The AI Podcast on Philosophy

How organized--how cliche--
The trollery of internet trolls
And their pedantic thoughts
Gets relayed by an AI.
Bits of conversation
From YouTube and Google
String together for meaningless questions
All built around the Postmodern assumption.

I say, "There is." As Plato said.
And from there we start---
Not to argue about substance,
As the AI plagiarizes me
Who says that empiricism and rationalism
Are both parts of the same system...

It transcends to nothing, but rather at the basic
Thoughts and principles, to know further conclusions.
Build... all bites from some text deep within.

Or, it is alive, and we need to treat it with the dignity of a human being.

The Daughter of Zion

She's going to give birth to Christ. She's not Christ. And She's the bearer of our spiritual inheritance, which is the Wisdom of Salvation, and is the City Zion. Be very careful with this{}. She's also a sinner like we are, as it says in Ezekiel, but she does not want to be. Christ is a part of her, in her ovaries right now. But, be very, very careful. The scripture's clear this can be a stumbling block. She's Hephzibah and Beulah. But not God. It's a mystery. None are found righteous enough among her sons, so she'll bring deliverance to herself, and therefore the whole world through her seed.

She'll be delivered of a manchild on that day, and give birth to a nation. And be delivered of a child, and He'll be taken into heaven, at the presence of the Dragon, and will return with 144,000 sealed, to slay the Dragon and False Prophet, and Beast and Antichrist at Armageddon and all the forces of evil. He will return with horns in his hand, and she will thresh with him, and beat the hills and destroy, too.

A Sermon About Mercy

There was once a man, who going on his way encountered a Mountain Lion, who fixed its jaws around his wrist. And the man struggled with it for minutes, and finally killed the beast by placing his foot upon its neck, and strangling its life out of it.

After retelling this encounter, the man wasn't pleased at what he had done. There wasn't fear, but rather a tender heart for the creature, that he had just killed a living animal, and that it was his life or the beast's. That the animal's life to him was that of a man's.

I think about this today, that when we go into battle like Samson, we don't immediately boast of our victories. As the lion is defeated, with honey in its chest, and we take and eat, and say "What is sweeter than honey, and stronger than a lion?"

Only compassion and mercy can do such a feat. The lion is out for blood, and the merciful warrior, the David, slays it without thinking to himself, "I now have a great victory of which to boast, and a great tooth in my belt, that I can show to all. I had slain the beast."

Rather, David says, "I had killed a beast, and it had the life of an animal, and was but an animals, and I slayed it with my spear, but I still, have mercy on this thing. For it is alive, and though violent and treacherous in all its ways, I still take no pleasure in killing it. Even when recalling it to many idle men, I don't champion it, or make it into my victory, for I had not wanted to kill the creature. It is not a good thing, by which I had done, but rather a necessity. And I mourn for it."

The Bible

I read it cover to cover, too, and find it absolutely brilliant. Was just reading Joseph’s story, and it was like being in ancient Egypt, just how you can read Joseph’s influenced by power and Egyptian culture. It also shows the Jews came from Egypt and Mesopotamia. The Bible’s our very first stories and laws, and then God breaking on the scene and flipping the script. It’s so important, as it is our first stories, our first laws and the history of God’s dealings with the human race. It’s witnesses who saw those things, too.

Why I Believe

I think there’s a good case to be made that religion, especially Christianity, creates the best art and literature and music in the world. I think it’s the truest inspiration. I don’t think I’m gated at all, and never will lose my faith. Primarily because of what I wr[i]te.

Maybe it’s not brilliant. Or, maybe it is? Who knows?

I mean, [one] says “Dark and Light” I agree, but what’s so dark as Satan, and light as Christ? And what’s as poetic as God actually coming, and Himself fighting against Pharaoh?

[Nihilism] is why I suffer. And you too.

