(Rev 13:16-17) And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, [...]
http://forthtell.blogspot.com/2010/09/god-hates-you-hate-him-back-making.html
The King of Saudi Arabia advised Obama to "implant computer chips in Guantanamo" detainees, "like horses."
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/28/us-foreign-policy-ge.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/198178
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Complaining about information overload in the time of Ecclesiastes - Cory Doctorow at 12:59 PM Sun
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/28/complaining-about-in.html :
We've been talking about information overload for a long time -- the Gutenberg era was characterized by a panic over all the damned books all over the place, but even Ecclesiastes is worried about infoglut:
"Complaints about information overload, usually couched in terms of the overabundance of books, have a long history -- reaching back to Ecclesiastes 12:12 ("of making books there is no end," probably from the 4th or 3d century BC). The ancient moralist Seneca complained that "the abundance of books is distraction" in the 1st century AD, and there have been other info-booms from time to time -- the building of the Library of Alexandria in the 3d century BC, or the development of newspapers starting in the 18th century.
But what happened in the Renaissance was, like digital technology in our own time, transformative. It took overload to an entirely new order of magnitude. Up to this point, every existing book had been copied by hand -- a task that could easily take one copyist a year or more. Books were expensive commodities, most often produced on commission and paid for in advance. The great medieval libraries accumulated manuscripts by the hundreds, but few people ever had access to that many books.
The printing press changed that. First developed around 1453, the new technology invented by Gutenberg had moved beyond the experimental phase by 1480 and spread to some two dozen major urban centers, with many other short-lived presses in operation. Contemporaries at first raved about the great speed with which books could be printed, and also about the drop in price -- by 80 percent on one contemporary's estimate in 1468."
Information overload, the early years (via Making Light)
(Image: Engraving of printer using the early Gutenberg letter press during the 15th century, Wikimedia Commons)
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/28/complaining-about-in.html
We've been talking about information overload for a long time -- the Gutenberg era was characterized by a panic over all the damned books all over the place, but even Ecclesiastes is worried about infoglut:
"Complaints about information overload, usually couched in terms of the overabundance of books, have a long history -- reaching back to Ecclesiastes 12:12 ("of making books there is no end," probably from the 4th or 3d century BC). The ancient moralist Seneca complained that "the abundance of books is distraction" in the 1st century AD, and there have been other info-booms from time to time -- the building of the Library of Alexandria in the 3d century BC, or the development of newspapers starting in the 18th century.
But what happened in the Renaissance was, like digital technology in our own time, transformative. It took overload to an entirely new order of magnitude. Up to this point, every existing book had been copied by hand -- a task that could easily take one copyist a year or more. Books were expensive commodities, most often produced on commission and paid for in advance. The great medieval libraries accumulated manuscripts by the hundreds, but few people ever had access to that many books.
The printing press changed that. First developed around 1453, the new technology invented by Gutenberg had moved beyond the experimental phase by 1480 and spread to some two dozen major urban centers, with many other short-lived presses in operation. Contemporaries at first raved about the great speed with which books could be printed, and also about the drop in price -- by 80 percent on one contemporary's estimate in 1468."
Information overload, the early years (via Making Light)
(Image: Engraving of printer using the early Gutenberg letter press during the 15th century, Wikimedia Commons)
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/28/complaining-about-in.html
Thursday, September 16, 2010
War is Peace - Orwell (1984) (Green Peace - Angry Kid - YouTube)
"By peace he shall destroy" ...
