on some matters (To be replaced by similar talks, available as transcripts, with wiki level of references), to be extended into new subjects. Elimination of traditional social sciences, management and history as worshippers of false God. Banishment of the false scholars, extant religions and these false arts to nonsense sections of libraries. No tax support of false scholars or prophets.
The aaqgs religion exists to answer all without faith. Faith is considered to be a tool of the thug, only demanded by criminals and is uniformly replaced by extrapolation.
How does one feel dead? Extrapolate from dreamless sleep and pre-birth!
How did universe come to be? Geometry after big bang! Extrapolate from known astronomy and astrophysics!
Before that? Controversial because time may have a beginning!
Why the bang? To reset or start in low entropy!
What does entropy do? Eventually kill any system.
What is purpose of life? To procreate so that our distant children are victorious over entropy and become gods who live forever.
Why is disciplined happy life necessary? Procreation is not just genetics but epigenetics too!
Why for most? No one knows whose genes and epigenetics critical in entropy wars.
Who not? Require too much (super-democratic) effort.
Why is crime bad idea, if no God? People like me exist who advocate supermajority distinction between forgivable and unforgivable crimes -also based on criminal history - and advocate extended life-preserving torture to the deemed-incurable unforgivable, even though opposed to death penalty, I am quite comfortable with torture for rest of natural life, age notwithstanding, of subhuman responsible most in Nirbhay case. The sub human’s lifelong torture would mean all the other criminals would be alive and in jail torture-free after serving the torture-periods. The Mumbai shooter would be alive being tortured every day! I have must-prosecute contempt to blanket opposes of torture in law enforcement.
Why extrapolation over faith? That is how I pick plumber, worker, doctors, friends, technician etc. Why not politicians, policemen too (at least to expert counters).
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Do schools kill creativity?
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Amy Cuddy
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Simon Sinek
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Brené Brown
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Mary Roach
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Jill Bolte Taylor
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Tony Robbins
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Dan Pink
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Cameron Russell
Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model.
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Susan Cain
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Julian Treasure
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Pranav Mistry
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Pamela Meyer
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Shawn Achor
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Dan Gilbert
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David Gallo
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David Blaine
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Apollo Robbins
The art of misdirection
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Keith Barry
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Elizabeth Gilbert
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Robert Waldinger
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Hans Rosling
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James Veitch
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Simon Sinek
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Susan Cain
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Julian Treasure
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Pamela Meyer
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Add to list • 563 comments
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Add to list • 966 comments
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David Gallo
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David Blaine
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Add to list • 294 comments
8:47
Apollo Robbins
The art of misdirection
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Add to list • 284 comments
14:28
Now playing
Kelly McGonigal
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Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others.
Add to list • 687 comments
19:49
Keith Barry
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Add to list • 667 comments
19:09
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Add to list • 1596 comments
12:46
Robert Waldinger
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What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it's fame and money, you're not alone – but, according to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, you're mistaken. As the director of a 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction. In this talk, he shares three important lessons learned from the study as well as some practical, old-as-the-hills wisdom on how to build a fulfilling, long life.
Add to list • 519 comments
18:49
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Add to list • 1135 comments
19:50
Hans Rosling
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Add to list • 592 comments
9:48
James Veitch
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Suspicious emails: unclaimed insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safe deposit boxes, close friends marooned in a foreign country. They pop up in our inboxes, and standard procedure is to delete on sight. But what happens when you reply? Follow along as writer and comedian James Veitch narrates a hilarious, weeks-long exchange with a spammer who offered to cut him in on a hot deal.
