growing old and tired of being rained on.

Worked out at half past midnight. Feeling better. Somehow not sleepy. Will write on X now.

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We were at Mutiara. I got Dad his jacket for 79RM at Decathlon. Came with a hood. Also got my government aid money, 150RM. I have 250RM to spend on myself this coming December, maintaining 500RM in savings and 500RM in my wallet.

The jacket is thin and light, soft but water repellant. Saves getting wet in the increasingly wild weather this end of year.

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Managed to get cleaned well. Showered. Rewrote FastCN’s matcher to be more to spec and maybe a little bit faster. Now I have to draw 38 (sub)strokes, 3x3, index them, and decide where whitespace must be.

Made dinner for the folks. Just vegetable soup and canned kurma with bread. Mom brought out leftover chicken on the bone in ginger sauce. It was a quick and easy meal. My grand aunt called about her cholesterol. We’re all growing old. Sometimes it’s our fears and lack of hope that cause our troubles. It is easy to life-change with some help from a holistic practitioner.

FastCN progresses…

I found the energy to resume coding my Chinese spelling tutor app. Last night, I began to look at bitmap fonts and this afternoon, I rendered each char as a .png. Now I need to render strokes in pure B&W. with no anti-aliasing. Then tonight, will finish the compare algorithm started yesterday morning. It’s a very simple one, and I’m quite proud of it.

More later…

We’re near wrap up on the Python applet. I will be doing array comparison which is fastest but I also need to care for whitespace around the match of 1s. Otherwise it would be inaccurate lots. Half past 3pm. Fought off cancer threats made by Moslem insurgents fired up by the Liew witches. They are close to losing the battle for their lives, and control over the world thru sin.

Still wearing my Garmin exclusively since I got it last week. I have still been watching watch videos on YouTube, tho. How the other half lives and how the less affluent WISes (like me) live.

 

Am working hard on FastCN. Got all the bitmap arrays written to file, which is over 100MB long. Searching thru 100MB of data for a series of patterns is gonna take a while tho. It may take maybe 5 seconds for a char to be found from the stroke patterns entered.

There are waterworks going on outside our road. Seems to be peaceful. Am laying low as it seems my neighbors are plotting against me, using the workers who are rougher. Thus do the Liew witches maintain their clean hands, and screw the underclasses. It is so blatant for everyone to see.

Thinking the way to generate calligraphed characters is to compress then expand them, with a slight perspective bulge towards the left. Will try to do this in ImageMagick now, before drawing all those 38 strokes which is boring. Almost 9pm.

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Failed to generate Chinese calligraphy. Scrap that idea for now. The applet is now operational tho rough round the edges. I tried to enter all the strokes as 3x3 matrices. Not sure if that will give an adequate match in all cases.

Mom’s undies are arriving, today or tomorrow. Hope they’re comfy. 10RM, once 60RM.

Quite a bit of tweaking to do before its ready to release as beta.

 

Back from a brief run. Feeling less lethargic, more alert. FastCN is running and producing results. But they're most off a bit. This is one of my smallest apps: just 100 lines of code plus a 100 line dictionary in vertical. As expected a full search thru 140MB of data does take a bit of time. Almost 6 seconds to match ONE char.

Mom’s parcel from Singapore is arriving today. Maybe 2-3pm. Taking a break after a stressful few minutes when I suspected my BT keyboard got hijacked. Had to restart and set up everything again. Wonder how this could have happened on Linux? Thought it had malfunctioned. Recovering from this shock will take an hour or so (I am living with stroke).

But I think I know what’s wrong with FastCN now: bad string offsetting.

Am tackling the offset issue now. May need to loo again later but it’s not urgent.

 

All's good. Now I can concentrate on coding. I never saw such a torrent of search results -there is still something wrong with the applet.

 

Past 9pm and the results are usually 30k characters. Something is wrong with the stroke arrays. Will fix this tomorrow morning or later tonight. I'm not sure. But the matching is pretty fast. About 3 seconds per character. And this is on a 10-year-old computer.

 

Almost 11pm. It's a bit late for debugging. Took my meds and will brush and turn in by midnight.

 

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Made good headway on the app. Drawing the strokes now. about 70% left to go but we're getting there. Took a laxative this morning, early, as I was constipated since yesterday. Selecting / excerpting the strokes is proving tricky.

Rainy morning / feeling less sleepy...

There is flooding here in Malaysia as the rain seemingly hasn't stopped for the past 24 hours or more, depending where in the country you are.

I think sleeping at 3am was what gave me tiredness during the day. Last night I slept earlier and this morning am feeling fresh. Going over old thoughts, chidings, injustices. Sometimes unabated gloom carries feelings of darker days (the deluge?) and witchy forces of Liew et al come to capitalize.

Nevertheless, I hope for a break in the weather and the visit the upscale mall later in the morning. Now just past 9am.

Almost 11am and it's stopped raining. Checking with Dad on the day's plans. May be going to the mall for lunch.

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I was watching a video on Calvinism vs. Arminianism. Basically, it concerns salvation by grace, by spirit, by supernatural power -not by works at all -versus- salvation as all of the before, but with the fallibility of the human heart involved. This was then taken a step further as 'proof' that God is fallible and so is Jesus. Finally, it blames us for God's fallibility. Obviously Calvinism leads people who are good to be more good and bad to be bad forever. Obviously Arminianism leads people who are anything in between to do or die trying. And we must strike a balance because of the Bell curve. Do not tell me, we (including myself) should ever give up preaching to the world, to the sinners? Do not tell the elect to stop fighting the good fight -it is in the bag? Do not tell sinners they will go to hell as it is predestined? Nay, we are all part of the world "God so loved" and we must go on doing what we believe. For God so loved the world -that He sent His son Jesus that we might all STOP the nonsense? Not really, that we should all stop sinning? Nor that, but that we should bustle about the new teachings and profit or lose as our hearts are made or were learnt, yea even to unlearn and profit more -to be wise as the sun and moon shine. He loves us all -and has given us HOPE.

This must be my longest paragraph ever! 

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I am coding blindly or generally, allowing the img compare algorithm to just work or fail. I do hope it will be efficient tho.

