Christopher: I want to thank you for the work you do on this YT channel. I really love your videos, particularly on Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer is one of those rare souls who I feel a strong kinship with, and it's often that I hear something from him that reminds me of the direction my mind should best take. This video is a perfect example of such. I've taken way too much of an unwise burden on myself to shine a lantern in the darkness for other people - but the world, being completely mad as it is, doesn't want to hear it. In other words, I'm taking the truth, and the stupidity of people, too seriously. Well, now I'm arranging things to live an ascetic's life when my current lease runs out in May, and I think "denial of the Will" will be the primary focus of my life for the foreseeable future. I think Schopenhauer is right about this and it's time for me to, well, get serious about it.
I also find that people who have no problem accepting and admitting their faults also have the ability to laugh at themselves. They don't take themselves too seriously.
Reflection is key. Anyone who is unable to be objective about their failings, faults, and failures is an obvious narcissistic megalomaniac. Obvious examples of those are folks like Chump, 3lon, Bezoz, Zuck, Gatez, XiXiPi, Puton, KJU, KK, LH, Eyegurr, and other hyper-wealthy individuals. From their perspectives, they have NEVER made any mistakes, and their sheepish followers echo such blind beliefs. It's actually both embarrassing and yet intriguing because it constantly re-verifies the Dunning-Kruger phenomenon.
one recipe for happiness is to consider/name yourself ugly, pathetic, useless, jerk, looser, etc. this kills the ego and you feel great freedom that more awesome than love. just let yourself be nothing. when you feel any tension just remember that you are nothing and don't have to deliver success, perfection, etc, that mess and failure is a part of pathetic you. but don't forget to treat other people the same.
@ kendrick ... yup, only narcissistic megalomaniacs can't admit when they've made legitimate mistakes and explain what they learned from those errors. Instead, they will *always* claim that they're essentially perfect without actually stating "I'm perfect", lol.
Those who serve the Will not only degrade themselves, but cause suffering to others ! Being held captive by the Will is a double edged sword.. The Will harms its subject, and through his egoism, the whole world !
Extinction of will is the end of suffering. What suffering is is the gap between your will and reality, but if the will goes extinct, there's no more gap there at all. To think "too little will is to become irrelevant" is just a statement that comes from the will. Of course it's going to think something like that. Intellect comes in and notices that you're already irrelevant, so this consideration is itself null.
I know I will never get an answer but here it goes: When you use the word will do you mean a personal will or an irrational world force WILL? Instead of just reading, you need to define your terms, especially will when it comes to Schopenhaur.
Christopher do you think if nothing matters Nietzsche constant struggle to overcome with the Ego is proven to be a waste of time as Schopenhauer thinks.
nothing matters unless you are responsible for someone else, most notably your kids whom you brought onto this world without their consent, that matters. if you have no kids, sure, you're a fool if you care what happens or deluding yourself, just ride the tiger baby
*Time is the only resource.* Decide what it is that YOU want to do, and get to work. And yes, even if what you decide is to "do nothing of import" or "to do nothing at all because nothing matters" is totally your own decision. However, when you make an objective analysis of what mankind has achieved over thousands of years, it's undeniable that it is indeed "more than nothing". :) Doesn't even mean that it's all 100% awesome, good, ethical, or just, but certainly greater than zero.
Humanity is done exactly nothing important. We've developed better technology, but who cares? People are as miserable as ever, as under the heel of the Will as ever, and there's absolutely no end in sight. All technology has done is serve the Will but has not made a single step toward extinguishing it or denying it. The world is just a play or movie for the Will and that's all it'll continue to be.
Hi Dr. Anadale! I wanted to ask if you had uploaded your review of chapters 6-12 of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. I haven't been able to see the videos on your channel. Thank you.
@@ChristopherAnadale I know I'd appreciate it greatly! I love watching your review of the chapter after reading it. Its been a great help in my Biology Masters program focusing on the book.
I don't really agree with the separation of the will and intellect like this. Will as drive to live comes first and intellect second. When one is on purpose, excited and motivated, in love, winning the intellect sees life as meaningful and worthwhile. When one is lacking in Will ie bored, sick, in mourning, depressed, etc that is when the intellect sees life as meaningless and vain and absurd. Thought is a result not a cause. In fact when one is 'in the flow' one doesn't think at all and only reflects on the experience after.
