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Gods are immortal, but always passing away, passing by.
On the nihilism he predicted, Nietzsche wrote: “What I relate is the history of the next two centuries”[1] – that is, approximately to the year 2100. In some respects, his predictions have rung true. My writing here suggests an end to nihilism. – But the always unfinished and impossible work of mourning,[2] the funeral procession, the cries of ‘but, now, life will have no meaning!,’ the letting be of acceptance, and a kind of moving on — these will continue to play out.
(Meanwhile, some people will gather pieces back as though to reassemble the One.)
Gods are immortal even if not eternal: the world is on its way to no longer supporting the One.
[1] Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, ed. Walter Kaufmann, trans. Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale (New York: Vintage Books, 1968), p. 3. See also Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality, p. 119: “morality will be destroyed by the will to truth’s becoming-conscious-of-itself: that great drama in a hundred acts reserved for Europe in the next two centuries, the most terrible, most questionable drama but perhaps also the one most rich in hope….”
[2] Derrida, The Work of Mourning, p. 143, 159, 218, 221, 238.