Heaven

 Heaven

Aliens and Buddhist Cosmology
 
The intention here is to discuss the relevance of Buddhist Cosmology  to alien visitation to this planet.
According to Buddhist cosmology there is only, one human species only limited to this solar system and nowhere else.
Because of the vastness of the universe, I figured out there could be many humanoids in the universe but I am disappointed by this finding in Buddhist Cosmology.
It means there is only one planet in the entire universe which looks like ours and support humans and lower animal species.


The corollary is, if we destroy this planet with a nuclear bomb which is highly likely in the current context, the life form we describe as human will go into extinction along with the rest of the animal species.


Because of the Van Allen belt we cannot escape even to the moon let alone mars to colonize in such an eventuality.
The alien visitation followed after the nuclear testing 70 years ago.
Their purpose was to warn us of the impending danger.
They were benevolent species.
Then of course, there could have been not so benevolent but explorer type who would have come here.
There intention is to explore and exploit.
If this is the only planet of this nature it the experimental laboratory to rejuvenate the lost capabilities and genetic mismatches.
The possibility of cloning and hybrids are real possibility in the name of Tall Whites and Men in Black suits (possibly a hybrid).
These guys of the second category operate at night.
They may not have sex differentiation (already lost but the generations kept by cloning).
So let me now describe in general terms, the six civilizations above our zero generation.
 

1.We humans are Zero Civilization.
Animals are below zero.
 

2. Number one above us come as  First (1st ) Generation Civilization.
Their capabilities are higher than us but their mental capacities are not high as compared to level 6 Civilizations.
They probably have developed devices to travel in space (spaceships etc).
They may be sending human like artificial robots to this planet with highly advanced computer technology probably atomic level.
They are suspicious of our war mentality and do not trust us and they may choose war not negotiation when their interests are hindered or challenged.
They are neither benevolent nor aggressive but detest provocations.
They probably have mind reading telepathic capabilities.
 

3. The Second Level Generation may have visited us but do not like human and first generation interaction and simply avoid both.
Sort of neutral entity.
 

4. The Third Level Civilizations are much superior and non interventional type and their course of action is limited on earth.


5. The Fourth Level Civilizations and above are only benevolent and they may have planted proxies here or working with humans to improve quality of life here.


So we have to worry mostly the First Generation Civilization who may get establish here and make it their stop gap laboratory.
 

So to interact with higher level civilizations, what we need is not technology but mental culture with people who can attain Jhana level absorption to interact with them.
 

So meditation can be used theoretically to fill the mental communication gap.


A summary of Buddhist cosmology is given below.
Planes of Existences
There are 31 planes of existence.
They are four states of Unhappiness (Duggati)
1. Niraya
2. Tiracchana Yoni (animal Kingdom)
3. Peta yoni
4. Asura Yoni

Four happy states (Sugati)
1. Manusa
2. Six Devalokas
3. 16 Rupalokas
4. 4 Arupalokas


The Thirty-one Planes of Existence
Scattered throughout the suttas are references to as many as thirty-one distinct "planes" or "realms" of existence into which beings can be reborn during their long wandering through samsara.
These range from the extraordinarily grim and painful hell realms all the way up to the most exquisitely refined and blissful heaven realms.
Existence in every realm is temporary; in Buddhist cosmology there is no eternal heaven or hell.
Beings are born into a particular realm according to their past kamma.
When they pass away, they take rebirth once again elsewhere according to the quality of their kamma: wholesome actions bring about a favorable rebirth, while unwholesome actions lead to an unfavorable one  and so the wearisome cycle continues.
The realms of existence are customarily divided into three distinct "worlds" (loka), listed here in descending order of refinement:
The Immaterial World (arupa-loka).
Consists of four realms that are accessible to those who pass away while meditating in the formless Jhanas.
The Fine-Material World (rupa-loka).
Consists of sixteen realms whose inhabitants (the devas) experience extremely refined degrees of mental pleasure. These realms are accessible to those who have attained at least some level of Jhana and who have thereby managed to (temporarily) suppress hatred and ill-will. They are said to possess extremely refined bodies of pure light. The highest of these realms, the Pure Abodes, are accessible only to those who have attained to "non-returning," the third stage of Awakening. The Fine-Material World and the Immaterial World together constitute the "heavens" (sagga).
The Sensuous World (kama-loka).
Consists of eleven realms in which experience — both pleasurable and not — is dominated by the five senses. Seven of these realms are favorable destinations, and include our own human realm as well as several realms occupied by devas.
The lowest realms are the four "bad" destinations, which include the animal and hell realms.

 Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Rarity of Humanoids

Human beings (manussa loka)
Rebirth as a human being is extraordinarily rare.
The assumption here is there are only 5 types of humanoids in only five planets.

Below is a reproduction of various types of beings in the universe or galaxies

The Thirty-one Planes of Existence
Scattered throughout the suttas are references to as many as thirty-one distinct "planes" or "realms" of existence into which beings can be reborn during their long wandering through samsara. These range from the extraordinarily grim and painful hell realms all the way up to the most exquisitely refined and blissful heaven realms. Existence in every realm is temporary; in Buddhist cosmology there is no eternal heaven or hell. Beings are born into a particular realm according to their past kamma. When they pass away, they take rebirth once again elsewhere according to the quality of their kamma: wholesome actions bring about a favorable rebirth, while unwholesome actions lead to an unfavorable one.
The realms of existence are customarily divided into three distinct "worlds" (loka), listed here in descending order of refinement:
 
The realms of existence are customarily divided into three distinct "worlds" (loka), listed here in descending order of refinement:

    1. The Immaterial World (arupa-loka)
    Consists of four realms that are accessible to those who pass away while meditating in the formless jhanas.

    2. The Fine-Material World (rupa-loka)
    Consists of sixteen realms whose inhabitants (the devas) experience extremely refined degrees of mental pleasure. These realms are accessible to those who have attained at least some level of jhana and who have thereby managed to (temporarily) suppress hatred and ill will. They are said to possess extremely refined bodies of pure light. The highest of these realms, the Pure Abodes, are accessible only to those who have attained to "non-returning," the third stage of Awakening. The Fine-Material World and the Immaterial World together constitute the "heavens" (sagga).

