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it's a good thing that I have Ted--ed around to be loved

Who else is here who don't understand anything ?????

TED-Ed Audible says it’s $14, not free...

Any affiliation to the Smashing Pumpkins: "Here Is No Why"

I draw from the absurd three consequences which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion.

@@Blackstreak8 Probably.

He was born in 1936 - Slaughterhouse 5 was first published in 1969 - Vonnegut was still a young 30 something when he wrote Slaughterhouse 5.

I am pretty sure he was not born in 1936, as that would have precluded his service in WW2, in the 106th Division.

Vonnegut born 1922.

Amazing brother

@@51Dss Damn bro you didnt research did you?

wanna see my summary from my book report?

wait, let me find it

oh wait, it was very bad. And so it goes...

You might like my short story collection, Stalking KIlgore Trout, molded after Kurt's influence. Learn more at rcthom.com

The problem is that you probably were not well connected.

+heyyfirefly I am sorry about your father,I'd love to imagine he's up there somewhere hanging out with Vonnegut.I haven't read Vonnegut yet but now I want to read him.Thanks for sharing your story and i pray that you find your peace....

So it goes.

​@@hrishikeshparab1236 Thank you very much for the nice words, it really made me smile and also that is such a good picture to imagine! I hope you will love the books ! :)

that is a beautiful story that brings a tear to my eyes . i hope that i can have as beautiful of a connection with my daughter .

Thank you for sharing such a sweet and personal story. I lost my deadbeat dad 2 years ago too, and it was his dying (long and painful) that made me realize I had to accept him just as he is. Acceptance of death and learning unconditional love was what my dad gave me. ✌️❤️

Love this

We are glad you are here, Rachel!

Glad your better, that sounds neat

I have his self portrait on my calf, cheers!

There is no such thing as the future.

I thought the same thing too!

agreed! i love his art style, honestly it’s like he predicted the modern style of minimalist tattoos

And they correctly made KV left handed.

I lost it at the flag in the Granfalloon part!

I love that, out of tall the stories he told about his family, his uncle saying that on a calm day is a lesson that always stuck with me.

God, I literally just read it for the first time. Can't believe no one's talking abt it. I recommend this book to anyone who can read

@@yochabelfatima5260 i just read it too! i enjoyed it very much

The first time I read it in the late '60s, I was depressed for a week. Can't wait to read it again.

Based

The Sirens of Titan is literally my favorite book haha

Also one of my all time favorites

That is a beautiful story and quote. It touches me to the core.

cham there's a lot of swearing in slaughterhouse five.

@@vivek7154 they could have taught it in uni. Haha

@Mr. E They probably thought that a bunch of Shakespeare's gonna do us good, but these kinds of stories also helps us acknowledge different perspectives (ps I love Shakespeare).

I read this in my junior english class in highschool

Andres Guttierrez me too it’s a fantastic book to read especially nowadays when a lot of the messages seem especially relevant

Uh I don't want to spite you but what is that Condibulum thingy?

@@aaronabraham2814 Why would you? If there is something you don't know or don't understand, you have every right to ask it everywhere, everyone and everytime. So don't feel like spiting something. But I'm sorry I didn't understand you. I watched the video again and couldn't find the word of "condibulum". Find things similar it but the exact word. Could you tell me the time the voice tells it.

@@rasgeleisim I'm sorry I messed up the letters It's This 3:04

Okay. Sorry for not knowing that term. Since it's a scientific term and I'm just someone who only knows a little English. Even though I had some guesses based on what they showed us I checked and found this explanation. "A point in space where, upon a person entering it, that person's existence in space-time ceases to be linear, becoming discrete. This means that a person that has entered a chronosynclastic infundibulum exists at multiple points and lines in space-time. For example, such a person could exist at all points in time in one place and also appear at another point for five minutes. " I don't know if you ever watched fringe but there were a cult who can do that and it was explained like that; Think the time and space flow like waterfalling and there is a point you can watch it from outside and see the beginning and ending in the sametime. I hope I made the right explanation.

