Nihilism: Embracing the Void of Existence

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  • Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
  • Why are we here? What are we supposed to do? What’s the goal? What’s the meaning of all this?
    Without Christianity to guide us, the West now faces a void - a nothingness. If there’s no God to guide us, no Afterlife to suffer for, and no divine purpose, then what’s the point of living?
    Even though Nietzsche was highly critical of Christianity (seeing it as a “life-denying” force), he acknowledged the danger of its decline: nihilism. Nihilism is the belief that nothing matters: the belief in nothing. This video explores nihilism and possible solutions by Friedrich Nietzsche and Albert Camus.
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    00:00 - Intro
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    06:16 - The many pathways through nothingness
    08:52 - Finding and creating meaning
    10:42 - Enjoying a pointless life

Комментарии • 1 тыс.

  • @gwwayner
    @gwwayner Год назад +254

    I'm 72, retired and always single. I simply enjoy the privilege of existence, try to avoid boredom and pain, go out into nature as much as I can, and forget about the stupidity of finding a 'purpose' in life other than reproduction. The animals have the right idea!

    • @huananina
      @huananina Год назад +22

      I love that comment. Thank you for sharing your perspective!

    • @ulala9729
      @ulala9729 9 месяцев назад

      But if you not reproduce islamic people gained in number & make world another Afghanistan

    • @ENIGMAXII2112
      @ENIGMAXII2112 9 месяцев назад +6

      You have some very good points Sir.

    • @turtleanton6539
      @turtleanton6539 8 месяцев назад +2

      Yes😊😊😊😊

    • @Dodgerzden
      @Dodgerzden 8 месяцев назад +9

      Exactly what I was going to say, but I saw your post first. At 63 I realized the meaning of life is to experience life. Nothing more.

  • @TrollMcLolTheFirst
    @TrollMcLolTheFirst Год назад +362

    “and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?” - Charles Burkowski
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” - Oscar Wilde
    “Forgive me, for I am not myself.”

    • @anthonykology1728
      @anthonykology1728 Год назад +2

      we are everyone pushed out

    • @scotnick59
      @scotnick59 Год назад +2

      Combination of the two, often-wise

    • @dedasalmeida9047
      @dedasalmeida9047 Год назад +5

      We're influenced by everything, it's definitely not our fault

    • @Interdacted
      @Interdacted Год назад +6

      I like freedom, and being alone, but to have freedom I have to go out and work, and to be alone I have to stay home.

    • @workingtoseethelight8244
      @workingtoseethelight8244 Год назад

      Was about to make a comment about philosophy leading one to the bottle...

  • @abuzarjamil8914
    @abuzarjamil8914 Год назад +686

    “The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.”
    -Dalai Lama

    • @Sunstepa
      @Sunstepa Год назад +17

      Boring.

    • @abuzarjamil8914
      @abuzarjamil8914 Год назад +38

      @@Sunstepa i used to think the same. look, we all are in a journey and the beauty of journey is no one has authority on right or wrong. may be i will again agree on you someday.

    • @justaguy994
      @justaguy994 Год назад +1

      @@Sunstepa your existence is boring

    • @Cungnhaututap
      @Cungnhaututap Год назад +1

      @@abuzarjamil8914 I agree! ❤

    • @Student0Toucher
      @Student0Toucher Год назад +4

      Doesn’t really matter

  • @jeremytorgersen
    @jeremytorgersen Год назад +570

    Excellent video, I tend to fixate on this topic extensively. The suggestion of not overthinking about existence due to the universe not giving us the answer anyway is a great reminder to stop overthinking about it and simply just live in the present moment and enjoy it for what it is.

    • @waltershumer4211
      @waltershumer4211 Год назад

      @Black Lesbian Poet ..... It's black inside of everyone's rectums as well.....

    • @KerriEverlasting
      @KerriEverlasting Год назад +9

      @Black Lesbian Poet black actually doesn't exist any more than dark. Dark is the only thing defined by the absence of something else. So yeah. Soz.

    • @honor9lite1337
      @honor9lite1337 Год назад +13

      @Black Lesbian Poet The Universe is mostly empty space.

    • @tonyburton419
      @tonyburton419 Год назад +4

      Yes, it is. However, there is no "living in the present moment", though is there - really? One can't stop our sense of time (outside drugs & psychedelics). This idea of living in the present can be used as is itself as an avoidance of nihilism. There is more like a sense of an ever-ongoing flow of being, "an ongoing present-presentness in flow". Acceptance of all our inner experiences - and all that our 5 senses can perceive and allow the thoughts/feelings/sensations that arise to just "be there" while engaging in a valued activity - is the primary aim of ACT. Values and Seligmans signature strengths have some similarities.

    • @gbaker9295
      @gbaker9295 Год назад

      Same here

  • @alexkung916
    @alexkung916 Год назад +338

    Living is this world is painful sometimes.

    • @zojirushi1
      @zojirushi1 Год назад +56

      Always* 😔😢

    • @raulrus9026
      @raulrus9026 Год назад +28

      No only sometimes my friend

    • @raunholt1234
      @raunholt1234 Год назад +18

      Whoever loves his life in this world shall lose it, but he that hates his life in this world shall find it.

    • @steelzMan
      @steelzMan Год назад +15

      You said it bruh!!! But regardless, there's still a lot to be thankful and grateful

    • @rinzler666
      @rinzler666 Год назад +16

      All down to perspective. You can find love and happiness in a grain of sand

  • @Yana-tf1he
    @Yana-tf1he Год назад +78

    As going through a very hard time, I hardly believe if can make it through. Turning 18 less than a month ago but everything already overwhelmed me so much, starting from not fitting into social groups as a kid, the isolation during the coronavirus and losing loved ones, to the current invasion in Ukraine, where I stay in darkness with my own thoughts, constant fear, no electricity or heat for days. All these years just destroyed me, I lost any faith in myself, I feel like my most important years of growth were stolen from me as I was already vulnerable. Losing track of time, everything really just feels meaningless. To the point you don’t understand the reason of life, nothing to look forward to. Nihilism is scary but with all of this, it really looks real. Even without the struggles in life you just can’t help but question it..

