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Re: Show HN: Bible as RAG Database

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Post by jimmygrapes »

condwanaland wrote: post #39
jacksonastone wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I do notice the symmetry. It is saying that each of them can use the others body as they like, without regard for the other. But that's fine, because they can do it right back. A progressive system is not built off "I'll do what I want to you but I also will let you do it back". That conveniently ignores that there is still an entirely non-consenting party in this. Your body belongs to you. Your partners body belongs…

Consider this: neither man nor women, when fully committed to each other as if they are one, and maybe even if they are not committed, can control the emotions and impulses inflicted upon them by the other.

It's ok to set aside misgivings about the whole thing and how the world has corrupted it all and just explore the possibility of depth and beauty and love. You don't have to chose the worst interpretation of things, even if others have.

Re: Show HN: Bible as RAG Database

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Post by hogehoge51 »

jacksonastone wrote: post #38
hogehoge51 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Bible, for those unfamiliar, it’s the civilization source code forked and maintained by the Jesus cult that emerged about 2 millennia ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible (To put it in Hacker terms, where I suspect RAG could be a more familiar term than Bible)

shots fired!

The return volley is worse! My attempt at explaining the concept of a Bible in terms relative to a "hacker world view" is making me bleed many downvotes ;-)

The Bible as a RAG is very interesting for me even as a non religious person - A document that has survived and guided millennia of civilization should be accessible as possible. But also seeing how concepts of the modern world and different ancient worlds map to the Bible via a RAG is fascinating.

Re: Show HN: Bible as RAG Database

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Post by condwanaland »

jimmygrapes wrote: post #41
condwanaland wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do notice the symmetry. It is saying that each of them can use the others body as they like, without regard for the other. But that's fine, because they can do it right back. A progressive system is not built off "I'll do what I want to you but I also will let you do it back". That conveniently ignores that there is still an entirely non-consenting party in this. Your body belongs to you. Your partners body belongs…

Consider this: neither man nor women, when fully committed to each other as if they are one, and maybe even if they are not committed, can control the emotions and impulses inflicted upon them by the other. It's ok to set aside misgivings about the whole thing and how the world has corrupted it all and just explore the possibility of depth and beauty and love. You don't have to chose the worst interpretation of thing…

Describing my interpretation of a passage that quite literally says "your body belongs to someone else" as a 'worst possible reading' would be comically hilarious if not for the rather sinister undertones.

Your interpretation of this passage is reading far more into things and doing far more justifying than mine is

Re: Show HN: Bible as RAG Database

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Post by TeMPOraL »

jacksonastone wrote: post #31
mcswell wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have to wait awhile. It came up for me after 30 seconds or so.

it's basically running on a toaster, sorry

If that toaster didn't have a plan already, then feeding it with monotheistic holy scripture will definitely give it some ideas.

Re: Show HN: Bible as RAG Database

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Post by kordlessagain »

This is really cool...great job! It's a favorite pastime of mine to index various large corpora.

As for speed, this might help for code referencing: https://github.com/deepbluedynamics/lume

Blog post: https://deepbluedynamics.com/blog/lume-retrieval-primitives

I use a small local model to extract entities for the graph, but it's not necessary.

You can optionally use GTR-T5 which is a few years old now, but still good for generating fast and free embeddings. That step is only run once if you run it in hybrid mode.

Feel free to take and remix or use!

Re: Show HN: Bible as RAG Database

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Post by kordlessagain »

andrethegiant wrote: post #15

I vibed up something similar, comparing the verses of the big 3 religions. Cloudflare vectorize for embeddings db. https://crazy.church

That's impressive and really fast. I asked it what it thought about vector databases:

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things {are} honest, whatsoever things {are} just, whatsoever things {are} pure, whatsoever things {are} lovely, whatsoever things {are} of good report; if {there be} any virtue, and if {there be} any praise, think on these things. {honest: or, venerable}

Re: Show HN: Bible as RAG Database

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Post by 3stacks »

jnamaya wrote: post #10
sputknick wrote: post #3

Would love to use if you can get it back up! Sounds like an awesome idea for a way to converse with the Bible

I built a Bible scholar agent using RAG grounded in the Berean Standard Bible. Is the same concept but an LLM discern the text for you. Here is the link to the demo: https://safi.selfalignmentframework.com/ Choose the Bible Scholar agent and use deepseek or Gemini 3.5 for the LLM.

It’s great to see more stuff like this. Thank you for your contribution

Re: Show HN: Bible as RAG Database

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Post by cluckindan »

jacksonastone wrote: post #38
hogehoge51 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Bible, for those unfamiliar, it’s the civilization source code forked and maintained by the Jesus cult that emerged about 2 millennia ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible (To put it in Hacker terms, where I suspect RAG could be a more familiar term than Bible)

shots fired!

Search for ”destroy”

Re: Show HN: Bible as RAG Database

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Post by chrismorgan »

hogehoge51 wrote: post #23
dredmorbius wrote: post #17

RAG, for those unfamiliar, retrievel-augmented generation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrieval-augmented_generation >

The Bible, for those unfamiliar, it’s the civilization source code forked and maintained by the Jesus cult that emerged about 2 millennia ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible (To put it in Hacker terms, where I suspect RAG could be a more familiar term than Bible)

“Source code” is not at all the correct term. It’s more like the documentation.

Re: Show HN: Bible as RAG Database

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Post by asim »

That's cool! I did the same for the Quran to see how RAG works. I also indexed related works called "Hadith" and the names of Allah. It initially required indexing everything using OpenAI embeddings and then powered by it.

https://reminder.dev/search

It's also open source

https://github.com/asim/reminder

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