Tag: humanity
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Devlog 2: Learning to Pace Myself
Completed Tasks Lessons Learned I learned that I need to pace myself in developing this philosophy. There is so much I have already written and thought about that sometimes it makes me want to rush through it all. If I do that, it’ll come across like the ramblings of a mad man. (Even more than…
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What I’ve Learned from Bronze Age Steppe Horse Lords
Childhood Fascination As a child, when I read about Alexander and his quest to rule the world, I realized that he had reached my nook of the world in the Western Himalayas before his soldiers refused to go any further and he had to turn back. Some of his soldiers decided not to go back…
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Devlog 1: Gaining Confidence in My Project
It’s only been a week since I officially started building my philosophical system, but I’ve already developed a lot of clarity over my main argument and my confidence that I’m doing something valuable has grown. Front Page The front page of the website is done, for now. The good thing about an iterative system is…
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Why Nihilism?
Heartbreak When I was 16 years old, I fell in love and got my heart broken. Teenagers deal with their first heartbreak in many ways but I chose to deal with it by diving into philosophy and asking myself some deep questions: What is love? What is life? Why am I alive? What am I…
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Week 2 Update: I was Constipated
The project I had chosen for week 1 of my 42nd year was a creative non-fiction essay on smoking. It went well and I finished it on time. The article might not be as good as I was hoping but I did finish it. I don’t know if I’ll just publish it on my blog…
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Some Thoughts on Endless Video Content
It’s been 4 days without YouTube now. I can’t believe I’ve managed to do it because in the last 7-8 years, I don’t think there’s ever been even a single day when I haven’t checked YouTube. Even when I was sick in April last year, I think I surfed YouTube whenever I felt a little…
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Fighting the Cult of Productivity
In a couple of days, I’ll turn 41 years old. As I prepare to start my 42nd trip around the sun, I’m trying to come up with a time management system that sits well with my philosophy and doesn’t repeat the same mistakes I always make, as I talked about in my last post on…
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The Death of Four Young Trees
Dear Reader, My father cut down four trees today. He had planted these trees, 10 to 11 years ago and three of the four were mature fruit-bearing trees. One was a pomegranate tree and it hadn’t grown too big because when my father was planting trees, he did not leave enough room for them and…
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Doodencrapenschit: My New Take on Philosophy
Doodencrapenschit begins with the fact that humans have questions and humans want answers to those questions. Do humans have questions? Not every human has questions. Some human have questions. Not all humans who have questions have the same questions. Together as a collective, humans have questions. And together as a collective, they want answers. Humanity…
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Rudya Aditya 