{"id":798,"date":"2013-05-11T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=798"},"modified":"2013-05-11T00:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T05:12:00","slug":"798","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=798","title":{"rendered":"WHO DEFINES REALITY?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rg_i\" style=\"width: 274px; height: 183px; margin-left: -4px; margin-top: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ8sxsfTIf2x2tWuqbMNeZaxIlk0VKvKT58kjmzD16AYQPO_pxI2w\" name=\"NQXoQdBdvQaxHM:\" data-sz=\"f\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>If there is no God, we Christians are truly most to be pitied.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>We missed out on so much potential for worldly success.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Our silly beliefs shackled us to a stupid fear that we were wasting our time making loads of money.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Go on You Tube and watch people like Tony Robbins.\u00a0 Seems a lot happier than many<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Christians I know.\u00a0 Perhaps he is right&#8230;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Pretty depressing, huh?<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We need to be discerning who we listen to and why. \u00a0Too many assume that the one with the microphone is the expert. \u00a0Americans have had a love affair with celebrity that goes back at least to the Jacksonian period. \u00a0Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about it in the 1830s.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Perhaps there are quieter voices who don&#8217;t have a microphone, but have loads of wisdom to impart&#8230;if we will just be less enamored with the dreadful din of celebrity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is no God, we Christians are truly most to be pitied. We missed out on so much potential for worldly success. Our silly beliefs shackled us to a stupid fear that we were wasting our time making loads of money. Go on You Tube and watch people like Tony Robbins.\u00a0 Seems a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,31,27,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambition","category-american-history","category-money","category-spiritual-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}