{"id":20356,"date":"2025-10-21T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20356"},"modified":"2025-09-27T13:15:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:15:32","slug":"being-is-believing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20356","title":{"rendered":"Being is Believing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThe whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bertrand Russell<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

English Philosopher <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another of the benefits of aging. You start to appear wise. It certainly is not always true but you can always take advantage of it.
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The photo is of Shiprock on the Navajo Reservation in NE Arizona. It is one of the four sacred mountains. We drove on the paved roads as near as we could get but it is sacred which means off limits to non Navaho. As Kurt Vonnegut wrote \u201cso it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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