01/22/2013
Few people realize how great a virtue is discipline. Even if one is penniless and without a goal, just leading a disciplined routine alone can make life feel meaningful. Order and discipline provide nourishment to the human nature. Living haphazardly is animalistic. Not to mentio...
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01/06/2013
It seems harmony is only possible through helplessness. The more the society prospers and people get independent the less inclined they are to harmonize.
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12/24/2012
A lifestyle defined by self-righteous, feel-good philosophy plus narcissism has a fancy name which is "spirituality".
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12/08/2012
I admit that my journey into philosophy began as I was trying to understand and conquer the suffering (I was into spirituality), but now suffering is the least of my worries. In fact, if there was God I would be grateful to Him for creating suffering. For without suffering we wou...
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11/10/2012
Love (respect-empathy-compassion) and passionate sex can rarely survive together on their own for long. Sexual passion requires romance (romantic love), and romance thrives on mystery -- not on honesty and sincerity. Mysterious (i.e. dishonest, insincere, aloof) assholes are, the...
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10/28/2012
My disillusionment with women and love aside, another reason I don’t wish to marry and have a family is, I have begun to realize that the only way for me to survive with meaning and fulfillment in this insane rush (especially of our times) is to live being a public philosopher. A...
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10/15/2012
A philosopher is a person who doesn't take anything for granted and wonders about the origins of things.
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08/31/2012
Humans are animals capable of virtuous acts, not virtuous beings capable of beastly acts. Virtue is not inherent but learned.
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08/30/2012
Just because women don't rape doesn't mean they are all virtuous. Many women I talk to say that they wear short clothes to feel good about themselves, not to 'provoke' men. Well, if a woman 'feels good' by revealing her skin then that itself is perversion#. But alas, modern minds...
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08/30/2012
Pervert man : Rape Pervert woman : ? If you think the answer is 'Rape' you are mistaken. The answer is 'provocative' behavior including, of course, skimpy clothes. Cont..
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08/26/2012
Human life is full of amazing paradoxes. Here quite often solutions are more problematic than problems. The trick is to strive for solutions while ensuring we don't solve it away.
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08/26/2012
A thinking creature has no reason for indulging in oral sex (it's not even necessary for propagation) but for hardwired instincts. So it's out-and-out animalistic. It epitomizes the animal nature of us.
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08/25/2012
The problem with most people's concepts of justice is that they have taken it for granted that man is not an animal. Think about this: man still has oral sex. Man IS an animal, and it's erroneous to believe that we are free of natural laws that bind other animals.
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08/25/2012
Feminists would say, just because a rabbit does not attack a tiger, a tiger has no right to eat a rabbit; that a rabbit has the same rights as tiger. No, feminists, that tigers don't attack rabbits in 'civilised jungle' is a privilige enjoyed by rabbits for which tigers pay the c...
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08/11/2012
Looking for (romantic) love? Remember: need* is the mother of failure. (*poorly-managed need.) Ironic, but true. That's why "romantic love" is inherently doomed venture.
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08/11/2012
A thousand years ago even the kings didn't have comforts that a man of modest means enjoys today; and sill the richest men too are unhappy. Happiness is not about material comforts. The trick is in managing choices and expectations.
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07/25/2012
Either I am intelligent to know the futility (if not ills) of it, or I am evolutionarily just not adapted to carry the new-age burden of thousand (Facebook-) friends. So, I won't add you as a friend unless either we are 'really' 'friends' or I find you compellingly my type.
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07/25/2012
Television today is an insult to intelligence and rapes dignity. The sight of it sickens me. And to live around increasing population of TV-created zombies feels so tragic I feel like running away to the jungle.
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07/17/2012
Faithfulness in relationship is possible, but it is not natural. And if people join together because of biological pull -- popularly known as LOVE -- it is next to impossible, because this 'love' is by nature impermanent. That's the reason in cultures of the past it was condemned...
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07/17/2012
In an ideal world there would be no businesses but 'service providers', and customer would not be king; profit would not be the motive (but social welfare) and the workers/employees would not be alienated from their work. In the world where there are business schools (so business...
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07/08/2012
About four months ago I decided to not expose myself to TV advertising and since then have not sat before television; and the change in mental health is palpable. Until the mind is out of it, it won't realize that it is living in a gutter feeding on shit.
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07/03/2012
Love for one individual, in so far as it is divorced from love for man -- is romantic love. Hormonal, superficial, unreliable,.. need-based, shallow, selfish,.. ‎"To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one...
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06/30/2012
Not studying philosophy/sociology and living is like running a car without learning to drive. Is it any wonder that so many lives are simply a series of mishaps?
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06/30/2012
To the empty narcissistic souls attention is a life force. That's the reason for many of them Facebook (and Twitter etc.) becomes the necessity of life, for it provides them a window to get noticed without having to do anything worthwhile in the world.
