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9 to end the Crusades.
Ian Srivatsav
The dying words of the war-mongers in Assassin’s Creed, flip the tables with every word, drawing the fine line between good and evil right along the sternum. Altair gets confused too easily.
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Ethics of desire.
Ian Srivatsav
“What’s more important? Satisfying a thousand desires or conquering just one?”
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Excerpts from Rick Warren’s TEDtalk
Ian Srivatsav
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Life and how to survive it.
Ian Srivatsav
Found this in my mail. [Thanks ZhiHao]. Below is a speech to the graduating class of 2008 at NTU convocation ceremony last week by Adrian Tan, a litigation lawyer and the author of The Teenage Textbook.
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Shay: hero for a day.
Ian Srivatsav
I found this in a chain letter in my spambox; the story was good but I don’t forward chain letters. Decided to do the next best thing.
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Steampunk’d
Ian Srivatsav
This article is in intended as a personal rebuttal to some of the points raised by this article. I haven’t had to time to even blog normally lately, so you must appreciate the level of moral outrage that has compelled me to immediately comment on this, part of the training for my future role as champion of underdogs worldwide. [I can feel it in my bones.]
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The happy Bhutanese
Ian Srivatsav
A friend posted the following note on Facebook, and everyone started ooh-aahing about something I felt was pretty ridiculous in retrospect. So I replied.
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The life of a Sadhu
Ian Srivatsav
An excerpt from Sadhu, a comic series by Gotam Chopra.
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Why the world NEEDS Superman.
Ian Srivatsav
If you haven’t already guessed, the title is inspired by a line in Superman Returns. The headline of an article, to be precise. written by an embittered Lois Lane, entitled Why the world doesn’t need Superman. I don’t really like the Superman character; as far as superhero stories go, I think Superman is pretty much the working model of the first thing that came to Jerry Siegel’s head. But I take issue with this fictitious headline, and here’s why.
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Zealots
Ian Srivatsav
What’s this about then? Why are there so many zealots in the world? So many people who’d seek to convince, persuade, compel, force other people to believe what they believe?
Why be a missionary? Who’s hiring? Who cares? If people wanted your opinion, they’d ask. If people wanted your recommendation, they’d hint. If they wanted your bloody stamp of approval, they’d rather show you the door, so stop flattering yourself.
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