Life is not objective meaningless as Fredrich Nietzsche claimed. There is a purpose to life. To know the Great I AM . So that you can know who you were created to be.. A wise man once said "I am who I AM says I am" ruclips.net/video/4u5huPYmTOs/видео.html (the purpose of life) Is to be ruclips.net/video/YbipxLDtY8c/видео.html (the image of God)
@Kiwi Smith am telling you God exists. He is real. We, human beings try to look for meaning in the universe. Because the universe is meaningful..why is the purpose of evolution installing that need in our soul if that need doesn't actually exist.. Am trying to tell you we have that need cuz that need was installed by God in order for you to seek him. Mathew 7:7 Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
@@ozzylepunknown551 The things you hate have power over you. Someone who meditates and develops mindfulness (a kind of meta-awareness that’s allocentric instead of egocentric) starts seeing just how many parasitic activities plague the normal human mind. In my case, a lot of things pertaining to fake news, politics, religious motivated acts, etc are grabbing onto my attention and trigger very ugly states of being. And unfortunately i’m the one who lives with these toxic states-those who are the cause of those "wrongdoings" are fine and dandy. You mustn’t hate it, you must understand it. You must learn how it came about and you must accept its necessity and merits. Only then you can engage in the social discourse in such a way to aid transcending it, or help reform it. Sitting parasitized by negative states like hate is prejudicing both you and the world. Acting from hate only serves to inflame the people in the other camp. In fact they need you to hate them, that’s how they build and maintain their own identity and zest for doing what they do. "Haters" is what motivates them. Just like muscles are strengthened against opposing forces, the religious spirit is strengthened when it’s pitted against vehement atheistic retorts. Like someone once said, if you start by shouting at someone you’ll automatically switch something in their brain that will prevent them from taking in any further information from you, so better save your breath.
@@raresmircea i know, i have studied a lot of buddha and other religions along with philosophies like positive nihilism and absurdism. I am very aware of my own thoughts and actions and it is often hard to not get anxious from them. Sometimes i reach a feeling of thinking nothing, its the calmest state i can ever be in.
I have a thought when I was a little kid. "Who is the father of my great grand father?" Nobody in the family can answer me. I have learned so much from that lesson that when we die, within 100 years nobody will ever know or remember us anymore. *"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain." - Roy, the blade runner*
For my family sitting around telling us anecdotes of their fathers and their grandfathers and great grand father's is a normal and enjoyable thing, and now I understand the point of passing them on.
7 billion people on this planet don't know 99.9% of people that have ever lived. In 100 years we will be forgotten, and yet, we fight for respect on a daily basis. It's insane but it's necessary for survival. I think we're being played by a higher power.
Dont. Even asking that question is effectively redundant then. Alternatively, "Your comment was an accident, why should I take it seriously ??" It then goes into an infinite regress effectively proving the very first assumption but actually the later infinite assumptions that follow are actually a consequence of the first. So it becomes tautological.
@David Thornton No. If everything must have an origin, so does God. If you make an exception, you can't make it only for your favorite fantasy, like God. You commit the logical error of Special Pleading. You invented something in your head (God), then you use the invented characteristics (eternal) of the invented God to argue God. Doesn't work like that. We can SEE the universe. That helps a lot. God is nowhere to be found. It's just as if he didn't exist. Oh wait! He doesn't.
Lol I’m lying down in bed just feeling lost in life. 21 and don’t know what I’m doing. I have no goals. I kind of just take it day by day. But it’s getting boring.
Hang in there. You will eventually find what you want to do. One step at a time. It's never too late. The most important thing obviously is to be a rational kind human being.
“When all the current reasons-moral, esthetic, religious, social, and so on-no longer guide one’s life, how can one sustain life without succumbing to nothingness? . . . 𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨...”
Had a death in the family yesterday, this helped put things into perspective. We all have to die of something, pain only exists in the living. For whatever reason, these "dark" thinkers have always seemed to bring a certain comfort. Or maybe it's the totality of a lack thereof that makes it all even out. Either way thank you for this, I needed it
First, I'm sorry for your loss, even if this is an old comment, I know deaths are hard. I just wanted to add, I wonder if 'dark' thinkers bring a certain comfort to so many through sheer acceptance of suffering. I feel like so often our suffering is met with judgment like "you shouldn't feel that' or 'that is a negative feeling' etc. The logic always seems to go "That feels bad, therefore it is bad, and since it is bad, we have to eradicate it." (Think toxic the positivity spread in popular psychology all the time these days) I think that leads to a denying of and discomfort around 'negative' feelings like sadness, anger, frustration, despair, shame, fear, etc. For many 'dark' thinkers these feelings are just a day-to-day reality, probably from depression or anxiety or other mood 'disorders' (I put disorders in quotes here because I think even that language is an example of what I'm talking about, that if you are experiencing that, then there is something wrong with you), it becomes an inescapable fact. Then, when met with the denial and rejection of society, that frustration and disconnect is deepened and reinforced, forcing them to confront those aspects of society, denial is no longer an option. Their criticisms and thoughts are freeing to many of us as they discuss all the things that we are typically forced to hide, deny, or otherwise ignore the existence of. But we all experience them. For the 'dark' thinkers the depression or anxiety leads them to reflection of their internal life, they try to understand their own psyche and emotions, as well as their relationship to society. While not all of us are rejected by society in the same way as the 'darker' thinkers may be, and have been, we all still suffer from the rejection of 'negative' thoughts and feelings. When we see someone expressing these things, writing and reflecting on them, it is freeing, because we are finally seeing our own suffering acknowledged. At least, that's what makes sense to me.
there does not exist an expressive method which can express truth and as soon as truth is understood you cannot express it therefore truth is really never completely understood therefore what you formulate must fall short of complete truth ... last mile to complete truth must seem reachable or else you will give up running that last mile ... now why did i write this? did spirit of Emil Cioran enter me while i was asleep?
I think the correct version is (ro) "Orice este formulat, este diminuat in intensitate" / (en) "Anything that is formulated, is diminished in intensity"
When 17 I was suicidal. I literally searched for ways to die without a trace. In my search I stumbled upon a Cioran quote from the book "On the heights of despair". It sounded something like this : "if you're thinking of suicide it's already too late." Somehow I just stopped whatever tf I was doing with my life. I've read the whole book and kept notes from it everywhere. I was no longer afraid of living an absurd life. I embraced it and overcame my depression. Another 17 years later I'm a different person now. I feel powerful and meaningful. My loved ones rely on my high morale when feeling down. I believe it's because I read that book at the right moment in my life and it just clicked for me.
This hits home. “Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.” - Albert Camus
Fun fact! Cioran has met with Camus once, but he really didn't like him and he sometimes used to talk about him, calling Camus "mediocre". There's even a video on youtube when Cioran talks about him.
@@maciej4349 Mediocre in what way? Camus found a way to have fun and enjoy life in the midst of absurdity and Cioran stayed at heights of despair till his last breath.
The irony in feeling happy that I'm not alone in feeling meaningless and miserable during bouts of insomnia, depression, sleep paralysis, and drug abuse
Like, nihilism tend to bend and entangle itself from it's two points (the pessimistic and the optimistic) in a cicle, just like most things in our physical Universe. It's beautiful and scary at the same time.
“Since death follows from birth, it is actually the memory of our birth that is the tragic problem of life.” I love ideas like this, they make your head explode. Most people think it’s the idea of death that’s the problem, but the idea of birth? Who TF thinks like that? This guy.
