Articles tagged with "brother"

The past two months, but the end of June especially, have been a busy period in the cultiverse, with news bringing good, bad, and complicated feelings for survivors. In this edition, I'll be sharing updates on groups we've previously covered and breaking stories relevant to the cultiverse on both sides of the Tasman. However, the recent guilty verdict in the 'Ark' murder investigation will not be covered this week, as it will be explored at a later date. The Bill Gothard and Christian Brothers sections address topics of a sensitive nature, such as suicide and intimate partner violence; if that's not for you, then feel free to skip this article.

This one surprised me a little. I fed GPT-2 about a dozen holy texts, with the intention of generating some text that was their distilled, combined wisdom. Instead, what I received each time I ran the generator was an attempt to recreate text from just one of the books I'd trained it on. The results are impressive - although the text generated by deep learning doesn't always make a huge amount of sense, I think it could be reasonably argued that the same is the case for genuine holy texts!

Kelvin Cruickshank has made the news because he's promoting a new book - "Surrounded by Spirit". In the book he claims he talked with the spirit of Jonah Lomu at a show last year, apparently unaware that Jonah's brother John was in the audience:

Noel Townsley shares what he learnt at UFOs and their Spiritual Mission, a conference held by Share International NZ at Mt Eden Village Centre, Auckland.

IT'S nothing short of a miracle that this issue has made it to the mailbox. For the last six months the family, including our cat and retired cattle dog, have been living in a small housetruck. (Just as well we farmed out the rabbits, mice and fish). The reason for our spartan existence is we are in the middle of building a rammed earth house. Not only do we fill buckets with the best of the builders, we, or should I say I, also feed them. (Nothing is too good for our boys.)