{"id":314,"date":"2016-05-02T08:57:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T06:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/?p=314"},"modified":"2016-05-02T08:57:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T06:57:28","slug":"random-thought-102-the-incredible-arrogance-of-mankind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/2016\/05\/02\/random-thought-102-the-incredible-arrogance-of-mankind\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thought #102 &#8211; The incredible arrogance of mankind &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>What incredible arrogance for mankind to think that he alone is invincible; that he alone will reincarnate or that his soul alone will enter some mythical kingdom, whilst he hypocritically pushes the boundaries of pharmacology and medical physics to perpetuate the physical state, far beyond its useful existence.<\/p>\n<p>Surely our Intellectual Being is merely a component of The Universal All; it wafts in and out of our physical Being. We can&#8217;t own it and we shouldn&#8217;t venerate it. Surely we should simply contribute to it as it passes. And then let it go. One&#8217;s purpose and one\u2019s fulfillment is in the contribution to The Universal All; not in the retention or ownership of meaningful insights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What incredible arrogance for mankind to think that he alone is invincible; that he alone will reincarnate or that his soul alone will enter some mythical kingdom, whilst he hypocritically pushes the boundaries of pharmacology and medical physics to perpetuate the physical state, far beyond its useful existence. Surely our Intellectual Being is merely a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodjones.co.za\/personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}