TQ White II (he/him)

Over the course of the day I keep comparing the sides of those two equations.

Human moral judgement v God moral judgement, and

Doing Gods will v Accepting Christ as you savior.

I often think of the New Testament as V2, the easier, market tested morality.

Mitvot v Faith.

All so interesting.

Oh. Wait. I get your point.

You are distinguishing the Christian idea that the only thing that matters is if you take Jesus into your heart.

Doing every single righteous thing matters not at all if you don't do that.

And being a genocidal maniac doesn't matter if you do.

I read once that somebody analyzed his writing and claimed to be able to detect signs of such a thing. Apparently, atypical neurology shows patterns in language.

My rabbi once called him a "self-hating Jew" and wondered about the trauma that caused him to hate his heritage.

That, I understood. My (apparently badly stated) point is that the dichotomy of 'derived from God' vs 'human law' goes back to Genesis.

I claim that putting on clothes was an example of a human making a 'law', ie, a moral imperative on their own.

God was pissed because he hadn't said it first.

Going back to Genesis, God hates it when people make moral judgements of their own. Remember how pissed God was when people decided nakedness was bad. Impossible to interpret except as “only *my* rules are valid. Yours are abomination.”

The dichotomy isn’t false. It’s real and one side is ugly.

I suppose I have a state, a session analog that lets me connect events but so do lots of animals.

I really doubt that consciousness is a thing. I just think we are animals that have a bigger LLM.

I, OTOH, largely think consciousness is an illusion, like deja vu. I have a hallucination that the “I” that notices things has more existence than the sense of hunger that I share with my dog.

Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...

No one can restrict zealots surrounding an abortion clinic for any reason. If it's ICE, then freedom doesn't exist. This is what tyranny looks like.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

I didn't notice until one day I realized that every time I stopped at the grocery and had half a hand basket full of stuff it cost me fifty bucks unless it was only veggies. Then it was only twenty(!!!).

I don't know what it cost before but I definitely didn't think, WTF?

I met a person who did this. A very nice guy and a very successful one. He had lots of of side businesses, too.

When his kids got old enough, he would talk about how he taught them to run their business of selling water outside the farmers' market.

Blocked me when Trump arrived. I am too strident

I think of this every time I read the phrase, AGI. As if you could have real intelligence without hormones and neuro- chemicals. Fat chance.

I would use this. It's rude to expect to talk to me and force me not to talk back.

It used to be that 'viewpoint discrimination' was fundamentally disallowed in government function. Now, they can use government resources to destroy anyone who thinks anything they don't like. That's what tyranny means.

I wonder how much in legal fees he spent on his no longer paycheck.

The government can screw you whenever it wants. That's what tyranny means.

Seems reasonable that we might do the sort of verbal logic intellect subset but there are a lot of other things that brains do that are part of intelligence.

I shaved my beard.

The word 'fiat' in 'fiat currency' means fiat.

Scrolling not reading. The upper case GOD caught my eye. I spent a moment trying to imagine how you were posting during all this climaxes and thinking congratulatory thoughts. I admit a small bemusement when the rest of the thread clarified the situation.

I stopped following grammar rules long ago. For me all prose is poetry. However, I also realize that the end of a sentence is a special place. One should make certain that the word at the end is the one that is the one that contributes most to the meaning. The best word is rarely a preposition.

The NY Times joins MAGA. The "sometimes violent" anti-fascists *might* include the Kirk shooter and perhaps another six individuals out of millions but the NY Times puts it first.

"Antifa is a term for a sometimes violent protest culture of far-left activists, but is not an actual organization."

I am doing a presentation on AI in education with emphasis on privacy. I did an experiment that is interesting.

I prompted Claude to tell me what it knows about me. It said it knew nothing. Gemini. Also, nothing.

ChatGPT had a perfectly nice summary.

For privacy, I like the first two.

I continue to believe that the robots will take all our jobs and thank heavens. Most of them are horrifying drudgery.

Don't be mad at the robots and AI. Be mad at an economic system that will starve your children if no corporation loves you.

Forget AI. Work for UBI.

Criminal complaint against facial recognition company Clearview AI Clearview AI is known for scraping billions of photos of people around the world on the internet – and selling its facial recognition system to law enforcement and state actors

If we lived in a decent country, we would have GDPR, too, and we would help Europe enforce it on these scumbags... except, of course, that they would have been shut down.... if America wasn't a corporate hellscape.

noyb.eu/en/criminal-...

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.

But ICE will be funded.

www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

WE'RE NOT ASKING. WE'RE SHUTTING IT DOWN. MASS BLACKOUT NOVEMBER 25TH - DECEMBER 2ND The largest economic blackout protest in U.S. history begins November 25th!

I like this though having it overlap Thanksgiving makes me a little skeptical of participation.

Trump Official Warns California Against Arresting Federal Agents

Trump's roadie says the Supremacy Clause says that ICE Gestap cannot be arrested in doing federal business. It absolutely does NOT say that.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

I like this.

Fortunately, it appears that these guys do not like it. Also, even if some do, I think most people understand the symbolism. I think its better than inflatable costumes as an anti-fascism protest branding exercise.

Protester Who Played ‘Star Wars’ Song Sues After Arrest in Washington

This should be standard operating procedure for protesting from now on. They should hear the Imperial March Theme wherever they go.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...