The Law of Unintended Consequences

Who is responsible for them?

“The Law of Unintended Consequences holds that almost all human actions have at least one unintended consequence.”

But many human actions are simply reactions with no conscious intention behind them in the first place, therefore all consequences that follow these reactions could be deemed to having been “unintended.”

Such as: “Duh gee…You startled me, I didn’t intend to shoot you.”

wikipedia.org said this:

Unintended consequences, or situations where the final outcome is unexpected, can be classed into roughly three groups:

* positive, usually referred to as serendipity or a windfall
* a source of problems, according to Murphy’s law
* definitively negative or a perverse effect, which is the opposite result to the one intended

I don’t agree that an “unintended consequence” implies anything positive such as a “windfall’ (or good luck) simply because the word “consequence” implies a negative unwanted result that may be costly. If it were positive, it would have been called an “unintended reward” and if it were neutral, it would have been called an “unintended result.”

I also do not agree that the law of unintended consequences has anything to do with Murphy’s law, or that there is anything even real about “Murphy’s law” which is more of a joke about bad luck than any kind of scientific law. Nor do I believe that the “law of unintended consequences” points to a result that is the opposite result to the one actually intended, although that is one of many possibilities.

When people use the term “the law of unintended consequences” to describe a situation, what they probably mean by it is “collateral damage” or “an accident,” or “bad luck.” It seems to me that they are just making excuses for careless or thoughtless actions. There are always quantum reasons for accidents, collateral damage and bad luck. These results follow wrong thinking and wrong actions of known or unknown origin, which could be from a combination of different human actions where consideration and responsibility for said actions is denied.

A series of automatic reactions to an event or perceived experience can cause havoc and chaos and any number of consequences which might be explained as “the law of unintended consequences” or “collateral damage.” This damage results because there is nothing positive about automatically reacting to something. Any true automatic reaction is negative and devoid of any real willful conscious intent. It is usually simply a person following a pattern of programed responses. They do not stop to even consider the consequences. They simply react according to programing, instinct and patterns.

This negative reaction is not necessarily always undesirable or “wrong.” It is just not thought out. But we can’t always “think out” every automatic reaction, such as swatting a fly or running from an angry bear. Sometimes these automatic reactions can save our life, an sometimes they can get us into worse trouble. My point is, they are automatic programed responses, not conscious intentions.

Also, some people are not honest about their true intentions. They may try to interfere with other people’s personal life or business and declare that their intention was to help, when really their true intention was to control the situation or the person, or some other intention or agenda. If the results of their actions cause chaos or consequences, they might think of it according to “the law of unintended consequences” in order to deflect the blame from themselves.

Consequences are negative results and prices paid for reactions and actions, (intended or not.) “Unintended consequences” are the negative results and prices paid for reactions and actions that were unknown, unexpected or not considered.

You might say that one cannot possibly be aware of all of the ramifications of their act as there are an infinite number of possible consequences. So how can a person avoid being the cause of bad consequences? You cannot really, but you can decrease them. The cause of bad consequences generally come from wrong actions or wrong thinking so the answer to this dilema is to act with divine love and compassion, and to do what is right and what is for the good of all concerned if possible.

If your act is one of kindness, love and compassion, any unintended consequences of that act will be because of the negative reactive situation at work from other angles and not because of your act. Some situations in play are past the point of no return, having too many influences of bad thoughts and bad decisions influencing them and just have to play themselves out to a conclusion. You can either make them worse or better by adding your positive actions or negative reactions. There is no way to know how a single act of kindness will change the situation or a person’s life, and there is no way of knowing how a negative act of cruelty or selfishness will impact the situation.

If you act with love and kindness, then you can rest assured that you have probably improved the situation even if it cannot be known. You are 100% responsible for everything you create, and that includes unintended consequences. So always do the right thing and you will sleep better at night. Chances are you improved the situation by your actions.

The Singularity, A diabolical Alien Plot?

OR “God realization” for scientists or “Nirvana” for nerds?

The Singularity is a predicted future event believed to precede immense technological progress in an unprecedentedly brief time. Futurists give varying predictions as to the extent of this progress, the speed at which it occurs, and the exact cause and nature of the event itself.

The concept, put forth primarily by mathematician Vernor Vinge states the acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century. He argues that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence. Currently the idea is being popularized by Ray Kurzweil. (The Singularity is Near.)

The idea that technology will soon spawn the birth of some form of Artificial General Intelligence which is smarter-than-human includes borg-like technology and projects which seek to combine computers with human brains, currently under the guise of science that is being done for “the good of mankind.”