I agree, but I would add that when Will is waning, the intellect can step in and put things into perspective. It can remind us to keep putting one foot in front of the other because "this too shall pass" and the flow state can return. Conversely, the intellect can regulate the euphoria of the flow state by fostering a certain Zen detachment: get absorbed in the process, but don't become obsessed with the results. It's not as black-and-white as Schopenhauer would suggest.
@@johnzielinski9951 Thanks for your reply. I get what you're saying I'm a bit confused about the definition of 'Will'. Today's world it has association with 'will power' and 'ego' and here it's being discussed as opposite to intellect ie emotion or the id. I haven't read the two volumes yet( The world as will and...) maybe it'll become clear then. Thumbs up to Chris and a great channel though.
It's become a cesspool of radical politics. X is the same but at least on X it's radical politics from both sides. On neither platform can you escape braindead political takes just being shoved in your face. It's so obnoxious.
Oh for real. Reddit and X are both intolerable because it's wall to wall radical politics. At least on X you get both sides but Reddit doesn't even have that going for it.
Ya, no kidding. Reddit and X both have become hotbeds for every lowbrow, radical political take under the sun. No matter how much I try to train the algorithm to stop showing me the swine trampling pearls or anything else, it won't stop throwing it in my face. At least with X you get both sides of the radical politics, but with Reddit it's all heavily on one side.
I'd challenge pessimists of this persuasion -- that "nothing matters" -- to put their hand on a hot stove. Their reaction reveals their intense caring, that is, that things matter to them. To the extent one gets alienated from these kinds of simple truths via the intellect, to the extent one fails to realize and appreciate the desperate way they indeed do care about their life, their body, their emotions ... he or she is engaged in intellectualizing in abstraction ad absurdum far more than they are describing existence accurately. Beware when your philosophy is a defense mechanism for the difficulties of being. We care deeply about what happens to us, even when we deny this, even to the point of suicide, we are still acting to defend how much we care. Suicide is the result of intense caring about what is happening to/in us. "I don't care" might be voiced, but the deeper truth is "I care desperately but I am in so much pain or so numbed (again because it matters) that I will do anything to escape it."
I don't see how this challenges what Schopenhauer is saying. In that moment the Will's desire to live takes a strong forefront. This is exactly what Schopenhauer is saying.
@@saintsword23 Then how is that a vanity of existence or "nothing matters?" It seems more like a vanity of philosophizing and intellectualizing, while living life itself matters deeply to us.
@ It's vanity because putting emotional energy into anything will always lead to suffering. Either you: 1. Don't get what you want and suffer from that. 2. You do get what you want. Then either: a. You go through a short period of feeling great about it, but have to suffer the inevitable loss of that feeling. And then when that feeling subsides you feel bored until you pick up a new task to struggle with. b. You don't feel great about it - ie, you're disappointed. So you suffer from that. But then you also feel bored until you pick up a new task. At no point do you get a permanent, lasting feeling of satisfaction. Life is always dissatisfying. The solution to the problem isn't to just say "Nothing matters," that's a sort of naive pessimism that doesn't help, and it's, as you point out, dishonest as we experience the fact that we do care about a lot of things. Intellectual recognition of this issue is only a first step. It's a really big first step, as points to the way out. The way out is to condition the will to calm down. You can't just decide to stop caring one day - it takes a lot of practice and working through one's conditioning. This is the ascetic practice.
How much is missing hair from the other half of the universe for instance if you had to have sex in order to survive and then you survived childbirth and blood for 6 weeks and milk came from you and not understanding a whole other half of life here that he doesn't seem to be involved in or have any compassion for he walked away like the mama's boy he probably was
It's a good point. Schopenhauer had very little good to say about women, and never married himself. His philosophy is of the glass-half-full lone male wolf.
Christopher: I want to thank you for the work you do on this YT channel. I really love your videos, particularly on Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer is one of those rare souls who I feel a strong kinship with, and it's often that I hear something from him that reminds me of the direction my mind should best take. This video is a perfect example of such. I've taken way too much of an unwise burden on myself to shine a lantern in the darkness for other people - but the world, being completely mad as it is, doesn't want to hear it. In other words, I'm taking the truth, and the stupidity of people, too seriously. Well, now I'm arranging things to live an ascetic's life when my current lease runs out in May, and I think "denial of the Will" will be the primary focus of my life for the foreseeable future. I think Schopenhauer is right about this and it's time for me to, well, get serious about it.
You are welcome, and I appreciate your generous comment. I hope you find peace in the ascetic life. Will remember you in our prayers.
