Wait until you become depressed as absurdist When the whole world becomes so painful to the point you can't become anything anymore Then the question will be answered: "Oh thats why " It's like taking drugs It's so much fun until a certain point Then you start wishing if you could go back in time but you can't I feel like I'm talking to myself... Please if anyone who have the idea to start living that way please don't Even if you managed to survive that pain , your life will NEVER be the same And that moment of "oh a cute duck" will never return And not a single suicide prevention post will come across become useless because you already know everything there , because your entire life was "why not?" So you when they everything they say about loving to live become meaningless I don't even wanna think more about the past
Also if you are in some sort of these things I was talking about Try to sleep a lot And try to get together things you currently have as much as you can and start again from that point For example family and good friends if you have any and all sort of other things meaningful things It might be cold in the beginning but you will get used to it in a while And most importantly stay alive please 🙏
All if you are a man don't be afraid to cry a lot whenever alone to let it go You might get your hands shaking so much but it will be fine And you will have learned a lot from that experience and become a lot knowledgeable
Just 'cuz to both of them. Reason isn't always needed, and if you want to go that route here are some rest stops: who said the universe had a beginning, it may not exist! How can you prove that reality is real, it's impossible by definition, we expect it, but that statement is immeasurable, just like with the tree that fell and no one hears, did it make a sound. How about CGI(CGV) does it exist, is it also part of reality, how about the concept of "2" does it live somewhere.
@beyond your imagination The fact that this is the second time that I've clicked on this exact link in this comment section makes me mad somewhere deep down
I'm 42, have terminal cancer. My life will get worse until I die. That means that now is the best period of the rest of my life. So I enjoy the hell out of it. I love the concept of Absurdism, it's about accepting and living strong. I get the life I get, it would be a shame not enjoining it until the end.
This is actually a quote adapted from JJ Van Der Leeuw- The Conquest Of Illusion, published 1928. Herbert borrowed a lot of context to build his world.
I’ve always said “spite is the greatest motivator.” This is what i meant. Living in spite of death. Loving in spite of hate. Creating in spite of destruction. Laughing in spite of despair and hopelessness.
Following a collaboration with Exurb1a, a British youtuber, Roelofs was hospitalised in November 2016 for acute stress disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, depression and suicidal ideation. During her 7-month hospitalisation, Roelofs began speaking out against her former work partner who she stated used Reddit to smear her name. Roelofs said the TH-camr had assaulted and raped her in October 2016, had started threatening her between November-December 2016, and subsequently "blackmailed" her to leave the hospital to talk to him while she was drugged with prescribed medication, and that he raped her while she was unable to fight him. One of the prescribed medications she had been taking was Xanax, a benzodiazepine and well-known date rape drug.
@@naesone2653 Kinda. You can focus the spite to power whatever you wanna do. It's a great "reason to live" and sorta gives you a way to vent negative emotions from the fucked up world we live in. The world sucks and we can't do much about it, so focus on things that you personally can effect. I've found it to be a surprisingly healthy motivator. @kaleighwinn6042 This resonated with me a lot. A lot.
It is so comforting to know other people think to the depths of reality like this. It eases my existential anxiety to know I am not alone and not going crazy.
This. In addition to constantly thinking " am I the only real one here?" Because nobody else seems to question things the same way. But they do, as this comment section proves haha
Commenting on a video, presumably watching it, and literally not learning anything from it. Absurdism is realising that you could have an existential crisis and deciding to have a walk in the park, because its a nice day, because its a nice day to take a walk in the park, and for no. other. reason.
@@mohammedjafer9265 Nature provides us lessons everyday, experience is when we have learned a good proportion of those lessons. The lesson of existential crises is resolved by realising there is no god, nothing we do matters except for the here and now. Nihilism is what’s the point. Absurdism is eh, I’ll just have a good day, and let tomorrow worry about itself. Im sure it’s not coincidence that post enlightenment has come up with absurdism, the classical world came up with stoicism, and the eastern world came up with Buddhism, all answering the question in the same way. I’m sure the same answer is found in other cultures as well.
Amazing content, really? I don't understand people that need meaning or can't find purpose, authorities are literally militarized against the disabled, having us abused under the guise of help, if you see nothing wrong with that, then yeah, keep acting as if you need meaning or purpose in life, doing nothing to stop abuse in your family and community, never mind the websites and facilities.
Yes! Thank you Viktorianas. Combine those two, absurdism and stoicism, and then one can drop the suicidal thoughts of nihilism. And mentioning suicide reminded me of Fredrick Nietzsche, saying something like “contemplating suicide has helped me make it through many a night.” Thank you again!!!
In the end, I came to understand that whatever we may see as true is just that to our perception and nothing more, including our thoughts. Nihilism was the view I've naturally been following since early school. In the end, everything is valid and stupid, clever and clouded - logical just as much as as it is pointless. A person who lies may speak the truth in the right ear, the most common knowledge may just be a misinterpretation since generations... I don't care anymore. Bye.
But that response would only be relevant to that of existentialist nihilism which is unfortunately what is being used as a generalization in this video. Also you’d have to have a voided belief or something other than hard determinism otherwise it wouldn’t be a true philosophical viewpoint. Absurdism is really just a conscious avoidance of reality. It’s not a decision and it’s not a belief because how can some of an opposing standpoint come from the opposite and original conclusion. If you have acknowledged nihilism as a reality, which ties into determinism, then absurdism really cannot exist. It’s completely illogical and in itself a paradox
@@jonasaur6462 it's quite ez. It takes like 4 min per prayer. And if rather submit my will to Allah than society. Allah knows best. Society is limited in knowledge and quite stupid frankly
I would just like to say that this video is the exact length of time that it took me to open and peel two pomegranates, and having watched this I now have a Tupperware full of pomegranate seeds and a slightly more hopeful outlook on life! Thank you x
In this time I ate two fried eggs, two rashers of air-fried middle-back bacon, and drank a cup of (Yorkshire) tea. For I am ~~Welsh~~ English, you know, good countryman.
“It isn’t meaningless that hurts, it’s the contradiction of needing meaning and not getting it” *image of a sad pug in a rainstorm, definitely thinking that exact thought*
If life had a meaning it would mean that man has no choice. If it was a ready-made thing. This is also the reason nobody is born religious or born into a religion, because that would take away the possibility of conversion, you can not convert from a male to female and vice versa. You can try, but your biological gender will always be there. The fact that you can convert from a religion to another is proof that nobody is born into a religion. If life had a meaning it would take away the possibility of any other meaning. The fact that life is meaningless is a possibility for you to create any meaning, it gives you a choice. What was the reason to do anything if life had a set goal to be achieved? The only set goal is the grave. Because the moment you are born is the moment you start dying.
I don't understand people that need meaning or can't find purpose, authorities are literally militarized against the disabled, having us abused under the guise of help, if you see nothing wrong with that, then yeah, keep acting as if you need meaning or purpose in life, doing nothing to stop abuse in your family and community, never mind the websites and facilities.
...and mastering fear is to embrace insanity... and that it is okay. The profoundly stable people do this. In the psychiatric field they will only diagnose something if it a problem. No problem and you "don't have it", even though it is still there. Knowing this simple concept can help a lot.
Following a collaboration with Exurb1a, a British youtuber, Roelofs was hospitalised in November 2016 for acute stress disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, depression and suicidal ideation. During her 7-month hospitalisation, Roelofs began speaking out against her former work partner who she stated used Reddit to smear her name. Roelofs said the TH-camr had assaulted and raped her in October 2016, had started threatening her between November-December 2016, and subsequently "blackmailed" her to leave the hospital to talk to him while she was drugged with prescribed medication, and that he raped her while she was unable to fight him. One of the prescribed medications she had been taking was Xanax, a benzodiazepine and well-known date rape drug
I discovered your videos in the summer of 2021. I was in a crisis, had fallen out with my whole family and was sleeping on the streets. The few nights I found a sofa to crash on for the night, I would watch your videos and listen to your stories as I fell asleep. They would inspire me, distract me and bring me happiness in the darkest time of my life. Now, I have my own house I share with my girlfriend, our baby son and I'm over 500 days clean and sober and I've wanted to comment something on a video of yours for a while now just to thank you for being a positive force in my life when I needed one the most, so thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing what you do.
"I won't just gaze into the abyss, I'll maintain uncomfortable eye contact with it." Ultimately, all we need to realize is that the abyss suffers from severe social anxiety.
This is my first time hearing this, and I almost teared up hearing it put in a way I've never been able to manage when I've tried to explain it. I always called it optimistic nihilism for lack of a better terminology, but this is exactly what I've been looking for.
@@willymack5677 Interesting take. So, given that you see this as an intrinsic human thing, would you phrase religion to be sort of.. anti-human? Like it goes against our natural uninfluenced state?
“Who can be sure? Not us.” This is something that I think far too many people lose sight of. So many people are far too sure of themselves and their place in the universe.
one of my favourite quotes of Albert Camus is: "You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." his books really helped me find peace in suffering.
i think "living in a paradox but still doing the dishes" might be one of my favourite ways to describe a philosophical theory. thank you for being better than my philosophy teacher
I was doing the dishes when I watched this. There is that scene in Mindhunter (Unibomber) when the agent is sitting at the red light in the early hours of the morning waiting for it to go green and there is literally no one around... just sitting there... following the rules. We just do... thinking independently is tiring.
The chess piece is made to look like a bishop, not the other way round. The name kinda gives it away. Probably seems clever if you're biased and don't bother thinking about anything much.
Well , I believe that you should do what this universe tells you to do , meaning what Mother Nature tells you to do , nature tells you to breathe so breathe , nature tells you to sleep when sleepy then sleep , nature tells you to bang when horny , then do so without questioning nature/universe . Do what Mother Nature(that is the universe ) commands you to do without thinking too much or else at the end you will regret everything you did in the past.
Well, technically the chess piece is made after them, and the power of the pieces is in the higharchy and that at the rise of chess there was a popularity to female leaders it goes queen king, religious icons (bishop) knight( just a famous) and the rook is just kinda there
@@hyperkitten1422 can you please point me to the police investigation, charges and conviction? Because individuals lives have been DESTROYED by false allegations and online warriors taking it upon themselves to ‘defend’ accusers. I personally have been caught by that before, my mother was my primary abuser and it’s *incredibly easy* to do this in this era of SJWs who automatically ALWAYS believe the female no matter what. I looked into this as a thriver after sexual assault who got her abuser convicted and I could see the issues with the allegations. I have SUBZERO interest in the toxic cancel culture when the evidence and narratives are incomplete.
