Wee Wisdom (30)

aphorisms and short reflections

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'AIs' are not sentient. but they do have souls. yours. you gave it to them.



last night i prayed to the Earth Mother and the Sky Father for rain and fresh air, a respite from the heat, and the gods delivered.



everything never does not happen



i need to be more pessimistic. trust less. assume the worst more often.



come to your senses, be sensual



like someone who brushed against nettles too often, i have become immune to analytical prose



i already have white eyebrow hairs if you can believe it. probably should get a cane.



knock, and it shall be opened to you. ring the doorbell, and it shall be ignored.



with your back to the light you can see your shadow. facing the light you can't, and for two reasons. there are benefits and detriments to both.



the ease with which so many adopted every kind of 'ai' function makes me wonder how easily people in the past accepted cannibalism. not for any real need. just because they yearned for the power it granted with no thought for anything else.



i've been obssessed with Noah ever since i noticed as a wee lad that all flesh had corrupted its way


time is never on our side. it's always ahead or behind us. but there are benefits to this.



the machine can now enter your dreams, hypnagogic revelation is where it's at



wife told me that during the night she touched me and all of a sudden i started speaking in tongues to her. she was a bit scared, because she couldn't identify the language at all, but the cadence and everything seemed natural, fluent, and like i was trying to make a point.



there's no doubt that 'AIs' are self propagating systems in many ways. but that doesn't prove they are alive. it actually proves that many things you consider alive actually aren't. that is very, very valuable information, if you are not scared by the implications.



we once knew where to draw the line. it was in the sand. but since we forgot, now we have to draw it somewhere else. closer, tighter, over wet ground.


evil makes you stupid. and this is a reality spanning more than this life in both directions. 



everyone has told me since ever that since i'm gemini i'm supposed to be extroverted. but really that only made me want to be more antisocial.



tick tox. it's in the name. you've been warned.



anything that comes naturally i enjoy. and anything that does not i do not. it's the way of the raccoon.



i would go into debt if it was the only way to avoid eating at a restaurant



even in middle school i was already a wifeguy. friends were an acquired taste.


it's very creepy to worship a state. but even creepier to worship a foreign one. but if you're gonna do it, choose something completely out there and irrelevant, like say, Bhutan or Guatemala or Portugal. only way to not be cringe.



when i was six or so i found a strange coin with really weird symbols. never knew what it was but i kept it all these years. wanted it to be from some ancient civ or maybe aliens. but reverse image search finally revealed it was a commemorative coin from some seventies expo in bulgaria.



i'm only interested in people who are not included in statements that begin with 'all'.



apparently there was a study suggesting that the use of 'AI' chat bots leads to cognitive decline. but as usual with 'scientific' studies, the causality is inverse.



the Lord is incomprehensible to the thinker, but not to the lover and the artist.



i really don't want a picture of the future



there is no political solution because the problem is not political



walk around anywhere in the west you'll see we've been at war for a long time. it's not that nothing ever happens. everything has already happened.



pagan in the streets, christian in the sheets. and vice versa.




it's good to love not just God, but what God loves



was there no one in any major christian council who said, We need a ban on greek philosophy until we figure out what's going on. feel like there should have been.



every real wedding consists of the bridegroom turning water into wine



just because people die, it doesn't mean it's not theater