We return to Elder JimZim’s question: What are we? Then a thought occurred to me. Let me quote one of my favorite authors, Neil Stephenson, from one of my favorite books, Cryptonomicon: The room contains a few dozen living human bodies, each one a big sack of guts and fluids so highly compressed that it […]
Category: Meaning of Life
Elder JimZim has asked a profound question: What are we? His curiosity was peaked by this Joni Mitchell song… We are stardustWe are goldenAnd we’ve got to get ourselvesBack to the gardenWe are stardustBillion year old carbonWe are goldenCaught in the devil’s bargainAnd we’ve got to get ourselvesBack to the garden- Woodstock, by Joni Mitchell […]
Life is a river that simply flows. – Eternalised In a moment of self reflection, the entire WLBOTT board meditated on the question “What Kind of Fool Am I?” We got our research department on this topic, toot-sweet! They found a very illuminating video, by a the creater Eternalised. Eternalised identifies different archetypal fools: In […]
Gentle People, if you are like the staff at WLBOTT, you probably spend several hours a day memorizing large prime numbers. Last night we came across a doozy…. 1000000000000066600000000000001 1-0000000000000-666-0000000000000-1 One, followed by 13 zeros, followed by 666, followed by 13 zeros, followed by a one. The number is also a palindromic prime (same forward […]
Q: What Do Elder JimZim’s Katz Dream About? A: Global domination. The Katz’ Karmic Connection WLBOTT:Elder DZ was telling us a traditional Buddhist story. The story involves the death of Buddha, when all the animals, two by two, come to visit and shed their tears. Elder G:Yes – Elder DZ is touching on a very […]
Tove Jansson‘s Moomin character, Moomintroll, famously says, “I only want to live in peace, plant potatoes and dream!” This quote reflects a desire for a simple, peaceful life, finding joy in everyday activities and imagination. The quote is often associated with the Moomins’ idyllic world and the value of small pleasures. I only want to […]
Let’s say you had a buddy who began to see images of Freddie Mercury everywhere – on toast, on tortillas, in bird formations, in the vapors of the early morning dew. What would be your response? To attempt to gently guide him back to reality? To lovingly suggest therapy? To intervene with his loved ones? […]
A part of our popular ongoing series: Sin! Because some day, WLBOTT will be recognized as a spiritual, moral, and digestive force, let’s try our hand at defining sin. It would be very difficult to include “eating a cheeseburger during Lent” into this definition. Here’s what we came up with: If the goal is to […]
Today we begin a 27-part series on one of WLBOTT’s most requested topic: Sin. We did a brief survey of all major religious traditions, and they are pretty much against it. But before we begin the Nuts and Bolts of Sin, we decided to give our AI companions a Rorschach test. Using only the word […]
Today we are going to explore “the sweet mysteries of life.” Come join us! All are welcome. Council of Scattered Clues The WLBOTT Council of Scattered Clues analyzes the sweet mysteries of the universe in all the usual places: The WLBOTT Council of Scattered Clues recently met at a Waco Denny’s. We were concerned that […]