I think that reading fiction gives one great insight to life and people. I've noticed that it has become easier for me to put myself in someone else's shoes and take a walk in them. Reading fiction has really help me look at things in other people's perspective and become more understanding/ forgiving... or maybe it was just me maturing... :D
Without thought there is no thinker. Thought is the thinker himself. With our thoughts, we create our reality; Reading is like thinking with another person's head!
Glad to find this! I just told a group of friends the other day that the thing that shapes our character the most is long-form books (although I was including nonfiction as well). Even more so than movies & music, it seems books are the keys to changing our thinking in a permanent way.
0:40 I hate to see that Video Games are not considered as an art form as well, with books/movies. Movies or books lets you follow the story through the hero's steps, in video games, you can also choose the steps YOU are going to take in the fictional world created by the author. Becuase of this, such a great insult it is to miss Video Games while talking about art forms.
I had always thought that I was a sore loser reading fiction because my goal in life is to be a scientist.I love fiction but I had a belief that most of my ideas won't work because they were from fictious book and started reading non fiction.
Never undervalue the power fiction has over everyday life. Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, both of which are considered the fathers of science fiction, wrote of things that were yet to be, or ever will be. Jules Verne, who was born in the nineteenth century, wrote about submarines, the internet, helicopters, etc., before they were even a thing. Nobody had even thought of these important human constructions until the twentieth century. H. G. Wells forecasted the twentieth century so vividly and accurately he became known as "The Man Who Invented Tomorrow." He wrote of super highways, overcrowded cities, military use of airplanes and the bombing of cities. In 1911 he forecast the atomic bomb and other weapons of mass destruction, that terrified him. His final vision in 1933 was of an apocalyptic world war. Though the last one has yet to occur, he predicted numerous other scientific and societal advances. Don’t ever be ashamed of reading fiction because of your future profession, for it can be the inspirational pathway to your future discovery.
I'm crying my eyes out over this. As someone who strives to become an author one day, this really inspires me. Any form of fiction has the power to change and shape who we become, and I hope one day I can write something that can help someone in a positive way.
I'm glad I watched this, because lately my cousins have been indirectly undermining me for reading non fiction. I started out reading self help books and then started out on fiction with classics. And by reading them a tiny part of me felt reading quality fiction is more impacting than reading a dozen self help books. In the former we travel with protagonists' life and see how they each react in different situations. I gave up on self help books unless they are of matter I wanted to study and learn!
I've read Heart of Darkness, Animal Farm, Crime and Punishment, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1984, Romeo and Juliet, The Trial and about to start the Brothers Karamazov. Still the Harry Potter books are some of the most entertaining and enjoyable narratives to read.
"You don't believe in the power of fiction? It may not be a physical power, but our wish will surely be received by someone. If fiction has the power to touch people's hearts, then that power can change the world" -K1-B0
2:45 Harry would be absolutely nothing without his "fam" backing him up, and he knows this. Every victory he achieves is due to love and friendship. It's kind of the central theme of the series. 3:30 The central theme of the Hunger Games is marketing. I suppose capitalism is a part of that.
+EGRJ nah sorry he was the chosen one and if he didn´t succed Nevil would had. Also the central theme of the series to me do everything right (as Snape did) and you might still get f*cked, what happened to your love and friendship did it saved Snape or was it the cause of his demise.
How is it capitalism if there are no companies that own anything in that story, everything is owned by the state; the Hunger Games was not about capitalism, it was either about socialism or communism.
He sacrificed himself for the greater good. Friendship saved Hogwarts on the last battle. Harry couldn't have faced all the death eaters, Giants, spiders, etc by himself.
It's because far too many people associate wealth with capitalism, and wealth is often portrayed as the driving force of corruption. Thus, anytime we see a wealthy person or society using said wealth to cause others harm, people automatically refer to it as capitalism. Unfortunately, most people don't understand what capitalism actually refers to.
Agreed. In MANY ways, I think it is a shame that twilight is affecting people's minds, but you can't realistically deny that it is doing so. And that was the actual point the speaker was making--not a moral call on whether it's having done so is good or bad, but merely that it does affect its readers.
+deadman1144 Vampires rock, yes guys, but not a sparkling one. I want the crazy, nonhuman ones that look like bat/human hybrids from legend. Those things are sick! >:)
I recently read Pamela for fun and it's pretty funny how, for being controversial and novel in its day, it still presents for the modern reader (or for me anyway) an almost comically traditional and foreign world and worldview.
