EG 2007
AJ Jacobs: My year of living biblically
A. J. Džejkobsova godina života po Bibliji
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Na poslednjoj EG konferenciji, autor, filozof, šaljivdzija i novinar A. J. Džejkobs govori o godini koju je živeo po Bibliji - doslovno prateći pravila Biblije
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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Mislio sam da vam pričam o onome o čemu volim da pišem.
00:20
And I like to immerse myself in my topics.
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Volim da se udubim u svoje teme.
00:24
I just like to dive right in and become sort of a human guinea pig.
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Volim da uronim i postanem zamorče.
00:29
And I see my life as a series of experiments.
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Ja vidim svoj život kao niz eksperimenata.
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So, I work for Esquire magazine, and a couple of years ago,
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Dakle, radim za "Eskvajer" magazin i pre nekoliko godina
00:38
I wrote an article called "My Outsourced Life,"
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napisao sam članak, nazvan "Moj tuđi život"
00:41
where I hired a team of people in Bangalore, India,
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zbog kojeg sam zaposlio ekipu ljudi u Bangalora, Indija,
00:45
to live my life for me.
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da žive moj život, umesto mene.
00:47
So, they answered my emails.
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Tako su oni odgovarali na moje imejlove.
00:49
They answered my phone.
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Javljali su se na moj telefon.
00:51
They argued with my wife for me, and they read my son bedtime stories.
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Raspravljali su se sa mojom ženom umesto mene i čitali su priče pred spavanje mom sinu.
00:58
It was the best month of my life,
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To je bilo najboljih mesec dana mog života,
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because I just sat back and I read books and watched movies.
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jer sam se ja odmarao, čitao knjige i gledao filmove.
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It was a wonderful experience.
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To je bilo divno iskustvo.
01:07
More recently, I wrote an article for Esquire called --
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Skoro sam pisao članak za "Eskvajer" koji se zove -
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about radical honesty.
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o radikalnoj iskrenosti.
01:13
And this is a movement where --
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Ovo je pokret -
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this is started by a psychologist in Virginia,
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pokrenuo ga je jedan psiholog iz Virdžinije,
01:19
who says that you should never, ever lie,
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koji kaže da nikad, baš nikad ne bi trebalo da lažete,
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except maybe during poker and golf, his only exceptions.
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osim kada igrate poker ili golf.
01:27
And, more than that, whatever is on your brain
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Čak i više od toga, trebalo bi da kažete
01:29
should come out of your mouth.
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sve što vam je na pameti.
01:31
So, I decided I would try this for a month.
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Rešio sam da probam ovo u toku mesec dana.
01:34
This was the worst month of my life.
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To je bilo najgorih mesec dana mog života.
01:37
(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
01:38
I do not recommend this at all.
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Nikako vam ne preporučujem ovo.
01:40
To give you a sense of the experience,
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Kako biste bolje razumeli,
01:42
the article was called, "I Think You're Fat."
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članak se zvao "Mislim da si debela".
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(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
01:48
So, that was hard.
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Bilo je vrlo teško.
01:50
My most recent book -- my previous book was called "The Know-It-All,"
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Moja najskorija knjiga - prethodna knjiga se zove "Sveznalica",
01:55
and it was about the year I spent reading the Encyclopedia Britannica
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i pisao sam o godini koju sam proveo čitajući Enciklopediju "Britanika"
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from A to Z in my quest to learn everything in the world,
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od A do Z u mom pokušaju da naučim sve na svetu,
02:03
or more precisely from Aak, which is a type of East Asian music,
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ili tačnije od A-ak, što je tip muzike u Istočnoj Aziji,
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all the way to Zwyiec, which is -- well, I don't want to ruin the ending.
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pa sve do Zvijeka, koji je - pa, ne želim da pokvarim kraj.
02:12
(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
02:13
It's a very exciting twist ending, like an O. Henry novel, so I won't ruin it.
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Kraj ima uzbudljiv zaplet, kao u romanu O. Henrija, ne želim da ga pokvarim.
