01/19/2015
Men who subscribe to feminist ideals are either being dishonest (for political correctness and various social benefits thereof) or are alien to the modern sexual market. Uber betas who have no exposure worth consideration to modern women outside of their family. Or they are just ...
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01/18/2015
A relationship formed on romantic love would often end sooner than the one formed on practicality
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01/10/2015
Walking out of shopping mall without things you don't need is a challenge. You should feel heroic when you pull that off
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01/10/2015
We live in the age when it's a challenge to not eat unless hungry
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12/24/2014
Humans are great rationalizers. We often believe things to justify our actions/living rather than rationally derive beliefs and then act/live in alignment to those beliefs
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12/23/2014
It is ludicrous of women to complain that men don't want to commit. For commitment is a price for sex. (Men are capable to live alone in the harsh world because they are stronger, women need men for protection and security.) It is perfectly logical to not want to pay high price f...
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12/23/2014
Everyone who has a job is slave. It is more important to have a goal than to have a job. Do you have a goal? (Paraphrased from the movie Enter the Void)
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10/06/2014
Promise, is triumph of emotions over rationality. But often not in the long run Considering mercurial nature of human mind, and unpredictability in the universe (and the fact of free will being dicey) giving a promise and being held to it imposes unfairness on the promiser. At b...
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11/03/2013
A culture that allows its women to get attracted and won by men's animalistic maneuvers, and fails to reward virtuous men in the sexual marketplace, faces grim prospects survival. It would likely spiral into the state of nature from which it evolved
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10/24/2013
Manager to employees: We are a family There is no such thing as family in business world. It's management high-talk at best, emotional blackmailing at worst
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10/24/2013
Management to employees: Our clients and their customers are Gods. They might as well say: and you are inchworms, remember
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10/22/2013
I think virtual friendships add positive value to life only if one is a rare type and has like-minded friends in the virtual world. Like an intellectual finding other intellectuals on the Internet Otherwise it just widens one's friendship pool which negatively affects wellbeing ...
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10/20/2013
In the sexual marketplace when you don't understand a woman leaving her alone will do you more good than trying to understand her
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10/10/2013
There is no "intrinsic" meaning to life like there is no "real" free will
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09/15/2013
Not judging is not caring
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09/14/2013
A virtuous man expecting a woman to love him for his virtues is the same as an unattractive fat woman expecting a man to love her despite her unattractiveness
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09/03/2013
Looking at the pace at which technology progresses buying electronics like cellphones, computers or digital cameras has become a joke. Whatever one buys, a few months at the most, and the next level product is out there. It keeps people perpetually unsatisfied, constantly spendin...
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08/18/2013
The most worthwhile experiences in life fall in the plane between fun and boredom. But most people I see are so obsessed with having fun that in absence of it they just get bored
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08/17/2013
I miss the sense of wonder that a dictionary or an atlas would inspire in me in the age before Internet. I used to eagerly wait for the dose of science and GK magazine I was subscribed to and my favorite newspaper columns. Now the plethora of knowledge available at fingertip does...
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08/17/2013
Uncle whom I met after many years: So you still don't believe in God? / Me: *smile* / Uncle: What? / Me: You still know to ride a bicycle?
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08/17/2013
Intellectual: A person who more than enjoying enjoys critiquing enjoyment
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08/17/2013
A loving man is equivalent of a fat woman in that both would share the same fate in an unregulated sexual market (modern life)
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08/17/2013
I'm beginning to think that the oil crisis or the global warming might be good for us (the former may even be cure for the latter) - in fact, just what we need at this point to save the civilization. It's mutual dependence and common threats to existence that compelled humans to ...
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08/17/2013
Evolution is the God in that it has answers none of the gods of various religions has. Darwin's On the Origin of Species is a book superior than all the scriptures (if one is looking to REALLY understand life). This is not a rant against religions, I'm just feeling in awe of the ...
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08/17/2013
One should value experiences more than fun in life
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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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'...
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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...
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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...
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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
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04/09/2013
A man who tells his woman how much he loves her has dug his (love's) grave
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04/09/2013
If you can't enjoy the time with your friend WITHOUT CONSUMING SOMETHING, you are not friends
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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...
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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
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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,
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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...
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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
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01/22/2013
Few people realize what a great virtue discipline is. Even if one is penniless and without a goal, simply living a disciplined life can make existence feel meaningful Order and discipline nourish human nature. Living haphazardly is animalistic, not to mention the positive extern...
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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
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12/24/2012
A lifestyle defined by self-righteous, feel-good philosophy plus narcissism has a fancy name which is "spirituality"
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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...
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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...
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