At this point, it is appropriate to ask “is Benjamin Netanyahu trying to bring about the Eschaton?” He may think otherwise but he should understand that he is no Messiah any more than fellow tyrant #DeathTsar Putin who also aspires to the role. #netanyahu #eschatology
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"Recent years have seen the emergence of a second and arguably more powerful “Armageddon Lobby.” It resides in epicenters of power like Silicon Valley and embraces a “secular” vision of humanity’s grand future — though it shares many similarities with traditional religion, including a belief in “God” and the promise of immortality through cryonics. The renowned media theorist Douglas Rushkoff calls this vision “The Mindset,” whereas the computer scientist Timnit Gebru and I refer to it as “TESCREALism,” which I have discussed in previous articles for Truthdig. I will mostly stick with Rushkoff’s term in what follows.
Advocates of The Mindset claim that the world as we know it will soon expire. In its ashes, a new era dominated by digital lifeforms — that is, artificial intelligences — will emerge. These beings will stand to us as “gods,” though by merging our brains with AI or “uploading” our minds to computers, we may become gods ourselves: Homo deus — the “human god” — as Yuval Noah Harari puts it.
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Importantly, this isn’t just a utopian dream among the super-rich built on eugenic fantasies of transcending the biological realm; it is a claim about what is cosmically inevitable. Our world is becoming more and more digital. We are increasingly embedded in a vast network of computational artifacts, some of which are now impinging on the intimate boundaries of ourselves as they become integrated into our brains and bodies. (Consider the pacemaker and the neural implant.) If you extrapolate this trend into the future, they argue, it’s just obvious that our current world of biological beings will soon be wholly replaced by a new world of digital ones."
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-endgame-of-edgelord-eschatology/
Truthdig · The Endgame of Edgelord Eschatology - TruthdigPowerful figures in Silicon Valley advocate a new-age religion that sees humanity as a transitional species — one whose time is almost up.
If you liked Christian #eschatology, wait until you hear some of the Buddhist ones
https://itself.blog/2025/02/23/turbulence/
Bush was an evil president using the power of the state to do evil things. Trump has effectively abolished the state. We do not have laws. We do not have a government. We certainly don’t have a Congress and we barely have courts. But in an important sense, we also don’t have a president. We have the irritable whims of two billionaires, handling domestic and foreign policy, respectively, and we have a bunch of psychos in charge of more detailed policy portfolios. The goal is not to change public policy, but to render public policy impossible. The goal is not to transform American society, but to destroy it completely, to destroy everything that makes it possible to call this great and terrible nation a human society.
An und für sich · TurbulenceOn our flight home from Rome, we hit some turbulence — the borderline scary kind that turns your stomach and elicits the occasional gasp. I am a pretty seasoned traveller, so it would take mu…
I've started drinking #coffee, so you can, you know, just go ahead and add that to your #eschatology #bingo card. 
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@lerg @jerry i think jerry would agree ai plus fission, even thorium pebble bed is child's play compared to ai powered by fusion - if they burned waste i may be more inclined - almost unlimited fuel supply = more ai in a winner take all equation - there is huge growth in the models in just 3-4 yrs...the experts are always off in their predictions - it could be 2-3 yrs for agi and within 4-6 - PhD level phishing frenzy code won't be all that widely distributed at first #eschatology #alt energy phish #tubular bells #slow horses
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Hella spooky, no?
Fortunately, I've queried enough LLMs to find out that the "taking away of the Koran" is not actually attributable to the Koran itself or any verifiable #hadith. It's a legend of unknown provenance. Also there is no similar #doomsday #prophesy in #Christian #eschatology.
The "famine of the word of the LORD" foretold in Amos could well refer to the inter-testamental period between the Old Testament and New Testament; no reputable commentary speaks of it as something that us moderns should be concerned with.
Is #Eschatology trending on twitter yet? #again
If the Noachide Flood of Gen 6–9 was mere regional flooding, does Jesus' invocation of it in Matt 24:37–39 mean that the Last Judgement will also be mere regional judging? 
On more than one occasion, Christians have argued about the specifics of Christ’s return: how, when, where… Denominations have split over the minutia surrounding the Second Coming. The question is: Does it matter?
https://theliturgicalpentecostal.wordpress.com/2024/07/11/jesus-is-coming-back-does-it-matter-when/
#Apocalypse #ApocalypseOfElijah #ApocalypseOfPseudo-Ephraem #Believer #Bible #Christianity #Church #EarlyChurch #EarlyChurchFathers #Ephraem #Eschatology #Faith #Irenaeus #JohnNelsonDarby #JustinMartyr #Midtribulation #Papias #Posttribulation #Pretribulation #Rapture #TheBlessedHope #TheRapture #TheSecondComing #Theology #Tribulation
The Liturgical Pentecostal · Jesus Is Coming Back; Does It Matter When?On more than one occasion, Christians have argued about the specifics of Christ’s return: how, when, where… Denominations have split over the minutia surrounding the Second Coming. The question is:…
Someone brought up the apocalypse at the barbeque last week
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www.versedaily.org"Eschatology" by Kim Addonizio from ONE ARTVerse Daily, a quality online web anthology of poetry. A poem a day, along with our complete archives, and poem selections from the web.
“No being will remain outside the number of the saved.”
- St. Gregory of Nyssa
Louis IV of #France died OTD in 954 after a fall from his horse while hunting a wolf; it was interpreted as a sign of the approaching apocalypse https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/saint-denis/?s=mb #travel #history #eschatology
Bob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and MoreSaint-Denis, Burial Place of French KingsAll but three kings of France were buried at this church in the northern suburbs of Paris. It's the first truly Gothic church. It' an easy and interesting day trip from the center.
