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Very interesting and “enlightening” to learn that football was rejected by most churches as a sin in the late 19th century. Even Saint Paul was brought in to comment on the physical rather than spiritual nature of man in football. But by the 1920s, most of the upper and middle class embraced college football as not a sin. Therefore, it was socially acceptable!

Admitting as one realistically should the “radical, i.e. rooted, passivity of the human soul in and to (a) society, in order to understand the menbers of groups in a particular geographic-historic-social location, one should, as it were from above, recognize the ideas in which they live and move and have their being.

While it may most often be little more than “subjectivity” – the person being unable to escape from their own self in an approach to the world and life – certainly the spectrum and variety of “psychological” views l, explanations and understandings of the self in life and world are the 20th century’s main replacement for religious views of sin and virtue, salvation, damnation… with obviously the main thrust of hope, direction and sense of hope, and solution, being in this world in psychology, and the other world in religion.

Genesis 1:27

The main problem with “politics” is that 99% of politicians are unworthy of attention, not to consider respect.

Among those I know, I know only one or two who, perhaps, might not only understand, but appreciate and enjoy, these notes. (Who even remembers, understands, Hesse’s autobiographical “Steppenwolf?”)

While one can stand without others alone on a mountaintop, to actually stand alone inwardly sovereign is rare.

Most scholars are rather man tinkering.

The revelation at Mt Sinai is diminished down into anthropocentricity, if not biography, as Emerson walked across Boston commons:

“Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.” – Nature (1836)