Internal combustion engine was once fiction, as was the space shuttle and smart phones and civil rights in some eras and societies. In order for these ideas to become reality, some imaginative people were required to consider things not as they were, but as they might be. Experiencing fiction, through story telling, film or reading nourishes the creative mind. Without imagination, there would (at least) less be innovation (social or technological). Fiction exposes us to the idea of 'if'.
I never used to like fiction books, only non fiction. However now I see the value of how it expands your imagination - the quality that Einstein valued the most.
I love reading books about dystopian societies/futures ("The Hunger Games", "Divergent","Skychasers", exc...). But it's kind of fun and thought-provoking to think of this future world and our world now, and just imagine the steps between. What caused these events to happen? In a way, it makes you think and when it comes to the greater issues (global warming, pollution, ext...), it can make a huge difference in preventing said events (or similar) from occurring. At least that's what I think.( :
Character responded differently? Could the situation be better? Could they improve? And thus, by allowing us to see how each path fails, assuming their view of the situation is balanced, we can apply these ideas in life. Huge games such as Mass Effect do a very good job at this, and have emotional and theoretical weight. And allow me to expand: railroading is NOT a 'popcorn' game just as books are not 'popcorn' entertainment. My argument is merely that even the best books cannot answer all
By non - fiction your thoughts imagination will be limited But fiction will force you to think beyond the world And one day you can even achieve great success in life
"We might not be hard wired to be a hero but might instead be members of a shared quest"... what in the world is she referring to? Altruism? Which is still a component of evolution, just specific to social animals. It's still a way to survive and reproduce
Darwin's theory is not the whole story, as he could not tell the causes those changes. His theory was a few decades later corroborated by molecular biology.
James, you're welcome to avoid the heady dances of fiction. Me, I'll immerse myself in stories that bring me into contact with humanity in a way that non-fiction can't, just as poetry can reach the marrow of emotional reality in its uniquely allusive, elusive way. And just as music or painting can expose sides of our humanness that a presumably direct approach cannot. Good fiction can take on any plight imaginable, and builds in empathy that brings matters not just to the mind, but to the heart.
Reading fiction influences the reader's mindset and once the mindset of people who read novels change they will do different things and so the world changes.
Beliefs and opinions should be able to be debated and discussed between people; I'm not a Christian myself, but I find talking about religion to be very stimulating. But mocking people, treating them as inferiors, placing them under a banner of ignorance... that's just wrong. I'm all for religious debate, I even encourage it, but when people are blatantly taking cheap shots at something that obviously means a lot to some people: that's when I disapprove.
That's such a broad term for it and I would say that there are philosophical elements to many of those books. But that's against the point... The Harry Potter series is excellent in its simplicity and the ability to immerse its readers into such an entertaining environment. I don't know if you have actually read them but if you have, I am sure that you did so with the wrong mentality.
No, it makes you more opened to text you usually wouldn't read. Had I not had designated reading in school, I would never have found out about many great authors and essays out there. If you really loved books and stories, you would have embraced kinds out of your interest to expand your mind. Even with the Twilight Saga being the fad it is, people now would choose to read that over, say, A Tale of Two Cities or In Cold Blood.
You could make that argument, they are definitely given a ton of credit they never honestly earned. But in my honest but biased opinion, they -are- worth the time you give them.
This is so good just like what John Fish said about his video regarding with fiction and other stories that inspired some of the well-known thinkers in our history like Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx! and who knows maybe it can help us someday too! 😊📚💕
Yep. Campbell missed (or overstated) the mark in some places, I think, but he still can't be beat in general terms of understanding story and what it means to society and culture.
People just have their own opinions of things, and I respect yours. I wasn't interesting in reading when I was a kid. I loved Aesop Fables, though. And some nursery rhymes like Humpty Dumpty. >__> I got really into it in the 4th grade. Picked up Eragon. 0__0
It doesn't matter *how* much it means to them, if it's self-evidently incorrect, that's all there is to it. It might be worth discussing why they fell for it, and why the priests fed it to them. But as for as the beliefs themselves, no, they're not stimulating.
Philosophy is just imagination and that's quantifiable isn't it? Science begins with imagination. You can pretty much thank Dick Tracy for the iWatch. The same goes for Spock and Kirk and the fliptop phone...
