Life isn't meaningless, the question is.
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- Опубликовано: 15 дек 2024
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22-year-old kid convinces himself he's discovered the meaning of life
Jokes aside, this video is two things: firstly, an attempt at explicating the perspective that developed in me in place of my nihilism once the latter ended, and secondly, a thought experiment about how the conversation would go if a human was able to ask the meaning of existence to existence itself.
The video took a long time to make, but the analogy of the tapestry gripped me, and I really wanted to do it justice. The most dangerous illnesses are the ones you don't know that you have, and I think nihilism has clung to my generation as a host without us even being aware of its presence. The consequences of that are already evident. So, I wanted to make a video to maybe counteract some of those undercurrents as much as possible for whoever the algorithm dishes it up to.
If you act as if you are seeing through everyone's eyes, just not all at once, in the same way you see through your own eyes, but not at all moments in time, then you realise how relevant you are, and it also provides the basis for a morality that holds water. I also happen to believe that it's ontologically true (Dr. Donald Hoffman has some good stuff on this from a scientific lens).
In my view, the more you act as if that is the case, the more meaningful life becomes, because its not life that's meaningless, it's the question; it can't all mean something else.
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Channel overview:
A few years ago, I was stuck in bed, hating the universe for subjecting me to the 'sick and twisted game of life' without my consent. I was pathetic.
It was only after I realized something very important that things began getting better... life didn't suck; I did.
In the absence of friction, my mind was conjuring its own, so life was hard, yes, but it didn't have to be. The suffering was unnecessary. After a few years of incremental progress, I'm having the time of my life. I've never been in better shape, my mind has never been sharper, I've never experienced so much happiness, and it's all rooted in a deep sense of meaning that was once absent.
I had to shake myself of lots of old beliefs and patterns to get to where I am, and I believe there are millions of other people who feel stuck and could learn from my mistakes. So that's why I'm starting this channel: to share some of the insights that formed the foundation of the psychological habitat I now occupy.
I don't know exactly how the channel will develop but I'm going to start by posting my raw ideas as that's the only thing I can consistently do at this point in time.
I hope it helps!
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"You're looking for a linear answer to a circular question" that part helped me
I'm there with you. That one made me balk. I balked. It was good for me
The circular answer is Jesus.
I'm amazed everyday because everything is connected to Jesus. The world and us was created by him, for him and through him. He is the first and the last, the ultimate source of power, energy, knowledge, truth…
Pain and suffering is all a root cause of sin which is a fancy word that means "missing the target" and it’s by disagreeing with God that the opposite of good entered the world. So by our sins we shall sow what we deserve: death. Not just physical death but a death of soul. Jesus is also the solution because he willfully offered his life as a living sacrifice to save us. He did the *works* everyone seeks to accomplish in this life. Religion wants to attain a state of "nirvana", peace, "enlightenment" or go to paradise with a list of do's and don’ts, when it’s simply not possible with the heart that we have. Don’t get me wrong, grandma's are kind and the Buddhist people are welcoming but in the depths of our hearts, we can do so much that this hole we all have has no limits. Only God can fill it.
What to do? Acknowledging our sins, believing in Jesus and his sacrifice to save us.
Read the book of John, it's one of the four books of the gospel, it just hit different.
His argument doesn't make sense fundamentally
It gives a stupidly circular answer to a linear question
He uses a somewhat socratic questioning method at the start to twist our terms and turn our question into a circular one
He even somewhat contradicts himself
And why should the tapestry even be considered good
It's all BS made to sound smart
But that's because it's not an entity that came up with this argument it's a human with human limitations and errors
No matter how hard you may try, most people can't make an undeniable argument for anything
@@Bananalord_error Then what is your take on the question?
@@schewpidchild my take is that the question itself can't really be answered by humans
And that the person who made this video is just saying ambiguous statements until the viewers apply the Barnum effect and find their own viewpoint
If we were to truly try and find an answer to the meaning of life/existence I doubt we would find it within our universe
What I'm trying to say is that I don't have an answer, but neither does the person who made the video
“Don’t ask a circular question just to look for a linear answer” is timeless and in itself a very powerful phrase.
Not everyday you find something that completely blows your mind and changes your perspective on reality. Good stuff.
I’ve watched this 3 times because of this same reason.
I had to immidiatly share this with everyone I know. This is a fascinating video and I am sad that it hasnt been watched more. People need to see this. Too many are living a pessimistic life, while believing thaz existence has no meaning. I want to help them realise that it isn't true. I want to show them this video and make them understand.
Well then you are not living my friend.
Life should completely blow your mind EVERY SINGLE DAY YOU WAKE UP. Now hurry up and get to it! Put all the bullshit behind you and LIVE GODDAMN IT!
@@rajindersangha729 Probably but life isn't that way, some days you stub your toe, some days you need to grind, some days your kid sticks a cup in the toilet and floods it so you need to spend all day fixing that. And somedays are good, and sometimes you find awesome gems like this video. I'm living, just being greatful for gems like this.
@@ScottPrice7 exactly! so you do find things everyday that blow your mind. Now I think you assumed a positive connection to my use of “BLOW YOUR MIND” there my friend you are mistaken GODDAM IT!
This has made me think of what i never have before. Beatifully produced video!
Thank you dude, I appreciate the donation too, that’s super kind of you 🫶
Yes and it made you give away $2 ! Wow great marketing content creators! And my view made them money too! Wow the meaning of life is talk shite on a RUclips video and make money for views 💴 and get rich
@@rajindersangha729can’t someone just want to express themselves and the way they do happens to also give them money? Can’t two things be true at the same time? And if it genuinely helps people and those people feel inclined to give something back, why do you feel the need to hate on that? I’m sorry if the video didn’t do anything for you or if you found it boring or pointless but I doubt bringing other people down is gonna change that for you and all it ends up doing is having a negative impact on others. I don’t mean to say you can’t be critical of the video, but at least try to do it in a way that is respectful of others and doesn’t take away from their experience is all I really mean. Hope things get better for you
@@royal_neptune What you have written in the first half of your comment is exactly what I wrote. I just happened to EXPRESS it in adverse currents to you, so my comment is valid as you seem to agree. I’m sorry if you feel that is hate and it had a negative impact on you.
You’re asking me to be critical in a way that YOU want. Unfortunately I can’t do this as it will be a violation of the way I EXPRESS myself.
I have no power to take away anything from anyones personal experience that’s all on them.
What things do you hope get better for me?
