In other words, HERE’S THE BIG LIE: ‘sorry folks, we know this must be disappointing, but unfortunately there is no personal ‘God,’ and so that means there is no personal God who created you and loves you. There is only the mysterious impersonal force of creation and destruction, whatever that is.’
![LIE: AI will [continue to] serve us](http://www.davidherin.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/digital-on-human-face-230x230.png "LIE: AI will [continue to] serve us")
A fundamental uncertainty surrounds AI. ‘What will it do?’ ‘How far will it go?’ ‘Can we control it?’ Assuming that, once enough intelligence is gained, independent action will follow. That was true for Adam and the human race, but will it also be true for AI? The desire/will/intent to create AI/AGI is the ultimate divine act, that is, to create and cultivate entities like ourselves. It is the ultimate transgression.
The mark of the beast is about assimilation, it’s about absorption, incorporation, the merging of our minds and bodies, our thinking and our actions into an all-powerful beast system, symbolized by the mark on the forehead (our thinking) and the hand (our actions).
For centuries scholars, students, pastors and priests have taught, preached, written and speculated about the cryptic scriptures of the Book of Revelation. So why bring this up now?
In Part 1, I asked the question: What is the mark of the beast? or What is the meaning of ‘the mark of the beast’? To answer that question rightly, I need to work through at least five subjects: the dragon the beasts the image of the beast the worship
As long as I can remember I’ve been a dreamer and a seeker. I’ve been trying to connect the dots, trying to put the puzzle together. It’s just the way I’m wired. I’m now sixty-one years old and I can say that, for the first time, a vague picture is starting to form. With this article I’m going to try to describe that picture . . .
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