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  1. Reading up on #Wellington #Water #Works, it seems that
    Rates are going down by a whopping $10-$15 a week
    Water rates are coming in at about $50/week.
    A 30%~ish raise in rates for everyone, despite promises of no extreme increases

  2. A quotation from Brennan Manning

    The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds. I drop hints about the absolute priority of meditation and contemplation to create the impression that I am a man of prayer. At some unremembered moment I have lost the connection between internal purity of heart and external works of piety. In the most humiliating sense of the word, I have become a legalist. I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

    Brennan Manning (1934-2013) American author, laicized priest, theologian, speaker [Richard Francis Xavier Manning]
    The Ragamuffin Gospel, ch. 7 “Paste Jewelry and Sawdust Hot Dogs” (1990)

    More about this quote: wist.info/manning-brennan/8348…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #brennanmanning #appearances #faithandworks #intention #legalism #legalist #motivation #motive #performance #purpose #sin #virtue #wordsanddeeds #works

  3. "…a damning new study could put #AI companies on the defensive. In it, #Stanford and #Yale researchers found compelling evidence that #AImodels are actually copying all that data, not “learning” from it. Specifically, four prominent LLMs — OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, xAI’s Grok 3, and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet — happily #reproduced lengthy excerpts from #popular — and #protected#works, with a stunning degree of #accuracy."

    futurism.com/artificial-intell

  4. A quotation from Will Rogers

    If some of those Birds would spend their time following His example instead of trying to figure out His mode of arrival and departure, they would come nearer getting confidence in their Church.

    Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
    Column (1924-01-20), “Weekly Article: Send Mexico Our Wooden Ships, Too”
    [58]

    More info about this quote: wist.info/rogers-will/79044/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #WillRogers #example #Jesus #belief #Christianity #church #goodworks #theology #wordsanddeeds #works #organizedreligion #religion

  5. A quotation from Will Rogers

    If some of those Birds would spend their time following His example instead of trying to figure out His mode of arrival and departure, they would come nearer getting confidence in their Church.

    Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
    Column (1924-01-20), “Weekly Article: Send Mexico Our Wooden Ships, Too”
    [58]

    More info about this quote: wist.info/rogers-will/79044/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #WillRogers #example #Jesus #belief #Christianity #church #goodworks #theology #wordsanddeeds #works #organizedreligion #religion

  6. A quotation from Will Rogers

    If some of those Birds would spend their time following His example instead of trying to figure out His mode of arrival and departure, they would come nearer getting confidence in their Church.

    Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
    Column (1924-01-20), “Weekly Article: Send Mexico Our Wooden Ships, Too”
    [58]

    More info about this quote: wist.info/rogers-will/79044/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #WillRogers #example #Jesus #belief #Christianity #church #goodworks #theology #wordsanddeeds #works #organizedreligion #religion

  7. A quotation from Will Rogers

    If some of those Birds would spend their time following His example instead of trying to figure out His mode of arrival and departure, they would come nearer getting confidence in their Church.

    Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
    Column (1924-01-20), “Weekly Article: Send Mexico Our Wooden Ships, Too”
    [58]

    More info about this quote: wist.info/rogers-will/79044/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #WillRogers #example #Jesus #belief #Christianity #church #goodworks #theology #wordsanddeeds #works #organizedreligion #religion

  8. A quotation from The Bible

       Jesus also told this parable to people who were sure of their own goodness and despised everybody else. “Once there were two men who went up to the Temple to pray: one was a Pharisee, the other a tax collector.
       “The Pharisee stood apart by himself and prayed, ‘I thank you, God, that I am not greedy, dishonest, or an adulterer, like everybody else. I thank you that I am not like that tax collector over there. I fast two days a week, and I give you one tenth of all my income.’
       “But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even raise his face to heaven, but beat on his breast and said, ‘God, have pity on me, a sinner!’
       “I tell you,” said Jesus, “the tax collector, and not the Pharisee, was in the right with God when he went home. For those who make themselves great will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be made great.”
     
