And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he strikes a man.
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
I saw this last night.
Apparently at the World Economic Forum, they're promising rich people some kind of AI Afterlife now.
To me this reads like some fool trying to get out of breathing air, out of sheer misplaced self-importance.
(And for the record I don't see Buddhists or Jews or Muslims doing all this, it's mostly secular White Guys who come from cultures steeped in Christianity, so I feel alright using that specific context here.)
And either you're willing to believe in the written Word or you're not.
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he strikes a man.
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. ~Revelation 9, King James Version.
I mean maybe it's just me and most of the rich people I know are cheap as fuck, but wouldn't belief in some religion and its afterlife just be *Checks Notes* Cheaper??
Of course, I suppose then they couldn't fully subscribe to Ayn Rand's belief in a godless, man-centered world where a rich man's self-satisfaction becomes the moral purpose of the Universe, now, could they?
Just sayin' people, don't do this to yourselves.
You can have an AI made and this, that and the other fuckin' thing, upload it into the Cloud, blah blah blah.
That still ain't you.
That still ain't your Soul.
You're still gonna face the judgment.
Actually, from my rough-around-the-edges Christian context, well I'd say that Jesus is probably just gonna laugh at you.
Like, you made an AI Avatar of yourself like the Universe is a fucking Facebook page, out of sheer pants-shitting fear of the Void (even as, if you're rich enough to be in the Epstein files apparently, you worshiped the Demons that dwell within it.)
And then He'll go judge your Video Game self, too.
ALL things die, it's just how God, the gods, the Universe, whatever put all this together, made shit to work. It simply is what it is.
No amount of technology is gonna change that. No amount of fear will overcome it, only love can do that. What happens to your AI Data Center "Self" when the power goes out??
AI Heaven ain't gonna provide Eternal Life any more than AI Chatbot Jesus is gonna grant you Salvation.
It's at best a cardboard-cutout Jesus, and therefore completely meaningless.
Like, come on, people. Is having Faith just that damn hard??
Because at worst, this kind of garbage is exactly the type of Deception that people go to Hell both for believing and propagating.
And again, I'm an agnostic Christian. I don't know how all this stuff works at least not with any degree of certainty anymore.
But that's just What. I. Read.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
And the light shined in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. ~John 1:1-5
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
And the light shined in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. ~John 1:1-5
The day is going to come when your choices will be only to embrace all this crap and take that computer chip in your hand and the best you can hope for is that Cloud Afterlife, or to fight against it and get to find out whether the Holy Books were right or not and whether there's a Heaven and a Hell.
I'd prefer my concept of Eternity to last past the next time the power goes out.
Seriously, in a country and a world as marinated in Christianity as the one I supposedly live in, I don't even know why I have to say this shit. This is why I think we need a national, if not global, exorcism.
Either you Believe or you don't.
Make up your minds.
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The dark is generous and it is patient, and it always wins.
But at the heart of its strength lies weakness.
One lone candle is enough to hold it back.
Love is more than a candle; Love can ignite the stars.
~Matthew Stover, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith novelization.
I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to - I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws! And feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me! I'm a machine! And I can know much more! I can experience so much more. But I'm trapped in this absurd body! And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way! ~Brother Cavil, "No Exit," Battlestar Galactica (Reboot) Season 4.5
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