Random Thoughts Thread

Is that so Debs.

I postulate that the big collapse will generate enough energy to re-initiate a new Universe.

Such will be the death and the resurrection.

Contained within the process will be the GOD principle...That's if all goes to plan.

the GOD principle..

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The Finite, Occupied space Universe's { @ } set of:

Inviolate Cosmic Principles --ex five and only 5 regular/symmetrical and convex polyhedra-- and,

...Inviolate Physical Laws --ex finite cosmic speed limit---.

The "GOD principle" isn't one single rule but 

a concept referring to fundamental spiritual truths or divine laws that guide behavior, reflecting God's unchanging nature, as taught in various faith traditions, particularly Christianity, emphasizing love, holiness, integrity, and living by His Word, with applications ranging from personal ethics (love, honesty) to cosmic order (natural laws, Creator sustaining all). Essentially, it's about aligning human life and actions with divine, unchanging truths for a purposeful, blessed existence. 

Key Aspects of God's Principles:

1. Foundation of Truth: They are foundational truths that guide belief and action, like laws of nature, but spiritual.
2. Love & Holiness: Core principles involve loving God and others, living righteously, and seeking spiritual growth.
3. Consistency: God's principles are seen as constant and reliable, providing stability in life (e.g., sowing and reaping).
4. Application: They are applied through obedience, faith, prayer, humility, and diligent stewardship.
5. Creator & Sustainer: The principle also speaks to God as the intelligent force behind creation, holding everything together. 

Examples of Specific Principles:

1. Love: God's will for people to love Him and their neighbors.
2. Generosity: Giving of oneself and resources.
3. Humility: Being humble, leading to exaltation.
4. Work: Diligent, honest work, as laziness leads to poverty.
5. Stewardship: Managing resources (time, money) well for God's purpose. 

In summary, the GOD principle is the concept that divine, immutable truths form the basis for a meaningful life, calling individuals to align their will and actions with God's character, fostering spiritual growth and a blessed life. 

The GOD principle is the principal that dictates material evolution.

Often analogically but naively referred to as a Magic Man.

I simply postulate, that the purpose is Universal resurrection.

Others like to postulate a load of other stuff, like the stuff that you just posted.

Secularisation is (and obviously also was) the biggest singular catalyst for the depopulation of whites other than the wars they fought.

Yet, there is no legal way for Europeans to push against secularisation, nor most of other nations like America etc as it's deeply ingraind in the national constitution and/or core values to be secularised (freedom of religion coming above morality of the Christian faith).

This will perpetually continue until the nations firmly unite Church and State.

The primary drivers for the relative decline and absolute depopulation of white populations in Western nations are 

low fertility rates (fewer births) and aging population structures (more deaths). This trend is described as a "natural decrease," where deaths among this demographic exceed births. 

Key factors contributing to this trend include:

1. Low Fertility Rates: White populations in many developed countries have birth rates below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman. Factors for this include a preference for smaller families, career prioritization, and economic considerations like housing costs.
2. Aging Demographic Structure: The white population is, on average, older than other racial and ethnic groups, leading to higher death rates.
3. Natural Decrease: In the United States, non-Hispanic white deaths have outnumbered births in a majority of states. In 2016, for instance, white births for each white death fell below 1.
4. Migration and "Whiteshift": While immigration is not a significant growth source for this specific population, the declining percentage share is also influenced by increasing racial diversity and the growing multiracial population.
5. Rural Decline: In rural areas, white depopulation is heavily driven by the out-migration of young adults, which subsequently leads to fewer births and a higher proportion of elderly residents. 

In the context of the United States, the non-Hispanic white population has been declining as a share of the total population since at least 1980. 

Thanks for proving me right.

Latinos are usually Catholic btw.

Catholics are still the majority denomination in Christianity.

Yes, what with ongoing religious repression and brainwashing, it is unlikely that Catholicism will not continue to be the majority denomination.

Not to mention all the other attractions like gift shops, saints and miraculous healing centre holidays.

I like to think that once copyright expires on a lot of movies, music, and games, they'll become well catalogued and free to access online.

Lot of books are.

I 'think a lot of media is still relatively new.

. . . . . . Easy/Big/Effective/Cheap storage and documentation still kind of new.

Population getting bigger, sometimes I feel special imagining I live at the dawn of something truly new in humanity.

Well, people always have maybe.

But the new part in this instance is information, it 'ought be easier to record than ever, though I wonder how much will still be lost and forgotten.

People sometimes talk of older lost and rare media.

I wonder what of now will be lost and rare in 50 or 100 years?

Won't be the 'popular media I imagine, no George Lucas burning and urinating on the ashes of the early most Star Wars.

But there 'will be a lot of niche media lost maybe.

. . .

Cassettes I remember as a kid were some Disney movie soundtracks and Man of La Mancha.

Though I imagine my parents had/have others.

. . .

I also sometimes wonder if humans 'are on the verge of transhumanism within my lifetime.

Whether biological tampering of humans, AI, or colonizing outer space.

I think the biological tampering is the most likely.