@@rasgeleisim Hmm I did search that and still didn't understand hence I asked . Anyway thanks for trying. Btw What's Fringe?

@Celtic Revival / Adfywiad Celtaidd I am Bengali myself, and yes, I am well aware that other cultures have beautiful literature as well.❤️ I love exploring foreign writers and taking a peek into their culture

@@tasnimnaz7109 Agreed, Ted-Ed is a blessing for us all in ways... Hopefully our country could possibly come to a sense of moral, social and civil awareness and the importance of it's integrity in the future, I imagine we won't be seeing this in our time but perhaps after we're long gone at least a significant no. of Bangladeshis would finally understand the basics of what it means to live as fellow countrymen, to work selflessly and not seek any sort of meaning or selfish satisfaction behind the deeds (taking a page or two from good ol' Kurt Vonnegut), which could possibly ultimately contribute to a nation TRULY making a leap in the right direction.

every day, meaning each day. everyday means ordinary. I run for exercise every day. My everyday exercise program includes running.

As an English Major, I am in utter need of a job and a direction in life

@@ConfuseingGameing Teaching, reporting, proofreading, advertising, free-lance writing, ghost-writing. Many lawyers start out with an English degree before entering law school. If you have or can learn another language, translating is an option. There is a whole field emerging in forensic language (does the "suicide note" really follow the use-of-language used by the deceased before his death?) I'm not being snarky here, but why are you majoring in something for which you apparently have no passion and can see no future?

I will send you a copy of God Bless you, Mr Rosewater.

I'm 20, is it relatable or smth?

Kenyce I don’t think age is necessarily relevant to the novel. I just remember feeling like it was one of the most imaginative works of literature I had read at that point in my life.

Noah Hopkins I’d love that! 😁

My first was "Player Piano". Written in 1952; highly prophetic then, and more relevant than ever now, in 2020. Cat's Cradle is another long-time favorite that particularly resonates with me; and Galapagos as well. When Kurt died, Jon Stewart said, "our world became a little less interesting today".

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Gut in German means good

Who are you, your everywhere

that pun sucked. i vonnegut out of here

Puns for days!

It is..

I bet he did this for likes

depends, really

One of, definitely. Depends on your mood tbh

its just you

funnyavi god bless you is one of my favorite books. Its very endearing and thought provoking.

Agreed. If there's a Heaven, and I doubt there is, you'll find Mark Twain with a cigar and Kurt Vonnegut with his cigarettes discussing the beauty and foolishness of humans and also personal hair styling techniques.

I'd say maybe greatest American literary philosopher? rather than author. His prose is stark and simple, sometimes comically so. There are no beautiful descriptive passages (at least none I can remember). He was not a master of the English language, but the thoughts that he managed to put down on paper! and great compassion; he had a huge heart.

I was hooked on Vonnegut when I read "Welcome to the Monkey House". I became convinced of his genius when I read "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater". I believe I've read everything he wrote, and can comfortably assert that he's never failed to delight and enlighten. I don't think it's possible to fairly name a single greatest American Author, but Kurt Vonnegut, as far as I'm concerned and without a doubt, is a member of the set of "Great American Authors", or even, "Greatest American Authors". But. And I'm sorry to say this. If I could only select one American Novel to be alone with on a desert isle, it probably wouldn't be a Vonnegut. I'm not sure what it would be, please don't make me choose, because, oh my god, wouldn't that be an awful choice to have to make?

Cuvtixo D I agree 💯%

What

But they already know it

if that happened to me, the aliens would have picked sarah huckabee for me to mate with🤔

I hope PTSD was like that...

Is that why Google maps keeps giving me Google play services errors until I give them permission to the camera?

You forgot: Everything you ever need to know about life is in the book “The Brothers Karamazov”, and it’s not enough anymore.

Kurt is king of curt beginnings

'Poo-tee-weet?'

