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Why do bad things happen to me? – Part 2
Filed in General Interest, August 12, 2009, 7:00 am by KumaranWhy do bad things happen to me? – Part 2What is bad?
This is first question I ask myself. I sincerely try to define why I call something bad. If we sit down to define the word bad it really becomes a difficult task.
1.Bad is something, which is not good for me.
2.Bad is an unexpected result.
3.Bad [...]
Three buckets of action
Filed in General Interest, July 19, 2009, 8:22 pm by KumaranThree buckets of actionDear Readers, here is Kumaran’s first post. Please welcome him to the blog with your encouraging comments. – Sukumar
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This topic actually came up when I was having a discussion about life with a friend of mine from college (Thyagesh). It has been close to 5 years now after we had the conversation now [...]
Building a Belief System Part 2 – What holds us back?
Filed in General Interest, Science, May 4, 2008, 5:54 am by SukumarBuilding a Belief System Part 2 – What holds us back?Updated May 11, 2008: Archana Raghuram joined the conversation with a nice book review of Phantoms in the Brain.
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Last week we covered what the ultimate belief system would look like using Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit. Thank you all for the stimulating discussion. As [...]
Building a belief system – Why do we believe what we believe?
Filed in General Interest, Science, April 27, 2008, 5:14 am by SukumarBuilding a belief system – Why do we believe what we believe?Prolog:
Dharampal’s Beautiful Tree is a 457 page book. I have read it once before i did my last post. But for me to summarize the book accurately i need to read it at least 2 more times and i am in the middle of [...]