#Civilization

I'm a Brahmin but I abhor the age-old Caste system that exists even today. It's a curse snd the main reason why Hindus are perennially divided.Is being a Brahmin good
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1. Imagine if you were able to walk into your enemy's country and just start building guns and tanks and all sorts of weaponryAnd then also BUY your enemy's weapons
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SYMBOL OF RESILIENCE: I saw this quote over a door in the Capitol. It reminded me that healing is more than about accountability of the President and others that participated
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Question - Why can’t you debate woke people?As most of you know its really hard to find common ground with most of your woke friends. Most interactions end with them
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1/ One of the psychological and spiritual effects of concentration of talent (which is what large scale urbanization ultimately is about) is the "rat race". Large urban areas don't give
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Problem with Hindus is: they think short-term. Bringing NaMo to power in 2019, 2024,.. and they are content after that. We #Christians and #Muslims think long-term. We keep trying. Our
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The problem with White Supremacy is that throughout my life I've seen it mainly be assaulted and opposed on grounds that it's immoral.I think it needs to be mainly assaulted
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Test for all those who deride Hindutva: list just five principles, dictats, commandments that you hate in Hindutva, that are not there already in Islam. Just five.And if you can't,
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1/ Problem with definitions regarding religion and why there are so many Christian “Hindus” or even a Muslim may call himself a “Hindu” as a means to gain credibility in
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You might have come across James Lindsay's swish-looking 'New Discourses' website, "Pursuing the light of objective truth in subjective darkness!"It seems liberal, but appears to be owned by far right
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Why Bad Architecture Is Destroying Our Civilization It's evident that we're spiraling downwards as a society. Architecture is a big reason why.Thread Modern architecture is objectively bad. It's plain ugly.As
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*Beautiful Thread*What Gebran khalil Gebran wrote on Immigration in 1926:1-I believe in you, and I believe in yourdestinyI believe that you are contributors to this newcivilizationI believe that you have
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I don't share the desire that others have in unifying w/ those who've shown they want to kill us. At some point I think we need to examine how much
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This is going to be a thread about an underappreciated cooking technique for fish- steaming. I first became a fan of steamed fish in China, where this mode of preparation
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Imagine 8 billion people, running the equivalent of 20,000 coal power plants, switching to zero-GHG-emissions sources of energy overnight, for all future. Greta would say: magical dreams of infinite growth.
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#COVID19 is a disease which is caused (in part) by contaminated, stale air that's been breathed in and out by several other people already. Gross.Why do we live with stale
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