{"id":5179,"date":"2017-10-04T05:37:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T05:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/04\/las-vegas-rampage-the-existential-lesson\/"},"modified":"2017-10-04T05:37:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T05:37:10","slug":"las-vegas-rampage-the-existential-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/04\/las-vegas-rampage-the-existential-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Rampage: The Existential Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">&quot;Impermanence is swift.&quot; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zen-deshimaru.com\/en\/zen\/biography-zen-master-eihei-dogen-1200-1253\">Dogen<\/a>) Alive in the morning, dead at night. <em>Heute rot, morgen tot<\/em>.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" class=\"hidden\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><em>Gotama the Buddha<\/em>: &quot;Decay is inherent in all composite things! Work out your salvation with diligence!&quot; (Supposedly, the Tathagata\u2019s last words.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" class=\"hidden\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><em>Plato<\/em>: &quot;nothing which is subject to change&#8230;has any truth&quot; (<em>Phaedo<\/em>&#0160;St 83).<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" class=\"hidden\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><em>Aurelius Augustinus<\/em>: &quot;Things that are not immutable are not at all.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" class=\"hidden\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">How many of the 58 or so slain began the day with the thought: <em>This day may be my last<\/em>? Were they ready to embark?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Impermanence is swift.&quot; (Dogen) Alive in the morning, dead at night. Heute rot, morgen tot.&#0160; Gotama the Buddha: &quot;Decay is inherent in all composite things! Work out your salvation with diligence!&quot; (Supposedly, the Tathagata\u2019s last words.) Plato: &quot;nothing which is subject to change&#8230;has any truth&quot; (Phaedo&#0160;St 83). Aurelius Augustinus: &quot;Things that are not immutable are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/04\/las-vegas-rampage-the-existential-lesson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Las Vegas Rampage: The Existential Lesson&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-and-immortality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179","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=5179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}