“After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.” -Emil Cioran
@ Tom Robinson Human beings who come into contact with the psychological reality of suffering etc have to find a way to carry on being faced with the unrelenting phenomena of despair for no discernible reason. Ordinary thinking based upon logic and reasoning, the so called remedy of positive psychology doesn’t cut it and oneself is therefore seemingly bereft and feels adrift of society’s traditional conditioning with no apparent way back. At this point the despairing person either surrenders to the need to get help from other people who are regarded as knowing what to do next, or they may take the opportunity to self learn by demanding that enough is enough of suffering and remain steadfast with the fact of ‘what is’ without resistance or escape, not as a strategy, but just to understand the full extent of the situation. This approach, although not recommended by specialists, enables oneself to go beyond the boundaries of man made thought processes by seeing firsthand the limitations of fragmented knowledge/experience and the inherent dangers in expecting that every situation has a readymade answer in the form of a doing action. Only through self-knowledge can the wholeness of non-verbal ‘silence’ enter into consciousness to negate and mutate the psychological suffering state by the action of insight that in not yours or mine and therefore perhaps the natural meditative movement of compassion. I have no way of knowing if Emil Cioran had reached the full understanding of this mind state, but the quote reads that he likely did.
@@grahaminglis4242 I'm 18, I find these philosophy videos quite intriguing, but in most of them the conclusion I get is, life is meaningless and we don't know anything about it, I could be wrong but this is what I'm getting from a surface level, is philosophy even worth spending time diving in and giving it a couple of years if in the end I'm gonna come to the same conclusions, also philosophy seems kinda dark and dull, I feel like it's gonna make me emotionless and depressed, so in the end, my question is, is philosophy worth studying?
@@Satyam.27 Thanks for reading my comments. Although the lead subject mentioned Nihilism and the philosophy of Emil Cioran, my comments are not directed from the abstract perspective of academic studies of philosophy per se, they come directly from my lived experience of suffering in the context of caring for my son who was diagnosed with an acute serious mental illness 26 years ago and the present day situation whereby the behavioural symptoms are as evident today as they were way back. So psychological disorder and consequently suffering are a part of the daily exigencies of his and my life, given that he lives with me. The reality is that the orthodox advice of professionals is not meeting my needs as his carer and significant other person in his relationship with the world around him, unfortunately and so in order to survive I am forced to look elsewhere for wisdom that meets the circumstances we are faced with. After searching far and wide, not by studying philosophy, religion or psychology as an academic pursuit, I have found that the teachings of J Krishnamurti are really the only thing that I can relate to that speaks directly to my situation. The gist of it is learning about facts and non-facts instantaneously, not building a memory base of ideas as reference points for later uptake as required. As to your remarks about studying philosophy as a career course, I am not in a position to provide any advice to you, but I wish you good fortune in whatever you decide regarding your future. cheers!
@@grahaminglis4242 Thankyou very much for your response sir, I probably wasn't clear enough but I wasn't talking about learning philosophy for career or through formal education, I've this desire to become wiser that I should be able to make right decisions and I should know what's important in life and what's not, do you think studying philosophy (through youtube and books) can help me fullfil this desire of becoming wise and emotionally mature, and maybe increase the overall happiness in my life? Ever since I've started watching these videos I've noticed that I've become kinda dull and monotonous, I'm never too happy never too sad, I lost motivation to do anything as everything seems pointless, I find myself forcefully making goals to get myself excited, i kinda miss riding that rollercoaster of emotions, why am I feeling this way? looking forward to your reply, thankyou.
@@Satyam.27 Ah for an 18 year old you are asking some questions that go beyond the superficial aspects of the roller coaster of the teenagers’ emotions and life expectancies. Welcome to the emerging adult world where happiness is not an assured reality. By all means the RUclips channel carries a vast diversity of stuff that is designed to catch the viewers attention, but the downside is that it is confusing at the same time as there’s too much divergence in the matters covered. From RUclips’s perspective they are interested in quantity of opinions so as to appeal to the widest audience uptake. It can cause contradictions and conflict between opposites, particularly in the area of politics. Many people are featured as contributors because they are authors seeking publicity and therefore book sales. Others have editorial links to specific public domains that have a large supporting group of followers and clientele whose interests and appetites for certain causes are expanded by video presentations. So be careful not to overload your perceptive curiosity with junk information that will only leave you disenchanted and disappointed. After all there is no one repository of wisdom that suits everyone and guarantees happiness at the end. From my 77 year old view, the best advice I might offer you is to doubt anything that purports to know everything and resist conclusions that close down your natural curiosity to see life as a living movement with no fixed permanent outcomes. Good luck!
Dear @Pursuit of Wonder i am writing a 10 page paper about existential nihilism for my ethics class right now. I chose to do so because of your Videos, they were what got me interested in philosophy in the first place. This video is literally perfectly timed. I think your videos are absolutely amazing and so far i have enjoyed every single one of them!
Cioran's work is reassuring. Its like a hug. I read his books when I have a depression episode and I feel better. I kind of embrace my feelings and start to move up from that.
Nihilism is liberating. It's like saying: "O.K. everything is lost. Now, whatever years I have left in this life is like a bonus. I can try to live well in this gift of time before nothingness takea over.
To be dead is just a matter of losing consciousness, I think death might be actually cozy and welcome it, not fear it. I don't think I've depression but sometimes I just thought about death like "why not?". In death, I'd lose greed, joy, misery, losing human consciousness might really be a salvation.
The Trouble With Being Born is one of the greatest books ever written-monolithic, unrelenting, merciless and troubling. It revealed to me my 60 year old self, 30 years earlier. A must read!
My nihilistic view of life literally transformed me into a stoic and a humorous absurdist kind of person My whole teenage years i was *so* depressed about this fact that I don't talk with this kind of stuff with anyone, even my family/friends I feel so alien and stupid for having this kind of thinking that, that time i literally wished i had those kinds of depression people typically have like having debts, relationship problems, having a disability, or any problems that can just be resolved by simply being optimistic, having help,being with others/anyone and just never give up about it This state of mine grew with me throughout the years that it literally became part of my personality and it had me accept the fact that life is indeed meaningless and absurd Saying that we *create our own color* and *meaning in our life* Is like being those colored sand pebbles amongst thousand sand in the beach Yeah that's right It doesn't make any difference
I feel you mate,in my moments of being naive I have tryed to talk with others about the meaningless of life and all I got was a smile,a laugh or vague answer.
As one that has a mental illness, like schizoaffectice disorder, I can tell you its not great. The help you do get are pills that stop your creative process thinking, and have this irrational fear of persecution, you dont know about who. The only blessing I have is poetry, pessimistic philosophies, and the fact that my father commited suicide, uneducated, on drugs, and he was unemployed. So just my learning about concepts of philosophies that are next to being a God, I find resolution, if not equality with the greatest minds that ever existed.
As I lay here in battle with my own insomnia/procrastinating sleep contemplating over life, consciousness, free will and why we even care enough to wonder, knowing I have work in less than 5 hours I somehow feel better about having to deal with it now after watching this. Thank you Emil Cioran for explaining that even though none of it actually matters the illusion of it all is just as meaningful and thank you Pursuit of Wonder for all the amazing content you put out. Every video you upload gives me faith that maybe our generation isn't so fucked after all.
Life is not meaningless; life is just life. It can be meaningless, it can be meaningful, its just what it is. it exist. its just it. it doesnt have to meaningless; it doesnt have to be meaningful; it doesnt have to be anything. life is just life. existence is just existence. its just what it is.
