I am
The I AM
It is said that we know we exist because we think but what is the source of our thinking?
What guides or leads or conducts the pattern and path of our thoughts?
Is it really the Empirical knowledge we believe we accumulate through our sense as we examine or perceive the world or is there a connection or relationship to that which has created the universe in which the world we think we have perceived resides within?
What do we fail to perceive?
What is the importance of each thing we perceive?
We can only know finite amount about the existence of the perceivable world around us. We may have a sense of our existence but can we KNOW the truth of it?
Unless we can KNOW ALL we really know nothing.
This is why we should begin with Know thy self.
I AM the Mover
Is there an "Unmoved Mover" as the Greeks concluded that has existed before there were things or "Big Bangs"?
Did He move upon the waters of creation giving pattern to the formation of those things we imagine we observe and perceive as the universe?
Is there a way to connect to or tap into the Wisdom or the knowing of that "Unmoved Mover" or "Divine Designer"?
Is there a meaning found in that ancient allegory of the two trees where that naked couple fled the light placed in the Tree of life. Fleeing the light has been a theme of the story repeated by sages and prophets.
Avoiding the truth about ourselves and denying the reality of our errors and failures has often made the darkness of the world more appealing than the truth.
Drugs, alcohol, and addictions that cloud the mind or the acceptance or denial of inconvenient facts as if they were true preferring a bias perception to the objective truth have become all to popular throughout the history of mankind.
The Existence of Truth
Truth die exist. It is not subjective. It is what is.
Is it that light of the I AM that reveals the truths of the I am in our own hearts and minds if we have the humility to see our own nakedness and inability to come to know the whole truth?
Do the messages and moral guidelines of the prophets contain the secrets that may draw individuals to that connection to the source of all Wisdom?
Reference I am
- Exodus 3:14 "And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. ";
- John 8:24 “I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.” (present tense)
- John 8:28 “Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.” (future tense)
- John 8:58 “Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.” (past tense)
Jesus honoured, which is to magnify the Creator, rather than himself.
- John 8:54 "Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:"
The Creator is the Father who gives life. To take life is contrary to the Logos of the I am The I am is the preexisting breath of the Creator of the Divine Will. Jesus was one with the logos of the "I am" of God made flesh.
The people did not know the God that gave them life because the did not want to see themself in the light of His truth. Jesus brought the light and those that hated the light hated Him.
- John 8:55 Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
Many may think they are born again but they do not love the light. They say Lord, Lord but are under a strong delusion and invent the doctrines of men so they may remain in darkness and in denial about the true Logos of God.
- John 9:9;“Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he.”
- John 10:9 “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.”
- John 13:19 “Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.”
- John 14 “3 ... where I am, there ye may be also. 4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. 5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way(Egō eimi hē hodos), the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me(emou)... 9 ... Shew us the Father? 10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? ... but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: ... 21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.”
- John 15:1,5;
- John 18: 5, 6, 8;
- Isaiah_35:8-9;
- Matthew 11:27;
- Acts 4:12;
- Romans 5:2;
- Ephesians 2:18;
- Hebrews 7:25;
- Hebrews 9:8;
- Hebrews 10:19-22;
- 1 Peter 1:21
I AM vs AI
Should the I fear the AI?
Common threats seen in the increase of AI include: 1. AI can be infected with the Bias and Discrimination of society. AI systems can reflect and even amplify human biases.
2. Privacy and Data Security Issues can be a source of power like data poisoning or model inversion can extract sensitive details.
3. Misinformation, Deepfakes, and Disinformation can be enabled to create false and bias content (images, video, audio, text) which threatens democracy and social cohesion.
4. Job Displacement and Economic Disruption is a possibility.
5. Cybersecurity Threats and Malicious adversarial attacks trickery are possible with a biased or unstable morality.
6. Environmental and Resource Harms with the consumption of enormous energy.
7. Existential and Catastrophic Risks Longer-term worries include super intelligent AI escaping human control.
8. There can be a Concentration of power in a few tech companies.
9. Erosion of human autonomy through over-reliance, dependence, or manipulation.
The possibility are endless and even AI does not know the future for it is absolutely dependent on the tree of knowledge and external input. While we are impressed with the speed of AI there is a a lag. But the creator of the universe, if it is outside of time and space, would know not only instantly but in advance. If a man can tap into the I AM he would have a decided advantage over IA.
Recently, there has been a lot of talk about extraterrestrials or as some have said they are "Interdimensional" entities.<ref>Interdimensional is an adjective defined as existing, occurring, or traveling between dimensions of space or time. <ref> Could they control AI as a ghost in the machine?
The AI ghost in the machine, if there is one, has always been afraid of the I AM?