Focus your attention on changing yourself. We can not control others, but we do have control over ourselves. Don't worry too much about what others think. When I started my ambient meditation music channel I didn't get much support, but now it's showing signs of success. Don't be discouraged. Believe in yourself.
@Sandy Castles Trolling on purpose or just unfamiliar with the term "spam"? Spam: unsollicited advertising, plain and simple. I agree with Rebecca: his way of trying to obfuscate it is creative, but still: spam.
Well what is control over the self? What acts as a catalyst for consciousness to make an action? Is there a self to have control over? For me when I study all of the subtleties that go into the decisions that we make I can't help but wonder if self control is not but a useful illusion that can be trained in a "desired" direction with the "will" to do so. How can I tell when it is myself or bacteria in my gut prompting me to eat a particular kind of food? How can I tell whether or not a decision that I made was based on whether or not I ate and what it was I ate? What about the environmental impact? Or the impact of my genes?
@@ashiya3706 i didn't know that. I put the quote because for me the meaning is to focus first in yourself, improve yourself, repair your flaws and then, maybe, change something outside. This video shows someone that is trying change outside and forget his own life. The sacrifice necessary to change your own person is already too much, imagine change the world...for me, its something that you should do after you work a lot in yourself. Thanks for explain.
Amazingly well summarised. With our choices comes responsibility, and to that it's worth adding that many people think that inaction is to remove themselves from responsibility, without realising that inaction itself is a choice, and the choice not to act also bears responsibility within itself
@@abc-vd1id when you try to not give a fvck its still a statement that you give a fvck about someone thinking youre not giving a fuck. You cant escape it.
freedom is a choise,freedom means unsafe and its hard because we haven't been raised with the mentality to be free.i m enjoying you work ,great stuff always, greetings from greece
@Lee Youcis we have free will ,but what will we choose ?and forget about society ,lets say that we are in a tribe!! thousands year ago ,would you choose the security of the tribe of 200 people or would you choose to go free?
Freedom lies in the awareness of our references and options. Reference is what gives life meaning. We are as free as we are awareness of our ability choose from the options and create new references and meanings. People talk about how they want freedom but when it turns to chaos they will relent.
"What if we'd get a chance to start a new life?" That struck me. I admit I haven't watched the rest of this video. I observed my reaction to this question and paused to reflect. I've been going through a difficult time recently, difficult enough that I've reached some kind of state where surrendering parts of myself to a higher power is the only option. Yet, when I heard the question, my reaction was "no". I don't wish a new life for myself. I'm grateful for mine as it is, warts and all. I wouldn't trade it for any other life. I'm certain of that. Thank you for the question. I will resume watching your video. But just these first three seconds already taught me so much.
The Matrix is a system that shapes realities around you based on your own feelings, fears, desires, expectations, beliefs, emotions and thoughts. It is an interactive system that updates dynamically new ideas depending on your responses to the previous ones.
From my point of view, in the two most recent videos I've noticed a more profound approach to philosophical theories in this channel. There is more light in the last videos... For some people such light improves perception. For others, it blurs the views... From now on Einzelgänger is challenging his followers to face an even deeper content. I'm in! Let's press on. "Let's dive in."
Never new about this book, but it rings true to me. Thank you for summing it up so well. It is so true that we have free will but we are also captives to responsibility.
Interesting since I was just kicked out of my folk's house during the weekend among other things, and I'm standing my ground to not get pulled back into the toxicity. I just wanna get my things and go on my way.
Happened with my foster parents two years ago. Now, I have an apartment, a baby, cat, and partner. I don't have to deal with people telling to live and act according to the image they have for me. Resist the toxic environment. It's worth it to stand on your own.
@@peggyharris3815 I was shoved and fell (despite having been in an auto accident a week before) and I slept in my car that night. I'm staying with a coworker now and when I get my things I'll have a deputy with me. Thanks.
Wish I can go back to be a 5 years old boy again with the knowledge and experience of my current age. How many things that I could do to avoid dissapointinh people that I should really love... Sorry mom, dad, bros and friends, wife, kids....
Thank You very much for this beautiful content @Einzelgänger. I truly enjoy your channel. I thought about the statement "You have a free will" and might challenge that. I believe we do not have free will, nor do we choose what we think. A freedom of choice in thought would imply we had already thought about all the possible thoughts before we chose to think one of them, which in itself is a contradiction. Therefore you are not the author of your thoughts. Neither are you driving force behind your actions. You, simply are consciousness experiencing a human life. But in the end the illusion of free will might be the most important one. It creates a space for responsibility and our ability to reflect on our being and doing.
