@@lovepeaceisneverguaranteed7385 Death gives life meaning because death defines life. The fact that it is finite and fleeting gives it significance. The same way the rarity of diamonds and gold give them value.
Nothing is random. Interesting is relative and subjective, life implies death. "You can think life has meaning. You can think life is meaningless, youre right regardless"
“I now know why we die; death gives us the opportunity to know what life is all about. And when you find that out, you laugh yourself silly” -Alan Watts
I used to be a dogmatic believer that everything that had value needed a supernatural cause or source for it to be so. Until I became disillusioned with my faith and attended bio psychology. I learned that consciousness was made up of a long evolutionary process from a hollow dorsal nerve cord millions of years ago from a fish like ancestor. I was amazed at the totality of thought, perception, and being originated and survived the indifferent hand of nature. It was the most beautiful revaluation I have had in my life That despite the cake being made out of mere sugar and flour, that the moment and taste isn't hindered by understanding the naturalistic mechanisms of it. The mind is a beautiful are rare thing in our universe, and the absence of a supernatural meaning of its cause has only motivated my appreciation of it
@@connorohare1808 Same story my friend but with the opposite line. I used to be disillusioned with my faith and despite what I learned from all the sciences from biology to astronomy the couldnt gave me an answer .Only when i began to give a supernatural couse in everything then everything got a perfect valuable beauty ,from an ordinary cup of tea to the starry night of Van Gogh . good luck with your pursuit.
You will also find murder, rape, and theft in nature. Nature is not “good” or “evil.” It’s just what is. In my opinion, the fact that something must suffer for the benefit of something else, shows this world is nothing but a cycle of suffering. Cheers!
Connor O'Hare with all due respect you actually learned nothing you just adopted another mans whimsical idea and still have shit in your attic There is no explanation of consciousness My best guess is because it is the primary mover but who knows really
Other way around for me. I find these videos helpfull for my existencial "crisis". I also feel like i dont have an existencial crisis but more like a existencial sadness/ realisation of meaninglessness
im going to set notifications for this channel just so i can make the first comment upon posting "stop fucking recycling the same 'its time for my weekly existential crisis' comment on every single video"
I absolutely love how well your speaking style conveys what you want to say, it is perfectly blunt and truthful. I've always found comfort in the realism of your videos. Also you say all that needs to be said, and there are so many points to hit with your topics, yet no irrelevant fillers, every point you make is important and somehow you articulate it all to flow so comprehensively. Your content is greatness to me.
yet i was puzzled why this prose is peppered with some glaring false dichotomies, in the most challenging places? probably to create a sense of comfort and clarity amid chaos and general senselessness, aimed for the not-so-critically minded listeners. It's not great, far from it
@Christopher Tapia agree, it's not great position to take if your goal is to find comfort and meaning in the chaos rather than truth, or at least being truthful about what you know and do not know
@MARCUS M there are great many ways to find comfort in the world if ideas (i used to do that for decades), but most of them have very little to do with the actual truthfulness if you follow the path of comfort. Why is that? because the universe truly doesn't care about it's various little inhabitants and their little expectations, it's been proven over and over again, jus take some major natural disasters or extinction events as most "colorful" examples of that
"Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough." Richard P. Feynman
Life I’m good now my point was that during a depressive episode it’s not as easy as just investigating something deeply and suddenly everything is interesting. One of the signs of depression is that things you once found interesting are suddenly meaningless People like Feynman belong to a type of hyper motivated and myopic people who can’t even get depressed because they’re constantly on beast mode things like love and edifying your character tend not to affect these types
After listening to alan watts so much I now hear the word beautiful instead of meaningless when he says that life is meaningless. I used to see life being meaningless as an issue but now I think it's the best possible way for life to be; if you weren't born to fulfill something then there's no wrong answer, you can never wake up one day when you're 50 and say "my god, I've done it all wrong" because if there is no right answer then there cannot be a wrong one. So why not make your own meaning? Or maybe just enjoy the moment and what is. Why try to make sense of being a talking space monkey on a rotating rock when you could instead find other talking space moneys to laugh with and feel good together.
Pwnership Because laughing and feeling good together is a fleeting thing Life is a horror the baseline is depression and longing which is why a purpose and a higher power are comforting “Creating your own meaning” is also just called bullshitting yourself In the end whatever meaning you think you’re going to create is going to once again smack you in the face as pointless futility and you will default to behaving in whatever way affords you comfort and attention Still though some are blessed in that they’re wired to be self satisfied with whatever squirrel shit they tell themselves and for them it doesn’t matter whether they created their own meaning or were given it by someone else they’re going to be satisfied till they die
Exclusive Kings Accounts the Sun is an eternal ball of plasma an electric/dielectric field perturbation not a stupid finite continuously exploding hydrogen bomb
We feel more pressurised when others set the actions and thought processes for us and tell us to blend in. 99% of our life goes into getting aligned with the society and desired behaviour (such as get good job, get married, have kids) and with so much pressure we loose our uniqueness. Even if you ignore the desired behaviour it somewhere makes you question about your own purpose and we get tangled in the threads of life, purpose and meaning. But if you notice carefully you will find those moments which make you really feel alive in that person, in that award, in that love and this boosts the sense of belongingness and gives us peace. So probably we are good at finding peace and meaning anywhere we want to.
