04/01/2012
Neither he who's rolling in love's bliss nor he who is suffering from it are the right persons to take love advice from. Same goes for everything else too; because one can't think straight being on the extremes
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03/28/2012
The existence is fundamentally imperfect. Hence, there can't be solutions, only trade-offs
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03/23/2012
Having knowledge without good intentions is useless. Having good intentions without right knowledge is lame
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03/23/2012
Many people think that being a human automatically gives them certain rights, and that they have no ethical duties/obligations to fill other than following the laws. Well, mostly that works, and that's the reason now they have come to take rights as granted. What they must think ...
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03/20/2012
Masses in the society need to be strategically conditioned (manipulated, brainwashed, as it were) all the time, while maintaining their delusion of freedom (i.e. not directly attacking their volition). If moralists can't do it, mass-media/corporations will succeed with theirs
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03/10/2012
There are no natural rights, because in Nature's state rights don't exist, only power does. Rights is a human concept afforded by civilized way of living. And the first thing to be given up to become civilised is "freedom to act as one pleases". Therefore, individual freedom can ...
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03/10/2012
Some people are sad sad, and some people are sad about the world being sad. The latter are thinkers/philosophers. Which bunch would you rather be in?
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03/08/2012
In corporate world, you are never appreciated for being intelligent. The only time you get appreciation is when you help your superiors look good in front of their superiors
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03/02/2012
If one lives with the belief "NOTHING IS RIGHT OR WRONG" and "NOTHING MATTERS" one would tend to pick the wrong actions often enough to harm oneself and the society. Therefore, as a moral being one has to define the right and wrong, and always try to live the right way; and let N...
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02/29/2012
Most crimes are due to the clash of our primal urges with the norms of the current society. Since our emotional machinery is still best suited to the living conditions of 15000 years ago (evolution is painfully slow process), we are not well equipped to deal with the experiences ...
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02/28/2012
When you find someone boring, that probably just means you don't share his/her interest/s
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02/26/2012
Unrestrained sexual expression and predominance of sex in relationships is not the mark of a forward society but a backward one
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02/20/2012
Since we are not living INDEPENDENTLY in a jungle (he who thinks otherwise, frightens me), our survival is faciliated by myriad interactions between individuals in a society; and as such, one's long-run self-interest is best served only by considering the interests of all individ...
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02/19/2012
When someone tells you how to be happy and what is good for you etc., check whether the party is selling you any product. If yes, don't take it seriously, and don't allow it next time. The world would be much better, and people happier, if we could just implement this little chan...
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02/16/2012
Savor and enjoy the pleasantness of life, but don't soar so high that the fall is unbearable. And take on the unpleasantness patiently without being rash, knowing it too isn't permanent. Hold firmly to the middle ground. That's the way of the existentially wise
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02/14/2012
Fools complain. Wise make their expectations realistic
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02/11/2012
Too much comfort and prosperity is not good. Without struggle and suffering happiness soon loses its essence, and ennui takes place, which is worse than any suffering. It's then that man takes to "extreme living" to keep from getting suicidal. It's not only deprivation that would...
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02/11/2012
Individualism and freedom of thought are the enemies of the very values and morality which gave birth to them and elevated them to primacy among advanced nations. (Source)
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02/07/2012
In an ideal society a politician's opinion should weigh more than a lay person's, a scientist's opinion should weigh more than a politician's, and a philosopher's opinion should weigh more than everyone else's. When this chain of command can't be effectively implemented, the soc...
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02/04/2012
Lack of free will is not a new revelation. Religions have been saying it for centuries (everything's in the hands of God) and people were fine with it. The fact that we can't control things isn't depressing. Depressing is the knowledge that no one can. I think religions handled t...
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02/02/2012
For evolutionary purposes, we are designed to feel ourselves as the center of the universe, the world revolving around us. As an implication, for every unpleasant experience we have, we are much likely to blame others. (Don't you feel you are the victim? Everybody feels the same!...
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02/02/2012
NO ONE has a magic key to happiness, becuase there isn't any. It's not important to be happy all the time. What matters is that we be and do our best when we can help it, and know that we can't help everything
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02/02/2012
Some films show right things as right. Some show wrong things as wrong. And some films show wrong things as right. Those are what I call bad films. Same goes for TV shows. It's not the content per se, but the message or the impression it leaves
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02/01/2012
Spirituality views the world as a part of "the whole". Its focus is so much on the whole that it never really connects with the problems of the world. Only (non-)remedy it offers is for people to stop being people and merge into the whole. SPIRITUALITY IS HOKUM
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01/21/2012
Back in my spirituality days I received many a praise for saying this: "An enlightened person lives on the tune of Nature. He doesn't need to know what is moral or immoral." Now I say enlightened my ass! One must be a narcissist of the highest rank to have that thought!
