Optimistic Nihilism
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I feel sad Kurzgesagt :( time is so fast
ok lol
I would love to get to know the people behind kurzgesagt. who are you and why is you channelname german?
What is life
Make a video about white holes
"If you enjoy the time you wasted, you didn't waste any time,"
@KFC Official lol
Holy fucking shit. Thank you so much. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
@@sabinew239 well if you hated it, the wasted time is a waste of time according to this statement. Not being rude but if you tried to overcome ptsd and depression but get nowhere better. Just think it is a fun journey to have, an experience to learn from. thus, your time won't be wasted since now your "wasted time" is a source of your happiness and knowledge.
Sure it is painful and hard but hating life will just make it worse. keep it chill, find what you think fun and fulfilling, love any experience you had. now nothing is a waste.
Say no more
DBNROP but its fun right? The joy of watching movies, finding out the plot, potentially learning some moral stories from movies, experiencing new technologies that brought u to the digital pixels that you’re seeing. The joy of video games, to have fun, to practice hand eye coordination, to try different types of entertainment... u find the joy in doing things for fun,, so u’re not wasting your time. U certainly do not have to be working and learning something or be productive to not waste your time. 💕
Nihilism : Why?
Optimistic nihilism : Why not?
To be honest, they're both the same. The only difference is your point of view
@Luke Crain Hear ye! Hear ye! Lo, and behold the might amongst fabric: this "shirt" of merchandise.
@@giovannirafael5351 From the perspective of the universe, they're both the same. From my perspective, being happy is not the same as being miserable. That makes all the difference that could possibly matter to me.
“Why not?” Ideas have landed me in the poo more than once. I can’t recommend them lowly enough.
Giovanni Rafael Why not, is not a reason, and why, is a question.
"Close your eyes. Count to one. That's how long forever feels." No other combination of words in the history humanity was ever as comforting.
Lol. History of humanity is a lot of fucking words. Mathematically it is certain that another combination of words has been said that is more comforting.
@@hellomate639 Ok Mr Buzzkill 😆
@@hellomate639 "🤓"
@@hellomate639 “um actually 🤓” stfu bro go touch grass
right, I bought the poster because of the quote
I come back to this video every time I start to feel overwhelmed. The number of times this video has pulled me out of a depressive episode is insane.
Same 🙏🫶
Same! I am back because I need this “talking to”.
I've been there too. This was a significant boost like a rocket thruster for me to climb the tough cliff of coping with depression during my teenage years.
Everytime i felt lost i come here soo
I've been doing that for the last 5 years😅
Nihilism: everything is meaningless
Optimistic nihilism: everything is meaningless :D
Humans!!....Don’t be ignorant if you are a thinker , Everything is a proof of god, our consciousness is a huge one,
{ Think deeply with logic and be honest to yourself and then reject or accept, understand and don’t bring hatred. }
What is aiming there is a creator!!
The balance of everything is a huge sign and aim that there is a creator.
{ your eyes, nose, lips are balanced }
{ Day and Night are balanced }
{ earth position in the solar system is balanced }
{ the colors of nature is balanced }
[ see why the water has no smell either no taste or color, because every single alive plants or animals is from water }
( Just imagine water is blue )
{ the whole universe would be blue us animals, food, plants }.
This could never be random, very impossible, and now the only argument you could bring to that is evolution select and choose just base on it instincts. I could agree on that point but We could both agree that the cells that created us and this life creation pathway have a specific guidance and a coding genes.
The question will still remain the cells came from where, who created these complex cells that created our all life from the base to the sky? The coding came from where ?
If your answer is that we actually don’t know, and you say you are a realist person and you don’t want make a step forward to take a side to an answer about it.
{ DON’T CONTINUE READ. cause you are not truthful to yourself… and you want to not bother yourself to the truth or trying to avoid this truth as much as possible - please don’t run from the truth, or atlesat consider it, i know it is hard - not easy to just change your life by changing your belief, god will hold you’re suffering if you let him }
If you a man of logic, Our Consciousness in particular came from somewhere, you may say the cell, but from where the cell get the consciousness ?
Who created the heavens and earth in your thinking ?
