Elon's AI image maker and chatbot, Grok, takes its name from a science fiction novel in which a Martian comes to earth and starts a church called the Church of All Worlds. (He also draws inspiration for Grok from a classic, Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy, which I will post below.)
The word "grok", coined in the novel, made its way into the English language. In Heinlein's invented Martian language, "grok" literally means "to drink" and figuratively means "to comprehend", "to love", and "to be one with". The word rapidly became common parlance among science fiction fans, hippies, and later computer programmers[20] and hackers,[21] and has since entered the Oxford English Dictionary.[22]
When I consider these words, drinking, loving, unity, and revelation (comprehension), I immediately think of God's word. The Word is that Living Water that we drink to grow in our knowledge of God, but in this story, the people drink from another well to know another god, and as we will see, that well is a supercomputer, or AI. My last issue with Elon's inspiration is that grok sounds like a frog croaking.
"And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs." Rev 16:13
As we interact with his chatbot, making images and asking questions, I wonder, what exactly are we drinking from and what will it do to us? How will it impact the minds that God wants to transform? How will it help us to pull down everything that exalts itself against the knowledge of God?
Here is another quote from Wikipedia regarding the book:
A central element of the second half of the novel is the religious movement founded by Smith, (the Martian) the "Church of All Worlds", an initiatory mystery religion blending elements of paganism and revivalism, with psychic training and instruction in the Martian language. In 1968, Oberon Zell-Ravenheart (then Tim Zell) founded the Church of All Worlds, a Neopagan religious organization modeled in many ways after the fictional organization in the novel.[17] The spiritual path included several ideas from the book, including polyamory, non-mainstream family structures, social libertarianism, water-sharing rituals, an acceptance of all religious paths by a single tradition, and the use of several terms such as "grok", "Thou art God", and "Never Thirst".
I am truly dumbfounded, and yet, not really, to learn that this fictional story that has inspired Elon is about a Martian who influences life on planet earth with a new religion and mystical knowledge. This "man from Mars" sounds suspiciously like Elon Musk himself, or at least the ideas and technologies that Elon espouses and has developed. Recently, in an interview, Elon said that there will come a day when mankind will erase death, something that the Martian also does. Consequently, it is also something that the Lamb of God did on the cross, and he will bring it to completion on the last day.
Come to think of it, it makes me wonder if that technology has anything to do with the death that men will seek in the great tribulation-but hard as they try, they won't be able to die?
"And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them." Rev 9:6
Stranger in a Strange Land - Wikipedia
Musk also derived inspiration for Grok from another of his favorite books, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. As Grok itself explained:
Its very existence is certainly meant as a reference to the Deep Thought supercomputer in Hitchhiker’s Guide, which is asked by galactic beings to proffer an answer to the “universal question” of “life, the universe, and everything,” only to come up with a baffling numerical answer after millions of years. But that seems to be pretty much where the comparison ends with regard to Grok’s purpose, which, per the xAI site, will gain “real-time knowledge of the world via the 𝕏 platform” and “answer spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems.”
The answer that the supercomputer "proffers" is the number 42. Forty-two is the answer to life's most profound questions. Oh really? Would that be like the 42 months that the antichrist and false prophet wear down the saints? Or maybe like the 42 months that they stomp on the earth ? Is that the same number that Elon loves and that we see him talking about in his videos? Or are those videos even real, just as Elon suggested a few days after he released Grok 2 when he posted his own Grok-made image with the caption: "How will we know what's real?"
I guess we will need his supercomputer to tell us.
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. 4And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? 5And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. 6And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
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