02:17
But I love that one,
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Ali taj mi se stvarno dopada
02:19
because that was an experiment about how much information
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jer bio je to eksperiment o tome koliko informacija
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one human brain could absorb.
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može ljudski mozak da primi
02:25
Although, listening to Kevin Kelly, you don't have to remember anything.
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iako, ako slušate Kevina Kelija, ne morate ništa da pamtite.
02:29
You can just Google it.
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Dovoljno je samo Guglovati.
02:31
So, I wasted some time there.
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Tako da sam potrošio nešto svog vremena na to.
02:33
I love those experiments,
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Ja volim te eksperimente,
02:36
but I think that the most profound
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ali mislim da je najdublji
02:38
and life-changing experiment that I've done
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eksperiment koji sam uradio i koji mi je promenio život,
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is my most recent experiment, where I spent a year
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moj poslednji eksperiment, kada sam proveo godinu
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trying to follow all of the rules of the Bible,
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pokušavajući da poštujem pravila Biblije -
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"The Year of Living Biblically."
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"Godina života po Bibliji".
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And I undertook this for two reasons.
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Ovo sam uradio iz dva razloga.
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The first was that I grew up with no religion at all.
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Prvi je taj da sam odrastao u potpunosti bez religije.
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As I say in my book, I'm Jewish in the same way
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I kao što sam napisao u svojoj knjizi, ja sam Jevrejin isto
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the Olive Garden is Italian.
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koliko je "Oliv Garden" italijanski restoran.
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(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
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 sam baš postao zainteresovan za religiju.
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I do think it's the defining issue of our time,
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Mislim da je to glavni problem našeg vremena,
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or one of the main ones.
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ili bar jedan 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. I hoću da znam šta da ga naučim.
03:19
So, I decided to dive in head first, and try to live the Bible.
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Odlučio sam da se upustim u to i pokušam da živim po Bibliji.
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The second reason I undertook this is because
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Drugi razlog zašto sam ovo pokušao je zato što sam
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I'm concerned about the rise of fundamentalism,
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zabrinut zbog širenja fundamentalizma,
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religious fundamentalism, and people who say
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religijskog fundamentalizma i ljudi koji kažu
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they take the Bible literally, which is, according to some polls,
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da doslovno prate Bibliju, kojih je, po nekim anketama,
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as high as 45 or 50 percent of America.
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oko 45 do 50 procenata u Americi.
03:40
So I decided, what if you really did take the Bible literally?
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Tako da sam se zapitao, šta ako stvarno doslovno shvatam Bibliju?
03:44
I decided to take it to its logical conclusion
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Postojao je samo jedan logičan zaključak,
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and take everything in the Bible literally,
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a to je da pratim sve što piše u Bibliji doslovno,
03:50
without picking and choosing.
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bez biranja ili ustezanja.
03:53
The first thing I did was I got a stack of bibles.
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Prvo što sam uradio je da sam nabavio gomilu biblija.
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I had Christian bibles.
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Imao sam hrišćanske biblije.
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I had Jewish bibles.
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I jevrejske biblije.
04:00
A friend of mine sent me something called a hip-hop bible,
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Prijatelj mi je poslao nešto što 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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gde je 23 Psalm bio "Gospod je sve to",
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as opposed to what I knew it as, "The Lord is my shepherd."
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što je u suprotnosti sa onim što sam ja znao, "Gospod je moj vodič".
04:11
Then I went down and I read several versions,
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Onda sam pročitao nekoliko verzija,
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and I wrote down every single law that I could find.
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i zapisao sam svaki zakon koji sam uspeo da nađem.
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And this was a very long list -- over 700 rules.
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Ovo je bila podugačka lista - preko 700 zakona.
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And they range from the famous ones that I had heard of --
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Bilo je svakojakih, 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 božjih zapovesti, voli svog komšiju, budi veran i množi se.
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So I wanted to follow those.
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Pa sam želeo te da pratim.
04:31
And actually, I take my projects very seriously,
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Svoje projekte shvatam veoma ozbiljno
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because I had twins during my year,
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jer sam dobio blizance u toku te godine,
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so I definitely take my projects seriously.
