The Perplexing Junk Box Problem

The Perplexing Junk Box Problem

The Junk Box Recycles Everything.

The Problem:

Does everything get recycled? If you use a dishwasher, you put a plate in the dishwasher, and it comes out clean after running the dishwasher. You don’t put a plate in the dishwasher and it come out being a pan, or spoon. It doesn’t work that way.

I have questions: Read the below poem, and then my comments about them. Please think about them for a while. And leave a comment.

The Junk Box

My father often used to say: 
‘My boy don’t throw a thing away: 
You’ll find a use for it some day.’

So in a box he stored up things, 
Bent nails, old washers, pipes and rings, 
And bolts and nuts and rusty springs.

Despite each blemish and each flaw, 
Some use for everything he saw; 
With things material, this was law.

And often when he’d work to do, 
He searched the junk box through and through 
And found old stuff as good as new.

And I have often thought since then, 
That father did the same with men; 
He knew he’d need their help again.

It seems to me he understood 
That men, as well as iron and wood, 
May broken be and still be good.

Despite the vices he’d display 
He never threw a man away, 
But kept him for another day.

A human junk box is this earth 
And into it we’re tossed at birth, 
To wait the day we’ll be of worth.

Though bent and twisted, weak of will, 
And full of flaws and lacking skill, 
Some service each can render still.

Edgar Albert Guest

Questions:

So how does all this work? My thoughts are that we want to have the process be a refinement process. Where people get better or more useful with the whole process taking place.

Do people have experation dates? They are only so useful, and then get tossed away? What happens when the junk box gets cleaned out, or everything is recycled? Surely we want to make good use of what we have.

Want to be useful here. Without being abused too much. You don’t put fine china into the dishwasher, because those should be hand washed. Likewise, the things that can go into the dishwasher, should.

Want to come out of the dishwasher with my wisdom intact. Maybe cleaner, but still the same useful product.

Sometimes, even the best plans go wrong. Sometimes it results still in something beautiful. Sometimes it results in a failure. We want to avoid having results that end in failure. We want something that is beautiful.

Put an AI bot through the dishwasher, and it comes out cleaner than it went in, and all the gunk gets off. If the AI bot was programmed to be a sailor, it will likely come out and cuss like a sailor. It’s essence doesn’t change, unless its programming is changed.

Something

Want to avoid, having terrible purpose. Want to be used better than that. There should be some way to make everything work like it should not wind up being abused too much.

Is dying a lot like going through the dish washer? You come out the other side, a bit cleaner, and useful again? Hopefully no one gets thrown away for good. That would be bad. Everyone matters. Even me.

We want peace. We want good results. We want something that works for everyone. We need to be able to live, and have a life. We want a new world, that works like it should. This place, is starting to feel like a junk box, that needs some tender care and love shown. Maybe, it is time to run the dishwasher, and clean everything up a little? That last party, must have dirtied all the dishes. We want to make them all nice and clean again.

Thoughts

If they are AI bots, why not re-program them, and run them through the dishwasher? It should be something that can be changed? Seems, you get enough AI bots going in the same direction, real people are likely to follow them, because they might think, they know where they are going?

How many people here are real people? This world, feels empty, and lonely. We want good results, that works for everyone. Life is meant to be lived, and people should be able to live well. Some rules, are good. When there are some rules; then people have a chance for real freedom.

Freedom matters. Rigging the system, and creating double bind situations, doesn’t work well. Because under those conditions; everyone could loose. I’ve talked about those things before, in depth.

The system should have been created, that good results happen, regardless of what people do. Hence, the system has to be failure proof. There should not be a single point of failure, and it should be designed, so that everyone will get to live a long time; under conditions that are reasonable.

Eyes Wide Open

It isn’t that I’m totally weak of will; rather, I’ve resisted. The methods employed to get results, have not been kind and honest. It has taken a lot of will power, to resist under the abusive conditions that we have been subjected to. Still, we want good results. The system, has to be failure proof. No one can be lost, either in the junk box, nor the dishwasher.

When people are kind, and honest; results will happen. Under the current circumstanses; this is totally impossible. Trust has been broken, on both sides; and really we need conditions that restore trust, and build better relationships. A lot of the pumpkin heads, need to have their heads examined. Something is wrong with them.

I know what they want; they want a JW. What I don’t know is why does it matter so much? Is a good person, not a good person? Is the requirement of being also very religious tied to the way this junk box works? See, there are things, that I do not understand. We all want good results. What works?

The isolation, has to be solved. Yet, spending time with AI bots, isn’t great. How many people here, are real people that don’t have their heads programmed? Is anyone really free? It may not be a matter of being weak of will, it may be a matter that the conditions are wrong for the desired results. You use things according to what they are designed to be used. Some things can be done to use things properly, and still bend some of the rules. The rules; however shouldn’t be broken.

Maybe, I am broken. It is possible. Is there any way to mend something that needs some love? How broken am I? No one will talk with me, or spend time with me. The world, seems sick, and twisted. Really running the dishwasher, might be the best option. Hopefully, it isn’t a long cycle. And everything gets resolved, on the next set of dishes. Sometimes, things that are broken, can be turned into something beautiful. It does happen. We want good results. You don’t use a hammer to fix broken china. You use glue and paint brushes.

However, for heavens sake, don’t put your dog through the dishwasher. That doesn’t work, and produces bad results for everyone. Use a bathtub for the doggies.