Coding now past midnight. Worked out briefly and am feeling okay. Liew witches using kids to spear our heads. We fought fire with fire and the witches are wounded with stroke. 

Time is not a variable in physics…

https://ckyap.substack.com/p/a-look-at-time?r=3lktmw

Time is not a vector or one side of a plane i.e. space-time. Time is a self-measured, self-contained property of the system measuring decay-growth. The fact that we have speed is a given. We are measuring a set of positions in space against fixed time. In acceleration, we are increasing the distance between positions linearly, or quadratically. Imagine, hyper acceleration. In the case of hyper acceleration, we see time for what it is: a constant we check against, not at all microseconds ticking by. It ticks because it’s a clock, not because time is moving. How can ‘time’ itself move? A system may move but not a property, an abstract created property. We cannot move time but only move ourselves and our machines by distances against it.

There is also the question of matter, anti matter, dark matter. The universe has space, and space is held open by matter of a sort. Space has ‘air’. Actually, space cannot exist without mass. Mass is what forced things apart into systems. Systems that gradually decay. That contain time. Like an exploding star seeds new stars, a giant mass of hydrogen and helium pushed apart space. Then because of time it contained, within its previous system, its machine, a new solar system began to form according to the property, the abstract quantity which is constant time.

The fact that time is a reason for life and planets, and stars, is to say there was and is a translation between dimensions. Time is 2 dimensions intersecting. The intersecting of dimensions is power, the various forces. So far every explanation for force points to an intersect of systems present with those unseen. And they are unseen because of the quantity, time, a granularity visible at the tearing point of space and the systems it holds within itself.

Just a hypothesis.

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If you got a Kindle or know someone who reads it…

Get (them) my book for Christmas, just 99 cents. It’s worth much more, but I wanted to keep it affordable. I get peanuts from each sale but the reader, she gets pearls.

I redesigned its cover and fully annotated it with footnotes that explain the text. Some say they were deeply comforted by the warm way I hand-held them thru the captivating story, others, found the concepts discussed, complex and mathematically ambiguous. I hope that with the footnotes, this is not the case anymore. It concerns adult themes a bit here and there. PG13 advised.

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The moonphase on my Garmin E is beginning to show a slight crescent. By midnight tonight it will be more apparent. Thought I would total up the cost of my old watch collection versus 999RM for the smartwatch I now wear exclusively.

 

It came to circa 16kRM over the past 20 years [800RM every year]. Enough for a new Tag Heuer automatic or a basic GS quartz. And it came to me that the grail of watchmaking is to encapsulate / isolate and self-contain / finely digitize the passing of time, to milk it for the moments you treasure and present it to be admired -yea it’s expensive so it’ll always work. In that sense, my Garmin E also fits those criteria. It should be respected as a real watch. Comfortable, slim and light, and feature packed with the latest measuring sensors. Cased in tough carbon fiber polymer -a material of the space age, and a shatter resistant crystal.

Where horology goes wrong is usually in these 3 things: apathy to / poor quality, false innovation / plagiarism, and over-advertising (on the watch) at cost to the consumer. There is now a disturbing trend towards casing generic movements, making homages, and daring to be the trend of the moment -to be unabashedly ‘all about IT’. Like some micro / Aliexpress brands try to do. These do leave me with a sour taste.

 

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Just noticed Suunto are not dropping prices as Garmin did. Watch my SubStack next week for a post on the nature of "time". It's quite an eye-opening postulation. Will link to it on this blog when it publishes.

Big Watch Sell-off…

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18 watches must go. Target no lower than 2.4kRM. 2.6kRM would be better. Reason for sale, raise money to buy iPhone, and switched to Garmin smart watch as daily wear. All watches are from my private collection and do not come with box and papers. If not original, will refund price of purchase. Once bought is non-returnable unless defective. Some need a new battery. Some need springbars.

 

Interested buyers may contact yapchenkuang@outlook.com to arrange meetup (in PJ / KL / LRT) or postage. You may buy more than one. I will explain the story of each watch, and what is good / bad about it. But I think the prices are very reasonable. I made a big loss. But nevermind-lah.

 

Of course, all watches will be wiped clean with antibacterial wipes before changing hands. These are rock bottom prices already.

 

BTW, Garmin Instinct rocks! 

Down but not out…

It was an emotionally draining day. We’re all down with some kinda respiratory bug. Folks took the flu jab and I’m immune-ally strong so we’re not all in hospital, thank the Lord. Dad tapao-ed Mom’s favorite food for breakfast. We had toast and runny egg for lunch, and fried noodle takeout for dinner. Dad got Mom a buncha orchids. 

I was assaulted by the Liew witches as rain delayed my parcel. Finally on my wrist, the Garmin watch I ordered 40% off. Feels good. Worked out, brushed and showered. Some small centipedes returned to our bathroom but otherwise I had a good clean up. Sis and the nieces came around to share Mom’s orange cake which Sis ordered special. We had some Ayataka green tea to counter the sweet icing.

The mystery of Mom’s red tea is unsolved. How it turned that odd shade in her cup?

Didn’t go for a walk as it was simply hectic all day long. I came by a better algorithm for character matching in FastCN but was too oppressed to implement it. And tomorrow, I will have to get up early to tap that into VScode. Then go on a torture walk of over 2km, route stored on my Garmin E.

It’s almost 3am and I’m wide awake due to Mom, behind her, the Liew witches. One of them is dying and may take down the whole family coven from her hypocrisy. 

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Found out my Garmin E was made in Taiwan (apparently) from some components manufactured in China. Also interesting is there are cheaper models than the E. I think it’s the Forerunner. One of this series is  circa 700RM. 300RM cheaper than mine. The 55, which is mainly health oriented.

 

I ran just now. Felt good. Recovered fast. Ready to tackle my coding work. Think I will call my stroke matching algorithm, constellation.

 

Feeling comfortable and clean. Making slow but steady progress towards my goals, finishing my coding projects. Getting my life in order and my health back up.

Review: Garmin Instinct E 40mm, promo price….

I just got it in this afternoon so the review will be without any field testing. Will add that tomorrow if possible. So mainly, my first impressions, and other stuff linked to watches in general.

We’ll call this watch ‘E’ from now on.