@rajindersangha729 that's an interesting take on the meaning of life. I'm interested in learning how you came to that idea
„But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing, and you were supposed to sing, or to dance while the music was being played.“ Alan Watts
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What???😂
"Life, as one looks at it, is in fact a celebration of itself. When you look out at night at the stars and you really wonder 'good god, what is all that about?' well, it's a firework display, and it's celebrating high holy day. That's whoopee. And the whole world is whoopee, it's a kind of exuberance.
Therefore the proper function of religion is diggingness. It's not seeking, not seeking anything. But in a way, Thanksgiving."
-Alan Watts, Trusting The Universe
My absolute favorite Alan Watts lecture always gives me what I need in life when I need it most. If I ever had faith in anything, it's that fact.
Eventually it all comes down to itself again. You're just a being experiencing the world. No matter if you are thankful, happy, angry or hateful. You can experience life however you wish to experience it. And this will be different for other beings. For us it could be happiness, for another it could be someone else's suffering. Even though it sounds weird this is what it is. Whatever you want to do or whatever meaning you create is what the world will be for you. And that counts for everything.
If you want to be famous, do it already
This is undoubtedly one of the best recommendations I’ve seen on RUclips in a long time! This video is absolutely beautiful and a must-watch for anyone feeling sad or depressed-it offers a powerful sense of hope. The thought experiment you’ve crafted here is simply brilliant, and I’m truly impressed. Understanding that we are all threads in the tapestry of the universe is a profound realization; the more happiness and fulfillment we bring into our lives, the more stunning and intricate that tapestry becomes. That my friend is pure art!
The answer to the meaning of life that you’ve presented is exceptional; it feels like the ultimate motivational quote that anyone could ever need. It boldly encourages us to live life on our own terms and to strive to be the best versions of ourselves, even when we face challenges and negativity. We shouldn’t be swayed by what the world dictates or the chaos surrounding us. Living life without regret and fear is what every human truly seeks, yet we often lose sight of this and become mired in our own foolishness and hatred, pointing fingers at others for our downfalls.
Perfection may not be attainable, but aspiring toward it is a goal worth pursuing. Congratulations on creating such a powerful video!
@@blasterixx1 wow. That’s it, that’s the comment I was hoping for. Thank you so much 🙏
No 'trailer' before the video and no commercial breaks.
Just pure artistry, substance and food for thought.
This is the RUclips I log in for.
Well, I got a midroll ad, and it terribly messed up the flow, a shame monetary value means more to them than enlightenment.
Ads at 9:00
@@St1ckY72beware any so-called enlightened individual who shares wisdom for personal gain
I had an ad shoved in there
FYI for folks replying I meant a sponsored commercial break from a partner edited into the video, not a RUclips ad. Not quite sure how those RUclips ads get added for certain views/viewers 🙃
The way you communicated your thoughts by a conversation between Human and Existence (who are also connected by a thread in the phenomenal art) is so freaking good. Been going through a nihilistic low for a while(I'm probably just depressed which enhances it) and this helped by offering a great perspective.
Really sucks being a nihilist, worst part is usually you don’t want to be one
@@fuzzybooger2053 nihilism = depression essentially. Both imply you've lost sight of what you're seeking. No one who has a clear goal and who is fulfilled in their daily life by what they do and the people they are surrounded by is a nihilist. They feel the purpose because they are living the purpose.
The 3 Choices of Meaning: None -> Nihilism, Self -> Solipsism, Shared -> Theism.
Nihilism has no pragmatic expression. Doing anything, even observing, requires valuing the action above others. It's the toddler equivalent of not counting above one even though stopping is then valued.
Solipism at its core is not believing other people are independent selves, but tend to be acted out by only following your feelings of what actions to take. They don't believe in anything objective.
Taking the leap to belief in the objective, that things exist independent of yourself, is the only way to have a conversation with anyone else. God is the centering meaning outside of yourself. It's not in a physical place or time and physical communication isn't guaranteed to convey meaning. Starting with the belief in the Objective and that the future will come, leads to the Objective Good, Beauty, and Truth. Observation of near perfection is evidence for perfection.
This is the video. There is so much more to life than we have been considering recently. Everything matters because nothing does. Everything is everything and nothing replaceable if you hold it deep.
Please Look Closer.
I think the question of meaning is a coping mechanism for a person that doesn't believe they can have a happy life. If I can't be happy, I at least want to know what I'm suffering for. If I can't even have that, then life is just pain. But if you could live happy, you wouldn't need to ask why. And if you could even die fulfilled, you wouldn't fear death either.
Yeasss ❤❤❤
I think you've missed the point. You are in control of your own tapestry; you can shape your own perspective, how you see the world, what you get from it.
If you're truly unhappy, what's stopping you from trying to improve your existence in that moment? Would those incremental improvements drastically change your life? Can you be happy if you start working for it?
It's all based on your circumstances and decisions. But they are YOURS, no one else's. Fundamentally being happy or unhappy is a choice. And the choice is yours.
@@TADMonty That was the point I was making; that rather than seek meaning in a painful life, you should make your life happy and avoid the question altogether. After all, giving meaning to your pain won't make you happy either, hence why the question of meaning is meaningless, as the video essay argues.
@@TADMonty haha thats a nice thought 🥰 but let me correct it a bit
Having any desires even if that desire is to attain happiness is going to make you unhappy!
As buddhist figured it out: "From craving springs grief, from craving springs fear; for him who is wholly free from craving, there is no grief, much less fear." (Dhammapada 216)
Craving (including the desire to change things) often leads to frustration, attachment, and ultimately suffering.
So your desire to change and control things is ultimately going to lead to suffering and you being unhappy 😊
What you should instead focus on doing is letting go! And not trying to hold on.
An important thing to point out is also that happiness comes naturally and is not based on anything. If you are free from suffering there is no other state for you to be in but to be happy 🥰❤️
And change in itself is not bad 😌 just the desire to change ...
Hope this helps ❤️❤️
@yuro-h7m just a small correction ☺️ you shouldn't "make" anything... just let things happen without controlling it ... the happiness comes naturally from that ❤️
@@1bertoncelj I don't know why I in some way agree on this, but I have a fundamently different approach. Desire can lead to suffering but often prevents it. I also think leaving all your desires behind would be a boring state. I think going in the direction of this state may be helpful, so maybe the whole point is to go in this direction slowly and firstly lose your desire to attain a state of no desires. Maybe attaining it through refusing desirable things for something you yourself value more and attaining desirable things you where scared of, or choose not to do since you didn't believe in yourself is the better way. The goals you are afraid of or don't try to achieve are mostly the important ones. Thought I am also a big fan of being able to let go and letting change come to me. But that change mostly comes in the form of new or changed desires. Maybe I just can't really picture a state without desires, since when I feel the most drained of desires, I in some way desire desires and comfort.