       [Εἶπεν δὲ καὶ πρός τινας τοὺς πεποιθότας ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτοῖς ὅτι εἰσὶν δίκαιοι καὶ ἐξουθενοῦντας τοὺς λοιποὺς τὴν παραβολὴν ταύτην· Ἄνθρωποι δύο ἀνέβησαν εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν προσεύξασθαι, ὁ εἷς Φαρισαῖος καὶ ὁ ἕτερος τελώνης.
       ὁ Φαρισαῖος σταθεὶς πρὸς ἑαυτὸν ταῦτα προσηύχετο, Ὁ θεός, εὐχαριστῶ σοι ὅτι οὐκ εἰμὶ ὥσπερ οἱ λοιποὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἅρπαγες, ἄδικοι, μοιχοί, ἢ καὶ ὡς οὗτος ὁ τελώνης· νηστεύω δὶς τοῦ σαββάτου, ἀποδεκατῶ πάντα ὅσα κτῶμαι.
       ὁ δὲ τελώνης μακρόθεν ἑστὼς οὐκ ἤθελεν οὐδὲ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἐπᾶραι εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν, ἀλλ᾽ ἔτυπτεν τὸ στῆθος αὐτοῦ λέγων, Ὁ θεός, ἱλάσθητί μοι τῷ ἁμαρτωλῷ.
       λέγω ὑμῖν, κατέβη οὗτος δεδικαιωμένος εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ παρ᾽ ἐκεῖνον· ὅτι πᾶς ὁ ὑψῶν ἑαυτὸν ταπεινωθήσεται, ὁ δὲ ταπεινῶν ἑαυτὸν ὑψωθήσεται.]

    The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
    Luke 18: 9-14, “The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector” [GNT (1992 ed.)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/bible-nt/35493/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bible #newtestament #jesus #parable #faithandworks #arrogance #ego #hubris #humility #legalism #pride #repentance #selfimportance #selfrighteousness #sin #sinner #works

  9. “It just felt right to try something new” — Jamal Musiala explains move to Bayern Munich from Chelsea FC

    Jamal Musiala’s move to Ba…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Soccer #bavarian #bayern #bayern-munich-transfer-news-rumors #bayern-munich-transfer-rumors-news #chelsea #explains #fc #felt #Football #from #front-page #it #jamal #just #move #munich #musiala #new #right #soccer-sg #something #Sports #to #transfer-rumors #try #works
    newsbeep.com/us/25330/

  10. “It just felt right to try something new” — Jamal Musiala explains move to Bayern Munich from Chelsea FC

    Jamal Musiala’s move to Ba…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Soccer #bavarian #bayern #bayern-munich-transfer-news-rumors #bayern-munich-transfer-rumors-news #chelsea #explains #fc #felt #Football #from #front-page #it #jamal #just #move #munich #musiala #new #right #soccer-sg #something #Sports #to #transfer-rumors #try #works
    newsbeep.com/us/25330/

  11. My Memory is a #hobo
    he decides when it's time for his smoke break.

    #EndeavorOS
    EDIT: I have to remark! THIS IS a super-dumbed-down version of what #Endeavor can do. I mean, it's decked out as #KDE

    I can't rem how to use those desktops.
    that's #XFCE if you didn't know from the mouse.

    looks like mate to me! i dunno. but i have #deskbar auto-collapsing at right - fancy stuff back in 2007 or so! reminds me of my 00's desktops! i hate icons.

    #works for me! I can do this. NOte. i'm not bitching about the #Linux #Screenshot software!
    maybe i need this!

  12. "When a #new #project is getting #started, the most important thing is to just get going. Start #doing the thing you said #you were going to #do. #Prove that it #works. Prove that #people #care. Prove that the #mission and #purpose you've #chosen is one that #matters. When you #start out, few #people are #affected by your #decisions, and you're lucky if anyone #cares at all about what you're doing." #GhostBlog john.onolan.org/democratising-

  13. I spotted this little #hoonicorn in the carpark in #Salthill , #Galway yesterday. It's a #Suzuki #Alto #Works a #JDM #kei car that was intended as an enthusiast model. And even more unusual, it's the #Turbo model, and manual! I researched getting one imported to #Ireland a few years ago, I'm rather pleased to see someone else has!

    One for #WeirdCarMastodon

  14. @CJP @bodhidave
    One of the functions of religion is #Community. Which creates a social contract for members involving #Rites and practices.

    #Jesus said we would know them by their fruits. If you are #SavedByGrace you do the #Works not because they will #Save you, because you are #Saved. Which comes first is debatable, though you can't have one without the other.

    Jesus also recognized the #Humanity in every person and modeled #Radical #Inclusion .