Essays on the evils of AI are a dime a dozen, but this report from BusinessInsider.com (via the Children’s Health Defense web site) seemed to reveal something new:
Billionaire tech investor Marc Andreessen — who has long been bullish on the tech — thinks AI is a lifelong “ally” for the children of tomorrow as they both grow up together.
Speaking on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast last Wednesday, Andreessen shared how he had introduced his 8-year-old son to the viral AI chatbot ChatGPT as an educational tool.
“The AI that my 8-year-old is gonna have by the time he’s 20, it’s gonna have had 12 years of experience with him, and so it will have grown up with him. It will know everything he’s ever done.” Andreessen said. “It’ll know what he wants.”
The cofounder of namesake VC firm Andreessen Horowitz talked about how AI can serve as a lifelong “ally” for his son and future generations. “They’ll have basically a partner whose goal in life will be to make them as happy and satisfied and successful as possible.”
This should alarm Orthodox Christians. Every child, Orthodox or not, receives a Guardian Angel at his conception. Furthermore, every Orthodox child, at his baptism, receives a Patron Saint. These holy protectors, Guardian Angels and Patron Saints, are the God-given ‘allies’ with whom Orthodox children ‘grow up together’, who ‘know everything they’ve ever done’, who are their ‘partners’ whose ‘goal in life’ is not to give the children what will make them ‘happy, satisfied, and successful’ in a worldly sense but who will lead them safely through fallen earthly life to the Kingdom of Heaven.
But our Big Tech overlords, per the above, are intent on replacing the heavenly protectors of Orthodox children with an AI simulacrum. The AI allies are a return to the demonic soothsayers that the Old Testament Law proscribed. Some words from the Holy Elder Cleopa Ilie of Romania seem to bear this out. Rather than trusting in God’s will for us as revealed through the revelations of the saints and angels, etc., unbelievers turn to the spirits of the dead (i.e., demons) and mediums in order to know what path to walk in life. Elder Cleopa writes:
‘The conjurors have the aim and the need to call upon the spirits of the dead (I believe, however, that in fact they are spirits of demons which appear in the form of the spirits of the dead) in order that they may reveal to them certain secrets that relate to the future of the dead or other curiosities forbidden by the law of God. Listen to what Holy Scripture has to say: “And when they shall say unto you, seek unto the necromancers and unto the soothsayers, who chirp and who mutter, Shall not a people seek unto their God? On behalf of the living should they seek unto the dead? To the law and the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, for them there is no daybreak’ (Isaiah 8:19-20; The Truth of Our Faith, 3rd edn., Peter Alban Heers translator & editor, London, Ontario, Uncut Mountain Press, 2007, pgs. 234-5).
These words are very apt, for what do our AI chatbots do but ‘chirp and mutter’ revelations to people who are not content with what the All-Holy Trinity has revealed to us? Elder Cleopa warns us about this: ‘Indeed, in the Divine Revelation that was given to us with Holy Scripture and Holy Tradition we lack nothing in the way of knowing about our salvation, nor do we have need to seek from the dead – or better, the demons [or even better, AI!—W.G.] – something favourable to our salvation’ (p. 235).
He adds to this the following:
When God sends us a prophet and it is not revealed to us immediately, this means that he does not want to make other disclosures, knowing that they won’t be profitable for us. When someone who prophesies is not from God, without a doubt he is from the Devil, as were the false-prophets referred to in Scripture. They announced false visions, vanities, and preposterous prophecies relative to the condition of their heart. When they actually do tell us the truth, we should not believe it, since they don’t say it with the aim of benefiting anyone, but rather, from deceptiveness they seek to lead us into delusion. Look at the girl with the unclean spirit of divination in the city of Philippi of Macedonia. Everything that the evil spirit said through her mouth was true, and yet the Apostle Paul admonished it to keep silent, casting out the demonic spirit (Ibid.).
Again, this is instructive vis-à-vis AI – first, because we absolutely do want our gadgets to give us ‘immediate disclosures’ when we address them with questions, which is very much in keeping with the spirit of black magick; second, they often spit out ‘false’ and ‘preposterous’ answers; third, modern tech devices, though they may do some good things, will be used by the evil one to establish his Antichrist. The Holy Elder Lawrence of Chernigov revealed this about our amazing glowing screens:
The God-pleasing Holy Elder used to say, “Blessed, and thrice-blessed is the man who does not desire, and who will not see the abominable face of the Antichrist. He who sees him and hears his blasphemous words, his promises of all earthly treasures, he will be deceived and will go to meet him and bow down to him. He will perish together with him and will burn in the eternal fire.”
They asked the Elder, “How will all this come to pass?” The holy Elder said with tears, “In the holy place, the abomination of desolation will stand. And it will show the foul seducers of the world. And they will be deceiving the people who have fallen away from God, and will perform false miracles. And after them, the Antichrist will appear. And the whole world will see him at the same time.”
Then the fathers asked the Elder, “Where in the holy place? In the church?” The Venerable one answered, “Not in the church, but in every house. In the corner, where the holy icons now stand and hang, there will stand captivating devices which will delude the people. Many will say, ‘We need to watch and listen to the news.’ And behold, in the news the Antichrist will appear.
Holy Elder Lawrence was speaking of television, but his warning is just as true, if not more so, of smartphones and other devices with their AI helpers. They more and more resemble the prophecy from St. John’s vision, of the image of the beast that was given life by the lesser beast to murder those who refused to worship the first beast:
. . . and by the signs which it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast, it deceives those who dwell on earth, bidding them make an image for the beast which was wounded by the sword and yet lived; and it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast so that the image of the beast should even speak, and to cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain (Revelation 13:14-15).
