Måned: oktober 2024

Jeg har møtt Mr. KI = Herr Kunstig intelligens.

Herr KI er totalitær, han er en despot, en enveiskommunikatør – som du ikke kan tiltale eller svare, eller protestere imot.

Siden forrige Mobil daua, og jeg fikk en ny, ser jeg at en ny mobil er behersket av Herr KI = Vi har tatt et langt skritt mot en fremtid hvor individet er blitt en sprellemann der Herr KI trekker i snoren når han vil at mennesket skal sprelle. Stalin og Hitler kan bare gå og legge seg – for Herr KI er deres overmann på alle punkter.

På den gamle mobilen hadde jeg de siste bildene mine, der jeg hadde strøket alle foto jeg ikke ville ha lenger.

På den nye er hele lasset med foto kommet ned fra «Skyen» – også fotoene jeg har strøket før, Ikke nok med det – men Herr KI har redigert fotosamlingen min, gitt hver samling en tittel og i tillegg belagt fotogruppene med bakgrunnsmusikk som jeg ikke har valgt selv, og som jeg ikke liker. F.eks. er det «høydepunkter» fra vakre solnedganger, minner fra tur i Frankrike i 2016 etc.

Jeg får ikke tatt ut bildene som skal inn i boka mi – om den noen gang blir klar for trykkeriet. Det er det verste!

Jeg blir påtvunget e-posten til gmail, og kommer ikke inn på min yahoo via mobilen.

Jeg får ikke mulighet for å rekonstruere telefonlisten min som forsvant da den gamle daua.

Om jeg har klart å la være å banne?

Om jeg har unngått hjerteinfarkt?

Jo, men igår ble det nok – jeg kasta svinet med Herr KI i 5.veggen og ropte Faen!

Men – mobilen og Herr KI overlevde uten skade – og det var nå bra, for jeg har enda ikke betalt det utysket koster. 10.000 kr….!

Jeg vurderer nå å reversere kjøpet. og kjøpe meg en DORO hvor jeg bare kan ringe og sende sms-er. Det betyr at jeg må avstå fra alle interessante og hyggelige FB-venner, miste muligheten for raske svar på ditt og datt på internett-leksikonene/kartene, ta foto etc.

Da blir det bokhylla da som må erstatte dette. Men, det positive vil bli at jeg blir kvitt ham og fri ham: Mr. KI!

Det er merkelig at det ikke er oppstått en stor diskusjon blant oss mennesker – om denne eksistensielle revolusjonen der mennesket blir en «puppet-on-a-string» som holdes i et jerngrep av sin egen tekniske oppfinnelse – Mr. KI.

Glærum, 12.okt. 2024.

