After seeing Bladerunner 2049

All is in God. The reason that God is conceived as the Creator in the Middle Eastern/Western religions is that the Divine Consciousness is a fount of imagination – from the imagination can emerge limitless manifestations.  We exist as projections of this Divine Consciousness and, from our position of blindness, try to probe the limits of our existence.  We ask whether other planets, other civilizations exist in the universe and the answer is ultimately that they do if God wants them to.  We  know what God wants us to know.  There are no limits to the imagination of the Divine – there are only limits to our human imagination, our human perception, our human understanding.

Hollywood is a kind of metaphor for the Divine Consciousness.  Films create a convincing reality that often exceeds the limits of what exists in our current mode. The characters in the Bladerunner, some of them androids or replicants try to come to grips with what it means to have memories and thoughts that may not be theirs but someone else’s.  The question of how they differ from humans arises. They question the value of their existence if it is only artificial and temporary.  The filmmakers do not answer these questions for us.  They themselves are caught in the same Ignorance as we human beings are caught.  We cannot see truth from within the prison of our existence as representational beings within the imagination of the Divine.

Private blogging

It is difficult to find a good way of keeping a personal journal across different computers; or even to find software that keeps a journal nicely.  On Linux I’ve experimented with Redbook, and for years have also been using a plain text filing system that uses a regimented form of the file name to keep track.  However I’m thinking now that a better way may be to use WordPress for this purpose, as, irrespective of whether the journal is shared or private, the writing environment is now pleasant, clean and easy to use, and the journal is always available, whether the blog is shared or otherwise.

I was looking also at Vivaldi’s community.  They have also started to use WordPress for blogs, which seems sensible rather than diverting valuable time and attention to developing their own blogging platform.  I have to admit, I was tempted.  But I learned something from my previous experience with Opera (as well as with other platforms).  Opera created a really nice networked blogging system that was supposed to be bulletproof, or proof against ever removing it, since it was also the basis of a community around Opera itself.  However, eventually they scrapped it.  It was very unfortunate.  Vivaldi is a nice browser, but, like many small tech companies, it’s all dependent upon one man.  If were suddenly to sell out to a larger company, be killed in a car accident, or whatever, the future of Vivaldi would be questionable.  So it’s better to stay with a company like Automattic whose future is more secure.