Not everyone agrees with exactly how the singularity will happen of course.

I’ll go out on a limb here and say that the idea of the singularity is the atheist scientist’s answer to becoming one with the Universe, or one with “God.”(without actually believing in God of course.)

Instead of “God realization” the scientist will perhaps hook himself up to a computer and become one with — well, all known information. I’ll call it being “One with the Universal data base.” (Ken MacLeod describes the Singularity as “the Rapture for nerds” in his 1998 novel The Cassini Division.)

(Well I guess we all have to aspire towards something greater than ourselves, even if we don’t believe in a higher Intelligence like God.)

So the singularity is the idea that technology will create this super intelligence that will be like a God to scientists, who will gleefully hook their brains up to in order to have access to all information in the known physical universe.

From China, here’s one of the mad scientists at work below:

“Robotic scientists in China have succeeded in ‘controlling’ live mice.
Experts at the robot research centre in Shandong Technology University controlled white mice by stimulating micro-electrodes on their heads. The mice obeyed computer-generated commands to, in succession, “turn left”, “turn right” and “move forward”.

Project manager Su Xuecheng said animal robot research is the merger of electronic communication and biology, creating a new scientific discipline. Scientists believe it will eventually lead to new ways of curing disabilities as electronic signals are used to replace damaged nerves.”

 

 

Now while there may be some scientists who actually believe these projects will benefit mankind, and indeed some may, I suspect the worst. Something on the order of the movie “Terminator” or “I, Robot” comes to mind, but it is worse than that.

If you will note in the above paragraphs, the mouse was “controlled” by stimulating micro-electrodes in the head. Now I imagine that if the mouse obeyed his commands, he was given a reward. Food probably. I also imagine if he did not obey, then he did not get his reward or may have even been given a shock of some kind for his disobedience.

Can you see where I am going with this? If you don’t I will spell it out for you.

What:

Someone obviously wants to create a race of obedient slaves who have both the qualities of a human and a computer.

Who:

Who would want to do such a horrible thing? Humans? (If so, they would have to be very diabolical humans, and I don’t think humans are that evil.) So who then?

I suspect that this technology, once developed, will be placed into the hands of a cold blooded reptilian-type race of beings who will try to use it to enslave mankind. I could be wrong now, but I don’t think so.

Why?

Scientists involved in this type of technology, just like the scientists who helped create weapons of mass destruction and biological war fair, probably think they are doing something “for the good of mankind.” Or else they are just greedy and doing it for money.

But governments have proven to be a little on the evil side, and there are some people in this world who play the game of war for profit. Are there really human beings in this world who are that diabolical or are we keeping company with an advanced race of non-human, cold-blooded aliens who are plotting to take over the world? I don’t know the answer to this, I can’t prove it, but I ask you to pay attention. Something is happening right under our noses, very slowly, very silently. There is a predator living among us.

Does this sound a little like science fiction to you? Well perhaps it is. And perhaps I just don’t want to believe that any human would be that diabolical. Humans are spiritual beings.

Will they succeed?

In the end, they will fail. They will do their worst but they will fail in the end. The reason I believe this is not because I think some God is going return to earth to save us. They will fail because they lack imagination, feeling and compassion. All they have is technology, which to us ignorant human beings seems like intelligence or even magic. They are not advanced spiritual beings. They are not Gods. They will fail in the end with their technology. Technology is only useful in the physical third density reality. (Yes, there are other dimensional realities where the power of thought and feeling is all that is required.)

The technological singularity will not happen. Aliens will fail to enslave mankind with their technology. Scientists will not reach (or create) their god of artificial general intelligence. The reason they will fail?

They are all still trapped inside a very small box.

This is not to say that things are not going to get a lot weirder in the next 25 years. Maybe a lot sooner than that. In fact, I predict within 6-8 years you are going to think you stepped into the twilight zone.

 

Equinox Sept 23, 2006

A Pagan celebration in a Bible belt town

Fall is here and the Equinox brings a celebration festival in our town. We had some tables set up at the courthouse lawn and an art show inside the courthouse. It was a blustery day. The outlaw Black Jack Ketchum and two of his partners tried to rob a bank but they were both closed. They were mad about that so they shot the mayor. Later we enjoyed Elvis singing. The best part was the home made cheese onion bread and other home made goodies for sale.

I didn’t enter any paintings in the art show this year. Everyone asked me why, and I told them “Oh give someone else a chance to win.” LOL

A word about the Singularity

Is Resistence really Futile?

