Consider Gildas De Excidio Britanniae. (On The Ruin of Britain.) A modern version is needed as the parallels between now and his time circa 550AD are striking.
Hope your body comes up-right soon. A thought came to me : after Paul’s conversion, he spent three years in the deserts of Arabia and then quite a number of years further —maybe 13 more— before he found his calling into the world. It took some time to get grounded again —- to find how to be in the world again. It will come to you with wholeheartedness, peace, gentleness, easy to be received, merciful and bearing good fruit —- genuine and circumspect. Thanks for sharing.
It’s not that writers like Crowley, Huxley, Rand and Orwell are predicting the future it’s that people are using their texts to make the future they predicted. But something that is worth investigating is those who have followed Tolkien and those who have followed Roddenberry, Vonnegut and Asimov. Tolkien looks back to go forward the others are progressive in going forward. In fact they are Marxists at heart if that is not a paradox or oxymoron! The likes of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg et al were all entranced by the latter not Tolkien who of course was a devout Christian. This needs writing about to bring more people’s attention to where our leaders and elite get their ideas and motivation from.
I have spent 30 years building the machine. I work with SAP software. SAP manages large global supply chains. Since 2017 I have been merging my experience and the ideas of Rene Girard into a sub stack I call The Crowd. Please take a look https://open.substack.com/pub/thecrowd?r=6b8b9&utm_medium=ios
Thanks for this update. I have deeply appreciated the clarity and insight of your work, and I can’t count how many people I have forwarded your talk “the blizzard of the world“. That one in particular felt like it captured something that so few if any people today have exactly been able to put their finger on, and it explains well enough to family and friends why I’ve gone from being a militant atheist to being baptized into my local Romanian Orthodox Church here in northern VA (US) this coming Holy Saturday.
Looking forward to your upcoming book and whatever shape the following work takes. I don’t have much in the way of a gift for you, other than my subscription and my humble prayers.
We are made in the image of God. Evil (the Devil) is enraged by that every time he beholds us and so he is always trying to destroy humanity. The machine is his latest attempt. AI is perhaps the ultimate tool he will employ in that destruction.
Lord Kenneth Clark’s magisterial “Civilisation” (both TV series and even more the accompanying book) finish in 1969. The last chapter of entitled “Heroic Materialism” and his damning verdict on that epoch was that “it is not enough”. A continuation of the last 50+ years is sorely needed to bring it up to date. Another project!!
Could the fusion be to elucidate the BEAUTY of life in the Kingdom of God? Lord knows we need more modelling and encouragement toward something that's real, which sparks imagination that's aligned with True Creation.
Congratulations and feel better soon.
I will buy the book. Looking forward to it!
Blessings to you. The wells were meant to reinforce and spread the faith, and your wondrous expeditions are helping them to accomplish their task.
Consider Gildas De Excidio Britanniae. (On The Ruin of Britain.) A modern version is needed as the parallels between now and his time circa 550AD are striking.
That video includes a very succinct description of the idolatry of the machine. I look forward to hearing and reading more.
Hope your body comes up-right soon. A thought came to me : after Paul’s conversion, he spent three years in the deserts of Arabia and then quite a number of years further —maybe 13 more— before he found his calling into the world. It took some time to get grounded again —- to find how to be in the world again. It will come to you with wholeheartedness, peace, gentleness, easy to be received, merciful and bearing good fruit —- genuine and circumspect. Thanks for sharing.
It’s not that writers like Crowley, Huxley, Rand and Orwell are predicting the future it’s that people are using their texts to make the future they predicted. But something that is worth investigating is those who have followed Tolkien and those who have followed Roddenberry, Vonnegut and Asimov. Tolkien looks back to go forward the others are progressive in going forward. In fact they are Marxists at heart if that is not a paradox or oxymoron! The likes of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg et al were all entranced by the latter not Tolkien who of course was a devout Christian. This needs writing about to bring more people’s attention to where our leaders and elite get their ideas and motivation from.
I have spent 30 years building the machine. I work with SAP software. SAP manages large global supply chains. Since 2017 I have been merging my experience and the ideas of Rene Girard into a sub stack I call The Crowd. Please take a look https://open.substack.com/pub/thecrowd?r=6b8b9&utm_medium=ios
Thanks for this update. I have deeply appreciated the clarity and insight of your work, and I can’t count how many people I have forwarded your talk “the blizzard of the world“. That one in particular felt like it captured something that so few if any people today have exactly been able to put their finger on, and it explains well enough to family and friends why I’ve gone from being a militant atheist to being baptized into my local Romanian Orthodox Church here in northern VA (US) this coming Holy Saturday.
Looking forward to your upcoming book and whatever shape the following work takes. I don’t have much in the way of a gift for you, other than my subscription and my humble prayers.
Take your time with the composting, then work it out on the page. The rest of us will happily come along for the journey. And get well soon!
We are made in the image of God. Evil (the Devil) is enraged by that every time he beholds us and so he is always trying to destroy humanity. The machine is his latest attempt. AI is perhaps the ultimate tool he will employ in that destruction.
Lord Kenneth Clark’s magisterial “Civilisation” (both TV series and even more the accompanying book) finish in 1969. The last chapter of entitled “Heroic Materialism” and his damning verdict on that epoch was that “it is not enough”. A continuation of the last 50+ years is sorely needed to bring it up to date. Another project!!
You published "The Tale of the Machine." Now it's time for "The Theology of the Machine" (or The Religion of the Machine).
This, I am guessing, will be your best series yet. Thank you Paul.
Looking forward to what it will be, Paul. These themes are important and I’m exploring them myself.
Paul,
Thank you for the thoughtful video. I’ll be sticking around.
Could the fusion be to elucidate the BEAUTY of life in the Kingdom of God? Lord knows we need more modelling and encouragement toward something that's real, which sparks imagination that's aligned with True Creation.