Holy fuck. This is my new favorite comment of all time. That one dude from the RUclips short with the barracuda will be pissed (it was really good) but he's been overthrown
The more you talk about death the less it bothers you, not gonna say I don't mind ceasing to exist but I used to not want to hear about it at all, now it is what it is
Nah now you just gotta bring your own existencial dread whenever you look at a clock, and you can share it with friends "every second that passes I feel myself slowly declining into ever torturing madness" and such
Me: Oh I wonder what the time is. Sundial: As sure as time marches on, you & your loved ones will perish, crumble to dust and eventually to nothing. Your achievements few will be long forgotten and even humanity and the largest mountains will have no meaning. Heat death trudges closer by each second. Also it's 11:45am
@@dc56789 all good food cometh to an end. be sure your pasta will have had a past, worth devouring on and have good memories on it in all other cases, do what we Germans do, when nothing works out 'al dente' (time again) in the kitchen: we simply ketch up
Pretty sure that I've read that exact comment before... A coinkydink? Perhaps, or mayhaps it was because you too had come across said same sentence and either forgot about it and yet kept it in your subconscious mind, or saved it for when you thought that other people had.
Here's my sun dial poem on heat death: "Shadows pass as stars shine. Though, in time, their warmth resigns. Take not for granted the light we share for darkness is waiting without care." Enjoy your time in the light, friends.
@@MrAwawe it means we all die, but at different times, and every day people die while the rest of us live. So any day now, your time could come while the rest of the world keeps spinning. It’s quite literally just another one of our hours, but this is your *last* hour.
The second one literally says: "While looking at the hour it is, think about death and stand ready. Don't count on the first because it all depends on the last."
Normal clocks: *doing normal clock things like telling the time* Sundials: *having the coldest, most existential descriptions that have ever been put together by man* *it also tells time*
@@no-lifenoah7861 well then I'll think of myself however I want to. Especially when it has truth to it. It's definitely not wrong to think of our existence that way.
Writings on sundails seems like it was one of the trendy things to do back then. Like live, laugh, love of that era except they remind you of death lol.
“Do it like a sundial, only count the nice hours.“ It rhymes in German and is a very popular thing to put on a sundial. I guess our fairytales give you the existential dread you need early on?
Go for it. Those proverb are only heavy if you try to lift them. But if you make them your ground, it's pretty stable and comforting. Death : "i got you bro 😘"
"Do not squander time. That is the stuff life is made of." This is a quote of Benjamin Franklin and appears on the sundial at Twelve Oaks in the movie Gone With the Wind.
Hey man do you have the time? "Why would anyone need to know? Death marches onwards regardless. The hands on the clock offer naught but the constant reminder of how frail man truly is. We will all return to dust." Oh dang, I missed the MacDonalds breakfast menu, they should make it always available haha
My parents have a small sundial. Almost certainly a mass-produced one. “Walk hand in hand with me, the best is yet to be.” Aw, that’s such a nice and touching thing to say and there’s the grim reaper…
"EINE VON DIESEN" "ONE OF THESE" There's a cemetery in Germany (the biggest Cetary in Europe) and its entrance buildings clock says this. It means "one of these", as in, "one of these 12 hours will eventually be your last one"
it's not a good development to have people thinking that anything related to the realities of human existence, is somehow "edgy" or "emo". then again it may just be a way to feel like you're above that, to write them off as "edgelords" so you don't have to think about it and turn it into something less heavy
Technology has improved so much. imagine being born in a world with nothing just trees and animals and it’s genuinely amazing how humanity has come so far, from just trees and animals to moving mechanisms like cars, buses, planes and to advanced communication like phones and pcs which allow you to communicate to people on the other side of the earth. I am only impressed with how technology has improved so much.
"Insensibly, without feeling, life is aging" Sigh so impressively evocative. If there was ever a way to feel time, this seems to evoke the clearest sense of it.
People got relatively relieved with “Go about your business”, but they don’t seem to notice what’s implied: “because you don’t have much longer than this”.
