EG 2007
AJ Jacobs: My year of living biblically
Godina biblijskog života A.J. Jacobsa
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Govoreći na nedavnoj EG konferenciji (Entertainment Gathering), autor, filozof, šaljivac i novinar A.J. Jacobs govori o godini dana koju je proveo živeći po Bibliji - pridržavajući se pravila na doslovan način.
AJ Jacobs - Author
Immersing himself in alternate lifestyles and long, hilarious experiments (usually with himself the guinea pig), writer AJ Jacobs tests the limits of behavior, customs, culture, knowledge -- and his wife's sense of humor. Full bio
Immersing himself in alternate lifestyles and long, hilarious experiments (usually with himself the guinea pig), writer AJ Jacobs tests the limits of behavior, customs, culture, knowledge -- and his wife's sense of humor. Full bio
Double-click the English transcript below to play the video.
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I thought I'd tell you a little about what I like to write.
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Trebao bih vam reći nešto o stvarima o kojima volim pisati.
00:20
And I like to immerse myself in my topics.
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Volim se udubiti u svoje priče.
00:24
I just like to dive right in and become sort of a human guinea pig.
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Jednostavno volim uroniti u to i postati neka vrsta ljudskog zamorca
00:29
And I see my life as a series of experiments.
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Svoj život vidim kao niz pokusa.
00:34
So, I work for Esquire magazine, and a couple of years ago,
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Pišem za časopis Esquire i prije nekoliko godina
00:38
I wrote an article called "My Outsourced Life,"
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napisao sam članak pod nazivom "My Outsourced Life"
00:41
where I hired a team of people in Bangalore, India,
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o tome kako sam unajmio skupinu ljudi u Bangaloreu, Indiji
00:45
to live my life for me.
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da žive moj život umjesto mene.
00:47
So, they answered my emails.
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Odgovarali su na moje mailove.
00:49
They answered my phone.
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Odgovarali su na moje telefonske pozive.
00:51
They argued with my wife for me, and they read my son bedtime stories.
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U moje ime svađali su se sa mojom ženom, a zatim čitali priče za laku noć mojem sinu.
00:58
It was the best month of my life,
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To je bio najboljih mjesec dana u mom životu
01:00
because I just sat back and I read books and watched movies.
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jer ja sam za to vrijeme sjedio, čitao knjige i gledao filmove.
01:05
It was a wonderful experience.
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Bilo je to prekrasno iskustvo.
01:07
More recently, I wrote an article for Esquire called --
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Nedavno sam napisao članak za Esquire pod nazivom -
01:10
about radical honesty.
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o temeljnoj iskrenosti.
01:13
And this is a movement where --
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To je u stvari pokret
01:15
this is started by a psychologist in Virginia,
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koji je pokrenuo jedan psiholog iz Virginije
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who says that you should never, ever lie,
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a koji tvrdi da ama baš nikad ne bismo trebali lagati
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except maybe during poker and golf, his only exceptions.
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osim možda u pokeru i golfu, njegove jedine iznimke.
01:27
And, more than that, whatever is on your brain
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A povrh toga, što god vam je u mislima
01:29
should come out of your mouth.
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trebalo bi odmah izreći.
01:31
So, I decided I would try this for a month.
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Odlučio sam isprobati to na mjesec dana.
01:34
This was the worst month of my life.
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Najgorih mjesec dana u mom životu.
01:37
(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
01:38
I do not recommend this at all.
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Ne bih vam preporučio.
01:40
To give you a sense of the experience,
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Da vam bolje dočaram moje iskustvo
01:42
the article was called, "I Think You're Fat."
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članak se zvao "Mislim da si debeo"
01:46
(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
01:48
So, that was hard.
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Nije mi bilo lako.
01:50
My most recent book -- my previous book was called "The Know-It-All,"
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Moja najnovija knjiga - knjiga prije te zvala se "Sveznalica"
01:55
and it was about the year I spent reading the Encyclopedia Britannica
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i u njoj sam opisao godinu dana koju sam proveo čitajući Enciklopediju Britannicu
01:59
from A to Z in my quest to learn everything in the world,
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od A do Z, u svom pothvatu da naučim sve na svijetu
02:03
or more precisely from Aak, which is a type of East Asian music,
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ili, preciznije, od A-ak, što je vrsta istočno-azijske muzike
02:08
all the way to Zwyiec, which is -- well, I don't want to ruin the ending.
