{"id":758,"date":"2008-09-08T15:05:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T14:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=758"},"modified":"2008-09-08T15:05:29","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T14:05:29","slug":"quote-231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2008\/09\/08\/quote-231\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote #231"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nA bit later, I remember, it seemed to me that I would die in the near future.  In this critical situation, however, my concern was different from that of most of my comrades.  Their question was, &#8220;Will we survive the camp?  For, if not, all this suffering has no meaning.&#8221;  The question which beset me was, &#8220;Has all this suffering, this dying around us, a meaning?  For, if not, then ultimately there is no meaning to survival; for a life whose meaning depends upon such a happenstance &#8211; as whether one escapes or not &#8211; ultimately would not be worth living at all.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">Viktor Frankl in <i>Man&#8217;s Search for Meaning<\/i> (part 2, 1959)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit later, I remember, it seemed to me that I would die in the near future. In this critical situation, however, my concern was different from that of most of my comrades. Their question was, &#8220;Will we survive the camp? For, if not, all this suffering has no meaning.&#8221; The question which beset me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-ce","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}