Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Coffee-Doodle-Do On a Quest for Araku Coffee
vital aspect of the ritual of waking up, the cup of coffee, with my first cup of coffee, I pray, its a silent prayer sung while the mind is still foggy and blue,”O Magic cup,” it goes,”carry me above the traffic jam. Keep me civil in the subway.And forgive employer as you forgive me.Amen”—by the…
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No Regrets
May 1997 Kasturba Medical College Prof.Dr.S.N.Rao looked at the x-ray, he sighed deeply “70% tissue infiltration. Grade 2” was his diagnosis. The four faces before him resigned. There was no moaning or why me happening here. It was acceptance of a situation. Dr.Rao had just diagnosed cerebral tumor in my 74yr. Old grandmother. “actually we…
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An Insight to Stuttering.
October 22nd is International Stuttering awareness Day. In the Hindi movie scenario, the stuttering hero is either “oh! so cute” or “Oh! so funny.” But believe me in real life it is “Oh! so embarrassing ” or “a panic attack.” So what is stuttering? It is a communication disorder where the flow of speech is…
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International Nacho day.
21st October is the world Nachos day. So I kind of got think of what nachos might be. What I learnt was it was probably borrowed firm the Spanish Nacho, which actually is a hypocoristic form of the first name Ignacio. After Ignacio Anaya Garcia (1895-1975) culinary origin myths credit May 23 1954 as its…
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And Unconditional love is…
I gave myself 20 mnts and typed everything that popped up in my space on conditional love. Would love to get inputs from all of you. Unconditional love…. “we would advise you ” Patti was saying,”if you understand then fine, if you don’t its your funeral and because we love you its ours too.” From…
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Toast to the world’s first programmer.
My workspace seemed to filled with IT personal and people speaking of AI for while I assumed AI was Air-India then I learnt it was artificial intelligence. I am told by these kids who create computer programs that computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no…
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