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A 2007 anthology, 'The Politics to Come', offers a lucid appraisal of political possibilities transcending exhausted, shopworn symbioses of secular and religious imaginaries and containment: the Iranian political scientist, Ali Shari’ati, adds mightily to the advance, too.
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What if a war on perception itself - so totalizing in its full-spectrum claim upon the nature of reality that we barely recognize this fundamentally epistemic assault for the peak deception it represents - is, oddly, similarly vulnerable to a larger, 'invisible' susceptibility.
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A 2007 anthology, 'The Politics to Come', offers a lucid appraisal of political possibilities transcending exhausted, shopworn symbioses of secular and religious imaginaries and containment: the Iranian political scientist, Ali Shari’ati, adds mightily to the advance, too.
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What if a war on perception itself - so totalizing in its full-spectrum claim upon the nature of reality that we barely recognize this fundamentally epistemic assault for the peak deception it represents - is, oddly, similarly vulnerable to a larger, 'invisible' susceptibility.
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What there is, is fascinating. I'm disappointed the interview was so brief. Is there a capsule history of Orbis available anywhere else?
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Character and essence?
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1/5 They're hardly alone. 'The Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth' construct is a universal, religious trope. Hence, the vacant transcendence of 'Rapture' fantasies and, more significantly perhaps, a commonplace, quotidian abrogation of what it takes to be fully and fundamentally human.
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1/ Not too sure where N.T. Wright and my notes begin and end but this is very largely him: "This is what Paul means when he writes of suffering 'with Christ' Rom. 8:17... There is the concept of 'messianic woes', that the world is to be divided into two ages, the present 'evil age'(Gal. 1:4) and...
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It begins, of course, with 2 Cor. 10:5 but finds fulfillment only in the “costly grace” of Bonhoeffer which requires action, “for faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.” First, hear the Kingdom aright. x.com/nick_routled...
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FBI Directors Freeh and Comey both emphasized the significance of FBI trainees visiting the DC Holocaust Museum. And now? The base, patently nationalist hypocrisy of 'genocide remembrance agendas' of late surely lands as one of the more confounding examples of systemic moral collapse in our midst.
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Character and essence?
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Twitter today.
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end/ He didn't mince words. "Pandit, you’ve got it wrong. Your ideas are false. What is found now is found then." To imagine otherwise? “Pure fantasy. Find nothing here, you’ll simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.” Not escape from the Earth, then, but arrival. x.com/nick_routled...
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4/ One of the more astute takedowns of the entire fallacy issues from the S. Asian prophet contemplative, Kabir, who never shied from declaring such "throwing of intensity forward" precisely the same error affording religious and secular powers their credence and authority.
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3/ "... a subordinate space...whether as a sinful plane, riddled with temptation, needing to be transcended and left behind; or a menacing region needing to be beaten and bent to our will; or a vaguely disturbing dimension to be avoided, superseded and explained away." (David Abram)
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2/ Then again, the seismic wrong-footedness of symbolic universes unhinged from Earth Reality isn't a 'religious' phenomenon as much as modernity's root, ontological misstep, sustained, of course, by dominative structures of consciousness characterized by a form of wishful escapism from...
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1/5 They're hardly alone. 'The Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth' construct is a universal, religious trope. Hence, the vacant transcendence of 'Rapture' fantasies and, more significantly perhaps, a commonplace, quotidian abrogation of what it takes to be fully and fundamentally human.
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Adorno reckons a supersessive truth 'true for everyone, everywhere,' eludes conventional thinking because it is ultimately revealed only in the fullness of a paradigm shift redeeming the future from the power of history. If politics is all you see, politics is all you can know. x.com/nick_routled...
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Ah, the 1930's redux, you mean.
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Adorno reckons a supersessive truth 'true for everyone, everywhere,' eludes conventional thinking because it is ultimately revealed only in the fullness of a paradigm shift redeeming the future from the power of history. If politics is all you see, politics is all you can know. x.com/nick_routled...
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FYI,
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end/ Ultimately, they say, praying isn't enough. Redemption is a collective, revolutionary task, performed in the present through "deeds which as it were, helping to bring about the redemption” (Scholem). We meet God (Isa. 59:20) half-way (Rom. 11:26). x.com/nick_routled...
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5/ The people of Jesus are the children of the new age, and the birthpangs of the new age are worked out in them. The redemption, somewhat like a midwife at birth." ("We are all groaning in one great act of giving birth” - Romans 8:21-22).
Scholars of Judeo-Christian messianism correlate here...
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4/ ...His people are not merely imitating Jesus. They are incorporated into His life, His paradoxical new way of life. This is what Paul means when he writes of suffering 'with Christ' Rom. 8:17. The modern church has forgotten that it is the body of the crucified Messiah...
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3/ ...and his return was, then, the period of the turn-around of the eras: and therefore the whole period would be characterized by the 'messianic woes'. Such suffering, indeed, is actually regarded as evidence that the sufferers really are God's new people...
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2/ ...the age to come. Instead of old and new ages standing back to back as it were, he understood them as overlapping. Jesus' resurrection has inaugurated the new age, but the old world continues alongside it, until the Second Coming. The whole of the time-span between the Lord's resurrection...
