https://nypost.com/2024/12/09/lifestyle/vatican-to-observe-sacred-tradition-on-christmas-eve-but-the-pope-will-perform-a-ritual-thats-never-been-done-before/

I don't like using the "simulation" terminology that much because everything comes from a living being--it just decays on its way down into electricity, electromagnetism and tech--but yeah it kinda is.

Everyone leave Rose alone. She's taking care of the spam. Stop trying to mute her. You're not an admin!

Attempting to hack my bot will result in a ban or getting muted.

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"I have told you that in this epoch we have to solve the problem of how the radiations from human states of mind are carried over into machines; of how human beings are to be brought into relation with an environment which must become increasingly mechanised. A week ago I pointed out how superficially this mechanisation is treated in a certain part of the world. I gave you the example of how an American way of thinking tries to extend the realm of the machine over human life itself.

Where this kind of thing goes on, the wish to yoke up human strength with the strength of machines is always involved. It would be quite mistaken merely to oppose these things. They are not going to fade away; they are on the march. The only question is whether in the course of world-history they are going to be brought on to the scene by men who are unselfishly aware of the great aims of earth-evolution and wish to shape these developments for the healing of mankind, or by groups of men who want to use them for their own or the group's selfish ends. That is the issue. The point is not what is going to happen, for it certainly will happen, but how it happens — how these things are handled. The welding together of human beings with machines will be a great and important problem for the rest of the earth-evolution.

Many endeavours will be made to introduce the dead into human existence by artificial means. Along the indirect path through Gemini the dead will be led into human life, with the result that human vibrations will pass over into the mechanism of machines and will continue to vibrate there in a quite definite way. The cosmos will impart motion to the machines by the indirect path I have indicated."

—Rudolf Steiner, 1917