First off, the buttons and menu combos are pretty easy to navigate and remember. I can’t remember everything about a Casio Protrek but I can almost remember everything for this Smartwatch. I was stunned by the learning curve it threw at me on plug in to charger (not supplied), asking me for biometric and locale details. I pressed wrong buttons lots but it became evident how to, after a few tries.

So next, I put E on for fit and comfort. At 40mm on an average Asian guy, it’s a good fit. Bigger men might opt for the 45mm version. I like smaller watches. Also appreciated the always on display which is MIP [low power consumption]. A new, more legible technology. The whole watch is very light and does not slip unlike my MudMan 9300. Also it looks very ordinary so as not to arouse anyone’s curiosity. I was told any 20mm strap with big springbar passthru can be used, even velcro straps. But I find the well ventilated silicone band good enough.

E suggested I go do the GPS hookup outside and it took quite a fee minutes to complete linking to satellites. Was worried it would fail almost. I turned off health monitoring, the WHR sensor that blinks green on the caseback, giving me a total battery life of a month or so.

They say you can change the face / dial but so far I’ve only been able to move data sources around, add and remove some of them. Like moonphase is addable to the subdial at 2o’clock. My favorite complication. I added the compass to my tools menu, accessible thru holding down the Light button. All very handy and logically laid out. America designs some of the best things.

On another note, I scored 2 Sloggi panties for Mom online. They were 70% off as her old ones chaff her crotch. These go allround ones, made of modal-elastane are the best. I had a pair (men’s briefs).

Back to E. I wrote on medium that we live in the information-imagination age. That old school watches are little more than time-telling jewelry. Most do not even offer a view of the movement inside and those which deservedly do are too expensive to upkeep. E, you are my grail and I think this time I will not waver. Function comes before form. Comfort before looks. Durability before serviceability / cost.

Tomorrow, I’m planning a brief outing during which I will walk home from maybe Asia Jaya. Navigating with E. Or I may attempt to walk to Asia Jaya and ride home. Can’t decide. It will be a first. Gotta learn how to pull up the map navigator, breadcrumbs backtracker etc.

I was thinking, why do promo prices? First the iPhone 13 for 1.3kRM, Now E for 999RM, The Sloggi underwear for 10RM. I scored a respected reference book on the I-Ching for just 1RM from a bargain bin before I associated Tao with the ABY. And the time I got 200RM off the Apple Pencil 1. Can’t explain it. My opinion, at least on E, which is a 2025 launch, just 8 months ago, is that it’s Garmin’s attempt to create a reputation/ marketshare here in Asia where prices are comparatively higher. Increased revenue will push down prices overall and maybe increase innovation to the point where people just buy Es like they buy Kingston Value RAM or use the LRT / MRT. An accounted for cost of living. Yea, could be.

Crazier things are happening to the economy / society.

I’ve always wondered, should your E be bone dry before charging it? Likewise your Tesla, BYD, what have you? Since it is rated 100m WR, I mean.

I think I figured out how the phone connect thing works and how you need to upload a trail or course before it has mapping ability. Wish it came with a sample map loaded. I’m still thinking how I will get a map of Malaysia into the watch or is that impossible? I also tried 3rd party faces / dials and still prefer the default.

So the Connect app is vital in plotting a course. I think it feeds off an in-built map, maybe Google Maps. Asking you to touch-hold two points. Then it saves an automatic route between them which is synced into your watch, the E. I will try taking the saved route tomorrow, walking for over 2km to Asia Jaya, then ride home. I’ve never been so stoked about a watch since I got my Kinetic circa 2000. ‘Someday all watches will be made this way’. Not really but close. Technology must progress and people should adopt it.

There was a huge discount on Garmins...

I guess it's time for Christmas shopping and the sales are on. From 1.4kRM down to 999RM, free shipping, off the Garmin official web store. I bit and got myself a 40mm Instinct E. I guess E is for 'economy' or 'essential'. It comes in a black and charcoal tone with lotsa features, accessed via 5 buttons. Has an always on MIP screen.

My first smartwatch. It's not a good-looking one but is useful and rugged. I don't know yet exactly how to navigate with a GPS outside of Google Maps and holding my phone while walking isn't ideal -I'd done it before. However it works, I'm stoked.

Never thought I'd own a Garmin -for so little. More when it arrives.

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My coding hit a major snag. Algorithms don’t work well. Will have to redo it, just a dozen lines of code. I copped out and put in boundary chars between each stroke to make it easier to read into the program. Then I will apply a custom algorithm to the bitmaps so they match better. This will take some time and some cpu power. Last night I integrated ceDict well. So tonight’s work is actually the final step.

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Been looking thru all the features on my soon to arrive Garmin Instinct E. And decided to turn off something they call WHR which consumes power and is unnecessary for me as I only do low intensity and briefly stressful exercises. I have no problems sleeping due to a clear conscience and a helpful heart in and out of mindspace. What I need are the GPS and other directional / environmental sensors, weather updates, etc.

Made some solid advances in Chinese stroke detection, without using Pillow's image compare. Instead I use a bit counter, black pixels being '1' and white or any shade of gray will be '0'. I bit count from right to left, top to bottom, and use that as matching data, after applying a coefficient for size difference. A productive day. Hope my Garmin arrives tomorrow.

Apparently there is a prophecy about to be unleashed one of these days soon. To do with aliens and God, and Mathematics. I wrote it down and will post it in the weekend. There is something afoot this week.

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Talked to Christians about sex again. How the totem pole of lasciviousness was erected (bad choice of words) and everyone kowtowed to the stack of complex emotions vs. societal pressure. Sex is simple and pure. Sex non-existant is a dominating power -like a priesthood etc. Sex is so sandwiched with concerns nowadays that people sin who want it when actually it is a worship as it always had been.

Worship is not performing ablutions. At least not to us Christians. It’s not a new thing: everything we do and think of in the name of the Father is a worship. Provided it comes together -not half-assed, fake stuff, that He abhors as an insult. Worship has also been internalized, then like Alien, burst forth. We breathe through a face hugger baptism, then gestate its seed, finally we die to ourselves and a dangerous mutated teaching consumes the church one by one. This is not worship. Worship is not doing unnatural things. The gospel is not about doing unnatural things. Spirit-filled is about doing wise things others soon realize and repent when they see it. Otherwise, worship is just natural, normal, pleasant behavior.

