Anjali Kumar went looking for God and ended up finding something else entirely. In an uplifting, funny talk about our shared humanity, she takes us on a spiritual pilgrimage to meet witches in New York, a shaman in Peru, an infamous "healer" in Brazil and others, sharing an important lesson: what binds us together is far stronger than what separates us, and our differences are not insurmountable.
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there is no goddddddddd
I really appreciate some religions like Christianity for example. But you are really making it hard for the average atheist to see its value to the world. Why are you arguing with faith against reason? You believe what you believe and that’s fine, but you should know your audience before you speak. This channel is a lefty atheist cesspool, you won’t achieve anything here. And your arguments suck, so it only strengthens their position. From atheist to theist, let me help you. As a theist, your strongest argument is morality. You should always argue that with atheists, and don’t dismiss science, or say it proves God. That’s just ignorant.
My fellow atheist you should understand by now that there’s no help for them, they won’t change their mind not because they are dumb enough to believe it but, because the real world is scary and lonely and most of the religious people are in it for comfort and because they are scared little kids that refuse to grow up, they are weak, the rest of them are in it for the money. That’s one of the oldest jobs, telling stories, telling people stories about how after they die they are going to be in a better place, they do it in return for money obviously.
Arun Shukla …. it’s a “theory” ! Not proven
Öykü Özer God exists. You’ll see.
3.14159265358 it’s been millions of years and no one has seen
Thumbs up for the one from nazareth. Hallelujah.
First World problems.
Third World just believes.
The search for God and religious peace is universal. After all, it is adversity that leads humans to submission to Godlike entities.
Yeah I mean… those are not the questions that all humanity asked itself for millenials (if not more)…..
mhtinla – you need belief in the Third World. Or a good people-smuggling pipeline into Europe/North America.
General Geo From renaissance to reformation to enlightenment, there has been a strong correlation between secularization and human development, hence the First and Third World. To say the search for God is universal between the two is over generalization.
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him … but let him ask in faith”
It’s true, there are many religions out there, but if you want to know the truth, just ask directly God! Prove it, put it to the test, but do it sincerely.
WTF speak English! Scripture seems to be nonsensical.
Martin Quito You said god but you didn’t say which god you’re talking about, you see there are over 2800 known deities that human beings worship, how in the world am I supposed to know which one you mean?
yes just like those good people in jonestown and heavensgate..
+Spliter Because you are doing it on your own terms, not His. You seem spoiled.
+LittleLion93 It can be found in the Holy Bible.. not modern ones _(post 1800s)_
I tried to find god once. Then I turned 6.
Walter Hoppenstedt No it doesn’t. I personally don’t have enough faith to be an Atheist, it takes way to much faith to be an Atheist for me. I don’t see the rationality in that. Can you enlighten me on your evidence that which disproves God’s existence?
Dack Hacksaw morals come from a religous belief? Wrong. Morals come from a higher objective standard. God isn’t a religion Soo
Ouch
Zane : it must hurt your head so much to make yourself believe all of this, it takes more to believe there is no God than that there is one just like you believe the sky is blue because it is, arguing God’s existence is not possible by human standards because God is eternal and we are not, if you think he can be proved i think you underestimate who God really is, we know he exists because he has put that instinct in us, but the pride of man suppressed that idea, this is the truth no matter how much you fight against it or disagree the truth is the truth, but if you seek him sincerely and pray to him to help you in these things, you will find him and know him, try it, and i have 100% certainty your prayers will be answered.
Deuteronomy 4:29 – But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find [him], if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
Hahahaha
Gods don’t exist…….
This isn’t a fairy tale or video game……
No gods, no devils, no demons, no angels, no fairies, no unicorns, no dragons, no miracles, no super powers, no super heroes, no mystical healers…
Funk:
You be you.
I’m interested in discussing cosmology with atheists.
Mud:
Where do you think the universe came from?
+ArtificiallyFlavord Dear young communist….. if you were not artificially flavoured, you wouldn’t have become so spiritually morosophic. To claim there is no God, is claiming to have omniscience.. which is a claim to being god yourself, hence you’re not even intelligent enough to recognize your own intense intellectual suicide. You are the pinnacle of the fool in God’s eyes;
God/Jesus calls the “atheist” a liar;
Psa 14:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. Psa 14:2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. Psa 14:3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. .
