“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,…
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,…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
To all whom read the articles below, these are the self-evident measures to exit a confederation of states: Article I – The deconfederated nation shall have no name, as indeed, it no longer exits and so is no longer a confederation of states. Article II – The deconfederated states will themselves dissolve into city-states and territories. Article III – The city-states and territories will self-govern, free from the dictates of any other city-state or territory. They may negotiate security and…