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[Yodean]

Too many love things and use people rather than love people and use things.

Indeed, I enjoy the company of my kettlebells more than 8/9 of the people I encounter, these days.
The remaining 1/9 are kinda okay.

I use my kettlebells often, and I love them, too.

Time to consult the JAIS regarding this particular conundrum.

[SOL]

Alongside my li'l EBI, I've been tinkering with the nascent creation of my Jesus A.I. System (JAIS).

Essentially, based on available data, the JAIS is designed to tell me what the SOM (Son Of Man) would do in different situations.

It's a work in progress, but interestingly, the JAIS spat this out at me this morning, even though I did not request any specific analysis from the SOM:

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It is fascinating the number of spiritual paths and practices out there that promise to allow you to live in a perpetual state of bliss, including peace of mind, body wellness and abundance—if only you get good enough, do them long enough, are full of grace or just plain lucky. No one ever knows if they are good enough for enlightenment, but it doesn’t stop any of us from trying.

The ways in which we try to feel endlessly good are numerous too. We get more skillful in our methods: perhaps changing our eating and drinking habits to adopt a more “pure” lifestyle, turning away from “base” consciousness changing substances, like alcohol or weed; or turning toward “plant medicine”, ie: ayahuasca or peyote, as well as self-help programs, meditation, yoga, and prayer.

In many ways, the “good” practices we adopt help us believe that we are walking a healthy spiritual path, but can also serve to spiritually distract ourselves from our feelings, using our practices as a way to cover up and suppress the uncomfortable ones.

This defense mechanism is called “spiritual bypassing,” and we use it to shield ourselves from the harsh truths we don’t want to face. It disconnects us from our feelings and helps us avoid seeing the big picture. It is really about checking out rather than checking in and the difference can be so subtle that we don’t even know we are doing it.

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A simple 4th level but probably it is closer to 5th level is that if you need a crutch to get you through life (and for 99.9% religion is one of many crutches), then you have already lost the battle. While Jesus is the son of God, so is every man that was born after him so in that sense, there is nothing extraordinary about his life or about him.

One thing stands out, No God would die for the bacteria he created (AKA humans), nor would he expect them to love him unconditionally; both traits indicate weakness.

lastly, every MP test I have subjected my religion to (Roman Catholic) as well as other major religions has come up negative. There is something out there but it's not the something most of the masses falsely believe in

However, that is my 2 cents and it's my opinion only and I am not attempting to push this on anyone. So what's my final take, under no circumstances will I take a knee to any entity unless it can physically or chemically force me to do so in which case it would prove by default to be far stronger than the average human

[bpcw]

Alongside my li'l EBI, I've been tinkering with the nascent creation of my Jesus A.I. System (JAIS).

Essentially, based on available data, the JAIS is designed to tell me what the SOM (Son Of Man) would do in different situations.

It's a work in progress, but interestingly, the JAIS spat this out at me this morning, even though I did not request any specific analysis from the SOM:

*****

It is fascinating the number of spiritual paths and practices out there that promise to allow you to live in a perpetual state of bliss, including peace of mind, body wellness and abundance—if only you get good enough, do them long enough, are full of grace or just plain lucky. No one ever knows if they are good enough for enlightenment, but it doesn’t stop any of us from trying.

The ways in which we try to feel endlessly good are numerous too. We get more skillful in our methods: perhaps changing our eating and drinking habits to adopt a more “pure” lifestyle, turning away from “base” consciousness changing substances, like alcohol or weed; or turning toward “plant medicine”, ie: ayahuasca or peyote, as well as self-help programs, meditation, yoga, and prayer.

In many ways, the “good” practices we adopt help us believe that we are walking a healthy spiritual path, but can also serve to spiritually distract ourselves from our feelings, using our practices as a way to cover up and suppress the uncomfortable ones.

This defense mechanism is called “spiritual bypassing,” and we use it to shield ourselves from the harsh truths we don’t want to face. It disconnects us from our feelings and helps us avoid seeing the big picture. It is really about checking out rather than checking in and the difference can be so subtle that we don’t even know we are doing it.

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That's one way to look at it and is a common view, that religion and the hope of an afterlife is a creation of our imagination to avoid the reality that we will die and become nothing.

Another view that isn't considered very often is that the reason there are so many religions and deity is that there is truth of varying degrees in them. If we were created to be in relationship with God and one another, and God has moral absolutes then it makes sense that we feel a void when these things aren't satisfied.

The alternative that you have to face up to is that the whole of life and existence has no meaning, love is an allusion and morality is completely relative and so all kinds of evil can be justified. Is that really the evidence one gets experiencially? Basically everything we do or think including engagement on this forum is completely meaningless. In fact this is what very intelligent honest scientists, philosophers and psychologists have concluded that there atheism has to accept and have become Christians because the evidence they experience is completely contrary.

