Why Death Makes Life Meaningless
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I think about this a lot. Here's my analogy. Imagine going to see a movie, but at the end of it they give you a shot that makes you forget you ever saw it. There would be no point in ever watching it.
Imagine how it would be if the movie went on forever.
Kinda like getting drunk to have fun, and then the next day realizing you don't recall hardly any of it... ?
@@gitgud7457 imagine your loved ones whom you have made a strong bond with getting stripped away from you because of aging and death, yea yea 😑
That’s bull shit😂 life isn’t a movie you sit and watch. You interact and change things for the better or good, for the billions of people that come after you. In reality no one knows what happens in death or what happens after. So live the best life you can, before you can’t.
@@adriankepler5254 that's a good point, I was focusing more on a human's personal experience.
But sticking with the cinema analogy think of it this way...
You can sit in the theater quietly watching the movie, keeping your seat clean
Or...
You can be obnoxious and distracting and throw popcorn around. Making the experience worse for everyone that watches with you and everyone that comes after. But in the end they're all going to leave the theater not remembering a thing.
And yes, we don't know what happens after death, but we do know a bit about memories. Memories are stored in the brain. The neural connections that make up memories are all inside you're brain.
So when you die we have no reason to think your memories are coming with you. Your brain falls apart and decomposes and your memories fall apart with it.
Memories are structures. Just like a building. Where does a building go when it falls apart?
Stupid design. We get born without being asked first. We go through lots of suffering and we get old and sick and die, so everything we struggled for, everything we fought is going to be pointless. This is seriously depressing. Mother nature does a lot of things right but she screwed up with this.
Esdynu agree
Why do we live we're only going to die in the end? I legitimately 'have a death wish' to see what death is like. Don't mistake this for being suicidal though, because thete IS a difference. I've just become somewhat apathetic toward life. This world is flawed. Humanity is disgusting. I...I want for God to take me home. I want to talk to him; to ask him why we live. I just don't know enough...
Does death give you a reason to live. Or is there no reason to live because you die?
It isn't that depressing though, it actually takes a lot of pressure off us as human beings if we remember that one day we will die, it will all be over and none of it will matter - because it reminds us not to take life so seriously, and to really LIVE whilst we are alive. Remembering that death will come and the life we lived will be erased/forgotten means we don't have to worry about the silly things that most of society seems to worry about - like having the career, the house, the marriage, the kids etc., and worrying about what people think etc. We can just do what we want whilst we are alive, remembering that it is out life and it is only temporary.
@@spinne-feejassi3149 It means you shouldn´t care about what happens to the world, if global warming is real or not or if humanity continues after you die or not. There is no reason to take care of the planet at all. If it burns, it doesn´t matter. Don´t even bother with any of this.
our consciousness is the source of all our suffering !
How many people are hatin' their life here
Meeeeeeee
I'm loving it 😁😁😁😁 as a proud muslim man
Me
@@aryanvadher4376 yes
@@aryanvadher4376 mee too I was born Muslim but I lost faith but now I'm Muslim. and actually my dad was sheikh .
Death is beautiful to those suffer entire life. Most of us do.
No
You Are Insane.
god says that everyone is leaving the face of the planet. so every body is gonna die some how .death is beautiful.
I agree, dnd! I am 20 years old and since i've lost several loved ones, including a mom and grandparents, I can't wait for my death! I welcome death with open arms!!
@@halimasheeq6419 I agree!!
This just makes me sad knowing every thing I worked for will be meaningless,
good
What?
Yes that is the sad truth. People like Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali, Walt Disney and Charlie Chaplin all worked very hard and came very far. But all are dead now so for them all is now pointness.
@@Domino13334 kind of agree with you, but isn't their legacy is immortal as long Humans will exist?
@@kentajin7860 how long will humans exist?
The doomsday argument suggests we have on average 500 years, but let’s say maybe we last a million more. But humans will eventually be gone. Forever and ever and ever Times infinity.