.. and thus God/Jesus calls such a liar for he/she claims to be an “atheist” when God/Jesus from the factory, already installed knowledge of His existence within your very being so that it can’t be removed so that it’s inescapable. Seems you may have had a father that wasn’t there.. or a evil father.. and thus instead of blaming him, you blame God/Jesus wrongfully.. as a way to ‘get back at that father that wasn’t there or was an evil father”. It’s what the spiritually immature and infantile selfish do until they actually spiritually grow up by a serious humbling by God/Jesus Himself giving that so called “Atheist” a Damascus Road epiphany that finally humbles them greatly and thus forces them them to see how grieviously they were lying to themselves that God didn’t exist, and that they should have been 100% fair to God/Jesus and instead of blaming God, blame their earthly father. Lastly.. for the lying-to-self-perpetually “Atheist”.. it’s not about the observational ‘science’ (practical knowledge) to the dishonest ‘atheist’, it’s about the will of man. It’s because of men’s refusal of having a God in their life because of their deep wounds of a father that wasn’t there or a evil father that was. The lure of ‘evolution’ voraciously feeds that carnal sin hence why it has such appeal for the natural man. The reasons for it is not because they are not intelligent enough to comprehend it, but it is in their will to reject having a God be the best Father to them they could ever have since they are spiritually blinded by their immense internal spiritual pain. They do NOT want at all to hold God in their knowledge, to retain Him in what they know of this world. It is not because of the alleged evidence and ‘consensus approved’ claims the mainstream ‘science’ makes that are supposedly overwhelming that they are compelled to accept it; instead, it is because the depravity of man w/o a true God in his/her life will relentlessly seek to find some explanation for mankind’s origins that will eliminate God and what He came on earth to do for mankind, completely. They know indeed if, if there is a ‘God’ then they are morally responsible to Him and truly then, there is no escaping the final judgment. Therefore they will lie to themselves even unto death, just so they can live a life of serving ‘self’ (pure essence of satanism) and not God (selfless). Jesus was making clear all along… that as men grew more conceited over their self-styled carnal temporal knowledge, they plunged deeper into willful ignorance and morosis nonsense. These two things always characterize those who reject the knowledge of God—they become insufferably infantile conceited and abysmally ignorant at the same time because of their willful rejection of what they know to be true, but prefer to live for “SELF” living a great lie, then living for God/Jesus in unvarnished truth… the former is true satanism.. the latter is incomparable salvation.
There is 1 God and if there isn’t Then who made u?
If your argument is – _because something exists, then there must be a creator._
Then who created god?
And if God is all knowing, all powerful, and the creator of everything…
…then doesn’t that mean all evil and misfortune in the world is by his design or negligence to prevent?
Just … WOW!
-autists- atheists swarming the comments in 3… 2… 1….
Using “autist” as an insult. How classy.
Backwood707 because I’m 19 and under mommy and Daddy’s roof, I wouldn’t mind moving to the Nordic countries, that’s if they don’t become Islamic countries like Sweden is trying to do at the moment.
Sweden isn’t trying to do that. Muslims are a tiny minority, even there. Whatever they tell you about it is lies.
HAHA!
+Jonathan Bowen only a beta would find a reason to belittle themself, you’re just doing this to yourself
You don’t need to travel the world to find God. “The Kingdom of Heaven is within you”.
You are your own god.
Kevin Morley Amen! Your body is the temple!!!!
Kevin Morley yes. That god. That gid is right.
17 kids were *murdered* in a Florida school last week. If there are any gods or goddesses they are either impotent or evil, take your pick. The only reason at this point to find a god or a goddess is to figure out how to *kill it as quickly as possible* before it does any more damage to us.
Dayan Espinoza what about mentally ill people(which most of killers are) ? How are they supposed to improve themselves? They simply cant because of their disabillity. “Free will” is an illusion made up by humans.
Yeah, that former co-worker of mine really was essential to that old man’s learning curve when he was learning about good and bad when he (by even the most narrow definition) raped her when she was four years old. How good she was there to help him learn.
Dayan Espinoza
How is it freewill if he knows what actions I will make in the future?
