@nils_gilman end/ Inconvenient truths and coincidential decisions? Paul Davies: “Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. Hoyle, the distinguished cosmologist, once said it was as if ‘a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics.’"
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Copy of tweet thread here: 2 tweet images: We sadly confirmed today that 11 of over 60 children killed by Israeli air strikes in #Gaza over the last week were participating in our programme helping them deal with trauma. All of the children between 5 and 15 years old were killed in their homes Images of three children link to nrc.no Eleven children receiving NRC trauma care killed in their homes by Israeli air strikes Israel dropped 450 one-ton bunker-buster bombs in the heart of Gaza City during a single night in May last year. But sure, a brick-sized rock justifies shooting and killing Palestinian kids. QT @giladerdan1shows the UN Security Council a large rock like the kind Palestinians threw at Israeli vehicles 1,775 times in 2021: "If a rock like this would hit your car while you drove home with your children, wouldn't you think this is a terror attack that must be condemned?"
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Heschel Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Ultimately there is only one Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1685409793505435648 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @brainsturbator "Ultimately there is only one factor upon which the shape of history depends: the moral conduct of the nations." - Abraham Joshua Heschel. t.co/hdCIT0jdvt
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Isaiah40:15,17 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Behold the nations Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, And are accounted as the dust on the scales;... All the nations are as nothing before Him, They are accounted by Him as less than nothing and emptiness. #Isaiah 40:15,17 16/
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting explicitly Anonymous NYT Magazine1946 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: God's plan Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. God's plan made a hopeful beginning, But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story Will end in God's glory, But, at present, the other side's winning. - Anon., New York Times Magazine, 1946
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Moltmann/Scholem Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Juergen Moltmann Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @Spirit_Practice Juergen Moltmann: "'Messianism is the idea which Israel gave the world,' affirmed Gershom Scholem," where Rabbi Heschel gave the world the essential, universalist link yoking the architecture of redemptive time to a Messianic Day of concrete, planetary political change. t.co/ygyVB1agRJ
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Pauli: “To us [modern scientists], the only acceptable point of view appears to be one that recognizes both sides of reality — the quantitative and the qualitative, the physical and the psychical — as compatible with each other, and can embrace them simultaneously.”
And so we have come full circle, from the discovery that consciousness contains the whole of objective reality - the entire history of biological life on the planet, the world's religions and mythologies, and the dynamics of both blood cells and stars - to the discovery that the material universe can also contain within its warp and weft the innermost processes of consciousness. Such is the nature of the deep connectivity that exists between all things in a holographic universe.](/media/1685409793505435648-F2PHQ9iaMAAU4g0.jpg)
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Copy of tweet thread here: An aside. Here, below, is alt-text for the image attached to the following tweet: Pauli: “To us [modern scientists], the only acceptable point of view appears to be one that recognizes both sides of reality — the quantitative and the qualitative, the physical and the psychical — as compatible with each other, and can embrace them simultaneously.” And so we have come full circle, from the discovery that consciousness contains the whole of objective reality - the entire history of biological life on the planet, the world's religions and mythologies, and the dynamics of both blood cells and stars - to the discovery that the material universe can also contain within its warp and weft the innermost processes of consciousness. Such is the nature of the deep connectivity that exists between all things in a holographic universe.
@jamespoulos @MikeIsaac McLuhan was very fond of the phrase, "the Prince of this world, Satan, is a very great electrical engineer." And tailor to Emperors, too. The cyberspatial conglomeration of evil? A cosmic design feature, not a flaw, making it addressable, ultimately, in one fell swoop. 1 John 3:8
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Copy of tweet thread: Nils Gilman Technology is too often used as a stealth vector (often by private actors who control the tech) to enact, embody, or constitute quintessentially “political” matters — that is, matters concerning the allocation & legitimation of power & authority. AI puts this pattern on steroids Nick Routledge Goes both ways. Long before the Web, planetary Sages anticipated the advent of a cyberspace-actualized dimension of meaningfulness, constituting a 'quintessentially political' surprise positively addressing such base shenanigans at a totalizing, substrative, ontological level.