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What is a void?

I too love the Void. The Void is great, the Void gives, the Void nurtures, the Void is all.

I wonder if "one meaning language" could exist where every other language could be translated to it.

bi cycle go crazy also accelerationism is insane 🐸

I also enjoy the void

The Celeste ost fits so well here!

I think words have meaning that varie in between people but having the same definition is the only way to have an understandable discussion, i fought for long in the comment of an old dnd guy that was saying gatekeeping in dnd couldnt exist because it was a normal dm's right not to have everyone at their table, i mostly tried to tell him that that was nit what gatekeeping was but to no avail (i only left this exange bitter and angry)

I remember reading in a college English class about the concept of the "language game", which sounds like what is being discussed in the first half of the video. It's from a philosopher named Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the general idea (as I understood it) is that words only have meanings in context, and that these contexts can be as broad as the general accepted definition of words, or as narrow as the mutual understanding of a word between two people in a conversation, further modified by the other "rules" of the language game as dictated by circumstance. I may not be explaining it well, but learning about the language game has taught me a lot about how to communicate effectively in my personal and professional life, by making sure I'm mindful of the rules of any context I may be in, implicitly or explicitly.

It's weird how relevant to me this was. I'm struggling with change, and not knowing where it will set me in the future. Im not sure how to accept the change that has happened. There are some complicated thoughts taking up bandwidth in my brain and it is exhausting. I am frustrated with myself, past and present, which is affecting my moving forward. I need more empathy for myself, but It is hard. I learned to view myself and my dreams apathetically when it became cringe or unrealistic or consider the magnitude of all that i don't know. Of course I would stumble, when I look up from the grass, up at the stars and begin to feel like a little ant. I liked the fractal background, it oddly helped me focus on what you were saying, my thoughts have a tendency to wander when I don't want them to.

This content was MAID for everyone 😹🥁

This seems to border on the conversational topic of connotation vs. denotation.

I've always thought visual art can be the least abstract. There is abstract art of course, but when you're drawing physical objects people are familiar with, it's the easiest to fully understand. When describing something with words, the writer makes choices of what to focus on and describe, then the reader makes choices of what to commit to memory. That results in a wide array of different perceptions of the same text-think, "how I thought [book character] looked vs how they actually look" videos. No such misunderstanding can happen with a visual representation. Anyway wow you should be more popular. Super pretty character, and super cool thoughts. Though your background music is a little too loud to hear you perfectly clearly!