It is escapism, I will grant you that, but placing yourself in a fictional world is not meant to completely severe you from reality, but just take a little break from it. It's a vacation for the mind.
That realm, beyond the computer screen? I won't know what to do, how to communicate in forms other than text, who could I trust? Where should I go? How do I know that gravity may not suddenly fail and send me drifting into the vast vacuum of space? I'd need a job... I'd have to start paying for bills, have my pockets stripped bare from week to week, and month to month. I may even get sick, cataracts and never see the beloved womb of my screen... This is, no, I cannot do it.
The further you can peer into the past the farther your more likely to be able to see into the future, provided you also have an imagination. Reading history is wonderful, but Reading History and Science Fiction is an unstoppable combination.
I respect Your opinion of the book, But I Have and Always will love Harry Potter. No one can change that. I don't think I'm wasting my time because I enjoy them. But I'm just curious now. What kind of books do you enjoy?
Haha yeah. I realize that may not have been the best way to defend the books. Basically I just wanted to say that I love them and I'll read what I want to read. :)
I was worried somebody might try to pull that obfuscation, but there's only so much run in this little box. What I made were statements about logical necessity. If you read a book, any book, and pick parts to believe and parts not to believe, you must be using a criterion you had before reading the book to judge the book. That applies to any book, religious or not. "aggressively oppressive and selfish manner"? What does that even mean? You don't like to hear facts?
But where will this school be built? Some will feel they disadvantaged in a way, if you know what I mean. Besides, TED has virtually built a school already; here on the internet. It has eliminated costs that are usually required for a material school. I'm actually fond of learning at home because I don't need to use single ply tissue paper at school (that my parents have paid in tax dollars for) and use my own paper.
May I ask what you like to read? ^^ I mean, I'm always looking for new material, and if you think there's something better than what I have been reading, I'd like to check it out.
Ok, if we're talking about Orwell. *1984:* Fascisms and it's effects on the world if it were succeed. *Animal Farm:* Communism and it's method of over throwing oppressors, only to become what they sought to destroy.
Started off great, great animation, great prose, but then ultimately I felt it was a little bit of a nothing burger with a brioche bun. The beginning states that scholars are discovering evidence that fiction can change culture, but then provides little information from the scholars to explore or back up this claim other than an example newspaper publicity for Pamela + counter novels, and some scholars saying Darwin was indebted to notions of heroism in novels and this influenced his theory of evolution without really going into detail. Liked the end were we started getting into modern works, but then this was more an invitation to question than providing evidence/examples of scholarly research that supports the thesis. Perhaps I'm reading it all wrong though, please comment if you can help guide me.
Thats why math uses letters because it has a tough time explaining itself, just mathematically. Ever notice how math always has to go backwards to the beginning to show how it got so far away? Can numbers be quantified without letters?
"Fiction is a lie which tells the truth" - Neil Gaiman, Book: Art Matters.
Agree. A truth that is hard to swallow in society.
PERFECT STATEMENT.
Book: coraline
Foreword of Fahrenheit 451?
"Fiction is a lie which tells a lie" - me, Book: I Hate Language Arts.
Me looking for my classmates in the comments because my teacher assigned us to watch this video lol
same here lol
sameee
And unsurprisingly, same.
oh hi then!
Same
Narratives are powerful. They reflect on reality and challenge us to change our perspectives.
Agreed
Narratives are not powerful. Narrative is the power.
I think that reading fiction gives one great insight to life and people. I've noticed that it has become easier for me to put myself in someone else's shoes and take a walk in them. Reading fiction has really help me look at things in other people's perspective and become more understanding/ forgiving... or maybe it was just me maturing... :D
I agree
Without thought there is no thinker.
Thought is the thinker himself.
With our thoughts, we create our reality;
Reading is like thinking with another person's head!
💡
Well said
Glad to find this! I just told a group of friends the other day that the thing that shapes our character the most is long-form books (although I was including nonfiction as well). Even more so than movies & music, it seems books are the keys to changing our thinking in a permanent way.
You thought that would be cool, then went to find info to confirm it. You are not very smart
I literally almost cried every when you mentioned Seekers they are my favorite books and no one seems to know that they exist!!
+Anya Taylor Thanks for pointing this out. I never would have known. I just ordered the first one from the library. :-)
+Anya Taylor Now I know. It seems quite interesting... I will look for these books.
they were some of my favourite books as a kid and I still have all of them I can't believe they mentioned them!
