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The Impossibility of a Dialogue

The Impossibility of a Dialogue

“We live through troubling times” said Bholu the ghoda, “The world as we know today as ours will disappear from the face of this planet. Today our little island formally known as Jambudwipa is surrounded by an ever growing understanding that pretends to know better than what we always knew to be good for us. They seek to change and transform us for our own good and for the sake of our own soul, for they worry too much about the terrible fates that await us and they think in their broad wisdom that the only way we can save our misguided selves is by letting them work over it. Today we have come to doubt the very word ‘Self’. So I would invite our esteemed friend and guide the Jackal to come over here and speak to us about matters relating to our Self and what possibilities open us to a state of dialogue with forces that seek to change it with the pretence of saving us from our-own-dark-and-lost-selves.” [...]

Phenomenology of Zero

Phenomenology of Zero

0’ (zero) is a dangerous number, It has uncanny proprieties, it does not behave like rational numbers do. It flouts the very ordering of ratio. Neither addition or subtraction, nor multiplication, nor division behave as they are supposed to. Without the conceptual understanding of the ‘0’ (zero), the Greeks kept tumbling into insurmountable paradoxes. For example, the Zeno’s paradox arise because his inherited sense making, or referential and conceptual framework lacked all mathematical and conceptual sense of ‘0’ (zero); introduce ‘0’ (zero) and his paradoxes cease to be paradoxical. But there are no [...]