The doors are open for us, and we can all get out without the competition and struggle; and yet we struggle. The struggle we create through our own ignorance, through impatience; we are in too great a hurry.
... Don't leave out how strongly we are conditioned by school. School does three things:... It teaches us our 3 R's... it strongly conditions us to report for work everyday or else... and it strongly conditions us to obey orders without questioning, even if those orders are ordering us to do something useless or even harmful.... talking about freedom, it takes a lot of years to deprogram ourselves from these forced 12 years of school.
The realization of the free will argument already changes the logic of the mind. We live in a time where we have placed the end objective before the journey to getting there. So the logic and reality will shift in order to stay on course towards our objective. Additionally, the idea of synchronicity and the technology we have has made just about everything regarding free will and fate no longer worth talking about. It would be so ridiculous if it weren't so sad.
We will never be totally free. But we can limit our own chaotic situations by picking and choosing what we do. Keep it simple and always focus on improving your own self. The rest, I believe, will beeasier to take care of itself.
Loved this one. But I will have to watch again. After hearing about the story, my brain went info thinking about that... Almost couldn't watch the rest of the video (and that's good)
Honestly, I don't believe in free will since a long time. And reading Schopenhauer's thoughts on the subject increased my inclination towards it. We cling to the most desirable thing (whatever "desirable" may be) to us every single time. Preferences are there and they always will. In my opinion, freedom of choice is an illusion. It's not because we see a lot of possibilities that we could act upon all of them. We have a set of qualities, defaults, thoughts, an environment, lots of people around us (and around the world), etc., which influence our actions and guide us precisely to each and every decision we made, we make and will make later. In short, everything happens for some reasons. Everything happens necessarely.
Doesn't take away the effort you need to put into making those "inevitable, necessary, fated" choices. Such a hassle, free will, be it an illusion or not.
I doubt any of us asked to be here, yet here we are, forced to live by someone else's rules or get locked up. I don't call that "free" either. Free is an illusion for most of us. To die and be as if I'd never been born.. to me, that would be freedom.
Absolute freedom may be near impossible (probably for the better, some rules and restrictions are good to keep us safe and civil) but one can still create an enormous amount of freedom in today’s world in my eyes
@@davids6533,your soul wanted to come to earth. To evolve. To Love unconditional. Love=Freedom. Our minds are our prisons....in my opinion. Life on earth isn't easy, but its very temporary....
@Pfsif In my opinion those things you' ve mentioned are not obstacles in the path of your freedom. Those are responsibilities you have to take for other people and all living creatures' safety. Like it or not we're living in society. Modern humans are not able to survive in the nature alone without anything the community gave us. Not even these thoughts, the ability of thinking. Moreover, nature has its laws and Mother Gaia although as loveable just as unsympathetic.
Made me think of the choices I made to let a woman go. I saw what it could be if I stayed with them, but realized it was either better for me or them if we didn't remain together. Each choice does lead to a different path.
Everything has responsibility, even if we fail to accept that responsibility, it doesn't remove the fact that we have created responsibility for every single action we make or not make.
Freedom (in this sense) is wonderful. However, it comes with a price. Having a thirst for knowledge, wanting to create and build, seeing reality for what it really is...doesn't leave much time for nonsense. You'll realize how much time you've wasted in the past. Sitting under a shade tree and collecting your thoughts seems more desirable than doing mindless activities with "friends". Prepare to be lonely at times.
That is why the hero of “Le etranger” (Camus) answers the way he does. He was sentenced to death the next morning and a fellow in ate also sentenced to death asks: if there was aNother life after this one, how’d you like it to be? He said “I wish it would be a life where I could remember this one”. In other words, without our memories and attachment to “our world” we are nobody. Having a new life without memories would be as useless and meaningless as hearing a perfect stranger was born. He has nothing to do with you, you could already start imagining that you are him but he won’t know a thing of you.
I agree. Responsibility can be a joy.... take responsibility for getting closer to the truth... then gain the moral courage to tell others, and to act it out... Terence McKenna said that learning something new can be an ecstasy. I agree.
