Fight club is Nietzschean and not neo-Nietzschean, so for Fight Club, the authenticity of nature remains after you strip away the lies of modernity. What you are left with, may not be "pretty, or civilized but it will be authentic and vitalist. It's a very hopeful kind of Nihilism that celebrates the pre-modern and pre-Christian ;
In the world I see – you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway.
Hi Paul! As a Hindu I appreciated this presentation, and I certainly agree that it is sheer ignorance to posit all religions are the same, or that they all lead to the same experience of the Divine. Most of us Hindus prioritize a certain story or group of stories within the vastness and diversity of Hinduism. There are stories about Shiva, stories about Ma, stories about Vishnu. Virtually all religious Hindus believe that God is One, but we typically interact with particular expressed personalities of God as well as inhabit particular stories of God.
Together with our individual God-to-human relationships, there are also distinct schools of philosophy/theology/metaphysics. Not everyone is interested in these organized belief systems, which can be quite complex and sophisticated. But for those who do choose to engage the Divine in that manner, there are choices to be made. And somehow we Hindus manage to live with the fact that different people are attracted by different presentations of God and also convinced of different theologies.
"Embrace the cringe!!" is as a good slogan as we're likely to get for metamodernism! Paul you have an excellent radar for tracking what's going on in culture or at least it seems that way to an old timer like me (see I'm being self-aware!). John Hick was an important theologian and was a bit paradoxical about religious pluralism which he fully embraced and yet he also embraced that kind of perrenialism that asserte all religions were saying roughly the same thing. But that kind of paradoxicality makes him appropriate for metamodernism doesn't it? But you're right we must acknowledge the ways in which traditions differ particularly if one wants to be a devoted practioner I guess.
Could be a return to fideism. But classical theism removes the cringe.
Carry your cringe and bear it!
Fight club is Nietzschean and not neo-Nietzschean, so for Fight Club, the authenticity of nature remains after you strip away the lies of modernity. What you are left with, may not be "pretty, or civilized but it will be authentic and vitalist. It's a very hopeful kind of Nihilism that celebrates the pre-modern and pre-Christian ;
In the world I see – you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway.
Hi Paul! As a Hindu I appreciated this presentation, and I certainly agree that it is sheer ignorance to posit all religions are the same, or that they all lead to the same experience of the Divine. Most of us Hindus prioritize a certain story or group of stories within the vastness and diversity of Hinduism. There are stories about Shiva, stories about Ma, stories about Vishnu. Virtually all religious Hindus believe that God is One, but we typically interact with particular expressed personalities of God as well as inhabit particular stories of God.
Together with our individual God-to-human relationships, there are also distinct schools of philosophy/theology/metaphysics. Not everyone is interested in these organized belief systems, which can be quite complex and sophisticated. But for those who do choose to engage the Divine in that manner, there are choices to be made. And somehow we Hindus manage to live with the fact that different people are attracted by different presentations of God and also convinced of different theologies.
Kern yer terk for the kingdom
"Embrace the cringe!!" is as a good slogan as we're likely to get for metamodernism! Paul you have an excellent radar for tracking what's going on in culture or at least it seems that way to an old timer like me (see I'm being self-aware!). John Hick was an important theologian and was a bit paradoxical about religious pluralism which he fully embraced and yet he also embraced that kind of perrenialism that asserte all religions were saying roughly the same thing. But that kind of paradoxicality makes him appropriate for metamodernism doesn't it? But you're right we must acknowledge the ways in which traditions differ particularly if one wants to be a devoted practioner I guess.