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Seeing Everything. Maybe.

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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...

Um, "You Can See Everything!..."

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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...

It Will Be Everything. Everything.

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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...

The Rogue AI Ruse, Addendum

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"...But will He find faith on the planet?" (From the 18th chapter of Luke) A rhetorical question Jesus asks after speaking about people with such a deep abiding faith in Him that they'd pray for good, righteous things -- all the time. The problem is, when He actually comes back to find out how people have been blessed by the wonderful things He gives them, it is very possible there will be far too few who get it. It is actually, a quite sorrowful lament. But I do get it. I do look around and see the World ---- and its devotees. Very often they appear very smart, very kind, very savvy, very concerned about things being decent everywhere... and yet... They are such fools. Like Jeremiah observed, "Everyone is stupid and without knowledge." (From the tenth chapter) And without God, without an insightful conviction of fear of the Lord (there in the sixth verse of that chapter), people will just be fully confused. It is just not hard to see that confusion just getting...

Today's Civil War Looks Nothing Like Most Think It Would

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I have been wanting to blog about so many things, and, well, there is so much. I wrestle with what to address to introduce my latest home page piece , but it is overwhelming. My time and wherewithal have dwindled a bit and I would certainly write and blog and post much more, but, well, there you go. And there is the whole merely-being-a-trollee factor -- merely blapping about the patently stupid and just leaping into the Culture War doing so. With that in mind, here're two things about which I can post and keep brief, get it into the cybersphere here and pray people will, ultimately, ... Find Him . Just now I came across this and thought it worth sharing. From industrious muckraker DataRepublican, who with her wicked NGO activity exposures is getting some social media attention, a "Doxxing Ecosystem." It is just a map of all the ways ferocious NGOs are targeting those they believe impede their noble movement to turn the globe into a socialist paradise. And with SPIT techn...

Mornings

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This morning I had my devotional time on the patio, as I usually do, and right as I got to the middle of the Parable of the Sower in the eighth chapter of Luke, I looked up at a spectacular cloud formation illuminated by the just-rising sun. It was as if God had woven the most beautiful golden wool fleece in the sky. There was also a hummingbird fluttering frequently against this backdrop -- just an amazing testament to God's masterful creative work He shares with us. I just felt like sharing that, it was quite the experience while spending time in His word and in prayer, but I also share it because right when it all lit up like that, I was reading that middle part of the parable, between Jesus' sharing it and His explaining it. Do you know what that transition part is? It is His reminding His listeners of the Old Testament passage in the sixth chapter of Isaiah, when Isaiah was commissioned and asked God what he was supposed to tell his listeners. God told him to tell them the...

The Rogue AI Ruse

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Recently Kit Knightly over at Off-Guardian  has been fastidiously exposing one of the best Romanist ruses of the present-day. It is simply the idea that if something very bad happens and a computer program malfunction of some kind is a part of that, then we can all viciously whine about the now fully-conscious self-aware "AI," which as we all know is now capable of the worst evil. It is a ruse . It is a valiantly attempted limited hangout to direct very good smart Catholicists from understanding that anything the "AI" does it was programmed to do by somebody somewhere down the line. Do not be taken in by the claim, "Wull lookit what the AI did when there is no way any human could've prompted it!"   Somewhere, some place where certain people labor to manage the World System in some benighted way, there are things deliberately programmed into the machinery to arrange anything out there you see or hear happening, even if it seems to be only the computer, ...