How do you know that truth won’t bring you down? Have you seen it? What is ultimate truth, which we always pretend to know or want to know? Is it going to get you the elixir? So far, most of the close-to-truth things that surround us don’t seem to be stimulating the neurons in a
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I have been dreaming a lot lately, I mean really dreaming. Now I don’t keep a pen a notebook ready besides my bed to record what I dreamt last, but I do try to remember hard about the dream after I wake up. Being stung by rationality bee, trying to wake up in to a
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“Everything is so commercial”, “there’s no value for emotions”, “the superior in the companies are so dumb”, “I don’t know why it always happens to me”, “Why can’t people understand a simple thing” and it goes on… Solution? Simple, just do something, just pick up a book, a racket, and a habit, just get a
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I feel we underestimate the role “chance” plays in our lives. It is natural to think that consequences are causal, but that in no way means that there is no chance. When I say chance, it goes deeper than meeting an irreversible accident on the road that might happen to us. I mean, our brain,
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There is no justice in this world, rightly said. All these times, I crib about how scientists and insane people like me who can change the world, are not getting their due attention. So I am correcting this for my darling—my laptop. I am not with a woman right now, so I call it darling
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“Home made pasta + Tea instead of pizza + expensive milk shake and talking”. “Wine from a Nasik instead of a French DOMAINE MARC JOMAIN OR CHÂTEAU ELGET” “In house/In hostel room parties (with old monk) instead of pub or club parties”. “Working late in the office instead of usual eyeing-the-perpendicular on the clock”. “At
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I still recall that morning, I think it was Assam (Northeastern state of India); I was around 9 that time, when teacher of my school nearly sent me back home because I offered same kind of chocolate to her as I did to all the other kids at the school. “Mujhe bhi yahi dega kya”—meaning
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Ok I have to get it out, just for the record atleast—OCD to wash hands. I didn’t even know about it till now, when I already have it. I know that over a period of time I contracted a thing called Pathological doubt in to my system, but I always liked to deal with Mind-pathos,
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Usually, we all want things which we can die for (almost). I now wish that it hadn’t been meant to be like that, I would have felt something blandly comfortable, can’t really tell you what I mean. Out of the door, to another door, one road leading to another, I see the same ghosts all
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..From the kitchen” It isn’t easy to fight instincts, when we have already had plans to do better than painting the house in the usual [cream color I guess] and having a chicken farm at the backyard (or front yard, does it really matter?). But as we reach for places where sunlight hardly penetrates, then,
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The what-if scenarios in the head are the major hindrances in my (I guess for others too) head. Giving reality a chance is less than a responsibility that my brain assumes. Even though the results are never as close in reality, the what-if-results are wrong almost all the times, yet, our heads choose that one-time
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Then, again, too many times, though my mother had told me to think before speaking. I guess she knew exactly what was going to go wrong with me. I had loved a woman, I had told my mother, “why is it my fault”, but if you’re listening woman, I know now it was my stupid
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Imagine a hypothetical country, which is as developed in science and technology as any modern world country is. A peculiarity about it is that it is that people have extraordinary sense of humor. The humor won’t be funny anymore, it gets obnoxious after sometime because it comes in the way of very basic communication. PC-person
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If one looks at Nihilism or Buddhism at surface levels, we will be surprised at first that finally somebody understands us, and then we will think how such acclaimed philosophies are– “devil-may-care”. But let’s assume that we are doing something significant by living and world does need a presence of people like “us and them”
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….Shelly quoted the Treatise on Religion and the State in the original notes to Queen Mab, and began…. ….His love of Spinoza had strengthened his friendship with Moses Mendelssohn; and in his great play, Nathan der Weise, he poured into one mould the conception of the Jew which had come to him from the living
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I guess we should just try to do something about something that is happening with us, or just get-on with something that we are doing. A quote that I had read somewhere–”One should do what one likes, or, One should like what he does”. There are few things in an average human life which are
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We always want better, better is very rarely in comparison to one has had, it is usually peers- with whom we compare. So i said somewhere that brightness doesn’t come from peers, but it seems it is intrinsic at a certain level, ie the choices that we have to make involve constant comparisons, evaluations, how
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One thing that probably happens a lot (gosh it just be me!!) :- Someone: I tried to reach you all day yesterday You: Hey, i am so sorry, i was stuck with some stupid work Someone: Oh, thats ok (Not ok, actually, he/she would be screwing your head figuring out ways he can get back
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When i was 6, i stayed in bhilai(previously in M.P, now chattisgarh, India), i was sent to the neighbours house early in the morning, and i would recite-” Raghu pati raghav raja ram, patit pavan sita ram “. It has to do with hindu sciptures which reflect upon the sanctity of hindu god Ram and
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If its all in the mind, mind demands few things to keep itself in peace, but that demand is our choice, so can we just limit our desires, just train them in some manner and be contended: Satisfaction is just one of the factors which contributes to the abstract concept happiness. So basically, if we
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I had copied this poem long time back while reading something on a forum, i think it was overcomingbias, want to share it with you, i hope the author doesn’t mind it. Little Johny thought he was very bright, But the schoolkids did not — they would laugh when he came in sight. He could
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Say something happens, like you “decide” to punish yourself for something, you decide to go through pain and trauma. While doing this you think you are doing it, consciously and deliberately, lets say very less amount of blood passes through the heart and the mind without you knowing that there is. Possibly, If the number of
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I had read this longtime back, i revisit this topic too often because i am now home in terms of finding what i want to do. To find it is one thing, doing it is another, not that we lack abilities to perform or do the thing, as the essay also points out, there are
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It just has to stop, somehow. People call it rebellion, non-conformism, and whatever that pleases them really. It has been too long now, The gods, the kings and queens, the warriors, and everyone else between. We have to, for once, stop saying that i cant do anything, it has to start somewhere. People call it
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Mankind is getting lifts, almost every other century, sometimes the hibernation period is too long, that is what it seems looking back at the accounts. We always talk about utopian models, what if, If that.., Where things…, there we would…., and so on. The optimization process is already in process, but the biggest obstacle to
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Subjective, perspective, dependent, relative etc, etcetra. True, different things work for different people, But truth works differently for different people? Incorrect, grossly at that. If you’re probably tired of convincing your girlfriend, sister, brother etc, about something, after some while(few years or months) you would give up the idea of doing that. Because you know
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Few important indian cricket stats before further exposition. No of wins/No of losses(in Test Cricket): 99/136 (i just checked it from two sites, correct if newer stats available) One would like to think that most of these losses are attributed to periods when India was just born as a cricketing nation. If we again have
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The enclosures formed by boundaries between us, in a macroscopic view, can be called as institutions. We are raised by “schools” of thoughts, we adjust, re-adjust, re-arrange our wheels of understanding and shift between various institutions. There are few among them who tell us to keep our eyes widespread, and tell us we don’t belong
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It’s apparent that everyone contends/accepts certain amount of plagiarism. Its ok to look back and say “yeah, i did cheat in the university exams”, that was fun, but to hack a computer and cheat in a online exam is considered serious, unethical and would direct no respect to the hard work put in by the
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If you come across something like : The participants recorded a one minute television commercial, … then watched … themselves, having been given guidance on non-verbal cues that can reveal how extraverted or introverted a person is. … They were then asked to rate their own personality. … The participants’ extroversion scores on the implicit
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