13/ Perhaps that's the simplest way to say it. Apocalyptic theology is fourth-wall theology because it insists that the gospel is not a worldview but a new world—immanence itself reclaimed as the place where transcendence arrives—only as it is activated, embodied, and shared.
@CTmagazine 8/ What if the Kingdom isn't metaphor or otherworldly consolation relativizing claims to earthly power, but ontological fact—a fully habitable reality where personal agency and cosmic process converge, accessible by attuning to and participating in what already is, here and now?
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Alex Evans Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Two pictured Jul14,2022 paragraphs only; displayed handle cropped. Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1965750510440575369 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. I see so many climate narratives that are all “people have no idea what’s coming” or “people need to wake up”. I’m not so sure. I feel like people have a pretty good idea what’s coming, but deliberately tune it out - because our stories lack *agency* or *meaning* or *redemption*
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Phoebe Tickell @PhoebeTickell Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Jul15,2022 caption only. Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1965750510440575369 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. I think *also* people tune out because the enormity of what is happening is too big to deal with, in the overwhelm of daily modern life (1), and in a system where individual activism has little impact on systemic pollution/emissions/harm (2).
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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: 1/ and2/ Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 1/ Positive, grounded responses addressing those specific concerns are well in hand, frankly. Our primary challenge is a majoritarian sense of significance powerfully vested in dominant narratives, and the threat of personal salvation as apocalyptic as the doom that hounds us. 2/ Given the epic personal challenge a genuine response to this mystery implies, is it any wonder the routine of a known but essentially unlived life holds so many of us in its predictable yet paralyzed thrall? The very way we see must end as another version of the world ensues. Quote tweet: Ya gotta start. The territory of homecoming, already spread out among us, awaits a personal invocation. It will not come by waiting for it. 'In order to inherit your freedom, you need to go toward it.' McKenna: "The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer." "Everyone seems to be waiting: waiting for the villains to be exposed; for justice to be done; for government to be changed; for climate science to be urgently acted upon; for Truth to be spoken and acted upon; for a tidal shift in human morality and higher consciousness; for a whole systems transition to a global culture of peace; for spiritual values to prevail. We wait as if the future will save us but the toxicity grows while we wait and the present is immobilized by endless commentary on our predicament as we sit on every possible solution to our multiple crises. And yet somehow we will become what we are waiting for if we put more than a toe in the water of real change and transformation and if we give it an almighty shove of creativity.” - James O'Dea
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting McKenna Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Ya gotta start Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 1/ Positive, grounded responses addressing those specific concerns are well in hand, frankly. Our primary challenge is a majoritarian sense of significance powerfully vested in dominant narratives, and the threat of personal salvation as apocalyptic as the doom that hounds us. 2/ Given the epic personal challenge a genuine response to this mystery implies, is it any wonder the routine of a known but essentially unlived life holds so many of us in its predictable yet paralyzed thrall? The very way we see must end as another version of the world ensues. Quote tweet: Ya gotta start. The territory of homecoming, already spread out among us, awaits a personal invocation. It will not come by waiting for it. 'In order to inherit your freedom, you need to go toward it.' McKenna: "The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer." "Everyone seems to be waiting: waiting for the villains to be exposed; for justice to be done; for government to be changed; for climate science to be urgently acted upon; for Truth to be spoken and acted upon; for a tidal shift in human morality and higher consciousness; for a whole systems transition to a global culture of peace; for spiritual values to prevail. We wait as if the future will save us but the toxicity grows while we wait and the present is immobilized by endless commentary on our predicament as we sit on every possible solution to our multiple crises. And yet somehow we will become what we are waiting for if we put more than a toe in the water of real change and transformation and if we give it an almighty shove of creativity.” - James O'Dea
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: James O'Dea Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: orange card complete Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 1/ Positive, grounded responses addressing those specific concerns are well in hand, frankly. Our primary challenge is a majoritarian sense of significance powerfully vested in dominant narratives, and the threat of personal salvation as apocalyptic as the doom that hounds us. 2/ Given the epic personal challenge a genuine response to this mystery implies, is it any wonder the routine of a known but essentially unlived life holds so many of us in its predictable yet paralyzed thrall? The very way we see must end as another version of the world ensues. Quote tweet: Ya gotta start. The territory of homecoming, already spread out among us, awaits a personal invocation. It will not come by waiting for it. 'In order to inherit your freedom, you need to go toward it.' McKenna: "The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer." "Everyone seems to be waiting: waiting for the villains to be exposed; for justice to be done; for government to be changed; for climate science to be urgently acted upon; for Truth to be spoken and acted upon; for a tidal shift in human morality and higher consciousness; for a whole systems transition to a global culture of peace; for spiritual values to prevail. We wait as if the future will save us but the toxicity grows while we wait and the present is immobilized by endless commentary on our predicament as we sit on every possible solution to our multiple crises. And yet somehow we will become what we are waiting for if we put more than a toe in the water of real change and transformation and if we give it an almighty shove of creativity.” - James O'Dea
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