    • @sub-ce8vr
      @sub-ce8vr Год назад +6

      Sorry you're going through this... If I could offer any solace it'll be that life will find a way for you to experience better things. Life is but an illusion anyways.

    • @gorkemoner8181
      @gorkemoner8181 Год назад +7

      Hello my friend. I am in the same situation as you. I just turned 18 years old. Please don't give up hope. I suggest you study spiritualism. I am not a nihilist. I believe that all these existing religions are pieces of a puzzle. You have to create your own reality, my friend. But these creations should not limit you.

    • @wiezumteufel9024
      @wiezumteufel9024 Год назад +5

      Life is indeed objectively meaningless suffering. Regardless of your decision on how to move on please watch a video or two about Antinatalism.

    • @quakers200
      @quakers200 Год назад +4

      You have the opportunity to be such a help to the people around you that are suffering as much or more than you are. The impact you can make in your small spot on the globe is greater than most of us will ever have a chance at. There will be plenty of time for socializing now and later perhaps not what you expected your life to be but it will come and it will be great. I don't make light of your situation. Being depressed is the most natural reaction to your situation. Find someone out there you can work with, share with. That's enough.

    • @idrumsey
      @idrumsey Год назад

      Check out kalam cosmological argument.

  • @lessmore444
    @lessmore444 Год назад +54

    “If it’s not enough that you’re here, alive & able to be consciously aware of it, you may just be missing the point” - The Void

    • @honor9lite1337
      @honor9lite1337 Год назад +13

      It's not enough, we must end this suffering.

    • @lessmore444
      @lessmore444 Год назад +14

      @@honor9lite1337 well, careful what you wish for….To end suffering is also to end ecstasy & the joy of being. As opposite sides of the same coin, one does not exist, without the other.

    • @Quietriot369
      @Quietriot369 Год назад +4

      @@honor9lite1337 When suffering cannot break you, it strengthens you instead. If it breaks you, forge a stronger armor from the fragments. If you don't do that, then all suffering was meaningless.

    • @usmanzafar4751
      @usmanzafar4751 Год назад +5

      Why were we given this pain or ecstacy of existence if becoming non existent is an inevitability?

    • @lessmore444
      @lessmore444 Год назад +1

      @@usmanzafar4751 the inevitability of death is what makes being so bloody miraculous in the first place. Immortality would completely negate that. Anyone wishing for such would be wise to reconsider. The fact we’re doomed to check out is what makes being here so spectacular.

  • @elysianfields1671
    @elysianfields1671 Год назад +14

    When there is nothing else to live for, that’s when life starts.

  • @sandrakindecka
    @sandrakindecka Год назад +217

    I'm just going through a very painful and prolonged process of realizing that a love that was supposed to last a lifetime ended as quickly as the flame on a match goes out. Videos like this give me inner peace and I hope that everyone who feels the same sense of hopelessness as me will find at least a little happiness in everyday moments of life

    • @zoeyanaqvi-zn7482
      @zoeyanaqvi-zn7482 Год назад +14

      Yes the world is a temporary journey. Faith and character are everlasting peace

    • @sandrakindecka
      @sandrakindecka Год назад +2

      @@zoeyanaqvi-zn7482 could not say it better

    • @zoeyanaqvi-zn7482
      @zoeyanaqvi-zn7482 Год назад +6

      @@sandrakindecka God bless you !

    • @dannyjimenez9558
      @dannyjimenez9558 Год назад +25

      I tend put all my happiness into my "love" to the point where they become like a drug to me. And when they're not around it's hard to feel happy or satisfied. My ex left me for this reason. She told me that she realized I couldn't be happy without her and that meant I'm not happy by myself and it was draining her of energy. I miss her like crazy, but im so thankful that she helped me see that my love for her turned into an obsession. I would've never woken up if she didn't leave me. But it hurt me to learn that this wisdom came at the cost of losing my "love."
      I often feel like peacefulness requires a great sacrifice. Almost as if we must suffer before we can achieve peace. Sorry for the rant just needed to get it off my chest

    • @sandrakindecka
      @sandrakindecka Год назад +16

      @@dannyjimenez9558 I know exactly what you mean. we all were once able to have the puppy love feeling. Then the heartbreak happens and the sad part of life is the fact that the pain we feel afterwards is able to dim our lights even for years to come if we let it. Work on yourself but also let me tell you that this obssesion you felt did not come from nothing...your heart didn't feel safe with her so you needed constat reassurence. I'm here for taking accountability for your own mistakes but also from my own experience I can tell you that this drugy obsessive feeling is oftentimes caused because your partner is not willing to work on creating a safe place for your heart, which is to me the most vital part of a relationship. You'll be in pain, you'll grow. You sound to me like a very gentle and delicate being which in the times that we live in is something to protect at all costs. Dont ever lose this side of yourself. Right love is on its way to you
      Love thats safe, peacefull and the one that feels like home.

  • @amulyamalhi
    @amulyamalhi Год назад +151

    As long as a person does not overthink, everything is under control. The moment an individual begins to overthink, the situation gets 'Out of Control.' Brilliant Video EZ :)

    • @terrorists-are-among-us
      @terrorists-are-among-us Год назад +11

      It's called anxiety. Fear can be controlled.

    • @sumiben5211
      @sumiben5211 Год назад +14

      Totally true, overthinking is life saving in some situations but could transform life into a hell.

    • @richardmabe4186
      @richardmabe4186 Год назад

      I don't see you can overthink, when things get out of control you're thinking badly.

    • @CutmeMick
      @CutmeMick Год назад +2

      “Overthinking over analyzing separates the body from the mind withering my intuition-leaving opportunity behind”- MJK

    • @djdigital3806
      @djdigital3806 Год назад

      As Electrical Engineering Technician l always over think. I fix what the Electrical Engineers give me to build. Brilliant!

