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5/ McLuhan: "In Jesus, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same...it is only at the level of a lived Christianity that the medium really is the message."

Image of abstract rose and cross either side of text, "EQUALLY HER BEAUTY FLOWS INTO A SAVIOR OR A ROSE"

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"…the kingdom is a social reality at a transcendental level. Hence, it cannot be communicated except by means of a communitarian and fraternal form-of-life." #IvanIllich Art, Photoshop, FNL website, 2001. @unitethepoor #poorpeoplescampaign
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Image of abstract rose and cross either side of text, "EQUALLY HER BEAUTY FLOWS INTO A SAVIOR OR A ROSE" And quote tweet: "…the kingdom is a social reality at a transcendental level. Hence, it cannot be communicated except by means of a communitarian and fraternal form-of-life." #IvanIllich Art, Photoshop, FNL website, 2001. @unitethepoor #poorpeoplescampaign

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 14 Jul 2023

@AimeTim @UniteThePoor 2/ In practice, seeing through a catastrophically diminished self-image of materialist and religious fetishism opens us to a life superseding the draconian limitations of a conventional way of processing reality constricted to a shadow of its co-creative powers and potential.

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9/ Please don’t let self-appointed cultural arbiters blindly & unwaveringly invested in a caricature of realism, fool you, friends. Simply because most of us have succumbed to a vast, culturally-commanded dark night of sleep, doesn’t make this, Our Paradigm Shift, any less Real.

10/ Yes, away from the levels of reality well-lit by ‘the Expert State’, beyond the turmoil, controversy, bewilderment and totalizing freefall of a dominative epistemology and all that it sustains and disfigures in our eyes, our common Story evolves. Surely, you've heard?
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Two tweet excerpt from thread: 9/ Please don’t let self-appointed cultural arbiters blindly & unwaveringly invested in a caricature of realism, fool you, friends. Simply because most of us have succumbed to a vast, culturally-commanded dark night of sleep, doesn’t make this, Our Paradigm Shift, any less Real. 10/ Yes, away from the levels of reality well-lit by ‘the Expert State’, beyond the turmoil, controversy, bewilderment and totalizing freefall of a dominative epistemology and all that it sustains and disfigures in our eyes, our common Story evolves. Surely, you've heard?

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @moltmannjuergen “Though he never coined the phrase, 'the medium is the messiah' may have been McLuhan’s ultimate perceptual insight. The 'medium is the message' may have been merely its conceptual phrasing.” - Read Mercer Schuchardt, The Reformation as Media Event, Second Nature @theccsnQuoted by@moltmannjuergen “Though he never coined the phrase, 'the medium is the messiah' may have been McLuhan’s ultimate perceptual insight. The 'medium is the message' may have been merely its conceptual phrasing.” - Read Mercer Schuchardt, The Reformation as Media Event, Second Nature @theccsn