Both Sapiens and Homo Deus changed my view of the world in a way that nothing else has before. Thank you Yuval for sharing your knowledge with us and I hope we Palestinians and you Israelis can live together as just sapiens.
Mohammad Faraj I'm also very happy to have found this man's writings! The way he accumulates the essential wisdom and presents it as a story, it made a lot of otherwise erroneous musings into a really coherent story. Brilliant academic
Beside the fact that all humans are almost identical genetically, most Israelis and Palestinians are even more identical. Looking at the DNA evidence they share massive haplotype blocks and almost identical recombination events. So the Israeli and Palestine dichotomy is just a story.
I am so pleased to read your comment Mohammad Faraj. I really hope more people in that region thought like you, and may that long conflict be resolved asap. Best wishes!
A great salute to you Mohammed Faraj from Algeria. I found Harari's book so educative. I already enjoyed homo sapiens and homo Deus. Now I'm enjoying 21 lessons. My biggest worry is, what I'm gonna read after 21 lessons!?
As a 21-year-old man growing up in a third-world country, I once believed that religion was everything, even if it taught me to harm my loved ones for a reward. At the time, I would have been willing to sacrifice everything in pursuit of that reward. However, as I faced difficult circumstances and began to change, I became more grounded in reality. Through books and social media, I gained a deeper understanding of the world. What I once ignored-life’s harsh truths-I now embrace. I no longer consider myself a follower, but a student of life. Now, I am liberal and non-religious. I struggled in a religious school, enduring physical and emotional abuse five days a week in a toxic environment. I believed for a long time that I was wrong. However, listening to you and others, and reading their books, has helped me a great deal. As I read more, listen to good authors, and truly understand, I have become more open-minded, open to new experiences, and accepting of human nature.Yuval noah, thank you for your theories, ideas, and books.
How insane! you follow what human beings say and write , but you don't follow what the Almighty Creator who created you and the universe and everything in the universe has said in the scriptures (the old/new testament/the Quran). Don't forget that death is your ultimate destination and that you will face the Real Truth which you're trying to avoid as long as you are alive. once you transit to the hereafter, you won't have a second chance to correct your mistakes. So, reconsider your choices and decisions before you lose the chance. Good luck.
We are the same age, yet I can see that your understanding of the world's complexities is still developing. Your tendency to change your mind quickly suggests a lack of open-mindedness, as truly grasping the flaws in ideologies and embracing profound insights requires time and deep contemplation. I encourage you to reflect deeply and thoughtfully.
Being open and willing to entertain ideas and concepts unfamiliar is the very definition of liberal as in liberal arts education. People have been sold a story that liberal means leftist and socialist and anti-free-market. Liberal and conservative are actually orthogonal, you can be both simultaneously. I went to a liberal arts college that was also extremely free-market and even Laissez-faire capitalist. People need to stop believing harmful stories.
Truly wise people are not interested in "winning an argument", they are interested in getting closer to truth, even if it means admitting that they were wrong at the end of discussion. Trying to "win an argument" almost always results in disingenuous discussion. If a person is smarter/more knowledgeable/better orator, he/she can "win an argument" while being wrong.
Is this a scientific view or a personal sincere view in scientific style? I have a philosophical half-RIDDLE for you all: Whomever lives in a plagiarized or sophismized or unnatural system, either ego-genetic, self-genetic, ego-dynamic, self-centered, or ideological or religious or political, etc, has a psychic quantum order that is essencially hyper-projective and hyper-narcissistic and hyper-compensatory. The such one of this kind will dynamically use all political, mediatic,ideological, philosophical and sophismatic means to recreate an outward reality not only favorable for the welcoming or comfort of his ideas, but also will persistently struggle to recreate an environment the most equal to his ideological system. If I am gay, I want you to be gay. I will allege homophobia, whether true or false. I will always be the victim. The limit of my uncomforbility is your surrender and living to my lifestyle, and ultimately conversion to my sexuality status. Projective phobias will armor me from possible unwanted, hostile or philosophical reactions. I will never feel self-convinced within my subconscience that I am not being ostracized if you don't accept not only me, but also what I live and practice as my truth. I am gay. Unfortunately, because I was not born this way. I was abused sexually. I lived out the gay reality to the most. Am I being homophobic or just telling the truth in freedom of speech? This will never end until the minority rules over the majority. That is why Muslims are electing muslims in the U.S.A. and elsewhere in Europe. Anatomy itsefl reflects the intention, creativity and will of God in creation. Homossexuality is self-idolatry, just like pride, narcissism, egocentrism, greed, lust, materialism, christian idolatry, consumerism, gluttony, etc. It is a type of sexual and affective self-catering retroprojection. You project what you need unconsciously over another man. It is the Law of Sin that Bible talks about. Much like a quantic law. It is a psychic quantum affecting not only gays, but also heterossexuals, priests, religious people, scientists, that is, all human beings. You cannot solve this problem by Law. That is what the Bible, especially in the book of Romans and Galatians aims to get across. I use a Life Appliacation Study Bible as my intellectual oracle for advising people to know why the Law of Moses cannot extinguish or anihilate the Law of Sin. Because it is a psychoquantic order of existence and survival. There is also the Law of Grace. God is Law and Grace. He created the universe with laws. There are biological, physical, chemical, chemical and spiritual/ psychological laws. Both the space and the mind alike have laws behaving similarly. We also have "blackholes" in our minds or psychic universe. This is the spiritual death that the Bible talks about. That is why we crave increasingly more not only for sex, but surrogately we can covet never-ceasingly more and more knowledge, information, food, affection, attention, worth, religion ( more than God himself ), material things, etc. The greatest mystery of the Bible is the so-distorted Law of Grace. John 1: …16 From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace. 17 For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.… Anatomy itself proves scientifically that a human life cannot be formed and gestated scientifically amidst feces in the anus. It is possible though to have a mirroring relational and affective self-catering passion for another same-sex person. I am gay under the Law of Grace. I live in a kind of quantic entanglement reality. Last night I was total gay lustful desire. Today I am non-gay by Grace. It is something that cannot be experimented or controlled because it is so subconsciously intimate. By Grace only I can make choices. My spiritual or psychic quantum is that of a sinner ( someone with a Law of blackhole wanting inside ). But by Grace is can see the Light, the Truth. I live in two psychological, but real entangled dimmensions now. The Law of the Law of Love and Sacrifice of God can save me from my own self's psychic blackhole order. If your spirit has great density, it is much probable that if you have opened a spiritual/psychic blackhole of wanting inside, that you will die in depression or anguishes or lust or compensatory ever-increasing narcissism in quest for the energy of self-worth both phisiochemically and psychologically/spiritually. Doctor Yuval Noah Harari is confusing spiritual terms with human terminology. Read 1 Chorinthians chapter 2 please. It is about this. Feeling great enormous sexual-affective pleasure is possible, but not natural for God. The witness of science should be the fact of science in God's perspective. Now we think we are. But when the Great I Am reveals Himself as an infinite value, all will be considered infinitely absolute vanity. When you see sex between a male and a female, the conception of life thereof, the gestation, and even the delivery and the scientific details all of the whole process developing onwards, it is glorious because no one can outwit God. I have learned the bacteria in the vagina during birth can help the skin of the baby to improve its immunity. Fabulous! I can see the mystery of male-female relationships althoug I became gay after I was born. I would talk forever about this. That was not a speech on gay sexuality, but a personal opinion logically explained with a scientific intent. The person of doctor Yuval is nice, but he is entrapped within a psychological dimmension that he cannot see from the real scientific utmost absolute position of male-female undeniably natural fact. Here is a short space for my comment on this. I need stimuli and chance to speak out longer and personally. Bye! If you have any questions, I am very extrovertedly open and welcoming. I love to talk about this. I need to talk about this because you and I are enthusiastic about "scientific" philosophical truths or facts. But please, fallacy is denying facts even though it is scientifically enhanced with logical thoughts. wrl.riddle@gmail.com
It is impossible to satisfy you with a proper reply. Love God first of all. But you cannot love God. Not without His Holy Spirit. I think I know where you came from...
@@williamr.lacerda8848 No words for appreciation. I was thinking about revolutionary involvement of my nation and some relatives in Russia.Long time before. And some of them now. Now I start understanding it. Thanks!
This is brilliant, Yuval! Your argument that everything that exists is inherently natural is both compelling and logical. By challenging the idea that homosexuality is "unnatural" and grounding your perspective in science and evolution, you dismantle outdated societal and theological misconceptions. This clear distinction between human-made narratives and objective reality is a crucial reminder of the importance of embracing truth over constructed beliefs. Thank you for such a thought-provoking and insightful presentation.
I am from Afghanistan. Your books are amazing. I would like to translate Homo Sapiens to my own language Pashto. Update: The Translation is in progress. Thank you all for the support. I see there is also a lot of people full hatred and ignornance in the world. Just by seeing my name or the language I mentioned they think they know everything about me. “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge.” - Steven Hawking. Maybe the world will be a better place if people do not hate those who are different from them.
