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The grapefruit regenerated.

Thank you.

Philipp Mainlander's book "The Philosophy of Redemption" is a good example of Pessimism as radical compassion and selflessness.

i have never heard anyone else describe exactly how i felt at this point in my life. i believe td and rust are the greatest media creations of all time. nothing has ever made me FEEL like td. i have truly now lost my faith in religion and most people but i have not lost my faith in myself. this show is art. in every definition... art.

The voice over in The Fire of Love is quite nice, I like the narrators voice, but it just gets a bit stale and overly dramatised, what I like in werner herzog's movie is that he keeps it real and sometimes just makes fun of them if that is appropariate and his voice, although quite similar, never gets too boring because of how real he's being throughout the entire film, you can hear him shudder when he speaks of the buried village in a very real way. The other voiceover to me is not cringey or whatever, it's just a bit boring, less raw, very curated.

American documentary sensibilities versus weirdo European Auteur documentary sensibilities.

12:05 Why the insistence of "trying to find something BEYONG our own existence"...?? That seems to NOT be what people in vernal think about, but they do and say and look for it bc OTHERS bring it up... the ONLY "beyond" most people have is religion, and that is only bc they haven't yet been told or realized that god is dead, no one wants to accept it; at least the huge majority. They would have to think for themselves if they accept it.... but no one knows what thinking is exactly.

The irony with the Hornsent is that their babel-like attempt to build a tower reaching heaven did result in the kingdom of heaven being brought to (literally rooted into) the earth, but it was not theirs and was ultimately founded on their destruction. I think this is why the Greatsword of Damnation says there is something of the golden order in it, despite the fact that Midra’s persecution was the doing of the Hornsent. By the way, great video. I really appreciated all the references to Plato and Neoplatonism. I really think everything about the One Great is meant to evoke the emanation of all things from the One, and the frenzied flame the world- and life-denying tendency of this way of thinking. Everything about Metyr and the fingers revealed in the DLC indicates there is no “going back” to this primordial cosmic unity, if it ever really existed, and the real question is how we deal with our cosmic abandonment.

Wonderful video essay.

Beautiful video, man

something i love about the clip where Matthew McConaughey describes Rust is that he speaks about him like he's a real person. goes to show the dedication that made that season so great.

How old were you in 2014?

Hope you find your faith again

I didn't even play this game and this video sparked something in me

Rust does not understand Nietzsche, lol.

The truth here is that he wants to believe that he knows himself and the world he’s surrounded by. That he’s certain. But, in his words, we see that he doesn’t and isn’t. He tries, and it’s almost believable that he does. But, again, he doesn’t. He says he’s a realist, or in philosophical terms a pessimist. But, he’s neither. What he is, as shown through his actions, is a pragmatist fight against his nihilism. The point being that he wants to believe he’s certain of himself and the world. That his self-classification and that of the world is correct. And, he seems to think he does and is. In truth, he doesn’t and isn’t. His constant telling and explaining reveal the subtle doubt in his mind. And, that’s what eats at him throughout the film. Wanting to be certain, propping himself up by it, trying to see beyond the sight of those around him. Is he egocentric? Maybe. But, he’s not a realist; he’s a pragmatist. Enjoyed the analysis.

play on 1.5x speed, you're welcome.

bad take aside bro u got to work on how to smile like Jesus Christ its actually painful to look a

Interesting anti hero more like. There is order and vast goodness that is pervasive which comes from God. Every morsel of food, every hour of good sleep, every moment of ecstatic sex. The character just had dark world view most probably because of his police work and his own moral failures.

I just finished season 1 and I am kinda sad now I think I've watched the Peak of film and TV... I dont think anything else will come close to this TV Show, any suggestions appreciated

i took a lot from Rust's ideas. i was a former teacher, and after 4 years of doing it my best advice to my juniors (17 year olds) was to: get off social media, find a place you can live, work a job you love that pays for it, and keep your head down. in Rust's eyes, it would be stupid of me to give that advice and not live it myself. now i live in my own studio apartment with my two dogs, am a bartender (which i was doing on the side while teaching, and have been for 13 years) and stick to my home and my work. Rust wanted to beat the system, not work in it. i did the same thing. i make a killing doing what i do and don't even have to take it home with me. and my company has healthcare included. it clicked.

