{"id":252,"date":"2009-10-28T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2009\/10\/only-through-uncertainty-is-there-a-possibility-of-understanding\/"},"modified":"2009-10-28T08:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T08:13:00","slug":"only-through-uncertainty-is-there-a-possibility-of-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2009\/10\/only-through-uncertainty-is-there-a-possibility-of-understanding.html","title":{"rendered":"Only Through Uncertainty is There a Possibility of Understanding"},"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>http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf<\/p>\n<div style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'><span style=\"font-size: large\">Here\u2019s a film from TED: Ideas Worth Spreading that I found on Irina\u2019s blog \u2013 wonderful <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>dharma<\/a> presentation! 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