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The Epic Splendour Of My Blender

“If you come any closer, I’ll jump!” Oh for fuck’s sake, I thought as I made a move for the balcony. True to its word, my blender jumped off the balcony railing, smashing into a million bits on...

10 comments    computer depression kitchen
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10 Things That Make Me Proud To Be Indian, 10 That Make Me Sad

India, my wise friend wrote the other day, is a land of contrasts and contradictions. It is a land of peace and war, of love and hate and many other emotions. You can spend a lifetime and be none the wiser in...

44 comments    education india economy
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Less Is Best: Minimal Living For An Uncluttered Mind

Americans, by nature, are a gluttonous people. You can find our hoggishness on our bellies and in the piles of “stuff” that fill our homes. But all this stuff isn’t doing anything for our us. In fact,...

5 comments    money freedom mind
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Top 10 Global Concerns

I believe that the following Top 10 List of Global Concerns are vital in the 21st century...I choose this as NUMBER ONE, because it hits millions of individuals directly, every day of their lives. ...

30 comments    technology food politics
'Munch, munch, munch.. crunch, crunch crunch... more's not enough - GIVE ME MORE STUFF!'78

The Christmas Spirit, Stuff and Consumerism - Do Something Different!

Christmas is a time for giving. We all know this. We rush around the shops like bees around a honey pot, forcing our hard earned cash on the poor shop assistants that serve us. We get stressed and find...

9 comments    ideas for christmas
Consumerism is the number one false god of our culture.  From the cradle onward we are indoctrinated into the raw deception of buying our way to happiness.75

Flirtations With False Gods

“Everybody’s got a hungry heart…” When he penned those words the poet laureate of New Jersey and Kennedy Center honoree sounded prophetic because everybody does have a hungry heart. There is a hollow...

15 comments    celebrity spirituality idolatry
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K cup coffee makers: One cup coffee maker and a history of coffee

Smashing the snooze button repeatedly in furious rage, stumbling through limited light, dressing rapidly, irritation crawling over flesh as fingers shakily push buttons through loops. Morning is terrible,...

5 comments    coffee beans starbucks
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Bah! Humbug...

Everyone loves their own little cynic inside themselves, so go ahead and join me, Uncle Scrooge, as we embark ona  journey to tell you why I don't like Christmas. Christmas is a time for people to shop...

34 comments    family christmas job
Photo of Old Painting: Samavasharana at Mahavira Swami Temple, Kolkata75

Jainism and Environment

Jainism says that five main elements of nature and parts of environment land, Water resources, Fire, Air and Vegetation are living creatures and must be treated as living beings. Jain life style encourages Environment protection.....

6 comments    photos religion video
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Climate change

Global warming causes climate change. climate includes temperature, rainfall etc. There are many reasons of climate change. Those may be natural or artificial. We will mainly discuss here artificial means of...

10 comments    energy jobs global warming
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