In a nutshell, the Singularity is the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligence. There are several different technologies that are mentioned as heading in this direction, the most common being artificial intelligence, but there are others. (This information taken from http://www.singinst.org/what-singularity.html)

Other technologies headed in this direction are:

1. Direct-brain-computer interfaces,
(The borg came to mind here:)

The website wrote: ( “…before you shout “Borg!”, consider that the Borg are a pure fabrication of Hollywood scriptwriters. We have no reason to believe that telepaths are necessarily bad people. A telepathic society could easily be a nicer place to live than this one.) Or if the thought of clustered humans gives you the willies, consider the whole discussion as being about Artificial Intelligence.”)

Telepaths? Excuse me? We are talking about hooking human brains to computers. I don’t know if they know anything about telepaths, but I have a hunch that isn’t it! I don’t consider connecting human brains to a giant super computer, or to each other, to be “artificial intelligence;” nor would I consider a group of “clustered” humans (connected to each other by a computer) to be “telepaths” or even a “telepathic society” as they compared it to.

I would have to ask them where would they draw the line between individual thoughts and programed thinking coming in through the collective mind. Apparently the story of the “borg” is more than just fiction after all. It just hasn’t evolved to that point yet. Do we really want to go there? I don’t! They sound like draconian aliens trying to figure a way to engineer humans into the hive thinking of the Zeta alien clones who are said to be doing all the abductions of humans. No thanks guys, we humans like to think as individuals, not as a collective.

2. Biological augmentation of the brain,
(Huh? Frankenstein comes to mind:) But I believe the term biological augmentation means injections of various types of micro organizms or bacteria meant to improve intelligence. Or maybe it is talking about implants of some kind. Probably so, since it is probably aliens who are doing these experiments on humans. I’m just guessing here, but it all sounds real creepy. Oh they can sure bore you with all their so-called scientific mumbo jumbo bla bla bla. If you can keep your eyes open long enough to read that, you will see that they don’t know what the heck they are doing, and they just want you to send them money.

3. Genetic engineering,
(Human and animal genetic hybreds come to mind, but you can let your imagination run on this.) I dreamed about this once. A nightmare would be more like it. I was on an elevator and it opened at level 13. I saw cages wherein there were all manner of strange creatures, part human. It scared the ba-jeesus out of me and I got out of there fast. Hey it was just a dream, but a very vivid one.

4.ultra high-resolution scans of the brain followed by computer emulation.
(Artificial people come to mind or androids, Here is a picture of an ultra high resolution monkey brain)

I did not read anything about any kind of speculation as to the existence of a soul, or spirit on the entire website.

Why would humans want to create an intelligence smarter than them or a computer that can rewrite its programing? Are they serious?

A computer program has no real creative faculty. It cannot think, it can only process information. That is probably why they want to mix human with computer, because they instinctively know this although they would not admit it.

Its no wonder they are wanting to improve human intelligence, they must realize how stupid they are. I suppose they think I am stupid for believing that there is more to life than the brain and intelligence. They must be aliens because humans have more spiritual awarness than that. Yes, that must be it, they are aliens together with a few stupid humans.

Humor On Marriage

Choices:

You have two choices in life: You can stay single and be miserable,or get married and wish you were dead.

A lady inserted an ad in the classifieds: “Husband Wanted”. Next day she received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: “You can have mine.”

On Infidellity:

The woman did not seem upset that her husband was fooling around. When asked about that, she said, I’m hoping that one of them will take him off my hands for good.”

When a woman steals your husband, there is no better revenge than to let her keep him.

Marriage:

A little boy asked his father, “Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?” Father replied, “I don’t know son, I’m still paying.”

A woman is incomplete until she is married. Then she is finished

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

A young son asked, “Is it true Dad, that in some parts of Africa a man doesn’t know his wife until he marries her?” Dad replied, “That happens in every country, son.”

Then there was a woman who said, “I never knew what real happiness was until I got married, and by then, it was too late.”

If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say — talk in your sleep.

On finding fault with your spouse:

Just think, if it weren’t for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.

If a woman wants to improve herself all she has to do is get divorced. Suddenly she realizes that she has no more faults.

Perceptions:

First guy says, “My wife’s an angel!” Second guy remarks, “You’re lucky, mine’s still alive.”

” A Woman’s Prayer: Dear Lord, I pray for: Wisdom, To understand a man , to Love and to forgive him , and for patience, For his moods. Because Lord, if I pray for Strength I’ll just beat him to death “

Do Aliens exist?

Has the invasion begun or is it too late?

That depends on what you mean by the term “alien.”

There are different kinds of “aliens.” There are illegal aliens, (that usually means Mexicans or anyone from South America who has crossed the border into America.) We know they exist, they work in our fields and factories.

