{"id":5981,"date":"2016-12-05T03:54:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T03:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/05\/i-cannot-reconcile-myself-to-being-nothing\/"},"modified":"2016-12-05T03:54:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T03:54:32","slug":"i-cannot-reconcile-myself-to-being-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/05\/i-cannot-reconcile-myself-to-being-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Cannot Reconcile Myself to Being Nothing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">David Rieff, son of Susan Sontag, quotes <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marguerite_Duras\" target=\"_self\">Marguerite Duras<\/a>:&quot;I cannot reconcile myself to being nothing.&quot; (<em>Swimming in a Sea of Death<\/em>, p. 167).&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">The unbeliever is in a tough predicament.&#0160; He knows that he is not his own foundation, and that his ego must burst like an over-inflated balloon. And then nothing for all eternity.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Rieff, son of Susan Sontag, quotes Marguerite Duras:&quot;I cannot reconcile myself to being nothing.&quot; (Swimming in a Sea of Death, p. 167).&#0160; The unbeliever is in a tough predicament.&#0160; He knows that he is not his own foundation, and that his ego must burst like an over-inflated balloon. And then nothing for all eternity.<\/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-5981","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\/5981","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=5981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}