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sve do Zwyiec- što je ..ma, ne bih htio pokvariti kraj.
02:12
(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
02:13
It's a very exciting twist ending, like an O. Henry novel, so I won't ruin it.
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Ima jako uzbudljiv i nepredvidljiv kraj, kao roman O. Henryja, ne želim vam to upropastiti.
02:17
But I love that one,
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Ali volim tu knjigu
02:19
because that was an experiment about how much information
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jer to je bio eksperiment o tome koliko informacija
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one human brain could absorb.
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jedan ljudski mozak može upiti,
02:25
Although, listening to Kevin Kelly, you don't have to remember anything.
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iako, ako slušate Kevina Kelleya, ne morate zapamtiti ništa.
02:29
You can just Google it.
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Samo ga potražite na Googleu.
02:31
So, I wasted some time there.
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Tako sam izgubio malo vremena.
02:33
I love those experiments,
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Volim te eksperimente,
02:36
but I think that the most profound
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ali mislim da je najopširniji
02:38
and life-changing experiment that I've done
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pokus koji sam napravio, pokus kojim se potpuno promijeni život,
02:42
is my most recent experiment, where I spent a year
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je moj zadnji pokus, kada sam proveo godinu dana
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trying to follow all of the rules of the Bible,
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pokušavajući pratiti sva Biblijska pravila
02:49
"The Year of Living Biblically."
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"Godina biblijskog života"
02:52
And I undertook this for two reasons.
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Pokus sam započeo iz dva razloga.
02:55
The first was that I grew up with no religion at all.
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Prvi je zato jer sam odrastao apsolutno bez religije.
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As I say in my book, I'm Jewish in the same way
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Kao što kažem u knjizi, ja sam Židov
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the Olive Garden is Italian.
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koliko je Olive Garden italijanski.
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(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
03:07
So, not very.
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Dakle, ne baš.
03:09
But I've become increasingly interested in religion.
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Ali moje zanimanje za religiju se jako povećalo.
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I do think it's the defining issue of our time,
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Smatram da je religija definirajuće obilježje našeg vremena,
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or one of the main ones.
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ili bar jedno od glavnih.
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And I have a son. I want to know what to teach him.
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Imam sina. Žalim znati čemu ga naučiti.
03:19
So, I decided to dive in head first, and try to live the Bible.
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Pa sam odlučio uskočiti u to, i pokušati živjeti Bibliju.
03:24
The second reason I undertook this is because
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Drugi razlog zbog čega sam započeo ovaj poduhvat je
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I'm concerned about the rise of fundamentalism,
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što sam zabrinut zbog rasta fundamentalizma.
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religious fundamentalism, and people who say
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religijskog fundamentalizma, i ljudi koji tvrde
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they take the Bible literally, which is, according to some polls,
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da dosovno shavaćaju Bibliju, a to je, po nekim istraživanjima,
03:36
as high as 45 or 50 percent of America.
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45 ili 50 posto Amerike.
03:40
So I decided, what if you really did take the Bible literally?
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Tako sam odlučio, što ako zbilja Bibliju shvatite doslovno?
03:44
I decided to take it to its logical conclusion
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Odlučio sam to logički sprovesti
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and take everything in the Bible literally,
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i shvatiti sve u Bibliji doslovno
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without picking and choosing.
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bez izabiranja.
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The first thing I did was I got a stack of bibles.
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Prvo sam uzeo hrpu Biblija.
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I had Christian bibles.
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U njoj sam imao kršćanske Biblije.♫
03:58
I had Jewish bibles.
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Židovske Biblije.
04:00
A friend of mine sent me something called a hip-hop bible,
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Prijatelj mi je poslao knjigu koja se zove hip-hop Biblija,
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where the twenty-third Psalm is rendered as, "The Lord is all that,"
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u kojoj se 23 Psalam recitira kao "Bog je sve to,"
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as opposed to what I knew it as, "The Lord is my shepherd."
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kao suprotno onome što sam ja znao "Bog je pastir moj,"
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Then I went down and I read several versions,
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Tada sam pročirao nekoliko primjera,
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and I wrote down every single law that I could find.
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i zapisao sam svaki zakon na koji sam naišao.
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And this was a very long list -- over 700 rules.
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Liista je bila vrlo dugačka - preko 700 pravila.
