{"id":8024,"date":"2014-04-14T14:40:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T14:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/04\/14\/intellectual-hypertrophy\/"},"modified":"2014-04-14T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T14:40:12","slug":"intellectual-hypertrophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/04\/14\/intellectual-hypertrophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Intellectual Hypertrophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Weight lifters and body builders in their advanced states of muscular development appear ridiculous to us. All that time and money spent on the grotesque overdevelopment of one&#39;s merely physical attributes&#0160;<sup>___ <\/sup>when in a few short years one will be dust and ashes. But isn&#39;t the intellectual equally unbalanced who overdevelops his logical and analytical skills to the neglect of body, emotions, and spirit? 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