    3. The Sensuous World (kama-loka)
    Consists of eleven realms in which experience — both pleasurable and not — is dominated by the five senses. Seven of these realms are favorable destinations, and include our own human realm as well as several realms occupied by devas.
    The lowest realms are the four "bad" destinations, which include the animal and hell realms.

I. The Immaterial World (arupa-loka)
Realm Comments Cause of rebirth here
(31) Neither-perception-nor-non-perception (nevasaññanasaññayatanupaga deva)
(30) Nothingness (akiñcaññayatanupaga deva)
(29) Infinite Consciousness (viññanañcayatanupaga deva)
(28) Infinite Space (akasanañcayatanupaga deva)
The inhabitants of these realms are possessed entirely of mind.
Having no physical body, they are unable to hear Dhamma teachings.

II. The Fine-Material World (rupa-loka)
(27) Peerless devas (akanittha deva) These are the five Pure Abodes (suddhavasa), which are accessible only to non-returners (anagami) and arahants. Beings who become non-returners in other planes are reborn here, where they attain arahantship.

Among its inhabitants is Brahma Sahampati, who begs the Buddha to teach Dhamma to the world (
(26) Clear-sighted devas (sudassi deva)
(25) Beautiful devas (sudassa deva)
(24) Untroubled devas (atappa deva)
(23) Devas not Falling Away (aviha deva)
(22) Unconscious beings (asaññasatta)
Only body is present; no mind.
(21) Very Fruitful devas (vehapphala deva)
Beings in these planes enjoy varying degrees of jhanic bliss.
(20) Devas of Refulgent Glory (subhakinna deva)
(19) Devas of Unbounded Glory (appamanasubha deva)
(18) Devas of Limited Glory (parittasubha deva)
(17) Devas of Streaming Radiance (abhassara deva)
(16) Devas of Unbounded Radiance (appamanabha deva)
(15) Devas of Limited Radiance (parittabha deva)
(14) Great Brahmas (Maha brahma)
One of this realm's most famous inhabitants is the Great Brahma, a deity whose delusion leads him to regard himself as the all-powerful, all-seeing creator of the universe
(13) Ministers of Brahma (brahma-purohita deva)
Beings in these planes enjoy varying degrees of jhanic bliss.
(12) Retinue of Brahma (brahma-parisajja deva)


III. The Sensuous World (kama-loka)

Happy Destinations (sugati)
(11) Devas Wielding Power over the Creation of Others (paranimmita-vasavatti deva)
These devas enjoy sense pleasures created by others for them.
Mara, the personification of delusion and desire, lives here.
(10) Devas Delighting in Creation (nimmanarati deva)
These devas delight in the sense objects of their own creation.
(9) Contented devas (tusita deva)
A realm of pure delight and gaiety.
Bodhisattas abide here prior to their final human birth.
This is where the bodhisatta Maitreya (Metteya), the next Buddha, is said to dwell.
(8) Yama devas (yama deva)
These devas live in the air, free of all difficulties.
(7) The Thirty-three Gods (tavatimsa deva)
Sakka, a devotee of the Buddha, presides over this realm.
Many devas dwelling here live in mansions in the air.
(6) Devas of the Four Great Kings (catumaharajika deva)
Home of the gandhabbas, the celestial musicians, and the yakkhas, tree spirits of varying degrees of ethical purity. The latter are analogous to the goblins, trolls, and fairies of Western fairy tales.


(5) Human beings (manussa loka)

Rebirth as a human being is extraordinarily rare.

It is also extraordinarily precious, as its unique balance of pleasure and pain facilitates the development of virtue and wisdom to the degree necessary to set one free from the entire cycle of rebirths.

The development of virtue and wisdom
The attainment of stream-entry (sotapatti) guarantees that all future rebirths will be in the human or higher realms.
States of Deprivation (apaya)
(4) Asuras (asura)
The demons — "titans" — that dwell here are engaged in relentless conflict with each other.
(3) Hungry Shades/Ghosts (peta loka)
Ghosts and unhappy spirits wander hopelessly about this realm, searching in vain for sensual fulfillment.
(2) Animals (tiracchana yoni)
This realm includes all the non-human forms of life that are visible to us under ordinary circumstances: animals, insects, fish, birds, worms, etc.
(1) Hell (niraya)
These are realms of unimaginable suffering and anguish.
Should not be confused with the eternal hell found in other religious traditions, since one's time here is — as it is in every realm — temporary.


Heaven

In Buddhist cosmology, the heaven realms are blissful abodes whose present inhabitants (the devas) gained rebirth there through the power of their past meritorious actions. Like all beings still caught in samsara, however, these deities eventually succumb to aging, illness, and death, and must eventually take rebirth in other realms — pleasant or otherwise — according to the quality and strength of their past kamma. The devas are not always especially knowledgeable or spiritually mature — in fact many are quite intoxicated by their sensual indulgences — and none are considered worthy of veneration or worship.
Nevertheless, the devas and their happy realms stand as important reminders to us both of the happy benefits that ensue from the performance of skillful and meritorious deeds and, finally, of the ultimate shortcomings of sensuality.

 

Order of the Universe and the World Systems

 Order of the Universe and the World Systems

 He is  a Scientific Thinker like me.

 AI    

AI has been egged up a bit. Frankly, we haven’t cracked it. knowledge  and language base is one thing but AI it isn’t, still 10 years away, minimum.
    

Quantum computing. 

Quantum computing, yes there is emerging hardware, but the software required to run it is mind boggling, 10 years away, minimum.

   

Inter stellar transport

Inter stellar transport. Not even close, 2 orders of scientific discovery away, 50 years away at least. 

 Junk satellites

If we aren’t careful by the time we’ve cracked it, this planet will be so surrounded by old junk satellites we won’t be able to leave this old rock!
     

By Nigel Calder and John Newell
     
 The Lifespan of Advanced Civilizations
    A very short lifespan for advanced civilizations may be a realistic probability because as our own case shows, technology mushrooms very rapidly and is accompanied by many dangerous effects such as;
    1. Overpopulation
    2. Depletion of natural resources
    3. Pollution and worse of all
    4. Rapid escalation of nuclear stockpiles which can easily reach the level where they are capable of wiping out the whole population of a planet.
    By the same token, if we were to find significant number of other advanced civilizations in our galaxy it would mean that some at least had been able to overcome the dangers that are now looming over our own civilizations.
     
