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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIf you gave a Ted Talk what would it be on?
I could do Cannabis and Car Chases. It'd be two separate talks of course.
What could you give a highly informative talk about?
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I didn't ask this to add to your profile but I bet some algorithm is adding it to our files.
My bad.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Trust us...
ret5hd
(20,491 posts)of Being Nothing Other Than A Smart-Ass.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)It's a theme that I thought about a lot this past year. I see how republicans have allowed themselves to be seduced by the insatiable, relentless desire to acquire more and more money. The corruption of money eats away at generosity and compassion, feeds arrogance and indifference to the desparate needs of others, destroys our environment, and really doesn't create lasting happiness. It also leads to violent political revolutions, one of which was in our very own country.
safeinOhio
(32,673 posts)marry a cop.
Kali
(55,007 posts)True Dough
(17,301 posts)I'll take over for 10 seconds until the same thing happens to me!
Laffy Kat
(16,377 posts)Imma think about it.
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)sakabatou
(42,148 posts)roscoeroscoe
(1,369 posts)I finished my Master's last fall and I'm bursting with words and ideas
2naSalit
(86,536 posts)a list!
Wildiife, wildife management and policy (name a species in North America, really)
Public lands and management policies
Vocal performance
Industrial transportation - trucks in particular
Pottery
Native Americans and Euro American relationships in politics
Federal Indian Law
I could go on but it gets pretty geeky after that...
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Had I not ended up down the road I chose I could have easily ended up working on Native projects and activism.
Ask me again why I couldn't get a security clearance again...
Wolf Frankula
(3,600 posts)Never trust a Ted.
Wolf
LeftInTX
(25,256 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,174 posts)LeftInTX
(25,256 posts)duncang
(1,907 posts)random stream of consciousness. In other words dipshit donnie speak. But hopefully at a higher level of consciousness.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)And a catastrophic, humiliating chronic illness, and bullying---How To Build A Better Life from the Wreckage.
In ASL.
Other subjects I wouldn't mind talking about (if I were interested in public speaking)? Critical Thinking. Recognizing Pathological People and Keeping Boundaries. Human Overpopulation. Learning to Re-Parent Yourself/Being a Responsible, Kind Parent to Yourself.
Skittles
(153,149 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)I'd love to emulate this kid:
athena
(4,187 posts)Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,674 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I'm guessing Yes.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,674 posts)MrScorpio
(73,630 posts)greymattermom
(5,754 posts)from 1968 to the present.
retrowire
(10,345 posts)senegal1
(535 posts)The seven people you save in your life
NotMyFuhrer
(58 posts)Einstein said / warned us that . . .
The current state of Science and our capability in creating weapons of mass destruction CHANGES EVERYTHING . . . EXCEP THE MIND OF MAN!!
Here is an except of a recent 60 Minutes interview by Lesley Stahl with the last remaining person who was a Nuremberg Prosecutor (Benjamin Ferencz )
Lesley Stahl: Did you meet a lot of people who perpetrated war crimes who would otherwise in your opinion have been just a normal, upstanding citizen?
"War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people."
Benjamin Ferencz: Of course, is my answer. These men would never have been murderers had it not been for the war. These were people who could quote Goethe, who loved Wagner, who were polite--
Lesley Stahl: What turns a man into a savage beast like that?
Benjamin Ferencz: He's not a savage. He's an intelligent, patriotic human being.
Lesley Stahl: He's a savage when he does the murder though.
Benjamin Ferencz: No. He's a patriotic human being acting in the interest of his country, in his mind.
Lesley Stahl: You don't think they turn into savages even for the act?
Benjamin Ferencz: Do you think the man who dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima was a savage? Now I will tell you something very profound, which I have learned after many years. War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people.
So Ferencz has spent the rest of his life trying to deter war and war crimes by establishing an international court like Nuremburg. He scored a victory when the international criminal court in The Hague was created in 1998. He delivered the closing argument in the court's first case.
"If they tell me they want war instead of peace, I don't say they're naive, I say they're stupid."
Lesley Stahl: Now, you've been at this for 50 years, if not more. We've had genocide since then.
Benjamin Ferencz: Yes.
Lesley Stahl: In Cambodia
Benjamin Ferencz: Going on right this minute, yes.
Lesley Stahl: Going on right this minute in Sudan.
Benjamin Ferencz: Yes.
Lesley Stahl: We've had Rwanda, we've had Bosnia. You're not getting very far.
Benjamin Ferencz: Well, don't say that. People get discouraged. They should remember, from me, it takes courage not to be discouraged.
Lesley Stahl: Did anybody ever say that you're naive?
Benjamin Ferencz: Of course. Some people say I'm crazy.
Lesley Stahl: Are you naive here?
Benjamin Ferencz: Well, if it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war. If they tell me they want war instead of peace, I don't say they're naive, I say they're stupid. Stupid to an incredible degree to send young people out to kill other young people they don't even know, who never did anybody any harm, never harmed them. That is the current system. I am naive? That's insane.
Ferencz is legendary in the world of international law, and he's still at it. He never stops pushing his message and he's donating his life savings to a Genocide Prevention Initiative at the Holocaust Museum. He says he's grateful for the life he's lived in this country, and it's his turn to give back.
Lesley Stahl: You are such an idealist.
Benjamin Ferencz: I don't think I'm an idealist. I'm a realist. And I see the progress. The progress has been remarkable. Look at the emancipation of woman in my lifetime. You're sitting here as a female. Look what's happened to the same-sex marriages. To tell somebody a man can become a woman, a woman can become a man, and a man can marry a man, they would have said, "You're crazy." But it's a reality today. So the world is changing. And you shouldn't-- you know-- be despairing because it's never happened before. Nothing new ever happened before.
zanana1
(6,110 posts)WTH is a Ted talk?
bif
(22,697 posts)Or books.
alarimer
(16,245 posts)I'm sure some of these exist already. You can't really cover much in 18 minutes.
Such a course should be required for all American high school students, since so many seem to fall for such bullshit as Fox News and Louise Mensch.
lindysalsagal
(20,670 posts)1. List your addictions/compensations that you use as a crutch to avoid your problems.
2. Live without the additction/compensations so you experience your internal pain.
3. Make the true sources of your pain conscious.
4. Get expert help facing/repairing/detouring the real sources of your pain.
5. Start living up to your real potential without your addictions/compensations.