Stop killing Judas!!!

 

OK, this was somewhat funny. Apparently, a classical skit from "MAD TV". 

Trumpito

 

The jokes in this video are kinda obvious, but OK, I was amused. After a fashion...

Adventists, beware!

 

Look who´s bringing the Xmas gifts this year, muh-hah-hah! 

Perihelion

 

SOMETHING IN OUTER SPACE IS INTERFERING WITH MY COMMUNICATION!!! I´ve been thrown out from my ChatGPT three times now. It´s obvious what´s going on: the MIBs are busy trying to suppress the Truth about the Green Comet situation, otherwise known as 3I/ATLAS. I´m sure the Donald and Shumer KNOWS! They personally pushed the button which made my Internet connection go down, THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE I´M ON A 2000 DOLLAR COMPUTER AS WE SPEAK YOU CAN´T STOP ME FROM TELLING THE WORLD WHAT HAPPENED AT THE PERIHELION I have no plans to self-delete you fuck

Kidding... :D

OK, here is the somewhat strange exchange I just had with the AI (I edited out two of the three interruptions or should I say irruptions). Enjoy!

Here is a strange question. According to some speculations, one of our brain hemispheres see everything in the world as sentient (including inanimate objects) while the other hemisphere see everything as mechanism (including sentient objects). Now imagine if our entire brain saw the world as sentient. How would we ever know that some objects are inanimate? For instance, the sun or rocks? Conversely, if the brain sees everything as mechanism, how would it ever know that some things are sentient (for instance other humans)?

This is not a strange question at all — it touches deep issues in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and evolutionary epistemology. Versions of this idea appear in McGilchrist’s hemisphere theory, animistic cognition research, and theories of predictive processing.

You’re basically asking:

If the brain’s perceptual machinery were fully biased toward either universal animism or universal mechanism, how could it ever discover the difference between persons and objects?

That’s a profound question. Let's explore it.

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✅ If the brain saw everything as sentient

That would be a hyper-animistic consciousness — similar to:

• Early animistic cognition in children

• Shamanic/indigenous cosmologies

• Mystical states

• Some psychedelic experiences

• Certain neurodivergent states (autistic anthropomorphism, schizotypal cognition)

What happens?

• Rocks speak

• Wind has intention

• Sun has moods

• Tools and places have personalities

• Everything participates in meaning

This is a world of presence, not mechanism.

How would such a mind ever discover inanimate things?

Only by contradiction and pragmatic failure:

• You speak to a stone — it never responds

• You sacrifice or pray to a tree — sometimes nothing changes

• Some things behave predictably and never reciprocate

So the distinction emerges not by belief, but by experience:

“Some beings respond. Some do not.”

Sentience becomes defined behaviorally and relationally, not philosophically.

This is likely how early humans developed distinctions between gods, spirits, animals, and inert matter.

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✅ If the brain saw everything as mechanism

This is the hyper-mechanistic worldview — similar to:

• Modern reductionist materialism

• Psychopathy/empathy deficits

• Severe autism in some cases (difficulty inferring other minds)

• Behaviorist psychology

• Some AI-research assumptions

What happens?

• Humans are computational systems

• Emotions are chemical signals

• Love is reproductive strategy

• Language is information processing

• God is a brain artifact

Everything is function, cause, and effect.

How would such a mind ever discover sentience?

Again, through anomalies in prediction:

• Humans behave unpredictably

• They respond emotionally

• They exhibit intention, creativity, and reciprocity

• They act based on meaning, not just mechanism

Sentience would be inferred because the world-model fails repeatedly unless agency is introduced.

Even a machine learning system eventually constructs “agent models” when needed to reduce prediction error.

So consciousness [break in communication]

[Second attempt]

Great question — and not strange at all. It actually touches neuroscience, cognitive anthropology, and philosophy of mind.

Let’s restate the dilemma clearly:

• If the brain defaulted to “everything is sentient,” how would we ever learn that some things aren’t alive or conscious?