    If they have reached this advanced stage, it would mean that they have been able discard all of their animistic (BARBARISM) attributes such as materialism, selfishness, territoriality, dominance over others and killing instincts which in a technological civilizations are likely to lead to self destruction.
     
    They would have been able to to mature into higher levels of cosmic intelligence characterized by spirituality, altruism, respect of others, adherence to peace and love for each other.
    Joining such a galactic society would indeed be a colossal step forward in the intellectual and ethical evolution of our civilization.
    This might also be the reason why we have not yet heard from any such advanced civilizations as may exist.
    There must be a galactic rule that says that before a new civilization is invited to join the galactic society it must show that it is able to overcome the major crisis that probably befall all new technological civilizations.
    Since we are still in the midst of this evolutionary problem, there may be advanced civilizations waiting to see how we do before inviting us to join the galactic society of advanced civilizations.


Order of the Universe and the World Systems
This is my analysis of the Universe and the World Systems in a theoretical sense.
 

It is enormously large but its fundamentals can be understood, if we disregard the current themes and dogmatic expressions which are controlled by the religions that exists today.
I will not make reference to Buddhist cosmology to complete the discussions.
I have discussed them, not in detail, in some of my books, for the New Science to emerge from the  ashes.
Even Einstein was reprimanded by the Church, discussing them except the Material World according to, a Big Bang, which suits the Church.
 

Creating material  from nothing without an antecedent.
 

Something from nothing is bete noire or anathema to me.
I have avoided discussing them except asking the pertinent question, “Who created the God”, in my childhood, knowing very well nobody would answer the question posed.
My in born talent was ability for vivid imagination, and nobody has inspired me in my childhood except perhaps Linus Torvalds.
I could figure out mathematics and physics with ease but I did not know my fellow students we struggling with simple arithmetic. 

I thought the guys were equally capable till lately my friends in retirement, alerted to that fallacy of my estimates.
I fitted with the lot, not asking probing question, .in my childhood, just to save me from labeled as insane.

I was thrown out of the class several times, asking questions, the teachers could not answer and which made them "red hot".   
This is what the Church does if, the dogma is challenged, he/she excommunicated in broad day light (covertly, if not overtly).
 

The preamble is necessary, before I summarize my current concepts which are subjected to challenge with alternatives.

1. The current world order and the past world order is/was in a state of flux.
It has always being.

2. Matter is small (less than 5%) and the Dark Matter  and Dark Energy is huge.

3. There is an interchange of dark matter to matter and vice versa.

 This is where the   state of flux works in tandem.
 
4. The relative stability is an illusion, since the conversion is very very slow, which a modern camera cannot catch.

In that sense I am against, a big change or a big bang.
 
5. A camera image now taken is an old incident million light years in count.

We cannot capture the present in any sensible way.
 
This is where vivid imagination is essential to figure out the past, the present and the future in a scientific sense.
 
So my choice of biological science instead of physics was a fortunate coincidence.
We did not have satellite images then.
 
I viewed a few satellite images and made my rough sketch of the universe and the concepts, below.
 
6. We ignored the Dark Matter.
 

7. We had theories for Matter only.
 
8. Expansion of the universe was ignored.
 
9. Dark Matter and the Dark Energy cause the expansion, just as well, lest there is a Big Crunch (opposite of Big Bang)
 
10. Even in some galaxies now viewed from images there is dark matter inside.

That is my crunch point.
 
11. Dark matter is eating up the matter albeit slowly (a conversion point) in the midst of matter.
 
12. The dark matter is converted (convergent point) to matter in the periphery of the galaxies, most likely, giving a semblance of stability, in a state of flux situation.
 
13. The matter can be swallowed by a Dark Hole in a matter of seconds.
 
14. What prevents this is the expansion, geared by dark energy.
 
15. What we know is little, what we do not is enormous.
 
So I have put the essence of New Science in 15 points albeit one or two misconceptions or inaccuracies which are subjected to alternative views.

In Buddhist cosmology, there is nothing on matter or dark matter.

It is all about Mental Culture that can permeate matter and space by Mental Energy and Concepts.

31 Planes of Existence including Humans

 

31 Planes of Existence including Humans 

 A summary of Buddhist cosmology is given below.

There are 31 planes of existence.
 

They are four states of Unhappiness (Dugati)
1. Niraya
2. Tiracchana Yoni (animal Kingdom)
3. Peta yoni
4. Asura Yoni

Four happy states (Sugati)
1. Manusa
2. Six Devalokas
3. 16 Rupalokas
4. 4 Arupalokas


The Thirty One Planes of Existence
Scattered throughout the suttas are references to as many as thirty-one distinct "planes" or "realms" of existence into which beings can be reborn during their long wandering through Samsara.
These range from the extraordinarily grim and painful hell realms all the way up to the most exquisitely refined and blissful heaven realms.
Existence in every realm is temporary; in Buddhist cosmology there is no eternal heaven or hell.
Beings are born into a particular realm according to their past kamma.
When they pass away, they take rebirth once again elsewhere according to the quality of their kamma: wholesome actions bring about a favorable rebirth, while unwholesome actions lead to an unfavorable one  and so the wearisome cycle continues.
The realms of existence are customarily divided into three distinct "worlds" (loka), listed here in descending order of refinement:
The Immaterial World (arupa-loka).
Consists of four realms that are accessible to those who pass away while meditating in the formless Jhanas.
The Fine-Material World (rupa-loka).
Consists of sixteen realms whose inhabitants (the devas) experience extremely refined degrees of mental pleasure. These realms are accessible to those who have attained at least some level of Jhana and who have thereby managed to (temporarily) suppress hatred and ill-will. They are said to possess extremely refined bodies of pure light. The highest of these realms, the Pure Abodes, are accessible only to those who have attained to "non-returning," the third stage of Awakening. The Fine-Material World and the Immaterial World together constitute the "heavens" (sagga).
The Sensuous World (kama-loka).
Consists of eleven realms in which experience — both pleasurable and not — is dominated by the five senses. Seven of these realms are favorable destinations, and include our own human realm as well as several realms occupied by devas.
The lowest realms are the four "bad" destinations, which include the animal and hell realms.