Why attack Atal Salar without reason? There was no suggestion in his post that suggests that he would endorse such behavior, on the contrary: being a fan of Yuval Harari suggests, that he is open - minded and liberal thinking. Why attack? This is bad behavior from your side, and very narrow minded. Coming from a certain country does not mean that every person in that country shares the same opinions or the same vices. There are liberal thinking people in every place - because we are all "sapiens".
That's good thing, but what market will be to this book when the Taliban controls over 60 percent of Afghanistan and most of the people over there hate the things that yuval Noah harari talks about?(if I'm wrong correct me)
Didn't Jews predate Christians regarding what is natural and unnatural? After all, Christianity builds very much on the concepts presented by Judaism, since for example the ten commandments of the Torah are valid for Christians, but tightened in the gospel according to Matthew, and both praise the same utmost God? Further, Judaism has of all Abrahamic religions the oldest calendar, so if anyone is to blame regarding what is natural and unnatural it would logically be the jews because they appeared first?
Yuval after listening to Homo Sapiens and Homo Deus, I feel more relaxed about life and look at society with an objective view. Thanks your wisdom inspired me!
Literally no one says all boys like girls. Yet here he presents it as if everyone believes it. Very bad argumentation. He just invented the story that it's only harm that matters. Yet he complains about people just inventing stories. This guy is not as intelligent as he wants people to believe.
@@bigfan1041 Well my 80 year old parents and most of their friends say it. A lot of the men I went to school with say it. They acquiesce because it is no longer socially acceptable to denounce homosexuality (and rightly so). Your statement "Literally no one says all boys like girls" is a silly one because it is "literally" untrue.
Whether something is natural or unnatural is irrelevant. People use this almost as synonym for good or bad but that's a fallacy. There a tons of things that are natural that are not desirable (cancer, carbon monoxide, jealousy…) and a lot of 'unnatural' things that are desirable (medicines, technology, birth control,..). Emotions such as love are natural, they are kind of natures shortcut in situations where being rational might put you or your genes in danger. You don't count spider legs and get scared at 8, you get scared at the sight of anything spider-like even if it turns out to be a toy. As a straight man it's hard for me to rationalize being gay, but I equality do not have a rational explanation for why I love my girlfriend. We can't really help ourselves, can we?
Klaas Deforche Humans that cant inherit their DNA just do not participate biologically in evolution. This very same humans can help the specie in other matters, for example in knowledge. Violence that kills is worst than an animal that cant procreate, that animal just wont inherit his/her DNA
Phuong Minh i think we have to abilty to attempt to control things. But like all things we do there is a consequence to that control. And there is always the possiblity of failier.
He uses 'natural' in this context as a reason why religious theology deemed certain things bad and others good, not whether they are good or bad in nature. Regarding evolution, there are several quite convincing theories for why homosexuality evolved. Fundamentally, they all have to do with the fact that the survival of the tribe is more important than the survival of the individual, and therefore, behaviours that favoured the survival of the tribe were passed on genetically. For instance, a homosexual member of a tribe might spend their time and energy taking care of their relatives' offspring, so their own genes would survive indirectly.
Befor his books i was super fanatisist muslim, and i was so stupid , i didnt know anything about the humanity, but after Sapiens i realized that i was seized by delusions , i was like a puppet, and i started to ask myself , and i opened my eyes , and understood that i had been wrong for a long time. But now i am atheist thanks for u, i accept myself as a gay teen, and my life became much more better . Thanks a lot Yuval.
very likely that you like many other Muslims (including myself) have never pondered over quran in the first place. Irony. If you want to call something fanatic ,you have to go to its fundamentals ,of why it says so.
Sorry if ill interrupt. As a nonmuslim at the same time not atheist, i wont regard all people who have faith on divine things to be absolutely wrong unless it creates obvious harm to other people. I give them the benefit of doubt
@@jerryapag5250 yeah exactly. If it gives you comfort, go believe them. It is not the problem which story you believe, it is only a problem when you start imposing your story onto others. Having said that, I personally believe that having well-crafted, logical beliefs is the obvious thing to do. Without proper evidence and reasoning, an ideology is just fiction. Theism just doesn't make sense. As for comfort, I find it in the mountains, waters and even in the utter meaninglessness of the world (because I can do whatever I want). I don't need a non-sensical theory to find comfort. But again, if you like it, no one should stop you.
If you are teen you still have time to rectify yourself and repent, come back to your creator after you die there is no option. Look around you, see the beauty of nature, flower, river, ocean, mountain, sun and moon, your father and mother because of them you got to see the world by Allah almighty's will that's how a family is created, from a Man and Woman, that's how you were born to have the consciousness of existence of God. Human have partial knowledge, human can't create themselves, cannot create oxygen out of nothing which human and other animal require to be alive the difference between human and animal is human have freedom of choice animal and all other species don't have it. Think if you were born as a Goat a hen one day you will feed some people's stomach, the goat has no freewill that the got can say don't eat me. Without God there is no morality and ethics, with money you can buy the authority(Police, ministers, even lobby with the goverment etc.) and do every immoral act, fullfil lust, killing people and what not and without Morality and Ethics there is no human. Just come back to your creator for your own good brother. You cannot look at the Sun who created it but without the Sun you can't see anything, Beliving the unbilivable is faith, and beliving God is faith, that's why we got only one chance with a limited time and expiry date on this earth
@@noorhaque5128 Morality and Ethics can very well exist without God if we are just careful about our own actions. We don't need any religion to guide us if we are sensible enough not to hurt or harm other human beings/species. We don't really need to be so religious and learn all Vedas, Quran, Bible etc just to get this simple understanding, do we?
Literally no one says all boys like girls. Yet here he presents it as if everyone believes it. Very bad argumentation. He just invented the story that it's only harm that matters. Yet he complains about people just inventing stories. This guy is not as intelligent as he wants people to believe.
Your intelligent, examined, practical and kind opinions are such a gift. Religion has a grip on billions of people for their detriment, and much death and suffering continues to be the result of it. Thank you.
Didn't know Yuval was gay, I guess most people do not know this as well. In Sam Harris's waking up podcast Sam asked Yuval if he has children, to which Yuval reluctantly replied "I just have dogs".
Information about his homosexuality is in internet, including Wikipedia. I guess most people following him know about this and don't care. At least, he is giving us so relevant information about human kind. His homosexuality is relevant only if it break myths or homophobia.
I've been waiting for years to be able to not know people's sexuality. Why does it matter if someone likes men or women? With sex the same:, if in adulthood, respectful and with consent... who cares what others do? Why do I need to be aware of the preferences of people I hardly know or never met before?
Yuval has a fantastic ability to connect many topics and ideas through simple analogies. Thank you for your work and your books! (I'm almost done with Homo Deus :)
Would you mind considering the following: There is nothing wrong with men loving men. But sodomy and fellatio are behaviors that come from the sexualization of human orifices. The anus has the anal reflex, the mouth the gag reflex. This means that mouth and anus have instinctual behaviors to avoid penetration. That is biology and science. To the fact that sodomy and fellatio are practices that go against the body that is trying to avoid damage to the very fragile tissues of the digestive system. The digestive system is not a system for sexual intercourse but for the ingestion and secretion of food. Throat and rectum are very fragile tissues with chemical qualities that prepare food for ingestion of chewed down food and the secretion of of food. Throat and rectum are very fragile tissues with chemical qualities that prepare food for ingestion of chewed down food and the secretion of processed food. The real storytelling is that the insertion of the penis in the mouth and anus is a practice of love. It is a practice of hurt. Two men can love each other but that does not have to be sexualized. A sustainable society accepts the limits and capacities of the human body and respects that body. We can not dream the reality of our bodies with stories that contradict nature.
I understand that language might hurt peoples feelings because of its origins. Rephrase my paragraph changing sodomy for "penetration of the anus". I never spoke of god or religion. I do not follow any religion. But the truth of the matter is that there is a involuntary reflex opposition of the anus to be penetrated present in all human beings. It is innate and keeps our bodies healthy by keeping out foreign objects from out digestive system. It is a mechanism to defend the body from intrusive objects going in an open orifice that is meant to excrete digested food. There is nothing religious or pseudo-scientific about that. I believe that men and women can love each other with out being sexualized. That points out the problem, patriarchal culture.
Marco Sisti I do believe, as stated above, that men can love men. I am questioning practices that can harm male and female bodies, particularly because they are framed by mass culture as manifestations of love. If the word love does not imply respect for the integrity of the body, it is being used as to mean nothing.
So long as your sexuality harms no one, the dilemma is taking place within your own skull. Why am I suddenly thinking of I Am What I Am from La Cage Aux Folles?