I loved the seekers too and her other books
i love the seekers
0:40 I hate to see that Video Games are not considered as an art form as well, with books/movies. Movies or books lets you follow the story through the hero's steps, in video games, you can also choose the steps YOU are going to take in the fictional world created by the author. Becuase of this, such a great insult it is to miss Video Games while talking about art forms.
I had always thought that I was a sore loser reading fiction because my goal in life is to be a scientist.I love fiction but I had a belief that most of my ideas won't work because they were from fictious book and started reading non fiction.
its only fiction until its non fiction
Television or computers were only a fiction a century ago
Never undervalue the power fiction has over everyday life.
Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, both of which are considered the fathers of science fiction, wrote of things that were yet to be, or ever will be.
Jules Verne, who was born in the nineteenth century, wrote about submarines, the internet, helicopters, etc., before they were even a thing. Nobody had even thought of these important human constructions until the twentieth century.
H. G. Wells forecasted the twentieth century so vividly and accurately he became known as "The Man Who Invented Tomorrow." He wrote of super highways, overcrowded cities, military use of airplanes and the bombing of cities. In 1911 he forecast the atomic bomb and other weapons of mass destruction, that terrified him. His final vision in 1933 was of an apocalyptic world war. Though the last one has yet to occur, he predicted numerous other scientific and societal advances.
Don’t ever be ashamed of reading fiction because of your future profession, for it can be the inspirational pathway to your future discovery.
Please please no!!!!! If reading fiction makes you happy then read fiction!
@@ajr5406 deep
I'm crying my eyes out over this. As someone who strives to become an author one day, this really inspires me. Any form of fiction has the power to change and shape who we become, and I hope one day I can write something that can help someone in a positive way.
I’m willing to read your story. I’m sure it’ll be joy to others. I hope that your dream will come true.
i wannaa wwrite a story that'll disgust someone entirely lol
I like your profile photo 😉
Same
Have you published yet/can I read your book(s)?
I'm glad I watched this, because lately my cousins have been indirectly undermining me for reading non fiction. I started out reading self help books and then started out on fiction with classics. And by reading them a tiny part of me felt reading quality fiction is more impacting than reading a dozen self help books. In the former we travel with protagonists' life and see how they each react in different situations. I gave up on self help books unless they are of matter I wanted to study and learn!
I've read Heart of Darkness, Animal Farm, Crime and Punishment, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1984, Romeo and Juliet, The Trial and about to start the Brothers Karamazov.
Still the Harry Potter books are some of the most entertaining and enjoyable narratives to read.
I know right who is your favourite character
Mine is peeves❤❤
"You don't believe in the power of fiction? It may not be a physical power, but our wish will surely be received by someone. If fiction has the power to touch people's hearts, then that power can change the world" -K1-B0
I knew there'd be a Danganronpa player somewhere in the comments.
2:45 Harry would be absolutely nothing without his "fam" backing him up, and he knows this. Every victory he achieves is due to love and friendship. It's kind of the central theme of the series.
3:30 The central theme of the Hunger Games is marketing. I suppose capitalism is a part of that.
+EGRJ nah sorry he was the chosen one and if he didn´t succed Nevil would had. Also the central theme of the series to me do everything right (as Snape did) and you might still get f*cked, what happened to your love and friendship did it saved Snape or was it the cause of his demise.
hey now, neville could be the "harry potter"
How is it capitalism if there are no companies that own anything in that story, everything is owned by the state; the Hunger Games was not about capitalism, it was either about socialism or communism.
He sacrificed himself for the greater good. Friendship saved Hogwarts on the last battle. Harry couldn't have faced all the death eaters, Giants, spiders, etc by himself.
It's because far too many people associate wealth with capitalism, and wealth is often portrayed as the driving force of corruption. Thus, anytime we see a wealthy person or society using said wealth to cause others harm, people automatically refer to it as capitalism. Unfortunately, most people don't understand what capitalism actually refers to.
Agreed. In MANY ways, I think it is a shame that twilight is affecting people's minds, but you can't realistically deny that it is doing so. And that was the actual point the speaker was making--not a moral call on whether it's having done so is good or bad, but merely that it does affect its readers.
1:04 this is true!!