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Past 2am, still wide awake. Read to my Christian group, some of my religious / spiritual works. Told them it was all free to take and use. Was unable to complete FastCN due to teaching young minds who are suspicious of me. Liew witchy 6 losing power. 

My daily driver after the dust settles is…

… Swatch AM51. Got it for 640RM in late 2022. Nowadays it costs 100RM more due to higher taxes. I chose it because of 5 main reasons,

1. It’s inexpensive
2. It’s got decent WR
3. The case and dial are bold, modern, and tasteful
4. Doesn’t need batteries or service
5. Understated and not showy black resin strap and case

While many (ss) watches, even some Swatches, cry out, look at me -how rich / tasteful my wearer is! The AM51 is minimal pride with maximum stealth. It looks, at a glance, like so many other CBP analog Casios nobody gives a damn about. But careful inspection shows the gentle curve of the band such as most Casios do not have, the sculpted resin case with sharply delineated edges and the powdery matte texture applied. The dial, likewise is all black with angular but slim white ‘floating’ hands.

It has a display back which is a cool feature but more importantly allows checking the power reserve, due to the open mainspring barrel. I’ve showered with it on, no issues. Swimming should also be okay. I’m not sure why Swatch made the buckle lock quite so securely but I guess it’s one of their trademark features.

Everything is supposed to be made of plant based plastic resin which is much stronger than PU and other Casio rubbers, aside from their hi-end carbon reinforced ones. If eventually you do break your strap, it will cost a tenth of your watch to replace. And the crystal is acrylic which is both good and bad depending on your skill with polywatch polishing. So far, I’ve picked up only minor scratches that don’t show.

Accuracy, OOTB was good but since I bought it, it went from 3s off daily to 20s off daily. And I never dropped it. And if I did, it would not be serviceable anyway. It has this disposable vibe which I think is cool to feel. A watch, like time itself, never stays forever. It moves up (or down) and we move on from it without attachment -which is unspiritual.

Now I can sell off my collection, knowing I won’t miss my grail. More later…

Seems Swatch recommends not swimming with the AM51, and that crown up is its slowest position, almost 0s gain per day. Otherwise it gains roughly 1s per hour on wrist.

Work is resuming…

I glued the final arrow down with superglue, having bound it 2 days ago. Also been coding with more pace. The Liew witches are marauding again, with a fresh army of older kids from America. Not sure what to do. May head out with Mom for mamak at noon. Feel bad that I can’t help all the time, free kids and babies. Think we need to power on the Liews a bit more cleverly.

I associated all the ASCII to the stroke bitmaps. Now to detect a quadrant -begin to a space -end. Can’t believe it’s so difficult. My brain isn’t what it used to be.

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Came back from a walk thru the park with Dad. Am dieting well, and lost 1kg over the past few days. Tomorrow, I need to go on a long sunny walk. Pumped up my bike tyres as they were flat. Someday I plan to ride it. Plan to do all sorts of fun things. We were in action against the Liew witchy army as they tried to disfigure every pretty Malaysian Chinese girl -cripes! And to blame my ‘horny nature’ for it. We had no choice but to muster some forces and fight back. The aftermath must now be somewhat awful on all sides. Actually, people shouldn’t fight in mindspace -I told them many times.

While powers were flying, I was umm… coding, somehow, and got pretty far into the stroke matching algorithm. Plan to finish that part tonight unless I’m bumped off midways. After that to code the ceDict interface.

Broke to talk moderation between east and west. We talked about the oppression of Islam by white people and after that, the failings of America as a nation. How Asia and Europe in general are different. This is all over the news but politeness glosses it over. It will soon be necessary to know politics and anthropology  besides our religions.

Facing difficulty parsing the strokes thru the stroke dictionary as they can combine in different ways. I have to solve this before bed and I’m getting sleepy after taking my meds. Was gassy, now much more comfortable. Disinfected my room with some diluted spray.

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Coding is wrapping up, now on to beta testing. There is a lot to check and adjust. Right now am filtering ceDict queries which are too verbose.

It’s 1am, and instead of working, I went online shopping. Bought a lower mid end Garmin watch for 999RM. Being prevented from coding but must get the ceDict integration done tonight. Got it. Easy. Will attempt to debug the image matching soon, or early tomorrow. Just basically scattering print() statements.

Rainy days are here again...

Almost 5pm, and it's begun to rain as Sis treats Mom's boil / sore in an embarrassing location. Dad is no longer coughing much. I sprayed down my room with some diluted Dettol clone disinfectant. All too easy to catch a disease here in poorer quarters, our shoebox.

I will be coding soon, as I'm done with the chores, and Sis brought bakkuteh over for our dinner so we don't have to cook. I got her a latte.

I need to get a list of Chinese characters into a text file, then process them into bitmaps. There seems to be some in ceDict.

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There came a question from one of my friends about sex versus love etc. I have always maintained that sex is purer than love as it is biological, whereas love, and much of the same is false in God’s eyes. I will explain.

When a man an woman settle down, they raise a family together and it has integrity, just like birds and their fledglings, we need to learn how to fly, how to be mature, and it takes dozens of years during which ups and downs require parental assistance. Humans are never far from family and its constraints.

When a man and woman have sex because they are attracted, and they settle down it its actually okay. But when men and women share sex without wanting to settle down, it removes a chunk from 2 extended families, it is “sexually immoral”.

When a divorce is agreed on, it depends on who’s still available for who is also divorced. Otherwise, as Jesus says, we run the risk of damaging society.

When a married couple decides to have sex because they feel the urge, it is not to make a baby, but to cement friendship aka cooperation and renew their partnership. When the urge is frequent, it usually means that it was good and healthsome, emotionally and physically. It’s like eating Burger King. Sex for sport is good in the Lord’s eye. But be sure to obey the basic laws of privacy and avoid jealousy.

When people fall out of love, and they each go elsewhere, it is adultery. See how love is a dirty emotion in this case. A marriage built on pure human love is sure to fail over a partnership with many reasons for being in, money, sex, fame, status, friendship, memories, etc. Be sure that you find many happinesses in your love before you marry.