 Wednesday, August 10, 2016
 

Rarity of Humanoids

Human beings (manussa loka)
Rebirth as a human being is extraordinarily rare.
The assumption here is there are only 5 types of humanoids in only five planets.

Below is a reproduction of various types of beings in the universe or galaxies

The Thirty-one Planes of Existence
Scattered throughout the suttas are references to as many as thirty-one distinct "planes" or "realms" of existence into which beings can be reborn during their long wandering through samsara. These range from the extraordinarily grim and painful hell realms all the way up to the most exquisitely refined and blissful heaven realms. Existence in every realm is temporary; in Buddhist cosmology there is no eternal heaven or hell. Beings are born into a particular realm according to their past kamma. When they pass away, they take rebirth once again elsewhere according to the quality of their kamma: wholesome actions bring about a favorable rebirth, while unwholesome actions lead to an unfavorable one.
The realms of existence are customarily divided into three distinct "worlds" (loka), listed here in descending order of refinement:
 
The realms of existence are customarily divided into three distinct "worlds" (loka), listed here in descending order of refinement:

    1. The Immaterial World (arupa-loka)
    Consists of four realms that are accessible to those who pass away while meditating in the formless jhanas.

    2. The Fine-Material World (rupa-loka)
    Consists of sixteen realms whose inhabitants (the devas) experience extremely refined degrees of mental pleasure. These realms are accessible to those who have attained at least some level of jhana and who have thereby managed to (temporarily) suppress hatred and ill will. They are said to possess extremely refined bodies of pure light. The highest of these realms, the Pure Abodes, are accessible only to those who have attained to "non-returning," the third stage of Awakening. The Fine-Material World and the Immaterial World together constitute the "heavens" (sagga).

    3. The Sensuous World (kama-loka)
    Consists of eleven realms in which experience — both pleasurable and not — is dominated by the five senses. Seven of these realms are favorable destinations, and include our own human realm as well as several realms occupied by devas.
    The lowest realms are the four "bad" destinations, which include the animal and hell realms.

I. The Immaterial World (arupa-loka)
Realm Comments Cause of rebirth here
(31) Neither-perception-nor-non-perception (nevasaññanasaññayatanupaga deva)
(30) Nothingness (akiñcaññayatanupaga deva)
(29) Infinite Consciousness (viññanañcayatanupaga deva)
(28) Infinite Space (akasanañcayatanupaga deva)
 

The inhabitants of these realms are possessed entirely of mind.
Having no physical body, they are unable to hear Dhamma teachings.

II. The Fine-Material World (rupa-loka)
 

(27) Peerless devas (akanittha deva) 

These are the five Pure Abodes (suddhavasa), which are accessible only to non-returners (anagami) and arahants. Beings who become non-returners in other planes are reborn here, where they attain arahantship.

Among its inhabitants is Brahma Sahampati, who begs the Buddha to teach Dhamma to the world
 

(26) Clear-sighted devas (sudassi deva)
(25) Beautiful devas (sudassa deva)
(24) Untroubled devas (atappa deva)
(23) Devas not Falling Away (aviha deva)
(22) Unconscious beings (asaññasatta)
 

Only body is present; no mind.
(21) Very Fruitful devas (vehapphala deva)
Beings in these planes enjoy varying degrees of jhanic bliss.
(20) Devas of Refulgent Glory (subhakinna deva)
(19) Devas of Unbounded Glory (appamanasubha deva)
(18) Devas of Limited Glory (parittasubha deva)
(17) Devas of Streaming Radiance (abhassara deva)
(16) Devas of Unbounded Radiance (appamanabha deva)
(15) Devas of Limited Radiance (parittabha deva)
 

(14) Great Brahmas (Maha brahma)
One of this realm's most famous inhabitants is the Great Brahma, a deity whose delusion leads him to regard himself as the all-powerful, all-seeing creator of the universe
(13) Ministers of Brahma (brahma-purohita deva)
Beings in these planes enjoy varying degrees of jhanic bliss.
(12) Retinue of Brahma (brahma-parisajja deva)


III. The Sensuous World (kama-loka)

Happy Destinations (sugati)
(11) Devas Wielding Power over the Creation of Others (paranimmita-vasavatti deva)
These devas enjoy sense pleasures created by others for them.
 

Mara, the personification of delusion and desire, lives here.
 

(10) Devas Delighting in Creation (nimmanarati deva)
These devas delight in the sense objects of their own creation.
 

(9) Contented devas (tusita deva)
A realm of pure delight and gaiety.
Bodhisattas abide here prior to their final human birth.
 

This is where the bodhisatta Maitreya (Metteya), the next Buddha, is said to dwell.
 

(8) Yama devas (yama deva)
These devas live in the air, free of all difficulties.
 

(7) The Thirty-three Gods (tavatimsa deva)
Sakka, a devotee of the Buddha, presides over this realm.
Many devas dwelling here live in mansions in the air.
 

(6) Devas of the Four Great Kings (catumaharajika deva)
Home of the gandhabbas, the celestial musicians, and the yakkhas, tree spirits of varying degrees of ethical purity. 

The latter are analogous to the goblins, trolls, and fairies of Western fairy tales.


(5) Human beings (manussa loka)

Rebirth as a human being is extraordinarily rare.

It is also extraordinarily precious, as its unique balance of pleasure and pain facilitates the development of virtue and wisdom to the degree necessary to set one free from the entire cycle of rebirths.

The development of virtue and wisdom
The attainment of stream-entry (sotapatti) guarantees that all future rebirths will be in the human or higher realms.
 

States of Deprivation (apaya)
(4) Asuras (asura)
The demons — "titans" — that dwell here are engaged in relentless conflict with each other.
(3) Hungry Shades/Ghosts (peta loka)
Ghosts and unhappy spirits wander hopelessly about this realm, searching in vain for sensual fulfillment.
(2) Animals (tiracchana yoni)
This realm includes all the non-human forms of life that are visible to us under ordinary circumstances: animals, insects, fish, birds, worms, etc.
(1) Hell (niraya)
These are realms of unimaginable suffering and anguish.
Should not be confused with the eternal hell found in other religious traditions, since one's time here is — as it is in every realm — temporary.


