Yuval Noah Harari - Q&A on Being Gay

Prof. Yuval Noah Harari presents a scientific perspective on homosexuality, and shares how this has affected his personal experience of being gay.
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Video production: Roey Orbach, MediaBox Productions

[@HexDominator]

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.

[@JessemyBeadle]

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

[@Kryptsanies]

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.

[@illyriandescendant7963]

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!

[@nivborenstein6008]

🙌

[@bedziri6251]

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!?

[@davidcripps3011]

He's probably never lost an argument in his life....simply the best explainer alive!

[@jamshadnk7933]

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[@Nowhy]

Every true philosopher could destroy this seducer and his selfish rationality. - But why waste time? Mundi vult decipi...

[@letitbe978]

he can try argue with me. but I pity him

[@Hexanitrobenzene]

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.

[@felixhenriksen8237]

@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?

[@-ul7lh]

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.

[@juanchi_elquezapa]

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.

[@AmayzArt]

You are so ignorant. This guy wants humans maimed or dead. Wake up.

[@KingPhoey]

“It is a great wisdom to accept reality as it is. Even if it contradicts the stories most people believe.”

[@williamr.lacerda8848]

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. [e-mail]

[@godislove8740]

@@williamr.lacerda8848 does this fit you? kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWikcnyNpbWMn5Y

[@williamr.lacerda8848]

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...

[@igorroshkovsky8948]

@@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!

[@davidmaheengun2672]

@@williamr.lacerda8848 WTF?

[@Vedangi_]

"Well through out history, nudity killed very few people but religious fanaticism killed millions" - Yuval Noah Harari

[@JonathanHilierChannel]

Classic case of whataboutism. I'm bi, and an atheist, not a fan of religion, not a fan of public nudity either.

[@geoffers7399]

@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?

[@reggiestickleback7794]

@@geoffers7399 First thing Adam and Eve did when they fell from grace, was out clothes on. Let that sink in

[@shashankgupta7460]

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.

[@xgender2793]

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?

[@CC-hl1hi]

It's the first time I've seen Yuval speak about something so personally... What a cutie!

[@surajsharma8557]

He knows how to slap hard without being making noise.

[@atalsalar6556]

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.

[@HassanKhan-yn2tz]

Love Pashto

[@rileydavidjesus]

Used to speak Pashto at least a bit of it

[@alixmordant489]

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".

[@thomaspynchon8400]

@@alixmordant489 because he is a dumb 'twat' hating on everyone different than him.

[@user-jg3pl2gg1n]

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)

[@Kanzu999]

Yuval has to be one of my favorite sapiens.

[@Squiel91]

Brilliant

[@ericpaul698]

Yes we are lucky to have him

[@anonimlerdenbirimimiklerim1096]

Me sapiens and home deus

[@bigfan1041]

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]

@Karishma Chaudhary Wrong.

[@rsandy4077]

It’s not a story it’s nature.

[@nikosgreek352]

More or less. Harari forgets to mention that schitzophrenia, pedophilia, zoophilia and plenty of other such things are also a reality. Yet you would never tell a kid any of it is natural and acceptable. He also forgets to mention that the "scientific insight" that led to homosexuality being deemed "normal" was a result of political pressure (the Stonewall riots) and bias among researchers (most of the members of the commitee that made the decision to remove homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses were homosexual themselves). The truth is homosexuality is simply the most common sexual paraphilia in humans. And like all paraphilias its a perversion of normal sexuality caused by psychological and sociological issues. When genuine research was done on the subject (before 1973) several factors were discovered that were closely correlated with the emergence of homosexual behaviour. All of them linked to abnormal childhoods, dysfuntional family life and sexual trauma. However Harari, like all humans, ALSO likes to conflate the stories HE likes with reality. His sexual condition is one of these stories.

[@Shira1976]

I feel so good that a person like him exists

[@filterfiles5779]

Same here..

[@pickyprincess9275]

Yes ❤️

[@usa4ever1]

Really?? He’s into transhumanism, spoke at Davos 2020; he talks about hacking into people to control them… he is a sick fuck

[@singergirlly]

This guy is a creep

[@singergirlly]

You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about you need to go get educated because you’re ignorant to the truth of who this guy is! Feel good that there’s a person like him what the frick lady!?

[@Erka1995man]

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.

[@sakura142]

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.

[@jerryapag5250]

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

[@equation2764]

@@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.

[@noorhaque5128]

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

[@sanjay9349]

@@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?

[@lo0360]

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!