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And they range from the famous ones that I had heard of --
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Koja su se kretala od onih poznatih za koje sam čuo -
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The Ten Commandments, love your neighbor, be fruitful and multiply.
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Deset zapovijedi, voli svog bližnjeg, budi plodan i množi se.
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So I wanted to follow those.
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I želio sam ih provoditi.
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And actually, I take my projects very seriously,
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Svojim projektima pristupam ozbiljno,
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because I had twins during my year,
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dobio sam blizance u toj godini dana,
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so I definitely take my projects seriously.
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tako da sigurno pristupam ozbiljno.
04:39
But I also wanted to follow the hundreds
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Također sam želio pratiti stotine
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of arcane and obscure laws that are in the Bible.
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zastarjelih i nejasnih zakona Biblije.
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There is the law in Leviticus,
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Postoji zakon u Levitu (jednoj od 5 knjiga Tore)
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"You cannot shave the corners of your beard."
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"Ne možete obrijati kuteve brade."
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I didn't know where my corners were,
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Nisam znao gdje su mi kutevi,
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so I decided to let the whole thing grow,
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pa sam odlučio pustiti sve da raste,
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and this is what I looked like by the end.
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i ovako sam izgledao na kraju.
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As you can imagine, I spent a lot of time at airport security.
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Kao što možete i zamisliti, proveo sam dosta vremena na osiguranju u zračnim lukama.
05:01
(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
05:03
My wife wouldn't kiss me for the last two months.
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Moja žena me nije htjela poljubiti zadnja dva mjeseca.
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So, certainly the challenge was there.
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Dakle, sigurno je postojao izazov.
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The Bible says you cannot wear clothes made of mixed fibers,
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Biblija kaže da ne možete nositi odjeću od miješanih vlakana,
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so I thought, "Sounds strange, but I'll try it."
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pomislio sam. "Zvuči čudno, ali probat ću"
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You only know if you try it.
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Saznat će te jedino ako probate.
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I got rid of all my poly-cotton T-shirts.
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Riješio sam se svih majica od poli-pamuka.
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The Bible says that if two men are in a fight,
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Biblija kaže da ako se dva muškarca bore,
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and the wife of one of those men grabs the testicles of the other man,
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a žena jednog od njih zgrabi testise drugoga,
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then her hand shall be cut off.
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odsjeći će joj se ruka.
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So, I wanted to follow that rule.
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Tako da sam želio provoditi to pravilo.
05:34
(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
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That one I followed by default,
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To sam pravilo automatski slijedio,
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by not getting in a fight with a man whose wife was standing nearby,
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tako da nisam ulazio u tuču sa muškarcem čija je žena bila blizu,
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looking like she had a strong grip.
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i izgledala kao da ima čvrst stisak.
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(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
05:48
So -- oh, there's another shot of my beard.
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Ah, evo još jednog snimka moje brade.
05:52
I will say it was an amazing year
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Reći ću da je to bila nevjerojatna godina
05:54
because it really was life changing, and incredibly challenging.
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jer mi je zbilja promijenila život i bila puna izazova.
05:57
And there were two types of laws that were particularly challenging.
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Dvije vrste zakona bile su poseban izazov.
06:00
The first was avoiding the little sins that we all commit every day.
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Prvi je bio izbjegavanje sitnih svakodnevnih grjehova.
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You know, I could spend a year not killing,
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Mislim, mogao sam provesti godinu dana bez ubijanja,
06:06
but spending a year not gossiping, not coveting, not lying --
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ali godina dana bez tračanja, priželjkivanja tuđeg, bez laganja -
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you know, I live in New York, and I work as a journalist,
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znate, živim u New Yorku i radim kao novinar,
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so this was 75, 80 percent of my day I had to do it.
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tako da je to bilo 75, 80 posto mog dana.
06:19
But it was really interesting, because I was able to make some progress,
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Ali ono što je zbilja bilo zanimljivo je da sam uspio napredovati
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because I couldn't believe how much
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jer nisam mogao vjerovati u kojoj mjeri
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my behavior changed my thoughts.
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je moje ponašanje promijenilo moje misli.
06:29
This was one of the huge lessons of the year,
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To je bila jedna od velikih lekcija te godine,
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is that I almost pretended to be a better person,
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da sam se skoro pretvarao da sam bolja osoba,
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and I became a little bit of a better person.
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a postao sam malo bolja osoba.
