ohhh...as you have indicated before, your losses are worse than death. The angst is indescribable, though you have done a pretty good job with your words. Like SMK says, a heartbreaking post. What is it worth? Still praying for you Steve, as I do for my brother, twice divorced, 6 kids.
Continuing to pray, not for magician god to make all right, but for you to see God and love God in all things, the One who died for you.
and the smoke from the fire as incense in the country? That was certainly as a religious experience, as everything, lived in the Divine Will, is. Still my constant prayer: I believe, help my unbelief.
Hey Steve, I know this sounds cliche but I think the idea of "learn to code" is something you might actually consider. It pays really well, if you have high verbal fluency you'd probably be good at it, and you're already interested in AI tools which is a head start. If you're interested, I'm happy to suggest some ways to get started.
Very interesting, Steve, as usual. I like your writing and photography so much.
I disagree with Musk. I admire Musk, I thank God for Musk, I think God is using Musk, but I do not agree it is better to be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right. I (and I think a lot of believers) prefer the truth, the pure unadulterated truth, and nothing but the truth so help me God. Because Jesus said "I am the Truth, the Way and the Life." Now Jesus also said "I have more to tell you, but you can't bear it now." I trust He knows us well enough to know what we cannot bear now. But I'd prefer being able to bear all Truth, no matter what the Truth is. I trust that when we reach in Heaven, we'll be able to bear all Truth. So God is using Musk, and God will be changing Musk on an ongoing basis, probably even after he passes into Eternity (where there's usually a soul-perfecting mop-up operation called "Purgatory.") Musk already seems to be changing--no reports of new Musk babies sired with strange, random women or hired wombs. (Or perhaps Musk has just become quiet about new additions to his broods).
As far as AI goes, I don't think it's going to fly as initially planned. The grid may go down for any number of reasons (e.g., solar events, man-made energy crises and/ or grid interruptions due to "hybrid warfare" ). And Musk's predictions are antibiblical in that he seems to be predicting a "Brave New World"-type utopia (no work, all play, and benign programmed machines making it all possible.) But those "benign machines" are being programmed by Lefty atheists like Sam Altman and Bill Gates (who seems to be a de-populationist), One of OpenAI's brilliant Indian programmers recently died under very suspicious circumstances (the one who publicly insisted that OpenAI was "violating copyright laws", see link below). Add to that the disappearance of all these irreplacible, brilliant, one-off scientists in rapid succession that no one can solve or figure out. So this augurs distopia, not utopia. No utopia has never performed to spec, and neither will this AI-created one Musk and others envision. Can anything ultimately good come from a bunch of atheistic, Left-wing programming bunker-buying billionnaire geniuses trying to put all of humanity out of work (except themselves and their employees)?
"Nobody works" is not what God said. God said "You will earn your keep out of the sweat of your brow." So how will it crash? We can only wait and see, preparing as best we can. Read up on Fatima's 3rd (unexpurgated), which was confirmed by Akita, which are Our Lady's warnings.
As for the rest, I don’t know what to say, other than this: God isn’t running this world in any way I can see, and guys like Musk are shaping the future in his absence.
I can’t say for sure that what they say is going to happen will come true, but short of inexplicable catastrophic failure or unprecedented and improbable divine intervention, their predictions strike me as quite likely to come to pass.
Just had a long conversation with Kale on a podcast that should come out tomorrow about all of this. The future is very obscure, but it certainly seems to be heading in one very particular direction.
Do you think God saved Trump in Butler, that God had him tilt his head just in the nick of time? Or was that just a coincidence? Here's my take: God intervened. Overall, I think God puts the laws of nature in place and pretty much just lets those laws play out (including random outcomes when one pulls the lever on the slot machine). But once in a while, God intervenes. And you will know it when it happens to you, which it WILL happen to all men and women, ultimately, that is, there is a Day of Reckoning. But sometimes, for reasons known only to God, He decides "I'm going to do something right here and now, because I want to tilt things in a certain direction." (Trump in Butler, God didn't want him dead.) Like what besides that? The Battle of Lepanto. Our Lady also seems to have some influence with the Son (see the first miracle and her frequent apparitions, which I am sure she runs past Jesus). Also, Padre Pio--God's will to put a super-star on earth at that time to convert the millions. God wasn't going to take "no" for an answer from St. Paul, so struck him off his horse and blinded him. Paul went on to write most of the NT. Other miracles--the Incorruptibles. Eucharistic miracles. Saints who display the stigmata (there's lots of them). Exorcists. Listen to Fr. Chad Ripperger (a name, what a name) in his recent interview with Sean Ryan. Do you think Fr. Chad is hallucinating and making things up? I don't. Listen to Fr. Dan Rehill's recent interview with Sean Ryan. So who's the empiricist here, me or you? Are these hard-working exorcists lunatics and charlatans? Are you not monitoring their situations?
