@Plough 2/ Take a look around. Denial is no barrier from the concrete reality of a Reckoning, nor from a revolutionary renewal in the ontological status of humanity and our planet effected in an all-in-all metamorphosis extending the movement of God, in and through Christ, into creation.
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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: 4 Typical Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @AimeTim @UniteThePoor 4/ Typical? The weather? Just now? Where you are? Discernment may not be evenly distributed, but the katechon's more-than-human dismissal is nonetheless well-advanced, omnipresent and planetary. 'Eschatological deferral'? Effectively a bygone daydream, at this point. t.co/AKCPUnBGeX
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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: 1 Simply stated Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @unherd 1/ Simply stated, the false freedom of subjectively-isolated deferral and denial protects no one, least of all the transhumanist. The invisible foundations of concrete reality will not be denied: climate chaos forces a transcendent ultimatum upon our entire species. t.co/5WcjYnidom
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Heschel, Jung, Thompson Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 3 On the other Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 3/ On the other, "Impartiality with regard to history," as Heschel clarifies, "is a pretense." Jung: “Invited or not, the Gods will be present.” William Irwin Thompson: “When we cannot create our destiny through enlightenment, our fate is inflicted upon us through ignorance.”
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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: Climate chaos Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @ploughmansfolly Climate chaos, a primary 'eco-eschatological' facet of transcendent intervention at the planetary level; 'God entering history,' making nonsense of foundational axioms and assumptions sustaining dominative notions of legitimacy, leadership, strength, power, health and freedom. t.co/FvmbCvruRJ
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Sardello and Thomas Berry Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: The question then arises / Funny you should ask / Not only Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. “The question then arises,” states Robert Sardello, “if it becomes possible to accept that Sophia is behind all this change in the world, and that inviting her out of exile seems to be accompanied by such uncomfortable results, is it not better to keep her confined?” Funny you should ask, because where and when so very much of our activity and attention remains unhinged from the here and now, the upshots certainly aren’t. One sure glance at our world makes it plainly clear that favoring comfort over the demands of conscience, avoidance rather than commitment, ontological ‘tourism’ of whatever form in place of the diligence of tenure, and the reified in place of the real, has propelled us not only to a profoundly torn, diminished and dismal self-image but, as our scientific Cassandras daily confirm, an unprecedented extinction event. Not only is the repression of consequence doomed to defeat but, as Thomas Berry notes, “the desolation of the Earth is becoming the destiny of the human.”
Open original document@Plough Goodness, what a tremendously eloquent, lucid, illuminating and inspiring witness. It seems to me our final threshold to cross is 'getting down together', a complete form of homecoming in which heaven and earth dynamically, synchronously and resurrectively complete one another.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Revelation 21:3 and Catherine Keller Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: And I heard / And let everyone / Facing Apocalypse Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1852734100274315284 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. These aerial photos of our property were taken 22 years apart. The first one was the week Chris & I landed here in Australia. The second was a few months ago, after almost 18 years of implementing regenerative agriculture strategies. The land heals, gives back, & sustains. [Before and after images, from sparse to verdant] Goodness, what a planetary light you've become to the purposive romanticism of Gardener Kings and Queens of the New Creation, Norann. Such a blessing to our world, your portrait of the fruits of love fully inhabited and a life, fully incarnate. So thankful for your presence here. Quote tweet: Goodness, what a tremendously eloquent, lucid, illuminating and inspiring witness. It seems to me our final threshold to cross is 'getting down together', a complete form of homecoming in which heaven and earth dynamically, synchronously and resurrectively complete one another. "And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “See, the home of God is among mortals….” Rev. 21: 3. Catherine Keller: "Could we, some critical mass of the species that has trashed the earth, yet recognize it as 'cosmic sanctuary'?" “And let everyone who hears say, ‘Come.’” It is as though we must yet call God, Messiah, the new cosmopolis down to earth. Their triune "coming” requires our calling them down. In other words, their immanence needs our invitation. Not metaphysically—if what we name divine signifies an infinity, a boundlessness, it is always already everywhere anyway. But apparently this theotopia needs our invitation in order to matter, to materialize, among us. We can no longer separate the life that “comes” from our becoming lives. This new creation won't happen without our desire, our collusion, our creativity. Its renewed and renewing waters and woods, its actually habitable habitats, wild, rural, urban, star-sparkled, depend upon our collective calling. Up to us to get down together, to get down to earth with that whole ancient bridal party. Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy and Other Last Chances. Catherine Keller
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