I need this in my life to counteract the mind-numbing apps that actively help me to lose track of time... It's hilarious how much I love sundials but didn't know about their history of quotes, I guess it's because I've only run into the 100 year old, relatively young sundials in North America.
I mean, some of the Central American temples (which imo is still part of North America) has anywhere from centuries to millenia old kinda' sun calendars.
I just want a sundial inscribed with, "Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
Cheeseburgers are made of beef, which are made from cows. It also contains cheese, which comes from their milk. It's neatly-or in McDonald's case, sloppily-sandwiched in between two pieces of bread, made from wheat, a type of grass, which cows eat. Each time you look at a cheeseburger, you are looking at a life, what it has given, and what gives it life, which is pretty much no different from looking at people and their actions. But how many cheeseburgers made you think that way? How many cows did you mourn right before eating them in cheeseburger form? We are the cows, slowly being eaten by time. Time doesn't care who we are, what gave us life, or what we have given; it simply chews all of us steadily and equally into oblivion. Have a nice day!
Imagine there's a sun dial that's based on love that says " *As the hours pass, I will let you know, that I need to ask before I'm alone, how it feels to rest on your patient lips, to eternal bliss, I'm so glad to know.* "
"On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood! What was will be! What is will be no more! Now is the season of evil!" -V.Sauce, I mean Vigo 😆 🤣
"Hey, sundial, do you have the time?"
"Do you?"
💀
@@raulperez375 literally
😂
Took me a full minute to understand this joke
Holy fuck. This is my new favorite comment of all time. That one dude from the RUclips short with the barracuda will be pissed (it was really good) but he's been overthrown
The mood in vsauce videos switches up real fast lol
Mental whiplash
sundials are so cool! this one says "death comes to all of us equally. thus are we truly unique?"
It’s brilliant, like a well written song
He took unnatural/choppy segways/transitions and made them completely normal.
The more you talk about death the less it bothers you, not gonna say I don't mind ceasing to exist but I used to not want to hear about it at all, now it is what it is
"Go about your business" is weirdly the most menacing one.
Nothing to see here, move along.
“Pick up that can”
Yeah, it somehow feels like it's telling you "just keep walking, you're gonna die anyway"
Fire pfp 🔥🔥🔥
@@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache Thanks!
There is a sun dial in my town that's reads "don't come to me in rain or showers, I only count the sunny hours". I always smiled when I saw it
So wholesome
the expetcion we all needed
Omg it really is so wholesome and logical too ❤❤
I just realized something
@@D-backs_vrwha?
I always had a feeling modern clocks were missing something. Now I know it's existential dread.
Thank you thats the first time Ive laughed today.
Ever dreaded a test, or had insomnia? Looking at a clock can still do that
Have you ever listened to the ominous tick tack while having dark thoughts before going to sleep? The existential dread sure is there
Nah now you just gotta bring your own existencial dread whenever you look at a clock, and you can share it with friends "every second that passes I feel myself slowly declining into ever torturing madness" and such
Oh they still have it!
It's just more subtle now.
I know because that's my every experience with them.
"Time is a great teacher but it kills all of its students."
Time flies death cu-
Assassination classroom
@@Gigus-Chadius 🥵
This one resonates the most.
Let’s put that below every single school clock.
Damn sundial’s be metal af
no they're usually rock and concrete
Oh i thought they were made from human bone
Gothic
@@VictorsandergamerI there are some that are made of metal
We're talking about clocks, not thermometer my friend.
Now: “oh look at the time.”
Previously: “death watches you like you watch this sundial.” 👀👀
E
* like you watch this watch
Missed opportunity 😢
Me: Oh I wonder what the time is.
Sundial: As sure as time marches on, you & your loved ones will perish, crumble to dust and eventually to nothing. Your achievements few will be long forgotten and even humanity and the largest mountains will have no meaning. Heat death trudges closer by each second. Also it's 11:45am
@@samildanach nope! they added more! even if it wasn't funnier!