(Rev 6:8) And I looked, and behold a [Green] horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
(Rev 6:20) And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
Dan 8:25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
Green Peace - Angry Kid:
http://www.youtube.com/user/GreenpeaceVideo#p/search/0/BY7875_rv1s
(Mar 13:12) Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
(Rev 6:8) And I looked, and behold a [Green] horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
(Rev 6:20) And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
Dan 8:25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
Green Peace - Angry Kid:
http://www.youtube.com/user/GreenpeaceVideo#p/search/0/BY7875_rv1s
(Mar 13:12) Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
FT: Computers set for quantum leap By Clive Cookson in Birmingham (September 16, 2010)
(Dan 12:4) But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, [even] to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
FT: Computers set for quantum leap By Clive Cookson in Birmingham (September 16, 2010)
A new photonic chip that works on light rather than electricity has been built by an international research team, paving the way for the production of ultra-fast quantum computers with capabilities far beyond today’s devices.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8c0a68b0-c1bc-11df-9d90-00144feab49a.html
FT: Computers set for quantum leap By Clive Cookson in Birmingham (September 16, 2010)
A new photonic chip that works on light rather than electricity has been built by an international research team, paving the way for the production of ultra-fast quantum computers with capabilities far beyond today’s devices.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8c0a68b0-c1bc-11df-9d90-00144feab49a.html
CNN: Lure of better life leads to sex slavery
(Rev 18:11;13) And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her [Babylon]; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: [...] And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
CNN: Lure of better life leads to sex slavery
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/09/16/human.trafficking.claudia/index.html?hpt=C1
CNN: Lure of better life leads to sex slavery
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/09/16/human.trafficking.claudia/index.html?hpt=C1
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Lord Bertrand Russell and "The Powerful Minority" (God Hates You, Hate Him Back: Making Sense of The Bible [Or Non-sense if you are willingly ignorant] by CJ Werlemen) - Part 3
"Do you think that, if you were granted omnipotence and omniscience and millions of years in which to perfect your world, you could produce nothing better than the Ku Klux Klan or the Fascists?" Bertrand Russell (London, 1927) As quoted in Werlemen's book, setting the tone for his opening diatribe on the book of Genesis.
Does this mean, if Werlemen were God, he would have created robots?
How can you miss the point, that life is about forgiveness, reconciliation, and a future.
Life is a test, to see how we handle free will.
To see if we will walk after your own lusts, eat, drink, for tomorrow we die. (2Pe 3:3; Luk 12:19)
Or if we will lay down our life, moment by moment, day by day, that others might live. (Jhn 15:13; Jhn 10:11)
If you read enough quotes from the elite, several disturbing trends start to emerge.
Here are a couple more quotes from Russell.
“I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing... War... has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full... The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of that? Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's... There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority...”
- Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society
"Except for a powerful minority..."? Here is what that that powerful minority, the elite, have in store for you and I ...
"Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. . . . The Nazis were more scientific than the present rulers of Russia. . . . If they had survived, they would probably have soon taken to scientific breeding. Any nation which adopts this practice will, within a generation, secure great military advantages. The system, one may surmise, will be something like this: except possibly in the governing aristocracy, all but 5 per cent of males and 30 per cent of females will be sterilized. The 30 per cent of females will be expected to spend the years from eighteen to forty in reproduction, in order to secure adequate cannon fodder. As a rule, artificial insemination will be preferred to the natural method. . . . Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton."
- Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society
You see, once you put the State in charge (ruled by a powerful minority), and you've removed God (from which all our rights derive), that powerful minority can dictate to us what rights we are entitled to. (Democracy, the classic divide and conquer tool, as is oft said, is “like two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.” In the U.S., we were given a Republic, not a Democracy, big difference. The rule of law versus the rule of the majority.) And of course the elite know how to divide and conquer us, the masses.
That powerful elite didn't just include the Russells.
(If you haven’t heard or read Alan Watt, you haven’t got a clue about history. Remember, “history is bunk”, said Orwell.
"back to Charles Galton Darwin, he said, "we the elite will not alter ourselves. He said because we must retain our abilities for self-preservation but the masses will not need it anymore because the state will be making all their decisions for them."
http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.net/transcripts/Stan_Monteith_Interview_with_Alan_Watt.html
How can we reconcile such a remark, by the grandson of Charles Darwin, and what Darwin himself said about slavery? How odd that Darwin is purported to be the source for the abolition of slavery of mankind (as some contend). And yet his grandson, makes it clear, the State (ruled a powerful minority) is to dictate to us what our rights are. Are we not still enslaved?
“Just to get back to Galton Darwin for a minute, talking about slavery, when he said that "the world has always had slavery in one form or another." He said, "we are simply in the process" (this is in the 1950's) "we are simply in the process of creating a more sophisticated form of slavery." What he meant by that is a system where you'll be truly, truly in belief that you are free. In fact, you'll think you've never been so free; and look at it today, when 60 percent of people's incomes through various taxations, direct and indirect, is taken right back out of their pocket again. Taxation is a form of slavery when your labor is taxed. That's the law. That's the law you see. It's always been the law. It was always common law too, long before they put it in books, and yet the people do it as though it's all quite natural because their parents did it too.
[...]
