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Dharma (what it means)

#Draft Dharma is often taken to mean morality. It isn't. It simply means duty, or more precisely, the right action (Karma) one must do for the best results. The Dharma of a solider of bad king is to serve his king, not to defect. Or is it? I'm not sure. But the point is to make the idea clear. A more clear example can be made when you take entities without agency. The Dharma of the immune system of a bad guy is to defend that guy, not to kill him, knowing he's a bad guy.

Good commie vs Bad commie

A good commie is a good guy who feels that communism can solve world problems. A bad commie is a guy who thinks that the rich should not have what they have and it should be taken from them. In effect, a good commie will always try to sell communism, while a bad commie tries to enforce it. The thing about a good guy is that he will never blame others for his conditions. But the bad guy will use the story of the good guy to fight the rich guys. The bad guy is bad here, because he doesn't have the quality of the good guy that makes him good. He cannot fight for the good guy and claim that he is good, because he is not good, as I've just shown. The act he took on because he was bad cannot redeem him. Analogy: It would be like saying that an impulsive person who shot a bad guy was good because of what he did. No, he decided to kill because he was impulsive, and even if the killed person was bad, that doesn't make his killing good. Now the situation is different if the guy who ...

Avoiding Hatred

Whenever I'm angry, it's in an absence of patience. It is fine to firmly dislike something, but when that turns into anger, you've gotten way out of line.

Real Problems of Poor People - Set #1

- I've had neck pain that's connected to the spine. My parents are hesitant to take me to a doctor, because they don't have enough money. They insist on trying Moov (a muscle pain ointment). They say it works for all pain. They should know better, but they are used to escapism. - My parents had not been able to buy me the books I needed to study for JEE when I was at school, because they were poor.

Move to my dream journal

... There was a dog. There was a building. I came out from some cave with some snow-shaped blue coloured stuff covering the cave. I was trying to get into the building, which I guessed was a dormitory, and if I got in, I'd find people I knew. But there was a dog outside, and I could pause the dream and analyze my moves and make the right choice. I woke up at about that time and went back to sleep. --- What I'm curious about this is that the dog seemed to have a personality of its own. And I did not know who would be in the building. I didn't fully plan how I'd get in. The dog was an obstacle. I thought about finding any cut window bars, but maybe I'd have to climb the building. I didn't know how I was going to climb it yet, but it's the dream world. Maybe I could've flied or jumped harder, of scaled it like spider-man. I don't remember the laws of physics. I'm exploring the relationships between how the dream world exists, how different living en...

My take on Christianity

#MayNeedPolish In my opinion, God is the material, efficient and formal cause of the world. I had a rational reason as to why God is conscious. But I forgot it because it always ends up complicated. The reason for that is because it's like writing a manual on how to ride a bike. You don't learn to ride a bike by reading about it. So I'll skip this for now. God as the material cause of the world would be like the ocean. The power of the ocean would manifest as waves in the ocean. God would not constantly control the ocean, because the will of God is simply non-different from perfection. Free will and determinism converge into one. God as the efficient cause would be like the energy, and God as the formal cause would be like the patterns. In this manner, God is present with in the world, as the waves, but is also transcendent, as the ocean. In this case, the ocean and energy are not different. Patanjali's Yoga school posited that Purusha and Prakrthi were different, while...