06:37
So I had always thought, you know, "You change your mind,
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Uvijek sam mislio "Promijeni misli,
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and you change your behavior," but it's often the other way around.
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i promijenit ćeš ponašanje," ali često su stvari obrnute.
06:45
You change your behavior, and you change your mind.
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Promijeniš ponašanje i promijeniš misli.
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So, you know, if you want to become more compassionate,
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Dakle, ako želite postatni više sućutni,
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you visit sick people in the hospital,
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posjetite bolesne ljude u bolnici,
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and you will become more compassionate.
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i zbilja će te osjećati više sućuti.
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You donate money to a cause,
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Donirajte novac u neku svrhu,
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and you become emotionally involved in that cause.
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i postajete emocionalno vezani za tu svrhu.
07:02
So, it really was cognitive psychology --
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Tako da je to u stvari bila kognitivna psihologija -
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you know, cognitive dissonance -- that I was experiencing.
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kognitivna disonanca, ono što sam iskusio.
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The Bible actually talks about cognitive psychology,
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U stvari, Biblija i govori o kognitivnoj psihologiji,
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very primitive cognitive psychology.
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vrlo primitivnoj kognitivnoj psihologiji.
07:13
In the Proverbs, it says that if you smile, you will become happier,
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u Poslovicama, rečeno je da ako se smijete, bit će te sretniji,
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which, as we know, is actually true.
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a kako znamo, to je istina.
07:20
The second type of rule that was difficult to obey
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Drugi tip pravila koje je bilo teško poštovati
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was the rules that will get you into a little trouble
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su bila pravila koja bi vas mogla dovesti u nepriliku
07:27
in twenty-first-century America.
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u 21 stoljeću u Americi.
07:30
And perhaps the clearest example of this is stoning adulterers.
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Možda najbolji primjer tog pravila je kamenovanje preljubnika.
07:35
(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
07:36
But it's a big part of the Bible,
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Ali zauzima veliki dio Biblije,
07:40
so I figured I had to address it.
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pa sam se morao pozabaviti time.
07:43
So, I was able to stone one adulterer.
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I bio sam u prilici da kamenujem jednog preljubnika.
07:45
It happened -- I was in the park, and I was dressed in my biblical clothing,
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Desilo se kad sam bio u parku, obučen u moju biblijsku odjeću -
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so sandals and sort of a white robe,
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sandale i bijelu halju -
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you know, because again, the outer affects the inner.
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jer ipak, vanjsko utječe na unutarnje.
07:55
I wanted to see how dressing biblically affected my mind.
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Želio sam vidjeti kako će se biblijsko odijevanje odraziti na moje misli.
07:59
And this man came up to me and he said,
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Tad mi je prišao čovjek i rekao,
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"Why are you dressed like that?"
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"Zašto si tako obučen?"
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And I explained my project,
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Objasnio sam mu na čemu radim,
08:05
and he said, "Well, I am an adulterer, are you going to stone me?"
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a on je rekao:"Dobro, ja sam preljubnik, hoćeš li me kamenovati?"
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And I said, "Well, that would be great!"
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A ja sam rekao:"Pa to bi bilo sjajno!"
08:11
(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
08:16
And I actually took out a handful of stones from my pocket
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Izvadio sam šaku kamenja iz džepa
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that I had been carrying around for weeks,
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koje sam nosio sa sobom tjednima,
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hoping for just this interaction -- and, you know, they were pebbles --
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priželjkujući ovakav susret- bili su to samo kamenčići-
08:27
but he grabbed them out of my hand.
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ali mi ih je on zgrabio iz ruke.
08:30
He was actually an elderly man, mid-70s, just so you know.
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Samo da znate, bio je to stariji gospodin, u sedamdesetima.
08:33
But he's still an adulterer, and still quite angry.
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Ali bio je preljubnik i k tome prilično ljut.
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He grabbed them out of my hand
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Zgrabio mi ih je iz ruke
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and threw them at my face, and I felt that I could --
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i bacio mi u lice, osjećao sam da bih mogao -
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eye for an eye -- I could retaliate, and throw one back at him.
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oko za oko, da bih mu mogao vratiti, pa sam bacio jedan natrag.
08:44
So that was my experience stoning, and it did allow me
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Bilo je to moje iskustvo kamenovanja i dopustilo mi je
08:47
to talk about, in a more serious way, these big issues.
