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Self-Realization
Are all of the philosophies, religions, theologies,… in essence in reality Man searching outwardly for his Self? 😳
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Nothing new under the sun?
If one knew fully well all that in one’s life not new under the sun…would one succumb to ennui or Weltschmertz?
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Old news history
Knowing as few do that “news” is the plural of “new”, when one reads ones personal insights recorded in eg 1865… such does give some circumspection and insight as to the new and old in the passions of one’s current day, life and world.

From The Roots of American Loyalty,
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“extraordinary moment”

Saint Peter’s Basilica. May 9, 2023. 8:28am -
Useless

Most of these dropped Notes will be neither nearly comprehensible nor useful to most I know.
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“History”?
“History” is not “outside” us, though much of it happens there. And the deepest “history” occurs – or not – in insights.
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CV summary
Jahrzehntelanger, ernsthafter Student der Geschichte der Ideen von Welt- und Lebenssinn.

Looking west, over the Pacific from the western, California coast of the USA. -
Man has on the earth…
no home, yet generally spends most of life trying to live in one.
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All roads lead to…

Rome But does one go for aesthetics, or insights.
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Gaza: “20,000 dead”
The detached moralizing self- and societal-justifications for “collateral”killing.