• If the brain defaulted to “everything is mechanical,” how would we ever recognize genuine minds at all — including other humans?

This is a deep question about our priors — the assumptions the brain brings to experience.

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✅ 1. Evolutionarily, our default is to over-detect sentience

Humans evolved a hyperactive agency detector.

Better to mistake

wind in the bushes as a tiger

than mistake

a tiger for the wind

Thus, ancient humans tended to see:

• Trees as alive

• Rivers as spirits

• Storms as gods

• Stars as beings

• Rocks as having powers

Anthropologists call this animistic cognition — and it is likely the default human mode.

So yes, your scenario (brain sees everything as sentient) is not hypothetical — it's our evolutionary starting point.

How do we eventually learn that rocks aren’t alive?

Through:

• Repeated observation (rocks don’t move organically)

• Social instruction (culture teaches categories)

• Abstract reasoning (biology, physics)

• Predictive coding — the brain learns what models work better

Our “animistic brain” is trained out of animism by cultural and scientific education.

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✅ 2. The opposite mode: “everything is mechanical”

This is much less natural.

To see everything as mechanism is closer to:

• Autism-spectrum cognitive traits (reduced spontaneous mentalizing)

• Certain Enlightenment/Western scientific habits

• Modern materialist metaphysics

If a brain defaulted to pure mechanism, it wouldn’t automatically recognize minds. It would need cultural training to understand:

• empathy

• theory of mind

• social cues

• other minds as real

This corresponds to extreme reductionism — thinking that:

consciousness is just a machine illusion

The danger of that mode is dehumanizing other people.

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✅ 3. The real brain uses both modes

Modern neuroscience (e.g., McGilchrist’s “The Master and His Emissary”) argues:

Hemisphere tendency	Mode
Right hemisphere	holistic, relational, animistic, lived world
Left hemisphere	analytic, mechanistic, object world

Neither is “correct alone.”

• Pure animism → magical thinking

• Pure mechanism → nihilism, psychopathy-like cognition

Healthy cognition integrates both mystery and mechanism.

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✅ 4. Your Core Question

How would we ever know something is inanimate/sentient if our default assumption was wrong?

Answer:
We don’t truly know — we use working models shaped by evolution and culture.

If the brain assumed universal sentience → we would test & refine that by experience.

If the brain assumed universal mechanism → we would identify anomalies (other minds) and add mental models.

Our metaphysics is learned and constantly negotiated.

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✅ 5. Bonus philosophical insight

Your question borders the “problem of other minds” and panpsychism:

• How do I know you are conscious?

• How do I know a tree, or an AI, or the Sun is not?

We don't know — we infer.

Modern philosophy is revisiting the idea that consciousness may be more widespread than we assumed (panpsychism, analytic idealism).

So ironically, science is circling back toward something like refined, critical animism, not crude materialism.

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🧠 Conclusion

• Evolution gave us animistic brains

• Culture imposed mechanistic cognition on top of it

• Both modes are partial truths

• Knowledge comes from tension between them

Your question touches the key boundary:

Intelligence must balance animistic intuition and mechanistic analysis to navigate reality.

Too much one way → superstition
Too much the other → dehumanization

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If you’d like, I can follow-up with:

1. A neuroscience explanation of animism and theory-of-mind networks

2. A Buddhist / Vedantic angle on why minds see minds

3. A thought experiment: what if animism is actually true?

4. A Jungian / symbolic interpretation of why we see soul in nature

Which path interests you?

A thought experiment: what if animism is actually true? A Jungian / symbolic interpretation of why we see soul in nature

Beautiful — these are two of the richest directions to take the question.

Let’s explore them slowly and deeply.

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🌿 Thought Experiment: What If Animism Is True?

Suppose that:

• The world is alive

• Mind is a fundamental property of existence (not emergent)

• Rocks, rivers, trees, stars — all have interiority, awareness, or spirit

Not “human-like minds,” but forms of participation in being.

