Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • hot air ballooning

    The first hot air balloon flight took place on June 5th 1783. The history of hot air ballooning with both hot air and gas spans many centuries J Man had always wanted to fly. Many legends and fairy tales talk of it. In 1700 Montgolfier brothers saw a sheet of cloth flying due to steam…

  • world envoirnment day

    Is like the earth day, it is supposed call political attention and public action towards environmental issues. The theme for 2011 is Forest-Nature at your service with one-third the earth’s land mass being covered by forests and 1.6 billion people dependent on it for their living. The various sites suggests • Talks, • Exhibitions •…

  • hurray a holiday

    what would i do with a holiday Recent, present and future reading material If school or work got cancelled today what would I do? Well that’s what happened to me only there was nothing much I could do since I was pinned down by an drip pumping in antibiotics and tranquilizers. After the first 10days,I…

  • sharada

    Sharada was the youngest of the three siblings. Older brother sathyanarayana was the unofficial head of the village while the younger of her older brothers’ suryanarayana was a kind of spiritual guru. He claimed vision and self-realization. Sharada being more aggressive and gregarious of the three always felt if she was a boy she would…

  • Art the craft of the mind

    my favorite artist, is an active mind Plinky wants to know about my favourite artist. I wonder what actually Plinky means a person who paints or a person who is into arts of any kind. Talking of artists I know I do not like M.F.Hussain. I rather like the stray drawings created by various people,…

  • ಭ್ರಷ್ಟಾಚಾರ?

    ಭ್ರಷ್ಟಾಚಾರ? ಸಧ್ಯವಂಥೂ ದೂರದರ್ಶನದ ಎಲ್ಲ ವಾಹಿನಿಗಳು ಬಾಬಾ ರಾಮದೇವವರ ಉಪವಾಸದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಚರ್ಚೆ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತಿರುವರು, ಯೋಗಿಯ ರಾಜಕೀಯ ಮಹತ್ವಾಕಂಷೆಯನ್ನು ಹೀಯಲಿಸುವವರೂ ಇದ್ದಾರೆ. ಇದು ಅವರ ವೈಯಕ್ತಿಕ ವಿಷಯವಲ್ಲವೇ? ಯತಿಗಳಾಗಿ ಚಾಣಕ್ಯ (ಹೌದು, ಇವರು ಯತಿಗಳೇ ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರದೆವಿಯ ಪೂಜಾರಿ ),ವಿವೇಕಾನಂದರು, ಶ್ರೀ ಆರೋಬಿಂದೋರವರು ಭಾರತಮಾತೆಯ ವೈಭವದ ಕನಸು ಕಾಣಬುಹ್ದಾದರೆ ರಾಮದೇವರು ಯಾಕೆ ಕಾಣಬಾರದು ? ಹಾಂ ನಮಲ್ಲಿ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರ ಪೂಜಮುರ್ತಿ,ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರಭಕ್ತಿ ಒಂದು ವಿಧದ ಭಕ್ತಿಪಂಥ, ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರಧ್ವಜ ಹಾಗು ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರಗೀತೆ ಇದರ ಚಿನ್ನೆಯೆಂಬ ದೃಷ್ಟಿಕೋನವಿನ್ನು ಬಂದಿಲ್ಲ. ಇವರು ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ಅಲ್ಲ…

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