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## [Challenge Companion] Eschaton
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* Author: u/alexanderwales *Time flies like an arrow**
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* URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/6rad8g/challenge_companion_eschaton/
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* Score: 10
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* Created: 2017-08-03T05:58:49
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### Post:
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**tl;dr: This is the companion thread to the [weekly challenge](https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/6r8w0o/biweekly_challenge_eschaton/), talk about ideas, recommendations, or whatever else below.**
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The eschaton is, basically, the final stage of the world.
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To "immanentize the eschaton" is to bring the divine into the material world. William F. Buckley had a slogan, "don't immanentize the eschaton", which he used as a way to criticize "utopians", a group which included people like communists, transhumanists, and Nazis. The Discordians adapted that to "don't let THEM immanentize the eschaton" as a way of poking fun at him, or maybe just being droll.
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The point of this prompt is more a matter of showing a "final fate" of the world; most people, especially on this subreddit, would recognize the modern era is a transitional one in the context of human history, meaning that the world ten thousand years from now will not resemble this one.
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(If you think that the heat death of the universe is the ultimate end, I think you're probably right, but would suggest you pick something a bit easier that's still within the spirit of the prompt.)
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### Comments:
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> **u/None** [+3] (a day later)
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> Hey, I have a question about the biweekly challenge in general, and thought I'd ask here. Is it allowed to enter multiple stories separately for a single challenge? Metafiction is kind of my jam, and I've already got two separate ideas which I'd both like to enter.
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> Pedantic note: It's immanentize, not immanetize. You made me re-check my already uploaded story :)
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>> **u/alexanderwales** [+3] *Time flies like an arrow* (a day later)
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>> Yes, you can enter two (or more) stories, it's just that people usually don't. (Also, typo corrected, thanks.)
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