Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Dumbfound for an anwer
surprise synonymous with flabbergast, dumbfound, amaze, astonish, unaware, unanticipated. Surprise! Do I like surprises? Nice question with so many Synonyms—astonish, amaze, dumbfound, flabbergast, astound When I am caught in a situation unawares, it could be pleasant or unpleasant, to take or catch unawares surprisingly it is that one that flabbergasts us that in reality reveals…
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Home Is…
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Poseidon strikes back.
within infinite myths lies the eternal truth, who sees it all? Varun has but a thousand eyes. Poseidon rising If there is one thing I would like to change in this world it would be mad world of construction. Houses being bought as investments, leading to land encroachment, forest poaching, asphyxiation of the rivers. When…
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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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