{"id":955,"date":"2005-08-14T00:49:14","date_gmt":"2005-08-13T12:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=955"},"modified":"2005-08-14T01:37:17","modified_gmt":"2005-08-13T13:37:17","slug":"the-end-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/955","title":{"rendered":"Dis-aster, no guiding star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenbatchelor.org\/future.html\">Stephen Batchelor&#8217;s account of his meeting with the 14th Dalai Lama<\/a> and I&#8217;m sad and I think &#8220;a lost man in a lost world.&#8221; And there&#8217;s no group I know of that I&#8217;d exclude from membership in the lost world. There are I suppose glittery gems here and there. Part of me wants to say that&#8217;s OK, we can retreat from these troublesome groups and all just try and be the glitteriest gems we can be, but I feel that in giving up group identities we might be participating in the troublesomeness by ceding political power to anyone in a machiavellian mood.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that is Matthew #2. Matthew #1 is still optimistic &#038; cheerful &#038; wishes to recruit workers for his infinitely helpful army bringing incremental improvement to every hurting sphere of existence. Sign up now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read Stephen Batchelor&#8217;s account of his meeting with the 14th Dalai Lama and I&#8217;m sad and I think &#8220;a lost man in a lost world.&#8221; And there&#8217;s no group I know of that I&#8217;d exclude from membership in the lost world. There are I suppose glittery gems here and there. Part of me wants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}