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1/ Not too sure where N.T. Wright and my notes begin and end but this is very largely him: "This is what Paul means when he writes of suffering 'with Christ' Rom. 8:17... There is the concept of 'messianic woes', that the world is to be divided into two ages, the present 'evil age'(Gal. 1:4) and...
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It begins, of course, with 2 Cor. 10:5 but finds fulfillment only in the “costly grace” of Bonhoeffer which requires action, “for faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.” First, hear the Kingdom aright. x.com/nick_routled...
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FBI Directors Freeh and Comey both emphasized the significance of FBI trainees visiting the DC Holocaust Museum. And now? The base, patently nationalist hypocrisy of 'genocide remembrance agendas' of late surely lands as one of the more confounding examples of systemic moral collapse in our midst.
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The dark invocation of no-delay, no-nonsense excoriation and elimination? That would be ethno-nationalism's central, existential premise, promise and priority. So, just how many ethnic-cleansing projects might authoritarianism's global surge manufacture sufficient consent for? x.com/nick_routled...
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The dark invocation of no-delay, no-nonsense excoriation and elimination? That would be ethno-nationalism's central, existential premise, promise and priority. So, just how many ethnic-cleansing projects might authoritarianism's global surge manufacture sufficient consent for? x.com/nick_routled...
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And yet, for many, if not most who agree with Gregory, the dynamic, participatory reality, here and now, of the unequivocally supernatural intelligence, power and presence of the Living God, has been reduced to the 'elsewhere category' of an abstraction, glorified though it is. x.com/nick_routled...
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And yet, for many, if not most who agree with Gregory, the dynamic, participatory reality, here and now, of the unequivocally supernatural intelligence, power and presence of the Living God, has been reduced to the 'elsewhere category' of an abstraction, glorified though it is. x.com/nick_routled...
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In the US, Israel, India, Turkey and elsewhere, religious identification increasingly characterizes the populist radical right. Religio-fascism is, indeed, inveterate to our very epoch and, as a constitutively archetypal planetary phenomenon, no national unilateral fix exists. x.com/nick_routled...
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In the US, Israel, India, Turkey and elsewhere, religious identification increasingly characterizes the populist radical right. Religio-fascism is, indeed, inveterate to our very epoch and, as a constitutively archetypal planetary phenomenon, no national unilateral fix exists. x.com/nick_routled...
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What Mencken would likely have called 'the aesthetics of moronism'.
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The window is closing fast. Very fast.
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Already a well-established practice. x.com/nick_routled...
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Nils, I know I've mentioned this before but your Twitter presence constitutes a pivotal contribution to the candlepower of planetarian as much as US consciousness. To lose all that you have previously shared is a great blow. Please would you reconsider signing out but not off?
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Illuminating. How are things in Goma itself just now?
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Then, of course, there's precisely what's massively intensifying just now - the scapegoat mechanism ("automatic, unconscious, ingrained and mimetic" - Girard) exponentiated to the level of nation-state psychodynamics and with it, crucially, the state's monopoly on violence. x.com/nick_routled...
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Then, of course, there's precisely what's massively intensifying just now - the scapegoat mechanism ("automatic, unconscious, ingrained and mimetic" - Girard) exponentiated to the level of nation-state psychodynamics and with it, crucially, the state's monopoly on violence. x.com/nick_routled...
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1/2 Geopolitical network warfare specialists (@johnrobb, say) aver that little distinguishes TikTok attention-grabbing or target effect from that of its competitors, even as the West's, I'll add, have a history fomenting war. The deeper issue here? Who targeted TikTok and why? x.com/nick_routled...
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I recall him saying somewhere that not religion, but its anthropology, was his concern - his radical contribution, in effect. Few understand, as he, that in His execution, properly considered, the Second Advent does not amount to the rubber stamp many presume their lives upon. x.com/nick_routled...
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The fact that Musk is now developing a privatized military satellite network massively amplifying the geo-political lethality that selective Starlink and launch access already affords militant, client-states of his preference, may have also put him in a 'beyond oligarch' class. x.com/nick_routled...
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2/ What, then, of the catastrophic decline in US childhood health predating social media's arrival, and its impact on the very foundation of national welfare? Does our ruling cla$$ honestly give two cahoots about what truly matters? What, in essence, is the fa$t-food algorithm? x.com/nick_routled...
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1/2 Geopolitical network warfare specialists (@johnrobb, say) aver that little distinguishes TikTok attention-grabbing or target effect from that of its competitors, even as the West's, I'll add, have a history fomenting war. The deeper issue here? Who targeted TikTok and why? x.com/nick_routled...
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I recall him saying somewhere that not religion, but its anthropology, was his concern - his radical contribution, in effect. Few understand, as he, that in His execution, properly considered, the Second Advent does not amount to the rubber stamp many presume their lives upon. x.com/nick_routled...
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The fact that Musk is now developing a privatized military satellite network massively amplifying the geo-political lethality that selective Starlink and launch access already affords militant, client-states of his preference, may have also put him in a 'beyond oligarch' class. x.com/nick_routled...
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Care to say why?