Pres. Barack Obama: literacy & empathy

[circusboy90210]

uhhh uhhh uhhhh uhhhhh. really this is the great orator??? this man is nothing like lincoln. or kennedy.

[DrFruedienslip]

@circusboy90210 Freedom of speach has a great deal to do with religious ideals' if most people said what they really know someone might be offended by their own auspicious malajustments

[circusboy90210]

@DrFruedienslip eludicate please.

[DrFruedienslip]

@circusboy90210 Illiteracy has a great deal to do with inhibitions, and unfortunately its a long and complicated subject matter which is an all inclusive subject regarding raising children which parents often transfer to God as an judgmental authority' parents often dont know how to deal with their own paternal senses or intimacy concerns' or like many christians who tell a child that fabled charachter died on a cross for their sins' why tell children there is something wrong with them?

[DrFruedienslip]

@DrFruedienslip Im agnostic which simply means that one cannot prove or disprove the origins of all existence' I have examined the good book and there are so many contradictions which is why so many people dont know how to read in properly in a metaphysical sense and also as well see it as an attempt as an anthropological expression' many people simply never have taken the time to actually read and simply accept what they are told to believe'

[DrFruedienslip]

@DrFruedienslip Epistle of Paul, the Apostle, to the Romans

20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; || so that they are without excuse;

This parable relates to a philosophers quest to define physical principles of the human consciousness, much like what Einstien was involved in defining quantum mechanics, the two sided of reality' the physical and the metaphysical'

[DrFruedienslip]

@DrFruedienslip Context has everything to do with the interpretation of any physical experience' there is a book coming out called "What Is? Intrinsic Anthropology" on ebook hopefully within the next couple months by Arthur B Johnston

[likemusicwhat]

inspirational...truly worth winning the Nobel Prize for thoughts like this..great man

[Kaznn]

When did he gave that speech ?

[FatherChrismas]

When everyone demands to be paid in advance, no deal ever gets done—the pipe goes dry with bubbles of suspicion, and fear of poverty (itself) makes us poor.

...fear itself.

[xxZanexx]

Hah. Empathy requires logic & experience.

How can you see emotion in someone if you've never experienced it yourself?

How can you define the difference between paranoia and truth without logic?

I'm bipolar, this gives me a range of emotion to work with rated as "extremes". This doesn't mean shit without understand, it takes label as disorder and deficit and no book or form of literacy will bring a whole world to an understanding. This world falls to religion & Greed, thus holocaust.

[blaziermissy]

Great Mr. President, now pass the knowledge on to the Federal Reserve Elitist who have enslaved the world and their affiliates within our govt who help them to do so. Maybe EMPATHY should be utilized by those who use war to make billions off of weaponry sales, building contracts, Centralized banking and corporation monopolies.

Find a way to stop this madness, Mr. President. The world is hijacked and suffering because of sociopathic addiction to money and power by elitist.

[abeoable]

Well said. His words are nothing without action to back them up. People are waking up. Are you in to deep Obama?

[suboreo]

Walk in somebody else's shoes? That would be an excellent idea Mr. President! You can start by not sending your girls to elite private schools and sending your kids to crappy public schools in the DC area just like everyone else! Next, you can get rid of your airforce one used to travel to other countries to talk to other leaders and log onto youtube to talk to world leaders just like everyone else! Lastly , You don't need the limosines and just drive around in a 1988 nissan sentra! Like me!!!

[sanjfreedom]

Obama rocks. I have high hopes when a person in such a powerful position taks about empathy. i hope my hopes aren't dashed. Mr President, if you need someone to help you promote empathy just give me a call.

[TemporaryTroll]

A politician talks about empathy? Shit, something has got to be wrong! Call emergency services!

[Trafalgar1961]

This is a terrific clip.

I hope Obama keeps up this emphasis on the importance of reading/learning, because people are really listening to him at the moment.

[bvspmarques]

Pearl Jam's vocalist, Eddie Vedder, in his music WISHLIST "I wish I was the grounds

For 50 million hands upraised and open toward the sky".In my masters thesis I claim that recent scientific discoveries, such as the mirror neuron, prove that human nature is wired with the empathetic abilities (smthg Adam Smith called sympathy).Politics in a way is the empathetic interaction with 50 million people.

[bvspmarques]

(CONT.)

If this new paradigm (that over-takes self-interest as the main motivation of Man) emerges,it will allow us2:

1)promote peace around us (through understanding and forgiveness)

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[bvspmarques]

2)yeld happiness through mental visualization (empathetic acts with our chosen destiny)

3)achieve higher levels of counsciousness and "oneness": realize that individual choices are not athomistic but holistic, that is interconnected(empirical evidence is ASTONISHING:environment, human body, technology, all feedback positively or negatively with each other)

"It's a beautiful beautiful thing" D.Lynch

[iCE2sKY]

Good that politician talks about empathy!Thanks for posting the video!

[mgg52ct]

Barack has a lot of wisdom. One can learn empathy by reading....reflectively...and then using this understanding to try to reach out and understand others....to truly try to experience what is like to be in their shoes.