{"id":1607,"date":"2023-02-22T10:06:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T10:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/22\/ash-wednesday\/"},"modified":"2023-02-22T10:06:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T10:06:16","slug":"ash-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/22\/ash-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Ash Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02b68529c06a200d-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vanitas2\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c02b68529c06a200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02b68529c06a200d-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Vanitas2\" \/><\/a>&quot;Remember, man, thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.&quot;&#0160;<em>Memento, homo, quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris.<\/em>&#0160;This warning, from the Catholic liturgy for Ash Wednesday, is based on<em>&#0160;Genesis&#0160;<\/em>3, 19:&#0160;<em>In sudore vultus tui vesceris pane, donec revertaris in terram de qua sumptus es: quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">How real can we and this world be if in a little while we all will be nothing but dust and ashes?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The typical secularist is a reality denier who hides from the unalterable facts of death and impermanence.&#0160; This is shown by his self-deceptive behavior: he lives as if he will live forever and as if his projects are ultimately meaningful even though he knows that he won&#39;t and that they aren&#39;t.&#0160; If he were to face reality he would have to be a nihilist.&#0160; That he isn&#39;t shows that he is fooling himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">More&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/02\/ashes-to-ashes-dust-to-dust.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Christopher Hitchens has been dead for over eleven years now.&#0160; In Platonic-Augustinian-Christian perspective, what no longer exists never truly existed.&#0160; So here we have a man who never truly existed but who denied the existence of the Source of his own ephemeral quasi-existence. Curious.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Remember, man, thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.&quot;&#0160;Memento, homo, quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris.&#0160;This warning, from the Catholic liturgy for Ash Wednesday, is based on&#0160;Genesis&#0160;3, 19:&#0160;In sudore vultus tui vesceris pane, donec revertaris in terram de qua sumptus es: quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris. How real can we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/22\/ash-wednesday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ash Wednesday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-and-immortality","category-impermanence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","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=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}