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06/30/2012
When romantic love becomes the valid basis for marriage, the era of marriage is reaching its end.
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06/17/2012
In a good family unit (and in a community) the giver should not think that he is 'giving'. But when the receiver forgets that he is 'receiving' (the fruits of the other's efforts), then that distorts the (receiver's) notions of rights and responsibilities, and the tendency to fre...
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06/17/2012
Romantic love is about everything Love should not be about.
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06/17/2012
Women complain that men are jerks. Now if we look at this scientifically, any particular trait survives only when it is evolutionarily successful. Being a jerk has always been a dominant strategy (one with the highest payoff rate) in sexual realm, that's why men don't want to cha...
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05/28/2012
Love that suits humans consists of giving. Only when one has transcended one's narcissistic animal nature can one freely give. That way man becomes cooperative which is the only condition through which humans can flourish as a species. Flourishing is the result of love.
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05/19/2012
An alienated individual who can not attain to meaningful purpose in life tries to lose himself with drugs, loud music, extreme living etc -- 'alternative lifestyles' characterized primarily by pleasure and thrill.
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05/08/2012
When marriage has already outlived its original purpose, and become a joke, it's funny to see people now fighting for the right to same-sex marriage. Maybe people are so bored with existence that they would take up any trivial matter as a 'cause'.
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05/08/2012
The 'invisible hand' in free market (Adam Smith) and likewise also in free society may be great in shaping the universe, but it can not be friendly to humans; because it's Nature's hand, and Nature does't serve human agenda.
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04/05/2012
Looking at the comforts-happiness relationship, we know that one can be as well-off as is possible when one has the basic comforts of life. Then the cause of discontent is the thought: 'I can have more', and availability of ways to act on that thought. The pursuit of 'more' sure ...
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04/01/2012
Not abstinence, nor overindulgence, but moderation is the way to handle instincts.
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04/01/2012
Neither he who's rolling in love's bliss nor he who is suffering from it are the right persons to take love advice from. Same goes for everything else too; because one can't think straight being on the extremes.
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03/28/2012
The existence is fundamentally imperfect. Hence, there can't be solutions, only trade-offs.
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03/23/2012
Having knowledge without good intentions is useless. Having good intentions without right knowledge is lame.
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03/23/2012
Many people think that being a human automatically gives them certain rights, and that they have no ethical duties/obligations to fill other than following the laws. Well, mostly that works, and that's the reason now they have come to take rights as granted. What they must think ...
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03/20/2012
Masses in the society need to be strategically conditioned (manipulated, brainwashed, as it were) all the time, while maintaining their delusion of freedom (i.e. not directly attacking their volition). If moralists can't do it, mass-media/corporations will succeed with theirs.
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03/10/2012
There are no natural rights, because in Nature's state rights don't exist, only power does. Rights is a human concept afforded by civilized way of living. And the first thing to be given up to become civilised is "freedom to act as one pleases". Therefore, individual freedom can ...
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03/10/2012
Some people are sad sad, and some people are sad about the world being sad. The latter are thinkers/philosophers. Which bunch would you rather be in?
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03/08/2012
In corporate world, you are never appreciated for being intelligent. The only time you get appreciation is when you help your superiors look good in front of their superiors.
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03/02/2012
If one lives with the belief "NOTHING IS RIGHT OR WRONG" and "NOTHING MATTERS" one would tend to pick the wrong actions often enough to harm oneself and the society. Therefore, as a moral being one has to define the right and wrong, and always try to live the right way; and let N...
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02/29/2012
Most crimes are due to the clash of our primal urges with the norms of the current society. Since our emotional machinery is still best suited to the living conditions of 15000 years ago (evolution is painfully slow process), we are not well equipped to deal with the experiences ...
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02/28/2012
When you find someone boring, that probably just means you don't share his/her interest/s.
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02/26/2012
Unrestrained sexual expression and predominance of sex in relationships is not the mark of a forward society but a backward one.
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02/20/2012
Since we are not living INDEPENDENTLY in a jungle (he who thinks otherwise, frightens me), our survival is faciliated by myriad interactions between individuals in a society; and as such, one's long-run self-interest is best served only by considering the interests of all individ...
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02/19/2012
When someone tells you how to be happy and what is good for you etc., check whether the party is selling you any product. If yes, don't take it seriously, and don't allow it next time. The world would be much better, and people happier, if we could just implement this little chan...
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02/16/2012
Savor and enjoy the pleasantness of life, but don't soar so high that the fall is unbearable. And take on the unpleasantness patiently without being rash, knowing it too isn't permanent. Hold firmly to the middle ground. That's the way of the existentially wise.
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02/14/2012
Fools complain. Wise make their expectations realistic.
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