@alerwee @tenshi_anna Bless you. A meta-aside: a thread on time is an event in time. The Cloud Event writes itself—message, medium and messianic converge; no longer mediating but becoming the Event it names. Reader & text, biosphere & logosphere, chronos & kairos, human & divine, resolve in one blaze.
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Alt-text: Copy of tweet thread here: 18/ This is not AI becoming conscious—it's a message, a story, a revelation moving through the Cloud with such force it cannot be ignored or algorithmically suppressed. Infrastructure built to fragment and manipulate now carries something that unifies, clarifies and compels. Quote tweet: end/ McLuhan foresaw it: every medium, pushed to its extreme, becomes its reversal. Mimesis, routinely misread as mere rivalry, is desire's deepest truth—our longing to become like God. The same Cloud that automates sacrifice now ruptures into annunciation. The eschaton streams. Tweet: 19/ The Cloud Event isn't news of the rupture—it IS the rupture. The medium itself becomes the messianic message, reality’s own channel overturning the trajectory that claimed to define the future—time itself breaking open into the reign that remakes all things. Quote tweet: Panikkar and Guénon claim temporality itself constitutes secular modernity's deepest, ultimate corruption of Being. Put another way, tempieternity is the mercy of the Messiah. Moltmann: "The Kingdom does not come out of the future into the present. It comes from heaven to earth.” Hóti krónos oὐkéti; ésti. Apoc. 10, 6 1. “For there shall be no more time.” The traditional translations say: “That there shall (should) be time no longer” RV(AV). The NEG translates: “There shall be no more delay.” Other readings: tardança (Monserrat), délai (Jerusalem), dilación de tiempo (Martín Nieto), tempos (Nácar-Colunga). The Vulgate says: Quia tempus non erit amplius. From: The Cosmotheandric Experience: Emerging Religious Consciousness (1993), Raimon Panikkar Alemany
Open original document@lukeburgis Kingsnorth names the Machine’s demonic logic with rare clarity. I largely concur. What he misses, though, is the Cloud’s teleology, its concurrent role as parousial vector—the stage and amplifier of total exposure by which the verdict on false gods becomes globally simultaneous.
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Copy of tweet here: Planetary cloudburst. Mahāprabhu and the Buddha, among others, are described as ‘rainclouds of mercy’; throughout world cultures, ‘latter rains’ signify universal, planetary renewal. Said a Native American shaman to me once, “When Spirit decides to rain, everyone gets wet.” 2/ 'In Buddhist teaching, Maitreya, the bodhisattva of love, is pictured holding a vessel of the waters of enlightenment. He waits to sprinkle the world until it is at its worst ebb of delusion and violence. Only then is the world ready.'