We all struggle, but mostly to free our mind of all the trash we’ve been taught to believe about gays all our lives. Once those thoughts are washed away, you’ll be free to be yourself and just live the best life you can. I was raised Catholic and struggled with that. I left that behind years ago and can’t say I miss it. Hope you’re in a better place now. (Reading you’re posta year later!)
Don't fall for this nonsense. Now how bitter he is. You are who you are, not a lable, not what people are willing to accept. Just be brave at anything, accept rejection as part of life and meditate on what is life anyways, what's the point of it, what drives you in it. There are the answers into who you are and how you are to live your life. No in any silly youtube video.
With this logic sexual relationship with minor would also be considered natural. In fact, all human actions are considered natural since we all part of nature.
With this logic when certain human babies are born with two heads/no arms etc. and other deformities, would also be considered natural just because it occurs. It is flawed logic at best.
He is merely responding to the ridiculous quip that homosexuality is unnatural. If it exists in nature, it is natural. That doesn’t equate to an action being moral immoral or amoral, but it does equate to being natural.
@@MB-nx9tq his respond is actually ridiculous ... bcz any decent human being knows that "not bcz it happens it has to be normal or natural " ... his answer didn't change the fact that is lgbtq is against "family" and human society and it's a sin no matter how ignorant he is about God and saying that God is a big human in the sky who gets angry is totally a story he created or heard and just repeated bcz in my region no one thinks such a stupid thought about God .
@Politically Incorrect Bender What is the deal with public nudity? Why do you wanna get covered up in public? I mean, what's the point? huh... Our default state is naked. We were created that way, evolved that way. What`s the big deal?
But if someone whats to be naked in his/her own house the whole day with his/her spouse or alone, he/she should not be stopped from doing so by anybody.
Hay Asshole Atheist And people Like you who don't believe in After life kill innocent people You're from Israel Right now tell me why you kill innocent Muslims?
this is bull shit,your respond full of lies & contradictions, the best way to answer say (( this is my personal choice and my life style period )) you shouldn't link the Extremism & Terrorism problem and GAY issues, this unacceptable as well as unfair, I think No body cares if you are Gay, but don't mislead people there thousands profs/doctors/ scientist dis agree with you heavily, with proof and knowledge Gay is a Gay you cannot make something Norma
Literally no one says all boys like girls. Yet here he presents it as if everyone believes it. Very bad argumentation. He just invented the story that it's only harm that matters. Yet he complains about people just inventing stories. This guy is not as intelligent as he wants people to believe.
@@bigfan1041 Literally everyone for most of history has said people of one sex are attracted to their opposite sex.The world has largely been heteronormative. Just look at the origin myths of all the world religions.fables,religious myths and everything, you see heterosexual being the dominant sexual orientation. And by still, the majority of the world is far behind. Take your homophobia someplace else you sick homophobe..
@@bigfan1041 i don't know about your achievements and your knowledge and skills but he is far ahead of you. And literally no one says all human have brain. And i found out why they say so.
Dear Yuval... I just like you and respect you so much... I would like to understand the conditions that come together to bring such a brilliant person to be existed.
As an openly gay man for 50 years and a science writer for 40, I still struggle to remain unperturbed by public homophobia. You have my tremendous admiration, Yuval, for so easily conveying strength of selfhood. Even though you are irreproachably intelligent, supremely articulate and naturally confident, it takes courage for gay people to comport ourselves honestly through a hostile world. Heroes like you make it easier. Thank you!
I've noticed this with other Israelis speaking English it's like they just skip the H sound, perhaps used to a rough sounding one not soft. Its funny I saw him speak before I read the books so whenever I read the word humans in them in my mind they were "yumans" lol
Gary We actually do have a soft H sound in many words - for example, the word for "love" is Ahava (pronounced A- Ha - Va). However, in some words the common, if not "correct", pronunciation is without an H. Personally I haven't heard many Israelis say "yumans" instead of "humans", but everybody has their own accent
To tell a gay that you are normal and the same as others is really a beautiful story. You can also tell a 3 arm child you are natural and don’t need surgery. Because you exist and some others also have 3 arms.
I was like you until i finished the university(international relations_so many forced readings)since elementary until the end of university we had to memorize all those names ,dates,general's names,wars,act's names etc.so i used to hate history too.(and my nation has a veryyyyy looooong history believe me)anyway,aftee the university i was free to read whatever i wanted and without the fear of marks so i enjoyed and loved history...also another opinion many of history teachers are boring that affects us a lot too.
this is bull shit,your respond full of lies & contradictions, the best way to answer say (( this is my personal choice and my life style period )) you shouldn't link the Extremism & Terrorism problem and GAY issues, this unacceptable as well as unfair, I think No body cares if you are Gay, but don't mislead people there thousands profs/doctors/ scientist dis agree with you heavily, with proof and knowledge Gay is a Gay you cannot make something Norma
unbelievable what this man just say, he slapped God and religion on the face by the hand of science and logic, great to know such great mind, our world utterly need such great men like Yuval Harari.
He goes on about the "laws of nature", which is not a good argument. Murder is against human law, but it is not against natural law since animals kill each other all the time... a very poor basis on which to argue for equality.
@@thursoberwick1948 It is merely a counter argument to the popular narrative homophobes use - i.e. homosexuality is not natural and hence will lead to ultimate doom. Now that it's established that anything that occurs in nature by itself is natural, the other side is stripped off their major argument. The next question to address is whether humans should condone all that is natural? The answer is no, we should avoid some things. Things that harm others (like murder). Not homosexuality. This is how I see a sane argument progressing (unless we have sky-daddy obsessed nincompoops talking about fictional books. Then there's no argument.)
During the Deluge, those who wanted to slapped somebody were drowned. And people from that time and until now, no suppose slapper can explain the Cambrian Explosion, and the Missing Link.
@@AnneTemple6175 But mme if you think I'm wrong, which could be true......than it is what it is. I only try to let my intuïtion speak. But maybe you could be also wrong......could that be an option too? 👍
@@עמנואלנחמוit’s better to replace in your heart something that doesn’t exist to something that does, to do so transforms you from a psychotic to a rational being.
I am deeply in love with this incredible Man. I feel a platonic love because he has a boyfriend and I am an old and a not very intelligent Man. I will continue loving his intelligence, his beauty and I will forever have profound respect to him as a scientist and a true genius. Lucky boyfriend.
Wow... I can feel the anger in his voice (and his face) against everything he must have endured for being gay. It´s almost like he's struggling not to lose his temper while he speaks. It's good to let that anger out, just be careful where it can lead you if you're blinded by it: just the same extremism you are rightfully condemning. May God (the real one, not the one we make up) bless you Yuval.
I didn't even know he was gay! I've enjoyed two of his books before knowing this. It feels good to happen to see someone from the gay community i can relate to in such a natural setting. As someone who is also gay, it helps a lot.
So, then why do we try to stop murderers from murdering...if it exists , then it must also be natural? Isn't the desire to murder also a natural desire in humans, just like sexual desire, hunger, lust etc.? Where does one draw the line with this idea of "natural" impulses? And no, I am not likening homosexuality to murderers, I am just addressing your explanation of what is reality and natural, because frankly the things I mentioned are all a reality and very natural...
Exactly - murder, theft, violent assault, rape all occur in nature, and it is human law which can protect us against those. A very poor argument to support equality which is also backed by human law.
People like to reason why they do what they do. Makes us feel better, but using his own reasoning, he creates stories and then gives them preeminence. He believes his own truth. Nothing new under the sun.
Fundamentally, murders "harm" the other person, and cascades as fear into the minds of people with immediate association of the murdered. Homosexuality however is of no concern to a third party. It is extremely exclusive to the people involved and causes NO HARM to either of the parties involved. Laws were made essentially to stop certain actions from "harming" societal and individual aspirations. Like murder which does both. Hence it is punishable by law. What harm does the latter do? You are comparing two absurdly unrealted things.
Thought the same thing. He doesn't listen to what he's saying. I've been around gay men. Usually their minds work and reason in odd ways. It's more than just a sexual preferance thing. It's also mental.
On point? Well, arguing from the law of nature is a horrible mistake, since murder and theft occur all the time in nature. Human law is what we should be discussing for equality. Besides, this man is a transhumanist, which makes him a bit of a hypocrite in this regard.
I just finished Homo Deus, and based on how he wrote both Sapiens and this one, I would have never guessed his personality to be like this. Keep up the good work! Greetings from Colombia.
A great mind and mystic thinker whose thoughts (i.e. books) neutralize existential pain of humans by giving them understanding of a chaotic world. I really love this man of wisdom.
This is very common when I do wrong and some body opposes me for my wrong doing but i don't want to accept that is wrong then it's common we begin to give logic, in this regard there should be no rule for anything, do whatever you wants to do, give some logic and add one more new rule to simplify your freedom. It's not that certain standard fixed by men or any priest.