No doubt! LOL.
@@samildanach i found it funny
😂 Somebody make Siri say that when I ask the time!
@@samildanach I laughed.
"Without the sun, I fall silent."
That's a great one, even the sun dial will die...
As an italian, we love to put sad prophecy on things.
also it describes the meaning of a season: autumn
@@dc56789 all good food cometh to an end. be sure your pasta will have had a past, worth devouring on and have good memories on it
in all other cases, do what we Germans do, when nothing works out 'al dente' (time again) in the kitchen:
we simply ketch up
Even the sun itself will die
sure will do., "but not silently in the night"
"without the sun I fall silent" probably a much darker meaning and context then previously thought
It's cool. It's like even time itself knows it's gonna die
@@tacitozetticci9308 :D
"Grass grows, birds fly, sun shines and brother... man dies" - Sundial, probably
I love how so many were so existential and threatening and then there was just
“Go about your business”
that one is actually worse, somehow. weirdly threatening.
We saw
Go on, look elsewhere.
My business is the dial. We knew.
go about your bufinefs
"Go about your business."
Geez, that one hits the hardest for me.
It brought a tear to my eye it was so profound
"Move along peasant"
The old way of saying “gtfo”
Legit the best one by far.
You don't need to see his Sundial Motto. You can go about your business. Move to death
*checks sundial*
It’s about existential o’clock
It's quarter to eight, there's fish on my plate
My guy isn't pregnant but still never fails to deliver
😂 Good one!
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@@AmirRazan this is on 90% of Vsauce videos dislike immediately
@@andy6201 Oh... Didn't know about that.
Bars 🎉
Even in a video under one minute, you can always count on Michael to give you an existential crisis.
He never fails
Pretty sure that I've read that exact comment before... A coinkydink? Perhaps, or mayhaps it was because you too had come across said same sentence and either forgot about it and yet kept it in your subconscious mind, or saved it for when you thought that other people had.
Existential dread speedrun
Minute? Took like 15 seconds.
This is wayy to true
"Time doth fly; man must die" spitting bars 🔥
eminem been real quite since the sundial dropped that album
Smelled like fruit, that was a lie
@@ExtemTheHedgehogLol into the root, out to the sky.
That's some metal shit right there 🤘
@@mouradshemais3123that was the truth, made me cry ,
Kick from the Boot , the ball goes by
Here's my sun dial poem on heat death:
"Shadows pass as stars shine.
Though, in time, their warmth resigns.
Take not for granted the light we share
for darkness is waiting without care."
Enjoy your time in the light, friends.
Cool but it's night so you must mention that also enjoy your time in the dark *vsauce music plays*
"This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time"
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Thats funny enough it made me laugh, thanks!
This is what I was looking for
this is the funniest comment i’ve ever seen thank you
Wow this one is so clever.
How original.
"Live, laugh, love" truly chilling.
LOL
Bro you made me spit out my water
Maybe we should append to all of those signs, "...or else."
Live.
Laugh.
Love.
*Or else.*
i think the most threatening ones is "Go about your business." it's basically just telling you "stop looking at me keep moving."
Not sure if this is what I needed while sleep deprived at 4 am.
"One of hours/ours is your last"
Clockmaker a real MC tho
I never realized hours and ours where the same sound before this video
the lettering was in Latin, and the clock is in Germany. The pun couldn't have been less intentional
@@EndofTransmission dont care, still funny
It says "nostrum" which means "ours". Not sure what it's referring to though.
@@MrAwawe it means we all die, but at different times, and every day people die while the rest of us live. So any day now, your time could come while the rest of the world keeps spinning. It’s quite literally just another one of our hours, but this is your *last* hour.
”Heyy sundial! Death here”
I read this as cave Johnson
@@badateverything8526 🤣😂
"How fast can you run?"
very "hey hows it going its quandale dingle here" vibes
@@umangsharma7635 this goofy ahh species is trying to outrun time *Scooby Doo laugh* so I threw a rock at them and they died *UUOOOHHH*
The second one literally says: "While looking at the hour it is, think about death and stand ready. Don't count on the first because it all depends on the last."