  • @JamesSheffer
    @JamesSheffer Год назад +8

    "Thinking," rather than "doing," has always interfered with my fun times of work and play. It seems a waste of time to ask myself all of these questions. Better I go along doing those things that are on my TO-DO list for day. Are those things moral, effective, developmental for the future? Who's asking that? Maybe the people surrounding me, but are they feeling up and happy? Einzelgänger continues to be my favorite RUclips video. So much to be awakened to in this life... and maybe even carry it to the next!

  • @goldengriffon
    @goldengriffon Год назад +69

    Many people play videos at an increased speed, but your videos I want to play at reduced speed. There is so much thought behind every second of your videos, I need time to absorb it fully. Excellent job, as always! You are doing humanity a great service, sir. Thank you for this channel. It is a bright shining star to help guide us through this dark existence. Thank you.

    • @nettewilson5926
      @nettewilson5926 Год назад +1

      How can I speed up a vid? 😂

    • @flufftronable
      @flufftronable Год назад +2

      @@nettewilson5926 in settings select playback speed.

    • @alfredharrison597
      @alfredharrison597 Год назад

      weird, i must be a unicorn because I play all videos at their intended speed (no modifications in speed either way).

  • @rabbychan
    @rabbychan Год назад +11

    Create something to live for, however if you lack imagination you are more likely to steer in the pessimistic/hopeless direction.
    Fortunately for those people, it is simply a state of mind and this can be altered with the right tools.

    • @marlonalatiit1609
      @marlonalatiit1609 Год назад +1

      i agree. its a state of mind and can still be altered

  • @chuckles7494
    @chuckles7494 Год назад +5

    "in order to have nothing, you have to have something" - alan watts

  • @jtempleton1465
    @jtempleton1465 Год назад +4

    It's liberating to consider many worldviews. The challenge is settling on one's own.

  • @somethingyousaid5059
    @somethingyousaid5059 Год назад +10

    You're forced to play a game that you cannot win, according to rules that you cannot change. That's the appearance that it has.

    • @AR-ey1ur
      @AR-ey1ur 4 месяца назад

      According to rules that you don't know and can't change.

  • @akhilajay7791
    @akhilajay7791 Год назад +223

    Mother passed away
    Breakup 💔
    No family
    No friends
    Alone
    At some point I saw no purpose to live and waking to my death everyday.. and there I found your channel. Surviving with your videos

    • @RvelZahid
      @RvelZahid Год назад +17

      Same story

    • @ChatJayPiT
      @ChatJayPiT Год назад +8

      At least you now know:
      You are invincible.

    • @peterkoh5632
      @peterkoh5632 Год назад +4

      Be a Liverpool fan.

    • @blahblah2779
      @blahblah2779 Год назад +6

      The only thing that changed is your mind is entertained. You are still on a one way road to that destination.

    • @carlsontse31
      @carlsontse31 Год назад +1

      Purpose in community or creation preferably both. One of these embeded is the nurturer of life, and the feeling of belonging and purpose follows, or doesn't.

  • @sophos7018
    @sophos7018 Год назад +48

    Thank you Einzelganger for posting the right video when I needed. I was just suffering again from nihilism and various thoughts of committing suicide had been haunting me for two nights because I had forgotten what it meant to live a meaningless life in a proper manner. But you made my day!

    • @unknownu8430
      @unknownu8430 Год назад +5

      Every birth has to eventually balance with death. So enjoy everything, life is full of ups and downs but that's what makes it interesting. Like a song or a movie, it wouldn't be interesting if it was on the same note or predictable storyline. What I've learnt is that there's always a lesson to be learnt from every experience, just gotta be curious enough to sit in a boring class and also be able to enjoy the party.
      Whatever you do, always keep in touch with the child within U and life will always be interesting. Take care.🙂👍

    • @sophos7018
      @sophos7018 Год назад +1

      @@unknownu8430 Thank you :)

    • @wiezumteufel9024
      @wiezumteufel9024 Год назад +1

      If so, consider Antinatalism

    • @sophos7018
      @sophos7018 Год назад

      @@wiezumteufel9024 I have thought about that. I didn't know if it was either a compassion or selfishness, not wanting to raise children just so that they will suffer from the pains of reality. But, I have also realized that, it is the reason that we have somebody to care or know that someone cares for us that give us meaning to go on living.

    • @surajrautela5239
      @surajrautela5239 Год назад

      Not do that go through with it
      The life will offer what it is acceted it simply

  • @mmoly-cj4bd
    @mmoly-cj4bd Год назад +52

    Another great segment. I have read Stoicism For Inner Peace and refer back to it from time to time. Just great content! Thanks!

    • @Einzelgänger
      @Einzelgänger  Год назад +8

      Thanks a lot, and thank you for the purchase 🙏

  • @Sha_Mone
    @Sha_Mone Год назад +53

    I have been so isolated, for more than a decade, I tried so many things but nothing works out. It's like there is this force that makes people avoid me. I am a good guy, I have done nothing wrong. I starting to think that it's better to be isolated without knowing by just not existing.

    • @queenlasarah7369
      @queenlasarah7369 Год назад +11

      samee i’ve been dealing with being alone and being completely isolated, i fell into a bad deep depression and i really dont know what to do to make it better.. keep questioning everything

    • @Sha_Mone
      @Sha_Mone Год назад

      @@queenlasarah7369 U mean u have been isolating urself, or? That's different as when it happens unintentional.

    • @queenlasarah7369
      @queenlasarah7369 Год назад +1

      @@Sha_Mone well im not allowed to socialize or go out, i tried socialize online but people just always seem to leave and its online yk not irl, wbu tho?

    • @Sha_Mone
      @Sha_Mone Год назад

      @@queenlasarah7369 Why u not allowed to go out, How old are you if u don't mind me asking? Better we chat on what's app, or some other way of course.