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da ozbiljnije govorim o ovim važnim stvarima.
08:52
How can the Bible be so barbaric in some places,
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Kako je moguće da Biblija bude tako barbarska na nekim mjestima,
08:56
and yet so incredibly wise in others?
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a opet tako nevjerojatno mudra na drugima?
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How should we view the Bible?
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Kako bismo trebali promatrati Bibliju?
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Should we view it, you know, as original intent,
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Možda kao,znate, originalni plan,
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like a sort of a Scalia version of the Bible?
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kao Scalijinu verziju Biblije?
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How was the Bible written?
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Kao je Biblija napisana?
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And actually, since this is a tech crowd,
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Ustvari, kako je tu više tehnološka ekipa,
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I talk in the book about how the Bible actually reminds me
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u knjizi govorim kako me Biblija podsjeća
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of the Wikipedia, because it has all of these authors and editors
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na Wikipediju jer ima sve te autore i urednike
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over hundreds of years.
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preko stotinu godina.
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And it's sort of evolved.
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I nekako je evoluirala.
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It's not a book that was written and came down from on high.
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Nije to knjiga koja je napisana i sišla sa visina.
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So I thought I would end by telling you
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Mislio sam da bi bilo dobro završiti
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just a couple of the take-aways, the bigger lessons
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sa par naputaka, većih lekcija
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that I learned from my year.
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koje sam naučio u mojih godinu dana.
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The first is, thou shalt not take the Bible literally.
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Prva je - Ne uzmi Bibliju doslovno.
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This became very, very clear, early on.
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To je rano postalo vrlo, vrlo jasno.
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Because if you do, then you end up acting like a crazy person,
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Jer ako je shavtite doslovno, ponašat će te se kao luda osoba,
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and stoning adulterers, or -- here's another example.
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i kamenovati preljubnike, ili- evo još jednog primjera-
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Well, that's another. I did spend some time shepherding.
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interesantnog - neko vrijeme sam proveo kao pastir.
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(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
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It's a very relaxing vocation. I recommend it.
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Vrlo opuštajući poziv, preporučio bih ga.
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But this one is -- the Bible says that you cannot touch women
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Biblija kaže da ne možete dodirnuti žene
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during certain times of the month, and more than that,
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tijekom određenih dana u mjesecu, i uz to,
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you cannot sit on a seat where a menstruating woman has sat.
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ne možete sjesti tamo gdje je sjedila žena sa mjesečnicom.
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And my wife thought this was very offensive,
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Moja žena se jako uvrijedila na to,
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so she sat in every seat in our apartment,
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pa je sjela na svako mjesto za sjedenje u našem stanu,
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and I had to spend much of the year standing
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a ja sam morao provesti veći dio godine stojeći
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until I bought my own seat and carried it around.
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dok nisam kupio svoje sjedalo i nosio ga sa sobom okolo.
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So, you know, I met with creationists.
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I tako, susreo sam se i sa kreacionistima.
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I went to the creationists' museum.
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Bio sam u njihovom muzeju.
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And these are the ultimate literalists.
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Oni su zaista doslovni.
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And it was fascinating, because they were not stupid people at all.
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Bilo je fascinantno, je uopće nisu glupi ljudi.
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I would wager that their IQ is exactly the same as the average evolutionist.
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Kladio bih se da je njihov IQ jednak prosječnom evolucionistu.
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It's just that their faith is so strong
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Samo je stvar u tome što je njihova vjera toliko jaka
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in this literal interpretation of the Bible
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da u tom doslovnom tumačenju Biblije
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that they distort all the data to fit their model.
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da izokrenu sve podatke da se uklope u njihov model.
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And they go through these amazing mental gymnastics to accomplish this.
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Pri tome se stvarno izuzetno mentalno naprežu.
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And I will say, though, the museum is gorgeous.
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Moram reći, muzej je predivan.
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They really did a fantastic job.
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Odlično su to napravili.
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If you're ever in Kentucky,
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Ako ikad odete u Kentucky,
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there's, you can see a movie of the flood,
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- možete vidjeti film o poplavi,
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and they have sprinklers in the ceiling
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a imaju prskalice na stropu
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that will sprinkle on you during the flood scenes.
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koje će vas poprskati za vrijeme scena poplave.
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So, whatever you think of creationism -- and I think it's crazy --
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Pa tako, što god mislili o kreacionizmu, a ja mislim da je to ludost,
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they did a great job.