I say it is God, the one, the powerful, the first.
You know why god should be powerful and the first.
Cause that is the most logical answer.
Let me justify.
The first suggestion is there is no first and no controller and owner, then our universes are infinite and they are never ending, an infinite chain, but though they create by an accident a dying universe and that is conformed scientifically and it is without any purpose.
The other suggest is that god exist, everything is perfect, he is the first and created us for a purpose, and sent messengers to show his message with huge signs.
You may say there is a lot of gods.
All of these gods are either Idols that human did create by there hands and say it god, or animals like cows that we eat. And finally objects that humans thought they are stronger than them like the moon or sun and choose them to be gods.
*All of them are vulnerable and won’t hear you or speak to you or help you in anything and you could try.
What’s makes The one I am calling for special ?
{ He is Allah, the Creator, the Inventor, the Fashioner; to Him belong the best names. Whatever is in the heavens and earth is exalting Him. And He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise. }
There is two ways to accept an idea, in my opinion one is a dark no point way, and there is a light faithful way.
It is all about what you choice, what is your destiny. What you really deep down truly think ? Don’t let emotions and bad thoughts take you to a dark way.
The only true god said..
( We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all things, a Witness?)
That’s a challenge you need to see by yourself : -
See {👇🏽}
SMALL SIGNS
God said:
( [He] who created death and life to test you [as to] which of you is best in deed - and He is the Exalted in Might, the Forgiving.)
( And they say, "There is not but our worldly life; we die and live, and nothing destroys us except time." And they have of that no knowledge; they are only assuming.)
( And when Our verses are recited to them, they say, "We have heard. If we willed, we could say [something] like this. This is not but legends of the former peoples." @ And [remember] when they said, "O Allah, if this should be the truth from You, then rain down upon us stones from the sky or bring us a painful punishment.")
HUGE SIGNS BLIND WOULD SEE.
*{ And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander.}
“This verse support Space expansion”
*{ Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe? }
“This verse support the Big Bang and the fact that nothing can live without water”
And another sign.
Iron, I guess you know that as new science refers that iron isn’t natural to the earth, and didn’t not form in earth, but came down to earth from outer space. And scientists have found that billions of years ago, the earth was stuck by meteorites. These meteorites were carrying Iron from distant stars which has exploded on earth.
Imagine what Quran said and hope you may be one of the ones who reason.
Surah Al haded ( which means iron ) ( 25 )
{ …,And We sent down iron, wherein is great military might and benefits for the people,.. }
And another one.
{ The Sky }
It protects us from the sun radiation, freezing of space, and protects life on earth by warming the surface with heat retention.
The protection proprieties of sky was discovered by scientific research in 20th century.
Surah al anbyaa’ ( 32 )
{ And We made the sky a protected ceiling, but they, from its signs, are turning away. }
Mentioned 1400 years ago,
That is the book I am quoting from it to prove god, put these huge signs.
Yahweh, god, Allah, The only, Elohim.
{ He is Allah, the Creator, the Inventor, the Fashioner; to Him belong the best names. Whatever is in the heavens and earth is exalting Him. And He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise. } Quoted from Quran.
Jews, Christianity, muslims all received the same message which is to worship the only true god, Christians themselves don’t follow their book so that is why they say Jesus is god and a part of god “ the 3 in 1 god ” they put partners though god is one which is the father “his name in Christianity” and Jesus never said to worship him, he is a massager just like the one before him eat and go to sleep.
What do you see?
Who would have mention that in your opinion?
Is it the prophet, who can’t read and write, living in a desert and was a Shepherd and even though he didn’t even mention his name in the book { that claims it is the word of god [ The Quran] except few ?
The last guy who I talked with, said it is a mysterious texting.
Let see your response.
perfect :D
@@seethelight657 shut up shut up shut up. You won't find your target audience for stupid copy pasted religious messages here
@JOSEPH STALIN Holy s**t you f**king killed him dude!
