The C.H.U.D. initiation with my son went quite well. Apple/Tree

Do you have a belief in a theory or technology? No matter what particular silo you are in, we are **all** susceptible to #RobertAntonWilson 's idea of the Thinker and the Prover. Constantly check yourself (it is easy to check others, of course, because of your own prover.)
https://steemit.com/blog/@kevinrussell/what-the-thinker-thinks-the-prover-proves-robert-anton-wilson-aka-old-bob

I switch accounts and delete many posts. I have reasons. I'm not saying they are rational. Anyhoo... I have a complete log of all entries since May here: https://sysadmintools.com/#log . My journal (ORNG) has most of the rest going back to my first electronic entry in 1990 (written with WordPerfect on an IBM 5150).

Purge.ai, reject.ai, and no.ai are registered. Givethebirdto.ai is available, though. For the record, like with most things, the problem isn't the tech, the problem is the way The Matrix, our culture, implements the tech. Ugh... so much promise, so much beauty in the world, but our base algo sucks.

Most have heard of #BillJoy 's GNR grey goo. I was reading a puff piece on duckweed, and imagining how some well-meaning lab engineered a duckweed/ivy hybrid that covered the entire globe in a year, solving our carbon problems, but creating a few others.
https://medium.com/@andrewhessel/revisiting-bill-joys-why-the-future-doesn-t-need-us-in-2025-f80dbc023783

Although we may not think that we do, we all live with faiths – ideas that we take for granted that appear so obvious that we do not feel a need to re-examine them – ideas that we do not usually want to re-examine. At points in life we make up our minds about things that we decide that we believe in and these beliefs have consequences perhaps for what we do, for who becomes our friends and colleagues, for how we earn a living or perhaps even for how we die. These faiths may be, but are not necessarily, about the ideas espoused by religions. They may be political ideas, about science, or they may be ideas about economics. If we stop for a minute to think what the consequences would be of abandoning our faiths, we typically find the prospect unappealing. For one thing, if and when we were to abandon our faiths, we would have to unlearn and rethink a lot of what we thought that we knew and know. The people with whom we have relationships based on similar beliefs may be dismayed, horrified and then perhaps hostile or sarcastic. Worse still, because our faith’s structure – not just beliefs but our purposes; the things that we do; the direction of our lives; the structure of our days and weeks the loss of our faiths could leave us with the frightening prospect of being without a life altogether – losing relationships, purposes and day to day structure. Loss of faith in some circumstances would mean being alive in the sense of still being able to breath, still being able to eat – and yet all the important relationships and activities that we had would evaporate. Unless we could in some way step from one belief system into another, at the same time step into another pattern of meaningful and purposeful relationships, perhaps also into another way of earning a living, we would find ourselves living in an empty life, in a limbo.

~Brian Davey, from Credo Economic: beliefs in a world in crisis

One of my favorite cult movies is C.H.U.D.. When my son was a kid he could hear the adventure when I watched it, and wanted to watch too, but his mom prevented it, and I reluctantly agreed. We told him he could when he was twelve. Years passed, he is 22, and, today is his C.H.U.D. initiation day.