Heaven

In Buddhist cosmology, the heaven realms are blissful abodes whose present inhabitants (the devas) gained rebirth there through the power of their past meritorious actions. 

Like all beings still caught in samsara, however, these deities eventually succumb to aging, illness, and death, and must eventually take rebirth in other realms — pleasant or otherwise — according to the quality and strength of their past kamma. 

The devas are not always especially knowledgeable or spiritually mature — in fact many are quite intoxicated by their sensual indulgences — and none are considered worthy of veneration or worship.

Nevertheless, the devas and their happy realms stand as important reminders to us both of the happy benefits that ensue from the performance of skillful and meritorious deeds and, finally, of the ultimate shortcomings of sensuality.



 

Why I HATE AI-It is an Embargo on our Thought Process

Why I HATE AI

It is an Embargo on our Thought Process

I thought in this Modern World there is only Truth Embargo.

I am proven wrong.

Even a plane crash investigations are pushed under the carpet.

The latest Model is "Thought Embargo".

 

If we let Elon Musk and AI agents to control us "the principle of democracy" does not stand a chance in another decade or so. By the way as form of protest to these agents I am quitting Goggle YouTube agents for good. My opinions are only face to face or on a smaller form of my friends not in public domain.

 

I made a pertinent comment under a Google Discussion  Forum.

A mundane political piece.

For no given reason Google AI sanctioned some of my comments.

 

This was an innocent discussion by Nirmal Ranjith. 

 

He has no control on this Google "AI Gill Marts".

The item may have something do with God (I may have used the word  myth or mirage).

The argument was not balanced but twisted to one direction not open ended, which it should have been. 

So I did a simple diversion tactic which I am very good at, when a particular discussion becomes boring and in a circular mode or repetitive mode.

Try to get out of the inner circle and broaden the scope, as it were.

This is what happens when we  allow AI to make decisions.

It is dangerous.

No idea or opinion is shaped in a Bell Shaped Curve.

The beauty of ideas is the inherent diversity.

Let the human brain decide the outcome not a man made machine, even if it uses Quantum Logic.

This is why I gradually moved away from the Internet forums and some bizarre discussions.

Karl Marx type of discussions are not allowed even the words Russia and China have become obnoxious. 

 

In the West it is humanly impossible. 

What happened to David Icke?

We need someone like Bertram Russell.

Or even the guy who proposed lateral thinking and Water Logic.

De Bono was his name. 

I do not think he discussed AI at any length in his time.

He was humane and natural.

They are hard to come by.

Bold Steps

 

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Bold Steps

Ten or more steps of my own

 26-01-2011

on Ten or more steps of my own

I have taken some bold steps (decisions) in my life from my childhood and that had come good, when I reflect on them. 

Some of them cannot be mentioned here.
I was a keen observer of nature and people around me and learned to be bold and fearless.

Most of my teachers except who taught me Sinhala and English were mediocre.

I often wondered how they ever became teachers especially in science.

1. One bold step was not to believe teachers especially in science.

That was a very scientific decision by itself.

I had the knack and keen power of observation and the problem solving ability. For example I believed anything can be grown on our be soil, be that it may, seeds or yam or runner provided I water them regularly. 

My father was not a farmer but he was a keen gardener (which he learned from a burger gentleman). 

Except potatoes I could do that on my own but could not figure out why I could not grow potatoes (those days potatoes came from UK and I did not know that they put chemicals to inhibit sprouting and they made sure seed potatoes were never given to us. I discovered this many many years later.). 

This is how western countries help us

2. I decided never to ask scientific questions (why potatoes could not grow) from my teachers (knowing very well they will give a wrong answer to shut my mouth).

3. I decided to do science and one day I decided not to go to the school I was attending abruptly (there were many other reasons and flashes of them I have expanded elsewhere) and that was a very bold decision. 

Finding a school teaching science was difficult but I eventually found one There was another story behind this I would not enlarge upon.

4. I decided NOT to proceed with cadetting even though I was the leader in my old school (I was thrashed by the teacher / principal three times in the new school but I stood my ground). 

I took part in all other sports except cadettting (reason should be obvious and there is / was the worse form of ragging which included sexual for the young).

5. New school was no better in teaching science and I made the decision to do D.I.Y learning science (thank god there were two  Libraries  run by Foreign Agents well stocked -lot of old science books in Kandy then)

6. Due to harassing by teachers I decided to walk out of the science class and asked permission from the principal who thrashed me for not joining cadets. 

He eventually acceded (I still thank him for that help) to my demand (man with military training) knowing my will power.

Little he knew that others will join me later.

7. We decided to work towards a common (first exercise in group work) goal and entire university in the first attempt (both Bio and Maths). 

Eventually all of us did pass and none from the class who attended normal class. 

They thought we (me especially) had gone bonkers.

8. Next decision was to get rid of all the science teachers in one go (Boomi Puthra was one of them) and get some decent ones. 

By this time I have forged some connections with science school inspector who was very helpful.

Proof of the pudding was that nobody from the normal class passed. 

Some teachers feared me more than the principal and I was a good cohort for the principal.

9. We never went for tuition classes and we never got involved in giving tuition to others except my cousin brother who eventually became an engineer. 

He failed all his subjects in “O” Level.

Till he entered the university he was under my clutches.

10. Next decision was to get rid of the compulsory government service act that we had to serve (IMF would love this) for six years and never to join the government service except university (semi-autonomous institution and not a government per say).
 

The way things are happening and developing in the university now leaving that institution was also not a big decision for me.

 
Rest that followed is history.
I suppose nobody should try these methods now since all the systems including schools in this country are very poorly managed by over 100 of ministers and ministries.

There is no half way house for us now as the saying in English goes.

Uncertainty Principle at Best at War Games

This was written sometime back as the first chapter in my book

"Uncertainty Is The Certainty"

The War In Middle east was not in my Mind.

I need add  few lines to this chapter.

The original ideas was bring out this Principle in Dhamma but myself being an simple scientific guy expanded it to many fields. Thankfully I did not publish the book due to many reason including laziness.

Uncertainty Principle at its Best

War Games 

War, Artificial Intelligence and the End Game

This piece is to highlight that the "War of Attrition" has no currency when AI is at work. Nobody seems to have understood this precarious situation. I do not think even China has given credence to this evolving situation.

