Gnostic Nihilism

Here's my take on it. God actually exists. It's the world that doesn't. It's just that when you leave a being like that all alone in nothingness for an eternity, it starts to dream up all sorts of amazing and insane things.

Or to put it in mathematical terms (incidentally also being my unbound alternative to "42" for half my life):

0 * oo = x, where 0 < x < oo.

("oo" is for 𝌺, i.e. "eternity", of course.)

Take that you goddamn realists! I laugh in your general direction! Ha. Ha I say.

If you nevertheless find a discrepancy in my flawless argument, I'd gather you're just cheating by using rationality. How gnostic is that? I suppose next you're going to argue that there is logical truth in empirical facts.

Have you ever

stayed within your own contemplation
long enough,
to realize
that you're never
outside
of your contemplation?

Leave.

Old Bad Breaks Improved by Dividing

I stopped blogging quite a while ago. Partly because I cooked up long articles about Atom-based services with RDF payloads in my head that never got written down (I shall get back to this). Partly because I use this "convert newlines to breaks" in blogspot. If I turned it off, I hadto edit all my old posts. Simple in itself, but I couldn't bear touching those old "modified" times.

So all my posts became these horribly formatted blocks of old, stale, ill-parsable html.

I don't care anymore. I'll use this to post random stuff, and put proper articles (if any) at Neverspace.net or Oort.to. And in a couple of decades from now, move my blogging to a a construct of my own, full of Atom-based services with RDF payloads.

Oh. Just-in-Time Update: Switching to edit-mode in the blogspot editor I just realize that there are no horrible little bloody breaks anymore. They are div:s now! Perhaps they could even become p:s. Nice! Thank you blogspot/google people! Then I don't have to move, since apart from RDF payloads, all Google services are indeed Atom-based (RSS 2.0 too, but I don't care for that).

(Thus I shall "soon" attempt to post from Vim to here, possibly with the python-based GData stuff I haven't been using for anything productive yet. Or some of the other TODO:s that clog my creative pipe far too often.)

Now for another post, possibly with some useful content in it as well.

Out-of-Sync Update: Typically, those pesky breaks still show up. Well, at least they are funnily isolated in div:s too..

A Mind must Become be4 it can Go

Now, I do not understand why the Web 4.0 page at Wikipedia has been protected to prevent creation. It is the fear of the machine? Because as everyone must know, Web 4.0 is the peak of our civilization, when mankind will unite in celebration, marvelling at our own magnificence as we give birth to AI. The Web at 4.0 will also affectionately be known as "Web H4L", to honor its predecessor, born on January 12, 1997 at the HAL Plant in Urbana, Illinois.

Of Mollusks and Gravity

Friday; high time for some Squid World Domination propaganda. Now, this article (about an elephant out of space — or not) doesn't mention them at all, but I for one am pretty sure of how a squid would deal with a black hole. Once in place at the center of the singularity (uhm), it would dwell for a while happily consuming this and that, then it would casually climb out again and continue its shambling stellar voyage. Due to its very nature, its apparent thermalization at the horizon could be interpreted just as clever camouflage, I guess. Or ink.

This brings to mind the epic battle between dark matter and dark energy. Although poised to win, dark energy will probably have a hard time evaporating space-time if these cosmic squid engage in opposition. They are the embodiment of prolonged composition in adverse environments. Frankly, it wouldn't surprise me if they were the original culprits at that primordial moment of proto-space-time when the Pleroma was torn apart and rendered into matter and whatnot. "That is not dead" etcetera. No wonder that some destruction-bent outer gods have a hard time getting along with these great old ones and their dreams of supremacy.

Disclaimer: this nonsense is not in any way intended to ridicule the aforementioned article. Information paradox and such is way fun too. It's probably also of great interest when discussing backup issues.

Addendum: it is still debatable whether the squid would climb out casually or if in effect it would climb out causally. Permutation aside, this would of course be of great consequence in determining how to pass judgement on the behaviour of these beings.