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I think that's an astute observation, Steve. And as JAT Robinson, a 17th century Anglican theologian said, "God is, by definition, ultimate reality. It's pointless to ask if reality exists. The question is what reality is like." According to Harari, he is god and has created reality with words. I think reality exists independent of our words about it. We need the left brain to put words to say what it's like, but the right brain already knows.

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Jun 1, 2023Liked by Steve Martin

I agree that we have to be wary of fear mongering from the very people who are creating the problem in the first place. We already have a New World Order, it seems to me. A centralised world run by a few via the UN, WHO, WEF etc. Global corporations and institutions telling governments what to do.

What is the next stage? Apparently a 4th Industrial Revolution according to them. But is there going to be enough energy to power what they are talking about? Cheap oil is in the past and that might be the driver to stop us driving and to reduce the world's population.

AI might be a thing that takes jobs and keeps us in our homes more (or prisons) but I imagine we will be living frugal lives under small national governments reporting in to the very same people who are currently running the show. To save energy, there will be fewer of us and we may have to take some of their psychedelics to realise that not only do we own nothing, but we are happy!

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Steve,

Trying to contact you via the Bat phone but it seems busy. I finish at noon tomorrow (Friday) in Akihabara. Shall we do lunch? I asked A too, given their situation.

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My exploration of the words of Gautama Buddha, not Buddhism, brings an interesting look at this as well. When Gautama was asked about God, or cosmologies, he refused to answer because he considered them a distraction from the reality of our existence. GB insisted that knowing what it means to *be* means mindfulness *of the body*. Stop, end of story. (We intellectually driven people have confused that concept, imo. I'll likely write about that in an essay soon.)

Michael Stone reframes that with the following language, paraphrased: God-language is a story we humans create to distract us from being inside and a part of creation. I'll extend that thought by suggesting that God becomes the easy hero/villain we story makers get to use to abdicate responsibility for our place in existence as creators.

And recently I've begun to question the viability and even the purpose in the so-called 'alt-media' or (don't like it) MFM fighters using the exact same fear-porn as the featured fear-porn players. If the structure is the same, ie using fear to create movement in the MFM case 'good' there is no difference because the cabal are rationalising their fear-porn stars in exactly the same way: some kind of intangible good.

Tereza and Sage Hana and Conspiracy Sarah are all doing great jobs of stepping back and looking out on the – I almost wrote 'our' – MFM fear-porn stars. It is the same energy and feeding the same energy and from that the same structure.

Even the AI fear 'selling' is interesting. Not quite porn yet, although I imagine the AI self-creating algorithms will have already been creating porn at higher quality for less money and no need to provide protection or showers. By 'interesting' I mean that from my dip into the history of mass communication, every 'new' technology has been introduced with the same penultimate ultimatums of the world ending. Printed press, is an example, although our official history focuses on the fact that it gave people books. That wasn't the fear, because the only people who could read already had books, and everyone who was literate knew that the illiterate were incapable of literacy and so weren't an issue. Oddly enough, the clamp on a 'free' press relates to the single most important characteristic of any new technology being accepted by the society: will it enhance game playing. The printed press allowed for cheap playing (or Tarot) cards to be made and it was important to keep them expensive so only the elites could have access.

One of the clearest examples of that is how when wireless set game in the young 'radio heads' were the harbinger of the end of humanity. When on-line role playing games rolled into society, the young were becoming killer zombies. (Do you remember the movies?)

So, AI. Are we humans going to be able to play games with AI? Yup. Will it spread like the wire and wireless communication? Yes. One of the very first tests of morse code was whether or not chess could be played remotely. Computers? If we couldn't play games, they would be stuffed into corners of offices like air conditioners and refrigerators. And for human 'play' has a huge range of options, as Clif High demonstrated with his riffing off the wokeness of ChatGPT to allow him to 'win' the game and show that as of today, electric cars are not environmentally or economically viable compared to combustion cars. (Tomorrow? Who knows.)

Now, with more covid apocalyptic opened eyes, was the fear mongering of wireless radio, then TV then computers a very elaborate 'negative option' preconditioning psyop? LOL! So funny, when even this can be a 5D chess game we can play at endlessly. In the mid 2010s we had the rise of the zombie filled screens, big and small, and print. Zombie was in and ubiquitous. Then in 2021 the injection to help solidify a zombie nation. Does this infer that the fear mongering of AI is actually a form of preconditioning to help disseminate it and help it along to become our next pet dog, albeit *way* smarter? (Okay, and with self-created AI dogs, they will l be cuter and sans poop, pee or even an anus to lick.)

Thank you Steve! So much fun.

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Those 'images' mentioned are 'imaginings'...why do people nearly always imagine themselves as victims of something bigger stronger, better, wiser, more dangerous...whatever...We ARE the imaginers, ergo we have the POWER...we are only victims if we so imagine/desire.

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To say those competing have no choice is nonsense, there is nearly always choice and certainly in competition the choice is always there...it just depends on how fanatical each entity is, that will decide their choice.

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Break down in comms. I am in front of the venue but can not raise on the bat line nor phone.

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I suspect the last 3 hears is a first strike, Chinese were the worlds leaders I thought and just our way of life is an attack on the ccp because they are scared.

No problems for an AI to sell stupidity to humans

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