One of my faves was "Da mihi solem, dabo tibi horam" which translates to, "give me the Sun, I'll give you the time".
"SINE SOLE SILEO" is a very clever bit of Latin poetry
*sole, not soleo.
@@gordonlekfors2708 oopsie
the realization that sine is without just as sine (0)=0
Designed perishable, yet We persist.
@@johnsmoak8237 sine of π-π radians
@@johnsmoak8237sine actually means “without” in Latin lmao
“Time is the devourer of things” is a pretty fitting description for a sundial at a place named for a guy called “Saint Pancreas”.
LOLLLL
I really want clocks to have those quotes fr 🙏🏻
Imagine checking your watch and a magic 8 ball type message pops up about your inevitable demise
Let's face it, all cultures go through an emo phase.
😂😂😂 omg yes!
The literal dark ages: *quaking*
...Or a goth phase, as in gothic, as in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_art
as in you're being euro-centric.
💀 your comment wins
@@hauz287 😂😂😂
Normal clocks: *doing normal clock things like telling the time*
Sundials: *having the coldest, most existential descriptions that have ever been put together by man*
*it also tells time*
E
[Sundial]
Item description: Tells the time. Deals 10 psychic damage when used.
Now it makes sense that the Gossip Stones in The Legend of Zelda speak, they were just missing some of that existential dread.
Reaper voicelines be like.
Death walks among us
Every time when I hear Michael say something interesting, I feel like it always gets me smarter
Are you just given smarterness, or do you like catch some smart from his sentences and shit?
@@execrisiscoreonearth yes
@@execrisiscoreonearth yeah, I guess
"Tick-tock, biatch."
by joji
I want that in Latin on a sundial.
Ticcae-toccae, meretrix!
One of my favourite authors wrote in her novel, "The man who waited to change at the 12th hour, died on the 11th."
If you fall out of the present, into your thoughts, these sun diales will give you a reason to go back into the present moment
I want a SUN DIAL with "DONT THINK OF YOURSELF AS AN ORGANIC PAIN COLLECTOR RACING TOWARDS OBLIVION."
DIVINE LIGHT SEVERED
YOU ARE A FLESH AUTOMATON ANIMATED BY NEUROTRANSMITTERS
Where does that quote comes from?
I wanna befriend that guy
Then what should I think of myself as?
@@ThePrufessa not that
@@no-lifenoah7861 well then I'll think of myself however I want to. Especially when it has truth to it. It's definitely not wrong to think of our existence that way.
“I love sundials!”: 😀
“They remind me of death.”:😐
"I love sundials !": 😎
"They remind me of death.": ☠️
I wonder if Michael listens to Death metal
To be reminded of death is a good thing, it's going to happen one way or another, so make the most of your time and love these closest to you.
“Praise the sun” 🌞
"Praise the sun"
"Or get your a$$ burned"
I wish every modern clock had a mottoe
Some men will literally make sundials instead of going to therapy
To be fair, sundials predate psychology by *checks notes* about 4,000 years.
@@Qwerty0791 Like a rose, therapy is therapy by any other name.
‘One of hours will be your last’ was my favorite
Therapy is scam.
@mamavswild it was "ours"
"Time is the devourer of things" is such a hard line.
"Hmm i wonder whats the time"
Sundial: "Your life is nothing, you serve zero purpose..."
Had no idea sundials were so savage. They put you in your place
Nah I put sundials in their place, I own them.
There was a sundial at my college that said, "Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be" but someone stole it.
Hey, there was one at my school that said "Grow along me the best, Old with is yet to be", and it had the Grim Reaper on it.
How tf do you steal a sundial??
@@nix.i a pry bar usually. Sometimes a socket wrench.
It's living its best life now
@@nix.i I wasn't crazy big. It was bronze and the size of a 45lb barbell weight. It also didn't help that it wasn't secure to anything.