@@ChristopherAnadale no thing = every thing
Loving the newfound incorporation of silly memes, somehow they are all apropos
lol yeah it's funny, I'm always surprised when he mentions a meme
That stuff is always annoying and insulting.
I also find that people who have no problem accepting and admitting their faults also have the ability to laugh at themselves. They don't take themselves too seriously.
Reflection is key. Anyone who is unable to be objective about their failings, faults, and failures is an obvious narcissistic megalomaniac. Obvious examples of those are folks like Chump, 3lon, Bezoz, Zuck, Gatez, XiXiPi, Puton, KJU, KK, LH, Eyegurr, and other hyper-wealthy individuals. From their perspectives, they have NEVER made any mistakes, and their sheepish followers echo such blind beliefs. It's actually both embarrassing and yet intriguing because it constantly re-verifies the Dunning-Kruger phenomenon.
one recipe for happiness is to consider/name yourself ugly, pathetic, useless, jerk, looser, etc. this kills the ego and you feel great freedom that more awesome than love. just let yourself be nothing. when you feel any tension just remember that you are nothing and don't have to deliver success, perfection, etc, that mess and failure is a part of pathetic you. but don't forget to treat other people the same.
@ kendrick ... yup, only narcissistic megalomaniacs can't admit when they've made legitimate mistakes and explain what they learned from those errors. Instead, they will *always* claim that they're essentially perfect without actually stating "I'm perfect", lol.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat like Trump
Thank you ever so much!
Those who serve the Will not only degrade themselves, but cause suffering to others ! Being held captive by the Will is a double edged sword.. The Will harms its subject, and through his egoism, the whole world !
I think the goal should be to live in moderation. Too much will burns the candle at both ends while too little is to become irrelevant.
Extinction of will is the end of suffering. What suffering is is the gap between your will and reality, but if the will goes extinct, there's no more gap there at all. To think "too little will is to become irrelevant" is just a statement that comes from the will. Of course it's going to think something like that. Intellect comes in and notices that you're already irrelevant, so this consideration is itself null.
Ask someone with a fresh batch of cookies what matters.
Yes. That was my mom, less than 48 hours ago. Now I have the cookies!
Nothing matters except when it does.
I know I will never get an answer but here it goes: When you use the word will do you mean a personal will or an irrational world force WILL? Instead of just reading, you need to define your terms, especially will when it comes to Schopenhaur.
The latter.
@@ChristopherAnadale I don't think you need to do anything Christopher. But I think I need to thank you for making these videos, much appreciated.
Can't it be both?
Christopher do you think if nothing matters Nietzsche constant struggle to overcome with the Ego is proven to be a waste of time as Schopenhauer thinks.
nothing matters unless you are responsible for someone else, most notably your kids whom you brought onto this world without their consent, that matters.
if you have no kids, sure, you're a fool if you care what happens or deluding yourself, just ride the tiger baby
*Time is the only resource.* Decide what it is that YOU want to do, and get to work. And yes, even if what you decide is to "do nothing of import" or "to do nothing at all because nothing matters" is totally your own decision. However, when you make an objective analysis of what mankind has achieved over thousands of years, it's undeniable that it is indeed "more than nothing". :) Doesn't even mean that it's all 100% awesome, good, ethical, or just, but certainly greater than zero.
Life is payed for by death.
@ Guess ... Pay Charon's fare to cross the River Styx, yes. To a point. But there is more beyond the void veil if you look hard enough.
@@GuessWhoGamesAnd in death we properly dream.
Humanity is done exactly nothing important. We've developed better technology, but who cares? People are as miserable as ever, as under the heel of the Will as ever, and there's absolutely no end in sight. All technology has done is serve the Will but has not made a single step toward extinguishing it or denying it. The world is just a play or movie for the Will and that's all it'll continue to be.
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10:15 reminds me of what Hitler said about his lack of love and familial life.. his only love is Germany, to which he is dedicated
Hi Dr. Anadale!
I wanted to ask if you had uploaded your review of chapters 6-12 of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. I haven't been able to see the videos on your channel. Thank you.
No, I only made videos about Ch 1-5 and 13-14. Do you think I should try to do videos for the other chapters?
@@ChristopherAnadale
I know I'd appreciate it greatly! I love watching your review of the chapter after reading it. Its been a great help in my Biology Masters program focusing on the book.