+Virtual Willis the fact you don’t know you’re a communist.. and attempting to judge the only God who is perfect, and the fact you never bothered to read the Holy Bible with an honest searching for truth since He is the God of where absolute truth flows from, the fact you never bothered to maturely undertake a long time study to see that you are the imperfect one trying to judge a perfect and the only God, shows the sheer immensity of the utter delusions and gullible status you are in that you are that so non-intelligent to be unable to comprehend that if you remove God from your schools etc and all you teach children is violence via TV SHOWS / MOVIES / VIDEO GAMES.. .. what do you expect will happen? You seem to be yet another post 1990s born millenial, truly you are a infantile dictator in perpetuity – The malevolent level of your rapacious demented mind, which could only come from a perpetual child who refuses to grow up and is the dictator of his own micro-cosmic reality, is why your words and those who vote them up, demonstrate the profound willfull ignorance of the depth of error flawed reasoning in your claims. God is perfect, He has never sinned, we mankind have.. so it follows the femtosecond you imagine in utter greatly dishonourable mindlessness that you as a imperfect being can judge God, who is the only perfect being, your immediately self-refute because of this indisputable and inescapable fact of the true nature reality you subsist in. When you actually spiritually and mentally mature, hopefully then you won’t be dead and you will still be alive to actually become born again (John 3:3-5 / Matthew 8:34-38 / Luke 9:23-24, 14:27, 17:33 / John 12:24-25 / Galatians 5:19-26 / 1Corinthians 1:30-31/Matthew 6:1-34 etc) and actually finally stop lying to yourself that your worldview is brutally honest truth, when it’s grand lies to support a very debased carnal mind.
Backwood707 oh so God isn’t omnipotent? Because an omnipotent being actually could create a world where there was no suffering and yet maintained everyone’s free will.
Ask yourself, is there suffering in heaven? Is there free will there?
If there is no suffering but everyone has free will then your own argument here crumbles because even *you* believe that free will is possible without any suffering.
Dumbass.
she actually said absolutely nothing.
No, sound was on, can you enlighten me ?
background and childhood story, a lot of talking about things she did and people she met with nothing especially relevant, ending by saying a lot of general things with no real conclusion.
i click on Ted videos to either be informed or inspired, not to watch someone saying hey look at me i’m cool, for 16 minutes.
I think this video tried to be informative, with the point being, even if you’re a “none” you can still believe in something. But I think you’re right. This was mostly just her showing off her journey, so I wouldn’t call it that informative.
That would be a TID talk. Personally I found her talk to be entertaining and encouraging. Sorry you wasted your time. Now you know that TED talks are not all about technology and design. Go in peace my friend.
true
Essentially she came to the conclusion that “god” is nowhere to be found, but that people share the same needs and desires.
Jesus loves all of you, come to Him. 🙂
+Dack Hacksaw I’m a bible historian,… long time historian.. and obviously you’re an ultracrepidarianist fool who spreads lies.
+Renato Pascon He’s the only one who will love you in the true definition of love for He is the God of what love really means, which is to lay down His life for you so that you may gain salvation by repenting and believing on the only one who can save you since autosoterism is a satanic teaching.
+Aaron Rosenberg .. so states the fool in God’s eyes.. typical of the maladroit mentally malignant mendacious morosophists who are believe they have something to do with being a true physical israelite of today.
You assume that any work has ever been done on your behalf to show that god exists. That work has never been accomplished, despite millennia of desperate assertions. You’ve got nothing. In fact you’ve got more than nothing, as is evidenced by your silly irrelevant rant.
Martyr4JesusTheChrist he’s dead. He died every possible death. He’s as dead as you will be in a maximum of 90years. No matter what age you are now you’re going to dead:) and there is nothing waiting for you. There was nothing there before you were born and there will be nothing after you have died.
What exists of Jesus today is a vague collection of hopes, memories and speculation. And lies.
He’s over and so will Christianity be soon.
I love watching the annual data regarding the proportion of unbelievers rise in western countries every year. It’s the feeling of truth winning out of lies and superstition. It’s like the clouds lifting and everything becoming clear.
Why are so many people in search of god? Live your life, behave well, make the best of your time, enjoy yourself, do good. At the end of the day you will find out about a higher being anyway.
Your argument automatically puts you in the wrong side of things for trying to force your way of thinking into other people. DO understand that different people has different ways of viewing life and you cannot expect them to “choose the right path” since absolutelly no one can be sure which path is the right one.
Whom are you talking to? I know that YT got rid of @ and + but it just makes a lot of confusion.
Doom Maker that one was for the “Master of None”. Sorry for not especifying lol
Because it’s very important, according to the beliefs of billions of people (of primarily the Abrahamic faiths), that you get the answer correct. You get it wrong, and their all powerful, loving, merciful, and *just* god will send you into never ending, fully conscious, physical and psychological (which is worse) torment. You’ll be in despair and torment forever, because he’s just and loving, of course…..
