Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Kitchen gardening.

    A garden is an excellent teacher. I teaches patience,careful watchfulness, it teaches industry,thrift and above all it teaches entire trust~ Gertrude Jekyll. Kitchen garden Have I tried to grow my own fruits or vegetables. Yes of course. This was before marriage, despite of having a mother who was brought up in a very urban Delhi…

  • the sound of music

    A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. Stanley Kubrick Julie Andrews’ Star on Hollywood Boulevard From my point of any movie not made in Karnataka India is…

  • whats the bet

    forget lottery bet on yourself instead. DOOM Lottery Machine Have I bought a lottery ticket? Have I ever won it? Yes to the former and No to the later. The only time I did win a lottery, I had lost the ticket so I could not claim it. Lottery as the dictionary explains it, •…

  • Destination Unknown

    get into the public transport bus, they want exact change, exact change? if they want exact change they have to drop me off the exact point that i wan Public Transport If public transport is available around my house would I use it? Asks plinky. Yes I do. Since the buses are convienient right from…

  • Fatefully yours

    A God without dominion,providence and final cause is nothing but fate and nature. Dublin – The Three Fates Do I believe in fate? The dictionary says fate is • Something unavoidable that befalls a person. • The universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of thins is presumably prescribed. The decreed cause of…

  • List of stolen goods

    “I would like to make a toast to lying, stealing, cheating and drinking. If you're going to lie, lie for a friend. If you're going to steal, steal a heart. If your going to cheat, cheat death. And if you're going to drink, drink with me.” Plinky wants to know if I had anything stolen…

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