{"id":2619,"date":"2017-09-25T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2017-09-25T11:11:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T19:11:04","slug":"age-ing-growing-older","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2619","title":{"rendered":"Age-ing (Growing Older)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m age 80 now. My wife and I are reading an intriguing book about ageing titled
Aging: An Apprenticeship<\/a><\/em>, edited by Nan Narboe. This book\u2019s goal is to help us think about the finitude of our living and to prepares us for our dying, our mortality, our limitedness.<\/p>\n

The book got me thinking about my own philosophy, which, I must confess, is entirely improvised, cobbled together from parts of different theories, different traditions, plus my own ideas. I confess further that I\u2019m apophatic, which means I know explicitly that I cannot know. This fits with my dimensional theory. But stated metaphorically, I get to be an assistant to God\u2019s evolution\u2014perhaps indeed a part of God, analogous to one of my brain cells being a part of me. Lest I be criticized on any number of grounds (horrors!), let me confess that I just made this up, and by no means is it a fixed opinion. I know for sure that even if it is a bit true, it is so very limited, as I am so limited; and that\u2019s okay with me.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the idea of working towards building a better world, even if this is only one of innumerable inhabited worlds, somehow satisfies me. Not that I\u2019m unable to envision more mind boggling ideas; it\u2019s just that I\u2019m no longer inclined to do so. My duty, my dharma, is to think about certain aspects of this existence. (I\u2019m aware that there are myriads of other aspects I don\u2019t care to bother with, to think about.) And if I can, I\u2019ll express those musings on this website, in these web-pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m age 80 now. My wife and I are reading an intriguing book about ageing titled Aging: An Apprenticeship, edited by Nan Narboe. This book\u2019s goal is to help us think about the finitude of our living and to prepares us for our dying, our mortality, our limitedness. The book got me thinking about my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-spirituality-and-philosophy","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2620,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}