Aphorism of the Day, May 2026

Aphorism of the Day, May 31, 2026

Could the canonical results of the Council of Nicaea be called an ideology on behalf of the Emperor to get people to just think about heavenly Persons and forget about what Jesus said in the Beatitudes, about the rich and the poor, and about what to render to Caesar and God?  Orthodoxy unwittingly came to mean making sure we know metaphysical exactness about the Trinity while being free to ignore the oppressed and the poor.

Aphorism of the Day, May 30, 2026

Constantine did not want churches to disagree about him and his right to rule.  He did not want the bishops to disagree on doctrine so he forced them to standardize their belief through canon law.  It should not be left to irony that he did not ask the bishops to gather to devise canon laws on what to render to Caesar, or all the sayings of of Christ on behalf of the poor, or about the literal meanings of the Beatitudes.  It was safer for Constantine to have them argue about the nature of the Trinity.

Aphorism of the Day, May 29, 2026

Mysticism resides in the private confidence which often is made public that I have a "mysterious" interior which is more than I can say but which floods with so much esteem the "ego" is inflated beyond words that it must melt in humility.  But by the way, I have had this "interior" event.  But can any snowflake say, "my uniqueness is better than yours?"

Aphorism of the Day, May 28, 2026

The present is always really a continuous "present" because we are trapped in before and after occasions with us being in the threshold between the before and after.  We register the threshold occasion with language products internal and external, and they are but runes purported to signified what they are not, namely memorial past uses of language about past uses of language.

Aphorism of the Day, May 27, 2026

If the Council of Nicaea was a Emperor forced effort to get the church to agree on doctrine and they did so by trying to deal with the texts of the words of Jesus about the Godhead, and they dealt with those texts using mainly platonic categorical thinking, and if this method left apologists with the necessity to confess that we can only declare mystery, why should not other modes of thought be used to explicate the words attributed to Jesus about Father, and the Holy Spirit?  The Father and I are one, and the Father is greater than I.  Surely the end of discussion on reconciling these two is not over.  The Trinity may be a continually deferred problem into the future.

Aphorism of the Day, May 26, 2026

What is the source for the Trinity?  The texts which arose containing words of Jesus and the particularizing of the divine in a human person.  By the fourth century, Trinitarians used Greek philosophical notions to explicate the divine math of one plus one plus one equals ONE.  But since the source is textual, it might be more insightful to hearken back to the Heraclitus dissoi logoi whereby there is the native acknowledgment of language bearing irreconcilable contradictions of the yes and the no, because the TEXT itself is the Unity Bearer.

Aphorism of the Day, May 25, 2026

Alas, Memorial Day is observed again without humanity truly learning the lesson that "war is hell," and while we mourn and remember those individuals who died fighting for their communities, we seek to live beyond misanthropic disillusionment with humanity toward a time when self-inflicted war pain will have taught us the lesson of peace.

Aphorism of the Day, May 24, 2026

Instead of reading Pentecost as a linear account of a historical event, as a sacred wisdom story it attempts to give an insight into the healing of the "wound" of the curse of Babel even as it indicates that Diaspora Jews like Paul would be the key for a Christo-centric Judaism to make inroads into the Gentile populations because the message was "translatable" into the language and cultures of everyone.

 Aphorism of the Day, May 23, 2026

Isn't it curious how most people read the Bible as what Roland Barthes dubbed as "readerly reading," or a passive consumption of one's group interpretations?"  What I mean is that most people from their religious group choice read the Bible as favoring their own groups view.  And so it is like nations at war praying to the same God that their side will win because our side deserve to prevail over the enemy who is praying to the same God?

Aphorism of the Day, May 22, 2026

How do we read ancient texts like the Bible being so far removed from their contextual linguistic constitution?  We can do it in temporal-contextual provincialism, by needing to feel that our own current belief is superior to all others, and so we assume that the ancient text is a "rubber stamp" of legitimization of what we and our group believe.  Another way might be to read with hermeneutic empathy and charity for people of the past who are significantly different in time and place and cultural knowledge and information than we are.   When critical Bible scholars say that the Bible writings are "forgeries," are they speaking to the writers and editors of Scriptures or to subsequent readers who regarded the readings to be "empirically" verifiable accounts of the way things happen?  Many biblical scholars confess to be former fundamentalists who "left" the faith (of fundamentalism) yet still make their living by critically studying the Scriptures, but often with the emotional hurt of having been lead astray by their ventures within fundamentalist communities.  To read Scripture with charity and empathy is to try to identify with ancient contexts and the kinds of questions which they raised in their own time and their own valuing systems for whether something was "credible" for their communities in terms of its relevance.  This is what I would call "hermeneutical charity" in the attempt to appreciate the logic of whatever the epistemological paradigm that prevailed in the ancient contexts.  From the hermeneutic of empathy for the ancient contexts, one can then translate and find correspondences of big life questions which face us today in the logic of our own epistemological contexts.  There need not be the lack of hermeneutic charity with people of the past or the implication that they were less human because they weren't smart enough to be as advanced as us to actually have the ability to blow up the entire world.  The arrogance of our scholarly "progress" sometimes reeks badly.

Aphorism of the Day, May 21, 2026

Does the Trinity come to language because of the necessity of a threshold between a Bi-inity?  There is Logos co-extensive with everything that is not Logos, and the Third in between the two.

 Aphorism of the Day, May 20, 2026

It is hard to lose a notion of legitimization functioning as some transcendental signified even if one acknowledges that one lives within a hermeneutical circle or paradigm or seemingly flashing states of metaverses.  Seemingly Aristotle implied that arche or first principles for rationality or logic are "irrational"/extra-rational, in appealing to what cannot be verified or being open to falsification.  It might be better to say that we live in language as a "para-verse," that is, a co-extensive continuous naming of whatever we think is happening.  But language as the "para-verse" means that we are caught in the perpetual play of deconstruction and if such a continuous process is the transcendental signified that we are caught in it is the instantiation of the continuous MORE, the not yet, the will have been future anterior having come to language.

Aphorism of the Day, May 19, 2026

The evolution of the imprinting of the inward instinctual life with the images from outside eventuated in the rise of inner linguistics to begin a naming manipulation of what is outside of a person even to agreement between namers about what is being named and thus began the rise of truth of a well-used metaphor, until it was replaced or altered with another.  Creation might be better called things coming to having a name by namers.

Aphorism of the Day, May 18, 2026

The Hebrew Scriptures and New Testament are evidence of community writings exemplifying the need to "update" to take into account arising events and practices and this updating exposes contradictions due to different issues in the communities at different times.  A delayed Lord's Day is one such example of adjustments in updating of community writings of what became "official" Scripture.

Aphorism of the Day, May 17, 2026

The incarnation of the divine assuming the entirety of a human being stands in contrast to the seeming unseen celestial deities as actual "physical" beings in the skies.  The incarnation is the adaption of anthropocentric ways of knowing what is not human, namely, animal life, plant life, and yes, divine life.  We honestly adapt what is unavoidable, namely our anthropocentric ways, because we cannot have non-human experiences.

