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, how much you think you can, and how much you employ the latest AI-looking ingenuity to find out for you all the things you really 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 la...

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...

"...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...

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...

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...

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...

Know what the most valuable thing in the world is right now? Well, it has in some sense been the most valuable thing ever, but things are happening now that amplify this truth. Gold? Nah, just shiny yellow rocks, and the gold hawkers are starting to be a little more exposed for ripping off their customers. Cash? Green pieces of paper rapidly being replaced by the inflation and the digital. Stocks, bonds, funds, commodities, property, your very own house --  something  asset-oriented? Who knows what anything is valued there, really, except what the Institutions say they are. Ahh, crypto! Eh, just computer numbers the value of which are so volatile they are effectively worthless. Oh, yeah: your own education, knowledge, and experience! Umm, if it is simply System-infused atheist materialist humanist dreck it is all Hell anyway. No, the most valuable thing is data . You can tell with the obsession the rich and powerful have with it. You can see how much they want to keep on keepi...

Just a brief blog post to direct you to Edward Ring's piece this week, here's the link . He himself makes reference to another piece that has gone viral, one that has a theme that is something quite sobering, and never unanticipated by those who've been paying attention. With all the talk of all that the SPIT will dominate -- and I'm sorry, I can't call it "AI" because the thing Artificial Intelligence  does not exist. It is a phantasm in the minds of those who live by the precepts of the World Ops who shove it into the minds of those who obsequiously follow. The backronym SPIT, by the way, is for Superduperextrasuperultramegamagmasupersupersuperduperdeeduper- fast Processing Information Technology... With all the talk of what it will do it is clear that it will do one thing. It will murder us all. Physically? Maybe not so much, at least not right away. But emotionally? Spiritually? Meaningfully? Yes . Part of being human is taking pride in accomplishing s...

The latest greatest in "AI"-generated video content comes from something called "Seedance 2.0." Nothing special about it except that it is just cleaner, smoother, nicer, and realer. Not really anything because soon there will still be  Better. And then after that even better. And better. And again better and better and better. And of course, Realer. When will the cognitive disruption be so great that the inability to see the fake from the real will result in some kind of social, economic, even political "black swan" event. As it is we are having to confront those realities, as it were, with breakneck speed. The things that can result from being able to be something of an influencer through media technology, merely holding a computer device in your hands with only the limits of your imagination impeding anything you can do as the best 21st century Baroque composer...  Every day we are experiencing something new we've never really had to fully address. T...

Meet Amelia. Or have you met Amelia? If you're paying attention to the social media and ecclesiocratically injected propaganda, made so much more pronounced with the "AI"-generated graphic extravaganza, you may have met her. She's a smart, bold, brave, brash, sassy, pretty, hip, with-it young lady who is really good at persuasion, especially because she seems so, so modern what with her purple hair and mastery of the current rampaging sentiments among the younger adult class. Apparently she was originally a concoction of the UK government to promote all the spiffy Frankfurt School stuff they want everyone to embrace, you know, how much socialism and racialism and sodomism there must be so everyone can be ever so diversitous and equitous and inclusivonomous -- and as a bonus just see how spangtanimously virtuous the governing mandarins are at enforcing all this wonderfulness. Because it is so easy now with computer technology to take these prominent avatars, shape them...