Eventually even the sun will go Nova. There will be nothing of even earth than exists. Then billions of years later the galaxies will drift further and further apart til even the building blocks of matter break down
My close friend died when we were teenagers, I was thinking of all his stuff, clothes, books, bed, room, phone, money, all became meaningless. Unused. And the worst part is that he will never come back to this life for even 1/2 of a sec to say Hi. That experience shaped how I live, I live for the moment, I don’t fear nothing, I take risks and do everything my heart desires as long as I’m not hurting anyone. Because I know this is all I have left. In the end it’s what you experience in this physical life that matters, all the stuff you accumulated, your job, degrees are meaningless when you are gone.
This genuinely breaks my heart. Death will erase everyone I love deeply
i know what can help, the way u can save yourself is to go to a Christian community, and dont let your thoughts stop u wich can be, religion is fake, god doesn't exist or people believe in religion only to get hope, there is a reason why there are more christian than atheist, muslims, hinduism and all the other ones, its because God exists and its a reality, U GOT NOTHNG TOO LOSE TRY IT, God changed my life so why can't God change yours, the minority religion called atheism is the worst religion, i got good news for u!, God is real and God is eternal and God loves u endless
I lost my father recently and have been thinking about this. Everything that he experienced and all his memories are gone with him. I have many memories of him, but those memories and experiences will also be gone when I die. All that we amount to in life will cease to be meaningful upon our deaths. It just makes it seem like we’re filling time with doing things in life, and that’s all it is.
All we are doing is distracting ourselves from the truth by trying to live a lie by creating a delusion
It is a paradox because If you live forever, life would also be meaningless. Being aware of our mortality is the main reason why we value our quality of life so much because we know it will end within 70 to 80 years on average so we try to make it the best possible while we’re still here.
The only thing that's worse than death is eternal life. I mean who tf wants to live forever? That would be the ultimate nightmare
nah it wouldnt, if i will get any opportunities, feelings, love, hope, joy or new experiences the only way to feel that is by existing, NOW THAT I EXIST AM HERE TO STAY FOREVER
Y'all don't even realize that you are just chasing FEELINGS your entire life. Everything you ever want to accomplish in life is because you want to FEEL GOOD but none of you realize it because your stuck in the matrix which is your brain
Who wants to live forever? We all do. Thats the whole reason why we dont wanna die.
If we're being realistic, seeing the ones you love die while you live seems pretty painful, but assuming that you mean everyone living forever, would still be bad cuz of overpopulation, also our brains can't store infinite information, so after 300 years or smth your brain would get messed up, and there would be the eventual death heat of the universe, where there would be nothing left but people (assuming they are immortal) in complete darkness, unable to speak due to being on space.
If you ignore these things though it would be pretty cool to live forever
Atheists don't see the point in life obviously 😅😂
Why can't ignorant human beings understand this fact, for example; when you have a very vivid dream , it seems so real, but once you wake up no matter how good the dream was , it's gone forever never to return and you can't take anything in that dream with you !
If life mattered we would live forever
Exactly
@Ali Ay ikr
I've heard some say that they think death makes life more meaningful, but I truly think the opposite. Because when your life ends, you can't do anything anymore. I want to be a scientist so I can invent lots of new helpful things, like how to stop some people from growing up, because I would hate to suffer as an old man or for my mom to be the same. I can not let me or my mom or uncles get old, because in the Season 10 premiere of Roseanne the old people jokes got old very fast, like playing cards with Kenny Rogers. [giggles March 28, 2018, 10:17pm
Adam Kalb the idea puts life into the perspective that it’s all we have until our ultimate demise so enjoy the experience
Some people don't want to life for ever, people like me. I just want to go throught this shit and then die
The fact that you die anyway makes me wonder why I even do what I do in life. It’s all just gonna go to waste if I’m gonna die no matter what.
There Is An AfterLife
@@SpatialAndTemporalEvangelicals nope there’s not I been studying this shit for 10 years
@@iwonderwhathappensafteryou7881 Me for 19 years lol! I'm glad I left this cult!