I love how absurdism, the thing that answers the question to the meaning of life with "it just is, or isn't, depending on what you think, but in the end it doesn't matter because it just is" is the perfect match for the most anxious, troubled, melancholic, in search for THE REAL answers people on earth (or wherever else)
Absurdism is one of those philosophies I stumbled into myself during self exploration, or rather a nihilistic version of it. I was suicidal, lost, fraying at the edges, losing my sense of self and locked up in a mental ward for being depressed. I looked inward during that time and came up with many of the conclusions that form absurdism, but also nihilism. Nothing mattered I concluded. Nothing has a deeper meaning. Yet if nothing matters then that means the meaning is that which I give it. So should I not smile and give meaning to the pleasures of life? I don't need a deeper purpose to laugh, to sing, to dance, or to smile. Instead I can assign meaning those things, the meaning of enjoying this existence, because this is a rather fun ride we're on. The conclusion that nothing had meaning lead me to nihilism, but that it didn't need meaning lead me to absurdism. The fun was in granting it meaning. If my life had no meaning than I shall rebel by giving it meaning, and that meaning was to see just how much I could relish in it all. Without meaning there was freedom to paint the world around me in my own meaning. To see the wonders of the world without worrying about them. Have you ever sat down and wrote an 80 page essay on a single class of item a table top roleplaying game? I have, then I decided it needed to be much much longer as I didn't write enough, I expect when I'm done it'll be 200 or more pages. So much work put into something that doesn't matter some would say, but if nothing matters then everything is equally deserving of your efforts. Put those efforts into where you find love and joy. Cherish the now, laugh at the awful, mock the lovely. Challenge it all to spark your interest enough to give it meaning. And then, snatch it away just to give it a new meaning. The world is empty, so rather than cry about it we should fill it with our own meaning. Kindness for its own sake, joy just to be happy, and sorrow to remind us why we laugh. Give your everything to everything, because there's no value to keeping it to yourself. Or don't. It doesn't matter either way. And that's OK. It doesn't need to matter. It exists regardless, and that's just wonderful. So when you ask "why?" You are granting meaning to that answer, so might as well go find it, after all, something with meaning is exceptional when nothing is meaningful. Just because it isn't important, doesn't mean you can't care about it.
@@Hirotechnics life is not only about loving someone or being loved! Keep in mind that people added some rules to the game, but these rules aren't universal truth. If you don't find confort in this game, you may want to play differently to this game, or play another one, rather than not playing any! You can also play a game for the fun of it, not to win it, sometime losing a game is more fun than winning. But please keep playing, its fun in the long run. P.S.: some ideas to feel better: get a pet, get in touch with local associations, chat with friendly people on the internet, enjoy ficticious worlds. If you can, talk to a professionnal. If you can, meet new people, try new things. From a random french guy
@@asterisqueetperil2149 and the funny man in my phone here said to live like the French, so sir consider your advice taken. Hope the fella who u responded to did too, it was well put :D
@@asterisqueetperil2149 Just a note here; Plot twist: Those ficticious worlds are actually real. But yes fully agree and remember, scientists say we shouldnt exist yet we are, theres galaxies and all kinds of things so maybe, maybe, theres more to this life.
@@tolvajakos Exurb1a has become my favorite TH-camr. every video he puts out has some profound thought provoking quote that I would've never thought off
I come back to this video every now and again when I feel as though life is just sorta getting the better of me or someone close to me. And it never fails to hit home that Albert Camus (along with exurb1a) found such the right words to explain how people behave and act in the now. And that we seemingly can’t help it. The pursuit of answers, going for a beer, doing the dishes, watching puffins. All of life is itself saying “fuck it we ball” and just living. Such a great philosophy and video.
My personal take on absurdism is this: we, as a sentient species, are the eyes and the ears of the universe. We are the universe watching itself. Every time I observe something, especially something with no one else present to witness it, is a precise moment of perspective in space and time that would've otherwise gone wasted if not for me. It doesn't matter whether I fully grasp what I saw or not, I derive a great degree of satisfaction from this sense of self-awareness regardless. This is what makes life worth living to me, and I'm going to keep doing it until the day I die, because the alternative is to experience nothing, and that's boring as shit.
Thank you for writing this. I akways say "I wish you could've seen it" to people after witnessing a particularly stunning work of nature. But I dont think thats necessary anymore. I need not ponder over what might have been if they had seen it. The sight is not important because it is shared. The sight is important because it is seen at all.
@@almafoshizzleSometimes I’ll get the urge to take a picture of something and then think better of it because it’s enough just to have seen it with my own eyes and would be better left as a memory of how I experienced it.
@@linmonPIE Thats right! I dont want to remember that full moon as a crappy white dot on a screen. I want to remember it as the spectacle it was to me in that moment.
Absurdism is the answer I’ve been wanting for years, it makes me feel happy (since hope doesn’t exist) that I can just enjoy my little fruit strips as I exist in the infinite void of everything.
Absurdism reminds me of "the cosmic joke" which is essentially a spiritual phenomenon in deep meditation where someone is overtaken by uncontrollable laughter. It's like when you're told a joke and no one gets it except that 1 person in the crowd.
The universe is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind -Lovecraft. And I agree, yes this is all a joke, but once you are done laughing you start to figure out that the joke isn't funny. It's twisted and sick and awkward and most things about life are just sad.
This has been my comfort video for months. It plays while I brush my teeth, cook dinner, or literally do anything human and mundane. Thank you for this.
I’ve always treated life as a play, being performed to an empty theater. As long as I keep giving a performance I’m winning in a way. I’d demonstrate I never needed an audience in the first place, rather this performance is for me and the other members of the play. Also the hell I’m gonna be beaten by a bunch of empty chairs.
If you are reading this...run!! You are living in the Truman show, *we are watching* literally every move you take, *RUN* is not empty chairs, we are watching, you are performing a play for us!!
Ironically, you're being an idiot, this video isn't specifically made for you, or for anyone else, its just something exurbia created on his own, and posted, and you're one of millions who watched it, enjoyed it, thought maybe it was helpful. Divine has nothing to do with this.
@@Rose333X From Wikipedia®, the free encyclopedia: "A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is *usually not meant to be interpreted literally."*
Absurdism is the word for what I’ve been experiencing the past couple of years, I just realized! I always like to tell myself “in a world as nihilistic as it is, sometimes all you can do is laugh and find your own meaning” and it’s quite comforting. (Side note, hope everyone’s Sunday is going swell 💙)
Sunday is going well :) I do want to say that "making your own meaning" is really not how I read absurdism, even though I used to for a time. To me, absurdism is laughing *without* making your own meaning, enjoying life without oversimplifying it into a moral code, out of a recognition that no such moral code will satisfy your will for absolute truth.
Yeah, if nihilism is an understanding of meaninglessness I think absurdism is kind of a 'fuck it then, the struggle to live in a meaningless world is itself meaningful and worthwhile' response. One must imagine Sisyphus happy for the struggle alone is enough to fill a man's heart.
It would sound like an exaggeration but this might downright be the most impactful video I've ever seen in like, EVER. It had me weeping with a grin, I didn't even know humans are capable of experiencing such contradictory feelings.
If you like this read The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus. I also recommend his novels The Plague and The Outsider / Stranger and his long form essay The Rebel.
I was extremely young when I had my first existential crisis, I’m talking 7 or 8 years old. It made me feel weird about “why/how do I exist, is my body me or is my mind me?” But luckily because I was so young it evolved into absurdism, not nihilism. When I was a teenager I couldn’t understand why people felt life had no meaning or purpose, and now that I’m older nihilism feels like giving up on FINDING your own personal meaning and purpose. I’m glad I came across this video, I thought I was just a weirdo for being like this.
Same here! When I was 8 also weirdly. I would all the sudden out of nowhere just think “I’m me” and it was the coolest/ weirdest/unanswerable thing, just thinking “how did I get so lucky to have this consciousness (me) to myself, where did this come from, why don’t other ppl ask and talk about this all the time???” And I still get this feeling at age 38. And I remember trying to explain this ‘epiphany’ or whatever you call it to my 6 year old sister, who didn’t get it despite me explaining the best I could lol
You guys are lucky to have gained consciousness at such a young age. I’m 20 and the last 3 years have been terrifying for me! Only just now have I found the answer.
It’s crazy right? I first became self aware when I was 5, I was looking at my tiny baby hands and asking why my hands are smaller than everyone else’s. My first existential crisis was when I was 8, I was sitting in class and I started thinking about space and how vast it is that my smooth brain broke. I immediately went to, “why even bother if I’m so small?”
Same, same. I didnt think other people saw life like this. Glad I know. Makes this whole mess that is life a tad bit more interesting and less lonely. I dont remember when I first had this thought, i just always remembered who I was and am as someone who questioned life, exintence and everything related to why. Its pretty fun when you look at it really. What are the chances things turned out like this. And the fact that you drink recycled t-rex pee on a daily basis - whats up with that - huh? Man life is chaotic and beautiful. No other way to describe it really.
hello Mr turtle man, this video is, and I mean this with no hyperbole, my favorite piece of media ever. It is the only thing to make me fucking SOB whenever I watch it while especially down, and after I’m done crying, I feel much, much better. Thank you so fucking much for making this, it has saved me from so many nights of feeling shitty and hopeless and sad. From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much.
Try not to overdo it OP. Alcoholism is just another master, the worst kind, because you’ll spend the whole time convincing yourself that it doesn’t exist. Not advocating for abstinence, just no more masters.
As someone who's dedicated a lot of time to reading Camus, I was pleased to see that this video is really accurate to his spirit and message! I hope more people can find peace in his message, because at least for me, the absurdist life is life changing!
ive never seen anyone balance the importance of the philosophy with the joy of being alive so well. ive read most of camus' works as well. its like we r players in a game and the goal is to survive not ask questions.
it’s actually insane how accurately you managed to put into words the exact same “chill down my spine” unnerving feeling i get when i consider the whole nothing/infinity thing regarding the first cause. it’s the closest to a lovecraftian concept i can experience. a literal void in the middle of philosophy and when you have a full intuitive grasp of that concept you’re forced to confront that right now, at this present moment, you’re only existing and consciously thinking about this very concept because of one of two impossible possibilities that *must* be true
Love the way of phrasing that "you're forced to confront that right now". Because that's always exactly what it feels like when I think about that very subject. I can always, almost literally, feel an internal battle in my mind where one side is trying so hard to understand the concept, while the other is trying to scurry away from the subject, to think about easier things instead.
@@wolfborn4967 Dear wolfborn4967, I like your reply to sloppysorabji's reply and I appreciate thought provoking replies, especially to such thought provoking videos. You may be interested ... maybe not, in my reply to sloppysorabji's reply. Also your reply makes me think of the words of a song, "pull me into shallow water before I get too deep". Our minds, are always in a state of activity (even when asleep) and when awake we are always experiencing ... something ... and thoughts about what we are experiencing are forming and changing and being crafted ... and we sometimes wish to put forth more energy and sometimes less energy into a specific experience, which includes thoughts, it all depends on what we get, (or is it what we Want to get?) from our effort ... joy, satisfaction, comfort, something that holds our interest, ... and OUR immediate energy level because energy is always in a state of flux, always waxing and waning. We need both enough energy and enough ability to fully comprehend ... anything ... in any particular moment, AND we all tend to lean toward easy when we are in a lower energy state. Love & Peace to You
this message is to sloppysorabji on April 7th 2023... The One reply I made to You ... here, around 2 or 3 days ago is not showing up here now for some reason??? My reply to wolfborn is still here (think I made those replies the same day). Anyway ... I will ask again ... what are your definitions (or ideas or concepts on the nature of "Force")? I wrote some of my thoughts on it, but they appear to me as have been removed or they have disappeared???? don't know. I have referred to that "missing" reply in a different area .... not knowing it had disappeared here until this morning.
I am two weeks short of being 77 years old, and this is the best damn 11 minutes and 21 seconds that I’ve seen and listened to in my whole life. Combine those two, absurdism and stoicism, and then one can drop the suicidal thoughts of nihilism. And mentioning suicide reminded me of Fredrick Nietzsche, saying something like “contemplating suicide has helped me make it through many a night.” Thank you exurb1a.