@@seethelight657 that has no power over those who need not cope.
kurzgesagt:
90% existential dread
10% birds
replace 20% of the dread with "WE NEED TO BUILD A SPACE EMPIRE"
Birbs ❤️
I like birds
Lmao, Always
lol
It's an open world game. Nothing you do matters, but it's fun
1. Don't lie. 2 Do what you want.
@@marat-s 3. Who gaf
@@AwakenZen 4. All is vanity
5. Who will pay the bills while you're having fun?🤨
@@musazwane6049 your mom
I know this sounds weird but I'm grateful for having an existential crisis it has made me realize the true beauty and mysteriousness of life
fuck yeah bro
Yeah, it fucking sucks when you're going through it but coming out the other side everything is so much different. So much clearer, in a way.
Oh, friend. How I can relate! I have cried, hard cried many times this week. Take care. ✌🏻
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” -Mark Twain.
Mark Twain was full of it tho
When was dead for billions of years before birth it’s not like he knew what life was like
Wow. Thank you
Da Absurd Bird How do you know? you are saying it like you are god lol. We just simply don’t know, maybe it’s a world human perspective can’t understand, maybe not, too many possibilities, stop acting like you are certain.
Rmanigu How are you certain? Sure the whole universe is just as simple as you IMAGINE lol
@Rmanigu Yea genius.. Obviously, it's a figure of speech, a paradox, a mystery. Almost everything humanity knows about existence are still theories so everything you choose to believe is also still a theory.
Chill.
"Close your eyes, count to one."
*closes eyes. Counts to one. Suddenly hears horses and wheels. Opens eyes.*
"Hey you, you're finally awake."
my guy xD
Lmao 😭😭
You were trying to cross the border
Hmmm, a man of culture. You guys are also lurking here.
SKYRIM REFERENCE
I am 25. Since the beginning of my twenties I suffered from nihilistic point of view. I couldn't do anything for myself because I knew nothing makes sense in the end. But lately I realised if nothing matters anyways, I can live as I want to and I dont have to prove anything to anyone. Now I try to care less in a positive way.
Until I saw this video randomly, I didnt know it had a name and actually was a thing. I literally cried watching this video.
Well, guess what. This isn‘t the actual name of this. "Optimistic Nihilism“ is essentially another take on Existentialism (not saying it wasn‘t a good for the most part). But there is way more stuff and content on the internet/real life to Existentialism than just to "Optimistic Nihilism“. So you may feel free to now look a bit more into it or you may as well don‘t, your choice.
@@FoxofWallstreet thank you for sharing this with me. I will surely look at it. I’m always open to new information even if I find it is not what I was looking for.
Watch Everything Everywhere all at once that movie is about this subject exploration into nihilism, absurdism and Existentialism
What does "care less" in a "positive way" even mean?
To some maniac, starting wars is a "positive way" because nothing matters beside what matters to them.
@@billidoeseverythinghewants125 I really like that movie.
The movie Everything Everywhere All at Once was such a good movie that portrayed nihilism and optimistic nihilism so perfectly. Its a realy great watch.
Your profile picture made me think there was a hair or crack on my screen. Thank you for the confusion
@@ashacaslin6410light mode user detected day ruined
Albert Camus walked so the Daniels could run.
yes! it's one of my favourite movies of all time
Gonna watch taht. Ty for the recommendation😊
Optimistic nihilism is like when Dora the Explorer asks "Did you have fun?", gets no response, and replies "Yeah, me too".
Lmao
LOL
That's deep for some reason
Underrated comment 🙌
I usually hate all those gaggy tryhard comments, but this was a good one :D
Nihilism: why?
Optimistic Nihilism: why not?
yeah! why not we just stay to make the experience a little better for others? why not we have some fun while we're at it? :D
Ah yes exactly lol.
The difference between Eva and Gurren Lagaan
@@NoMoreWhat-Ifs tbf Eva's ending Is pretty pro-living, but I haven't watched gurren so idk
@@NoMoreWhat-Ifs Man so accurate.
