POPE LEO XIV TO CLERGY: DO NOT USE AI IN COMPOSING HOMILIES
This story was shared by K.M., and while it may not seem all that significant, my high octane speculative antennae are pulsing with suspicion - to paraphrase that wonderful line from Sir Lawrence Olivier from the movie Sleuth - that this move portends further things to come, for reasons that I shall summarize after the article:
Pope Leo tells priests not to use AI to write homilies or seek likes on TikTok
Here are the central points of His Holiness' concerns:
"Like all the muscles in the body, if we do not use them, if we do not move them, they die. The brain needs to be used, so our intelligence must also be exercised a little so as not to lose this capacity," Leo said in the closed door meeting, according to a report by Vatican News on Feb. 20.
"To give a true homily is to share faith," and artificial intelligence "will never be able to share faith," the pope added.
In short, an artificial intelligence-generated homily is not genuine, precisely because it lacks the human component of faith:
In his meeting with the clergy of Rome, Pope Leo underlined that with a "life authentically rooted in the Lord," one can offer something different, calling it "an illusion on the internet, on TikTok," to think one is offering oneself and gaining 'likes' and 'followers' in that way.
"It is not you: if we are not transmitting the message of Jesus Christ, perhaps we are mistaken, and we must reflect very carefully and humbly about who we are and what we are doing," the pope said.
He underlined that for a priest "a life of prayer" is fundamental, adding that this means "time spent with the Lord," not "the routine of reciting the breviary as quickly as possible."
Obviously, the Pope - and for that matter - any other hierarch, cannot follow his clergy around, look over their shoulder, and make sure they are not using artificial intelligence to generate the text of their homilies... unless of course they wish to install a 24/7 "clergy surveillance grid" to make sure they do not do so, a pursuit which would be the ultimate irony: using the surveillance grid to ensure people do not use artificial intelligence. (Shhh! some "progressive" might think that's a good idea.) With the recent stories of some protestant churches in Europe actually using artificial intelligence "avatar pastors" to conduct services, the Pope's message in my opinion presages some more things to come, and for very good reasons.
Within Roman Catholic doctrine there is the notion of sacramental validity: sacramental celebration is valid - i.e., capable of communicating grace - if (1) it is celebrated with the proper form, (2) if it is celebrated with the proper matter (e.g., water, in the case of baptism), and (3) with the proper intention, i.e., the intention to do in the sacrament what the Church intends to do in it. This last category is closely aligned with the first, because the proper form of a sacrament means the liturgical or ritual context of the sacrament itself, and the words with which it is celebrated. Change the text, and one might thus change the intention, and thus inhibit the validity of a sacrament (it is in fact precisely this point which causes many traditionalist Roman Catholics to prefer the Latin Tridentine mass over that of the Novus Ordo "New Mass" of Vatican Two).
Put in that context, what Leo appears to be doing is clarifying those doctrines, i.e., that the human celebrant is, in all cases of any sacrament, the crucial component in all three components of sacramental validity, for only a human can have intention, only a human can celebrate any sacrament (proper matter), and only a human can celebrate a given sacrament, as the rubrics (the directions telling the celebrant what to do in the books containing the rituals) imply a someone to do the celebrating.
What this means is that, in the future, we should expect a further "clarification" and "tightening" of these concepts from Leo, and clear prohibitions of the "liturgy by remote virtual avatar" that we've seen in some Protestant churches. One might go so far as to anticipate further papal encyclicals on the use and misuses of artificial intelligence in general. And Leo has already indicated where his sympathies lie: there is no replacement for actual human thought and virtue.
See you on the flip side...
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By all means, given the broader context Butler’s Djihad is taking shape.
Shamanistically, hacking the Matrix, in the multiverse of madness!
1. Emperor Trumpy’s ‘five dimensional chess’ follows ‘no rules’, in the international sphere – all the while he adheres, exclusively, to his ‘own morality’, that he, voluntarily, places upon himself, according to his own words.
2. Fundamentally, the 3rd dimension is ‘here and now’, and the 4th dimension is ‘browsing the timeline’, whereas the 5th dimension is being the ‘man outside time’, and, the latter is, quintessentially, the superposition, the Cartesian origin.
3. The brain can’t handle the spherical nature, of the superposition, because, it implies a ‘multiverse of madness’ – when browsing all plausible causations, that, simultaneously, radiate, into every direction, from the fiery superposition, in Plato’s cave.
4. In Star Trek, the Vatican is the ‘skin of evil’ – i.e. the shadow projection, upon the wall, in Plato’s cave – whereas Black Elk’s Six Grandfather’s mathematical powwow [i.e. the superposition] is, to bypass the Vatican gatekeeper, when exiting Plato’s cave [i.e. leaving the karmic wheel].