"There is just no such thing as 'unnatural behaviour'. Anything, that exists, is - by definition - also natural." Thank you very much professor Harari, for this scientific foundation for incest, sexual harassment, genocide, dictatorships and other totally "natural" forms of human behaviour. It does explain a lot. :-)
Well for me gender should never be an issue..After having dealt with difficult people in my life, I realize gentle temperament and good character is more important about a person.
Before I get started on this topic, I wanted to let everyone know that I am not gay, and I do not believe in any form of religion of any sort. With that said , I was not born into this world with the responsibility or the mission to teach, harass, or to bully, to force my personal moral beliefs on others... in fact, I have a hard enough time with my own personal moral beliefs and attitude... as for God... I don't know the answer to that question if he is real or not, for this reason alone I am agnostic on this subject, but, I will say this... if God does exist, he is billions of times unlike our human fabricated religions and beliefs of what we think God is.... In short, it not my job, my responsibility, nor my obligation to cruelty force my personal beliefs upon you or anyone else !!!!! I don't want someone to do that to me so out of respect I don't do that to you or to others. Lets enjoy our life while we are here for this incredible blink of an eye short time. Have a good day and clear skies.
yes, I agree with you, and also that he dodged the last question talking about the religious extrimism, something that wasn't asked in the question. nudity in parades usually disgust for too much people, but the rest of the quetions and the way that he answered was right, think so.
it's asserting that all phenomena come from nature, including humans and their creations. it's just one philosophical position that has been around since antiquity, it's not inherently moronic imo
I admire your courage to express yourself about your sexuality with all frankness, raising it to a general instance. Respect is an aspect of love, of brotherhood, which is the quintessential value for Humanity to have an opportunity for survival of itself. Thanks Yuval from Argentina. Admiro tu valentía para expresarte sobre tu sexualidad con toda franqueza, planteandolo a una instancia general. El respeto es un aspecto del amor, de la fraternidad, que es en valor por excelencia para que la Humanidad tenga una oportunidad de supervivencia a sí misma. Gracias Yuval desde Argentina.
I have to say, Sapiens and Homo Deus really influenced my thought process. I'm young and I'm still developing a viewpoint, and I'm so glad that your books have influenced me in building it.
Hi Noah . Just started reading Sapiens...a brief history of Humankind. Wow! Your explanations are so succint...can't wait to read more . Thank you for your wisdom
josephsaff (No rudeness in my comment) It’s not about natural/unnatural but natural/cultural, and it’s not “invented”, it’s a linguistic development of an extremely wide concept. I agree with H. on the fact that it is misused etc., but I was just saying that in my opinion you can’t use this kind of argument in this kind of speech. Not the place or time to use his ideas correctly and explain them properly. If he wasn’t who he is it would result in misinformation. (Sorry about the intellectual smugness)
Carlo Geeno He is a historian. His only concern is about fact finding. He is not trying to look or explain things from philosophical point of view. He - nor I - is interested in it.
Love Is The Answer That’s not true, but again, it depends on what you mean by natural. It can be interpreted through different points of view, historical, philosophical, biochemical, sociocultural. Even plastic is natural if you want to label it so, since matter and chemical elements are natural. I didn’t like Harari’s dismissiveness on this one, but I understand what he meant, especially after reading “Sapiens”. His argumentations are always honest and strong, it’s just that you can’t take for granted a shared meaning of the word “natural”, that’s all
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Both Sapiens and Homo Deus changed my view of the world in a way that nothing else has before. Thank you Yuval for sharing your knowledge with us and I hope we Palestinians and you Israelis can live together as just sapiens.
Mohammad Faraj I'm also very happy to have found this man's writings! The way he accumulates the essential wisdom and presents it as a story, it made a lot of otherwise erroneous musings into a really coherent story. Brilliant academic
Beside the fact that all humans are almost identical genetically, most Israelis and Palestinians are even more identical. Looking at the DNA evidence they share massive haplotype blocks and almost identical recombination events. So the Israeli and Palestine dichotomy is just a story.
I am so pleased to read your comment Mohammad Faraj. I really hope more people in that region thought like you, and may that long conflict be resolved asap. Best wishes!
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A great salute to you Mohammed Faraj from Algeria. I found Harari's book so educative. I already enjoyed homo sapiens and homo Deus. Now I'm enjoying 21 lessons. My biggest worry is, what I'm gonna read after 21 lessons!?
As a 21-year-old man growing up in a third-world country, I once believed that religion was everything, even if it taught me to harm my loved ones for a reward. At the time, I would have been willing to sacrifice everything in pursuit of that reward. However, as I faced difficult circumstances and began to change, I became more grounded in reality. Through books and social media, I gained a deeper understanding of the world. What I once ignored-life’s harsh truths-I now embrace. I no longer consider myself a follower, but a student of life.
Now, I am liberal and non-religious. I struggled in a religious school, enduring physical and emotional abuse five days a week in a toxic environment. I believed for a long time that I was wrong. However, listening to you and others, and reading their books, has helped me a great deal.
As I read more, listen to good authors, and truly understand, I have become more open-minded, open to new experiences, and accepting of human nature.Yuval noah, thank you for your theories, ideas, and books.
How insane! you follow what human beings say and write , but you don't follow what the Almighty Creator who created you and the universe and everything in the universe has said in the scriptures (the old/new testament/the Quran). Don't forget that death is your ultimate destination and that you will face the Real Truth which you're trying to avoid as long as you are alive. once you transit to the hereafter, you won't have a second chance to correct your mistakes. So, reconsider your choices and decisions before you lose the chance. Good luck.
We are the same age, yet I can see that your understanding of the world's complexities is still developing. Your tendency to change your mind quickly suggests a lack of open-mindedness, as truly grasping the flaws in ideologies and embracing profound insights requires time and deep contemplation. I encourage you to reflect deeply and thoughtfully.
Only if U were muslin U E now better... 😂
Being open and willing to entertain ideas and concepts unfamiliar is the very definition of liberal as in liberal arts education. People have been sold a story that liberal means leftist and socialist and anti-free-market. Liberal and conservative are actually orthogonal, you can be both simultaneously. I went to a liberal arts college that was also extremely free-market and even Laissez-faire capitalist. People need to stop believing harmful stories.
@@aliwazzani-q6n Almighty Creator did not create us, we created it out of despair.
According to yuval ,loving between two males without harming each other is not prohibited. I agree with this statement.
You will disagree when your children would be influenced by people like him.
Attractive Openner😅😂
@@Rizwankhan-mx6coI would have been straight
@@Rizwankhan-mx6co Do not have children if you cannot accept who they grow up to be. Dying lonely and stupid will be your fate!!!!!!!
He's probably never lost an argument in his life....simply the best explainer alive!
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Every true philosopher could destroy this seducer and his selfish rationality. - But why waste time? Mundi vult decipi...
he can try argue with me. but I pity him
Truly wise people are not interested in "winning an argument", they are interested in getting closer to truth, even if it means admitting that they were wrong at the end of discussion. Trying to "win an argument" almost always results in disingenuous discussion. If a person is smarter/more knowledgeable/better orator, he/she can "win an argument" while being wrong.
@Luis Alberto Pérez Nájera Tell me why you think that, and i will tell you exactly why you are wrong. I guess you are a religious person?
“It is a great wisdom to accept reality as it is. Even if it contradicts the stories most people believe.”
Is this a scientific view or a personal sincere view in scientific style?
I have a philosophical half-RIDDLE for you all: Whomever lives in a plagiarized or sophismized or unnatural system, either ego-genetic, self-genetic, ego-dynamic, self-centered, or ideological or religious or political, etc, has a psychic quantum order that is essencially hyper-projective and hyper-narcissistic and hyper-compensatory. The such one of this kind will dynamically use all political, mediatic,ideological, philosophical and sophismatic means to recreate an outward reality not only favorable for the welcoming or comfort of his ideas, but also will persistently struggle to recreate an environment the most equal to his ideological system. If I am gay, I want you to be gay. I will allege homophobia, whether true or false. I will always be the victim. The limit of my uncomforbility is your surrender and living to my lifestyle, and ultimately conversion to my sexuality status. Projective phobias will armor me from possible unwanted, hostile or philosophical reactions. I will never feel self-convinced within my subconscience that I am not being ostracized if you don't accept not only me, but also what I live and practice as my truth. I am gay. Unfortunately, because I was not born this way. I was abused sexually. I lived out the gay reality to the most. Am I being homophobic or just telling the truth in freedom of speech?
This will never end until the minority rules over the majority.
That is why Muslims are electing muslims in the U.S.A. and elsewhere in Europe.
Anatomy itsefl reflects the intention, creativity and will of God in creation.
Homossexuality is self-idolatry, just like pride, narcissism, egocentrism, greed, lust, materialism, christian idolatry, consumerism, gluttony, etc.
