The South Asians are freaking out. The Lankans are freaking out. The Americans are freaking out. Okay fine, maybe I’m just exaggerating, a bit. Or maybe I’m not. Let me ramble. The girls have it bad. Bad-der, correction. The brown girls have it worse, or what I mean here is everyone from the brown lands … More The Singles’ Anxiety: An Invisible Pandemic (Part 1)
How does a human rip the pumping life out of another? And then have the conscience to toss that victim’s sacred soul into the air like some rag cloth? Knife – PublicDomainPictures by Pixabay Why is this act so inconceivable to me, to you, to us? Is it that we were brought up right, that … More To Kill Another Person
Knowing the difference between feeling dull vs. sobbing rain showers from a break-up is a coarse way to distinguish from being in a mood vs. being the puppet of Emotion, the chief puppeteer. Humans, though, are puppets who can fight back. It is just that they need to know who is pulling the strings, and … More How to Deal with Your Moods
Life is just weird. Not in a bad way, just that it is. This is an unusual post penned by moi. It is random, alien, and deviant, relative to the rest of my works. I know my opening sentence isn’t monumentally mind blowing, but neither is life. Especially not life. Now I sound depressed don’t … More The Meaning of Life: A 20-Something’s 300 Word Ramble
I told myself I wouldn’t blog politics. But when politics is up in your face, you say bring it. Credit: S Jinadasa You can post all the statuses you want. That’s good. Keep doing that. But I’m sorry everyone, what we really also need are actionable solutions. We need active solutions and recommendations on how … More A Call for Intelligent Sri Lankans
Knowledge should always be inhaled deeply. The Great Mosque of Djenné, Larry Louie Our story begins with this possible irony: Muslims developed the cigarette as we know it today! For eons the Mayans and Aztecs had smoked tobacco with palmtree leaves, wrappings of corn, and various pipes. But come the Ottoman Empire,and we see the … More Okay, Is Smoking Really Even Haraam?
The God instinct is hard to explain simply because I know not where to start. For me, it comes from this: I believe in God. But really, why? A part of it stems from my being too scared not to, perhaps because there is too much at stake. From a logical vantage point, the favour … More The God Instinct
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