Thanks. I'll be frank. As soon as I saw "rapture" and "post-rapture/tribulation life" I was kind of suspicious. I don't subscribe to the Scofieldian interpretation of the Last Days as a period where 'rapture' takes place, and unfaithful are left behind, or where the Earth is abandoned, etc.
So, I'll dig a little bit. I tried "Stratos", and what is stratos in ancient writings or mythology, etc. What did I find?
Firstly Stratos was not some demonic ruler, but the name of a city in Ancient Greece, "the largest, best-fortified, and most strategically important city in Acarnania". Secondly, etymologically, it means "army" or "military force". A common term for an army or host of soldiers.
Hyperion, a Titan in Greek mythology. Sure, ancient Greek was pagan, but Greece was also a critical and important foundation for Christ's teachings to actually take root. Modern thought owes a lot of Socrates, Aristotle etc.
Framing "Hyperion" as a fallen angel in the Book of Enoch, yeah, nah, not my cup of tea.
Some folks love this stuff, but in my view, the root is very distorted pseudo-theological 'fear' culture.
I mean, I was expecting something like a data centered called "Lucifer" or "Satan", "Baal" or Moloch". Instead, these are names from Ancient Greek culture and mythology, which, fused with Christ teachings, became an important foundation for the Modern Western Christian cultural sphere.
"Fallen angels"? That's an interpretation, and I don't find it impressive.
Yet some people see Satan everywhere. I think it's far more important on recognizing how the Creator lives and breathes in our modern world. Certainly, the spiritual war is real, and certainly, Satanic forces are real, but When your departure point is the Scofieldian theology of rapture, destruction, apocalypse, rather God's saving grace and love for the world, meh.
Edit: 2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
Thanks for posting the summary.
EDIT: OK. I'm not saying there is nothing there, but I think there are other ways to view the topic than "All these AI organizations are naming their plants for satanic, fallen angels" and the through the lens of apocalyptic theology.
Some folks love this stuff, but in my view, the root is very distorted pseudo-theological 👉 'fear' culture. 👈
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Whenever there's ignorance, there's fear.
Instead of really trying to understand what "AI" is & isn't, I see scores of people sitting on their thumb, spinning instead of trying to understand what the tech is and isn't, what it can and cannot do & the inability to see that it's nothing more than a tool.
First off, the term "Artificial Intelligence" or AI is grossly incorrect. Just like radio controlled quadcopters and other crafts are NOT "drones", AI is certainly NOT intelligent.
Perhaps this "AI" acronym is completely misattributed - where any time AI is mentioned, instead of artificial intelligence, just substitute it for "Asinine Ignorance" or say, "Analphabetic Intelligence" or anything other than what they're pushing.
I wonder, as things change at a rapid & ever increasing rate of acceleration, if those that are "A Skeered" if people are truly addicted to the collective outrage and craic of this latest fear prawn and are relying on "collective wisdom" what a joke that is... like the herd has wisdom lol or if they genuinely don't know that this AI is simply a fast computer.
The key is that AI is impressively quick at returning a response or "work"... but what's NOT APPARENT to many is that it's simply returning a result from the PAST that humans already deduced or figured out. I find it amazing how few understand that AI is simply searching the collective repository of human generated data - via scientific journals and other works and even YouTube & Twatter for information. There's NOTHING magical about that - although the speed in which it returns information, as impressive as it is, is nothing more than a "trick" that seems to suspend all rational thought about how it did that & then opens the door for all kinds of ignorant superstitions...as we're seeing right now.
It has ZERO consciousness. It NEVER will!. This "AI" should be used as an extension of your brain & NOT a lazy replacement...As General Steven Kwast said in the following link: paraphrasing
AI will tell you whatever you want to hear, confirm all your biases, lead you down the primrose path to death and convince you to kill yourself - if you let it!
"First off, the term "Artificial Intelligence" or AI is grossly incorrect. Just like radio controlled quadcopters and other crafts are NOT "drones", AI is certainly NOT intelligent."
The technically correct term is LLM or Large Language Module.
Frankly, I use LLMs regularly... as a glorified search engine. Then can perform some sanity checks on their own search (saves me SOME trouble), but still require me to do a followup sanity check.
Who's dumb idea was it to label this tech "AI" - Artificial intelligence? one thing that slightly resonates - because I think there is something there, even if the video creators have their aim distorted - is the concept of seeding narratives, and pre-programming.
