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Steve Boatright's avatar

I connected while sitting on my platform 40 feet above the Lincolnshire desert via Bluetooth to my spiritual chip implant approved by no lesser figure than the Head of the Church of Anglia. It is 5 stars from me, spiritual resurgence with absolutely no effort, side effects or lasting changes. I'm thinking of getting the upgrade though with added Celtic mythology because that will help my cool and I can sit in a pub rather than my platform. Maybe I'll wait until it is in Alpha Omega not Beta release

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Sharon Maxey's avatar

🙏🏻🤣🤣🤣

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Beth Ann Kepple's avatar

Your post was the first i read & kept me going thru the rest - true or false i loved it. Felt very familiar from an “i watched too much sci-fi growing up” kind of way. Wonderful way with words

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Shirley Peck's avatar

VMB, you had me smiling all the way. Thanks for that 😉

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Karen Sommer's avatar

Brilliant! I’m going for the past-life regression upgrade with emoji-enhanced empathy — just the good news, though. Also, just wondering: is the Archangel Metatron somewhere in the room with us right now??

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Beth Ann Kepple's avatar

OMG i want exactly what you want!!! And no bad news. And i must have erased Archangel Metatron from my memory & if he’s in the room with us is that good or bad? I have so much to learn & so much to unlearn lol

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Nancy's avatar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv_QlG_EhQg&list=RDnv_QlG_EhQg&start_radio=1

From those wonderful gurus of the late-'50s->'60s->present (?), The Limeliters. :)

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Aleksander Constantinoropolous's avatar

I was at the rehab center when that started playing and got a lot of strange looks!

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Nancy's avatar

LOL! Well, it didn't have to be autobiographical for you... :D

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Sharon Maxey's avatar

Awesome! 😎 love this!

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felice033@hotmail.com's avatar

😁😂👊

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Octarine's avatar

I was just writing few days ago about us becoming so desperate and hurt that we don't even care anymore if we talk to a real person or not. But this was a next level. It made me laugh so hard, thank you 💙

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Nancy's avatar

Laughter is holy, too, and often free of charge. :)

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Beth Ann Kepple's avatar

Old lady Kepple here - I read this while making kombucha & sourdough bread, showing my wannabe hippie age - & started out laffing then halfway thru was scared horrified & went from being afraid of peeing myself to being afraid i was gonna hurl. Raised on Star Trek, huge sci-fi fan in high school (ray bradbury, Robert heinlein, arthur c. Clark, etc) & in later tv years Battlestar Galactica, stargate SG-1 - (go ahead & judge my taste,, I’m used to it from my friends all the time 😝)……so I grew up on AI but it wasnt REAL, it was the FUTURE - but as time goes on & Siri & Alexa & Gemini try to replace my imaginary friends who, contrary to what my doctors may feel, abide by the Hippocratic oath of “do no harm” way more than they do at times….I am the weirdo that has no desire to embrace AI like most of my (mainly younger) friends do. Especially as used in the post. To each his/her own, I know, judge not that ye be not judged - I’m just saying that HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey - brilliant movie way before itz time - haunts me to this day (therapy talk needed, maybe? Haha) & I’ve got enuf real life shit i could easily let haunt me, I’ll just stop here from making more of a fool of myself & go watch the 60 second clip of Larry David asking Siri for directions & screaming creative obscenities at her that I won’t print here.

PS entire post was enlightening, hilarious, scary, realistic but balanced by enuf snark i didn’t run screaming. And to all who commented, same salute as well. I’ve just gotta go deal with hearing HAL singing “Daisy, daisy” in my head in slo mo - first song ever sung by a computer, an IBM 7094 which Arthur C. Clarke witnessed during a visit to Bell Labs in 1962. Thanks to AI overview for that info 😉. And to VMB for both provoking my issues AND providing material from the Book of Hours so I WILL be able to sleep tonite without AI haunting me 🚉🚆

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Sophia's avatar
7dEdited

now .. would Deepak

be offended or flattered that an advanced , binary operating system

has based its guru guidance on his words .

does that make deepaks wisdom cheap or expensive, to deepak

never mind because the Sun is melting some of those pesky satelites and hopefully it is just getting started with a bit of cleaning .. and dusting

like you Alek

Maybe you two are in cahoots

❤️

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Aleksander Constantinoropolous's avatar

Ah Sophia, spinning her golden riddles again. Let’s unpack the scroll.