I hope you read this comment, I wanted you to know I look forward to each video and I always take something big away from each video. It has without a doubt helped me live a better life and overcome my anxiety and depression. I can't thank you enough.
I sometimes find it hard to sleep at night because everything about the thought of my future makes me anxious and I come to this channel to watch a video because they always help me calm down my thoughts Thank you for reminding me that existence is a miracle and that I'm a part of something bigger like the universe, thank you for helping me dream
I find funny that most people find this depression or give them existential crisis. This actually inspires me, to find meaning in meaningless on this absurd and weird thing called life!
This type of comment is ironically more played out than the ones saying it’s giving them depression I think only a certain kind of person finds this idea of creating your own meaning satisfying, the naturally self satisfied life lovers
This video was the last little nudge I needed to fully believe that I'm probably living in a simulation made by future generations and that I'm actually just pixels with simulated feelings and I'm ok with that now *cries in 1s and 0s*
Yea but the thing is reality can never be proved its like everything is an illusion but its up to u if u want to belive that u live in a simulation made by a God of some sorts.
we humans need nothing but Peace&joy people already have done that with religion but it’s honestly a basis of personal existentialism bringing generalized consensus off human nature which includes mortality, morality, and self actualization. What’s ironic is how people understand this but still set livelihood off it. Ignorance is bliss ig and not having that brings crappy thoughts like stimulative existence off theoretical prepositions and less the little things in life. It sucks lol
Celine Hatting but does it matter? You still feel, I still feel, things are still important to you and me, simulation or not it doesn’t really change anything
I was getting depressed trying to find motivation to live and find true meaning behind the big and little things we do. This video explained exactly how I was feeling. And he told me not what I wanted and always hear but what I NEEDED to hear. Thank you :)
This was beautiful, thank you I’ve been watching this channel for a long time and I know I can speak for a lot of people when I say this, you’ve helped us out so much in this life, I will for ever be thankful for the knowledge and wisdom you spread. A million times, thank you.
Meaning is an option to life, not a requirement. As far as we know, every other species doesn't care for meaning. Humans may be the only ones who can care. Again, it's an option, some people care, some don't.
the talent , depth of intelligence , realistic mortality and overall empathy it takes to make these videos is on another level. I am truly humbled and brought to tears by most of the videos on this channel, and often, i feel these videos are the only outlet to the VERY SAME -albeit not verbatim- thoughts, that I have on a daily and almost minute by minute basis.... can you make a video about people who think similarly to these videos? not sure what platform you could take on a video like that but it would be comforting to see..... as most of us who think and feel the same , do not often have others around them with like mindsets..... thank you for this incredible existential channel.
I am so grateful for this channel, these videos make me like I am not alone and my quiet thoughts are not strange and I am part of this wonderful journey called as life with people who think like me ofcourse there is a physical distance but it gives me hope that someday I won't seem like a stranger in this world.
Thank you for all that you do. Sometimes you say and echo exactly how I feel. Knowing I’m not so alone in all this vastness is meaning enough for me. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
It is has been said that life is but an illusion and the world is just a stage, so you're right, all we can do is go for it and do the best we can with our lives and for those of others. We are all in this together, we are one, yet individuals as well. Such a great program.....thank you!!
This is literally the video I’ve always needed, for some reason I’ve always had this calling, this calling to do nothing. The desire to do nothing is the most prominent problem I have. It is single handedly my existential crisis. The source of all my problems. I have no motivation, no desire, no longing, no happiness, no sadness, no *nothing*. I am of the age of 13, and feel like an old man who has seen all the wonders of the world. The bags under my eyes, the wrinkles on my forehead, the emotional scars tattooed in my personality, every event, every scene and frame in my movie called, “Life.” leaving its mark on my soul. I am still a blank page, and I hold the pen, yet I halt and I do not draw. I lay awake in my bedroom gazing at my ceiling questioning my existence. “Why am I here?” I think, this question has pondered me for ages. My salvation has always been religion, religion is the key and the gateway to life. Religion is my ANSWER! However, even my answer is pondered in the midsts of my conscious. “What is religion?”. “Is religion real?”. “Is there really an after life or paradise waiting for me at my deathbed?”. These questions without answers, these strings without ends give me chaos. And through the chaos do I find the beauty of life. I have come to the conclusion that the meaning of life is to live. And I will only find the meaning of life, once my life has been lived. So contrary to the belief of many, who believe to live your best life, you must do everything in your power to be the best and rise through a social hierarchy. I conclude, that one can only truly live their best life, by living. Everyone can be successful in the eyes of today’s people. Meaning expensive cars, nice homes, money, power. But, it is our very own minds that confine us from competing such tasks. We are ironically stopping ourselves from achieving our goals. However, once we break through our mental boundaries, and push back the limitations our mind has set upon itself, can we truly blossom. And the key to all of this? *Motivation*. Because without motivation and without any longing to do anything, you are only a blank piece of paper with a pen.