It is a type of sexual and affective self-catering retroprojection. You project what you need unconsciously over another man. It is the Law of Sin that Bible talks about. Much like a quantic law. It is a psychic quantum affecting not only gays, but also heterossexuals, priests, religious people, scientists, that is, all human beings. You cannot solve this problem by Law. That is what the Bible, especially in the book of Romans and Galatians aims to get across. I use a Life Appliacation Study Bible as my intellectual oracle for advising people to know why the Law of Moses cannot extinguish or anihilate the Law of Sin. Because it is a psychoquantic order of existence and survival. There is also the Law of Grace. God is Law and Grace. He created the universe with laws. There are biological, physical, chemical, chemical and spiritual/ psychological laws. Both the space and the mind alike have laws behaving similarly. We also have "blackholes" in our minds or psychic universe. This is the spiritual death that the Bible talks about. That is why we crave increasingly more not only for sex, but surrogately we can covet never-ceasingly more and more knowledge, information, food, affection, attention, worth, religion ( more than God himself ), material things, etc.
The greatest mystery of the Bible is the so-distorted Law of Grace.
John 1:
…16 From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace. 17 For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.…
Anatomy itself proves scientifically that a human life cannot be formed and gestated scientifically amidst feces in the anus. It is possible though to have a mirroring relational and affective self-catering passion for another same-sex person.
I am gay under the Law of Grace. I live in a kind of quantic entanglement reality. Last night I was total gay lustful desire. Today I am non-gay by Grace. It is something that cannot be experimented or controlled because it is so subconsciously intimate. By Grace only I can make choices. My spiritual or psychic quantum is that of a sinner ( someone with a Law of blackhole wanting inside ). But by Grace is can see the Light, the Truth. I live in two psychological, but real entangled dimmensions now. The Law of the Law of Love and Sacrifice of God can save me from my own self's psychic blackhole order. If your spirit has great density, it is much probable that if you have opened a spiritual/psychic blackhole of wanting inside, that you will die in depression or anguishes or lust or compensatory ever-increasing narcissism in quest for the energy of self-worth both phisiochemically and psychologically/spiritually.
Doctor Yuval Noah Harari is confusing spiritual terms with human terminology. Read 1 Chorinthians chapter 2 please. It is about this.
Feeling great enormous sexual-affective pleasure is possible, but not natural for God.
The witness of science should be the fact of science in God's perspective. Now we think we are. But when the Great I Am reveals Himself as an infinite value, all will be considered infinitely absolute vanity.
When you see sex between a male and a female, the conception of life thereof, the gestation, and even the delivery and the scientific details all of the whole process developing onwards, it is glorious because no one can outwit God.
I have learned the bacteria in the vagina during birth can help the skin of the baby to improve its immunity. Fabulous!
I can see the mystery of male-female relationships althoug I became gay after I was born.
I would talk forever about this. That was not a speech on gay sexuality, but a personal opinion logically explained with a scientific intent.
The person of doctor Yuval is nice, but he is entrapped within a psychological dimmension that he cannot see from the real scientific utmost absolute position of male-female undeniably natural fact.
Here is a short space for my comment on this. I need stimuli and chance to speak out longer and personally. Bye!
If you have any questions, I am very extrovertedly open and welcoming. I love to talk about this. I need to talk about this because you and I are enthusiastic about "scientific" philosophical truths or facts.
But please, fallacy is denying facts even though it is scientifically enhanced with logical thoughts.
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It is impossible to satisfy you with a proper reply. Love God first of all. But you cannot love God. Not without His Holy Spirit. I think I know where you came from...
@@williamr.lacerda8848 No words for appreciation. I was thinking about revolutionary involvement of my nation and some relatives in Russia.Long time before. And some of them now. Now I start understanding it. Thanks!
@@williamr.lacerda8848 WTF?
This is brilliant, Yuval! Your argument that everything that exists is inherently natural is both compelling and logical. By challenging the idea that homosexuality is "unnatural" and grounding your perspective in science and evolution, you dismantle outdated societal and theological misconceptions. This clear distinction between human-made narratives and objective reality is a crucial reminder of the importance of embracing truth over constructed beliefs. Thank you for such a thought-provoking and insightful presentation.
I am from Afghanistan. Your books are amazing. I would like to translate Homo Sapiens to my own language Pashto.
Update: The Translation is in progress. Thank you all for the support. I see there is also a lot of people full hatred and ignornance in the world. Just by seeing my name or the language I mentioned they think they know everything about me.
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge.” - Steven Hawking.
Maybe the world will be a better place if people do not hate those who are different from them.
Love Pashto
Used to speak Pashto at least a bit of it
Why attack Atal Salar without reason? There was no suggestion in his post that suggests that he would endorse such behavior, on the contrary: being a fan of Yuval Harari suggests, that he is open - minded and liberal thinking. Why attack? This is bad behavior from your side, and very narrow minded. Coming from a certain country does not mean that every person in that country shares the same opinions or the same vices. There are liberal thinking people in every place - because we are all "sapiens".
@@alixmordant489 because he is a dumb 'twat' hating on everyone different than him.
That's good thing, but what market will be to this book when the Taliban controls over 60 percent of Afghanistan and most of the people over there hate the things that yuval Noah harari talks about?(if I'm wrong correct me)
You changed my point of view, thank you
Intelligent people are capable of adjusting their views. Congrats, it’s called growth. 🙏🏼
It's the first time I've seen Yuval speak about something so personally... What a cutie!
Didn't Jews predate Christians regarding what is natural and unnatural? After all, Christianity builds very much on the concepts presented by Judaism, since for example the ten commandments of the Torah are valid for Christians, but tightened in the gospel according to Matthew, and both praise the same utmost God? Further, Judaism has of all Abrahamic religions the oldest calendar, so if anyone is to blame regarding what is natural and unnatural it would logically be the jews because they appeared first?
Yuval after listening to Homo Sapiens and Homo Deus, I feel more relaxed about life and look at society with an objective view. Thanks your wisdom inspired me!
Lourdes Paez can I find the book in amazon or other sites ?
Literally no one says all boys like girls.
Yet here he presents it as if everyone believes it.
Very bad argumentation.
He just invented the story that it's only harm that matters.
Yet he complains about people just inventing stories.
This guy is not as intelligent as he wants people to believe.
@@bigfan1041 Well my 80 year old parents and most of their friends say it. A lot of the men I went to school with say it. They acquiesce because it is no longer socially acceptable to denounce homosexuality (and rightly so). Your statement "Literally no one says all boys like girls" is a silly one because it is "literally" untrue.
@@Etcher It's not literally untrue. Everyone knows there are some males attracted to males.
@@bigfan1041 Yes but many still believe it is 'unnatural'. He is simply pointing out the fact that if people do it then it is by definition natural
Whether something is natural or unnatural is irrelevant. People use this almost as synonym for good or bad but that's a fallacy. There a tons of things that are natural that are not desirable (cancer, carbon monoxide, jealousy…) and a lot of 'unnatural' things that are desirable (medicines, technology, birth control,..).
Emotions such as love are natural, they are kind of natures shortcut in situations where being rational might put you or your genes in danger. You don't count spider legs and get scared at 8, you get scared at the sight of anything spider-like even if it turns out to be a toy. As a straight man it's hard for me to rationalize being gay, but I equality do not have a rational explanation for why I love my girlfriend. We can't really help ourselves, can we?
Klaas Deforche Humans that cant inherit their DNA just do not participate biologically in evolution. This very same humans can help the specie in other matters, for example in knowledge. Violence that kills is worst than an animal that cant procreate, that animal just wont inherit his/her DNA
I agree overall but i disagree that we do not have some abilty to control things.
Phuong Minh i think we have to abilty to attempt to control things. But like all things we do there is a consequence to that control. And there is always the possiblity of failier.
Well said lol. No one can help who they're attracted to.
He uses 'natural' in this context as a reason why religious theology deemed certain things bad and others good, not whether they are good or bad in nature.
Regarding evolution, there are several quite convincing theories for why homosexuality evolved. Fundamentally, they all have to do with the fact that the survival of the tribe is more important than the survival of the individual, and therefore, behaviours that favoured the survival of the tribe were passed on genetically.
For instance, a homosexual member of a tribe might spend their time and energy taking care of their relatives' offspring, so their own genes would survive indirectly.
If two men love one another, the world is even more of a beautiful place
Befor his books i was super fanatisist muslim, and i was so stupid , i didnt know anything about the humanity, but after Sapiens i realized that i was seized by delusions , i was like a puppet, and i started to ask myself , and i opened my eyes , and understood that i had been wrong for a long time. But now i am atheist thanks for u, i accept myself as a gay teen, and my life became much more better . Thanks a lot Yuval.
very likely that you like many other Muslims (including myself) have never pondered over quran in the first place. Irony. If you want to call something fanatic ,you have to go to its fundamentals ,of why it says so.