I started using memento mori to remind myself about the shortness of life and to be able to cope with some of life's troubles. But now the thought of death is beginning to taunt and hunt me. I can't focus because I think about it. I know that the fear is only in my mind but it is not helping. Please I need more practical advice on what to do about this.
What I do when thoughts are overwhelming is, first, observe that I am overwhelmed by thoughts. The simple act of seeing helps me get out of the spiral of thoughts that's causing trouble. Then I see that I have a choice. I can continue in the spiral of thoughts, that's easy enough, I've been doing it for so long. Or I can choose to focus on something else. Often, I choose to take a conscious breath. Feel the air going in through the nose, into my body, then out again. I've stepped out of the spiral for a second. Can I do that again? I take another breath. Some other thoughts distract me. Perhaps thoughts about what's for dinner. Perhaps an activity I can start doing. The important thing is, the spiral of negativity no longer has a hold over me. I need to do this often, I wish to get better at it. As with everything, I think it's a matter of practice.
“The morality of free society can have no application to slave society. . . .Make a man a slave, and you rob him of of moral responsibility. Freedom of choice is the essence of all accountability.” ― Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom "We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future." ― Frederick Douglass, The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro "A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well." ― Frederick Douglass, The Portable Frederick Douglass
@@Einzelgänger I remember reading Sartre's play "The Flies". I thought that was a really good expression of existential freedom. Especially when King Aegistheus refuses to stop his own assasination at the hands of Orestes. He does it because he is sick and tired of ruling over a kingdom of servile subjects, living in constant emasculating fear. But also as an act of rebellion against Zeus who is urging him on to stop Orestes from assassinating him.
I read his novels the age of reason, the reprieve, iron in the soul and nausea I really enjoyed them I never saw huis clos but id like to read it I think
Freedom is achievable. It is hard work and closely connected to our personal thought process. Trow away your teachings, daily manipulation and try to follow your good inner voice.
free will as it is "popularly" understood is a type of self delusion that can be useful as we try to get through the day. Unfortunately when combined with modern marketing, machine learning, insatiable lust for junk to be better than others... well you get it...
I think even in countries where freedom is not really, or at all a right for the individual, i still believe that it is possible. Certainly harder and with harsher consequences, but a possibility nonetheless. Well, that's just the way i see it.
Camus yes , Sartre was very jealous of Camus's success and very mean to Camus ... Camus the artist the pure , the good man ....For me Camus was a bit our Martin Luther King jr :)))))
It's not even sure that we do have free will. There are many varietes of views on this subject, but generally, what I'm talking about is called "hard determinism". In short, it posits that our brain's activities, as those of any mechanical system, are determined by starting conditions, thus in any given situation, we can arrive at only one final decision, while the process of our brain's weighing all the odds gives us the illusion that we indeed MAKE a decision. Of course, since no one can go back in time and observe the same person in the same conditions to check whether after n trials there will be x different decisions, the matter will probably forever remain more a question of a person's general philosophical disposition than a fact. I strongly recommend a book called "Elbow Room" by Daniel C. Dennett on this subject. The funny thing is, that even people who adopt such a viewpoint - as for example, myself - remember about it only during such discussions. In everyday life, we strive to make the best choices and have regrets about bad ones all the same. That's probably because belief in the ability to be really free is so deeply rooted in us. And even if we do have free will, no one is absolutely free. You need too many things just to maintain your bodily functions to ever call yourself that. Add social conditions and we really are VERY far from free. The closest you can get to freedom would be taking a gun and shooting your brains out. Or dying for some noble cause, which still was probably implanted in you by your upbringing and experiences. So, cheer up and don't worry - tommorow things will be worse anyway. :)
Agreed that our brain can take only pre set decisions because it's pretuned in a certain way.. But what happens when we meet with accidents like getting hit by a car?? Is that pre determined?? I mean...our way of thinking has nothing to do with it..
@@JustAWatcher73 The whole world is one big physical system, so there are really no accidents. Lots of things look random, because we either don't know all the data, or don't have time and resources (or even need) to process it. A toss of the coin stops to be random if you know all the speeds and angles at the beginning of the throw... my way of thinking about this is that life is like sitting in the train and looking through the window. Things happen and change, but you cannot do anything about them. Or about you. It gives your head a spin, but as I said earlier, you forget about it as soon as you return to your daily activities :)
I think that wont happen if we had the chance to comeback from death like that, you won't need people to believe you, you just will act as necessary to fix whatever is wrong for you and of course you will follow your heart and try to be in love with that person you met in the death's realm. But yeah I get the point of the environment and people around us affecting our choices.