[@selomunhagos2142]

Lourdes Paez can I find the book in amazon or other sites ?

[@bigfan1041]

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.

[@Etcher]

@@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.

[@bigfan1041]

@@Etcher It's not literally untrue. Everyone knows there are some males attracted to males.

[@josephsaff]

@@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

[@dongtam4299]

You changed my point of view, thank you

[@factsexposingchannel7818]

Most genius and intelligent human on planet earth.

[@kuntalsarma5106]

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".

[@raquelmendes4400]

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.

[@GANTANERS]

Yeahh.. that's true lol, he said that

[@bigfan1041]

Sad

[@SergioJustoFilosofo]

He has dedicated one of his books to his husband.

[@writinghealth]

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.

[@KlaasDeforche]

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?

[@AA-dv3ie]

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

[@quietkiwi7572]

I agree overall but i disagree that we do not have some abilty to control things.

[@quietkiwi7572]

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.

[@painexotic3757]

Well said lol. No one can help who they're attracted to.

[@squamish4244]

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.

[@andrzejmaranda3699]

Of course, laws by nature are really different from laws of society.

[@andrzejmaranda3699]

@Sean : nature is much more tolerant than society.

[@andrzejmaranda3699]

@Politically Incorrect Bender : that is also right.

[@ELemos-oh6xw]

That's absolutely true! Nature even don't judge anything or someone, nature just exists, evolves and flows, society is intolerant.

[@andrzejmaranda3699]

@@ELemos-oh6xw : you are right.

[@andrzejmaranda3699]

@RUSSIAN ROBOT : yes.

[@lovemademan]

Such sublime man! Infinite Thank You!

[@nelsonorozco4569]

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

[@0CDMOXXIE]

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.

[@anjusanal]

buffalo gold , and you’re from?

[@domsiedlecki]

Exactly the same here! I’m now almost obsessed about understanding the implications of history :)

[@shannonswift2233]

@@domsiedlecki This is so random but I found some great KZbin pages for Yoga and other things by checking your page out!

[@cabetosol]

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 :)

[@coreycox2345]

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.

[@Michael-cl9mb]

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.

[@coreycox2345]

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.

[@Michael-cl9mb]

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.

[@Michael-cl9mb]

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.

[@KK-tb5rw]

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. לפְנֵי־שֶׁ֥בֶר גָּא֑וֹןוְלִפְנֵ֥יכִ֝שָּׁל֗וֹןגֹּ֣בַהּרֽוּחַ׃

[@brendamullins1641]

Well said

[@kirthipurushothaman8240]

Your books changed my perspective about the world..!

[@theobserver9131]

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...

[@izzybee2705]

Priceless Old Man

[@Thingybob]

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?

[@Louis13XIII]

"I can't wait until nobody has the slightest interest in anyone else's sexual preference or identity", says "Old man". *Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmh*

[@msontopoftheworld]

Religious extremism more dangerous than nudity...LOVE IT!!!

[@mrdaljir6630]

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

[@bigfan1041]

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.

[@anjusanal]

mr Daljir there are even more scientists who would agree with him.

[@tasnimulsarwar9189]

@@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..

[@sky_suraj]

@@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.

[@babrdwod7464]

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.

[@bumkisful]

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

[@mutazayesh7483]

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!

[@raquelmendes4400]

Good luck Mutaz Ayesh.

[@coperfield9188]

You can give him a hand if you know what I mean 😉✊💦

[@aryebognar6663]

Coper Field, you can stop being adolescent.

[@interstellartraveller6135]

Mutaz, Israel is a small country, it should not be that difficult to meet him there

[@JErock25]

“It is a great wisdom to accept reality as it is, even if it contradicts the stories most people believe” Oh, man!

[@milburncherian5785]

90% BOTS commenting, so the opposite is true.

[@arunshankars8398]

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.

[@frankoben2030]

One great wisdom I learnt from his books, "if you do not know; just say you do not know", do not invent stories to shadow your ignorance. Thanks Yuval. As a young gay man trying to make meaning of life, your discourses have helped me to question and adapt to this reality of life.

[@johnkeys8999]

Thanks for posting this! From someone struggling with their sexuality

[@Leftatalbuquerque]

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?

[@billhildebrand5053]

John Keys we all struggle. I do not think this guy uses reason.

[@billhildebrand5053]

John Keys thanks for posting. Pray, read proverbs, ch 1-10 ..

[@justbecause9747]

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!)

[@jeoffreywortman]

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.

[@shantisinha4802]

One of the best sapien to walk on planet

[@tadrips]

Harari, i love you. You're so smart and wise.