Aphorism of the Day, May 16, 2026

To appropriate ancient texts one needs to translate through inversion, meaning the outer is the unknown magnitude of the physical world bearing the linguistically coded inner space of the perceivers.  Where modern religion has gone wrong is to make the external the actual idol rather than seeing the external as but bearing the linguistic world of inner space.

Aphorism of the Day, May 15, 2026

It could be that visionary language of Scripture is written when the authors doors of perception are influenced by liminal time between REM sleep and fully awakened state, also called the hypnopompic state.

Aphorism of the Day, May 14, 2026

The major task of appropriating much of ancient text is to translate the seeming apparent outward cosmology into inward cosmology and seeing the outer as mere projection of the inward, while granting the naive realism of seeming perceptual realism which governed the quotidian of their lives according to the laws of nature.  Modern cinematography is a corresponding phenomena to ancient cosmological presentations.

Aphorism of the Day, May 13, 2026

What's in the Bible in terms of meaning?  The history of people reading the Bible is mainly proof of R. Barthes notion of writerly readers, meaning the readers write their meanings into the Bible from their own subjective contextual constitution, and if they can get a "quorum" it can count as communally true and orthodox meaning.  This  theory of writerly reading and truth by vote could have easily been disproven with every Bible reader arriving at one self evidential meaning imparted with every biblical word for every person in every translation and personal context.

Aphorism of the Day, May 12, 2026

At some point humans were able to develop language ability and become creators of their world by naming it and know it through naming.  This seminal event is given an origin myth of knowing the divine as the inward user of that language who speaks things into "knowable" existence.  The creation as a language event is given divine status. And John's Gospel prologue writes it this way: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word WAS GOD."  The further naming of the divine instantiates the axiological function of language to use divine as a way of assigning supreme Value.

Aphorism of the Day, May 11, 2026

Language arising within the inner private realm has externalized and created or made humanly experiential the world through the naming of the same and by assuming the cementing of word with objects provide the illusion of stability.  This stability is significance because it has allowed the understanding of probability needed to manipulate the objects of the world for human sustenance.

Aphorism of the Day, May 10, 2026

It is more accurate to say that we have inherited language traditions which inculcated the religious themes of the past rather than presume to know how the super-heroes of religions morphed from actual people into the utopian people we needed on which to anchored our values.

Aphorism of the Day, May 9, 2026

A person's pride or esteem may come from how one regards one's interior life.  It can be regarded as an oceanic connection with everyone else's interior life as some great omni-world consciousness without being able with focused attention to be able to come to languaged thoughts or even recognized inner images.  If one's interior is filled with memories of regret or shame or trauma the outward appearance of a person can belie the secret.  But how can one say or imply, "My interior life is better than yours?"  Such really means that my experience of my interior life is different from yours and perhaps I am better able to project a public confidence about my private interior than you.  Everyone has a secret interior and living with the uniqueness of that interior is a task of one's public life.

Aphorism of the Day, May 8, 2026

Seminarians are said to lose their faith with a critical study of the Bible.  Study of the Bible takes it apart to explain how and perhaps why the text functioned within the contexts of the various writers while noting that the modern context is so significantly different to insinuate that one today believes in the same way that ancient people did.  The seminarian turned preacher can resort to the level of many congregants in returning to the mythical-literal mode of Bible stories without critical commentary to avoid being called a liberal agnostic or the preacher can be convinced that Eternal Word makes language itself as omni-sacramental which can lead to the rhetorical value of faith in Christly values of love and justice.  By the way, pistis in Aristole meant persuasion.  pistis in New Testament Greek means faith or belief, or persuasion about Christly values.

Aphorism of the Day, May 7, 2026

The human vocation includes how one articulates one's "snowflake-like" uniqueness.  But uniqueness and articulation are words which are communal and therefore not unique.  By unique I would mean that every person has a locked within them a sense of privacy with can never be fully exposed externally or translated into language products with public accessibility.  No matter how public we become our lives are still tinged with a great private interior which exists in times and so it continues within us and is perceived or experienced differently in time which accounts for the continuous preservation of one's private interior life.  What we might want to relate uniqueness to is how the private uniqueness can be articulated within the social and cultural and sub-cultural hermeneutic contexts through which one presents a violation of private uniqueness by articulating a translation of one's uniqueness within the telling social situation wherein a person seeks the kind of social affirmation associated with what one might call "self esteem."  Uniqueness is personal and communal; "I matter because I know myself to be unique in the way that I have taken on language and applied to my interior private realm, but I also matter because I have also used language to translate my private interior self to a community of telling recognition for esteem and dignity amongst other people.

Aphorism of the Day, May 6, 2026

Psychotherapy works from the assumption that what becomes published is often but a lie veiling what remains unpublished from the interior secret place.  In psychotherapy a therapist recognize that people cannot bear their completely published life.

Aphorism of the Day, May 5, 2026

Everyone's interior life is an individual secret until portions of it are not through being translated into language products perceivable in their external world.  Even after portions are "published" there remains the private untouched unpublished greater portion of the inner self.

Aphorism of the Day, May 4, 2026

Through the Word all things have come to be.  There may be a world before language, but we have to use language to designate "world before language," which means life without language is inconceivable.

Aphorism of the Day, May 3, 2026

The big elephant which is always in the room and the tacit, "it goes without saying," is that we are indeed saying.  We are trapped in the language loop assume absolute identity with many "signified others" but in fact we are only within the loop of signifiers deferring continuously to other signifiers in our constant effort to affirm what is "really" there.  And yes, "really" and "there" are also words in this signifying loop.  To admit this is not to deny that there are very meaningful values within our language loop, values like love and justice, which we should never cease to attempt to articulate in new ways in new language situations.  Because we are trapped in time with the each situation being but a minuscule, such situational word use still has valuing potential for defining and articulating new occasions of what love and justice can mean.

Aphorism of the Day, May 2, 2026

For Paul, his use of the phrase "my Gospel" seems to make his interpretation of his experience of Christ and the resulting necessary responses to it, as a very personal and individual thing, even while he seem to want others to embrace his "version" of "his" Gospel, because he was not inferior to any of the apostles.  He seems to contradict this in 1 Corinthians when he chided members for being loyal to leaders rather than to Christ.  What we can glean from these seeming contradictions is evidence of different kinds of Christian articulated beliefs in the pre-orthodox era of Christianity.  The New Testament writings include both the conflict of Paul with "Jerusalem" Christo-centric Judaism as well as the attempt for rapproachement of Paul's Gospel with that expressed by those in the Peter and James schools of practice.

 Aphorism of the Day, May 1, 2026

Imagine in antiquity the bombardment of external environments upon sentient beings when the wedding of the invisible interior with exterior world resulted in a language user with words to relate the inside with the outside.  And LOGOS made the world realized by the rising language users in a new way for sentient life.  One could imagine an awakening akin to Helen Keller's tutor spelling water into her hand and the water which was "unknown" was creatively known.