I don't know if my comment had any point but well that are my thoughts on this...
For almost 2 years I was following the cult of "Self Improvement", I dived into the content of Hamza, Andrew Tate, and other influencers. I don't want to be negative about them, but if you take this kind of content with a grain of salt it can be very beneficial for your life. I went from being just a normal teen to getting a job as a video editor and filmmaker. In just over a year, I transformed my life and became really proud of myself. But this year was different, I couldn't find the motivation and discipline to stick to the lifestyle I had imposed on myself. Then I found your channel, you gave me a whole new perspective on the topic of self-development and I finally understood why I recently felt like I was making no progress. I want to thank you man and I hope you're doing well! :)
@@vikilat559 you know you’re doing it all again! Searching for someone or something outside yourself to liberate you! To “self improve”
Now this is what it's about right here. Bill Hicks said it best, "Life's a ride". What helped get me here was "Consciousness and The Absolute" by Nisargadatta Maharaj.
So basically what I got from this is that to find a sense of meaning in life is to stop looking for it because you then miss the moment, the very experience containing the meaning. Definitely gotta rewatch this to make sure I fully understand it, but great video dude!
Your purpose is what you choose to make it. So, be!
@@PlagueGuy not really. Your mother smoked meth while you were in the womb, and gave birth to you with mental defects. You cannot speak properly, and you need assistance to function in society for you cannot on your own. Did they choose that?
@@PlagueGuy Its the easiest thing in the world for someone with all limbs and a perfectly functioning and developed mind to make such claims. But to all of those who dont....well. Seems a foolish claim then now doesnt it?
Exactly the opposite 😂
@@Имя-о9ъ Want to have an actual discourse or you just gonna be a bitch. Intellectual or Hateful....you choose.
Where were you all those years?!
I've been lost here with THE SAME QUESTIONS. It's like you did this video scanning MY questions and doing it just for me alone.
I needed this message for so long that I got to the same conclusion my self. Your work touched my heart, I am grateful to be with you in one thread.
Exurb1a vibes, great work 🫡
Fax
Now we have a place to go while waiting for hime to release a new video
I thought the same
Exurb takes atleast 6 months to upload 😂. It's a feat that he stays etched onto our minds that when he does return, we are awaiting his comeback with a warm welcome 😊
I had to double check to see if it was him
In the last few months I've been stopping, slowing down, and giving myself permission to just exist without letting the urge to constantly be doing Something, and it has been a transformative experience. I feel like I found a scrap of map when I've been wandering around with a damaged compass and nothing else my whole life. And ever since I started that process of slowing down, and opening myself to Listen to my inner voice... I've been finding exactly what I need to help me find my path, keep my footing and avoid pitfalls. I absolutely believe this is just the very start of my journey at learning how to navigate with this new paradigm, but it's absolutely a wonderful feeling, and this is one of those things that turned up at the right moment for me to be ready to receive it. Thank you fellow thread of the comos. 💜
Check out Sacred Geometry by Robert J Gilbert, He essentially found all the puzzle/map pieces and shows you how to access the energy of the universe through meditation.
This perfectly articulates my philosophy. You have somehow combined so many ways of explaining this nature of existence into one.
Almost like... A tapestry
someone called?
6:50 Seriously though, burnt toast IS its own emotion. When you see it, you feel the truth of it on every level.
Up there with burnt marshmallows. But like the opposite for some.
That "what's it all for?" part helped me a lot. When we ask that question we're looking for something outside of "it all". But "it all" is all that exists. So now it becomes obvious how little sense the question makes.
It's like asking find me a needle outside a haystack but as soon as it's discovered the haystack expands to contain the needle and now that needle is not outside and hence you're back where you started.
Or like alan watts used to say, it's like trying to touch the tip of your finger with the tip of that finger.
Marx said that "religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature" the search for meaning in alienation, the preventive measure of the unceasing spiral (positive feedback) of critique, "the critique of religion is the beginning of all critique".
"What is the meaning of life", answered by the church, it is granted by God as, in short: "Be good". God is arbiter of morality, our father and priest who teaches us poor, wretched and ignorant of the truth of what is.
There isn't any actual meaning, we want there to be because it makes suffering easier.
"Or like alan watts used to say, it's like trying to touch the tip of your finger with the tip of that finger."
What is the sound of one hand clapping?
@@spawel1 Except for the fact that we're not in mediaevil times, and we're not suffering most of the time.
Stagnating and doing the same things over and over, or maybe losing a relative few times throughout the life, but calling that "suffering" is a reach.
@@narrativeless404 This is only true for a minority of humanity.
@@spawel1 Unless you're talking about children in Africa, this is completely irrelevant.
I mean, most people have the capability to have a decent life experience, they just chose to live like shit and ruin the lives of others instead
I ended up on a similar conclusion a long time ago. All of existence is just a story, being told for the sake of itself, a tale. We ourselves are no different in substance than the characters that you would read in a book. The experiences of the characters in the book as we perceive them while reading that said book, are no different than our experiences as one reading our book would perceive them.
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I don’t really like art and the way he depicts the tapestry I don’t quite like so I think it’s better described to me as a tale so I agree with you🙃
"You are the universe experiencing itself"
SHUT UP
To some extent.
No you are a blob formed by coincidence but in your own little world you have your own little meanings
Hey @Sinkinthecat I agree with you when you say that we are tiny "coincidence blobs". And I also find it true to say that everyone can live in their own little world creating their own meaning. In a way that's actually quite beautiful.
But I think that living in such a way eventually leads to suffering. You are not separate from the universe. It's not like there is you and then there is everything else. You are a part of the universe, just like a star a rock or an animal.
Living with that in the back of the mind is extremely freeing and peaceful. At least it is for the little blob writing this.
Cute Cat btw🐱
It's the philosophy of advait vedanta. This philosophy is great.
It’s a roundabout way of questioning why anyone should continue existing. With purpose comes persistence, and with existence comes suffering, so one asks for purpose as to continue existing.
Everyone is “free” to their own answer, often identified as the culmination of a story or series of life events that led them to their arbitrary conclusion that they now hold gospel.
Important to the individual but unimportant to existence itself.
Saying we are “free” is one hell of an assumption
@ hence the quotation marks :)
The Tapestry, Faith vs UnFaith... What tasty concepts! Time for a rewatch or two 👌
@@TheMagicConch00 thanks! Watch time really helps the algorithm push the channel :)
@@AngeloSomers Is this just a conversation with an llm?
