The Holocrons of Darth Grampus

In the information age, how do we know if what we read or hear is true? What if the most capable of AI models of today reflect prejudices?  Did you ever wonder why we don't remind ourselves that history, for example, is written by the winners? This isn't to disparage the work done by historians, or the efforts made to discern the truth from the tales told by those winners. Still, we often forget that history is written by the winners and take the information provided about history, generally speaking, as fact or close to factual. We don't think often about the biases present in our history. A cursory examination of academic literature proves that biases are present. That's of greater importance now than, perhaps, it has ever been.  Upfront I'll admit that I don't have the data, but I suspect that the overwhelming majority of academic writing and research during the 1960s aligned with progressive political ideology. Additionally, the overwhelming majority of acad...

A conversation I had today reminded me of an adage: people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. Though I can read through my posts, my subjective view isn't solid-enough proof that I've tried to articulate how much I care over so much of what I think I know. So, and in effort to create that proof, I thought I'd write about the reasons I care. Perhaps knowing that is worth much more than knowing how much I (think I) know. My first grand baby came into the world almost a year ago. Such an easy one, right? Of COURSE I care about my grand baby, all his future cousins, and my kids! But intricately woven into the sincerity of my caring for them is care for all of you and yours, too.  Why? Darth Grampus Cares Because... Because your good is potentially their good. If more good comes to more of you, the impact will undoubtedly affect those I love most. I can't claim to have all this hope, or that I care so much for their futures if I don't hav...

**I hate " trigger warnings ," but some of what I discuss in this post could be potentially troubling to you . I want to share a theory I think may shake you up a bit. Readers be warned. (I know... the one or two of you are tough enough... You probably even get a bit more intrigued to read stuff prefaced with such warnings, you wonderful souls, you...)** Sometimes Darth Grampus wishes he could simply enjoy hours and hours of cat videos or some other meaningless, trivial pursuit of mental soma. If you're reading a post about Humanoid Robotics and the Anti-Christ, then perhaps you share a similar affliction to my own. Let's get into it.  Some caveats first: this is a hypothetical and theoretical discussion involving spirituality and technology. For the purposes of this discussion we must take as true that: 1.) Jesus Christ, and the devil, as told of in the Bible are real (2.) that bodies can be inhabited by spiritual entities (3.) The Revelation of the Apocalypse by St....