+Master of None Your username states it all why you don’t have the wisdom to see the obvious answer. People are in search of God because God created us to be spiritual beings for God Himself is Spirit, the Father Spirit of all spirits. Haven’t you noticed yet that you are never truly happy when you buy a car _(if you have bought one)_ , or bought a house _(if you have bought one)_ or that everytime you go acheive somthing you think you would make you happy truly, it really doesn’t, that you still feel not really happy? It’s because the way God/Jesus created us is that the happiness we are truly searchign for, that true happiness that can’t ever be ended that is beyond your wildest dreams .. will only be found in a true loving Father and son or daughter relationship with God/Jesus. That happiness you’ve been searching for your whole life.. is actually in God/Jesus, a true loving relationship with Him. Once you finally become His true son or daughter _(spiritually)_ you will see that the desires of this world that are material, and thus temporal and can never truly satisfy, are foolish to live your life attempting to obtain when the what Jesus _(God)_ offers, is a happiness and satisfaction that can not ever be compared to anything else in the world.
Mat 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Mat 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
Mat 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
The treasure Jesus _(God)_ is referring to .. is your love of God/Jesus, the fact you are willfully loving Him back and trying your best to love Him as He loves you.
I respect anyone who searches for answers. Most religious have never truly done that with an open mind.
because they claim that they already found it. If only they were faithful enough to put their faith to the test… but they’re taught no to do that because it is an insult to their god.
+Renato Pascon Pure morosophism, ultracrepidariansism and the pinnacle of illusory intellect., you keep spreading the defecating of your delusory sense of intelligence all over this page.
I encourage everyone to go on a journey like this. Led not by feelings and hearsay, by verifiable facts and critical thinking.
I was an extremely devout christian, but My highest duty was to truth, not belief.
I was certain I would find god, or at least some sort of proof of spirits or forces outside of our reality.
7 years I’ve searched and I found nothing, every single claim or story utterly disproved with the slightest bit of critical thinking and examination.
God doesn’t cure amputees.
When you truly realize what that means it all starts to make sense:
Why religions rely so much on faith rather than showing you.
Why you’re supposed to pray daily.
Why you’re supposed to not question god or his decisions or his prophets or his holy book.
Why there’s prophets at all rather than god just showing up in the sky.
Why bad things happen to good people, but also to bad people, and so do good things.
Why believers burn and ban books.
Because it’s all lies.
Because there is no god, just people that want to believe in one.
Some people say they found god where they were at their lowest:
You didn’t find god, You found help, you found faith in yourself and a community willing to help you. You found humans. Not god.
You don’t need a god.
You need family, friends and community.
Wow has the Devil fooled you good.. it’s not a wonder why he is the father of lies. What you prove is, by your own words, you couldn’t pour water out of a boot even if the instructions were on the heel. You spent all that time and still didn’t find God? That means you want to worship yourself, and you were not truly after ‘truth’ which God/Jesus is the fountain of and neither you were really ever a true believer.
“The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My mother taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.” –Nikola Tesla
“(modern science [‘science’ meaning “knowledge, practiced knowledge]) was born out of a Christian worldview.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
“On Science an Culture”, Encounter, Oct. 1962 “My worldly faculties are slipping away day by day. Happy it is for all of us that the true good does not lie in them. As they ebb, may they leave us as little children, trusting in the Father of Mercies and accepting His unspeakable gift. I bow before Him who is Lord of all.” –Michael Faraday, on his death bed, one of the greatest experimental philosophers, Doctorate from Oxford University, holding 97 unsought for distinctions who discovered Electricity.
“Education is useless without the Holy Bible.” –Noah Webster, Webster’s Dictionary.
“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent Being.” –Sir Isaac Newton, Principia, Book 3.
“I think in the first place that it is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the Holy Bible can never speak untruth—whenever its true meaning is understood.” –Galileo (Letter to Grand Duchess of Tuscany).
“The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order which has been imposed on it by God, and which he revealed to us in the language of mathematics.” –Kepler
“All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.” –Max Planck
“When the answer is simple, God is answering.” “I am not an atheist, and I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist.”[20] “Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.”[21] “There is harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognise, yet there are people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me to support such views.” “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.” “Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.” –Einstein
“A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.” –Dr. Fred Hoyle _(scientist who coined the term “Big Bang” who was unafraid to go wherever the facts led him, and who consequently recanted his atheism.)_
Head of Human Genome Project, Dr. Francis Collins, converts to New Testament Faith “I set out to prove that my atheist position was correct.” _(but he was tragically wrong)_
John Ray—Founder of Biology and Devout Christian Ray quoted experiments by Francesco Redi which contradicted spontaneous generation. Ray said that “My observation and affirmation is that there is no such thing in nature” and he referred to spontaneous generation as “the atheist’s fictitious and ridiculous account of the first production of mankind and other animals.” “He declared fossils were the petrified remains of extinct creatures. This was not accepted by biologists generally until a century later.”