I’m 31 and haven’t made it passed the blank page yet. I choose to leave it blank to rebel against being summoned here I feel bad for holding back my talents and visions to share. But feeling bad is a feeling and that is something better than the nothing
The purpose of life is to become conscious. We are only here to learn and experience everything we can in this reality. Our lives are apertures through which the universe experiences and discovers itself. Like Alan Watt’s said “The universe is the game of the self which plays hide and seek for ever and ever.”
So when the trillionth girl gets raped that’s the universe experiencing itself Why does the universe love experiencing shitty things over and over and over?
The meaning is to understand who you are, a conscious being that wants to acknowledge the self, an enlightened existence. Being the part of it, the source and everything/nothing. *The journey is painful, the journey is worth it.*
I would just like to say thank you for this. This is what I have been missing recently. Self purpose. I keep thinking about why I’m here and nothing really matters. But the truth is I just have to motivate myself and achieve my own goals. Not what everyone else says I should do. I know what I want to do and I will achieve it.
The meaning I’ve now set for my life is to find a place that will comfort me. Find people I feel wonderful with. Find things to do intensely so I lose myself in the joy of doing it. Because life alone is not real only you’re own experience is real.
very true. as physicists and a great admirer of cosmology, I can say that many people around me(I guess everyone else) try to ignore the fact that we're so insignificant and we're lost in our own ideas(Religion vs science. In science: GR vs quantum theory. there are many religions but none of them match perfectly). Sometimes I feel like everything comes down to one big question, "Why is there something instead of nothing, and for that matter, what is nothing".I get my motivation from this. I know I am 99.999% likely not to find a solid answer to that big question but still, there always seems to be hope. That hope is so small but so powerful. If you want to feel how it feels to be motivated like me, go out at night alone, and look at the stars and start asking questions. Don't worry, they will never talk back or scold you for asking too many. happy life!
Your the reason why I am still alive I am thankful I have only been watching your videos only for a week I am still trying to find the meaning in my life right now I still feel like I am In a dark void like a blackhole
Wow great content! I love the awe inspiring way you tell things! I too want to tell stories of life from my prospective. It’s quite hard but I have started! I hope to be one day as good as you!
Seeing how many other commentors have experienced the rise of an existential crisis through watching this, and knowing that this type of message would also easily give me the depth of that vertigo, but that *this time it didnt* means that perhaps I have turned the corner. I have already laughed myself silly. This video is beautiful
3:03 Feed the numinous within you through bliss and wonder, the primary function of Art. Therefore, Art leads to consciousness, making the Self known to the Ego.
The two main points I got from the video: 1) We cannot be certain of anything but ourselves. Therefore it is the transformation of the self into a higher self that really matters. Not because the process achieves something, rather because the process is the end goal. 2) Assuming the first is true, we depend on others for this expansion of the self, therefore, it is through them that we can create meaning. An additional point to tie it all together: Since we depend on others, it is by helping others that we can derive our individual and unique purposes. For suffering is the only thing common to all sentient beings, it is my purpose to try to lessen it in this short time I can call myself alive.
pseudaeles or is it real depression? I sometimes think very few of the fans of this channel have been truly majorly depressed, depersonalized, derealized, insane If you can so easily get by thinking you can pull meaning out of your ass and be satisfied with that lol You’re still gonna wake up to obligations and pressures you don’t want to deal with and pain is always guaranteed but fun and happiness are not you’re still a localized awareness in bondage of a body insatiable This makes general life nothing but fatigue
@Mr Radiator I deliberately did not try that because there's but 3 seconds of it without the narrators voice and because it's probably some obscure lofi track, but I gave it a shot and to my surprise it actually worked. Amazing how good shazam got. Track is Tipsy Under The Vast Sky by Chaxti for anyone who wants to know.
Enduring the reason of übermensch is not for everyone in my opinion. I mean, if you still in despair with no motivation, low morale, low discipline one should start with something more light. If you try to lift 30 kg from beginnig you are sure to fail, dont you think this applies to reasons as well?
Erik Kølberg that’s precisely what Camus discusses in Mith of Sisyphus, he tries to find a way out of the realization of the nothingness of existence, one other than suicide or the “escape” to things like religion.
"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."
- Carl Sagan
What book?
We are God's who think we are just here for a day.
@@idofgc nah
@@idofgc exactly
@@FireyDeath4 and I'm okay with that
*_When life is full of meaningless, Pursuit of Wonder Videos gives a small sense meaning_*
I know it's just me but i see you like everywhere. i guess we just shared the same youtube algorithms.
s fz and also he’s a smallish RUclipsr
👌 🐚🌌
Dude, this is so true 😭💕
You are like in every pow's videos.😂
"Because the universe, for some reason, gave us a blank page to write on"
I was doing so well and now I'm crying
So I am not the only one?