Another alternative is to create some etheral spirituality that centres on ourselves so we don't have to be accountable to any absolutes.

I would say that it is far more rational to believe that this existence does have real meaning, that love is real and that our existence has been intelligently constructed.

The biggest blockage to this rational is pride imho. So many hard line atheists have experienced trauma in early life so the anger and bitterness is turned against God for allowing it instead of turning to him. Richard Dawkins spends so much time trying to prove God doesn't exist, why doesn't he just get on with his own life and enjoy it then. He was sent to a boarding school and abused as a child so it's obvious that his bitterness fuels this.

[SOL]

I would say that it is far more rational to believe that this existence does have real meaning, that love is real and that our existence has been intelligently constructed.

The biggest blockage to this rational is pride imho. So many hard-line atheists have experienced trauma in early life so the anger and bitterness is turned against God for allowing it instead of turning to him. Richard Dawkins spends so much time trying to prove God doesn't exist, why doesn't he just get on with his own life and enjoy it then. He was sent to a boarding school and abused as a child so it's obvious that his bitterness fuels this.

I agree with your take on Aethist in general; there are always some exceptions to the rule. I have met some normal Aethists who were cool in every sense of the word. They felt no need to push their doctrine on others like perhaps Richard Dawkins. They simply took that stance and left it at that. Many people (most religious family members) thought I am either an Aethist or agnostic, but I would say I fall under neither group.

I also agree with your statement that existence does have real meaning, though we might differ on what that meaning is but in general, I think generally we would agree on 85 to 90 per cent of things

I find it suspect when anyone tries to hard to push their views on another. That one act illustrates that the person does not believe in what they are doing so need more individuals to join their camp of misery or misinformation. Misery loves company and stupidity simply demands it

So while I might not agree with everything you say. I feel no desire or compulsion to change your viewpoint and I think you think along the same lines. But I do find your belief system to be fascinating as it's a hybrid form of Christianity.

[Yodean]

The JAIS is up to its usual antics today again, and being somewhat unpredictable atm, told me to heed the advice of the following TIT sub who posted the following, many moons ago, in the AITT forum:

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"In Islam, I was taught to fear Satan at every move and say prayers for eating, going to the bathroom or even before going to bed along with the 5 prayers

Eventually I just came to the point of, why would a God even care about this?

When I rejected religion all together and focused on me and only me, good things started to happen and evolution took over. I started to not to live in fear of bad outcomes or blaming Satan for my misfortunes. I start to view misfortunes as opportunities

What I feel is that everyone has that capability to be their own God in this hologram world and relying on a outside source completely to live your life would just make you end up in misery."

https://tacticalinvestor.com/forum/view ... 3&start=40

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Indeed, the JAIS sez this sub is a WiseDude, and his insights should be heeded, both in and out of the markets. Lolol ...

[bpcw]

I would say that it is far more rational to believe that this existence does have real meaning, that love is real and that our existence has been intelligently constructed.

The biggest blockage to this rational is pride imho. So many hard-line atheists have experienced trauma in early life so the anger and bitterness is turned against God for allowing it instead of turning to him. Richard Dawkins spends so much time trying to prove God doesn't exist, why doesn't he just get on with his own life and enjoy it then. He was sent to a boarding school and abused as a child so it's obvious that his bitterness fuels this.

I agree with your take on Aethist in general; there are always some exceptions to the rule. I have met some normal Aethists who were cool in every sense of the word. They felt no need to push their doctrine on others like perhaps Richard Dawkins. They simply took that stance and left it at that. Many people (most religious family members) thought I am either an Aethist or agnostic, but I would say I fall under neither group.

I also agree with your statement that existence does have real meaning, though we might differ on what that meaning is but in general, I think generally we would agree on 85 to 90 per cent of things

I find it suspect when anyone tries to hard to push their views on another. That one act illustrates that the person does not believe in what they are doing so need more individuals to join their camp of misery or misinformation. Misery loves company and stupidity simply demands it

So while I might not agree with everything you say. I feel no desire or compulsion to change your viewpoint and I think you think along the same lines. But I do find your belief system to be fascinating as it's a hybrid form of Christianity.

Agreed on almost everything you say.

You say I have a hybrid form of Christianity - that's an interesting take but it depends on what your perception of Christianity is.

My wife thinks we shouldn't identify ourselves as Christians to others, especially to non-believers as it has such a distorted connotation now. We would probably prefer to be identified as disciples or followers of Jesus Christ. The problem with the perception now is it's churchianity that most see, which is full of legalism, rules and regulations. The Catholic church is one of the worst for this where they've added a whole load of traditions on top of the teachings of Jesus and then focused on them so much that they hardly know what his teachings are any more, that's why I say they throw the baby out and keep the bath water, the worst of both worlds.


