{"id":31703,"date":"2012-12-10T22:49:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T05:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/10\/purpose-the-individual-and-the-universe.html"},"modified":"2012-12-10T22:49:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T05:49:33","slug":"purpose-the-individual-and-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/10\/purpose-the-individual-and-the-universe.html","title":{"rendered":"Purpose, the Individual, and the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;You see, there&#39;s this guy named Dave &#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Or, as C.S. Lewis put it, more eloquently (or longwindedly) in &quot;The World&#39;s Last Night&quot;:<\/p>\n<p><i>&quot;We do not know the play. We do not even know whether we are in Act I or Act V. We do not know who are the major and who are the minor characters. The Author knows. \u2026 But we, never seeing the play from the outside, \u2026 cannot tell at what moment the end ought to come. That it will come when it ought, we may be sure. \u2026 That it has a meaning we may be sure, but we cannot see it. When it is over, we may be told. We are led to expect that the Author will have something to say to each of us who has played. The playing it well is what matters infinitely.&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images3-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/files\/2012\/12\/RalphNurse.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2012\/12\/09\/and-what-is-this-play-about\/'>\u2018And what is this play about?\u2019<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA shorter, funnier version of everything I tried to say in the previous post can by found in Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard\u2019s script for Shakespeare in Love: WOMAN (to RALPH): And what is this play about? RALPH: Well, there\u2019s this nurse. \u2026 The play Ralph is describing is Romeo and Juliet. Now, if Ralph were writing a paper for his literature class on the meaning of Romeo and Juliet, he\u2019d likely get an \u201cF\u201d for this approach. Similarly, no editor wou&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Go29xUquQqt' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;You see, there&#39;s this guy named Dave &#8230;&quot; Or, as C.S. Lewis put it, more eloquently (or longwindedly) in &quot;The World&#39;s Last Night&quot;: &quot;We do not know the play. We do not even know whether we are in Act I or Act V. We do not know who are the major and who are the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/10\/purpose-the-individual-and-the-universe.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Purpose, the Individual, and the Universe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42446,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/08\/things-we-ought-to-be-doing-anyway.html","url_meta":{"origin":31703,"position":0},"title":"Things We Ought to be Doing Anyway","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 8-Jun-14 8:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Let us say that climate change is either a complete hoax or something that has nothing to do with humanity and therefore something that we cannot do anything to change. 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