5. Thus Emperor Trumpy is a typical Jesuit-induced dragon, from the cold-blooded underworld, of the Vatican mafia, who is fully capable of lashing out, into any direction, against anybody, and, he is only kept at bay, by his own private limitations, that he voluntarily places upon himself.
6. The two famous ‘Inklings’ authors were quite literally preoccupied, with the DRACONIC TEMPTATION, in the infernal flames, of the solar superposition – which leads, to the skolling, of the Scythian skull cup, the war trophy, of the Last Supper.
7. Arthurian is the legend, of the satanic Siegfried, who raises the Scythian skull cup, in a merciful absolution, from Floradora’s bottle of booze – whilst hailing, from the fiery halls – inside the hell-sunken sun – at the yearly winter solstice, in the high Heathenry.
Seamus, the mischievous goat:
https://youtu.be/Byz3OMQG06o
SIEGFRIED & FLORADORA
Pope did not want Siegfried to marry,
and sent Jesuit spies in a hurry,
budding romance to quell
with Siegfried in hell,
so dragon would cause no worry.
Breathless became fiery tongue dragon,
suffering pyrotechnic exhaustion,
when Floradora barmaiden
made mixture of gin,
into a highly flammable solution.
Siegfried drank his moonshine at home,
sky walking over starlight dome,
and Floradora’s great catch
found a fiery match,
and thus they burned down Rome.
Ha-ha-ha!
BTW, the ‘madness of multiverse’ is, what the dead-drunken ‘Inklings’ refer to, as the draconic temptation, in ‘The Voyage of the Dawn Treader’, by C. S. Lewis, and the ‘dragon sickness’, in ‘The Hobbit’, by Tolkien – which ignites the Odinite explosives, when the ‘seventh seal’ is broken.
SEVENTH SEAL
When Pendragon wild, not tame,
born of shadow and flame,
killed off every fear
crystal clear,
he went before he came.
When Pendragon was not there,
he became fire everywhere,
within dream awoken
in action taken,
throughout angelic sphere.
When Pendragon did not yield,
in final stand by shield,
he rose victorious
and hilarious,
laughing in empty field.
MAGIC MUSHROOMS
On the top of the world, the one-legged weathercock raises a cock-a-doodle-doo, every which way the wind blows – and – thus the Green Man draws his sword sprout, from a seed stone, in Avalon, the apple island, from where the fruit-fallen tumulus sprouts a world tree, with a Green Man’s crown – and – thus, out of the Lady of the Lake’s rainy puddle, the green grass grows, as the best of blades, in the bardic kingdom of cock-a-doodle-doo.
Ha-ha-ha!
Looks like AI has become a plague, corrupting any institution that uses it
Yes, a Gyro Gearloose, who runs on A.I. steroids – while speculating out on a twig – is a threat, to the powers that be, because all extrapolation, outside the box, challenges the Jesuit-in-the-box, whose gatekeeping, and herding, depends on the herd instinct of the sheep, that believes, whatever its enthralled flock mentality is being told, by the brainwashing Vatican, formerly, the Praetorian Guard.
The extra artificial brain power is a heathen threat, to the average faith-believer, who relies, on docile self-deception, to maintain an opportunistic status quo, that safeguards, against the changing times, of the rolling stones, in Daniel’s prophecy parable, about the collapsing imperial dominos.
Don’t expect too much from His Holiness, and why would you? I follow your work.
Part of a priest’s spiritual practice involves explaining through sermons how to live one’s life based on the virtues, values, and beliefs taught by the Church so the spirit or soul within can live a life worthy of salvation or eternal reward. Writing sermons provides the opportunity to look inward and be inspired by the Holy Spirit. Letting AI write your spiritual lessons is an abdication of a priest’s duty and the opportunity for deepening one’s spiritual practice. An Old Testament prophet would liken it to fornicating with false gods. Not to mention the problem that the Ghost in the AI machine may not be the Holy Ghost you were hoping for. And the subtlety of its deceit may not be apparent to the priest who is willing to cast his duties to the winds of AI.
The Vatican is a no-brainer, according to Michelangelo’s brainy fresco:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/scl/fi/0b0en3hws8dkbsd7611qp/flying-spaghetti-monster.jpg?rlkey=nge6lewh5w498nwcvco536o8z&st=8tzqt50x
Quantum mechanics is a perfect A.I. project, when calculating all plausible outcomes, that radiate, from a superposition.
Originally, Yahweh-Elohim is a quantum mechanical jurisprudence, from Chalcolithic Cucuteni-Trypillia.
D.I.Y. is man talking to himself, while being his own echo chamber, which excludes nosying Jesuit spooks.
Odin’s Christianity is a mere alcoholic skolling, in a Scythian skull cup.