@@at0mix197 Welcome to the club.
Do I get a cool glow in the dark hand stamp? Or wrist band? Or kleenex to wipe my tears?
Why u caring tho this video is gold.
@@at0mix197 I can send a virtual hug your way ^^
The way Pursuit of Wonder makes me have an existential crisis weirdly somehow makes me have motivation to continue living life
Agree. It's like he puts everything at ease and I level out.
Same tho
annxhilation an existential crisis will do that
Their video usually gives me existensial crisis too, but not this one. Idk, this one makes me feel better on the contrary shshsh
Couldn’t have said it any better
Life becomes much more intresting when we get rid of the idea of meaning. We would find beauty in randomness of existence.
Yea but here's the problem some people believe that death gives life meaning how absurd is that😅
Beauty is meaningful
@@lovepeaceisneverguaranteed7385 Death gives life meaning because death defines life. The fact that it is finite and fleeting gives it significance. The same way the rarity of diamonds and gold give them value.
Partly agreed
Nothing is random. Interesting is relative and subjective, life implies death. "You can think life has meaning. You can think life is meaningless, youre right regardless"
“I now know why we die; death gives us the opportunity to know what life is all about. And when you find that out, you laugh yourself silly”
-Alan Watts
i love that quote so much
Nah life is just an joke that we take too seriously.
Again, how could Watts *know* this?
death gives meaning to life
Well that sounds absolutley ridiculous lmao
"If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere."
- Vincent Van Gogh
I used to be a dogmatic believer that everything that had value needed a supernatural cause or source for it to be so. Until I became disillusioned with my faith and attended bio psychology.
I learned that consciousness was made up of a long evolutionary process from a hollow dorsal nerve cord millions of years ago from a fish like ancestor.
I was amazed at the totality of thought, perception, and being originated and survived the indifferent hand of nature.
It was the most beautiful revaluation I have had in my life
That despite the cake being made out of mere sugar and flour, that the moment and taste isn't hindered by understanding the naturalistic mechanisms of it.
The mind is a beautiful are rare thing in our universe, and the absence of a supernatural meaning of its cause has only motivated my appreciation of it
@@connorohare1808 Same story my friend but with the opposite line. I used to be disillusioned with my faith and despite what I learned from all the sciences from biology to astronomy the couldnt gave me an answer .Only when i began to give a supernatural couse in everything then everything got a perfect valuable beauty ,from an ordinary cup of tea to the starry night of Van Gogh . good luck with your pursuit.
You will also find murder, rape, and theft in nature. Nature is not “good” or “evil.” It’s just what is. In my opinion, the fact that something must suffer for the benefit of something else, shows this world is nothing but a cycle of suffering. Cheers!
Connor O'Hare with all due respect you actually learned nothing you just adopted another mans whimsical idea and still have shit in your attic
There is no explanation of consciousness
My best guess is because it is the primary mover but who knows really
"Unless you examine the squirming maggots on a corpse...or see what happens to a gazelle when a pack of wild dogs find it." - _me_
"It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way".
-Rollo May
Pursuit of Wonder: *uploads*
Me: *It's that time of the month again, extensial crisis time*
Exurba1 Fan?
Yup but this was actually inspirational😅
Motivation time
Other way around for me. I find these videos helpfull for my existencial "crisis". I also feel like i dont have an existencial crisis but more like a existencial sadness/ realisation of meaninglessness
im going to set notifications for this channel just so i can make the first comment upon posting "stop fucking recycling the same 'its time for my weekly existential crisis' comment on every single video"
I absolutely love how well your speaking style conveys what you want to say, it is perfectly blunt and truthful. I've always found comfort in the realism of your videos.
Also you say all that needs to be said, and there are so many points to hit with your topics, yet no irrelevant fillers, every point you make is important and somehow you articulate it all to flow so comprehensively. Your content is greatness to me.
yet i was puzzled why this prose is peppered with some glaring false dichotomies, in the most challenging places? probably to create a sense of comfort and clarity amid chaos and general senselessness, aimed for the not-so-critically minded listeners. It's not great, far from it
@@Alejandro388 yeah.... Just because you use big words doesn't mean that you're intelligent😒
@Christopher Tapia agree, it's not great position to take if your goal is to find comfort and meaning in the chaos rather than truth, or at least being truthful about what you know and do not know
I feel the same way💯
@MARCUS M there are great many ways to find comfort in the world if ideas (i used to do that for decades), but most of them have very little to do with the actual truthfulness if you follow the path of comfort. Why is that? because the universe truly doesn't care about it's various little inhabitants and their little expectations, it's been proven over and over again, jus take some major natural disasters or extinction events as most "colorful" examples of that
"Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough."
Richard P. Feynman
ABHISHEK MISHRA clearly he was never depressed
Nothing matters but our life's somethig i figured out really hard.