I had major existential dread, and it peaked when they said "close your eyes count to one, that's how long forever feels" and tyhen it just flatlined after that. THIS IS SUCH A GREAT VIDEO
I just feel better after watching it
God Created us, we sinned (lying, stealing, adultery, and hate) and deserve hell because God punishes sin. But God, in his love sent Jesus to die on the cross for our sins and whoever turns from sin and believes in Jesus will not perish but have life after death.
even 5 years later..
this video made me cry..
not because of the unavoidable death of everything..
but because of the fact that you really should make your life as enjoyable as you can, because your time alive, and experiencing life and everything around it is gonna someday be over.
Thats too depressing to be true tbh.
This world isn't the real life
Hereafter is the real life only if you were known
Read Quran
"Close your eyes. Count to one. That's how long forever feels." Damn, that gave me chills
thats assuming you wake. Our eyes will close once we die, but they may never open and if they do, we wont be us else we would have people talkin about their past lives, or maybe we hop to another level of existence, who knows . I just want an answer. I look around and it hurts to know it will all be gone.
I didn't feel anything. What should happen except chills?
Choch Why u do dis? :(
kormannn1 lol I meant the phrase itself gave me chills
We are all 'God' my friend. You have always existed and will exist forever. This is literally a playground for us as 'God'. Just remember everything is a part of you, so if you hurt anyone or anything intentionally you're hurting yourself.
I love this line : "Close your eyes. Count to 1. That's how long forever feels."
you see that? oh wait its gone, because its already been one second...
How did you feel 100 years ago
Same man
It doesn't though.
@@bluceree7312 right?
Every single word of this video is truly beautiful, what an inspiring message.
Dude this is literally exactly what marx wrote lmfao.
more like very superficial and not practical at all.
@@rano12321 honestly
@@sjcl2563 So because you don't like him, everything he ever wrote or said is bad?
@@Magst3r1 pretty much, landed that nail right in the coffin, you got me.
Whenever I feel overwhelmed or a bit down, I always come back to this video to ground me and to create some distance. Thank you Kurzgezagt for making this incredible video. ❤
Me too!
Me too 😅 @@ballofury5832
This made me more depressed and less depressed at the same time
Why less depressed
@@being_black_is_not_a_choice For me, it's because you can make peace with death. It doesn't matter what your going through right now. In the end, it's okay.
Wait, I already replied you in another comment. This is awkward.
Just ignore this comment. Nothing to see here!
Fifty shades of grey
Everytime someone asks me, "What's the most interesting thing about living?"
I always reply, "That we even got the chance to live at all."
But, You must rememember that You had chance live and erit this coment. When you will be died. You will can't do it.
@@mojajangi english
Wow
that is the best answer ever
Weak.
I was going to take my own life one week from now, I had a nihilistic point of view most of my life, and decided to take my own life, today I opened up youtube and saw this channel, I liked watching it in my early teens and never knew why, I watched some of these videos and started to realize why I always loved astronomy, and I just kept watching. This video and so many others with a similar topic pulled me out of suicide better then my own therapist, thanks
Read the Quran
take care buddy. please stay safe, suicide is never the solution. much love
this video made me want to survive at least one more day. I’ll be watching it again whenever I think of giving up. thank you. ❤
I hope you’re doing better now.
Glad you’re here, friend. Hope you’re doing okay
Read the word of God
Qoran
Nihilist: “Life sucks”
Optimistic Nihilist: “Life sucks. I like it”
@dzgeek11 Ok, though that sounds a bit more longwinded.
No. None of them think life sucks lmao
Actually, nihilists think life is meaningless.
Fun fact : Optimistic Nihilism was what Nietzsche argued for.
Many simply stop at the premise (life is meaningless) and forget the conclusion (So we get to decided what meaning our life holds.)
That is completely wrong. It's more like:
Nihilist: life is meaningless and nothing matters
Optimistic Nihilist: life is meaningless and nothing matters, so let's just have fun while we still can
"It feels like the cruelest joke in existence has been played on us, we became self-aware only to realize this story is not about us".
Omg man I never looked at it that way and I don't know exactly how to feel about it.
That just means we're a good side character ....
Shit we're a good side character
Makes you realize what religion is.
It reminds me of the end of "Player #1": It´s not about winning, it´s about playing together. And Blade runner 2048: You think you´re the one but not, you are just another one. So play safe and have fun!
It is us who think we are something special for others automatically.
