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If you want to understand why John Woo is one of the all time bests, all you need to know is in this scene.

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After reading more carefully, aside from numerous mistakes the editors should have caught (Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, Dicastery for Culture and Education), it is apparent the author doesn’t know—and perhaps doesn’t care—what the Liu Institute is actually involved in.

But I can think of a Notre Dame professor who has stirred up scandal on the global stage for her failure to uphold basic Catholic (social) teaching. But the bishop has seemingly only spoke glowingly about her.

What are the odds +Rhoades even knew about the Liu Institute before someone mentioned the new director has pro-choice leanings? I’d be willing to bet that he’s so little interested in the center that nobody in this region where we actually do work with them knows about this so-called scandal.

What does it mean for a community to want to be present—does it mean all members, a majority, an appointed leader determines it? I think even the idea of speaking for a community can/should be challenged on this point, which is where unorganized data may actually be useful—to rupture our categories

Ok, it’s supposed to be the Tsing-Ma Bridge (青馬大橋) which connects a couple islands in HK, but it is *not* red.
Also, this giraffe explanation is the nerdiest symbolism I’ve ever heard of.

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4 most recent HK Bishops’ coats of arms: Stephen Chow (current bishop), Michael Yeung, John Tong, and Joseph Zen. I love that almost all of them have the HK skyline, but I’m bewildered at ++Chow’s giraffe and Golden Gate Bridge? Maybe it’s a bridge between HK and Chinese Mainland, but a giraffe?

But then there are differences that seem to fall between denomination or cultural focus which prove interesting. CCA and WEA were more concerned about AI empowering mission, for example.

I’ve been in some interesting conversations with WCC, CCA and WEA in the past couple months which have been rather illuminating. Virtually all agree that sermon-writing AI is wrong, that person-to-person connection is important, and that AI runs the risk of idolatry.

Most of all, I hate this line “AI is changing the way people worship.” I think that’s mistaking some of the trappings of religious experience with the core part of worship. But I’m also not sure that religious AI enthusiasts understand this distinction.

9 years ago, I had a bit of a debate with Carl Mitcham about whether technologies could be sacred. He said no, and went so far as to say Gutenberg Bibles weren’t sacred because they lost their aura. I disagreed with him then, but AI has made me align more with his view than I wanted.

Recent government documents prove that there *is* a minority population in the US who are far more likely to commit serious crimes and whom you should seriously distrust simply for their belonging to this group. Unfortunately, billionaires control politics and the economy, so don’t expect justice

a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen . ALT: a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .

Porque no los dos?

But the streets *do* feel like Hong Kong, including uncles doing Tai Chi in the park and ubiquitous high rise apartments (though more like Kowloon than HKI). And they nailed the iconic taxis. May put down more thoughts as I go on, but I’d say overall, it gives HK while not *being* HK

Second, places feel…off. The North Point Night Market is a central place, but North Point “Street Market” (night market is a Taiwanese thing) is nothing like the game. Then there’s the temple, which seems to be a Buddhist monastery fronting as a Tin Hau temple while being too big and not Daoist.

Having lived in Hong Kong for now 4 years, I decided to go back to Sleeping Dogs to see how it compares. First impression is the city in the game is nothing like HK. Obviously vg maps are never as big the place they represent, but even the geography, is messed up. Here are real and in-game districts

It really feels like the past decade is shrouded with this fog of amnesia. How did Americans elect Trump a second time? How did they forget the anger at Obama’s deportation and war policies? How did they forget about the Proud Boys and other fascist agitators?

Probably not relevant to your project, but I do wonder how the Jesuit attitude toward communism frames the role of my bishop (Cardinal Stephen Chow) as a very public face of Catholicism in China, especially since he was the Superior of the Chinese Province before.

I look forward to reading this. It looks like it covers a lot of ground that I am covering in a paper submitted to AIS focused specifically on the Chinese context

UU and Mormons also share an interesting compatibility with transhumanism that you don’t see within orthodox Christianity

Yes, and that’s also what’s deeply revealing here. China’s demands for safety have begun surpassing those of the US (although this could be read more cynically as state support of BYD and other Chinese EVs over Tesla).

Not sure if you’re trying to say the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was Protestant or if you’re misunderstanding me. I don’t consider Mormons to be Protestant but they do share Reformation Lineage. For that matter, you could say Hong Xiuquan has a Protestant lineage but developed his own cult from it.

They emerged from the Second Great Awakening in the context of Joseph Smith (by his own account) trying to figure out which Protestant Church was correct. And even though the Book of Mormon is a separate text, it lifts whole chapters from the Bible.

I see. I guess for my part, I would consider you Protestant if you broke away intentionally (Protesting) from communion with Rome (or another Protestant church) and remain doctrinally Christian in a meaningful way. But the traditional mainline/Evangelical split disrupts that view.

Well, wait till you find out how sticky the concept of species is when you’re dealing with advanced biology. Or how we’re fish!

Anglicans do count as Protestants in Chinese, where there isn’t one single word for Christian. When 聖公會 (CoE) was established here, they chose to call themselves 基督教 (Protestant) instead of 天主教 (Catholic), complete with Protestant translations. Do with that information what you please.

I should specify “Roman Catholic” (post-schism) specifically, since I wouldn’t include Maronites, Assyrians and others.
But Mormons and UU don’t consider themselves Protestants, despite having relevant markers for it, so I’m not sure if “lineage to the Reformation” is a sufficient criterion.

Is there a timeline for when you need to have broken from Rome to be a Protestant or are you defining Protestantism in a specific way? Anglicans still look like Catholics except for following the Pope.

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