I messed up the taping of the doomsday show.
I did see the last several minutes where there was a short segment on something called the Web-Bot project. After a Google search I found the web site and got some more information on it. A condensed and edited version is at the end of this post, and includes links if you want to check it out in detail.
This project claims to have predicted 9/11, a Hawaiian earthquake, and a power outage in New York City. Frankly I don’t care much about the predictions. What really got me thinking was the fact that such a project actually exists. And that the Chinese government also has a similar and larger project.
So ….
This Way to Paranoia
The idea behind these “spiders” crawling around the web collecting key words is not at all new. Web search engines do it all the time, as does Technorati and De.li.ci.ous and others. Keywords we attach to our posts get “spidered” by them.
What is bothersome is the fact that governments also do this… apparently China, as well as the United States (can you say Homeland Security?). There is nothing secret about these programs, they are available to anyone with the skill and resources to use them. I doubt if my next door neighbor has the skills, neither do I. But my ex-brother-in-law sure does (he is a programmer and IT specialist). So does Microsoft and others.
What people are talking about in public, is public information. No problem there. But … because I put words or key phrases such as “terrorism”, 9/11, and so forth in a post here means that those words get picked up and added to the data files.
Somebody looks at it… perhaps in ways that do not identify me and my blog specifically, but perhaps something triggers an alert and my blog, my WordPress account, and my ISP suddenly becomes of interest.
We have no way of knowing what might cause a trigger or flag. We don’t know who is gathering the information. We don’t know how they are using it. We don’t know – and that is frightening.
Leaving Paranoia
I can not do anything about what information people collect. In fact, often this sort of data is useful. If used in ways I think are appropriate, it can help me find other blogs, a new video or dvd recorder ( might consider that – given today’s failed taping) and provide an additional level of security in these dangerous days.
The Bible points out that God has a complete record of everything we have done or thought! Now that should really make me nervous. It doesn’t, because I have accepted salvation, and I know God’s character is Holy, compassionate, good, and pure. The Person that knows all about me is trustworthy.
I wish I could say the same about humans and their governments.
I am not changing what I do or write because of a web-bot. However, God’s knowledge gives me pause. What am I doing, thinking, or saying that is offensive to God? Hmmm. Those need to be changed.
Condensed and edited by me from: Urban Survivalhttp://www.urbansurvival.com/
A system of spiders, agents, and wanderers travel the Internet, much like a search engine robot, and look for particular kinds of words. It targets discussion groups, translation sites, and places were regular people post a lot of text. (BLOGS)
When a “target word” was found, … the web bots take a small … snip of surrounding text and sends it to a central collection point. …. The collected data was then filtered, using at least 7-layers of linguistic processing … reduced to numbers and then a resultant series of scatter chart plots …
What becomes obvious when reading about the technology is that it sometimes reads a bit like the I Ching (the Chinese Book of Changes) because the technology doesn’t come out and say “go look for a terrorist attack over there” What it does is gives phrases that would be associated with how people talk about an event, or more accurately, how they change their speech to reflect their thought processes because of an event (after).
The web bot technology apparently taps in to an area of preconscious awareness. It’s here that you run into the ramifications of Dean Radin’s work at the Boundary Institute and the work of the Princeton Global Consciousness Project. (see http://www.boundaryinstitute.org/randomness.htm.)
The Global Consciousness Project registered what appears to have been a disturbance in “the force” or the regularly orderly operation of life associated with 9/11: Supposed “random” numbers generated all over the world appeared to become less random immediately prior to 9/11.
The second point is contained in Dean Radin’s paper at http://www.boundaryinstitute.org/articles/timereversed.pdf (“Time-reversed human experience: Experimental evidence and implications”). The mind-bending evidence in Radin’s work is that in a laboratory, people begin to react to an event as early as 6-seconds before it takes place.
In other words, if you are about to show someone a horribly grotesque picture of something, they will already be physically reacting to it before the picture actually becomes visible. Up to 6-seconds, or so, and in a lab!
In quantum terms, Radin’s work demonstrates that people are physically able to perceive 6-seconds into the future.
We also know that the Chinese have a similar project – because we have swept their source code during our runs. The difference is they are doing larger data samples.
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