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tako da definitivno prihvatam projekte ozbiljno.
04:39
But I also wanted to follow the hundreds
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Ali sam istovremeno pokušavao da pratim stotine
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of arcane and obscure laws that are in the Bible.
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nedokučivih i nejasnih zakona koji su u Bibliji.
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There is the law in Leviticus,
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Za primer, zakon iz "knjige Levitske" (treća knjiga po Mojsiju)
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"You cannot shave the corners of your beard."
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"Ne smeš da biriješ uglove brade svoje".
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I didn't know where my corners were,
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Nisam znao gde su ti uglovi,
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so I decided to let the whole thing grow,
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pa sam odlučio da se ne brijem uopšte,
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and this is what I looked like by the end.
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na kraju sam izgledao ovako.
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As you can imagine, I spent a lot of time at airport security.
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Kao što možete pretpostaviti, mnogo sam vremena proveo u aerodromskom obezbeđenju.
05:01
(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
05:03
My wife wouldn't kiss me for the last two months.
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Moja supruga je odbijala da me poljubi poslednja dva meseca.
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So, certainly the challenge was there.
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Dakle, neosporno izazov je postojao.
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The Bible says you cannot wear clothes made of mixed fibers,
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Biblija kaže da ne smemo da nosimo odeću napravljenu od mešanih vlakana,
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so I thought, "Sounds strange, but I'll try it."
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pomislio sam, "Zvuči čudno, ali ću probati".
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You only know if you try it.
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Znaš jedino ako probaš.
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I got rid of all my poly-cotton T-shirts.
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Rešio sam se svih mojih pamučnih majica.
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The Bible says that if two men are in a fight,
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Biblija kaže ukoliko se dva muškarca tuku,
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and the wife of one of those men grabs the testicles of the other man,
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i ukoliko supruga jednog od tih muškaraca zgrabi testise drugog muškarca,
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then her hand shall be cut off.
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onda će njena ruka biti odsečena.
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So, I wanted to follow that rule.
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Hteo sam da poštujem to pravilo.
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(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
05:35
That one I followed by default,
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Njega sam ispoštovao,
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by not getting in a fight with a man whose wife was standing nearby,
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tako što nisam ulazio u sukob sa muškarcem čija je žena bila u blizini,
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looking like she had a strong grip.
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i izgledala kao da ima jak stisak.
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(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
05:48
So -- oh, there's another shot of my beard.
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Dakle -- oh, evo ga još jedan snimak moje brade.
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I will say it was an amazing year
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Priznaću vam bila je to neverovatna godina
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because it really was life changing, and incredibly challenging.
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zaista mi je promenila život i neverovatno me testirala.
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And there were two types of laws that were particularly challenging.
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Dve vrste zakona su bile izuzetno zahtevne.
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The first was avoiding the little sins that we all commit every day.
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Prva je izbegavanje sitnih grehova koje činimo svakodnevno.
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You know, I could spend a year not killing,
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Razumete, lako je bilo ne ubiti nikoga celu godinu,
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but spending a year not gossiping, not coveting, not lying --
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ali provesti godinu bez tračeva, bez zavisti, bez laganja --
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you know, I live in New York, and I work as a journalist,
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razumete, ja živim u Njujorku 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 ja moram to da radim 75, 80 procenata mog dana.
06:19
But it was really interesting, because I was able to make some progress,
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Ali bilo je zaista interesantno, zato što sam uspeo da napredujem
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because I couldn't believe how much
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jer nisam mogao da verujem koliko je
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my behavior changed my thoughts.
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moje ponašanje promenilo moja razmišljanja.
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This was one of the huge lessons of the year,
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Bila je to ogromna lekcija iz protekle godine,
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is that I almost pretended to be a better person,
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a to je da sam ja izigravajući bolju osobu,
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and I became a little bit of a better person.
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pomalo i postao bolja osoba.
06:37
So I had always thought, you know, "You change your mind,
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Uvek sam mislio, znate, "Kad promeniš razmišljanje,
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and you change your behavior," but it's often the other way around.