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01/19/2012
"Live as if this is your last day". (What?!) NO! Live knowing you have a long life ahead and you wouldn't want to make it ugly by giving into your studpid impulses today
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01/17/2012
There are three types of people: 1) Those who walk the path laid down by wise men – Tradition, 2) those who become critical thinkers and find the way – Philosophy, and 3) those who blindly fight for their right to live their own way – Individualism. I think the third type, who ar...
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01/11/2012
Society is a system of interdependence for optimum welfare; and belonging to one isn't a choice. Therefore, individual freedom is a delusion which has to be enjoyed within certain boundaries. Claiming total freedom in society is immature to say the least
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01/11/2012
He who says he has a right to be jerk as long as he isn't harming anyone doesn't understand the fundamentals of human world. No one has a "right" to be jerk; in fact, everyone has a "duty" to live in interest of the society
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01/07/2012
The reality of human condition is too complex to be fully addressed by law. If something is not illegal, that doesn't automatically mean it is morally flawless. A behavior doesn't become indecent only when it becomes illegal
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01/07/2012
Woman, you show cleavage not for that blouse is comfortable for you, but for you want to attract attention of hot and attractive members of male species. But by doing so you attract not-so-desirable gazes too, which makes you feel insecure and threatened. Now you don't want to ta...
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01/06/2012
The beauty of pure rationality is that it can't be factually defeated. Therefore many rationalists enjoy mocking ordinary people; and often they get away with it too. But the real wisdom is to transcend rationality and to live in a non-rational* state where most essential human e...
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01/05/2012
Asking the Universe (or God) "Why me?!" for one's suffering is either ignorance or arrogance. A wise man knows that suffering is not personal
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01/05/2012
Tell me which sitcom character you relate to and I will tell you how dumb you are!
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12/18/2011
The problem with spirituality is that it does not relate to the actual human condition but the (unrealistically) idealized version of it
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12/18/2011
If the world is ever to become a better place (though I am not optimistic about it) it will not be because of those who have “resolved” their moral issues by committing themselves to some fixed rules of behavior and thereby become complacent, but because of those who constantly f...
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12/16/2011
Society is a group of interdependent individuals who have aligned each-other's self-interests to maximize their welfare. And belonging to society isn't a choice. A human being in civilized world is born directly into a society. To think that society is an illusion, or that one is...
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12/15/2011
Extreme form of individualism is jungle rule – a world of "independent" and "alienated", zombie-like human beings. Happy it's-my-life-I-do-what-I-want freedom fighting!
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12/12/2011
Regardless of what it should ideally be, the prevailing moral standard is what majority in a given society agrees to
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12/09/2011
When the idea of happy marriage (partnership) comprises of fantasy ideals of romantic passion provided by TV, films, fiction books and magazines, no human can ever have a happy marriage
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12/08/2011
The only way to fundamentally approach the problems of the world is to encourage people for critical thinking and help them develop philosophically. All other ways are merely treating the symptoms rather than disease
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12/08/2011
If you are fun-hungry, sex-obsessed, How-I-Met-Your-Mother-and-Twilight-fan then I am pretty sure that most of the time you're keeping gloomy and grumbling, because those are perfect ingredients for miserable life
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12/07/2011
When something has both positives and negatives, and positives are such that can be obtained from other better sources, and negatives are having substantial impact, then that's enough grounds for criticizing it
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12/06/2011
For many philosophically disinclined people their optimism stands in the way of them doing anything about their misery. It shows how at times pessimism can be positive and optimism negative
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12/05/2011
One's ability to love truly (which is empathy, compassion, respect..) grows in direct proportion to wisdom gained through understanding life. And that's the only way
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12/04/2011
To modern youngsters: Read wrong books (e.g. The Secret etc), watch wrong films (e.g. Twilight etc) and wrong TV shows (e.g. How I Met Your Mother etc), hang out with wrong people (look around), and ask why your life is miserable. I say, that's why!
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12/04/2011
That love which depends on sexual act for its expression (e.g. romantic love) is but a sexual desire in disguise of love. Romantic love is a joke
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12/04/2011
Sex is neither love nor an expression of love. It's a quasi-voluntary indulgence of animal nature. Give it a status higher than that and prepare to be miserable
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12/04/2011
If being virtuous means having less fun then the purpose of life must not be having fun
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12/04/2011
Awareness of determinism is one thing. However, to base one's decision making (or a lack of it) on the notion that we don't have free will is, in my view, insane!
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