{"id":7363,"date":"2015-02-18T05:23:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T05:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/18\/ashes-to-ashes-dust-to-dust-4\/"},"modified":"2015-02-18T05:23:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T05:23:57","slug":"ashes-to-ashes-dust-to-dust-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/18\/ashes-to-ashes-dust-to-dust-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes to Ashes; Dust to Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb07f30488970d-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vanitas2\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb07f30488970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb07f30488970d-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Vanitas2\" \/><\/a>&quot;Remember, man, thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.&quot; <em>Memento, homo, quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris.<\/em> This warning, from the Catholic liturgy for Ash Wednesday, is based on<em> Genesis <\/em>3, 19: <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;\">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;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">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 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;\">More <a href=\"http:\/\/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;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.adw.org\/2013\/02\/you-are-going-to-die-an-ash-wednesday-reflection\/\" target=\"_self\">You Are Going to Die<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Yesterday I quoted Christopher Hitchens.&#0160; He&#39;s dead.&#0160; In Platonic 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.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Remember, man, thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.&quot; Memento, homo, quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris. This warning, from the Catholic liturgy for Ash Wednesday, is based on Genesis 3, 19: In sudore vultus tui vesceris pane, donec revertaris in terram de qua sumptus es: quia pulvis es et in pulverem &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/18\/ashes-to-ashes-dust-to-dust-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ashes to Ashes; Dust to Dust&#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":[184,39,75,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-and-immortality","category-human-predicament","category-impermanence","category-time-and-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7363","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=7363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}