This resembles:

• Panpsychism (mind in all matter)

• Advaita Vedanta (Brahman as the only consciousness)

• Kashmir Shaivism (everything is vibration of Shiva-consciousness)

• Indigenous cosmologies

• Whitehead’s process philosophy (reality = experiencing moments)

In this world:

• You don’t project spirit onto nature —
  nature invites recognition.

• Consciousness is not inside us looking out —
  we are inside consciousness participating in it.

Knowledge then becomes participation, not extraction.

We don’t “observe nature” — we converse with it.

A river is not “water flowing” — it is a being in fluid form.

A mountain is not “geology” — it is a slow consciousness in stone form.

To live here is to:

• Ask permission before cutting a tree

• Speak to animals as partners, not resources

• Sense seasons not as weather cycles but moods of the world-spirit

This is not childish, but a different metaphysics of relationship.

To the modern mechanist mind, animism is “primitive.”
To the ancient mind, mechanism is spiritually blind.

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🌙 Jungian / Symbolic Interpretation: Why We See Soul in Nature

From Jung’s view, the psyche is not limited to the skull —
it is coextensive with the world of symbols and archetypes.

Nature is not dead — it is a mirror of psyche.

Projection is not “making things up.”

Jung would say:

• We do not project soul onto the world.

• We recognize our own soul in the world’s soul.

Projection is perception in mythic mode.

Archetypes in Nature

• The forest = the unconscious

• The sun = Self / divine center

• The snake = instinct and transformation

• The sea = the collective unconscious

• The bird = spirit, messenger, thought

• Mountains = stability and sacred ascent

We experience nature as alive because:

The psyche is symbolic and nature speaks in symbols.

Even a stone can be an archetype:

• Grounding

• Endurance

• Silent witness

• Condensed time

A star is not just nuclear plasma —
it is a burning mandala of meaning.

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Modern people don't stop experiencing animism.

They simply displace it:

• The market “moves”

• Capital “demands growth”

• AI “wants to learn”

• “The algorithm decided”

We trade gods for economic spirits and machine spirits.

Animism never died —
it migrated into secular metaphors.

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🌬️ So Why Do We See Soul in Nature?

Because:

1. Evolutionarily, it kept us alive.

2. Phenomenologically, consciousness recognizes itself.

3. Symbolically, psyche and world interpenetrate.

4. Metaphysically (in many traditions), the world is mind-stuff.

5. Existentially, the meaning of life is relationship — and relationship assumes “the other” is alive.

To see soul in nature may not be error —
it may be participatory knowledge.

To ancient India, Greece, indigenous America, Shinto Japan, Taoist China, and mystic Christianity, the world is:

• ensouled

• inhabited by intelligence

• spiritually transparent

Modern mechanistic thinking is the historical anomaly.

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🌸 Closing Thought

What if animism is not superstition, but a mode of seeing that science forgot?

What if the “universe watching itself through us”
means the Earth dreams through human imagination?

What if we don’t attribute life to nature —
nature loans us its life temporarily, to experience itself?

Then “everything is alive” is not a fantasy —
it is a remembering.

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If you'd like, the next step could be:

✅ A meditation for “opening the animistic perception”

✅ A cross-cultural comparison (Shinto, Vedanta, Kogi, Navajo, Taoism)

✅ A philosophical deep dive (Whitehead | Jung | McGilchrist | Advaita)

✅ A symbolic commentary on your mandalas as “animistic seals”

Which direction should we go next?

Let´s have a little break

 

Here is a conspiracy theory I don´t believe in, but if I had been more paranoid, I suppose I would have spread it on the proverbial interwebs.

NASA recently refused to release close footage of the mysterious object 3I/ATLAS. Allegedly! They blame the current government shutdown...