The movies we watch makes us open our eyes more than the studies we learn in school sometimes
twilight only message was "Do what ever your boyfriend tells you to do."
no, it was, " girls think its hot when you watch them sleep"
what about never let a baby die
Vampires rock
+deadman1144 Vampires rock, yes guys, but not a sparkling one. I want the crazy, nonhuman ones that look like bat/human hybrids from legend. Those things are sick! >:)
+shadowkat678 30 days of night. Those vampires are freaky
I recently read Pamela for fun and it's pretty funny how, for being controversial and novel in its day, it still presents for the modern reader (or for me anyway) an almost comically traditional and foreign world and worldview.
I would like to praise this channel for consistently finding people to make really nice animations for these videos:
*praise praise praise*
This animation style is beautiful
Internal combustion engine was once fiction, as was the space shuttle and smart phones and civil rights in some eras and societies. In order for these ideas to become reality, some imaginative people were required to consider things not as they were, but as they might be. Experiencing fiction, through story telling, film or reading nourishes the creative mind. Without imagination, there would (at least) less be innovation (social or technological). Fiction exposes us to the idea of 'if'.
Whoa- Seekers??? Totally wasn't expecting that series to be in this...
Ikr
“Dumbledore said calmly”
We can all agree that we all hate twilight
+CATtostraphy But 50 shades of grey is amazing.
Capn Cummings it's porn for women showing how they secetly wish to be dominated, well those those who like it.
+CATtostraphy And sadly gives them a faulty picture of how BDSM really works. 50 shades of gray was abuse.
+Capn Cummings It's horribly written and provides a faulty pictures of BDSM, so that's just your opinion.
JustMe Apparently you don't know how to read sarcasm.......
I never used to like fiction books, only non fiction. However now I see the value of how it expands your imagination - the quality that Einstein valued the most.
I love reading books about dystopian societies/futures ("The Hunger Games", "Divergent","Skychasers", exc...). But it's kind of fun and thought-provoking to think of this future world and our world now, and just imagine the steps between. What caused these events to happen? In a way, it makes you think and when it comes to the greater issues (global warming, pollution, ext...), it can make a huge difference in preventing said events (or similar) from occurring. At least that's what I think.( :
Love this. Fiction reveals to us life patterns that we want to emulate and those we want to avoid!
Character responded differently? Could the situation be better? Could they improve? And thus, by allowing us to see how each path fails, assuming their view of the situation is balanced, we can apply these ideas in life. Huge games such as Mass Effect do a very good job at this, and have emotional and theoretical weight. And allow me to expand: railroading is NOT a 'popcorn' game just as books are not 'popcorn' entertainment. My argument is merely that even the best books cannot answer all
God Damn I'm a freaking nerd. I got upset when they punctuated one species with Superman and Wonder Woman because Superman isn't a human.
No he is a man
Miguel Chacón
Diana is an Amazonian, which I think is a race of humans? Clark is a Kryptonian
@@littlefishbigmountain yes. he's a space man. I don't want to re-watch for context
Kitt Spiken
All the context you need is in your own comment
@@littlefishbigmountain figured as much, but I did say it 6 years ago
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
By non - fiction your thoughts imagination will be limited
But fiction will force you to think beyond the world
And one day you can even achieve great success in life
"Yet recent study shows that Darwin's theory might not be the whole story". Which recent studies? That's a bit ambiguous, right?
"We might not be hard wired to be a hero but might instead be members of a shared quest"... what in the world is she referring to? Altruism? Which is still a component of evolution, just specific to social animals. It's still a way to survive and reproduce
@@sarahmaronick8302 Ikr. Altruism is beneficial for the individual. I dont know what shes talking about.
Darwin's theory is not the whole story, as he could not tell the causes those changes. His theory was a few decades later corroborated by molecular biology.
James, you're welcome to avoid the heady dances of fiction. Me, I'll immerse myself in stories that bring me into contact with humanity in a way that non-fiction can't, just as poetry can reach the marrow of emotional reality in its uniquely allusive, elusive way. And just as music or painting can expose sides of our humanness that a presumably direct approach cannot. Good fiction can take on any plight imaginable, and builds in empathy that brings matters not just to the mind, but to the heart.
TY! Life imitates art! Finally I am not the only one who sees it! 😊🤗
When you talk about "fiction that changes thinking," you've gotta include Stephen King.
This is so splendid. Thank you to Ms. Wise and the animation team. Just wonderful. :)
you know what is simply awesome? i have read most of the books mentioned!
Is there any shift from reality to fictional words?
This is why i love to write as well as read.
