The Thesaurus in Merriam Webster defines virtue as such: a quality that gives something special worth But I like to define virtue as such: a quality that you...
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The Irony Of G.O.A.T – Who is a G.O.A.T?You worship your entertainers and you are ruled by them. This is because you feel tiny without them.
The modern scientifically trained democratic man wants to mock and laugh at all gods and kings ‘Haha, gods are dead. It all started with a big...
Continue reading...Laxmi Prasad DevkotaWhat was Devkota all about?
In Nepal, it is difficult to find an intellectual unstained by Hindu/Buddhist or some sort of political ideology. This tendency might be a global phenomenon, yet,...
Continue reading...Observations On The Indian Premier League (IPL) CricketWhat is professional sports anyway?
I avidly followed professional sports once upon a time — especially cricket. I ‘liked/adored/followed’ teams, players: their style, etc. And then philosophical interests kicked in and...
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Sound of the electric woodsaw fills the southern air as cars, buses and motorbikes rule the street out there. To rhyme and be poetic – why...
Continue reading...Science vs Philosophy vs Art Let us use our imagination to understand them
Medium link. Published on Illumination: https://medium.com/illumination/science-vs-philosophy-vs-art-8511b5a2d439
Continue reading...What Is Social Studies?Its purpose is to tell you whose side you are on
As I think back on the subjects I was taught at school, I find no subject more general and peculiar than Social Studies. Other subjects were pretty...
Continue reading...When The Greedy Shall Solely Inherit The WorldWhat about you — if you are not greedy?
An Euro-American lover-of-money — moneyphile — named Peter Thiel wants to live forever! While his greed for money and his desire to live forever are his personal choices — what amazes me...
Continue reading...The Realm of Gods & KingsThere are two realms: On one dwell the Gods & Kings, and on the other You and I!
You, born in a normal family with normal requirements in life and a normal worldview properly begin your social life with your school. There you are...
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Philosophy’s task is to Understand and Guide Life and the World. That is what Real Philosophy is and should be. Philosophy in general tends to get...
Continue reading...The Peoples of Learning
A quick glance of known/believed human history will reveal to us one constant: Learning is essential. Vital. Crucial! Learning in the sense of: the process of acquiring new understanding,...
Continue reading...Two Contrasting Questions
For me there are two questions. They aren’t in harmony though! Every now and then I reach to a state-of-mind which — if I am to...
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While thinking about the ongoing war in Eastern Europe and its consequences, my thought went to the businesses that are being adversely affected – along with...
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I had this idea to open my laptop and write in short about life in Nepal – the country of my birth and citizenship. Things to...
Continue reading...Nepali Folk Tales – Do As They Do
Be careful on how you act around your children. Once in a hilly area, there lived an old man. His wife was dead so all he...
Continue reading...Books in Brief — Edgar Allan Poe: Eureka
Read Duration: 2–3 days (It is short but requires attention.) Author: Edgar Allan Poe Year: 1848 Genre: Non-Fiction Sub-Genre: Philosophy. Cosmology. Spirituality. Opening sentence: To the few who love me and whom I...
Continue reading...Will We Be Allowed To Freely Think and See tomorrow?
I am already quite alert while using my phone, laptop or TV. This alertness is because I am constantly reminded by a voice inside my head...
Continue reading...How To Handle Petty Philosophical Arguments?
I have often found myself in the middle of a philosophical-type argument fuming with anger, all pissed off, full of anxiety, speaking or typing at the...
Continue reading...We Humans Never Learn!
We humans tend to think we are really smart as a species. I don’t remember who, but someone surely said — this is because we don’t...
Continue reading...A Thought Experiment: Of An Alternative Existence
Let us imagine a habitable planet with – life, far far away! The planet is revolving around its own star. Its day-night period same as Earth’s....
Continue reading...Rahul Sankrityayan — The Birth of Brahman and Reincarnation
Rahul Sankrityayan was an Indian Marxist thinker who studied, travelled and wrote a lot. Here I want to quickly share his views on the birth and use...
Continue reading...20 Wise Nepali Proverbs
The bigger the pile the bigger the strife Earlier this month, I compiled a list of 30 Nepali Proverbs: https://fradesh.medium.com/30-fun-and-wise-nepali-proverbs-5b4106f3e728 It was a fun ride. So, I...
Continue reading...Nepali Folk Tales – Presence of Mind
When in crisis, always remember to stay calm. Try to understand the situation instead of reacting. Make things happen with what you have. Once there lived...
Continue reading...Nepali Folk Tales – Revenge of The Sparrow
If you have suffered injustice – exploit and expose the rat and the flawed system. There is nothing wrong with that! Once there lived a pair...
Continue reading...The Summit of Success!
One willing to go to the summit, should not give a damn about shame, disgust, sin, etc. Nepal may not be among the strongest and the...
Continue reading...The Human Paradox
At least 900 species have gone extinct in the last five centuries and More than 35,000 species have been evaluated to be threatened with extinction today. This is the...
Continue reading...The Philosophy of Cataclysm
I grew up with Hindu/Buddhist philosophies and as you may know — there’s a gargantuan presence of the inevitability of death in these systems of thinking. Take the...
Continue reading...Detoxify Yourself From The Silicon Valley Influence
Recently I wrote a piece analyzing Steve Jobs through his quotes: Understanding Steve Jobs Through His Quotes As I went through his life and ideas, I...
Continue reading...Nepali Folk Tales – The Dog, The Jackal and The Lion
Once a dog was strolling near a forest when he saw a jackal sitting with her cubs. The dog sensed a resemblance with them. He went...
Continue reading...Your Options in Life
When you realize that the environment you exist in is incompatible, unsuited for you and it becomes inhospitable, You have four options: You can either, Adjust...
Continue reading...Nepali Folk Tales – The Old Man and His Daughter
There once lived an old man who had four sons and one daughter. All were married. The sons, their wives, and the old man lived in...
Continue reading...Nepali Folk Tales – A Brave Boy
There once was an orphan boy. He lived in a small house with a relative who didn’t care much about him. There was a coconut tree...
Continue reading...Nepali Folk Tales – A Hunter and a Tiger
A man was out in the forest hunting birds when he came across a tiger. Excited at the sight of a muscular adult, the tiger prepared...
Continue reading...Nepali Folk Tales: 4 Instructions
Once there lived an old couple. They had five sons of which four moved out of the country at a young age. Only the youngest son,...
Continue reading...Will it all End? — It hardly matters!
Sensing what humans were doing to her forest, a tiger at a national park started getting paranoid. ‘They will destroy this all one day. I will...
Continue reading...Are we Humans civilized yet?
Arthur C. Clarke’s famous short-story The Sentinel (the seed from which 2001: A Space Odyssey sprang) is about a monolith discovered ‘high on the ridge of...
Continue reading...What is Power?
Thomas Hobbes defined power of a man as: his present means to obtain some future apparent good. He defines good as things that are of interest to...
Continue reading...A short history of Cities- Part 1
Jericho, Uruk and Ur A city can be defined as a geographical area which is compact, immensely interconnected and is urbanized. That is, it is modernly...
Continue reading...Importance of Knowledge in the 21st Century
I am going to propose a theory: The extent of knowledge (need-to-know) any given human society requires for a successful survival is of: the geographical periphery...
Continue reading...Predictions vs Decisions
Temporally, we humans are wired to dwell in two dimensions — the past and the future. While ideally we wish we could live in the present,...
Continue reading...Climate Change and Nepal
For the period of 1999-2018, Nepal was among the top 10 most vulnerable nations from Climate Change according to the Climate Risk Index (CRI). 2019...
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