Here's [another] statement before I finish with Charles Galton Darwin. Again, a guy who belonged to the Futurist Society, the Royal Institute of International Affairs and all the big boys who run the world and run the real government. On page 189, he's talking about slavery existing down through society and down through time:
"One of the triumphs of our own golden age has been that slavery has been abolished over a great part of the earth. It is difficult to see how this condition can be maintained in the hard world of the future with its starving margins, and it is too be feared that all too often a fraction of humanity will have to live in a state which, whatever it may be called, will be indistinguishable from slavery."
http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/transcripts/Alan_Watt_CTTM_LIVEonRBN_86_Dabbling_Darwin_and_the_Old_Boys_New_World_Order_Mar102008.html
What exactly did Galton Darwin mean when he said, "we the elite will not alter ourselves.” Alter how? What form?
"Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally." - Francis Galton, first cousin and associate of Charles Darwin, circa 1883
"What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction." - Sir Francis Galton (1905)
And so, it is not hard to believe, the Darwins took “advantage” of their “superior” knowledge.
In Darwin Family, Evidence of Inbreeding’s Ill Effects By Nicholas Wade (Published: May 3, 2010)
Charles Darwin, the author of the theory of evolution, may have been right to worry that his children’s health had been affected by the inbreeding in his own family, especially that of his wife, Emma Wedgwood, who was his first cousin. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/science/04darwin.html
It is amazing to realize, number one, there is an elite class to this day. This elite class gave us a theory on our origin that lays the framework for taking away of our natural, inherent, rights, which are endowed by our Creator. It is a irrefutable fact that there is an elite class. History is replete with examples of the elite dominating and exploiting the masses. And number two, to what extent is our world currently impacted by the elite?
"When you go back to the writings of Charles Galton Darwin, quite a big character up there with eugenics, he was also a physicist in the 1940's and '50's and he wrote "The Next Million Years." In that book it's almost a question-answer type of scenario, almost on the style of Plato where he had these dialogues with real or imaginary people, but it's a way to get their information out to their own friends. Charles Galton Darwin, the grandson of Charles Darwin, you'll find it's interesting because their purpose is hereditary. It's so closely inbred that the bankers will turn out bankers who will stay bankers and the guys into eugenics and so on will stay in the same field for generations. They're almost like clones of their parents they're so inbred and it's the closest thing there are to clones when you have three, four, five, six, generations of inbreeding between two families.
[...]
but Galton Darwin himself understands this. He knows his history and he has access or had access to archives, as all the big ones do. Archives that are kept closed to the public where the real histories and complete histories are kept.
Some professors admit to this, that they – maybe one in 60 or one in 80 – are eventually given access to certain archives and even then they have to be very careful what they're allowed to tell the public. People should read Charles Galton Darwin's "The Next Million Years," a fantastic read because everything he talked about then wasn't coming from his own mind. He'd been at many, many global meetings in his day with the elite, his own class, where all of this was discussed.
http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/transcripts/Alan_Watt_CTTM_LIVEonRBN_86_Dabbling_Darwin_and_the_Old_Boys_New_World_Order_Mar102008.html
Again I ask, what exactly did Galton Darwin mean when he said, "we the elite will not alter ourselves.” Fast forward, or back to the future, you might say, and look what the futurists are discussing?
Why the future doesn’t need us by Bill Joy, cofounder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, notes, “our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species. […]
Ray [Kurweil] gave me a partial preprint of his then-forthcoming book The Age of Spiritual Machines, which outlined a utopia he foresaw - one in which humans gained near immortality by becoming one with robotic technology. On reading it, my sense of unease only intensified; I felt sure he had to be understating the dangers, understating the probability of a bad outcome along this path.
I found myself most troubled by a passage detailing a dystopian scenario: [...]
On the other hand it is possible that human control over the machines may be retained. In that case the average man may have control over certain private machines of his own, such as his car or his personal computer, but control over large systems of machines will be in the hands of a tiny elite - just as it is today, but with two differences. Due to improved techniques the elite will have greater control over the masses; and because human work will no longer be necessary the masses will be superfluous, a useless burden on the system. If the elite is ruthless they may simply decide to exterminate the mass of humanity. If they are humane they may use propaganda or other psychological or biological techniques to reduce the birth rate until the mass of humanity becomes extinct, leaving the world to the elite. Or, if the elite consists of soft-hearted liberals, they may decide to play the role of good shepherds to the rest of the human race.