@ no lol I wrote it
Time for SCP 682 to eat those concepts for breakfast and obliterate all of creation with a fart
Hehe
@@AngeloSomers I knew it! 😏
8 year old me at 3 am having a conversation with myself:
Exactly! that's the point. You can't find something, if you don't even know what you're looking for
"Before I start, I must see my end." --DD1
It's possible, but difficult.
I don't usually comment when I'm watching a video but i really had the urge to comment and tell you that that ted talk was great. The answer's and the question's word choices was something i can tell that you made it poetric, judgemental, and philosophical at the same time. Kudos to you.
Man, those are the best videos I have seen in a while, thank you. I lost almost all hope and your really helped
the logical biases start to increase exponentially as you go into the video. but very well made video regardless.
Strings being woven, the happening of existence is painting the greatest painting ever made, and that is the point. Marvelous. One of the best things I've ever watched.
peak , I am really grateful to youtube for recommending me this masterpiece , the content , the editing , the presentation . Everything's perfect , definitely one of the best . You got a sub here !!
This lines up really well with some discoveries i had made prior to this video
I personally like to believe we are all one in the same, the same soul, just reincarnating over and over again to experience all there is to life
All it's ups, all it's downs, in every present in the past and future
All we are is our lens and our experience, they both change eachother
And when every life has been lived, every experience, completed
We become an embodiment of every single experience that has ever lived in our universe
A representation of every story told, of every flavor both imaginable and unimaginable
An answer that i think has satiated my existential curiosity, for one lifetime atleast
I have to say this video has changed my thought process about the meaning of life profoundly. I will watch this every day as a reminder. Incredibly talented work
@@VishalPatel-yt9ut thank you! And thank you for coming back to watch again that means a lot
This video was a wiff of what meditating and conversing with higher ideals feels like. You are the tapestry, you are the weaver, you are the universe experiencing itself yet you take minimum tools and limited perspective to try to understand meaning of "it all"
To me, it's about play. When we are children, we invent new games all the time. We suggest rules and we immerse ourselves into the play. The play exists for its own sake because it's fun, engaging and meaningful.
When we grow up, we keep doing this. When I hear a song, see a movie, read a book, play a video game, understand a mathematical theorem, consider an insightful philosophical viewpoint or learn about a scientific discovery, I engage in the play according to their rules and find enjoyment, catharsis or enlightenment in them. I do so because these things are beautiful and valuable in their own right, not because they're of divine origin, but because they're shards of something sublime that were somehow captured by other imperfect, mortal beings like myself.
Those who existential go through an existential journey, according to Nietzsche, go through three stages of development: The first is the camel, in which we simply toil because we're told to. The second is the lion where we become aware of the possibility of our self-liberation. The third is the child, where we truly understand that all life and the entirety of existence, despite all the horrible, unfair circumstances is fundamentally innocent. To be a child is to be truly free, because it lets you not only invent your own meaning, but to grant that invention true substance that elevates it above wishful thinking.
I like this approach!
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14:07 thats not logically correct, here is why: To conclude that the Laws of Physics are intelligent, you would need to demonstrate a direct causal or definitional link between intelligence and the Laws of Physics. But the premises here only establish that:
You possess intelligence.
You are governed by the Laws of Physics.
This does not imply that the Laws of Physics themselves possess intelligence. Instead, what this argument actually suggests is:
You are intelligent and you follow the Laws of Physics, which simply govern your behavior and the behavior of all matter.
The Laws of Physics do not gain attributes of entities (like you) that they govern; they remain neutral rules that dictate physical processes without "thinking" or "awareness."
Analogy to Clarify
Consider a similar argument:
Premise 1: "A cat is agile."
Premise 2: "A cat is subject to the Law of Gravity."
Conclusion: "The Law of Gravity is agile."
I do believe the premise of the statement was that we are a direct result of the laws of physics not that we are simply governed by it. The law of gravity did not only make the cat agile it made the cat able to be without gravity every bit of matter would just disperse.
So its not
Human=Intelligence, Human has to obey Physics therefore Physics=intelligent.
Its
Physics=Intelligence, therefore Intelligence=Physics
This seems logical to me or did I misunderstand your comment.
Also correct me if I'm wrong but we have yet to discover a single thing that falls outside of the laws of physics that we can observe, that isn't hypothetical.
I think it’s also important to define what exactly we mean by intelligence. Personally, i’d attribute it to a conscious will to live. DNA, or whatever is the driving force behind evolution and control, is intelligence.
The question i still ask however, and i don’t think is a stupid one, is where did that come from? Or has that always been here? The origin of a thing is a part of its nature, and is an important question to ask if you see to truly understand it. Not even using God as an answer truly satisfies that question, because then what created God? If it’s always been, or created itself, then why couldn’t that just be the case for the universe as we know it without “god” as a part of the equation?
If intelligence is synonymous with consciousness in this context, and "the laws of physics" are a stand in for the logic underpinning and dictating the interactions of the universe, I would argue that the laws of physics are intelligent. In the same way Adam's brain is intelligent (being that it only dictates the way his consciousness behaves), if fundamental logic dictates the way a universal consciousness behaves then those laws are the part that are intelligent. This is under the assumption that there exists a "weaver" as outlined in the video.
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intelligence is a construct created by the human mind.
even a construct is a construct also made up by the human mind.
the human mind follows the laws of physics, it is not able to break it, because it simply is physics, there is nothing to break.
the human mind is physics, the human mind created the construct of a construct that it called intelligence.
therefor physics created a construct of a construct that it called intelligence.
Everything is physics, therefor physics is everything, even "intelligence".
Oh my god.
I love Phycology, specifically questioning things that most people wouldn’t, and thinking about things in a diffrent way.
I love this video so much for that reason. I’ve only watched 5 minutes of it, and I’ve already decided it’s my favorite ever RUclips video (or at least one of them.) thank you so much for making this.
Life overall is meaningless without your consciousness giving it meaning. If you were born in a coma and spent the next 75 years in a coma the only meaning you'll have is the meaning that others chose to put on you but to you who has no conscious that meaning doesn't exist. We give nothing meaning, an empty shell a soul, a passion and a reason. So in my eyes we exist to give ourselves meaning and solely exist for said meaning
Have you watched the video?
@@MetrParno tbf it seems to be true to the video. He's saying that the meaning is subjective to humans, and altogether even if you believe that everything is meaningless, you'll have given meaning to your life by living your life as though its meaningless. All up to personal choice, like he said that some people give nothing (a corpse, "empty shell") a semblance of meaning by imagining their soul going somewhere, for whatever reason. The whole point of the video is that the concept of anything having any inherent "meaning" besides the existence of the thing itself isn't valuable. That isnt to say that this video, about that topic, can't make you think that everything does inherently have meaning because you see it positively.
