{"id":195305,"date":"2019-09-25T07:07:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T07:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195305"},"modified":"2019-09-27T06:33:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T06:33:39","slug":"the-purpose-of-life-is-self-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195305","title":{"rendered":"The Purpose of Life is Self Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>henrymakow.com \u2013Sept 24, 2019<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/running-safely-after-50.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-195308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/running-safely-after-50-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/running-safely-after-50-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/running-safely-after-50.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I thank a jogger\u00a0for reminding me of a central truth\u00a0that I learned in my 20&#8217;s but keep forgetting.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>We were created in the image of God.\u00a0The purpose of life is\u00a0self-perfection.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>by Henry Makow PhD<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h5><strong>I was sitting on a park bench.<\/strong> The jogger was in his mid-thirties and dressed shabbily.<\/h5>\n<h5>He looked down on his luck. He wasn&#8217;t wearing athletic apparel.<\/h5>\n<h5>Mind had barely finished snickering when it received an epiphany from soul like the sun had suddenly rose.\u00a0 This man seemed to be struggling in life yet he was trying to improve himself.\u00a0\u00a0This endless, dauntless quest for perfection defines us as human.<\/h5>\n<h5>Many of you probably know this. But society is becoming so toxic that some may be feeling lost.<\/h5>\n<h5>&#8220;What is the point of living?&#8221; some may ask.<\/h5>\n<h5>So I thought I&#8217;d remind these people that our proper sphere is personal, a place where we still exercise power. We must find balance by finding ourselves, by turning inward.<\/h5>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THEATRE OF THOUGHT<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henrymakow.com\/2019\/09\/The-Purpose-of-Life-is-Self-Development.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How would you rate your inner life? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-195305","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\/195305","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=195305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195309,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195305\/revisions\/195309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}