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promeniš i ponašanje", ali često je suprotno.
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You change your behavior, and you change your mind.
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Promenite ponašanje i promenićete i razmišljanje.
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So, you know, if you want to become more compassionate,
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Dakle, ako želite da postanete više saosećajni,
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you visit sick people in the hospital,
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posetite bolesne u bolnici,
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and you will become more compassionate.
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i postaćete više saosećajni.
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You donate money to a cause,
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Dajte novac u dobrotvorne svrhe
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and you become emotionally involved in that cause.
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i postaćete emotivno vezani za taj cilj.
07:02
So, it really was cognitive psychology --
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Dakle, to je bila prava kognitivna psihologija --
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you know, cognitive dissonance -- that I was experiencing.
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razumete, mentalni nesklad -- koji sam osećao.
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The Bible actually talks about cognitive psychology,
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Biblija ustvari govori o kognitivnoj psihologiji,
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very primitive cognitive psychology.
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veoma jednostavnoj kognitivnoj psihologiji.
07:13
In the Proverbs, it says that if you smile, you will become happier,
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Pa tako kaže, ako se smejete, bićete srećniji,
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which, as we know, is actually true.
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što je, kao što znamo, istina.
07:20
The second type of rule that was difficult to obey
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Drugi tip zakona koji je bio težak da se ispoštuje
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was the rules that will get you into a little trouble
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su zakoni koji će vas dovesti u probleme
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in twenty-first-century America.
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u dvadesetprvom veku u Americi.
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And perhaps the clearest example of this is stoning adulterers.
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Verovatno najjasniji primer je kamenovanje preljubnika.
07:35
(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
07:36
But it's a big part of the Bible,
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Ipak je to veliki deo Biblije,
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so I figured I had to address it.
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bilo mi je jasno da ne smem da ga preskočim.
07:43
So, I was able to stone one adulterer.
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Dakle, bio sam u prilici da kamenujem preljubnika.
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It happened -- I was in the park, and I was dressed in my biblical clothing,
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Dogodilo se -- bio sam u parku, obučen u moju biblijsku odeću --
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so sandals and sort of a white robe,
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sandale i belu haljinu --
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you know, because again, the outer affects the inner.
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razumete, da ponovim, ono što je izvana utiče na ono iznutra.
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I wanted to see how dressing biblically affected my mind.
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Želeo sam da vidim kako će biblijsko oblačenje da utiče na moj um.
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And this man came up to me and he said,
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Taj čovek mi je prišao i rekao,
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"Why are you dressed like that?"
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"Zašto si ti obučen tako?"
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And I explained my project,
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I onda sam mu ja objasnio moj projekat,
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and he said, "Well, I am an adulterer, are you going to stone me?"
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na šta je on odgovorio, "Pa ja sam preljubnik, hoćes li me kamenovati?"
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And I said, "Well, that would be great!"
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I ja sam odgovorio, "Pa to bi bilo izuzetno!"
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(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
08:16
And I actually took out a handful of stones from my pocket
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I zgrabio sam šaku kamenja iz svog džepa
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that I had been carrying around for weeks,
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koje sam nedeljama nosio naokolo,
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hoping for just this interaction -- and, you know, they were pebbles --
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nadajući se ovome -- naravno, bili su to kamenčići --
08:27
but he grabbed them out of my hand.
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ali on ih je ugrabio iz moje ruke.
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He was actually an elderly man, mid-70s, just so you know.
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On je ustvari bio stariji čovek, sredina sedamdesetih, tek da znate.
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But he's still an adulterer, and still quite angry.
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Ali ipak on je još uvek preljubnik i još uvek poprilično ljut.
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He grabbed them out of my hand
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Zgrabio ih je iz moje ruke
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and threw them at my face, and I felt that I could --
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i bacio u moje lice, ja sam shvatio 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, mogao bih uzvratiti i baciti jedan na njega.
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So that was my experience stoning, and it did allow me
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Dakle to je moje iskustvo sa kamenovanjem i ono mi je omogućilo
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to talk about, in a more serious way, these big issues.
