Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@HaddenTurner Escaping the Pseudo-Event? We turn toward a reality wholly penetrated by Truth Alive; the native, immediate, unmediated neighborly. S. Zohar: “The messianic world will be a world without images in which no more comparison will be possible between an image and what it represents."

This distinction being made, Ellul does not think that all answers to the question are equally legitimate. He believes that the one Truth worthy of the title is  the God who created the world, led the Israelites out of Egypt, became incarnate in Jesus Christ, and will bring the world to its final consummation. Before the Fall, according to Ellul, Truth wholly penetrated reality; after the Fall, we think we can arrogate reality to ourselves, but are cruelly deceived. Between the Fall and the final  consummation, only in the incarnation of Jesus Christ has truth completely  penetrated reality (Ellul 1981: 89–92, 280 [ET Ellul 1985c: 79–82, 253]).

‘Truth, Reality and the Ten Commandments: Not for Theology Alone’, Virginia W. Landgraf, in  ‘Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in the 21st Century’, Springer, 2013.
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This distinction being made, Ellul does not think that all answers to the question are equally legitimate. He believes that the one Truth worthy of the title is the God who created the world, led the Israelites out of Egypt, became incarnate in Jesus Christ, and will bring the world to its final consummation. Before the Fall, according to Ellul, Truth wholly penetrated reality; after the Fall, we think we can arrogate reality to ourselves, but are cruelly deceived. Between the Fall and the final consummation, only in the incarnation of Jesus Christ has truth completely penetrated reality (Ellul 1981: 89–92, 280 [ET Ellul 1985c: 79–82, 253]). ‘Truth, Reality and the Ten Commandments: Not for Theology Alone’, Virginia W. Landgraf, in ‘Jacques Ellul and the Technological Society in the 21st Century’, Springer, 2013.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 12 Apr 2024

@AndrewMillison And, sadly, child's play relative to, say, the massive acceleration of vast, machine-driven resources of dominative structures of power and consciousness deliberately shaping universal attention span in their psychotic image. Then again, what is permaculture fundamentally for?

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Could be that AI functionally represents the latest, cosmic twist of an algorithmically-supercharged parsing mechanism. And perhaps the WWW exists to undo itself. Either way, getting Real and getting Down defines an existential essential of the Soul's walk Home. Dignity, yes.

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end/ Ultimately, of course, the planet and our future are what we all share. In this light, prophetic earthwork transcends the schismatic distinctions of tribe, nation and religion in active, common assent to the truth of the neighborly. ‘Realocalization’ is how we describe it.
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Copy of tweet here: Could be that AI functionally represents the latest, cosmic twist of an algorithmically-supercharged parsing mechanism. And perhaps the WWW exists to undo itself. Either way, getting Real and getting Down defines an existential essential of the Soul's walk Home. Dignity, yes. Quote tweet: end/ Ultimately, of course, the planet and our future are what we all share. In this light, prophetic earthwork transcends the schismatic distinctions of tribe, nation and religion in active, common assent to the truth of the neighborly. ‘Realocalization’ is how we describe it.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @jamespoulos Ellul, Ong and McLuhan, fundamentally Christian media ecologists all, would suggest our reconciliation with truth an eschatological matter.Quoted by@jamespoulos Ellul, Ong and McLuhan, fundamentally Christian media ecologists all, would suggest our reconciliation with truth an eschatological matter.