Vishal Lavania

Pragmatic Empirical Rationalist

[Vishal Lavania @toughbrain]

Philosophers don't take faith for an answer.

[Vishal Lavania @toughbrain]

@PrashantKishor "paani, paani, paani... uncle ji, mujhe paani pila dijiye, mera gala sookh rha hai"

[Vishal Lavania @toughbrain]

@airindia 'Shortly' isn't a unit of time measurement, is it? It gives zero information. For a flight with an estimated fly time of 2hrs, it's a bit much to hear repeatedly for 2hrs that the flight will take off 'shortly'.

[Vishal Lavania @toughbrain]

Stuck on flight AI0677 @airindia without AC for 1.5+ hours. No deboarding allowed. Doors disarmed just now after passengers complained of suffocation.

@MoCA_GoI The crew hasn't made any in-flight announcement so far.

[Vishal Lavania @toughbrain]

@airindia @MoCA_GoI 'Shortly' isn't a unit of time measurement, is it? It gives zero information. For a flight with an estimated fly time of 2hrs, it's a bit much to hear repeatedly for 2hrs that the flight will take off 'shortly'.

[Vishal Lavania @toughbrain]

@kunksed @webhat @vandanauniyal5 @ragingbulldyke @079ue7612mzlp8 @Murfitoro @made_in_cosmos @billyisyoung @visakanv @wrenfigster

[Vishal Lavania @toughbrain]

@rohitk686 @katyayanshreesh There are students who disagree. Hearsay is almost always unreliable. Either way, I think its a distinction without a difference.

[Vishal Lavania @toughbrain]

"You can drop out of college if you can't afford the fees" suggests BITS Pilani's director in response to fee hike protest.

Should have enrolled at IIN instead.

#RollBackBITSPilaniFeeHike

[Vishal Lavania @toughbrain]

@noel_bejoy It was a deliberate oblique remark.

[ANI @ANI]

Students of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani) staged a protest against the fee hike, earlier today. #Rajasthan

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

Good to see the spirit of a Gandhian protest is still alive.. students deserve a hearing.. #rollbackbitspilanifeehike https://t.co/Uv7moAWfDE

[Vishal Lavania @toughbrain]

@Javedakhtarjadu It's time people moved from foreclosed identity to achieved identity.

[Vishal Lavania @toughbrain]

We value culture because we figure it will manifest itself into desirable outcomes. But when we divorce undesirable manifestations of said culture from the culture itself, because it is now a part of our identity – it's a recipe for disaster.

https://t.co/0cgNI5uWM0

[Vishal Lavania @toughbrain]

You must edify yourself by striving constantly – as hard as you can – to get to the point of understanding your own ignorance; only then can you claim to have any acquaintance with knowledge at all.

[Vishal Lavania @toughbrain]

A primer on the foundations of epistemology - https://t.co/UPKTgv8URz

[Vishal Lavania @toughbrain]

@InspiringPhilos @YouTube god is good, because 'goodness' by definition, is whatever that is consistent with god's nature.

Congratulations for scoring a vapid tautology: god is, by his nature, consistent with the standard of himself. #Fail

[Vishal Lavania @toughbrain]

@CRInstitute @Frank_Turek @crjournal And where theocracy is the fulcrum of society, women are reduced to a livestock version of compulsory reproduction; considered an inferior creation, property of the father; can be kept as a concubine, a slave, or a war possession. Bravo!

[Vishal Lavania @toughbrain]

@jwarnerwallace It has been proven that such singularities are removed by quantum effects. Scientists, unlike apologists, do not commit themselves to conclusions. They follow where ever evidence and reason leads, even if it means letting go of cherished beliefs.

[Vishal Lavania @toughbrain]

@jwarnerwallace Premise (i) is a philosophical contention while Premise (ii) is an empirical one. Any theologian who pretends to know the answer to (ii) is disingenuous. I'll leave it to competent scientists to find the answer to (ii) rather than listen to an armchair philosopher's theo-babble.