One of the rare intellectuals whom I never tire of listening.

@MazBringsby

5 жыл бұрын

Carrying the torch for Ernest Becker

@kevalan1042

3 жыл бұрын

what are the top 3 things you learned from him?

@kihntagious

2 жыл бұрын

To whom I never tire of listening, I think.

@HigherPlanes

2 жыл бұрын

@@kihntagious If you're not sure why bother correcting him/her? lol

What a brilliant character. The world needs to hear more from this man.

I discovered this guy last night. He makes a lot of sense

@Richard-sk3vh

3 жыл бұрын

His podcast with Lex Fridman 👌

I guess all I can do for my life is learn as much as possible, and enjoy what I enjoy purely for the sake of it.

@TheWayofFairness

3 жыл бұрын

We can help to create the understanding in others that stops the problem of various mythologies being threatened by each others beliefs. This is vindication for ourselves and will also save the future of humanity. Most religions are causing the problem. Some religions are ok with truth as it is.

@noahziegler3478

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheWayofFairness it's not worth it, unless you somehow get joy out of failure. I would say just move on with your day. The hearts and minds are so hardened these days it's the rare feat to impact a single person.

The only good ted talk ever. it's too good for this platform.

No wonder noone listens to this, truth hurts.

I love this man.

@georgecarenzo3890

8 жыл бұрын

+TissDiss  The sentiment is mutual. It is interesting to notice that when he was making a point about our finite existence the audience laughed. Then Sheldon said it was not meant to be funny. Interestingly, comedians have an amazing ability to make us laugh at the very things we deny in ourselves and, it seems, the audience is doing the same regarding the concern Sheldon was addressing.

Thank you for your passion and brilliant insight. Heard you first on Lex Fridman and now want to listen to more.

Deep stuff. Amazing how this gets only 24k views. It just corroborates everything he said, sadly. Amazing talk

Really fantastic talk and superbly delivered.

I've seen him talk a couple of times, love his insights.

This is man bursting out with knowledge 👏

"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." - Woody Allen

@AL-fc5sz

3 жыл бұрын

I don't know man. Making the decision of banging your own stepdaughter seems like the wrong path

I am completely devoid of spontaneous exuberance

really enjoyed this speech

With a Great command of English vocabulary & flashes of some good sense of humour 😂, Prof Sheldon's delivery of thought provoking sentiments canvassing the state of human existence is quite eye opening to new Perspectives on Life. A Brilliant mind and amiable character 👏 🎇

So important, thank you Sheldon

Spicoli, you nailed it! Great ted talk

Excellent!

Thanks, Sheldon

Great talk.

Top tier content. The denial of death is one of the reacting agents in the crucible of our reality.

Basically what I’ve always said, fear is what drives our beliefs about life and death.

My hero...

Brilliant!

Brilliant

I wish he were one of my professors.

@bikingdervish

Жыл бұрын

Transfer to Skidmore and he could be.

Quite brilliant

"Just say no to reality". Gonna steal that one if you don't mind.

Being reminded of death makes people more aggressive! This surprises me so much. My personal experience is almost exactly the opposite

@milahu

2 жыл бұрын

manic vs depressed temperament

@shaunhermans

Жыл бұрын

*more aggressive towards those perceived to be different. He's leaving out the research about how we sit closer to those perceived to be similar

@Debby-MelancholyMe

27 күн бұрын

This information explains why family members can go astonishingly crazy over fighting for a family inheritance.

Genius!

12:09 should've been televised all over the world!🔥

From the online book "ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE" on Ecohumanworld website. We live on one planet but we are divided into two worlds that couldn't be more different. The first one is real, biological, the one we cannot survive without because it created us. The second one is artificial, the one we made, the one where we feel safe because we can change and adapt it all we want so that it fits our needs. This is an aggressive, technological world that is now, at the turn of the century, entering a phase that is damaging for each one of us. It is urgent that we change this overly productive and excessively consumerist world and adapt it to the capacity that this planet can still tolerate.

@respinell1

3 жыл бұрын

Excellent presentation...!

@peaceandparty

2 жыл бұрын

@Ecohumanworld - would love to hear your thoughts on 2021 excessive consumerism . i agree with what you wrote on many levels by the way. :)

Sad but true.

@JoshYates

5 жыл бұрын

Not sad...just true.

@andrewlokkebo7804

5 жыл бұрын

Josh Yates maybe. Depends if there’s any point to this reality and I don’t think any of us is qualified to make that determination.

@JoshYates

5 жыл бұрын

@@andrewlokkebo7804 good answer. I'm not qualified to say anything is true because as Socrates has stated, "I know nothing, you know nothing, but I know I know nothing." and of course "The unexamed life is not worth living." Those two statements free me from knowing anything and to continue my inward journey.

After listening to this talk, I dropped to my knees and begged Jesus to forgive my trespasses.

comrade solomon!!

What a fuckin legend ! Could listen to this dude all day . Not a truer word been spoken on the pathetic psychology of humans .

Sheldon, you are up there with Bill Hicks! Hail to thee!!

Love it and funny

Good talk. For me, bridges Surviving Progress and Terror Management Theory

In profound meditation, the ancient sages found when consciousness is so acutely focused that it is utterly withdrawn from the body and mind, it enters a kind of singularity in which the sense of ego disappears, in this supreme climax of meditation, seers discovered a core of consciousness beyond time and change, they called it Atman, simply...the self.

Yep. Truth hurts.

Representing JCOS.

Thank you 14:20 This lecture explains why human animals torture and kill other animals

Who is this individual? I'd love to know more about him.