I'm sure to listen to your podcast as soon as it gets put up. Those podcasts are great thoughts by great observers and thinkers who are "monitoring the situation." I feel better knowing you in particular are watching how many scientists are disappearing with no explanation and the frequency of UAP and drones. You're keeping us drudge-workers (a lot of family care is drudgery, though essential) going through the days of scrubbing and cooking and shopping and cleaning and tending sick people in our care.
I wish you two were advising Trump in the White House on UAP and drones. Maybe things would get solved faster in the Straits of Homuz if you two could weigh in on the use of drones by the Houthis. You could also weigh in with Tulsi Gabbard who is trying to figure out if and how the 2020 election was rigged.
I don't think things are going to work out as Musk thinks. But I want him doing what he's doing (he saved Freedom of Speech, for instance, and will probably help us colonize the moon), but I also want him to become a better father and husband. Bold prediction: Musk will convert to Christianity after the Great Chastisement. When is the Great Chastisement? Ah, 2026 or 2027. Midterms will be a big clue. Another bold prediction: Joe Rogan will become a Catholic. I've had egg on my face in the prediction department in the past, and I'm sure I'll have some more egg facial treatments before the fat lady sings. Carry on.
I don't believe in the same things you do, so my opinion doesn't sync up. Do I believe God saved Trump, for example? No. I believe it was an incredibly lucky coincidence. Am I epistemically closed to the idea that God saved Trump? No, but I'd need more to persuade me than assuming this is the kind of thing God tends to do.
I know I've said it a lot, but many of your comments seem to take for granted that I believe differently: I do not believe in a personal, loving God, based on the available evidence.
Do I still ask him if he's there? Yes. Do I expect him to answer, even in the tiniest whisper? No, not based on previous experience.
All I can tell you is that I am not a nihilist, and I'm only pragmatically a materialist. I believe in too many things that lie outside of the brute empirical realm to which we have access to pretend otherwise. To give one example, I think our version of physics is rather incomplete.
But I do not assume miracles, or a divine plan, and I am not sure that the things we encounter as demons are what we believe them to be. Remember, I've been present at multiple deliverances. I've seen spooky things. There is certainly some kind of parasitic, malevolent, incorporeal entity doing things to people. But is it what we've been told? I don't know. I do know that I don't trust celebrity exorcists who make easily disproven claims and get most of their intel from the very beings they're hired to expel because of how wicked and deceptive they are.
Either way, God does not intervene in history in any significant way -- or at least, not anymore. Whatever reasons there are for that, we have to find a way to survive what's coming, and I'll take free stuff from robots and no undesired work (I will never not engage in creative and philosophical endeavors whether I'm getting paid or not) over economic and material apocalypse, because I do not believe in running towards suffering, when there's so much ambient suffering to go around.
I'm way behind on reading your posts, but for me, the primary reason I stick around is not because of the quality of your writing - though your writing is quite good - nor out of sympathy for the circumstances you find yourself in - though it's hard not to have a heart for what you're going through - nor is it because of your interesting insights in "monitoring the situation" - though you are clearly smart and do that well. The reason I stick around is because I can see that God is working in your life - whether you see it or not.
Consider the disciples all running into the night when the soldiers came to arrest Jesus. They couldn't understand how such a thing would happen to Him. And they ran in fear. And yet. It was all part of the plan. This is how I write of Jesus explaining it to Cleopas, on the road to Emmaus:
“And you,” He turned to Cleopas, whose face had gone pale, “you who ran in fear. What does Zechariah say? ‘Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will scatter.’ Did you think you failed Him by fulfilling prophecy? Your fear, your flight—even this was written.”
A heartbreaking post.