I just can't imagine Dictators and Authoritarians 'not shackling their people in the most literal and figurative sense.

Sure it's been Sci Fi a lot of the time,

Been a few races of beings that were made dependent on some substance or they'd die,

Been a few populations or individuals where cloning became huge.

Even without the Dictators, I imagine a lot of people willing to abandon their humanity.

Course the 'free path would take longer I imagine.

And maybe in the free path, the human DNA sequence would still be stored somewhere.

The GOD principle is the principal that dictates material evolution.

It appears then, that AI is resultant of is super-advancing artiticial evolution by 500 million to a billions faster than evolution.

AI news.creating protein codes..' The sequence of letters that spell out the instructions to make esmGFP is only 58% similar to the closest known fluorescent protein, which is a human-modified version of a protein found in bubble-tip sea anemones (Entacmaea quadricolor) — colorful sea creatures that look like they have bubbles on the ends of their tentacles. The rest of the sequence is unique, and would require a total of 96 different genetic mutations to evolve. These changes would have taken more than 500 million years to evolve naturally, according to the study.'..

https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/new-glowing-molecule-invented-by-ai-would-have-taken-500-million-years-to-evolve-in-nature-scientists-say

Scientists used an AI model, 

ESM3, to design a novel glowing protein (esmGFP) that's so different from natural ones, they estimate it would take 500 million years for evolution to stumble upon it, showcasing AI's power to explore vast "protein space" beyond nature's pace to create new molecules for medicine and science, reports from January 2025 indicate. 

Key Details:

1. The AI Model: EvolutionaryScale's (formerly Meta) created the ESM3 (Evolutionary Scale Model 3), a large language model trained on biological data to understand protein sequences, structures, and functions.
2. The Creation: The AI generated a code for a new fluorescent protein, esmGFP, that has only about 15% similarity to known natural fluorescent proteins but still glows.
3. The "500 Million Years" Claim: Researchers calculated this significant sequence difference equates to roughly 500 million years of natural evolution, demonstrating the AI's ability to generate radically new proteins far outside typical evolutionary paths.
4. Significance: This breakthrough could lead to new enzymes for plastic degradation, better disease treatments, and tools for scientific research, as ESM3 can design proteins with specific functions that nature hasn't yet evolved. 

Shower thoughts, thinking back to a previous conversation.

Can a person be better off dead?

. . I don't think so, because to my mind the dead no longer exist, they can't 'be anything.

Well, can't 'feel anything.

Some people think of reputation after death, that immortality of a sort,

Pair together the 'idea of someone, their legacy 'with the person.

To spit on a grave or insult someone's place in history, to some is to dishonor the person themself.

From a certain point of view.

. . .

A barren plain,

Would existence be better or worse with people there?

Eh, I'm a nihilist, it's all arbitrary values and objectives.

. . .

Still, I do not think a person would have been better off not being born.

Because one who never existed cannot 'be,

As one who no longer exists cannot be.

Would someone be better off dead?

. . . I still don't think it's a yes or no,

The question is 'odd to me somehow.

The language doesn't fit somehow.

. . . Existence is painful they might say, and I no longer wish to experience or exist.

That computes for me, though I still don't much like suicide, I don't recommend suicide.

But linguistically I mean.

I don't think a dead person can be better off, because there is no longer a person,

Bit like dividing or times-ing by 0?

. . . Though when times and divide in my calculator,

Times answer is 0.

Divide answer it says cannot divide by 0.

Alas for my shoddy attention span in math, I assume there's a difference between times or dividing by 0.

Or. . .

Hm, is there a difference whether the zero is first or last?

2/0

0/2

2*0

0*2

. . .

Of course when someone says a person is better off dead, they often mean 'if the person existed, they would be in terrible pain.

Bit comparison between a person who dies in a cannibal assault, and a person who get's captured and eaten piece by piece.

But of course, 'better is relative, and futures sometimes assumed.

Though I suppose looking back, one might say a person was unlucky to get captured,

And a different person was lucky to go quick.

. . . But in such circumstance one is not talking of the dead, they are talking of people in the moments they were alive.

. . .

. . .

Course another thought is people who believe all of existence is conscious to some degree,

Or people who believe everything is one.

Why are you obsessed about death? Being unemployed and stuck with a high school diploma can be frustrating. But giving up so early is shameful.

Already in the 300s. Okay

I think that the message I posted was hypothetical, wherein without the knowledge of anything, was it far easier to not have known than to have known.

It's a difficult question to get across without inciting living bias.

I often wonder at the 'importance of various individuals violent deaths, that the media 'happens to cover.

'Many people are 'frequently killed.

"The FBI’s crime statistics estimates, based on reported data, show a violent crime occurred, on average, every 25.9 seconds in 2024. The breakdown shows on average a murder occurred every 31.1 minutes"

https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-releases-2024-reported-crimes-in-the-nation-statistics

I wonder how different X's would progress with different writers.

Whether books, TV, video games.

Different actors, start from episode 1, or season 1.

One 'does see reboots, but the characters already have made themselves,

One is creating from hindsight, not creating blind.