You are in charge. Check out The Buddha who raised his soul by his soul. The West is still trying to rebel against its primitive God complex of sin, guilt Judgement and Salvation from on high. What one wants to say to western philosophy (and religion) is "Please grow up!"
yo if your profile picture is up to date you don't even remotely look 77. more like healthy 55 lol. Unlucky you, seems like you'll have to endure this planet well into your 100s 😂
I always go back to Emil Cioran's take on suicide. First, he says if life is absurd then death is as absurd as that, and so would it be commiting suicide. But more importantly, he believes it is the most beautiful thing we have as humans, since it is a guarantee of freedom. You are able to choose a way out whenever you want. Considering suicide means you are truly free, and not taking that way out means you are making an active choice every second you are here living. And for some reason, feeling like I'm choosing to be here instead of just... being forced to... it just makes it all better in a matter of seconds. By the way, I saw you posted this two weeks ago. Happy birthday.
@@MathewSteeleAtheology There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another contradiction - how can man keep the bonds of his humanness, and still venture gladly and purposefully into the absolute loneliness of eternity? Whenever you resolve this riddle, you’ll be ready for the definitive journey.”
@@frankrunge2589 I've come to the conclusion that we must do it because we're ultimately no different than any other animal, as living beings. They do, they are, they manage. So can we, by choosing to embrace what we can't understand. We'll never know the full scope of reality, the size and extent of the cosmos. That's unavoidably true. Why should one unavoidable truth be any different than another? Life appears to have no purpose. The only thing in the way of accepting that fact in the same way that we accept any other is our need for an explanation that isn't there. Cognitive dissonance only results if we assume we have a right to know what we can't possibly learn.
@@MathewSteeleAtheology Sisyphus leads straight to Buddha. We will by no means solve this riddle in a cognitive way. Only meditation will lead us into this process of 'nothingness' in eternity. And teach us happiness.
Sisyphus must be happy, yes, but if he isn't, it doesn't matter. He has no choice to be happy, for his revolt against the abyss is indifferent. So now instead of Sisyphus killing himself, he keeps living in spite, hatred for life but also same amount of love. Reality is despair but let your spite keep you alive.
I feel like every single comment calling exurb1a depression turtle and saying they get depressed from watching him just doesn't get the point of the video at all.
You don’t now how happy this video made me. Right now I’m really struggling with finding a reason in my life. I turned 20 yesterday and I feel real lost in this world. Right now I’m doing a exchange year in Colombia and I’m from Germany. Learning Spanish in a small town in Colombia is crazy and meaningless at the same time. The last few months far from home totally alone with only a few new friends I started to realize that actually maybe nothing Mathers but being alive. Like living in the moment and enjoying als this absurdism. Realizing that I’m not the only lost Wanderer in this world makes me really happy and I am really excited to look further into your book as well in Alberts work. Thank you for your work you just made my life a bit meaninglessly meaningful :)
For years I was thinking along the the exact idea of absurdism but didn’t realize that it was an established mentality to have. Knowing that I’m not the only one out there that thinks like that makes this one of the most reassuring and impactful videos I’ve ever watched 💯 thanks bro.
Same, altough I expected it to be an already existing concept, since I came to this conclusion and I'm not really too smart. In the end it's either believing in something or not believing in something, and if you don't believe in anything then life doesn't have any sense and you can kill yourself/live in constant misery, or life doesn't have any sense and who cares? Just do what you want to do and make your own goals. Didn't Nietzsche write a book about this?
No gonna lie, Absurdism saved me, I only recently started to really practice absurdist thought and it was the weight of the world off my shoulders. I have depression and know about crushingly depressing realities of our current world all too well. However finally I started smiling more than I ever did, because I stopped questioning the sense, the meaning, any of this, and I found inner peace in the chaos.
we are 8 billion humans. I'd be impressed if you were alone with your feelings and thoughts about something. at least something that isn't a personal secret few know about.
The only reason I’ll always struggle with the why question, is the more I think about it the more I realize how much of my life I spend doing pointless things. There’s no point in having a high paying job, huge house, fancy car (unless you want all that) like we’re told growing up. So now I’m in my mid 20’s realizing that everything I’ve been told about life is completely useless. I understand that there is a sense of freedom in this. But all the same it seems to be responsible for the hollow feeling I find attached to everything I do anymore. It’s nice to watch these videos and realize that I’m not the only one thinking about this stuff, and that there is a sense of peace that can be achieved. I hope that I, along with anyone else feeling this way, can find that peace. Thank you for making all these videos, they’ve had a profound affect on me and many others.
I'm in a similar position - mid to late 20s, worked hard toward a well paying job my whole life, but now aware it is almost certainly not the answer to "what I want in life". My answer to your concerns is that you are still very young in the grand scheme, and have plenty of opportunity to change your path and move towards whatever actually makes you happy. The reason that I still value those traditional goals is that it is much easier to change your path when have a good job and a nice house than if you are dealing with the daily struggles associated with not having those things. Remember that life is, fundamentally, not easy. Only the very lucky few get to live a carefree, happy, low-wealth life from the get-go. Use those traditional goals as a stepping stone to the actual happiness you're seeking.
and also - be completely prepared to never achieve the total freedom you would like simply because, again, life is very hard and every day that you have food and shelter is basically a statistical improbability. Instead, try to inject that freedom into your non-ideal life whenever you can. Hopefully with time, you can swing the balance where you have a lot of freedom mixed in with some bullshit, rather than the other way around.
This video is the embodiment of my mind holy shit. This is precisely how I see reality . Didn't even know this perspective had a name, and a suiting one at that. "Absurdism". Thanks a lot. I feel a happy and comfort in knowing there are others having this insanity playing out in their head.
I don’t know why, but when you told the story about the explorers on elephant island, when you talked about how they stayed joyous even in the face of complete isolation and almost guaranteed death, it made me cry more than I had in a very long time. Thank you.
@Stupid Dinosaur Get Out Of Here I just did, Jesus Christ that’s horrific Edit: this video gives a good into into the info m.th-cam.com/video/CqIujvFf1rs/w-d-xo.html
Thanks turtle, you are the content creator equivalent to sitting on a bench and the sun breaking through the clouds on a rough day, it doesn't fix everything but it soothes the itch in the back of my mind for a while. Keep doing what you do man!
Thank you. As a suicide survivor (somehow) who wrestles with all these questions constantly, you distilled/summarized a huge swath of philosophy into a lovely whiskey of thought. My next drink is to you
it's also a multi-layered absurd, and it fits perfectly to the video theme. A chess piece called (you guessed) *a bishop* was made after the fashion of Catholic bishops
And the people who mock Cristians the most are typically the ones that value themselves to be a group or individual thinkers that are the most tolerant and inclusive
And then you start coming to terms with the fact that nothing IS the answer. Then comes existentialism and then whatever way you cope with it after that lol.
It is because it is absolutely absurd. How people go about living life without a purpose makes me repulsed quite honestly. You end up chasing only your base desires. You end up a slave to the material world and the animal within you. There is no moral argument. There is nothing to work to that matters in the end. This idea that we can create our own purpose is not just absurd, it is naïve. What if two people's purposes conflict, and violently so? Who gets to decide who is right? There is no Truth, so everyone is right. From Hitler to Joe Blow. All of them found their own purpose and tried to enact it. These secular philosophies make no sense.
@@MrMineHeads. How does a lack of objective/absolute meaning prevent us from creating moral frameworks that work for us, or goals that work for us? That seems to be what's happening already, why isn't it good enough? People's purposes violently conflict, and frequently. There is no "what if" there. So when it happens... we work it out? Reach stalemate and argue about it for thousands of years? Winner takes all? These things also seem to reflect conflicting purpose throughout history. "There is no Truth, so everyone is right." - You're missing the point. There is no "right" either, beyond whatever value system we construct to suit ourselves. As far as I can tell you think that existence can't possibly be objectively meaningless because... then it would be meaningless? Does this summarize your position correctly?
@@MrMineHeads. my current objective/meaning of life is to tell you to shut up and stop worrying about what other people consider the meaning of life and whether or not it contradicts with yours.
Yeah I'm very much an absurdist. I came to that conclusion by myself in a vacuum actually. Well, I mean. I was actually watching a bunch of your videos a long time ago and basically I was getting existential crisises on the daily and then I was like "why should I continue to wallow here... why don't I just do things that make me happy instead. Questioning existence makes me sad, so I'll stop that, and I'll just go play games or build a model kit." Now I know it has a name! That's cool.
Its important to remember theres alegations against this man. As far as I'm concerned they havent been debunked; th-cam.com/video/CqIujvFf1rs/w-d-xo.html
absurdism is more taking value out of the fact life is meaningless via coming to the conclusion that without meaning one has the freedom to apply meaning
A circle has no beginning nor an end, you can start drawing it from any point and still end up with the same circle. The universe is infinite and has no beginning, but you can also think that every moment is the beginning.
“Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the mastery of fear.” Very very cool. Now I have something to offer my 6 year-old next time they are scared to walk down our dim staircase. Thanks for being you, turtle guy.
By far the greatest philosopher of contemporary times, not just in ability to grasp and disseminate difficult concepts, but in making them incredibly entertaining while doing so. This is one of your best works yet.
There is a saying which has always shaken me and it’s very much along the same lines as this ^ “Enlightenment. But first, the laundry.” ^ like no matter what we do, or feel, or how hard we try to understand, or how lost we get in the existential spiral, we will always have mundane responsibility to attend because we are alive. EVEN those who feel that they understand the world, still have to so laundry. Even when you recognize that you are divinity, divinity is you, and that everything is everything and nothing is nothing and you fall into nihilism, there are still clothes to fold. And there always will be! Thats absurdism! (i had no idea this was a theory, but I’m glad it is. Very helpful for me)
living happily knowing ur in a cruel and unjust world is more honorable and better than succumbing to the world and just being sad, its like ur letting it control u or something. also i really like the music
@@samhhaincat2703 You're seeking nihilism, even when it hides. Perhaps your life has no meaning, but that's because you just won't let life have meaning. You just won't let yourself be happy. You just won't let yourself *live.*
Another response to all of this is, “I have no idea what’s going on and I have no desire to know. Just because it makes the most intuitive sense, I’ll be kind, generous, and enjoy consciousness as much as possible.”
I have watched this video well over 10 times and it keeps me grounded. Life is absurd and at times beautiful and terrible but also dull and comfortable. This video helps me enjoy the random existence we have. Much love.
no beginning and was infinite, all the energy in the universe would have been used up and dispersed into heat already, therefor cancelling out that theory. Since an infinite universe is not possible then we know it had a beginning, but since something can't come from nothing, the only possible explanation is a creator, aka God. The uncaused first cause. Someone or something that exists outside of our three dimensional way of thinking (4 if time is a dimension). If you pass a 3D object through a 2D world, someone in the 2D world would have no Idea how to explain it because they only exist in that dimension. If God truly is real we would never have any "reasonable" way to prove it because we are limited to our 3 dimensions. God is real, many people just don't believe it because they think they can explain everything from their perspective of reality, we as humans are just to arrogant to admit it.
"I used to find, if I thought about this too long, that it inspired the kind of horror as when you realized that third joint was a bad idea." And I felt that
Its important to remember theres alegations against this man. As far as I'm concerned they havent been debunked; th-cam.com/video/CqIujvFf1rs/w-d-xo.html
@@oscarwang7227 that's true I can't deny that. its still weird though... like when I watch a movie made by someone who was a criminal creep my watching it isn't directly funding them (since many are no longer alive or are in jail or were cut off from payments) but I feel a little guilty how much I still genuinely enjoy exurb1a's content (especially the older stuff which many years ago were such important inspirations to me they changed the direction of my life) it's all so confusing and frustrating especially knowing certain fans have been harassing the victim to insane degrees and that he's evading charges/investigations/won't speak about or address any of this
@@thishandleistacken But the problem is that, you can blame me or anyone for the matter of fact, on the internet, for anything. Yes you could tread back on him if all his crimes are convicted in a court or any justice body, but just because of allegations from someone who might have or have not been harassed by him, doesn't mean we need to take a Stand, for both of the sides. We are here to enjoy his content and if he is convicted of those crimes, I would never support his videos in the future but until then I don't heed to what people say, as Innocent until proven guilty.
