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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, four pictured bodies Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1923042020030857380 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Tweet: The Jewish charge that the messiah has not yet come because the world is not yet redeemed is wholly consistent with the parousial initiation of a unicity in which we include and complete one another. Besides, religious - never mind Abrahamic - exceptionalism is an ontic archaism. What if only in such intensifications between highly diverse cosmovisions can the vicious cycle ultimately give way to a vital circle - to a novel, planetarian symbiote of revelation set within a common horizon of hope and its expectation of an ultimate communion of eternal life? As if the exceptionalism a nation, religion or culture believes it has, can somehow evade a crowning planetary authority revealing a new and vital coherence transcending the mimetic crisis of chronically malignant fictions and fabrications sustaining the entire, global shebang. 1/3 It pays to acknowledge our littleness, perhaps. Reality far transcends Christian enclosure. The second, as first, advent announces an ontic novelty incontestably more generous than the momentum of social, cultic or political associations - indeed, of temporality itself. 2/ The fallacy, pardonable. For the most part, the Church's interpretation of the sunburst of the messianic remains shockingly threadbare relative to, say, other traditions - an oversight reflecting, in part, an occupational bias favoring the First Coming over the Second. Quote tweet: Moltmann, Agamben, Illich and Cayley likewise aver "messianic eclipse" (Benjamin) an aggregate goal of all religious and secular systems hanging upon a Judgment Deferral Complex; and such catastrophic permanency checked only in the game-ending irruption of a "messianic arrest.