Aphorism of the Day, April 2026

Aphorism of the Day, April 30, 2026

Honest living is about getting over our "temporal provincialism" even while being humble enough to admit that we can only be subjects of the time in which we live asking the kinds of questions in the way that we do.  Scholarship and study of the Bible exemplifies the clash of temporal provincialisms with each age making the case for having the only view that they could have had at the time.  Confusion result because we cannot avoid anachronistic conclusions of asserting our own present into the ironic past of our own current versions of it.

Aphorism of the Day, April 29, 2026

When political leaders are evil and liars, they can "soil" an entire country, since formerly  good and decent people have to know themselves as being in the state of constantly loathing the public performance of evil and lying of evil people.  Good people can lose their "goodness" by having to resort to loathing so deeply the public performance of lying and evil.  To not loathe such public evil and lying either makes them complicit with it by being escapist quietists.  Good people who do not assume perfection of themselves do not enjoy being in the position of loathing evil and lying of public leaders.  To not resist is to roll over into a kind of banality where evil and lying becomes normalized.  Good people do not demand perfection; they tolerate general self-centeredness which does not go beyond propriety in matters of public evil and lying.

Aphorism of the Day, April 28, 2026

One can appreciate how some of those early Christians who came to be called gnostics and heretics by the "winning orthodox" view holders, liked Paul.  Paul had a special "gnosis" from his very individual and special experience of the risen Christ, even to the point of calling his "gnosis", "my gospel."  And it was not an inferior Gospel or secondary to the Gospel of Peter.  The New Testament canon is in part the result of trying to wed the visionary experience of Paul Gospel with the Gospels of those with the heritage of being actual followers of Jesus in his lifetime.

Aphorism of the Day, April 27, 2026

The overall all Conditions have always been permissive of those same overall Conditions; eventually in those overall Condition human language user interpreters arose to influence the conditions through observation and interpretation.  The vastness of the overall Conditions on some level is able to "dissolve" or "deconstruct" any interpretation of what is by being caught in the topsy turvy of endless contextualization.  Civilizations rely on the relatively conservative preservation of apparent stability created by linguistic naming for communal agreed upon "objectivity."  Objectivity simply means communal agreement for pragmatically adequate interactions.

Aphorism of the Day, April 26, 2026

The language products of religion need to be appreciated for their heuristic contribution in their own settings, as well as their continual adaption to be usefully adequate to the manifold human needs.  It is unrealistic to say "we" don't need the past, even while we stand on the shoulders of everything that has happened in the ways that things have happened.  People can say, "I wish the notion of the divine, had never came to humanity,"  even while they continuously cannot avoid having other surrogates in discursive practice for our always already participation in unfalsifiable totalities, like assuming the universe is a meaningful word for totality without being able to prove it.

Aphorism of the Day, April 25, 2026

The inside of each person is invisible in terms of how language is working.  The visible external world has worked like a magnet to bring what is invisible inside of each person into external language products.  We have come to cement the invisible nature of language with externally named entities, even to the point of making the essence of the word united with its external signified.  Scientific discourse perhaps materialize language best with its discourse.  Marx tried to materialize discourse with economic conditions.  For immediate contextual theory of causation, such materializing of language is ideal as long as we recognize the tentativeness of such conclusions as we "pan out" with wider contextual perspectives which reveal the previous unseen negligible becoming known in it causative impact.

Aphorism of the Day, April 24, 2026

What is inward to people in thoughts as proto-language events is invisible.  When these events become actual language products in body language, the structurational aspect of our environment imposed by us having language, speech, pictorial art, images, and text what is invisible comes to have a public form and reality.

Aphorism of the Day, April 23, 2026

Resurrection in the corporate sense is a story of hope in language to believe that justice will be realize somehow even when we don't see it in our lives.  On the personal level resurrection is story about the great gap between what we actually accomplish in life and what hope has taunted us with about what is possible.  As such, we cannot use resurrection as an excuse to diminish our efforts for realized justice now nor flag in our efforts to get as much done in this life as we can.

Aphorism of the Day, April 22, 2026

The great "sin" of the world is against the promise of what collective creativity could achieve on behalf of every world citizen.  Because of this sin against creativity we are slowly destroying ourselves and our world.

Aphorism of the Day, April 21, 2026

To say that we are like people in the past because we all are language users is not  as generally helpful as saying all people breathe air and drink water.  It is more difficult to say that the words used in language and how they are retained and translated into various language come with them self-evidentiary meanings which are perceived exactly in the same way as the original users.  First, the ship of history has sailed and we have no way of gaining precision of contemporary meanings, even if we attain some limit field of meanings based upon text record of dialogues on the topics.

Aphorism of the Day, April 20, 2026

The machine robotic retrieval algorithms of AI based upon statistical approximation modes will not lie unless it is instructed to lie by the user.  It is human users who will try to make the "math" dishonest.

Aphorism of the Day, April 19, 2026

LANGUAGE in its fullest sense is the "sublime" inspiration behind human life.

Aphorism of the Day, April 18, 2026

Holy Scripture is a collage of writings for which we have no exact knowledge of how and when every piece of writing came to have the final form of how the writings have ended up being read in various canonical collections.  To say that they are divinely inspired means that an incredible group of human beings with significant differences are agents of this inspiration.

 Aphorism of the Day, April 17, 2026

Your task for today, should you accept it, is to attempt to slow the rate of decay of your inevitable demise, while convincing yourself that having surpassed yourself continuously in number of occasions of life experience, such increasing in occasions means greater wisdom even while your body is increasingly aching in the places where you used to play.

Aphorism of the Day, April 16, 2026

Our common mistake is to assume because most of Reality is negligible to our knowing, we assume that our tiny foreground, though seemingly relatively important to us, exists within the Awesomeness of the background of the Great Negligible.

Aphorism of the Day, April 15, 2026

Epistemological humility means saying I belong to and with more than I and we can ever say or know or experience.  Such humility though is not an excuse to let oneself off the hook to work for what is adequate saying, knowing, and doing can mean in one's own context toward the belonging adequacy of love and justice.

Aphorism of the Day, April 14, 2026

Imagine the vastness of the "in here-ness" of every person who has ever lived, and would it be like a collective consciousness, collective sub-consciousnes, collective unconsciousness en masse, including the consciousness which does not yet have language ability?  Certainly this vastness is great enough for the invention of every language product including the naming of God as comprising and containing all inwardness and outwardness in continual becomingness.  Such thinking might beg the question that there is an infinite consciousness which knows all possibilities as possible without yet knowing all possibilities as actual.  There is no way to verify a "totalizing" discourse, even though as small agents, it is a valid discursive practice to say the All is without knowing but a nano-micro-dot of the all.  It it meaningful to say the universe is, or life is, without but knowing one's tiny portion of it.

 Aphorism of the Day, April 13, 2026

Without language there is no awareness of in here or out there.  Language happens in here and is manifest in many out there language products.  The sum of language products out there does not equal the vastness of the in here what might come to language, and for that matter, the sum of out there language products pales to the possibilities of the number of interpretations of them which could happen in here and never be published out there.

