{"id":321,"date":"2007-04-05T22:26:15","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T02:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/04\/05\/an-encounter-on-the-lawn\/"},"modified":"2007-04-05T22:26:15","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T02:26:15","slug":"an-encounter-on-the-lawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/04\/05\/an-encounter-on-the-lawn\/","title":{"rendered":"An Encounter on the Lawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael B\u00c3\u00a9rub\u00c3\u00a9 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelberube.com\/index.php\/weblog\/credo\/\">shares<\/a> a long ago conversation he had on the lawn at UVA:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> And your soul, he said.\u00c2\u00a0 You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care if you lose your immortal soul in that belief.<\/p>\n<p>Right, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the way I look at it, I said.\u00c2\u00a0 If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re right about this and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m wrong, then you and I agree that we have the obligation to treat others as we would have them treat us, but because I believe that we humans just made that up one day, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to Hell for an eternity, and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re pretty much in the clear.\u00c2\u00a0 Whereas if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m right about this and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re wrong, my beliefs don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t visit any punishments on you.\u00c2\u00a0 We live, we act as best we can, we die, end of story, except that we hope that maybe some of the good we do on earth will live after us for a little while.\u00c2\u00a0 And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s pretty much it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael B\u00c3\u00a9rub\u00c3\u00a9 shares a long ago conversation he had on the lawn at UVA: And your soul, he said.\u00c2\u00a0 You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care if you lose your immortal soul in that belief. Right, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the way I look at it, I said.\u00c2\u00a0 If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re right about this and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m wrong, then you and I agree that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}