China is obsessed with AI.

Russia in my belief does not believe in efficiency of the AI operations. It may be useful in a battle situation where surprise is intended. They still believe in human intelligence supervising the AI drones.

I do not want to use the term AI spy agents.

They have boots on the ground.

If AI is given the full control what evolves has no logic or algorithm. Americans do not have reliable boots on the ground and depend heavily on AI gathered intelligence.

At best AI stops at 95% efficiency.

The outlier of 5% is the one which leads to catastrophe in a AI battle of supremacy. The End Game has no logical endpoint but depends on the redundant data set of uncertainty. It is presumed be infinity but infinity has a different physical connotation.

As for knee jerk reaction, I think we have to worry and suspect Americans who would jump the gun prematurely, on a preemptive strike.

Beware.

By the way, this is an American manufactured war. Russia never wanted a war in Ukraine but they preferred negotiations. It was the war monger, Boris Johnson who coaxed Zelensky into war path. Already one million Ukrainians have scarified their life to war of attrition.

It is easy to start a War.

It is very difficult to stop a particular War.

In human terms at this point of time, diplomacy, may or may not work.

The stakes are very high.

Then man made devices are used preemptively.

We have examples in history and the Atomic Bomb in Japan did end the World War II.

Unfortunately, we never managed to come to term with Strategic Arms Control for a sustainable period of time in our history. The Treaty for  Nuclear Arms Control ends in 2025. This was extended unilaterally by Russia for another year.

There is no attempt to reactivate this Treaty.

Due to Presidential election in USA, no attempt to end this war was envisaged.

Status quo remains fragile.

Democratic mechanisms may fail in this type of scenario.

One man rule like in China may fail.

Dialogue may fail.

We have a vulnerable president in power, at a time where diplomacy is at zero strength.

The end game or end point is in "a state of flux".

When we have unstable leaders who do not have mature advisers to lead them, the tendency to rely on AI is realistic. Paradoxically guys who may be eyeing for a  regime change in USA may become proactive.

This was regime change in reverse gear.         

The man who envisaged Regime Change in Russia will be a victim of his own devises.

The pendulum swings from war to no war.

Putting the finger on the AI button, is a realistic probability.

It is literally called the "Panic Button". This is an example of “Uncertainty Principle”, hard at work. 

Victory is uncertain but stale mate is factual.

Winding Up Political and Educational Outputs

Yes, I am winding up all my blog contributions here including Linux UPDATES. 

With AI showing a nasty presence in all spheres of interest, I have the gut feeling that I have nothing to contribute in future.

I am not a politician but I make one last political comment sbout NPP/JVP.

They have come to a dead end and there is no second innings for them.

They have destroyed their own reputation by their own behavior, they have shown that they are unable to put their ideas into viable, plausible and constructive political framework and their political slogans are antithesis to historically and culturally Buddhist country which is CEYLON. 

Their alignment with India and LTTE diaspora is their death knell. 

The history will record them as the most corrupt regime that ever ruled this country. 

That is the Reality and the bottom line.

In simple terms:

Arrogance

Impotence and

Cultural Vulgarity is potently destructive for this small country.

I won't reply to any future comments.

ZERO RESPONSE.

TAILS New Edition is Pretty Good

 TAILS New Edition is lookes pretty good on BOX utility but it does not boot from a USB. I cannot use and it is meant as a DVD image.

Tails does not have a default root or administration password for the live session; it is intentionally disabled for security.

 

To obtain root access (e.g., for installing software), you must set a temporary password during the boot menu under 

"More options" > "Administration Password". 

This password only lasts for the current session. 

Key Details regarding Tails Passwords:

    No Default Password: 

There is no pre-set password for the root user.
    Setting the Password: At the welcome screen, click the "+" button, select "Administration Password," and enter a password of your choice.
    Session Specific: 

This password is not saved and must be re-created every time you boot Tails.
    Persistent Storage: 

If you are asking about the password to unlock encrypted persistent storage, that is a password you created when setting up the persistent volume. 

REBORN OS GRUB is the Best

Yes, Elive messed up with my GRUB but REBORN OS brought eveything back to normal including Pearl Linux and Elive. I just installed Blender and AbiWord on Pearl Linux. It has Lumiri Phone utility.

I think it is based on Debian Trixie. It does not have Synaptic Package Manager but FLATpak.

I am trying to Install Elive-It is a bit of a PAIN

This a Simple Advice to Elive from a Guy who used Linux for over 30 years and one who use Debian GNOME regularly.

This is regarding Installation.

Instead of trying to put everything in one go one should install the basic system and then add Enlightenment Desktop on top of it and any additional stuff you may have originally developed. 

Otherwise, YOU may remain stuck in Bookworm for ever.

I am already into Forky and providing them with feedbacks during and after installation.

Elive is a beautiful dustribution much beautiful than BlueStar Linux KDE which I have in my System.

You have a problem with GRUB.

It is a BootLoader and once installed one does not need to fiddle with it every time one boots except when a new onstallation is made.

YOU ruined my GRUB but I know how to get my system back. This is not true for Newbies. That is why I won't recommend it to Users new to Linux which are numerous due to bungling of the Microsoft.

YOU assume I have Windows in my sysytem and make an entry for Windows. But my NUC never had Windows in it. 

Why are YOU still subservient to Microsoft Windows?

Debian Forky in its EFI Boot Loader does not care for Windows.

You must at least say how much YOU need for the system. I gave 20GB and you ask more without telling me how much.

Long Live Linux.

By the way, I installed Elive in one single partition and it is booting well after UPDATES. Only after UPDATES I could install AbiWord and STACER.

THANK You.

STACER is not available in Forky and instead it has its own GNOME System checking Utility.

I am trying to Install Elive on my NUC with Debian Forky installed.

I am erasing the 5 partitions where Emmabantus Trixie Edition was installed.

I have said Good Bye to Trixie Stable.

It is even pain to install Puppy Linux based on Trixie, simply because none of the configure the WiFi INTERNET configuration.

Elive could not identify my EFI partition and wanted have new EFI.

I declined.

On the plus side it asks a lot of questions before the installation including configuration options which are Automatic with Debian.

