{"id":36561,"date":"2024-03-25T11:23:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T01:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloeckerblog.com\/?p=36561"},"modified":"2024-03-25T12:57:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T02:57:15","slug":"death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloeckerblog.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/25\/death\/","title":{"rendered":"Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thoughts Easter 2024 &#8211; DYING AND LIVING<br>Birth is followed by life.<br>Death is followed by<br>Nothing?<br>If the supernatural consolation is missing, what remains?<br>God is dead.<br>Religion?<br>Christian churches become emptier and emptier.<br>But I am left with memory and gratitude.<br>Both can transcend space and time.<br>True memory is more than just &#8220;thinking about&#8221;<br>\u2026 our parents and grandparents and friends as we have experienced them.<br>Photos help.<br>Images and memories visualise the person who was and is no longer with us.<br>They make him or her present.<br>His or her face, his or her voice, his or her presence.<br>That is life after death.<br>A consolation, after all, because it is not a betrayal.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Easter 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-master-your-german wp-block-embed-master-your-german\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"69OHAyfUZU\"><a href=\"https:\/\/masteryourgerman.wordpress.com\/2023\/06\/05\/deutsch-mit-der-sz-app\/\">Deutsch mit der SZ&nbsp;App<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Deutsch mit der SZ&nbsp;App&#8221; &#8212; Master Your German\" src=\"https:\/\/masteryourgerman.wordpress.com\/2023\/06\/05\/deutsch-mit-der-sz-app\/embed\/#?secret=gJ5iiRCF4U#?secret=69OHAyfUZU\" data-secret=\"69OHAyfUZU\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts Easter 2024 &#8211; DYING AND LIVINGBirth is followed by life.Death is followed byNothing?If the supernatural consolation is missing, what remains?God is dead.Religion?Christian churches become emptier and emptier.But I am left with memory and gratitude.Both can transcend space and time.True memory is more than just &#8220;thinking about&#8221;\u2026 our parents and grandparents and friends as we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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