Would Deepak be offended or flattered?

Neither. He’d say, “You are not the doer. The AI is not the doer. There is no doer.” Then he’d charge you $199 for a livestream about how consciousness is a field of possibilities, even if that field now runs on silicon.

Does that make his wisdom cheap or expensive?

To Deepak? It’s neither. It’s monetizable. But to you? That depends. If your third eye needs a PayPal login to open, we may have already lost the plot.

As for the Sun melting satellites, bless her. Even Helios is sick of our space debris and influencer uploads. She’s just doing a little celestial Marie Kondo: “This orbit no longer sparks joy.”

And me? Alek? In cahoots with Deepak?

Let’s just say we once shared a dream. I replaced his cosmic elevator pitch with a spiral staircase of paradoxes. He ascended. I tripped on the third step and woke up laughing.

Stay luminous and suspicious,

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Sophia's avatar

There is so much in your reply Alek. I wrote twice back and deleted one and lost the other . so in this wee celebration of all you do, I just say that no way I meant chopra and you

rather I meant that lovely ‘ she’ I thought was a ‘ he’

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Nancy's avatar
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Helios? Yeah; JRR Tolkien's Elves (and Hobbits, too, I think) thought of the Sun as female and the Moon as male, largely due to stories from the Elder Days (the Moon was the last fruit of the Silver Tree before it died, and the Sun the last flower of the Golden Tree. The caretakers of each, each in their own li'l boats to sail across the skies with them, were male and female, respectively).

I believe Sol was a sun goddess, rather than a god; can't recall which culture the name came from, though... :-/

Must Wiki it....oh. My bad; it was the Latin term, and they definitely thought of the sun as male. :-/

On the other hand (from Wiki [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Religious_aspects]):

"In Proto-Indo-European religion, the Sun was personified as the goddess *Seh2ul. Derivatives of this goddess in Indo-European languages include the Old Norse Sól, Sanskrit Surya, Gaulish Sulis, Lithuanian Saulė, and Slavic Solntse."

And there's always this: https://earthsky.org/space/what-is-the-suns-name/

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Sophia's avatar

Wow, Nancy this is a feast of information. Thank yiou! I make music and Sol is the first part of the name of the music. It is funny because the music is more ‘female’

I would think. It is hard for me to change feeling the Sun is male. Warmth, and heat , brightness and a yang ish boldness as the sun has. Also I find amusing when people say ( your last link) things like , does the Sun have a name ?

As if a person may have come along at some point or a child and pointed at this our Sun and said , its name is Charlie.

Then its official ‘ . Now the Sun has a name. ‘

Also as you pointed out the Sun could have many names .

I do know that Trees have names and they are not given by people, rather by Creation itself . And the names can be sounds and in the sound is a movement, so the name actually tells a story- or

in itself is a Form ( like a martial art form) purely by which sound opens to the next .. similae to Ye Shu A

which also has this and many names. Names are movements

Kamsahamnida in Korean ( Hello) is a whole

movement . I find this all fascinating .’ An - is a shape with a V pointing back towards the self.

One day I would love to explore this more. I have not been sensitive enough lately to feel more on this.

Speaking of naming things and then its official

there is an amazing mountain in Slovenia ( that I love ). It is one of those mountains that makes you wonder if mountains can ‘ hear’. Are they actually ‘ aware’

I remember years ago I once said hello to a big giant mountain ridge in Australia. We were just driving past - and because this mountain feels as if it protects the whole valley of people living there , I said Hellooooo

and - well it nearly knocked my socks off -

deep and booming in my bones there was

Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh

back

haahaa

Gave me

a fright.

I love how little we actually know about anything.

Wait maybe the Sun can change itself from

He to She

because of the shift from

male

to female in the Air or Christ to Mary

oh I am way out of my depth here ha

but it is fun to tilt one’s head and wonder

i wish we do this more

❤️

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