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Am pulling an all nighter to code FastCN. Taking a short break before I match strokes next. Then TAB to search ceDict for each (possible) character.

Talked to young people about sex and our bodies, how men and women are different and why, and how to be friends and to trust before beginning a relationship. How to stay healthy as young individuals, and consume the right foods leading up to reproductive age.

Was able to compile every stroke and character into bitmaps. Now comes the fudging bit -see if Pillow will match what I give it. There are about 30 different strokes and you need 8k characters but right now I only have circa 3k. It should be expandable tho.

Getting into gear coding, almost 1am. I’m thinking of the pace of end times paranoia, if it’s getting wilder. And I thought of the Liew witches, taught them how to balance their minds and hearts and their background thoughts, to control negative emotions without blaming others and to banish worries.

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Not quite what I used to be, I fell asleep at 1am-ish instead of coding FastCN. Just back from a run, I need to buy bread and maybe some curry from the grocer in 10 minutes. Due to my stroke, I couldn't go direct but had to sit down and cool off, rest my brain nerves a bit.

Writing the ascii2stroke() function is proving fun if a little laborious. Other than that, most things were done by Google AI. I need to composite strokes somehow and that isn't obvious yet.

2 weeks till my next Arip jab at psych clinic.

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I can’t seem to do any work tonight, past 8pm. The Liew witchy army is out in force, preying on American toddlers, kids, and newborns. I have to formulate a plan or technique but I’m not very smart, just clairvoyant. Was thinking of showing them hell, the second death through a very small hole in a cave wall so they can feel secure as well as see the pain and frustration of the damned.

My other projects are moving forward…

I don’t know why I never agreed with arrow fletching press jigs, fancy glue, double sided tape or thread bindings. It just wasn’t the way I worked. I eyeball things a lot and adjust them bit by bit so the above tools and methods stress me out. I never got round to properly re-fletching my arrows after the rubber vanes started peeling apart. 10 years was well enough to rot those.

Last year I got turkey feather vanes which are cool because they are curved. There are L and R curves and you want to use either or, not mixed. The extra drag from feathers which are in fact stiff, plus their curve, thus spin, cause the arrow to fly truer than synthetic vanes can do and so these are sometimes used in indoor competitions even with compound bows.

So what I had was very sticky wall tack and some thin stretchy 3M tape. I set the feathers in place by eyeballing a triangle with the index feather above the nock gap, tacking it there with the too sticky wall tack. Snipped a bit of feather off the front and back of each vane so I could tape them in place. 

After winding the tape round enough times, I discovered I had shifted the whole thing off the nock gap. A slight turn with a pair of grippy pliers was all it needed. I can easily drop regular superglue on later if required but they seem quite secure as is.

My projects are a little too many for the Liew witches to stop entirely so this night, I got to fletch arrows -something I started earlier 2025.

Earlier, on YapsDiary, I invented (hopefully I was first) a peep replacement so you don’t have to squint ever again. It’s really a slip ring that’s calibrated for gravity or an offset of it thus ensuring sight to string kiss linearity. There could be a shroud around the slip ring light which can be angularly adjusted.

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I drew all the strokes of Chinese characters and am ready to image match. Also started fletching the final 3rd arrow. Swept the floors and will mop in half an hour as Dad is feeling unwell. Was supposed to run today. Maybe tomorrow morning. Looks like rain again.

I'm scaling back my goals regarding the Chinese learning thing...

Since a friend of mine (some friends actually) want to sell it, I will only be doing the computerized version, not publishing the concept on Pinterest. This notation is an extension of my ChiCN entry notation but while that was for entering Chinese, this new notation will be to learn to read and speak it easily.

I will be leveraging some AI to make this language thing work well. And the input taken is like this, 

^^0+ means a cross in a box in the top right quadrant

_)      means a sweep or tail in the lower left quadrant

__x   means a cross legs in the lower right quadrant

^-+     means a cross on a line in the top left quadrant

So a string of characters might look like this:  

^^0+ _) __x ^-+ 

This afternoon will be working with AI to recognize the pattern. Maybe use Python.

I borrowed all the code I need from Google Gemini AI. Now just to tweak it to work together. Might take a few hours. Almost mid afternoon.

I need to write a fuzzy matcher / compositer to tie all the AI generated stuff together. Might be a little involved and I don't want to AI this part because it's patentable and I might be caught for it.

So far so good. I have the font rendered as a bitmap. Used Google's plain and blocky Noto TC font. Thinking I will make the applet as an interactive loop leveraging ceDict.

Was thinking I need another layer on top of the ASCII, for example, 0 is supposed to be a box but doesn't look like it. The plot thickens.

Also may need a positioner function so that box overlaps the character's box -if present.

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Spent the latter part of the afternoon cooking for Dad and myself and later explaining Christianity's weaknesses to Moslems persuaded by the Liew 6 to question their faith as a superior faith. I refer everyone to Abraham -the father of all Faith on earth. We have common ground in that his children will be numerous as the stars and their place in heaven will be great. Do not be deceived by serpent-like people such as LiLian and Barneous, and their parents. For then we lose Faith. We lose our protection and our destiny.

Want to pull an all-nighter on FastCN. Will resume after half hour of rest and continue past midnight if necessary.

I made it to another birthday...

I am 7 x 7 today. The 12 months between now and my last birthday were tumultuous, and the last few months have seen ups and downs in the mindspaces as many push their agendas and God's prophecy rolls on despite the protests of millions caught in the fight of their lives. I was overrun, me and Pat, and the home for repentant telepaths that he ran behind my heart.

It's just good to be another year older and not too worse for wear.

Just now, I wiped down the KORG synth I plan to give my nieces. Just a small palm-sized device in gray plastic. It's been with me 8 years. Now it goes to where new music is being created by younger people. 

Sis got me goodies from M&S. Had some of the Royce chocolate and it was good, so was the bread and truffle spreads. I managed to get cleaned well. British forces taking revenge on me for others' revenge on them.