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napravili su odličan posao.
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(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
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Another lesson is that thou shalt give thanks.
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Još jedna pouka je da budete zahvalni.
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And this one was a big lesson because I was praying,
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A to je bila velika lekcija jer sam molio,
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giving these prayers of thanksgiving, which was odd for an agnostic.
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izgovarao te molitve zahvalnosti, što je čudno za agnostika.
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But I was saying thanks all the time, every day,
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Ali govorio sam zahvale cijelo vrijeme, svaki dan,
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and I started to change my perspective.
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i počeo sam mijenjati svoju perspektivu,
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And I started to realize the hundreds of little things
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i počeo sam uviđati stotine malih stvari
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that go right every day, that I didn't even notice,
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koje idu dobrim tokom svaki dan, a koje nisam ni primjećivao,
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that I took for granted, as opposed to focusing
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a koje sam uzimao zdravo za gotovo - u suprotnosti sa fokusiranjem
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on the three or four that went wrong.
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na tri od četiri stvari koje nisu dobro završile.
11:50
So, this is actually a key to happiness for me,
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Tako je to u stvari moj ključ za sreću,
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is to just remember when I came over here,
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da se prisjetim kad sam došao ovdje,
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the car didn't flip over, and I didn't trip coming up the stairs.
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auto se nije prevrnuo, a ja se nisam spotaknuo po stepenicama.
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It's a remarkable thing.
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To je izvanredna stvar.
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Third, that thou shall have reverence.
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Treće, imajte poštovanja.
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This one was unexpected because I started the year
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To je bilo neočekivano jer sam godinu započeo kao
12:08
as an agnostic, and by the end of the year,
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agnostik, a na kraju godine
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I became what a friend of mine calls a reverent agnostic, which I love.
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postao sam ono što moj prijatelj zove agnostik s poštovanjem, a to mi se sviđa.
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And I'm trying to start it as a movement.
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Pokušavam od toga napraviti pokret.
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So, if anyone wants to join,
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Pa ukoliko se itko želi pridružiti,
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the basic idea is, whether or not there is a God,
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osnovna ideja je, bez obzira postoji li Bog ili ne,
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there's something important and beautiful about the idea of sacredness,
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ima nešto važno i predivno u ideji svetosti,
12:26
and that our rituals can be sacred.
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i o našim ritualima koji mogu biti sveti.
12:28
The Sabbath can be sacred.
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Sabat može biti svet.
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This was one of the great things about my year, doing the Sabbath,
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Još jedna od divnih stvari u mojoj godini, radio sam Sabat
12:34
because I am a workaholic, so having this one day
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inače sam radoholičar, pa taj jedan dan
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where you cannot work, it really, that changed my life.
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u kojem ne možeš raditi - to mi je zbilja promijenilo život.
12:42
So, this idea of sacredness, whether or not there is a God.
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Dakle ta ideja o svetosti, sa Bogom ili bez njega.
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Thou shall not stereotype.
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Ne stavljaj ljude u stereotipe.
12:49
This one happened because
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Ta lekcija se dogodila jer
12:51
I spent a lot of time with various religious communities
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sam provodio mnogo vremena u različitim vjerskim zajednicama
12:54
throughout America because I wanted it to be more
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u Americi jer sam želio pisati i o drugim
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than about my journey.
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stvarima osim mog putovanja.
12:58
I wanted it to be about religion in America.
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Želio sam pisati o religiji u Americi.
13:01
So, I spent time with evangelical Christians, and Hasidic Jews, and the Amish.
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Vrijeme sam tako provodio sa evangelističkim kršćanima, Hasidskim Židovima i Amišima.
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I'm very proud because
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Jako sam ponosan na sebe
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I think I'm the only person in America
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jer mislim da sam jedina osoba u Americi
13:09
to out Bible-talk a Jehovah's Witness.
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koja može više pričati o Bibliji od jehovinog svjedoka.
13:12
(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
13:13
After three and a half hours, he looked at his watch,
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Nakon tri i pol sata, pogledao je na sat
13:16
he's like, "I gotta go."
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i rekao "Moram ići."
13:18
(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
13:20
Oh, thank you very much.
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Hvala vam.
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Thank you. Bless you, bless you.
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Hvala vam. Bog vas blagoslovio.
