Conference 2022: Paul Kingsnorth
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2022
- Paul Kingsnorth is an English writer who lives in the west of Ireland. He is a former deputy-editor of The Ecologist and a co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project. Paul’s nonfiction writing addresses themes like environmentalism, globalisation, and the challenges posed to humanity by civilisation-level trends. He is also a novelist and poet. In January 2021 he was baptised in the Romanian Orthodox Church at the Romanian Monastery in Shannonbridge, Ireland. Paul has a website and a new fortnightly essay series The Abbey of Misrule. He’s just created a great video on Conversion, Culture, and the Cross with Rowan Williams.
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This is one of the best video interviews given by Paul Kingsnorth.
Excellent discussion, and so encouraging to hear. We need kindred voices more than ever and also to speak out where possible for Truth and Beauty, with capital T and B!!
Wonderful dialogue! God bless!
I am glad to live in a time, when my children could get the help they needed with their cleft-palate-lip surgery. Otherwise it would have been a life in great suffering, as people with that situation had in the old times, so the old days was not better either. I think it is more about sharing and moderation when it comes to resources.
I really think the question of "How can Technology serve us", changing into ",How can we serve Technology?" has brought us to sacrificing our ideals in the name of our ideals (paraphrasing Orwell here). And to that, we have no precedent to refer to.
@@WattisWatts Yes, technocracy combined with meritocracy that has risen the last 10 years has created a lot of suffering. In this time, we don´t hear many voices in society that talks about that phenomenon. It is like a spell, like everbody think that this is a nature law, that it cannot be changed.
@@02sweden It is a spell in many ways. And can it be reversed when it's presence is so ubiquitous?
Wonderful talk, thank you
James Payton book, “Light from the Christian East” is good at highlighting the important differences between eastern and western Christianity. And, of course, Rowan Williams book “Looking East in Winter”. Both traditions have their part to play of course. I find myself in an Anglican Church but am by nature more in tune with Eastern elements and perspectives. There is a great deal of re-learning of things it once knew (e.g. Theosis) going on in western Christianity at the moment in all denominations plus other types of enrichment from the East
"Looking East in Winter" was phenomenal and definitely the best theology book I've read all year.
The "machine society", yes... and, by way of contrast, the New Testament. Whatever the meaning of "the Son of God", there's a uniquely simple beauty there that you won't find in the other Great Religions, despite their grandeur. That's surely the heart of the matter. 🌈🦉
Really interested in your journey Paul…myself and my partner have had a similar path…maybe seeking a more mystical/folk Christianity rather than the behemoths. Great stuff.
Me too! I’d love to have a place to contact others like yourselves who have had similar journeys, but I guess these channels are great for that! God Bless! X 🌿🍂💥🌻
There truly is only one Christianity and that is the faith in the one and only Jesus Christ as given us in the Holy Bible via the Gospel by the Holy Spirit.
The Bible is the still living word of God. It is there that we find the Light we need and the path to Eternal paradise.
All Christians who follow the commands of Christ and learn His love and try to emulate His perfection (much as we all fail) are brothers here regardless of all else.
The science fiction writer John C Wright also thinks that God has a sense of humour. He was a crusading atheist who put God to the test thusly; "Being a philosopher and not a poseur, I put the matter to an empirical test.
For the first time in my life, I prayed, and said. "Dear God. There is no logical way you could possibly exist, and even if you appeared before me in the flesh, I would call it an hallucination. So I can think of no possible way, no matter what the evidence and no matter how clear it was, that you could prove your existence to me. But the Christians claim you are benevolent, and that my failure to believe in you inevitably will damn me. If, as they claim, you care whether or not I am damned, and if, as they claim, you are all wise and all powerful, you can prove to me that you exist even though I am confidence such a thing is logically impossible. Thanking you in advance for your cooperation in this matter, John C. Wright." -- and then my mind was at rest. I had done all I needed to do honestly to maintain my stature as someone, not who claimed to be logical, objective and openminded, but who was logical, objective, and openminded.
Three days later, with no warning, I had a heart attack, and was lying on the floor, screaming and dying.
Then I was saved from certain death by faith-healing, after which --
I felt the Holy Spirit enter my body, after which --
I was visited by the Virgin Mary, her son, and His Father, not to mention various other spirits and ghosts over a period of several days --
And a week or so after that I had a religious experience where I entered the mind of God and saw the indescribable simplicity and complexity, love, humor and majesty of His thought, and I understood the joy beyond understanding and comprehended the underlying unity of all things, and the paradox of determinism and free will was made clear to me, as was the symphonic nature of prophecy. I was shown the structure of time and space." www.scifiwright.com/2011/09/faith-in-the-fictional-war-between-science-fiction-and-faith/#comment-65331
Gerard Brady: How could anyone ever believe this claptrap?
He talks about the alleged environmental destructiveness of energy use, but he spent decades of his life fighting nuclear power, which is the greenest form of energy production known to the human race.
Not actually true at all. I've never written about it, or campaigned on it for minutes, let alone 'decades.'
Having said that, defining a source of power generation which creates vast amounts of poisonous waste which last for 50,000 years and which we don't know how to properly contain as 'the greenest form of energy production' goes to prove the point I was trying to make about Machine thinking.
I think he has been very honest about every step in his journey. You are simply undermining the multiple wicked dilemmas at play
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He sounds like The Unabomber.
Very true. Their vocal tones are very similar, when contrasted with those of geese, or even rhinos for that matter.
@@eyesee9715😂… perfect
What an idiotic thing to say…