07/26/2013
How ironic it is that those who are deluded that life is meaningful are bent on ruining it for everyone and those who are aware of the absurdity and meaninglessness of existence are trying to save the world!
07/25/2013
I think the major reason why it is difficult to be virtuous, especially for men, is because virtuousness is not a good currency in the sexual market that life fundamentally is.
07/21/2013
Lack of choices, not love per se, is the secret of lasting marriage. A society that celebrates freedom and choices is bound to see the decline of marriage and family.
06/22/2013
You are shaped by your past, and every moment you are shaping your future. There is no such thing as living in the present detached from past and future.
05/14/2013
When people sacrifice their leisure time for owning more of materialistic things (e.g. working overtime because I want an iPhone), that society is plagued by alienation, the disease of modernity.
More leisure time means more time spent with friends and family. But when one doesn...
04/20/2013
Romantic love is a huge psychological cost to pay for sex. Romantic love exists because in the evolutionary past sex meant producing an offspring whose survival was best ensured when the parents stayed together. Hence, the mechanism evolved which made the mating partners “fall in...
04/20/2013
To indulge in purely romantic love is to surrender whatever autonomy one has and leave oneself at the mercy of brutal natural/biological forces. For, one doesn't develop romantic love for reasons palatable to one's mind, and one would lose the feelings in the same way, too. Where...
04/20/2013
Why I have to look for intellectual development while choosing friends? Why can't I just "enjoy" life? The answer to both is: I don't enjoy rolling in the mud with pigs.
04/09/2013
A man who tells his woman how much he loves her has dug his (love's) grave.
04/09/2013
If you can't enjoy the time with your friend WITHOUT CONSUMING SOMETHING, you are not friends.
04/09/2013
I think in general expecting the worst of people is a right strategy for many reasons. For one, despite what optimists would believe, humans are not fundamentally good-natured; they are more likely to harm than benefit you. Pessimism would not only save one of the pangs of unexpe...
04/09/2013
Human nature is fundamentally vile, for we all think we are the center, and can't help but game others. Good people just try to do less of it. It's a wonder that we can even connect.
04/09/2013
People in "love" don't want to be together when the "spark" is gone. Let me break this. The spark is like a high one gets when one is drunk. The reality of a relationship begins where the spark ends. For a fulfilling, long-term relationship, one should choose one's partner for th...
04/09/2013
Among philosophers honesty, most of the times, is the only choice. Two philosophers, therefore, can have qualitatively far superior relationship than (with) non-philosophers, I have experienced.
04/09/2013
Some people would feel good when you meet them even when you have to nothing to talk, precisely because you'd meet them even when you have nothing to talk; just to be with them. Others would find the silence awkward, and feel offended when you have nothing to talk. The former are...
03/17/2013
Respectability of job today is decided by how much money it pays. That's so wrong. It should instead be decided by what knowledge/skills it takes to hold that job, how it treats you, and how it benefits the society as a whole, among other things. An accountant making 10k/month is...
02/28/2013
The people who irritate me the most are those who don't want to: understand life, face bitter truths, use rationality,.. They would perennially wallow in misery, blaming others for their unhappiness. And what's more, they think The Big Daddy will grant them Heaven to make up for ...
02/27/2013
People who are most concerned with their own happiness are the people who are most miserable. That's just how it is. Happiness is the the art of living for oneself through living for others – family, community, society,..
02/20/2013
When the reigns of the world are with the people of low moral standing, it's no longer enough for the common folk to just peruse harmless living; it's imperative to cultivate highest virtues and live exercising them. For, like Edmund Burke said: The only thing necessary for the t...
01/30/2013
Complexity should be our foremost fear. We should always strive to understand and solve/avoid complexity. For complexity is the force that eventually brings down all relationships and structures of the world.
01/22/2013
Few people realize how great a virtue is discipline. Even if one is penniless and without a goal, just leading a disciplined routine alone can make life feel meaningful. Order and discipline provide nourishment to the human nature. Living haphazardly is animalistic. Not to mentio...
01/06/2013
It seems harmony is only possible through helplessness. The more the society prospers and people get independent the less inclined they are to harmonize.
12/24/2012
A lifestyle defined by self-righteous, feel-good philosophy plus narcissism has a fancy name which is "spirituality".
12/08/2012
I admit that my journey into philosophy began as I was trying to understand and conquer the suffering (I was into spirituality), but now suffering is the least of my worries. In fact, if there was God I would be grateful to Him for creating suffering. For without suffering we wou...
11/10/2012
Love (respect-empathy-compassion) and passionate sex can rarely survive together on their own for long. Sexual passion requires romance (romantic love), and romance thrives on mystery -- not on honesty and sincerity. Mysterious (i.e. dishonest, insincere, aloof) assholes are, the...