Writings on sundails seems like it was one of the trendy things to do back then. Like live, laugh, love of that era except they remind you of death lol.
live, laugh, die
Cry, die, bye.
Live, laugh, die
The one in our backyard is just snarky: "My face numbers the sunny hours. What can you say of yours?"
“No matter how hard you try, you cannot overcome the power of death”
Time flies. DEATH COMES.
- I felt that inside me
🤨📸
Death is pansexual because they come for us all
they should make a sundial that just says "Hi have a nice day :')"
That is what people are for. Sundials speak the hard truths that people wish not to.
“It sure is a nice day out!” (Always true when successfully reading a sundial)
“Do it like a sundial,
only count the nice hours.“
It rhymes in German and is a very popular thing to put on a sundial. I guess our fairytales give you the existential dread you need early on?
@@korakys Man, I don't need to be reminded of those truths every single time I look at a clock. That's just depressing.
Go for it.
Those proverb are only heavy if you try to lift them.
But if you make them your ground, it's pretty stable and comforting.
Death : "i got you bro 😘"
"Time, the sundial's shadow, marches ever onward."
"I love sundials... or do I?"
"These clocks remind you of death"
Also that one dial:
Go about your business
“… while you have time to” is implied though.
I love this. As a Catholic, I take "memento mori" to heart. It's a humbling reminder during good times and comfort during bad times.
I didn't know this; but I actually love it. Modern clocks need this.
You know mechanical hands are the rulers of everything.
"Do not squander time. That is the stuff life is made of." This is a quote of Benjamin Franklin and appears on the sundial at Twelve Oaks in the movie Gone With the Wind.
Hey man do you have the time?
"Why would anyone need to know? Death marches onwards regardless. The hands on the clock offer naught but the constant reminder of how frail man truly is. We will all return to dust."
Oh dang, I missed the MacDonalds breakfast menu, they should make it always available haha
This is more beautiful than depressing
That's really cool. I think we pay too little attention nowadays to our mortality and these are a useful corrective.
Dude that last one.. "without the sun I fall silent" was probably the most death-related one if you think of it poetically lol
"It's out of my hands, I'm only a clock - but eventually, everyone runs out of time."
-from tony
"Time doth fly man must die" is my favourite. Love it.
My parents have a small sundial. Almost certainly a mass-produced one.
“Walk hand in hand with me, the best is yet to be.”
Aw, that’s such a nice and touching thing to say and there’s the grim reaper…
My grandparents had a similar one except it said “grow old with me the best is yet to come” and also featured a grim reaper.
"huge loads earns a he"
"who knows it's not enough for she"
Me: The sky's getting darker, I wonder what time it is
Sundial: *DIE*
"one of hours will be your last" is clever
"EINE VON DIESEN"
"ONE OF THESE"
There's a cemetery in Germany (the biggest Cetary in Europe) and its entrance buildings clock says this.
It means "one of these", as in, "one of these 12 hours will eventually be your last one"
Without the sun I go silent
The ticking stops
It gets dark
Your heart beat mimics the ticking
sadly this doesn't work since sundials don't tick
those sundial makers were real edgelords lmfao
it's not a good development to have people thinking that anything related to the realities of human existence, is somehow "edgy" or "emo". then again it may just be a way to feel like you're above that, to write them off as "edgelords" so you don't have to think about it and turn it into something less heavy
It's Christian influence. Look up memento mori
@@PostalDude97 I know
@@PostalDude97 I know
_And because they don't mess around, they never find out._
Now I wanna make a sundial and put an Unus Annus quote on it
OMG YESSS And I'm proud of you and I'm so glad that I found a comment like you right now less gooo!😁😊👍👍👍
"Don't cry because it's over, cry because it happened." - Unus
@@Suqordia 🌹👶🖤🤍💀🥀 Memento Mori
me, immediately tempted to put a stupid quote: "Hey Siri, call me daddy."🤣
@@lucaskimber7303kid ur like 11 years old
Technology has improved so much. imagine being born in a world with nothing just trees and animals and it’s genuinely amazing how humanity has come so far, from just trees and animals to moving mechanisms like cars, buses, planes and to advanced communication like phones and pcs which allow you to communicate to people on the other side of the earth. I am only impressed with how technology has improved so much.