Excellent critique. Now that I'm older I can read his pessimism with a great of salt and enjoy the prose and simple life messages

He had first hand experiences from The Dresden Inferno (sic) which was a cruel and maningless revenge only killing innocent civilians. And exactly this first hand experience - thats where great literatur derives from (you can call it authentic writing!!)

@@Castaccio ​ @Castaccio Nut the kind of tea TED-Ed viewers WANT to drink (most of us)

Hey ikr i thought of Story of your life while reading Slaughterhouse Five as well!

Read more, kid.

@@KilgoreTrout-vo7uy Life is short, You can't read all of them.

And Slaughterhouse-Five is in turn inspired by The Fateful Adventures of Good Soldier Svejk.

You'll love Vonnegut if you enjoy thinking. He is why I became a writer. My short story collection, Stalking Kilgore Trout, is dedicated to Kurt's memory. details about my books at rcthom.com

Not so much underrated as underread. People who read Vonnegut rate him highly I think.

Space Alien Jesus Those are my two favorites too 🙂

Cats cradle What is it about buddy?

@@RajuyCh-ug9ok bout to ask the same question when i saw this xD.

Same the book name come up like a trillion times, whats it about. can you tell me a nonspoilery review >?

@@avigokuu Ohh god you heard a trillion times and too lazy to google about it ..... Just like me 😁😁

@@RajuyCh-ug9ok it is hard to explain, guess you watched the video. it mentions in 3:26, basically about a writer who wants to write a book about life of the inventer of the atom bomb and bokononism

Bluebeard is my second-favorite Vonnegut book. Sirens of Titan has always been #1 for me. I feel like Bluebeard doesn't get enough credit.

Me too.

Which one of these two would you prefer to me

Same here. I loved the story but forgot who wrote it until I found it again in “welcome to the monkey house”. Even after reading so many of his novels I never put it together until decades later.

Yes! Or even more apt for today's zeitgeist: Why should you read Aldous Huxley?!?!

Galapagos.

Dan Ceteras ayyyyy Eraserhead

Timequake is a terrible one! I read it because I love some of his other novels, but it was a challenge ... Maybe Vonnegut isn't for you, but don't give up on novels! :)

before the internet this could not have happened to you. I believe I might have tried Timequake in the late 80s. No internet to take me away from book reading altogether.

As far as I know Kurt Vonnegut struggled with depressions coming and going for the rest of his life.

Veterans coming back home often report missing the war because of the camaraderie and sense of belonging. They rather be at war with other soldiers than in our disjointed society. Let that sink in.

+AL sinking in... wow 💯 🍻

@@AL-fc5sz well, it's our disjointed society that sends them out in the first place. Vets' are incredibly, painfully aware of this. Vonnegut protested Vietnam, I'm sure Iraq and Afghanistan broke his heart.

AL That sense of comaradary comes from two places. At first it is created by the military because they need them to be willing to think as a group and not as individuals for both their safety, but also to make them willing to sacrifice themselves for a cause. They create this with both gruelling methods and other simple things like uniform s and symbols. Then, later, once these young and often naive young people actually experience war and combat, they become disallusioned about what they are doing, but often experience this awakening together so they are still willing to continue to help protect their comrades. Those comrades then become the only ones who they feel can truly understand them. This is why anyone that serves their country should never be without medical care, specifically psychological help. They were programmed at the start and need de-programming. What they need most of all is a lot of support in every area of life. When you live to just survive day to day, it must be so surreal to just be thrown back into a desensitized society that still holds on to outdated stigmas. I honestly can't imagine and I have PTSD myself, but not from war or combat like that. I don't think I could survive that either unless there was a real structure to get the help they need psychologically and just to integrate back into society. People are still to quick to judge because I guess understanding takes more effort or even being able to look deeper inside yourself and question ideas we were taught as truth that aren't necessarily truth at all. Most people seem to just rather ignore it and go shopping or whatever makes them NOT think.