Early Version

While Jesus was having dinner at Levi's house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: 'Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?'On hearing this, Jesus said to them, 'It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.'

the Gospel according to Mark, 2:15-17. NIV translation

💬 shall you know them by the company they keep?

💡 a man is in a room with three lepers. according to the Bayesian, there is a ⅘ chance that man is also a leper.

🔥 As the clock began its chime, the man closed his eyes, in a private disbelief of the outside world. If the clock chimed 3PM, he would awake as a doctor, here on his hourly rounds. If the clock chimed 3:30PM, he would awake as a patient, suffering from leprosy like all the others.

🔥 When faced with the life of a leper, would he pray for a cure? Or would he live his life in 接受. 人 are born and then they die. The young may struggle against this order for a while, but eventually the universe always wins.

⚔️ well, actually, if the man knows what leprosy and Bayes' theorem are, in what sense can he be imagined to have amnesia about his past?

⚙️ 接受 (普通话 JIE1 SHOU4) is translated as "acceptance"

I wake up and feel determined that today shall be a fast day; that I shall consume nothing other than water and black coffee.

Twenty minutes later, I see an ad for a pizza delivery restaurant, and consider eating the whole thing in one day 午饭吃半个比萨，晚饭吃另一半比萨.

⚙️ 比萨 (普通话 BI3 SA4), meaning pizza, is one of the few English "loan words" in Chinese.

💡 i have found that the lack of loan-words is one of the nice things about Chinese. bahasa Indonesia has tons of them, which is fine. Korean is in the uncanny valley, where they are more an annoyance than a convenience.

💬 "linguistic purity"? Is it inherently bad to acknowledge the concept? We live in a world where both 学习语言 and 纯度 are negative-coded.

A 人 must choose to fast a hundred times per day, but need only choose to eat once.

💭 i have been on a spiritual journey for some time.

💡 a Note, from the broadcast of the Cocodona 250.

When you embark on a 仪式 (duration: ~36h), it may make sense to work through the night with no rest. When you embark on a 仪式 (duration: ~60h), one must make a period to sleep, for at least 4 hours.

仪式 - "Ritual"

⚙️ the word 仪式 (普通话 YI2 SHI4)

📣 (unintelligible japanese)

Well I'm sorry, Lana, I didn't go to rabbinical school.

"Malory Archer", Archer (TV series 02014)

i have been dreaming of 条 things.

the thing I like about watching this Cododona 250 is how short it is.

💬 surely you mean "How long!"

💡 no, how short. long compared to an ordinary footrace, yes. but compared to a lifetime, the cocodona is short. it is born and dies, all in the same week.

According to the Microsoft Corporation, my account is located in Bolivia.

💡 wait, now we get “Start Writing"? what … was … the last … thing … ???

"It was a pleasure to burn" - opening line of Fahrenheit 451.

you train a neural network. the question is: who is it talking to?

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there are many reasons that a person's face might be on a tentpole.

trust not in those who w..o..r..s..h..i..p mirrors.