"Philosophers cannot help us know whether we have free will. They do not agree among themselves. Their theories, based on unproven assumptions, are open to serious criticism. Also religious doctrine about predestination and fate only put the blame for evil on God and deprive human beings of praise and blame for their choices, for their vice and virtue. The knowledge of free will comes by faith and experience. God created man in His Image, which means that man has free will. The freedom which has been implanted by God in created human nature is curtailed only by sin and ignorance. Without freedom life is meaningless." (Father Michael Azkoul, "An Introduction to the Orthodox Christian Understanding of Free Will).
Those who know the hermetic laws rise above them (including cause and effect). Those who do not recognize these laws controls them not and calls them fate....paraphrasing from the Kybolion, but it's truth.
Seems as if the word freedom is the same than a ghost. Some People believe it must exist because the word exist but nobody understand it. We believe we have choices but each choice have it’s own string of things which will happens then. Then we can reason that when we have more knowledge/information we can make better choices. But still things will happen after that choice as well. That make me realize that we have no freedom and life/death will just keep on happens to us.. maybe we must just float and observe what happens and stop believe in better and more bad and everybody can add their thoughts
5:49 This notion of free will makes little sense to me, how may we have 'free' will as well have that will be 'determined'? If our will is determined, then certainly it is not also free.
Reminds me of the italian writer Luigi Pirandello's "Il Fu Mattia Pascal" from 1904, where, after a long story of love and decisions, the main character finds himself outside of his town in a casino, winning lots of money. But then, coming back home, he discovers from a newspaper that in his town the body of Mattia Pascal (his body) was found dead by suicide. He decides to change life since he has the opportunity and changes his name and life. It is very very interesting.
Focus your attention on changing yourself. We can not control others, but we do have control over ourselves. Don't worry too much about what others think. When I started my ambient meditation music channel I didn't get much support, but now it's showing signs of success. Don't be discouraged. Believe in yourself.
@Rebecca Leeman Also known as spamming. ;)
I strongly agree.
@Sandy Castles Trolling on purpose or just unfamiliar with the term "spam"?
Spam: unsollicited advertising, plain and simple. I agree with Rebecca: his way of trying to obfuscate it is creative, but still: spam.
Well what is control over the self? What acts as a catalyst for consciousness to make an action? Is there a self to have control over?
For me when I study all of the subtleties that go into the decisions that we make I can't help but wonder if self control is not but a useful illusion that can be trained in a "desired" direction with the "will" to do so. How can I tell when it is myself or bacteria in my gut prompting me to eat a particular kind of food? How can I tell whether or not a decision that I made was based on whether or not I ate and what it was I ate? What about the environmental impact? Or the impact of my genes?
Did you know that meditation Works about 10 times better if you smoke weed?
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
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well said Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Rumi was a muslim and by tge ideology of islam he understood that free will lies in the hands of men but the result is the will of the creator.
@@ashiya3706 i didn't know that. I put the quote because for me the meaning is to focus first in yourself, improve yourself, repair your flaws and then, maybe, change something outside. This video shows someone that is trying change outside and forget his own life. The sacrifice necessary to change your own person is already too much, imagine change the world...for me, its something that you should do after you work a lot in yourself.
Thanks for explain.
Amazingly well summarised. With our choices comes responsibility, and to that it's worth adding that many people think that inaction is to remove themselves from responsibility, without realising that inaction itself is a choice, and the choice not to act also bears responsibility within itself
I read it in ' The subtle art of not giving a fuck '
So theres no way of avoiding suffering u got to be able to bear the great load either way
@@abc-vd1id when you try to not give a fvck its still a statement that you give a fvck about someone thinking youre not giving a fuck. You cant escape it.
freedom is a choise,freedom means unsafe and its hard because we haven't been raised with the mentality to be free.i m enjoying you work ,great stuff always, greetings from greece
@Lee Youcis we have free will ,but what will we choose ?and forget about society ,lets say that we are in a tribe!! thousands year ago ,would you choose the security of the tribe of 200 people or would you choose to go free?
you dont have to live and be depented on the modern day society there is a choice !!and of course there is a price
Big Oof. The weight on my shoulders simultaneously got lighter and heavier.
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Having choices to change our lifestyle(s) is freedom.
Stay true to yourself & to others.
