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With the Puritans’ “city on the hill” in mind, the ambiguities of History and Humanity of a plantation on a hill.

Nietzsche’s studied theological recognition of “the death of God”, as well as Dostoyevsky’s Grand Inquisitor’s sinful benevolence to the many…, both acknowledge that average men and women cannot well live without God.

But the cloudy* life inside of which most “live and move and have their being” still keeps this unclear, and avoidable. As I saw again this past fall.

*etymologically “clouds” related to “clods”.

How much of life, real deeds, events and their stories, insights, facts, and truths are unspoken and lost… being polite.

Some of the cast, and most of the “extras”, in Mississippi Burning are a realistic – and “embarrassing”– visual physiognomical “statement” against “all men created equal”.

Father, forgive them, for the can’t help what/how they are.?

stars have such a distance from us that they cannot be romanticized as the moon. They may constitute a visual element to theology, deism, cosmology, even a kind of grand naturalism. But they are too distant from us…we are too distant from them, for them to interact directly into our daily earthly lives. The stars are closer to hopes, beliefs, aspirations…perhaps also to cold despair, nihilism… But they are not an influential aspect of our human lives.

I just found several “Notes” which I did not move from draft into publishing….

But I see that they are embedded into the Notes in the time of composition.

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If you seek to recognize most persons understanding of their place and life in the world, you need to learn more than they know.

The world- and life-views by most everywhere and everywhen reveal a mixture, often an admixture, of an other world and this world – the(ir) understanding of this world soliciting essential meaning from that. It is too much to expect most to realize the historicity of the(ir) admixture(s) in which they live, move and think their beings.

Geschichte der Weltanschauung von Welt- und Lebenssinn.

Defined and argued since “nirvana” entered first less than clearly understood into the mid-19th century “West”, there does seem to be something inhuman, or ahuman, in seeking to extract oneself into a peaceful silence (where there is no wind, as it were) detached from one’s daily life, tasks, “joys and woes”, than to be vital and human in one’s life. In other words, as if being human and nirvana were antipodes. Antipathies.