[@wisamtariq4412]

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.

[@garybuck8492]

Wisam Tariq m You

[@diogovieira5563]

He just uses his brain cells to observe the world and not a christian dogma.

[@evelyneb590]

@@mrdaljir6630 ever heard of grammar?

[@mrdaljir6630]

Evelyne b

[@aryebognar6663]

mr Daljir, just mind YOUR business.

[@ehabibrahim2111]

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.

[@thursoberwick1948]

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.

[@akshitachaudhary6865]

@@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.)

[@theoryz4432]

How religion can be slapped?

[@theoryz4432]

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.

[@finding_something]

I like the way Yuval Noah Harari shakes your beliefs with his unique style

[@portal_to_enlightenment]

@@Phoenix-rw3nh You also can't shake our beliefs . Especially not someone like you.... 😂😂

[@tripiante2707]

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.

[@arinasinhache]

I just have to say it: I absolutely love how he pronounces the word "human".

[@msilikewater]

Yes, finally someone said that - I love it too!

[@pierrekovacik8523]

Yumans

[@Snotra-if7ml]

it's a cute sign of Hebrew accent)

[@MariaCosta-yw7ef]

You love the Antichrist

[@Joao.Leao.1]

Look up the word human in blacks dictionary...🙄

[@sergiovela7686]

I didn't know he was gay! Now we have to stan even harder

[@tiwiogunye]

Yessirrrr

[@Hellokitty_391]

The fact that he's an atheist and gay makes me love him more lol

[@micktierney2779]

Oh my god ,one of the smartest people alive and he is one of us . We're invincible.

[@alvomano9662]

one of the most valuable human being our planet currently has

[@antor1199]

Absuletly.....

[@ETHICC714]

More like one of the most intelligently vile and evil humans on the planet.

[@Me-ck4zh]

@@antor1199 Absu.... What?

[@player1111ful]

Awesome answers, I like your accent and how you say "yumans".

[@avastavery5489]

Maybe Yuval is a fan of Carl Sagan.

[@forestanimalito236]

Because he is born in Israel

[@seniorarubia]

lol he is born in israel

[@LonelyCinderella123]

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

[@roni1983]

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

[@adamakesson7998]

Sapiens and Homo Deus really changed my perspectiv on life. Thank you!

[@charbelabboud747]

Most efficient argument i have ever heard 👌🏻you are brave, conscious and you see the bigger picture

[@hamidghulami1321]

Harari is really educated person. I really respect him from Afghanistan.

[@jamelmesbahi]

you are the best ...how you bring simplicity in a complex world ...thank you .. love your books.. and i want more ..... merci

[@didinho55555]

Everything this man has to say is so Profound

[@sam_metal]

it's true

Really? What about his ideas are profound?

[@user-jg3pl2gg1n]

That's risky to take everything he is saying without checking it in yourself because then you replace religion with believe in other human

[@josephbuell963]

Just because it’s normal for things to be unnatural doesn’t mean it’s the original intent of creation. God is not mocked in the end. Us humans sure think highly of ourselves.

[@kedanpie4409]

The first time I heard you speak I saw something.....now now watching you in this video explains a lot.

[@bigboy6191]

Goodness. I never heard such solid explanations. Such wisdom!

[@VADORT]

POWERFULL LIBERAL DICTATUR PROPAGANDA

[@olgaanisimova6916]

Viktor Owlred he might be wrong in his views. Just because an opinion is expressed with confidence does not make it an ultimate truth.

[@thursoberwick1948]

@@aris.lingad People are, and should be, entitled to use pseudonyms. After all, we don't know if you are who you claim. Anonymity online is a good thing, since it prevents stalking for one.

[@charlesking3384]

@@olgaanisimova6916 I am happy to have a conversation with you- you should read the comment I left 9/21/22… you must remember that only someone who does not tell you what you want to hear is not a troll- but quite possibly a friend

[@veroosh]

I absolutely adore you, congratulations on 100k and happy Pride

[@10wellnessoflife-nishant44]

He deserve millions

[@lannguyenngoc4756]

This man's view is really erudite and his explanations are solid

[@JaxTellerRC]

……If they don’t harm anyone…… this guy is the very best at inventing just stories about his unhinged perceptions of reality.

[@kagang8959]

My view, and what I've taught my kids, is pretty simple. That sexual preference is a personal thing, and that they have no right to judge or have an opinion on the sexuality of others, and noone has the right to judge or have an opinion on their own sexuality (whatever that is). I'm 61 and remain baffled why people are homophobic and so engaged with other people's sexuality when its absolutely none of their concern. I'm hetero, and that's entirely my business, not that of anyone else, if I were homosexual (or bi or any other variation), the same holds true.

