{"id":12705,"date":"2012-09-20T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=12705"},"modified":"2012-09-20T06:00:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T10:00:35","slug":"but-now-i-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/09\/but-now-i-see\/","title":{"rendered":"But now I see"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Things have hard edges.\u00a0 The leaves on a tree are distinct from each other.\u00a0 Each pieces of gravel on a path is separate from the others.\u00a0 Faces in a crowd don\u2019t blur together.\u00a0 Who knew?<\/p>\n<p>Those who think there are no boundaries between right and wrong, true and false, beautiful and ugly; the blurrers of distinctions; those who think there are only shades of grey; the Hindu sages and New Age gurus who think \u201call is one\u201d\u2013these people are not just making philosophical errors.\u00a0 They just need cataract surgery!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things have hard edges.\u00a0 The leaves on a tree are distinct from each other.\u00a0 Each pieces of gravel on a path is separate from the others.\u00a0 Faces in a crowd don\u2019t blur together.\u00a0 Who knew? 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