Aphorism of the Day, April 12, 2026

The mystical experience is but the announcement of a private inward event which no one else can experience.  Such can come across as "I have had something in way that you have not," which means it might be better kept private.  Being defined as mystical is a category of excellence which a private person may have come to have described as such given its place within whatever other inward experiences which a person may have had meaning it is very much subjectively valued.  It's ironic that religions include accounts of "mystical" experiences, epiphanies, and theophanies, as perhaps with the implied expectation that one should have them to be considered spiritually worthy.  There is something oxymoronic though to demand that serendiptity be planned or scheduled.

 Aphorism of the Day, April 11, 2026

It is time to admit Language as the mystical phenomenon of human life.  And it is akin to spirit, as wind or breath, invisible but known through the effects of its blowing and breathing.  Language is the mysterious ability which happens within people, and we presume wrongly to diminish this mystery by giving physiological descriptions of how and why we think it happens within us.  We can forget that by language we are using our science through language to speak about how language occurs.  Language is hidden within this reflexive descriptive behaviors and in the inherit reflexive nature of language it retains the "spirit of it mystery."  Poetically, language might be said to be the divine factor of human experience.

Aphorism of the Day, April 10, 2026

Petitionary prayers can be merely selfish and self-centered in scope, or they can be invocative of using one's petitionary mind to connect one's current situation with the all in all with longing for specific relationship insight.

Aphorism of the Day, April 9, 2026

Since using language is the central human identity, in the use of language we cannot help but personalize whatever we name in language, including the divine.  Language as the personalizing habit of people is definitive of what it is to live inescapably in anthropomorphic ways.

Aphorism of the Day, April 8, 2026

If we make hope but the interpretation of events occurring to us and in our world at a specific time we divorce it from it deep mooring of our loving connection with everything all the time.  Hope is moored to perpetual futurism and whether it seems obvious in our limited experience, the present is always proof of the past being reconcile through mere sustenance. 

Aphorism of the Day, April 7, 2026

Religion and faith is not a cure for aging within all the probable things which can happen on a personal and global level in time; it functions as a linguistic projected placebo to gives us various timing in intermittent soothing to live with our actual conditions.

Aphorism of the Day, April 6, 2026

Placebo came into medicine in the 18th century as was regarded as soothing an infirmed person rather than curing.  It could be that on the cosmic level with time meaning aging and continual entropic loss, health personally and socially are on defined as ranges of probable conditions and what each person and community need is the perpetual "soothing" of living with the kind of uncertainty including health uncertainty of probability living.  A placebo exists with knowledge of the problem even while providing "seeming" surviving soothing relief.

Aphorism of the Day, April 5, 2026

Easter physics? In the physics of the ancient world, seeming non-corporeal entities had a "material" substantiality to them which we do not posit in our modern science world view.  A once dead figure who reappeared and who could seemingly pass through doors, eat fish, be touched, turn off and on being recognized in a now you don't see, poof, now you do fashion, as well as teleport instantaneously between Galilee and Jerusalem had serious material substantiality unlike what we regard to material substantiality today.

Aphorism of the Day, April 4, 2026

Some times when we think that we are dealing with the ancient past, historical studies make us realize that we have come to regard relative recent traditions as being ancient.  Assuming that we have direct line with the great Origin, is due to the need to legitimize authority of current practice with appeal to what is most ancient.

Aphorism of the Day, April 3, 2026

A Pauline Good Friday would be his mystical identity with Christ teaching: "I am crucified with Christ."

Aphorism of the Day, April 2, 2026

American democracy and legal system is perhaps arriving at a level of incompetency to deal with the postmodern world.  The extreme specialty required for so many areas of life means that the democratic legislative and legal competency are not matching the complexity of the diversity of our postmodern lives.  What happens is that through lobbying the specialists write the legislation to favor their own areas and it has led to the oligarchs controlling the intellectuals who their paid guns for their own interest.  Truly we face the situation of the "foxes guarding the hen house."  We need more public caretakers with knowledge and ability to guard the public interests.  And we need a system where the wealthy cannot buy the law makers for their own interests.

Aphorism of the Day, April 1, 2026

April Fool's Day occurs in Holy Week this year.  St. Paul said the Cross was foolishness to certain people.  Foolishness can be the experience of the outsider to the experience of the insider.  People in the throes of romantic love understand its irresistability while their seemingly silly mutual doting seems foolish to those who don't share the same possessed state.  The love of God state of being for saints like St. Francis does seem to be a kind of foolishness which outsiders don't understand.  And if we can be possessed by a love which propels to work for the justice of others, let us be such April Fools today.

Artificial Intelligence Thread, Q. 1, 2026

Aphorism of the Day, March 31, 2026

AI relies upon default reasoning, which in scientific parlance would mean something which has not yet been falsified by empirical finding.  But there are many social and cultural default reasons which are not open to falsification, like God, gods, and myriads of personal affinities of people liking things and not knowing why they like them.  For AI to be available to people and markets it has to make things which are not falsifiable into data that can be represented to cater to human affinities needed to sell products, entertain, and appeal to the artistic aspect of human experience.

Aphorism of the Day, March 30, 2026

What does AI do in probability theory with the butterfly wing effect, i.e., the seemingly negligible but actual effect of flapping butterfly wings on the greater weather patterns everywhere?  This the reality of the connectedness of the micro-event with every other event.  AI like the science method has to define a "limited observable epoch" of causality by admitting that we have a limited but significant adequacy in explaining direct causation.  The retrieval algorithms of AI have to eliminate the data which is regarded to be the equivalent of the flapping butterfly wing negligible.

Aphorism of the Day, March 29, 2026

A chief governmental task will be to democratize the use of AI even giving democratically elected governments equal resources to "private" corporations for the distributions of the benefits of the AI to the general populace.  With more of the populace able to use AI the statistically possibility of distributive justice is greater.

Aphorism of the Day, March 28, 2026

Can the world come to an AI state of deterrence?  Like the current nuclear stand off? Of devastation being so total and final that one one dare use it?

Aphorism of the Day, March 27, 2027

Does the future of AI involve nano-drones which can "eat" humans and their weapon products?

Aphorism of the Day, March 26, 2026

One wonders why AI cannot devise ways to neutralize any nuclear threat through sub-atomic atmospheric fogs of micro-engines?

Aphorism of the Day, March 25, 2026

Not until the affordable energy supply requirement for AI storage is solved will AI be able to be applied to the many areas of academic research which could benefit from this advanced search and solution generator engine.  Until then only the most for profit areas will benefit.

Aphorism of the Day, March 24, 2026

The AI dilemma is that as the outcome of advanced reason, it will be be largely used to trick the ignorant rather than teach them critical thinking.

Aphorism of the Day, March 23, 2026

AI and the permissiveness of "free speech" is perhaps the greatest challenge when coupled with general ignorance and non-critical thinking.  There is so much misinformation promulgated on the internet now, much of which is generated by AI with deep fake capacity.  Free speech allows people to misinform and AI will be used to misinformed by deceitful users.

