@trippfuller An unwitting paradigm-tell, in truth. Despite an admittedly brilliant intellectual and rhetorical performance, his mantric refrain was what? "I don't have a good answer." Not unrelatedly, I didn't hear God-reality mentioned once. Critchley's 'Metapolitical-Ethical Event', then...
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Jon Egan Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1889083380811411478 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. But where is there a party founded on, or even tolerant of, genuine Christian values? For the first time in my life, I have compelling reasons to reject every single political party seeking my vote.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting N.O. Brown Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1805964740839289330 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @JonEgan14 @johnmilbank3 Messianic political reality, in a nutshell. N. O. Brown: "The real fight is not the political fight, but to put an end to politics. From politics to metapolitics."
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick citing Wink and Whiteley Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1805959597016125480 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @BrianZahnd Once the Powers and Church moved _in_, we became Kingdom-blind. We could have an unquestionably authentic religious experience of rebirth yet remain possessed by exactly what Jesus came to end, the "idolatrous spells cast over people" (Wink) by "the demonic complex" (Whiteley). t.co/A4SpR1d1Dg
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, NPC and nested Spectacle bodies Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: Perhaps it's timely to ask to what degree all of us have been 'NPC-ed' by the peak deception of a monolithic caricature of reality-in-actuality, and the immense array of epistemologies and institutions its all-pervasive optics exclusively represent, validate and secure? @nick_routledge and @johnrobb 2/ Then again, a culturally-constructed Spectacle passing for substantive reality is hardly news; nor, for that matter, is the dark sorcery of veiled powers commanding us to be fooled by appearances - ravenous wolves disguised as angels of light. There is another way, of course.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1796650257524396432 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @TaraAnnThieke The Good News? The Messiah as a revelation of love and mercy, yes, and synchronously, the ontological dividing line separating a diabolical corruption of the historical imagination from a concrete, experiential encounter with a 'this-world' divinity that has largely escaped us. t.co/JPhvFmIno7
Open original document@austeni Screeds and creeds simply won't cut it, nor, more to the point, will the febrile, pollyannaish, adamantine enchantment possessing our chattering classes no less than it does our global, transcultural, transnational, metastasizing religio-political matrix of fascist universalism.
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet: Agreed and, frankly, a worldwide contagion: Jihadists, Zionists, Hindutvavadis, 969ers, Crusaders, they're all at it. And whilst we're not the only only ones suffering from this plague, nor are we the only ones God welcomes. This, hardly news to planetary prophetology, of course. Quote Tweet Clearly, the supercharged universality of this phenomenon - pat, predictable, cookie-cutter dialectics of ethnonationalism, purity and exclusion, span a dizzying array of languages, cultures and borders, just now - powerfully affirms its common, transcultural, archetypal origins.
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet: 1/ Hence the fundamental nature, role and promise of the political liberator, savior or Great Emancipator, here to revision the bodies, minds and souls of men in a bastardized, religio-nationalist image of the messianic hopes of our times. The transcendent function, perverted. Quote Tweet @nick_routledge Apr 22, 2021 In other words, the bastard appeal of such ethno-nationalist analogs is universally paradigmatic. How then, to effectively address the immense planetary forces encouraging the emergence and powerful enchantment of such personalities and their platforms?