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Sis led us to Tasty Chapatti which serves North Indian food. On the way home, Mom lost her voice. Sis gave me a couple hundred bucks as she's been promoted to a senior position at the hospital. Now I have 100RM or so to spend at the mall tonight. Not sure what I want to get. And it's started to rain.

There was some commotion in mindspace. Can't remember what it was about. I think it was the same 'I cannot survive' rant by the Liew witches, tugging on the westerners. Think I may go on a walk in the sun, tomorrow to the downtown mall. Tonight, just the usual workout and dieting. I lost 1kg since last month. Try to lose another 1kg this month.

Finally figured out my USB wireless mic’s problem connecting to my phone. It was the developer options I had turned on. Now it’s not working again. Maybe I need an OTG adapter.

My blood is normal…

And my Vrig tripod is in the house. Here’s how small it is,

Sitting on a piano bench, it raises my AKG Ara to waist level. Yea it was a discovery that the side holes of the Ara were 1/4" (IIRC) and so could fit onto a standard cold shoe used primarily for cameras. Being a condenser, it picked up my guitar and voice from a distance of about a foot or so without any trouble.

 

I do wish I had the option to raise it half a foot higher but then this is a very compact folding device. At $10, also highly affordable and I can recommend it for people taking their gear on the road. You may have to place it on a box or something sturdy to get the best mic-ing distance. 

You do have to be careful not to step on the feet as they are plastic tho the telescoping rod is metal. The ball joint head is well-made and locks down with the twist of a lever. I think the cold shoe rotating knob is well designed to also function as an angular adjuster as well as securing the mic / camera / what have you.

 

At the asking price, which included same day delivery, there's nothing to complain about. And it helped me get rid of the awful swing arm mount the Ara came with. This looks much more professional.

 

And yes, my blood is normal, said Sis, who is a physician. I have a lease of life for another year. Will work out tonight as I missed last night's. 

A chicken and egg religion…

Only God is good. Humans are all born liars. And if we turn towards God, wouldn’t He reject our paltry worship? Yet to try, and try again, is our fate. To obey a law fulfilled by sacrifice after sacrifice.

But we know God had a plan from the very beginning of creation, for He foresaw the probability of Adam’s fall as 50/50. At the right time and place, to the right people, He revealed his plan and Jesus was born -the Savior.

Salvation remains a mystery to some, as in these latter days, wealth / technology / sexuality lulls us that we may often temporarily believe (I mean act as and subconsciously assume) we are gods. Whereas in the old days, even traveling between towns was a cause for concern, danger lurked and stormy weather.

God was closer to the people he needed to protect for His plan to work where now everything is easy.

I once wrote that in these end times, a man blind to the Savior, deaf to His urgings is loved more than one who sees Jesus and hears Him in their prayers. So it came to be that God thru Messiah, bought the field with the treasure hidden in it. We are saved by Grace, but wait -what sort of man? Anyone around the treasure who steals not -he sees not as it is hidden -he walks thru the field with mundane purpose. Later he is told of the treasure and says yes, I passed it unknowingly. What brother do you think of it then? Good, came the reply -and such a man is taken to Abraham.

It is like a bridegroom to his wedding guests. Jesus told many such parables of the Kingdom. Why should He let in those who are without their wedding garment. Why should he acknowledge a virgin (even) with no light to show herself? It is those who are naked and lightless in the currency of the fallen world that are accepted over those who actually prepare knowingly. And I admit to being the latter tho instead of ensuring my Kingdom reward, I lay mine down along with my earthly rewards, that as Jesus did, I might take them up again.

In the end it is yet sacrifice upon sacrifice but with someone to take you no matter your imperfections. Grace. 

Now to speak on Faith. Jesus said a grain the size of a mustard seed is enough to save a man. What can Faith be but a soft smile, a gentle way of speaking, a ‘you win’ attitude? Even less so -a simple minded acknowledgment of one’s own humble status, a dog under the table of God’s children. From that position, to be doing as the Spirit moves, being a shirt hung in the shade of hot noon, buffeted by the breeze. To know not, even care less, such a garment is put on by Christ and worn proudly in the Kingdom.

Salvation belongs to those whom this fallen world froths up. Think about it.

My things got given away to the needy…

Bunch of people giving away my ideas to others and pressing on my work so I can’t sell it or be famous. Well, today, I came up with partial Chinese character spelling. It relies on quadrants in which you draw the strokes you can remember and the AI fills in the rest. There is strong opposition to this work as well. But I think I will need something to take my mind off the depressing mindspace conditions.

The jealous rage burns in many women. Hell is full of ungrateful women, just as paradise is full of grateful women. This is from Islam. Women can easily fall both ways. Somehow. I don’t really know.

Went for a brief run and will work out in an hour or so. Feeling okay despite the attacks on my person. Need to help some others betrayed by the fallen powers who are helping one another against good people. Earlier, we heard from aliens, omg. Forgot what they said.

There is now some peace after we gave out gifts and other genetic goodies to all sides, even some Liew witches. Hopefully peace will hold and the attacks on the Royals and American industry will stop.

 

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Liew forces fought back and injured many Christians in the west. They also are all over my life, trying to destroy me as one of the stronger believers in Christ here in Malaysia. It may be that I don't survive as I'm now a marked man. Thanks to the west for putting me in front. But nevertheless, I am working on an easier project -Chinese shorthand for learners. It's cool and you can read about it on YapsDiary.blogspot.com -it will take a day or two to put the booklet together. 

A cause for some celebration...

The ABY, the I-Ching, and the Bible agree this day, 8e. Hexagram 58. They agree on the mark of the Beast: it is the name of the Savior!

Read my medium article HERE. Or the short analysis on YapsDiary.blogspot.com where I also reveal the same. And the thing is we had duck and rice for dinner. Both flourish in marsh or "lakes". Hexagram 58 is 'lake upon lake' or marsh-marsh. 

I am overcome (whelmed) by emotion and others who believe -the same. We all fought the good fight and played our roles as best we could. Now the way for Jesus' coming is wide open.

Earlier, I was looking at the Temple Mount and saw there wasn't that much area for constructing the tabernacle. The 3rd Temple may be just a small one, sharing its outer court with the Gentiles as Revelation says (I think Ezekiel as well).