When I think about the purpose of life, the following comes to mind from Jordan Peterson ― “The purpose of life, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.”
So glad to see that you chose to talk about Emil Cioran one of biggest thinkers my country had. Thank you so much for all the amazing videos that you are creating!
I must thank you for this video. Though I am a romanian myself, I have never heard of Mr. Cioran until now. The sad part about the thinkers from my country is that they are ever hardly spoken of or mentioned. Thus, I must thank you.
Cioran inspired me. In my opinion, he is the greatest philosopher, but also a great writer. The fact that he can be treated as the most outstanding philosopher is also supported by the fact that he despised awards, public appearances, and that he avoided publicity in general. Moreover, he consistently preaches these terribly unpopular theses.
There was an episode of House in which intelligence was mentioned as being a curse. A constant reminder that everything is meaninglessness is sad so maybe ignorance is bliss. But as Cioran mentions, "everything that is formulated becomes more tolerable." We have to accept it and not run from it because that's the only way we'll make sense of the nonsense and create our own purpose and meaning, making our accidental existence worthwhile.
You know, there is a certain strength gained from the fact that nobody can stop me from eventually dying. What a power rush. It was my purpose for being after all, and my inevitable goal in life.
Society's creation of rootless people is what causes ingratitude about life, pushing people to focus on the possibility of an afterlife and on talk, rather than this life and work, respectively. One I got this message, I fell in love with it, embracing this life and work as my birthright instead of tempting clinical dissociation as I did for years. What a relief!
@@theflyingguillotine3788 I tried to read 'The Trouble of Being Born' but most if it doesn't make sense to me; I don't understand what many of the aphorisms are trying to convey.
At times when I have felt very tired in life, I have often fixated on the thought of why can't there just be nothing. The nihilist in me loves the idea. I have wtf moments of life where it seems so strange and surreal to be at a very specific point of time & space.
Becoming conscious to reality, gives you a perspective of its existence. You can go two ways with this. Life has no meaning or I will give life meaning. One gives up control, while the other see their own. And just because there are things beyond your control, there is always one thing you can control... Your thoughts and actions. This life can be worth everything or nothing. The key component to you is you.
I am a lonely middle age (43) with no partner and no friends. I grew up in orphanage with my sister but unfortunately she too het own life. I suffer from depression and long walks helps me a lot. Last month I've decided to record my walks and upload them on RUclips, and now I'm creating something out of my empty walks and I do feel a bit better.
I woke up in the middle of the night a few years ago. I didn't know where I was, who I was, or what I was. As I ran my fingers on the bed I didn't know that it was a bed! And so I ask myself what am I as my arms came up in my hands before me looked foreign, like I didn't know what they were, as if I was seeing my hands for the first time. I felt as if my bedroom was floating but I didn't know it was a bedroom I didn't recognize anything in the bedroom. Then the question came to me who do I belong to? Who do I belong to? As I sat there waiting for an answer I remembered , I belongs to God! Then I remembered did I belong to my son! Then slowly I began to recognize did I was in my bed in my apartment I'm beginning to feel safe again. I laid down and try to go back to sleep but as I fell into slumber, I felt as if my mind was leaving again , so I quickly sat back up. And begin to remind myself that, I belong to my son and I belong to God. And then I try to remember as I could about my life where I live my apartment. I was worried that if I fell back asleep and I could not remember who I was in the morning, how would my son know how to come and find me if all that was left of me was my body. If it had not been my belief that I belong to God, I would probably be a vegetable in a mental institution. True story.
Thank you. You've done the majority of my favourite writers now, and I'm happy to here you talk of them. I hope some other person will see this video and find some companionship in Cioran, Kafka, Bukowski, or just your videos.
6:21- 6:32 saved me from the never ending thought of 'nothing matters'... Existential nihilism earlier left me no room to live or breathe or to have been doing that may or may not matter
I believe that life has meaning and is something that must be taken seriously but Cioran style of writing and wit was indeed something special. Each sentence beautifully constructed and it'd bring a whole new world with it. One could literally can take a sentence, at random from Cioran books and find in it one story or question so powerful and primordial, that one could a write another book about it
We live because we are hardwired to do so. Some ridden with grief break this hardwired rule of living for the sake of living . Everyone knows what happens after that
"Where we really want to be is naked, singing in the rainforest, stoned, and exulted. One with the souls of the ancestors, one with the Gian spirit of the planet." -Terence McKenna
Ah, you clever hippie! Trying to use “mystical” experiences to escape the death of god are we? I still smell the stench of the old man’s corpse on you! Your god died and now you want someone else’s god to take his place!
Why do I want to be in a rainforest? I'd get a disease in 10 seconds. Nature nates us. It is remorseless in its attempts to destroy us. Man is innately at odds with the rest of his surroundings. We are in constant struggle. With climate change, nature will engage in pitiless revenge against us. Remorless warfare without mercy. All of nature is now merely a prelude to catastrophe. Climate change is a time barrier that turns all human hopes into mere ash. Well see how nice nature looks once we've raped it to death, and it responds by turning our planet into Venus.
Life is just a bowl of cherries Don't take it serious Life's too mysterious You work, you save, you worry so But you can't take your dough When you go, go, go Keep repeating, it's the berries The strongest oak must fall The best things in life to you were just loaned So how can you lose what you never owned Life is just a bowl of cherries So live and laugh at it all Keep repeating, it's the berries You know the strongest oak has got to fall The sweet things in life to you were just loaned So how can you lose what you never owned Life is just a bowl of cherries So live it, love it, wriggle your ears And think nothing of it, you can't do without it There's no two ways about it You live and you laugh at it all.
Accepting the premise that life has a meaning, I would say that if emotion and feeling serve homeostasis, and life is regulated by emotion and feeling, then the meaning of life is: feeling to be. Sentir para ser.
@@theboombody it can go as deep as you want it to go. I’m saying that if animals didn’t have feelings then they wouldn’t be able to survive as nimbly and would probably cease to exist. So, in order to be, we need to feel. Feeling can go from physical pain from an injury or even hunger for example. The ultimate goal is always the continuation of the species and that is possible through homeostasis.
I feel blessed to live in a time when life topics can be explored in the light of robust understandings. Extraordinary individuals lacking such resources seem so often predisposed to aberrant neural processing. Essentially doomed to play out an unproductive and joyless drama with misplaced conflict as motive. TY for the synapsis and I'll pass on the deep dive.
Dark and beautiful. Great Video - thank you! Emil Cioran said in an interview that he wrote these things in his dark hours and that it was always some kind of therapeutic. So it seems he wasn't unhappy all the time but when he was, he wrote.
Turns out I've had the same exact view of life for years as this man. Mine was borne out of lifelong trauma and mental illness, however. While being deeply knowledgeable of my conditions, the human mind, society as a whole; I still struggle with the gutting impediments of my being.
It's fascinating how much depth you can cover in 10 minutes. I love your videos. This one especially, reminds me of the early days of The School of Life. Great to hear about a new author and get to know their work in this way.
That it is, but where one may see a beautiful coral reef, thriving and vibrant, another may perceive a polluted, muddy lake covered over by algae. One's perspective of the life we're all trapped in is entirely subject to their own views and experiences.
I imagine Emil as a guy swimming in ocean, at night, with no stars, sometimes with storms and sharks around him, maybe sinking. In all absurdity and meaningless of his life, sometimes he is able to take a breath and see a glimpse of hope in way of writing his journey... in the abyss.