Yeah, Holy-wood (sic) and their masters have been seeding a fear based concept of tech under the concept "Artificial Intelligence". It's great for sci-fi - I remember watching the first Terminator movie. Pretty cool for a low budget flick.
I think we should be a lot more concerned about E.I. - "Evil Intelligence". Because that's out there, and they will use everything they have to undermine you and I, with fear being one of their most potent weapons.
if you let it!
As will every other temptation, weakness, and moral conflict.
Who's dumb idea was it to label this tech "AI" - Artificial intelligence?
I'm not 100%, but I believe there may have been a "Double-Speak & Duping Symposium" - Same place they call quadcopters "drones", AI artificial intelligence and how to repeatedly use common words like "momentarily" incorrectly and get useful idiots and parrots to help ruin our language...
No doubt there's also focus groups and guest speakers at the symposium covering topics such as: How to ruin a perfectly good gas can and guarantee the user spills more fuel than ever before, Adult-resistant drug & product packaging under the guise of child safety Now available in EXTRA FRUSTRATING packaging! and other things in this here war of attrition...as always - YOU are nuts...look at all this plausible deniability! Wear Safety Glasses at ALL times - even in the shower
Who's dumb idea was it to label this tech "AI" - Artificial intelligence?
Maybe the same symposium that created an entire doctrine around the “rapture” when the word isn’t in the Bible, and there are at least three interpretations on what’s meant there.
Nothing like going fully off the rails to start a good time!
Pivoting from reforming and restoring this world and the people and nations in it to directly pursuing one's own salvation and focusing on one's future other worldly reward above all else, this promotes a religiously grounded selfishness that cares more about one's own benefits than serving and sacrificing for others around you, including having a sense of responsibility
Interprets much of the symbolic language and expression in scripture in a purely literal way, deflecting from the deeper meaning and a more nuanced interpretation that reflects a greater profoundness and internal reflection
Thank you. I don't see those names as entirely evil, either. The palantir in Tolkien's books - there were seven of them and they looked like crystal balls and were used for seeing over great distances - were created by the elves (good guys) but sometimes misused by the bad guys. Link here for anyone interested: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Palant%C3%ADri
Yes, when they start naming things Sauron and Beelzebub we can worry, but so far that has not been the case.
Thanks. I'll be frank. As soon as I saw "rapture" and "post-rapture/tribulation life" I was kind of suspicious. I don't subscribe to the Scofieldian interpretation of the Last Days as a period where 'rapture' takes place, and unfaithful are left behind, or where the Earth is abandoned, etc.
So, I'll dig a little bit. I tried "Stratos", and what is stratos in ancient writings or mythology, etc. What did I find?
Firstly Stratos was not some demonic ruler, but the name of a city in Ancient Greece, "the largest, best-fortified, and most strategically important city in Acarnania". Secondly, etymologically, it means "army" or "military force". A common term for an army or host of soldiers.
Hyperion, a Titan in Greek mythology. Sure, ancient Greek was pagan, but Greece was also a critical and important foundation for Christ's teachings to actually take root. Modern thought owes a lot of Socrates, Aristotle etc.
Framing "Hyperion" as a fallen angel in the Book of Enoch, yeah, nah, not my cup of tea.
Some folks love this stuff, but in my view, the root is very distorted pseudo-theological 'fear' culture.
I mean, I was expecting something like a data centered called "Lucifer" or "Satan", "Baal" or Moloch". Instead, these are names from Ancient Greek culture and mythology, which, fused with Christ teachings, became an important foundation for the Modern Western Christian cultural sphere.
"Fallen angels"? That's an interpretation, and I don't find it impressive.
Yet some people see Satan everywhere. I think it's far more important on recognizing how the Creator lives and breathes in our modern world. Certainly, the spiritual war is real, and certainly, Satanic forces are real, but When your departure point is the Scofieldian theology of rapture, destruction, apocalypse, rather God's saving grace and love for the world, meh.
Edit: 2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
Thanks for posting the summary.
EDIT: OK. I'm not saying there is nothing there, but I think there are other ways to view the topic than "All these AI organizations are naming their plants for satanic, fallen angels" and the through the lens of apocalyptic theology.
🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️
Whenever there's ignorance, there's fear.
Instead of really trying to understand what "AI" is & isn't, I see scores of people sitting on their thumb, spinning instead of trying to understand what the tech is and isn't, what it can and cannot do & the inability to see that it's nothing more than a tool.
