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What Is Existential Dread?How to deal with it?
Medium Link: What Is Existential Dread?. It is anxiety due to the awareness of… | by Adesh Acharya | Jul, 2022 | Medium
Continue reading...Trying To Make Philosophical Conversations RelevantThey go nowhere all the time!
I find myself feeling empty and frustrated during conversations of philosophical nature. By that, I mean conversations that are not gossip, or about success or money...
Continue reading...Human Knowledge Is a Big Fat TangleCan we look at our collective knowledge as the process of untangling the tangled?
The pursuit of truth for human being is often depicted as being a linear affair. It either goes up: We, evolved from apes, have managed to...
Continue reading...Life Is BIGGER Than CareerA nice career is for a nice life. Life is not a tool for a nice career.
An interviewer asks the Iranian Film Director Abbas Kiarostami how he would like his legacy as a filmmaker /artist to be. In other words, he asks Abbas...
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He has two forms: Inner and Outer Alone and with other. While alone, he is vicious Like tiger. One enters, he transforms Into a rat.
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You grab a creature with an ability to word and place it in a planet far-far off The first thing it will do to make sense...
Continue reading...What Is Virtue?Can we freely select and manage our own virtues? What's your virtue, by the way?
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...
Continue reading...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...
Continue reading...The Poe WayEdgar Allan Poe’s Method To Knowledge
I think Poe’s Eureka is one of the most underrated works of speculative philosophy: Books in Brief — Edgar Allan Poe: Eureka | by Adesh Acharya...
Continue reading...Science vs Philosophy vs Art Let us use our imagination to understand them
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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...
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...
Continue reading...The Crisis of Goethe’s Faust
The opening few pages of The First Part of the Tragedy in Goethe’s Faust is where Faust laments and complains. This I call the Faust crisis...
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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...Does Morning Really Show the Day?
Or is it merely a case of a lazy attachment towards mornings? Back at school, the classes I hated were Mathematics, Science (Physics, Chemistry, Biology), Computer,...
Continue reading...A Crisis Of Attention (Problems In Observing)
Forget quietly being around nature, I have gotten preoccupied with my own thoughts such that I am now unable to quietly even sleep in the comfort...
Continue reading...Nepali Folk Tales – Four Men
Come together with people who are special like you and together – do things special! Once there lived a hunter. He always lay in woods and...
Continue reading...Nepali Folk Tales – Wise vs Intelligent vs Smart
It is not about being fast. It is about doing what’s appropriate. Once there lived a tortoise, a frog, and a snake nearby a river. They...
Continue reading...Some Random Thoughts…
As I sit here with my laptop staring at this white canvas that tells me to write my story, I wonder who I might be writing...
Continue reading...Nepali Folk Tales – The Path To Wisdom
Wisdom is difficult to acquire. You have got to be patient and must continue to learn and persevere. Once there lived a king who loved to...
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...
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A terrible nightmare woke me up at 3 AM this morning. It was followed by a 30 minutes or so of ridiculous post-dream analysis. I felt...
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...Why Do Stories Make Us Feel That Way?
Because They Are Travels: Into a Different Space, Time and Identity. If I am to recall the moments from my childhood when I have felt the...
Continue reading...A Formula For Desire Management
I had developed a desire-management formula. I have been implementing it for more than a couple of years now. The reason for sharing? It has proved...
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...
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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...Look At Things From A Different Angle
When we have anxieties and frustrations, our thoughts are stuck at some point in between the present (A) and the future (B) — points previously opened...
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For years she had dreamt of this trip. For years she had energized herself in the darkest of nights — thinking of this journey. The idea...
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...On UG Krishnamurti
I intensely explored the internet for doses of wisdom. Philosophers, Spiritualists, Poets, Writers, Filmmakers, Artists, Scientists — I was on a mission to find and understand everyone...
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 – 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 – Eight Children
There once lived a haughty boy. His name was Bunachha. He spoke like an old man. One day, he went to his mother and said- ‘Mother!...
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...Nepali Folk Tales: Bitter But True
There once lived an elderly couple who gave birth to a son in their advancing years. They named him Balram. When Balram matured, they had an...
Continue reading...30 Wise Nepali Proverbs
Nepal may not be among the strongest and the most powerful nations — but that doesn’t mean it has lacked occasional thinkers with words of wisdom....
Continue reading...A Formula For Effective Time-Management
We all are here with our own limited quota of time. There’s a lot to think, learn, do and live in this duration. At times it...
Continue reading...Understand Yourself, Be Yourself!
An ambitious rat wanted to get married. So, he went to the most powerful human king and asked for his daughter — ‘You are the greatest....
Continue reading...What are thoughts? – 2.1
A Brief History Throughout history, humans have attempted to understand the nature of thoughts, thinking, mind, heart, and brain. The Edwin Smith Papyrus of Egypt from...
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,...
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