{"id":181658,"date":"2019-01-06T08:33:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T08:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=181658"},"modified":"2019-01-08T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T06:25:00","slug":"the-meaning-of-life-and-key-to-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=181658","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of Life and Key to Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>henrymakow.com &#8212; Jan 6, 2019<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h5><strong>God is a\u00a0Moral Dimension.\u00a0If we refuse to improve,\u00a0we cannot enter it. Change requires effort.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>by Henry Makow PhD.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h5><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/plato.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-181661\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/plato.jpg\" alt=\"plato\" width=\"246\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a>I wouldn&#8217;t presume\u00a0to expatiate<\/strong>\u00a0on this weighty subject if my conclusions did not\u00a0coincide with Plato&#8217;s, a man who has considerably more credibility than I.<\/h5>\n<h5>Nor do I expect this revelation to result in a flash religious revival. Most people appear content with their current state.\u00a0 Nonetheless, I felt I should broadcast\u00a0this\u00a0truth as a matter of record. Never let it be said that we did not know the Truth, only that we ignored it. (I am aware that this is the basis of many religions and is far from original.)<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>[CAUTION; Your mind may have been conditioned to shut down at the mention\u00a0of the word &#8220;God.&#8221; I&#8217;m still afraid to mention His name.\u00a0 If you are like me, please try to overcome your satanic conditioning.]\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5>I have been saying for years that, for humans, God is a moral dimension, a state of Consciousness in which spiritual ideals like Truth, Beauty, Love, Justice and Bliss are self-evident. <em>Be ye therefore perfect as your Father who art in Heaven is perfect. <\/em>(Matt\u00a05:48)<\/h5>\n<h5>This is identical to Plato&#8217;s philosophy of Ideas\u00a0or Forms.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henrymakow.com\/2019\/01\/the-meaning-of-life-and-key-to.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know the way but do we have what it takes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181662,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181658\/revisions\/181662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}