{"id":2195,"date":"2022-02-28T13:42:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T13:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/28\/another-advantage-of-old-age\/"},"modified":"2022-02-28T13:42:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T13:42:31","slug":"another-advantage-of-old-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/28\/another-advantage-of-old-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Advantage of Old Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The abandoning of your vices becomes easier as they abandon you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The mechanism of flight of the vices of the flesh is powered by the mortal coil&#39;s decline, which is why the old man out for spiritual gain should rejoice, not rue, his libido on the wane.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The old man, unlike the young, has a good shot at freedom from lust&#39;s subornation even in the decadent West if freedom he wants, the wanting standing in inverse relation to the subornation.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but, what is worse, as many masters as he has vices. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">&#0160;(St. Augustine, <em>City of God)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The abandoning of your vices becomes easier as they abandon you. The mechanism of flight of the vices of the flesh is powered by the mortal coil&#39;s decline, which is why the old man out for spiritual gain should rejoice, not rue, his libido on the wane.&#0160; The old man, unlike the young, has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/28\/another-advantage-of-old-age\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another Advantage of Old Age&#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":[236,335,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ageing","category-augustine","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","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=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}