Comments by "Chris Nilsson" (@GenerationX1984) on "TED-Ed" channel.

  1. Rich people will say it works for obvious reasons. Whether it works for the rest of us or not it benefits them whether it's true or not.
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  2. But true Greeks and Italians are bronze skinned or olive complected because of the Mediterranean climate.
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  3. Some people just need an excuse to whine about something. It doesn't matter to them if it has nothing to do with the video. Whiners will whine.
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  4.  @freedomofspeech2867  "sponsored by people who want to take away all your possessions." And give our possessions to who. Your mom?
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  5. Kratos from God of War.
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  6. More like egalitarianists, which was the perfect system before corrupt state societies took control and made everybody unequal based soley on privilege.
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  7. Because they found one-eyed sheep in Idaho. It depressed them.
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  8. Narcissism is nothing a good old fashioned kick in the pants won't cure.
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  9. If you're brainwashed by religion and lack basic critical thinking skills you'll support anyone. That's what I, as a secular freethinker, believe. Most people are easily brainwashed. Our lack of skepticism as a species is one of our defining attributes.
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  10. Buddhism sounds more like a philosophy than a religion.
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  11. His friends thought, "He'll thank us later in the afterlife."
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  12. Flies have such a short lifespan that they don't learn much. I wish I could live to be 1,000 years old simply for the joy of accumulating 1,000 years worth of knowledge.
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  13. I love mythology and wish I could force other people to love it too!
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  14. Hercules was an anti-hero. Disney toned him down a lot, unfortunately.
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  15.  @robertortiz-wilson1588  For them!
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  16. Jesus Christ never existed
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  17. What happened to all the Native Americans in Haiti? That's the real genocide.
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  18. Now if we could get rid of all of our MODERN superstitious people. Especially Christians in the U.S.
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  19. Which is weird because studies have shown that orgasm can increase your lifespan if you're a human and you're not too old.
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  20. Islam is actually the stupidest. It's too strict and stole all its ideas from Christianity and Judaism and, I suspect, Arab paganism. The crescent moon is actually a pagan Arab symbol adopted by Islam. The TRUE origins of this symbol, of course, are covered up with the Islamic version of its origin.
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  21. As usual Islam divided an entire country. Pakistan has more 'honor killings' than any other country. Muslim majority nations can't seem to leave the Dark Ages behind.
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  22. Jobs that don't have good benefits are a deal breaker for me. I'd rather be on welfare. I just don't take those jobs. I'm lucky enough to have a job now that has decent benefits.
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  23.  @moto-fl3rd  We now know that they pay 0% since their tax info was leaked. Now some of the 1% are trying to sue the people who leaked the truth about them.
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  24. The gods bleed gold blood that's poison to mortals called the ichor but nobody ever puts that in Greek mythology based fiction. I feel like we're missing out on a great story where a Kratos-like hero tries to kill a god but nearly dies as the ichor seers his flesh. That would be epic.
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  25. I'd like to see Ted-Ed cover Scottish myths too.
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  26. I'm an atheist. Adam and Eve never existed and the fact that you Muslims think Muslims existed before Muhammad is just sad. It makes no sense.
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  27. George Costanza (Jason Alexander) from TV's Seinfeld was never mentioned in this video.
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  28. Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess may have toned him down from the edgier Greek myth version too. Those are still good shows, though.
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  29. *overrated
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  30. Over-ated? Ate?
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  31. Even God predates Abrahamic religions as El the father of the Elohim gods in Canaanite myths. Read the Baal Epic.
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  32. Well, it depends. I'd certainly like to kill the people who are benefiting from the recession. There are plenty of Bernie Madoff's out there as well as people who have something to gain when the market crashes.
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  33.  @MadMulberry  I'm not privileged either. I only make about $18 bucks an hour but contribute over 30% to my 401k. I was told I can't take out a loan to buy a house even though I have never used a credit card and have perfect credit because my take home pay is too low. What kind of b.s. is that? I have to contribute LESS to retirement just to qualify for a loan for a house? Pay is so low now and housing so high. Baby boomers never had this problem. Pisses me off! 😠
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  34. Horseshoe crabs are amazing. I heard somewhere that they're the ancestors of the pill bug, which is kind of weird to think about.
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  35. Somebody got upset with me once when I said we teach a very watered down and skimmed over version of history in our schools. But it's true. I was right.
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  36. We're sort of living in one because of the Great Recession.
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  37. #7 is the reason science and Islam can't coexist. No skepticism allowed. How sad.
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  38. Lenin was not a hero, but what fiction novels might call an antihero. He was necessary to overthrow the Czar. The Czar was sucking the lifeblood from the Russian people like a vampire.
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  39. No. It was just the religion your parents taught you as a child. I know because my parents brainwashed me to believe in Jesus as a child too. Religion is usually passed from parents to children. Your emotional childhood attachment to the religion your were born into does not make it true.
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  40. They don't even mention that words like Hello are actually Welsh. What? The Welsh aren't important?
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  41. Human emotion is the primary problem. We need people to be rational. Not emotional. This is the best way to ensure peace.
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  42. Additionally, irrational stereotypes and hasty generalizations must be prohibited in order to crack down on scapegoating entire groups (such as the Jews). Hitler proved human beings are sheep with a herd mentality who lack the rational thinking required to distinguish between stereotypes and reality. Nazism was a political cult. North Korea is a political cult. What can we do to change the way ordinary people think in order to destroy all cults and all forms of group thinking? The human brain is so flawed in the way people fall for logical fallacies that it should be rewired.
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  43. XxDemonicGamer OK. I may have went overboard a bit. I agree.
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  44. That's actually pretty horrifying. Islam has more extremists than Nazism.
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  45. It's funny how every animal except for humans seems to have a useful role in the ecosystem.
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  46. See, I know nothing because I thought Einstein said it. Not Socrates. I learned something today.
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  47. 3:50 I like the monkey swinging by its tail. Did the Assyrians really have a garden with monkeys? A complex question, I know. LOL.
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  48. Of course ancient Troy existed. Archaeologists dug it up around 100 years ago. If you want people to watch the video change the title.
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  49. That's why I became an atheist. Religious people are awful hypocrites. Even some of the ones I went to church with. Also the Bible is a mythology book that makes no sense in the 21st century.
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  50. It was mostly inspired by Old Saxon and Germanic literature. The Nibelungenlied and more modern works inspired by it such as Wagner's Ring Cycle play. Both Germanic stories involve a magic ring.
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