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What is a conversation?
When we have conversations, what we really do is that we try to pull the other person closer to ourselves: our ideas, principles, thoughts, etc. We try to bring the other person into our territory. And it goes both ways.
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Money: Do I really need it?
I have asked myself this question for quite some time now. This is part of a sequence of questions I keep puzzling myself with. Do I really need money? Does money really put any values into anything (other than literally) with respect to my need? Which role does money play in my human life? How… Read more
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A Thousand Deaths
Oh! I have seen you beforeAnd before that, time and time again.Each time I saw you, that wasThe last thing that I remember, I wonder! I remember, it was about the end of winterSpring was about to bring new leaves to me,I had a gray dream about a red fruit one night.And then the lightning… Read more
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Here and Now
What is ‘time’? What is it exactly? Is it a rail line? Is it the train? Or is it even something that has to do with a journey? Is it just an abstract idea? Is it merely an illusion? Or is it an artifact? What is it? It is something that I can feel, I… Read more
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The argument against the argument that human knowledge is linear
And with all your ability you are trying the project light onto your past, using that torch light. That entity has a light, a torch light in his hand, and his consciousness is saying, “you know, you have to remember your past”. And he is holding a torch and all our collective knowledge is the exactly his knowledge. And as we forget, as it is a normal thing to happen, it is normal to forget for him too.
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The Prologue and the Epilogue of an Image
This is how I should start: what is an image: a mere evidence of a moment. A moment that has already happened somewhere in the timeline or has happened in someone’s mind if you talk about abstract or contemporary art. An image or painting or sketch or imagery art of that sort is just a… Read more
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The residue of Kurukshetra
The Mahabharata is one of the major and well written Sanskrit epics of Ancient India. Like any other epics, it has hundreds of parallel stories of its characters. Sanjaya—one of such characters, having the ability of seeing events at a distance almost 80 KM of the length right in front of him, granted by the… Read more
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Did You Know: How Egyptians Rocked the World of Science Long Before the Greeks
There is a commonly held modern view that a handful of Greeks from the sixth and fifth century B.C were the pioneer of modern science. It is undoubtedly true that they attempted to explain natural phenomena in nonreligious and rational ways and coined technical terms for them, and they passed their scientific ideological knowledge to… Read more
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Did You Know: What really made Italian mathematician Leonardo Pisano so famous?
The 13th Century Italian Leonardo Pisano was perhaps the most talented European mathematician of the Middle Ages. But we little know about his real name, as he is best known by his nickname Fibonacci. This would come as a surprise to Leonardo himself, that he has been immortalized in the famous sequence – 0, 1,… Read more
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Did You Know : The Other Sides of Pythagoras
We all who know even a little bit about mathematics, have heard the name ‘Pythagoras’ and his famous theorem ‘Pythagoras’ theorem’. He is often called the first ‘true’ mathematician and it is probably true that we owe pure mathematics to Pythagoras. Although his contribution was undoubtedly important, he remains a controversial personality in the mathematician community.… Read more
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