{"id":12424,"date":"2009-09-02T12:54:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T12:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/02\/the-use-of-the-body\/"},"modified":"2009-09-02T12:54:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T12:54:59","slug":"the-use-of-the-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/02\/the-use-of-the-body\/","title":{"rendered":"The Use of the Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">There is such a thing as excessive concern with the body&#39;s health and excessive fear&#0160;of its destruction.&#0160;The body is to be used &#8212; and used up. It is your vehicle here below; it is not you.&#0160; It is an experience mill, so grind away.&#0160; If thinking raises blood pressure, am I going to give up thinking? If reading weakens eyesight, will I give up reading? Physical health is a means, not an ultimate end. A healthy body aids the working out of my intellectual and spiritual salvation. But the point is to work out my intellectual and spiritual salvation.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Analogy. One takes good care of one&#39;s writing implements. But the point is to write something. The pencil achieves its end &#8212; in both senses of the term &#8212; by being used and used up. Similarly with the body and its organs.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">So use the body, and use it up. You can&#39;t take it with you. But don&#39;t misuse it. Use it or lose it, but don&#39;t abuse it!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is such a thing as excessive concern with the body&#39;s health and excessive fear&#0160;of its destruction.&#0160;The body is to be used &#8212; and used up. It is your vehicle here below; it is not you.&#0160; It is an experience mill, so grind away.&#0160; If thinking raises blood pressure, am I going to give up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/02\/the-use-of-the-body\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Use of the Body&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[339,69,644],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analogies","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-brother-jackass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}