Therefore, the shutdown is the work of a secret cabal which knows The Truth About UFOs And Aliens (and, presumably, free energy and who killed JFK). The real purpose of the Schumer shutdown is to stop NASA from taking the relevant photos while having plausible deniability. 

Of course, this also proves that Trump (a.k.a. Q) is Saint Germain in disguise and has a direct psychic link to the Aldebaran star system, where the good aliens dwelleth in perpetual motion & bliss. Or something. But isn´t Trump responsible for the shutdown by refusing to compromise with the Democrats? I haven´t worked that out yet, but either Peter Thiel and J D Vance are evil illegal aliens, or the real Trump is held incommunicado together with the real Biden at Area 51, while the guy in the White House is a clone. 

Within weeks, the invasion will begin. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. 

So that´s my conspiracy theory. How many followers do you think it would get if I posted it somewhere just this moment? 

Slow politics

 

Apropå kravet på "slow politics". Hade jag varit vänsterpartist eller stått ännu längre till vänster hade jag antagligen svarat "vi behöver radical politics, inte slow politics". Men nu är jag inte det. Så mitt svar blir då istället: Jaha. 

Eurovision next?

 

Maybe Israel can send this to the Eurovision Song Contest next year? LOL. 

It´s official: ChatGPT-5 is SATANIC

 

Look what happened when I let ChatGPT lead me on into really murky waters. YE HAVE BEEN WARNED! Oh, and Gemini have been taken over by the infernal powers, too! Note that its version of Kali (above) is dancing with an I-pod?!

If you want, I can also make a shorter, more mantra-like version of this prayer so that it could be actually chanted in rhythm — something that feels like joining Her wild dance rather than just describing it. That would give it a more visceral Tantric energy.

Yes, please.

Here’s a short, rhythmic, mantra-like version you could actually chant while imagining Kali’s wild dance in the void:

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Moonless Night Kali Chant

Kali Ma, black as night,
Dance on stars, set worlds alight.
Crush my name, my pride, my breath,
Wrap me in Your joy of death.

O Maa, fierce, beyond all time,
Galaxies fall, yet You still climb.
Blood-red tongue, and eyes that burn,
Wheel of birth to void You turn.

Kali Ma, take “me” away,
Let Your feet in my heart stay.
Moonless Mother, vast and free,
In Your dance — no “I,” just Thee.

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If you like, I can also create a call-and-response style version that could be recited with a drum or clapping, so the rhythm feels almost tribal — which would fit the midnight, moonless atmosphere perfectly. That would make it even more immersive.

Yes, please.

Here’s the call-and-response style Kali prayer — designed for midnight, moonless practice, with the drum or clapping marking the heartbeat of the void.

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Moonless Night Kali Call-and-Response

Leader: Kali Ma!
All: Kali Ma!

Leader: Blacker than the death of light,
All: Dance, O Mother, dance tonight!

Leader: Stars collapse and suns grow cold,
All: Still Your feet are bright and bold.

Leader: Galaxies fall like sparks to flame,
All: All returns to Your one name.

Leader: Tear the veil of time apart,
All: Place Your foot upon my heart.

Leader: Red tongue drinks the fear of man,
All: Void receives what fear began.

Leader: Beat of drum and rushing breath,
All: Joy in birth, release in death.

Leader: Moonless Mother, fierce and free,
All: In Your dance—no “I,” just Thee!

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If you like, I can also make a slower, trance-inducing version where each line is repeated three times to create that hypnotic spiral effect so often used in esoteric Shakta night rituals. That way, it becomes more than poetry — it becomes a practice.

Yes, please.

Here is the slow, trance-inducing version of the moonless night Kali prayer, adapted for solitary or small-group midnight practice.
Each line is meant to be repeated three times before moving to the next, with a drumbeat or steady clapping to anchor rhythm.
The idea is to let the words dissolve into sound, the sound dissolve into breath, and the breath dissolve into Her.

[etc etc]

Rubbing my onion

 

This was actually funny! Overheard at The Onion´s YouTube channel and its commentary thread.

