Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@ThinkingFaith Universally, speech is understood as subtle architecture—building or breaking the invisible structures we live within. To speak is to shape; to lie or wound is to distort, divide, destroy, desecrate. The common language of a pluriversal practice, then: repairing what is ruptured?

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 2 Sept 2023

@islam_texts Thank you for that. In the Christian tradition, 'sins of speech' are addressed in Prov 26:17-28: "Like a coating of silver dross on earthenware are fervent lips with an evil heart." If the terrorism of gossip defines a universal form, do we also address it, similarly, everywhere?

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @Plough @TheBruderhof In this vein, I always wondered what a First Internet Precept might be. For example, what began as a village solution in our small community became a universal protocol for staying human under strain—adaptable in style, native in any idiom, scalable from households to nations.Quoted by@Plough @TheBruderhof In this vein, I always wondered what a First Internet Precept might be. For example, what began as a village solution in our small community became a universal protocol for staying human under strain—adaptable in style, native in any idiom, scalable from households to nations.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @BretVDB @malcolmguite 1/3 Speech is causal, consequential, covenantal. Our Sages insist that words are not merely sounds but acts of creation whose weight accumulates across time, seeding either resurrection or ruin. Life and death, of persons and worlds, dwell in the power of the tongue.Quoted by@BretVDB @malcolmguite 1/3 Speech is causal, consequential, covenantal. Our Sages insist that words are not merely sounds but acts of creation whose weight accumulates across time, seeding either resurrection or ruin. Life and death, of persons and worlds, dwell in the power of the tongue.