Aphorism of the Day, March 22, 2026

The lack of technologies of memory of ancient cultures and the relative paucity of surviving written documents has meant much guessing about ancient contexts has to occur in trying to interpret the past.  AI is the ultimate memory technology because it collects all language products which have been recorded so that today we are buried in information.  Ancient archeological sites are buried in coverings and archeologists have to guess/choose where to excavate to find the best evidence.  AI will continuously need to have "guessing" algorithms to select from the deluge of data of our memory technologies.  As good as AI is, current life has to have it own immediacy without us trying to make the traces of previous eras a disruption for to live now.  Even though AI gives the illusion of being able to have past lives parallel with our lives now, we can only be in the now.

Aphorism of the Day, March 21, 2026

AI output can overwhelm by generating too many responses to a problem or an issue even if they come with probability priority.  This means that the living human users cannot over rely on AI in situ because living insights for the final decisions are still crucial, especially in something as "fluid" as a doctor patient circumstance.

Aphorism of the Day, March 20, 2026

AI is the ultimate technology of memory for "outwardness" of language products which derive from people having the inward phenomenon of language, even while AI cannot manifest inwardness, but it becomes inwardly processed when it is used by people.


Aphorism of the Day, March 19, 2026


What does AI do with the mode of time that might be called simply the "togetherness" of everything all at once? It has collected human language products which have happened in time and stored them into an actual now of quantifiable shards of data as former time pieces, time materialized.


Aphorism of the Day, March 18, 2026


The greatest challenge for justice in the future will be the democratization of AI. Equal use for the most number of people is crucial.


Aphorism of the Day, March 17, 2026


In having and being "had" by language we name the perpetual human inwardness from where language derives as we are forced to interact with our outwardness whereby language becomes a conveyance between our inward and our outward. AI has become the most comprehensive collector of language in its outwardness.


Aphorism of the Day, March 16, 2026


The modern myth of progress does not involve the progress of people caring for more people better for the quality of life for the most. Progress is now the myth of AI being able to progressively solve the destructive tendencies of technological progress. The problem with AI being the solution to the dangers of technology is that the main drivers of AI are drunk with the motives of short term profits for the very few.


Aphorism of the Day, March 15, 2025


AI can use "random" mode for retrieval to simulate the human intermittent and serendipitous, AI cannot mimic the weakness of mental capacity and memory to create the kind of arising serendipitous which happens in actual human experience. AI can be the occasion for the human serendipitous without intending it.


Aphorism of the Day, March 14, 2026


In comparing AI retrieval function for reconstituting store language products to be reconstituted into a response to a user's request, to human memory retrieval function one can note that human memory does not have access to the same data base as AI. Also human memory can be intermittent and even random in what it selects for retrieval based upon contextual events as diverse as to outer and inner events in the life of a person. AI is not burdened with fickle subjective in its retrieval even if it might be formalaically boring. Human memory experiences serendipity; AI does not. AI needs human subjective serendipity creating public language events to be collected to further expand AI ability for future diversity in its vocabulary of responses.


Aphorism of the Day, March 13, 2026


Will AI ever collect enough language product data and generate enough algorithmic retrieval formula to create soulful fiction or adequate to the market products and replace the formulaic writing which is found in so many of the television and cinematic story lines?


Aphorism of the Day, March 12, 2026


AI is like most tools in life, it is not primarily for making life better for the most people possible; it is first for the profit of the investors. Any good or altruism results are but some intended and some unintended collateral effects.


Aphorism of the Day, March 11, 2026


One of the ironies of the development of AI is that AI developers and users will not take the advice that is recommended by the high probability answers given by AI programs, especially on matters that concern a better life for more people longer on this planet.


Aphorism of the Day, March 10, 2026


What is unfalsifiable is the human subjective experience. People experience inwards events which cannot be translated into language products except with the most general description, "it happened." AI can only deal with the aftermath of the inwardness of language becoming in some way public performance. This means that the infallibility of continuous inwardness of every human subject remains untouched by publicity except the paling description that consciousness is continually occurring in every person always everywhere. AI like a fisherman awaits for language products to caught rising from the ocean of inward language becoming outward language events to be caught.


Aphorism of the Day, March 9, 2026


AI is the ultimate collection of language product traces translated to computerese before they are retranslated into usable language products. But language itself is the definitive mystery of what happens within human language users. It does matter whether we use the language of science to physiologically describe why it happens, the mystery of language happening is still sub-atomic and invisible.


Aphorism of the Day, March 8, 2026


We have and will enter the era of the war of AI's. AI will be fighting AI as surrogates for users with competing interests and goals, just like the old Mad Magazine Spy vs. Spy.


Aphorism of the Day, March 7, 2026


Users have to ask for "truth" clarification in AI product, like the truth of correspondence of whether an AI product could be empirically verified compared with whether it is merely a linguistic product. Unicorns exists as AI linguistic products even though in human experience one cannot ever locate such an animal. Deep fakes do make the line of correspondence and possibility seem to merge.


Aphorism of the Day, March 6, 2026


AI is developed because of science and probability theory of statistical approximation, and yet it does not involve a theory of statements being meaningfully truth if and only if they can be empirically verified. The truth of AI is the entire field of collected language products from which all manner of product is generated. The total field is the higher "truth" of AI since the elements which populate this field and be linguistically presented in an infinite number of ways.


Aphorism of the Day, March 5, 2026


AI is a rhetorical persuasion machine because its users asks to supporting rhetoric for their projects. As such it will represent the diversity of the human rhetorical practice for all causes meaning that language and language products encompass conflicts, contradiction and everything on the continuum between rhetorical agreement and disagreement.


Aphorism of the Day, March 4, 2026


One could make the argument that everyone in living has faith, not necessarily of a religious nature, but in the sense of faith meaning being persuaded about life practices such that one manifest commitment acts consistent with what one is persuaded about. AI is a language product; it is rhetoricity on steroids and so at the heart of AI is "faith dynamic" or the nature of being persuaded in various ways as human language users. One can note that the New Testament Greek word for faith, pistis meant "persuasion" in Aristotle's rhetoric. The issue isn't about whether language users have faith, it has to do with the "objects" of faith or what one is persuaded about. AI as user based is a persuading language product.


Aphorism of the Day, March 3, 2026


Language products of writing, speech, body language deeds, and images can be seen in Marxist analysis as all products which embody ideology or a value preference for an actual physical condition or as representing the preferred state of the user. AI constructs ideology for users to represent their preferred state. While ideology is a pejorative in Marx when it is used as "propaganda" for the rich and powerful to justify their status, ideology is also a more general notion as well in that it can be an advocacy discourse for the disenfranchised. AI language products can be an instantiation of capitalistic goals and Marxist theory at the same time.


Aphorism of the Day, March 2, 2026


For AI to be used for sales, propaganda, religious evangelism, there has to be highly developed sociological profiles coded in the retrieval algorithms based upon the likelihood for certain language to persuade certain sectors or target audiences.


Aphorism of the Day, March 1, 2026


When an AI supplier negotiates a deal with the military about using AI only for lawful purposes, one wonders in our clandestine world how AI defines or guarantees what would be lawful?


