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Which is more actually essential of Meaning: that in the place where, or in the time when, one lives?

Whether postmortem one faces one’s own daena, or Saint Peter’s queries, certainly most answers will be of the many giving answers of group thoughts, experiences, “sins”,…

At least this one instance of a decades-long Bildungsreise concludes with the recognition that essentially history is happening and faced right here and now.

Watching a “Classical Wisdom” webinar in which a scholar (Philip Freeman) reduces his subject, Julian the Apostate, to a version of his modern self in our time, sitting in his kitchen, as it were.

The very idea to understand and present a different world, seems outside his mind.

How much one has to recognize and unlearn, in fact dereify, in order to free oneself from one’s (inherited) self.

Jesus said his kingdom is not of this world, but most believers have been fairly flexible in interpreting what he meant.

Thoreau insightfully and wisely contrasted the times and the eternities… I might suggest to contrast the news* and the olds.

*”news” being the plural of new.

Death and Suffering are worldwide Principles by which the events and deeds of this world are judged, temporarily.

If all the glories of this world are passing, then what indeed may be not?

History, psychology, social studies, self reflection show that “they are evil, we are good” is superficial and false. Many of the murderous terrors and wars throughout history are inflamed by this unrealistic simplistic opposition.

It is a popular opposition. And clearly many leaders don’t know better, either on a sociopolitical or individual-psychological level.

False demonizations.

History and social psychology are useless when they are so shallowly “known”.

Agnothi seauton.