@@iwonderwhathappensafteryou7881how do you know there's not
I totally agree with the video, but humanity is creating the illusion of meaning all of the time to avoid the cruel reality. I hope science discovers the key to eternal life, but I am sad anyways cause it looks like it will take a long time and several generations will still have to die 😢
Eternal life sounds horrible.
@@TheFracturedfuture Maybe, but if you don't like the sounds of it, you can always let time do its jobb 😉
@@Albeirucho I don't think anyone has a choice.
@@Albeirucho so you want to do a meaningless job with a minimum wage under the rule of Capitalism??
i know what can help, the way u can save yourself is to go to a Christian community, and dont let your thoughts stop u wich can be, religion is fake, god doesn't exist or people believe in religion only to get hope, there is a reason why there are more christian than atheist, muslims, hinduism and all the other ones, its because God exists and its a reality, U GOT NOTHNG TOO LOSE TRY IT, God changed my life so why can't God change yours, the minority religion called atheism is the worst religion, i got good news for u!, God is real and God is eternal and God loves u endless
Death is unavoidable. We can't survive the end of the universe.
What if we can STOP the end of the universe?
@@EternalLifeFan Entropy.
@@EternalLifeFan you cant stop the end of the universe. Like you can't stop death.
This is a very interesting point. And I agree! It’s quite scary in fact. I think of it in comparison to before being born. What do you remember or what did you see before you were born? Exactly, it’s impossible to comprehend or imagine since you weren’t in existence. To think that you, or your consciousness can cease to exist in a process where you don’t even realize it, is quite terrifying for me.
If there is one thing that brings a little bit of consolation, it would be that you alone will have access to arguably the greatest mysteries to life. And you alone (as in, for your consciousness and your reality) , will uncover it’s secret.
We often think of us/our perspective/our consciousness as an entity, almost disconnected from our bodies. But think of this, what is left of us when our reality stops existing. Us, as in, our consciousness and what we believe to be an ever lasting function of our existence, might not even be a thing in the first place. As in, we really might not be what we see ourselves and think ourselves to be.
Maybe we really aren’t ourselves at all. Maybe we are not in existence as we believe ourselves to be. Maybe, we only think to be something through the illusion given to us by life and how nature genetically coded us (and creates all our intricacies)
If no one wants to die then don't bring kids here don't matter if humans go exstinct we all die in the end so much harm suffering growing old death this world is sick evil
Thats antinatalism
@@matiaslipovec I am antinatalist good reason to be for the sake of baby's being born
@@jacquelineentwistle5091 I understand you. I am one too
@@matiaslipovec OK 👍
@@jacquelineentwistle5091yea but were still gonna die
Two unverifiable statements:
1. There's life after death.
2. Death is the end of existence.
The point here is that we have no idea what happens after death.
Yea but it’s just hope ur talking about
A lot for truths in this video, but what is this living forever thing? Don't be stupid, that'll never be possible. Sure we might live significantly longer in the future, but forever? Impossible. What about the heat death of the universe?
There is no solution to this problem. We have to die and we don't want to. The end of the universe can't be survived. Even if physical immortality was possible (which it is not).
Technology will make us immortal.
@@supreetkumar7604 Hopefully...
@@supreetkumar7604 its not
I agree. It is all a sick joke
The idea of people enjoying this nightmare is disgusting.
not enjoying its living how can you enjoy death
❤
Some people would argue that you can "live forever" through the memories of others, or through accomplishments you did which made it into the history books or the literature. But those things are not you, they are the echoes of your life now gone. They are facts which may or may not help or bring comfort to other people, but that is THEIR meaning and THEIR life, not your meaning or life. Further, those people whom you have affected in some way will also in turn die, so that supposed substitute meaning which you created will also be gone soon.
The only way out of this is to live forever, and in the immediate future, that means curing aging as the highest priority.
Just everyday living, talking to people and going to work and school are filled with meaninglessness. You hardly ever return home at night feeling genuinely fulfilled.
Eternal Life Fan this reminds me of the movie Vanilla Sky. If you haven't watched it do so. It directly relates to what your talking about.
