our earthly home?

walking down a street in Moscow on this lovely sunny day, an insight:

the society, culture and mind of this time is not at all that mankind is some spirit come down to earth

rather that the earthly, physical life is the home and goal of man

In the beginning(s)...

...God created...

...Nothing happened...

when the gods disappeared...

they left music behind

consumerussia

communism, atheist and this-worldly as it was, was concerned with the material life of man shared
when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was dissolved, rather than returning to Holy, Czarist (from caesar) Russia, Consumer Russia became the "life-blood" of society

personalized poetry

can poetry be appreciated without a shared world- and life-view?

conversations with the dead

spent the week with Origen, Nietzsche, Darwin,...
ideas and images of Moses, Jesus, revelation...

no one, as for years, noticed

"all men are created equal"

all men were created equal...
but then...

the thoughtful...

against the currently prevailing dominant assumptions of the dormant

sleeps

one can sleep in churches and doctrines
one can sleep in departments and fields

theologians adream, or the theology of theological exegesis

most theological exegesis tends to be written as if God Was, not Is

or if He Is, He Is not here and not now, but some other where and when (this writing perhaps only a little excepted)

lessons learned from history?

hardly those from merely the "20th century"

hanging out in Starbucks sub specie mundi

those seen sitting, sipping, smiling in conversations

happily unaware there ever was a time when life time was felt to be deadly serious

relaxing and chatting as if time was, is, and will be on their side

hanging out sub specie mundi

not sub specie aeternitatis

certainly not sub specie mortis 

earthly equality not heavenly justice

the demand for human equality has replaced that for heavenly justice

 

just killing time?

just killing time?
or
enlivening one's life's time

advertising as ignoble mirror

advertisements as mirroring-insult to any nobility and greatness in mankind

Oh my gosh!

Oh my gosh!

"Gosh", not very surprisingly, comes from "God"

and "OMG" has an interesting apparent first usage:

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/11/29/omg-first-use-of-abbreviation-found-in-a-letter-to-winston-churchill/?iid=obinsite