Buildings

I've found I generally don't blog a whole lot in May. One, I've just got so much to do as a teacher as a school year comes to a close. Two, there is so much about which to post that I can't even start. Three, I am planning to put together something of a home page piece for the summer, some of which will cover just a bit of the insanity swarming about.

But I thought I'd just share a contrast related to the overwhelming nature of Data Center construction everywhere and the "AI" God it serves. I feel like putting it all in caps because in some measure those things are now proper nouns.

Recently we attended the memorial services of a fellow follower of Christ, a wonderful lady who served faithfully as a missionary in some of the worst places on the planet. Afterwards I asked one of her cohorts about the most difficult part their efforts, and she replied without a beat, "The terrorist groups." Talk about persecution.

The thing I wanted to note here in this blog post is simply that the attendance of this event was no more than about forty people. Here was a woman who gave her life to expanding the Kingdom, and she got forty to honor her.

Meanwhile billions of dollars are being poured into erecting great grand data collection edifices, everywhere, all over the place. I'd even read homeowners were willing to make their houses data collection locations. What is the deal with the data? Why the massive numbers of 24/7 humming whirling computer complexes to suck up as much data as it can on everything -- on everyone, everywhere?

I was going to illuminate some of that from much of what I've learned, but right now I'm just putting up a post for May, for right now. I will later, I do want to.

It does have to do with the World System, its ecclesiocratic manifestation, and its authorized duty to skillfully manage the evildoing that a reprobate populace will habitually practice.

And I just think about the other group of buildings we drove by on the way to the small Bible church in the middle of a leftist dominated in a quaint college town. We drove past a pretty renowned theology school, that is no more. Very nice classroom buildings around a very nice chapel building, all of which were surrounded by a chain link fence.

About ten years ago, when the school was still afloat, I attended a celebration there of one of the movement's best-known sponsors, a gentleman who wrote prodigiously and very convincingly about the 9/11 conspiracy. The weekend was quite edifying, with lots of Christiany things shared by a good-sized smattering of the nicest, politest, boldest leftist-minded panentheists you could find, almost every one of them in their 60s or 70s.

I thought about that when I thought about this shuttered school. I don't know all the details, but I did think about this school that did not teach actual Biblical theology as much as the World's philosophical conjectures about what that is.

Worthless.

Except to the extent that the sworn World Ops find it useful. It wasn't, and indeed summarily abandoned absent fulfilling Rome's purposes. However political or financial or managerial reasons the school died, it was ultimately for that reason. The smarmy Epicurean mindset can always be exposed for being self-serving hokum anyway. What happened to those buildings is just a sad symbol of its desolation. 

That may not be such a bad thing. Maybe more attention can be directed to the Real Christ, to the Real Kingdom -- maybe that little church in the middle of town will get more visitors to find Him. And That Place.

Maybe the Data Center Complex will also pull in The Information About Him and when people look around for The Meaning...

They will discover.

And find Joy.

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The image of the data center is from Meta's website, and sadly it is one located in my favorite city, Kansas City. The second is also from a Meta website. The church is from that particular church's website, and it is not the church mentioned in this post. It does happen to be in another of my favorite places, California.

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