Tag: humanity
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Understanding “Understanding” and the Definition of “Definition”
In the last post I said that I understood life and the world pretty well. That is a grand claim. Based on what I’ve seen, most academic philosophers try to avoid such claims. I once heard a professional philosopher on a podcast say, “I don’t know what philosophy is.” “So you’re charging students to teach…
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You Can’t Fail in Life
The last two posts have been talking about nihilism as almost a cure to the pressures of life. Continuing along the same line, one consequence of life being meaningless is that you can’t do life wrong. There is no way to fail in life. We are all just living beings, experiencing life in the universe…
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The Pressures of Human Life
When I was a teenager, all adults would tell me how important it was for me to do well in my studies and get into a good college. I was a good student so I was expected to “achieve my full potential” by getting a good job (engineer or doctor). After that it was expected…
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Nihilism is Almost Spiritual
The current project I’m working on is to organize the most fundamental arguments of my philosophy in their most striped down logical forms in an interconnected web like knowledgebase using Obsidian. I’ve set a rough deadline for this project to be the end of the year. Then, I’ll put some rhetorical meat on the logical…
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Early Signs of My Emerging Philosophy
An old piece showing my philosophy taking shape even before I considered myself a philosopher.
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The Awe Inducing Ending of One Hundred Years of Solitude
My book review for Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.
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Raw Journal Entry: Testing My Philosophy in Real Life
I had the longest phase of bad days since I started this whole thing (being positive and working consistently on my philosophy plan) a couple of months ago. It began by waking up a little bit late and missing workout for a couple of days. The next two days I woke up on time but…
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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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Rudya Aditya 