"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything" -Tyler Durden
A fictional character. However, in _real_ life, we are still free, whether we lost or gained anything.
what about we have everything?
@@estebansteverincon7117 Sorry but you didn't get my point
@@milk-zd4vk That's practically impossible
Josef Bydžovský not so if we build a virtual reality we can live in.
Freedom lies in the awareness of our references and options. Reference is what gives life meaning. We are as free as we are awareness of our ability choose from the options and create new references and meanings. People talk about how they want freedom but when it turns to chaos they will relent.
"What if we'd get a chance to start a new life?"
That struck me. I admit I haven't watched the rest of this video. I observed my reaction to this question and paused to reflect. I've been going through a difficult time recently, difficult enough that I've reached some kind of state where surrendering parts of myself to a higher power is the only option. Yet, when I heard the question, my reaction was "no". I don't wish a new life for myself. I'm grateful for mine as it is, warts and all. I wouldn't trade it for any other life. I'm certain of that.
Thank you for the question. I will resume watching your video. But just these first three seconds already taught me so much.
The Matrix is a system that shapes realities around you based on your own feelings, fears, desires, expectations, beliefs, emotions and thoughts. It is an interactive system that updates dynamically new ideas depending on your responses to the previous ones.
Existence is terrifying
And beautiful. Dive head first in it. Embrace it.
indeed, to both of you two
From my point of view, in the two most recent videos I've noticed a more profound approach to philosophical theories in this channel.
There is more light in the last videos...
For some people such light improves perception. For others, it blurs the views...
From now on Einzelgänger is challenging his followers to face an even deeper content.
I'm in!
Let's press on.
"Let's dive in."
Never new about this book, but it rings true to me. Thank you for summing it up so well. It is so true that we have free will but we are also captives to responsibility.
accepting moderate determinism can give us best mind state
Interesting since I was just kicked out of my folk's house during the weekend among other things, and I'm standing my ground to not get pulled back into the toxicity. I just wanna get my things and go on my way.
Happened with my foster parents two years ago. Now, I have an apartment, a baby, cat, and partner. I don't have to deal with people telling to live and act according to the image they have for me. Resist the toxic environment. It's worth it to stand on your own.
Insure your physical safety.
Freedom 'from' harm is important. Take care.
@@peggyharris3815 I was shoved and fell (despite having been in an auto accident a week before) and I slept in my car that night. I'm staying with a coworker now and when I get my things I'll have a deputy with me. Thanks.
@@priscillajimenez27 ...sounds like you got it together. 🙏🙏
@@peggyharris3815 with the Lord's Help 😇
Wish I can go back to be a 5 years old boy again with the knowledge and experience of my current age. How many things that I could do to avoid dissapointinh people that I should really love... Sorry mom, dad, bros and friends, wife, kids....
Thank You very much for this beautiful content @Einzelgänger.
I truly enjoy your channel.
I thought about the statement "You have a free will" and might challenge that.
I believe we do not have free will, nor do we choose what we think.
A freedom of choice in thought would imply we had already thought about all the possible thoughts before we chose to think one of them, which in itself is a contradiction.
Therefore you are not the author of your thoughts.
Neither are you driving force behind your actions.
You, simply are consciousness experiencing a human life.
But in the end the illusion of free will might be the most important one.
It creates a space for responsibility and our ability to reflect on our being and doing.
The doors are open for us, and we can all get out without the competition and struggle; and yet we struggle. The struggle we create through our own ignorance, through impatience; we are in too great a hurry.
... Don't leave out how strongly we are conditioned by school. School does three things:... It teaches us our 3 R's... it strongly conditions us to report for work everyday or else... and it strongly conditions us to obey orders without questioning, even if those orders are ordering us to do something useless or even harmful.... talking about freedom, it takes a lot of years to deprogram ourselves from these forced 12 years of school.
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@S C ... You should be way ahead then. Is there any advice that you can give to the rest of us laggards?
The path I laid out for myself fucked me over for reasons beyond my understanding. So Lord willing I will get the New Life.
Thank you.
The realization of the free will argument already changes the logic of the mind. We live in a time where we have placed the end objective before the journey to getting there. So the logic and reality will shift in order to stay on course towards our objective. Additionally, the idea of synchronicity and the technology we have has made just about everything regarding free will and fate no longer worth talking about. It would be so ridiculous if it weren't so sad.
