My first blog!

-
This is my first ever blog! Hello World!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Fairness

-
Is the world fair? We want it to be. And sometimes we even manage to convince ourselves that it is. So is the world fair, or unfair? Or is it a mix of both? Take a moment to think about it and then come back. Are you with me now? Ah, then come, I have some things to tell you that might interest you. Fairness is a concept and like all concepts it is human and can be pretty personal. One person's idea of fairness might not coincide with another's. A duel can be considered a fair method of confrontation but can anyone vouch that if one of the contenders had a different teacher, an extra day to train, a different meal, the outcome would not be any different than what it is now? Be it skill, training or a bad case of stomach, there are many things that would affect the outcome of the duel and cannot be categorized as "fair". Maybe you will not see things as I see in this matter. But what I want to emphasize is that there are things that influence the outcome of event...
Read more

Chicken and the Egg

-
Image
Which came first? Chicken or the egg? Quite the question isn't it? This is one of the questions that has baffled the humankind for centuries and has generated so much controversy that it rivals the controversy generated by all the political scandals in the world. Even the ones here in Sri Lanka. Well, anyway..What is the thing that is so fascinating about this question? Well, at its core, this is a question of the reason and the result. Reason and result serve as the basis of human knowledge,logic and analysis that it is so monumental that it could promote a seemingly silly question to a very "controversial" one. As we know, the cause comes before the effect, such is the nature of the order of the universe. So what came first is the cause and what came later is the effect. So is chicken the cause of eggs or eggs the cause of chicken? The interesting thing is that both can be the cause and/or the result of each other. So we are stuck in a vicious cycle of logic and...
Read more

Ode to silence

-
Sweet silence where hath thou has gone? To all vile noise is my ear prone, A thousand million billion switches, Turned on and off by witches, Light up  a million bulbs on a palm, Cries aloud to rob my calm, Dragging me to a life, not of mine, Yet another life of mine. O silence, where hath thee flown? In a world where noise is sown, With no heed to what is lost, Amid the clamour of the host. May sleep again to wake, Where all a sound not make, even for a moment fleeting, to feel the embrace of silence's greeting.
Read more