What is seen as simple easily is usually not such. It’s the things that seems difficult that made you lose confidence, that once completed or accomplished you reply, “wow, that was easy or easier than I thought”. This goes for this topic, especially for this comment section.
Life has no purpose other that it's continued existence, live reproduce and die without end. So yes, life has a purpose, it's own purpose that means only something it itself and nothing more than that.
Cioran's style in french, for those who have read some of his work, is astonishingly funny and insightful...and full of despair, which amounts to being the same.
@@itsrando3923 Just because I can't disprove meaninglessness doesn't mean it's not all one big lie. I definitely believe meaninglessness is a big lie that caught on because people just started everything was subjective in order to avoid trying to resolve certain mental contradictions. They assign a ton of meaning to contradictions and no meaning to anything else.
Every day is another day where I struggle with existentialistic thoughts and lack of purpose. I do have my meaning and goals, but I constantly have to remind myself what I fight for and why its worth it, even tough I know my purposes are social and cultural illusions, and that I and this world is worthless.
Way I see it: we are here, living and breathing. We know we won't live forever so try and be the best human you can. Don't get stressed out if possible. Try to have a laugh and make good memories as much as possible. Spend time with friends and family. Just try and make the best of your time on this planet while you are alive. Have a laugh - be healthy, but also not so much that it cuts you off from people and allow yourself treats to cut loose from time to time. Try new things. Find what you enjoy and spend more time doing it. Now go and have a blast!
I am 16 and a dropout, working on my first novel and I can't believe that I have been able to think similarly as a lot of great philosophers, and Emil Cioran would be one of them. I personally have been able to accept a lot of paradoxes and absurdities of life and when I say that, I mean it from within, where there is no resistance. And trust me if anyone ever achieves their own method to accept and still stay happy, they’d probably have the true understanding and the essence of subtlety. (What I’m saying here can even be related to any kind of joy.) Note-There are many way variations to things and may or maybe not is the same with this idea, so I could be wrong and right and nothing at all and still something, but if you state it, THEN you are wrong.
"If you can remove all of your biological factors and if you are able to accept the failure of your life, then you are not a human being - it's simply not possible, yet.
Life has the meaning we give it. If you want to think it means nothing so be it. If you want it to mean something do your best to make your meaning the point of your efforts.....simple!
"Discussing or creatively expressing the notion that all is meaningless or void of meaning is in it self a creation of meaning out of the void...." That's the thing , the meaning is only a Creation . A human one . It's not something we realise it's there , it's something we create to try and explain something else .
I've watched every video that you've made all of them are great it's your short stories that get me though. Your work is phenomenal with or without a point. I truly feel like the contents of the blender after watching them
I think that I am lucky to be able to experience life and that life is about experiencing everything you want to experience and to live a mostly happy life and to bring happiness into other people's life
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*"I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?"* That was an excellent quote to end on.
Spoiler alert!
How are we an accident we exist by chance not by accident
@@barrelsinger9828 i mean, if the condom breaks, its by accident fam.
the stupid thing u mean
@@barrelsinger9828 evolution was kind of an accident but yeah your parents giving birth to you is by chance.
Nihilism doesn't have to be negative at all. On the contrary, it can give us the freedom not to take things so seriously.
Exactly. Nihilism is a liberation! Too many people confuse nihilism with pessimism
Life is not objective meaningless as Fredrich Nietzsche claimed. There is a purpose to life. To know the Great I AM . So that you can know who you were created to be.. A wise man once said "I am who I AM says I am"
ruclips.net/video/4u5huPYmTOs/видео.html (the purpose of life)
Is to be
ruclips.net/video/YbipxLDtY8c/видео.html (the image of God)
@Kiwi Smith am telling you God exists. He is real. We, human beings try to look for meaning in the universe. Because the universe is meaningful..why is the purpose of evolution installing that need in our soul if that need doesn't actually exist.. Am trying to tell you we have that need cuz that need was installed by God in order for you to seek him.
Mathew 7:7
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
@@kabusohikaru6187 well it might be because they're purpose driven and people without purpose scare them since they're different? I don't know
@@keyboardevangelist meaning is just a human concept. Think about it, if the humanity disappear everything will become meaningless.
"If nothing matters then it shouldn't matter that nothing matters."
Except pain matters.
And yet it does.
@@raresmircea the mere idea of god has changed humanity so much, i hate it
@@ozzylepunknown551 The things you hate have power over you. Someone who meditates and develops mindfulness (a kind of meta-awareness that’s allocentric instead of egocentric) starts seeing just how many parasitic activities plague the normal human mind. In my case, a lot of things pertaining to fake news, politics, religious motivated acts, etc are grabbing onto my attention and trigger very ugly states of being. And unfortunately i’m the one who lives with these toxic states-those who are the cause of those "wrongdoings" are fine and dandy.
You mustn’t hate it, you must understand it. You must learn how it came about and you must accept its necessity and merits. Only then you can engage in the social discourse in such a way to aid transcending it, or help reform it.
Sitting parasitized by negative states like hate is prejudicing both you and the world. Acting from hate only serves to inflame the people in the other camp. In fact they need you to hate them, that’s how they build and maintain their own identity and zest for doing what they do. "Haters" is what motivates them. Just like muscles are strengthened against opposing forces, the religious spirit is strengthened when it’s pitted against vehement atheistic retorts. Like someone once said, if you start by shouting at someone you’ll automatically switch something in their brain that will prevent them from taking in any further information from you, so better save your breath.
@@raresmircea i know, i have studied a lot of buddha and other religions along with philosophies like positive nihilism and absurdism. I am very aware of my own thoughts and actions and it is often hard to not get anxious from them. Sometimes i reach a feeling of thinking nothing, its the calmest state i can ever be in.
I have a thought when I was a little kid. "Who is the father of my great grand father?" Nobody in the family can answer me. I have learned so much from that lesson that when we die, within 100 years nobody will ever know or remember us anymore.
*"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain." - Roy, the blade runner*
Which of the four great grand fathers?
For my family sitting around telling us anecdotes of their fathers and their grandfathers and great grand father's is a normal and enjoyable thing, and now I understand the point of passing them on.
Even if someone remembers you after your death, it doesn't matter, you will be non existent.
Ask the heirs of Fidel Castro. Revolutionaries live forever
7 billion people on this planet don't know 99.9% of people that have ever lived. In 100 years we will be forgotten, and yet, we fight for respect on a daily basis. It's insane but it's necessary for survival. I think we're being played by a higher power.
this video was an accident, why should I take it seriously....
Dont. Even asking that question is effectively redundant then.
Alternatively,
"Your comment was an accident, why should I take it seriously ??"
It then goes into an infinite regress effectively proving the very first assumption but actually the later infinite assumptions that follow are actually a consequence of the first. So it becomes tautological.
@David Thornton
This video was created. There is no proof the universe was. Where did God come from?
@David Thornton
This video was created. There is no proof the universe was. Where did God come from?
me·men·to mo·ri
@David Thornton
No. If everything must have an origin, so does God. If you make an exception, you can't make it only for your favorite fantasy, like God. You commit the logical error of Special Pleading.
You invented something in your head (God), then you use the invented characteristics (eternal) of the invented God to argue God. Doesn't work like that.
We can SEE the universe. That helps a lot. God is nowhere to be found. It's just as if he didn't exist. Oh wait! He doesn't.
My thoughts before this video: “I need to do my school work.”
