We Talked About It

We talked about it right here.

It was a while back.

I said that when Erdogan 'de-instituted' the Temple of Sophia as an international museum, he was calling disaster upon himself and the people of Turkey.

The temple is not either a mosque or a Christian cathedral. In fact there are two separate whole structures and the actual temple was never a mosque at all - ever. There is a mosque right next door, known as the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (or, the 'Blue Mosque').

The disaster was certain.

It takes me ages to trawl the internet
to find some decently color-matched
pics, you know! This claims
to be an Australian-made 
'black grape' gin. Huh.

Why did it take some time to happen?

Because if the gods were known as given to impulsive actions on the slightest provocation, then they would not deserve the reputation of being actual gods in the first place.

But you can take an impressive and highly functional understanding from these events...

Look how long it took for retribution to be visited.

A positive beneficial action takes a lot less long. Still, there is much consideration given to all the attendant consequences, even of those seemingly purely positive things.

The temple (temenos) of Sophia is the personal property of one particular divinity.

Never previously, not from the times of the Romans, not during the time of Constantine, nor Justinian, nor even during the rule of Sultan Ahmed himself - although he came perilously close - did the due rites appropriate to the god whose property this place is, fail to be given.

Until now.

So this spells not just the end of Erdogan and of Turkey itself, but of the whole world.

Oh yes.

This is pashmina with some
shahtoosh in it.

But you will survive - if you but learn the lesson that is there to be seen: ask for the benevolence of the divinity, seek the proper way to address them, and then wait, but you will not have to wait very long. Whether in the meantime you lose patience or are disconsolate never mind. For what you seek will be given to you. And in less time than it took for the spear that fearfully clatters to the floor in the Palace to be picked up once again and cast to its target.

Do the gods care about the deaths of humans? No they do not.

And they can slaughter millions - even more.

If they wish.

Isaac Asimov got things broadly correct when he wrote a trilogy on the proposition that great 'Galactic Empires' have a momentum whose trajectory goes on for a long time and eventually will stop - and he writes a story about a man who develops a theory of 'psychohistory,' a new and effective mathematics of sociology. This individual, tells the rulers of the day that all Galactic Empires (of which theirs was one) would persist through endless troubles and suffering for thirty thousand years before eventually expiring from having exhausted their innate strength and positive psychological energies.

But if they back him, he intends to put together a 'compendium of all human knowledge' and in theory at least, to also collect the most intelligent minds.

Now you can see that there are at least some similarities in this, with the gathering together of seventy leading scribes during the time of Ptolemy II.

Today's world is exhausted morally and intellectually. We are being endlessly subjected to the appallingly dis-intellectual themes and slogans of Bill Gates and surreptitiously behind the scenes, also of Soros and that clique.

Asimov's protagonist (although in fact there are two in the trilogy, and one of them is some kind of humanoid 'machine' with extremely superior intelligence, but who is literally written in as 'taken to be an authentic human') is backed to an extent but has to go to some remote place and be exiled there because he is deemed to be dangerous to the rulers.

Actually, I don't think people understand that this 'automaton/humanoid' helper in the story is in fact that (a robot) and is the result of the third story's proposition to meld some superior artificial compendium intelligence thing, with the mind of an advanced human child - and has gone back in time somehow to meet up with the main protagonist to procure all of the necessary events.

The rulers of the time decide to back the man's vision, but to send him and all those in his 'experiment' far away to exile on some remote planet.

Most critics that I have read simply say the third book in the trilogy has an 'open question' ending... It does not; otherwise it would not have been a 'trilogy' at all from the get-go.

Our human life, its reality -, is a combination of a complete mathematical process, a seemingly cold, emotionless objective template throughout the whole Universe, for kinetics of material things, all matter and material things, plus us ourselves and our emotions and ego-consciousness.

Asimov is getting the point. He just doesn't say where 'Dors Venabli' is or where or what he/she/it is in our real lives.

But that's just his own ego getting the better of him by thinking he is 'Hari Seldon' the savior of Mankind, and even, giving Seldon that role in the story in the first place. In reality it is all of the 'Hari's' that are saved; not them that do the saving!

And yes, it also implies that then they are exiled to remote places. 

Give this song a chance - it'll get to you. ...If you have the mind. ; )  Oh, we're here all right. Don't you worry 'bout that.

Boys and girls, who have read all of those texts we linked to here over the last few years. Who is 'Sara the AI robot?' LOLOLOL

Well, would you - I mean you personally - rather know Bills Gates (hey, he has lots of money, right?), or would you rather know real Satoshi Nakamoto?

Who is 'SN' BTW?

Do you know?