@@off6848 Why are you depressed exactly ? Just being curious.
Life I’m good now my point was that during a depressive episode it’s not as easy as just investigating something deeply and suddenly everything is interesting. One of the signs of depression is that things you once found interesting are suddenly meaningless
People like Feynman belong to a type of hyper motivated and myopic people who can’t even get depressed because they’re constantly on beast mode things like love and edifying your character tend not to affect these types
@@off6848 I see. But are you saying that things which you found meaningless (when you were depressed) are now interesting to you ?
The universe gave us a blank page to write on - Persuit of wonder
*I love this man*
I'll leave it blank and rip it apart
just like the yeast, mistaking self-centrism with meaning
I have terrible spelling so I'll just doodle in the margins.
After listening to alan watts so much I now hear the word beautiful instead of meaningless when he says that life is meaningless. I used to see life being meaningless as an issue but now I think it's the best possible way for life to be; if you weren't born to fulfill something then there's no wrong answer, you can never wake up one day when you're 50 and say "my god, I've done it all wrong" because if there is no right answer then there cannot be a wrong one. So why not make your own meaning? Or maybe just enjoy the moment and what is. Why try to make sense of being a talking space monkey on a rotating rock when you could instead find other talking space moneys to laugh with and feel good together.
Pwnership Because laughing and feeling good together is a fleeting thing
Life is a horror the baseline is depression and longing which is why a purpose and a higher power are comforting
“Creating your own meaning” is also just called bullshitting yourself
In the end whatever meaning you think you’re going to create is going to once again smack you in the face as pointless futility and you will default to behaving in whatever way affords you comfort and attention
Still though some are blessed in that they’re wired to be self satisfied with whatever squirrel shit they tell themselves and for them it doesn’t matter whether they created their own meaning or were given it by someone else they’re going to be satisfied till they die
Beautifully said!! No meaning gives you a freedom to live your life the way you want. ❣️
Right!! Since there's no meaning to it, nothing can go wrong anyways, we can make it a beautiful experience for us and others around us♥️
@Janice Brown 💞💞
ur comment saved my year tysm
*"Every shadow, no matter how deep, is threatened by morning light."*
The cycle of Life
Until the sun goes into supernova and the morning light is no more
@@raisedservices9540 don't be so dark no one needs that😅
shut up ur not deep
Exclusive Kings Accounts the Sun is an eternal ball of plasma an electric/dielectric field perturbation not a stupid finite continuously exploding hydrogen bomb
@@off6848 The sun is not eternal you fucking moron. "electric/dielectric" the classic kind of words you'd expect from pseudoscience bullshit.
Maybe at the end of human species we're just a big lump of fertilizer.
We’re just the future reserves of petroleum used by future Cockroachis Sapiens Sapiens
Actually, pretty small lumps
Nah we r the fetus
No, we are “shit” already
Or maybe our souls are harvested and our morality is our defining quality
We are all just watching a great movie unfold in front us and we, the self is far too close to the screen.
Maybe they are one. The screen and the image merged into one complete whole.
Optimistic Nihilism: find the meaning through the meaningless.
Psych Slow I find myself thinking is happiness just a desire to make us feel good of ourselves?
@@mkmllrc i guess. kinda makes u forget bad things for sometime
That’s called absurdism. There is no optimistic nihilism... it’s just nihilism
Keep making content like this and I will keep being a Paetron. This is some of the best stuff in my feed.
Simp
We feel more pressurised when others set the actions and thought processes for us and tell us to blend in. 99% of our life goes into getting aligned with the society and desired behaviour (such as get good job, get married, have kids) and with so much pressure we loose our uniqueness. Even if you ignore the desired behaviour it somewhere makes you question about your own purpose and we get tangled in the threads of life, purpose and meaning. But if you notice carefully you will find those moments which make you really feel alive in that person, in that award, in that love and this boosts the sense of belongingness and gives us peace. So probably we are good at finding peace and meaning anywhere we want to.
I hope you read this comment, I wanted you to know I look forward to each video and I always take something big away from each video. It has without a doubt helped me live a better life and overcome my anxiety and depression. I can't thank you enough.
''If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world''
Miss Mary Games Like an afterlife(heaven and hell)?
Maybe we weren’t supposed to develop consciousness, maybe we were just supposed to be dumb animals.
@@_shenanigans_8337 many times I wish I was dumb and didn't have such questions
What kind of world do you think we were meant to live in?
Katherine wageni Ignorance is bliss. I wish I was dumb enough to not overthink everythimg
Humbleness leads to honesty and righteousness! Narcissism/Pride leads to lies and failure.
I sometimes find it hard to sleep at night because everything about the thought of my future makes me anxious and I come to this channel to watch a video because they always help me calm down my thoughts
Thank you for reminding me that existence is a miracle and that I'm a part of something bigger like the universe, thank you for helping me dream
this channel deserves more views
hey folks, here we go again.
