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Teach social skills and empathy to teenagers. We forget the lessons of Kindergarten as we grow older...
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A reply on Talk: Nancy Duarte: The secret structure of great talks
You cannot make fact claims without so much as stating a value premise (eg: the sanctity of social leader's images).
Also- I thought the personally autobiographical point was an excellent touch. You notice Steve Jobs used it and it played heavily to the fact that we remember stories better than we do ideas in their plain forms.
A reply on Talk: Nancy Duarte: The secret structure of great talks
A reply on Talk: Nancy Duarte: The secret structure of great talks
A reply on Conversation: God and capitalism; why is there a love affair between christianity and greed?
See: Andrew Carnegie's "The Gospel of Wealth"
See: "The Protestant Work Ethic"
In order to assess the accuracy of your statement on a philosophic level:
Define: What constitutes Christian canon given that the bible was written a couple hundred years after the fact, and that the oldest Christian church (Catholicism) has many of it's beliefs ground in tradition, not necessarily the bible.
Make a distinction between: Christians in name and Christians in doctrine, as per the elusive definition of Christian canon
A reply on Conversation: Do you have a suggestion for TED? Something we could do better?
A reply on Conversation: Do you have a suggestion for TED? Something we could do better?
However italics, underline, and bold would be helpful from TED's end.
A comment on Conversation: Are we sure that DNA is making errors?
1. DNA is sentient
or
2. DNA was designed
A reply on Talk: Bruce Schneier: The security mirage
Please avoid a condescending tone. It is for many- offensive, and serves no benefit on TED.
I see you claim that such allegations are "over-generalizations" of your thinking style. I would like to point out that the quality in question (condescending) is a type of tone. Tone is communicated by writers either intentionally (in good writers) or unintentionally (in good writers who slip up). Your comment, if subjected to simple rhetorical analysis, does in fact possess the tone: condescending.
I would also like to note that Kristin was not attacking your method of thinking, but rather defending that mode of thinking which you attacked.
A reply on Conversation: Should we ask kids to help us solving the real world problems? And if yes, how?
More personally- if my manic depressive mom (stable now) had not shared with us our financial situation with her as a single mother and sharing a room with my little bother in a 900 square foot apartment- I would NOT be where I am now.
What I am trying to say is- subjugation to reality and emotional distress, can, with other parental practices, galvanize a child- making them stronger and more dedicated than they would have been otherwise.
A comment on Conversation: Gas Should Be Raised to Flat $5 Dollars A Gallon
One of my primary reasons for opposition to this is the idea of higher taxes. The tax code is beyond screwed up as it is, and the government needs to make cuts rather than increase revenues. An example of just how bad the tax code gets: my step dad sold some land he bought years ago at very close to cost (and put it straight into the mortgage so we won't be homeless should he lose his job). Even though we live in a single story house and I work to pay for school- that would have offset our "income" so much that my mom getting a second job would have resulted in her getting 20 cents on the dollar after taxes.
That said- massive economic decisions like this end BADLY. Take President Jackson for example- when he killed the Federal Bank on constitutional grounds, and issued the Specie Circular that ended wild land speculation- he inadvertently caused this little thing called "The Panic of 1837"- the biggest economic collapse in our nations history up to that time.
A massive economic and transportation paradigm shift needs to be prepared in advance- years in advance. If we passed a bill that froze gas at $4.00 now, and increased the price of gas to $5.00 (in 2011 dollars) permanently in 2014- then you might avoid a total economic collapse.
But then again- these things are cultural shifts. Start small, in your community, then the country will be more receptive.