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As I sat in the upper left gallery of the Senate for the Second Impeachment Trial, for my hour and a half opportunity there, observing the opening, somewhat admonitory, prayer, I noted the unbowed, bemused face of Senator Graham,… the detached waiting apparent on Senator Blumenthal’s… But as to a genuine deep reverence or fear of God’s oversight in their coming acts… I noted virtually none.

It was written “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”… But where, when and in whom there is no true “fear”,… and “God” is a decoration of piety, an old tradition barely believed…

Such a “God” says more about the inner and outer social and personal façades in men and woman of Man. Another aspect of agnothi seauton.

…verweile doch, du bist so schön..,

…gehe weg, du genügst nicht…

Most people are children.

Therefore, most do not know or notice this.

Those whose inner lifes have the status of generally shared opinions.

There are so many churchy religious, consolatoty babbling claims about those who have “passed away”, ie died, that it is barely possible to have a serious conversation about them and their death into its uncertain, dark mystery.

If one understandably views life and world from the view and with ideas sub species humanae, then to daily life disease and especially death are the Bale-lords of the World.

But are they so sub specie aeternitatis ?

The title itself describes clearly enough the condition, the plight, the quest… Nietzsche’s madman, after preaching in the churches, recognized his time had not yet come. For perhaps the vast majority of “Christians” in America, Nietzsche and his madman are still far distant in time, space and mind.

Yet a postmortem dei quest beyond the traditions of ideas and understandings of Nature, Creation, History, Man, Church,… is a challenge to some, and perhaps a necessary seeking, to others.

Are not those who do not cognize the mind of their time only find their selves carried along by it?

Eg