    • @queenlasarah7369
      @queenlasarah7369 Год назад

      @@Sha_Mone suree but how old are you first

  • @gabemoore3189
    @gabemoore3189 Год назад +77

    You really have no clue how much you have impacted my life. Your videos help me grow. Thank you!

    • @Einzelgänger
      @Einzelgänger  Год назад +12

      Thank you, Gabe! Awesome to hear that these videos have been valuable to you so far. Cheers! 🙏

  • @roivosemraiva
    @roivosemraiva Год назад +50

    This is one theme that has followed me since childhood , to middle age. My grandfather gave me a book written by Camus, And has created a kind sort of detachment living in my thinking. This will too be gone. There is no absolute meaning to life. Your videos supports my views..living in a world, of living in a world with no God only. The happiness of being free from that dogma made a life Fulfilled. Thank you for providing good topics .

    • @terryshrader3909
      @terryshrader3909 Год назад +5

      And it sucks knowing that. Ignorance is truly bliss...

    • @dedasalmeida9047
      @dedasalmeida9047 Год назад +2

      Even without God what makes you think you're free? Knowing that you still abide by the same man-made laws as religious people too, you still are influenced to believe something as all religious person, you still persuaded to take certain views, philosophies as "gospel" just like any other religious person...
      Is it because of a book? Guidelines to live your life? A supreme being that dictates how you live your life?
      Whatever it is, take all of it and replace it with man-made institutions, you still abide to some form of authority, hierarchy you can't escape it nor dodge it...
      It takes an enlightened jailed mind to wake up the blind to the system...

    • @roivosemraiva
      @roivosemraiva Год назад +2

      @@dedasalmeida9047 thank you for your insights. We give creedence to what we think is meaningful. Man created god and yes, we have become slaves to it. I no longer believe in a deity of higher power, only the power of my mind . I have no concepts, no believe systems, and no viewoounts.

    • @yat3832
      @yat3832 Год назад +1

      @@roivosemraiva we share same mentality.

    • @turtleanton6539
      @turtleanton6539 8 месяцев назад +1

      Yes I agree😊

  • @glengilbow8068
    @glengilbow8068 Год назад +16

    Great video! No one has anything more than “this present moment.” Forget about the past unless there’s a lesson to remember. Don’t focus too far in the future because you have less control than you may think. At the same time, don’t forget that you’re creating your future right now to some, smaller degree. The best, most encouraging description I’ve heard about this is “the meaning of life is love.”

    • @Novastar.SaberCombat
      @Novastar.SaberCombat Год назад

      Reflection is key. Humanity should dare to look deep within, but it should also understand that more than the mere physical aspect of such Reflection is required for true, celestial enlightenment.
      "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In Time, all points converge; hope's strength resteeled. But to earn final peace at the Universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again."
      🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
      --Diamond Dragons (series)

  • @mileswhite4329
    @mileswhite4329 Год назад +14

    Thank you. This was a stimulating discussion, succinct and very clear.

  • @RJFares
    @RJFares Год назад +8

    As always, love the quality of your videos and your calm voice. First time I feel to comment on a video, so here goes :)
    One has to separate the meaning of life and the reason for living. I don't think the video examined this and mixed the two.
    I'll go with the title "When there's nothing left to live for". Personally as a Christian I don't build my meaning because of my religion. My religion just was the best option I saw that explained some past events, and if I suppose one day I find proof that all was a lie, I still do not see why I have "nothing to live for":
    I am hungry, I eat. My son needs me and love me, I love him and my wife. If I lose them, I still find joy in what I do or anything in life in the present moment. I think the key is framing and perspective without tainting it with what's not present (past events, regret, future worries...). This is why you can fill the void of "The meaning of life is [X]" with contradictory statements and it would still work. The meaning is subjective and can be anything you choose it to be, and objectively life is there and will go regardless what you think.
    Also, the idea of losing critical thinking just because you attribute yourself to a religion is weird. You can still belong to a religion but maybe not stick to dogmatic ways of thinking. I don't take anything for granted and have logical explanations to many questions. In fact, I have created a website called skepticfaith which I hope I'll have enough time to write all the articles on my to-do list.

  • @JoyRideJay11
    @JoyRideJay11 Год назад +8

    WOW! Hit the nail on the head as per usual. So good, I’m going to have to watch it twice! Let’s Gooo! Namaste!🙏🏽✨

  • @brainsinister9422
    @brainsinister9422 Год назад +10

    I can relate to this video. While in highschool I became a nihilst and misanthropist. I hated everything and everyone because I didn't know the reason for my existence. I turned away from my beliefs and thought it was all pointless. Over time I learned in the most painful way that nobody can give you purpose except you. There is no point in searching for a purpose. Enjoy the moment and once its gone you'll be glad you made the most of your time

    • @Novastar.SaberCombat
      @Novastar.SaberCombat Год назад +1

      Reflection is key. Humanity should dare to look deep within, but it should also understand that more than the mere physical aspect of such Reflection is required for true, celestial enlightenment.
      "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In Time, all points converge; hope's strength resteeled. But to earn final peace at the Universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again."
      🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
      --Diamond Dragons (series)

    • @aleksandravicus
      @aleksandravicus Год назад

      I would better recommend thinking of 'searching for a purpose' as the only thing that makes our lives meaningful. That's why we are capable of language and critical thinking. Because someone before you were sacrificing their personal individual temp life and giving up on enjoyment of a moment. Having to think deeply so that we could evolve over history from animal to human. And have a capacity ask all the hard questions and try to answer them. And the thing that 99.9% present day 'humans' use the language mistakenly and lead animal like or even worse lifestyles, shouldn't be the reason to doubt all the reality and embrace on the very animalistic lifestyles and worldviews.

    • @edwinmassey2707
      @edwinmassey2707 Год назад

      Jesus is the way the truth and the life

    • @user-vg3oi6zu3w
      @user-vg3oi6zu3w 6 месяцев назад

      yeah but also try to help ppl and make the world a better place

  • @YarYarDaBar3111
    @YarYarDaBar3111 Год назад +1

    Well done as always. Thank you! Your videos always seem to perfectly coincide with what I need to hear.

