Category: Philosophy
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Finding Direction When Being Pragmatic
You remember how I embraced pragmatism and started chasing power? There was one problem. When you start chasing power with the idea of wielding it for social justice, when and where do you stop chasing power and start wielding it? Take Praveen’s comment for example One possible answer can be that you start wielding…
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Why I am Back on WhatsApp
Long time readers of this blog knows that I have a very strained relationship with WhatsApp. When I deleted my WhatsApp account a couple of years ago, I was at a place where personal productivity was the most important to me. For example, I wrote this: Thirdly, and most importantly, people are unable to work…
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Achieving God
The success of experiencing what I did and am trying to share with you through this post will depend on how detached you are from your mind. (In doubt? Read the post The Secret to (Infinite) Happiness) Earlier I told you about the happiness you get out of the realisation that you are neither your…
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When You Look Back At The End…
Life whizzes past you so quickly that you forget to do or get what you really want to. You go school for years and finally there will be a day of farewell and you suddenly feel you missed to do something. You spend your youth, your winged days and finally when you start slowing down…
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Is An Amoeba Conscious Of Its Existence?
Just think of living things and non-living things. We know that we are conscious of ourselves. But what is this consciousness? Where does it come from? Think in terms of atoms. There are atoms and molecules in our body. They are certainly not conscious. We have many carbon, oxygen, etc. combined to form proteins, carbohydrates,…
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Imagining Nothing
What if there was nothing? No me, no you, no blogs, no people, no life, no planets, no stars, no universe, no nothing. It is beyond imagination. Imagine nothing. (What? Imagine OK but nothing? How do I imagine nothing?) Of course you can imagine the lifeless planets. But you will have to remove them from…