{"id":697,"date":"2024-05-23T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/?p=697"},"modified":"2024-05-12T11:12:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T11:12:28","slug":"on-knowing-shit-2-electric-boogaloo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/2024\/05\/23\/on-knowing-shit-2-electric-boogaloo\/","title":{"rendered":"On Knowing Shit 2: Electric Boogaloo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although most people don\u2019t like to admit it, the truth is there are some things out there we can just never know.&nbsp; And I guess that\u2019s where faith comes in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because it is when you genuinely do not know and cannot know something that you get to choose what you <em>are<\/em> going to believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(I say \u201cgenuinely\u201d because a lot of times when people claim to not know something it is only because they have chosen and continue to actively choose <em>not to know<\/em> because they know that knowing is going to cause them to make some changes they are not willing or not ready to make.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when I say \u201cfaith,\u201d I\u2019m not talking about the religious bullshit kind where you believe something just because it\u2019s what someone has told you to believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m talking about choosing to believe something because of the things you <em>do<\/em> know and know for sure to be true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I\u2019m through waxing all philosophical now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We now return you to our usual immature antics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although most people don\u2019t like to admit it, the truth is there are some things out there we can just never know.&nbsp; And I guess that\u2019s where faith comes in. Because it is when you genuinely do not know and cannot know something that you get to choose what you are going to believe. (I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spamrider.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}