Category: Writing
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Posterity — Why Should I Care?
Attributed mainly to Groucho Marx, the quote: “Why should I care for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?” has turned into quite a philosophical debate. The two little questions, if read merely on the surface, make a lot of sense. Why should it matter to me what happens to the universe and its…
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Values, ChatGPT, and Human Extinction
As I typed in the heading for this article, my LibreOffice Writer informed me that ChatGPT is not a word, and I should reconsider my choice of using it. This made me chuckle somewhat wryly as I thought — is this a case of older generation (software) disowning its newer generation? I checked the suggestions, and it…
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Random Poem
Random Poem (28–09–2020) I hate life, as all my friends will tell you, my lover will vouch for it so and my family has an inkling too. But it is the mundaneness of it, that I hate. This never-ending monotony, that even when it breaks, resorts to its routine of innumerable centuries That is what I find exhausting,and tiring and burdensome.This nothingness,…
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Hidden – In Plain Sight!
I My lips are colorless and parchred, But the drink I need is scarce. And thus I march, In the desert, that is our love! I wait for the Oasis To hit me up. II Oh my towering ignorance! For the Voice I seek Is found in the silence