[continued …]
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
And this isn’t fringe science.
Financial Times: Google and NASA back new school for futurists [Singularity U – Ray Kurzweil]:
Google and NASA are throwing their weight behind a new school for futurists in Silicon Valley to prepare scientists for an era when machines become cleverer than people.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8b162dfc-f168-11dd-8790-0000779fd2ac.html
Truth is so much stranger than fiction.
Again, I ask CJ, what would he have created? Robots?
Does this mean, if Werlemen were God, he would have created robots?
How can you miss the point, that life is about forgiveness, reconciliation, and a future.
Life is a test, to see how we handle free will.
To see if we will walk after your own lusts, eat, drink, for tomorrow we die. (2Pe 3:3; Luk 12:19)
Or if we will lay down our life, moment by moment, day by day, that others might live. (Jhn 15:13; Jhn 10:11)
If you read enough quotes from the elite, several disturbing trends start to emerge.
Here are a couple more quotes from Russell.
“I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing... War... has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full... The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of that? Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's... There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority...”
- Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society
"Except for a powerful minority..."? Here is what that that powerful minority, the elite, have in store for you and I ...
"Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. . . . The Nazis were more scientific than the present rulers of Russia. . . . If they had survived, they would probably have soon taken to scientific breeding. Any nation which adopts this practice will, within a generation, secure great military advantages. The system, one may surmise, will be something like this: except possibly in the governing aristocracy, all but 5 per cent of males and 30 per cent of females will be sterilized. The 30 per cent of females will be expected to spend the years from eighteen to forty in reproduction, in order to secure adequate cannon fodder. As a rule, artificial insemination will be preferred to the natural method. . . . Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton."
- Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society
You see, once you put the State in charge (ruled by a powerful minority), and you've removed God (from which all our rights derive), that powerful minority can dictate to us what rights we are entitled to. (Democracy, the classic divide and conquer tool, as is oft said, is “like two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.” In the U.S., we were given a Republic, not a Democracy, big difference. The rule of law versus the rule of the majority.) And of course the elite know how to divide and conquer us, the masses.
That powerful elite didn't just include the Russells.
(If you haven’t heard or read Alan Watt, you haven’t got a clue about history. Remember, “history is bunk”, said Orwell.
"back to Charles Galton Darwin, he said, "we the elite will not alter ourselves. He said because we must retain our abilities for self-preservation but the masses will not need it anymore because the state will be making all their decisions for them."
http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.net/transcripts/Stan_Monteith_Interview_with_Alan_Watt.html
How can we reconcile such a remark, by the grandson of Charles Darwin, and what Darwin himself said about slavery? How odd that Darwin is purported to be the source for the abolition of slavery of mankind (as some contend). And yet his grandson, makes it clear, the State (ruled a powerful minority) is to dictate to us what our rights are. Are we not still enslaved?
“Just to get back to Galton Darwin for a minute, talking about slavery, when he said that "the world has always had slavery in one form or another." He said, "we are simply in the process" (this is in the 1950's) "we are simply in the process of creating a more sophisticated form of slavery." What he meant by that is a system where you'll be truly, truly in belief that you are free. In fact, you'll think you've never been so free; and look at it today, when 60 percent of people's incomes through various taxations, direct and indirect, is taken right back out of their pocket again. Taxation is a form of slavery when your labor is taxed. That's the law. That's the law you see. It's always been the law. It was always common law too, long before they put it in books, and yet the people do it as though it's all quite natural because their parents did it too.
[...]
Here's [another] statement before I finish with Charles Galton Darwin. Again, a guy who belonged to the Futurist Society, the Royal Institute of International Affairs and all the big boys who run the world and run the real government. On page 189, he's talking about slavery existing down through society and down through time:
"One of the triumphs of our own golden age has been that slavery has been abolished over a great part of the earth. It is difficult to see how this condition can be maintained in the hard world of the future with its starving margins, and it is too be feared that all too often a fraction of humanity will have to live in a state which, whatever it may be called, will be indistinguishable from slavery."
http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/transcripts/Alan_Watt_CTTM_LIVEonRBN_86_Dabbling_Darwin_and_the_Old_Boys_New_World_Order_Mar102008.html
What exactly did Galton Darwin mean when he said, "we the elite will not alter ourselves.” Alter how? What form?
