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Learn One, Do One, Teach One. is the educational model that I follow. Learn about the subjects that interest you, find out as much as you can about them. Get excited about pursuing the potentials of your subjects. Use what you've learned to work with it, hands-on is the best way to get intimate knowledge of your subjects. Make the mistakes that fine tune how you understand it and enhance its utilization. Then teach someone what you found out. Light that fire in someone else and then watch what they do with it. You just may learn something.

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I make my "Dano's World Famous Spaghetti Sauce". I've a friend that travels to Thailand that loves it and says that my sauce is the best he's had.

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• A comment on Conversation: What is your Six Word Story (http://www.sixwordstories.net/) as a result of watching this TED?

  May 10 2013: I couldn't do it without you.
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  A comment on Conversation: What is your Six Word Story (http://www.sixwordstories.net/) as a result of watching this TED?

  May 4 2013: When in doubt find your center.
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  A comment on Conversation: If you could choose any historical figure to give a TED Talk, who would it be and why?

  Apr 12 2013: Let's get some entertainers up on the stage.
  
  Mozart
  Beethoven
  Shakespeare
  Solome
  Enrico Caruso
  Scott Joplin
  Maria Callas
  Houdini
  Buster Keaton
  Igor Stravinsky
  Sally Rand
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  A comment on Conversation: Scientism and atheism are religions!

  Mar 31 2013: Only if you believe that science is infallible.
  You'd be mistaken.
  
  Science proposes an explanation and then asks to be proven wrong. Once provided with a better explanation its accepted until the next better explanation comes along.
  Religion claims to be the only unquestionable explanation, believes any other explanation to be wrong, only changes when their position becomes untenable, and then claims that's what they meant all along.
  
  Science says "You need a better explanation."
  Religion says "This is the only explanation you need."

• A comment on Conversation: What contribution does mythology make towards the improvement of society?

  Mar 25 2013: (CONTINUED)
  "An example of a common goal would be the rescue of the environment. A mythological dream would be to work together to achieve a common desire for a healthy environment. A single individual can do little to help the environment but if we all heroically work together this dream can be attained. The archetypical image of the hero is waiting in your psyche to contribute towards the improvement of society; all we have to do is utilize it."
  
  by Sean Walker
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• A comment on Conversation: What contribution does mythology make towards the improvement of society?

  Mar 25 2013: I asked my friend to write a comment for this question. This is his response.
  
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  "The purpose of mythology is to relate and connect people to their environment. Not only in accordance with nature but also the landscape of the soul or the psyche, depending on if you are religious or not.
  
  Nowadays mythology does little good because many religious followers are living under a set of broken myths. Judaism, Christianity and Islam all have adopted myth to serve religion to subjugate their believers. Religion often does this. Joseph Campbell once called religion the misinterpretation of myth.
  
  Mythology does not have to be religious. Mythology is not a message from god, it is a message from your ancestors who were one with nature and used mythology as a psychological tool to keep their people attuned to nature. Consider the American Indians and their way of life.
  
  The archetypical images of mythology are etched in the psyche and while they are not real in a material sense, they have psychological powers that are manifest in dreams. If an individual or a society has a common dream, the power of what these archetypical images represent comes forth. This power is psychological and real in the sense that our psyche can utilize it to empower us to steadfastly stay on a track that will allow us to attain our dreams, real life goals.
  
  The hero is the central image of mythology. The hero having conquered his demons and achieved his dream choses to vanquish what is considered detrimental to a healthy condition. He is a doctor, a fireman, a provider of justice. All are archetypical images that came from the psyche and I ask you are they real?
  
  It is important to realize myth is a psychological mechanism that when properly utilized it gives a society and an individual cohesion. It links people together towards a common goal and at this time, there is no common goal. We are all stuck in the egoistic stalemate of individualism."
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  A comment on Conversation: Can you define your life in just six words?

  Jan 15 2013: Make a diffence where you can.
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  A comment on Conversation: Can you define your life in just six words?

  Jan 11 2013: Unwritten stories speak volumes over time.
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  A comment on Conversation: Require drug testing to receive welfare benefits

  Nov 24 2012: As you’ve said, “The purpose of welfare benefits is to help people who are down on their luck and in the process of searching for a new line of work.” I’d like to know where in this purpose it excludes people for activities outside of its scope.
  You've said, "Welfare is supposed to be temporary and should only help those who are going to be able to one day secure another job/career in my opinion." I believe your opinion is not based in fact but in a bias built on a strawman argument that characterizes all drug users as lazy and shiftless addicts unwilling to work.
  I'm sure if you were to know how many of the people that you interact with each day that use substances that have been made illegal or abuse prescription drugs that they have obtained legally you'd be absolutely stunned.
  
  Pre-approval drug testing is based on the premise that every applicant is a criminal.
  It's a belief that everyone that makes an application for the program is seen as potentially engaged in an alleged illegal activity that has no barring on the purpose of the program or reflects the needs of the person(s) making the application.
  This is accusing somebody of a crime before there is any evidence that they've done anything to support the accusation.
  What this is saying is, "If you apply for welfare you must be a drug addict, so you must prove that you're not or your application will be denied." That sure sounds like guilty before proven innocent.
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  A comment on Conversation: Require drug testing to receive welfare benefits

  Nov 20 2012: Why stop at drug use?
  How about gang members? If you or a member of your family is a gang member you can't receive welfare.
  Let's stop pedophiles from getting welfare. I'd like to see them starve.
  No convicted murderers receiving welfare.
  Child beaters, nope you don't get any.
  If they live in a state that has banned gay unions, gays don't get welfare.
  You don't go to church, no welfare.
  Foreigners can't get welfare because they're not from here.
  If you're fat you could use to lose a few pounds, come back when you're thinner.
  Tattoos, you must be irresponsible, tough luck and good bye.
  You look like an illegal alien, go away.
  You're not American/Texan/Whatever enough. You have to take and sign an Oath of Loyalty before you can get welfare.
  You're going to die anyway, why waste taxpayers money on you?
  
  You propose a slippery slope that can justify even the most trivial reason for denying welfare to anyone.
  I can not support this.