@@small_dropin_the_big_ocean995 you're not wrong
I have severe death anxiety. And only a few people know about my condition. I don't usually write a comment but this time i couldn't stop myself, this video of Kurzgesagt has helped me deeply. I tried to keep myself distracted to avoid thinking about it, but never thought a alternative perspective could save me.
So my heartfelt thanks to Kurzgesagt for this.❤
I can't believe how lucky and privileged I am to watch all this while I am still very young.
Thanks to whatever is sending all this my way.
Kurzgesagt:Optimistic nihilism...
Also Kurzgesagt: *T H E E G G*
Not technically Korzgesagt's creation.
Best videos
@Lee that's where you're forced to speculate, maybe there's just one creator being, and we're all it? If there's more than one, maybe they're just embodiments of the same soul like we are? Or we are like they are?
Me that’s we’re your forced to pay attention our mom said there are others and we are her child and of course we are not like they are
They are others unlike us who may have gone through and lived on other planets
_“Our videos induce existential dread in many people”_ *THEY ARE WELL AWARE OF WHAT THEYRE DOING TO US*
oh yeah in case you haven't noticed they have made an existential crisis category of videos on their channel
@@batenkait0s657 link?
MiTiBAM just go to their channel and scroll down.
They have became self aware..
I'm not optimistic so I'm good :)
Whenever I’m at a turning point in my life I always come back to this video. Whether it’s COVID, a break up, or unemployment, I always feel this renewed surge to live life to the fullest. Especially seeing that visual of all the weeks, insane!
I loved every second of this. Felt almost like my shapeless philosophy poured into a circle mold.
Nihilism: what's the point of doing anything if it won't matter in the end?
Optimistic nihilism: what's the point of *not* doing things if it won't matter in the end?
it will matters at the end, because it happened
Humans!!....Don’t be ignorant if you are a thinker , Everything is a proof of god,
our consciousness is a huge one,
{ Hear my argument, Understand it , Then response I want us both to see the right path }
{ Think deeply with logic and be honest to yourself and then reject or accept, understand and don’t bring hatred. }
How everything is so balanced, and seems just right ?
{ who made it balanced ? is it the coincidence Or the randomness of the nature? }
How we know the beautiful and the ugly?
{ Who taught Us ? Is it the cell !! }
- How did we known the right and wrong?
{ Who taught Us Evil and good ? Is it the cell !! }
- Why did we wear clothes in the first place, what the difference between us and animals?
{ who did made us wear the clothes ? Is it the cell }
If your answer is I don’t know,
{ DON’T CONTINUE READ. cause you are not truthful to yourself…}
If you a man of logic, Our Consciousness in particular came from somewhere, you may say the cell, but from where the cell get the consciousness ?
Who created the heavens and earth in your thinking ?
Is it the delusion answer that the universe appears from nothing or is it “I Don’t Know”
I let you see some of what evidence I have and you have a brain to think about that.
The only true god said..
( We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all things, a Witness?)
That’s a challenge you need to see by yourself : -
See {👇🏽}
God said:
1- ( [He] who created death and life to test you [as to] which of you is best in deed - and He is the Exalted in Might, the Forgiving.)
2- ( And they say, "There is not but our worldly life; we die and live, and nothing destroys us except time." And they have of that no knowledge; they are only assuming.)
3- ( And when Our verses are recited to them, they say, "We have heard. If we willed, we could say [something] like this. This is not but legends of the former peoples." @ And [remember] when they said, "O Allah, if this should be the truth from You, then rain down upon us stones from the sky or bring us a painful punishment.")
4- *{ And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander.}
“This verse talking about Space expansion”
5- *{ Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe? }
“This verse talking about the Big Bang”
6- { Has there [not] come upon man a period of time when he was not a thing [even] mentioned? @ Indeed, We created man from a sperm-drop mixture that We may try him; and We made him hearing and seeing.}
If you reached here and you didn’t at least consider believing in God, that’s for you, god said:
( Then which of the favors of your Lord do you doubt? {56} This [Prophet] is a warner from [i.e., like] the former warners. {57} The Approaching Day has approached. {58} Of it, [from those] besides Allāh, there is no remover. {59} Then at this statement do you wonder? {60} And you laugh and do not weep {61} while persisting in heedlessness? {62} So prostrate to Allāh and worship [Him]. “
{ Quoted from the Quran : Which claims to be the word of God and that it all correct before 1400 years old }
Hope that god guide us all to the right path....
