Having lived 17 years in a materialistic society, I can attest that stuff alone doesn’t make one happy. At least not I. But first a bit of personal context. I was born in Communist Romania. I was born there in 1979. I grew up with almost nothing. My mother couldn’t provide me with even the … Continue reading The Traps of Unabashed Materialism
Life is Easy. It’s no more than hard work, hard riding, and hard fighting.
Describe a man who has positively impacted your life. Funny thing happened today while I was reminiscing with my best buddy Kim. We were talking about our Christmas experiences. He was trying to get some food in. I was soaking in a nice warm cozy jacuzzi. Talk about the miracle of instant transcontinental mobile communication. … Continue reading My Best Friend
I was chatting with a good old friend today. And there is something he said that made me wonder. He said that marriage is hard work and that sometime life takes such a turn that nobody could see coming. He told me that sometime no matter how hard you work at it, no matter how … Continue reading The Guesswork of Marriage
What is your all time favorite automobile? Latin is an excellent communication vehicle. A Genius is defined by brevity. He who is able to explain a complex notion in a few words is one. Perpetuum mobile means that which is in perpetual motion. In my life, my mind and heart have been enamoured with many … Continue reading Perpetuum mobile
Thomas Paine was one of the most lucid and far seeing thinker and Founding Father of the American Revolution, and of the English Enlightenment. One of his works of note, the Rights of Man, prefaced and in many ways accompanied both the Revolutionary War as well as the French Revolution. The Year was 1789. The … Continue reading Rights of Man – An Appeal to Heaven
Nowadays we take for granted the relative safety and security of the Big Daddy enclosed societies we live in. But there were times, much simpler times when responsibility for oneself belonged to each and every one. For instance, back then, 100 or 150 years ago, if there was a danger in the neighbourhood, people, heads … Continue reading The Common Sense of Good Old Times
What are you curious about? Everything. I’m curious about everything and anything. And while Knowledge is infinite, our lifespans are quite minute. By the time we gather the knowledge gathering apparatus and learn how to use it, a third of our life has come and gone. And given that midlife often times is spent in … Continue reading Curiosity
Each generation faces the shift of being proven wrong by the next generation. And every generation imagine itself to be the smartest one in history. Luckily, reality proves us constantly and irrevocably wrong about the world we live in. The other day I was returning home from work thinking about the future of the universe. … Continue reading The Schadenfreunde of Our Mortality
Share what you know about the year you were born. On December 19, 1979, two things happened: the secretary general of the Communist Party of the USSR, Leonid Brezhnev, ordered the Red Army to invade Afghanistan, and I came into this world. Not many people know that the Afghani people are a historical melange of … Continue reading The Power of Syncretism
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