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da ozbiljno govorim o ovim velikim problemima.
08:52
How can the Bible be so barbaric in some places,
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Kako je moguće da je Biblija toliko varvarska na nekim mestima,
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and yet so incredibly wise in others?
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a istovremeno toliko mudra na drugim?
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How should we view the Bible?
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Kako bi trebalo da posmatramo Bibliju?
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Should we view it, you know, as original intent,
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Da li bi trebalo da posmatramo originalno razmišljanje
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like a sort of a Scalia version of the Bible?
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da je tumačimo na konzervativan način?
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How was the Bible written?
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Kako je Biblija napisana?
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And actually, since this is a tech crowd,
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I ustvari, budući da je ovo publika sa tehničkim predznanjem
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I talk in the book about how the Bible actually reminds me
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u knjizi objašnjavam kako me Biblija podseća
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of the Wikipedia, because it has all of these authors and editors
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na "Wikipediu" zato što ima mnogo autora i urednika
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over hundreds of years.
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u toku nekoliko stotina godina.
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And it's sort of evolved.
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I tako se vremenom menjala.
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It's not a book that was written and came down from on high.
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To nije knjiga koja je pala sa nebesa.
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So I thought I would end by telling you
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Mislim da bi trebalo da završim tako što ću vam reći
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just a couple of the take-aways, the bigger lessons
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nekoliko većih pouka
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that I learned from my year.
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koje sam naučio u toku te godine.
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The first is, thou shalt not take the Bible literally.
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Prva je -- ne uzmi Bibliju zdravo za gotovo.
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This became very, very clear, early on.
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Ovo je postalo veoma, veoma jasno već na početku.
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Because if you do, then you end up acting like a crazy person,
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Zato što ako je razumete doslovno, ponašaćete se kao ludak,
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and stoning adulterers, or -- here's another example.
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i kamenovaćete preljubnike ili -- evo drugog primera --
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Well, that's another. I did spend some time shepherding.
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pa, ovo je nešto drugo -- proveo sam neko vreme kao čobanin.
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(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
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It's a very relaxing vocation. I recommend it.
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To je veoma opuštajuća profesija. Preporučujem vam.
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But this one is -- the Bible says that you cannot touch women
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Ovo sam hteo da vam pokažem, Biblija kaže da ne smete dodirnuti ženu
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during certain times of the month, and more than that,
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u toku određenog vremena u mesecu i štaviše,
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you cannot sit on a seat where a menstruating woman has sat.
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ne smete sedeti na mestu gde je žena u toku menstruacije sedela.
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And my wife thought this was very offensive,
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Moja žena je shvatila ovo veoma uvredljivo,
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so she sat in every seat in our apartment,
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tako da je ona sela na svako mesto u našem stanu,
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and I had to spend much of the year standing
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pa sam ja morao da provedem veći period u toku te godine stojeći
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until I bought my own seat and carried it around.
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sve dok nisam kupio stolicu koju sam nosio sa sobom.
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So, you know, I met with creationists.
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I tako sam, razumete, sreo sam se sa kreacionistima.
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I went to the creationists' museum.
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Otišao sam u njihov muzej.
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And these are the ultimate literalists.
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Oni su sve shvatili doslovno.
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And it was fascinating, because they were not stupid people at all.
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Bilo je fascinantno, jer oni uopšte 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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Mogao bih se opkladiti da je njihov IQ jednak kao i kod prosečnog evolucioniste.
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It's just that their faith is so strong
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Jedina razlika je njihova snažna vera
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in this literal interpretation of the Bible
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u svoju doslovnu interpretaciju Biblije
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that they distort all the data to fit their model.
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toliko da je iskrivila sve podatke da bi se uklopila u njihovo verovanje.
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And they go through these amazing mental gymnastics to accomplish this.
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A oni prolaze kroz neverovatne mentalne napore da bi to postigli.
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And I will say, though, the museum is gorgeous.
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Moram vam reći, ipak, muzej je veličanstven.
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They really did a fantastic job.
