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Mohit Thatte in Notes to self

Oct 8, 2009

Events

I read Funes the memorious, and thought* — what is an ‘event’? Some Wiki-diving reveals that philosophers are still divided over how to define an event.

What is an event? [To my lay brain, an ‘event’ is the temporal equivalent of a point in space**. You can see it (in your minds eye)…

Mohit Thatte in Notes to self

Sep 29, 2009

Conservatory of monkeys.

“Show me something original!” said the producer.
“Original?, but there is no such thing Sir!”, replied Benjarong.
“What do you mean there is no such thing?”
“A musical piece is but a permutation of notes that sound pleasing to the ear, is it not?”
“Yes”
“If I had a million monkeys and…

Mohit Thatte in Notes to self

Sep 28, 2009

Just another conversation?

Me: Who am I?
Me: Who wants to know?
Me: I do.
Me: Who am I?
Me: Ok, this cycle is fake. I think, therefore I am, so the existence of I is not in question, the nature and description of I is in question.
Me: Ok, what is the nature and description of I?
Me: Umm, how do I tell you…

Mohit Thatte in Notes to self

Sep 24, 2009

Thus spake Nietszche

A fable. — The Don Juan of knowledge: no philosopher or poet has yet discovered him. He does not love the things he knows, but has spirit and appetite for an enjoyment of the chase and intrigues of knowledge — up to the highest and remotest stars of knowledge! — until at last there remains…

Mohit Thatte in Notes to self

Jun 12, 2009

Yours, honestly.

So, what is honesty after all.
A promise to be true to oneself?
Or, to be truthful with others?
Or, both?

What is being true to oneself, after all.
Ensuring that your mental model of reality is a…

Mohit Thatte in Notes to self

Jun 12, 2009

Toad

Why should I let the toad work
Squat on my life?
Can’t I use my wit as a pitchfork
And drive the brute off?

Six days of the week it soils
With its sickening poison -
Just for paying a few bills!
That’s out of…

Mohit Thatte in Notes to self

Jun 7, 2009

Through a glass darkly

Schizophrenia asks the question — what is real? Do you live in your head, or is there a reality outside it?

When a schizophrenic knows she has the disease, and she chooses the alternate reality, how different is she from one who takes diksha? All of us choose a…

Mohit Thatte in Notes to self

Apr 28, 2009

Bob Marley speaks

Bob Marley talks about reggae, Rastafari, ganja, politics.

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Mohit Thatte in Notes to self

Apr 16, 2009

Char oli

Sagar pohat bahubalane, naav tayasi milo na milo re,

Swayech jo tejonidhi tarani, tad gruhi deep jalo na jalo re.

Jo Kari Karm Ahetu, Ved Tayas Kalo Na Kalo Re

Mohit Thatte in Notes to self

Apr 6, 2009

The naked truth

“In order to swim one takes off all one’s clothes — in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one’s inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc. before one is sufficiently naked.”