I'll continue to rage against the machines. But you're right that whatever's coming is coming, and we need to live with it one way or another.
ohhh...as you have indicated before, your losses are worse than death. The angst is indescribable, though you have done a pretty good job with your words. Like SMK says, a heartbreaking post. What is it worth? Still praying for you Steve, as I do for my brother, twice divorced, 6 kids.
Continuing to pray, not for magician god to make all right, but for you to see God and love God in all things, the One who died for you.
and the smoke from the fire as incense in the country? That was certainly as a religious experience, as everything, lived in the Divine Will, is. Still my constant prayer: I believe, help my unbelief.
Hey Steve, I know this sounds cliche but I think the idea of "learn to code" is something you might actually consider. It pays really well, if you have high verbal fluency you'd probably be good at it, and you're already interested in AI tools which is a head start. If you're interested, I'm happy to suggest some ways to get started.
Very interesting, Steve, as usual. I like your writing and photography so much.
I disagree with Musk. I admire Musk, I thank God for Musk, I think God is using Musk, but I do not agree it is better to be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right. I (and I think a lot of believers) prefer the truth, the pure unadulterated truth, and nothing but the truth so help me God. Because Jesus said "I am the Truth, the Way and the Life." Now Jesus also said "I have more to tell you, but you can't bear it now." I trust He knows us well enough to know what we cannot bear now. But I'd prefer being able to bear all Truth, no matter what the Truth is. I trust that when we reach in Heaven, we'll be able to bear all Truth. So God is using Musk, and God will be changing Musk on an ongoing basis, probably even after he passes into Eternity (where there's usually a soul-perfecting mop-up operation called "Purgatory.") Musk already seems to be changing--no reports of new Musk babies sired with strange, random women or hired wombs. (Or perhaps Musk has just become quiet about new additions to his broods).
As far as AI goes, I don't think it's going to fly as initially planned. The grid may go down for any number of reasons (e.g., solar events, man-made energy crises and/ or grid interruptions due to "hybrid warfare" ). And Musk's predictions are antibiblical in that he seems to be predicting a "Brave New World"-type utopia (no work, all play, and benign programmed machines making it all possible.) But those "benign machines" are being programmed by Lefty atheists like Sam Altman and Bill Gates (who seems to be a de-populationist), One of OpenAI's brilliant Indian programmers recently died under very suspicious circumstances (the one who publicly insisted that OpenAI was "violating copyright laws", see link below). Add to that the disappearance of all these irreplacible, brilliant, one-off scientists in rapid succession that no one can solve or figure out. So this augurs distopia, not utopia. No utopia has never performed to spec, and neither will this AI-created one Musk and others envision. Can anything ultimately good come from a bunch of atheistic, Left-wing programming bunker-buying billionnaire geniuses trying to put all of humanity out of work (except themselves and their employees)?
"Nobody works" is not what God said. God said "You will earn your keep out of the sweat of your brow." So how will it crash? We can only wait and see, preparing as best we can. Read up on Fatima's 3rd (unexpurgated), which was confirmed by Akita, which are Our Lady's warnings.
https://www.news18.com/world/sam-altman-claims-suicide-elon-musk-says-murder-how-did-openais-suchir-balaji-die-ws-l-9565991.html
Thanks, Anne, I’m glad you like my work!
As for the rest, I don’t know what to say, other than this: God isn’t running this world in any way I can see, and guys like Musk are shaping the future in his absence.
I can’t say for sure that what they say is going to happen will come true, but short of inexplicable catastrophic failure or unprecedented and improbable divine intervention, their predictions strike me as quite likely to come to pass.
Just had a long conversation with Kale on a podcast that should come out tomorrow about all of this. The future is very obscure, but it certainly seems to be heading in one very particular direction.
Do you think God saved Trump in Butler, that God had him tilt his head just in the nick of time? Or was that just a coincidence? Here's my take: God intervened. Overall, I think God puts the laws of nature in place and pretty much just lets those laws play out (including random outcomes when one pulls the lever on the slot machine). But once in a while, God intervenes. And you will know it when it happens to you, which it WILL happen to all men and women, ultimately, that is, there is a Day of Reckoning. But sometimes, for reasons known only to God, He decides "I'm going to do something right here and now, because I want to tilt things in a certain direction." (Trump in Butler, God didn't want him dead.) Like what besides that? The Battle of Lepanto. Our Lady also seems to have some influence with the Son (see the first miracle and her frequent apparitions, which I am sure she runs past Jesus). Also, Padre Pio--God's will to put a super-star on earth at that time to convert the millions. God wasn't going to take "no" for an answer from St. Paul, so struck him off his horse and blinded him. Paul went on to write most of the NT. Other miracles--the Incorruptibles. Eucharistic miracles. Saints who display the stigmata (there's lots of them). Exorcists. Listen to Fr. Chad Ripperger (a name, what a name) in his recent interview with Sean Ryan. Do you think Fr. Chad is hallucinating and making things up? I don't. Listen to Fr. Dan Rehill's recent interview with Sean Ryan. So who's the empiricist here, me or you? Are these hard-working exorcists lunatics and charlatans? Are you not monitoring their situations?