Just wanted to introduce myself as a new subscriber. I'm a 67yo disabled vet confined to my couch "if I knew I was going to live....I'd have taken better care..." My days have been reduced to mind numbing drivel on TV UNTIL! I came across your channel. I wanted to thank you for the equivalent of the mental defibrillator that is your content. So.. Thanks...I needed that! I'm sure I'll be here again and again. And I vow that once my country is in the hands of real, capable adults and I can spend my money on more than just food and shelter, I will be a faithful contributor. Thanks again.
I came to Absurdism while taking LSD regularly during the Pandemic. I'm so glad I took it into my life, its held me with my discipline, dedication, creativity, and its helped me past my depression. Life has no meaning ✌️🧡😊
Life has an infinite number of meanings. If you choose not to decide on one, you still have made a choice. If you choose to use a crutch like LSD, you've chosen to hide. The meaning of that is very clear, and hopefully it won't last very long. Your excuses are your own, but more than once or twice is not for learning but cheap and dangerous escapism.
Probably it will get lost among other thousands of comments, but if you read this one day, just wanna let you know this video inspired me to get back on working on my comic. I gave up on the project years ago, but one character has a lot of sartre inside himself. Thank you man, I had forggoten how the absurd can be inspiring.
@@masturbates Even if he's a terrible person, I don't really give a fuck, cause so am I and I enjoy comedy and philosophy. And apparently you are too, seeing that you masturbate in your name. Out of curiosity, what makes you think he's a terrible person...?
What a video! Holy moly it's almost like a really well worded and condensed version of a particular string of thoughts I've had over the last 6 years and all of the psychedelic trips contained within. I've never seen this channel before but my goodness that was good. Thank you so much
it feels like with every video you pull hundreds of years old ideas out of my brain that i couldnt put to words and explain them while gaining monetary gain from it. thank you for everything you do, you are an inspiration
Nihilism is living with a "why?"
Absurdism is living with a "why not?"
Wait until you become depressed as absurdist
When the whole world becomes so painful to the point you can't become anything anymore
Then the question will be answered:
"Oh thats why "
It's like taking drugs
It's so much fun until a certain point
Then you start wishing if you could go back in time but you can't
I feel like I'm talking to myself...
Please if anyone who have the idea to start living that way please don't
Even if you managed to survive that pain , your life will NEVER be the same
And that moment of "oh a cute duck" will never return
And not a single suicide prevention post will come across become useless because you already know everything there , because your entire life was "why not?" So you when they everything they say about loving to live become meaningless
I don't even wanna think more about the past
@@KudoShinichii1412 I'm not in the throws of it.
I have seen it close up. Thank you.
Also if you are in some sort of these things I was talking about
Try to sleep a lot
And try to get together things you currently have as much as you can and start again from that point
For example family and good friends if you have any and all sort of other things meaningful things
It might be cold in the beginning but you will get used to it in a while
And most importantly stay alive please 🙏
All if you are a man don't be afraid to cry a lot whenever alone to let it go
You might get your hands shaking so much but it will be fine
And you will have learned a lot from that experience and become a lot knowledgeable
Just 'cuz to both of them. Reason isn't always needed, and if you want to go that route here are some rest stops: who said the universe had a beginning, it may not exist! How can you prove that reality is real, it's impossible by definition, we expect it, but that statement is immeasurable, just like with the tree that fell and no one hears, did it make a sound. How about CGI(CGV) does it exist, is it also part of reality, how about the concept of "2" does it live somewhere.
"I won't just gaze into the abyss, I'll maintain uncomfortable eye contact with it" is such a fucking raw line
Please remember there are allegations regarding rape towards this man: th-cam.com/video/CqIujvFf1rs/w-d-xo.html
“I’ll go get laser eye surgery so I CAN STARE EVEN HARDER” goes just as hard.
i saw this the moment it happened in the video
Me staring off into space thinking about crows:
cringe
"I won't just gaze into the abyss, I'll maintain uncomfortable eye contact with it."
Need that on a t-shirt.
@beyond your imagination The fact that this is the second time that I've clicked on this exact link in this comment section makes me mad somewhere deep down
Nah mate, "living in a paradox and still doing the dishes" beats it.
Literally my full experience looking into the sky or an open landscape while letting my brain wander to anxious default mode land
"I'll go get lazer eye surgery to stare at the abyss even harder"
@beyondyourimagination Meh, I prefer my wedges deep fried in a shit ton of artery clogging oil
I'm 42, have terminal cancer. My life will get worse until I die. That means that now is the best period of the rest of my life. So I enjoy the hell out of it. I love the concept of Absurdism, it's about accepting and living strong.
I get the life I get, it would be a shame not enjoining it until the end.
Well at least I made it tell 42 my brother died at 21 and judging that I ride motorcycles really fast I probably will die before I hit 40
Cheers,man.
I hope things go as well as they can for you
Live it up, man!
“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
Ah, I love that man
“Sometimes I pee before I poop but when I poop I pee freely” -unknown
@@alexp1408 that seems pretty cynical.
@@alexp1408 one must first experience (five senses or a sixth one) something, to know.
This is actually a quote adapted from JJ Van Der Leeuw- The Conquest Of Illusion, published 1928.
Herbert borrowed a lot of context to build his world.
I’ve always said “spite is the greatest motivator.” This is what i meant. Living in spite of death. Loving in spite of hate. Creating in spite of destruction. Laughing in spite of despair and hopelessness.
this is an excellent quote friend
I like this a lot, so does one just fight against the destruction in the world and the evil and try to „win“
Following a collaboration with Exurb1a, a British youtuber, Roelofs was hospitalised in November 2016 for acute stress disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, depression and suicidal ideation. During her 7-month hospitalisation, Roelofs began speaking out against her former work partner who she stated used Reddit to smear her name. Roelofs said the TH-camr had assaulted and raped her in October 2016, had started threatening her between November-December 2016, and subsequently "blackmailed" her to leave the hospital to talk to him while she was drugged with prescribed medication, and that he raped her while she was unable to fight him. One of the prescribed medications she had been taking was Xanax, a benzodiazepine and well-known date rape drug.
@@naesone2653 Kinda. You can focus the spite to power whatever you wanna do. It's a great "reason to live" and sorta gives you a way to vent negative emotions from the fucked up world we live in. The world sucks and we can't do much about it, so focus on things that you personally can effect. I've found it to be a surprisingly healthy motivator.
@kaleighwinn6042 This resonated with me a lot. A lot.
@@OriginalBlackmoore okay thanks yeah I figured , just it’s not a easy thing to do…
It is so comforting to know other people think to the depths of reality like this. It eases my existential anxiety to know I am not alone and not going crazy.
Just making a reply to help you not go crazy
This. In addition to constantly thinking " am I the only real one here?" Because nobody else seems to question things the same way. But they do, as this comment section proves haha
@@chriscampbell4857 True we have to make sure hes not alone and not going crazy.
reality continues, never alone out here, even if that sounds absurd
@@trym2766 . Oh he's going crazy alright. We're all going crazy ! Although,
to not savour that
would be absurd .
Whenever I'm having anxiety I watch this channel to replace it with existential crisis, thank you for your service
Gotta love a good existential crisis every now and then
Commenting on a video, presumably watching it, and literally not learning anything from it.
Absurdism is realising that you could have an existential crisis and deciding to have a walk in the park, because its a nice day, because its a nice day to take a walk in the park, and for no. other. reason.
Thus while video is making the point to overcome existential crisis. That was the whole point. Did you even watch it?
existential crisis is reason of our curiosity which is embedded within us to find God and logic fulfils it with asking for reason's in everything.
@@mohammedjafer9265 Nature provides us lessons everyday, experience is when we have learned a good proportion of those lessons.
The lesson of existential crises is resolved by realising there is no god, nothing we do matters except for the here and now.
Nihilism is what’s the point.
Absurdism is eh, I’ll just have a good day, and let tomorrow worry about itself.
Im sure it’s not coincidence that post enlightenment has come up with absurdism, the classical world came up with stoicism, and the eastern world came up with Buddhism, all answering the question in the same way.
I’m sure the same answer is found in other cultures as well.
"Living inside a paradox, and still doing the dishes" absolutely slayed me. Amazing content.
The best!
I screamed😂😂😂😂
The should put "Living inside a paradox, and still doing the dishes" on the side of the next space probe.
Amazing content, really? I don't understand people that need meaning or can't find purpose, authorities are literally militarized against the disabled, having us abused under the guise of help, if you see nothing wrong with that, then yeah, keep acting as if you need meaning or purpose in life, doing nothing to stop abuse in your family and community, never mind the websites and facilities.
I was doing the dishes while listening to this so that gave a extra layer to the sentence 🙃🙂
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” Damn.
Yes, rebelliously comforting
How can you top that statement? I mean, damn…..
Basically luffy from one piece
@@Luke-xi2le exactly
Yes. But then men with uniforms will come and lock you up. Wanting to be free is frowned upon by all societies on this planet
Absurdism is probably the word ive been looking for in this life. Im living in a paradox, and still doing the dishes.
I’ve just discovered I’ve been following absurdism for several years. I was quite depressed before that, now I’m quite happy
Same, stoicism mixed with absurdim just seems to be a natural way for me...
Yes! Thank you Viktorianas.
Combine those two, absurdism and stoicism, and then one can drop the suicidal thoughts of nihilism.
And mentioning suicide reminded me of Fredrick Nietzsche, saying something like “contemplating suicide has helped me make it through many a night.”
Thank you again!!!
I want to print the dishes phrase in a poster and hanging it up on my wall
In the end, I came to understand that whatever we may see as true is just that to our perception and nothing more, including our thoughts.
Nihilism was the view I've naturally been following since early school. In the end, everything is valid and stupid, clever and clouded - logical just as much as as it is pointless. A person who lies may speak the truth in the right ear, the most common knowledge may just be a misinterpretation since generations...
I don't care anymore. Bye.
Absurdism is the only practical conclusion to Nihilism.
"I exist for no reason and have no purpose. Well...shit. Guess its on me then."
"Now..... how to build a confetti cannon and have a dop af party"
And Islam is the only practical truth
But that response would only be relevant to that of existentialist nihilism which is unfortunately what is being used as a generalization in this video. Also you’d have to have a voided belief or something other than hard determinism otherwise it wouldn’t be a true philosophical viewpoint. Absurdism is really just a conscious avoidance of reality. It’s not a decision and it’s not a belief because how can some of an opposing standpoint come from the opposite and original conclusion. If you have acknowledged nihilism as a reality, which ties into determinism, then absurdism really cannot exist. It’s completely illogical and in itself a paradox
@@gasserhegazy1267 praying 5 times a day is absurd
@@jonasaur6462 it's quite ez. It takes like 4 min per prayer. And if rather submit my will to Allah than society. Allah knows best. Society is limited in knowledge and quite stupid frankly
I would just like to say that this video is the exact length of time that it took me to open and peel two pomegranates, and having watched this I now have a Tupperware full of pomegranate seeds and a slightly more hopeful outlook on life! Thank you x
Wow. How oddly specific
Two Ws!
You gonna snort those seeds......? lol
In this time I ate two fried eggs, two rashers of air-fried middle-back bacon, and drank a cup of (Yorkshire) tea. For I am ~~Welsh~~ English, you know, good countryman.
@@niclasnyberg4173 Why not?
