Question of rationality, irrationality and faith

What is the link between rationality, irrationality and faith? A recent email inviting me to a discussion led me to ponder this question and i reproduce my analysis sent to the email chain below:
An irrational thought leads to a rational examination that causes discovery of a new truth. This new truth can lead to further [...]

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Meta-physics

Imaging the sand of the… desert and imagine a trillion universes – not worlds but universes – encapsulated in each grain of that desert; and within each universe an infinity of others. We tower over these universes from our pitiful vantage points… with one swing of my boot i may knock a billion billion worlds [...]

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Bliss

How do you define the feeling of bliss? Isn’t it subjective? I recently had the pleasure to visit Peru, do the Inca trail to Machu Picchu, stay at a beach house south of Lima and experience bliss. But then, staying home listening to good music, blissfully drinking beer and memorizing the nostalgia of a life [...]

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On Ramayan

While watching Swades today, i had these profound thougths on Ramayana. The epic is considered to depict the win of good over evil, but let us step back a little bit and dig a little deeper into the characters. Ravana has been widely considered as a great scholar. His “abduction” of Sita can be thought [...]

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Truth

What is truth? I have always tried to speak the truth and been offended if someone has offered a lie instead of a truth. But the question that arises is whether there is anything called an absolute truth? One man’s truth is another’s lie. Even death, a supposedly ultimate truth is regarded by some as [...]

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On Power

Power should not be an end in itself but a means to an end. Hence, acquire power only after you know what to do with it.

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On the loneliness of being

The loneliness of being. I am tempted to take the credit for coining this phrase, but I am not sure if I can. Searching on google for the phrase gave me several results that included the phrase, but not with the meaning that I have. But no matter, let us delve deeper.
Being. Dictionary.com defines being [...]

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Random

It is better to be hated than to be ignored.
Ergo, I wish people would hate me more!
~*~

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The true path to happiness?

Quoted from “The Fifth Discipline – the art & practice of the learning organization” by Peter M. Senge:
“…If we live our lives in pursuit of what matters to most of us, and if we do our work with people whose friendship we value, we will have all the happiness we need. In this sense, happiness [...]

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The Boathouse

The boathouse at lakeside is one of those legendary places where you have to be – atleast once. In my 7 years of residing in and around the campus, I hadn’t been to the boathouse once. So, being useless today, i decided to make that tryst. I had heard of the boathouse to be a [...]

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