My thoughts after this video: “School work, there is no point in doing it.”
@@keyboardevangelist bruh I’m Christian and all but I didn’t ask for this and I’m pretty sure no one else has either
@@keyboardevangelist HA the irony of this on a video about nihilism
@@keyboardevangelist ah shit Jehovah witness have gone digital.
@@bob-manuel I'm a jehovah witness but I laughed when I saw this😂☺️
@@lyr5641 The absurdities of life, amirite?
Lol I’m lying down in bed just feeling lost in life. 21 and don’t know what I’m doing. I have no goals. I kind of just take it day by day. But it’s getting boring.
Set goals bro and fulfill them!
Hang in there. You will eventually find what you want to do. One step at a time. It's never too late. The most important thing obviously is to be a rational kind human being.
Ifkr! Nothing excites anymore.
“When all the current reasons-moral, esthetic, religious, social, and so on-no longer guide one’s life, how can one sustain life without succumbing to nothingness? . . . 𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨...”
You might have depression? I don’t know seriously but I hope you’ll get better ❤️
Had a death in the family yesterday, this helped put things into perspective. We all have to die of something, pain only exists in the living. For whatever reason, these "dark" thinkers have always seemed to bring a certain comfort. Or maybe it's the totality of a lack thereof that makes it all even out. Either way thank you for this, I needed it
First, I'm sorry for your loss, even if this is an old comment, I know deaths are hard. I just wanted to add, I wonder if 'dark' thinkers bring a certain comfort to so many through sheer acceptance of suffering. I feel like so often our suffering is met with judgment like "you shouldn't feel that' or 'that is a negative feeling' etc. The logic always seems to go "That feels bad, therefore it is bad, and since it is bad, we have to eradicate it." (Think toxic the positivity spread in popular psychology all the time these days) I think that leads to a denying of and discomfort around 'negative' feelings like sadness, anger, frustration, despair, shame, fear, etc. For many 'dark' thinkers these feelings are just a day-to-day reality, probably from depression or anxiety or other mood 'disorders' (I put disorders in quotes here because I think even that language is an example of what I'm talking about, that if you are experiencing that, then there is something wrong with you), it becomes an inescapable fact. Then, when met with the denial and rejection of society, that frustration and disconnect is deepened and reinforced, forcing them to confront those aspects of society, denial is no longer an option. Their criticisms and thoughts are freeing to many of us as they discuss all the things that we are typically forced to hide, deny, or otherwise ignore the existence of. But we all experience them. For the 'dark' thinkers the depression or anxiety leads them to reflection of their internal life, they try to understand their own psyche and emotions, as well as their relationship to society. While not all of us are rejected by society in the same way as the 'darker' thinkers may be, and have been, we all still suffer from the rejection of 'negative' thoughts and feelings. When we see someone expressing these things, writing and reflecting on them, it is freeing, because we are finally seeing our own suffering acknowledged. At least, that's what makes sense to me.
@@jvckpottabsolutely
@@jvckpottVery well put, thank you for your comment. 😊
"Everything that is formulated becomes more tolerable." Thank you.
there does not exist an expressive method which can express truth and as soon as truth is understood you cannot express it therefore truth is really never completely understood therefore what you formulate must fall short of complete truth ... last mile to complete truth must seem reachable or else you will give up running that last mile ... now why did i write this? did spirit of Emil Cioran enter me while i was asleep?
I think the correct version is (ro) "Orice este formulat, este diminuat in intensitate" / (en) "Anything that is formulated, is diminished in intensity"
I found his writings weirdly uplifting. ˝What do you do from morning to night? I endure myself¨ EC
Me too. It's so over the top pessimistic that it makes me giggle.
Hits hard as a guy with insomnia.
The best.
When 17 I was suicidal. I literally searched for ways to die without a trace. In my search I stumbled upon a Cioran quote from the book "On the heights of despair". It sounded something like this : "if you're thinking of suicide it's already too late." Somehow I just stopped whatever tf I was doing with my life. I've read the whole book and kept notes from it everywhere. I was no longer afraid of living an absurd life. I embraced it and overcame my depression. Another 17 years later I'm a different person now. I feel powerful and meaningful. My loved ones rely on my high morale when feeling down. I believe it's because I read that book at the right moment in my life and it just clicked for me.
@Seriedade XD thanks for sharing your story. I wish you best of luck
What a good way to start off December
Pog
November is over though
Depression;*
Ha
What a good way to start the new year
This hits home. “Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”
- Albert Camus
Good to see you here!
@@Dacademeca You as well, the philosophy community is small! :D
Fun fact! Cioran has met with Camus once, but he really didn't like him and he sometimes used to talk about him, calling Camus "mediocre". There's even a video on youtube when Cioran talks about him.
@@maciej4349 interesting! will check that out, thx
@@maciej4349 Mediocre in what way? Camus found a way to have fun and enjoy life in the midst of absurdity and Cioran stayed at heights of despair till his last breath.
The irony in feeling happy that I'm not alone in feeling meaningless and miserable during bouts of insomnia, depression, sleep paralysis, and drug abuse
Exactly!!!!
Like, nihilism tend to bend and entangle itself from it's two points (the pessimistic and the optimistic) in a cicle, just like most things in our physical Universe. It's beautiful and scary at the same time.
@@gavabundo_0072 Absolutely underrated comment, was just what I wanted to say.
@@gavabundo_0072 Maybe what makes something beautiful is in the depths of fear. But something that is too beautiful can generate fear.
The sleep paralysis really gets to me . Even the day feels strange when these have happened ,strange and hellish, even eerie but all too real.
“Since death follows from birth, it is actually the memory of our birth that is the tragic problem of life.” I love ideas like this, they make your head explode. Most people think it’s the idea of death that’s the problem, but the idea of birth? Who TF thinks like that? This guy.
I’m a simple man. I see Pursuit of Wonder, I click for no reason.
I disagree, the reason was actually for no reason.
@@ogbm4338 That’s a very reasonable point
@@user-vr5zk9ox8d Correct, with much reason being reasonably reasonable.
@@user-vr5zk9ox8d reasonably pointless
Lol
“After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.”
-Emil Cioran
@ Tom Robinson
Human beings who come into contact with the psychological reality of suffering etc have to find a way to carry on being faced with the unrelenting phenomena of despair for no discernible reason. Ordinary thinking based upon logic and reasoning, the so called remedy of positive psychology doesn’t cut it and oneself is therefore seemingly bereft and feels adrift of society’s traditional conditioning with no apparent way back.
At this point the despairing person either surrenders to the need to get help from other people who are regarded as knowing what to do next, or they may take the opportunity to self learn by demanding that enough is enough of suffering and remain steadfast with the fact of ‘what is’ without resistance or escape, not as a strategy, but just to understand the full extent of the situation. This approach, although not recommended by specialists, enables oneself to go beyond the boundaries of man made thought processes by seeing firsthand the limitations of fragmented knowledge/experience and the inherent dangers in expecting that every situation has a readymade answer in the form of a doing action.
Only through self-knowledge can the wholeness of non-verbal ‘silence’ enter into consciousness to negate and mutate the psychological suffering state by the action of insight that in not yours or mine and therefore perhaps the natural meditative movement of compassion. I have no way of knowing if Emil Cioran had reached the full understanding of this mind state, but the quote reads that he likely did.
