Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Issue challenged,
It is politically incorrect to say, “Mentally retarded” we say “mentally challenged” like I am vertically and horizontally challenged, TOI is issue challenged, or is very picky about it readers… This morning I did something which I rarely do, that reading the TOI I am amazed at the mundane matters that it perceives newsworthy! When…
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Madras mail.
Nandini, Arvind, karishma, and Ramit are recreating the Chennai express magic, and I am getting nostalgic. For us it was Madras Mail, from Mangalore to Chennai, the excitement would begin, when we reached the Mangalore station those days there were just three trains leaving the station. There was Kasargod station, where my grandfather’s sister and…
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Meet, Platinum
Gold the most common metal used for jewellery in india, silver is second in the lower income market and platinum in the upwardly mobile crowd. Gold as we all know look, beautiful, bright, shiny yellow, and is rated in carats, pure gold is too soft. Other metals are used to strengthen it, in the south…
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Rajkumar Jaag uta.
Ha! Politics, noun, A strife of interests masquerading as contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage – says Ambrose Bierce, in The Devil’s Dictionary. How true, look at the great tamasha that has been going on over the bill. Modi, wave is on, he is being himself without actually bothering about…
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History of hypnosis.
Originally posted on Aatmayana: History of hypnosis. 1734-1815 an Austrian physician Franz Anton Mesmer believed that there was a fluid in the nerves. The blockage of the flow this flow would result in disease. He used techniques initially with magnets and then with his hands to unblock the pathway of these fluids. Mesmer became the…
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failure in communication
Who am I in this relationship? Who am I in this conversation? Suraj from Landmark graduates goa invited me on call this is what got from it. The reaction time to any statement is very quick. We tend to react make the other person wrong, sometimes dominate. Being aware in a conversation as to who…
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