This video was so so so good it was beautiful it was breathtaking. I am glad I found you in my thread to shape my tapestry ❤
This video is a perfect example of 1:45
One of the best videos i ever watched, please continue on making such high quality content
This was very well articulated. Several years ago I was doing a world-building project and was trying to build a religion from scratch. And after spending quite a long time reading up on all the oldest religions I could find and trying to imagine how a prehistoric person would interpret the world without any external prompting I came up with something quite similar. That every person is a collection of elemental forces that separate, returning to nature after death, and that in this con-religion we would all be merely hairs or cells on the body of Gaia, growing, dying, decaying and getting reabsorbed and growing again in a different form. But the interesting part to me was the concept of sin and where does evil come from. The only logical answer I could come up with was that Evil must happen when a creature forgets what it is, forgets that it is but a small part of a much larger body and starts behaving as if it is the only thing that matters and that it is separate from everything else. tl;dr your analogies of 'threads in a tapestry' and 'cancer cells' hit me as pretty spot on.
super sick idea for a religion. wanna start it?
Evil is an act of the ego. Great comment my man
"the assumption that life is worth living is the most importante assumption of all - as without it it becomes imposible to conclude otherwise"
Things are only worth what worth you assigned them
For real
That's the only thing that really matters
That's strange because since I was around 16 I have had the opposite philosophy. Life is not worth living. Any meaning you get out of this is definitely in your own head and most likely not the experience of anyone else, even the people going through it with you.
The people with the money and power to change things for the better can't because they are born into wealth and privileges to shield them from ever empathizing with people who struggle. The people who struggle do not have the means to not get through their situations on a daily basis and live miserable unhappy lives lying to themselves with religion that was forced on those same peoples ancestors to control them by the rich. And they still willfully go a long with their enslavement and try to find meaning in their pathetic lives.
I've been a people watcher all my life. This is the story of all humans, even the rich ones, even the ones who claim to be truly happy and blessed. They are simply ignorant of their suffering, which is measurable by someone who analyzed behavior all day.
@@BreakingGaia you’re not in conflict with the original comment. I think you misinterpreted it!
Being ignorant of your suffering subjectively means that you’re not suffering. In some cases it could be considered beneficial.
And a poor person could never empathise with a rich/privileged person. As they are too shielded from that experience.
Everyone has struggles, rich & poor.
You’ve been a people watcher but have you been watching yourself?
@rajindersangha729 of course I reflect on my own life and understanding. I am so far beyond what I thought about life at 16, now at 43. But the message is still the same. I still don't think life is worth living, the more life I live, the more reasons I have for this belief system. I realized very early in life that everything is a game of random chance and we have control over very little. Even our genetics work against our own self-determination. But humans still try their hardest to control as much as possible. Control animals, plants, resources, other humans. And the systems around us that we believe in are actually designed by very bad people for the sole purpose of control, not even money...rich people throughout history regularly bankrupt themselves to cling to control and power. And that's it, we are all stuck in a hierarchy created by ancestors long gone, but brainwashed just the same and working towards goals to benefit a few humans to the detriment of many. And they convinced enough people to go along with it and live in ignorance and call it being happy, joyful even.
I am a self-determining person who has had the creativity and aptitude to imagine how much better life and the world could be, with no power or resources to progress towards change. I've been boycotting companies since I was 16. I've been teaching anyone who would listen about unionizing. After the great recession, I pushed hard for anyone to stop shopping in their stores and work to bankrupt the conglomerates who extract all the wealth and resources from our communities while not paying us and having to subsidize our own prosperity with tax funding for social programs while they make record profits every quarter since I've been alive.
And I get to watch all this play out from one disaster to the next. Watching those ignorant happy people move us towards authoritarian theocracy has been a wild ride. Not being able to control the outcome is why it's not worth going through in the first place.
Funny that...religion told these dolts that suicide is against the rules. You MUST suffer in this life to get to the ultimate happiness of no suffering in the afterlife. How crazy of a grift it is to be told to wait for something you can never see in life and they never have to prove to anyone. As a matter of fact, what a lie it has been, even the rich now believe in their godly grandiosity when it was the grift of their ancestors.
Close enough, welcome back Exurb2a!
I see it this way from 11yo to 20yo looking for an answer ~ The mind which is us, is like a curious monkey and wants to learn, dissect, separate literally everything. But existence is infinite so its search for knowledge is never gonna end.
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And then when you the mind truly notices it you give up, give up your search and yourself, when you do it, you let go, as a consequence the bubbling thoughts which was thought to be someone, wears off and what stays is consciousness, in this moment the feeling is very peaceful and freeing, you leave the realm of thoughts behind and go to the realm of feelings, when you are there without any thoughts, you can notice you’re closer to the answer than when you’re in the realm of thoughts.
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And it’s hard to describe to the mind, unless that realm was experienced, that’s how far I was able to lose myself, I’m sure there’s an even further realm that I can’t even imagine as thought, maybe it’s so much info that we can’t comprehend or maybe it’s too little? The poor little monkey will never know, after all, the finite can only know the finite, and the infinite can only know the infinite, the moment infinite knows the finite it becomes finite vice versa. (Sorry for poor English)
A question that leaves you NowHere. Afterall, NoThing matters, and what does, is immaterial.
Great essay.
Amazing work of art.
Wow, thank you so much that’s super generous 🙏
Existence is because it exists. All things that exist now will not in the far future. You exist simply because you do. So yes it all ends. But right now. You matter to someone. You impact peoples lives. Your friends, family, co-workers. You impact them all. The meaning of your life? Who says there is one? The meaning to your life is what you decide to make it.
We are life. We're the meaning. We're the universe being, wearing masks to experience ourself. The meaning is to be. Like the tao, who we are and our existence will never be able to be described. We just are. We are .
"No 'why'. Just... 'here'." --Simone from "SIMOne"
😂🤣😂
If there is no meaning to it, then we might as well end it right here, right now. All of us. It's not worth it. If it'll all be nothing one day, why bother at all? For a few minutes, hours, years of feeling?
@@G-MAC-bv4pf what meaning could there be anyways? What would you take for an answer, because the answer by definition ends in nonsensical infinite regrets of whys, or a self sufficient answer, if theres a good whats the meaning behind that? Whats the point of obeying the rules of some God? What answer could give you anymore meaning than you have now or are you just looking for explanations that will make you feel better about suffering because there is none, it just is, looking for meaning is meaningless, a human concept
@@SunlightSentinel You *choose* not to look for meaning, thinking you're stable in the acceptance of "nothing matters." But it is deeper than that. *Why* do humans have elevated consciousness and sentience? Why are we able to create, think, feel, and choose? Why does anything exist at all? That's a question you cannot give up on by just closing your ears and turning your back, "there doesn't have to be an answer." It is the most profound question that has ever been asked by anyone. Saying there doesn't have to be a reason is giving up because you don't want to think about it or you don't want to lead yourself to believing in God.
