{"id":8507,"date":"2011-01-17T19:55:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T11:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=8507"},"modified":"2011-01-17T19:55:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T11:55:59","slug":"do-the-good-die-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/01\/do-the-good-die-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Do the Good Die Young?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8508\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/125.jpg?resize=238%2C136\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/125.jpg?w=297&amp;ssl=1 297w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/125.jpg?resize=96%2C55&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><br \/>\nQuestion:<\/strong> Is it true that &#8216;good people die young&#8217; and that &#8220;good deeds do not beget got endings&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p><strong> Answer: <\/strong>Not all the good die young. Some live to a ripe  old age. And if one is really good and really dies young, it&#8217;s simply to  be reborn quickly to a better life, as they deserve better sooner. Good does beget good in the long  run, if not the short. Why is it safer to believe so? The Buddha  explains in the Four Assurances at <a href=\"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/05\/why-be-good\">https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/05\/why-be-good<\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/thedailyenlightenment-realisation\/message\/377\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> On the illusion that the evil experience more goodness in their life  and that the good are victimised more, please see  <a href=\"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/06\/karma-verses\">https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/06\/karma-verses<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Is it true that &#8216;good people die young&#8217; and that &#8220;good deeds do not beget got endings&#8217;? Answer: Not&#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":[65,198,515,139],"class_list":["post-8507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-death","tag-evil","tag-good","tag-karma","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507","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=8507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}