{"id":6480,"date":"2010-06-07T16:16:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T08:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=6480"},"modified":"2010-06-07T16:17:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T08:17:38","slug":"horseshoe-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/06\/horseshoe-logic\/","title":{"rendered":"Horseshoe Logic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6481\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/115.jpg?resize=137%2C137\" alt=\"\" width=\"137\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/115.jpg?w=137&amp;ssl=1 137w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/115.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 137px) 100vw, 137px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><br \/>\nA sophisticated yet funny story that Niels Bohr liked to tell: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of our neighbors in Tisvilde once fixed a horseshoe over the door to his house.<\/p>\n<p>When a common friend asked him,<br \/>\n`But are you really superstitious?<br \/>\nDo you honestly believe that this horseshoe will bring you luck?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>he replied,<br \/>\n`Of course not;<br \/>\nbut they say it works even if you don&#8217;t believe in it.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This reminds me of the fetter of attachment to rites and rituals, which keeps us in Samsara. On a deeper level, anything we wrongly cling to as a means to&#8230; ranging from good fortune, to even spiritual liberation, falls in the category of being bound by this fetter. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">While the &#8216;horseshoe logic&#8217; seems relatively harmless, so long as one has attachment even to the possible validity of the erroneous means one is still fettered. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Article:<\/strong><br \/>\nSusan Storm&#8217;s Attachment to Rites<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonpointer.com\/index.php?itemid=1530\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.moonpointer.com\/index.php?itemid=1530<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sophisticated yet funny story that Niels Bohr liked to tell: One of our neighbors in Tisvilde once fixed a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,109,502,503,501],"class_list":["post-6480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-attachment","tag-delusion","tag-fetter","tag-logic","tag-superstition","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480","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=6480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}