@stoffeee rabi until we cease to exist m8
Holy shmokes. This summed up many thoughts I've always had since I was a child. Thanks you for speaking it into the world for us all to hear💚
I find funny that most people find this depression or give them existential crisis. This actually inspires me, to find meaning in meaningless on this absurd and weird thing called life!
Thank you
This type of comment is ironically more played out than the ones saying it’s giving them depression
I think only a certain kind of person finds this idea of creating your own meaning satisfying, the naturally self satisfied life lovers
These videos have a weird way of giving me an existential crisis and yet internal peace at the same time
I'm impressed. Seriously. Dude sounds intelligent, grounded and makes sense. Some real talk in a fake ass world
"Because the universe for some reason, gave us a blank page to write on."
I like that. Thank you.
This video was the last little nudge I needed to fully believe that I'm probably living in a simulation made by future generations and that I'm actually just pixels with simulated feelings and I'm ok with that now *cries in 1s and 0s*
Yea but the thing is reality can never be proved its like everything is an illusion but its up to u if u want to belive that u live in a simulation made by a God of some sorts.
Lmaooooo
we humans need nothing but Peace&joy people already have done that with religion but it’s honestly a basis of personal existentialism bringing generalized consensus off human nature which includes mortality, morality, and self actualization. What’s ironic is how people understand this but still set livelihood off it. Ignorance is bliss ig and not having that brings crappy thoughts like stimulative existence off theoretical prepositions and less the little things in life. It sucks lol
If it’s a simulation what is it simulating?
Celine Hatting but does it matter? You still feel, I still feel, things are still important to you and me, simulation or not it doesn’t really change anything
I do be so excited anytime I see a new video notification from this channel.
"Hands of effort and eyes of honesty." :)
I was getting depressed trying to find motivation to live and find true meaning behind the big and little things we do. This video explained exactly how I was feeling. And he told me not what I wanted and always hear but what I NEEDED to hear. Thank you :)
Your scripts are so beautifully written, and I thank you. For helping grasp this...whatever this is.
This was beautiful, thank you
I’ve been watching this channel for a long time and I know I can speak for a lot of people when I say this, you’ve helped us out so much in this life, I will for ever be thankful for the knowledge and wisdom you spread. A million times, thank you.
I’m so glad I found your channel! So many incredible life examples! Your channel is truly inspiring!
Heck yeah man, keep editing your videos in the 4th Dimension
“The meaning of life is death “.
Meaning is an option to life, not a requirement.
As far as we know, every other species doesn't care for meaning.
Humans may be the only ones who can care.
Again, it's an option, some people care, some don't.
Life implies death. Nothing more, nothing less
The opposite of birth is death. Life is eternal
diego rodriguez I’m not even afraid anymore
@@c0deadit should really be switched around death then birth lol
I was having a meltdown today and this video really cheered me up. Thank you so much!
Thank you for this video. This saved my life
the talent , depth of intelligence , realistic mortality and overall empathy it takes to make these videos is on another level. I am truly humbled and brought to tears by most of the videos on this channel, and often, i feel these videos are the only outlet to the VERY SAME -albeit not verbatim- thoughts, that I have on a daily and almost minute by minute basis....
can you make a video about people who think similarly to these videos? not sure what platform you could take on a video like that but it would be comforting to see..... as most of us who think and feel the same , do not often have others around them with like mindsets..... thank you for this incredible existential channel.
This is one of the most extraordinary channels on YT
The visuals, song, and narration is stunning. Wow.
Self Realization is the key to truest fulfillment
I am so grateful for this channel, these videos make me like I am not alone and my quiet thoughts are not strange and I am part of this wonderful journey called as life with people who think like me ofcourse there is a physical distance but it gives me hope that someday I won't seem like a stranger in this world.
Pursuit of Wonder is my favorite RUclips channel. Thank you for crafting these wonderful pieces.
check out exurb1a hes equally amazing
Thank you for all that you do. Sometimes you say and echo exactly how I feel. Knowing I’m not so alone in all this vastness is meaning enough for me. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
in my lowest of days, this channel helps. i am grateful
The fact that we have come so far to think about things as abstract and complex as this is truly beautiful
Thanks for your time and efford in all of your video's. I really enjoy it.
this video is true art ... the editing is so good, whoever edited this gets my blessings... thank you
Every time you upload, your videos are always top notch .
It is has been said that life is but an illusion and the world is just a stage, so you're right, all we can do is go for it and do the best we can with our lives and for those of others. We are all in this together, we are one, yet individuals as well. Such a great program.....thank you!!
The universe: we should make these monkeys aware of the harsh reality of their existence that would be kinda quirky lmao
“Apes” would be more suitable.
@@royal6355 nah, monke
Haha monke go brrr
Oh look, that one rejected humanity
nah fuck evolution go back to MONKEEEEEE!!!!
Your work is truly humbling.
Surrender & Acceptance...