36:38 :3

Comparing yourself to others is the killer of identity. I started to do that 4 years ago at the beginning of highschool after realizing I wasn’t as strong, or mature than others and how out of touch I became with friends after covid. I was embarrassed of who I had become and desperately wanted to fix it. So, I decided to go to the gym, thinking I was changing myself because I wanted to, however the main thing that drove my desire to go to the gym was because I was afraid of what others would think of me and I wanted to be like everyone else. Going to the gym and seeing people stronger than me did not help in the slightest. A year later, and happy that I had began to improve myself, I began to seek validation, wondering if anyone would notice my improvement. And to my disappointment, no one did. This made me think worse about myself, feeling like a failure that could never reach the success that all these other people had and so easily gotten. I would go home and look in the mirror and tell myself how pathetic I was. I would say that I’m lonely, skinny, and a failure and that I would never make it. I would constantly beat myself down because I wasn’t everyone else. I hated who I was and hid it from everyone, leaving it to be forgotten in the back of my mind. Another year later and I feel “normal”. I believe that hiding my personality, my interests, and everything else will make me more likable. I stay out of people’s ways, I don’t reach out, and I try to please everyone. I try to not care about myself so I can uphold others, thinking they don’t care about me and I would look like a narcissistic asshole if I shared myself. I was quiet and polite around situations or people I was unfamiliar with, putting on a mask to be a “normal person”. I still silently judged myself and still felt like I could never be as good as anyone else. But if I maintained my passiveness, no one would call out my flaws and I wouldn’t have to put them out there. Summer of last year I have felt the worst in my life. From June to September, I have felt sad, empty, lonely, and like a burden almost every single day. I would wake up late, go to bed late, miss meals, and had lost interest in my hobbies. Almost every second I would loop negative thoughts in my head and constantly feel uncomfortable in my own skin. Even if there was no one around I would still judge myself. I would sit in the shower and think that no one would care if I disappeared. I was self aware of these thoughts and believed they were nothing, and that they didn’t matter. I told myself that I was pathetic for even thinking I had a problem, and that I should just push them down because they probably weren’t that bad. I didn’t want to assume I had depression, nor do I still want to, but it felt like I was depressed. I had wasn’t in a bad space either. I had a job with people I enjoy, I was in an internship, and I have improved myself a lot. Yet I still compared myself to people at work, I compared myself to others in the internship and that I won’t succeed or be on their level, and I compared myself to people at the gym, even if they were in no way similar to me. I felt so empty all the time and everything felt hopeless. I didn’t know if it would ever end. Then, come September, I had gotten a compliment from a friend, telling me that I was stronger than they expected. They don’t know, but that’s the most meaningful thing they have ever said to me. It brightened up my day, week, and every day since then up until now. I don’t know what happened, but I realized that it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter what others think of you, and it doesn’t matter that you aren’t someone else. I realized that I had lost who I was years ago and that I’ve been chasing a mask that I had believed was going to solve all my problems. I had realized that I had pushed out every nice thing anyone has said to me because I believed they were just trying to make me feel better. I had realized that you should be yourself. That phrase has become the most important thing to me. I hate how overused it is, being told by everyone, while they have their own masks on. People say it, yet they don’t mean it and they would still beat down others that try to be themselves. And people, like me, get lost in being themselves, when they don’t realize that the self they are chasing is everyone else’s version of “normal”. Screw normal. Screw what others think. Be your own cheerleader. Why listen to others when they don’t even know you or what you’ve been through. The most important thing you have, is you. Don’t lose it by being too focused on everyone else. And dont be a hypocrite trying to change other people’s selves. Also, I am still not fully free from comparison. I still compare myself to others and I do have the same feelings I have for the past 3 years, however I am aware of how far I have come and I don’t let the negative thoughts hold me back. And, one of the things that kept me going was the furry community. I was able to be who I am without any judgement. I wish I hadn’t hated on it for years because I was told they were weird.

try doing bob ross tutorials. it really put the joy in painting for me.

Legendary pull from the recommended. Keep up the amazing work!!

thank you for this. it did make me feel less alone.

amazing recomendation

I tried to finish it, but your monotone voice is really dosen't help with that

You know what? I subscribed, this video was music itself. Words are fun, but their users don't tend to think about them carefully Also, as you said, words are abstractions, but I've found a whole lot of people are just not consciously aware of this fact. Maybe it's because of how the meaning of a word is understood internally already, translated from the input?

TLDR; Bro is explaining engineering without the maintenance

As soon as i learned of the limitations of my words, they disgusted me, i very quickpy started using telepathy to communicate everything because telepathy is a lot less limiting.

This video inspired me to make an introduction video myself, and I may or may not be going through your backlog to check your content out :3.

I like the observation that one delves into the shades of gray when one CARES. This suggests that black and white thinking represents a lack of CARING, that people who split every dilemma into a binary have trouble deeply caring about the details.

I don’t remember this part of Alan Wake II

All sciences and arts ultimately derive from one place- the human desire to rationalize that which we cannot understand. By that alone it is only natural to expect that the limits of words and colours and sounds and symbols and equations will always be that which the human senses and mind are capable of processing, and therefore they are limited by the experience of being human. Consider for a moment that math isn’t really about numbers. Math is about defining a system with objects- such as quantities, matrices, sets, binary numbers, Rubik’s cubes, or even rope- and transformations- such as adding, subtracting, dot products, intersections, Boolean NOT, turning a cube, folding or tying the rope. All those things are math, because all math means is the human desire to formally state a set of rules that apply to a real thing, and then try to deconstruct those rules to understand them completely. Art is just the same. Art is the process of trying to understand how to emotionally reconstruct an idea by manipulating human senses to think about that idea. Some art is even a deliberate deconstruction of itself, such as the South Park movie which is a commentary on its own existence as a form of media and irresponsible parents trying to censor the things they don’t keep their children away from themselves, or how Undertale is a self commentary on the role of the player in games and the descent into them beginning to see everything as simple predictable lines of text in a screen the more they play it, the more determined they are to see everything. Every creation of the human mind is simply an attempt of the mind to rationalize that which exists outside of it.