Comfortably or unconfortably numb. Well played. (Pink Floyd)

David Lee roth , life after van halen

Life isn't awesome it's frightening

All sin is distilled from ego.

I find it seriously difficult to find the good in humanity.

The choice is a simple one. We continue with our purely materialistic approach to everything as we head into the wall at full speed or we make very difficult choices and become a spiritual civilisation.

@squamish4244

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. Solomon doesn't offer a compelling spiritual alternative to 'just deal with it', however. He doesn't seem to believe that meditation or psychedelics or various forms of neural technology can enable freeing or transcendent states of consciousness, which we have a vast amount of evidence for being true, both from the ancient traditions and modern neuroscience. I certainly have benefitted incredibly from neurofeedback, brainwave entrainment, meditation etc. and I had a transformative experience on psychedelics that put me on a spiritual path many years ago. Or if he does, I haven't come across it. Perhaps this is what he meant by "deploying our ingenuity" to solve the problem of fear of mortality, but I wish he had gone into at least basic detail about it.

This lays out a fantastic truth claim that humans are uniquely distinct in an amazing world with no accent to the reality that that must have come from somewhere. Extremely well layer foolishness.

@shaunhermans

Жыл бұрын

Other humanoids might've encountered mortal terror, but none survived to tell of it. For ideas on why we probably wouldn't have let them survive, rewatch the Ted talk!

He is not joking but these ideas are funny 😄6:45 to 7:55🤣

My God, this man needs to meet and hold court with Ray Dalio, and bless the rest of us with the witness thereof. Please make it so...someone...somehow.

@lydiab6063

3 жыл бұрын

Why do you suggest that?

26mil subs, 26k views? How?

14:00 taking a note as i dont have my pen

Very entertaining...too many assumptions but also some fantastic observations!

"Where humans are immune to the vaugeries of death." Imagine that. TNQ

@crand20033

4 жыл бұрын

It's great to be alive now, but it soon won't be great to be alive with so much being gone.

The only reason humanity has survived thus far is due to the bounty and good graces of mother earth and we’ve exhausted both. Soon we will be no more

At some point early on, the camera man took a swig of his water bottle, which happened to be swapped for Sheldon's. The result sunk in at duelings of a madman section about Leaonardo's helicopter (about 5 min mark)

12:30 sums up the political divide in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic. Never has the country felt more politically divided in recent times, and this could have played an incredible role in why that was.

The increasing climate chaos will become so unimaginable and will put all the Geo political games into perspective and eventually force countries to unite and form a new spiritual civilisation ,leaving behind the obviously failed insane materialistic approach that has lead humanity to the very edge of the cliff.

@delkins07

3 жыл бұрын

Doughboy

@peaceandparty

2 жыл бұрын

excellent observation. i agree.lets keep the faith in that! :) wishing you a long life -we need more of you! :)

@peaceandparty

2 жыл бұрын

comment for futureghostonfire

if the humanty is at one crossroad , after the reporting of all the bad me are facing, hat is phd professor solomon sugesting for the good, ? we con do good and eevel

This what Spicoli could have become if he listened to Mr. Hand.

Wow super old talk, should have more like these...Even though he seemed like a genuine drunk..

Completely terrible for the young, old and all. Greed should be a death sentence. It is, even for the innocent.

Due to ''HUMAN ACTIVITY'' we currently we live in a world with world-wide deforestation (the lungs of the earth), soil salinity, over population, chem-trails, collapsing eco-systems, biodiversity damage, ice caps melting, the methane problem, the Fukushima disaster, air pollution, bees, butterflies, insect are dwindling due to the use of pesticides & herbicides, 67% of animal species in terminal decline. Over fishing, the poisoning and massive amounts of chemical waste & pollutants of our creeks, rivers & waterways. Countless major oil spills in our oceans, the serious ''micro plastics'' in our oceans and waterways which is finding it's way into the food chain. Corrupt world-wide politicians, rising world crime rates, rising world debt, the mass immigration problem, GMO crops, Also cow 'emissions' more damaging to planet than CO2 from cars, pharmaceutical poisoning, oh, and i forgot to mention ''corparate greed'' ( they have too much to loose MONEY.!!) all these problems are ARE REAL and factual.!!! The list just goes on, personally i don't no what the answer is to these major problems, or what the solutions. If this is not addressed ''big time'' we will all be in dire straits eventually, it's only a matter of time...........

@darrenpat182

4 жыл бұрын

Thorium fission in molten salt nuclear reactors, composting all our organic waste, banning almost all combustion, population control, getting the population down to at least under 1 billion, interplanetary mining potentially.

7:12 "from a purely biological point of view, youre a breathing piece of defecating meat, thats no more enduring or significant than a lizard or a potato."

camera operator needs to put down the martini

／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼

see my near death experiemce list.. people have been there.

Skid row college!!🤣

Hey, some of the most intelligent people I know are bacteria, jellyfish, or snakes.....so what's the problem? TNQ

Can you PLEASE publish your own channel or I can subscribe it. Thank you.

I'm totally ready for my species to ride the fail boat into that muddy sunset. Think of all the suffering that will never have a chance to happen. Antinatalism FTW!

Marry me!?!

he sounds like the constant beginning of a panic attack. why?

Gilfoyle's washed up brother,

Too bad most people watching Sheldon Solomon here dont understand he is merely voicing the ideas of Ernest Becker, a profound thinker following many ideas of Otto Rank.

@sv3n1234

2 жыл бұрын

He’s not “merely voicing” them. Together with Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski he proved scientifically what Ernest Becker put together philosophically. All of them deserve credit for what they did. Becker was a genius, but that doesn’t lessen the achievement of Solomon and his colleagues.