#messianism

The tendency in *some* spheres of Orthodox Judaism to venerate figures in Tanakh and Chazal, the Geonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim (as well as more modern Rabbis) and to treat every anecdote and statement they ever made as Halacha and as something good, and to accuse anyone who tries to humanize them and point out their character flaws or statements they made that are factually wrong, of heresy.....that tendency borders on uplifting human beings to godhood which is tantamount to Avodah Zara. *Especially* post-Tanakh figures in a post-Neviim world.

You can't go around treating the Rabbis like they were omniscient and all-knowing. They were incredibly intelligent and skilled people but they were still people, and sometimes they did or said things that were outright stupid or wrong. And that's okay! Because a Rabbi in Talmudic times saying something factually wrong about astronomy or goats or women doesn't negate their expertise in other realms of Halacha, just like some Nobel Prize winning physicist shouldn't be taken as an expert on botany or psychology or anything outside of their realm of expertise, and it doesn't negate their intelligence or accomplishments to say that. I say this as someone who grew up Orthodox and still considers himself Orthodox. I am a Rabbinic Jew. Rabbinic Judaism is what allowed us to survive as a people in a post-Temple world. I love Rabbinic Judaism!

A Utopia Estelar que Nunca Existiu: A Fantasia dos Taygeteanos e o Mercado da Salvação Cósmica na Era da Inteligência Artificial

De Clarion às Plêiades, dos contatados dos anos 1950 aos canalizadores digitais — como nasceu, se sofisticou e viralizou uma mitologia moderna de salvação extraterrestreImagine acordar amanhã e descobrir — não como metáfora, mas como “revelação” — que entre nós caminham seres vindos de outros mundos. Não monstros de olhos negros. Não criaturas grotescas de ficção B. Mas seres impecavelmente belos. Altos. Louros. Simétricos. Olhos profundos. Voz serena. Aparência nórdica. Mulheres de beleza diáfana, descritas como semidivinas, maternalmente superiores, eroticamente etéreas, espiritualmente evoluídas. Homens aristocráticos, sábios, nobres, telepáticos. Não vieram para invadir. Vieram para guiar. Vieram para advertir. Vieram para salvar.Vivem ocultos entre nós, segundo a narrativa. Em cidades como São Paulo, Nova York, Zurique ou Estocolmo. Operam nos bastidores. Monitoram governos. Interceptam agendas sombrias. Combatem forças ocultas. Comunicam-se por telepatia com médiuns, sensitivos e “contatados”. Enviam mensagens por canais obscuros do YouTube, fóruns esotéricos, blogs, sites e páginas conspiratórias. Revelam genealogias galácticas, mapas estelares, guerras interdimensionais, linhagens cósmicas e conspirações milenares envolvendo reptilianos, federações galácticas, manipulação genética e despertar da consciência planetária.

São chamados hoje de Taygeteanos, habitantes de Taygeta, uma estrela do aglomerado das Plêiades. Segundo os devotos dessa cosmologia digital, possuem civilização avançadíssima, tecnologia pós-material, domínio da consciência, frota interestelar, colônias espalhadas, e uma população precisamente contabilizada — dezenas de milhões de indivíduos distribuídos em planetas com nomes exóticos, todos descendentes dos míticos Lyrianos, suposta raça primordial humanoide da galáxia.

Há hierarquias. Há rainhas. Há emissárias. Há princesas cósmicas. Há comandantes femininas de beleza impossível. Há nomes. Há rostos gerados digitalmente. Há vozes sintetizadas. Há mensagens semanais. Há fiéis. Há monetização. E há, acima de tudo, mercado.

Porque por trás da fantasia dos Taygeteanos existe algo profundamente humano, profundamente terrestre e profundamente lucrativo: a industrialização da esperança cósmica.

Mas essa história — frequentemente apresentada como revelação inédita — é velha. Muito velha. E seu DNA é rastreável. Voltemos no tempo.

Antes de Suwaruu. Antes das “rainhas pleiadianas”. Antes dos vídeos com vozes robóticas narrando missivas intergalácticas. Antes da internet. Antes da Nova Era se tornar mercadoria espiritual global.

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Shavua Tov!

I think I should clear some things up:

-When I say "Messianic" on *this* blog, I generally refer to the belief within Chabad that Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson is the Mashiach (a prophetic figure within Jewish scriptures that is said to bring about an age of prosperity and peace and end the Roman Exile), despite being dead since the 1990s.

-"Messianic Judaism" is something else entirely. It is a Christian denomination claiming to be Jewish. Their Messianism is the belief in Jesus of Nazareth is the Mashiach. Christianity stems from a Messianic cult during the Second Temple period that believed a Judean man named Yeshu (Jesus) was Mashiach.

Chabad is not a Christian denomination. Not at all. They are Jewish in origin and are still Jewish and regarded as such by the Jewish community by and large (except for a few fringe leaders). Even if they weren't considered Jewish, they would not be considered *Christian*.

I don't know if that's what you thought, anon, but I just wanted to clear that up.

I believe that Chabad is a cult within Judaism that displays Messianic beliefs about Rabbi Schneerson. They are completely different from "Messianic Judaism", which is a Christian denomination entirely and not at all related to Chabad.

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“if anything defines ‘the West’ it is the pursuit of salvation in history. It is historical teleology—the belief that history has a built-in purpose or goal—rather than traditions of democracy or tolerance, that sets western civilization apart from all others”.

Both capitalism and communism “were messianic movements, using the language of reason and science, but actually driven by faith”.

When the object of that faith is progress, and when the stakes involve war and bloodshed, lucidity when we are tempted to take our guiding myths as fact is particularly important, and for Gray,

“belief in progress has become a mechanism of self-deception that serves only to block perception of the evils that come with the growth of knowledge”.

This critique of self-deception leads Gray back to a more accurate foundational myth, that of original sin, fully acknowledged in its mythical status but nonetheless operative and useful as a corrective to more potentially dangerous modern myths of progress.