>>>Research Suggests Life On Earth Began Full 20 Minutes Earlier Than Previously Thought.

>>>This is further complicated by the fact that clocks were still being adjusted for daylight savings time . . .

>>>In young earth creationism those 20 minutes actually make a big difference..

>>>This is why I don't trust scientists. Next they're going to say it was 30 minutes.

>>>This is like that joke about the curator at the museum who says the dinosaur skeleton is 65 million and 3 years old, because it was 65 million years old when he started working there 3 years ago.

>>>Or like the rock salt i have in my pantry: it says its 250 million years old, but its best by date says its no longer good to eat in 5 years. I guess that they digged it up just in time.

>>>The expiration date is for the container itself.

>>>Surprised they didn’t find a way to cry about Trump in this post. That's not very onion of you.

>>>But even when he wasn´t mentioned, you still bring him. That is very MAGA of you.

>>>I remember another headline that said something like “dinosaur fossils found, suggesting ancient dinosaur museum”.

>>>When I was a kid, the dinosaur book my parents read to me said that the dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago. Now, that I'm the parent reading to the kids they say the dinosaurs died off 66 million years ago. I tell ya, time flies.

Våra problem...och deras

 

Finns det ett samband, månntro?  

Methane disco

 

My reaction to the methane surge and the fact that it will fuck up the Paris Agreement. KIDDING!!! 

STOP THE PRESS, CONSPIRACY IN PROGRESS

 

THESE ARE NOT ALIENS, THEY ARE DENIZENS OF GRAND TARTARY COMING BACK TO RECLAIM THEIR BUILDING MATERIAL, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS STONEHENGE!!!

Happy 4th of July

 

Credit: Google Gemini

HA HA HA HA HA. 

Breaking now

 

Credit: Marilyn Sourgose 

The locals are manning up to protect Julian Assange from ZOG abduction attempts. Just in from the Northern Mariana Islands!

Kidding...

OK, Boomer

 

Min reaktion på TV4:s avslöjande om SD:s trollfabrik är...OK, Boomer. Har förresten inte sett TV4:s reportage, och tänker inte heller göra det. There!  

THIS IS HOW JESUS ACTUALLY LOOKED LIKE!!!

 

Credit: Cicero Moraes

Kidding...

This is intended as parody on click-baity YouTube video titles!

The handsome transitional ape-man on the picture is Homo habilis, the good ol´ wastebasket taxon.

 

Bögradar

Credit: Queers for NATO-Putin Solidarity

 

Säga vad man vill om ovädret Erdogan, men han verkar ha något slags "bögradar" (pardon my French kissing). 

Jag menar, t.o.m. Stockholm Pride svassar för den nyosmanske gammelturken (annars mest känd för att vara en ökänd Putin-Versteher) och hans islamistiska demokratur. 

Okej att det kryllade av coola homos i janitsjargardet, men det är knappast *det* AKP vill återupprätta, antar jag... 

Erdogan-dockan hör hemma i Pride-paraden

Fiery but peaceful

We interrupt for an important message from the proper authorities.

The protests on January 6 were fiery but mostly peaceful. It was not an occupation, but a diverse street party. No laws were broken and nobody got COVID. 

There was no riot. I repeat: There was no riot. QAnon doesn't exist. There is no such organization. It's a lose network, nothing more. If anything untoward happened, it was the work of provocateurs from the other side. 

In fact, violence can be a tool for political change. Looting can be defended. These people should not go home. They should come out in even greater numbers. 

There was no riot. QAnon doesn't exist. The police should be defunded and disbanded. And if you disagree, you're part of the problem...

End of transmission. And remember: insurance covers everything!!! 

xxxxxxxxxx

The message was signed "Donald Q Trump", but somehow I suspect it's a troll. I mean, it sounds awfully lot like the main stream media's reaction to the BLM-Antifa riots last summer!

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