Millenarian Puns

Wilderson talks about “the end of the world” as needed to get past anti-blackness, but is afropessimism considered a millenarian movement?

I have only heard about "Gordon of Khartoum" and honestly I am very vague about this chain of events. So I would love more information and reading recommendations.

I’m playing a tall campaign as Florence and got the disaster that gives me the ‘millenarian theocracy’ government type. Is this worth keeping or not?

millenarian: one who believes that christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years

See tree for millenarian: https://treegledictionary.org/define/millenarian

I'm currently re-reading Anathem, and I'm still confused about how people get into the higher maths. It's clear that the unarians just come in and go out at the yearly apert, same with the decenarians during the 10 year apert. Besides taking people in when they are babies, they mention passing through the labyrinth to the higher maths, but how does this not violate the discipline? If an avout who is a decenarian, and has lived through several aperts becomes a centenaria, like Paphlagon did, wouldn't he be bringing secular information into the centenarian math?

At first I assumed they could only get new members who were brought to them as babies, or during apert, but this labyrinth thing doesn't make sense, am I missing something?

This is being slowly added to. Here's what I've got so far.

Lǐ Zìchéng took Běijīng in 1644 and killed the Chóngzhēn Emperor as in our timeline, but instead of just being defeated and limping with a reduced army back to Běijīng, they were killed in battle at Shānhǎiguān by the Manchu/turncoat-Míng forces.

During this time a warlord named Zhāng Xiānzhōng had managed to gain control of Sìchuān following the collapse of Northern Míng, and ruled the province with ruthless efficiency through their ministers Wáng Zhàolín and Lǐ Dìngguó. Wáng Zhàolín helped to feed the cities through confiscation of food from the peasantry alongside a state monopoly on land. Their policy of liquidating temples, shrines, monasteries, tombs, and estates was extremely unpopular among those of a religious inclination and the remnants of the old minor gentry, but this massive influx of money and treasure allowed the state to reliably pay the army and provide the peasantry with a wage to pay for price-fixed food earned through labor on state-owned land.

Former landowners and gentry were offered positions as officials, but any who profited from state-owned food were severely punished and a secret police network ensured compliance with food distribution orders and the controlled conversion of confiscated treasure to state funds. This brutally autarkic set of policies, inspired by Wáng's Neo-Legalism (Xīn Fǎzhì Zhǔyì), prevented mass starvation at a war-torn time of breakdown in international economic connections, created a strong base of both urban and peasant support, and allowed Zhāng to amass a considerable and loyal fighting force under their command.

Wáng is widely known to have believed Zhāng to be a second Hóngwǔ Emperor with the heavenly mandate to reunify Huáxià and regain its place of preeminence. He followed Zhāng to the ends of the earth. Lǐ Dìngguó, on the other hand, acted as a foil to Wáng and tempered not only Zhāng Xiānzhōng's characteristic rage and paranoia, but also their prejudice against the Sìchuānrén, at critical moments.

For example, when a large fire swept through Chéngdū during official state examinations vital for filling the new bureaucracy, Wáng Zhàolín advised the king to murder all ten thousand of the civil service candidates. However, at great cost to their own safety, Lǐ Dìngguó and a group of officers in Zhāng's army that they had connections with issued an ultimatum and threatened to revolt if the order were to be given. While many

If I'm understanding correctly, the millenarians are given children who are collected by the consents that still have their umbilical cord stump attached. That is their only source of "new members", besides members who enter through the labyrinth. These children grow up, live and die in the math at a little over 100 years of age.

In other words, if the consent does not continue to give them new babies, they will most likely die out, given there is probably not a huge amount of new millenarians entering through the labyrinth. Is this correct?

This is cringeworthy to think so many evangelicals/protestants have this theological view. It’s abhorrent that both the laymen and government official has such amazing “faith”. Somehow they think the need to bring about WWIII to bring Jesus back since apparently their God can’t even do it himself. They aren’t worried about killing everyone let alone climate change because they think the world will end. They think it should end even though Jesus will chose 144,000 people and basically torture the other 7+ billion, fight them and finally damn everyone most likely including themselves to hell.

a steven t johnson has made an interesting comment post on u/TimONeill's blog titled Jesus Mythicism 4: Jesus as an Amalgam of Many Figures:

>Jesus as a real life apocalyptic prophet?
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>I suggest that a real life apocalyptic prophet would not have two trials. That suggests the writers of the gospels/Acts didn’t even know who executed their leader.If we’re going to start taking Sunday School so seriously, we have to consider the possibility that it was the dying revelation of Stephen the first martyr that was the true beginning of Christianity.
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>John the Baptist was a real life apocalyptic prophet. Thus it is not at all the case that being personally baptized by John the Baptist would be deemed an embarrassment to an apocalyptic prophet. A cult of John the Baptist persisted, so Jesus became the Baptist’s cousin.
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>Many of the traits assigned to Jesus in the gospels are to be found in the lives of religious revolutionaries, or of their particular heroes. Judas the Galilean was perhaps the most eminent, [so] Jesus was from Galilee.
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>The Egyptian was from Egypt so Jesus was also from Egypt as well as Galilee.
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>Herod was the greatest hate figure of them all, so Herod was the murderous enemy of the infant Jesus.
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>David was the greatest king and conqueror, so Jesus was from Bethlehem, as well as Egypt and Galilee.
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>The Hasmoneans cleansed the Temple, so Jesus cleansed the Temple.
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>It’s bad enough that so very, very much of Jesus biography seems to be references to the scriptures. But even his political biography suffers the same question: Isn’t all this exactly what you would expect if they were just making it up?
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>And brings in the other problem, which is who was supposed to be writing this apocalyptic literature, and when, and what their political goals were. Anyone talking about the millenarian^(1) prophet Jesus is relying on works that may have been prophetic propaganda leading up to, during, or in response to three major Jewish rebellions. If you don’t even consider the issues raised by this, you can’t really say you’re doing history at all.

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^(1) millenarianism (also millenarism) is the belief by a religious,

For example, Haile Selassie l being claimed as a heir from the Solomonic Dynasty