The resemblance of our AI ‘allies’ to conjuring mediums of Old Testament times would be hazardous enough to the salvation of men and women, but the situation is much worse than that. Increasingly, it is becoming more dangerous to ‘stare into the lights.’
But the God Lord has not left us adrift without guidance in these strange times.
Walt Garlington is an Orthodox Christian living in Dixieland. His writings have appeared on several web sites, and he maintains a site of his own, Confiteri: A Southern Perspective.
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It is time to learn the art of detox like the Essenes, we are in a parallel time. If you want to stay disease free, learn the art of detox. Modern medicine will not do this for you, you must take control of your health and learn what all the ancients knew and practiced.
E.g. proper bathing with the rite soaps, enema, footwashings, mouthwashings. it is essential to get the rite water when drinking and cooking. Without a cleansing lifestyle of both body and soul, expect to get your life shorted. Go ahead , put your estate in order, get a will in place, cause you are going to need it. Expect your children to die young as well. If you are just doing what “doctors’ tell you, it is a set up for failure. If you take the shots, good luck, just bend over, put your head between your knees, and kiss your butt good bye. Then go around the family and have each member kick your butt, because you have failed them, by failing to look after your body, you’ll not be there when they will need you.
Fasting will be a huge key, and just shifting calories from meat to starch will NOT work (makes it far worse). You must give your body a breather, give your digestive tract a rest.
A woman’s menses is a natural detox, it is a purification before fertility. A plowing of the field before planting. A woman can (ok, for me this is theory based on understanding, a very educated guess, I have no way to test it), work detoxes in sync with that. I suggest some fasting, perhaps some vigorous exercise on an empty stomach, contrasted with time of hysichia, silent prayer alone etc. Get lots of sleep. When the herximer hits, hit back with coffee enemas, bath bombs–citric acid & baking soda, and sauna. Drink vinegar. Work with your body, not against it.
The latest paleo fad will not work because paleo man ate big for two days, then fasted for a week until the next buffalo was killed. Until modern times, nobody did three squares a day, that’s insane. The body was meant for extreme swings of feasting and fasting.
To burn fat, the body must get over into ketosis and to be healthy, your body must be able to toggle between burning sugar and ketones (fats). By just eating small portions, the shift is never made, and it ends up being torture with no result. You must be able to fast until the appetite goes away. The best way to deal with a fast–a true fast; zero calories– is to become very active, the body doesn’t have time to know it hungry; occupy it with other things. Large dosing of Vit. C (sodium ascorbate: powdered ascorbic acid mixed with baking soda) will cut appetite during a fast and accelerate detox. During fast, drink black coffee, green tea–no sugar, water/baking soda, B12, all Bs.
That eating fat makes you fat is a lie. The body stores excess starches as fat–first in the liver–, and most excess fat in food, lard-animal fat–passes right through, the body can only digest a certain amount and any excess in the blood comes out in the skin, the hair (a good thing), but seldom gets converted into body fat. The Eskimos have diet of 80% animal fat, much of it raw and they don’t have heart attacks and strokes, nor cancer. While they look chubby, its all brown fat that burns itself to keep them warm, comes from cold stressing the body. Go figure.
Search: Weston Price Foundation
Good fat vs bad fat. Visceral fat–aka cellulite–is the body’s toxic waste dump. Brown fat–aka baby fat, smooth fat, is actually good for you and does burn calories, but in adults brown fat is extremely rare. Cellulite is the norm. Getting rid of it can be hell, because when you start burning it, the toxins stored are released and you feel like your going to die, so, precautions must be taken depending upon the rate. The best way to get rid of celulite is sucking the toxins out through the skin by near infrared sauna (250w brood lamps), and rubbing it down with borax while in a full sweat. In my near-infrared sauna, I do total body rubdown with borax; smelling amonia, I know urea is being removed, and the kidneys say, “Thank You!”
Like training the body for a sport, the body can also be trained to detox, when you start working with its natural systems of detox in a rhythm–seasons of fasting, figure it out, and off load what is killing you slowly. Because I drink coffee before going into sauna, anytime a I drink coffee, my body starts to sweat, even in a cool room. My body has opened channels of detox.
You are old as your liver; All life insurance actuarials formulas place heavy weight on liver enzymes, that’s your physical age–true life expectancy–rather than chronological age. Doing coffee enemas properly, will cleanse the liver and add years to your life. A coffee enema held more than 10 mins, maybe 15 (work up to it), will usually force the liver to discharge, I can actually hear it. then in about 30, it comes out as diarrhea (get used to it). Diarrhea and vomiting are good things, the body off loading what would compromise your health. Get started.
The brain-training has been going on for decades–most of the time its called “marketing”; billions dollar industry–and, we all have been conditioned by it–in the most innocuous form– to buy certain things. Now, these same tools have been weaponized against us to form our values–e.g. LGBT raping the babies is “normal”–to not defend or be alarmed by what must be defended at any cost, the children.
If we are not discussed, angry, and grieving, we have not yet the mark of God–the only thing that can defer the mark of the beast–that devours all things precious.
God judges individuals, nations, and even generations (Jesus said so). In God’s judgement of a generation, there is neither Jew nor Greek, Christian nor pagan, Orthodox nor Catholic. In this regard, we are all in the same boat. On some issues it ok–even a virtue–to be on the same side as the orphan church to make a stand.