[@cristybello]

Oh Yuval, I love you even more now! and man, do I admire you!!! The world needed someone like you! I can relate with everything you say, it all makes sense! I am not gay, but I am black, being a minority can be complicated, but I've never victimized myself, yet it is so important to stand for your beliefs and be yourself against all odds! Thank you my dear!

[@Calvbread]

I'm Asian and I completely relate too, life can be very hard for minorities and people like Yuval are able to slice away at the confusion and darkness and offer hope and optimism without some imaginary skydaddy lol

[@fidetrainer]

@@Calvbread you dudes understand you're not black or asian right? These are stories people invented

[@calebkemper3261]

I actually don't get why people care if someone is gay. It doesn't effect you, let gay men and women be gay, let them be there selves

[@taraclarke6850]

Yuval is a stellar human indeed.!! Brave Succinct Compassionate and a Beautiful Beautiful role model 🙏💕🙏

[@junaidatta6585]

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.

[@tonyleeson1]

This man changed my life!

[@estelamariavelezmejia8542]

You are one of the Smartest Sapiens. Wonderful Speech.

[@evietaylor7541]

There is DIVINE design. A sentient and powerful being, named GOD, designed all living things. Repent please.

[@ratz1819]

I love this guy so much.

[@mrdaljir6630]

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

[@garymiller1910]

Ovidiu Anghel -me too!

[@Ideophagous]

@@mrdaljir6630 Are you butthurt because your favorite fantasies have been rebutted?

[@DrHome-jo7vo]

I appreciate his thoughtful sharing and teaching. Such clarity!

[@user-cd7lp2fj2l]

so nice of your speech . we love and we hate , that's by definition so natural.

[@gihan9319]

I'm from Sri Lanka, and just finished Sapiens. Amazing work, and I cannot thank you enough for sharing your knowledge and wisdom with the world

[@papasierra86]

I'm from Srilanka too...Good to see you comment here buddy.. Harai is truly a global asset..

[@erszebet]

saying anything that exists is natural is also saying anything that happens is justified.

[@conversacionesconmipadre]

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.

[@techwithdipufrom0ton621]

I fell my my life now meaningful that such kind of person exists by giving every relevant information to my life which make my life literally meaningful thanks to Yuval Noah Harari.

[@padmajapadikal1815]

Yuval you are just amazing🙏

[@meditaionnation7692]

i like the idea the man in the sky haha harari i'm a big fan of you greeting from morocco

[@yagushka]

I am so grateful for your wisdom, curiosity and the willingness to share it with us 💛. “God” bless you 😉 x

[@p-nutgallery2511]

Funny how you say God Bless you to someone who doesn't believe in your God

[@bellringer929]

It's hard for weaker minds to break free. Still haunted by stories my ancestors told me.

[@strongindependentblackwoma1887]

I remember reading some parts of what he said in this vid cuz i read his book "Sapiens" :)

[@julianbarazzutti7960]

Great content, great lgbt representation here, we need more of this in society.

[@sudhirchandra9790]

I love you Julian ❤️❤️

[@thursoberwick1948]

Yes, those dead, unmoving eyes and aggressive voice are excellent "representation".

[@thursoberwick1948]

@@portal_to_enlightenment Whataboutery.

[@fedsummer90]

His comprehension about our world and history is amazing. I was lucky to bump into Sapiens and Dr.Harari.

[@starlite556]

Seeing in the comment section how easily people are falling for what is coming out of that demon's mouth, I'm seeing how easily people will fall for what comes out of the antichrist's mouth when he appears on the world stage.

[@michaelpond813]

This guy is a great intellect. His info is so on point. His great presentations are extremely accurate.

[@thursoberwick1948]

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.

[@yukiyavalentine5867]

the most solid answer ever given, bravo !

[@rutifink]

I'm straight, and yet this talk is SO powerful. Such a bright mind!

[@keepitprofessional2296]

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.

[@andresceballos3321]

I love the clarity that Yuval brings to the world.

[@glennlanham6309]

you need help

[@aspektstv3149]

Thank god that such wisdom exists

[@prasanthviswamacharya5152]

I like this guy ,in the beginning was thinking that being straight is gud but now I think iam pansexual

[@cherrypieconsumer4982]

Lol

[@geralldus]

If homosexuality provided no benefit to the species surely it would have died out as homosexuals tend not to procreate. The benefit it brings as a trait is that it provided different connections, different perspectives and often skills associated with the opposite sex and this has proved of great benefit to society. Unfortunately it may always be seen as a threat to the established order and thus never be fully integrated.