@@grahaminglis4242 I'm 18, I find these philosophy videos quite intriguing, but in most of them the conclusion I get is, life is meaningless and we don't know anything about it, I could be wrong but this is what I'm getting from a surface level, is philosophy even worth spending time diving in and giving it a couple of years if in the end I'm gonna come to the same conclusions, also philosophy seems kinda dark and dull, I feel like it's gonna make me emotionless and depressed, so in the end, my question is, is philosophy worth studying?
@@Satyam.27
Thanks for reading my comments. Although the lead subject mentioned Nihilism and the philosophy of Emil Cioran, my comments are not directed from the abstract perspective of academic studies of philosophy per se, they come directly from my lived experience of suffering in the context of caring for my son who was diagnosed with an acute serious mental illness 26 years ago and the present day situation whereby the behavioural symptoms are as evident today as they were way back. So psychological disorder and consequently suffering are a part of the daily exigencies of his and my life, given that he lives with me.
The reality is that the orthodox advice of professionals is not meeting my needs as his carer and significant other person in his relationship with the world around him, unfortunately and so in order to survive I am forced to look elsewhere for wisdom that meets the circumstances we are faced with. After searching far and wide, not by studying philosophy, religion or psychology as an academic pursuit, I have found that the teachings of J Krishnamurti are really the only thing that I can relate to that speaks directly to my situation. The gist of it is learning about facts and non-facts instantaneously, not building a memory base of ideas as reference points for later uptake as required.
As to your remarks about studying philosophy as a career course, I am not in a position to provide any advice to you, but I wish you good fortune in whatever you decide regarding your future. cheers!
@@grahaminglis4242 Thankyou very much for your response sir, I probably wasn't clear enough but I wasn't talking about learning philosophy for career or through formal education, I've this desire to become wiser that I should be able to make right decisions and I should know what's important in life and what's not, do you think studying philosophy (through youtube and books) can help me fullfil this desire of becoming wise and emotionally mature, and maybe increase the overall happiness in my life?
Ever since I've started watching these videos I've noticed that I've become kinda dull and monotonous, I'm never too happy never too sad, I lost motivation to do anything as everything seems pointless, I find myself forcefully making goals to get myself excited, i kinda miss riding that rollercoaster of emotions, why am I feeling this way?
looking forward to your reply, thankyou.
@@Satyam.27
Ah for an 18 year old you are asking some questions that go beyond the superficial aspects of the roller coaster of the teenagers’ emotions and life expectancies. Welcome to the emerging adult world where happiness is not an assured reality. By all means the RUclips channel carries a vast diversity of stuff that is designed to catch the viewers attention, but the downside is that it is confusing at the same time as there’s too much divergence in the matters covered. From RUclips’s perspective they are interested in quantity of opinions so as to appeal to the widest audience uptake. It can cause contradictions and conflict between opposites, particularly in the area of politics. Many people are featured as contributors because they are authors seeking publicity and therefore book sales. Others have editorial links to specific public domains that have a large supporting group of followers and clientele whose interests and appetites for certain causes are expanded by video presentations.
So be careful not to overload your perceptive curiosity with junk information that will only leave you disenchanted and disappointed. After all there is no one repository of wisdom that suits everyone and guarantees happiness at the end.
From my 77 year old view, the best advice I might offer you is to doubt anything that purports to know everything and resist conclusions that close down your natural curiosity to see life as a living movement with no fixed permanent outcomes. Good luck!
Dear @Pursuit of Wonder i am writing a 10 page paper about existential nihilism for my ethics class right now. I chose to do so because of your Videos, they were what got me interested in philosophy in the first place. This video is literally perfectly timed.
I think your videos are absolutely amazing and so far i have enjoyed every single one of them!
Cioran's work is reassuring. Its like a hug.
I read his books when I have a depression episode and I feel better. I kind of embrace my feelings and start to move up from that.
Cioran is probably my most favourite "dark side" philosopher, love his aphorisms
All gall divided is a wonderful read if you ever find the time
I have a simple philosophy. I see a Pursuit of Wonder notification, I click it.
Lol, we have a similar sense of humour 😉
Nihilism is liberating. It's like saying: "O.K. everything is lost. Now, whatever years I have left in this life is like a bonus. I can try to live well in this gift of time before nothingness takea over.
To be dead is just a matter of losing consciousness, I think death might be actually cozy and welcome it, not fear it. I don't think I've depression but sometimes I just thought about death like "why not?". In death, I'd lose greed, joy, misery, losing human consciousness might really be a salvation.
Right
This resonated with me greatly. Cried a little inside then purchased an Emil Cioran book straight after. Fantastic page. Subscribed!
The Trouble With Being Born is one of the greatest books ever written-monolithic, unrelenting, merciless and troubling. It revealed to me my 60 year old self, 30 years earlier. A must read!
Where can i download it for free?
@@nakakamanghangkaalaman6043 You'll have to search the internet my friend. I had purchased it.
K O my thoughts exactly !❤
Happy National Day Romanians everywhere!
Thank you and Happy national day!
Uite un român cu gusturi bune, unul care chiar vrea sa învețe ceva 💪😁
❤
🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴
🇷🇴
🤠🤠
My nihilistic view of life literally transformed me into a stoic and a humorous absurdist kind of person
My whole teenage years i was *so* depressed about this fact that I don't talk with this kind of stuff with anyone, even my family/friends
I feel so alien and stupid for having this kind of thinking that, that time i literally wished i had those kinds of depression people typically have like having debts, relationship problems, having a disability, or any problems that can just be resolved by simply being optimistic, having help,being with others/anyone and just never give up about it
This state of mine grew with me throughout the years that it literally became part of my personality
and it had me accept the fact that life is indeed meaningless and absurd
Saying that we *create our own color* and *meaning in our life*
Is like being those colored sand pebbles amongst thousand sand in the beach
Yeah that's right
It doesn't make any difference
I feel you mate,in my moments of being naive I have tryed to talk with others about the meaningless of life and all I got was a smile,a laugh or vague answer.
As one that has a mental illness, like schizoaffectice disorder, I can tell you its not great. The help you do get are pills that stop your creative process thinking, and have this irrational fear of persecution, you dont know about who. The only blessing I have is poetry, pessimistic philosophies, and the fact that my father commited suicide, uneducated, on drugs, and he was unemployed. So just my learning about concepts of philosophies that are next to being a God, I find resolution, if not equality with the greatest minds that ever existed.
As I lay here in battle with my own insomnia/procrastinating sleep contemplating over life, consciousness, free will and why we even care enough to wonder, knowing I have work in less than 5 hours I somehow feel better about having to deal with it now after watching this. Thank you Emil Cioran for explaining that even though none of it actually matters the illusion of it all is just as meaningful and thank you Pursuit of Wonder for all the amazing content you put out. Every video you upload gives me faith that maybe our generation isn't so fucked after all.
Our generation absolutely is fucked. Not that it matters.
Life is not meaningless; life is just life. It can be meaningless, it can be meaningful, its just what it is. it exist. its just it. it doesnt have to meaningless; it doesnt have to be meaningful; it doesnt have to be anything. life is just life. existence is just existence. its just what it is.
When I think about the purpose of life, the following comes to mind from Jordan Peterson ― “The purpose of life, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.”
@Shirley Timple Am I allowed to think that one sentence makes senese and is fine, differentiating it from the author?
Shirley Timple completely false
@Shirley Timple Even if he is, what you claim him to be, his sentence doesn't lose any meaning. He is highly educated in philosophy and psychology.
@Shirley Timple yeah he is but chill
Nice try. It means nothing
So glad to see that you chose to talk about Emil Cioran one of biggest thinkers my country had. Thank you so much for all the amazing videos that you are creating!
