DARK PEN

Every civilisation or geographically identified people go through certain phases of civilizational evolution. There needs to be an old history of being nomadic. A few nomads settle and become tribes. Tribes fight for control over geography and resources. A few stable or remaining tribes become political entities of some kind for structural leadership and later evolve to be small governed entities and communities. Then they go through the Iron Age, Bronze Age, and begin to identify geographically. Evolution happens with advancements in technology, agriculture, and societal values (unified morals, ethics, etc.) since agriculture allowed for more stable living conditions, leading to population growth and slow or maybe infinitesimal but a constant technological advancement (e.g. writing, metallurgy, architecture, art, martial art) laid the cornerstones for more complex governance systems. We're not going deep into an anthropological discussion, but hear me out. At certain points, this ...

There is this question I got asked by someone on Quora Hindi that ‘ The existence of carnivorous animals in the jungle depends on consuming other animals alive by tearing them apart. If this universe is created by an intelligent creator, what was the need to create such a horrific system of ripping and slaughtering fellow creatures? ’ The moment you phrase the question in such a way from that specific point you dewalls in the field of primary philosophical arguments of The Problem of Evil proposed by St. Augustine . Your concern that this cruelty in nature, where carnivorous animals eat innocent herbivorous animals, is completely contrary to the fundamental idea of ​​an intelligent and benevolent god. Because maybe god is there to protect every living being and resolve their materialistic problems and whenever you pray or burn incense, pray or do aarti or sajda you intentionally asking god to provide you something that you desire and from that moment onwards if there is a god he starts...

Gift of genius is haunting. It haunts the man who possesses it. It makes them suffer, immeasurable existential crisis that creates nightmares. Walking and multiplying nightmares. Imagine you can see everything yet you can do nothing about it because no one is doing anything about anything. In an abnormal society, genius is so unorthodox, unwanted, and undesirable that true genius wants to cease to be original and normal so he can become normal among the abnormal so the abnormal can identify him as normal. How paradoxical it is that one wants to be abnormal to be called normal. Like a philosopher who taunt and degrades society for not being philosophically profound yet forgets that the layman who has no ability to understand ontology, metaphysics, and the nature of reality, that layman himself is the reason for the philosopher's own survival. Layman doesn’t want to understand philosophical elements because this knowledge breaks the framework of his social structure. Philosophy is a ...