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Danger Of Using Weak Words

Entrepreneur and financial advisor Patrick Bet-David says everything in life is about language. There is a danger in using the wrong words and power in using the right ones. “Words have so much weight behind them,” Bet-David says. “There are certain words I refuse to accept. Why? I don’t like another person imposing their fears, insecurities and victimhood on me.” He emphasizes that the change from good to bad and from bad to good are both caused by words. “Be very careful what words you use,” he says. Here’s more from Valuetainment.

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Power of Your Intentions

A few thoughts on the emotional impact of words and thought. Truthstream Media performs the Rice Experiment.

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The Power Of Last Words

We are pumping broadcasts into space as an ever-expanding sphere of radio waves, says Michael Stevens. “But here’s something humbling,” he says. “Even at the speed of light, Earth’s radio sphere is puny.”

So will our radio waves ever reach our neighbors in the universe and what will they hear–Hitler’s address from the 1936 Olympics, Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech or Neil Armstrong’s epithet from the moon? Stevens addresses the power of last words and first words in this edition of Vsauce.

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The Power of Slur Words

Race has been a big topic of national discussion in the last few weeks, from Paula Deen getting fired for saying the n-word to Rachel Jeantel saying the phrase “creepy-ass cracker.” CNN’s Don Lemon decided an “honest and difficult conversation” was needed, and so that’s just what he did, the end result being a direct and honest discussion about the taboos surrounding the use of the n-word in popular culture and how it led to the firing of celebrity chef Paula Deen.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This video has disappeared from YouTube. In its absence, we present another video from Bitchute, featuring Paula Deen making a Creamy Mac ‘n’ Cheese.)

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