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I'm a straight, virgo/boar INTJ (age 53) who enjoys books, getting out into nature, music, and daily exercise.

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Here's a quote from Fyodor Dostoevsky to start things off right: Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

Friday, July 4, 2008

I want to what?

Apparently, I want to "immanentize the eschaton"

While looking at Playing God, God complex, Messiah complex, delusion of grandeur, and messianism, adventist ...on Wikipedia, I came across this phrase.

I think that just means I want to create a heaven on earth. I admit it. I'm an idealist. Married to a pragmatist. These two sides of me think it is possible to create a happy world. The kingdom, if you will. Not like the JW's envision it, with all animals in harmony. I imagine an alligator will always try to eat you, if hungry. But I believe in a humanity of the future that doesn't have militaries or wars, and all conflict is interpersonal, not intersocietal, which can be solved non-lethally. Basically, I think it's not a hard concept to grasp that we all are similar and want to live healthy, happy lives. Everyone can learn about and overcome the false consciousness of us-them categories, and stop feeling superior, based on nationality, race, religion, sex, or whatever. Racism and nationalism and sexism, etc just seem passe to me. Kurt Cobain sang all in all is all we are, the Dead Milkmen sing Now Everybody's Me, the Beatles sang I am the Walrus, Pink Floyd sings us and them, and for me, all this mind control has sunk in. Not many people are alligators. If everybody is paired up with someone they can truly love, then problems naturally work themselves out. When people start to care for one another, happiness ensues. Everybody can care for everyone. And happiness is heaven. This would be heaven on earth.

I don't believe in souls. I don't believe in afterlives, as I have said. So, in this respect, I don't believe in heaven. The heavens is space, so earth is already in heaven. If we want to create a "heavenly" world, we don't have to just endure continuous unpleasantness on earth and follow some religious prescription for bliss in the hereafter; we can work toward achieving concrete goals that reduce suffering and increase happiness, now. Action is the cure to misery.

Catholic Christianity
The Catechism of the Catholic Church makes an oblique reference to the desire to "Immanentize the Eschaton" in article 676:

The Antichrist's deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgment. The Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism, especially the "intrinsically perverse" political form of a secular messianism.

-Eschatology is the study of final events in the history of the world, the ultimate destiny of humanity (How do you study the future? Surmising and conjecture, no?)
-Millenarianism is the belief in a coming major transformation of society after which all things will be changed in a positive (or sometimes negative or ambiguous) direction. Al-Quaeda, Mormons, JW's, and Rastafarians are millenarianists.
-Messianism is belief in a saviour, or world-hero, for example (if not just the hero of a group). Christianity derives from the greek, meaning a follower of Messiah.

Beyond history?? After everyone is dead? Is that what the Catholic church wants us to be hopeful about? After humanity is extinct?

I thought Catholics believed their dead went to heaven when they died (if they were good, of course). It seems the messianic hope (the kingdom of heaven) can only be realized after EVERYBODY's dead, in the future.

Nuts.

So does my idealism make me The Antichrist? Geez.
1 John chapter 2 refers to many antichrists present at the time while warning of one Antichrist that is coming. The "many antichrists" belong to the same spirit as that of the one Antichrist. John wrote that such antichrists deny "that Jesus is the Christ", "the Father and the Son", and would "not confess Jesus came in the flesh." Likewise, the one Antichrist denies the Father and the Son.

Christ just means annointed with oil. I'm not denying Jesus may have been annointed.
Jesus was human. He had a father. He was a Son. I'm not denying that, either.
I'm sure Jesus must have existed. That would have been quite a doozy if some alien generated a crazy illusion or something. Came in the flesh? You mean, orgasm? Dunno. Don't care.

Presto. I'm not (The) Antichrist.

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