Thursday, October 9, 2025

Twilight zone

I'm watching a g-rated witch burning movie....

"Theocracy" makes ya wonder, huh? 

I can't quote an article by the handmaid's-tale author, because it's paywalled. But I can copy the headline (hang on)
Google AI had a whole lot to say, but I can't assume you'll see what I do.
It's a trendy issue.
Doug Wilson

Amy Barrett





They do not serve at the behest, although they were supposed to (hmm)

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rough draft:
A mean king with few friends was about to have a wedding, and wanted his friends to attend.

The friends were too busy.

So the king, slightly pissed off anyway, decided to invite (*gasp*) anyone anywhere.

They pissed off the king, so now they're Murderers!!
Send the Guard!
Burn the city!!


This was great, until the guests actually showed up, for the food.

One of the guests was (*gasp*) underdressed?
Yeah, underdressed.
After yelling at the poor guy he had his guards mistreat him and eject him from the party.

Second one (That I can remember)

A guy 



has to go on a long business trip, and thinks maybe that idleness is really bad for the servants.
So he gives them money, telling them to use it wisely (or words to that effect.)





One of the guys thinks that it's very easy to Lose money in the real world, what with thieves and greedy confidence-men everywhere, so he stores his portion away carefully, confident his boss will be proud of him when he gets back.

Boy, is he wrong. I can't remember, does he join the underdressed guy on the street?

I knew you were a greedy SOB, taking stuff from people, so I was prudent, I don't want to be on your bad side. I hid the money, here it is!
"You [etc ("dumbhead")]!! I'm greedy, taking what I can [you should have followed my example!]


Dress for success.
Greed is good, greed works.
Those that got shall get, those that's not shall lose (Be republican ftw)



reading the bible has resulted in (insert number here) religions, all reading from the same book 
(and a concordance/ commentary)
(and a supplement)
(and lectures)

Wiki has an unreadable piece, but Google claims to know of 200 separate groups within the christian religion in the US.

Anyway....I hate parables. 
It's math class all over again.

I'll give you an idea (maybe not)
An assistant-preacher would occasionally sermonize that he was a "Hard man"
referencing (maybe?) the above parable.
Reading stuff into the bible is a favorite pastime of many religions.
"It Says yada, 
"It means (long lecture)"
And that goes for dinosaurs,
Space,
Money.

This was never meant to be informative, it's more like some bloviated train of thought.
You can't explain stuff without sounding like a PBS special to fall asleep by, but.....

I'm about to paste an AI of the meaning "hard man" which is biased as hell but informative.

"Am I an A-hole? No, it's You!!"

Once a guy gets powerful enough to lord it over you, by hook or crook,
Suddenly YOU are in the wrong, and YOUR perspective is wrong (and must change)

but that's, um, situational. Not all dictators are "hard men" 
Fucket, be a farmer / self-employed, geez


OMG, how tactless.
Believe it your way or be weak and ignorant

o.
nvm

 

Ask AI a plain-english question and you'll get very different answers, depending upon the smart-person you listen to!!
So what hope does the Bible have??
In answer to the question, 
"Do more Men or more Women go to Hospital?
The answer is, "Yes, they do"
A more relevant op-ed piece: New York has projects, big brick buildings run by NYCHA, their housing authority.
They are real poor and want to make money off of their projects by turning them over to real-estate developers.
Now, I know I've got most of the minutia wrong, but it fits.
https://www.archpaper.com/2025/09/nycha-fulton-elliott-chelsea-houses/
and it was a train of thought from a piece about urban renewal.
These are no "philosophical discussions," they involve billions of dollars and thousands of people.






This rough-draft had a little fork in it about churches who survive on the strength of their preacher, and when that preacher dies, the church liquidates (and another rises elsewhere.) But that has nothing to do with the bible, or this entry which, (I'm thinking) should be erased or edited. (But the phrase "he is over here, he is over there" (matt 24:23) comes to mind)
(Ben and Jerry's vs 31-flavors preaching style?)

Topical (for today) 


https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZjbmt0TXpZd1NoRUtEd2l0cDZIWER4RmtiYWlQbXNtTnV5Z0FQAQ?hl=en-US

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/10/who-are-the-five-nobel-peace-prize-judges-deciding-whether-trump-gets-it


This next link should be retititled "nobody asked us, but" and is maybe a tout sheet, IDK.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251010-ten-contenders-for-the-nobel-peace-prize-who-are-not-donald-trump

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2025/machado/facts/


PPSS

Google is helpfully offering to read every word, carefully evaluate it, and add links.
The links it adds are going back to Google. 
*I* think it's creepy, like some micromanaging teacher and her boss watching me write, 
But I'll use it anyway, who knows.




I had yet another train go by,
"MTG vs AOC", first on the microsoft-browser of my android phone,
and then on Google here.
Google is much more reserved.
The dishier stuff Microsoft came up with was more interesting.
Anyway,
https://www.google.com/search?q=mtg+vs+aoc&oq=mtg+vs+aoc


A super-bombastic debate exists on unions.
Quora-readers vote against the pro union posts (or one guy does?)
And Reddit is more pro-union, and easier to read on top of that.
vs
But I'm digressing, or something...I'm gonna go away now...
it's hopeless, my mind says, and with gerrymandering, the electoral college and 
True-red-dyed-in-wool-partisans, we'll be what they want, very soon if not sooner.
















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