millenarian

It's a fundamentalist millenarian movement which is inherently faith-based, contemptuous of physical and psychological reality, and irrational.

But then again, maybe when you're talking about (potentially indefinite) life extension, there's no way to avoid the millenarian flavor.

Hey now, on a long enough time line one of these strains of millenarian thinking may eventually get something right.

It's just a similarity between millenarian religious movements, which christianity is and this is also.

The only thing less appealing to me than reading thiel’s crazed millenarian ramblings is reading the guardian’s hot takes about thiel’s ramblings.

That seems likely to get you going down some millenarian path that's not helpful.

Hamas has at least since 2017 been run by a millenarian Bond villain, causing much of Hamas's political leadership to flee the country.

How could you not get all millenarian about such a heady thing?

There's no millenarian obsession over machines taking over the world, bizarre trust in rationalism or cult like compounds full of socially isolated new age prophets.

Actually it's probably Fraa Jad or some other Millenarian signing.

Sure thing buddy, I'm the confused one in this entire millenarian frenzy.

It's a millenarian death cult with nuclear weapons.

Diction choices such as the "believe" above are why transhumanism has always struck me as quasi-religious (specifically millenarian) in character.

That, and Millenarian Christians would object to its being a required "mark of the beast." That bit from Revelations has held us back for quite a while.

Transumanism, extropianism, "effective altruism", a lot of those modern techno-utopian philosophies are just millenarian doomsday cults with a "scientific" technological gloss.

It's straight-up Bronze Age religion kinds of stuff (which fits—the tech elite is full of that kind of shit, like mummification— er, I mean —"cryogenic preservation", millenarian cults er, I mean The Singularity, et c) Of course a GPU involves things happening.

Millenarian Marxists have similarly latched onto climate change as their justification for abolishing private property, policies of degrowth, and other anti-human initiatives.

Millenarian philosophers whose arguments rest on this kind of technological singularity/rapture event, especially one fueled by technocapital development have to contend with the fact that historically capital has stepped away from the fray multiple times.