Sorry if ill interrupt. As a nonmuslim at the same time not atheist, i wont regard all people who have faith on divine things to be absolutely wrong unless it creates obvious harm to other people. I give them the benefit of doubt
@@jerryapag5250 yeah exactly. If it gives you comfort, go believe them. It is not the problem which story you believe, it is only a problem when you start imposing your story onto others.
Having said that, I personally believe that having well-crafted, logical beliefs is the obvious thing to do. Without proper evidence and reasoning, an ideology is just fiction. Theism just doesn't make sense. As for comfort, I find it in the mountains, waters and even in the utter meaninglessness of the world (because I can do whatever I want). I don't need a non-sensical theory to find comfort.
But again, if you like it, no one should stop you.
If you are teen you still have time to rectify yourself and repent, come back to your creator after you die there is no option.
Look around you, see the beauty of nature, flower, river, ocean, mountain, sun and moon, your father and mother because of them you got to see the world by Allah almighty's will that's how a family is created, from a Man and Woman, that's how you were born to have the consciousness of existence of God. Human have partial knowledge, human can't create themselves, cannot create oxygen out of nothing which human and other animal require to be alive the difference between human and animal is human have freedom of choice animal and all other species don't have it. Think if you were born as a Goat a hen one day you will feed some people's stomach, the goat has no freewill that the got can say don't eat me.
Without God there is no morality and ethics, with money you can buy the authority(Police, ministers, even lobby with the goverment etc.) and do every immoral act, fullfil lust, killing people and what not and without Morality and Ethics there is no human.
Just come back to your creator for your own good brother.
You cannot look at the Sun who created it but without the Sun you can't see anything, Beliving the unbilivable is faith, and beliving God is faith, that's why we got only one chance with a limited time and expiry date on this earth
@@noorhaque5128 Morality and Ethics can very well exist without God if we are just careful about our own actions. We don't need any religion to guide us if we are sensible enough not to hurt or harm other human beings/species. We don't really need to be so religious and learn all Vedas, Quran, Bible etc just to get this simple understanding, do we?
Yuval has to be one of my favorite sapiens.
Brilliant
Yes we are lucky to have him
Me sapiens and home deus
Literally no one says all boys like girls.
Yet here he presents it as if everyone believes it.
Very bad argumentation.
He just invented the story that it's only harm that matters.
Yet he complains about people just inventing stories.
This guy is not as intelligent as he wants people to believe.
@Karishma Chaudhary Wrong.
Your intelligent, examined, practical and kind opinions are such a gift. Religion has a grip on billions of people for their detriment, and much death and suffering continues to be the result of it. Thank you.
Didn't know Yuval was gay, I guess most people do not know this as well. In Sam Harris's waking up podcast Sam asked Yuval if he has children, to which Yuval reluctantly replied "I just have dogs".
Information about his homosexuality is in internet, including Wikipedia. I guess most people following him know about this and don't care. At least, he is giving us so relevant information about human kind. His homosexuality is relevant only if it break myths or homophobia.
Yeahh.. that's true lol, he said that
Sad
He has dedicated one of his books to his husband.
Do you know the state of Israel has frustrated the use of surrogacy by same-sex couples? Please do not assume he does not want kids.
I can't wait until nobody has the slightest interest in anyone else's sexual preference or identity. As far as I'm concerned, it's all just meh...
Priceless Old Man
I've been waiting for years to be able to not know people's sexuality. Why does it matter if someone likes men or women? With sex the same:, if in adulthood, respectful and with consent... who cares what others do? Why do I need to be aware of the preferences of people I hardly know or never met before?
"I can't wait until nobody has the slightest interest in anyone else's sexual preference or identity", says "Old man".
*Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmh*
Exactly!
Your books changed my perspective about the world..!
“It is a great wisdom to accept reality as it is, even if it contradicts the stories most people believe” Oh, man!
Yuval has a fantastic ability to connect many topics and ideas through simple analogies. Thank you for your work and your books! (I'm almost done with Homo Deus :)
I agree with you, cabetosol. Yuval seems brilliant here. I can't say I would have thought of this if I had not heard his explanation.
Would you mind considering the following: There is nothing wrong with men loving men. But sodomy and fellatio are behaviors that come from the sexualization of human orifices. The anus has the anal reflex, the mouth the gag reflex. This means that mouth and anus have instinctual behaviors to avoid penetration. That is biology and science. To the fact that sodomy and fellatio are practices that go against the body that is trying to avoid damage to the very fragile tissues of the digestive system. The digestive system is not a system for sexual intercourse but for the ingestion and secretion of food. Throat and rectum are very fragile tissues with chemical qualities that prepare food for ingestion of chewed down food and the secretion of of food. Throat and rectum are very fragile tissues with chemical qualities that prepare food for ingestion of chewed down food and the secretion of processed food. The real storytelling is that the insertion of the penis in the mouth and anus is a practice of love. It is a practice of hurt. Two men can love each other but that does not have to be sexualized. A sustainable society accepts the limits and capacities of the human body and respects that body. We can not dream the reality of our bodies with stories that contradict nature.
It is worse than unfortunate that "sodomy" is also sometimes a legal word. Marco Sisti. I am glad that in many places this is in the past.
I understand that language might hurt peoples feelings because of its origins. Rephrase my paragraph changing sodomy for "penetration of the anus". I never spoke of god or religion. I do not follow any religion. But the truth of the matter is that there is a involuntary reflex opposition of the anus to be penetrated present in all human beings. It is innate and keeps our bodies healthy by keeping out foreign objects from out digestive system. It is a mechanism to defend the body from intrusive objects going in an open orifice that is meant to excrete digested food. There is nothing religious or pseudo-scientific about that. I believe that men and women can love each other with out being sexualized. That points out the problem, patriarchal culture.
Marco Sisti I do believe, as stated above, that men can love men. I am questioning practices that can harm male and female bodies, particularly because they are framed by mass culture as manifestations of love. If the word love does not imply respect for the integrity of the body, it is being used as to mean nothing.
Great how open, objectively and encouraging you address this topic! 👍💛
Thanks for posting this! From someone struggling with their sexuality
So long as your sexuality harms no one, the dilemma is taking place within your own skull. Why am I suddenly thinking of I Am What I Am from La Cage Aux Folles?
John Keys we all struggle. I do not think this guy uses reason.
John Keys thanks for posting. Pray, read proverbs, ch 1-10 ..
We all struggle, but mostly to free our mind of all the trash we’ve been taught to believe about gays all our lives. Once those thoughts are washed away, you’ll be free to be yourself and just live the best life you can.
I was raised Catholic and struggled with that. I left that behind years ago and can’t say I miss it.
Hope you’re in a better place now. (Reading you’re posta year later!)
Don't fall for this nonsense. Now how bitter he is.
You are who you are, not a lable, not what people are willing to accept. Just be brave at anything, accept rejection as part of life and meditate on what is life anyways, what's the point of it, what drives you in it. There are the answers into who you are and how you are to live your life. No in any silly youtube video.
You are one of the Smartest Sapiens. Wonderful Speech.
With this logic sexual relationship with minor would also be considered natural. In fact, all human actions are considered natural since we all part of nature.
Look up MAP Minor Attractive Person they are trying to include themselves in the lgbt community
With this logic when certain human babies are born with two heads/no arms etc. and other deformities, would also be considered natural just because it occurs. It is flawed logic at best.
He is merely responding to the ridiculous quip that homosexuality is unnatural. If it exists in nature, it is natural. That doesn’t equate to an action being moral immoral or amoral, but it does equate to being natural.
Oh finally someone is aware that not everything that happens in the world is considered natural or good ... bless you
@@MB-nx9tq his respond is actually ridiculous ... bcz any decent human being knows that "not bcz it happens it has to be normal or natural " ... his answer didn't change the fact that is lgbtq is against "family" and human society and it's a sin no matter how ignorant he is about God and saying that God is a big human in the sky who gets angry is totally a story he created or heard and just repeated bcz in my region no one thinks such a stupid thought about God .
"Well through out history, nudity killed very few people but religious fanaticism killed millions"
- Yuval Noah Harari
Classic case of whataboutism. I'm bi, and an atheist, not a fan of religion, not a fan of public nudity either.
@Politically Incorrect Bender What is the deal with public nudity? Why do you wanna get covered up in public? I mean, what's the point? huh... Our default state is naked. We were created that way, evolved that way. What`s the big deal?
@@geoffers7399
First thing Adam and Eve did when they fell from grace, was out clothes on. Let that sink in
But if someone whats to be naked in his/her own house the whole day with his/her spouse or alone, he/she should not be stopped from doing so by anybody.
Hay Asshole Atheist And people
Like you who don't believe in
After life kill innocent people
You're from Israel Right now tell me why you kill innocent Muslims?
