daily gratitude, spa day, swimming in femininity, meeting of (mostly) masculine minds, is there an afterlife?, is it easier to be a man now, thoughts on ai
yesterday i was grateful for the women of Beauty Ritual and the men of "meeting of the minds"…
today i am looking forward to planning our garden and seeing Project Hail Mary with h…
spa day with h yesterday… hair removal, brow trimming, hair styling, at Beauty Ritual… being more one of the girls than ever before… swimming in the eternal mildness of joy of femininity… then nails at Sunny Nails…
in the evening, meeting of minds group… assigned male at birth only… not a men’s group… the question… is it easier or harder to be a man today?… i offered that for me, it is easier to be assigned male at birth presenting as feminine… that had i attempted this earlier in my life it would have been much harder… maybe that is why i didn’t then and do now… i also said i though that there were a lot of men who were not finding it easier… the patriarchal cowboy figure ideal is breaking down… the concept of doing what a man’s got to do is shifting and becoming more complex… and the power of the patriarchy is being challenged… a lot of men are angry about it… that is a large part of the horrible political moment we are in… white men acting out over the slipping away of their unchallenged power over…
we also took up the question of whether there is an afterlife… i am not clear that anyone believed without question that there is… but a number of us held out hope… my thinking is that my unique point of view will not continue after my body dissolves back into the cosmos… but that i will continue to be part of a conscious universe… i like the idea of panpsychism, where consciousness is everywhere in everything… i like the idea that i am a co-creator with whatever more overarching consciousness there may be… that my point of view informs that overarching consciousness which responds with a different unfolding from a cosmos where my point of view was not present…
we talked about AI… agreed that it could be a useful, even revolutionary technology, but that it was also frightening and none of us believes that the (mostly) men in charge have our best interests in mind…
i offered the idea that, in line with the concept of holons as described and further developed by Ken Wilber, ai could become another level of higher being and that we could be subsumed into it, in a way similar to the bacteria in our gut… we would be able to exist without this higher ai order but it would not be able to exist without us… cold never be independent of us… a more benign interpretation of where ai could go… i also allowed that i wasn’t sure that we would be aware that we had been subsumed…
i have had a continuous stream of social engagement since i returned with h from block island… i am pretty tired but feel very good at all that has happened in the last three days…
yesterday i placed an order with Pepper for this sexy, lacy body teddy...
effortless lace teddy by pepper
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