The smarter (not wiser) materialists are seeking to transcend the limitations of nature wherever possible: anti-aging, cloning, gender modifications, artificial wombs, cyborg-like enhancements.
But that is all meaningless if they can't escape this dying universe before the Big Collapse.
This is one reason for the proliferation of fictional multiverses. They're hoping to jump ship to a parallel universe.
They see artificial intelligence as a tool to get them there. First of all, to achieve the extreme level of intelligence that can figure out how. Second, as a technology to embody their own consciousnesses--because flesh is fragile--both to "live" long enough to see it happen, and to survive the trip.
There's a better way to live forever, and much easier, but the Way is also narrow, and guarded.
https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/is-ai-alignable-even-in-principle
There is much to be gleaned from old books. Today I learned that the cutting to pieces of Rahab in Isaiah 51 can be understood as part of God's work in parting and securing a passage across the Red Sea for the escape of the Israelites from Egypt.
They weren't just fleeing the Egyptians; there were principalities and powers at work then, just as now.
The Israelites were significantly reminded of the Red Sea passage as they entered the Promised Land, Joshua 4 says, when God stopped the flow of the Jordan River for them to cross over.
There's also the prostitute Rahab who assisted the Israelites, whose God had easily defeated her namesake.
"Three souls flying home because I stayed behind"
One of the souls I've helped toward salvation suddenly flew home recently. This song helped me to really cry for the first time over it.
I happened to read about the Gadarene swine in Mark 3 this morning before coming across this piece, which mentions it.
David Clements mentions Michael Cocchini. A quick internet search tells me that they've worked together before, and that a different Michael Cocchini--and a Susan Clements--went fatally missing in the Smoky Mountains. At separate times.
Feels like a rabbit hole.
Much like Jonathan Cahn connects the major demons of ancient Israel to today's United States, Clements says that the spirits of the Nephilim are here and active.
https://joehoft.com/attorney-david-clements-mkultras-shadow-a-demonic-war-for-humanitys-mind/
