Written by Jim Makin
“We are what we have done“
“We become what we think about“
“We can alter our lives by altering our attitudes“
“If you think in negative terms you will get negative results; if you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results“
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt” (Shakespeare, ‘Measure for Measure’)
“If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth” (Mark 9, 23)
“As ye sow, so shall ye reap” (Galatians 6, 7-9)
“The human mind is the last great unexplored continent on earth“
“The things that we got for nothing we can never replace; the human mind isn’t used because we take it for granted … it can do any kind of job we assign to it but generally speaking we use it for little jobs instead of big important ones … so decide now – what is it you want?“
“Every one of us is the sum total of our own thoughts”
Speaking personally, I would suggest that as God (or Nature, take your pick) has endowed us with the most incredible “grey matter” between our ears, it is the height of ingratitude and folly not to use it to its full extent and purpose, and that purpose is for us as individuals to determine.
Access the video here (you may need to scroll down a bit)
As human beings we grow in power and confidence by pursuing our goals and overcoming the obstacles.
We all have our own minds, to use ignore or abuse as we choose. Ultimately, this is simply to state the obvious. Despite the prevalence of egregious levels of propaganda swilling around the world today, nobody else can control our thoughts unless we allow them.
This (somewhat outdated) Guardian article paints transhumanism in a benevolent light where body parts can be replaced by “superior” artificial substitutes and even the brain may be “augmented” by AI (anybody know what AI actually is?).
What we do know is that scientific and engineering advances can be used for both good or ill. If the brain can be augmented, then I suggest that sooner or later, someone will probably find a way to harness it under AI control, thus degrading us into servants to whatever scheme the masters behind the AI wish to introduce.
We also know that ‘they’ have been working on communicating messages embedded in audio and images straight into our subconscious for years. And today, the Internet of Things beckons?
Will “augmentation” eventually override our own thoughts, and substitute ‘their’ goals for ours?
Now that would be slavery indeed, and it would certainly come as little surprise if we were to find that someone has already been working on it.
“The architect of the Universe didn’t build a stairway leading nowhere“
For now, we can each choose our own stairway.
Will it be the descending stairway that purports to lead to fulfilment of our own personal desires even at the expense of others – riches, fast cars, loose women, power over others, etc etc – ‘success’ at any cost? This is the win-lose stairway. Inevitably, being win-lose, it leads to bad and broken relationships, even criminality and a life fearful of being caught and shamed. In reality, it is the lose-lose stairway.
Will it be the ‘go with the flow’ stairway, where we automatically follow the herd for fear of having to justify any contrary behaviour? This is no stairway at all, more like a travelator that goes wherever the installers wished. It may be an “easy” option, but do you know who installed it and whither it leads? The travelator allows you to give up your independence of thought, and although your successes will not be your own, your failures will still be yours because you had the opportunity to choose and you blew it.
Or will it be the stairway that climbs upwards to the betterment of humanity as a whole: to be of service to others, to promote the best for society through achieving the best for all the free-thinking individual members of society, to promote the incoming tide that floats all boats? This is the win-win stairway, and you can guess where it leads …
“As ye sow, so shall ye reap”
“Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matthew 7, 14)
Interesting. We have been subjected to subliminal messaging for a long time. Adverts to buy this not that. Background music in shops and how goods are displayed.
Makes me wonder how it is being used now. I mean, it has surprised me just how many people have succumbed, been frightened into allowing all their freedoms to be taken away.
Is it because they watch and listen to T.V. and radio? But much of that is independent. They can’t ALL be ‘in it’.
The ‘press’ – yes I can see that they are all dependent on Government advertising and that includes on line ‘news’.
Thank you for this very good article
“We are what we have done; ” Indeed.
Does anyone else think it is strange that we can actually use all this technology – We do build what suits us but it is all far more complicated than anything in the academic teachings of our official past – A logical reason for a dextrous use of new tech would be that we have done so before in a previous technological age that may itself have lasted a long time before some sort of catastrophe – Certainly the still controversial evidence of megalithic (megalithic simply meaning ‘big rock’ and of course rock being the only material to survive in tact for a long time) structures more substantial and intricate than we can yet replicate is among the indications of a previous age with technology probably slightly different to what we are coming up with this time?
Nothing made in the past cannot be replicated by modern technology,
The marvelous thing about certain ancient objects is the labour that must have gone into making them with the tools than available,
Ancient Egypt springs immediately to mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra%27s_Needle
And South America. For many Centuries us Europeans looked East and South towards Rome, Egypt, Greece and the ancient Hebrews. We didn’t even realise there was a huge continent to the west, other side of the Atlantic ocean.
Harry Again is right for once, pointing out the huge expenditure of time and labour.
It would seem that the “official past” has memory fatigue and our “official” historians seem disinclined to worry about the vast amount of prehistoric stonework around the world that even modern equipment couldn’t match . . . but of course they used stone chisels and wooden mallets . . . must have taken an unconscionable long time, not to mention the bother of getting the astronomical alignments dead on, the massive stones in exactly the right position, and hunting and fishing in their copious free time to keep the wife and kids fed and watered. Maybe they really were giants?!
Even giants figure in our Old Testament! The astronomical alignments – that is possible without compasses, it takes very close, detailed observation I suppose. Does all this come within the subject of Archaeology?
Meanwhile school children are leaving primary school to go on to secondary education, not being able to read and write! And all our political masters can babble about is ‘disadvantaged children due to lockdown’.
Our Civilisation seems to be running backwards. It didn’t need a Major Catastrophy to wipe it out.
Lindsay. Are you suggesting that there have been previous civilisations on our planet, many millennia ago, that were ahead of our present technology? No, I do not believe that.
I think the reason that we find the technology that humanity has built to suit itself, seems so complicated, is that our knowledge has grown so much that no one brain can learn more than a tiny part of it.
For example, in 1990 I had a pretty good idea of how my computer of that time worked. Now I really haven’t a clue. You may know how to do what you want on yours but I bet you don’t know HOW it does it.
Someone who is acknowledged to be brilliant in his field is often incredibly stupid in everyday matters.
Perhaps I’ve answered my own question. The reason people seem to have ‘stupidly’ swallowed the Covid19 scare propaganda is that they have used their minds for the ‘little jobs’ of everyday life.
A previous technological age………….before some sort of catastrophe.’ The Bible has the answer. Ecclesiastes 1- verses 9-11.Also chap 3 v15. Also Genesis chap 1verse 2. The earth was without form’ or the earth became without form’. The catastrophe occurs between verses 1 and 2. There is a vast period of years between verse 1 and verse 2. according to Bible students and is known as the gap theory.r.macleod548@
OK.