I feel kinda proud to see a fellow romanian that has a similar thought process to me
Consider talking to your doctor about depression.
_Suntem atât de mulți dintre noi ca asta_
I must thank you for this video.
Though I am a romanian myself, I have never heard of Mr. Cioran until now. The sad part about the thinkers from my country is that they are ever hardly spoken of or mentioned.
Thus, I must thank you.
Da, din pacate.
"I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?" - Emil Cioran
Who says youre an accident?
@@Wilkins325 "This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful."
- Barry Diler
There are no accidents
@Juan Perez master oogway
@@aqwandrew6330 you sound really depressed 😂😂
All human beings have value, quite often our light helps guide others out of the darkness and we don't even know it.
someone said "give up on your dreams and die" , "you would have never suffered of u were never born" and i felt that
Cioran inspired me. In my opinion, he is the greatest philosopher, but also a great writer. The fact that he can be treated as the most outstanding philosopher is also supported by the fact that he despised awards, public appearances, and that he avoided publicity in general. Moreover, he consistently preaches these terribly unpopular theses.
There was an episode of House in which intelligence was mentioned as being a curse. A constant reminder that everything is meaninglessness is sad so maybe ignorance is bliss. But as Cioran mentions, "everything that is formulated becomes more tolerable." We have to accept it and not run from it because that's the only way we'll make sense of the nonsense and create our own purpose and meaning, making our accidental existence worthwhile.
You know, there is a certain strength gained from the fact that nobody can stop me from eventually dying. What a power rush. It was my purpose for being after all, and my inevitable goal in life.
Society's creation of rootless people is what causes ingratitude about life, pushing people to focus on the possibility of an afterlife and on talk, rather than this life and work, respectively. One I got this message, I fell in love with it, embracing this life and work as my birthright instead of tempting clinical dissociation as I did for years. What a relief!
I need to read Cioran ASAP. It's been on my list for a couple years now
I can't find translations of his stuff. Only the trouble of being born which is really good.
Me too
You should start with On The Heights of Despair. That's a really good book ♡
@@theflyingguillotine3788 I tried to read 'The Trouble of Being Born' but most if it doesn't make sense to me; I don't understand what many of the aphorisms are trying to convey.
At times when I have felt very tired in life, I have often fixated on the thought of why can't there just be nothing. The nihilist in me loves the idea. I have wtf moments of life where it seems so strange and surreal to be at a very specific point of time & space.
Yeah. U care to much . Its just a coincidence ,why take it so seriously
I am here for my regular dose of existential crisis before exam tomorrow! :) Thank you pursuit of wonder!
Becoming conscious to reality, gives you a perspective of its existence. You can go two ways with this. Life has no meaning or I will give life meaning. One gives up control, while the other see their own. And just because there are things beyond your control, there is always one thing you can control... Your thoughts and actions. This life can be worth everything or nothing. The key component to you is you.
Life means just what it means to you.
You are not given meaning; you give meaning.
This RUclips channel has sparked such a deep interest in philosophy inside of me. Thank you I think I will do this with my life
I like the idea of a driver license photo. I'm gonna use mine
I am a lonely middle age (43) with no partner and no friends. I grew up in orphanage with my sister but unfortunately she too het own life. I suffer from depression and long walks helps me a lot. Last month I've decided to record my walks and upload them on RUclips, and now I'm creating something out of my empty walks and I do feel a bit better.
Hope it gets better for you man! I was very miserable too but I feel much better now.
A man after my own heart! Thank you for the introduction, and now to Amazon....
Best philosophy channel on RUclips
Great work
Nice quote "Everything that is formulated becomes more tolerable".
"anti-philosophy is a philosophy"
me: who am i? where am i? what am i? what is i? asdffdgl
😂
After watching the video me...I don't wanna continue my school works...I wanna just dive in all these
I think therefore I am
Why i am?
I woke up in the middle of the night a few years ago. I didn't know where I was, who I was, or what I was. As I ran my fingers on the bed I didn't know that it was a bed! And so I ask myself what am I as my arms came up in my hands before me looked foreign, like I didn't know what they were, as if I was seeing my hands for the first time. I felt as if my bedroom was floating but I didn't know it was a bedroom I didn't recognize anything in the bedroom. Then the question came to me who do I belong to? Who do I belong to? As I sat there waiting for an answer I remembered , I belongs to God! Then I remembered did I belong to my son! Then slowly I began to recognize did I was in my bed in my apartment I'm beginning to feel safe again. I laid down and try to go back to sleep but as I fell into slumber, I felt as if my mind was leaving again , so I quickly sat back up. And begin to remind myself that, I belong to my son and I belong to God. And then I try to remember as I could about my life where I live my apartment. I was worried that if I fell back asleep and I could not remember who I was in the morning, how would my son know how to come and find me if all that was left of me was my body. If it had not been my belief that I belong to God, I would probably be a vegetable in a mental institution. True story.
Emil Cioran was the original edgy goth kid who sat in the back of the classroom
same was with me! lol
Lol
@@Bluegofuccincrazy What about you? lol
nah that was Mainländer
Something like that.
Thank you. You've done the majority of my favourite writers now, and I'm happy to here you talk of them. I hope some other person will see this video and find some companionship in Cioran, Kafka, Bukowski, or just your videos.
6:21- 6:32 saved me from the never ending thought of 'nothing matters'... Existential nihilism earlier left me no room to live or breathe or to have been doing that may or may not matter
I believe that life has meaning and is something that must be taken seriously but Cioran style of writing and wit was indeed something special. Each sentence beautifully constructed and it'd bring a whole new world with it. One could literally can take a sentence, at random from Cioran books and find in it one story or question so powerful and primordial, that one could a write another book about it
You can be nihilistic but still have respect for the forces of nature that brought you this experience, including life.
We are not cursed with consciousness - consciousness is cursed with us.
Consciousness is goodness itself
Not if we lose our minds :)
@@emilcioran7686 hehe, what mind?, what consciousness? where is it?
*daily dose of existential crisis*
Not that I'm an expert but that'd be a rather superficial interpretation.
Let's take a minute and appreciate the visual beauty of this video. Love it. Whoever put it all together... Thank you.
We live because we are hardwired to do so. Some ridden with grief break this hardwired rule of living for the sake of living . Everyone knows what happens after that
"Where we really want to be is naked, singing in the rainforest, stoned, and exulted. One with the souls of the ancestors, one with the Gian spirit of the planet." -Terence McKenna
The bugs would eat you alive inside of 3 minutes.
Ah, you clever hippie! Trying to use “mystical” experiences to escape the death of god are we? I still smell the stench of the old man’s corpse on you! Your god died and now you want someone else’s god to take his place!
@@batsky6061 who knows if it is he or she
Or a trans haha
@@batsky6061 wtf are u talking about 😂😂😂😂
Why do I want to be in a rainforest? I'd get a disease in 10 seconds.
Nature nates us. It is remorseless in its attempts to destroy us. Man is innately at odds with the rest of his surroundings. We are in constant struggle. With climate change, nature will engage in pitiless revenge against us. Remorless warfare without mercy. All of nature is now merely a prelude to catastrophe. Climate change is a time barrier that turns all human hopes into mere ash. Well see how nice nature looks once we've raped it to death, and it responds by turning our planet into Venus.