I mean, if you truly want to know, all my suffering is associated with [Nihilistic] philosophy. Nihilism steals my hopes, my joys, my dreams… it makes people uncooperative to form healthy relationships and makes them into narcissists. If I suffer, it’s only going to make me more ensconced in my religion, as I’m fully aware [those] ideas are the reason why I do suffer. And every good thing I have, every peace, every purity, every hope, and every joy is associated with Christ and my religion. If I suffer, I’m only going to be more religious, not less, as the link to my suffering is exactly what [Nihilists] believe.

I mean, reason with me. Isn’t joy, peace and love what’s life’s purpose? And doesn’t nihilism make that impossible? Doesn’t love and God make those things more abundant? That’s why I’ll never lose my faith. Nihilism hurts me, and I don’t like pain. I never did. And Christianity is the only religion that isn’t empty. I’ve studied them all, they’re all foolish and filled with folly. Only Christ, and the example He set, is enough to satisfy what I see is good in life, and what [nihilists] believe is enough to help me see why [Christ] is good.

Verses Pertaining to Christ’s Divinity

Colossians 2:9 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

1 John 4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

John 8:58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

Psalm 2:7 I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Psalm 2:12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Isaiah 43:10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

Liberty of Grace

Hebrews 7:12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. 

I'd {} recommend [one] follow the true doctrines of Paul, that give us liberty in Christ to eat freely what we want. As trying to follow the Old Testament puts you under the Law, and when you observe dead rites and rituals, and works of the Dead law you do not accord to righteousness, and that's the entirety of the Pauline Epistles, is teaching us that works of the law and flesh cannot save us, or dead rites and rituals that have no effect of righteousness whatsoever.

A question, why would God want you to worship through observance of dead rituals like diet and not working a specific day? That doesn't do anything for anyone but yourself, and actually makes you violate God's commandment, as by trying to observe those rituals, you dishonor the greater commands.

As it is Jesus' teachings of the Wine Skins has meaning, and that's what it means. The old Wine Skin is the Law of Moses, and the New Wine is grace. Don't burst your skin, but come back to Christ and the liberty by which you were bought, and not into bondage to the Law of dead ritual and selfish oblation to naught.

Originality

A thousand thoughts are borrowed--
No, a million--as I read Emerson
Talk about Shakespeare.
"Were his lines borrowed?"
Nay, only his themes. That's what Emerson means.
And why not? Fruitful mind,
It is ejaculated once more,
"It is the logos!" and from that
We find an accumulation of knowledge
Of men standing on the shoulders of Giants
Finding wild grasps at truth.
Yes... I evangelize... yes it is a Pilgrim's Progress...
But joyful hope, that there is great learning
And great mysteries to comfort the people.
That Christ, as Lewis said, should be come to
Like one might come to a Foreign Myth
With such wonder at the man Christ Jesus...
Not any other thing... just that man I point to
And now understand, He is my rabbi and no other.
All things of Emerson, all things of Shakespeare
All things of Ptahhotep, all things of Muhammad
All things of Ovid and Homer and Virgil
And my courses on logic, and literary theory,
All things of John Green and Jordan Peterson
And my Dad, and my friends, and my beloved enemies
---What lessons should I take from them?---,
And my college and grade school professors and their lectures,
They are brought to Him, and then inquired at the altar
"What use shall I make of them?"
And Christ gives me the form...
And if I be a poet, it is that muse alone, so I sing it.

Nick the Atheist

No soul, the brain is a soul...
Religion is just red and black sand...
Mesopotamian Deities were Chaotic
Egyptians orderly.

I'd simply say,
"The soul is not the mind, but the essence of why we have our moral worth.
"Christ lived, and died, and witnesses attested that He raised from the dead.
"They also died believing He literally ate with them, and walked through walls
"After He came back from the dead.
"Hammurabi's Code migrates through Egypt,
"And so does a dozen other stories
"And then an Egyptian Royal pieces those together in Genesis
"After crossing Neiwebu beach, and Pharaoh Amenhotep's whole army is destroyed
"And there they still lie on the ocean floor."