Installation run on terminal and on black background and I cannot read them which I used to do, every time I install an ARCH Derivative. I am new to ARCH but with REBORN OS installed, I have a very good understanding.

Installation including formatting is Very, Very SLOW.

It is OK because I have gone through this pain before.

It is Debian Trixie and the desktop is Enlightenment Desktop.

I already have Enlightenment Desktop under Debian GNOME Hood.

I hope it wouldn't ruin my GRUB.

It did and I could not boot REBORN OS.

It it fails I would instal Pearl Linux 13 which also based on Trixie. Yes I am now installing it on the destoyed REBORN partitions. It has its own modified XFCE Desktop caled PDE. It has Synaptic Package Manager a plus point.

Elive has developed its own Desktop Effects which is admirable and I need to make an entry about Elive Linux in my book "Linux Essential".

By the way, WiFi configuration was smooth and I hope it UPDATES all the applications during Installation.

Irritatingly, it configure the User and Password at the end of the Installation.

I am hesitant to recommend it to any soul but one who is interested in Desktop Effects in Linux which are FROZEN in KDE, this is the distribution one SHOULD Try.

Booting is SLOW which is understandable given its Desktop Effects at boot time.

It did not ruin my GRUB.

More work for me.

It is much better than COSMIC Desktop and KDE.

THANK You to all especially, the Developer Guys and Girls at  Elive Linux.

Elive is much better than Emmabantus.

I am going to miss Synaptic Package Manager. If it was available, first thing I do is to install GNOME Desktop.

By the way, it has Blender which Forky has done away with.

Only Flatpak SOFTWARE is available and I did not try any.

It took only 10GB of space and I have 16GB left in the /root partition.

As a punishment for destroying my GRUB and interfering with my favourite REBORN OS, I decided to delegate only 12GB for its /root partition and Reinstall and Get back my REBORN OS after finishing instslling Pearl Linux. 

I have added another partition making 30 in total. 29 partitions was a misstep to begin with.

I will have 6 distributions instead of 5.

In the past single partition was given to MX Linux which has lost my interest.

By the way, Elive did not ask for a SWAP Partition which was unusual for a old Linux Distribution.

Pearl Linux

Pearl Linux reminds me of Pingue Linux now defunct.

Image is 4.2GB which has gone beyond my limit of 4GB for basic installation. Because it has lot of usuful applications including Gparted, no qualms.

It is Trixie based.

Desktop PDE is modified XFCE (I hate XFCE ) which looks AppleMac.

GuvcView does not work.

Browser is Google Chrome which I never use but Firefox is available.

I am a Firefox guy.

Installation is over.

It has Synaptic Package Manager which is a plus point and I had to install only AbiWord and the rest is already installed.

Tried to install GNOME but failed but did not persevere fearing disruption at boot time.

British Lies

Yes, British are confirmed Historical Liars.

King George VI started it.

Edward Meuller was an accessory.

Final link of this distortion is Catholic Priest Pananavitharana the bum sucker of history writing.

Currently the project manager is Raj Soma Deva, a L. T. T. E. activists who gets money from L. T. T. E. through India.

3 Books by Jayaratne Pathiraarachchi disputing these archaeological facts were burned at the behest of diaspora and Buddhist monks.

Ellawala Medananda is in this loop.

This gentleman with enormous courage has read over 30,000 Stone Edits and has published by various means 3000 to 4000 Stone Edits.

 

Ceylon Archaeological Department is in doldrums or permanent or Total Amnesia (The Amnesic Incognito Live System -TAILS).

It is no point waking them from Slumber.

Perradeniya University monk lecturer Haguranketa Seelaratana is one among the top distorters.

Spacesuit and its Occupant

 Posted on February 9, 2011

Spacesuit and its Occupant

Mind this is an introduction for anybody who is running short of an idea to write about in WordPress blogging site.

This is an idea I hit upon by reading a blog writing of a experienced civil pilot not a fighter pilot.

Have you ever thought of the 50 thinks that the spacesuit occupant in space won’t share with his body soul?

You probably have not but I was one who was very much interested in this in my school days and in early days as medical student.

I cannot remember what I wrote then but this is an attempt to revise some of those physiological constraints not in particular order or in any order of merits.

Suffice is to say I get a sickly feeling when I think of space (occupied especially by alien elements).

Imagine yourself trapped in a escalator without illumination (light) and the computer circuit controlling it up and down movement gone haywire and it is going up and down in an erratic fashion. That is a the feeling I get moment I put on a spacesuit for travel.

That is one thing one must consider when paying for, an enormous amount for a single trip in space.

Is it worth the experience and the money?

Probably not but having said that I have tremendously high regard for those guys who trained for years end on to go to space. They are a dedicated lot and give them the due respect they deserve if you happen to meet anyone of them.

They were the human guinea pigs on space.

I often wonder how many times they felt sick and vertiginous even in their sleep.

Probably many many times and uncountable and that is the feeling I get if I am invited to wear a spacesuit and come hither for a go.

I will list the feeling inside my head with little imagination and some understanding of my own physiology if not of another being.

1. I hate the space constraint. 

This is the feeling one gets if one has to stay in a tiny hotel room in Singapore overnight due to some delay, cancellation or transit. I have had that feeling once or twice,  traveling by cheap air flights. 

When you fly on a good aircraft and not on a budget or Mihin (Hemin) Lanka

2. I hate heights. 

Imagine you are in a hotel overnight on the 21st floor room due to flight cancellation. You are well away from a fire exit and there is a blackout and fire drill.  

You don’t have a pen torch.

 If you are one floor above you can think of jumping out and breaking your legs but not on 21st Floor. That is why rooms are cheap as you go above. Please pay a good some and ask for a room down below. It is better even if you go to Colombo taking a pen torch with you with these high rising development projects. 

Born to this earth with feet firmly grounded and ample space to breath pristine air (not now even in Kandy) as an embodiment, getting into a spacesuit is the luxury I do not want to avail myself not even in my next incarnation.