Life is just a bowl of cherries
Don't take it serious
Life's too mysterious
You work, you save, you worry so
But you can't take your dough
When you go, go, go
Keep repeating, it's the berries
The strongest oak must fall
The best things in life to you were just loaned
So how can you lose what you never owned
Life is just a bowl of cherries
So live and laugh at it all
Keep repeating, it's the berries
You know the strongest oak has got to fall
The sweet things in life to you were just loaned
So how can you lose what you never owned
Life is just a bowl of cherries
So live it, love it, wriggle your ears
And think nothing of it, you can't do without it
There's no two ways about it
You live and you laugh at it all.
How practical is philosophy. Don't get me wrong, I love it.
never have i related with an author's life vision more than with that of this marvelous dude... so beautiful
i read some quotes from his works. His work is literally my philosophy on life and I am glad to have found him through this video
Accepting the premise that life has a meaning, I would say that if emotion and feeling serve homeostasis, and life is regulated by emotion and feeling, then the meaning of life is: feeling to be.
Sentir para ser.
You: emotion and feelings serve homeostasis now
Me: emotion and feelings can not stop rigor mortis later
No, life is about much more than feeling. Feelings are part of it but it goes deeper than that.
@@theboombody it can go as deep as you want it to go. I’m saying that if animals didn’t have feelings then they wouldn’t be able to survive as nimbly and would probably cease to exist.
So, in order to be, we need to feel. Feeling can go from physical pain from
an injury or even hunger for example. The ultimate goal is always the continuation of the species and that is possible through homeostasis.
I feel blessed to live in a time when life topics can be explored in the light of robust understandings. Extraordinary individuals lacking such resources seem so often predisposed to aberrant neural processing. Essentially doomed to play out an unproductive and joyless drama with misplaced conflict as motive. TY for the synapsis and I'll pass on the deep dive.
I am born in Romania. I studie philosophy and psychology in the Netherlands and I am truly obsessed with this .
ha ha, the most pessimistic job you will have in your feature
Life itself is a temporary gift, create/find your passions and enjoy/appreciate your life while you can.
Dark and beautiful. Great Video - thank you! Emil Cioran said in an interview that he wrote these things in his dark hours and that it was always some kind of therapeutic. So it seems he wasn't unhappy all the time but when he was, he wrote.
Turns out I've had the same exact view of life for years as this man. Mine was borne out of lifelong trauma and mental illness, however. While being deeply knowledgeable of my conditions, the human mind, society as a whole; I still struggle with the gutting impediments of my being.
I found my purpose with rescuing dogs. I trust them much more than humans
What's tour lifelong trauma!
Another great video! Thanks!
For me, Cioran is one of the greatest writers and thinkers. His books helped me get through the worst periods of my life.
It's fascinating how much depth you can cover in 10 minutes. I love your videos. This one especially, reminds me of the early days of The School of Life. Great to hear about a new author and get to know their work in this way.
Your script is so well worded and delivered. Bravo
as above, so below. there’s absolutely no reason to be so pessimistic about it, it’s all about perspective.
That it is, but where one may see a beautiful coral reef, thriving and vibrant, another may perceive a polluted, muddy lake covered over by algae. One's perspective of the life we're all trapped in is entirely subject to their own views and experiences.
I imagine Emil as a guy swimming in ocean, at night, with no stars, sometimes with storms and sharks around him, maybe sinking. In all absurdity and meaningless of his life, sometimes he is able to take a breath and see a glimpse of hope in way of writing his journey... in the abyss.
this was nice to read
That last quote literally saved my life.
I'm sorry to hear that.
I was just reading about Cioran the other day ! One of the biggest intelects of Romania
What is seen as simple easily is usually not such. It’s the things that seems difficult that made you lose confidence, that once completed or accomplished you reply, “wow, that was easy or easier than I thought”. This goes for this topic, especially for this comment section.
3:40 Looking at his bed, I understand why he was an insomniac.
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I just see pursuit of wonder notification and click instantly
I'm addicted to pow
Life has no purpose other that it's continued existence, live reproduce and die without end. So yes, life has a purpose, it's own purpose that means only something it itself and nothing more than that.
Cioran's style in french, for those who have read some of his work, is astonishingly funny and insightful...and full of despair, which amounts to being the same.
Yes. Cioran is such an underrated intellectual.
The haircut he had when he was young is all the reason anyone should need to live.
OG Henry Spencer
The first guy that pronounced "Hungary" correctly! Thank you!
Your life has the meaning you give it and what it’s meant to others.
Does it? Or do you just say that to comfort you in the face of true meaninglessness
@@itsrando3923 As Nietzsche said, “Whaddeva”.
@Ace K hehe. I guess so yeah. Its a strange world.
@@itsrando3923 Just because I can't disprove meaninglessness doesn't mean it's not all one big lie. I definitely believe meaninglessness is a big lie that caught on because people just started everything was subjective in order to avoid trying to resolve certain mental contradictions. They assign a ton of meaning to contradictions and no meaning to anything else.
@@theboombody The follow up question to that is what is the meaning of life then? The universe? Existence?
Every day is another day where I struggle with existentialistic thoughts and lack of purpose. I do have my meaning and goals, but I constantly have to remind myself what I fight for and why its worth it, even tough I know my purposes are social and cultural illusions, and that I and this world is worthless.
Way I see it: we are here, living and breathing. We know we won't live forever so try and be the best human you can. Don't get stressed out if possible. Try to have a laugh and make good memories as much as possible. Spend time with friends and family. Just try and make the best of your time on this planet while you are alive. Have a laugh - be healthy, but also not so much that it cuts you off from people and allow yourself treats to cut loose from time to time. Try new things. Find what you enjoy and spend more time doing it. Now go and have a blast!
NNN ends. *After post nut clarity*
We live for no real reason.
Heyy pursuit of wonder you made my life wonderful
I am 16 and a dropout, working on my first novel and I can't believe that I have been able to think similarly as a lot of great philosophers, and Emil Cioran would be one of them. I personally have been able to accept a lot of paradoxes and absurdities of life and when I say that, I mean it from within, where there is no resistance. And trust me if anyone ever achieves their own method to accept and still stay happy, they’d probably have the true understanding and the essence of subtlety.
(What I’m saying here can even be related to any kind of joy.)
Note-There are many way variations to things and may or maybe not is the same with this idea, so I could be wrong and right and nothing at all and still something, but if you state it, THEN you are wrong.
"If you can remove all of your biological factors and if you are able to accept the failure of your life, then you are not a human being - it's simply not possible, yet.
Life has the meaning we give it. If you want to think it means nothing so be it. If you want it to mean something do your best to make your meaning the point of your efforts.....simple!
"Discussing or creatively expressing the notion that all is meaningless or void of meaning is in it self a creation of meaning out of the void...."
That's the thing , the meaning is only a Creation . A human one . It's not something we realise it's there , it's something we create to try and explain something else .
I've watched every video that you've made all of them are great it's your short stories that get me though. Your work is phenomenal with or without a point. I truly feel like the contents of the blender after watching them
Momento mori, remember that you are going to die. Don’t take life too seriously - Marcus Aurelius
I think in exactly opposite way - life is quick, so explore and grow while you can; but then again, you have _nothing_ to contribute!
My brain : "Stop overthinking please"
Me : *watched this video*
This is the only question we should ask but except for seeking an answer, we are doing everything
I recomend one articale for read.. What is the Purpose of Life Islam Guide
I think that I am lucky to be able to experience life and that life is about experiencing everything you want to experience and to live a mostly happy life and to bring happiness into other people's life