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The Age of Em review – the horrific future when robots rule the Earth

Edit The Guardian 15 Jun 2016
Robin Hanson’s strange, very serious, book predicts what will happen in a Matrix-like world when computers have software emulations of human brains and our bodies are destroyed. In the future, or so some people think, it will become possible to upload your consciousness into a computer ... It is an eschatological vision worthy of Hieronymus Bosch. Trillions of ems live in tall, liquid-cooled skyscrapers in extremely hot cities ... Fun, huh? ... ....

Masterclass 1: Heaven and Earth According to Breugel (Birkbeck - University of London)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jun 2016
(Source. Birkbeck - University of London). Event description. Masterclass 1. Heaven and Earth According to Breugel. Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities Masterclass. Speaker. T. J. Clark, University of California, Berkeley ... Free event open to all ... An account of Bruegel's imagining of heaven on earth, and of his wider treatment of Christian and other eschatologies, will form the first chapter of a book in preparation, Heaven on Earth ... T. J....

More Trumped-Up Charges Against Muslims or Just Business-As-Usual in the Land of Populist Faithcraft?

Edit Huffington Post 17 Mar 2016
Pick your epithet ... Whether or not Francis was closing an eye to some of the work's infelicitous Islamophobic verses in the eighth circle of Inferno is anybody's guess ... Moreover, not being an apocalyptic Jew in that Roman Palestine of the late Second Temple Period (and thus uninfluenced by any accompanying eschatological scheme), his perspective would conceivably have been more long-term, this-worldy and so territorially competitive ... ....

Purgatory Is Real!

Edit Huffington Post 11 Mar 2016
Today's catechism lesson is inspired by an instagram received from my daughter Didi. Driving through the godforsaken heart of Indiana, she noted a billboard ominously inscribed ... The irony of course is that there are plenty of biblical sources for those other eschatological pieces of real estate, and almost none for purgatory ... Of course it was also Dante who wrote the most memorable descriptions of the Inferno and the Purgatorio ... ....

Keeping the World Safe for Plutocracy

Edit CounterPunch 08 Mar 2016
Ninety-nine years ago, an American president committed to an internationalist foreign policy with messianic overtones, pledged to make the world “safe for democracy.” Times have changed ... Forget “terrorism” for a moment ... When commentators like Thomas Friedman speak of a “flat earth,” they are speaking of flat labor markets and more-or-less uniformly low production costs as a part of the eschatological endgame of globalization ... Notes ... 166....

"The only certainty in the world is Jesus Christ" - Archbishop Justin Welby (The Anglican Communion)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Mar 2016
(Source. The Anglican Communion). The text of an address given by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the New Wine Leadership Conference in Harrogate, Yorkshire, on 2 March 2016. I can't tell you what a privilege it is to be here. It's beyond what I can easily express ... 1-13 ... ... It's because people are human ... Paul is having none of that over-realised eschatology which suggests the people of God should be living as if the Kingdom had come in full....

February 2016 Update (Constitution Party of Georgia)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Mar 2016
(Source. Constitution Party of Georgia). For Members and Fellow Supporters throughout the State and across the Nation. Dear Friend,. The 2016 election season is well under way with all the drama that comes with presidential politics ... True spiritual revival in our communities provides the soil in which the CP-Ga can thrive ... A number of readers of the material published by American Vision often ask why we spend so much time on eschatology....

Bernie’s Complaint

Edit The New Republic 25 Feb 2016
... so many numbers and percentages and decimal points, bound by so many holding companies and corporate ties, that it seemed to hop, skip, and jump over the human and dwell instead amid the empyrean of the unmentionable, or at least undiscussable, alongside such topics as comparative eschatology and the relationship between free will and the godhead....

Evangelical Subculture Versus Evangelical Faith

Edit Huffington Post 25 Feb 2016
As everyone, including most evangelicals, recognizes, U.S. evangelical subculture has some problems. Although its traditional populism is in some ways one of its strengths, in the matter at hand, it is more of a weakness ... There is a clear disconnect between many of the movement's leaders and many who share their faith ... Those of evangelical faith are not unanimous regarding politics, evolution, eschatology, or a host of other matters ... ....

Entertaining judgement: The afterlife in popular imagination by Greg Garrett review

Edit The Irish Times 22 Feb 2016
Drawing on examples from art, architecture, graphic novels, computer games, theatre, film, music, fiction and poetry, Greg Garrett’s new book illustrates the extent to which artefacts from both popular and high culture resonate with eschatological themes ... Garrett demonstrates that the hyperbole associated with eschatological language may blunt our moral vision in the present....

Conference focuses on migration and aggression in Europe (WCRC - World Communion of Reformed Churches) ...

Edit Public Technologies 22 Feb 2016
(Source. WCRC - World Communion of Reformed Churches). Posted on February 22, 2016 by Phil Tanis. Leave a Comment ... Biblical studies offered another access to the topic of migration ... Beyond these observations he drew attention to the eschatological dimension of the topic that lies in the Christian conviction that 'this world is not our home and we are a travelling company following Jesus.' ... Category. News, Slider Tags. ... Original Document....

What the Bible Says About Doctrinal Disagreements

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
Photo (c) by stock.xchng user Hawser. . The Book of Romans has served as a foundational element of Christian theology for centuries ... The truth is that Christians have disagreed for centuries on key beliefs such as salvation, predestination, the structure of church services, the role of women in the church, baptism, free will, eschatology, alcohol, communion, and more ... Thankfully, we can find answers in God's Word ... Romans 14.1-8....

Culture Shock: Can video games improve more than hand-eye co-ordination?

Edit The Irish Times 19 Feb 2016
It’s not easy to imagine video games, which have long rewarded players for being ruthlessly self-centred, as channels for empathy and compassion. The take-away message from early arcade games was rarely that we should sympathise with the space invaders ... A trailer screened at Madison Square Gardens revealed a grandiose eschatological theme, in which his late mother ascends into heaven on the back of a winged horse ...    .  . ....
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