It won't matter in the end. But it matters now
@@Betty-jp7sw that's his path. What can we do 🤷
My two sides
Optimistic nihilism is basically like a Minecraft world. There’s no point of it, but you have so much stuff to learn and do.
Yes
This video has a similar message than the ending of this fantastic game.
good comment!
Infinite possibilities, only restricted by time (and the laws of physics), which makes what you do accomplish that much sweeter and more rewarding. Never forget to have fun!
And you may never explore every inch of it, but that doesn't matter, as long as you enjoyed yourself
I absolutely love this video.
Twelve hours ago
The trick is not to think about it, really.
Stay busy, stay healthy, find some love if you can, enjoy what you like without abusing it, and try not to hurt anybody in the process.
That's about it.
some people actually enjoy thinking about it because you know, if we had not searched for it, we would still be going around praising sun, saying amen or anyother very creative story we inventend and very much believed for a long time.
Me: finally, some optimism!
0:00
_"Human existence is scary"_
Me: aw shit, here we go again
🤣
Hahahahahaha
;-;
See Jordan Peterson's videos. It is way more valuable than this crap.
*and confusing
"We became self aware only to realize this story is not about us."
Truest statement I ever heard.
:(
Weeb
Dislike
@@randomuser5780, it is true, you are delusional. If you believe that a personal deity cares about a tiny kid on a rock.
@@randomuser5780 This is what happens when you learn things from Facebook
"Close your eyes. Count to one. That's how long forever feels."
That shook me a little
such a freeing feeling this video gave me. kurzgesagt never fails to amaze me, be it quality animation, sound engineering & voiceovers, interesting topics that i've never heard of, the perfect amount of humour, or a weird jiggly feeling about my entire existence
"Our videos induce existential dread in many people, and the last few minutes probably haven't helped"
Literally lol'd.
they know what they're doing
At least they can make it a little better 😊
That line gets me every single time. *Deep, calming sigh* British-Built Humour...
only the ones who got it did lol
actually they did help
Nihilism: Nothing matters :(
Optimistic Nihilism: Nothing matters :D
edit: can you guys stop fucking replying to this comment already.
@@bantyplanty no it’s not
Right 😂😫
@@bantyplanty thats why thinking optimistically about it makes it optimistic nihilism
@@bantyplanty even non nihilistic views can be taken to hedonism. It's not a unique or onlya feature of nihilism.
optimistic and pesimistic nihilism are the same, what changes is youre preception of them, we all know that we are a mere speck of dust in the whole universe so lets appreciate what we have and try to improve our society the best we can. That might sound contradictory but think about it, we are all just appreciating our time alive.
this video introduces existential crisis and solves depression at the same time
Nihilism makes no sense, if everything is meaningless then that also means your words are meaningless, therefore the belief in Nihilism is meaningless. Also anything that exists has meaning and purpose just like you when you create an object, Anything that exists presupposes Meaning and purpose. This is how goofy nihilists are they look outside and see the beautiful Nature but then say it’s meaningless. I recommend you to real “Nihilism the root of the revolution of the modern age”
For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance, he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.
Robert Jastrow
“The logic of un-belief leads inexorably to the abyss; he who will not return to the truth must follow error to its end.” Fr. Seraphim rose
@@prozeemation_8658 as someone already in comments said:
"Nihilism: Nothing matters
Optimistic Nihilism: Since nothing matters, you're free to assign value to whatever you want. So you don't have to feel like you've wasted your life playing video games and reading comic books. It made you happy. So it mattered. And if it mattered to you, you mattered too.
So what is wrong with that? That’s the beauty of it. If you feel like my sentence makes any meaning to you then you can accept it or just deny it. World is balanced in belief and facts so we have to think about that too and don’t shove our belief of nihilism to others. You are quoting people in your comment because you think that their opinion matters to you, so they matter to you. As said earlier it's upto you to put values in whatever matters to you. But don't shove your opinions of what matters to you must matter to others, that is religion."