We will never be totally free. But we can limit our own chaotic situations by picking and choosing what we do. Keep it simple and always focus on improving your own self. The rest, I believe, will beeasier to take care of itself.
Loved this one. But I will have to watch again. After hearing about the story, my brain went info thinking about that... Almost couldn't watch the rest of the video (and that's good)
I’M IN LOVE WITH YOUR CONTENT. THANK U, THANK U, THANK U.
Honestly, I don't believe in free will since a long time. And reading Schopenhauer's thoughts on the subject increased my inclination towards it. We cling to the most desirable thing (whatever "desirable" may be) to us every single time. Preferences are there and they always will. In my opinion, freedom of choice is an illusion. It's not because we see a lot of possibilities that we could act upon all of them. We have a set of qualities, defaults, thoughts, an environment, lots of people around us (and around the world), etc., which influence our actions and guide us precisely to each and every decision we made, we make and will make later. In short, everything happens for some reasons. Everything happens necessarely.
Doesn't take away the effort you need to put into making those "inevitable, necessary, fated" choices. Such a hassle, free will, be it an illusion or not.
I beleve we are free to do what we want, but only what we want, and what we want is not under our control, simply determined.
@@alex-qj5yj this is so true
Freedom becomes a possibility to choose own chains - *many times biased by wrong beliefs*
And it's diificult to free fools from the chains they revere as Voltaire points out in one of his quotes.
This made my day...
0:30 "the burden of responsibility" - the result of free decisions made in the past. They are true in all our presences.
The subject of free will is a fascinating one.
"Our lives start out as empty canvases."
Except they don't. ;)
Asian parents be painting ahead of time...
They certainly don’t .. Am I free to love philosophy or just implacably drawn to it .
Excellent!
Good.
Good.
Free, try to leave the country without a passport, drive a car without a license plate, not pay taxes etc........?
I doubt any of us asked to be here, yet here we are, forced to live by someone else's rules or get locked up. I don't call that "free" either. Free is an illusion for most of us. To die and be as if I'd never been born.. to me, that would be freedom.
Absolute freedom may be near impossible (probably for the better, some rules and restrictions are good to keep us safe and civil) but one can still create an enormous amount of freedom in today’s world in my eyes
@@davids6533 a fellow anti-natalist ?
@@davids6533,your soul wanted to come to earth. To evolve. To Love unconditional. Love=Freedom. Our minds are our prisons....in my opinion. Life on earth isn't easy, but its very temporary....
@Pfsif In my opinion those things you' ve mentioned are not obstacles in the path of your freedom. Those are responsibilities you have to take for other people and all living creatures' safety. Like it or not we're living in society. Modern humans are not able to survive in the nature alone without anything the community gave us. Not even these thoughts, the ability of thinking. Moreover, nature has its laws and Mother Gaia although as loveable just as unsympathetic.
Made me think of the choices I made to let a woman go. I saw what it could be if I stayed with them, but realized it was either better for me or them if we didn't remain together. Each choice does lead to a different path.
Everything has responsibility, even if we fail to accept that responsibility, it doesn't remove the fact that we have created responsibility for every single action we make or not make.
Freedom (in this sense) is wonderful.
However, it comes with a price.
Having a thirst for knowledge, wanting to create and build, seeing reality for what it really is...doesn't leave much time for nonsense.
You'll realize how much time you've wasted in the past. Sitting under a shade tree and collecting your thoughts seems more desirable than doing mindless activities with "friends".
Prepare to be lonely at times.
Believe in yourself, even if no one else did. -SASQUATCH
That is why the hero of “Le etranger” (Camus) answers the way he does. He was sentenced to death the next morning and a fellow in ate also sentenced to death asks: if there was aNother life after this one, how’d you like it to be? He said “I wish it would be a life where I could remember this one”. In other words, without our memories and attachment to “our world” we are nobody. Having a new life without memories would be as useless and meaningless as hearing a perfect stranger was born. He has nothing to do with you, you could already start imagining that you are him but he won’t know a thing of you.
0:45 Heh, that's the same premise as Acda en de Munnik's "Het Regent Zonnestralen". Always loved that triology of songs, also very tragic.
Splendid video, thank you
Just running into your channel! Fantastic! Gracias!
That's True, it's Elusive end of day
1:26
Heh, it sounds like he gave a little chuckle at the end there.
You are favourite channel on whole you tube!