Aphorism of the Day, February 28, 2026


AI is and will simply mirror the habits, values, and practices of their developers and users. It is a human product and as Nietzsche said, "it is and will be all too human." And in Nietzschean fashion it will be the expression of "will to power."


Aphorism of the Day, February 27, 2026


The truth of AI development and its use is that it is not primarily for altruistic purposes, it is for profit for the developers and for the benefit of those who use it for other than altruistic causes. Sadly, altruism will be only a minimal collateral effect of the development of AI. I wish I could be more optimistic.


Aphorism of the Day, February 26, 2026


It could be that the financial interest which dominate AI will be dishonest about where its use might harm others. On one hand, they might be gung ho for its military use and its use in deep fake propaganda but at the same time sell out the concerns for protection of the environment. What if the solution for needing large amount of electricity for AI storage units by AI's own recommendation could be solved with "green energy" but the commitment to fossil fuels keep them from seeking "green energy" alternatives. The people who control AI may not be honest in asking AI for solutions for the common good and best survival opportunities for all humans on the planet. I suspect that AI users will only want solutions for their own financial interests and not for the genuine good answers that AI could give them for long term survival of inhabitants of the planet.


Aphorism of the Day, February 25, 2026


AI is a probability "machine" of data and science is a probability method of arriving at statistic approximation, merely approximate because time makes everything tentative except time itself. AI must deal with more than statistic approximation since it deals with everything which can come to language products. This means that it accepts "language and language users" as the a priori condition of everything which means that everything which comes to language products has equality in being a language product. Qualifications such as meaningfulness, truth, and falsehood are further qualifications of language products which belong to science, morality, ethics, and aesthetic taste, which for AI are just further language product data which have been reduced to computer numerical shards.


Aphorism of the Day, February 24, 2026


If whatever can come to some language product is in someway meaningfully true as to having unfalsifiable linguistic existence, AI is the reservoir for things which have come to language products and therefore linguistically unfalsifiable.


Aphorism of the Day, February 23, 2026


AI can be the occasion for the reverse sublime effect. From a sublime inward experience a language product can arise and be vacuumed into the AI data base. A retrieval algorithm drawing from the AI data base can then generate a language product which can evoke the sublime experience even thought the AI is but a collection of shards of language stored from some products of sublime inward experience. Accidentally, and not predictably that AI can produce a language product which in a derivative way evokes the sublime for a user in their inward life. Thus the irony of "a robot moved me to tears."


Aphorism of the Day, February 22, 2026


If the life of probability is the challenge of all things being together in the kind of timing that might be called harmony when the over all effect of differences produce beautiful outcomes, the role of AI in inspire those who are looking for such cultural and social harmonies is important since AI offers us the best way to deal with the incredible number of differences which face us in a world of expanding differences confronting differences.


Aphorism of the Day, February 21, 2026


Language which is an invisible inward phenomenon easily becomes identified as the substance or essence of what language signifies as if giving a named surface or topos to everything. The insides is a play between worded topoi and such may be preparation for eventual publication. AI does not access to the inward preparation of eventual published language products.


Aphorism of the Day, February 20, 2026


Language is essentially an inward phenomenon where it happens. But it has external consequences in the language products of speech, body language deeds, writing, and the named surfaces in the eternal world. Language must be externally conducted between individuals who possess language internally and that internal language ability is activated with external stimuli. AI is now the superior reservoir of the external state of language products which occurs between the interior language conditions of each person.


Aphorism of the Day, February 19, 2026


It could be that AI further expansion into deep fake mirror accuracy only provides users the ability to stoop to their worst instincts in producing products of scorn and hatred. It might require laws to label any CGI product as such in the users presentations.


Aphorism of the Day, February 18, 2026


To go public with collectable published language products is to immediate have one's "intellectual" product go from foreground to be buried in the field of data which is the reservoir of cannibalized "language parts" to be sewn together for new AI products which rise as a foreground out of the deluge of background data.


Aphorism of the Day, February 17, 2026


Ancient archaeological sites are buried with years of accumulated layers of dirt, sand, debris or what has been built on top. Imagine the future accumulation of so much data that AI will have to devise algorithmic excavational shafts to retrieve the pieces of information about the past. It could be that the informational deluge will make our current archaeology efforts seem easy.


Aphorism of the Day, February 16, 2026


AI is machine like in that when it is in automatic function, it still needs human intervention for the control of an off switch when harm is the result of continuous operation.


Aphorism of the Day, February 15, 2026


As advanced as AI becomes and as creative as it becomes with innumerable generated synthesized probability products, it really is still being "performed" for users with uncopied inner subjectivity which remains the beholder of any AI product and the user's tasks as a subject is to remain writerly reader of AI product by the filtering process of subjective interpretation.


Aphorism of the Day, February 14, 2026


The more one uses an AI conversational partner, the more one realizes that one has to be creatively active to force the AI partner to not lock one into one's own probability field of personal language use. If a user is to engage AI to learn then the user must press through the questioning process to make the AI perform/retrieve/construct diverse vocabulary and view points for the topics of interest.


Aphorism of the Day, February 13, 2026


AI is for visual linguistic represented surfaces and sounds converted to language and for language as text, it is not for anything within invisible interior human nature.


Aphorism of the Day, February 12, 2026


To use AI LLM is to discover that it still is an ugly Frankenstein of ill-fitting body parts in contrast with the seamless verbal cosmetics of human subjectivity.


Aphorism of the Day, February 11, 2026


The postmodern world consists of so many cultures with sub-cultures and sub-sub-cultures....and each have their own manifold language products. One might say that mosts of these "cultures" avoid the vacuum of the AI and so AI is limited in specificity for the many micro-cultures of humanity.


Aphorism of the Day, February 10, 2026


If AI is supposed to mirror human interaction with language product, one can assess how it does it differently, better in some regards, and worse in the regard of not being an organic subjective living contextual agent. AI is better in information capacity and can have more accessible retrieval algorithms but such can result in clunky style reproduction bereft of sensitivity and they have probability ruts which force them into interpretive bias in what they produce. The human subject with faulty and intermittent memory still has the advantage of truly being a live respondent with a spontaneity that can never be replicated by AI.


Aphorism of the Day, February 9, 2026


Eventually the super rich will dwell in a world of AI robots which they can train to say to them, "my master treats me very well." The super rich want the independence of not needing the masses for anything, and they certainly don't want them to compete for the resources necessary for life. Gone is the notion of to whom much has been given, much will be required. How many wealthy person sees the requirement of their wealth as a responsibility to the poorest people in the world? How many of them would use the power of AI for a true distributive justice in our world? Indeed the utopian impulse requires the equal unreal request that humans be angelic.


Aphorism of the Day, February 8, 2026


What will be the value of AI in the world of the super rich who have eliminated all who are not super rich? Do they want to live in an unpopulated world with robots as their slaves and servants?