“It isn’t meaningless that hurts, it’s the contradiction of needing meaning and not getting it”
*image of a sad pug in a rainstorm, definitely thinking that exact thought*
why did I read this as: "image of a sad plug in a rainstorm"
@@kristamatsila5155 a sad b-plug in a rainstorm.
If life had a meaning it would mean that man has no choice. If it was a ready-made thing. This is also the reason nobody is born religious or born into a religion, because that would take away the possibility of conversion, you can not convert from a male to female and vice versa. You can try, but your biological gender will always be there.
The fact that you can convert from a religion to another is proof that nobody is born into a religion. If life had a meaning it would take away the possibility of any other meaning. The fact that life is meaningless is a possibility for you to create any meaning, it gives you a choice. What was the reason to do anything if life had a set goal to be achieved? The only set goal is the grave. Because the moment you are born is the moment you start dying.
You'd like the movies of Roy Andersson, I bet
I don't understand people that need meaning or can't find purpose, authorities are literally militarized against the disabled, having us abused under the guise of help, if you see nothing wrong with that, then yeah, keep acting as if you need meaning or purpose in life, doing nothing to stop abuse in your family and community, never mind the websites and facilities.
"Courage isn't the absence of fear, courage is the mastery of fear."
- really encouraging quote.
...and mastering fear is to embrace insanity... and that it is okay. The profoundly stable people do this. In the psychiatric field they will only diagnose something if it a problem. No problem and you "don't have it", even though it is still there. Knowing this simple concept can help a lot.
"Living inside a paradox and still doing the dishes". Now, that's deep, let me explain.
Fck them dishes
Cus D'Amato jiggles in your doorway
It's from Nelson Mandela
It's from Nelson Mandela
2:41: As Christopher Hitchens said: "If there were nothing rather than something, you'd be complaining just as much."
But to whom?
@@fredmercury1314 Well, to all the people there wouldn't be. And how frustrated you'd be that they weren't!
And still wish someone would make you a sammich lol
"Oh, we're... alive. That's unprecidentally weird."
This is possibly the most accurate quote.
existence is so silly
Douglas Adams liked that sentence
Unprecedentedly*
“How strange it is to be anything at all” - Jeff Mangum
exurb1a is the only guy who can make existential crisis funny
he's the guy who makes funny into existential crisis
Because existence is a joke and he’s depressed enough to find the punchline and is now trying to let us in on a cosmic joke we may never understand.
Existential crisis is always funny, I don't even understand why we call it a crisis, should just be called existential joke.
absolutely
@@ItsMeRuff Existence is not a joke. It being wasted on the average individual is though.
"Living inside a paradox - and still doing the dishes" - pure gold, good sir. The whole video is. Thank you for creating it!
YEAH, seconded... well-put lol
Straight up laughed when he got to that point. I love this guy!
Golden gold. I write and argue better after these videos. God help my opposing counsel.
@Jacky Huỳnh It juxtaposes "the extreme cosmic nature of living inside of a paradox" with "the pure mundaneness of cleaning one's dishes"
Following a collaboration with Exurb1a, a British youtuber, Roelofs was hospitalised in November 2016 for acute stress disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, depression and suicidal ideation. During her 7-month hospitalisation, Roelofs began speaking out against her former work partner who she stated used Reddit to smear her name. Roelofs said the TH-camr had assaulted and raped her in October 2016, had started threatening her between November-December 2016, and subsequently "blackmailed" her to leave the hospital to talk to him while she was drugged with prescribed medication, and that he raped her while she was unable to fight him. One of the prescribed medications she had been taking was Xanax, a benzodiazepine and well-known date rape drug
"If you're a fan of the theater of the absurd, it's a great time to be alive."
-- David Lynch
God I love David Lynch
I discovered your videos in the summer of 2021. I was in a crisis, had fallen out with my whole family and was sleeping on the streets. The few nights I found a sofa to crash on for the night, I would watch your videos and listen to your stories as I fell asleep. They would inspire me, distract me and bring me happiness in the darkest time of my life. Now, I have my own house I share with my girlfriend, our baby son and I'm over 500 days clean and sober and I've wanted to comment something on a video of yours for a while now just to thank you for being a positive force in my life when I needed one the most, so thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing what you do.
way to go Charlie!!
congratulations man. thats incredible
Keep it up inspiring story
Good work Charlie! Keep it up mate
amazing mate! Have a lovely life
"I won't just gaze into the abyss, I'll maintain uncomfortable eye contact with it."
Ultimately, all we need to realize is that the abyss suffers from severe social anxiety.
Will you people *please* leave the abyss alone?! It has enough problems without you all staring at it!
@@joeyj6808 no, it's just there... menacingly
germans are good at that, they just stare at you, its kinda creepy
Username checks out
The abyss is only scary when we look away from it, gaze into the abyss!
Still remember when I first heard about this...still amazes me how I ended up basing my life on absurdism without even knowing it
This is my first time hearing this, and I almost teared up hearing it put in a way I've never been able to manage when I've tried to explain it. I always called it optimistic nihilism for lack of a better terminology, but this is exactly what I've been looking for.
ay same
This is a deeply Human experience, one that often transcends our ability to express these thoughts to one another.
@@willymack5677 Interesting take. So, given that you see this as an intrinsic human thing, would you phrase religion to be sort of.. anti-human? Like it goes against our natural uninfluenced state?
Maybe culture in general is all just a defense against the void, not only religion : )
Nihilism is "I am going to die "
Absurdism is " If I am going to die, might as well......."
“Who can be sure? Not us.” This is something that I think far too many people lose sight of. So many people are far too sure of themselves and their place in the universe.
That's actually such a coincidence that I went and sorted by newest 9:00 into the video, syncing your quote up perfectly.
Ah yes, "iT iS mY dEsTinY tO bLaH bLaH bLaH!!!!!!!!"
1 like number 69 nice
2 yeah too many just think that they are correct. and too many of those have too much power.
@@reptiliannoizezz.413 it is if you believe it is.
Because it requires fewer resources to believe your "truth", rather than doubt everything. Living in uncertainty isn't easy
one of my favourite quotes of Albert Camus is:
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
his books really helped me find peace in suffering.
i think "living in a paradox but still doing the dishes" might be one of my favourite ways to describe a philosophical theory. thank you for being better than my philosophy teacher
Please remember there are allegations regarding rape towards this man: th-cam.com/video/CqIujvFf1rs/w-d-xo.html
@@hyperkitten1422 can’t have shit in detroit
@@erzarose2082 ikr... smh
I was doing the dishes when I watched this. There is that scene in Mindhunter (Unibomber) when the agent is sitting at the red light in the early hours of the morning waiting for it to go green and there is literally no one around... just sitting there... following the rules. We just do... thinking independently is tiring.
“I won’t take any advice from someone who dresses like a chess piece.”
Wise, wise words indeed.
It would be absurd to do so, right?
The chess piece is made to look like a bishop, not the other way round. The name kinda gives it away.
Probably seems clever if you're biased and don't bother thinking about anything much.
@khester7397 How often are you the lamest person in a room?
Would you take it from someone shrill who dresses like a Chess board instead?
i think that's the point mate@@khester7397
I have been feeling way too okay with life lately and got into a loop of not thinking too much about my purpose. Thanks for posting just in time
You might just got older, I realized it too when I got to the end of my 20s. Are you around that age?
@@lars3509 I feel like it's less about how old you get and more about when do you actually start to look at shit from this point of view.
Well , I believe that you should do what this universe tells you to do , meaning what Mother Nature tells you to do , nature tells you to breathe so breathe , nature tells you to sleep when sleepy then sleep , nature tells you to bang when horny , then do so without questioning nature/universe .
Do what Mother Nature(that is the universe ) commands you to do without thinking too much or else at the end you will regret everything you did in the past.
@@saymou7773 i feel like you haven't done your psychidelics for a while bruv. 👀
The answer to life? Beer apparently
‘Personally I refuse to take life advice from someone who dresses up as a chess piece’. I laughed so hard at this one.
Well, technically the chess piece is made after them, and the power of the pieces is in the higharchy and that at the rise of chess there was a popularity to female leaders it goes queen king, religious icons (bishop) knight( just a famous) and the rook is just kinda there
Please remember there are allegations regarding rape towards this man: th-cam.com/video/CqIujvFf1rs/w-d-xo.html
@@hyperkitten1422 can you please point me to the police investigation, charges and conviction? Because individuals lives have been DESTROYED by false allegations and online warriors taking it upon themselves to ‘defend’ accusers. I personally have been caught by that before, my mother was my primary abuser and it’s *incredibly easy* to do this in this era of SJWs who automatically ALWAYS believe the female no matter what. I looked into this as a thriver after sexual assault who got her abuser convicted and I could see the issues with the allegations. I have SUBZERO interest in the toxic cancel culture when the evidence and narratives are incomplete.
@@testtester8704 Wasn’t chess made in India though?
Fr. I died.
The existential crisis turtle is back
Yaaas
ALL HAIL THIS CURSED KNOWLEDGE!
hell yeah
Yessss
yes, thank gosh for that. or good or Garry or something. but thanks anyway!
I love how absurdism, the thing that answers the question to the meaning of life with "it just is, or isn't, depending on what you think, but in the end it doesn't matter because it just is" is the perfect match for the most anxious, troubled, melancholic, in search for THE REAL answers people on earth (or wherever else)
It's what it is
Absurdism is one of those philosophies I stumbled into myself during self exploration, or rather a nihilistic version of it. I was suicidal, lost, fraying at the edges, losing my sense of self and locked up in a mental ward for being depressed. I looked inward during that time and came up with many of the conclusions that form absurdism, but also nihilism.
Nothing mattered I concluded. Nothing has a deeper meaning. Yet if nothing matters then that means the meaning is that which I give it. So should I not smile and give meaning to the pleasures of life? I don't need a deeper purpose to laugh, to sing, to dance, or to smile. Instead I can assign meaning those things, the meaning of enjoying this existence, because this is a rather fun ride we're on.
The conclusion that nothing had meaning lead me to nihilism, but that it didn't need meaning lead me to absurdism. The fun was in granting it meaning. If my life had no meaning than I shall rebel by giving it meaning, and that meaning was to see just how much I could relish in it all. Without meaning there was freedom to paint the world around me in my own meaning. To see the wonders of the world without worrying about them.
Have you ever sat down and wrote an 80 page essay on a single class of item a table top roleplaying game? I have, then I decided it needed to be much much longer as I didn't write enough, I expect when I'm done it'll be 200 or more pages. So much work put into something that doesn't matter some would say, but if nothing matters then everything is equally deserving of your efforts. Put those efforts into where you find love and joy. Cherish the now, laugh at the awful, mock the lovely. Challenge it all to spark your interest enough to give it meaning. And then, snatch it away just to give it a new meaning.
The world is empty, so rather than cry about it we should fill it with our own meaning. Kindness for its own sake, joy just to be happy, and sorrow to remind us why we laugh.
Give your everything to everything, because there's no value to keeping it to yourself.
Or don't. It doesn't matter either way. And that's OK. It doesn't need to matter. It exists regardless, and that's just wonderful.
So when you ask "why?" You are granting meaning to that answer, so might as well go find it, after all, something with meaning is exceptional when nothing is meaningful. Just because it isn't important, doesn't mean you can't care about it.
"Hatched, matched, and dispatched." One of the greatest lines EVER! Genius.
Please remember there are allegations regarding rape towards this man: th-cam.com/video/CqIujvFf1rs/w-d-xo.html
For me, it'll just be hatched and dispatched. And I'm certainly on the fence on whether or not I even want to play the game anymore . . .