Loved the video.. ruined my life thanks
i know what can help, the way u can save yourself is to go to a Christian community, and dont let your thoughts stop u wich can be, religion is fake, god doesn't exist or people believe in religion only to get hope, there is a reason why there are more christian than atheist, muslims, hinduism and all the other ones, its because God exists and its a reality, U GOT NOTHNG TOO LOSE TRY IT, God changed my life so why can't God change yours, the minority religion called atheism is the worst religion, i got good news for u!, God is real and God is eternal and God loves u endless
It matters in the moment. Even if you lived a trillion years, your life would still be meaningless if you died at the end of it, by your logic. Think how long forever is. No one can survive that long, living for an Octillion years asks for too much luck in a universe where accidents and hazards are commonplace.
@@chowdersalt I'd probably bang millions of chicks!
Living forever is equally as pointless. You’d learn everything... and it would still keep going, never ending.
It’s pointless with death and pointless without death.
Began to realise this guys a fraction loopy around the 8 minute mark.
Its on both sides, its to appreciate
If you never die, your meaning never dies. Simple.
Both sides are bad but if ur suffering when alive that’s worser then u rather die
@@supreetkumar7604 kinda true for me I just wanna die at this point
Living Forever Is Meaningful Because The Moment You Die And Stop Existing, Everything You Did Is Meaningless To You.
I think I'm depressed I'm 11 that's how got here I got so scared of what happens once I'm dead please help me
kaden luna
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
John 11:25-26
kaden luna you shouldn't fear death. It's more of a salvation from this horrible world. I'd listen to Alan watts to ease your fear of death.
We're all afraid. You aren't alone. Search for meaning and evidence. Look up what quantum theory says about consciousness. Double slit experiment. Quantum eraser. Penrose and hammeroff theory of consciousness. Evaluate if you think it is likely or not there is a God or if this is a simulation. You have TIME to find an answer if one exists. Being scared while the possibility of there being an answer is pointless. Tell yourself that. It's what I do and the only way I sleep at night. Good luck.
@@Sabe08e Fuck off
get the fuck out religitard
If we don't die, life wouldn't cease to be meaningless. Death doesn't subtract meaning from life, but rather, meaning is already a false concept. Life is already meaningless, since meaning is epistemologically inert.
Meaning is a man made idea.
Had to sift through quite a few comments to find one written by someone with a working brain
It's apparent this argument doesn't take into account life after death, reincarnation and other spiritual concepts that show there is meaning in everyone's life and beyond
It depends on your definition of self: If your self equals the construct of self by the brain (ego) ... then yes. If it includes whatever you transmitted to future generations beyond the grave (genes, ideas, et cetera) ... then probably not.
One last thing.... in regard to what happens after we pass on...
Have you ever thought about the fact that we are (ideally) born in the same exact spot we (ideally) die in? Conscienceness may jump vessles.
Thats why i cant believe in eternal oblivion🤷♂
You might not have any meaning when you die but you can give meaning to people that are still alive after your death. Too bad they are going to die too. And eventually, there won't be anyone left after the extinction of the human race so you're meaning that you passed down to others will no longer exist.
The events in your life are like an equation. But no matter what's in that equation the end result is always death.
If life is something and there is nothing when you die, something is better then nothing. So enjoy what you have now before you have nothing.
I like that you’re open to the possibility of a heaven or an afterlife . Im also not religious but I don’t laugh or mock them . I think it’s possible and I even hope it is true
IKLEANV if I’m a good person and I simply don’t believe in a god and that’s the reason I go to hell than that’s not a god I want to believe in to begin with
IKLEANV well it doesn’t matter what you and I think . It matters what “god” would think of us . Personally I do think I’ve been a good person throughout my life
IKLEANV my father is Christian and I grew up one but no longer
IKLEANV you think because someone is a Christian they’re automatically a good person ?
