@Sophiologist_ 1/2 That was glorious. As for endings and beginnings, John Moriarty's "the Second Coming is but a better understanding of the First Coming", now has me imagining the transcendent shock of the Parousial Hour or Day of the Eschatological Event as, at heart, a spell-breaking event.
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Copy of tweet: To see is to see through. Realpolitik, the keeper of the prison, which commands us to be fooled by appearances, to respect the Emperor's New Clothes. The blindness is from the blinkers of decorum. ‘Apocalypsis’ strips away the decent draperies on which the whole big lie depends.
@AimeTim That's it. The Death Cult Singularity of a thanatomania defining peak modernism's majoritarian structures of consciousness and power including the absolute evils of biocide and geocide. A planetary-saving advent, then? Heschel: "Man-made history is not history’s only dimension."
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Excerpt from tweet thread here: Well, to paraphrase Heschel, one factor ultimately determines the shape of history - the transcendent response to the nationalist shitshow threatening the entirety of life on Earth. As such, our salvation is necessarily universalist and planetary. As for back yard bombshells...