Job 20:28
The increase of his house will be washed away,
Pouring out on the day of God’s wrath.
Today is Easter. I learned Thursday at the Maundy Thursday service that Maundy came from mandate as in the new mandate that Christ gave His followers. I’ve heard that phrase at least fifty-eight times over the years and I’ve disliked when people say Holy Thursday as if to minimize the tradition, but apparently I had no idea what it meant. At this rate of learning, I might actually be useful someday.
‘Increase’ was also ‘possessions’, ‘bounty’, and left off to just be house. ‘Washed away’ was also ‘carried away’, ‘carried off’, ‘depart’, ‘cast forth’, ‘uncovered’, and ‘take down’. A lot of this was about his house washing away.
‘Pouring out’ was also ‘dragged off’, ‘rushing waters’, ‘flow away’, ’spill out’, ‘flooding’, and ‘torrents’. ‘Day of wrath’ was also ‘doomsday’.
The chase for artificial intelligence is running away with the bulk of the resources in our world. I was trying to read some messages someone sent me, and I could not get to them as the AI wanted to summarize them for me. The chase is seemingly going to help my pocketbook, but at the same time, why can’t I watch tv without a half hour trying to find a show or without my internet choking on data I don’t need. AI seems to be nothing but a bunch of programming that wasn’t ready when it got released into the world, just like almost everything technology has given us for my whole life.
The most recent headline was that AI was going to crack every safety precaution anyone has ever created. Seems like someone would start using AI to create a work around. I don’t trust AI. But as I realized today, I don’t trust anyone except Christ, so that isn’t exactly a stretch.
I encountered a they in a movie I was watching. I thought they were something and the show indicated they were something else. It matter nothing to the show, but in the end I was offended that I was expected to care about the they or whatever is the proper way to phrase such a statement. I guess this is the thing that bothers me. That I am supposed to care. The world should not get to tell me what to care about. I have God for that.
Written 4/5/26, Posted 5/7/26, Job 486/~1070