Wonderful Matters

Thinking a bit more about the thrust of this very-much-not-reality motion picture You Can See Everything , I thought I'd share a little more. I blogged on this in my last two posts . The three main things to glean from the idea of seeing everything  is that, first, you can't, no matter how much you want to, you think you can, and you employ the latest AI-looking ingenuity to find out for you all the things you want to see. Sorry to burst your gargantuan-sized bubble of confident conceit, but you can't. You'd think this'd be a no-brainer, because the very best Epicurean-driven minds will muster a display of some humility here, but that's just them doing their standard smarmy virtue-signaling about how gol-darn magnanimous they are about it all. They'll turn right back around and bleat they are so very sure that there is really nothing beyond matter and you might as well drink up the best of life and just be happy right now  because later death is the end of ...

One of my guilty pleasures is Kansas City Chiefs football. I could write a lot about that, and whether it is good or bad or painful (too often!) or joyous (as it has indeed been a few times recently). A year or two ago one of the streaming services, I forget which one, had a feature about the "inside lives" of NFL quarterbacks. Three were showcased, and one of them was Patrick Mahomes, the fine Chiefs quarterback. The idea was filmmakers were allowed a bit into his personal life, and I watched some of it. Then stopped . After a while I really felt uncomfortable being shoved into someone else's private domain, even if it involved the most innocuous goings-ons about the most marvelous people on the planet. I have always loathed "reality" shows because they are absolutely not reality. The instant a camera and microphone show up, it becomes simulacra. Instantly, categorically, and permanently. Last night I went out to the movie theater to watch You Can See Everythin...

I just now noticed there is a new motion picture out that is getting some attention. You Can See Everything  is about the splendiforous entrepreneurial effort by Elizabeth Holmes to put out the most magnificent medical diagnostic device and make everyone's life ever-so much better. Turns out she was a total fake -- yet the compelling component in all of it is her impassioned desire to succeed and be thought of as such a visionary that she'd really truly actually be somebody no matter how misguided her efforts were. Or how wickedly deceptive she deliberately was. Huh, yeah, sounds like most people,  really. I want to be somebody too, and it is always very tempting to fudge things just a little to get that. God tells us that's a fool's errand, however, and the best thing you could do is confess your inadequacy, give up trying to be somebody you are not, acknowledge you need a Savior -- Him  come in the flesh to give His life to rescue you from yourself -- and from that re...

My wife just sent me an image of a news article about how your "Personalized AI Agent" will eventually blab your financial information to the world. That's just one thing, and it isn't going to get any better no matter how much the AI Doomers bleat and the AI Doomer Debunkers blap.  It still doesn't seem to get into anyone's thick cranium that at some point, everyone  will be able to know everything  about anyone else . Well, except for the protected elite doing the noble work of Cain's Legacy, you know, those deep into the Roman Catholic Hegemony that must fulfill their divinely permitted duty of human sacrifice practice for the purpose of administering the legitimately prosecutorial sin management program for those who demand it -- far from the presence of God yet still feeling like they are right there on the inside of Caesar's spiffiest palatial walls embraced by the most splendidly sartorial potentates of all stripes. But their ultimate eternal de...