Also, you are shoving nihilism down my throat with your quotes. I am not a man without purpose and belief. I am a man with purpose and belief that gives my life meaning because I think they do so(optimistic nihilism). I am not giving my life a meaning and belief because somebody said so in a quote. If you are saying total nihilism with no optimism is bad then I might disagree to some extent because not all cases roots to nihilism are bad.
For example:
we know from science and carbon dating that humans were first found around 1.4 to 2.5 million years ago.
after human invented computer it's not even 2 centuries old and it already took us from a vaccum tube to a point where you have apple vision and neuralink time where we are capable of reading human brain signals and provide very high quality Augmented reality to users. Given another 1000/2000 years, that is a very very very small amount in a timeline of what human have already lived, we will reach a point where we will be able to simulate full brain and maybe we are already living in a simulation. So, if I believe in that fact then what is wrong in that. You cannot prove you are not in a simulation. I might be a person on the internet that your brain simulation is simulating to give you a sense of belief that you are having a conversion to someone. I may not be real at all.
So, just straight out saying nihilism makes no sense is really absurd to me. It will depend what is your cause of accepting nihilism. Straight up saying something doesn't makes sense because it goes against what I belief is not what something I agree with.
@@prozeemation_8658 aw man, if i knew your comment was pro-faith/religion i wouldnt even have bothered reading it. NOW I HAVE EVEN LESS TIME TO ENJOY MY LIFE, SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE? lol
This describes wonderfully my principles and summarizes in. This is also why astronomy can give you so much relieve and one way to be able to grasp that its not important if your different in any way just try and make you happy.
Me:
Kurzgesagt: Im about to end this man's whole existencial crisis
Niga
@@softg3849 Lmao thank you man, I love your reply
@@peshaldatta6798 ur welcome ma dude
C o c o F o x lmaoooooo
C o c o F o x its "existential" 🤓
**existential crisis intensifies**
samr
Daanysids what a predictable and unfunny comment
**Dan sweats nervously*
Dont click
I wonder if I'll kill myself or die naturally
this youtube channel changed my life. i actually feel so much better after knowing that i'm an insignificant piece od dust in this vast universe and whether i fail med school or not won't really affect anything. i can live with much less stress and anxiety now. i will keep studying (or choose a diff career) though don’t worry i'm not gonna put people’s lives at risk shdgdhsk
I really feel like this video has crystallized the embodiment of my own personal outlook on life. I just want to say that I came back to watch the video this time around because I wanted to see how you all depicted nihilism, and it did not disappoint. The visualizations of fear in an empty universe are incredible
God Created us, we sinned (lying, stealing, adultery, and hate) and deserve hell because God punishes sin. But God, in his love sent Jesus to die on the cross for our sins and whoever turns from sin and believes in Jesus will not perish but have life after death.
@@Joshiboiy Belief in heaven and hell is little more than the hope of moral dessert and fear of moral punishment bestowed on you some ancient text, not a desire to help the people that exist on this earth for its own sake. Morals can exist outside your god, and if you don't think you can be a moral person without your god, that says more about you than it does about your god.
Two can play that game.The person on the other side of the screen can proselytize as well, but I'd rather have an honest conversation about the topic of this video. I'm not confident that this isn't more than a copypasta given to you by someone else and you haven't put any thought into your post. Hopefully you'll think about spaces that share contrasting ideas as more than an opportunity to spread your religious beliefs. But thanks for giving me the opportunity to deliberate and refine my own proselytizing copypasta.
"It's not about winning. It's about fun."-Spongebob Squarepants.
Spongebob has been our lord and savior form the beginning
@@yg6484 Yeah, verily!
But winning is fun.
fun is winning as is winning is fun
Ok
Nihilism: Nothing matters
Optimistic Nihilism: Anything can matter
@Interceptor Not unless "pessimistic nihilism" is the same word repeated twice.
I would argue that pessimism and nihilism are not the same thing.
@Interceptor Does it need to be extreme hedonism?