Words - at least in English - have both a very rigid use and also extreme flexibility. Putting extra limitations on that is, for an artist at least, important. Interesting piece, I'll be thinking about this for awhile.

This video has given me a form of enlightenment and relatability I cannot yet describe, for I have not discovered the correct words for an appropriate expression of my feelings.

I find it kind of funny that it's easier for me to describe art or music with words but if I try to describe words with art or music it gets confusing? Like you're trying to put a feeling to a piece of art and reach for a less abstract medium, but while it's probably still possible to describe a word with music I'm not sure how grounded my understanding would be unless that piece of music had words or the word had some emotional meaning. Describing something like a table would prove easier for art than music because that's at least a physical thing, but describing an environment or place or even a character with either medium is easier because of the attachments you'd make to certain elements of say a person's personality/look or an environment's mood and soundscape. Describing a sound meanwhile is probably easier in the medium which makes soundscapes lol

A furry philosoph? Never seen that before.

i quite like the Void, myself being a being known as Nil, so basically all zero or nothing places are my thing

Spent the first 5 minutes of this video trying to figure out what gender. Either or any way, you use words very well and I enjoyed this video.

i have so many questions.

ik it's just something about creating and everyone (at least most people) go thru it but i hate feeling like I'm just going to stay stuck in mediocrity forever. my way of drawing was turned on it's head when my artist friend pointed out that I'm just copying reference images without learning how anatomy actually works, and that crushed me because i realize im literally just a fucking parrot of a person who can't create anything original or worth a damn. Ig we still pushing the boulder up the hill tho, thats just the creative process or so I've been told

You were cooking with this one

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I’m gonna have to take this video in parts. Not because of its length, but because of how close to home it’s hitting me on my current situation. I’m leaving a time stamp so I can come back to this later. Still love the videos, but this one is a little much for me right now. 29:52

Your voice is very disarming. I couls feel the neurons in my brain diffuse.

I don't know why this appeared in my recommended, as I am not a furry (and never watched furry content on youtube) nor am I that familiar with art (Except for music, I'm an EDM producer, but to me that is more about the tinkering with sound design than emotional expression), but it was quite interesting to watch nonetheless. I think that language, and thus words, are very organic in quite a literal sense; It is ever-changing and evolving through time, which happens mostly subconsciously. When new words are created, this is, as you said, to convey either a new meaning, or to convey something known with different emotional connotations. When it is to convey new meaning, the word's use is quite logical, as there is no alternative, except for explaining it in many words, which is impractical. For example, the word laser comes from the acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emmission of Radiation, which is a whole lotta difficult words if you want to show your 'pointy lamp' invention to the public. Though unlike many acronyms, through excessive use, this acronym slowly melded into a word, without people knowing. Most people nowadays probably are unaware that laser was once an acronym. So put shortly, the conception of the word 'laser' went from 'Techonological invention explained by multiple words' to 'Acronym for faster communication' to 'Word to refer to this invention.', all happening between populations (From scientists to the general public) over some time. I don't think anybody ever thought 'Laser should be a word instead of an acronym' (except maybe those who make dictionaries), it just kinda happened. The same goes for words referring to existing things with new emotional connotations. As a result, language is, much like life, differing geographically and temporally. Different countries use different languages, different regions might have their own dialects, different age groups use differing vocabulary. This makes language a bit similar to genetics and memes (in the original sense, as a 'cultural gene', funny how that word changed too), dependent both on population and culture. aight thank you for reading my tangent that may be completely incoherent Oh, and a small tip for background music, I found the piece used here a bit distracting due to the dynamics (volume changing throughout the piece), so maybe try mastering the volume a little more consistent if you use such a piece :)

TH-cam algorithm did something good putting this in my feed

Loved the read, thanks for writing!

I just found your channel, but I'm absolutely in love

After following some of your videos in recent times out of curiosity from the content it presented, i cannot say i am disappointed. Writing is limited simply because it's built upon a structure that is human language. When we change the meaning of a word, the reader / listener is pretty much replacing it's definition by another completely, so it is indeed necessary to add context simply because you are messing with the structure of a word, genius! Your videos are genius! I am sure to subscribe to this channel!

2:06 i think have learned english through mostly context(making me a terrible translator), i agree with you on that

My YT home didn't disappoint today, this video deserves more views. I loved listening you talk about this subject