I bought my Ford car from a dealership and the previous owner was apparently a teenager, so it had the MyKey feature on it that limited the speed of the car to 80 mph and volume to 45. I didn’t have much problem with it until my mechanic told me I have to get rid…
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Did COVID-19 Pull an UNO Reverse Card on Extroverts?
A normal schedule pre-COVID-19 used to look like this: 8:00 am leave for work or school During those outside-house-hours a type of socialization must happen which probably would lead to extracurricular social gathering due to the fact one must make a social group in that place for those daunting slowly running hours to make it…
Why is ‘Science’ Not The Ultimate Answer
Nowadays, people are taking science as ultimate truth and answer because it is all based on ‘facts’ and they dislike philosophy because it has more than one answer and it doesn’t have any ‘right or wrong’, it is just a waste of time. Just how a ‘flat earth’ was common sense and a ‘fact’ decades…
Do Not Panic
Life in every single individual has its ups and downs. There is no way a human being would come to this world and leave it without having any type of hardship no matter how big or small it is. If hardship is inevitable, then how come some people seem like they have never encountered it…
Valid Emotions
To live means to feel. All creatures have emotions, whether they be able to express it or not. Emotion is an experience that can be a reaction to an action or a reason for an action. Sometimes emotions can be felt through heart and sometimes it can be felt with the mind. Whether it be…
قصيدة لربي
لا هدف إلّا إليك سعيت و سعيت و فديت شقت لألقى بك لكن خفت على من وصلت اتصلت و صعبت علي قطع الحبال فما من حبل يقطع إلّا الحبل إليك سألتك متى الأوان فلم تجبني ولسؤالي لهيت ذكرك في قلبي قد هدّأني فنسيت دنياي و من هي خلوت بنفسي ما بين الجموع فما هم و…
Social Media Evolution and Oversharing
Social media has become the means of communication since the late 90’s till now. It created its own culture where there are certain ways and unwritten rules as to how people should do things the way they do online. This type of culture created dissonance between the virutal and normal life behaviour. My whole journey…
My Syria سوريّتي Ma Syrie
سوريّتي الحبيبة, أنا لم أنساكي فما زلتي في قلبي تدفقين في كلٌ شراييني. كل حينٍ والآخر أحسب نفسي فيكي, لكن الواقع يأتي ليلطم وجهي بصفعةً قوية قائلاً: لا تحلمي!! أصبحتي كالحلم يا سوريّتي, فلم أعد أراكي إلّا في الأحلام اليقظة أو أحلام النوم. و إن كنت حلماً بالفعل, فما أحلى الأحلام. لا أريد أي إنسان…
What is Good?
What is good? According to google dictionary, there are multiple definitions for this word depending on its proposition in a sentence. Generally, most of the definitions describe good as something wanted, righteous, or even a pleasant feeling. However, my question here is. What determines if something is good or not? Is it a common sense…
Cognitive Dissonance
Mind and body should work cooperatively. If there is disagreement between those two, the owner will fall in a state of delusion. In psychology, when the behavior doesn’t match the character there is a term that defines it as cognitive dissonance. Cognitive: the root word is cognition which is originally comes from “cognitio” in Latin…
Salma Daboul | Philosophy سلمى دعبول 