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Thank you very much for this tidbit Deena. We all know but now that substack IS our news channel and history book, this piece is another pearl on the thread of Life

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a truly cutting edge issue for our time.

Important for us all to ask ourselves: Where do you stand?

Thank you Deena!

💜💜💜

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"A prevailing belief is that technology and the cultures that develop from them cannot be reversed. Those who protest the many extreme negative consequences of such are disparagingly called Luddites. We might consider that this disparagement is a cover-up for the entrenched belief that true change or reversal is impossible. Theoretically then, we are eternally shackled to the accelerated generative models and other catastrophes no matter the consequences or by whom or by what they are enacted. Whom does this thinking serve?"

Very well said. Thank you. 🙏🏼

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This put me in a dream state. I did a little research on The Golem and it opened a lot in terms of imagining how to stop this new Gollum. I found that the word "emet" was written on the forehead of the Golem Rabbi Loew created and that he put the word "shem" (which means "hame,") into his mouth. Both these words (names) are the names of Noah's son's, both of which carried the sacred vessel that held the sacred oil that burned for 8 days and became the holy days of Hanukah. I've also seen the word that was put into the Golem's mouth as "Schem" which means "the habitus, as comprising everything in a person which strikes the senses, the figure, bearing, discourse, actions, manner of life etc." It seems consequential that Noah's son's names are associated with the Golem as all that was left of life on earth besides water and air were the beings on Noah's Arc.

As always thank you for this thoughtful and thought provoking posting.

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What a profound telling. I would imagine that 'Shem' refers to HaShem - one of the 72 sacred names of God --and what an error it was, then, to use the Holy in any violent manner. (Like the contemporary practice of blessing guns.). My prayer is that we will begin with this absolutely necessary act of reversing what we have wrought and find the ways to undo the great harm we are doing and restore and protect cCeation.

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The Gollum of Lord of the Rings comes to mind as well.

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