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What is this site, and why did I create it?

September 13, 2025 📌

Why, hello there, inquisitive speech bubble. I’m Anubhav. You might see my name in the front page. I made this site mainly because I figure I could use this page to articulate some of the things I think and just because I think it is cool to have an introductory page of yourself even when it is entirely pointless because you have zero things to actually introduce about yourself.

On Sin

January 31, 2026

I am coming to believe that no one can truly be a good person if they have not at first been exposed to their own capacity for wrongdoing. I hope someday to head in that direction, when I can say that I used to be a bad person. When I was, so to speak, “untainted,” or rather, “untested,” I would carry a quiet superiority regarding my own “near perfection” when it came to morality. I believed that I was good because I had not yet been forced to see how easily I would fail. To quote John Steinbeck, “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” I think I am having a much easier time being good upon finding out that not only am I not perfect, if I don’t hold myself back actively at all times, I’m actually a rather horrible person.

On Free Will

October 24, 2025

I am a hard determinist. If you don’t know what that is, hard determinism is a position which states that all choices, thoughts, and actions are deterministic products of factors beyond our control: genetics, environment, brain chemistry, and the precise state of every particle in the universe leading up to each moment. Put more simply, I believe that everything in the universe is determined by a causal chain that started at the first cause; no one has any true agency regarding who they are or what they do, and nothing within us is actually determined by ourselves.