IKLEANV yeah the bible was written by 2 drunk guys sitting around a fire thousands of years ago . Just my opinion though . We shall see
Nothing before death makes sense. The only meaningful thing to do is to find something beyond death. When you think about the life we are living is kinda like an actor playing a character in a movie. When you are in deep sleep, Who you are doesn't matter. Take away your body and mind, Every single living being is the same. It's kinda like you are dead and alive at the same time.
Yes you are dead because you don't know the truth
There are people who know the truth and they are alive
@@civ7293 who are these people are you one of them
At this point I long for my death
Me too Maria.
I know that life is meaningless. Hence why I don't think anything I do now, has any meaning even if I enjoy what it is, that I'm doing at that moment.
even this universe can't exist forever, so living forever as a human is technically impossible
dont realy need to make a case, its pretty basic just nobody thinks about death long enough to realize it.
I completely agree..but i just realized that even if immortality is achieved, that's not enough, because our sun will eventually explode/die off .....so...i suppose maybe interstellar travel to a healthy solar system inside another habitable planet is the only way...and then leave in search of another one before that one expires and so on and so on. Hopefully the universe doesn't implode, im not sure if that's possible but if it implodes then we can't escape this. But, regardless , achieving immortality AND Interstellar Space Travel IS the ONLY way to achieve Immortality.
Right, I think we can even solve the problem of the heat death of the universe. We must survive it!
Eternal Life Fan
A.almost everyone alive today will die because what there doing in silicon valley is probably very damn expensive for 1 dose but 7.5 billion. Take Some Time.
B. We probably could survive the heat death if we get faster than light travel then we can go backwards and colonize other planets over and over again.
Schindler made a list, and saved many people from being executed.
He is long dead, but his life still matters greatly. Ask the descendants of the people he saved.
Schindler has obtained the only immortality that is actually achievable. As long as those descendants keep uttering his name, his life was, and still is packed full of meaning.
Death is not an adventure, a tragedy, or meaningless. It is simply part of life.
I'm not trying to hasten my end, but when it comes...it comes.
Life becomes meaningless if you don't die.
Relax, and enjoy it.
Ken Able Exactly
Sylvain as a foreigner these comments make me think of lots of things . and i agree with you .
Dr. Able I agree again
WHAT A FUCKED UP LOGIC!!!!!!!
@@SpatialAndTemporalEvangelicals not really that fucked up. I stand by it.
Everyone dies though so there’s no point in saying “hypothetically”
i know what can help, the way u can save yourself is to go to a Christian community, and dont let your thoughts stop u wich can be, religion is fake, god doesn't exist or people believe in religion only to get hope, there is a reason why there are more christian than atheist, muslims, hinduism and all the other ones, its because God exists and its a reality, U GOT NOTHNG TOO LOSE TRY IT, God changed my life so why can't God change yours, the minority religion called atheism is the worst religion, i got good news for u!, God is real and God is eternal and God loves u endless
Even if the technology was so advanced that we could live forever, still life is meaninglessness since even the universe has an end.
Universe had a beginning from big bang and it has an end again. So again even if we were not limited to our lifetime, we are limited to the life of universe itself
I view death as an open canves. Kinda similarly to how people say life is an open canves. Death might just be nothing but we dont know it might suprise you in the end. 😊
Your understanding is flawed. Light cannot exist without darkness..
Life is meaningless and pointless, why even start it? Yikes, life is a horror experience
Life has no pre-set meaning or purpose which means that you are free to choose. Anyway, lets say life has some pre determined purpose, that would mean you would be a slave. Why should that be meaningful? What if I told to a god that his meaning is bs and just made up and not ,,true meaning" ?
No One Knows What Happens After We Die.
Life is created by two very selfish people with their recklessness decisions.
@@MarxMuru we are all slaves to society. Don't work? Won't get money, pay Taxes, then you die a slaves to society.
now im starting to sympathize with Tom Riddle (Voldemort) - he just wanted to achieve immortality
That's Why Delores Umbridge Is Considered To Be More Evil.
Death is in evitable for everyone
I have alwAys thought
Some big ass monster is growing peoples like vegetables crops to eat when we die
I personally think that in some way or another we persist after death, but that’s only because we were born in the first place. It has more to do with how it all happened, and what’s stopping it from happening again.