Thank you times infinity
This is literally the video I’ve always needed, for some reason I’ve always had this calling, this calling to do nothing. The desire to do nothing is the most prominent problem I have. It is single handedly my existential crisis. The source of all my problems. I have no motivation, no desire, no longing, no happiness, no sadness, no *nothing*. I am of the age of 13, and feel like an old man who has seen all the wonders of the world. The bags under my eyes, the wrinkles on my forehead, the emotional scars tattooed in my personality, every event, every scene and frame in my movie called, “Life.” leaving its mark on my soul. I am still a blank page, and I hold the pen, yet I halt and I do not draw. I lay awake in my bedroom gazing at my ceiling questioning my existence. “Why am I here?” I think, this question has pondered me for ages. My salvation has always been religion, religion is the key and the gateway to life. Religion is my ANSWER! However, even my answer is pondered in the midsts of my conscious. “What is religion?”. “Is religion real?”. “Is there really an after life or paradise waiting for me at my deathbed?”. These questions without answers, these strings without ends give me chaos. And through the chaos do I find the beauty of life. I have come to the conclusion that the meaning of life is to live. And I will only find the meaning of life, once my life has been lived. So contrary to the belief of many, who believe to live your best life, you must do everything in your power to be the best and rise through a social hierarchy. I conclude, that one can only truly live their best life, by living. Everyone can be successful in the eyes of today’s people. Meaning expensive cars, nice homes, money, power. But, it is our very own minds that confine us from competing such tasks. We are ironically stopping ourselves from achieving our goals. However, once we break through our mental boundaries, and push back the limitations our mind has set upon itself, can we truly blossom. And the key to all of this? *Motivation*. Because without motivation and without any longing to do anything, you are only a blank piece of paper with a pen.
lol youre 13.STFU
I’m 31 and haven’t made it passed the blank page yet. I choose to leave it blank to rebel against being summoned here
I feel bad for holding back my talents and visions to share. But feeling bad is a feeling and that is something better than the nothing
Honestly your videos help me so much with my anxiety. You remind me to not give a fuck, at least for a little.
I really don’t need another episode of existentialism right now
All the humans that read this chose to do so. That's just my autistic response.
Pussy
Seneca, On the Shortness of Life. It’s funny.
The purpose of life is to become conscious. We are only here to learn and experience everything we can in this reality. Our lives are apertures through which the universe experiences and discovers itself. Like Alan Watt’s said “The universe is the game of the self which plays hide and seek for ever and ever.”
Exactly
So when the trillionth girl gets raped that’s the universe experiencing itself
Why does the universe love experiencing shitty things over and over and over?
The meaning is to understand who you are, a conscious being that wants to acknowledge the self, an enlightened existence.
Being the part of it, the source and everything/nothing. *The journey is painful, the journey is worth it.*
I would just like to say thank you for this. This is what I have been missing recently. Self purpose. I keep thinking about why I’m here and nothing really matters. But the truth is I just have to motivate myself and achieve my own goals. Not what everyone else says I should do. I know what I want to do and I will achieve it.
Boss4bit how did you come to find out what it is that you wanna do? Whenever I think I find it the meaninglessness kicks back in anyway
I absolutely love this. Really helping me cope with the nothingness
The meaning I’ve now set for my life is to find a place that will comfort me. Find people I feel wonderful with. Find things to do intensely so I lose myself in the joy of doing it. Because life alone is not real only you’re own experience is real.
"Because the universe for some reason gave us a blank page to write on". So beautiful.
very true. as physicists and a great admirer of cosmology, I can say that many people around me(I guess everyone else) try to ignore the fact that we're so insignificant and we're lost in our own ideas(Religion vs science. In science: GR vs quantum theory. there are many religions but none of them match perfectly). Sometimes I feel like everything comes down to one big question, "Why is there something instead of nothing, and for that matter, what is nothing".I get my motivation from this. I know I am 99.999% likely not to find a solid answer to that big question but still, there always seems to be hope. That hope is so small but so powerful. If you want to feel how it feels to be motivated like me, go out at night alone, and look at the stars and start asking questions. Don't worry, they will never talk back or scold you for asking too many. happy life!
*"If it is, it shall be!"*
Your the reason why I am still alive I am thankful I have only been watching your videos only for a week I am still trying to find the meaning in my life right now I still feel like I am In a dark void like a blackhole
"We are perhaps the only stop on this evolutionary train that is outside the tunnel of darkness"
“ no matter how cliché it might sound, WE ALL NEED EACH OTHER. We all need each others words....”..woow!
Wow great content! I love the awe inspiring way you tell things! I too want to tell stories of life from my prospective. It’s quite hard but I have started! I hope to be one day as good as you!
Seeing how many other commentors have experienced the rise of an existential crisis through watching this, and knowing that this type of message would also easily give me the depth of that vertigo, but that *this time it didnt* means that perhaps I have turned the corner. I have already laughed myself silly. This video is beautiful
...because the universe for some reason gave us a blank page to write on.