Religious extremism more dangerous than nudity...LOVE IT!!!
this is bull shit,your respond full of lies & contradictions, the best way to answer say
(( this is my personal choice and my life style period )) you shouldn't link the Extremism & Terrorism problem and GAY issues, this unacceptable as well as unfair, I think No body cares if you are Gay, but don't mislead people there thousands profs/doctors/ scientist dis agree with you heavily, with proof and knowledge Gay is a Gay you cannot make something Norma
Literally no one says all boys like girls.
Yet here he presents it as if everyone believes it.
Very bad argumentation.
He just invented the story that it's only harm that matters.
Yet he complains about people just inventing stories.
This guy is not as intelligent as he wants people to believe.
mr Daljir there are even more scientists who would agree with him.
@@bigfan1041 Literally everyone for most of history has said people of one sex are attracted to their opposite sex.The world has largely been heteronormative. Just look at the origin myths of all the world religions.fables,religious myths and everything, you see heterosexual being the dominant sexual orientation. And by still, the majority of the world is far behind.
Take your homophobia someplace else you sick homophobe..
@@bigfan1041 i don't know about your achievements and your knowledge and skills but he is far ahead of you. And literally no one says all human have brain. And i found out why they say so.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
לפְנֵי־שֶׁ֥בֶר גָּא֑וֹןוְלִפְנֵ֥יכִ֝שָּׁל֗וֹןגֹּ֣בַהּרֽוּחַ׃
Well said
Of course, laws by nature are really different from laws of society.
@Sean : nature is much more tolerant than society.
@Politically Incorrect Bender : that is also right.
That's absolutely true! Nature even don't judge anything or someone, nature just exists, evolves and flows, society is intolerant.
@@ELemos-oh6xw : you are right.
@RUSSIAN ROBOT : yes.
Dear Yuval... I just like you and respect you so much... I would like to understand the conditions that come together to bring such a brilliant person to be existed.
Wisam Tariq m
You
He just uses his brain cells to observe the world and not a christian dogma.
@@mrdaljir6630 ever heard of grammar?
Evelyne b
mr Daljir, just mind YOUR business.
As an openly gay man for 50 years and a science writer for 40, I still struggle to remain unperturbed by public homophobia. You have my tremendous admiration, Yuval, for so easily conveying strength of selfhood. Even though you are irreproachably intelligent, supremely articulate and naturally confident, it takes courage for gay people to comport ourselves honestly through a hostile world. Heroes like you make it easier. Thank you!
Awesome answers, I like your accent and how you say "yumans".
Maybe Yuval is a fan of Carl Sagan.
Because he is born in Israel
lol he is born in israel
I've noticed this with other Israelis speaking English it's like they just skip the H sound, perhaps used to a rough sounding one not soft. Its funny I saw him speak before I read the books so whenever I read the word humans in them in my mind they were "yumans" lol
Gary We actually do have a soft H sound in many words - for example, the word for "love" is Ahava (pronounced A- Ha - Va). However, in some words the common, if not "correct", pronunciation is without an H. Personally I haven't heard many Israelis say "yumans" instead of "humans", but everybody has their own accent
Can someone please tell me the name of the plant that you see behind him, to the left of your screen ? I can't take my eyes off it.
To tell a gay that you are normal and the same as others is really a beautiful story. You can also tell a 3 arm child you are natural and don’t need surgery. Because you exist and some others also have 3 arms.
Is there any cure for being a gay ,but there is way to cure a 3 arm children ,so acceptance is the practical solution for him
if you have 3 functioning arms, why would you have surgery? that sounds like an advantage...
Yuval speech is just to justify his perversions. He is pathetic.
A graceless attempt to hide your ignorance. You failed.
@@prototropo low IQ ppl like to verbally attack others other than stating logical facts😂
I read "A brief History of Humankind" and I did not want to finish the book. I did not like history in School , now I love it. Thanks
I was like you until i finished the university(international relations_so many forced readings)since elementary until the end of university we had to memorize all those names ,dates,general's names,wars,act's names etc.so i used to hate history too.(and my nation has a veryyyyy looooong history believe me)anyway,aftee the university i was free to read whatever i wanted and without the fear of marks so i enjoyed and loved history...also another opinion many of history teachers are boring that affects us a lot too.
buffalo gold , and you’re from?
Exactly the same here! I’m now almost obsessed about understanding the implications of history :)
@@domsiedlecki This is so random but I found some great RUclips pages for Yoga and other things by checking your page out!
Dear Yuval,
I study at the Hebrew University and it is my dream to meet you one day.
You are outstanding, and so is your book.
Have a nice day!
Good luck Mutaz Ayesh.
You can give him a hand if you know what I mean 😉✊💦
Coper Field, you can stop being adolescent.
Mutaz, Israel is a small country, it should not be that difficult to meet him there
the most solid answer ever given, bravo !
I just have to say it: I absolutely love how he pronounces the word "human".
Yes, finally someone said that - I love it too!
Yumans
it's a cute sign of Hebrew accent)
You love the Antichrist
Look up the word human in blacks dictionary...🙄
I love this guy so much.
this is bull shit,your respond full of lies & contradictions, the best way to answer say
(( this is my personal choice and my life style period )) you shouldn't link the Extremism & Terrorism problem and GAY issues, this unacceptable as well as unfair, I think No body cares if you are Gay, but don't mislead people there thousands profs/doctors/ scientist dis agree with you heavily, with proof and knowledge Gay is a Gay you cannot make something Norma
Ovidiu Anghel -me too!
@@mrdaljir6630 Are you butthurt because your favorite fantasies have been rebutted?
Brilliant! Thank you so much!
unbelievable what this man just say, he slapped God and religion on the face by the hand of science and logic, great to know such great mind, our world utterly need such great men like Yuval Harari.
He goes on about the "laws of nature", which is not a good argument. Murder is against human law, but it is not against natural law since animals kill each other all the time... a very poor basis on which to argue for equality.
@@thursoberwick1948 It is merely a counter argument to the popular narrative homophobes use - i.e. homosexuality is not natural and hence will lead to ultimate doom. Now that it's established that anything that occurs in nature by itself is natural, the other side is stripped off their major argument. The next question to address is whether humans should condone all that is natural? The answer is no, we should avoid some things. Things that harm others (like murder). Not homosexuality. This is how I see a sane argument progressing (unless we have sky-daddy obsessed nincompoops talking about fictional books. Then there's no argument.)
How religion can be slapped?
During the Deluge, those who wanted to slapped somebody were drowned.
And people from that time and until now, no suppose slapper can explain the Cambrian Explosion, and the Missing Link.
I didn't know he was gay! Now we have to stan even harder
Yessirrrr
The fact that he's an atheist and gay makes me love him more lol
Again, beautiful spoken Yuval! Thanks for your wisdom you share with us and your courage!💜
It amazes me that people praise this man when he is pure evil. Guess he is doing a great job.
@@AnneTemple6175 But mme if you think I'm wrong, which could be true......than it is what it is. I only try to let my intuïtion speak. But maybe you could be also wrong......could that be an option too? 👍
Everything this man has to say is so Profound
it's true
Really? What about his ideas are profound?
That's risky to take everything he is saying without checking it in yourself because then you replace religion with believe in other human
@@עמנואלנחמוit’s better to replace in your heart something that doesn’t exist to something that does, to do so transforms you from a psychotic to a rational being.
I am deeply in love with this incredible Man. I feel a platonic love because he has a boyfriend and I am an old and a not very intelligent Man. I will continue loving his intelligence, his beauty and I will forever have profound respect to him as a scientist and a true genius. Lucky boyfriend.
Love your work... thanks for this perspective and sharing yourself.
He knows how to slap hard without being making noise.
Wow... I can feel the anger in his voice (and his face) against everything he must have endured for being gay. It´s almost like he's struggling not to lose his temper while he speaks. It's good to let that anger out, just be careful where it can lead you if you're blinded by it: just the same extremism you are rightfully condemning. May God (the real one, not the one we make up) bless you Yuval.
You are so ignorant. This guy wants humans maimed or dead. Wake up.
Correction, God is a Man made Idea, no such thing, May The Universe Bless Him
Love listening to this man speak 👏
No one:
Absolutely no one:
RUclips algorithym at 4.00 AM: Do you want to see a q&a video about being gay?
Great content, great lgbt representation here, we need more of this in society.
I love you Julian ❤️❤️
Yes, those dead, unmoving eyes and aggressive voice are excellent "representation".
@@portal_to_enlightenment Whataboutery.
I didn't even know he was gay! I've enjoyed two of his books before knowing this. It feels good to happen to see someone from the gay community i can relate to in such a natural setting. As someone who is also gay, it helps a lot.
It's hard for weaker minds to break free. Still haunted by stories my ancestors told me.
