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A thinking mind is anarchic and unfaithful

I am not sure about my fellow citizens, but I believe to have been raised with flawed morals and values. Let me reflect on my growing up memories, which I have realized to have an above average level of recall. My intentions is to hope that my reader, even if bad at acknowledgement or articulation herself/himself, can better understand the shaping of one's ethics/values. Growing up, "justice" played an important role in my everyday life. It may be fights with fellow kids, understanding some mythological stories, making sense of complex Bollywood stories, or a situation arising in kindergarten. Once "justice" is given, I found it unquestionable, accepting it to be the fairest of all.  There were some interesting aspects also, based from the emotional memories of my nursery times (It was in 1994-95, Jamshedpur. We stayed there for 10 months and I have some visual clear memories of few incidents. My younger brother was yet to make his entry, so I had less ...

FAQs on my favorite genre of books

I read a lot of books, all types and sizes. So the first question I am asked is what kind of books I like the most. I take a pause to quickly re evaluate my interests and since last couple of years the answer has been the same: Philosophy. Then, in most occasions, I am asked few FAQs, which I shall be listing here. In the future I can just forward them this post to save some time. 0: I too like philosophy. Especially the structure, logic and meaning of language. You mean linguistics.  1: What do you mean by philosophy? For me it deals with anything which helps me develop and evolve my fundamental framework which I see is comprising of 4 components: 1: Values, helping me in deciding objectives and prioritizing activities in life 2: Ethics (what I consider right and wrong), which determine methods, and reactions to a piece of news or an activity done by a third person 3: Choices, that given absolute freedom what things I choose over others 4: Cushions, ie...