The Chosen People According to the Bible

Verses from the King James Version (KJV) talking about God's Chosen People.

Romans 1:16, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek."

Romans 2:28, "For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God."

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Both X and Reddit now restrict Rev 2:9 and Rev 3:9

I just mentioned "Rev 2:9 and Rev 3:9" on Reddit, together with telling someone they might consider whether the Bible is true, and received an immediate three day ban for doing this. They call it a violation of "Rule 1" namely "identity-based hate or attacks".

These verses from the KJV Bible read:

Revelation 2:9, "I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan."

Revelation 3:9, "Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee."

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Western Wall visitors

List at https://thekotel.org/en/uncategorized-en/public-figures and https://wallwailers.org/.

Trump & Ivanka

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The Jewish Messiah

Some interesting links by creekbendz on Reddit.

In 2022, various prominent rabbis explained that "the Messiah is just about to reveal himself", according to israel today.

According to Israel News, it would have taken Trump "a miracle to win" in 2016. Next, "King David also had to overcome great opposition in order to establish his kingship,” Rabbi Berger told Breaking Israel News. “Trump connected to that. This cycle was completed when the president recognized Jerusalem as the true capital of the Jewish People, just as King David did."

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COVID vs Oil Crisis

COVID declared a pandemic on 11/3 (11*3=33) 2020.

On 11/3 2026, the IEA wrote "The IEA Secretariat will provide further details of how this collective action will be implemented in due course. It will also continue to closely monitor global oil and gas markets and to provide recommendations to Member governments, as needed."

Coincidences Encyclopedia

This is the home page for the book Coincidences Encyclopedia published 2nd of April, 2026.

The encyclopedia discusses various coincidences that I came across in the last year, and is placed in the public domain. The book discusses various topics including Aleister Crowley, the Crusaders, Mao Zedong, and how they relate.

coincidences.pdf (8.3 MB)

To verify that the PDF has not been changed, you can verify that its SHA-256 hash matches the following:

$ sha256sum coincidences.pdf
18bd07fa6a1e253b70ffbde9cc596436135925c253589bc43256735417f8cdcb  coincidences.pdf

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Granting Explicit ACL Access to a File on Linux

Say there is a file, openui/open-webui/webui.db, and you want to have write access to it without using sudo.

The most reliable way is to not use various chown and chmod commands, but instead use setfacl, which is available on Debian via apt install acl.

To first check the permissions, run namei,

$ namei -mo openui/open-webui/webui.db
f: openui/open-webui/webui.db
 drwxrwxr-x rik rik openui
 drwxrwxr-x 777 rik open-webui
                     webui.db - Permission denied

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Ani Ma'amin

I came across a video of a Purim celebration in Tel Aviv on Mar 14 2025. The party looks like any generic non-religious party you would expect.

To my surprise, however, the crowd was singing something messiach (messiah) around 0:32.

After a bit of searching, it turns out the crowd is most likely singing the Ani Ma'amin (1915) song by Simeon Singer.

The lyrics that the crowd sing between 0:37 and 0:49 are

Ani ma'amin
b'e munah sh'leimah
b'viat ha mashiach,
Ani ma'amin.
mashiach, mashiach, mashiach

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More Accurate Speech Recognition with whisper.cpp

I have been using OpenAI's whisper for a while to convert audio files to text. For example, to generate subtitles for a file, I used

whisper "$INPUT_FILE" -f srt --model turbo --language en

Especially on long files, this would sometimes over time change it's behavior leading to either extremely long or extremely short sentences (run away). Also, whisper took a long time to run.

Luckily, there is whisper-cpp. On my system with an M2 Pro chip, this can now run speech recognition on a 40 minute audio file in a few minutes instead of half an hour.

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