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I am a software developer and content creator based in India.
Recent Posts
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Meaning
There used to be a time in my life when I was obsessed with the idea of figuring out the meaning of my life. I’ve since grown up and abandoned such sisyphean endeavours. Regardless, here’s what one of my primitive attempts looked like: I have experienced my external reality to be consistent in nature, which means that I can essentially assume it to be objectively real. Absolute truth does not exist, but I can employ my human intellect to work towards trying to understand facets of existence more deeply. I am a consciousness in an organic body, with a load of accumulated and built in baggage, living in a state of deep connection with others. Existence has no inherent meaning, as...
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Religion
"The search for truth is more precious than its possession." – Albert Einstein. I feel like I should declare at the outset that I am an atheist. I do not believe in anything that cannot be justified by hard evidence; this rules out almost everything that is considered spiritual or supernatural. According to me, there is no real truth value in any religion's claims about our physical, material world. The scientific method is the best and only tool that we can use to figure out objective truths about our universe. Thanks to science, we can communicate at the speed of light, treat illnesses that used to kill millions, or even send a probe to one of Jupiter's moon. It is absolutely...
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Veritas
I am truly an edge case — I do not fit in any common definition of a normal person. I’m just a body with a brain moving on autopilot through this harsh world. It has been several years since I’ve been aware of the gaping hole at the centre of my being. While other people around me appear to have motivations, desires, and personalities, I have no coherent sense of identity, of who I really am. And instead of being sure of my self-image, I’ve always just pretended to be something I am clearly not. Right now, I am playing the role of a writer, whilst it is fully clear in my mind that I am not one. I find it...