  • @d.christianrathjens7209
    @d.christianrathjens7209 Год назад +8

    Great overview. Great voice and pronunciation, english as well as german.A joy to follow along in thought. A strong impulse for me to stay open for philosophy. Thank you so much for all your videos.

  • @ttocselbag5054
    @ttocselbag5054 Год назад +7

    Do we really need meaning, reason, or purpose? Homo sapiens roam the surface of the earth just as gnats fly in the air, and flounder swim in the oceans. We pretty much exist as a consequence of nature and evolution. Just chill and live. 😊😊

  • @GraceCanadaful
    @GraceCanadaful Год назад +4

    Thank you for your beautiful, calming and meaningful videos, that inspire us to read more, learn more about subjects you briefly discuss here. I am always looking forward to the new one.

  • @NimrodtheWHM
    @NimrodtheWHM Год назад +1

    These videos help me during some really rough times. Thank you for the work you do, it has helped keep me centered and sane(well, relatively anyway) when everything has fallen apart completely.

  • @whoaitstiger
    @whoaitstiger Год назад +4

    Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

  • @murilo9992
    @murilo9992 Год назад +5

    I think it's hard to go "If nothing matters then I'll have a ball" when we need money for everything, and because we need money we gotta work. So we slave our souls away to be able to maintain "life".

  • @mariateresaabsalon633
    @mariateresaabsalon633 Год назад +2

    This is what i need 💜❤️. Thank you fpr this! ❤️💜

  • @mmartin5707
    @mmartin5707 Год назад +10

    When there is nothing to live for used to be called enlightenment. To not want was perfection. It’s really intriguing that we culturally have reverted back to the darkness of wanting as a reason to live.
    There should be a striving for no reason to live. This should be a goal. Experience life- you don’t need a fake goal to do so.

    • @netherflux5882
      @netherflux5882 Год назад +3

      Living for a no reason ideology is just as dangerous as living to want everything.

  • @V_GenMod
    @V_GenMod Год назад +44

    I discovered this channel searching for Miyamoto Musashi's Philosophy and I ended up subscribing and watching also the past videos of the channel. I really enjoy your work as an all around conversation about reflections, meanings, questions and many more things that have been left from brilliant minds along the decades. Thank you kindly from Rome! Keep going, good work!

    • @turtleanton6539
      @turtleanton6539 8 месяцев назад

      Miyamoto mushashi. Plz read and enJoy his book of 5 rings. And also vagabond an illustrerad version of his life.😊

    • @V_GenMod
      @V_GenMod 8 месяцев назад

      @@turtleanton6539 I've already read them both! They are masterpieces!

  • @Claijohn
    @Claijohn Год назад +5

    A video well made for over thinkers like me about the purpose and meaning of life. This gives me solace.

  • @lnxguit
    @lnxguit 4 месяца назад +1

    Thanks! Your channel brings me joy

  • @Irlydntknw
    @Irlydntknw Год назад +1

    This Video was the best I have ever watched on RUclips. Thank You Einzelgänger.

  • @OoOo-vy7hy
    @OoOo-vy7hy Год назад +5

    your channel is great. please dont stop too soon :) there are little contents on RUclips as meaningful als yours. you often had helped me getting better through this cruel times. much love for your Einzelgänger-thing from Germany. Cheers

  • @brandonjoseph3422
    @brandonjoseph3422 Год назад +7

    This video can cure depression, though I’m not qualified to say it. What a video! Beautifully explained. I’m feeling so light and alive at the moment. Thanks a ton.

    • @gullivertrot
      @gullivertrot 7 месяцев назад

      I thought the same. Then on a second thought I feel like, it depends on how we receive the message conveyed through this video...I mean... is it the object we are focusing on or the shadow of the object.....that will make the difference for the receiver I believe.

  • @Fear_Therapy
    @Fear_Therapy Год назад +1

    Loving these videos that are making me think about my life. ❤

  • @sirclay2168
    @sirclay2168 Год назад +2

    Another beautiful video per usual 🥰

  • @antoineriwalski4074
    @antoineriwalski4074 Год назад +6

    Great great great!
    During my life i found myself dealing with this question and thinking about what morality, in all it's lack of absolute, gives us. They all tend in a certain way to create happiness and that the answer to moral nihilisme could be to be a 'good' egoist person, a person that knows how to be egoist, as we are rarely happy when other People aren't and that we generaly feel joy when helping someone.

  • @joaoresende9868
    @joaoresende9868 Год назад +4

    If nothing matters, then it doesn't matter to say that nothing matters.

  • @michaelconnolly7681
    @michaelconnolly7681 Год назад

    Wow! I love all your videos that I've seen. This video is one of the best I've seen. Excellent in many ways. I do feel that seeing that all we have is now is a reason to celebrate. I love the way you talk about things.

  • @semayahmed3057
    @semayahmed3057 Год назад +1

    Definitely one of the best videos about this subject! Loved it, I have to rewatch it from time to time.

  • @stillawake76
    @stillawake76 Год назад +18

    Excellent!! This is possibly the clearest explanation of this complex subject I’ve seen. Well done!

    • @Einzelgänger
      @Einzelgänger  Год назад +2

      Thank you 🙏

    • @AquarianSoulTimeTraveler
      @AquarianSoulTimeTraveler Год назад +1

      @@Einzelgänger it is quite bold to make a claim that animals don't question their life... everything here is subjective objective reality does not exist in order to have objective reality you need to have an observer that exists from the beginning of time all the way to the end of time and even if such hypothetical Observer exist the end of time is not came yet so objective reality does not exist only subjective reality...