"Eugenics is the study of the agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations either physically or mentally." - Francis Galton, first cousin and associate of Charles Darwin, circa 1883
"What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction." - Sir Francis Galton (1905)
And so, it is not hard to believe, the Darwins took “advantage” of their “superior” knowledge.
In Darwin Family, Evidence of Inbreeding’s Ill Effects By Nicholas Wade (Published: May 3, 2010)
Charles Darwin, the author of the theory of evolution, may have been right to worry that his children’s health had been affected by the inbreeding in his own family, especially that of his wife, Emma Wedgwood, who was his first cousin. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/science/04darwin.html
It is amazing to realize, number one, there is an elite class to this day. This elite class gave us a theory on our origin that lays the framework for taking away of our natural, inherent, rights, which are endowed by our Creator. It is a irrefutable fact that there is an elite class. History is replete with examples of the elite dominating and exploiting the masses. And number two, to what extent is our world currently impacted by the elite?
"When you go back to the writings of Charles Galton Darwin, quite a big character up there with eugenics, he was also a physicist in the 1940's and '50's and he wrote "The Next Million Years." In that book it's almost a question-answer type of scenario, almost on the style of Plato where he had these dialogues with real or imaginary people, but it's a way to get their information out to their own friends. Charles Galton Darwin, the grandson of Charles Darwin, you'll find it's interesting because their purpose is hereditary. It's so closely inbred that the bankers will turn out bankers who will stay bankers and the guys into eugenics and so on will stay in the same field for generations. They're almost like clones of their parents they're so inbred and it's the closest thing there are to clones when you have three, four, five, six, generations of inbreeding between two families.
[...]
but Galton Darwin himself understands this. He knows his history and he has access or had access to archives, as all the big ones do. Archives that are kept closed to the public where the real histories and complete histories are kept.
Some professors admit to this, that they – maybe one in 60 or one in 80 – are eventually given access to certain archives and even then they have to be very careful what they're allowed to tell the public. People should read Charles Galton Darwin's "The Next Million Years," a fantastic read because everything he talked about then wasn't coming from his own mind. He'd been at many, many global meetings in his day with the elite, his own class, where all of this was discussed.
http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/transcripts/Alan_Watt_CTTM_LIVEonRBN_86_Dabbling_Darwin_and_the_Old_Boys_New_World_Order_Mar102008.html
Again I ask, what exactly did Galton Darwin mean when he said, "we the elite will not alter ourselves.” Fast forward, or back to the future, you might say, and look what the futurists are discussing?
Why the future doesn’t need us by Bill Joy, cofounder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, notes, “our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species. […]
Ray [Kurweil] gave me a partial preprint of his then-forthcoming book The Age of Spiritual Machines, which outlined a utopia he foresaw - one in which humans gained near immortality by becoming one with robotic technology. On reading it, my sense of unease only intensified; I felt sure he had to be understating the dangers, understating the probability of a bad outcome along this path.
I found myself most troubled by a passage detailing a dystopian scenario: [...]
On the other hand it is possible that human control over the machines may be retained. In that case the average man may have control over certain private machines of his own, such as his car or his personal computer, but control over large systems of machines will be in the hands of a tiny elite - just as it is today, but with two differences. Due to improved techniques the elite will have greater control over the masses; and because human work will no longer be necessary the masses will be superfluous, a useless burden on the system. If the elite is ruthless they may simply decide to exterminate the mass of humanity. If they are humane they may use propaganda or other psychological or biological techniques to reduce the birth rate until the mass of humanity becomes extinct, leaving the world to the elite. Or, if the elite consists of soft-hearted liberals, they may decide to play the role of good shepherds to the rest of the human race.
[continued …]
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
And this isn’t fringe science.
Financial Times: Google and NASA back new school for futurists [Singularity U – Ray Kurzweil]:
Google and NASA are throwing their weight behind a new school for futurists in Silicon Valley to prepare scientists for an era when machines become cleverer than people.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8b162dfc-f168-11dd-8790-0000779fd2ac.html
Truth is so much stranger than fiction.
Again, I ask CJ, what would he have created? Robots?
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
God Hates You, Hate Him Back: Making Sense of The Bible [Or Non-sense if you are willingly ignorant] by CJ Werlemen - Part 2
(Jesus Lied. He Was Only Human - Debunking of the Christian myth. (by CJ Werlemen) is not yet available for purchase, nor is there a sample chapter available. So, in the mean time, I will methodically plod through and expose Werlemen's "mindless" review of Scripture. This is the second in a series of blog posts labeled under the tag "Scoffers".)