3. Now about the daily routines I enjoy. 

Sleep to begin with. I think I can manage sleep upside down on space inside a spacesuit since there is nothing else I can do there except dreaming coming home. I can do this since I have learned how to sleep standing on an express bus plying from Kandy to Colombo on a Monday morning. I believe all Ceylonese are good at this. Only if you do not have money in your back pocket. There are plenty of pickpockets in this country including politicians who pick our vote without our knowledge. They are called pickvotters or even better pickpotters (stuffing the ballot boxes).
These two are new words, I have coined for the Oxford Dictionary with local elections due now.

4. What about food. 

I won't enjoy the high calorie, high protein dehydrated food fads of space travelers especially they are floating about and not placed on a plate with a well laid out nice table. My worry is not the quality of food but how I am to partake them in a more sociable way. Not empty them to my mouth from paper carton after paper carton.

5. Coming to spirits (if they are allowed like a commercial flight) and drinks. When I suck (not drink them) a little, I want them to stay a while in the mouth and esophagus and stomach and not go flushing down like a vacuum cleaner on full throttle to the colon in one go..

6. After meal I want to brush my teeth as my good dental friends tell me with a tooth brush floating in air and the toothpaste all over the face with me trying to reach as far as it goes to the third molar.

7. That also I can manage but how about a quick spend a penny in the loo with my prostrate pushing hard on the correct track inside but the squirt getting between my spacesuit and the underwear. 

That is my major worry since I will never master my physiology how ever much I train on earth and mid air.

8. Then the master job of course I have decided one last one here and never in the shuttle till I come home and take some constipating medicare one week before the departure. I do not want my smelly secrets floating in air and taking pictures of me in flight.

No thank you.

9. Last but not least I fear the algae and the fungi I have been accustomed on earth and living with me with mutual understanding all along my life for years taking advantage of the flight and growing all over me. In nails, wind pipe, mouth and all of my privates.

10. Last of all I love scratching my skin, just for fun and any other accessible point from my crown to the rump. 

With these fungi floating around and waiting for a breach, I won’t be able enjoy that luxury.

11. As for the rubbish I collect on flight no problem. 

We are trained to drop at any advantage point in the town and the Municipalities never clean them. I just open the window and drop it down when we are centering round Ceylon with a note stating “coming from space shuttle in orbit no valuables dropped but destined for Ceylonese, war heroes included”.

This is why when President Obama invited me for a flight in space, I refused and gave over 100 volunteers from our parliament elected and wanting to get elected. He of course refused or nay parliamentarians after the Health Bill was bailed out.

Customized Linux Distribution

 Making Customized Linux Distributions “On the Go” and “In the Cloud”
Posted on October 4, 2011 

Distributions “On the Go” and “In the Cloud”

The idea I am proposing is not anything original. It is something done before on a trial basis.
At least for the record Suse has done it by way of SuSe Studio. My idea is to support the concept but not necessarily SuSe.

My concept is not bound to one Unix/Linux derivative but Universal. It is the concept where all the Linux Utilities could handshake.
If one is a commercial Linux Enterprise like Redhat or SuSe  they cannot enact what I am going to state.

This is the only way we can give our due respect to Richard Stallman and Linus Torvald.

This is an extension of FOSS Philosophy and to help Developers who come from various backgrounds to Unite and work as a Powerful Force, specially to save the precious development time.
Like what they did to O.L.P.S, the commercial enterprises like Oracle who has a head start in database warehousing might try to kill this idea.

As a side effect my blogsite may be attacked.

The visitors who were less than 24 per day have gone up suddenly and it looks like some zombie type of attack was engineered by somebody  out there but until now it did not materialize.
There are Cyber-terrorist, I cal them, out there.

Concept is simple.
1. Linux Kernel/s are housed in the cloud with on house bug fixing.

2. Live Script is hosted on another cloud with various ways to enhance it versatility.
For example language support for particular language.
It should evolve like the Universal GRUB.

3. X-windows are housed as cloud utilities from Fluxbox to LXDE to Unity to KDE to Gnome.

4. All repositories need to take the tags out of their distributions (their tagging can be kept in their own clouds) and host all applications in the clouds as package utilities.
A Universal Package Manager (UPM for short) should evolve.

5. Script to reach the above  four (4) on a stepwise manner should be designed.
I call it the plugger.
One can call it the Universal Connector (like the electricity plugs of various countries) and it is virtually wired to the utilities through cloud.

6. Once all the required components are assembled an automated procedure should make a customized CD/DVD for testing on a virtual machine in the cloud.
All stages up to this should be virtualized.

7. Any developer community could then use the product to customize final product if necessary and put it out with a Linux Brand name of their choice and maintain it for that community and the customer base.

By this way, it won’t kill the community with over 300 active and 300 inactive distributions.

The reason for the inactivity is often due to one developer does the bulk of the work and rest follow his or her footsteps and when the chief retires due to domestic reasons there is nobody to step in and succeed.
This is the deficiency of the Linux customer architecture which often becomes dormant.
Whereas, in a failing commercial venture like HP, there is somebody to step in till complete bankruptcy is claimed.

Linux do not go bankrupt it goes into hibernation like some animals. My idea is to wake up these beautiful animals from sleep.
The cloud can be the place for them to hibernate untill some metamorphosis of this animal can occur in its sleep mode unlike in real animal world. This metamorphosis is good for Linux.

There a lot of steps missing in my concept but I firmly believe that it can be done and accomplished if the right steps are taken before commercial clouds invade us an blacken the sky like a rain cloud. As a beneficiary I would be able to make my own customized Linux in the cloud at least once a year. My planning are on yearly basis to the grave and not for a century.

But the above concept should outlast me by at least a century with cloud computing on the horizon.
I bet USA/Russia/China cannot do this alone.
U.N.O cannot do. It won’t even try.

But Linux can do it since Linux Guys/Girls do not have racial or national boundaries.
We are all together.
All will be benefited.
Any commercial company can hijack this concept of mine provided they acknowledge that it is coming from a small country called Ceylon which is trying to recover from 30 years of war which  the Commonwealth (it is not common anymore than it used to be) is hell-bent to destroy.
They company also should not send the final product Free to Ceylon or on IMF Loan to us as long as I am alive and well.

They may try to kill my idea after investing the money but not me.Even they kill my idea, lot of nice guys/girls are out their with brains and community spirit.
It will be reborn again in some far corner of this planet.

With cloud computing we are going to be truly global.