“Since everything that is in motion must be moved by something, let us suppose there is a thing in motion which was moved by something else in motion, and that by something else, and so on. But this series cannot go on to infinity, so there must be some First Mover.” –Aristotle, “Physics”
“One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all… To be forced to believe only one conclusion–that everything in the universe happened by chance–would violate the very objectivity of science itself.” –Werner von Braun, Letter to CA State Board of Education, 9/14/72
“The laws of nature produce no events, they state the pattern to which every event have only and can be induced to happen, must conform. Just as the rules of Arithmetic state the pattern to which all transactions of money, must conform, if only you can get a hold of any money. Thus in one sense the laws of nature cover the whole field of space and time. In another what they leave out is precisely the whole real universe. The incessant ” “For every law says in the last resort: ‘If you have A, then B.” But first catch your A. The laws will not do it for you.” –C.S.Lewis
“The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the Divine.” –Dr. Vera Kistiakowski, Prof. of Physics Emeritus, MIT
“I stand in awe of God because of what He has done through his creation. Only a rookie who knows nothing about science would say science takes away from faith. If you really study science, it will bring you closer to God.” –Dr. James Tour, Nanoscientist, Rice Univ.
“If physics is the product of design, the universe must have a purpose, and the evidence of modern physics suggests strongly to me that the purpose includes us.” Paul Davies, Superforce, (1984)
“As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency–or rather, Agency–must be involved. Is it possible that suddenly, without intending to, we have stumbled upon scientific proof for the existence of a Supreme Being?” –George Greenstein, Astrophysicist, The Symbiotic Universe (1988)
“If everything in the universe came into being, then the cause of the universe must be transcendent, not a part of this universe,” Strauss argued. “Science kind of stumbled onto something that the Bible declared long ago … that the universe had a beginning.” –yt: Scientific Evidence for God – Dr. Strauss
“If some god-like being could be given the opportunity to plan a sequence of events with the express purpose of duplicating our “Garden of Eden,” that being would face a formidable task…it is unlikely that the Earth could ever be truly duplicated.” –Peter Ward, Geologist & Donald Brownlee, Astronomer “Rare Earth” (2000)
“It is my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than science… It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence.” –Alan Sandage, Astronomer (Newsweek, 1998)
“Where do you get information from?” Dr. John Lennox, Mathematics, Oxford Univ.
“Natural selection reduces genetic information.” Dr. Marciej Giertych, Population Geneticist, EU
Though not officially a believer in God, Hawking: “It obviously matters because if there is an edge (to the universe), somebody has to decide what should happen at the edge. You would really have to invoke God.”
I have really enjoyed a lot of TED talks. But TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design…so why is this a talk? And if you are going to allow a religious talk, in fairness, why not also offer the stage to someone that has the expereince of finding God? TED has a very clear agenda and pushes only cetain ideas–but continue to claim otherwise.
E – entertainment
+Ben Debayle … so when it’s 3rd wave feminist cultural marxism being pushed.. do you comment on those?
Wasted 16 minutes.
Eternity doesn’t have a clock.. much much much much wiser to live life as if there is a God to find out there isn’t rather than live as if there isn’t to find out there was one after all.
Health, Happiness, and Love are all things we must create for ourselves first. It can’t be given.
Learn what ‘create’ actually means etymologically.. here i will help you out; the word means ‘Ex-nihlo’ which is something only God can do, it’s what HE does, not man. Only God is grammatically the subject of the word “CREATE” contrary to your communist education and destruction of intelligent English.
if you want to know the truth , ask with all sincerity of god to guide you to the right path & l swear to you that right here https://youtu.be/wrB-O09wxrc like jesus { peace be upon him } said : look for the truth and the truth will free you
I believe Jesus Is Who He said He was. Try a Bible based church. Jesus said to not to separate and make denominations, they’re weird. Find a church who follows Jesus and goes by the Bible. Jesus is the answer and if you listen to what He taught and what He did you will see the light and shine bright as you were made to do.