{"id":2422,"date":"2021-09-24T19:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/09\/24\/the-monk-and-the-worldling\/"},"modified":"2021-09-24T19:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T19:00:38","slug":"the-monk-and-the-worldling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/09\/24\/the-monk-and-the-worldling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monk and the Worldling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><em>Monk<\/em>: The world you love cannot last&#0160; and betrays its vanity thereby. Its impermanence argues its unreality. It is unworthy of your love, noble soul!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><em>Worldling:<\/em>&#0160;The God you love is worthy of your love should he exist, but he does not, or at least you have no proof that he does; no proof sufficient to render reasonable your rejection&#0160; of&#0160; this passing world and its finite satisfactions for a possibility merely believed in.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monk: The world you love cannot last&#0160; and betrays its vanity thereby. Its impermanence argues its unreality. It is unworthy of your love, noble soul! Worldling:&#0160;The God you love is worthy of your love should he exist, but he does not, or at least you have no proof that he does; no proof sufficient to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/09\/24\/the-monk-and-the-worldling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Monk and the Worldling&#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":[75,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-impermanence","category-monks-and-monasticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422","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=2422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}