DISAPPEARANCES

“when we say heaven ... or the div e as what heaven, we are talk g about someth g that would be nowhere, no place, and at the same t e, as a result, everywhere. Someth g, assum g we can say ”someth g,” or “someone,” who would be nowhere and everywhere.”

“When we use the name god ... we are do g someth g rather unique”. It a “proper name and yet not a proper name”. It names “the possibility that there ex ts for us collectively, as well as for each of us s gularly and dividually, a relationsh with th nowhere and everywhere.”

It names the fact that “I am not l ited to all those relations I have with all the th gs of the world ... someth g that makes me be, that makes us be as humans open up to someth g more than be g the world [as it ], more than be g able to take th gs up, man ulate them, eat them, get around the world, send ace probes to Mars, look at galaxies through telescopes, and so on.”

What happens when “man th kable outside any relationsh to the div e?”

Someth g so much bigger than my dividual ex tence, my mortal identitysometh g mense, nite. And th conviction unique to human be g. Th thought: “What does it mean to be ... as much a human be g as possible?”

Is it to be ju a b ody among bodies, a vict among other vict s, all cry g out for their own rights di erent languages? Or it to be able to th k? Together wIth others their absolute uniqueness who are mak g a s cere e ort to th k too?

Can man treat man as “a m d? As a glorious th g made of ardu ?”