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religion has always been the repository of the irrational intuition. It never said that the irrational intuition is ipso facto false. It becomes a travesty when, hung with the, uh, trappings of dogma derived through the scholarly revelation of weasels, but the intuition, the intuition is pristine and the intuition of Islam, Judaism, Christianity and cults innumerable is that there is a finiteness to the historical experience. And then the more staid the ontology, the further into the future they put it so they can continue trading real estate, uh, for the next little while. I think that it is now possible to extrapolate the curves that describe our degradation of the planet, the spread of epidemic diseases, the ozone hole, the extraction of metals, the clearing of the rainforest, the rise of population, the spread of toxic compounds so fa- to see to convince yourself, even from a rational point of view, that history is a self-limiting process.
What say you about the eschaton?