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Stvarno su uradili fantastičan posao.
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If you're ever in Kentucky,
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Ukoliko ikad odete u Kentaki,
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there's, you can see a movie of the flood,
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tamo ima -- možete videti film o potopu,
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and they have sprinklers in the ceiling
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čak imaju i prskalice u plafonu
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that will sprinkle on you during the flood scenes.
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koje prskaju u toku scena potopa.
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So, whatever you think of creationism -- and I think it's crazy --
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Tako da, šta god da mislite o kreacionizmu, a ja mislim da je besmisleno,
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they did a great job.
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oni su ipak uradili odličan posao.
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(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
11:18
Another lesson is that thou shalt give thanks.
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Sledeća pouka je da pokažete zahvalnost.
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And this one was a big lesson because I was praying,
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Ova lekcija je važna jer sam se molio,
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giving these prayers of thanksgiving, which was odd for an agnostic.
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molio sam se iz zahvalnosti, što je pomalo čudno za agnostika.
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But I was saying thanks all the time, every day,
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Ali ipak sam se zahvaljivao non-stop, svaki dan,
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and I started to change my perspective.
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i počeo sam da menjam moje razmišljanje,
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And I started to realize the hundreds of little things
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počeo sam da primećujem stotine malih stvari
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that go right every day, that I didn't even notice,
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koje se dešavaju svaki dan, a koje nisam nikada primećivao,
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that I took for granted, as opposed to focusing
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koje sam smatrao beznačajnim -- nepotrebno se koncentrišući
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on the three or four that went wrong.
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na tri ili četri koje su bile pogrešne.
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So, this is actually a key to happiness for me,
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Dakle, ovo je ustvari ključ sreće za mene,
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is to just remember when I came over here,
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to da kada sam stigao ovamo,
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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 i nisam posrnuo penjući se stepenicama.
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It's a remarkable thing.
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To je izuzetna stvar.
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Third, that thou shall have reverence.
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Treća pouka, je da morate imati strahopoštovanja.
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This one was unexpected because I started the year
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Ovo je bilo neočekivano zato što sam počeo godinu
12:08
as an agnostic, and by the end of the year,
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kao agnostik, a do kraja 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 je moj prijatelj nazvao ponizni agnostik, meni se to sviđa.
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And I'm trying to start it as a movement.
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Pokušaću da to pretvorim u pokret.
12:17
So, if anyone wants to join,
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Tako da ukoliko neko želi da se pridruži,
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the basic idea is, whether or not there is a God,
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osnovna ideja je da, bez obzira ima li boga,
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there's something important and beautiful about the idea of sacredness,
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postoji toliko važna i prekrasna ideja o duhovnosti,
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and that our rituals can be sacred.
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i tome da naši postupci mogu da budu prosvećeni.
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The Sabbath can be sacred.
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Sabat može da bude prosvećen.
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This was one of the great things about my year, doing the Sabbath,
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Poštovanje sabata je jedna od najboljih stvari u protekloj godini,
12:34
because I am a workaholic, so having this one day
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budući da mnogo volim da radim, imati ovaj jedan dan
12:38
where you cannot work, it really, that changed my life.
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kad ne možete da radite -- iskreno, to je promenilo moj život.
12:42
So, this idea of sacredness, whether or not there is a God.
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Dakle, ideja o prosvećenosti, nebitno ima li boga.
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Thou shall not stereotype.
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Nemojte gajiti stereotipe.
12:49
This one happened because
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Ovo sam naučio zato što
12:51
I spent a lot of time with various religious communities
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sam proveo mnogo vremena sa različitim verskim grupama
12:54
throughout America because I wanted it to be more
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u Americi, jer sam želeo da ovo bude više
12:56
than about my journey.
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od mog istraživanja.
12:58
I wanted it to be about religion in America.
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Želeo sam da ovo bude o religiji u Americi.
13:01
So, I spent time with evangelical Christians, and Hasidic Jews, and the Amish.
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Tako da sam proveo vreme sa evanđelistima, jevrejima i amišima.
