@jamespoulos A golden calf wired to the Cloud is still a golden calf—idolatry in silicon drag. When salvation is a business model, even the afterlife comes with a paywall: transhumanism is just ego with venture capital, unmasked. The Cloud Event doesn’t crown tin gods; it toilet-flushes them.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: David Gibson Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: I'd be on board with Thiel's creepy techno fantasia Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Alt-text: Article here: But to understand why Thiel may be willing to take that risk, Palaver says you need to first understand that he’s human. “What I’ve observed are traces of deep fear,” he told me. “Fear of death, fear of terrorism.” It all comes down to a lack of trust and a craving for security, Palaver suspects. “There are so many cases where he expresses fears and concerns and a need for protection,” Palaver says. “And if your main thing is seeking protection, you play with fire.” —------- Tweet thread here: Tweets: I'd be on board with Thiel's creepy techno fantasia if he could bring René Girard back to life just so Girard could tell him (and Vance) how criminally they have misunderstood him, not to mention Christianity. Watch Ross Douthat realize for a moment in real time that he's spent a decade making ideological bedfellows with a techno-futurist, fascist Right that wants to see the birth of a "machine god" & is in no way enthusiastic about the survival of the human race in universal terms. He rises who realizes his immortality now. If the only priesthood in which someone truly believes is the life extension profession, a project hewn to mortality fleeing the Way itself, no wonder they sing unconscious of a desperate atheist life bounded by a terror of annihilation. This curious doctrine, which supplants the entropic reality of the body with an incorporeal simulation, shows Moravec’s fantasy to be less Christian than gnostic—and, it must be added, a mighty simpleminded gnosticism at that. As William Irwin Thompson notes in The American Replacement of Nature, “With its detestation of the imprisonment of the soul in matter, its imagery of mind as light, male, and informational, a logos spermaticos, and the flesh as dark, female, and entrapping, Gnosticism is a basin of attraction that awaits those naive technologists who step outside modern society’s conventional worldview.” Thompson's point is astute: As modern Prometheans pursue the “rational” possibilities of science and technology, it becomes increasingly difficult for them to maintain the commonsensical perspective of the man on the street. Instead, such thinkers and tinkerers are loosed in a world of possibility whose profound metaphysical and religious dimensions they are often incapable of handling, let alone recognizing; as such, they find themselves unconsciously drawn to the soul's most adolescent fantasies of transcendence and immortality. Retained uncertainty: ["All four pictured prose blocks covered. Preserve Thompson inner quotation; do not assign the book paragraph to Nick."]
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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: He rises who realizes his immortality now Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1938707846155378697 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @GibsonWrites @jonmsweeney He rises who realizes his immortality now. If the only priesthood in which someone truly believes is the life extension profession, a project hewn to mortality fleeing the Way itself, no wonder they sing unconscious of a desperate atheist life bounded by a terror of annihilation. t.co/3a6gs5Aqn0 Retained uncertainty: ["All four pictured prose blocks covered. Preserve Thompson inner quotation; do not assign the book paragraph to Nick."]
Open original document@gilduran76 "Overthrow the importance principle; turn it upside down. Put down the mighty from their seats and exalt them of low degree. Every throne a toilet seat and every toilet seat a throne." ~ N.O. Brown, Love's Body, University of California Press, 1966
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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: top Palantir Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1958705999633867062 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @xriskology Palantir’s tech-lord of surveillance lecturing on the Antichrist is like Mammon convening a symposium on voluntary poverty: a parody so grotesque, it reveals itself for what it is. Draped in diabolical cosplay, false transcendence lays bare the masquerade—the mask is torn away. t.co/XGBQbpgILA
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Hans Urs von Balthasar Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Precisely Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1938705594120307112 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @TornadoNate Precisely. "The ways of history do not lead directly upwards to the Kingdom of God, they pass by way of the final unveiling of the anti-Christ who conceals himself under the last mask to be stripped away - the mask of what is good and what is Christian.” - Hans Urs von Balthasar t.co/BqKR8fNVIf
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: James Poulos Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Nobody tell him Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1967730425109106834 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Tweets: Nobody tell him Quote tweet: Nothing can stop Palantir, nothing – Tweet: Belief in history as a self-interested concept, I ask ya. As if the agency immanent to reality itself of the sovereignty, telos and might of the Living God somehow wouldn't have the powers of the air dead center in its sights or, as one #TechTheoBro said to the other, 'Surprise!' No single pedagogical method is equal to the gospel transmission of a radical transformation in the meaning of power in the unitive core of the human being, whereby all the heart’s quests are revalued and hierarchies of history reversed. The last is now first and the first last. I shouldn't worry about Thiel or his ilk. Ultimately, he represents the precarious order of false transcendence of a demonic-complex unmasked, like a thief in the night, by the closing of an incarnational circuit 'not of (t)his world.' Kingdom Reality for Real takes no prisoners. It may help to say what the Messiah means by the 'reign of God' or 'Kingdom' or 'basileia' in New Testament 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."
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Jim Cramer Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Nothing can stop Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1967730425109106834 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Tweets: Nobody tell him Quote tweet: Nothing can stop Palantir, nothing – Tweet: Belief in history as a self-interested concept, I ask ya. As if the agency immanent to reality itself of the sovereignty, telos and might of the Living God somehow wouldn't have the powers of the air dead center in its sights or, as one #TechTheoBro said to the other, 'Surprise!' No single pedagogical method is equal to the gospel transmission of a radical transformation in the meaning of power in the unitive core of the human being, whereby all the heart’s quests are revalued and hierarchies of history reversed. The last is now first and the first last. I shouldn't worry about Thiel or his ilk. Ultimately, he represents the precarious order of false transcendence of a demonic-complex unmasked, like a thief in the night, by the closing of an incarnational circuit 'not of (t)his world.' Kingdom Reality for Real takes no prisoners. It may help to say what the Messiah means by the 'reign of God' or 'Kingdom' or 'basileia' in New Testament 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."
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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: Belief in history Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1882841967316627736 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @jamespoulos Belief in history as a self-interested concept, I ask ya. As if the agency immanent to reality itself of the sovereignty, telos and might of the Living God somehow wouldn't have the powers of the air dead center in its sights or, as one #TechTheoBro said to the other, 'Surprise!' t.co/sYmJt1fCtD
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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: I shouldn't worry Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1828007442963472404 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @AimeTim I shouldn't worry about Thiel or his ilk. Ultimately, he represents the precarious order of false transcendence of a demonic-complex unmasked, like a thief in the night, by the closing of an incarnational circuit 'not of (t)his world.' Kingdom Reality for Real takes no prisoners. t.co/EW9CNkUpT5
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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: I once ran into pmarca Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1868530126700552489 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @nils_gilman I once ran into @pmarca hawking a pre-release of Netscape Navigator 1.0. Already, my team had run the first WWW pipe into the U.S. Congress, on Mosaic. Then, as now, as always, if you can't see the paradigm for the trees for the point of it all, your dominative days are numbered. t.co/eu8q8q0rtI
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