{"id":901,"date":"2024-05-10T14:15:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T18:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=901"},"modified":"2024-05-10T14:52:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T18:52:35","slug":"simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"simple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">When you say \"people are simple\"<br>you mean \"people are animals\"<br>and then you treat them like animals.<br><br>That's the error of hubris.<br>The correction is humility.<br><br>Butchering other men's children<br>cannot make you immortal,<br>cannot make you other than<br>human.<br><br>To be human is to be defined by<br>limitations.<br><br>There must be a dividing line<br>between Man and God.<br><br>One cannot become the other.<br><br>Just as man cannot become woman,<br>and woman cannot become man,<br>Man cannot become God, and<br>God cannot become Man.<br><br>(Christ was resurrected.)<br><br>Be humble and rejoice.<br><br>To want to become God<br>is to assume you know<br>what God is,<br>which is impossible<br>for Man to know.<br><br>Hubris.<br><br>We can't know.<br>We can't truthfully desire<br>what is unknowable.<br><br>We can only reject what we are.<br><br>So be humble.<br>Rejoice.<br><br>Only in death can we get close to God.<br>Only when we are unbound from our<br>individuality, our memories, our instincts,<br>can we return to formless unity, can we<br>know God.<br><br>Again, humility.<br>We cannot do this in life.<br><br>Collectivism is a perversion,<br>a false unity with God.<br><br>It separates us further from God<br>because it separates us from<br>who we are, right now, from<br>what we are, right now.<br><br>Simple people know this.<br>They have always known this.<br>This is the wisdom of simple people.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>May 10, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you say &#8220;people are simple&#8221;you mean &#8220;people are animals&#8221;and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/?p=901\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">simple<\/span> <i class=\"fas fa-angle-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[47,2],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-47","tag-poetry","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajaxkallistrate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}