I’m old enough to remember the crowds greeting the return of Ayatollah Khomeini from exile in 1979, the Iranian government and its hostage crisis, the crowds chanting “Death to America”, Hijab wearing women saying “We are not terrorists, we are Muslims”, the hatred of the Shah… I also remember the Venezuelans joyfully voting Hugo Chavez into power… of course that was thirty or more years ago. Now it makes me happy to see the joy with which the young exalt in their newly gained freedom from the oppressive yokes created by their grandparents. I also feel a sense of resignation since I’d bet within a few decades the people will have voted for their chains all over again. Human nature is invariant across the ages.
Category: Random Thoughts
Hold your horses
We are playing with fire as a civilization when we toy with robotics and artificial intelligence.
Israel and Islam
Israel is going to have to remain in a state of wartime readiness as long as it exists anywhere on this earth because Islam demands its destruction. It is no more complex than that.
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Awareness
Awareness could be thought of as just environmental sensing, measuring and monitoring taken to the extreme to which evolution would naturally drive it.
Absolute Intelligence
We know a lot about this and a lot about that but we still don’t know why and how we are here. Some say God and others say accident. I believe in at least one attribute of God and that is; I believe in the existence of an absolute intelligence.
Bernie you are wrong
Bernie you are wrong. Breadlines are not a good thing. A good thing is everybody having enough to eat in a happy home gained by their own efforts or the efforts of those who love them. The state can never provide that.
The last teapot
I came into the house yesterday after going out to do some framing in the barn for a couple of hours. I was greeted with the burning smell of ozone and haze throughout the house. My surprised first thought was, “What the…” followed instantly by the realization, “Oh God, not again!!!” A further step and I could see into the kitchen where the fourth teapot in a couple of years was indeed melting on a red hot, forgotten burner.
“That’s it! I’ve got to buy an electric teapot with automatic shutoff before I burn the house down.” I clearly can’t be trusted alone with a teapot for my daily N cups of coffee. So, this morning I bought an electric teapot. I also bought another old fashioned whistling teapot because I like them. It will only be used for special occasions though, like when other people are here 😂
Faraday and Grizzlies
I wonder if we could protect against animal attacks in the wild with metal mesh suits that cover the whole body like armor, and which can be given a high voltage pulse, which nevertheless is not felt by the person wearing it because they’re inside a Faraday cage?
Thus the Grizzly swings its paw in rage to tear your head off only to be met with 100,000 Volt sparks snapping into the tips of its claws and nose whilst we thank God for Michael Faraday.
Wednesday thought
Like most people I am puzzled by the Epstein files saga. What in the world or out of the world was or is big enough to stop the client list release? Aliens? Illuminati? The only thing big enough I can think of is Trump’s ego. That Trump himself is on the list and can’t admit it springs to mind.
That being said I can’t say I disagree with all of his policies, while I do have issues with the way some of them are being implemented. Despite all of their rhetoric about the rule of law Democrats are in many cases encouraging outright disregard of the laws they helped write. That needs a counterweight.
Reflections on a mid July morning
What I have learned is that everything in this world from the seemingly most trivial to complex has depth to it when one begins to study it.