Friday, June 4, 2021
NEW SF NOVEL STARTED!
A science fiction novel about the Singularity happening much sooner than expected. Just how strange can things get?
Singularity Soon
So far, seven chapters are up, with more to come.
What is religion
Does God exist?
That depends.
Are there exactly as many even numbers as there are odd numbers?
If yes, then no.
The problem of religion:
At first, religion rejects nature as it really is.
There is nothing I would support more.
However, religion is then used to perpetuate the human power structures that support it.
Why aren't there big public celebrations anymore?
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/q3JY4iRzjq56FyjGF/why-haven-t-we-celebrated-any-major-achievements-lately
From watching Miscavige videos, we've learned that Scientology is organized around huge celebratory events, which imply they are a fantastically successful organization. These events are all planned and managed by Sea Org members. In the last days before a Miscavige celebration, the Sea Orgers typically work around the clock.
In society at large, such celebrations have become rare or nonexistent. Like the huge festivities after the polio vaccine was developed, or the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883. Why is that?
I will gladly answer that question. It's because, compared to these earlier events, human progress has almost stopped.
In the extremely unlikely event that the scientists will get around to inventing a vaccine for heart disease, cancer, or degenerative brain diseases, THEN there will be a big public celebration again.
We seem barely closer to that happening than we were when the Brooklyn Bridge was originally opened.
From watching Miscavige videos, we've learned that Scientology is organized around huge celebratory events, which imply they are a fantastically successful organization. These events are all planned and managed by Sea Org members. In the last days before a Miscavige celebration, the Sea Orgers typically work around the clock.
In society at large, such celebrations have become rare or nonexistent. Like the huge festivities after the polio vaccine was developed, or the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883. Why is that?
I will gladly answer that question. It's because, compared to these earlier events, human progress has almost stopped.
In the extremely unlikely event that the scientists will get around to inventing a vaccine for heart disease, cancer, or degenerative brain diseases, THEN there will be a big public celebration again.
We seem barely closer to that happening than we were when the Brooklyn Bridge was originally opened.
Before you're allowed to make movies . . .
Scientology films are made at Golden Era Productions on the high-security Gold Base facility in Hemet, CA; and at the more visible but equally locked-down Scientology Media Productions center in Hollywood, CA. These are both believed to be Sea Org bases.
The extras used in their films are NOT Scientologists, but paid outsider actors. They used to cast their own members in their movies, but their films had to be reshot if even a single cast member left Scientology.
When they advertise for actors, they make it clear it's a "non-union" (SAG-AFTRA) production.
SAG-AFTRA is a cartel that decides who is and isn't allowed to make movies.
With their government and showbiz connections, Scientology is exempt from having to use them, but other businesses are not so lucky.
For example:
https://www.sagindie.org/signatory/
SAG only allows students at "accredited" colleges or universities to make student films.
"Diversity-in-Casting Incentive":
Low budget projects are allowed to increase their production cost from $700k to $950k if they give over 50% of roles and cast work days to "protected groups" (non-whites, women, socially disadvantaged).
Are we living in one of the most boring periods in human history?
We're stuck in a false stability. Basically, all real news has stopped for now. This might be a permanent fade-out, a rising nothingness to oblivion.
9/11 was so devastating because it was an ending not a beginning. People sensed it was the end of news as they knew it, right from the start.
Progress is actually incredibly slow, due to human decisions rather than human limitations (no one or nothing is more evil than the people at Microsoft, but that's another story). All the amazing breakthroughs that were hyped are real, but these things already existed in simpler forms surprisingly long ago, like how deep learning is based on layered perceptrons, and high speed robots aren't necessarily faster than mass production assembly lines a century ago.
Change, however, does not have to be slow. Right now, all efforts are made to prevent change at the top by destabilizing the bottom of society. So far it seems to be working.
Scientology media organs like Freedom magazine pretend to condemn the symptoms of this trend that are permitted to be criticized (opiod addiction, rising crime, rising ethnic/racial/religious activism among whites) to increase donations from those who are least affected. They make sure all their criticism is politically correct and maximally conformist, but their secret purpose is to cause total change.
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