{"id":3171,"date":"2023-01-24T15:05:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T13:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=3171"},"modified":"2023-08-08T22:13:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T20:13:14","slug":"being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=3171","title":{"rendered":"Being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet said: \u2018To be or not to be, that is the question.\u2019 But that is no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=386\">problem<\/a>. We all want to be. The real problem, biblically speaking, is how to be and how not to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=531\">I<\/a> would say to young people a number of things, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=1918\">I<\/a> have only one minute. I would say, let them remember that there is a meaning beyond absurdity. Let them be sure that every little <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=95\">deed<\/a> counts, that every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=496\">word<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=34\">power<\/a>, and that we can do, everyone, our share to redeem the world, in spite of all absurdities and all the frustration and all disappointments. And above all, remember that the meaning of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=1323\">life<\/a> is to build <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=122\">life<\/a> as it if were a work of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=119\">art<\/a>. You\u2019re not a machine. When you are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=442\">young<\/a>, start working on this great work of art called your own existence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>aus: Abraham Joshua Heschel (1972) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?page_id=4\">zitiert<\/a> durch Arnold Eisen in Krista Tippett interviewing Arnold Eisen: The Opposite of Good Is Indifference. On Being 2008\/2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/programs\/arnold-eisen-the-opposite-of-good-is-indifference-sep2017\/\">im Internet<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">01\/23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet said: \u2018To be or not to be, that is the question.\u2019 But that is no problem. We all want to be. The real problem, biblically speaking, is how to be and how not to be.\u201d &#8220;I would say to young people a number of things, and I have only one minute. I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3171"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3453,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3171\/revisions\/3453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}