This is a really really good essay

I hope it's okay I link this on my social media platforms...

Astro is stars. Astronaut is star sailor. Explorer of the Stars. Amerigo Vespucci was an Astronaut. Cabot, Magellan... what about the ones that explored internally?

This video could be used by someone to attack Christianity by some and used by some to show the forever widening between of people who are dogmatic sheep and the Faithful Explorers of Internal Truth. I get the feeling you are an astronaut or an explorer. You just don't try to discover new places or try to reach new places on a yard stick.

This is absolutely insanely well done.

Calling Archie Bunker a bigot is simplicist. He is biased and mean but doesn't just hate because a race is bad. He gives reasons that we can all acknowledge are maligned and wrong but understand why he could be that way. He is a bigot that we can all agree is fucked up with his ideas but don't HATE him. So our slightly racist uncle or homophobic mom isn't a monster. Just a person we disagree with. This is much easier to accept than thinking our loved one is a monster.

Luckily for us all, whether we know it or not, our true nature is Divine, we have souls, and this body and soul evolves through lives. And our purpose is to know our true reality, to wake up, and become aware of our divinity and live accordingly.

You are a grown ass man calling a fictional character "your hero" trying to sound deeply profound throughout the entire video and failing at it. Grow tf up

Fictional character. Fictional character. Fictional character.

Halfway in you became so fucking pretentious I gagged at that bullshit. They didn't "rip reality into two" by lying about how they got Ledoux, nor was it a "sin" they had to "atone" for.

when i realized the protagonists change I immediately lost interest and stopped watching the show

I watched TD in my late teens cuz I heard good things but I don't think I really paid attention to Rust beyond his more obvious "tirades" against society because those were shared opinions. But only years later when I had really even begun to contemplate /understand the deeper implications of reality and the human condition as science has been able to reveal did I really understand that I had arrived at the same conclusion he espouses in the "human consciousness" monologue. It was disturbing then to see how much I related to this character, but then I try to remember Carl Sagan said about Kepler, "[Kepler] preferred the harsh truth to his dearest illusions"- and I think for now that's a (admittedly arbitrary) thing that comforts me? Anyways here's Wonderwall.

he is also a natural police..

Undeniably the best series ever laid down on film. Brilliant writhing.

I figured this out after I killed the Mother of Fingers. But good video! Earns my like!

There are two ways you could take it. If you're looking for commercial success you make Fire of Love. I wish Werners could have shined brighter