    • @AquarianSoulTimeTraveler
      @AquarianSoulTimeTraveler Год назад

      @@Einzelgänger God absolutely does exist but if it is not completely alone then it is not God is a false god the real God is a singularity like the big bang it is always one and completely alone this is a kaleidoscope reality to forget this fact and entering into these bodies is fun to pretend like we are not completely alone as that singularity. Every time you make a decision here you lead to a doubling of potentiality where you made the opposite choice in a different universe its Y branch decision tree. Therefore it matters not your goals here it matters not how righteous you are no matter what you do every time you make a decision you're leading to more existence which is more suffering and Bliss... the most logical thing to do would be to end our own existence but our brains are programmed to give us the will to survive this is not who we are this is pre-programmed brain structure keeping us from wasting bodies. You are God and you are completely alone as a all encompassing being...

    • @AquarianSoulTimeTraveler
      @AquarianSoulTimeTraveler Год назад

      @UC6tBHfB8j-8LT6Hy_kcPQvAanimal is conscious of pain... its all just binary signals put together to make illusion of knowledge.

    • @sub-ce8vr
      @sub-ce8vr Год назад +1

      @@AquarianSoulTimeTraveler if humans and all sentient beings were to disappear there is no reality henceforth? I think the universe itself is a self aware being playing a game and we the sentient beings are its players. Nothing more nothing less

  • @timraffelt3372
    @timraffelt3372 Год назад +4

    Our success won't matter in the end, but at least our mistakes won't matter either. So I see no point in not just trying.

  • @shauny187
    @shauny187 Год назад

    Top quality philosophical ideas put together in what I would describe to be from my experience of watching in the best possible way. Beautiful art. Thank you.

  • @user-xy8qk9gz7g
    @user-xy8qk9gz7g 4 месяца назад

    Thank you for uploading 🙏🏻

  • @VgnRaj
    @VgnRaj Год назад +4

    Excellent motivational tool for those who despair the most.

  • @GearlessJoe0
    @GearlessJoe0 Год назад +16

    Just because some things won’t matter in the future doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter now

    • @justforrow
      @justforrow Год назад

      I suppose so. So, ig it's really about changing your perspective. Instead of viewing it as a negative, you should view it as a positive. While this joy maybe be temporary, so will the pain. For every moment you suffer, there will be a moment where you don't. And death clears all.

    • @KevinJohnson-cv2no
      @KevinJohnson-cv2no Год назад +2

      Unless the only thing that matters to you is power; in which case, it has mattered, does matter & will matter until the end of time (and indeed, even past it). "There is no crevice of existence within which the liquid of force does not seep." Power, the ability to bend the material world to ones will; is truly the only worthwhile & eternal variable in a chaotic, material universe.

    • @newagain9964
      @newagain9964 Год назад

      @@KevinJohnson-cv2no I feel that. I personally don’t live that way. But I know many many do. However, most live petty and frivolous lives.

  • @tollwutpinguin
    @tollwutpinguin Год назад +1

    I love this channel! Thank you!

  • @rickjay2011
    @rickjay2011 Год назад

    Your work and efforts to create these videos provide great value to my life. Thank you.

  • @thepapertrail0
    @thepapertrail0 Год назад +7

    I needed to watch this today. I have been struggling with this concept of finding a reason for living. I've never had a passion and have been in an emotional rut about not being satisfied with my life as I have no "purpose" to live for. But the ideas of being free explained in this video have eased my over-thinking. I am truly free, I just have to remind myself of this and take things day by day. Thank you :)

    • @Novastar.SaberCombat
      @Novastar.SaberCombat Год назад +1

      Reflection is key. Humanity should dare to look deep within, but it should also understand that more than the mere physical aspect of such Reflection is required for true, celestial enlightenment.
      "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In Time, all points converge; hope's strength resteeled. But to earn final peace at the Universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." ---DD
      🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨

    • @noelchristian8373
      @noelchristian8373 Год назад

      I ended up reading Philipp Mainlander philosophy, and now I'm more depressed!

  • @stephenm2924
    @stephenm2924 Год назад +4

    For me the answer to the last question is still despair.

  • @oanahah6181
    @oanahah6181 Год назад

    You are briliant! Thank you. Very insightful video

  • @STORYME01
    @STORYME01 Год назад +1

    Amazing how you explain all of it so fluently

  • @noproblem2big337
    @noproblem2big337 Год назад +16

    Living a good life is knowing that nothing matters evil people are everywhere life is very unfair and unjust...but even though you know all this never be a victim, keep working and building your own terrestrial paradise focusing on being the best version of yourself (without competing against others) be greatful and let the beauty of this world guide you, and during your venture help others not as fortunate as yourself without asking for anything in return, never forget that life is great 🙂

    • @netherflux5882
      @netherflux5882 Год назад +3

      If you see Evil you need to react. Living passively is never a good way to live.

    • @noproblem2big337
      @noproblem2big337 Год назад

      @@netherflux5882 ...yes true I was married to a sociopathic person, very cunning and calculating and worse of all very believable, by the time I realized it was too late giving me no time to react as she already filed a rape charge and I was unable to enter my own house and it went downhill from there I haven't seen my children for 12 years...evil I mean true demonic evil is alive and well on planet earth.

    • @jaswantrajput3383
      @jaswantrajput3383 Год назад

      @@netherflux5882 Yep... You've created your morals in believing evil shouldn't be tolerated... So it's your meaning to life... Also this doesn't mean I'm supporting evil... I'll oppose what's evil to me not others

  • @SamVueti
    @SamVueti Год назад +6

    The fact that we are able to exist in this human form as the apex predator on the planet should be enough.

    • @ciprianloghin1635
      @ciprianloghin1635 Год назад

      We're not apex predators. At the very least, the 21st century humans are not. Rather prey.

    • @SamVueti
      @SamVueti Год назад +1

      @@ciprianloghin1635 It's debatable but the bottom line is that if we chose to obliterate every other living species on the planet, we could do so. Maybe not in a hand-to-hand combat situation but our technology and ingenuity are far more superior to that of any other species that has ever existed. I'd say that puts us well and truly at the top of the food chain.