There are “extraterrestrials,” or what some say are beings from some other planet that arrived here by spaceship, or some people believe that these aliens actually come from another dimension or alternate reality , not from another planet. We don’t know, because the government won’t tell us. There are people who still doubt that they exist, but more and more people insist that they do. Some say that they have been here since the dawn of mankind. If so, then perhaps we shouldn’t call them “aliens.” Perhaps they have been here all along, maybe even before humans. But I have my own name for them. Non-human intellignet life forms.

For some people the argument is still, “do extraterrestrial aliens exist?” But that argument stays in the company of people who really do not want to know. They just simply say “No of course not.” But there are a lot of educated people who say that they do exist, and many who know they do exist, and there are a few who even talk about it openly. For them, the question of whether or not aliens exist is ridiculous. Of course they do. Their entire lives and occupations involve aliens, UFO’s abductees etc.

Forget the question of whether UFO’S and Aliens are here among us. The big argument going on in the UFO/alien community is whether they are benign or malevolent. Or simply: Are the aliens trying to uplift mankind or are they out to take control of the world so that they can make slaves of us and eat us in public without fear of an uprising of human resistance. The battle of the UFO researchers is an on going one.

But do they truly exist? I can only give you my opinion on that. Yes, I think they certainly do. Can I prove it? No I can’t. How certain am I? 85% certain. These creatures called the “greys” (Zeta) are said to be more like created clones who are connected in some kind of hive mentality. I don’t know if that is true or not. Some say that their creators are the Dracos, an intelligent reptilian race, highly advance in technology. They have the ability to cross over into our reality which is a different vibration from theirs. I think there is enough evidence to support this idea, and quantum physics also supports these possibilities.

I don’t think they are friendly, but that there are some non-human intelligent life forms that are friendly. I don’t think humans are at the top of the food chain either. An interesting book to check out is: “Hunt for the Skin Walker.” by Colm A. Kelleher PH.D. and George Knapp.

How to spot a liberal or conservative

Left, Right, and Other States of Insanity

I am not quite sure what the meaning of “Conservative” and or “Liberal” is or what it means to different people. I am quite sure it is not so cut and dried as one might think. But below are my over all impressions of what people think they are.

If I had to describe myself, with either one of these labels… I would have to say I was a liberal, although I don’t fit my own sterio-type description below, but that is just in fun anyway.Yet I am sure that part of me is conservative. I don’t know what part that is, but I am sure there is something conservative about me… oh yeh, I don’t get welfare checks or food stamps. Too damn much paperwork involved. I don’t know if that is conservative or just lazy, which might be considered liberal. Its so confusing.

Falwell:

Conservatives:

Your average run-of-the-mill idea of conservatives tend to be thought of as white, republican, Christian, and usually Protestant.

*they are hunters, warriors,and industry leaders,

*They send their sons to war,

*they believe what their president tells them,

*they are anti-abortion, (anti-choice,)

*they are for the death penalty

*they preach “family values” and “patriotism.”

*they would like to plant the ten commandments on the courthouse lawn

*they want to pray to Jesus in public school auditoriums, anyone who doesn’t like it can leave.

*they believe what they hear on CNN, and other network major media.

*they are anti-change

*they claim to want less government (anti-change, no new laws, etc.)

*they want to form a militia

*they have flags on their lawns and yellow ribbons on their cars with the Christian fish symbol.

*they take too many perscription drugs.

Liberals:

Your average run-of-mill idea of liberals tend to be thought of as poor white, and minorities, mostly catholic, Democrat, atheists or godless pagans.

*They are ex-hippies, draft dodgers, trailer trash

*they don’t trust their president

*they are pro-choice, pro-abortion, free love types

*they are against the death penalty

*they are “atheists” who don’t want the ten commandments on the court house lawn.

*they don’t care one way or another about prayer in schools or they are against it.

*they don’t watch the news

*they want to change the world but don’t know how exactly

*they want to make new laws

*they are probably on welfare or food stamps

*they want to form a commune

*they have flamingos or other tacky things on their lawn and sport all mannor of bumper stickers.

*they live in trailers and drive big cars.

*They smoke pot.

Of course these are generalizations …. LOL

The Worst Television Show in the Universe

I know what hell would be like.

I would be tied up in a room and forced to watch

Little House on the Prairie re-runs for eternity.

The show sucks.

 

The Show:

You are drawn into their petty little family dramas with a story that always has a moral at the end. The family pretends to have problems but always comes through them with a lesson to be learned about the perfect family and their loving father.

