@jbralston end/ With God as nerdy ally, too? Martin Gurri: “That was me at the global media analysis section of CIA...And I was not alone. A group of us were obsessed with the same drama...We all asked the same question: Why? What does information technology have to do with politics?”
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Excerpt from Tweet Thread: Reply Nick_routledge For one, the Book, physically constrained by structures of center, margin, hierarchy, and linearity, is now transcended by a hypertextual reality of multi-linearity, nodes, links, and networks. How might this ontological shift engender a common, planetary vision of revelation? Nick Routledge Nick_routledge What does it now mean that the People of the Book are the People of the Screen? What happens as a yet deeper strata of meaning embedded within the archetype of the Web, as distinct from the Book, is revealed?
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet: Nick Routledge · Question: Now that 90% of the world’s adults possess a smartphone (“We were once the People of the Book. But today, with more than five billion digital screens, we are now the People of the Screen”) does the global release protocol for the Orthodoxy 2.0 update, differ from v.1.0? Image: "People who work with computers have an evolving sense of god head that is different from the ideas of non-nerds." @kevin2kelly Quote Tweet Nick Routledge 1/ Twitter triptych. Why cyberspace? Show this thread
@BaytAlFann A word, friend. As in concrete reality, true creative genius lives here. Few have mastered the art of the tweet as @BaytAlFann. Your threads, positively luminous, powerfully advancing an emergent conviction that, ultimately, the One essential language of world unity, is Beauty.
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Copy of quote tweet: Nick Routledge Simply stated, it is in the depths of our own beings that we may discover the planetary meeting-place which is the reconciliation and summation of the multiplicity of revelations - what Corbin describes as “the rigorous unity of the prophetic Revelatory Principle in history.” 4/ Quote Tweet Nick Routledge 16/ #Quran2:136 “Say: We believe in God and that which was revealed unto us, and that which was revealed unto Abraham, and Ismail, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and that which Moses and Jesus received and that which the Prophets received from their Lord...” @UniteThePoor Show this thread