Mark Christensen 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🕦

Lover of one woman. "The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things." Rainer Maria Rilke

[Mark Christensen 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🕦 @intempore_au]

“Nobody listened to Buddha – that is why there is Buddhism.” Jiddu Krishnamurti. Same is true of Jesus. What binds us is transcendent, ineffable. Yet we keep striving, talking. You can't blueprint the solution because there is no intellectually-solvable problem. https://t.co/u2II1LtaFz

[Amy @20th_Centurygal]

I came across this little gem of everyone's favorite 
Jeannie,Barbara Eden getting her groove on to KC and the Sunshine Bands "Boogie Shoes"... Pure '70s gold...🕺🎶💃

[Mark Christensen 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🕦 @intempore_au]

@daatdarling “You and I began with the Big Bang, because all substance in the universe is an organic unity. When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way back to ourselves.” Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World.

[Mateus — eu/acc 🇪🇺 @im_Mateus_]

Hans-Georg Gadamer on Augustine, Time, and the Structure of Hope

Gadamer revisits one of Augustine's most radical philosophical moves: the refusal to treat time as a sequence of three equal "beings." What makes Augustine's approach unusual is not just his conclusion, it's his method. He didn't treat the problem of time as an abstract puzzle to be solved from a distance. He brought it before God, interrupting his own argument with prayer, asking for help in the very act of thinking. That intimacy between devotion and reasoning wasn't decoration, it was the point.

The insight it produced is deceptively simple. Past and future don't exist as independent realms. They exist only as they press into the present as memory and anticipation held simultaneously in the mind. As Augustine puts it: "We can only think of present signs of the future as being present, and we can only see traces of the past… as being present. Only that can we truly see as 'being.'"

This is what he called the distensio animi, a stretching out of the spirit. Gadamer renders it plainly: that is what we call consciousness.

The German word for the present, Gegenwart, sharpens this further. Embedded in it is gewärtig sein: to be awaiting, to be open. The present is not a fixed point. It is a posture of readiness that leans forward. Time, then, is not a container you move through. It is the structure of consciousness itself. The tension between what is remembered, what is attended to now, and what is anticipated. You do not have past and future. You are the act of holding them together.

From here, Gadamer makes a move that feels almost offhand but lands hard. If consciousness is inherently stretched toward what comes next, then hope isn't a disposition some people choose and others don't. It's built into the architecture of awareness itself. Ernst Bloch was right to foreground it, Gadamer says, because it isn't sentiment, it's structure. "That is why I consider every pessimist a bit insincere; they wouldn't even be here if they didn't have hope."

This isn't a rebuke. It's an observation about what it means to persist. To remain conscious is already to be oriented forward whether you name that orientation hope or not.

Much of modern anxiety comes from treating time as a problem of storage. Holding onto the past accurately, predicting the future correctly. Augustine and Gadamer suggest a different frame. Time is lived through presence: the traces we carry, the signs we read, the openness we maintain toward what is arriving. Consciousness is the act of stretching across all three without collapsing any of them.

[Ronald Christ @RonaldCHRIST12]

“Nietzsche is like a park given over to public use — but no one goes in.”

Robert Musil, Diaries

[Mark Christensen 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🕦 @intempore_au]

"Gambling had made us all care much more about the games, but it had also atomized us—taking the last and purest expression of American monoculture and turning it into a hyper-individualized, every-man-for-himself portfolio of micro-bets." @mckaycoppins

[McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins]

Last year, The Atlantic gave me $10K to gamble with. What started as a journalistic gimmick turned into something more... unnerving.

My cover story on the online betting boom warping sports, culture, politics, and the psyches of millions of young men: https://t.co/h8O1ow6Uwi

[99% Johnny Graz @jvgraz]

Australia is arresting women for wearing the wrong clothes?

When do we start bombing?

[Mark Christensen 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🕦 @intempore_au]

@theralkia Yes, though men need to also recognise that the building process, given it relies on left-brain capabilities, can make the opening up to anima more difficult. The more material success = harder to let go ... https://t.co/qKknfjLUiW

[Mark Christensen 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🕦 @intempore_au]

@nntaleb Making belief "scientific" or objective, began well before the Enlightenment. This was the work of the 2nd-century church, who needed to achieve organised progress toward universal salvation. https://t.co/ydRAGSkU6d

[Mark Christensen 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🕦 @intempore_au]

@roddreher "The argument is lost the moment it is put into words and enters the rational world." Nick Cave (Faith, Hope, and Carnage)

[Mark Christensen 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🕦 @intempore_au]

@AGDugin Yeah, but that was part of the plan. The West can now redeem its materialism by using the Machine it has built to confirm its inadequacy ... https://t.co/ydRAGSkU6d

[julie @kittvnc]

i’m at the most fuckable time in my life and the only thing fucking me is depression

[Mark Christensen 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🕦 @intempore_au]

@JuliusGoat I think the danger here is that "fix" can be interpreted as an intellectual/reasoned effort to trust the heart. But the solution is to put heart before head - say Yes - instinctively, without thinking about it. https://t.co/ydRAGSkU6d

[Mark Christensen 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🕦 @intempore_au]

@GalacticArrival More than this: we can finally get a return on Western nihilism. The global Machine is positioned to support an eschatological outcome, all-at-once salvation at the individual level. Though this means flipping the materialist script. https://t.co/ydRAGSkU6d

[cessi 🥤 @ceciiii07]

I wonder if God knows he can just talk to me normal instead of all these lessons and riddles and side quests. Bring back talking to ppl directly through burning bushes.

[LoneChild 🦍 @LoneChildMJB]

Quantum physics is where they hide the scientific evidence of spirituality.

[Mark Christensen 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🕦 @intempore_au]

A subtle but important point: mystery can't be "destroyed". To think the Machine (per P. Kingsnorth) is the problem merely opposes those who wrongly believe it's our saviour. But you're not transcending it. Ironically, the Machine is now part of the test. https://t.co/u2II1LtaFz @duncanreyburn

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

A woman doesn't want stable she wants a man who wrestled angels and chose not to tell anyone because the men who advertise their war never fought one, the man she actually wants has teeth marks from God on his ribs. she can feel it in how he holds silence like it owes him something, stable men practice vulnerability in mirrors, this man doesn't even know the word for what he survived he just woke up one day and the thing that was killing him became the thing that made him holy and he kept walking like nothing happened because to him nothing did

[Mark Christensen 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🕦 @intempore_au]

@nickcave put it well in Faith, Hope and Carnage.

It's not like you have any real control over the creative process. In fact, it's almost the opposite: you have to surrender in a way and really just let yourself be led by the secret demands of the song. In a sense, it's the not-knowing and not being totally in control that is so invigorating. Now, that said, for that magic thing to happen, there has to be certain things in place. It can't just be a couple of guys who don't know what they are doing, sitting around bashing shit out.

[Mark Christensen 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🕦 @intempore_au]

I think the key point you miss is that myth, to be effective, must be lived. If you're not acting out the mythical insight, mythos has no value. The West also has to address the fact that we associate myth with a "lie". The other thing is that, if one does live mythologically and it turns out to be true (eg you find your soulmate), this doesn't mean the myth is transformed into something true and intelligible to reason. Western man is being challenged to integrate mythos and logos (feminine/masculine, nature/order), not convert myth into something the left brain is comfortable with. https://t.co/3qd7hGEKkb