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jacksonastone — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:36:08 +0000

Got the protestant and catholic now. Orthodox I am discovering is not a simple matter of "just include the canon"!

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jacksonastone — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:46:12 +0000

They are now optionally included based on the canon you pick

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jacksonastone — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:45:46 +0000

6x'd the speed if you wanted to try again

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jacksonastone — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:56:35 +0000

Ah very interesting. For this one, I had to dig up an older repo I made where I converted WEB translation into one big json file to make it easier to work with. Not sure the formats exposed and how... pliable? they are. (https://github.com/jacksonStone/Bible_as_JSON)

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jacksonastone — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:36:53 +0000

Yeah a drop down list like that would be sweet. I think you'd have to format / find the open source version / translation of that text. Finding a well formatted and readable, public use (not just nkjv for example) was tricky For WEB I had to do a good b it of data massaging to get it in a consumable format..

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jacksonastone — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:43:20 +0000

I think their point is if you are a reader of Paul's work and the surrounding text you can deduce pretty soundly he isn't saying take turns in mutual abuse, but something else. Big picture, Christianity has a central, and odd tension, of sacredness of individual, but also perfect unity in community. The Trinity as the prime example. But marriage also as two flesh becoming one. Much of Christian writing is how to resolve that seeming contradiction (individuality with perfect unity and love)

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jacksonastone — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:32:16 +0000

Yeah just made repo public: https://github.com/jacksonStone/cross-cannon

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jacksonastone — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:30:36 +0000

Yes! looks like yours has more features (I considered generating the audio) FWIW I observed that the embedding gives the most signal when I pass whole paragraphs (for all I know the Quran is in lyrical verse so maybe that doesn't work)

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jacksonastone — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:29:19 +0000

I wonder if polytheistic toaster would be more or less... ambitious.

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jacksonastone — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:28:37 +0000

I'll just open source it, just a sec (keep in mind, vibe coded :D)

https://github.com/jacksonStone/cross-cannon

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jacksonastone — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:58:30 +0000

shots fired!

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jacksonastone — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:54:06 +0000

I wanted to know it was only returning source. My suspicions always go up when I have the LLM lean on its "deep memories". too much fluff, inconsistent translations, stuff like that.

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jacksonastone — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:53:00 +0000

You could make the case I've just been indoctrinated in this stuff (genuine believer) but I take that to be a profoundly progressive verse given the context Paul is writing. Notice the symmetry.

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jacksonastone — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:50:37 +0000

Groups by paragraphs when collecting embedding

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jacksonastone — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:50:12 +0000

WEB translation of Protestant Canon, but your point is a good one. I will kick the agents.

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jacksonastone — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:44:46 +0000

Ah no it doesn't but could be added. The books are listed in the checkbox list

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jacksonastone — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:44:09 +0000

it's basically running on a toaster, sorry

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jacksonastone — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:42:55 +0000

Made this in a free evening. Index an permissive license translation of the Bible (WEB) into a RAG database to allow returning passages of similar semantic meaning. Lots of fun. For example, "more money more problems" returns Ecclesiastes 5:9-13 which, I'll just say, is spot on..

"Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field. He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity. When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes? The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep. There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm."

Anyway - thought it was fun enough to share. It's slow and I vibe coded it so I haven't sorted out how to make it not take 15 seconds to vector search against the full 4GB index.

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jacksonastone — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 07:13:04 +0000

I think more so what Jesus is calling Christians to do is to be forgiving of others in the way God is forgiving to man. Which can often be more difficult of a thing to do than to always seek proportional judgement. I do not think in other words his reading of that verse is all that different from yours.

Somewhat related to this conversation but this reading is clear in my view if you continue to read what Jesus says in this passage :)