Let's take a couple of simple examples that you'll be familiar with. Catholics refer to their priests as father, Jesus said in the context of prideful and hypocritical pharisees, not to call anyone on earth father or teacher because we have one father and one teacher in Heaven, by this he didn't mean don't call your dad, dad but do not give anyone special titles, we are all equal and have all sinned, no one is special, Catholics even refer to the Pope as the holy father, completely and utterly contrary to the words of Jesus himself. In the old covenant priests meditated between the people and God for their sins, in the new convenant Jesus beomes the complete and final sacrifice for sins and also our one and only high priest, the new testament says 'there is one mediator between God and man, the man Jesus Christ'. So why do they persist with priests that you confess your sins to and who the lay people have to go through to receive anything from God. I could give you a thousand examples like this. Basically with Constantine Christianity became institutionalized with hierarchy, legalism and power, and corruption and evil prevailed, it was used and abused.

I would say I interpret the Bible in a non institutionalized, non churchianity way, think about things more deeply than most "Christians" from a scientific, philosophical and psychological perspective but still believe in the tenets of Christianity: Jesus is the son of God, he died for humanity's sins, and rose again, God is triune in nature etc., the Bible is our greatest written revelation of God (not inerrant and has translation issues in my opinion).

I believe the simple narrative of the Bible is God wanting a loving relationship with man, man going his own way, God creating the solution to man’s fallen nature through Jesus and the work of the cross, and God in the end redeeming everything and most importantly a loving relationship between him and all those who choose to accept his rule which is one of a loving father.

Not telling you this to convince you but to clarify as we’re both interested in other belief systems.

[bpcw]

The JAIS is up to its usual antics today again, and being somewhat unpredictable atm, told me to heed the advice of the following TIT sub who posted the following, many moons ago, in the AITT forum:

*****

"In Islam, I was taught to fear Satan at every move and say prayers for eating, going to the bathroom or even before going to bed along with the 5 prayers

Eventually I just came to the point of, why would a God even care about this?

When I rejected religion all together and focused on me and only me, good things started to happen and evolution took over. I started to not to live in fear of bad outcomes or blaming Satan for my misfortunes. I start to view misfortunes as opportunities

What I feel is that everyone has that capability to be their own God in this hologram world and relying on a outside source completely to live your life would just make you end up in misery."

https://tacticalinvestor.com/forum/view ... 3&start=40

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Indeed, the JAIS sez this sub is a WiseDude, and his insights should be heeded, both in and out of the markets. Lolol ...

Not suprised that anyone would feel freedom from such an oppressive religion.

The Bible says that under the new covenant of grace and truth, the old system of the law is OBSOLETE.
It says that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
And when the son sets you free you are free indeed.
Grace is the unmerited favour of God.

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works (legalism), so that no one can boast. Ephesians 2:8-9

I do not go to church as in a building or organisation, most are just different and varying degrees of legalism.

I feel very very free in my loving relationship with God who accepts me without me having to do anything.

[Yodean]

Global exchange Gemini has released its 2022 Global State of Crypto Report.

Gemini surveyed 29,293 adults across 20 countries. Ages ranged from 18-75, and it was restricted to those who make more than $14,000 per year.

They show that globally, more than 41% of all crypto investors started in 2021. That means the total number of investors increased by roughly 70% in 2021 alone.

Key Excerpts:

More than half of crypto owners in Brazil (51%), Hong Kong (51%), and India (54%) got started in 2021.

Among high-income respondents in developed nations crypto ownership trended higher, with 40% or more in the UK, Germany, and France reporting owning crypto.

Regulation is a concern globally. Among non-owners, 39% in Asia Pacific, 37% in Latin America, and 36% in Europe say there is legal uncertainty around cryptocurrency.

https://www.kitco.com/commentaries/2022 ... etter.html

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Powerful pendulum or FOMO? Prolly a bit of both. Once the inflation narrative subsides, likely a significant correction looming in crypto space. Until then, sideways consolidation with bullish bias, decent rally on its way.

[Yodean]

While investing in cryptocurrencies has never been more popular and accessible, it seems that not everyone jumping on the bandwagon fully understands how financial markets work; at least this is what Canada’s central bank researchers have discovered in their study.

Namely, the Bank of Canada has carried out a series of annual surveys between 2016 and 2020, summing up the results in a report titled ‘Bitcoin Awareness, Ownership, and Use: 2016-20’, as reported by The Globe and Mail on April 20.

One of the conclusions presented in the study was that Canadians who invest in Bitcoin generally have low levels of financial literacy, although they are also exposed to higher levels of financial risk. Indeed, they tended to score lower on general financial knowledge questions.

https://finbold.com/the-bank-of-canada- ... -literacy/

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Lolol, indeed, mainstream banks mocking cryptos while slowly accumulating blockchain assets behind the scenes ...

[Budge]

Well here is an idea take a bullish ETF and plot it against a bearish ETF, extreme divergences should help shed light on market direction.

