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[PureInsight.org] My name is Xiao Tong and I live in Tangshan City. On August 12, 2015, my two friends and I went to collect a debt from a company at Tianjin Binhai new district which is close to the Ruihai Logistics Company. We went directly to the company without contacting them first, because it was only an hour’s ride, however, the manager was out and would not be back until evening. We had to stay overnight and collect the payment the following day. After dinner, we visited the busiest street in Binhai returning to the hotel around 9pm when my…
[PureInsight.org] In ancient times, there was a story about a handsome and refined man named Tien. Many of the maidens in his town wanted to marry him before he passed the imperial exam. He then hid in the temple of Nanshan to immerse in his studies. However, many other maidens living adjacent to the temple hoped to marry him too. He couldn’t resist his sexual impulses, even though he knew that it was inappropriate. All of a sudden, a fairly tiny celestial being appeared in a dream, but later followed him in broad daylight. The celestial being said to him,”…
[PureInsight.org] On a summer night a few years ago, my grandson was returning home on his motorcycle on a country road without many people. The road was full of holes. Suddenly, his motorcycle was heading towards a big hole, so he immediately tried to avoid it. Right at that moment, an SUV rushed towards my grandson, and with a “Bang!” they collided. My grandson was knocked to the ground, and his motorcycle landed on top of him. He tried to pull himself out and found that one of his legs was broken with blood oozing out. My grandson called out…
[PureInsight.org] A secretary, working in the prince palace, named Tung E-Lo was relegated to Manas where was governed by Urumqi. He decided to hasten on with his journey at night to avoid bearing up against the sweltering heat. Midway to Urumqi, he took a short break by a tree while a man approached him, introducing himself that he was Liu Ching, a garrison of Chen Chu-Shan’s subordinate. After their long talk, Liu Ching asked for a favor, “Could you please pass a message onto a servant, Hsi Erh, of a seal governor, telling him to return me three hundred pennies…
NEW YORK—Nicholas Lloyd Webber, the Grammy-nominated composer, record producer and eldest son of Andrew Lloyd Webber, died Saturday in England after a protracted battle with gastric cancer and pneumonia. He was 43. “His whole family is gathered together and we are all totally bereft,” the 75-year-old Webber said in a statement emailed by a representative. “Thank you for all your thoughts during this difficult time.” Nicholas died at a hospital in the south-central English town of Basingstoke, his father said. Webber, the famed composer, missed the Broadway opening Thursday of his “Bad Cinderella” to be at his son’s side with…
[PureInsight.org] On August 20, 2003, a flying rock hit a police officer named Xi Ming while he was riding in a military truck. Xi lost consciousness right away and was rushed to the hospital; he died three days later. Xi had worked at a brainwashing center in a small town in Sichuan Province, where many Falun Gong practitioners were being held. Xi had been very cruel to those practitioners. On July 24, 2000, Xi had shouted at a practitioner who was on a hunger strike, yelling that nobody would care if the practitioner died of hunger. No one knows what…
[PureInsight.org] Xusheng, cousin of Ji Xiaolan, said: There is a woman who begs for food. She is very filially pious toward her mother-in-law. Once she was so starved that she fell on the side of the street, but she firmly held on to a bowl of food that she begged without letting it go. She was muttering, “Mother-in-law hasn’t eaten yet!” Some people came to help her, asking about her situations. This beggar lady said that before when she started begging with her mother-in-law, she only carefully followed behind her mother-in-law and listened to her orders. One night, they spent…
[PureInsight.org] One day in August 2014, my son told me on the phone that there was a big hornet’s nest under the awning by his window. So many hornets were flying around that he daren’t open his window. He wanted to call the emergency services to have it removed, but I told him to wait. I went to take a look at the nest, after my son went to work. I was shocked upon opening the window. Hornets were squeezing in and out of a huge nest. Many more were flying around. It reminded me of a year ago, when…
[PureInsight.org] In the Northern and Southern Dynasties period, there were three young monks who resided in Lingjiu Temple, which was in Mount Wutai. Mount Wutai was known as a famous Buddhist mountain. The three monks went in search of the immortals that were said to dwell on Mount Wutai. They packed provisions and began their journey. Passing through numbers of dense forests and eating up almost all rations, they were determined to see immortals even they had to allay their hunger with tree leaves. The three young monks searched for three months all over the mountain. While resting under a…
A zero-revenue startup is now worth $1 billion overnight. The startup, called Character.AI, has secured $150 million in funding. Major venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz led the funding round. Character.AI lets users create custom AI characters or avatars, which can then be chatted with, like a chatbot doing roleplay. The site has many premade chatbot avatars, for example, Elon Musk. It has some fictional character avatars too. For example, you can ask Super Mario what those power-up mushrooms taste like, or tell Sigmund Freud about your feelings. NTD created a character, called NTD AI, and asked it how Character.AI works.…