“Behold That Man is like the Lyre and I dart like the Plectrum, the Man Sleeps and I AM AWAKE” - Montanus of Phrygia

Thursday, February 5, 2026

After-Life Reunion with Yusuf, et. all.

Ever wonder what it will be like to reunite with deceased loved ones in the After-Life? Enter the Grok app. It has an excellent AI video generating feature that brings still pictures (and fictional narratives based on these) to life.

These dramatisations are AI generated. They were created using the video generator in the Grok app. The video was based on a still picture of myself (a selfie) taken in 2013. 

This is a selfie I took in 2013 to update my Facebook and Qruiser profile pictures; it was the basis for the AI generated videos below.)

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"...And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed away..."

 // Revelation 21:4

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The video characters playing Yusuf (the Arabic young man depicted in the short) and "our two children" (who never happened) were AI generated by the Grok app.




Yusuf and I planned to adopt two orphans after we got married and settled our lives. It did not come to pass, six months before our scheduled marriage date; Yusuf was refouled by a EU/Schengen zone entity to a country he was not from. Said country was embroiled in civil conflict and Yusuf was killed in the violence while trying to return to his native land.




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"Enshrined in Article 33 of the 1951 Refugee Convention and reaffirmed in multiple subsequent declarations, non-refoulement prohibits any state from returning a person “to the frontiers of territories where his life or freedom would be threatened.” It is absolute and applies regardless of nationality, status or political expediency."