Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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surgeon and his scalpel
What makes me nervous, such that break into sweat and get palpitations. Viking warrior? Greek God? Uncle Vanya? Remember the Vikings who came to learn the meaning of fear. Well nervousness is the labour pains of fear, or shall say it’s the other way round. My knees shake and I get palpitations but the situations…
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fragrance of friendship
Friends are people who stick by you thick or thin, sick or sin. In the era of social networking befriending has given way to friending and unfriending, the friend that I regret not keeping in touch, sounds strange, in any case she is not recognizable on facebook. She befriended me when I was the new…
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Country roads take me home.
Home is where the hearth, heals. Home is where the hearth, is – A jataka tale talks of a fishmonging woman who visits her friend. Her friend honours her with a room, with fragrant flowers, but the fishmonging woman could not sleep she needed the smell of fish. Hearth of warmth, a comfort zone where…
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really not
Me a reality show participant? Reality show are you for real? There is nothing real about them. Every bit is orchestral, the judges arguing and walking away in a huff, the contestants weeping, their pathetic home environment which is tragicomic, everything. If you notice the selection of the candidate falls in a mandate and I…
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Travel Lessons Learned the Hard Way
RR Train, Great Britain (LOC) Everyone talks of spur of the moment and spontaneity, adventure. That’s all crap and nonsense nothing is relaxing as a well planned trip. I learnt it the hard way. Travelling with my father meant every booking, every ticket in place. Plan B in case Plan A had a problem. The…
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