Though if I’m being honest, I can’t say I’m looking for another life on this planet, though I never did have that choice the first time right?
With research like Biocentrism, multiverse theory and many others, it gives me some insight as to what may or may not happen once you die, but the main difference here is that I don’t project my ideas as facts, unlike the religious.
Life is also meaningless when your love ones die. You'll never see them again while living with all the pain of remembering the precious moments you had with them. You still want to live forever with all the pain of seeing your friends and family drop dead and disappear forever from your life while you have to deal with the pain forever? That seems more like eternal torture than having a good time forever. Nah, I'm out.
I think death is equally terrible for everyone. Young people, old people, the good, the bad; it’s always the same. It’s rather fair in its treatment. There’s no such thing as a terrible death, that’s why it’s frightening.
I don't see it as terrible. It's the natural order of things. Worrying about dying is so pointless because your consciousness dies too. You won't even be aware of it.
@@drse2546 but right now i am consciousness so i know reason animals don't care is because they don't know or they would be depressed to
The only thing is can think of that has meaning is the relationships we form with one another. Everything else seems convoluted. We are suspended on a speck of dust floating through the infinite void of space. We are small and in that perspective it’s all meaningless.
Joshua Nesbitt it's true. The only connection that matters however is the one with yourself. Sometimes I outright prefer loneliness than being with someone I really like being with - it's a fundamentally different experience since the one that knows yourself best and experiences you is you and you have to remind yourself of that.
beautifully put.
Somebody linked the video & decided to say some stupid shit so I am posting some stuff below:
Nihilism:
The belief that life has no value.
Absurdism:
Nihilism but you can live on anyways.
Existentialism (or "optimistic nihilism"):
No inherent purpose but you carve your own.
FYI I haven't watched the video YET to see if the idiot was even on topic with what the video says.
Yeah no matter how many people try to argue against this, they're just throwing punches in the air
You really wanna live forever on this shitty planet? I think our lives are too short. 500 years would be enough, at that point you'd be like "fuck it, Im done".
Why would you want to live forever?? Every movie has to come to an end eventually
That's why you document your life some how social media etc you're life would have meaning to the people who watch your videos of your world travels etc and you can inspire others to do the same after you're gone.
Nothing matters it's all going to end into nothingness, only thing we are doing by creating more people is just continuing the illusion of life
@@FactsCountdown i know what can help, the way u can save yourself is to go to a Christian community, and dont let your thoughts stop u wich can be, religion is fake, god doesn't exist or people believe in religion only to get hope, there is a reason why there are more christian than atheist, muslims, hinduism and all the other ones, its because God exists and its a reality, U GOT NOTHNG TOO LOSE TRY IT, God changed my life so why can't God change yours, the minority religion called atheism is the worst religion, i got good news for u!, God is real and God is eternal and God loves u endless
On another hand, living for eternity might be pointless. It is the same as building sand castles. The waves of time will wash it all away. The more you live the less meaningful the first years of your life will become for you. The more things you do, the less valuable each of them becomes. As a result, you will forget most of what you did in your life due to it being so long. If you cannot remember most of it, where is the meaning? If you could remember, would you care for any of it? If you wouldn't. That, by definition would make it meaningless.
The title is wrong. Death is the only thing that gives life some meaning.
In a way, you are right - because life is only temporary and we only have one shot at it - that alone makes it meaningful.
But what if living forever could be a bad idea because we could end up overpopulating the earth
Think about overpopulation, earth's at somewhere around 8.3billion now. No one dies, we'd be extinct in 10yrs. Food and recourses are becoming scarce as it is, not forgetting about climate change.
It will end this pointless ride quicker then.
That's why COVID 19 is here
Man death is beautiful, why dou you want to live forever?
Living forever isn't all that appealing either. The body ages which means your brains and organs malfunctions. There's currently no way to solve the problem of aging, so living forever as a senile old man with failing organs is even a worse fate than living a happy short life.