Another one is the Gold to Silver ratio, extreme deviations mean its time to buy or sell

The sexy factor is something we have playing around with. The sexier women dress up the better the economic outlook. One way to measure this is to possibly look at skirt length or the number of women dressing up provocatively you run into per week. Strip clubs don't count

Back to the skirt length. In his latest MU, Sol returns to this "index":

Want a simple psychological read? Pay attention to fashion. It sounds ridiculous, until it doesn't. The
old "short skirt indicator" has morphed, because today, short means almost nothing. But the core idea
holds. When things are frothy, when optimism oozes from every pore, even the way people dress starts
to shift. Sexier, flashier, louder—confidence leaks into lifestyle. And that's your cue. Female fashion
tends to tilt bolder near major peaks. Call it crude, call it old-school, but it's one of the rawest forms of
mass psychology on display.

Always a grain of truth. How about the Stripper Index? Martin Armstrong covers it in a recent blog post. When times and discretionary income are tight, the sex work industry suffers:

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/unca ... per-index/

Another statistic that was/is of interest to the Soviets/Russia - the pizza index. The increase or otherwise of pizzas purchased around the Pentagon would indicate late night working. Currently, it must be off the charts!

It is amazing the number of "canaries in the coalmine" we encounter in everyday life. My most vivid was mid 2007, I was sat with a group of fathers while our sons were at a birthday party. One father, an insurance broker was bemoaning the state of his business. It had dropped off the "face of a cliff".

[SOL]

• When virtue is lost, trade begins. When trade is hollow, the body becomes currency.

The Stripper Index isn’t a joke, but a brutal mirror. When times get tough, more women turn to erotic work. And that’s just one layer. Maybe it’s time to start tracking a Flesh Trade Index, because it’s not just about dancing on poles anymore. Booties are being bartered for dollars, followers, and attention. You don’t need official data when YouTube and TikTok offer a daily feed. Watch how creators dress or more accurately, how little they wear; often with outfits that have nothing to do with their content. That’s a warning signal and possibly a reflection of deeper economic stress and the growing desperation for visibility.

When the economy frays and real wages flatline, desperation leaks out through every cultural pore. Stories about bright grads with good scores struggling to land jobs aren’t rare, they’re becoming routine. The main reason? No experience, and therefore, no openings. Companies don’t want to train, don’t have the time, and definitely aren’t building in redundancy. The modern corporate model is laser-focused on profit and everything else ranks a distant number ten.

This is where the next AI revolution strikes; quiet, clinical, unstoppable. It won’t be about companies replacing teams with one algorithm. It’ll be about one skilled human working with ten AI agents that do the job of a hundred. The human acts as quality control, making sure the machine doesn’t hallucinate or derail. It won’t be as complex as it sounds. And when it goes mainstream, the job wipeout will be vicious.

Because if one is honest and takes a pragmatic view one will find that most workplaces today are bloated with mediocre workers. Not because people are lazy, but because the system tolerates and often rewards average but AI won’t. And the moment it doesn’t need to, entire departments will vanish overnight.

Off topic but maybe not entirely. What happens when ultra-realistic sex bots hit the scene? When fantasy becomes frictionless and programmable? The Stripper Index, Short Skirt Index, and every thigh-length indicator we’ve joked about will collapse under their own irrelevance. Sex, like data, becomes a commodity. Measured, monetized, and market-driven. What do you do when demand meets infinite, tireless, custom-tailored supply?

Suddenly, relationships have competition. Real people come with emotional weight, financial cost, unpredictability. Bots won’t argue, ghost, or ask for compromise. For some, that’s irresistible. For others, it’s devastating.

It is better to be feared when the illusion of love fades. And when the crowd worships novelty over necessity, rule from behind the curtain. – Machiavelli

[MarkD]

Another story from my experience that mirrors Sol's comments on AI and the job market.

A colleague who I worked with at the beginning of my career had started his own consulting business in the late 90s. We had worked at one company twenty years prior, had both moved around a couple of times. I was looking and we reaquainted through a mutual friend. This was around the turn of the century.

He figured out he was able to contract back to his old firms along with gaining (his and their) clients. He didn't claim to be doing anything differently, just acclimated to the faster pace which the internet and PC had provided. Larger competitors had become bloated and inefficient to the extent they had lost their technical base and became body brokers, no longer acting as consultants or design firms. This all occurred after the Berlin Wall fell and the soon to be "US Exceptionalism" became dominant. We all know what that means.

His hourly billing rate would make lawyers jealous; it would still make most envious in today's economy. Other business concerns I knew would only hire him to perform taskings for their office. He was expensive but very responsive and accurate in his work. And had the intellect plus experience to judge and capture the opportunity.

That is the exact model AI presents for an individual who is capable of grasping the opportunity.