@brianmclaren C'mon. Come!
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Brian I got to D.C. Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1853506167982715378 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @brianmclaren Brian, I got to D.C., completing a phase tackling the higher reaches of global political economy, head on. The impression? At every turn, an operative gestalt characterized, at root, by a form of rank, pathological infantilism. Pols, lobbyists, media, the lot. Another way, then. t.co/3jEMieKKIj t.co/vQWyV6EAzV
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: sententiae antiquae quoting Plutarch, English and Greek; Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: The majority / Ἀλλὰ νοῦν / Went to DC / An aside Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Excerpt from tweet thread: “The majority of kings and rulers are stupid” Ἀλλὰ νοῦν οὐκ ἔχοντες οἱ πολλοὶ τῶν βασιλέων καὶ ἀρχόντων #Plutarch Went to DC in the early 90’s to orchestrate/co-chair a Congressional Briefing on Computer Ethics, an effort demanding an honest, noble-hearted, post-partisan engagement with DC political culture. Stupid, their response? Nope. But illuminating. On all counts, utterly infantile. 1/ An aside. A surprise, but when the hicks eventually announced we were over the puerility trip and proceeding regardless, the pols all jumped into line. No matter, the DC experience concluded my efforts to transform the System, on its terms, from within. I was done. 2/
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Rohr Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: The Kingdom like a thief Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @BrianZahnd The Kingdom, like a thief in the night. What happens to our world when the precarious order of false transcendence imposed by the political mechanism ceases to function? Rohr: “The True Sacred, which is synonymous with the Reign of God, unmasks and relativizes the false sacred."
Open original document@richvillodas Exactly. Rohr: "How you get there is where you will arrive." So, does the preacher violate the reality of Kingdom hermaneutics or do his acts and speech disclose the reality Jesus announces _now_? Brown: "The real fight is not the political fight but to put an end to politics."
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But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Its not complicated. "It is incredible dishonesty in the human heart to pray daily that this kingdom should come, that God's will be done on earth as in heaven, and at the same time to deny that Jesus wants this kingdom to be put into practice on earth” - @RichardRohrOFM 2/3 1t may help to say what the Messiah means by the reign of God" or Kingdom’ or 'basileia’ in NT Greek. It isn't heaven, a futurity, or where we go once we die. Rather, it's close at hand; a break-through into the Realness of _this_realm; on Earth as it is in Heaven." Alt-text for this image continued in next image.
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Derenic Byrd
I refuse to settle for the “lesser of two evils.”
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Fuck ‘em both 24
America can do better than this.
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True, and yet the full-blown advent of messianic reality involves the
concrete reality of totalizing, political change, the planetary shedding of
“the demonic complex” (D.E.H. Whiteley) realized upon God's Day. The Kingdom came to put an end to politics. This, we may live_now.
1/ "Some insist that Jesus meant for us to live out these teachings fully
now; others argue that this will only be possible when he returns” To
dyadic basics, then? Panikkar: "The ultimate basis for the method will
have to be the very reality which the method helps to disclose”](/media/1853499438863712416-Gbjz4j_akAEUtgb.jpg)
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Copy of tweet and tweet image [and run on of alt-text from previous image]: Derenic Byrd I refuse to settle for the “lesser of two evils.” [And photo of lawn sign reading:] Fuck ‘em both 24 America can do better than this. -- Run on of alt-text from prior image: True, and yet the full-blown advent of messianic reality involves the concrete reality of totalizing, political change, the planetary shedding of “the demonic complex” (D.E.H. Whiteley) realized upon God's Day. The Kingdom came to put an end to politics. This, we may live_now. 1/ "Some insist that Jesus meant for us to live out these teachings fully now; others argue that this will only be possible when he returns” To dyadic basics, then? Panikkar: "The ultimate basis for the method will have to be the very reality which the method helps to disclose”