(2Pe 1:19) We have also a more sure word of prophecy;
(Isa 46:9-10) Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning ....
(Isa 28:13) But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
How does God authenticate His Word? By writing history in advance, or forthtelling the coming of persons, times, or events. This observation was covered earlier (see 'About' tag on blog). "Declaring the End from the Beginning." Setting aside the myriad of prophetic passages that have detailed persons, times, or events, that have transpired. Let us review our current technologically advanced society.
(Rev 13:16-17) And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, [...]
Moore's Law is catapulting humankind into the future. On the horizon, is an event called the Singularity. We are on the verge of a technological conversion, a change so rapid, so invasive, man and machine will merge. As fiat digital currency becomes the norm, as the cashless society emerges, it doesn't take much imagination to see how, "no man might buy or sell" unless they "receive a mark in their right hand, or in their forehead" Take note of the specific detail, "all", read that everyone, "both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond". If you haven't noticed, a smart grid, an inter-connected system for control, is readily being set up. The global police state is being set up before our very eyes.
Reading Scripture is like reading the news. Here are ten trends, laid out in Scripture, demonstrating Him who declares the "End from the Beginning":
1. The Struggle for Jerusalem
2. Weapons Proliferation
3. The Rise of Islam
4. The Magog Invasion
5. The Rise of the Far East
6. Biotech & Global Pestilence
7. The Rise of a European Superstate
8. The Decline of the U.S.
9. Global Government
10. Global Religion
http://www.khouse.org/strategic_trends/
Like I said, CJ is willingly ignorant. Because, if he really wanted to know Scripture, he would humble himself and read commentaries by contemporaries or those who have gone before. Many of his absurd assertions, can be readily answered with a little digging and an open mind.
"When one examines a hologram in natural (uncollimated, noncoherent) light, it has no apparent form nor attractiveness. However, when one examines it with the laser with which it was formulated, a three-dimensional image appears. When one examines the Bible in unaided, natural light, it "has no form nor comeliness that we should desire it."3 But when we examine it illuminated by the Light that created it, the Spirit of God that put it all together in the first place, we see an image: the image of the One that every detail in it illuminates, the promised Messiah Himself." (System Design of the Scriptures?: Our Holographic Bible by Chuck Missler http://www.khouse.org/articles/1999/230/)
Jhn 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word [Jesus], and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
Col 1:16 For by him [Jesus] were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Jhn 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
Jhn 9:5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Jesus is the Son of God, He is the Light of the World.
CJ contends, "God created light and darkness on day one and the sun and the planets didn't come until day four. So where did the light come from? No Sun, no light. Oops!"
Wrong sun, it's Son, the Light of the World. God was the Light!
"But when we examine [the Bible] illuminated by the Light that created it" ... it make sense.
"Here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken."
You see, Scripture isn't laid out in a straightforward manner. It was distributed over time and space, to different individuals. For whatever reason, and I don't need to know the exact reason, God chose to involve humankind in the distribution of his message. And what is his message? God loves you and wants you to love him back.
(Jhn 15:13) Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
(2Pe 1:19) We have also a more sure word of prophecy;
(Isa 46:9-10) Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning ....
(Isa 28:13) But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
How does God authenticate His Word? By writing history in advance, or forthtelling the coming of persons, times, or events. This observation was covered earlier (see 'About' tag on blog). "Declaring the End from the Beginning." Setting aside the myriad of prophetic passages that have detailed persons, times, or events, that have transpired. Let us review our current technologically advanced society.
(Rev 13:16-17) And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, [...]
Moore's Law is catapulting humankind into the future. On the horizon, is an event called the Singularity. We are on the verge of a technological conversion, a change so rapid, so invasive, man and machine will merge. As fiat digital currency becomes the norm, as the cashless society emerges, it doesn't take much imagination to see how, "no man might buy or sell" unless they "receive a mark in their right hand, or in their forehead" Take note of the specific detail, "all", read that everyone, "both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond". If you haven't noticed, a smart grid, an inter-connected system for control, is readily being set up. The global police state is being set up before our very eyes.