As in game as in reality

Really interesting.. You opted to explain the lore by bringing onto it cultural aspects outside of it.. That is exactly the conclusion i came with when confronted by the layers of confusion surrounding the understanding of elden ring story.. The confusion in the storytelling is volontary i believe and can only be eluded through a greater scope or multiple sources outside of it like you intuit.. And about it i have some very good elements/hypotheses that may explain why the story the tarnished find himself in is in such a stalemate and not developing at all. The answer lies in Marika's very being which seems like a complex matter yet is actually simple when we grasp the source of the inspiration. My stance in regard to this is that the theory that Marika is Radagon and are actually two separates 'beings' or rather concept/ideas are both true. I will explain how this is both the case later.. But first let us make a detour and take example of a Bible chapter that encompass everything there is to know about Marika herself. What is her true equivalent in the Bible, i may ask (?) You quoted Revelation 13 in the video, i will answer you by quoting Revelation 17, i want you also to notice the title of the chapter, i quote : Revelation 17 : 1-5 "The Woman on the Beast 1Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. 2The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were INTOXICATED with the wine of her immorality.” 3And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, where I saw A WOMAN SITTING ON A SCARLET BEAST that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. 4The woman was dressed in PURPLE and scarlet, and adorned with GOLD and precious stones and pearls. She held in her hand a GOLDEN CUP full of abominations and the impurities of HER SEXUAL IMMORALITY. 5And on her forehead a mysterious name was written: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." The woman on the Beast is reminiscent of all of Marika's actions throughout elden ring story : - being the vessel of the Elden Beast/ like the woman on the Beast being an agent of it - intoxicating those who dwell on the earth/ meaning deceiving greatly the people of the land between by lies and pseudo-truths - commiting sexual immoralities/multiples relationships with elden lords to consolidate her power The scarlet woman in the Bible is said to be dressed with PURPLE. Like one of those images where we see Marika's dress is in purple with golden leafs, she is also adorned with GOLD and highly connected to it as the golden order and her God is none other than herself.. The revelation woman also possesses a Golden CUP.. Hmm.. These colors scarlet and purple made me think of marika's golden flask which are the cerulean and crimson flask tear we use in the game.. Let us read further this chapter and see that there is everything in it already to make this incredible parallel between the scarlet woman and Marika and that this is not a mere coincidence, i quote : Revelation 17 : 6-7 "6I could see that THE WOMAN WAS DRUNK WITH THE BLOOD OF THE SAINTS AND WITNESSES FOR JESUS. And I was utterly amazed at the sight of her. 7“Why are you so amazed?” said the angel. “I will tell you the mystery of THE WOMAN AND OF THE BEAST that carries her, which has the seven heads and ten horns." Now listen, directly in the trailer of the DLC we see a woman walking on a pile of corpses with blood surrounding her all around.. These corpses as we all know are the sacrifices conducted by Marika to erect her order as well as her tree.. This is exactly the parallel of the woman drunk with the blood of all the saints of the earth which are the shamans in the lands between i believe that's why i've mentioned it.. Also we see in the game multiple references to shamans being sacrificed and put into jars in order to become saints, this is not hazardous as this is a hint again that fromsoftware left you to see if you will catch the source of inspiration or not.. With all of these, how can i be so sure that the beast associated with the woman is the elden beast in elden ring(?) Simple it is mentioned in one of elden ring incantations, the elden stars, an important clue, that i quote : "the Greater Will sent a golden star bearing a beast into the Lands Between, which would later become the Elden Ring." Thus the golden star = the elden beast = the elden ring Therefore that golden star is like that star that was cast out from heaven to the abyss : Revelation 9 : 1 "1Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw A STAR THAT HAD FALLEN FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH, and it was given the key to the pit of the ABYSS." Revelation 11 : 7 "7When the two witnesses have finished their testimony, the BEAST THAT COMES UP FROM THE ABYSS will wage war with them, and will overpower and kill them." Who is the beast that comes up from the abyss like the elden beast in elden ring.. Now what if i say to you that this beast is simply an allegory for the dragon's action aka Marika undesirable other self aka Radagon the Dra'a'gon in elden ring.. I quote the Bible again : Revelation 12 : 3 "3Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads." Compare this passage with this one : Revelation 13 : 1 "1Then I saw a beast with ten horns and seven heads rising out of the sea. There were ten royal crowns on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads." Notice that both the dragon and the beast shares some key characteristics : Same number of heads and horns