@@Hirotechnics life is not only about loving someone or being loved! Keep in mind that people added some rules to the game, but these rules aren't universal truth. If you don't find confort in this game, you may want to play differently to this game, or play another one, rather than not playing any! You can also play a game for the fun of it, not to win it, sometime losing a game is more fun than winning. But please keep playing, its fun in the long run.
P.S.: some ideas to feel better: get a pet, get in touch with local associations, chat with friendly people on the internet, enjoy ficticious worlds. If you can, talk to a professionnal. If you can, meet new people, try new things.
From a random french guy
@@asterisqueetperil2149 and the funny man in my phone here said to live like the French, so sir consider your advice taken. Hope the fella who u responded to did too, it was well put :D
@@asterisqueetperil2149 Just a note here; Plot twist: Those ficticious worlds are actually real.
But yes fully agree and remember, scientists say we shouldnt exist yet we are, theres galaxies and all kinds of things so maybe, maybe, theres more to this life.
"Living inside a paradox and still doing the dishes"
I don't know why that sentence hit me so hard but goddamn I love it
Same
It's the best line in the whole video. Alongside "So thanks to my mother ... and my mother for that."
@@tolvajakos Exurb1a has become my favorite TH-camr. every video he puts out has some profound thought provoking quote that I would've never thought off
Tatoo it
@@joaomrtins thats actually a great idea
I come back to this video every now and again when I feel as though life is just sorta getting the better of me or someone close to me. And it never fails to hit home that Albert Camus (along with exurb1a) found such the right words to explain how people behave and act in the now. And that we seemingly can’t help it. The pursuit of answers, going for a beer, doing the dishes, watching puffins. All of life is itself saying “fuck it we ball” and just living. Such a great philosophy and video.
My personal take on absurdism is this: we, as a sentient species, are the eyes and the ears of the universe. We are the universe watching itself. Every time I observe something, especially something with no one else present to witness it, is a precise moment of perspective in space and time that would've otherwise gone wasted if not for me. It doesn't matter whether I fully grasp what I saw or not, I derive a great degree of satisfaction from this sense of self-awareness regardless. This is what makes life worth living to me, and I'm going to keep doing it until the day I die, because the alternative is to experience nothing, and that's boring as shit.
I hope to remember your comment the next time I see a special sunset or find a beautiful tree in the forest.
Thank you for writing this. I akways say "I wish you could've seen it" to people after witnessing a particularly stunning work of nature. But I dont think thats necessary anymore. I need not ponder over what might have been if they had seen it. The sight is not important because it is shared. The sight is important because it is seen at all.
@@almafoshizzleSometimes I’ll get the urge to take a picture of something and then think better of it because it’s enough just to have seen it with my own eyes and would be better left as a memory of how I experienced it.
@@linmonPIE Thats right! I dont want to remember that full moon as a crappy white dot on a screen. I want to remember it as the spectacle it was to me in that moment.
Your comment made me think and rethink.. thanks for sharing!!
what I remembered from this video:
1. Dont unlife myself
2. Courage isn't the absence of fear, courage is the mastery of fear.
3. Be French
1 and 3 is a paradox
@@L0rd_Vader Nothing keeps the French going other than fried onions.
@@L0rd_Vader and so is life
4. Read dark poetry
the ideal life advice tbh
I feel like your videos have been steadily building to encouraging us all to embrace absurdism, and I really appreciate it
@whaaa t Wow crazy, I couldn't give a crap nor could anyone else.
too bad he's a sexual predator
hes just been an absurdist this whole time
@@quillclock you know his videos are so fast I need to slow it down to 0.75 speed to properly take In the information.
@@slimgrim3607 I usually just watch them 2 or 3 times to catch everything ;D
At the word "puffin" my eyes watered. Thank you.
Absurdism is the answer I’ve been wanting for years, it makes me feel happy (since hope doesn’t exist) that I can just enjoy my little fruit strips as I exist in the infinite void of everything.
^ this ❤
I'm here :o
Hell of a view eh?
Fruit strips=HOPE
But who is it to say if hope doesn't exist? That's the magic of Absurdism.
Absurdism reminds me of "the cosmic joke" which is essentially a spiritual phenomenon in deep meditation where someone is overtaken by uncontrollable laughter. It's like when you're told a joke and no one gets it except that 1 person in the crowd.
Happened to me on mushrooms. I can’t really explain it but you realize just how fucking ridiculous everything is
@@toreadorjj5482 yea, mushrooms tend to do that lmao
The universe is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind -Lovecraft. And I agree, yes this is all a joke, but once you are done laughing you start to figure out that the joke isn't funny. It's twisted and sick and awkward and most things about life are just sad.
@@bicstic8 that's the funny part
@@calebr9736 I don't think it's funny, I think it's fucked.
Hearing someone else finally discuss this side of life is like a breath of fresh air.
'Finally'? 😂 Aw mate.
Someone like once so I can get the 669th like
Albert Camus and other philosophers have been discussing this for hundreds of years
I got you bro.@@Iwannaeatlasagna
pretentious
This has been my comfort video for months. It plays while I brush my teeth, cook dinner, or literally do anything human and mundane.
Thank you for this.
Same here
I’ve always treated life as a play, being performed to an empty theater. As long as I keep giving a performance I’m winning in a way. I’d demonstrate I never needed an audience in the first place, rather this performance is for me and the other members of the play.
Also the hell I’m gonna be beaten by a bunch of empty chairs.
If you are reading this...run!! You are living in the Truman show, *we are watching* literally every move you take, *RUN* is not empty chairs, we are watching, you are performing a play for us!!
@@V---L what
@@V---L top tier gaslight shitpost
@@V---L jerma985
@@V---L oh look, someone’s in the audience. I’ll send somebody down to give you a script right away! Get on up here. :)
Considering both exurb1a and absurdism helped me through tough times, ironically only divine intervention could make this video possible
Ironically, you're being an idiot, this video isn't specifically made for you, or for anyone else, its just something exurbia created on his own, and posted, and you're one of millions who watched it, enjoyed it, thought maybe it was helpful. Divine has nothing to do with this.
@leaked footage yes
It'd be convenient if scam virus bots disappear through divine intervention
@@Rose333X From Wikipedia®, the free encyclopedia: "A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is *usually not meant to be interpreted literally."*
^
Absurdism is the word for what I’ve been experiencing the past couple of years, I just realized! I always like to tell myself “in a world as nihilistic as it is, sometimes all you can do is laugh and find your own meaning” and it’s quite comforting. (Side note, hope everyone’s Sunday is going swell 💙)
Sunday is going well :) I do want to say that "making your own meaning" is really not how I read absurdism, even though I used to for a time. To me, absurdism is laughing *without* making your own meaning, enjoying life without oversimplifying it into a moral code, out of a recognition that no such moral code will satisfy your will for absolute truth.
Me too!
Memes and especially Pepe is the perfect expression for absurdism.
Yeah, if nihilism is an understanding of meaninglessness I think absurdism is kind of a 'fuck it then, the struggle to live in a meaningless world is itself meaningful and worthwhile' response. One must imagine Sisyphus happy for the struggle alone is enough to fill a man's heart.
If you can find meaning it's not absurdism, it's existentialism
It would sound like an exaggeration but this might downright be the most impactful video I've ever seen in like, EVER. It had me weeping with a grin, I didn't even know humans are capable of experiencing such contradictory feelings.
It's because you're Asian
If you like this read The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus. I also recommend his novels The Plague and The Outsider / Stranger and his long form essay The Rebel.
amen
try living within the cage of absurdity for years on end. speaking from experience your wrists will be scarred
welcome to absurdism! That's the emotion rebellion is inspired by
"I am here," is a sentiment with more nuance than 3 words can effectively convey.
Do the three words, 'I am here,' have more nuance than can be conveyed by themselves?
@@grasshopper8901to put it in a simple and concise way, there are at least two interpretations of "I am here", so yes.
Add 2 words, turn it into a question, and you've got all of philosophy in a nutshell: "I am here. So what?"
I am here, this is now, its all hunky-dory.
Or just "I am." The yogic mantra.
I was extremely young when I had my first existential crisis, I’m talking 7 or 8 years old. It made me feel weird about “why/how do I exist, is my body me or is my mind me?” But luckily because I was so young it evolved into absurdism, not nihilism. When I was a teenager I couldn’t understand why people felt life had no meaning or purpose, and now that I’m older nihilism feels like giving up on FINDING your own personal meaning and purpose. I’m glad I came across this video, I thought I was just a weirdo for being like this.
Same here! When I was 8 also weirdly. I would all the sudden out of nowhere just think “I’m me” and it was the coolest/ weirdest/unanswerable thing, just thinking “how did I get so lucky to have this consciousness (me) to myself, where did this come from, why don’t other ppl ask and talk about this all the time???” And I still get this feeling at age 38. And I remember trying to explain this ‘epiphany’ or whatever you call it to my 6 year old sister, who didn’t get it despite me explaining the best I could lol
You guys are lucky to have gained consciousness at such a young age. I’m 20 and the last 3 years have been terrifying for me! Only just now have I found the answer.
It’s crazy right? I first became self aware when I was 5, I was looking at my tiny baby hands and asking why my hands are smaller than everyone else’s. My first existential crisis was when I was 8, I was sitting in class and I started thinking about space and how vast it is that my smooth brain broke. I immediately went to, “why even bother if I’m so small?”
Its funny how that happens innit?
Same, same. I didnt think other people saw life like this. Glad I know. Makes this whole mess that is life a tad bit more interesting and less lonely. I dont remember when I first had this thought, i just always remembered who I was and am as someone who questioned life, exintence and everything related to why. Its pretty fun when you look at it really. What are the chances things turned out like this. And the fact that you drink recycled t-rex pee on a daily basis - whats up with that - huh? Man life is chaotic and beautiful. No other way to describe it really.
hello Mr turtle man, this video is, and I mean this with no hyperbole, my favorite piece of media ever. It is the only thing to make me fucking SOB whenever I watch it while especially down, and after I’m done crying, I feel much, much better. Thank you so fucking much for making this, it has saved me from so many nights of feeling shitty and hopeless and sad. From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much.
“Oh it’s a puffin… let’s go for a beer” - never knew I was an absurdist, but this literally explains everything I love about life
That's not absurdism, that's just having A.D.H.D.
Try not to overdo it OP. Alcoholism is just another master, the worst kind, because you’ll spend the whole time convincing yourself that it doesn’t exist.
Not advocating for abstinence, just no more masters.
@@itsAmeOFP "Not advocating for abstinence, just no more masters." - Seems like a Tee-Shirt - Poster kind of thing. - Kudos. - RR -
@@rogerrabbito4517 no more masters is what I tell my supervisor right before I get fired lol
As someone who's dedicated a lot of time to reading Camus, I was pleased to see that this video is really accurate to his spirit and message! I hope more people can find peace in his message, because at least for me, the absurdist life is life changing!
ive never seen anyone balance the importance of the philosophy with the joy of being alive so well. ive read most of camus' works as well. its like we r players in a game and the goal is to survive not ask questions.
@@ryepooh5052 Yes definitely! "Survive and have fun while you're doing it" is totally how Camus would put it.
it’s actually insane how accurately you managed to put into words the exact same “chill down my spine” unnerving feeling i get when i consider the whole nothing/infinity thing regarding the first cause.
it’s the closest to a lovecraftian concept i can experience. a literal void in the middle of philosophy and when you have a full intuitive grasp of that concept you’re forced to confront that right now, at this present moment, you’re only existing and consciously thinking about this very concept because of one of two impossible possibilities that *must* be true
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Love the way of phrasing that "you're forced to confront that right now". Because that's always exactly what it feels like when I think about that very subject. I can always, almost literally, feel an internal battle in my mind where one side is trying so hard to understand the concept, while the other is trying to scurry away from the subject, to think about easier things instead.