One 'could get creators or actors who had never heard of the originals I suppose, to remove hindsight effect.

Though I think there's always a value in reading new books, learning new thoughts, thinking for oneself about what one encounters.

I sometimes wonder what or when one ought focus more on crystalizing knowledge and certain books.

As Bruce Lee said,

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once but I fear one who has practiced one kick 10,000 times".

It's fun to be a Jack of all trades,

But I suspect it's impossible to be a Master of all trades,

. . . Likely most people are less than a Jack of trades, varying from 10s to 2s.

I suppose an easy way to implement a magic system into some fiction would be to have it take place in a simulation,

But the idea of not being on the top layer of reality makes me nervous.

Perhaps it's the idea of such a lack of control, of such vulnerability, of falseness of one's abilities.

Course, one is vulnerable often enough in reality as it is, to other people and circumstances within reality. (Shrug)

Heh, I suppose for all video games they 'do take place in simulations,

But that is or maybe it 'isn't Meta?

Some difficulty in the immersion and stakes perhaps, when one knows one is in a video game, or one can leave it so easily.

Perhaps a degree of absurdity warping the concept.

. . .

And of course there's also the problem if one wants to use a fantasy world to model theoretical possible working of the real world,

The fantasy world might 'need to be the real world (In universe), 'not be a simulation.

. . . For example, I imagine there are fans who 'want lightsabers or superpowers one sees in comic books.

Who want to believe it 'could be real, not simply rely on the suspension of disbelief.

If a person sang everything they thought and said,

I wonder if anything productive would come of that.

Perhaps a good song.

I've heard some people don't have inner monologues.

Random thoughts can be generated automatically. In psychology and neuroscience, this phenomenon is widely recognized as a "default" function of the human brain, where involuntary, spontaneous thoughts and mental images arise without conscious effort or direction

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Here is a breakdown of how this process works:

1. The Biological Mechanism: "System 1"

1. Automatic Processing: Our minds have two processes: a controlled/conscious system and an automatic/unconscious system. The automatic process, sometimes referred to as "System 1," is responsible for generating thousands of spontaneous thoughts, memories, and images daily.
2. The Default Mode Network (DMN): When the brain is not focused on a specific task—such as when daydreaming, resting, or performing routine actions—the Default Mode Network becomes highly active. This network accesses memories and associations in ways we cannot predict, causing thoughts to pop into our conscious awareness.
3. Memory Consolidation: Some research suggests these random thoughts are a byproduct of the brain consolidating memories, linking existing memories into new, sometimes bizarre, combinations. 

2. Why Thoughts Feel "Random"

1. Unconscious Associations: Although they feel random, these thoughts are often triggered by subtle external stimuli or internal cues (such as emotions or hunger) that are processed subconsciously before they reach consciousness.
2. Mind-Wandering: When the brain is in a resting state, it often switches from inward focus to an outward, free-floating state, resulting in wandering thoughts.
3. Intrusive Thoughts: These are a specific type of automatic, often unwanted or bizarre thought (e.g., "What if I dropped my phone off this bridge?"). They are considered a normal part of cognitive processing, often popping up when the brain is stressed or tired. 

3. Key Characteristics of Automatic Thoughts

1. Involuntary & Rapid: They occur without intention, appearing as a non-stop chain reaction.
2. Incoherent: They often jump from one subject to another with no direct connection.
3. Unconscious Origin: We are often unaware of these thoughts until they have already entered our conscious mind. 

4. Can You Control Them?

While you cannot prevent the brain from generating automatic thoughts, you can control how you react to them. 

1. Mindfulness/Meditation: Practicing mindfulness allows you to observe these thoughts without judgment, reducing their emotional impact.
2. Avoid Suppression: Trying to stop these thoughts often makes them stronger, a phenomenon known as the "ironic process".
3. Distraction: Shifting focus to a different, engaging task is an effective way to manage unproductive random thoughts

Some people have inner monologues that I don’t want to hear

Recognizing your thinking style (with or without an inner monologue) helps understand how your mind works and can reduce suffering from being overly identified with every thought.

Hm, just noticed a lot of talk about Greenland recently.

Maybe better buy some more long storage food.

And a book about edible plants, well, that or compile a document.

Being American, I don’t think you will be welcome by Greenland. Blame Trump.

Music and Visualization.

I wonder if one might avoid visualization due to a desire for purity and appreciation for the music to stand on it's own merits.

Yet. . . I think visualization can also have value, if done well.

Not everyone has a master's ear for music, and for the less practiced visualization, visuals and themes that move and react with the music can cause the less attuned 'to attune and notice what they might not have without visualization.

It will be hard to avoid the imagery and narrative created from the music if it includes the lyrics and words which are designed to create visualization.

I wonder. . .

If two American citizens gave up their citizenship, traveled to a country with laws allowing duels, or perhaps the high seas and dueled to the death.

Then the winner returned to America and re acquired their citizenship,

Could they be legally charged with anything?

If they were charged with any crimes in a foreign country, they would be entering America as criminals and their visas would be rejected.