meaning they represent a same concept highlighted under multiple aspects. The topic of the horns is also prevalent in the game with the spirits idolaters, the reprobates/omen in the original game. In the DLC some of the enemies we encounter are called hornsents and are considered as inquisitors. These inquisitors, i intuit are sent by the Dragon/Beast aka Radagon/Messmer to persecute any opponent who dare to oppose the order in the shadow land.. What i believe is that Radagon aka the Dragon is the ideologist while the Elden Beast represents the system/ideology put in place/manifested by him in the lands between.. So now with all these elements where am i going at(?) What is the point ? First of all to show you that elden ring takes his inspiration deeply into others lores. Secondly to portray through these bible extracts the true dynamic between Marika and Radagon. And finally to understand what is truly happening in the lands between and why everything seems so shockingly dead, immovable.. So here comes my conclusion with this last Bible verse.. Everything happening in the lands between can be explained by this chapter, i quote : Revelation 12 : 13 "The Woman Persecuted 13And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child." Once Marika divested from her other self aka Radagon by shattering the elden ring, the Dragon never ceased to pursue her in a will to be whole again with her.. During that time she is literally trying everything in her power to make the tarnished which is you, her consort but as the game shows in the end to no avail.. Since we know that Radagon is associated with the law of regression, if not to say to Karma. Radagon simply is Marika's flesh and karma. Marika is the spirit who wanted to divest himself from the material, the body symbolized by Radagon. We see in the cinematic intro that while Marika shattered the elden ring to divest herself, Radagon's will is the total opposite, to repair it.. As this is a common theme in the Bible, that the will of the spirit is opposite to that of the flesh.. Radagon's hammer is reminiscent to forgery, he is like Marika a trickster, if not to say a deceiver, a craftmen. The veil we see in shadow of the erdtree is everything Marika/Radagon wanted to conceal from the surface.. Radagon's treachery and the flaw of his 'perfect' system of order is represented at the core by Messmer in the DLC aka that great serpent, the dragon who never stop to accuse the brethren day and night, the people of the lands between, those on the surface/the earth, to judge them, to prosecute them for the perpetual sustainance of Radagon's Golden order aka the Dragon's great deception which was the betrayal of the Greater Will behind the veil(!) At the core of Radagon sound system of order or pretense of Justice, we see true corruption manifested by Messmer relentless acts of discrimination conducted without distinction of what is actually right from what is wrong.. In parallel, we see the antichrist in the person of Miquella who subverted his love in the person of St Trina, whose sole purpose is to become a God, to supplant the Greater will to usher a said age of compassion where he is implicitly the only One God.. Alas with all of this, what do we see in the end(?) A Radagon who achieved to be whole again and usurp/sabotage Marika original will which was for her to be completely her own being separated from the law of regression and the chaotic trickster being at the core of the corrupt system of Order/Justice : Radagon/Messmer the Devil.. And his representative in the person of the antichrist Miquella who achieved to subvert everyone hearts being introduced in the temple of God=Gate of Divinity as the abomination of desolation spoken off in Daniel's Bible prophecy preventing even further the 'tarnished' Elden Lord once again from restauring God's temple thus the difficulty of the last fight.. Marika's end is indeed a tragedy as the tarnished is already preempted/overshadowed by Radagon veiled actions from becoming Marika's desired Elden Lord since the very beginning of the game.. בֶּ֙רַע֙

The whole nihilism + need to save people isn't a contradiction. I'm this way also. I see humans as a cancer to the planet. Believe we are vicious animals trying desperately to fight our nature and pretend to be civilised. But I want people not to hurt. I want to protect the weak and punish evil. I try to leave the world better than i came in Why is it not a contradiction? Because the former came from the latter. We are saviours, we are kind and caring but see the world is harsh. So we want to help despise knowing rationally it's futile. Likewise I see many Christians/religious folk who use their religion as justification for their actions. They can do what they want and be absolved of their sin. Whereas us realists hold ourselves accountable

Love his documentaries.

Thank you for this video.

Excellent video!

its been 10 years??????

it is most certainly possible for the real world version of Rust Cohle to exist. No reason you should trust me on this, but trust me on this.

What is the name of the painting at 13:25?

Jesus did bring us a "sword". Huh, I now have to contemplate a "personal" God versus a "pantheistic" God in Elden Ring

"Every success is built on top of a mountain of failures,"

No fucking way my favourite niche youtuber makes a video on my favourite game holy shit!!! Absolutely loved your vid on rust cohle dude

I find psychoanalysis fascinating. Too bad it is the psychological equivalent of astrology.