Reading fiction influences the reader's mindset and once the mindset of people who read novels change they will do different things and so the world changes.
Beliefs and opinions should be able to be debated and discussed between people; I'm not a Christian myself, but I find talking about religion to be very stimulating. But mocking people, treating them as inferiors, placing them under a banner of ignorance... that's just wrong. I'm all for religious debate, I even encourage it, but when people are blatantly taking cheap shots at something that obviously means a lot to some people: that's when I disapprove.
When people believe in something so absurd, they *should* be mocked. Your right to believe it doesn't shelter that belief from criticism.
I totally want to make a comic now. That Bomb Dog was awesome. It's quite a fashion statement.
I literally screamed with joy when I saw the dalek
There nothing more powerful than the reality and the mindfulness!
0:23 With my little eye, I spy a Trekkie
Engage!
twilight is about a girl who cant live without a boyfriend and it sucks
Harry had changed my life . I love him
That's such a broad term for it and I would say that there are philosophical elements to many of those books. But that's against the point...
The Harry Potter series is excellent in its simplicity and the ability to immerse its readers into such an entertaining environment. I don't know if you have actually read them but if you have, I am sure that you did so with the wrong mentality.
No, it makes you more opened to text you usually wouldn't read.
Had I not had designated reading in school, I would never have found out about many great authors and essays out there.
If you really loved books and stories, you would have embraced kinds out of your interest to expand your mind.
Even with the Twilight Saga being the fad it is, people now would choose to read that over, say, A Tale of Two Cities or In Cold Blood.
The animation was great in this one😮
Well I watch animes of 12 episodes, Within 4 hours I get to know a new world what the author saw.
honestly, the 720 ep anime world>>>>>>>>>
they have, its right here, you're sat on the desk next to mine, now shhh, I'm listenning.
Ted_Ed is the only place that I feel I comfortable with??
You could make that argument, they are definitely given a ton of credit they never honestly earned. But in my honest but biased opinion, they -are- worth the time you give them.
Slow and steady wins the race
I'm here for Augenblick's studio animation.
This is so good just like what John Fish said about his video regarding with fiction and other stories that inspired some of the well-known thinkers in our history like Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx! and who knows maybe it can help us someday too! 😊📚💕
Yep. Campbell missed (or overstated) the mark in some places, I think, but he still can't be beat in general terms of understanding story and what it means to society and culture.
I think it's from the Hurt Locker, tho I'm not sure if there was a dog involved...
Me because I’m searching the edges of the earth for people who were also assigned this by their English teacher😭😭😭
People just have their own opinions of things, and I respect yours.
I wasn't interesting in reading when I was a kid. I loved Aesop Fables, though.
And some nursery rhymes like Humpty Dumpty. >__>
I got really into it in the 4th grade. Picked up Eragon. 0__0
Whoa, I'm not used to series I like to read being mentioned in TED lessons. I love Seekers :3
It doesn't matter *how* much it means to them, if it's self-evidently incorrect, that's all there is to it. It might be worth discussing why they fell for it, and why the priests fed it to them. But as for as the beliefs themselves, no, they're not stimulating.
I just love the asthetic of this vedio, it has those nostalgic feel of my old text books.
5:18 still a better love story that twilight
You could always do a steady build up. Maybe you could just try and commit to reading a chapter a day, then think about it.
man this would be so much better as audio only, the poor animation makes it seem so cheesy, but it's an interesting piece
어떻게 허구가 현실을 바꾸는가 - 제시카 와이즈
the book mortal instruments gave me a whole different view on life
is it worth reading? im having second thoughts on the book
I watched the movie,thought it was ok. Is the book much better?
YES! It is much much better. All of them (there's like 10 of them but they're all very good)
OMG YAASSSSSSS
you motivated me to write a book... lets hope that motivation will last
did it?
I might think about it for dialogue sake.
Philosophy is just imagination and that's quantifiable isn't it? Science begins with imagination. You can pretty much thank Dick Tracy for the iWatch. The same goes for Spock and Kirk and the fliptop phone...
+Caelroigh Blunt you mean that applied science begins with imagination then?
pedro afonso Absolutely. Any scientific achievement begins with an idea and ideas come from imagination.
iWatch? What's an iWatch? I have an Apple Watch, but I've never heard of iWatch.
S&S Pictures Okay, Apple Watch. The point remains the same.
