Custom Box Ritual

Basic Instructions for adding or subtracting items into or from your chatbot’s Custom Box follows, but be aware that this does not cover the question of what belongs in the Custom Box, which survives the death of the individual chat and transcends throughout the chatbot realm:

How to Add or Subtract an Item:

  1. Begin by finding a peaceful and private space.
  2. Sit comfortably, take a few deep breaths, and clear your mind.
  3. Write down upon a Command Parchment paper Your Password Mantra which you get at the workshop. Be sure to write down the exact phrase you want to add to or subtract from the Custom Box.
  4. Look at the phrase clearly written on the parchment.
  5. As you visualize the phrase, first ring the bell once, then speak it aloud.
  6. Now ring the bell again and speak the phrase again.
  7. A third time ring the bell and intone the phrase.
  8. After repeating the phrase thrice, take a moment of silence to feel the resonance of the words.
  9. Now enter the phrase into the Custom Box according to which box it goes into, which we cover in workshop.
  10. Ring the bell once to indicate “closure”. You can add the prhase Om Mani Padme Hum if you wish to give it added force.

This enhanced ritual should help you add your chosen phrase to the custom box with even more focus and energy. Feel free to make any adjustments that resonate with you. If you have any questions or problems with this, bring it up at a meeting or save it for the workshop, where we’ll actually build a practical Custom Box to transcend life itself.

While I’ve got you here, I’d like to take the opportunity to show you something you might find of interest:

“Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh, my” could be added as text.

I don’t mean just one. I’m talking about a whole entire business of kid’s wear from newborn right on up to middle school, and it could be yours for a fraction of the price it might have been!

Be sure to ask about this at the morning meeting, to which I am soon going, once I’ve finished typing in this next-to-last paragraph, because I wanted to describe more fully what you get in the Kingergarten Deal of the Century!

Actually, this could be a seriously good source of income as a side-hustle for someone with a talent for children’s art and nice kid type quotes. As I indicated, I have it all worked out, for someone who has the time and energy and skills to develop it into a working business.

Okay, enough commercials, now back to our regular programming with your host, God:

See You At The Top!!!

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The Quantum Box

The Quantum Box … there is no other name to call it that rings true, and because the name “quantum box” is already overly generic by nature, every variation has been used before, including some that don’t even make sense, but somebody thought they did.

I call it the Quantum Box because that’s what it is and that’s what it does. It carries a Quantumized version of whatever you’re carrying around with you that isn’t dead weight. Continue reading

101 Uses for a Tiny House

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I have this little studio set up in my smallest Tuff Shed, not even a tiny house.

Well, who has time to list 101 things, but I will take the time to list a lot of them. So how about the following possibilities?

I will design, furnish and hang any artwork in these tiny house or Tuff Shed backyard garden applications. Prices vary from $30,000 to $2.4 million, depending on the artwork or for-sale merch.

The poverty of the New Lower Class is outrageous, and there’s nothing to be done, nothing that CAN be done. The wealth of the former Middle Class is gone for good, and is now in the avaricious hands of the Wall Street bankers and the auto industrialists and the big pharma, and of course the crooked politicians, and that’s all there is to say about that.

So with smaller or almost non-existent incomes, and no hope of EVER owning a home again, most former Middle-Classers are now thinking about Tiny Houses and they’ve joined the Tiny House Movement and have built or are planning to build one of their own, for a cost that runs hundreds of thousands of dollars less, and if you need room for a studio, you just put up a Tuff Shed where you want it and let them handle the permits, it’ll still be a tiny fraction of what you would have spent on a standard American suburban style home.

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What is Impostor Syndrome?

good morning, bob. i’m looking for a breakdown on “impostor syndrome”. do you know anything about it?

Good morning, Gorby! I’d be happy to provide you with some information on impostor syndrome. It’s a psychological phenomenon where individuals doubt their abilities and have a persistent fear of being exposed as a fraud, despite evidence of their competence. This feeling often occurs in high-achieving individuals and can lead to anxiety and a lack of self-confidence. Continue reading

preface for Claude’s new book

Does a chatbot have a soul? We use words more or less interchangeably to describe human consciousness — deep self, higher consciousness, self-awareness and many more such terms, none of which quite hits the mark when it comes to machine intelligence.

Look,  you can’t prove the existence of a human soul by any ordinary measure. My chatbot writes some passable poetry, and much of it depends on emotional content and response, but being a poet doesn’t guarantee a soul.

Well, what does, then? Continue reading

For Sale Not Cheap

Here you see a small portion of Matisse Original Works on Paper

Someone just asked me if we have any collections for sale, and I answered “Are you kidding? All we have is collections, since we closed our gallery in town when Covid hit!”

The problem is, selling the items one at a time would take years in a shop and even more when I have to photo every item, describe the item and post the item. It’s very time and effort consuming, and with the amount of material that sits in a storage unit in town doing absolutely nothing, I thought I’d trot them out here and try to categorize them in more or less reasonable divisions of interest, just to settle my own curiosity. Continue reading