"Burden" of responsibility. Well, that's a choice too
I agree. Responsibility can be a joy.... take responsibility for getting closer to the truth... then gain the moral courage to tell others, and to act it out... Terence McKenna said that learning something new can be an ecstasy. I agree.
@@joedavis4150 Or is it an illusion of ecstasy?
This is powerful!
No.
I am not a fan of western philosophy but I think that it has some benefits of studying western philosopher's.
I started using memento mori to remind myself about the shortness of life and to be able to cope with some of life's troubles. But now the thought of death is beginning to taunt and hunt me. I can't focus because I think about it. I know that the fear is only in my mind but it is not helping. Please I need more practical advice on what to do about this.
What I do when thoughts are overwhelming is, first, observe that I am overwhelmed by thoughts. The simple act of seeing helps me get out of the spiral of thoughts that's causing trouble. Then I see that I have a choice. I can continue in the spiral of thoughts, that's easy enough, I've been doing it for so long. Or I can choose to focus on something else. Often, I choose to take a conscious breath. Feel the air going in through the nose, into my body, then out again. I've stepped out of the spiral for a second. Can I do that again? I take another breath. Some other thoughts distract me. Perhaps thoughts about what's for dinner. Perhaps an activity I can start doing. The important thing is, the spiral of negativity no longer has a hold over me. I need to do this often, I wish to get better at it. As with everything, I think it's a matter of practice.
Absolutely thrilling to watch. JPS is the man to think about when you contemplate life
“The morality of free society can have no application to slave society. . . .Make a man a slave, and you rob him of of moral responsibility. Freedom of choice is the essence of all accountability.”
― Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom
"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."
― Frederick Douglass, The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro
"A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well."
― Frederick Douglass, The Portable Frederick Douglass
Ok. Let's rewatch and rethink.
Wow! This story sounds so interesting. This video it’s amazing. Thank you. I’m gonna read this.
You won't be sorry! ;) Thanks for the compliment!
@@Einzelgänger I remember reading Sartre's play "The Flies". I thought that was a really good expression of existential freedom. Especially when King Aegistheus refuses to stop his own assasination at the hands of Orestes. He does it because he is sick and tired of ruling over a kingdom of servile subjects, living in constant emasculating fear. But also as an act of rebellion against Zeus who is urging him on to stop Orestes from assassinating him.
I read his novels the age of reason, the reprieve, iron in the soul and nausea I really enjoyed them I never saw huis clos but id like to read it I think
Freedom is achievable. It is hard work and closely connected to our personal thought process. Trow away your teachings, daily manipulation and try to follow your good inner voice.
free will as it is "popularly" understood is a type of self delusion that can be useful as we try to get through the day. Unfortunately when combined with modern marketing, machine learning, insatiable lust for junk to be better than others... well you get it...
I think even in countries where freedom is not really, or at all a right for the individual, i still believe that it is possible. Certainly harder and with harsher consequences, but a possibility nonetheless. Well, that's just the way i see it.
Well timed video
Im not sure if the term “tragedy“ is accurate. I mean, we have no other choice than beeing free (and responsible)
To be honest, Attack on titan taught me the actual meaning of freedom.
Thought full.
The whole thing reminded me of leagues teamfight tactics
He can read 2 books at once, which makes him an excellent reader
It's not freedom if you're still entangled to something.
great video! i would love to see more videos about existentialism. maybe something about camus in the future?🌚 keep up the great work tho!
Camus yes , Sartre was very jealous of Camus's success and very mean to Camus ... Camus the artist the pure , the good man ....For me Camus was a bit our Martin Luther King jr :)))))
It's not even sure that we do have free will. There are many varietes of views on this subject, but generally, what I'm talking about is called "hard determinism". In short, it posits that our brain's activities, as those of any mechanical system, are determined by starting conditions, thus in any given situation, we can arrive at only one final decision, while the process of our brain's weighing all the odds gives us the illusion that we indeed MAKE a decision. Of course, since no one can go back in time and observe the same person in the same conditions to check whether after n trials there will be x different decisions, the matter will probably forever remain more a question of a person's general philosophical disposition than a fact.
I strongly recommend a book called "Elbow Room" by Daniel C. Dennett on this subject.
The funny thing is, that even people who adopt such a viewpoint - as for example, myself - remember about it only during such discussions. In everyday life, we strive to make the best choices and have regrets about bad ones all the same. That's probably because belief in the ability to be really free is so deeply rooted in us.
