Hi my name is Toine (comes from Antoine). I live in the Netherlands I am 20 years old. And ever since I started my hobby about learning more and more about religion science medical departments I have been having debates with a lot of people around the world. Until one of them told me about TED.
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A comment on Conversation: Do we have an opinion about everything? If not, should we?
Now the negative opinion can be expressed in certain ways
Give your opinion but also tell them how it can be done so it will turn positive.
Or just give the opinion and probably insult that person..
Now the hardest thing to do for many is the know when to share their opinion..
Sometimes opinions from the outside are needed but they need to be very good opinions in the first place.
So yes we must share opinions to learn from each other
And no we must not share at any given point to give an opinion.
Learn when to speak and learn when to keep it to yourself
A comment on Conversation: Are you living before you die? Are you living off your passion?
3- so far I haven't made any choices in my life I regret or would change since I am happy with the outcome of where I am now
4- if I knew I couldn't fail... Depends on what I am trying to achieve if it is really important I wouldn't even bother trying to fail...
And if I try to fail and still succeed at the thing I am doing I failed myself but if I can't fail neither can I fail myself or the objective so its not really possible to do this one...
5- death is holding me back from a lot of things in life and I have no wishes to explore what's in death at this point and try to do everything I can if I had the money
6- definition of success... I would feel successful if I changed the way of life of a lot of people and let them make the most out of their life without getting recognized by people or honored because of doing so. (A goal nearly impossible but certainly worth trying)
And to get back at the title if I knew what comes after death...
Perhaps life is just to get enlightened in at the point of death and no return all the puzzle pieces of this life fall together and you'll find a purpose in being in another state of life?
Certainly no fear of death when the time comes I'd be too curious on what's behind the so called light people see.
A reply on Conversation: Are we on the brink of creating a human-like digital mind?
But what if they were to create a digital mind that isn't based on any human so far...
What might happen if the worst possible scenario happens.
A reply on Conversation: How many languages is it possible to know?
Regarding the 50 languages in a lifetime and a genius perhaps more it seems unlikely since the human brain will not learn every single word and grammar style of every 50 languages or more you might know how to speak and write some things but the full grammar of it in 50 languages is just simply not possible...
Explanation a human will always be distracted by the environment or y the person who he/she is speaking to forgetting certain words and not completing a sentence and by that forgetting the word they needed to say in that certain sentence so its not fully learned like the mother language everybody learned...
So for as far as I know it is impossible to know around 50 languages without trouble or whatsoever
A reply on Conversation: Xenotransplantation and its ethics
Mostly people with a lot of money can use xeno for now but if you see how old an animal can be compared to human aging...
I would say young people who seriously have a desperate wish to live on I think the xenon would be well used... Since they were saved by an animal that had a good live and was full grown... The person who got the xeno will respect life more... And in that case would have learned a most valuable lesson for the future on how to interact and react to certain things.
Xeno should be available for the most desperate in need persons and not the rich who feel like getting a xeno even if there are donors available for him...
A comment on Conversation: Do the 3D movies enhance or kill imagination?
I think it might even makes you think bigger
For example if you create a house in 3D and display it on imax screen or any other big screen you will see an empty space around the house thus giving you the ability and imagination to fill it up let's say look at avatar and when you see that I think endless imagination and lots a and lots of oppertunities to create a whole new world out of it where navii and humans life alongside (humans have genetic altered lungs of course).
But there is a downside to all this imagination take the walking dead for this example...
Whaylt could be more interesting for the viewer and mind blowing to have them enjoy what is created from imagination
What I am trying to say is that people might think I've already seen this or it looks alot like something else.
So its staying ahead of most people which is hard but very doable if you have enough variation in the brainstormers.
A reply on Conversation: Xenotransplantation and its ethics
This proces of the coyote and the bunny is mostly natural selection.. But if we humans use the animals we should sustain the populations and a respectable way anddeal with it humane to keep mother nature most of all happy and to satisfy our needs
Most of all we must not forget we are dealing with unique lives just like you and me
And should be respected and do it as humane as possible
A comment on Conversation: Xenotransplantation and its ethics
Even if a person or animal dies and you clone it it still won't have the same way of thinking of the original one. Physically yes they are the same but mentally? They are not they both grew up in different environments and have an unique way of thinking and so you have a clone which is phiscally the same but still a new lifeform nonetheless.
So if you'll use clones for it its the same as using an normal animal or human for it and taking a unique life from this world
So they must be treated in the same way matter what investors say or want about the clone since clones will have the same rights as us humans (human clones of course) and animals should be taken care of and fed
A reply on Conversation: How can we consider the bible credible?
But I was kinda aiming for miracles towards the religious side that god may have had a hand in helping and guiding a person. What would those miracles mean to religious people if there was proof that there isn't a god.
Sure they would see it as a miracle but think that person was just very lucky and nothing more.
I am not a man of faith but if I were to believe in god I don't think he creates the miracles but gave us the ability to do so instead so that no divine intervention would be needed.
A comment on Conversation: Black holes are not due to exploding stars, but rather due to spin.
But I am not coming with the existence of dark matter but the theory. They have already simulated all the right conditions for a galaxy (including rotation speed and the guessed gravitational force of the black hole) and the galaxy fell apart.
But by adding some sort of new element into the field they describe as dark matter.
The galaxy did not fell apart so this already concludes that rotation speed does not hold it together (to current simulations) if the current simulations are wrong and they conclude rotation speed is the birth of blacl holes then so be it but the theory of it being dark matter in this case will last for some time until they prove otherwise.
(Dark matter is not the same as dark energy)