And again, God isn't some big scary powerful tyrant. God is free will and sentience and the miracle of anything existing in the first place. That is what Christians truly worship and connect with.
Pure genius! 🌟 Already watched it twice to follow every single argument! It must have taken weeks to write this script!
I agree we are bad at asking questions. "What is the meaning of life" is a terrible question because it's phrased incorrectly. When you say "the" meaning of life, you're assuming there is only one answer that should fit everyone universally. You assume meaning is objective, but it is not. All meaning is subjective, and living beings are its only source. Every meaning you've ever heard can be traced back as a creation from the mind of a living thing, and all meaning exists only within the mind. We are what meaning emerges from in reality. All of it being created by us makes it subjective. This makes the original question incorrect. Imagine if I asked you, "What is the favorite color?" It would be impossible to answer. Not because there are no such things as favorite colors, but because you're phrasing a subjective question as if it's objective. There is no "the" favorite color. Now do this with the original question. Ask instead, "What is a meaning for my life?" If you don't have an answer, you can just create one. Everyone is going to have different meanings for their life, just as they have different favorite colors. We have to let go of the sort of main character mindset of your life being a creation of someone/something else's story. We are the only story writers around in the universe.
I appreciate your insights on this topic. The question "What is the meaning of life?" might seem indeed simply too objective. So a far more effective approach would be to ask "What is your meaning of life?" because it invites a personal and subjective response. While I align with your viewpoint, I also think it's important to recognize the larger implications that may be overlooked.
The question "What is the meaning of life?" might seem inferior because it’s broad and less personal, but that broadness is its strength. It invites exploration of universal truths, connections between all living things, and humanity's shared journey. By starting with the larger question, you naturally open the door to reflect on individual meaning within that bigger context. It’s not about choosing one over the other but recognizing how the broader question enriches personal reflection.
I've watched A LOT of similar videos, this absolutely stands out. Amazing work my friend, from the art to the music to your words, everything is perfect.
This reminds me almost verbatim of "THE WEAVER OF ODDS" by Louise Blackwick. It's a beautiful and epic fantasy book series where "Weavers" weave Threads of influence into the cosmic pattern of reality. The message of this video is so similar to the main theme of the series, I was half-expecting to see "The Weaver of Odds" referenced.
Awesome video, btw.
😭 omg, thank you, thank you! I was scrolling the comments, waiting for someone to make a reference to the Vivian Amberville series! This whole video is "As the Weaver, so is the Thread" all over again. Seriously underrated fantasy book series, a bit like this channel.
sorry for hijacking your comment, but holy s**t, I was also thinking of The Weaver of Odds!
tho I think it's more the second book, than the first, when we see the Tapestry of Reality, and meet the "Mother of Reality" and "The Father of History", and "The Dragon of Chaos". The convo between the two gave me such deep melancholia about the series as a whole. And this video was so beautifully-written, almost in the same vein as the philosophy of WoO.
Aymma see if I can link it to the author of the Vivian Amberville series (Louise Blackwick) and link it to her somehow. this is criminally underrated.
@@Shinigami_eyes-g8k I don't know how to contact the author but if you do, please link her this video.
@@jonathanprince2505 do it! :-D
@@Shinigami_eyes-g8k okay, so I did a thing. I was reading this thread, and just like y'all, I thought about The Weaver of Odds. So in a fit of I-don't-know-what-came-over-me, I went and signed up on the author's patron as a free member. Then I sent this video straight into her DMs.
I have extreme social anxiety and I'm a huge, huge, huge fan of Blackwick's books, so this was kinda never-wracking for me. TT_TT.
I hope y'all commenters are happy, and that this won't come with some negative kharma.
PS: I don't know whether this video was inspired by her books, btw, so I didn't say anything further. It could be inspired or it could be coincidence. But I sent it, and that's that, it's out of my hands. May she enjoy it.
Bravo. This was beautiful. I've been drowning in endless RUclips videos looking for something that truly gets it. This is one of the best uses of the platform I've ever seen. Instant sub bro.
I'll have to watch this at least 5 more times before I start to understand it but what I'll say for now is this...
Wow. Angelo this is incredible beyond description. I honestly think you've created a new art from. Dead serious. I can't describe the impact these videos have... thank you for what you do bro. Life changing concepts bro. You have something more than talent my dude. By the end of your life... or, your thread of existence... I think your name may sit alongside some of the greatest in history.
Thank you bro, not sure about that last bit hahah, however if it does come to be the case you’ll be the original day 1 supporter!
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i loved this so much, its so similar to the same conclusions ive made about life and the method through which youve conveyed the information (as in, an open dialogue between human and deity) is something ive wanted to use in a story for the longest time but couldnt find the inspiration
i just gotta restate how much i love this stuff, youre great and thank you for the amazing video
God danm Angelo this some deep sh!t. I love it, great work man.
Life gives you the experience of being only a momentary single thread in a beautiful ever changing tapestry. It is full of loneliness and suffering so that you may appreciate the full tapestry once your thread becomes untangled.
Not gonna lie you are the second person to have given such a beautiful explanation of "The Existence" after me that is 😅.
But all jokes aside I myself after coming at the same answer gave up on thinking about this. Because I still think that this isn't all, there must be something more to "Existence". But no matter how many times I try and think about it, I still come across the same answer.
Sooooooo, just like any other sane person I started living my life like a total idiot😅😂( In hopes of living my life to the Fullest)
I like the "Sunset rather than a tool" analogy the best. The meaning of my life isn't to do anything in particular, I'm here to observe. I've thought of it that way sometimes when I'm caught in a thinking storm, and it sometimes helps, sometimes doesn't.
It also helps to know that "The Tapestry" could not exist without any one of us. I'm not an accident, or mere chance. I was supposed to happen.
Just wanted to write down a few thoughts.
Thank you, Angelo.
Brother, i don't know if you know, but you summarised the whole of "BHAGWAD GITA" and cleared the mind fog of many wisdom-seekers. Videos like this, may not makes you completely satisfied with your existential understanding; but it surely makes people more attached to the so-called Tapestry and leads you more tightened towards your conscience-thread. I hope this video reach out to as many people as it can.Again, a very lovely video.
Yes just like in the BG a preacher who doesn’t practice what they preach (Krishna) the creator sets out to do what is said to be un-doable 😂
@@rajindersangha729 If you're just a hater, who doesn't know anything about ShriKrishna Ji. That's completely understandable. Keep doing only the things you're good at.