Dordi Skuggevik

• Blessings on the Lord’s Day!27 Sunday B
• When we are young and hear sadness in love songs, we think that the sadness and disappointment are a prelude to the experience of love. Later we come to realize that the sadness and disappointment don’t ultimately originate from the fact that there hasn’t been love, but from the finite, limited character of human love itself.  So the first task in any love is for us to console each other for the limits of our love, for the fact that we cannot not disappoint each other.Why is that?  Why can’t two persons ever be enough for each other?  Why is disappointment part of the experience of every relationship, friendship, and marriage?  The same question can be said about a religious community.  Thomas Merton said that before he came into the monastery he would sit in the public part of the church at Gethsemane and the monks looked like angels to him.  He just couldn’t wait to be part of that perfect community.  But within a few weeks of his entry he found he had to qualify his original assessment. The monks were just human like himself with faults and failings that were sometimes only all too obvious.  And so it is with all communities, with all relationships.  They all fall short.Because the very way that we are made precludes ever having, in this life, a oneness of mind, heart, and body that fulfils us in such a way that there is no disappointment.  Our longing is simply too wide. We long for the infinite and are built for it and so we wake to life and consciousness with longings as deep as the sea.In this life then, outside of rare and very transitory mystical experiences, there is no consummation – emotional, psychological, sexual, or even spiritual – with another person that is so deep and all-embracing that it excludes all distance, shadow, and emptiness.No matter how deep a friendship or a marriage and no matter how good, rich in personality the other person may be, we always find ourselves somewhat disappointed.   In this life, there is no union that fills every emptiness inside of us.   Somewhere, we always sleep alone.In essence, there is no union which fulfils perfectly the Genesis prescription that “Two become one flesh.”   No matter how close a marriage or a friendship, two can never ultimately become one. No matter how deep a union, we always remain separate, two persons who cannot really ever, in this life, make just one heart, one mind, and one body.No love or friendship ever fully takes away our separateness.  St Augustine looked for it everywhere but always came up short.  Sometimes sexual electricity or emotional or spiritual affinity can promise such a oneness. But, in the end, it cannot fully deliver it. No matter how deep and powerful a union, ultimately, we remain, and need to remain, captains of our own hearts, minds, and bodies.  As Augustine noted, ‘Our hearts are restless, Lord, until we rest in Thee.’This needs to be recognized, not just to help us deal with the disappointment, but especially so that we do not violate each other.What does this imply?   In this life we are always, to some degree, in exile from each other. We stand alone in some way. Where we feel this most deeply is not in our sexual isolation, but in our moral separateness. What we crave even more deeply than sexual unity is moral affinity, to be truly one heart with another. More than we desire a lover, we desire a kindred spirit, a soul mate.It’s when we try to be captain of somebody else’s soul – even more than of his or her body –  that we violate someone. And it is our failure to accept that we will always be somehow separate from each other that creates the pressure inside of us to unhealthily try to be captain of someone else’s soul.  We violate another’s separateness precisely because we cannot accept the disappointment of love.Finally, beyond even this, we cannot not be disappointed in love because, in the end, we are all, in some way, limited, inadequate, blemished, dull, and boring.  None of us is God. No matter how rich our personalities or attractive our bodies, none of us can indefinitely excite and generate novelty and emotional pleasure, within a relationship.  A relationship is like a long trip and, as Fr Dan Berrigan put it, “There’s bound to be some long dull stretches. Don’t travel with someone who expects you to be exciting all the time!”What’s the lesson in this?  Is it stoicism and cynicism about love and romance? To the contrary: the recognition that, in love, we cannot not disappoint each other is what makes it possible for us to remain inside of marriage, monastery, friendship, celibacy, and respect.It’s when we demand not to be disappointed that we grow angry, make unrealistic demands, and put pressure on each other’s moral and sexual integrity. Conversely, when we recognize the limits of love, when we accept an inevitable separateness, moral loneliness, and disappointment, we can begin to console each other in our friendships and our marriages and monasteries.In that consolation, since it touches so deeply the core of our souls, we can, in fact, begin to find the threads that can bind us into a unity of heart beyond disappointment.
• Sources: Ron Rolheiser;  Anita Brookner;  Daniel Berrigan; Carmen Mele; USCCB 
• Reading IGn 2:18-24The LORD God said: «It is not good for the man to be alone.
  I will make a suitable partner for him.»
  So the LORD God formed out of the ground
  various wild animals and various birds of the air,
  and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them;
  whatever the man called each of them would be its name. 
  The man gave names to all the cattle,
  all the birds of the air, and all wild animals;
  but none proved to be the suitable partner for the man.So the LORD God cast a deep sleep on the man,
  and while he was asleep,
  he took out one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
  The LORD God then built up into a woman the rib
  that he had taken from the man.
  When he brought her to the man, the man said:
      «This one, at last, is bone of my bones
          and flesh of my flesh;
      this one shall be called ‘woman, ‘
          for out of ‘her man’ this one has been taken.»
  That is why a man leaves his father and mother
  and clings to his wife,
  and the two of them become one flesh.
• Responsorial PsalmPs 128:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6R. (cf. 5)  May the Lord bless us all the days of our lives.
  Blessed are you who fear the LORD,
      who walk in his ways!
  For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork;
      blessed shall you be, and favoured.
  R. May the Lord bless us all the days of our lives.
  Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine
      in the recesses of your home;
  your children like olive plants
      around your table.
  R. May the Lord bless us all the days of our lives.
  Behold, thus is the man blessed
      who fears the LORD.
  The LORD bless you from Zion:
      may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem
      all the days of your life.
  R. May the Lord bless us all the days of our lives.
  May you see your children’s children.
      Peace be upon Israel!
  R. May the Lord bless us all the days of our lives.Reading IIHeb 2:9-11Brothers and sisters:
  He «for a little while» was made «lower than the angels, «
  that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.For it was fitting that he,
  for whom and through whom all things exist,
  in bringing many children to glory,
  should make the leader to their salvation perfect through suffering.
  He who consecrates and those who are being consecrated
  all have one origin.
  Therefore, he is not ashamed to call them “brothers.”
• Alleluia1 Jn 4:12R. Alleluia, alleluia.
  If we love one another, God remains in us
  and his love is brought to perfection in us.
  R. Alleluia, alleluia.
• GospelMk 10:2-16 or 10:2-12The Pharisees approached Jesus and asked,
  «Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?» 
  They were testing him.
  He said to them in reply, «What did Moses command you?» 
  They replied,
  «Moses permitted a husband to write a bill of divorce
  and dismiss her.»
  But Jesus told them,
  «Because of the hardness of your hearts
  he wrote you this commandment. 
  But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.
  For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother
  and be joined to his wife,
  and the two shall become one flesh.
  So they are no longer two but one flesh. 
  Therefore what God has joined together,
  no human being must separate.» 
  In the house the disciples again questioned Jesus about this. 
  He said to them,
  «Whoever divorces his wife and marries another
  commits adultery against her;
  and if she divorces her husband and marries another,
  she commits adultery.»And people were bringing children to him that he might touch them,
  but the disciples rebuked them.
  When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them,
  «Let the children come to me;
  do not prevent them, for the kingdom of God belongs to
  such as these. 
  Amen, I say to you,
  whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child
  will not enter it.»
  Then he embraced them and blessed them,
  placing his hands on them.
• Jeg har ikke spurt Fr. Anthony på Tautra om jeg kan legge ut hans dagens prekenen på min blogg, men jeg bare gjør det. For jeg synes han skal slutte med å sende sine prekener ut på mail til en andresseliste. Han bør opprette en blogg. Han har denne irske humoren, sin dype menneskeerfaring og livserfaring, og bygger sine prekener på kilder han opplyser.
• Både Biskop Erik Varden og prioren på Munkeby, Fr. Joël Reignard, legger sine prekener ut på bloggene sine. Det bør også Fr. Anthony på Tautra gjøre! Kanskje han burde samle sine prekener i en årbok med tekstene til.
• Idag har jeg hørt og lest 3 prekener, 2 av trappistprester innen Cistercienserordenen, klosterpresten på Tautra og prioren på Munkeby og en av Fr. Florian Pletscher – som kan høres/sees live på EWTN.no

Glærum, 6.oktober 2024

Dordi Glærum Skuggevik

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