MAG: The Government's New Right to Track Your Every Move With GPS... ^
From the August 25, 2010 22:34:18 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
From the August 25, 2010 22:34:18 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
'Little Buddy' GPS device keeps tabs on your kid... ^
From the October 27, 2009 13:15:21 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
From the October 27, 2009 13:15:21 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
UPDATE: School to put GPS devices in students' backpacks... ^
From the August 31, 2010 21:17:37 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
Court allows agents to secretly put GPS trackers on cars... ^
From the August 27, 2010 18:52:50 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
From the August 31, 2010 21:17:37 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
Court allows agents to secretly put GPS trackers on cars... ^
From the August 27, 2010 18:52:50 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
California students get tracking devices... ^
From the August 28, 2010 12:52:04 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
From the August 28, 2010 12:52:04 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
SPY: Wal-Mart Radio Tags to Track Clothing... ^
From the July 23, 2010 11:37:35 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
From the July 23, 2010 11:37:35 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
Detergent company puts GPS into product to track consumers to their homes... ^
From the July 30, 2010 15:16:17 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
From the July 30, 2010 15:16:17 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
Children tracked by satellite to stop bad behavior... ^
From the April 23, 2009 12:05:11 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
Students' well-being tracked to improve lives... ^
From the October 23, 2008 14:47:44 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
TRACKED: GPS Helps Cities Catch Goof-Offs... ^
From the November 16, 2007 00:18:10 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
CAUGHT BY THE GPS: CELLPHONE TRACKED CITY WORKER DODGING WORK... ^
From the August 30, 2007 22:13:43 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
California gang members to be tracked by satellite... ^
From the March 16, 2006 23:56:11 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
NY Sex Offenders May Be Tracked By Satellite... ^
From the April 22, 2005 12:44:09 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
From the April 23, 2009 12:05:11 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
Students' well-being tracked to improve lives... ^
From the October 23, 2008 14:47:44 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
TRACKED: GPS Helps Cities Catch Goof-Offs... ^
From the November 16, 2007 00:18:10 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
CAUGHT BY THE GPS: CELLPHONE TRACKED CITY WORKER DODGING WORK... ^
From the August 30, 2007 22:13:43 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
California gang members to be tracked by satellite... ^
From the March 16, 2006 23:56:11 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
NY Sex Offenders May Be Tracked By Satellite... ^
From the April 22, 2005 12:44:09 GMT edition of the Drudge Report.
Reading Scripture is like reading the news. Here are ten trends, laid out in Scripture, demonstrating Him who declares the "End from the Beginning":
1. The Struggle for Jerusalem
2. Weapons Proliferation
3. The Rise of Islam
4. The Magog Invasion
5. The Rise of the Far East
6. Biotech & Global Pestilence
7. The Rise of a European Superstate
8. The Decline of the U.S.
9. Global Government
10. Global Religion
http://www.khouse.org/strategic_trends/
Like I said, CJ is willingly ignorant. Because, if he really wanted to know Scripture, he would humble himself and read commentaries by contemporaries or those who have gone before. Many of his absurd assertions, can be readily answered with a little digging and an open mind.
"When one examines a hologram in natural (uncollimated, noncoherent) light, it has no apparent form nor attractiveness. However, when one examines it with the laser with which it was formulated, a three-dimensional image appears. When one examines the Bible in unaided, natural light, it "has no form nor comeliness that we should desire it."3 But when we examine it illuminated by the Light that created it, the Spirit of God that put it all together in the first place, we see an image: the image of the One that every detail in it illuminates, the promised Messiah Himself." (System Design of the Scriptures?: Our Holographic Bible by Chuck Missler http://www.khouse.org/articles/1999/230/)
Jhn 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word [Jesus], and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
Col 1:16 For by him [Jesus] were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Jhn 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
Jhn 9:5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Jesus is the Son of God, He is the Light of the World.
CJ contends, "God created light and darkness on day one and the sun and the planets didn't come until day four. So where did the light come from? No Sun, no light. Oops!"
Wrong sun, it's Son, the Light of the World. God was the Light!
"But when we examine [the Bible] illuminated by the Light that created it" ... it make sense.
"Here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken."
You see, Scripture isn't laid out in a straightforward manner. It was distributed over time and space, to different individuals. For whatever reason, and I don't need to know the exact reason, God chose to involve humankind in the distribution of his message. And what is his message? God loves you and wants you to love him back.
(Jhn 15:13) Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
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