Political correctness has only too often morphed from consciousness-raising to thought control, suppression of opposing viewpoints, intolerance. This has served to push bigotry, racism, sexism into the shadows where they grow stronger on a diet of suppressed rage.
Friday, September 15, 2017
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Humility Will Set You Free
It used to be that all that there was revolved around us - the chosen ones at the very center of the universe. Until we discovered we revolved around the sun.
Well at least our solar system was at the center of the universe. All that there was revolved around our solar system. Except we are not at the center of the universe. There is no center.
Well at least we are part of all that there is. Our universe is everything and we part of it.
Except our universe may be one of an infinite number of universes in a multi-universe reality.
Just how small and insignificant do we have to be until we realize just how small and insignificant we are and can finally open our arms, our minds, our hearts, to all that there is, has been, and will ever be.
Well at least our solar system was at the center of the universe. All that there was revolved around our solar system. Except we are not at the center of the universe. There is no center.
Well at least we are part of all that there is. Our universe is everything and we part of it.
Except our universe may be one of an infinite number of universes in a multi-universe reality.
Just how small and insignificant do we have to be until we realize just how small and insignificant we are and can finally open our arms, our minds, our hearts, to all that there is, has been, and will ever be.
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Next Step, god
Be it planned or simply the desire to keep up, the development of 'artificial' super general intelligence is
really, at the end of the day, self directed evolution of humans beyond
human.
Monday, September 11, 2017
Intelligent Design
Time feels eternal
Odd in a universe a mere 13.7 billion years old
Odder still to be able to time stamp all that there is
all that will ever be
Complexity evolves in ever repeating cycles
Vapor to clouds to thunderstorms
Cells to embryos to complex life to death
Instinct, brutishness, intelligence, computers to super intelligence to...what?
Intelligence probably has no bounds
An intelligence billions of times ours - possible
An intelligence so great as to be indistinguishable from 'god'
So great as to be able to create universes?
Instinct, brutishness, intelligence, super intelligence to a new universe and repeat?
If true, intelligence would be woven into the fabric of eternity
Found in all that we know all that we see all that we experience
Found in the echos of previous universes
and of universes yet to come
In all eternity intelligence would now permeate everything
In ever repeating cycles
Was our universe created by a super-human intelligence that preceded it
That intelligence evolving into a universe created by an intelligence preceding it
And that created in yet another and on and on for all of eternity?
god is not supernatural
god is not magic
Is 'god' just intelligence?
Odd in a universe a mere 13.7 billion years old
Odder still to be able to time stamp all that there is
all that will ever be
Complexity evolves in ever repeating cycles
Vapor to clouds to thunderstorms
Cells to embryos to complex life to death
Instinct, brutishness, intelligence, computers to super intelligence to...what?
Intelligence probably has no bounds
An intelligence billions of times ours - possible
An intelligence so great as to be indistinguishable from 'god'
So great as to be able to create universes?
Instinct, brutishness, intelligence, super intelligence to a new universe and repeat?
If true, intelligence would be woven into the fabric of eternity
Found in all that we know all that we see all that we experience
Found in the echos of previous universes
and of universes yet to come
In all eternity intelligence would now permeate everything
In ever repeating cycles
Was our universe created by a super-human intelligence that preceded it
That intelligence evolving into a universe created by an intelligence preceding it
And that created in yet another and on and on for all of eternity?
god is not supernatural
god is not magic
Is 'god' just intelligence?
Thursday, August 31, 2017
All Hail The Baby Blue Dinosaur
There
are no atheists in foxholes.
Proof that even doubters believe deep down.
That 'truth' comes out in extreme circumstance.
If I had been taught as a child, as sacred truth, that a baby blue dinosaur existed and was an omnipotent protector god, and this was affirmed in ancient text and drilled into my brain in weekly religious rituals all children were forced to attend, then raised in a society where openly denying the existence of the baby blue dinosaur god subjected one to ridicule and open hostility, then I for sure would be praying away to Dino if facing violent death. ANYTHING to get me through.
Proof that the baby blue dinosaur god exists?
More like proof of the harm adults can do to children's minds and the power of socialization.
That 'truth' comes out in extreme circumstance.
If I had been taught as a child, as sacred truth, that a baby blue dinosaur existed and was an omnipotent protector god, and this was affirmed in ancient text and drilled into my brain in weekly religious rituals all children were forced to attend, then raised in a society where openly denying the existence of the baby blue dinosaur god subjected one to ridicule and open hostility, then I for sure would be praying away to Dino if facing violent death. ANYTHING to get me through.
Proof that the baby blue dinosaur god exists?
More like proof of the harm adults can do to children's minds and the power of socialization.
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Congressional Cowards
Donald Trump endangers our children, endangers the worlds children.
Congress, republicans and democrats allow him to do so.
Congress has failed us and has put the lives of billions at real risk for their selfish agendas and political cowardness.
Congress, republicans and democrats allow him to do so.
Congress has failed us and has put the lives of billions at real risk for their selfish agendas and political cowardness.
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
SETI's Quiet Skies
The universe is immense.
The nearest star is 4 light years away - 8 years for an answer to hello at the speed of light.
Tens of thousands of years of travel to.
And that our nearest neighbor.
There are 200 billion stars in our galaxy some 100,000 light years across - the distance light, traveling at 186,000 miles/second, travels in 100,000 years.
There are at least 1200 billion galaxies in our universe, millions, even billions of light years away.
The speed of light then too slow for meaningful interstellar communication or travel.
But the speed of light is as fast as anything can travel. Are we then to be imprisoned by time and distance to just this tiny speck of a solar system while nearly everything there is remains forever out of our reach?
No
Then, what?
We will find a way. Intelligence always finds a way.
And when we do prepare to meet the intelligent universe.
The nearest star is 4 light years away - 8 years for an answer to hello at the speed of light.
Tens of thousands of years of travel to.
And that our nearest neighbor.
There are 200 billion stars in our galaxy some 100,000 light years across - the distance light, traveling at 186,000 miles/second, travels in 100,000 years.
There are at least 1200 billion galaxies in our universe, millions, even billions of light years away.
The speed of light then too slow for meaningful interstellar communication or travel.
But the speed of light is as fast as anything can travel. Are we then to be imprisoned by time and distance to just this tiny speck of a solar system while nearly everything there is remains forever out of our reach?
No
Then, what?
We will find a way. Intelligence always finds a way.
And when we do prepare to meet the intelligent universe.
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