It is escapism, I will grant you that, but placing yourself in a fictional world is not meant to completely severe you from reality, but just take a little break from it. It's a vacation for the mind.
That realm, beyond the computer screen? I won't know what to do, how to communicate in forms other than text, who could I trust? Where should I go? How do I know that gravity may not suddenly fail and send me drifting into the vast vacuum of space? I'd need a job... I'd have to start paying for bills, have my pockets stripped bare from week to week, and month to month. I may even get sick, cataracts and never see the beloved womb of my screen... This is, no, I cannot do it.
I can see the Navy really instilled a sense of humility in you. Not to mention open-mindedness and a taste for culture.
Whoever drew the sailboat at the end doesn't know how to sail.
1:17-1:29 seems pretty similar to the world we live in rn
3:40 is there an Uglies movie, because i would realy like to see it
You mentioned Seekers and I had a flashback to my 5th grade Warriors phase
Same here, that would be a good lesson idea relevant to shaping society.
The further you can peer into the past the farther your more likely to be able to see into the future, provided you also have an imagination. Reading history is wonderful, but Reading History and Science Fiction is an unstoppable combination.
I respect Your opinion of the book, But I Have and Always will love Harry Potter. No one can change that. I don't think I'm wasting my time because I enjoy them. But I'm just curious now. What kind of books do you enjoy?
Haha yeah. I realize that may not have been the best way to defend the books. Basically I just wanted to say that I love them and I'll read what I want to read. :)
I didn't think it was worth my time to verify his information, so just rolled with it.
I was worried somebody might try to pull that obfuscation, but there's only so much run in this little box.
What I made were statements about logical necessity. If you read a book, any book, and pick parts to believe and parts not to believe, you must be using a criterion you had before reading the book to judge the book. That applies to any book, religious or not.
"aggressively oppressive and selfish manner"? What does that even mean? You don't like to hear facts?
But where will this school be built? Some will feel they disadvantaged in a way, if you know what I mean. Besides, TED has virtually built a school already; here on the internet. It has eliminated costs that are usually required for a material school. I'm actually fond of learning at home because I don't need to use single ply tissue paper at school (that my parents have paid in tax dollars for) and use my own paper.
I taugh it said:
How friction can change reality
May I ask what you like to read? ^^ I mean, I'm always looking for new material, and if you think there's something better than what I have been reading, I'd like to check it out.
((And I'm here just reading and writing fanfictions/X Readers))
+Feliks Łukasiewicz ... really? -_-
+Feliks Łukasiewicz oh yup ... you were not kidding... only female tho huh?
+WildDratini
((hmm?))
Feliks Łukasiewicz only female fanfics :P
WildDratini ((i'm a female myself, but i'm pansexual. i write mostly anything))
"Can The Hunger Games make us rethink capitalism?" No, The Hunger Games simply isn't about capitalism.
TheBurgerkrieg , it is, but, if one wants to buy into that, I would like to direct them to a novel some call 1984. I'll wait.
It's about communism
TheBurgerkrieg Its a mma extreme violent and hight tec.
Ok, if we're talking about Orwell.
*1984:* Fascisms and it's effects on the world if it were succeed.
*Animal Farm:* Communism and it's method of over throwing oppressors, only to become what they sought to destroy.
@@melissabautz2346 1984 is about communism
Started off great, great animation, great prose, but then ultimately I felt it was a little bit of a nothing burger with a brioche bun. The beginning states that scholars are discovering evidence that fiction can change culture, but then provides little information from the scholars to explore or back up this claim other than an example newspaper publicity for Pamela + counter novels, and some scholars saying Darwin was indebted to notions of heroism in novels and this influenced his theory of evolution without really going into detail. Liked the end were we started getting into modern works, but then this was more an invitation to question than providing evidence/examples of scholarly research that supports the thesis. Perhaps I'm reading it all wrong though, please comment if you can help guide me.
who else got this assigned in class
Quiet deliciously artistic!
That's from the movie The Hurt Doghouse.
Yay for the Huckleberry Finn reference!
I'm actually writing a super hero and a sci-fi story hopefully i'll be done with both in a year
"And yes, even Twilight" I beg your pardon...
This was like a book talk to me because of this video I'm now reading Pamela or virtue rewarded and so far I really like it.
Thats why math uses letters because it has a tough time explaining itself, just mathematically. Ever notice how math always has to go backwards to the beginning to show how it got so far away? Can numbers be quantified without letters?