Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Bhaji Rao Singham is Back…
Bhaji Rao Singham is back, My family wants to view it. My experience with last Singham was bad, I had migraine for the next two days. But it was to be a family outing, and at Inox, which I thoroughly dislike, the rest rooms that stink to the lounge, and the musty smell of pop-corn and…
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Feeling Our Words
Feeling our words, ಆಚಾರವಿಲ್ಲದ ನಾಲಿಗೆ ನಿನ್ನ ನೀಚ ಬುದ್ದಿಯ ಬಿಡು ನಾಲಿಗೆ ವಿಚಾರವಿಲ್ಲದ ಪರರನಿ ನಿಂದಿಸಲು ಚಾಚಿಕೊಂಡಿರುವ ನಾಲಿಗೆ. The opening lines of Puranadara daasa a kannada poet, that roughly translates, to characterless tongue, mind yourself, don’t move function to mindlessly hurt others. At the toastmasters one exercise that we have is the way we use the words, and…
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Feeling Under the Weather…Don’t worry
Another experience as I was recovering from my burns was the tremendous itch and irritation of the wounds. With both my hands being connected to IV’s there was no way I could scratch it. I would breathe deeply, and imagine that the itching sensation was waves bile salt surfacing along with it I would just…
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Uplifting Showers
Uplifting showers. Its pouring quite heavily though not the blanket of torrential rains of my childhood but incessant. The weather is damp and wet outside. Can you imagine the loveliness of being warm snug inside the house when the weather out is cold and damp? Storms and rains literally change the energy in the air…
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Our Evolving language
My mother has a flawless complexion and was absolutely fair. As a child I grew up with this observation people made to my mother “You are so fair, your daughter does not have you colour.” The worse observation was “Your son is so good-looking he should have been a girl, and your daughter a boy”…
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