13:27
But it was interesting
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Bilo je zanimljivo
13:29
because I had some very preconceived notions about, for instance,
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jer sam imao neke početne ideje o, primjerice,
13:32
evangelical Christianity, and I found that
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kršćanskom evanđelju, a shvatio sam da
13:36
it's such a wide and varied movement
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je to toliko širok i šarolik pokret
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that it is difficult to make generalizations about it.
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da ga je teško generalizirati.
13:44
There's a group I met with called the Red Letter Christians,
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Sastao sam se sa grupom koja se zove Kršćani crvenog slova,
13:47
and they focus on the red words in the Bible,
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oni se fokusiraju na crvene riječi u Bibliji,
13:50
which are the ones that Jesus spoke.
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a to su one koje je govorio Isus -
13:52
That's how they printed them in the old Bibles.
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tako su se tiskale u starijim Biblijama.
13:54
And their argument is that Jesus never talked about homosexuality.
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Oni tvrde da Isus nikad nije govorio o homoseksualnosti.
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They have a pamphlet that says,
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Izdaju pamflet na kojem piše,
14:01
"Here's what Jesus said about homosexuality,"
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"Evo što je Isus rekao o homoseksualnosti"
14:03
and you open it up, and there's nothing in it.
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i kad ga otvorite, unutra nema ničega.
14:06
So, they say Jesus did talk a lot about helping the outcasts,
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Slažu se da je Isus govorio o pomaganju prezrenima,
14:12
helping poor people.
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pomaganju siromašnima.
14:15
So, this was very inspiring to me.
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Bilo je vrlo inspirativno.
14:19
I recommend Jim Wallis and Tony Campolo.
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Preporučam vam JIma Wallacea i Tonya Campola.
14:24
They're very inspiring leaders, even though I disagree
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Oni su vrlo inspirativni vođe, makar se ne slažem
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with much of what they say.
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sa njima u mnogim stvarima.
14:30
Also, thou shalt not disregard the irrational.
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Također, ne odbacujte iracionalno.
14:33
This one was very unexpected because, you know,
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To je došlo iznenada, jer znate,
14:37
I grew up with the scientific worldview,
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odrastao sam sa znanstvenim pogledom na život,
14:40
and I was shocked learning how much of my life
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i šokiralo me u kojoj mjeri je moj život
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is governed by irrational forces.
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pod utjecajem iracionalnih sila.
14:50
And the thing is, if they're not harmful,
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I radi se o tome da ukoliko nisu štetne,
14:54
they're not to be completely dismissed.
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ne trebamo ih u potpunosti odbaciti.
14:56
Because I learned that -- I was thinking, I was
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Naučio sam to
15:00
doing all these rituals, these biblical rituals,
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dok sam provodio te biblijske rituale,
15:03
separating my wool and linen, and I would ask these religious people
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odvajajući vunu i tkaninu, upitao sam vjernike
15:07
"Why would the Bible possibly tell us to do this? Why would God care?"
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"Zašto bi nam Biblija govorila da ovo radimo? Zašto bi Boga bilo briga za to?"
15:11
And they said, "We don't know,
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Oni bi odgovorili, "Ne znamo,
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but it's just rituals that give us meaning."
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ali ti rituali nam daju značenje."
15:17
And I would say, "But that's crazy."
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Ja bih rekao, "Ali to je ludost.
15:19
And they would say, "Well, what about you?
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A oni bi rekli, "Dobro, a što sa tobom?
15:21
You blow out candles on top of a birthday cake.
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Ti pušeš u svjećice na rođendanskoj torti.
15:26
If a guy from Mars came down and saw, here's one guy
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Ako bi se netko spustio sa Marsa i vidio jednog lika
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blowing out the fire on top of a cake
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koji puše u vatru na kolaču
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versus another guy not wearing clothes of mixed fabrics,
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i drugog koji ne nosi odjeću miješanih tkanina,
15:38
would the Martians say, 'Well, that guy, he makes sense,
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da li bi taj Marsijanac rekao, "Pa, ovog mogu shvatiti,
15:42
but that guy's crazy?'"
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ali ovaj pored je lud?"
15:44
So no, I think that rituals are, by nature, irrational.
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Dakle smatram da su rituali po prirodi iracioinalna stvar.
15:49
So the key is to choose the right rituals,
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Rješenje je u tome da izaberemo prave rituale,
15:52
the ones that are not harmful -- but rituals by themselves
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one koji nam nisu štetni - ali rituale same po sebi
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are not to be dismissed.
