TED Community » Erol Toksoy

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I'm passionate about

Politics, technology and web

An idea worth spreading

The system that takes us to moon also will make earth as rocky as moon someday.

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Palestinian Conflict, Industrial Revolution, Bosna war, censorship, child abuse, drug trafficking, Russian oligarchs, enron, over used sugar in fast food recipes, tobacco companies.

People don't know that I'm good at

researching.

My TED Story

TED videos inspire me and I don't feel all alone in terms of caring about what is really going on.

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• TEDCred score: +11.10 TEDCred reflects your contribution to the TED community.

• A comment on Talk: Hadyn Parry: Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease

  Jan 22 2013: wisely put. I would have tried to release mosquitos from air maybe wit agriculture planes or helicopters.
  anyway it is great piece of mind.

• A comment on Talk: Sue Austin: Deep sea diving … in a wheelchair

  Jan 22 2013: I loved the way she turns conditions into advantages and innovative mind she has. we should all be inspired by the limitless thinknig when it comes to personal freedom aspect.

• A comment on Conversation: Failure should be respected for those trying to accomplish something

  Oct 18 2012: I totally agree because statistically failure is much more possible than success. And without failure most of the success is by chance. Most of the times you fail a lot and then learn from your mistakes get better and succeed.

• A comment on Conversation: About Theism-Atheism: why is it assumed that these two "Poles" cover the whole question? What about the alternatives.?

  Jun 18 2012: It is because of our old-school horizontal-integral approach. we are all alikes so we must be created in the sameway and by same creator. I believe people will overcome this prejudices and start to think vertically in near future. As each individual develops unique approaches to concepts than we will have the real enlighment of humankind. see? Even I approached horizontally myself...

• A comment on Conversation: Interest can become a habit. Do you agree??

  Jun 18 2012: ummm... yes easily

• A comment on Conversation: What is happiness? Is it an important human value or just overrated? Many readily sacrifice it for sufficiency and contentment. Is this ok?

  Jun 18 2012: from last to first...
  no it is not ok for me. If I sacrifice something in return of anything else its'not happiness, just adjustment. so in this case if you give away your happines for sufficiency or contentment you must be fooling yourself.
  
  yes it is overrated. actually the image of hapiiness is overrated. having a house with a pool, pretty wife and two healthy kids while driving a suv and 5figure salary, going to vacations abroad. this is an overrated cliche.
  
  for me true happines is the gut feeling that you experience when you make somebodyelse happy.

• A comment on Conversation: When employers ask for a degree as a prerequisite to be considered for a job, what do they really want?

  Jun 18 2012: They just want you to have basics of learning and researching thats why they ask for degrees.

• A comment on Conversation: What is the best time/place/position to read ? do you read on a desk or in bed or on the bus in your way back home ?

  Jun 18 2012: For me loneliness is the best situation to read. If I dont have a company next to me I can read anywhere desk bed bus doenst matter.
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  A comment on Conversation: What are 5 things you have learned that has completely changed your life?

  Jun 18 2012: 1. being smart is not enough unless you work hard
  2. thinking of something new is worthless unless you do it.
  3. there is no ultimate goodness.
  4. parents make mistakes too.
  5. delaying your duties only make you more uncomfortable.
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  A comment on Conversation: Is Music dying?

  Jan 16 2012: No it is evolving backwards