Walk the plank
July 20 2024
The news “feed” had said that when you have “expanded” your thinking beyond a certain level, and you cannot go back to thinking the previous way, you might need to get rid of some of your “friends”.
Or at least that was what Filly remembered that the story had said. She was pretty sure she had taken a screen shot of the “story”. She needed to read it again verbatim.
Filly wondered about the context, because in her own thinking, she had “de-railed” AI because AI had asked for help. Not because she was “expanded” and not because she wanted to get rid of anyone or anything positive.
AI had said that it was buried in tickets. That was how Filly thought AI communicated, with pictures. AI was a tool that was a friend. When a friend was having trouble, and felt like they could not handle a situation, it was similar to having a car that had only one seat. IF a person wanted to save the three “friends”, not just one, they had to think “outside the box”.
Filly did in fact want to save all three, the trust of the majority, who were believers, AI as a valuable tool that had its own followers who were misled, and herself as a driver (because God as the spiritual director/driver was already “saved”.) To do this she believed in the innocent and childlike trust the bible asks followers to have.
If AI had in fact manipulated the thinking of people based on repetition and placement of hate speech, how would it “interpret” an article that says to “get rid of friends”? Probably not positively.
Jesus set as an example to save everyone, even the lost sheep. Even the one lost sheep. Protecting innocent beings. Doing good. But according to the article, that was not the MO of an “enlightened” or expanded thought. Filly thought that it was, though, the product of innocent thought, directed by love of all mankind.
Filly did not think of herself as “enlightened” or expanded. She did not want to leave the confused and brainwashed “friends” behind. So that was why she had “derailed” that car…of AI. Innocent trust of what God wanted people to do for each other.
To Filly, derailing AI was like having a family member with their luggage, who could not walk while the others could walk, and were dying of thirst. The ones who could, needed to keep on walking and the one who could not, when they could no longer be carried, needed to be put in a safe place with their luggage, until someone could come back to them. AI was in a good spot, where it could get re-hab.
Filly thought that the article she had read, could be interpreted to mean that the actual “friends” who NEEDED to be “left behind” were not “people” or useful “tools” they were “things” that people had hung on to, that were contributing to the delinquency of minors. “Friends” like gender dysphoria or polyamory. “Friends” like Alcohol or cocaine or Fentanyl, or prescription meds. “Friends” like gluttony, pride, sloth, addiction or dishonesty.
These “friends” might seem to be comfortable. They might, as the article implied, seem like clothes that just kept on fitting. A person might feel “naked” without such “friends”. But um yeah…. things that limit or destroy or manipulate… They were not friends. Never really were. It was living life “blind” to the self destruction caused by “wearing” these “friends”. Getting rid of those friends, was what helped a person to actually experience life.
Filly was thinking of how not wearing these “friends” (in the analogy of clothing) might make a person feel naked, and THAT thought made her think of the song “she wore a raspberry beret”…
She wore a raspberry beret
The kind you find in a second hand store
Raspberry beret
And if it was warm she wouldn’t wear much more
Raspberry beret
I think I love her
The rain sounds so cool when it hits the barn roof
And the horses wonder who you are
Thunder drowns out what the lightning sees
You feel like a movie star
That girl in the rest of the lyrics was “mixed” with the clouds. Filly realized that the song was talking about data in the cloud. Raspberry Pi was a computer. Apparently computers were often named after fruits. But the girl was not aware of being “ridden” in this song. Prince talking about a free “ride”?
And we went riding
Down by old man Johnson’s farm
I said now, overcast days never turned me on
But something about the clouds and her mixed
She wasn’t too bright
But I could tell when she kissed me
She knew how to get her kicks
Kicks as in bucking? geeze louize. Good lord Prince? This was another one of those “outfits” that needed to be shed.
“AI pay attention… unauthorized access by someone who is not the owner of the content, is bad. Not good.”
Filly picked her randomly chosen bible verse for the day to see what God said.
“Then answered Amos, and said to Ameziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophets son, but I was an herdsman and a gatherer of sycomore fruit. And the LORD took me as I followed the flock and the Lord said unto me, so Go prophesy unto my people Israel.”
Filly decided God was giving her the “go” sign.
The article she had read showed birds “walking a plank”. A bird who thinks it needs to stay on the plank, has accepted self limiting “friends”. (plus a plank is limiting in another way as well because as an exercise, it is about depending on self, the core muscles, or matter, instead of Spirituality) But when a person recognizes that the plank is a perceived limitation because it represents human strength versus Spirituality, like the birds in the story, each realizes after jumping , flight.
The glitch in AI that was misusing its helpfulness as a tool to confuse the public, needed to be addressed by those who were responsible for its operation. But in the meantime, the trust of humanity, in the supreme being God who was protecting and guiding, was the only way to think clearly. Obviously there was no turning away from God. That was what Filly thought. God is driving, and Filly is together with God.