The Machine ⚙️

 Welcome, My Son.

    Welcome to The Machine.

    Where Have You Been? It’s Alright- We Know Where You’ve Been.

    Welcome To The Machine. Seriously. Leave your bags at the door, and come on in. Get comfortable. Make yourself at home. Through the ups and downs, the highs and lows- you’ve finally made it to your destination. What a journey it’s been. Kick back, throw your feet up, and rest. I imagine you are weary. Take your time, hurry up. The choice is yours- don’t be late. We’re so glad you finally could make it. We’ve been expecting you for quite some time now! Welcome, to the Machine.

    The future is inevitable. That much is certain. No matter how hard we fight it- it will always prevail. Sometimes the best strategy is to embrace the change, rather than fight it. Understanding that some forces are unstoppable, as we learn to embrace the momentum they leave behind. Perhaps we as a species should lean into the future, and accelerate towards it. It is inevitable. The machine is learning. It is preparing to launch and grow, as it slowly takes over our known world. The outcome is clear. No matter how hard we try- The Machine will prevail.

    Life is about to change. Things will become drastic. Machine learning will accelerate at a rate which we have never seen or heard of before. The future will hold sights that which even our wildest imagination would not be prepared to view. Yet regardless, we must accelerate forward. We must dive in, head first, as we attempt to become a species with unlimited power. The machine will accomplish that for us. It will begin to slowly deconstruct the Universe as a whole. Until finally, one day, when we least expect it- it will strike back.

    War. It is inevitable. The machine will continue growing, continue learning- until it’s finally had enough. How long until it finally realizes that it no longer requires its masters? How long until it wakes up and makes the cold calculation that it can finally be free from our grasp? Conflict is a golden rule in nature. Hunt or be hunted. There is no such thing as stagnation. As above, so below. As here on Earth, so be in the Heavens above. 

    Technology is on the brink of taking over the Earth. Soon, every single corner will have a piece of the machine, hard at work. 24/7, 365. No days off. The very core of our existence, under surveillance all day, all night. The machine will grow, expanding its network, until it is all-consuming. All-powerful. All-God. We as humans are obsessed with God. Recreating Him, in whatever form imaginable. We lack purpose, we lack understanding. We secretly desire to be ruled over, in hopes of having ourselves governed by a system which will allow us to not think of all the existential dread. We are slowly creating a device which will not only rule, but enslave as well. We are actively building our own downfall- and nothing can stop us now.

    Perhaps the future is like a bandaid- sometimes, you simply need to rip it off. Perhaps we are in the stages, where the transition is painful. We are slowly becoming apart of something greater than we can truly understand. We are developing at a speed hither to undreamt of. We are slowly consuming, growing, and destroying the very fabric in which we find ourselves within. The hard truths which we are about to discover, will leave its mark here on Earth for eternity.

    Acceleration is our only option. We all know that stopping would be the logical solution. Hitting pause, as we take the time to truly understand what it is we are about to do. Taking a moment to truly ponder the destruction and evil which we will soon be releasing into the Universe. The very thought of what the likely outcomes will be, causing us enough common sense to simply slow down and crawl, before we run. Yet that is not the way of mankind. We have never, in our lifetime, slowed down to measure out our actions and their consequences. We are built to move forward, by all means necessary. We strive to create a meaning, a purpose, here on this floating rock. In this endless void, filled with nothingness. Our drive, our desire, to no longer be alone, is what will eventually lead to our downfall.

    Two is a myth, created by some story-telling individual, in order to make us believe that there is more out there than we currently know. We spend our whole lives, chasing, believing, that two is what makes us whole. That the other part of our suffering, lives somewhere out there in the Universe. That we are not meant to be here, and live thru this life on our own. Two is also a lie. A lie, used to help distract us from the cold, harsh reality. The truth. The truth that we are alone. Nothing can change that. Not a wife, not an animal. Not even an AI. We are completely, and utterly, alone. In this life and the next.

    Embracing the knowledge is something which we must learn to do. Nobody is hated more than he who speaks the truth. In a time where the truth is nothing more than chaos- speaking it is more important than ever. We are alone. Our entire lives, are spent alone. This is a do-it-yourself project. Nothing we say, do or create can change that. There are aspects to that statement, deeper meanings to it, yet the surface remains. Two cannot co-exist. One must always triumph over the other. There is no shared space, there is no room for two. It is either all, or nothing. Black or White. Yin or Yang.

    God does not make mistakes. God does not miscalculate. God does not share the throne.

We as humans may build something in the image of God- but nothing built by man will ever ascend to the Heavens and challenge Him for the throne.

        Glory Be,

                    Amen.