Category: Reflection
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God is Hopeless
Most people who know me think I’m an atheist, in the conventional sense of one who disbelieves in God—which, to me, is a gross oversimplification. This article serves to clarify my position regarding the matter. When one thinks of God, one tends to think of a personal figure or deity, perhaps one who is ‘up…
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The Meaning of Everydayness
Published 29 September 2024Last updated 4 October 2024 Here I am, sitting in a quiet room, typing away. There you are, sitting or standing or what have you: reading this article that caught the eye. Here we are, breathing, being. But what does it mean to be? Existential philosophers such as Heidegger and Sartre would…
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Breath by Breath
By Dicson Candra Wijaya25 February, 2023 Being in the world, this world, is an undeniable reality for each and every one of us. For without it, I wouldn’t be writing; nor you, reading; or anybody else who potentially comes across this essay (no matter how remotely). Each of us living, having lived; breathing, having breathed.…
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Rewriting the Significance of Your Being
1. The Problem of Anxiety Red pill, blue pill? Such were the options that Neo received from Morpheus in the hugely acclaimed film The Matrix, as Neo grew bothered with the irregularities that he recently noticed in his life. Taking the blue pill is promised to instantly relieve him of all anxieties, after which he…
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Reflection on MN 9: Sammādiṭṭhisutta translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi (with Excerpts)
Last updated 18 August 2022: Made an edit on the section of the four nutriments as #3 is actually manosañcetanā instead of sankhāra. Link to Sutta: Majjhima Nikāya 9 translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi *Bolds, italics and square brackets in excerpts are my own “‘One of right view, one of right view,’ is said, friends. In…
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Phenomenological Reflection – On Life
Before I start sharing on my reflection, I’d like to warn you as a reader that this essay is first and foremost written for myself, as something sort of a journal. (P.S. I have done some restructuring and inserted a few paragraphs on the existentialist perspective as a bridge for this post to be less…
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The Social Dilemma – 10 Striking Quotes and Explanations (ft. Fupi)
This is the kind of film you sign up to Netflix for. You need to watch it, now. Fairly recently, I have been thinking about what Dicson’s Table as a ‘brand’ could be, and I thought that it would be nice to always feature a food item in every blog post even if it may…
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