New book of depressing poems: https://tinyurl.com/27fdfh63 (you may need to change your region)
Link for those uninterested in depressing poems: https://youtu.be/-UYgORr5Qhg
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Music used ►
All three tracks are by the wonderful La Fanforale du Douzbekistan:
Ako Umram: https://youtu.be/YwuV59VkC-k
Tsialo Liato: https://youtu.be/q9bz8sJcISQ
And Stepil Dobri: https://youtu.be/uVTjN8QtD-Q
For those interested in absurdism outside of 10 minute pop-philosophy videos, I’d strongly recommend giving The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays a read. It’s a great way in. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11987.The_Myth_of_Sisyphus_and_Other_Essays
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Nihilism is living with a "why?"
Absurdism is living with a "why not?"
You have no idea how much I needed this today. Thank you.
I have a couple of questions:
firstly, how does an absurdist spend their day? do they have a job? plan holidays? think about whether they want to have children? it seems to me that living in the absence of meaning is self-destructive in a world where everyone around oneself lives through meaning.
secondly, what i call ‘the hitler paradox’. living in the absence of meaning is freeing totally. no action has worth, is good, or bad. and so, crime, atrocities, or in the worse case a holocaust, can be justified under an absurdist lens. first of all, that just seems shit. but more philosophically, doesn’t that seem ridiculously egocentric? living with complete freedom is necessarily neglecting the complete freedom of others.
This is dope
I am so glad I am not the only one who thinks this way lol
All hail Terrence
Wow
Am i the only one who cried with last two minutes?
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment, and nature will respond by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed."
A poignant quote from Terence McKenna…
Another useless video. As usual, first part asks some philosophical questions which everyone can come up with on their own, second part acknowledges that there are no answers and third part tells you to ignore the questions and engage in generally approved "happy", "admirable" and "strong" bullshit.
I almost ate 2 pan friend bureks, mustard and sauerkraut soup and drank 5/6 of a cup of water while watching this thank you exurbia
friendship ended with nihilism now absurdism is my best friend
I am not depressed or existential at all. But suggestions like 10:14 "let's go for a beer" live me paralyzed with questions "what are we going to talk about? will it be important or will we just pretend we give a shit about our small talk? do we need to pay a private business to enjoy that beer? does it have to be beer?"
Nihilism: Life has no meaning, we should stop trying
Existentialism: Life has no meaning, therefore we're free to give it one ourselves
Absurdism: Life has no meaning, and that's a good thing because we could just enjoy the meaninglessness
I wouldnt take advise from youtubers lol
I just went through all of my emotions on a mental psychedelic trip in a blender! What a cocktail to ingest! Cheers Mate!
Your videos give me hope for Humanity.
i think i have a theory for you. the reason we can't gain full control of our minds, is because we spend our lives in mediocre games of made up power, while not giving each other opportunity to find an answer. it should be a fairly easy task to accomplish if the whole world was able to work on this goal, each person in their own way. but maybe that's already happening. who the fuck knows.
also it seems that this video is the exact length required for one to open and peel two pomegranates.
last but not least, it seems like a mistake to think that bad things happen to people for no reason at all. most of the images that were attached to those sentences, depicted people doing bad things to people. if you're thinking "why are they allowed to do so, and why doesn't a higher power interfere", then that would be taking away free will wouldn't it? any higher power worth their salt would probably be sitting here with no superpower other than their voice and the only super power they'd wish they had activated beforehand, would be the ability to whisper to someone to get well and healthy when crossing the street and the other person to do just that, without anyone knowing any reason on why that happened, whatsoever.
Matter is infinitely finite. I have no evidence i just believe it to not get brain damaged
This was AMAZING. Hilarious, informative and coming completely at the right time
I wanna get high with this dude. I bet he'd blew my mind in a matter of seconds.
Only a biologic mechanism such as a homo sapiens could be so trapped in their programming to question why spatial space is infinite or why the universe doesn't have a beginning, who told you it had to? Why would you think there needs to be an end or beginning, these properties only apply to certain things depending on context.
I watched this video two joints in this was a bad idea
Thanks! I needed this
Nihilism
Picture of Nietzsche
Opinion discarded.
I started taking philosophy classes at my uni just to figure out that no other professor teaches like you, you scratch the itch in my brain turtle
Why do you feel unconfortable with the lack of sense in life? That's what's fun about life! You are free to chose what is important to you! The world is senseless, let's enjoy that we can build our own human reality. We are humans, we are the opposite of the void, we have feelings and a mind, the reality doesn't. Just enjoy your existence with the thing you care the most, you can chose the mesning of your life, you can be frustrated with your goals, be grateful about you can breath or just happy with the fact that there are no bigger authorities, you are alone on the top with the rest of the humanity, i love this fact!
This channel keeps getting better and better infinitely.
WHY-
Thank Allah for being a Muslim.
Thank you for that
Yo what happened to that autistic girl you abused?
That traditional bulgarian music in the background was unexpected, but greatly appreciated. 😀
I am a retired middle school math teacher which, in and of itself, explains a lot of my mental health issues. I digress. At the beginning of my career I used to explain, ad nauseum, why I had certain classroom guidelines. One year, I'd had it. Snap. The next kiddo who asked "why" with that self-righteous, first world smugness on his / her face, I simple answered "because, no further explanation required." Let them have their first existential dilemma and see where it leads.
Quarks are not the smallest devisable known version of matter they are part of an attempt at describing the universe. An attempt which will be replaced by more descriptive versions of the same thing. When you're told that the things don't happen because of science, science is trying to describe things, you have to take that into your being more fully. You cannot describe the world in terms of matter nor are you fully capable of seeing the world in this way because you always see the world through a filter, consciousness is intrinsically deception, it is far healthier to see the world as your conscious experience of it and working from there trying to figure out the most true(effective) way of being.
even If u find meaning, then what?? will we be satisfied? i think think the whole problem with us is our desire and memory…. we look at things from inside the box but never from the outside…. dont look for meaning folks… look for ur soul, who u are and what is ur nature, why we desire meaning instead of seeking meaning for things and looking at things without the cloud of judgement and emotion…. is that possible?
the singularity is. thats what all of this is .
Please read the whole, I will end with Harry Potter
I once saw a science fiction movie or series or whatever, where a higher developed species was super self reflexive and cybernaticly depressive. That made soo much sense to me, but now I can see this is still only one way of many. Imagening a creature that is maybe just a few levels over human complexity, I still thought: How can you possibly stand those super complex super strong emotions and knowledge. I guess one answer is to 1) enjoy everything enjoyable 2) create your own principles that create and guarantee meaning
In Harry Potter, Dumbledore and Voldemort do these 2 things. The difference is, that Dumbledore wants others also to be able to enjoy life. Harry Potter is much about the fight of nihilism and absurdism or/ and positive nihilism. The lesson is easy as you see, be social! And…make friends. Its like the easiest message for future generations, even though the books are not aging well in some other points.
A CHESS PIECE
Unwatchable video. Cramming as many words into a video as possible supported by the most horrible choice of background music.
The trick to living a meaningful life that is really meaningless is to take the word "meaning" and change it to mean meaningless so that meaningless means meaning and meaning means meaningless and now when you say life is meaningless you really mean that life has meaning. Badabeem badadboom.
i was really trying to convince myself to go and buy a lamp and this was all i needed to go and get the lamp bc i have freedom and now i feel like the lamp is a rebellion against existence
Exactly how I’ve been feeling lately.