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'Its only after we've lost everything, that were free to do anything.'- Tyler Durden

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only recently found TED and hugely enjoying the online lectures. I hope one day to attend and as a dream would like to be standing on that stage.

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  A comment on Talk: Marc Goodman: A vision of crimes in the future

  Aug 21 2012: I'm sorry but when he used the picture of the Queen of England sitting next to the last of the royalty in the world, the majority of who are corrupt dictators and their countries suffer under their rule, I couldn't help but thinking this mans term of terrorist may be too broad. This patriot may have some fantastic ideas but he has become too fixated on protecting those guilty o worse crimes than those who he is protecting them from.

• A comment on Talk: Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar

  Oct 20 2011: i thrive on the deceptions, i love fiction and i couldn't care less for the truth about myself. in the end were just a summery of our environments. i don't tell people the truth, i tell them what they need to hear, if thats the truth its simply a coincidence.

• A reply on Conversation: What is the single most important question that the youth of this era need to ask themselves?

  Sep 11 2011: chaos has a bad implications in english, even though i would say it is the natural state of affairs.
  everyone has their own set of rules, or moral values and without a form of government people revert to these rules, which poses the question; "are people inherently good?" if they are we wouldn't need a government to set laws or to uphold them. if the answer is no, more likely, then it would revert to the strong take and the weak serve.
  anyways i wasn't implying anarchy i was simply stating that many of my friends think we shouldn't have to be confined to the country were born in if we don't agree with its government.
  some people just want to be left to their own devices and let others worry about politics and 'perceived threats' and money and things like that
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  A reply on Conversation: What is the single most important question that the youth of this era need to ask themselves?

  Sep 11 2011: i must congratulate you in your clarity- however it seems to me that you have not been clear with your first question, what do you mean by the 'emotional burden of their parents'?
  to the second question; yes, a large number of students are more than able to 'take on' adult concepts and have been since we were 14, although i would say a large majority of us are uninterested in asking such questions and care more about things like football.
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  A comment on Conversation: What is the single most important question that the youth of this era need to ask themselves?

  Sep 9 2011: the question i often hear when we debate outside of class is;
  "why can't they just leave us alone?"
  
  the second most often question i hear is, "should we care about what parents/society/adults think?" a lot of my friends have advocated that we just wash our hands of you and go to sit out the coming natural disasters due from global warming and just do our own thing. there seems to be a hell of a lot of resentment about the assumption that because we were born in this society, we belong to them and have to follow their rules.

• A reply on Conversation: If you were to select a label for the human species as a whole which one would you select? Given ongoing wars, do we have a psychosis?

  Sep 9 2011: could disease be the natural predator?

• A reply on Conversation: If you were to select a label for the human species as a whole which one would you select? Given ongoing wars, do we have a psychosis?

  Sep 7 2011: thats also my opinion, its just when you said inevitably i assumed you were making a religious reference. being a daoist i don't see global warming as a bad thing, it's not as if it will wipe all life on earth and humanity will survive in one form or another; we're like cockroaches- notoriously difficult to get rid of. on the bright side to all the death it could bring it will be the solution to over-population and humanity will learn a lesson it can't really learn any other way.

• A reply on Conversation: If you were to select a label for the human species as a whole which one would you select? Given ongoing wars, do we have a psychosis?

  Sep 2 2011: global warming as divine providence?

• A reply on Conversation: If you were to select a label for the human species as a whole which one would you select? Given ongoing wars, do we have a psychosis?

  Sep 2 2011: were like locusts.

• A reply on Conversation: Why isn't mankind provided with all the details of his existence?

  Sep 2 2011: i was only talking about life on earth as a product of chance. It just so happens that out of the billions of planets earth was the one that had the right conditions for life.
  wasn't the extinction of the dinosaurs chance that gave life the twist into mammals?
  
  humans obviously do make choices but the events around us are usually just chance.
  by definition i just mean without fate or destiny or human action, surely all human life starts as a random possibility of which sperm will get there first?