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ne bi trebali odbaciti.
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And finally I learned that thou shall pick and choose.
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Na kraju sam naučio da treba birati.
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And this one I learned because
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To sam naučio jer
16:07
I tried to follow everything in the Bible.
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sam pokušao slijediti baš sve u Bibliji.
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And I failed miserably.
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I neslavno sam završio.
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Because you can't.
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Jer je to nemoguće.
16:13
You have to pick and choose. And anyone who follows the Bible
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Mrate birati i izabirati, i svako tko živi po Bibliji
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is going to be picking and choosing.
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će birati.
16:18
The key is to pick and choose the right parts.
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Ključ je u izabiru pravih dijelova.
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There's the phrase called cafeteria religion,
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Postoji fraza kafanska vjera,
16:27
and the fundamentalists will use it in a denigrating way,
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koju fundamentalisti upotrebljavaju u posprdnom obliku,
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and they'll say, "Oh, it's just cafeteria religion.
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i reći će:"Ah, to je samo kafanska vjera.
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You're just picking and choosing."
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Samo izabirete što želite."
16:34
But my argument is, "What's wrong with cafeterias?"
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Moj argument je, "Što ne valja sa kavanama?"
16:38
I've had some great meals at cafeterias.
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Koliko puta sam pojeo odličan obrok u kavani.
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I've also had some meals that make me want to dry heave.
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Od nekih obroka mi nije bilo dobro.
16:44
So, it's about choosing the parts of the Bible about compassion,
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Znači radi se o odabiranju dijelova Biblije koji govore o sućuti,
16:48
about tolerance, about loving your neighbor,
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toleranciji, ljubavi za svog bližnjeg,
16:51
as opposed to the parts about homosexuality is a sin,
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kao suprotnost dijelovima u kojima je homoseksualnost grijeh,
16:56
or intolerance, or violence,
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ili o netoleranciji, o nasilju,
16:58
which are very much in the Bible as well.
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kojih također ima mnogo u Bibliji.
17:00
So if we are to find any meaning in this book,
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Stoga ako želimo pronaći smisao u ovoj knjizi,
17:04
then we have to really engage it, and wrestle with it.
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moramo se s njom uhvatiti u koštac.
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And I thought I'd end with just a couple more.
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A mislio sam završiti sa samo još nekoliko..
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There's me reading the Bible.
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Tu ja čitam Bibliju.
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That's how I hailed taxicabs.
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Ovako sam pozivao taksi.
17:15
(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
17:18
Seriously, and it worked. And yes,
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Ozbiljno, upalilo je - i da,
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that was actually a rented sheep,
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to jue bila unajmljena ovca,
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so I had to return that in the morning, but it served well for a day.
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morao sam ju vratiti ujutro ali poslužila je dobro kroz dan.
17:28
So, anyway, thank you so much for letting me speak.
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Uglavnom, hvala vam što ste mi dopustili da govorim.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
AJ Jacobs - AuthorImmersing himself in alternate lifestyles and long, hilarious experiments (usually with himself the guinea pig), writer AJ Jacobs tests the limits of behavior, customs, culture, knowledge -- and his wife's sense of humor.
Why you should listen
AJ Jacobs' writings stand at the intersection of philosophy, Gonzo journalism and performance art. Stubbornly curious and slyly perceptive, he takes immersive learning to its irrational and profoundly amusing extreme -- extracting wisdom and meaning after long stints as a self-styled guinea pig. For his widely circulated Esquire article "My Outsourced Life," he explored the phenomenon of outsourcing by hiring a team in Bangalore to take care of every part of his life -- from reading his emails to arguing with his wife to reading bedtime stories to his own son. A previous article, "I Think You're Fat," chronicled a brief, cringe-inducing attempt to live his life in Radical Honesty, telling all the truth, all the time.
Jacobs is author of The Know-It-All, which documents the year he spent reading the Encyclopedia Britannica from A to Z, uncovering both funny and surprising factoids but also poignant insight into history and human nature. In 2007 he released The Year of Living Biblically, in which he attempted to follow every single rule in the Bible as literally as possible for an entire year. His recent book The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment is a collection of numerous personal experiments. including living according to George Washington's rules of conduct, outsourcing every single task to India, and posing as a woman on an online dating site.
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