{"id":195,"date":"2013-10-06T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/distance-to-fall"},"modified":"2019-08-25T03:32:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T03:32:17","slug":"distance-to-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/10\/06\/distance-to-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Distance to fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&#8230;you only fall from the point you allow yourself to sink<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(Despite the phantom essay that had been unfolding in the back shadows of my mind, now that I&#8217;ve written <em>that<\/em> down, it seems like enough. Now I feel wrong for mocking god. Maybe it (<a title=\"And God saw the light, that it was good...\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genesis_1:4\">seemed like it<\/a>) was enough?)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Let me add just the slightest of content, by adding some of the obvious:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve <a title=\"Rationalism vs. Empiricism\" href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/rationalism-empiricism\/\">reason<\/a> to believe this true.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">I believe its mechanistic basis to lie in the mind&#8217;s capacity to generate reality&#8230;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230;whereupon suffering, which is nonetheless a real effect, operates relative to a reality which is in <a title=\"Transcendental Idealism\" href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/kant\/\">some<\/a> sense also ideal,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;you only fall from the point you allow yourself to sink. (Despite the phantom essay that had been unfolding in the back shadows of my mind, now that I&#8217;ve written that down, it seems like enough. Now I feel wrong for mocking god. Maybe it (seemed like it) was enough?) Let me add just the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,303,90,82,75,77,20,269,81],"tags":[],"metadata":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-ancientgreek","category-blog-posts","category-life","category-meanwhileii","category-perspective","category-philosophy","category-plato","category-strategy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":205,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/10\/09\/growth-of-consciousness\/","url_meta":{"origin":195,"position":0},"title":"Growth of consciousness","author":"Pala","date":"October 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"On these days, I ask myself what I've learned, and often that prompts me to write. 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