But if you genuinely believe on what you're saying. I would like for you to back up some evidence/proof of whatever you just said. Coz you either is lost or misguided.
Otherwise, Please shut up and stop spreading Misinformation.
@@manan025 you obviously are a follower of Hinduism and find criticism of the religion very offensive perhaps even personally feel responsible to defend it. That’s ok.
I also take it that you interpret the BG literally instead of figuratively and that all characters in the poetic verses as existent.
I invite you to read :
The Satanic Verses of Bhagavad-gita
by Kedar Joshi.
Tell me what you make of it.
PS. I only shut down bullshit that is spat up.
@@rajindersangha729I really tried reading this without bias but my God it's abysmal to read. Whenever it's convenient he will take literal translation and whenever not convenient will say "seems to be suggesting". So much thought but such little actual discussion, he tried his hardest to push back contextualization
Take 14 on references and tell me what you think about that paragraph. I think it completely negates all of kedars thought
@ “Take 14” what are you referring to? Please clarify.
The fact that we are capable of experiencing our unbelievably small weave in the tapestry is meaning enough to me and always has been. I’ve been introduced to this way of thinking before but never in such a beautiful way, thanks for the vid.
"Is the Universe sentient?"
Well, are you a part of the Universe? "Yes."
And wouldn't consider yourself sentient? "...yes"
Then yes. We are the sentience of the Universe. We are here to experience the Universe. We are the Universe's self-awareness. We don't remember what came before we became sentient, nor will we remember what happens once we're all gone. No one will be around to experience the heat death of the Universe, so that time will take forever and pass in an instant. We get to be alive and aware of this unique moment in time where the Universe can question the nature of itself. One day, long after our threads have rewoven thousands of times over, the Universe will return to its rest and carry on in its natural direction. We are sentient. Therefore, for the briefest of times, the Universe is too.
As a person with DID this is really cool when you start talking about being an experiencer I get to see so many different life’s and perspectives of things makes life a little easier and harder you don’t know who you are constantly but you understand people on a deeper level you just can relate or if you can’t your alter can it’s just something beautiful and chaotic
A wonderful dialogue to clearly show a shrouded path. Wonderful video. I like how it dips its toes into the fact that everyone is one because we are all the universe. I fell onto that realization 2 years ago. Very enlightened video.
Maybe a few times in my life have I related so deeply to someone's thoughts about a subject. Nice video.
Me: "what should I do?"
Universe: "There is no 'should'."
Just do/be
Me : “ what should I do?”
Universe: “ There is no should”
Me : what I do?
Universe : Take English lessons.
We are born, we live, we learn, we die, we repeat, then when the soul has learned everything it can from this plain, it moves to the next to learn more, and it continues like this until the soul becomes the creator. either standing alongside our original or becoming the original in an endless cycle. HOWEVER! if there are multiple universes, then becoming a creator alongside the original would make sense in my opinion.
You put into words what I have experienced in life as a whole and the same conclusions I came to after a few years of mushrooms and acid lol
close enough, welcome back exurb1a!
all jokes aside amazing video
.... the laws of physics thing kinda spoiled the whole thing for me. Kinda sidestepped the whole question.
The laws of physics lack personhood. They cannot be intelligent because they do not think in the first place. Which is the point Adam was getting at, isn't it. The laws of physics are not a substitue for God, because God (were one to exist) would be capable of conteplating the portrait being discussed. The laws of physics cannot be embodied that way, and so are not an answer to the topic being discussed. If we were to discuss the meaning of basketball, we could not say the laws of basketball are contemplating itself, because rhe laws do not exist. They are a description of the rules that are obeyed. Pointing out that there are players that exist within the rules wo can contemplate the existance of basketball dosen't grant the laws of basketball thr ability to contemplate themselves. Its a nonsequitor.
The point the video makes is that we, as conscious beings, are only able to exist through physics, like the physics in motion and in its most complex form (something like that). In my understanding of this video, god doesn’t have a personhood, it just is, without self consciousness, just consciousness about reality itself, just like the teachings of Buda or something like that. That is god at the same time that we are part of it
I argue that thought and conciousness is equivalent to the physical existance and constraint of the matter in our minds. How we feel about these thoughts are a result of our human disposition as a species that has undergone evolution - they are not nessasary for thought, and yet we value our disposition as something that defines personhood. A computer lacks these dispositions, and yet they still undergo internal processes that emulates how a mind processes sensory data.
The idea that god is equivalent to the universe itself is not infeasible, as the very disposition towards thought that manifests as what you call personhood is contradicted in the notion of many godly expressions, as God is not human.
For example, all living beings are adverse to death. Why? Because of evolution. Such a godly being has not undergone evolution, and therefore it wouldn't make sense to feel one way or another about death. This same argument can be applied to any and all feelings. When you strip away these dispositions, you get a computer, an existance defined by the laws of physics.
You've managed to explain, this video really touches the subject, I'm going through a spiritual awakening and dark night of the soul and it's the ego that demands answers, because it needs justification for all of the bad experiences that it experienced, and this is my biggest obstacle to feel fully enlightenment, my ego can't accept that as whole and complete and the universe "I" would botter to have "shitty" experiences " just because", "it got bored in the void at peace and nothingness". "I" can't feel attachment towards things, and I have no desires, but my ego can't accept being God and wanting and choosing to come here and last for eternity with infinity possibilities to endless "shitty experiences eternally" "just because it got boring having so much peace and bliss in heaven" this makes my ego want to cease existence in all levels, or at least never be human, be a bacteria or the vacuum forever, because it hates here and don't have attachments and identification with people around him that have normal lives and expects the ego to act accordingly and questions and try to interfere in this process the "I" is going through, the feeling of standing out, of being impossible to exist in this old environment and questions if would be possible to follow the rest of the body trajectory here when has no desires, no identifications, no fear of death or starving to death, family and society around him, "I" feel like I could only be and the ambience around me won't"allow" it and it makes me question "why", "why have this awakening/enlighment that "should" bring me peace and ease, feeling part of the all but in the end "I" got more separation and a challenge "to live and express it" in the ambience it is incerted in.
If a kid wants candy he wouldn’t ASK “why DO I want candy” or “why does candy taste good”. That’s because it’s a dumb question to ask. He can, in actuality eat whatever the hell he wants. There is nothing more real than his own perception of the candy, up to him to decide the taste.