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I'm very proud because
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Veoma sam ponosan jer
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I think I'm the only person in America
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mislim da sam ja jedina osoba u Americi
13:09
to out Bible-talk a Jehovah's Witness.
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koja može više da govori o Bibliji od Jehovinih svedoka.
13:12
(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
13:13
After three and a half hours, he looked at his watch,
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Nakon više od tri sata, pogledao je na svoj sat,
13:16
he's like, "I gotta go."
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kao, "Moram da pođem".
13:18
(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
13:20
Oh, thank you very much.
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Oh, hvala vam.
13:25
Thank you. Bless you, bless you.
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Hvala. Bog vas blagoslovio.
13:27
But it was interesting
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Bilo je interesantno
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because I had some very preconceived notions about, for instance,
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zato što sam ja imao neko unapred stvoreno mišljenje o, na primer
13:32
evangelical Christianity, and I found that
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evanđelističkom hrišćanstvu i pronašao sam
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it's such a wide and varied movement
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da je to toliko opširan i raznovrstan pokret
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that it is difficult to make generalizations about it.
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da je teško napraviti uopštene stavove o tome.
13:44
There's a group I met with called the Red Letter Christians,
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Postoji grupa sa kojom sam se susreo koja se zove hrišćani crvenog pisma,
13:47
and they focus on the red words in the Bible,
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oni se fokusiraju na crvene reči u Bibliji,
13:50
which are the ones that Jesus spoke.
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a to su one koje je Hrist izgovarao --
13:52
That's how they printed them in the old Bibles.
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tako su ih štampali u starim Biblijama.
13:54
And their argument is that Jesus never talked about homosexuality.
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Njihov argument je da Hrist nikada nije govorio o homoseksualnosti.
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They have a pamphlet that says,
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Imaju brošuru koja kaže,
14:01
"Here's what Jesus said about homosexuality,"
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"Evo šta Hrist kaže o homoseksualnosti",
14:03
and you open it up, and there's nothing in it.
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i kad je otvorite, tamo nema ništa.
14:06
So, they say Jesus did talk a lot about helping the outcasts,
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Kažu Hrist je govorio mnogo o pomaganju beskućnicima,
14:12
helping poor people.
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pomaganju siromašnima.
14:15
So, this was very inspiring to me.
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Ovo me je veoma inspirisalo.
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I recommend Jim Wallis and Tony Campolo.
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Preporučujem Džima Volasa i Tonija Kampola.
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They're very inspiring leaders, even though I disagree
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Oni su veoma nadahnute vođe, iako se ja ne slažem
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with much of what they say.
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sa mnogo toga što su oni rekli.
14:30
Also, thou shalt not disregard the irrational.
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Isto tako, ne smete zanemariti iracionalno.
14:33
This one was very unexpected because, you know,
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Ovo je bilo veoma neočekivano zato što, razumete,
14:37
I grew up with the scientific worldview,
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odrastao sam sa naučnim pogledom na svet,
14:40
and I was shocked learning how much of my life
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bilo je iznenađujuće saznati koliko mnogo od mog života
14:47
is governed by irrational forces.
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je vođeno iracionalnim porivima.
14:50
And the thing is, if they're not harmful,
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Ustvari, ukoliko nisu štetni,
14:54
they're not to be completely dismissed.
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neće ni biti potpuno zanemareni.
14:56
Because I learned that -- I was thinking, I was
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Shvatio sam da -- mislio sam,
15:00
doing all these rituals, these biblical rituals,
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čineći sve ove rituale, biblijske rituale,
15:03
separating my wool and linen, and I would ask these religious people
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odvajajući vunu i platno, znao sam da zapitam te religiozne ljude
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"Why would the Bible possibly tell us to do this? Why would God care?"
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"Zašto nam je Biblija naložila da uradimo ovo? Zašto bog brine o tome?"
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And they said, "We don't know,
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I oni bi odgovorili. "Ne znamo,
15:13
but it's just rituals that give us meaning."
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ali to su rituali koji nam daju smisao."
15:17
And I would say, "But that's crazy."