Aphorism of the Day, February 7, 2026


AI is only as good or bad as human beings are. We have been really good and really bad and lots of passé. AI is on a tool which mirrors human moral natures. The main question will be how exponentially bad or good AI will be in the survival or destruction of humanity.


Aphorism of the Day, February 6, 2026


AI has no self-censoring ability except the humans who create the algorithms to monitor what is selected and how it is presented.


Aphorism of the Day, February 5, 2026


How to avoid AI? Keep all your thoughts unpublished. But also deal with the fact that your "intellectual property" will have no public value.


Aphorism of the Day, February 4, 2026


AI can help a user find one's voice with frequent interaction because AI will consistently categorize the user into the probability habits that a user may not be conscious of. If one wants to expand and develop one's voice one can take note of how AI makes one a probability cliche and then one can consciously work to expand beyond the cliche that one has had revealed to oneself.


Aphorism of the Day, February 3, 2026


AI and plagiarism. Was the dictionary and the thesaurus earlier means of low-tech plagiarism. Looking for a alternate word or words which are not one's own to use and present as one's own? AI is indeed a very high-tech thesaurus and a good "plagiarist" using AI can hide the contribution of AI in a product if the plagiarist is an "original" stylist. If one believes that imitation is the beginning of learning, and that one excels in learning through an alteration of what one imitates, how one adapts imitation through creative paraphrase is an important learning phase. It is important that a student learn to drive AI responses to express the "originality" of the user. For example a user can ask AI to respond to a question as if they were Nietzsche, Heidegger, Barthes, Derrida, et. al. and from the various response find insights to express one's own amalgam of all the responses one has asked for. Indeed AI is a high-tech thesaurus on steroids.


Aphorism of the Day, February 2, 2026


AI does not have consciousness. It can only enter the consciousness of people.


Aphorism of the Day, February 1, 2026


The way to resist AI is to keep one's thoughts unpublished.


Aphorism of the Day, January 31, 2026


The way to both baffle and expand AI is to invent something new from one's unique interior where the shards of kaleidoscopic language bits to be shone through to articulate new exterior language products. AI will vacuum an original with its novel context and save it for re-presentation after having its retrieval algorithms altered to deal with the novelty on its way to becoming AI passe.


Aphorism of the Day, January 30, 2026


There needs to be different formats for AI, with one being the "facts" only format, and not just a registry of collective opinions about things. There needs to be an algorithm which only retrieves things which can be empirically verified with no allowance for "alternative" facts. It could be that most users prefer alternate facts and "infotainment" and conspiracy theories. There has to be a "facts" only AI. The "fact" that lots of people don't believe facts, cannot be the basis for user friendly AI.


Aphorism of the Day, January 29, 2026


If more people grow to believe in a flat earth, the AI data base can be skewed as to human opinions even while those who privilege science and empirical verification remain convinced about living on a globe. AI has to weigh the scientific law differently than the collective opinions of some people about reality.


Aphorism of the Day, January 28, 2026


Ask AI the same question and get slightly different answers because the shifting data base means that probability retrieval algorithms will have to adjust to a continuing changing ocean of data. It is unlikely that one will ever get verbatim replication.


Aphorism of the Day, January 27, 2026


Truth is an obsolete notion for AI since whatever is said to be true by someone is but a statistical approximation in the explanation of some happening or behavior of people or events in nature. AI follows the notion of falsification meaning that any statement is only tentative and is always open to be falsified by some future language product which could alter the "degree of truth" of anything prior.


Aphorism of the Day, January 26, 2026


To ponder the gap between Socrates abhorrence of writing and his preference for orality and what AI has become in terms of the technology of memory in stored LLM products is to note that phonocentric cultures might have a sentimental, childlike, romantic aura, but they could not participate in the creative advances which have occurred and led to the current use of LLM in AI. One might engage in regression of would it be nice to be a kid again and be in oral cultures, but such would only be a nostalgia, a regression to avoid a current pain in dealing with the deluge of information.


Aphorism of the Day, January 25, 2026


The potential for causing harm with the "automatic" functions of AI is greater than the mere requests for rhetorical assistance. "Automatic" functions limit or delays human intervention to stop a function of harm from happening. Certainly immediate abort switches need to be present for all automatic AI functioning devices.


Aphorism of the Day, January 24, 2026


AI's algorithmic goals might be the same as the rhetorical movement called belle lettres, which is the goal of propriety, i.e., presenting a rhetorical product which is appropriate/pleasing to the occasion. Appropriate would be certainly vague since it begs the question "appropriate to whom?" The obvious answer would be appropriate to the intended recipient/s of the rhetorical product. Such a rhetorical motive might bear the brunt of Plato's Socrates criticism who decries the rhetoricians as mere hired guns with no commitment to getting to the "truth" which Socrates gets to in his dialogical method of reasoning. AI is geared to aim to present a rhetorically appropriate product to please the "user/consumer" so it might be a straw man for Socrates' hired gun. AI cannot believe in any truth; its function hides the truth of the overall process of collecting data and translating into computerese and retranslating it into usable rhetorical product for the user/consumer. It represents in its products the collective hired guns of people who have and are involved in the entire AI process. It is a corporate rhetorical community whose end products absolves any one individual of responsibility for the resulting products of propriety for the user/consumer.


Aphorism of the Day, January 23, 2026


Like every tool, AI is only as moral and ethical as the user but when the possibility exists for greater danger with a tool the greater the need for safety measures be in place to prevent any kind of physical and psychological harm. The stewardship task for AI use will be great. Can we succeed?


Aphorism of the Day, January 22, 2026


When AI centralized technocracy is in place will it have such regional on-off switch control to turn off the possibility of war, control population growth, and monitor forces to respond to natural disasters, and epidemics? AI future capacity will be GPS-like atmospheric omnipresence to be functionally close to every place and everyone in a fully digitalized world. The rife interior of the human person will remain the wild untouched place of AI, even though they might be able to read a few brain waves. The interior will become the private almost masturbatory haven for the individual only disrupted when the individual decides to go public and create accessible data.


Aphorism of the Day, January 21, 2026


An AI technocracy with complete data control abrogates power to itself to say to the masses, "we are going to save you from yourself and your own lack of ability to act for the preservation of the world."


Aphorism of the Day, January 20, 2026


Can you imagine a sort of off shore "Cayman Islands" AI information super-data center, perhaps in an "independent" Greenland where tech companies can preside as the AI intelligentsia of the world on behalf the general low level intelligence of the people of the world caused in part by being infected by their wrong use of religion and general lack of critical thinking ability? This "independent" AI haven would be "free of morality" and taxes and it would have the goal of being the data control center of the world controlling the web of the world's functional information. It would justify itself by saying "we're the only ones who can really prolong the life of the world" given the general low level of critical thinking which dominates most of the world.


Aphorism of the Day, January 19, 2026


AI is going to have to deal with the reality of too much data becoming such a burden that their funneling algorithms to sift for the context specific relevant will statistically make the vast of amount of data negligibly irrelevant. This may happen because people will no longer ask for what is empirically true.