[@bigfan1041]

You could say the same about murder.

[@nichotto]

The irony re monotheist religions and their contempt for homosexuality is that monotheism more than likely has its roots in homosexuality - Akhenaten , the first influential monotheist and his wife were depicted as very gender fluid individuals. Heterosexuals are obsessed with the duality of godhood. Gay people are more than content with a one sexed godhead. I would go further and say culture is basically homosexual. The ancient Greeks accept homosexuality as normal and the Renaissance was a gay Italian thing, since most, if not all the famous figures of that periods were gay, including di Vinci and Michelangelo.

[@karinefonte516]

Considering that homosexuality encompasses about 10% of human population, I'd say it brings as much benefit to mankind as being left-handed, or having green eyes. If you come to think, just because mankind can present certain traits it doesn't mean they are inherently useful. They might as well just... be. Just random variety for the sake of it.

[@karinefonte516]

@@nichotto I guess you went way too further. Heterosexuality is still dominant in human beings since as far as we know is biologically determined, and just because a certain elite on a certain culture decided it fashionable or acceptable, discreetly or not, it doesn't mean the whole culture believed the same. Besides, Renaissance was not "a gay Italian thing" just because Michelangelo and Da Vinci perhaps were gay, or we might as well say Renaissance was "an incest Italian thing" if we focus specifically on the Borgia family.

[@nichotto]

Karine Fonte there was at the time a joke that there must have been something in the river po because of the gay nature of the Renaissance. The driving force behind the Renaissance was gay men and their sensibilities. I know it's getting into serious cliche territory but you only have to look at your 'normal' straight male and art as such is not top of their priorities.

[@enosh29472]

thank u ,bravo!

[@baatwithvinod]

One bullet of rationality at a time! Yuvalian brilliance!

[@xtradelite903]

I find him to be an entertaining speaker most of the time. Keeps my interest.

[@jakecostanza802]

When people claim to know "reality" one should start getting itchy.

[@chungnamha354]

I agree what you said exactly.

[@haasklaw764]

This guy has a simplistic view of what role fiction actually plays in the regulation of human behavior.

[@gomez-martinezdiego5444]

He rote an almost 500 page book about it so I imagine a few minutes was not exactly enough for him to Say everything he wanted to say

[@haasklaw764]

@@gomez-martinezdiego5444 Fair enough. I have not read it but I have watched many of his long form talks. My problem is with the logic he uses to both explain behavior and then turning that same logic inside out to justice his own actions. Then he goes back to promoting behavioral frameworks for society that have no basis in his own philosophy. It is ironic that he himself is just a product of the fiction he tells himself. Maybe I will understand him more if I read Sapiens and will do so someday. But I do not feel that I would be convinced because my main problem with him is that his main arguments and principals are fundamentally contradicting.

[@problemsofourtime4521]

The book Sapiens has been one of my favorite reads. I am gay and a big fan of yours.

[@Gestureye7x]

I love this man and his books! He's a great speaker and had a fantastic way of saying complex things in simple ways!

[@karoliskasperas6137]

Yuval Noah Harari!!! You are cool! And also, thank You for your books and all scientific work :)

[@joannaphilipa4177]

First book: Homo Spiens Second Book: Homo Deus Next Book: Homo Sexual Love that such a genius man is gay and standing up for gay rights with facts and science!

[@sebastianelytron8450]

Sex is used to establish friendship?! I've been doing friendship all wrong, not that I had that many friends to begin with.😢😭

[@lukeskywalker1745]

I became an agnostic after reading ur two books. Science is the future. Respect from India

[@taowaycamino4891]

Agnostic? and you believe in science? What kind of agnosticism are you proposing?

[@rachelgeorge5751]

Me too

[@levysteelfaith9951]

www.smashwords.com/books/view/924466

[@morbidgirl6808]

@@taowaycamino4891 agnostics do believe in science.

[@taowaycamino4891]

@@morbidgirl6808 Depends on the subject matter or the type of agnostic. If they are universal agnostics about knowledge in general then they don't believe on any kind of knowledge claim, including scientific claims.

[@bassweapon]

This man speaks so well it sounds like he's reading something he wrote (or maybe he did)

[@deepblue188]

I read Sapiens and Homo Deus as well. I was really struck by his narrative and writings.