the ArmChair Thoughts

I’ve gotten out of school and now there is the pressure to make some money, and even spend it, and more spending. It quickly reminds me of a discussion I was involved in explaining that more money wasn’t equal more satisfaction when some teen complained about how little she made at her job. Here is [...]

One day, either we like it or not; are prepared for it or not, we will die and actually “that makes us the lucky one” as Richard Dawkins would say. He would continue, and why should he complain about death–it should be celebrated. And I, write to celebrate death. Ok, maybe not literally. i don’t [...]

Yesterday I saw a middle-aged man while waiting at the bus stop do a dance in the middle of the road. At first I found it very funny and everyone got a good laugh out of it; I however learned a much deeper lesson from this man: we have a much more higher notion of [...]

I started the idea of this blog second semester of my freshman year in college; some semesters later, graduation time calls and the question is, do I have anything to say about college life/experience/insight. Because I’ve forgotten most of what I learned freshman year (get the point?) and some semester after that, I think I’ve [...]

When religion came along, it advised us that we need the involvement of a supernatural being to live a worthy life. It successfully brainwashed us into the assumption that we are powerless, hopeless and individually helpless and has made us slaves to the culture of religion. Yes, the culture of religion. Today in my Philosophy [...]

Four years ago I was just getting into college and trying to understand what my mission there was, and now…I’m wrapping up now and I’ve learnt: there is the academic world, and there is the real world, and both world are seriously different. Most of my classmates are thinking of going to grad school and [...]

A picture is definitely worth more than a thousand words and this sure explains a lot; and this is open to interpretation that you would want to put to it (not just war aspect):

On this blog, I have written repeatedly about the harm of religion, the evil that religion slyly, like a fox, unconsciously embed in its practitioners; and I’ve often been asked,  how are you so convinced, why the hate, isn’t religion functional after all, or, you are not really an atheist. Buckle up, and join me [...]

In class yesterday I think I stunned a few when I attempted to argue that living is not that special–I pointed out that life has no sanctity. In the medical ethics class (on the topic on Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide), we where discussing the case of a man who killed his 12 years old daughter [...]

There was Haiti and now Chile, guess whose fault it is…I’m guessing global warming, theologians, and academicians, I’m kidding about the academician part and the rest remains valid, global warming and theologians, faux alike. Maybe I’ve lost my sympathy–but people are dying by the thousands everyday and the economist in me is saying: “maybe it’s [...]