Live as if youre about to die everyday
Converseley, Life makes death meaningless
living forever as a human hell no..
Living forever as a spirit with true freedom maybe
shut up kid
@@stonearecool2645 oh very sorry mature open minded adult atheist lol
@@johnsjourney4978 what's a spirit its just made up in peoples fantasy like everything
@@stonearecool2645 ok if you say so
If life and ,,meaning" is the only thing we can experience while being alive then there is no such thing as ,,erased actions" or ,, as if nothing ever existed" - these are only projections or concepts but ultimately not realistic experiences of non- experiences.
At the end everything fades away and nothing can't escape that
Yup!
Even black holes will eventually evaporate. Although it will takes quadrillions of years it will eventually happen.
Turn to God and live forever
Sorry, but I would hate to live forever. That would be hell.
Death is the ONLY thing certain in life. There won't ever be a way of having an eternal life. Even if someone does come up with a way to make that possible whoever chooses to live eternally in this world will end up so bored after doing/achieving everything that at the age of lets say 500,000 they'll end up choosing to go to the next life anyway.
Agree this life is just a street to the next one
wanting to leave a legacy is very egoic. your ego is an illusion
Even if its meaningless still wondering what caused everything or something from nothing, is nothing god? or was there always something before big bang. If we could have answered this maybe we could have a meaning after all but now I feel like it hasnt and just want to get over it because the only few things that can make me happy in this life arent in my hands to have or get.
Why Death Makes Life Meaningless. Exactly.
Each person is a cell colony...when you have children, they are an extension of your cell colony...you may die...but on a cellular level you are still alive in your children...so technically you have been alive for as long as humans have existed on earth and will continue to live as long as the earth can sustain life.
actually a few billionaires is silicon valley have actually found a way to solve this issue
Death is just another aspect of life you will go in.. you will live in another form ... you will know this reality and remember it... you will learn from this reality what you need to learn.. your energy will always desire to move forward .. you will want to BE ... what you do or didn’t do in this reality will become what you will be in another reality... think about the caterpillar and the butterfly.. did the caterpillar live a meaningless life ? Or did it evolve from a life that crawled ..to be a life that can fly
That could be hell for some people. Imagine dying and then coming back in another life being the same person u were in your tortorous previous life
The way the world is and it's getting expensive to live ! and the way people truly are myself included I know it's harsh but why would anybody would want to live forever in this world ! ! !
I think meaning and significance are closely related. And I believe you can achieve significance and meaning by making scientific discoveries or making the world a better place for the future generations. Yes it won't matter to you after your death, but it will matter to others and the history itself
Really excellent video - reflects my views accurately. It is interesting that Prof Robert Sapolsky states how he finds it "infuriating" that research shows the benefits of a religious belief, - given his atheism. However - to say that life is meaningless. It is for the bulk of us...but there are many who are working now, and have achieved major medical benefits in the past - for humankind. Their life has NOT been meaningless for the rest of us......
Is science gonna actually make us immortal I’m 19 rn
Hey depressed people. Technology will soon make us immortal.
In my opinion, life is meaningless due to the fact that we're all gonna die in the end, it doesn't matter how amazing or boring your life is, in the end, it all doesn't matter!!
Even if we lived forever, I dont see why I would wanna live unless I have the perfect life and perfect body and wouldnt have to work forever for it. Maybe even then it would get boring and I would probably go mad that I cant die.
Gurbetçi Türk-67 if u lived forever, you have endless opportunities to live life as however u choose
you're right, but imagine you live your life for 10000000000000000000000000000 years and still will live forever. that sounds as a prison life no escape at the end we would probably get bored and go crazy. A lot of persons above the age of 70 are already bored of life and just want to die.
Gurbetçi Türk-67 no man, they get bored and wanna die already because they're Old in the first place, when you're old you're weaker and etc.
If you're eternally in your youth , like in your prime years = 20s to 30s , it would be GREAT to live eternally!
yeah after a while should I complete Fallout for another 28753485436587 time or read every book again.