I'm sure to listen to your podcast as soon as it gets put up. Those podcasts are great thoughts by great observers and thinkers who are "monitoring the situation." I feel better knowing you in particular are watching how many scientists are disappearing with no explanation and the frequency of UAP and drones. You're keeping us drudge-workers (a lot of family care is drudgery, though essential) going through the days of scrubbing and cooking and shopping and cleaning and tending sick people in our care.
I wish you two were advising Trump in the White House on UAP and drones. Maybe things would get solved faster in the Straits of Homuz if you two could weigh in on the use of drones by the Houthis. You could also weigh in with Tulsi Gabbard who is trying to figure out if and how the 2020 election was rigged.
I don't think things are going to work out as Musk thinks. But I want him doing what he's doing (he saved Freedom of Speech, for instance, and will probably help us colonize the moon), but I also want him to become a better father and husband. Bold prediction: Musk will convert to Christianity after the Great Chastisement. When is the Great Chastisement? Ah, 2026 or 2027. Midterms will be a big clue. Another bold prediction: Joe Rogan will become a Catholic. I've had egg on my face in the prediction department in the past, and I'm sure I'll have some more egg facial treatments before the fat lady sings. Carry on.
I don't believe in the same things you do, so my opinion doesn't sync up. Do I believe God saved Trump, for example? No. I believe it was an incredibly lucky coincidence. Am I epistemically closed to the idea that God saved Trump? No, but I'd need more to persuade me than assuming this is the kind of thing God tends to do.
I know I've said it a lot, but many of your comments seem to take for granted that I believe differently: I do not believe in a personal, loving God, based on the available evidence.
Do I still ask him if he's there? Yes. Do I expect him to answer, even in the tiniest whisper? No, not based on previous experience.
All I can tell you is that I am not a nihilist, and I'm only pragmatically a materialist. I believe in too many things that lie outside of the brute empirical realm to which we have access to pretend otherwise. To give one example, I think our version of physics is rather incomplete.
But I do not assume miracles, or a divine plan, and I am not sure that the things we encounter as demons are what we believe them to be. Remember, I've been present at multiple deliverances. I've seen spooky things. There is certainly some kind of parasitic, malevolent, incorporeal entity doing things to people. But is it what we've been told? I don't know. I do know that I don't trust celebrity exorcists who make easily disproven claims and get most of their intel from the very beings they're hired to expel because of how wicked and deceptive they are.
Either way, God does not intervene in history in any significant way -- or at least, not anymore. Whatever reasons there are for that, we have to find a way to survive what's coming, and I'll take free stuff from robots and no undesired work (I will never not engage in creative and philosophical endeavors whether I'm getting paid or not) over economic and material apocalypse, because I do not believe in running towards suffering, when there's so much ambient suffering to go around.
I'm way behind on reading your posts, but for me, the primary reason I stick around is not because of the quality of your writing - though your writing is quite good - nor out of sympathy for the circumstances you find yourself in - though it's hard not to have a heart for what you're going through - nor is it because of your interesting insights in "monitoring the situation" - though you are clearly smart and do that well. The reason I stick around is because I can see that God is working in your life - whether you see it or not.
Consider the disciples all running into the night when the soldiers came to arrest Jesus. They couldn't understand how such a thing would happen to Him. And they ran in fear. And yet. It was all part of the plan. This is how I write of Jesus explaining it to Cleopas, on the road to Emmaus:
“And you,” He turned to Cleopas, whose face had gone pale, “you who ran in fear. What does Zechariah say? ‘Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will scatter.’ Did you think you failed Him by fulfilling prophecy? Your fear, your flight—even this was written.”