In the same way, the meaning of your own existence is whatever the hell you want it to be. Really up to you to perceive what your life means. Maybe life is just as meaningless as some people without sense of taste think candy is stupid. In that case maybe the right choice for you is to not eat the candy anymore. (Or fix your tastebuds, which is what currently people force you to do)
The answer is because you perceive my existence. You could be insane and think I’m here even though I’m not, you trust your perception and the only reference point of reality is your perception of anything. How would you know you weren’t just insane and talking to empty air right now? Ppl will tell you, which is a reference frame that you yourself perceive, again. If no one told you you were insane, reality is just as real to you with different rules. Society is built around the fact that we as are actually autonomous and act according to what we want. Nothing matters other than that
Exactly! we all want to live majority of us won’t kill ourselves
i was being blown away metaphorically till i saw the burnt toast having its own category i got blown away from my chair physically
What’s the name of the song at 3:23?
thank you so much for creating this. This video has accurately described my understanding of reality and i've never been able to put it into words in a meaningful way. This video made me feel so loved, heard, and validated. It brought me to tears. Again, thank you.
The faith part was weird.
Threads in a tapestry, linear versus a tapestry
Perspective of a string
Blah blah
The insertion of an afterlife and artist seemed unnecessary and rooted in monotheidm
It's all unverifiable and unfalsifiable. No compelling reason to accept the claims while maintaining healthy skepticism. My best explanation is that he's anthropomorphizing existence itself. In other words, he's projecting the bias of the human egocentric perspective of sentient experience onto an imaginary universal experiencer.
For me, I’ve never needed to see myself as a part of a bigger picture, I need not be relevant to all of everything to see a point. Hell i need not a point. I’ve never really understood the argument of “there’s nothing I’m meant to be doing so I’ll do nothing” because doing nothing sucks and just because there’s nothing you’re meant to do doesn’t mean there’s nothing to do.
I rarely comment on videos. But this is the best video I have ever watched. I spent almost 3 months trying to ask myself the qustion of why are we here and reached the point of understanding that we are here for each other. I searched the past, the future and finally found the present. This video not only captures what I discovered but also puts it in a completely new perspective which has blown my mind away. 👏👏
This might be the most interesting RUclips video I have ever watched. I really enjoyed it. Good work.
Certainly contain some broad erroneous humancentric false conclusions and false causal assumptions.
Thank you, that's all this is. I admire your intellect.
I understand where you're coming from, but please understand that none of us know everything. That includes me, the man who made the video, you, and the other person above me.
Nothing but appreciation for just how amazing this is, I truly wish you the best in life
This video is nice, but it speaks truths in the beginning for the later allowance of romantic lies
Indeed, the video reads like a content creator conversing philosophy with an LLM and specifically asking for it to 'hallucinate' so as to generate narrative, for well - sensationalized content.
Content that 'could' have been produced in less than a work day easily given proper protocol and execution.
Exurb1a is this guy’s evil twin
Bro thought he's Exurb1a
This conversation was exactly what I log in youtube for
…one must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Duh duh duh duuu
Deep down inside I feel every word that what said in this marvel of a masterpiece... Thank you for creating and sharing this beauty with us!
I have been wandering through youtube for the past 5 years not being able to find anything worth watching until today, your video has opened my eyes and brightened my string
In the past and the future its easy to create answers. You contemplate past events and extrapolate meaning from what happened and you fathom the future and expect a certain meaning to occur.
But in the present all meaning vanishes into a potential. A potential to turn future into past. A potential to experience instead of reflect or predict. A potential that lies just outside of your reach from within. Its out there that you find meaning. Not in here.
The question "what is the meaning of existence?" Is a question that arose from past experiences and future expectations. It says absolutely nothing about what you will do in the now other than ask questions from within.
And when you do you can receuve answers from outside.
What happens when you receive a question from outside and are forced to derive an answer from within?
This is what you call "living in the moment" you go somewhere you do something you experience you react you act you become something and someone.
That is the meaning of life. It is to live.
This is amazing writing... ideas, values, simplification of concepts... it's astounding work both philosophically and pedagogically. Congratulations, my good sir, and thank you.
i’ve gone down a rabbit hole of learning about the different philosophies of existence and eventually did come to the conclusion it was pointless and it didn’t matter but this has opened my eyes and given me something new to think about.
Great video!
My conclusion is that the meaning of life is to live, as in to live fully. We are all existence (or God, if you prefer) experiencing itself in its infinite multitude. We are the cosmic consciousness manifesting itself through individual persons, so that it can look back upon itself. Through each of us reality becomes more conscious of itself, so we should experience our lives to the fullest. Each of us has an individual purpose, we each play a distinct role in the cosmic tapestry.
"youre so smart, that you are dump"
This helped me understand so much more than anything else I ever heard or read.
I thought I understood the buddhist concept of "everything is one/anything is everything"; how even the smallest thing is connected to the whole universe in it's unique (or not so unique) way. How everything is one.
But to have this one-ness in a perspective not just intertwined by and throughout space, correlation and existence itself but also have time this deeply connected to it, really opened my mind in a way I can't even describe.
Not only is everything one, but any single thing at any point in time is the culmination of everything at every point in time in that single moment. It's all that came before it being woven together in a singular point and it's everything that comes after it spreading from that one point. The present moment is just a singular point connecting infinity before and after.
I am the product of everything that came before me. Everything after me is the product of this moment. Everything in this moment is connected through present, past and future. Everything is me and I am everything.
Truly gives live a whole new beauty and meaning.
This is literally my view on things, I always wanted to share it. But I couldn’t explain it, thank you very much.
This video deserves an award.
This is absolutely fantastic! Bloody well done sir!!!
What an absolutely amazing 17 minutes of my life. to be a spectator to this amazing conversation was surreal, how you were able to communicate yourself through two entities was beautiful and thank you for expanding my brain
Quite possibly the most underrated video there will ever be on the entirety of RUclips. I dont think any amount of views can do this video justice. I guess all I can do is thank you for making this video.
Dude you're enlightened me to be having this conversation with myself at night like 3 years ago and trying to explain it to people and they don't understand what I'm talking about at all and then I see this
This really helped me feel like I can begin to let go of my anxiety, thank you.
"If what you do now will be irrelevant a million years from now then why should a million years from now be relevant to what you do today?" Wow. I had to pause the video just to think this over. I won't forget this years from now.
Really great video. Really fascinating and even and fair. You got to the core of things without being partisan. Hard to do. There is a lot in the air right now concerning spirituality and Western civilization as a whole is grasping around trying to find a new spirituality. You can feel it. I think this is a really solid step in the right direction.
Rewatch the video then again because he was definitely picking a side.
There has been too many sleepless nights ive had thinking on this question, this brought much guidance and ease of mind to me, thanks you