@@wolfborn4967 Dear wolfborn4967, I like your reply to sloppysorabji's reply and I appreciate thought provoking replies, especially to such thought provoking videos. You may be interested ... maybe not, in my reply to sloppysorabji's reply. Also your reply makes me think of the words of a song, "pull me into shallow water before I get too deep".
Our minds, are always in a state of activity (even when asleep) and when awake we are always experiencing ... something ... and thoughts about what we are experiencing are forming and changing and being crafted ... and we sometimes wish to put forth more energy and sometimes less energy into a specific experience, which includes thoughts, it all depends on what we get, (or is it what we Want to get?) from our effort ... joy, satisfaction, comfort, something that holds our interest, ... and OUR immediate energy level because energy is always in a state of flux, always waxing and waning. We need both enough energy and enough ability to fully comprehend ... anything ... in any particular moment, AND we all tend to lean toward easy when we are in a lower energy state. Love & Peace to You
this message is to sloppysorabji on April 7th 2023... The One reply I made to You ... here, around 2 or 3 days ago is not showing up here now for some reason??? My reply to wolfborn is still here (think I made those replies the same day). Anyway ...
I will ask again ... what are your definitions (or ideas or concepts on the nature of "Force")? I wrote some of my thoughts on it, but they appear to me as have been removed or they have disappeared???? don't know. I have referred to that "missing" reply in a different area .... not knowing it had disappeared here until this morning.
@@weareasone7409 what do you mean by force?
I don’t usually comment but…
This video has helped me in ways I never imagined. Thank you for existing and sharing this with the world.
This guy validates my experience when everyone else thinks I'm crazy. Thank you for articulating my thoughts in a coherent way.
Same, but it's crazy not to be crazy in a world like this. What are your thoughts on pigeons?
@@lesunshineworshiper11 I thought about how they eating one would taste like..
I am two weeks short of being 77 years old, and this is the best damn 11 minutes and 21 seconds that I’ve seen and listened to in my whole life.
Combine those two, absurdism and stoicism, and then one can drop the suicidal thoughts of nihilism.
And mentioning suicide reminded me of Fredrick Nietzsche, saying something like “contemplating suicide has helped me make it through many a night.”
Thank you exurb1a.
Ooga booga
You are in charge. Check out The Buddha who raised his soul by his soul. The West is still trying to rebel against its primitive God complex of sin, guilt Judgement and Salvation from on high. What one wants to say to western philosophy (and religion) is "Please grow up!"
I am 77. Have you come across E M Cioran? A mystical nihilist.
yo if your profile picture is up to date you don't even remotely look 77. more like healthy 55 lol. Unlucky you, seems like you'll have to endure this planet well into your 100s 😂
I always go back to Emil Cioran's take on suicide. First, he says if life is absurd then death is as absurd as that, and so would it be commiting suicide. But more importantly, he believes it is the most beautiful thing we have as humans, since it is a guarantee of freedom. You are able to choose a way out whenever you want. Considering suicide means you are truly free, and not taking that way out means you are making an active choice every second you are here living. And for some reason, feeling like I'm choosing to be here instead of just... being forced to... it just makes it all better in a matter of seconds.
By the way, I saw you posted this two weeks ago. Happy birthday.
"One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy" is the most important message by Camus. Its a game changer.
That's where the entirety of spirituality came from, our attempts to ignore Sisyphus.
@@MathewSteeleAtheology There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed is another contradiction - how can man keep the bonds of his humanness, and still venture gladly and purposefully into the absolute loneliness of eternity? Whenever you resolve this riddle, you’ll be ready for the definitive journey.”
@@frankrunge2589 I've come to the conclusion that we must do it because we're ultimately no different than any other animal, as living beings. They do, they are, they manage. So can we, by choosing to embrace what we can't understand. We'll never know the full scope of reality, the size and extent of the cosmos. That's unavoidably true. Why should one unavoidable truth be any different than another? Life appears to have no purpose. The only thing in the way of accepting that fact in the same way that we accept any other is our need for an explanation that isn't there. Cognitive dissonance only results if we assume we have a right to know what we can't possibly learn.
@@MathewSteeleAtheology Sisyphus leads straight to Buddha. We will by no means solve this riddle in a cognitive way. Only meditation will lead us into this process of 'nothingness' in eternity. And teach us happiness.
Sisyphus must be happy, yes, but if he isn't, it doesn't matter. He has no choice to be happy, for his revolt against the abyss is indifferent. So now instead of Sisyphus killing himself, he keeps living in spite, hatred for life but also same amount of love. Reality is despair but let your spite keep you alive.
Whenever i loose all meaning in life, i return to the nice puffin
Oh yeah I was starting to feel not depressed enough, thank you for balancing things out.
If this video makes you depressed you really missed the whole point of it
@@saymou7773 fax
I feel like every single comment calling exurb1a depression turtle and saying they get depressed from watching him just doesn't get the point of the video at all.
Yeah. Just enjoy the absurdity by distracting yourself. And beer, lots of beer.
@@bazzel1059 same. I understand what they mean, but I'm not sure they understand what exurb1a means :p
You don’t now how happy this video made me. Right now I’m really struggling with finding a reason in my life. I turned 20 yesterday and I feel real lost in this world. Right now I’m doing a exchange year in Colombia and I’m from Germany. Learning Spanish in a small town in Colombia is crazy and meaningless at the same time. The last few months far from home totally alone with only a few new friends I started to realize that actually maybe nothing Mathers but being alive. Like living in the moment and enjoying als this absurdism. Realizing that I’m not the only lost Wanderer in this world makes me really happy and I am really excited to look further into your book as well in Alberts work. Thank you for your work you just made my life a bit meaninglessly meaningful :)
Stay lost my friend
Fully immersing yourself in another culture is one of the best things you can do in your early 20s imo. Your gonna be fine!
@@ThaJay thanks :)
@@alexriley3179 thank you :) it helps hearing that all tough I know it was a good idea sometimes the struggle is real :)
so cool wtf.. i wish i had the guts to
For years I was thinking along the the exact idea of absurdism but didn’t realize that it was an established mentality to have. Knowing that I’m not the only one out there that thinks like that makes this one of the most reassuring and impactful videos I’ve ever watched 💯 thanks bro.
I think that is the kind of service philosophers should have on people; even after they’re gone their work lasts
Mm. Same.
me too!!
me three
Same, altough I expected it to be an already existing concept, since I came to this conclusion and I'm not really too smart. In the end it's either believing in something or not believing in something, and if you don't believe in anything then life doesn't have any sense and you can kill yourself/live in constant misery, or life doesn't have any sense and who cares? Just do what you want to do and make your own goals.
Didn't Nietzsche write a book about this?
No gonna lie, Absurdism saved me, I only recently started to really practice absurdist thought and it was the weight of the world off my shoulders. I have depression and know about crushingly depressing realities of our current world all too well. However finally I started smiling more than I ever did, because I stopped questioning the sense, the meaning, any of this, and I found inner peace in the chaos.
Every time I watch one of his videos, I feel relieved that someone else thinks like I do😂
Please remember there are allegations regarding rape towards this man: th-cam.com/video/CqIujvFf1rs/w-d-xo.html
Dude straight up I always think I’m going crazy but we aren’t alone 🤣
we are 8 billion humans. I'd be impressed if you were alone with your feelings and thoughts about something. at least something that isn't a personal secret few know about.
Trying to make out you're interesting and clever....
"Yeah that's exactly what I was thinking"
@@hmq9052 better than your comment. Keep your insecurities to yourself.
The only reason I’ll always struggle with the why question, is the more I think about it the more I realize how much of my life I spend doing pointless things. There’s no point in having a high paying job, huge house, fancy car (unless you want all that) like we’re told growing up. So now I’m in my mid 20’s realizing that everything I’ve been told about life is completely useless.
I understand that there is a sense of freedom in this. But all the same it seems to be responsible for the hollow feeling I find attached to everything I do anymore.
It’s nice to watch these videos and realize that I’m not the only one thinking about this stuff, and that there is a sense of peace that can be achieved. I hope that I, along with anyone else feeling this way, can find that peace. Thank you for making all these videos, they’ve had a profound affect on me and many others.
I'm seventy one and ride my motorcycle into doing pointless things in a larger area faster.
If you really are curious, why not read through the Gospels of Christ and see if He addresses the questions you have?
@@Motion4000 I have and it ain't for me, thanks though.
I'm in a similar position - mid to late 20s, worked hard toward a well paying job my whole life, but now aware it is almost certainly not the answer to "what I want in life". My answer to your concerns is that you are still very young in the grand scheme, and have plenty of opportunity to change your path and move towards whatever actually makes you happy. The reason that I still value those traditional goals is that it is much easier to change your path when have a good job and a nice house than if you are dealing with the daily struggles associated with not having those things.
Remember that life is, fundamentally, not easy. Only the very lucky few get to live a carefree, happy, low-wealth life from the get-go. Use those traditional goals as a stepping stone to the actual happiness you're seeking.
and also - be completely prepared to never achieve the total freedom you would like simply because, again, life is very hard and every day that you have food and shelter is basically a statistical improbability. Instead, try to inject that freedom into your non-ideal life whenever you can. Hopefully with time, you can swing the balance where you have a lot of freedom mixed in with some bullshit, rather than the other way around.
This video is the embodiment of my mind holy shit. This is precisely how I see reality . Didn't even know this perspective had a name, and a suiting one at that. "Absurdism". Thanks a lot. I feel a happy and comfort in knowing there are others having this insanity playing out in their head.
While not very nice, I feel it is on brand for an exurbia video to say, you're not as unique as you think. None of us are.
Yep this is my brain every day as well lol
I think very similarly but I would say it as nothing happens for a reason. Things just happen
frfrfr
With you on that buddy.
Nihilist: “Why live when you don’t matter?”
Absurdist: “Because if I do, then I will.”
I don’t know why, but when you told the story about the explorers on elephant island, when you talked about how they stayed joyous even in the face of complete isolation and almost guaranteed death, it made me cry more than I had in a very long time. Thank you.
@Stupid Dinosaur Get Out Of Here I just did, Jesus Christ that’s horrific
Edit: this video gives a good into into the info
m.th-cam.com/video/CqIujvFf1rs/w-d-xo.html
I was actually thinking this morning 'I hope Exurb1a uploads a video sometime soon'. Thank you!
Oh, you manifested this. Thanks kind soul :)
@Chad 007 the top comment on that video man, I had to like 😂😂😂
Thanks turtle, you are the content creator equivalent to sitting on a bench and the sun breaking through the clouds on a rough day, it doesn't fix everything but it soothes the itch in the back of my mind for a while. Keep doing what you do man!
3:45 "how can any system exist without a defined beginning?"
1500s sailor trying to find the "starting" edge of Earth
Yo bro this is underrated. This is such a good analogy. When it's a cycle, it does not have a defined beginning
Thank you. As a suicide survivor (somehow) who wrestles with all these questions constantly, you distilled/summarized a huge swath of philosophy into a lovely whiskey of thought. My next drink is to you
Look up exurb1a allegations on TH-cam he abused a woman from Holland and almost drove her to suicide
Kampai! My friend, philosophy and whiskey are a great pairing.
Someone is glad you're still here. You do make someone smile at least once a day. You're doing amazing.
ironic considering exurb1a's past actions...
thank you for still being here
"I won't be taking any advice from someone who dress as a chess piece" must be one of the greatest quotes of all time
W quote
Of all the quotes to take from this video...
