Google Gemini is a nice image of one of the dangers of AI as we give it more power. Ideology is so thickly overlaid that it skews everything, then doubles down. First image looks about right, but scroll down.
What? What is this?
Surely this must be a glitch, right?
Ok, feeling relieved, but wait...
...it doubles down, and now all of them, not just half.
Then again, you think it gets it...
...but it triples down. True ideological possession in its very code.
It seems to get it as I press it.
...but obviously now it has to add a gay couple. 🤣
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Ok, now that internet Orthodoxy has settled, I would like to make an important point. Many people vented their Holy Rage™, seeing my friend Jordan Peterson wear the design of the Calvary Cross on his blazer. The argument made is that this design is used on the Holy Schema, a vestment given to monks which is related to certain vows or accomplishments depending on the tradition. It was seen as mocking or disrespectful by people to use this design while not being a monk.
Now, there are a few problems with this. One is that what Jordan Peterson was wearing was not the Great Schema, it was a blazer with a pattern of the Calvary Cross on it. No one in the world would mistake the Schema for a blazer and vice versa. I know this might seem obvious, though I guess it is not to many people. The pattern of the Calvary Cross is a universal pattern with a long history, and is used in many contexts apart from the Great Schema.
The pattern of the calvary cross is in fact the pattern which contains the elements of the crucifixion, in that sense Orthodox blessing crosses, or liturgical calvary crosses will contain most of the same elements with the addition of the figure of Christ. Here is one of my carvings. The amount of details will vary, even in designs of the Great Schema, and so some of the inscriptions or details will come and go depending on how maximalist or minimalist the image is.
Arrogant secularists like the folks at @GurusPod know so little about demonology, witches or witchcraft law, yet they "virtue signal" myself and @vervaeke_john about these like we were still in 2007, with all the usual high-minded atheist bluster.
The usual technique when faced with what Church scholars have always taught, is to accuse the higher interpretation of being obfuscation or modern re-interpretation. Better still, saying it is gibberish. In the podcast, @C_Kavanagh said demons are traditionally physical beings!
Just grabbing a text from Evagrius (4th cent), in a few minutes I find the notion that demons are the principalities of passions. "Of the demons that oppose praxis, the to first make war on us are those responsible for gluttony, then those who suggest avarice..."
"All I have done, is dominated by the thought of a virus, what could be called a parasitology... The virus is in part a parasite that destroys, that introduces disorder into communication...
...Even from the biological standpoint, this is what happens with a virus; it derails a mechanism of the communicational type, its coding and decoding..." Jacques Derrida
My patience for atheists sometimes wanes dramatically, listening to Stephen Fry with @jordanbpeterson clamor on his high-horse about how as an empiricist he cannot understand human sacrifice really brings me to the brink.
As the ancient religious societies waned, the entire world 100 years ago was on the brink of total collapse. To stop this, the political stability of our current world has been based on two massive human sacrifices which have overshadowed all other narratives since the end of WW2
The first is the Holocaust, in which millions of innocent scapegoats were slaughtered to create a "never again" situation and has prevented the ethnic and tribal meltdowns which are inevitable with the breakdown of overarching narratives and religious identities