  • @mariehaverty8209
    @mariehaverty8209 Год назад

    Some good pointers I will take from this, thank you. 👍❤🙏

  • @bodeezus
    @bodeezus Год назад

    Amazing video. Thank you so much 🎉

  • @paul6925
    @paul6925 Год назад +16

    I think about this everyday and it is soul crushing. As for morality, people’s capacity for empathy will give them a natural sense of how to behave. But the degree of empathy isn’t the same for everyone

    • @Novastar.SaberCombat
      @Novastar.SaberCombat Год назад +1

      Reflection is key. Humanity should dare to look deep within, but it should also understand that more than the mere physical aspect of such Reflection is required for true, celestial enlightenment.
      "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In Time, all points converge; hope's strength resteeled. But to earn final peace at the Universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." --DD
      🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨

    • @noelchristian8373
      @noelchristian8373 Год назад +1

      Hey, joan Cornella fan right there!

    • @paul6925
      @paul6925 Год назад

      @@noelchristian8373 I'm a Cornella-stan for sure

    • @noelchristian8373
      @noelchristian8373 Год назад +1

      @@paul6925 me too!

  • @valeriyanev11
    @valeriyanev11 Год назад +4

    The meaning of life for each and every Man is to build something worth dying for .

    • @blackbeard1074
      @blackbeard1074 Год назад

      @Will build your body in the gym levi

    • @midasghijsels
      @midasghijsels Год назад

      or to build something worth living for?

  • @faustopf-.
    @faustopf-. Год назад

    Incredible, insightfully and we'll produced video. Saved for rewatch

  • @TrainerSteveRKC
    @TrainerSteveRKC Год назад

    Really great timing 🙏

  • @gracefitzgerald2227
    @gracefitzgerald2227 Год назад +7

    As hokey as it is I appreciate that I have a brain that can absorb this kind of wisdom. Happy Thanksgiving everyone and if you’re here then be proud of your big brain.

  • @richardmabe4186
    @richardmabe4186 Год назад +6

    Great video thanks. I've wrestled with the meaninglessness of existence in recent times; life looks more real at 60. Camus has been helpful I love the idea of revolting against the meaninglessness. My perspective has shifted, and I've found a new desire to live life as I want until the end in spite of it all. Fascinating how a better way of thinking makes you feel very different.

    • @Novastar.SaberCombat
      @Novastar.SaberCombat Год назад

      Reflection is key. Humanity should dare to look deep within, but it should also understand that more than the mere physical aspect of such Reflection is required for true, celestial enlightenment.
      "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In Time, all points converge; hope's strength resteeled. But to earn final peace at the Universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again."
      🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
      --Diamond Dragons (series)

  • @wanderingbiku451
    @wanderingbiku451 Год назад +2

    Your pieces on Existentialism are of great help to me. I find it complements my Buddhist practice and almost allows myself some mental space. To step outside and look in. I can believe that there are no answers and thus not feel guilty when I cant find any. Very theraputic. Thank you.

    • @Einzelgänger
      @Einzelgänger  Год назад

      That's great to hear, Wandering Biku. Thank you for your support!

  • @ksy4747
    @ksy4747 5 месяцев назад

    Looooved the ending. Definitely needed that message as someone who has swan the rivers of nihilism and the void up and down for many many years. I think that is the natural next step of the existential crisis is to find freedom in it. True authentic freedom of course. As someone who has always obsessed over "whys" and "hows" and put so much pressure on myself to fullfill my objective/subjective purpose, it definitely feels freeing to practice the art of just living.

  • @adhiantos
    @adhiantos Год назад +11

    After seeing the images captured by the James Webb telescope earlier this year, they really strengthen my thought and belief that… there’s really no meaning to life. I’m with Camus, in the expanse of this humongous universe, I feel like even if I find the meaning of life, it is still tiny as compared to the ever expanding universe. So perhaps it really is okay if we couldn’t find any meaning to life. What matters most is, well here we are haha.

    • @sub-ce8vr
      @sub-ce8vr Год назад

      Are we really here in the real sense of the word tho? Like a cluster of atoms that can self recognise I think the one who observes the observable is God, any views or words are all but meaningless to it's godhood

    • @noelchristian8373
      @noelchristian8373 Год назад +1

      You should watch the Pursuit of Wonder channel video titled "Death" one of the best videos by him, and it's similar to your comment!

    • @adhiantos
      @adhiantos Год назад

      @@noelchristian8373 I just recently discovered his Instagram! I should check his channel out. Thank you for the head's up! :D

    • @ulala9729
      @ulala9729 9 месяцев назад

      Islam is also expanding like universe, muslim women wear burqa more in number

  • @bkhn8576
    @bkhn8576 Год назад +3

    I once met an old man who looked like a wizard, he had a long grey beard and bushy eyebrows. I asked him what the meaning of life is? Because he looked like a wise old man who had insight and had gained enlightenment.
    After asking him about the meaning of life itself, he just looked at me and smiled and said the words I will never forget as long as I live: "no no no no no no no no no no no there´s no limit!"

  • @pgweon
    @pgweon Год назад +1

    Thank you for the thoughts

  • @juansebastiangonzalez2852
    @juansebastiangonzalez2852 Год назад

    Amazing video! please keep doing it!

  • @AmericanCalabar
    @AmericanCalabar Год назад +3

    There are things accepted as universally good for a reason. You know within what is good and bad. You abide by a code because it impacts the world you live in RIGHT NOW. Because every action has a reaction and your rational mind can predict the reaction.

  • @mattmiller4269
    @mattmiller4269 Год назад +4

    Here to watch.
    Here to learn.