Thats one of them
it's also a multi-layered absurd, and it fits perfectly to the video theme. A chess piece called (you guessed) *a bishop* was made after the fashion of Catholic bishops
But super disrespectful, I'm not into religion. But see what happens if someone said something like that to Muslim or Buddhist Jews Hinduism etc
And the people who mock Cristians the most are typically the ones that value themselves to be a group or individual thinkers that are the most tolerant and inclusive
its really comforting to know that there are other people who have also asked these questions to themselves and havent been able to find an answer
And then you start coming to terms with the fact that nothing IS the answer. Then comes existentialism and then whatever way you cope with it after that lol.
Ok, I would like to answer your questions. In a maybe Islamic manner.
@@abdullahbintahir2297 hell no
When you find out phylosophy exists
Really? You thought you were the only one?
This video summarized 90% of panic attacks and mental breakdowns that keep me up at night.
Absurdism is what cures my anxiety, but also brings me the feeling of nothingness.
@Seeing Star Thanks for not sending a useless link, instead I got an idea for a snack to surprise people with tomorrow.
It is because it is absolutely absurd. How people go about living life without a purpose makes me repulsed quite honestly. You end up chasing only your base desires. You end up a slave to the material world and the animal within you. There is no moral argument. There is nothing to work to that matters in the end. This idea that we can create our own purpose is not just absurd, it is naïve. What if two people's purposes conflict, and violently so? Who gets to decide who is right? There is no Truth, so everyone is right. From Hitler to Joe Blow. All of them found their own purpose and tried to enact it.
These secular philosophies make no sense.
@Pushiswin they're 🤖
@@MrMineHeads. How does a lack of objective/absolute meaning prevent us from creating moral frameworks that work for us, or goals that work for us? That seems to be what's happening already, why isn't it good enough?
People's purposes violently conflict, and frequently. There is no "what if" there. So when it happens... we work it out? Reach stalemate and argue about it for thousands of years? Winner takes all? These things also seem to reflect conflicting purpose throughout history.
"There is no Truth, so everyone is right." - You're missing the point. There is no "right" either, beyond whatever value system we construct to suit ourselves.
As far as I can tell you think that existence can't possibly be objectively meaningless because... then it would be meaningless? Does this summarize your position correctly?
@@MrMineHeads. my current objective/meaning of life is to tell you to shut up and stop worrying about what other people consider the meaning of life and whether or not it contradicts with yours.
Yeah I'm very much an absurdist. I came to that conclusion by myself in a vacuum actually. Well, I mean. I was actually watching a bunch of your videos a long time ago and basically I was getting existential crisises on the daily and then I was like "why should I continue to wallow here... why don't I just do things that make me happy instead. Questioning existence makes me sad, so I'll stop that, and I'll just go play games or build a model kit." Now I know it has a name! That's cool.
More existentialism I'd say
Its important to remember theres alegations against this man. As far as I'm concerned they havent been debunked; th-cam.com/video/CqIujvFf1rs/w-d-xo.html
absurdism is more taking value out of the fact life is meaningless via coming to the conclusion that without meaning one has the freedom to apply meaning
How'd you fit into a vacuum?
@@joekreissl4499 Sans any external direction, we have not just the freedom to apply meaning, but rather freedom to invent our own meaning.
The recognition of the absurd is a point of freedom and humor just beyond the constraints of paradox
A circle has no beginning nor an end, you can start drawing it from any point and still end up with the same circle. The universe is infinite and has no beginning, but you can also think that every moment is the beginning.
“Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the mastery of fear.”
Very very cool. Now I have something to offer my 6 year-old next time they are scared to walk down our dim staircase. Thanks for being you, turtle guy.
The manner of Camus's death reinforced his whole philosophy.
That's how great he was.
How did camus die?
@@TheBroGamer14082 car crash
@@lvivmanbf3 interesting
This was already my philosophy on life. I’m glad I can now say I’m an absurdist.
That's absurd?
Yeah my life Philosophy was „live cause you can and you might (probably) only get one shot“ so I‘m glad it has a name
"Don't look at me like that; you clicked on this video" - brilliant.
By far the greatest philosopher of contemporary times, not just in ability to grasp and disseminate difficult concepts, but in making them incredibly entertaining while doing so. This is one of your best works yet.
"Living inside a paradox and still doing the dishes" my god its a masterpiece
Right? That is a genius line
There is a saying which has always shaken me and it’s very much along the same lines as this ^
“Enlightenment. But first, the laundry.”
^ like no matter what we do, or feel, or how hard we try to understand, or how lost we get in the existential spiral, we will always have mundane responsibility to attend because we are alive. EVEN those who feel that they understand the world, still have to so laundry. Even when you recognize that you are divinity, divinity is you, and that everything is everything and nothing is nothing and you fall into nihilism, there are still clothes to fold. And there always will be!
Thats absurdism!
(i had no idea this was a theory, but I’m glad it is. Very helpful for me)
living happily knowing ur in a cruel and unjust world is more honorable and better than succumbing to the world and just being sad, its like ur letting it control u or something. also i really like the music
Yes, but, you seem to be advocating for the lack of community. This just sounds like selfishness to me.
@@samhhaincat2703 You're seeking nihilism, even when it hides. Perhaps your life has no meaning, but that's because you just won't let life have meaning. You just won't let yourself be happy. You just won't let yourself *live.*
never been to Spain...
cruel and unjust are subjective.
Another response to all of this is, “I have no idea what’s going on and I have no desire to know. Just because it makes the most intuitive sense, I’ll be kind, generous, and enjoy consciousness as much as possible.”
I have watched this video well over 10 times and it keeps me grounded. Life is absurd and at times beautiful and terrible but also dull and comfortable. This video helps me enjoy the random existence we have. Much love.
no beginning and was infinite, all the energy in the universe would have been used up and dispersed into heat already, therefor cancelling out that theory.
Since an infinite universe is not possible then we know it had a beginning, but since something can't come from nothing, the only possible explanation is a creator, aka God.
The uncaused first cause. Someone or something that exists outside of our three dimensional way of thinking (4 if time is a dimension).
If you pass a 3D object through a 2D world, someone in the 2D world would have no Idea how to explain it because they only exist in that dimension. If God truly is real we would never have any "reasonable" way to prove it because we are limited to our 3 dimensions.
God is real, many people just don't believe it because they think they can explain everything from their perspective of reality, we as humans are just to arrogant to admit it.
Absurdism is basically "It is what it is."
While hope is "This is my canon event."
"I used to find, if I thought about this too long, that it inspired the kind of horror as when you realized that third joint was a bad idea."
And I felt that
Same. IN MY BONES.
third, eh?
@@wolfgangbr1576 Probably the fourth. Or the Firth of Forth.
These days, I am such a lightweight that I can get horror struck before I finish the first.
With modern, hyper-engineered, sticky weed from the local dispensary, change that to "third toke." But I do it anyway. Absurd.
"How do we live through it? By being very, very French. With passion, and freedom, and a revolt."
Love it. Long live the French spirit.
Life is more of a nightmare than I thought then
@@anotherinternetperson8495 Yeah, imagine being fr*nch.
@@paulinxm8201 My man censored the word french
@@filipevaladares3468 WHY wouldn't I censor "fr*nch"?
Also, censor it plz.
As a german i had a good chuckle knowing our history. I am very happy to not be at war, but i love you french!
the art of mastering absurdism:
be at peace with the chaos.
Your content literally just gets better and better. You're like the fine wine of our absurd species.
Its important to remember theres alegations against this man. As far as I'm concerned they havent been debunked; th-cam.com/video/CqIujvFf1rs/w-d-xo.html
He's also the subject of multiple police investigations for extremely disturbing crimes. Look into it.
@@thishandleistacken he still makes good content. Definitely not a “fine wine” though
@@oscarwang7227 that's true I can't deny that. its still weird though... like when I watch a movie made by someone who was a criminal creep my watching it isn't directly funding them (since many are no longer alive or are in jail or were cut off from payments) but I feel a little guilty how much I still genuinely enjoy exurb1a's content (especially the older stuff which many years ago were such important inspirations to me they changed the direction of my life)
it's all so confusing and frustrating especially knowing certain fans have been harassing the victim to insane degrees and that he's evading charges/investigations/won't speak about or address any of this
@@thishandleistacken But the problem is that, you can blame me or anyone for the matter of fact, on the internet, for anything. Yes you could tread back on him if all his crimes are convicted in a court or any justice body, but just because of allegations from someone who might have or have not been harassed by him, doesn't mean we need to take a Stand, for both of the sides. We are here to enjoy his content and if he is convicted of those crimes, I would never support his videos in the future but until then I don't heed to what people say, as Innocent until proven guilty.
Just wanted to introduce myself as a new subscriber. I'm a 67yo disabled vet confined to my couch "if I knew I was going to live....I'd have taken better care..." My days have been reduced to mind numbing drivel on TV UNTIL! I came across your channel. I wanted to thank you for the equivalent of the mental defibrillator that is your content. So.. Thanks...I needed that! I'm sure I'll be here again and again. And I vow that once my country is in the hands of real, capable adults and I can spend my money on more than just food and shelter, I will be a faithful contributor. Thanks again.
awesome, plain awesome
Sorry but sorry to say this but our money isn't likely to ever regain value 😮💨
Very cool
he apparently sexually assutled someone (the guy who runs this channel)
I came to Absurdism while taking LSD regularly during the Pandemic.
I'm so glad I took it into my life, its held me with my discipline, dedication, creativity, and its helped me past my depression.
Life has no meaning ✌️🧡😊
Enjoy your time here and be the best you that you can be
Life has no meaning... And that's ok.
Nor does it need one...
Life has an infinite number of meanings. If you choose not to decide on one, you still have made a choice. If you choose to use a crutch like LSD, you've chosen to hide. The meaning of that is very clear, and hopefully it won't last very long. Your excuses are your own, but more than once or twice is not for learning but cheap and dangerous escapism.
@@h.hickenanaduk8622 If life has an infinite number of meanings, how can using LSD be hiding? Hiding from what? Hiding where, in what?
Probably it will get lost among other thousands of comments, but if you read this one day, just wanna let you know this video inspired me to get back on working on my comic.
I gave up on the project years ago, but one character has a lot of sartre inside himself.
Thank you man, I had forggoten how the absurd can be inspiring.
Found ya!
Your optimistic take on such a heavy topic is fucking fantastic. The way you blend comedy and philosophy in such an accessible way is awesome.
Even if he's a terrible person
@@masturbates Even if he's a terrible person, I don't really give a fuck, cause so am I and I enjoy comedy and philosophy. And apparently you are too, seeing that you masturbate in your name.
Out of curiosity, what makes you think he's a terrible person...?
What a video! Holy moly it's almost like a really well worded and condensed version of a particular string of thoughts I've had over the last 6 years and all of the psychedelic trips contained within.
I've never seen this channel before but my goodness that was good. Thank you so much
you should check out his other shit
My thoughts exactly, why the hell did I not know about this. This video is a masterpiece.
I never needed psychedelics in order to trip out… it’s called a panic attack!!!
Watch and then we’ll be ok… I cried to that video.
this video felt like myself, thank you for making this, i am so thankful and humbled.
“We can dance in the mystery absurdism says, with the dance as the point all along” No wonder you make poems
I felt that dance once, eerily. That carefree, joyful worship dance of the mystery of existence.
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it feels like with every video you pull hundreds of years old ideas out of my brain that i couldnt put to words and explain them while gaining monetary gain from it. thank you for everything you do, you are an inspiration