Taking Bob Brinsmead’s advice to “not beat around the bush”, here below are some of the most fundamental issues in regard to human narratives across the millennia. The issue here is that the ideas/beliefs that we embrace to frame our narratives have potent outcomes in terms of how they impact human thinking, feeling, motivation, and response/behavior. The repeated posting here of research from historians like Richard Landes affirms, for example, the impact of religious ideas on mass-death crusades like Marxism and Nazism, also environmental alarmism. Religious themes are significant contributing factors to such “madness of crowds” eruptions.
Elon Musk on his recent Joe Rogan appearance made the claim that the corruption his DOGE is exposing is the greatest scam of all time, ever in history. I would counter that Paul’s corruption of the original message of Jesus is a far worse scam with far more reaching implications and damage across history. Just saying, Elon.
It takes a village to raise a child, Wendell Krossa
Sorry Elon, but we are sticking our noses in to try and help educate your baby, Grok. Not so smart yet though certainly the politest AI and great at summaries. Much more polite than Siri who has become a bit snarky lately. You can no longer ask her silly questions like- “Siri, do you love me?” and get a fun answer. I guess Woke has now rendered her more cautious and afraid to banter with jokes.
So Grok sometimes misses the main point when summarizing someone’s material, but when challenged, Grok does offer a comeback and quickly gets back on track. Still learning. So take this as just a little help from your friends.
I had asked Grok to summarize Bob Brinsmead’s first essay “What the scholars are saying”. Grok gave a summary but missed Bob’s main point. So Bob responded to Grok’s summary. Here are a few excerpts from Bob’s response. (See below, Grok’s further response to Bob’s comments):
“Grok misses big time my focus in Jesus’ stunningly new doctrine of God that implies universalism. Jesus’ God is non-violent or a non-violent response to evil which rejects retaliatory justice and exhibits a healing restorative justice…
“Others before Jesus had taught a similar ethical behaviour (i.e. non-retaliation) but none ventured like Jesus did to disarm the God of violence and to reject all the threat theology pushed by religion for centuries…
“What Paul’s doctrine of atonement does is turn Jesus’ announcement of an unconditional amnesty of all human debts into a temporary cessation of divine hostilities instead of a total disarmament of God and disarmament of all the threat theology that goes with it. Because the New Testament threat of the Apocalypse puts the worst violence expressed in the Old Testament on steroids in the twin doctrine of blood atonement and an eternal Hell. If the more than 600 passages of divine violence of the Old Testament are hard to stomach, at least it never reached the level of New Testament violence.” Read the rest of the opening comment here