10/28/2012
My disillusionment with women and love aside, another reason I don’t wish to marry and have a family is, I have begun to realize that the only way for me to survive with meaning and fulfillment in this insane rush (especially of our times) is to live being a public philosopher. A...
10/15/2012
A philosopher is a person who doesn't take anything for granted and wonders about the origins of things.
08/31/2012
Humans are animals capable of virtuous acts, not virtuous beings capable of beastly acts. Virtue is not inherent but learned.
08/30/2012
Just because women don't rape doesn't mean they are all virtuous. Many women I talk to say that they wear short clothes to feel good about themselves, not to 'provoke' men. Well, if a woman 'feels good' by revealing her skin then that itself is perversion#. But alas, modern minds...
08/30/2012
Pervert man : Rape
Pervert woman : ?
If you think the answer is 'Rape' you are mistaken. The answer is 'provocative' behavior including, of course, skimpy clothes.
Cont..
08/26/2012
Human life is full of amazing paradoxes. Here quite often solutions are more problematic than problems. The trick is to strive for solutions while ensuring we don't solve it away.
08/26/2012
A thinking creature has no reason for indulging in oral sex (it's not even necessary for propagation) but for hardwired instincts. So it's out-and-out animalistic. It epitomizes the animal nature of us.
08/25/2012
The problem with most people's concepts of justice is that they have taken it for granted that man is not an animal. Think about this: man still has oral sex. Man IS an animal, and it's erroneous to believe that we are free of natural laws that bind other animals.
08/25/2012
Feminists would say, just because a rabbit does not attack a tiger, a tiger has no right to eat a rabbit; that a rabbit has the same rights as tiger. No, feminists, that tigers don't attack rabbits in 'civilised jungle' is a privilige enjoyed by rabbits for which tigers pay the c...
08/11/2012
Looking for (romantic) love? Remember: need* is the mother of failure. (*poorly-managed need.)
Ironic, but true. That's why "romantic love" is inherently doomed venture.
08/11/2012
A thousand years ago even the kings didn't have comforts that a man of modest means enjoys today; and sill the richest men too are unhappy. Happiness is not about material comforts. The trick is in managing choices and expectations.
07/25/2012
Either I am intelligent to know the futility (if not ills) of it, or I am evolutionarily just not adapted to carry the new-age burden of thousand (Facebook-) friends. So, I won't add you as a friend unless either we are 'really' 'friends' or I find you compellingly my type.
07/25/2012
Television today is an insult to intelligence and rapes dignity. The sight of it sickens me. And to live around increasing population of TV-created zombies feels so tragic I feel like running away to the jungle.
07/17/2012
Faithfulness in relationship is possible, but it is not natural. And if people join together because of biological pull -- popularly known as LOVE -- it is next to impossible, because this 'love' is by nature impermanent. That's the reason in cultures of the past it was condemned...
07/17/2012
In an ideal world there would be no businesses but 'service providers', and customer would not be king; profit would not be the motive (but social welfare) and the workers/employees would not be alienated from their work. In the world where there are business schools (so business...
07/08/2012
About four months ago I decided to not expose myself to TV advertising and since then have not sat before television; and the change in mental health is palpable.
Until the mind is out of it, it won't realize that it is living in a gutter feeding on shit.
07/03/2012
Love for one individual, in so far as it is divorced from love for man -- is romantic love. Hormonal, superficial, unreliable,.. need-based, shallow, selfish,..
"To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one...
06/30/2012
Not studying philosophy/sociology and living is like running a car without learning to drive. Is it any wonder that so many lives are simply a series of mishaps?
06/30/2012
To the empty narcissistic souls attention is a life force. That's the reason for many of them Facebook (and Twitter etc.) becomes the necessity of life, for it provides them a window to get noticed without having to do anything worthwhile in the world.
06/30/2012
When romantic love becomes the valid basis for marriage, the era of marriage is reaching its end.
06/17/2012
In a good family unit (and in a community) the giver should not think that he is 'giving'. But when the receiver forgets that he is 'receiving' (the fruits of the other's efforts), then that distorts the (receiver's) notions of rights and responsibilities, and the tendency to fre...
06/17/2012
Romantic love is about everything Love should not be about.
06/17/2012
Women complain that men are jerks. Now if we look at this scientifically, any particular trait survives only when it is evolutionarily successful. Being a jerk has always been a dominant strategy (one with the highest payoff rate) in sexual realm, that's why men don't want to cha...
05/28/2012
Love that suits humans consists of giving. Only when one has transcended one's narcissistic animal nature can one freely give. That way man becomes cooperative which is the only condition through which humans can flourish as a species. Flourishing is the result of love.
05/19/2012
An alienated individual who can not attain to meaningful purpose in life tries to lose himself with drugs, loud music, extreme living etc -- 'alternative lifestyles' characterized primarily by pleasure and thrill.