by Henry Pool | Feb 15, 2019 | News
True enough: in recent decades we have seen many improvements because of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). Don’t we just all love our mass-produced cars, communication devices and other products that we have grown used to over the years because of improved technology? However, it seems that we quickly do forget that the improvement in productivity also wiped out many, many jobs, especially the manual jobs. For example, I remember that 25 years ago they employed more than 3000 people at BMW here in Rosslyn. Nowadays, it appears they have only a fraction of those people (300?) at work, and, working various shifts they even produce more cars now then what they did 25 years ago…
Not that I mind this increase in productivity, it is just that I worry about the amount of people being left without a job. For example, a profession that is currently all but forgotten is that of being a typist…I remember a time when we had a secretary in the office who typed all our reports!!
Note that AI is now taking a leap. Most recently I noticed on various TV news channels that a trend with leading studies in AI is coming from an unexpected source: the rich Islamic middle eastern countries. For example, look at this this website and video:
http://www.inceptioniai.org/about
What really struck me the most in this video is the way AI is being employed to recognise and identify people. Ultimately this can be used of course to control all people, especially to identify the ‘undesirables’, like, for example, those still believing in Christ and thus refusing to follow any other religion, e.g. the Islamic faith.
Yes, it seems to me we are getting closer now to the time of the last anti-Christ. The Islamic faith is beginning to get a firm grip on many western countries despite the fact that it clearly discriminates against women.
From my various investigations into climate change, I can easily predict major food shortages in the decade that is to come, e.g.
http://breadonthewater.co.za/henrys-climate/
and flowing from this might be the call again for someone great who can ‘fix’ our problems. For a person with much knowledge in AI, it would seem to ordinary people as though he/she is performing miracles, right in front of our eyes, would it not? Isn’t that what the bible predicts?
Are we living near to the end of time?
by Henry Pool | Jan 31, 2019 | News
I post this one again, as people are showing interest again.
Just click on the link to read this post.
http://breadonthewater.co.za/2017/02/20/if-god-exists-why-cannot-we-see-him/
by Henry Pool | Jan 23, 2019 | News
I have created a new page on ‘BreadontheWater’ that I have nicknamed ‘Henry’s Climate etc.’
Just click on the link to read it. http://breadonthewater.co.za/henrys-climate/
On this page I will always give you the latest updates on my findings about climate change and how South Africa and the world is being manipulated into believing that all the observed climate change is just their own fault. Where is this misrepresentation leading us into…? Let me know what you think?
by Henry Pool | Dec 12, 2018 | News
So let me get this straight :
We are a nation that accepts pornography but hates the abuse of women?
A nation that does not believe in gender but fights for women’s rights?
We are a nation that believes no child should be left behind but we have aborted over 60 million?
We are a nation where soldiers have died so our flag could fly over a freed nation but then we give the title ‘heroes’ to wealthy athletes who kneel in disrespect?
We are a nation where political parties ignore the corruption in their own party whilst condemning the corruption of the other.
We are a nation of laws, yet we are a nation where the law only applies if you are not politically powerful.
We are a nation that has “In God We Trust” printed on our money but we have the ACLU suing people who make His name known in public.
We are the “greatest nation” on earth, yet we consume more anti-depressants then any other nation in the world…
We are a nation that pledges “we are one” yet we are a nation of aggressive division.
And so, now we wonder why there is so much confusion in the world?
by Henry Pool | Nov 24, 2018 | News
LOOKING FOR MERCIFUL SAMARITANS
I had always thought that to take care of each other, especially taking care of those who have a lot less than we do or who experience poverty due to fleeing from war or perhaps due to suffering some kind of injustice, was a command coming mostly coming from the New Testament. The other day, when I read the Poverty and Justice bible, I was surprised by the thoughts about same subject also communicated in the Old Testament;
e.g. reading from Deut. 24:14, many ages before Christ, Moses specifically called on his people to take care of the poor. Special mention is made of the needy, the foreigners and the widows. Note Deut. 24:19: ‘When you are harvesting in your field, and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands’ .
What Moses really says: let part of your harvest [income] go to the poor…. And in doing so: you won’t even miss whatever you leave aside for the poor, because God will be good for you. This is a principle of mutual advantage that goes back many millennia….
I have always been intrigued by Jesus’ story of the merciful Samaritan. For a long time, I always thought that our neighbour must be the person who is sick, or who is hungry, or who has been wounded and who might die; and that it is our duty to care for our neighbour. But looking carefully at the story, note that Jesus points to the Samaritan as being the neighbour. He was the only one who cared for the person who was robbed and left for dead at the side of the road. Looking at it this way, I had to ask myself the question: For whom can I be the merciful Samaritan? For whom can I be a neighbour?
For the past ten years, we [i.e. Hart voor Kinderen / Heart for Children] felt compelled to help orphaned, vulnerable and/or abandoned children in the poorer parts of the world. In fact, we helped hundreds of them. These are mostly children in Africa, China and Haiti whose circumstances in life without any assistance are extremely difficult. And thanks to the regular support from Hart voor Kinderen/ Heart for Children we were able to give these children a chance to a better life.
Did you know that in Switzerland there is a group of people who call themselves the Berner Samaritans? Every year they award a price to someone or to those who did something special or beneficial for ‘his or her’ neighbour(s). Now I must mention that some time ago, we [Hart voor Kinderen/ Heart for Children] were honoured by being awarded this price….
In all humility, note that what we as Hart voor Kinderen / Heart for Children are doing for the poverty-stricken children of the world is not to win any particular prices. But this group of Swiss people did get me to thinking. Should we perhaps have not such a group of people here as well, I thought? But then something else struck me: As donors to Hart voor Kinderen/ Heart for Children enabling us to give our help to all these children, YOU ARE REALLY ALL merciful Samaritans….are you not? Perhaps this is a much better name than ‘donor’?
This Christmas, we want to give thanks to all the Samaritans of Hart voor Kinderen / Heart for Children who have a heart for the poor children in the world!
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