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• A reply on Conversation: Can we get "Unconditional Love" from people not related? (other than siblings, parents or wife)

  Mar 4 2012: Thanks for sharing that wonderful thought!
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  A comment on Conversation: Can we get "Unconditional Love" from people not related? (other than siblings, parents or wife)

  Feb 26 2012: Unconditional love, as it seems, can only be achieved with siblings, parents, etc.
  Why is that? In my opinion, it is because we only know a person when we live under the same roof as that person. In other words, because we get to know that person as he/she really is.
  Although, asking to your question, I say yes. We can´t even describe love, what´s love. The definition of love is very fragile. Maybe love is just a strong bound, and why not?
  
  I think I wasn´t very clear in the last part, so if anyone has a question or an argument don´t hesitate replying.

• A reply on Conversation: What are the underlying, universal fears present in humanity?

  Feb 26 2012: That´s why I say that every man (even an atheist man) has a little faith inside. Because faith, hope is what's left in the middle of our fears
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  A reply on Conversation: Can we not develop strategies that would enable soldiers to interact among themselves and create peace among themselves and others?

  Feb 26 2012: "Soldiers are taught the strategies of war, yet rarely the strategies of peace"
  
  That´s a very interesting and curious point that we can apply not just for soldiers but for everyone!
  That´s a really great idea!
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  A comment on Conversation: Can we not develop strategies that would enable soldiers to interact among themselves and create peace among themselves and others?

  Feb 26 2012: I think that the solution to many problems in this world is to stop, think, listen and the most important - dialogue.
  It would be really interesting to see if soldiers could dialogue with other soldiers and share their points of view with no guns on their hands and no orders to take. How great it would be of they could understand each other.
  If soldiers could think clearly and refused to be "the instruments of war", wars wouldn´t happen.
  
  This is a very problematic issue. I don´t know much about the lives of soldiers and wars and wars environments.
  If anyone wants to discuss and show me that I´m wrong don´t hesitate replying.

• A reply on Conversation: What makes an idea spread? Duration? Quality? Loudness?

  Feb 26 2012: I'm not saying that we should ignore those tragedies. In fact, I even told that we know how horrible they are.
  I´m saying that mass media brings us lot of useless, futile and sometimes stupid information. With so much information we can´t filter what´s important and what´s worth our attention. And so, often, important and interesting news goes unnoticed.
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  A comment on Conversation: Why do you use your voice in TED conversations?

  Feb 25 2012: I use TED conversations because I like and think it is important to share and espress our ideas.
  TED conversations give us the possibility to discuss important issues with people that find those issues also interesting. That is something we don´t have chance to do everyday with people we know.

• A reply on Conversation: What makes an idea spread? Duration? Quality? Loudness?

  Feb 25 2012: Hi Andrew,
  
  "Does science pertain to a smaller sized audience?"
  
  Asking to your question: Unfortunately, it does.
  People get a kind of education through TV wich is getting even more futile day after day. Therefore, people get "educated" according to TV and their preferences get shaped in base of what they see.
  Science isn´t that much entertaining (although is very interesting) so TV stations just brings commercial stuff, that serves their (TV stations) interests - gain audiences.
  People get used to that type of programmes and starts to rejects what they don´t usually watch - science. It´s a vicious cycle.
  
  Plus, it´s hard to a person that barely reads books to watch something related to science.
  
  I´ve seen very interesting and bombastic news about science that have been shown just for a day.
  
  It´s really a shame that to be good news, isn´t enough that the news is just good and interesting.

• A comment on Conversation: What makes an idea spread? Duration? Quality? Loudness?

  Feb 23 2012: Nowadays, with so many information brought to us by the mass media we have lost sensibility.
  For example: almost every day we watch on TV images of tragedies around the world. After we see so much of that it comes to a point when we don´t get so shocked, although we know that is horrible what we are watching.
  That´s what happens with stories and ideas. These days, it has to be something unusual and uncommon to draw attention.
  It has to capture attention, even if it is for just a especific audience.
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  A reply on Conversation: Can we prove Aristotle�s �Prime Mover�:Everything that happens is caused by something else?Then what caused the first cause?

  Feb 23 2012: I agree with you about our purposes in life, but I figured it out that we give our own purpose to our lives, we give sense to them. We choose our ways and decide what we want to do and how we give our contribution to mankind.
  
  And the "trial" in this world you mentioned, that´s quite a problem, I ask myself the same thing.