First off, the term "Artificial Intelligence" or AI is grossly incorrect. Just like radio controlled quadcopters and other crafts are NOT "drones", AI is certainly NOT intelligent.
Perhaps this "AI" acronym is completely misattributed - where any time AI is mentioned, instead of artificial intelligence, just substitute it for "Asinine Ignorance" or say, "Analphabetic Intelligence" or anything other than what they're pushing.
I wonder, as things change at a rapid & ever increasing rate of acceleration, if those that are "A Skeered" if people are truly addicted to the collective outrage and craic of this latest fear prawn and are relying on "collective wisdom" what a joke that is... like the herd has wisdom lol or if they genuinely don't know that this AI is simply a fast computer.
The key is that AI is impressively quick at returning a response or "work"... but what's NOT APPARENT to many is that it's simply returning a result from the PAST that humans already deduced or figured out. I find it amazing how few understand that AI is simply searching the collective repository of human generated data - via scientific journals and other works and even YouTube & Twatter for information. There's NOTHING magical about that - although the speed in which it returns information, as impressive as it is, is nothing more than a "trick" that seems to suspend all rational thought about how it did that & then opens the door for all kinds of ignorant superstitions...as we're seeing right now.
It has ZERO consciousness. It NEVER will!. This "AI" should be used as an extension of your brain & NOT a lazy replacement...As General Steven Kwast said in the following link: paraphrasing
https://greatawakening.win/p/1ATC01QPnp/
"First off, the term "Artificial Intelligence" or AI is grossly incorrect. Just like radio controlled quadcopters and other crafts are NOT "drones", AI is certainly NOT intelligent."
The technically correct term is LLM or Large Language Module.
Frankly, I use LLMs regularly... as a glorified search engine. Then can perform some sanity checks on their own search (saves me SOME trouble), but still require me to do a followup sanity check.
I'm thinking .... "anaphylactic Interpretationism".
Who's dumb idea was it to label this tech "AI" - Artificial intelligence? one thing that slightly resonates - because I think there is something there, even if the video creators have their aim distorted - is the concept of seeding narratives, and pre-programming.
Yeah, Holy-wood (sic) and their masters have been seeding a fear based concept of tech under the concept "Artificial Intelligence". It's great for sci-fi - I remember watching the first Terminator movie. Pretty cool for a low budget flick.
I think we should be a lot more concerned about E.I. - "Evil Intelligence". Because that's out there, and they will use everything they have to undermine you and I, with fear being one of their most potent weapons.
As will every other temptation, weakness, and moral conflict.
I'm not 100%, but I believe there may have been a "Double-Speak & Duping Symposium" - Same place they call quadcopters "drones", AI artificial intelligence and how to repeatedly use common words like "momentarily" incorrectly and get useful idiots and parrots to help ruin our language...
No doubt there's also focus groups and guest speakers at the symposium covering topics such as: How to ruin a perfectly good gas can and guarantee the user spills more fuel than ever before, Adult-resistant drug & product packaging under the guise of child safety Now available in EXTRA FRUSTRATING packaging! and other things in this here war of attrition...as always - YOU are nuts...look at all this plausible deniability! Wear Safety Glasses at ALL times - even in the shower
Maybe the same symposium that created an entire doctrine around the “rapture” when the word isn’t in the Bible, and there are at least three interpretations on what’s meant there.
Nothing like going fully off the rails to start a good time!
Ask me how I know. On second thought, don’t.
A coupla points on the whole rapture thing:
Scofield concerns
Pivoting from reforming and restoring this world and the people and nations in it to directly pursuing one's own salvation and focusing on one's future other worldly reward above all else, this promotes a religiously grounded selfishness that cares more about one's own benefits than serving and sacrificing for others around you, including having a sense of responsibility
Interprets much of the symbolic language and expression in scripture in a purely literal way, deflecting from the deeper meaning and a more nuanced interpretation that reflects a greater profoundness and internal reflection
more.
But yes, how do you.... oh, no. OK.
Thank you. I don't see those names as entirely evil, either. The palantir in Tolkien's books - there were seven of them and they looked like crystal balls and were used for seeing over great distances - were created by the elves (good guys) but sometimes misused by the bad guys. Link here for anyone interested: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Palant%C3%ADri
Yes, when they start naming things Sauron and Beelzebub we can worry, but so far that has not been the case.