And unfortunately for me, this is a picture book, and I'm not good at writing or drawing.
Yeah a blank page I did not ask for by the way😅
Leeanicorn you can learn to get better
and then the universe fucking broke my hand, that's what being ill feels
Real prescription addressed to John Matthew Cooper and New phone real friends
I imagine that if life did have an absolute true unarguable meaning, we would have raised against it and said we wanted TO BE FREE.
3:03 Feed the numinous within you through bliss and wonder, the primary function of Art. Therefore, Art leads to consciousness, making the Self known to the Ego.
Pursuit of Wonder makes me contemplate in a way I have never thought I could. Life is so mysterious, filled with unanswered questions...
This video deserve a billion views on of the best existenilism videos I have seen well done👏
I think the idea of the shells we all carry around is pretty powerful. And these layers are so hard to let down even when we know it will be better.
Pursuit of Wonder is like the latest Star Wars movies. You know you'll regret watching it, but you watch it anyway.
Thank you, Mr. Pursuitofwonder!! I love you!
The two main points I got from the video:
1) We cannot be certain of anything but ourselves. Therefore it is the transformation of the self into a higher self that really matters. Not because the process achieves something, rather because the process is the end goal.
2) Assuming the first is true, we depend on others for this expansion of the self, therefore, it is through them that we can create meaning.
An additional point to tie it all together:
Since we depend on others, it is by helping others that we can derive our individual and unique purposes. For suffering is the only thing common to all sentient beings, it is my purpose to try to lessen it in this short time I can call myself alive.
Your vidoes are so absolutley incredible. Thank you so much for all the hard work you put into these.
My go to guy when Exurb1a is quiet
Any others?
@@theodoresmith7452 The school of life
This videos feel like a healthy shock therapy. They jump starts my mind unwedge me when im stucm, propell me when i lack direction and im out of steam
What if... when you die, ... you see something... and it says... "congratulations, level complete. Free roam unlocked..."
When nothing matters it’s hard not to wish I was never born.... I HATE IT HERE!!! I rather be dead.
if you dont want to go beyond the point of self pity, thats your choice.
Yea that's self loathing on another level bruh😅
pseudaeles or is it real depression? I sometimes think very few of the fans of this channel have been truly majorly depressed, depersonalized, derealized, insane
If you can so easily get by thinking you can pull meaning out of your ass and be satisfied with that lol
You’re still gonna wake up to obligations and pressures you don’t want to deal with and pain is always guaranteed but fun and happiness are not you’re still a localized awareness in bondage of a body insatiable
This makes general life nothing but fatigue
"Follow a personal meaning " I don't know about y'all BUT THAT BROUGHT ME PEACE..relieved
Does anyone know what the song at the very end is called?
Impeccable video, as always; thank you.
@Mr Radiator I deliberately did not try that because there's but 3 seconds of it without the narrators voice and because it's probably some obscure lofi track, but I gave it a shot and to my surprise it actually worked. Amazing how good shazam got. Track is Tipsy Under The Vast Sky by Chaxti for anyone who wants to know.
This video gives me the feeling that I know almost nothing, but so much at the same time.
I need something to put me to sleep. "Pursuit of Wonder Uploaded new Video"
Nice!
It happens sometimes 😂😂
Lol what. How can one go to sleep after this brainstorm. Ill be sighing in my bed this night 100%
@@aivariukas I think it's the images 😂😂
I liked the train metaphor at the end.
We don't need answers ....
We need perspectives.
Goddam your videos are so well scripted. Whenever I watch something you make I truly understand what your talking about and feel comforted afterwards.
You make existentialism and nihilism my nanny now....
This montages in every video is incredible and I'm just crying from that one
Nietzsche with his übermensch and Albert Camus with his absurdism try to solve the existencial crisis, good reads for anyone interested in the topic
It's Nietzsche, but I understand that his name is not an easy one to spell. You have a good taste in literature tho :)
TheLegend27 thanks for the correction
Enduring the reason of übermensch is not for everyone in my opinion. I mean, if you still in despair with no motivation, low morale, low discipline one should start with something more light. If you try to lift 30 kg from beginnig you are sure to fail, dont you think this applies to reasons as well?
Nietzsche + Jung is the way to go. In that order
Erik Kølberg that’s precisely what Camus discusses in Mith of Sisyphus, he tries to find a way out of the realization of the nothingness of existence, one other than suicide or the “escape” to things like religion.
None of us matter in the grand scheme of things, and yet, to every individual person, we matter the most to ourselves
got my wine and pianist playing for me, im now ready for this exquisite video...mm delicious
Unlike most of your videos, I feel really happy after this one... sometimes the truth you speak hurts but this truth is truly inspiring.
Life as such has no meaning. When one can truly and completely understand that - They find the meaning behind the meaningless. How great, how funny.
Britain Swarbrick meaningless statement not great or funny at all
@@off6848 You won't get the joke until you finally accept what he said was true.
Just Another Irish Guy there’s no joke it was a meaningless statement