Surreptitious Radical Maniac

https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/treaty-banning-nuclear-weapons-to-enter-into-force-un/article32939207.ece? “Today is a victory for humanity, and a promise of a safer future,” Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), said in a statement. An international treaty banning nuclear weapons has been ratified by a 50th country -- Honduras -- allowing it to enter into force after 90 days, a UN official said Saturday.  What difference does it make? Which country used a nuke after WW2 or other than US? None. It's a taboo. There are more number of deaths recorded due to conventional warfare than nuclear warfare. And, there would be more number of civilians dead or misplaced than the number of soldiers died. So, what use is this if it's ratified? Does it change anything? The clutch of nuclear-armed states, including the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia, have not signed the treaty. UNSC countries didn't sign it. S...

Are we living or dying? Is there a fundamental difference between the two? As every second passes by, we are getting old and losing every second of our "timed" life. So, in that sense, we are actually dying and not living.  Living is being alive. In that sense, we are living and not dying. Additionally, there's a catch over here. Both living and dying are seen as actions with having the suffix "ing" in the words signifying action. So, I think there's fundamentally no difference in figurative terms when I say "I'm living" or "I'm dying." This reminds me of the words which I heard in a song compilation by Arctic Empire. The words were taken from Alan Watts - The Dream of Life If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death, (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself - not as a stranger in the world - not as something here on probation, not as s...