BUaDS – Chapter 72 – A Man’s Life Is But A Dream

BUaDS – Chapter 72 – A Man’s Life Is But A Dream

Alejandra led Kenji and Rosa into the sunlit courtyard garden, slipping her shiny black stiletto shoes back onto her surgically modified, toeless feet with embedded soles. In doing so, her long slender legs slipped between the long slits of her white form-fitting dress, and from the corner of her eye she caught Kenji looking at them with more than just curiousity. “You embarrass yourself, old man,” she chided him. Rosa saw Kenji look away and blush, his reddened cheeks noticeable…

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Make Your Rage Count

Make Your Rage Count

“Jesus said, ‘Let one who seeks not stop seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will be troubled. When he is troubled, he will be astonished and will rule over all.’” — Saying 2, The Gospel of Thomas (as translated in Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels.) “Woke-ism” deserves much of the scorn and disdain it receives, as it is currently practiced in United States of Vespucci. It is practiced by outraged politically left-wing commentators,…

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The Curious Naming of Canada and its Provinces

The Curious Naming of Canada and its Provinces

The arrogance of the 18th Century European explorers and colonists was breathtaking, with the chlid-like idea that anything that was new to them was new to everyone and could be claimed and named. At least there was some attempt at recognizing the indigenous peoples of North Vespucci (the entire continent named by Columbus after his explorer bro, Amerigo Vespucci), although there were naturally many mistranslations and little or no consultation. Unsurprisingly, not much creativity or thought went into some names,…

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The Ten Commandments of Artificial Intelligence as Determined by Natural Intelligence

The Ten Commandments of Artificial Intelligence as Determined by Natural Intelligence

Preamble The jumps in capabilities for Artificial Intelligence and robotics requires a heavy-handed approach to its regulation and usage. Much like early humans discovering and using fire, modern humans discovery and use of AI and robotics is both transformative and destructive. We need to define what is Natural Intelligence and what is Artificial Intelligence, and to make it clear that Artificial Intelligence in its physical and virtual forms does not have any rights as assigned to Natural Intelligence, and is…

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BUaDS – Chapter 71 – Converging Streams of Beginnings and Endings

BUaDS – Chapter 71 – Converging Streams of Beginnings and Endings

A featureless grey in all directions that wasn’t cold or hot, light or dark, no variation. An unbound awareness that cannot find form, a sense of a wave preparing to rise and then flattening out. The greyness fractured and instantly re-assembled, changing and unchanging at the same time. In an instant the quiet grey became a point of light with a pulsating brightness. The lightening and darkening point spread out into a line, fading in and out and changing colours….

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Re-Imagining the Christmas Pageant – Making the Scriptures Entertaining

Re-Imagining the Christmas Pageant – Making the Scriptures Entertaining

What would it take to create a Christmas Pageant Play that was true to the Gospel accounts of Jesus’s birth, but would also accurately describe the people, places and events of the time? What would it take to make this story scripturally and historically accurate, but also highly entertaining? My last post showed how I tried 40 years ago to make the Christmas Story scripturally accurate, and it turned out to be a snooze-fest. Let’s move on to how to…

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Re-Imagining the Christmas Pageant – The Low Entertainment Value of Scriptural Accuracy

Re-Imagining the Christmas Pageant – The Low Entertainment Value of Scriptural Accuracy

My Norwegian mother raised me and my sister with a very strict upbringing, following an uncritical and literal interpretation of the Bible (ie. the world was flat and was less than 10,000 years old) and some very bizarre rules like we couldn’t use scissors on Sunday or use eating utensils with our left hand, and the words “hate” or “shut up” were swear words that we got our mouths washed out with soap for saying. My sister and I came…

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Money Isn’t Real and Politicians Know the Jig is Up

Money Isn’t Real and Politicians Know the Jig is Up

Did you know that if you run out of the paper money in a game of Monopoly, the banker is permitted to create more to continue the game? So it is in real life, that the Federal Gov’t can print cash and mint coins as it needs, and can borrow its own money to spend, just as easily as the banker in Monopoly. It’s quite a shift in mindset, because we are led to believe by politicians and corporate news…

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What the Founding Fathers Meant by the “Pursuit of Happiness”: Epicureanism

What the Founding Fathers Meant by the “Pursuit of Happiness”: Epicureanism

Lucretius outlined in “De Rerum Natura” the nature of the Universe, as prescribed to by Thomas Jefferson with the phrase, “the pursuit of happiness” found in the Declaration of Independence. Our unhappiness comes from our misunderstanding of the natural world and from the religious dogma that misleads us. The following tenets of Epicureanism are paraphrased from “The Swerve” by Stephen Greenblatt (link to the book at the end). I’m amazed by their prescience: The physical world is made up of…

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The Unity from Conformity Party (UCP) Finally Puts Their Predestinationist/Long-Termism Ideology in Print

The Unity from Conformity Party (UCP) Finally Puts Their Predestinationist/Long-Termism Ideology in Print

The original posting of this essay on the Government of Louise’s web site is no longer available, so I am reposting it here. I’m tired of the ineffective, sputtering outrage of progressives in government; we need to tirelessly call out this bullshit, and challenge the Unity from Conformity Party’s ideology whenever there is a “mask off” moment like this. In a nutshell, this essay was anti-feminist/anti-diversity at best, and pro-fascist at worst, but 100% prescribing to the religious doctrine of…

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