what I thought about when attempting to sleep

Posted by Chameli in nothing to get hung about

i have, of course, been a filthy little atheist since i acquired the power of critical thinking. exploring the natural, in my view, is infinitely more interesting and rewarding than the contrived, insidious and anachronistic tales of the supernatural that dominate many so many lives.

i believe it is a moral imperative to think critically about everything. we should question the values and biases we've inevitably inherited from our parents, and we should continue to reevaluate our beliefs for as long as we live. encouraging children to practice dipassionate critical thinking should be the primary function of compulsory education. it is not my intent to preach, but i will provide an example. i was vegetarian from fourth grade into college, originally becasue i believed it wrong to kill animals. today i am mostly vegetarian as a way of mitigating the harm i do in our world. industrial meat farming devastates the environment. and, while i've decided there's no harm in killing a creature that has no emotional connections, i do believe no feeling creature should be treated with indifference. consider the hog.

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Aniket

Interesting thoughts. But come to think of it, counter culture wouldn't exist if there wasn't pop-culture in the first place. The contrived exists to inspire people like you to think critically. I'm sure the founding forefathers had taken this into account. Also, when you're young, healthy, educated and critical, the contrived sounds unfairly imposed.
But the contrived helps so many others, who're in the bottom rungs of the human needs ladder, to hang on and have faith in humanity in general.
Also, being non-vegetarian is a sort of a naturally granted right (without sounding like a bigot) that humans possess (since we're omnivorous, and all omnivorous species hunt other species of plants and animals, freely and in permit by nature). This right is a morally decent version of the right to progress - every species has a right to material and spiritual progress, but we've to take care not to overdo it.
Also, by the term 'feeling creature' you're assuming that plants do not have emotions(/mutual connection systems) that can be understood by humans at some point of time in the future. Which may or may not be the case.
But criticism is not my purpose. The lines above can get anyone thinking. Respect.

February 22, 2010 at 11:41 AM

Unknown

Arey bhai ye Chameli kaun hai?

April 18, 2010 at 8:14 AM

Aditya

Arey bhai ye Chameli kaun hai?

April 18, 2010 at 11:59 AM

About us

Once accustomed to each others daily company in a hexagonal room, looking not much unlike the 25 other odd male inhabitants in a conformity-intended ensemble, we occupied the same high school space. In running the risk of cliched nostalgic reminiscence; those were certainly days of bro-bonding like none other.

We find ourselves today, at three vastly different cities and institutions of higher learning. What still sustains our friendship though; beyond and despite the lack of geographical proximity, is what I shall simplistically attempt to explain with the aid of a statistical math tool (refer:common ground).

With these pleasantries out of the way; let me further convolute this introduction.

There are nerds, and there are jocks. There are the deeply pious, and the self-righteous atheists. The lost poets in apathetic tees and the narcissistic yuppies in classy 3-piece GQs. The thums up lovers and the connoisseurs of fine wine.

Or as I would like to think of us; both and neither.

There is an oxymoron in there somewhere
For at some point in our lives; we've each played a video game for 9 hours straight, spent a session from midnight to dawn of uninterrupted street football, quoted Nietzshe and then laughed on last nights How I Met ..

you get the idea.

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what I thought about when attempting to sleep

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