{"id":9302,"date":"2011-06-27T21:08:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T13:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=9302"},"modified":"2011-06-27T21:25:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T13:25:03","slug":"tuth-or-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/06\/tuth-or-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth Or Denial?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9303\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/110.jpg?resize=203%2C163\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/110.jpg?w=251&amp;ssl=1 251w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/110.jpg?resize=96%2C77&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From &#8216;Paying For It&#8217; by Chester Brown:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Chester: <\/strong>I&#8217;m not in any way suffering&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Friend 1:<\/strong> You&#8217;re\u00a0repressing. On a subconscious level, you&#8217;re suffering.<br \/>\n<strong>Chester:<\/strong> Freudian nonsense. If I&#8217;m not consciously suffering, then I&#8217;m not suffering.<br \/>\n<strong>Friend 2:<\/strong> The fact that you&#8217;re denying that you&#8217;re suffering proves you&#8217;re suffering.<br \/>\n<strong>Chester:<\/strong> Oh brother. There&#8217;s no winning against that argument.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How do you know if you&#8217;re suffering or not?<br \/>\nBy looking deeply consciously,<br \/>\ninto your subconscious.<\/p>\n<p>Better to realise the hidden roots of suffering soon,<br \/>\nthan to realise them too late,<br \/>\nwhen they sprout.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re already so at peace,<br \/>\nwhy are you not smiling\u00a0like the Buddha,<br \/>\nradiating compassion and wisdom for all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8216;Paying For It&#8217; by Chester Brown: Chester: I&#8217;m not in any way suffering&#8230; Friend 1: You&#8217;re\u00a0repressing. On a subconscious&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-9302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-suffering","wpcat-241-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9302","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}