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Against TED talks
dantheman:
I've gone to TED's a few times and do get the feelings here expressed too!
(doesn't take much!)
But, seeing that some have taken out a bit of their Latin...
I figured this one would blend in well with what can be broadcasted on TED's.
numquam negas,
pauca concede,
distingue frequenter
40hz:
Probably a bad comparison. The world would be a better place without the UN.
-Renegade (February 26, 2014, 02:42 PM)
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No. I think a public forum where an idea can be presented, or an argument entertained, is better than no public forum at all.
As far as the UN goes, the world would be a better place without a lot of things political. Unfortunately, most proposals I've heard are 'solutions' that are worse than the problems they hope to address.
:)
verszipo:
I for one consider the Ted talks is just like the Internet : there are a lot of good things there if you know how to filter out the stuff you either don't need or don't care about.
I learned about a lot of interesting things from Ted talks, so i cannot say it's a bad thing, you just need to learn to filter through all the information (this is something you have to do with most information sources anyways).
Also, sometimes you can see things from a different perspective (different from what you're used to anyways) and that is never a bad idea, you pretty soon realize things are usually not black or white but lots of shades of gray (more than 50 :p )
I think a public forum where an idea can be presented, or an argument entertained, is better than no public forum at all.-40hz (February 26, 2014, 05:07 PM)
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:Thmbsup:
Renegade:
Probably a bad comparison. The world would be a better place without the UN.
-Renegade (February 26, 2014, 02:42 PM)
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No. I think a public forum where an idea can be presented, or an argument entertained, is better than no public forum at all.
-40hz (February 26, 2014, 05:07 PM)
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Perhaps. If getting gang raped by Satan and a legion of buzz-saw cocked demons is better than never getting laid at all...
As far as the UN goes, the world would be a better place without a lot of things political. Unfortunately, most proposals I've heard are 'solutions' that are worse than the problems they hope to address.
-40hz (February 26, 2014, 05:07 PM)
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And therein lies much of the problem. The UN is the source of more problems than it creates.
And I'm being kind to the UN... It's worse.
We don't need a forum of demons chaired by Lucifer deciding on anything.
Again, if anything, I'm understating the case...
But few people ever take the time to look into what they UN actually does.
Just tonight I was out at a cooking class that took place at an elementary school. What I saw on the walls AT AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL was more UN pure evil.
And TED Talks are just podiums for the same sickness, decay and evil that we see out of the UN.
Listen to TED Talks... then RUN! Know your enemy.
Renegade:
I for one consider the Ted talks is just like the Internet : there are a lot of good things there if you know how to filter out the stuff you either don't need or don't care about.
I learned about a lot of interesting things from Ted talks, so i cannot say it's a bad thing, you just need to learn to filter through all the information (this is something you have to do with most information sources anyways).
Also, sometimes you can see things from a different perspective (different from what you're used to anyways) and that is never a bad idea, you pretty soon realize things are usually not black or white but lots of shades of gray (more than 50 :p )
-verszipo (February 27, 2014, 06:42 AM)
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Sure. There are a few decent things in TED Talks. But it's like rooting through a manure pile to find a penny.
Sorry - I'm just not into collectivist propaganda pushing us into a socialist/fascist totalitarian surveillance state. That's what TED Talks is.
I don't mind listening to different perspectives, and I do watch TED Talks, but they're vastly weighted with ideas that are utterly unacceptable. Or at least the implications are unacceptable.
Lots on there about Big Data... yeah... how's that working out? We're better off without it. Nah... TED Talks is just to find out who your enemy is...
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