It bares no resemblance to the average disfunctional family drama. Its not funny, or scary, or entertaining. It is annoying, sort of like stale tasting bubble gum that only serves to keep you chewing and blowing bubbles. The show attempts to serve as an example to us what a perfect family should be like, and what yours is not like. I can’t stand to watch that “goody two shoes” garbage. I can’t believe it did not get canceled after the first week. That is really scary. That means there are people out there that actually love and watch that show. How horrifying!! (My mother loves it, but then my mother is a saint.)

The next in line, coming in as the

second worst show in the Universe
is the horror show “Touched by an Angel.”

(Aliens posing as angels sent by God.)

The Show:

It’s message is basically “God loves you, (..so straiten up your disfunctional life, you stupid fuck, and stop feeling sorry for yourself.”) The part I hate the most is where the “angel” reveals that she is an angel as she glows around the edges.

If someone told me they were an angel and started glowing I would call the NORAD and tell them to come pick up their lost glowing alien creature. (Not that I don’t believe in angels, I just think most of them are “evil” aliens, and that there is a very good possibility that they are probably not human and never have been.

Why Blog anyway? Nobody reads this stuff.

Why Blog?
Does anybody really read this stuff?

The question I have is why blog? Or perhaps I should be asking why do I do it? Why not just type my shit into the computer and store it in some hidden file that may never be seen again. If I do that, then what is the point? To read it when I am old and have forgotten half of my life? Would that be a way to relive my life again? But who would want to do that? There may be some things you just want to forget.

I will be as honest as possible about this. I guess I just want to connect with other people out there all over the world. In this wonderful age of technology, the Internet is awesome for finding information and now, with blogging we can communicate with the entire world. If we do that, one day we might discover that we like each other and have things in common after all.

One day we might discover that we don’t need to kill each other in war, and that we don’t need governments and military to keep us apart. We can exchange goods and ideas in peace and friendship. What a lofty idea. But is that too much to imagine or hope for? Is that piling it on too thick? Perhaps.

Okay then, if you don’t buy that, maybe I will say that I just want to meet someone and get laid. LOL __ Hey wait, That can’t be true. Well…. I won’t rule out that possibility. But I jest. Truth is, I just like to express myself and bounce it off other people of the same or different opinions. It’s a creative endeavor I suppose. Yes, I am an opinionated out spoken woman and that intimidates a lot of men. That is good. Any man who is intimidated by that is not man enough or smart enough to be my friend anyway. (I say “be my friend” because I am anti-”going-together” and anti-marriage.) The big problem with “going together” is you can’t really divorce him, or give him his ring back because he never gave you one. The problem with marriage is you have to pay or hire a lawyer and that can get messy… but the upside is when that is all over, you know that its really over, or least you should.

I doth rant too much I think.

But I do like intelligent men who dance. I have no delusions however, that I will ever meet one in the flesh. I live in a baron wasteland populated by pop-gutted wheat and pig farmers. Blogging keeps me sane. That’s why I do it.

Of course whether or not I am sane is debatable. I think I am. It’s everyone else that is nuts.

Humor

About Humor and Fear:

If you don’t have a sense of humor you probably aren’t happy because you probably don’t know how to laugh at yourself and you probably think Marriage and the pledge of allegiance and other things are “sacred.’

Nothng is “sacred.” Things may be important to you, but once you start calling it “sacred” then you start getting too damn serious and you will loose your sense of humor and your inner joy, because there will always be someone who will come along and tramp all over your sacred thing, offending and depressing you deeply.

If you don’t have a sense of humor you probably worry too much.

If you worry too much you are probably in poor health, being all stressed out. Stress kills more people than germs. Stress causes wars. Stress feeds cancer and parasites. Stress is fear. They say that the creatures of the dark feed on your fear. I know that body parasites do, so why not creatures of the underworld?

It is no wonder that laughter is the best medicine. So don’t take life so seriously, get rid of stress and guilt. Cults and people who depend upon fear based ideas, who controll their flock through fear, hate this idea. I even heard a preacher ranting about a tee-shirt that kids were wearing that proclaimed “NO FEAR.” This idea really irked him. But if people could eliminate fear based decisions from their lives, Lawyers, Preachers, Insurance Companies, Doctors, and governments would be shit out of luck in exerting power over others.

This is the earth game, its not permanent. Soon we will all move on to another reality or else we will all be dead so it doesn’t matter. What matters is now. Drop fear, the killer. Drop stress and worry and guilt. How? Kindle your sense of humor. Step back and look at life differently. If you think about it, it is really funny.

Faith will eliminate Fear. Humor heals.