{"id":5372,"date":"2026-07-12T12:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T12:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/?p=5372"},"modified":"2026-07-12T12:51:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T12:51:32","slug":"the-argument-for-purgation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/2026\/07\/12\/the-argument-for-purgation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Argument for Purgation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/2026\/07\/10\/the-opening-of-purgatorio-x\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new insights of the spirtual life<\/a>, and also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/2026\/07\/11\/keeping-the-images-and-taking-in-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how to combine this<\/a> with continuously new insights &#8211; Dante gives us a direct address and the reasons why one should continue.<\/p>\n<p>The argument is very simple: do not focus on the nature of the fixing. Focus instead on:<br \/>\na) the rewards from it<br \/>\nb) that doing nothing is at least as bad, but likely a lot worse<\/p>\n<p>And this becomes the whole choice. Repairing distortions and Superbia gives great rewards, and doing nothing is worse.<\/p>\n<p>Then the journey continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the new insights of the spirtual life, and also how to combine this with continuously new insights &#8211; Dante gives us a direct address and the reasons why one should continue. The argument is very simple: do not focus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/2026\/07\/12\/the-argument-for-purgation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-purgatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5372"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5379,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions\/5379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypurgatory.com\/purgatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}