What Were We Thinking?

Over time it will become clear Trump was never anything but a cheap, lying, thug.

Those who supported him will one day be heard saying ‘What was I thinking’? Much as German civilians said after WWII.

Let me be the first to tell these future ex-Trumpies - fuck you. 

It’s a Miracle

Jesus Christ lived in the middle east 2000 years ago. 
And yet, he’s white. 

Praise the lord and hallelujah!!

Trump's Lessons

Donald Trump says he's exonerated by Robert Mueller. Donald Trump is a liar, a cheat, a selfish, narcissistic hater, and just plain petty thug. No investigation is ever going to change that.

What we can learn from Donald Trump will not be found in investigations or indictments. The real lessons of Donald Trump go to our collective conscience as a species and should serve as warning to us all.

If we don't fundamentally change as a species - intellectually, ethically, spiritually - we are not going to make it.

Underachieving Gods

There is no reason to believe that an intelligence capable of creating a computer simulation of an entire universe can't come to exist.

Assuming 'real' universes exist for billions of years it is likely this has already occurred.

In fact it is more likely we exist in such a simulation than in a ‘real’ universe given how easy simulations would be to create as compared to ‘real’ universes.

If our universe is in fact such a simulation all I can say is that its creator is one hell of an underachiever.

A Mind Numbing Deal

Religion as a deal.
A simple trade - fear of the unknowns of life and death replaced by mindless, unquestioning, faith.
Darkness cloaking spirit and curiosity for false security.
Spiritual?

True spirituality is an intensely personal, lonely, pursuit of truth.

Truth is the reward of our courage to face the unknown.
Truth is the reward of our courage to face not knowing.
The pursuit of truth the only thing that will expand understanding, compassion, humility.
For truth is the light that reveals the beauty that is this universe.

The pursuit of truth then our greatest spirituality.
Religion, a mind numbing, cowardly, deal.

The Beginning of the End

We are richer.
We are more powerful.
Therefore, we are better.
Our lives more important.

The beginning of the end of every great society.

An Intelligent Universe

If you brought all the 6 billion people on earth together in one place and then removed all the space between them, and their atoms, what volume would they then occupy? Answer: An area slightly smaller than a sugar cube.
 
The vast majority of the universe is ‘empty’ space. ‘Empty’ space can be bent, contracted, expanded. Learning how to manipulate just two states of local empty space would enable it to be used as a computer: bent, unbent = 0,1.

Powering this computer could employ quantum field fluctuations - annihilating quarks as they spontaneously condense from ‘empty’ space would provide all the energy required.

It would then be possible to imprint ourselves onto this computer, existing entirely as a conscious being in ‘empty’ space.

In a universe this old, this has already occurred.

Our universe is someone else's gigantic supercomputer with intelligence woven into its fabric.