[18] is convoluted
I don't really agree with the separation of the will and intellect like this. Will as drive to live comes first and intellect second. When one is on purpose, excited and motivated, in love, winning the intellect sees life as meaningful and worthwhile. When one is lacking in Will ie bored, sick, in mourning, depressed, etc that is when the intellect sees life as meaningless and vain and absurd. Thought is a result not a cause. In fact when one is 'in the flow' one doesn't think at all and only reflects on the experience after.
I agree, but I would add that when Will is waning, the intellect can step in and put things into perspective. It can remind us to keep putting one foot in front of the other because "this too shall pass" and the flow state can return. Conversely, the intellect can regulate the euphoria of the flow state by fostering a certain Zen detachment: get absorbed in the process, but don't become obsessed with the results. It's not as black-and-white as Schopenhauer would suggest.
@@johnzielinski9951 Thanks for your reply. I get what you're saying I'm a bit confused about the definition of 'Will'. Today's world it has association with 'will power' and 'ego' and here it's being discussed as opposite to intellect ie emotion or the id. I haven't read the two volumes yet( The world as will and...) maybe it'll become clear then. Thumbs up to Chris and a great channel though.
You'll be a lot happier in life if you NEVER go on reddit again.
Truer words were never spoken.
It's become a cesspool of radical politics. X is the same but at least on X it's radical politics from both sides. On neither platform can you escape braindead political takes just being shoved in your face. It's so obnoxious.
Oh for real. Reddit and X are both intolerable because it's wall to wall radical politics. At least on X you get both sides but Reddit doesn't even have that going for it.
Ya, no kidding. Reddit and X both have become hotbeds for every lowbrow, radical political take under the sun. No matter how much I try to train the algorithm to stop showing me the swine trampling pearls or anything else, it won't stop throwing it in my face. At least with X you get both sides of the radical politics, but with Reddit it's all heavily on one side.
I'd challenge pessimists of this persuasion -- that "nothing matters" -- to put their hand on a hot stove. Their reaction reveals their intense caring, that is, that things matter to them. To the extent one gets alienated from these kinds of simple truths via the intellect, to the extent one fails to realize and appreciate the desperate way they indeed do care about their life, their body, their emotions ... he or she is engaged in intellectualizing in abstraction ad absurdum far more than they are describing existence accurately. Beware when your philosophy is a defense mechanism for the difficulties of being. We care deeply about what happens to us, even when we deny this, even to the point of suicide, we are still acting to defend how much we care. Suicide is the result of intense caring about what is happening to/in us. "I don't care" might be voiced, but the deeper truth is "I care desperately but I am in so much pain or so numbed (again because it matters) that I will do anything to escape it."
Pessi Mists stay FAR away from YOU! Sadist!
Well said.
I don't see how this challenges what Schopenhauer is saying. In that moment the Will's desire to live takes a strong forefront. This is exactly what Schopenhauer is saying.
@@saintsword23 Then how is that a vanity of existence or "nothing matters?" It seems more like a vanity of philosophizing and intellectualizing, while living life itself matters deeply to us.
@ It's vanity because putting emotional energy into anything will always lead to suffering. Either you:
1. Don't get what you want and suffer from that.
2. You do get what you want. Then either:
a. You go through a short period of feeling great about it, but have to suffer the inevitable loss of that feeling. And then when that feeling subsides you feel bored until you pick up a new task to struggle with.
b. You don't feel great about it - ie, you're disappointed. So you suffer from that. But then you also feel bored until you pick up a new task.
At no point do you get a permanent, lasting feeling of satisfaction. Life is always dissatisfying. The solution to the problem isn't to just say "Nothing matters," that's a sort of naive pessimism that doesn't help, and it's, as you point out, dishonest as we experience the fact that we do care about a lot of things.
Intellectual recognition of this issue is only a first step. It's a really big first step, as points to the way out. The way out is to condition the will to calm down. You can't just decide to stop caring one day - it takes a lot of practice and working through one's conditioning. This is the ascetic practice.
Can you read Carol Gilligan for us
Stigmatism
How much is missing hair from the other half of the universe for instance if you had to have sex in order to survive and then you survived childbirth and blood for 6 weeks and milk came from you and not understanding a whole other half of life here that he doesn't seem to be involved in or have any compassion for he walked away like the mama's boy he probably was
It's a good point. Schopenhauer had very little good to say about women, and never married himself. His philosophy is of the glass-half-full lone male wolf.
Rick Sanchez?
Didn’t Metallica say this?
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