Today was full of chores and it's now almost 8pm, and time for making my game.

Finished God's work and now to program my text adventure game...

It wasn't that hard to complete the writing work Jesus told me to. Now I have all day to code. Liew witches burning my urethra. The whole thing is heating up. It's hard to get any work done. And I have to run circa 5:30pm which is soon.

An abstract empire can be a way to discuss the overarching concepts of colonialism, such as the imposition of a Western view of linear time on colonized regions, notes an article from International Islamic University Malaysia.

The leopard in Daniel 7 was given DOMINION which is an abstract empire. See the above for a definition. These days it would be considered "soft power" or forced cooperation. Surely this was not simply the empire of Alexander the Great?

I believe the leopard was chosen as it is stealthy and the 4 heads symbolize its 4 traits down the ages from the fall of Rome up till today. Each head can be seen as a country in its empire, the anglo-saxons, the goths, the franks, and lombards (this latter information from Google AI). Even today, the British-American, French, German, and Italian hegemony in Europe is maintained. The 4 heads' traits are that which subdued the world, each pursuing a line of philosophy that enraptured the world population. But enough said. We are not in the iron legs -that is implied.

Now on with the coding...

Hit a snag. There's got to be a better / systematic / consistent way of arraying the information. But it's almost 1am and I'm a little sleepy. Worked out and am refreshed. Quite a scare, being assaulted with cancer. Wonder what it was done to cover for?

Think I need to use a more linear table entry method. Something like a football / soccer league match table.

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Figured out the table layout:

1   01   02   03 ... 08

2    A    B    C

3    D    E    F

4    G    H    I

A is the starting point of a matrix. There may be 8 matrices in a game of this size and I recommend a matrix size of 8x8.

2 - 8 and 01 - 08 are fixed pros and contras respectively. Let us say we arrive at 02 and we select a contra path, involving 2, then we continue to B.  If then we go pros, it's down to E etc.

Each time we move across the matrix (A outwards), the plot 2 - 8 01 - 08 thickens, making it harder to determine what to do. Players do not exit the matrix until all they know and must do is done. Therefore the game has control. Each choice correct, counts towards entering the next matrix.

There should be a law that governs backtracking. A state variable array.

Was waylaid to write a Christian booklet…

Already 4pm and I have yet to finish editing the thing: New Teachings from the Bible. If I make it before dinner, I can code my Python text adventure game, Fire Arrow. It’s about bows and the people who master them -those ancient weapons reimagined with modern technology.

Along the way there was the question, is it time for the strong deception to end?

2Th 2:7  For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

2Th 2:10  And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

2Th 2:11  And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

I’m not sure if there was any withholding taken aside, that the mystery of inequity might end. I did feel something slight when I discovered key truths often misinterpreted and published a short heads up on this blog yesterday. Those who read DogBlots must surely come for truth as I went even so, searching for truth and decided to share it, for who puts lamps under a bowl?

As for those who teach or taught these untruths, I sometimes wonder what fate they might meet. For it was really the Lord’s will there be a deception. Yet sometimes… yea I do wonder how I came to play my small role in alerting Christians it might be close to the time Paul mentioned above: the 4th beast of Daniel.

Revelations -reading it again...

With the new knowledge from Daniel 2 (See tag names prophecy, analysis : Was Reading my Bible with Louise), it's time to re-read Revelations and to see where we are in it and what we can expect to happen at what time frame and in what order.

Did God lie to John of Patmos? Telling him the time was coming soon? Did John therefore rewrite Revelations in order to give us a different impression of the future? One in line with 'sending a strong deception'? Let's read carefully this time.

1. After the 6th SEAL (and only after it) because Rev 7:3 "Hurt not the earth, sea nor trees till the servants of God are sealed" -after the 6th SEAL, can happen the first of the TRUMPETS
2. By this argument, the 4th SEAL has to break and actually END before the 6th seal when the death and wars are held back. Unsure if it resumes again. But one sign is that bad times turn around and for a season there is peace and rejoicing of the faithful. The fact this hasn't happened yet means we are not past the 4th or 5th even.
3. At the 6th SEAL, the faithful in Christ (even Gentiles) are 'Raptured' for lack of a better term. This does not mean I will go with Christ even as I suffer the blows and afflictions to write fellow brothers and sisters this analysis. But it is my great hope to be taken.
4. After this, the 6 TRUMPETS announce woes on mankind who do not repent. During this time, my Pastor told me, Jesus is on the earth but has yet to subdue Satan who is among sinners, in spirit. "The kingdoms of the world are become the kingdom of the Lord and his Christ" -it must be the 2nd coming fulfilled and empowered by the 7th TRUMPET.
5. Then there is the man child "who ruleth the nations with a rod of iron". Who is he and who is his mother? This sequence of verses appears surreal like the Aboriginal Dream Time. My interpretation is that it concerns changes in Heaven and the woman cannot be the World Church or Virgin Mary, but more possibly related to angelic beings. And the supernatural powers of Evil cast out by Angel Michael will cause aberrations on the earth unseen since Biblical times began. Thus the 2 beasts from sea and earth are to be taken as non-human, supernatural evil. They are not the Catholic Church, perhaps not even the Little Horn / Antichrist (if he were human).
6. After the 7 VIALS / CENSERS, the islands and mountains that moved whence the 6th SEAL broke, totally disappear and the cities of men were totally destroyed.
7. Notice that the angels tell John how the spirit of Satan will finally be destroyed -there are 7 mountains, 7 kings -one of which is yet to come, and one of which was 'reborn' (was, is not, is to come). 5 of them appear to be 'fallen', meaning they are proceeding to rule and all in all 10 kings will rule with the supernatural Evil for one hour. The GREAT CITY could be a city yet to be declared World Capital. It might be anywhere but is most probably Rome.

More later... 

Was doing some research into the ‘city on the 7 hills’, There apparently are 2 others that deserve mention: San Francisco and Jerusalem. I guess these will be top candidates for World Capital once we have a one world government and one world economy instead of a secret ‘system’ of mutual compliance.

I also want to talk more on the wondrous signs in heaven. Perhaps (and I may be wrong), Jesus’ own son is the male child with the iron scepter. For how can the mother be so unusually depicted were she not supernatural herself? The remnant of her seed… who are they, if one of them were caught up to God’s throne and set to rule? Is the woman the emanation of Sophia of gnostic tradition?

