Fix typo in "I Am Not What I Think I Am" article and add new article "Why 24 if the Truth of one Tirthankar is Absolute?"

Author: dwijbavisi

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 standards. These labels sound nice, but what if they are just stickers on a
 puppet? This brings up the idea of *Astikta*.
 
-Ancient Indian philosophicies like Jainism, Hinduism and Buddhism are very
+Ancient Indian philosophies like Jainism, Hinduism and Buddhism are very
 different from how people see them today. They were never about what you believe;
 they were about what you ask. Being an *Astik* has nothing to do with whether
 I believe in a god or the *Vedas*. It is about a "dis-belief" in anything that

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+# Why 24 if the Truth of one *Tirthankar* is Absolute?
+
+Growing up as a Jain, my world was shaped by a specifc set of traditions. The
+most prominent was the belief in *Tirthankars* - spiritual teachers who appear
+periodically, twenty-four in each half-cosmic cycle, to (re)organize *Jain Sangh*.
+
+As a kid, my curiosity was mostly a math problem. Why twenty-four? Why not a
+nice, even number like twenty? or a round number like twenty-five? As I began
+studying Mathematics, I had more numbers to play with: why not a hundered or
+even ten-thousand? By high school, I was wondering why we did not just have
+**Infinite** *Tirthankars*. I imagined how much easier life would be if we had
+a 24/7 spiritual concierge service to answer every question as soon as we thought
+of it.
+
+But now that I have spent some time actually looking at the logic, my question
+has flipped. Now, I find myself asking: **why not just one?**
+
+## The Cost of Curiosity
+There is a common myth that spirituality is for the elderly - probably because
+they have run out of other things to do.
+
+People assume the youth are not interested. But the reality is simpler.
+Questions are dangerous (pun intended). Asking deep, fundamental questions
+creates confusion. And if you let that confusion spiral, it creates chaos. Most
+people are too busy trying to build a career to invite that kind of chaos into
+their schedule.
+
+So, generation by generation, we learn the art of avoiding "unnecessary"
+questions - the ones that do not help us pay the rent or fix the Wi-Fi. We
+prioritize stability over inquiry. We follow more, assume more and ask less
+until the spirit of genuine philosophy dies a quiet death. Replaced by a
+comfortable, copy-paste of traditions.
+
+## Until Next Time
+My own foray into formal philosophy began last August. For a while, it was
+actually fun. I got introduced to a fancy new vocabulary and discovered that
+"Philosophy of Philosophy" is a real thing people spend time on. It is a great
+way to learn reasoning and logic, and it taught me how to question [outside] the box.
+
+But while I have scratched the surface of handful of ideas, becoming a
+philosopher was never the objective. Philosophy is excellent at giving me options.
+But it is terrible at giving me the answers I was actually looking for. It offers
+a buffet of "probables" when I want a single, functional explanation.
+
+Like many of my other disposable habits, the season one of my philosophical
+journey ends here. I am still keeping an eye on a few topics, but the spark is
+gone. At the end of the day, I have come to view philosophy as yet another
+impressive, but ultimately not-very-useful, human skill.
+
+**TLDR;** Nothing serious, I have just run out of topics to write on. Will likely be back soon with another wierd thought.
+
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+
+- **Author**: Dwij Bavisi <<dwij.bavisi@crabwire.net>>
+- **Published**: April 14, 2026, Project bloatware
+- **Conceived**: April 21, 2035, somewhere, someday, a future historian will blindly believe I was a time traveler