  • @jonnod5003
    @jonnod5003 Год назад

    Beautiful review sir🔥💯🎄

  • @sinahosseini1045
    @sinahosseini1045 Год назад

    brilliant 👏 just..amazing work thanks for your hard work

  • @ericephemetherson3964
    @ericephemetherson3964 Год назад +13

    ''It's better to fight for something than to live for nothing.'' General George Patton

  • @ikpeessien7399
    @ikpeessien7399 Год назад

    Amazing to hear this. 🥰

  • @RICARDO-cz7xm
    @RICARDO-cz7xm Год назад +1

    how can you explode my brain like that and just say " thank you for watching"? Amazing video my guy

  • @mindfulnesswithmatt
    @mindfulnesswithmatt Год назад +7

    When we humans think intellect and reasoning is the highest form of achievement, this is where we land. So much truth in just being immersed in the experience and bringing our own meaning, because truth will always be subjective and limited to what we know through our lens. Make the most of what we're given

    • @genesises
      @genesises Год назад

      would you argue there is no such thing as an objective truth? or an absolute truth? what about "the sciences"?

    • @AYAKXSHI
      @AYAKXSHI 7 дней назад

      @@genesises even the sciences may not be the objective truth considering we haven’t made contact with others just as intelligent as we are to challenge it just yet

  • @alexxx4434
    @alexxx4434 Год назад +3

    The meaning of life is ultimately a creative question. You make of life what you will and what you can. Just like an artist when they decide to create.

    • @stevewimpress6096
      @stevewimpress6096 11 месяцев назад +1

      Yes you are correct it depends on one’s mindset which can be taught to make the best of what yiu have or unfortunately some may make the worst of it ,the optimist versus pessimist

  • @xenomania4484
    @xenomania4484 Год назад +1

    Your videos come at just the right time ❤

  • @peaceofmind913
    @peaceofmind913 Год назад +1

    Absolutely brilliant ❤️

  • @michaelachurch4463
    @michaelachurch4463 Год назад +4

    Every morning when I awake no matter how I am feeling I realise that I have the freedom to create my own meaning for that day....we are truly creators in each moment.....it's a moment to moment existence/experience.....no matter how painful at times...there is truly something so profound about being alive.

  • @wow2819Al
    @wow2819Al Год назад +13

    I've gone through so much that honestly I'm in this point asking for dead to come for me to end this pain of living and suffering.

    • @rainmanjr2007
      @rainmanjr2007 Год назад

      I found that reading Kurt Vonnegut Jr helped me get past the pain and Taoism informs me of why there is suffering. I believe we are just an electron, floating in the calm of Tao (which is a circular, so without end, Universe expanded into cold nothingness), bonded to other electrons. The illusion we are living is particles within the vibration they create. Suffering directs us to see the illusion and lose this sense of importance. That's what creates the pain. We feel owed and gypped. Peace and calm.

    • @kennethhall9202
      @kennethhall9202 Год назад

      My thoughts exactly

    • @Novastar.SaberCombat
      @Novastar.SaberCombat Год назад +1

      Reflection is key. Humanity should dare to look deep within, but it should also understand that more than the mere physical aspect of such Reflection is required for true, celestial enlightenment.
      "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In Time, all points converge; hope's strength resteeled. But to earn final peace at the Universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." ---DD
      🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨

  • @amatteuur
    @amatteuur Год назад

    Hello dear. You have such a power. Thanks for the great message

  • @atsiepxs471
    @atsiepxs471 Год назад

    Thank you for your videos ❤

  • @jemengullo
    @jemengullo Год назад +4

    Right time to watch this for me

  • @michaelzapp4778
    @michaelzapp4778 Год назад +3

    The cool style and this calm voice the content is delivered with brings me to the conclusion, that the creators must really live, what they are talking about. Or maybe its just the dutch weed. A video about how philosophy is influenced by drugs could be a next video.

    • @user-iy8tc5co8y
      @user-iy8tc5co8y Год назад

      It's just that the quality of life in the Netherlands is great, even without the weed.

    • @michaelzapp4778
      @michaelzapp4778 Год назад +1

      @@user-iy8tc5co8y
      Partially my comment was meant to express my appreciation. But the weed part was really just a joke. I guess it should be possible to make conclusions about the creators in a limited way, but I don’t think it’s important since they provide good content and I don‘t really think, that weed is a factor.

    • @user-iy8tc5co8y
      @user-iy8tc5co8y Год назад

      @@michaelzapp4778 I agree with you. My reply was to show my appreciation for the Netherlands as a country, I love it so much.

  • @diaaamory6211
    @diaaamory6211 Год назад

    Great video!

  • @anantpanwar7692
    @anantpanwar7692 Год назад +2

    One of the best piece of information arranged in visual impacts ,I ever perceive in my life. Thank you , so much . Hence it proves , technology which maybe ultimately leads to nothingness , it helps me to lead into the nothingness , hence the usefulness can't be denied even if both the agent and action are meaningless.

  • @MoriohAnime
    @MoriohAnime Год назад +5

    Happy thanksgiving everyone and thank you Eizangangler. I’m extremely grateful to you for dropping these stoic videos.

  • @chadseifert1773
    @chadseifert1773 Год назад +2

    I love your videos. Thanks for creating them, you thoughtful SOB (in the nicest way). N does provide an answer, a way out of Nihilism. All responsibility rests on the shoulders of the individual who chooses to abandon the constructs of society. It is up to the individual to create their own moral code. I can't site anything directly, and I don't have access to look now. I would note that I have not read the entirety of N's work. Thanks again.

    • @chadseifert1773
      @chadseifert1773 Год назад

      I love that you juxtapose K with N. They did battle.

    • @chadseifert1773
      @chadseifert1773 Год назад

      Admittedly, I made this comment right after you mention K for the first time. You totally cover what I commented about. Well done.

  • @FreedomFROMReligionID
    @FreedomFROMReligionID Год назад +2

    I'm basically a rebel. I found absurdism so appealing. It is actually very freeing that there is no afterlife, there is no heaven, but also there is no hell. For those who just left religion, it can be very scary at first, but you'll get over it.

  • @DEATH-THE-GOAT
    @DEATH-THE-GOAT Год назад +1

    Thanks for cheering me up.

  • @ulissessaraivanogueira3255
    @ulissessaraivanogueira3255 Год назад +4

    We are "living" a dream