Tag: Journey
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The Desire to Do it Right
Where I give up on my grand project and choose the long hard path instead.
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Instead of Netflix and Chill, Do This
One way to figure out what works for humans is to think about the hunter gatherers. We were hunter gatherers for most of human history. Civilization is so new, most of our dead ancestors shake their heads in disbelief about how weird the kids have turned out. It is true though that we evolved for…
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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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Philosophy Journey and Blog Update
It’s been some time since I posted something on the blog. It’s not that I stopped working on the blog but rather my goals about what to do with it, kept changing. If you’ve visited my blog in the last month and a half, you would have noticed that I’ve gone through multiple designs and…
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Put Your Puppy on a Leash: My Take on Meditation
In which I describe my new meditation technique using visual focus to control mental attention.
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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 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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Rudya Aditya 