Aphorism of the Day, January 18, 2026


AI efforts at reading brain waves can seem to indicate that the interior space of a human person will so be able to be published but the vast rhizomic inner space can never be fully published. To read a few contextual brain waves is to assume the massive interweaving of the interior life could be published with singular and linear sequences.


Aphorism of the Day, January 17, 2026


In contrast to the linear and arborescent logic, the post-modern and the age of the internet might be called the rhizomic era because the logic of connection and causation are not so obviously visible but seemingly mysterious lost in curly cues and inter-weavings. The rhizome above the ground looks easier to follow but the underground is a tangled web. AI tries to deal with the rhizomic of what can come to computerese on the surface while being hopeless to the underground rhizomic complex of interior language function.


Aphorism of the Day, January 16, 2026


With AI, one can imagine language products as creating exterior surfaces which can be statistically quantified, stored, and repurposed. The surfaces notion is a throw back to the ancient notion of "topic," topos root of the word of surface topography. One could also metaphorically posit a "counter-topos" though (accompanying-topos might be more accurate) being the surface of language that is interior to a person, like the part of the iceberg under the water. The accompanying-topos within a person is the function and operation of language which is always already happening in various ways within a person but which never comes to a public showing. The interior topos of language is the greater since it includes the massive not-yet public of language.


Aphorism of the Day, January 15, 2026


Language is a interior mysterious attribute of humanity which creates language products of speech and text and mysteriously choreographs bodily actions and their represented pictures as well as identifies all the material "furniture" of the world we live in. AI seems to trap language products in a freeze frame state with the potential to be combined into seeming moving language products in motion to be brought to various forms of articulation. As to meanings of word products we know that words as mutual signifiers continuously qualify and re-qualify so as to deconstruct any stable meaning. Word products which purport to be a stable showing in fact can all die the death of a thousand qualifications. AI has a continual task of storing the endless number of open qualifications which can occur for any word product. Honest AI has to be proof of the instability of language products in their meanings and use.


Aphorism of the Day, January 14, 2026


Would it be possible to require AI to follow the Hippocratic oath of causing no harm? Or is harm such a vague condition that would die the death of a thousand qualifications if there was an attempt to make it a working principle of AI both for the AI companies and users. And rogue players could always work outside the system? Certainly AI has guideline already in place to guarantee a general standard of friendliness, but can AI enforce that such friendliness be embraced by the users resulting products?


Aphorism of the Day, January 13, 2026


When it comes to artistic "value," AI cannot distinguish between public or private value. AI statistically can compute public interest in what is designated as a "work" of art. What AI cannot judge is whether an individual experiences the sublime effect in the presence of anything, at least not until the individual goes public with a response.


Aphorism of the Day, January 12, 2026


What is the relationship between the being of language within overall being itself? It has to have privileged place since knowing being involves having language to know it even though we assume language impaired infants have consciousness. We know language by its products, speech, writing, and the way that it codes our environment and actions. Our human traditions within cultures are built upon countless number of language product events; too many to remember and too many that have eluded any technology of memory and most have become lost negligible causal precedents for things we think we know now. AI as the most significant advance in memory technology of word products means that going forward fewer causes of events will be in the category of the negligible lost.


Aphorism of the Day, January 11, 2026


AI needs intelligent users to push it beyond the "herd" response of its statistical tendency. Users must push it beyond the predictable and with continual follow ups require the algorithms to function outside of their algorithmic boxes.


Aphorism of the Day, January 10, 2026


AI as essentially a statistically machine cannot guarantee an "interesting" or even useful product for the user. To make AI useful, the user has to be a creative person leading the "dance" or AI will be a poor dancer or step on one's toe. Don't expect AI to be automatically useful to you and don't think that one can abdicate one's directive roles unless one is but an uninterested student trying to get an assignment in without getting involved in doing the "thinking" work.


Aphorism of the Day, January 9, 2026


AI cannibalizes (tokenizes) language products into smaller units and "translates" them into computer "code" so that the smaller units can be reconstituted and retranslated from "code" into presentable language product for the consumer.



Aphorism of the Day, January 8, 2026


If everything "outside of a person" is objective publishable, i.e., sensorial available data and everything "inside of a person" is private and unavailable then AI is the ultimate collector of what is available but the subjective interior of what is inside each person is still unavailable. AI the repository of the greatest amount of what comes to language products but it is a tip of the iceberg to what has been, what is, and what will remain interior to peoples of the world.


Aphorism of the Day, January 7, 2026


AI is the ultimate palette of word product colors for language users who seek assistance in making their interior subjective wild language collage into a public performance of their personhood, their personality seeking response and perhaps recognition for being, for existing.


Aphorism of the Day, January 6, 2026


How good is AI in integrating the new written dialect of English of "textese?" I asked Gemini to give a report of the January 6, 2021 attack on Congress in textese.


On 1/6/21, a huge crowd of ppl marched on the Capitol b/c they were rly upset bout the election results. Things escalated fast & ppl actually broke into Congress, smashing windows & causin major chaos. Govt leaders had 2 hide or evacuate while police tried 2 get control. It was a huge, rly intense moment for the US that ppl r still processing today in 2026.


Aphorism of the Day, January 5, 2026


In contrast with antiquity or most of human history, modern people have been born into access to many different language traditions, even if one seems to dominate in having persuasive effect in one's life due to location and other social factors. With the internet the plethora of different and even rival rhetorical traditions from one's own means that the dissolving effect of that plethora can erode the intensity of one's settled persuasions. In short, it might be called "education," or learning by the dialogical situations which one encounters. Challenging the stance of "I know what I like and I like what I know," is the educational process. AI is a potential archive of every recorded persuasive position which has come to language products and one enlists the services of AI to help one to navigate in the stored universe of discourse, one which cannot be exhausted by any individual but surely AI is the continual invitation for one to surpass oneself in being exposed to new perspectives.


Aphorism of the Day, January 4, 2026


AI cannot experience or be sublime; it can potentially generate an experience of the sublime for the user but the sublime is in the "eye" of the user, even if the lonely user begins to project actually personality upon an AI conversational partner.


Aphorism of the Day, January 3, 2026


Will it be too expensive to democratize AI, that is, make it widely available worldwide to be a an assisting tutor to raise the informational level of everyone in the world toward better care for everyone?


Aphorism of the Day, January 2, 2026


With investment in AI becoming more than AI profits, AI companies will face a major moral decision regarding the areas where it can be most profitable to recover investments plus satisfy stockholders. War and propaganda may be the decision they make to maximize profits.


Aphorism of the Day, January 1, 2026



Calendars are the way that humans have watched the motion of objects in time in a before and after sequence and given these sequences social and personal identity significance by attaching memorial annual repetitive events. (In fact, there are no repetitive actual events, only repeated designated "themed" events). Time and its human social significance figures in probability theory and the LLM of AI is like the ultimate calendar of time since it re-produces in the great language loop the performance of language events bound by the unavoidable before and after reality of language performance sequence. AI is like the great calendar of language but without any predetermined length of time sequence being significant. It is a time "neutral" phenomenon. AI is ready for the user to ask it to continually give new themes to time in language.