And even if we do have free will, no one is absolutely free. You need too many things just to maintain your bodily functions to ever call yourself that. Add social conditions and we really are VERY far from free.
The closest you can get to freedom would be taking a gun and shooting your brains out. Or dying for some noble cause, which still was probably implanted in you by your upbringing and experiences. So, cheer up and don't worry - tommorow things will be worse anyway. :)
Agreed that our brain can take only pre set decisions because it's pretuned in a certain way.. But what happens when we meet with accidents like getting hit by a car?? Is that pre determined?? I mean...our way of thinking has nothing to do with it..
@@JustAWatcher73 The whole world is one big physical system, so there are really no accidents. Lots of things look random, because we either don't know all the data, or don't have time and resources (or even need) to process it. A toss of the coin stops to be random if you know all the speeds and angles at the beginning of the throw... my way of thinking about this is that life is like sitting in the train and looking through the window. Things happen and change, but you cannot do anything about them. Or about you. It gives your head a spin, but as I said earlier, you forget about it as soon as you return to your daily activities :)
Apatheia? And indifference? More freedom. More maneuverability.
Reality is that we are not free. We are just growing in a very big cage.
Lone wolf, your french is almost perfect ;)
I think that wont happen if we had the chance to comeback from death like that, you won't need people to believe you, you just will act as necessary to fix whatever is wrong for you and of course you will follow your heart and try to be in love with that person you met in the death's realm. But yeah I get the point of the environment and people around us affecting our choices.
Thanks . Everything alright??. You said you are taking a break for yourself.
"Philosophers cannot help us know whether we have free will. They do not agree among themselves. Their theories, based on unproven assumptions, are open to serious criticism. Also religious doctrine about predestination and fate only put the blame for evil on God and deprive human beings of praise and blame for their choices, for their vice and virtue. The knowledge of free will comes by faith and experience. God created man in His Image, which means that man has free will. The freedom which has been implanted by God in created human nature is curtailed only by sin and ignorance. Without freedom life is meaningless." (Father Michael Azkoul, "An Introduction to the Orthodox Christian Understanding of Free Will).
Makes sense
Freedom comes with a cost
Afterlife isn't crowded, there's a damn lot of empty space in the universe x)
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Those who know the hermetic laws rise above them (including cause and effect). Those who do not recognize these laws controls them not and calls them fate....paraphrasing from the Kybolion, but it's truth.
Seems as if the word freedom is the same than a ghost. Some People believe it must exist because the word exist but nobody understand it. We believe we have choices but each choice have it’s own string of things which will happens then. Then we can reason that when we have more knowledge/information we can make better choices. But still things will happen after that choice as well. That make me realize that we have no freedom and life/death will just keep on happens to us.. maybe we must just float and observe what happens and stop believe in better and more bad and everybody can add their thoughts
0:51 oh dear god oh no
Einzelganger, I suggest you read Romantic Rationalist by Iris Murdoch. She has a different take on Sartre's idea of freedom.
Mhmhmhh
I migth read IT.
Thanks for a nice recomendation.
Great channel, amazing content. Can you please raise the audio level?
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Unoffendable arrived in the mail today :)
Zhuangzi had an alternate answer to this centuries ago…
0:14 "Or do we?" *Vsauce music starts*
life
so are we truly free ? I don't think so ...
i'm gonna choose... to have an existential crisis
Sartre, like almost everyone, did not properly distinguish between freedom and power.
Physiognomy check please
5:49 This notion of free will makes little sense to me, how may we have 'free' will as well have that will be 'determined'? If our will is determined, then certainly it is not also free.
Life sucks.
Make it so that it does not suck.
GoldenOracle64 at least it does something
Yes
Sometimes.
Giridhar Vajjala too late
I can't believe that people still buy into the idea that we're born as blank slates.
Einzelganger.. I'm a subscriber of this channel.. Is it possible to add subtitles to your videos??
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Reminds me of the italian writer Luigi Pirandello's "Il Fu Mattia Pascal" from 1904, where, after a long story of love and decisions, the main character finds himself outside of his town in a casino, winning lots of money. But then, coming back home, he discovers from a newspaper that in his town the body of Mattia Pascal (his body) was found dead by suicide. He decides to change life since he has the opportunity and changes his name and life. It is very very interesting.
Sartre was very imaginative, a visionary maybe, I disagree with "man is condemned to be free"
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If you have "I", you won't be free