Partner to Christ: Some Gnostic traditions also see Sophia as a divine partner to Christ, or even as a symbolic representation of the Holy Spirit. —Google AI.

And the 2 beasts, why is one from the sea and other, the land? I was thinking that Rev mentions where many things come out from: the beast from the bottomless pit, the 4 angels bound at the Euphrates, locusts out of smoke out of bottomless pit. And it struck me that unlike the horses and riders which emanated out of nowhere, some things came out of actual locations. They were on earth waiting, underwater waiting, in the gas of the subterranean, waiting -these supernatural / inhuman entities.

I'm making a Python script adventure game for CLI...

...Based on my newly drafted design principles. And -I am stuck with some kind of prevention block. It seemed easy to start with now it's gotten very complex. I am using Visual Studio Code (Python mode) and the IDE is pretty good on an 8GB machine from 10 years ago running Ubuntu latest version.

The game is called FireArrow and is about bows and shooting arrows and a betrayal (implied from the beginning). No spoilers. I am partways thru filling out the arrays which I'm linking row by row of 8 between 8 such arrays. This ought to create enough depth.

It has no pretty pictures, just a Y/N/Back prompt. Just a proof of concept but one on a pet topic of mine so it should play pretty interesting. I don't know exactly how it ends yet.

Was reading my Bible with Louise…

…Who suggested intermarriages between nations should begin. And reading Daniel 2, we came across the worrying verse that the bronze empire would rule over the WHOLE earth. Which empire ever did that. It must be one yet to come, ahead of “Atlantis” who are like iron to our clay.

But the concerning issues are how to prepare for world domination against the evil telepathic Liews? We were give 5 principle strategies:

1. Raise more babies and kids withe the Holy Spirit (I did this already and it is spreading)
2. Close gaps between countries including East and West
3. Settle all trade disputes and declare one world economy, one world government
4. Declare the universality of Christ
5. Before these, place the world under military rule / emergency measures

The thing about these 5 critical events is they are being prevented by the witchy Liew 6. We successfully cleared the dozens of suffering telepathy centers in Christian America and in the UK(?) by blending them into a soup so LiLian and co. can’t pick on all of us to spear businesses and powerful people worldwide. We are quite content, having added enough ‘spice’ which I had overlooked.

The thing is to outsmart the witches as the empire of the end is not now but later. However, according to Pastor, the time of Jesus’ return is near at hand. Then comes a beast empire aka Atlantis to try and destroy the Son of Man. So knowing this, a few things are obvious we should do,

Firstly, that we must shorten the days till Christ’s coming, secondly, we must make His road straight and clear, and finally, we must stage a revival of Spirit, being simply our gasoline that drives us to be good and brave. The result of this may be shocking: the witches will begin the falling away from the faith and try to destroy the world church via handover of power to 666. Here I am obscuring some mechanisms so be aware, there are good men who may take the fall including myself if necessary, exiled or imprisoned, even martyred tho it is unlikely.

To shorten the days requires that money run out -use money up. To make Jesus’ road straight requires the universality of Messiah -gather the faithful of all faiths to pray for the world. The revival of Spirit is the seeding of blesseds around the world. Don’t worry about all these, they are all related and will fall into place at the appointed time when God’s people reach critical mass. Pray every day for it as I have shown you how to pray. Raise and raise your request until it comes closer to God’s notice by making it closer to the Kingdom fulfilled and come each raise.

Major progress on Frag

Clearing the play area became task #1 but I couldn't do it well. Some pods broke apart partially and then disappeared. Some fragments would hang around forever.

That's when I hit on the idea that every piece launched would last for about 4 seconds before they disappeared by gradual shrinking in the update function. Pods would lose their joints and also disappear.

This allows for natural physics interactions instead of abrupt removals that don't satisfy the player. Now tho, I need to up the launching of ships and maybe do a constant firing thing for the player as waves of enemy pods try to crush the home base. 

Planning on making this tonight as it's already time to start dinner. Just over a week from today's my hospital psych clinic appointment with blood test. I can diet for another week I guess, and walk / run a few times between now and then.

Thinking I will trigger the AI to move autonomously in touchesBegan and touchesDidMove and stop the flow of enemies in touchesEnd. Launching ships may be harder to control, maybe just speed up and slow down? Not sure how to do continuous firing. Maybe call makePods in touchesBegan. I would have to move the pod launcher forward tho.

I was posting on Substack, on dangerous waters. And would like to tease everyone in trouble with the one liner from Jesus,

Rev 22:11  He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

And add to it this encouragement,

Rev 22:12  And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

Don’t let people push you around. You do your works and you stick to your guns. Fully knowing of your reward or none thereof.

At this point, it’s vital to point out SPIRITUAL development comes from sticking to your principles from young. Solomon says remember your Creator whence you were youngest.

So of course, rev 22:11 by Jesus becomes rather more potent and to some a must do or die fate.

There was a request to further explain. So here goes. You tend to do best when you do what you believe in. It works for you. Keeps you safest. On the other hand, you may know of better ways (rewarding ways) which need that something you should have learnt earlier, now out of reach. This is when you are born again, not when Peter or Paul tells you something concerning, but when YOU believe different and can see the real rewards of Christ you’d been missing. Any change in you must be a worship to attain the requisite blessing.

I used to wonder about others and their ways / beliefs, but now I realize that their time and my time were not in sync and we pulled apart / annoyed one another. To everything there is a season said Solomon.

But to those in trouble like the evil Liews who well know the chocolate of Jesus sharp sword, it does seem nobody can help no matter what. And to those who fear the Lord and are in error, of course a course correction is required! A brother or sister will help, no questions asked. Are we not all children of God?

Church is not a dangerous place -you can quote me, Otherwise, it isn’t a church!

I guess that’s all for now.

 

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Frag is now firing sanely and I am able to proceed with the pod convoy launches which the firing is supposed to protect. Unfortunately, pieces gone off screen still linger behind and I can't solve that bug yet. So I broke off to design an adventure game in Python for CLI using my new game design rules.