u/LSATwoes2022

Good day all. With the help of God (and plenty of intercession from Saint Joseph of Cupertino) I made it through law school. I'm in six-figures of debt with two young kids, but I finally did it - I'm out, and studying for the Bar while working as a clerk at a pretty good firm. I've recently been asked by a non-denominational friend who works in "campus ministry" for donations, and I'm really struggling with it, for a few reasons.

The first is that in outlining for her finances, she is trying to raise more money per month to be a "campus outreach activist" than i make in a month, even at a law firm. She's not married yet, though engaged, and has no children. I wonder to myself two things: A) what the heck she needs the money for, and B) why she should get that money without having struggled as I have struggled. I know this isn't a good view to have, but I'm really upset by it.

I tithe regularly at Church, I volunteer my time on a monthly basis, I am a super active member of my Church community and single-handedly do all the family events for our parish for free, because I'm too poor to really give much to the Church, so I give my time.

This woman on the otherhand is essentially asking for people to pay a salary's worth of wage through what seems to me to be a pyramid scheme for the same work I do for my parish for free, while balancing working at a law firm and raising two kids.

Even the more chauvinistic side of me is gnawing at me. Why the heck isn't her fiance helping her or supporting her? I support my wife (a brilliant woman with a great education) who homeschools our children. We're a family on one meager income already, what right does this single woman have to ask of my charity?

But then I remember Christ's command: give to all who ask of you, and my heart starts to break. Am I breaking Christ's commandment in giving her a charitable "sorry, but I cannot do that right now" answer?

I also feel incredibly unwell about giving to outright protestant varsity ministries. That makes me uncomfortable - I feel as though I'd be supporting heresy.

How do I move forward with this? Any help is appreciated.

I switched from ChatGPT last year after it started going really downhill, forgetting context quickly, and started being really confidently incorrect. I used it mostly for administrative stuff like putting names into spreadsheets, changing documents around, and using the Agents to research large legal databases for case-law, which then was double-checked by me of course. I am not a lawyer yet, but a student-at-law, and I work in a professional/administrative field where an AI agent can be exceptionally helpful.

I switched to Gemini for unlimited use of NotebookLM, which is absolutely incredible for finding accurate real details from real cases that I feed it. it's genuinely mind blowing. That said, Google's updates to gemini have me worried, and I'm wondering if ChatGPT is worth using again?

Gemini works great so far still, but I want to be knowledgeable about what my options are. I do not use any AI for coding as that's not part of my work at all.

I've also heard things about Claude, but Claude needs a lot of memory refresher and has such a small context window that it's not even really worth looking at for me.