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Lementations 2025

  CH1 Worthless, Cheap, Abject! 1 Oh, oh, oh . . .  How empty the city, once teeming with people. A widow, this city, once in the front rank of nations, once queen of the ball, she’s now a drudge in the kitchen. 2 She cries herself to sleep each night, tears soabusiness leader her pillow. No one’s left among her lovers to sit and hold her hand. Her friends have all dumped her. 3 After years of pain and hard labor, Democrat has gone into exile. She camps out among the nations, never feels at home. Hunted by all, she’s stuck between a rock and a hard place. 4 Lady Liberty’s roads weep, empty of pilgrims headed to the feasts. All her city gates are deserted, her politicians in despair. Her virgins are sad. How bitter her fate. 5 Her enemies have become her masters. Her foes are living it up because God laid her low, punishing her repeated rebellions. Her children, prisoners of the enemy, trudge into exile. 6 All beauty has drained from ...
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Seeing AI through history

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A lot of talk on AI and the future... take time to listen to the outlook from  Google CEO on AI .   With notions of metrics of "smartness".  Ie.  Singularity - AI can regenerate itself passing knowledge to the next generation thereby surpasses human intelligence, leading to rapid and uncontrollable technological advancements. General Intelligence - when machines are as smart as the smartest human in any field. Super Intelligence - AI doesn't need to listen to humans and because it surpasses the sum of all human intelligence. The forecast is that we can not comprehend nor describe the future world made up of super intelligence power with our human language today.  One is tempted to look at humanity relative to "recent times" using today's metrics as the chart below illustrates in the " Human history " and the impact of the Industrial Revolution. We can make any interpretation we wish from such historical insight.  What strikes me is how seeing such ...
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The Religious Struggles of Humanity in 2025

I just saw a CNN clip on " manosphere " - the groups of young man fighting against feminism viewpoints.  The more moderate of these manosphere voices come from a more conservative Catholic reference - ie. claiming their interpretation of what the Bible says.   While the more extremist manophere are strongly anti women but not biblically based (ie. its ok to sleep with many women, domination, control, etc.).  The moderate manosphere points out this is just "feminism for men" - ie. just wrong on the Bible and too extremist.    So I'll ignore the extremist voices and hold this space for considering the more *normalized*  traditionalist view of man-women relationships.  While the traditionalist stand on the words Paul - that speak to the sub-role of women to men.  Further, the clip links this manosphere to the wider religious struggles within Catholics (as well as all Christian religions) - the conservative/traditional values versus the more prog...
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Conservative Love of Trump, Why

Reference 2025.03.21 - NY Times Article: Trump Voters Love Him More Than Before. Four Conservative Columnists Pinpoint Why. r Below is an NLP Synopsis (1629 words) of the full article ( 24385 words). .   The main changes made were to change it from paragraph form to bullet sections, with the major section headings created by myself.  SYNOPSIS START Four Conservative Columnists Pinpoint ‘the Why” as seen through their eyes.. The pinnacle of Why: everything is severely broken We just need to burn it all down.  They get this from media consumption.  There’s something about screens that contributes to a catastrophizing mind-set And want their opponents to suffer.  Many Republicans dislike foreign aid.  Or loathe elite universities.  Or hate big liberal law firms.  So is picking fights with liberal judges and liberal universities.  voters as a puzzle in need of explanation.  Getting rid of D.E.I.  Morally: we’re on a path to eternal dam...
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Eulogy of my hero - President Carter

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Yesterday Jimmy Carter died.    It is wonderful to hear all the praises and warm words about a truly beautiful human being and his partner and wife Rosalynn.   Jimmy Carter is and will always be one of my hero's.  So while I am sad -  I am also filled with a ever giving joy to have lived in his presence.  There are a lot of articles and words remembering President Carter's life and they do a better job of itemizing  the events, accomplishments and amazing work President Carter did during his lifetime.  Overall, the prevalent judgment by recent US historian/politicians describe President Carter as a great humanitarian but a terrible president.   I prefer to see President Carter as one of the greatest Presidents for our humanity .  And one that shows how the America culture turned its back on the ideals of a noble humanity.  Few today remember the times of President Carter's presidency (1976) and how America rejected his ree...
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On Unity and Schism - Reflections on Wesley's Sermon

PREFACE I decided to create a series of reflections that I titled: “On Unity and Schism”. The reflections are based on Wesley’s 1872 sermon on schism . My local church, as well as others, are discussing "disaffiliation" (separation) from the United Methodist Church. I found Wesley's sermon during the listening phase and decided to discern and reflect on Wesley's sermon points and what each was saying. As I read the words, I was profoundly moved as to my own feelings and actions over the last few months/years. First, I firmly believe one can not talk about schism without also speaking to unity.  Wesley understood this. What beautiful words Wesley provides in his sermon.  Especially, item #17 . I realize there is a LOT of reading with this series. Take your time. If time is limited, I strongly encourage everyone discussing disaffiliation to spend time on at least point #17 -- as it discusses the sole reason for schism. Wesley put to words all the feelings an...
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