I strongly disagree as a conservative christian but we are humans and shall at least coexist in harmony with each other. Intresting video in any case😊
Well said, i love how you think and what you say! 💪🏽🌈🫶🏽
you are the best ...how you bring simplicity in a complex world ...thank you .. love your books..
and i want more ..... merci
Harari, i love you. You're so smart and wise.
He loves you too for sure 😂
Excellent thank you!!
Sex is used to establish friendship?! I've been doing friendship all wrong, not that I had that many friends to begin with.😢😭
So, then why do we try to stop murderers from murdering...if it exists , then it must also be natural? Isn't the desire to murder also a natural desire in humans, just like sexual desire, hunger, lust etc.? Where does one draw the line with this idea of "natural" impulses? And no, I am not likening homosexuality to murderers, I am just addressing your explanation of what is reality and natural, because frankly the things I mentioned are all a reality and very natural...
Exactly - murder, theft, violent assault, rape all occur in nature, and it is human law which can protect us against those. A very poor argument to support equality which is also backed by human law.
People like to reason why they do what they do. Makes us feel better, but using his own reasoning, he creates stories and then gives them preeminence. He believes his own truth. Nothing new under the sun.
Fundamentally, murders "harm" the other person, and cascades as fear into the minds of people with immediate association of the murdered. Homosexuality however is of no concern to a third party. It is extremely exclusive to the people involved and causes NO HARM to either of the parties involved.
Laws were made essentially to stop certain actions from "harming" societal and individual aspirations. Like murder which does both. Hence it is punishable by law. What harm does the latter do?
You are comparing two absurdly unrealted things.
Good point!
Thought the same thing. He doesn't listen to what he's saying. I've been around gay men. Usually their minds work and reason in odd ways. It's more than just a sexual preferance thing. It's also mental.
This guy is a great intellect. His info is so on point. His great presentations are extremely accurate.
On point? Well, arguing from the law of nature is a horrible mistake, since murder and theft occur all the time in nature. Human law is what we should be discussing for equality. Besides, this man is a transhumanist, which makes him a bit of a hypocrite in this regard.
I just finished Homo Deus, and based on how he wrote both Sapiens and this one, I would have never guessed his personality to be like this. Keep up the good work! Greetings from Colombia.
Thank you for being an inspiration! ⚡️
This is klown Schwabs right hand man. Wow, he's a tiny guy, but he has a commanding voice. And probably a fierce, and intimidating presence.
Was that last part sarcasm?
@@LordsofMedia yes.
You’re a gift to the race❤️
Grace Giles to the species?
A great mind and mystic thinker whose thoughts (i.e. books) neutralize existential pain of humans by giving them understanding of a chaotic world. I really love this man of wisdom.
The answer to the last question is totally gangsta. I'm really feelin' this dude.
I appreciate his thoughtful sharing and teaching. Such clarity!
saying anything that exists is natural is also saying anything that happens is justified.
Not really
This is very common when I do wrong and some body opposes me for my wrong doing but i don't want to accept that is wrong then it's common we begin to give logic, in this regard there should be no rule for anything, do whatever you wants to do, give some logic and add one more new rule to simplify your freedom. It's not that certain standard fixed by men or any priest.
Sapiens and Homo Deus really changed my perspectiv on life. Thank you!
I like this guy ,in the beginning was thinking that being straight is gud but now I think iam pansexual
Lol
Wow sir! Incredible last lines 🐐
Yuval presented very compelling and insightful arguments. 🙏🏻 Just wow!
😌😌😌
You are the greatest historian of all time
Most efficient argument i have ever heard 👌🏻you are brave, conscious and you see the bigger picture
I am so grateful for your wisdom, curiosity and the willingness to share it with us 💛. “God” bless you 😉 x
Funny how you say God Bless you to someone who doesn't believe in your God
When people claim to know "reality" one should start getting itchy.
Unless it's Yuval!
Perfectly explained 🙌🙌🙌
"There is just no such thing as 'unnatural behaviour'. Anything, that exists, is - by definition - also natural."
Thank you very much professor Harari, for this scientific foundation for incest, sexual harassment, genocide, dictatorships and other totally "natural" forms of human behaviour. It does explain a lot. :-)
Well said! That is what he promotes: genocide, transhumanism, fascism, and all other evil things!!!
My gay men friends just make me happy because they're so funny.
Well for me gender should never be an issue..After having dealt with difficult people in my life, I realize gentle temperament and good character is more important about a person.
This man's view is really erudite and his explanations are solid
It’s not a story it’s nature.
Simply perfect! Thank you!
Before I get started on this topic, I wanted to let everyone know that I am not gay, and I do not believe in any form of religion of any sort.
With that said , I was not born into this world with the responsibility or the mission to teach, harass, or to bully, to force my personal moral beliefs on others... in fact, I have a hard enough time with my own personal moral beliefs and attitude... as for God... I don't know the answer to that question if he is real or not, for this reason alone I am agnostic on this subject, but, I will say this... if God does exist, he is billions of times unlike our human fabricated religions and beliefs of what we think God is....
In short, it not my job, my responsibility, nor my obligation to cruelty force my personal beliefs upon you or anyone else !!!!! I don't want someone to do that to me so out of respect I don't do that to you or to others.
Lets enjoy our life while we are here for this incredible blink of an eye short time.
Have a good day and clear skies.
Is it just me or his accente is just like Borat's ?
Love this dude btw
From a similar language group around what used to be mesopotamia
If this was in your recommendation,
You a wise ass.
The first time I heard you speak I saw something.....now now watching you in this video explains a lot.
I don't understand why there´s unlikes, this guy is just incredible.
yes, I agree with you, and also that he dodged the last question talking about the religious extrimism, something that wasn't asked in the question.
nudity in parades usually disgust for too much people, but the rest of the quetions and the way that he answered was right, think so.
Dislikes*
I love this man and his books! He's a great speaker and had a fantastic way of saying complex things in simple ways!
Absolutely Brilliant
💯⭕📌
“If something exists, it’s by definition natural”. This is a moronic statement if one thinks critically about it.
Exactly. That statement can be used to justify any atrocious act.
The Bible calls unbelievers fools for a reason. They profess to be wise but are revealed to be fools.
@@TheChulha it can't be used to justify any act , it's the homophobe camp that generally brings up the argument that it's unnatural hence bad
it's asserting that all phenomena come from nature, including humans and their creations. it's just one philosophical position that has been around since antiquity, it's not inherently moronic imo
@ yes, but proven wrong when it was shown that the universe had a beginning.
I admire your courage to express yourself about your sexuality with all frankness, raising it to a general instance. Respect is an aspect of love, of brotherhood, which is the quintessential value for Humanity to have an opportunity for survival of itself. Thanks Yuval from Argentina.
Admiro tu valentía para expresarte sobre tu sexualidad con toda franqueza, planteandolo a una instancia general. El respeto es un aspecto del amor, de la fraternidad, que es en valor por excelencia para que la Humanidad tenga una oportunidad de supervivencia a sí misma. Gracias Yuval desde Argentina.
so nice of your speech . we love and we hate , that's by definition so natural.
I have to say, Sapiens and Homo Deus really influenced my thought process. I'm young and I'm still developing a viewpoint, and I'm so glad that your books have influenced me in building it.
Hi Noah . Just started reading Sapiens...a brief history of Humankind. Wow! Your explanations are so succint...can't wait to read more . Thank you for your wisdom
One bullet of rationality at a time! Yuvalian brilliance!
Such a pleasure to listen clever man!Thank you Mr Harari !
I agree with Harari, but the question about “natural” cannot be dismissed like this, it is way more complex, at least in philosophy.
Not really. The entire binary of natural/unnatural is invented by humans to justify social laws.
josephsaff (No rudeness in my comment)
It’s not about natural/unnatural but natural/cultural, and it’s not “invented”, it’s a linguistic development of an extremely wide concept. I agree with H. on the fact that it is misused etc., but I was just saying that in my opinion you can’t use this kind of argument in this kind of speech. Not the place or time to use his ideas correctly and explain them properly. If he wasn’t who he is it would result in misinformation.
(Sorry about the intellectual smugness)
Carlo Geeno
He is a historian. His only concern is about fact finding.
He is not trying to look or explain things from philosophical point of view. He - nor I - is interested in it.
Carlo Geeno All the things that happens in nature are natural, even the “super natural” things.
Love Is The Answer That’s not true, but again, it depends on what you mean by natural. It can be interpreted through different points of view, historical, philosophical, biochemical, sociocultural. Even plastic is natural if you want to label it so, since matter and chemical elements are natural. I didn’t like Harari’s dismissiveness on this one, but I understand what he meant, especially after reading “Sapiens”. His argumentations are always honest and strong, it’s just that you can’t take for granted a shared meaning of the word “natural”, that’s all
I do too . Well spoken clear and pointy.
The book Sapiens has been one of my favorite reads. I am gay and a big fan of yours.