{"id":4655,"date":"2010-01-05T20:31:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T12:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=4655"},"modified":"2010-01-05T20:31:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T12:31:58","slug":"sherlock-holmes-is-smart-but-unenlightened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/01\/sherlock-holmes-is-smart-but-unenlightened\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sherlock Holmes&#8217; is Smart But Unenlightened!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4656\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/19.jpg?resize=100%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/19.jpg?w=100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/19.jpg?resize=64%2C96&amp;ssl=1 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a scene of the movie &#8216;Sherlock Holmes&#8217;, the famed super sleuth makes sharp observations and astute deductions on the character of Dr. Watson&#8217;s fianc\u00e9e. He gets most of them right, but a key one wrong, His wrong conclusion hurt her feelings as she stomps off in rage. It made me think&#8230; <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">as sure as we can be at times, some of our presumptuous beliefs are but conjectures taken as truth.<\/span> In the instance above, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Holmes failed to detect the imperfection of his detecting skills!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While confidence is a strength, over-confidence is a weakness. One who walks the Middle Path knows what one is truly confident in and what one is not, of what is worth investing confidence in and what is not. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Holmes might be relatively masterful in his skills of detection for solving mysteries out there, but the primary one is in the mind and of the mind.<\/span> Why do we suffer and how can we overcome suffering? In the film, he is portrayed as long suffering in quirky ways!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a scene of the movie &#8216;Sherlock Holmes&#8217;, the famed super sleuth makes sharp observations and astute deductions on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[99,95,49,23,111,107],"class_list":["post-4655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-belief","tag-confidence","tag-dukkha","tag-middle-way","tag-perception","tag-truth","wpcat-26-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}