@@_greaterpoint_3729 they get bored because they have done everything here isn't enough stuff here to keep everything fresh
This is just one big long hallucination
You should make a video about how death makes your life valuable.
Eternal life? Do you want to see our sun destroy the earth , the stars burnout or then black holes evaporate, no thanks, I’d rather face nothing
8 billion people to live forever?
you should consider adding a bit of soft ambient music to your talks.
sometimes i would add my own soundtracks to videos that don't have their own. for this one i was using the soundtrack from stranger things
Eternal life is meaningless too
We're just small links in a chain. Our lives are individually meaningless but there's probably a greater meaning to our collective existence. Look at evolution and how it has led to humans creating AI and technology that could potentially change the fundamental nature of what the universe could possibly be. If this is the case then our purpose is simply procreation to keep the evolution going for a greater purpose. Therefore our lives do at least have some meaning in the intelligent grand design of life itself.
So I decide to believe there is another life after death and the problem of life being meaningless is solved, you can waste your life and not enjoy it by making yourself worrying about death or you can enjoy every minute of your life by considering there is another life even better than this life.
That's delusional thinking
However, living forever is like living for an eternity. Of course, since we are humans, we would suffer in an eternal life. As humans, it is impossible to live with satisfaction for eternity. Would you rather live with eternal suffering just for the sake of your life to be meaningful or live a temporary life? Humans do dislike both choices, but that's the reality.
Now for those who came across this video due to their fear of death, I will say that we fear death because we have become attached to our bodies and consciousness, but we have to face the truth that we are temporary beings. We have become attached to our bodies due to the 5 vices and fearing death prevents us from living properly in the present.
Living a temporary life is what makes every moment from it precious and in order to get rid of this fear of death, we should learn to be more humble and less egotistic. It doesn't matter how meaningless our lives are because we are apart of a grand design which we will never know if it exists for a purpose or not. (It would be impossible to try finding out why the universe was created) We are lucky enough to live in order to see what beauty this universe, the mother that brought us beings to exist, has created then we decompose back into small bits of this grand masterpiece like the stardusts we were before. Of course, due to our ego, we don't like to be very small parts of something huge but rather rise up above it forever, but, since the universe is unimaginatively huge and eternal, is there really a point? Of course, due to our ego, we don't like to let go of our lives which we've been too attached to for so long, but, since our lives are temporary, is there really a point? This is why I believe people need to be more humble and since you got a lot of time, it would be wise to develop on your humility so that you can live life to the fullest, die happy and pass your message to your family so that they will also die happy when the time comes for them, even when you're not there.
We are lucky enough to experience with nature, the stars, and the universe which we are apart of. There are a few flaws with what I said but I'm happy to at least attempt at helping others because going through a rough time with fearing death can be devastating (it's a normal thing, you're not alone) and I don't want people to be stuck with death anxiety for a significantly large amount of time of their lives. I want others to live their lives to the fullest and win victories against their fears and anxious thoughts in order to experience more of the universe's beauty which we are all apart of. We are all together on this and no thoughts will stop us from reaching our full potential and experience.
Although I agreed with this video I see a lot of repetition in it for explaining something so simple.
Summary: life is like an equation to which only the outcome matters. Since the outcome is death the equation by itself doesn't matter, and so is your life. The end.
What is the meaning of life?
What you meant to yourself, or what you meant to other people.
You seem to assume that it is only the former and not the latter.
Some people leave impressions on others that continue to affect the others even after they are dead. In that case, their meaning does extend past their death.
But it seems that you are talking only about the meaning of a person's life that the person himself.
You have difficulty expressing yourself in the video sometimes. You say that our lives only have meaning while we are alive, but then you say if we don't live for ever our lives don't have meaning at all. That's a contradiction. But I agree with your conclusions in the video.
Just because life itself is, as far as we know, pointless, doesnt mean you cant give your life a purpose while you are alive. They are very different things. This video is an extremely confused opinion to have.
This is kinda selfish. We are carried on in our offspring. Both spiritually and organically. Not only through our actions/impact but also our DNA.