Opinions and Perspectives. For, by, and of the youth.
The universe is a complex structure and a myriad source of information for us, and has only offered us a sliver of who we are in the cosmos. However, we have transcended a certain level of evolution till yet, which Nassim Nicholas Taleb likes to call “Anti-Fragile”. The term Anti-Fragile in itself is a bit …
The first reflection on the concept of Beauty in Greek Literature came with Homer. There we find that the word “beautiful” denotes principally the beauty of the physical world i.e. beauty as seen by us. Moral beauty has slight mention during this time and even when certain actions were labelled as beautiful, that was because …
Hell’s Loop Remember John Lennon’s famous song ‘Imagine’. The first line goes as such “Imagine there’s no heaven, its easy if you try No hell below us, above us only sky”. Unlike this song, for this piece to work, you would have …
What makes us the “super species” that we are today? It’s not just the industrial revolution or conquering the world to establish power all over the planet, it’s as simple as human touch. Human touch is the ultimate and the most precious gift given to mankind. At the end of the day I’d rather take …
As a species, we have evolved over a period of thousands of years, having survived plagues, famines, natural disasters, and countless wars amongst ourselves to have arrived on the smartest version of our species, the homo sapiens. This begs the question: What is the next step of human evolution, and if there is a step, is it …
Believe it or not, pain is paramount in the recipe of life. Until we’re sad, devastated and crestfallen we don’t understand the importance of being happy, confident and triumphant. Yin and Yang, an ancient Chinese philosophy states that in the circle of life, one half consists of the happy in the sad and the other …
Let’s talk about atheism and religion. I’m an atheist. Being so, I spend a fair bit of time looking at debates between religious apologetics and atheists. This accords me a great deal of familiarity with the major arguments proffered by apologists in defense of their beliefs. While doing so, I’ve noticed a disturbing similarity in …
Firstly, let’s address the supposed ‘best argument’ for theism. The Kalam Cosmological Argument of William Lane Craig fame, which can be stated succinctly as follows: All things that begin to exist have a creator. The Universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe has a creator. This argument sends a jolt through the spines of many …
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