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I onda bih ja rekao, "Ali to je suludo."
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And they would say, "Well, what about you?
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A oni bi uzvratili, "A, šta sa tobom?
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You blow out candles on top of a birthday cake.
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Duvaš svećice na rođendanskoj torti.
15:26
If a guy from Mars came down and saw, here's one guy
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Da se neko spusti sa Marsa i vidi jednog
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blowing out the fire on top of a cake
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koji duva u vatru na vrhu torte
15:34
versus another guy not wearing clothes of mixed fabrics,
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i drugog koji ne nosi garderobu od mešane tkanine
15:38
would the Martians say, 'Well, that guy, he makes sense,
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Šta bi on rekao, "Pa, ovaj je razuman,
15:42
but that guy's crazy?'"
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ali ovaj drugi je sulud?"
15:44
So no, I think that rituals are, by nature, irrational.
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Verovatno ne, mislim da su rituali po svojoj prirodi iracionalni.
15:49
So the key is to choose the right rituals,
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Znači ključ je izabrati odgovarajuće rituale,
15:52
the ones that are not harmful -- but rituals by themselves
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one koji nisu štetni -- a rituali kao takvi
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are not to be dismissed.
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neće nestati.
16:01
And finally I learned that thou shall pick and choose.
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I konačno naučio sam da svako ima pravo da izabere.
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And this one I learned because
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Ovo sam naučio zato što
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I tried to follow everything in the Bible.
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sam pokušao da sledim sve iz biblije.
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And I failed miserably.
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Bio je to totalni neuspeh.
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Because you can't.
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Zato što je to nemoguće.
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You have to pick and choose. And anyone who follows the Bible
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Morate da izaberete i svako ko sledi bibliju
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is going to be picking and choosing.
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mora da izabere.
16:18
The key is to pick and choose the right parts.
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Ključ je da se izaberu odgovarajući delovi.
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There's the phrase called cafeteria religion,
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Postoji i fraza "kafe religija"
16:27
and the fundamentalists will use it in a denigrating way,
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fundamentalisti je koriste da bi podcenili nekog,
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and they'll say, "Oh, it's just cafeteria religion.
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rekli bi "O, to je kafe religija.
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You're just picking and choosing."
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Ti tu nešto biraš i izabiraš."
16:34
But my argument is, "What's wrong with cafeterias?"
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Ali moj argument je, "Šta je loše sa kafeterijama?"
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I've had some great meals at cafeterias.
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Imao samo odlične obroke u kafeterijama
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I've also had some meals that make me want to dry heave.
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ali i neke obroke koji su me skoro naterali na povraćanje.
16:44
So, it's about choosing the parts of the Bible about compassion,
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Dakle, ustvari sve je o izboru delova Biblije o saosećanju,
16:48
about tolerance, about loving your neighbor,
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o toleranciji, o ljubavi prema komšiji,
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as opposed to the parts about homosexuality is a sin,
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suprotno delovima po kojima je homoseksualnost greh,
16:56
or intolerance, or violence,
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ili o netoleranciji ili o nasilju,
16:58
which are very much in the Bible as well.
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kojih takođe ima mnogo u Bibliji.
17:00
So if we are to find any meaning in this book,
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Znači ukoliko tražimo neko značenje u ovoj knjizi,
17:04
then we have to really engage it, and wrestle with it.
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onda bi zaista trebalo da se založimo i izborimo.
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And I thought I'd end with just a couple more.
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I na kraju završiću sa još par primera.
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There's me reading the Bible.
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Ovde ja čitam Bibliju.
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That's how I hailed taxicabs.
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Ovako sam zaustavljao taksi.
17:15
(Laughter)
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(Smeh)
17:18
Seriously, and it worked. And yes,
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Ozbiljno, i uspevalo je -- i da,
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that was actually a rented sheep,
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ovo je iznajmljena 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 da je vratim ujutro, ali poslužila je odlično u toku dana.
17:28
So, anyway, thank you so much for letting me speak.
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Dakle, svakako, hvala vam mnogo što ste mi dozvolili da održim govor.
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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