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"At this hour, I no longer believe, as I once did,” noted Gershom
Scholem in a pivotal moment in his journals, “that I am the Messiah."

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And if God does not deign one of us as the messiah, if we are not picked to end the suffering of mankind, then the question is one of uncovering political agency in the world.

It's not God who chooses the Messiah, it's the profane world that makes Messiahs.

@exiliaex
“And we will continue to dream of salvation, redemption, and a new Messiah. But after many saviors have been nailed to trees and stoned to death in the marketplace, then the last Messiah will appear.

A man will come forth, who before all other men has dared to strip his soul naked and give himself wholly over to our most profound questioning, even to the idea of annihilation. A man who has grasped life in its cosmic context, and whose agony is the agony of the world. But such a rising wail will assail him from all the people of the earth, crying for his thousand-fold execution, when his voice blankets the world like a shroud, and his peculiar message is heard for the first and last time:

The life on many worlds is like a rushing river, but the life on this world is like a stagnant puddle and a backwater.
The mark of annihilation is written on thy brow. How long will ye mill about on the edge? But there is one victory and one crown, and one salvation and one answer:
Know thyselves; be unfruitful and let there be peace on Earth after thy passing.”

@exiliaex Why wait for god to pick you? Let's get on with it. There's work to be done.

Rise up.

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