{"id":31,"date":"2004-08-12T10:01:05","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T14:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/wp\/?p=31"},"modified":"2019-07-11T22:59:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T02:59:46","slug":"misguided_targe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2004\/08\/misguided_targe\/","title":{"rendered":"Misguided targets&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;the fallacy that good is limited by evil, and that you cannot<br \/>\nreceive any good except through eliminating the corresponding<br \/>\nevil by realizing it and beating it back. In this view, life<br \/>\nbecomes a continual combat against every imaginable form of evil,<br \/>\nand after we have racked our brains to devise precautions against<br \/>\nall possible evil happenings, there remains the chance, and much<br \/>\nmore than the chance, that we have by no means exhausted the<br \/>\ncategory of negative possibilities, and that others may arise<br \/>\nthat no amount of foresight on our part could have imagined. The<br \/>\nmore we see into this position the more intolerable it becomes,<br \/>\nbecause from this standpoint we can never attain any certain<br \/>\nbasis of action, and the sources of possible evil multiply as we<br \/>\ncontemplate them. To set forth to outwit all evil by our<br \/>\nknowledge of its nature is to attempt a task the hopelessness of<br \/>\nwhich becomes apparent when we see it in its true light&#8221;<br \/>\n<a title=\"Judge Thomas Troward\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Troward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Judge Thomas Troward<\/a>, &#8220;The Dore Lectures On Mental Science&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was written about a hundred years ago, Still, I&#8217;ve got a chill running thru my back when I read it. We, <b>The Almighty People<\/b>, are so much of a herd on this &#8220;War on Terrorism&#8221; that, when we drive past a milk farm, the cows go into fits of laughter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;the fallacy that good is limited by evil, and that you cannot receive any good except through eliminating the corresponding evil by realizing it and beating it back. In this view, life becomes a continual combat against every imaginable form &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2004\/08\/misguided_targe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}