Reflecting Contrarian on Caste This is going to sound extremely callous. You will feel I am making a case for ignorance, chauvinism, intellectual withering, the caste system, and all sorts of other ills that the Enlightenment so
Mind Evolution Now that was another business that hadn't existed in the Before. Barbers? Yes. Epilators who went over your body with a fine toothcomb to dehair you? They were a product of the age.
Fun The Banality of Aliens Audio version [Soundcloud Link] The apocrypha goes that prior to 9/11, America was much different from the ever surveilling, TSA pat down focused police state it has now become. I often read
Mind Vipassana Dreams (very NSFW) (Please be advised that this post is going to be very NSFW. It will deal with themes like incest, hentai/penetration, child sexual exploitation and voyeurism, and plain old missionary. Read on if
Mind How moderate am I if I take sides? I don't think a Donald Trump Presidency is good for America or the world given, what I believe, is the compromised nature of his business and personality. What I am finding hard is
Mind Lallath:Sunday I used to find the idea of koans very odd. What method of meditation and spiritual growth relies on asking people such abstruse questions that their brain grows? It made no sense. Then
Mind Mind your time This Hacker News thread on the nature of time got its share of people declaiming the article. The article in question theorizes that time is a product of the observer's biology. Briefly, time
Reflecting "Genius!" "Maverick!" Does calling someone a "genius" or a "maverick" say anything about the caller? Are they trying to call attention to their own facility at recognizing talent and ability where
Mind Process, not prizes Sporting successs by individuals is a steady, never ending source of motivational memes and quotes. For example, Virat Kohli, India's cricket captain said that he regularly scores centuries because he does not, in
Mind Who leads whom - art or life? At my college fest many years ago, I was asked if art imitated life or vice versa. I gave some word salad answer which people barely heard. The gist of the answer, if
Mind How to do things for their own sake? I do things because I like being known to have done them or to be seen doing them. This blog gets less than a visitor a day. No one knows it exists. For
Mind Creating without boundaries I want to create without self consciousness. Each time I write, I write knowing that I'm writing. Each time, I'm singing, I sing knowing I'm singing. I want to create now knowing that
Mind The bowl split exactly down the middle Premonitions come in various forms. People see loved ones dying, the imagine natural disasters. My most eerie premonition was ultimately very prosaic. This happened in the latter part of 2016. I want to