"Insensibly, without feeling, life is aging"
Sigh so impressively evocative. If there was ever a way to feel time, this seems to evoke the clearest sense of it.
Was having a pretty good day up until now. Thanks for keeping me in check, Michael. ❤️
why does "without the sun, I fall silent" sound so badass and ominous in Michaels voice
"As the hour here you see, think on death and ready be." Because it rhymes it's the best one.
"they say death catches up to everyone, well he can sure try"
Micheal: Sundials long ago remind you of death.
me: ok
Well, now I want a sundial that says, "time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana"
“One of (h)ours will be your last” 💀😂
“Time doth fly, man must die” is so funny to me and I have no clue why
People got relatively relieved with “Go about your business”, but they don’t seem to notice what’s implied: “because you don’t have much longer than this”.
I- I thought the title said suicidals don't mess around... Jesus.
Huh
You know what it turned out to be oddly appropriate.
“The slowest way to die is to live”
*damn*
Sundial makers: *Talks about death through time*
Entropy: Sup
'Time doth fly , man must die' oughta be a song
people of the past sure had an obsession with death
You know what's wrong with Skyrim these days? Everyone is obsessed with death.
And, perhaps to their joy, they’re all dead now.
such a shallow comment
"Damn, what hour is it?"
"It's time for you to stop losing time, flesh bag of organs."
I need this in my life to counteract the mind-numbing apps that actively help me to lose track of time... It's hilarious how much I love sundials but didn't know about their history of quotes, I guess it's because I've only run into the 100 year old, relatively young sundials in North America.
I mean, some of the Central American temples (which imo is still part of North America) has anywhere from centuries to millenia old kinda' sun calendars.
I just want a sundial inscribed with, "Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
But just the last bit. Advice to us and also the emotion of the sundial becoming useless and “dead” each time the light dies.
Actual sundials: "rage all you want buddy"
I love……these shorts. Michael don’t mess around.
**starts taping on existential messages to clocks around the house**
Clocks are like “hey here is the time or whatever” but sundials be like “hey you never know when ur gonna die and when you do it’s painful”
First the hokey pokey and now sundials. Next he’s gonna make us get an existential crisis every time we look at a cheeseburger
Cheeseburgers are made of beef, which are made from cows. It also contains cheese, which comes from their milk. It's neatly-or in McDonald's case, sloppily-sandwiched in between two pieces of bread, made from wheat, a type of grass, which cows eat.
Each time you look at a cheeseburger, you are looking at a life, what it has given, and what gives it life, which is pretty much no different from looking at people and their actions. But how many cheeseburgers made you think that way? How many cows did you mourn right before eating them in cheeseburger form?
We are the cows, slowly being eaten by time. Time doesn't care who we are, what gave us life, or what we have given; it simply chews all of us steadily and equally into oblivion.
Have a nice day!
@@indigofenrir7236 WHY DID I KEEP READING NOOOOO!!!
Time doth fly,
Man must die.
Okay. That's my favourite. 💀
Imagine there's a sun dial that's based on love that says " *As the hours pass, I will let you know, that I need to ask before I'm alone, how it feels to rest on your patient lips, to eternal bliss, I'm so glad to know.* "
People really making fanfic about sundials
*As hours pass, my dial starts reaching heights 💀, I must get rid of it, before it destroys someone's ten year old cave*
@@krishthakar6661 💀
@@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache This ain't a fanfic it's song lyrics. 💀
@@florianneacosta987 *"mom is good*
*When she's in mood"*
🗿🥵
"On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood! What was will be! What is will be no more! Now is the season of evil!"
-V.Sauce, I mean Vigo 😆 🤣