Thursday, 31 May 2012

I have a blog!

I had created a blog so that I could share some of my poetic works with this vast world. But to my utter disappointment I have been falling short of words ever since. It has been two months since I have written a decent poem and so this blog has been deserted ever since. Now I feel its my moral responsibility to bring some justice to this blog. But there is a small change. Poems and philosophical arguments tend to get very boring and attract less and less readers, so this blog will contain stuff which can connect with the 'common junta'( Usually the common junta connects with such stuff.. but I am giving the common junta far more importance than my stuff to compensate the fact that I called them common junta).
              Philosophy is one subject which cannot be covered in those fragile clothes known as books. It is beautiful naked and it should remain like that. Before you pervs think anything else, philosophy cannot be understood and studied through books. You have to find it in small day to day situations, quarrels, those long leisure baths etc. So to bring out those small events would be the main purpose of this blog. But you people will have to bear with the sad. painful poems which might come up.

Sunday, 19 February 2012

Reality?

We all have certain beliefs in our lives which we assume to be the truth. For example, the existence of an almighty omnipresent being may be the ultimate truth for a man, while the existence of an immortal soul within may be the 'truth' for another. This 'truth' might have come from religious beliefs or our perception of the world. For a logical reasoner or a rigorous believer of science, the 'truth' takes a completely different realm. So what is the 'ultimate truth'? A ancient school of philosophy known as the Pyrrhonian skepticism disputed the possibility of attaining truth by sensory apprehension, reason, or the two combined, and hence inferred the need for total suspension of judgment on things. Irony is that even 'Nothing can be known' is dogmatic. Ignorance is bliss - truly said.  Since no one can observe or otherwise experience causation, external world (its "externality"), ultimate purpose of the universe or life, justice, divinity, soul, etc., they declared no need to believe in such things. But then a skeptic can confront skepticism and thus creating a paradox.