Contemporary spiritualities: Nominal atheism, New Age prayers for £25, moving on from Empty Tomb evangelism, and the church of social justice
Matters of Life and Death
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The Importance of Subversive Fulfillment in Trending Hashtags
We seem to have on the one hand extraordinary techno optimism you know technology is going to solve the problems whatever they are. Then there's this deep deep pessimism of we're all doomed uh it's either the climate or increasingly now with these new artificial intelligence programs it's AI that's going to take over and destroy humanity. John says he finds it very hard to get my head round this sort of this very febrile optimism on the onehand and then deep deep gloom and despair on the other. john: There must be a way to be both very realistic um and hopeful and to focus the the questions on the nature of what we are like rather than getting blindsided by tech or
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