Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Index/ Home Page We think ‘we will solve problems on the outside and then become peaceful’. What we don’t see is, in every attempt to solve the problem, we end up creating new problems. The original problem (a hologram, which does not exist), doesn’t need a solution (Video 221), (Video 168a), (Video 184). Striving for…

( Original title by Friedrich Nietzsche ) Index/ Home Page I cannot ask myself or someone else not to think about something (a person, event, situation, material non-material thing), because it doesn’t work. At least I haven’t been able to control my thoughts willfully ever. Force doesn’t work. (I never understood it, when people said…

Index/ Home Page Hostility : We are all hostile towards each other (we just don’t get to see it all the time). Inside families, in groups, nations ((Video 232) – trying to counter one another), Govt & its citizens, ID cards (at school/workplaces), rules/ regulations/ laws, judiciary system (and the entire system associated with them),…

Index/ Home Page Things (a person, art, artists, sports, sportspersons, gold, diamond, precious gemstones, a certain way of doing something (starting from the way we brush our teeth to the way we run ICJ (International Court of Justice), attire/fashion, traditions, rituals, etiquette, pyramids, fantasies, technology, material or non-material things, rare paintings, religion, a certain scientific…

Index/ Home Page (Video 53a), (Video 53b) Sometimes we do things just because we can (no matter how small or big they are). Should they not be judged …? Is it just a distraction from something …? Is that activity really harmless …? I don’t know if the decision to build pyramids was right. It…

Index/ Home Page The way God is described (magical, mystical creature) was put into us by the surrounding. It was not there inside us by birth. Had they told (/showed) us nothing, we wouldn’t know anything about it at all (I surely wouldn’t know anything about ‘God’, had I been born in a Sentinelese tribe).…

Index/ Home Page To find pleasure in something, first, one has to put pleasure in that thing, else he/ she cannot extract it. Language is not inherent inside us, it is taught through social contact. Similar is the case with Diwali, Christmas, traveling around, showing a middle finger (Video 275), gemstones, (or any other event/…

Index/ Home Page History’ (which represents the writer’s interpretation of that event and not necessarily the actual event and hence it cannot be trusted blindly) and ‘Present’ are to be studied for human tendencies and not for events. We look at history (events, wars/conflicts, daily life) mostly from a human perspective and not how nature…

Index/ Home Page Whom shall I choose as my guide or mentor …? Whom shall I ask for advice …? And what if that person had to leave or die of some cause, then what would I do …? If I don’t know what is right, how can I be the judge of my own…

Index/ Home Page A singer is appreciated by non-singers (people). What is the credibility of that appreciation and the singer …? People had certain expectations (or desire for stimulation) and I live up to those expectations (that’s why they like me), aren’t we the two sides of the same coin …? (Video 35). And if…