Can it not mean stuff like "we should try to make a better world to live in"?
@Interceptor Nothing matters in an objective sense, everything that matters to us humans is therefore the thing that matters.
Not a loss of values, but rather that we choose our values.
@Interceptor Okay so does that mean that Existentialism and Optimistic Nihilism are the same?
@Interceptor but what if subjective meaning itself is meaningless?
This is a very comforting video thanks😄
As someone who has struggled with mental health for most of my life this video has helped ease a little bit of that pain.
t's weird how most of us living on Earth will never meet or even acknowledge each other's existence. For example, if you're reading my comment; this is probably the first and last time you'll ever see me.
Unless I return to this comment.
Or things get really _really_ weird.
Unless I say hi and we start talking and actually become friends :D
*BRO*
BTW I was not able to see you anyways , the only thing visible to people who read the comment was comment...
Fringe really sad if you think about it
"Close your eyes,count to one,that's how long forever feels" That really hit me
Blue nihilism is better
Timothy Morrison
Please explain
That your good things don't matter
Bossness31 im kinda an idiot can you explain this quote please, might take long but i don’t think im the only one whose confused with this
@@joshuadardashti8675 before you were born the universe existed for 13billion years (our best guess)
Do you remember it? Did it feel like 13 billion years? Or less than one second?
When you're dead and dead forever, you won't know it, you won't know what you missed or didn't, death isn't scary when you think... You didn't exist for the 13 billion years before you either
Whenever I feel lost, I always come back to this video and been doing that since 5 years ago. Thank you Kurzgesagt. You have no idea how many times this video has saved me.
I would love to see more of this. This is oddly soothing.
Nihilism: Nothing matters.
Optimistic Nihilism: It doesn't matter that nothing matters. *Its free real estate.*
lol underrated comment🤣
Way too underated
This is the most accurate thing I came across in years.
Thank you
Shit😂😂😂
"Do the things that make you feel good. You get to decide whatever that means for you."
I hope no sadist watches this.
And I hope they do.
I'm guessing masochists would disagree :)
haha lol
That's precisely the problem with this philosophy. What if raping or killing or stealing makes someone feel good? Well according to this philosophy, they should go right ahead and do it. Do whatever makes you feel good right? And nothing matters in the end, so who cares if you hurt people?
@@thelemurofmadagascar9183 That's precisely the problem with this philosophy. What if caring or helping or sacrificing makes someone feel good? Well according to this philosophy, they should go right ahead and do it. Do whatever makes others feel good right? And nothing matters in the end, so who cares if you help people?
"What is one compared to infinity?"
'One."
Everytime I feel s*icidal I come back to this video. Thank you for helping.
Nihilism: Nothing matters
Optimistic Nihilism: Since nothing matters, you're free to assign value to whatever you want. So you don't have to feel like you've wasted your life playing video games and reading comic books. It made you happy. So it mattered. And if it mattered to you, you mattered too.
Kurzgesagt just solved the existential crisis. Goddamn, I love those birbs
you nailed it man! that's what i think too, tho at the end of the day you still have to like eat and pay bills so... let's not take it too literally
And also do what makes u feel good and give meaning to whatever this world means to u just gold💛
its just that, if there is no greater meaning then the meaning you your self apply to various things, then the meaning of the meaning has no greater meaning. I struggle to find any meaning in that.
@@RichardVemvillveta Yea now u r just being negative😅
@@RichardVemvillveta but it still has meaning and no meaning at the same time.
So?
Have fun?! (Being in certain limits of course lol)
When the universe ends, the one thing that will remain is the fact that you kicked that cat
@@shadowshadow2724 Why would that bring you to hell? Abel killed his sheep and sacrificed them to God. Kicking a Cat wouldn’t do anything...
@@shadowshadow2724 I’m saying God doesn’t care if you harm animals. If he did, it would be hypocritical to his prior actions. Abel killed his animals and sacrificed them to God while Cain offered God vegetables. God was mad at Cain and congratulated Abel. He even made people kill lambs and smear their blood on their door for passover.
@@shadowshadow2724 Is English your first language? I can’t understand what you’re trying to tell me?
@@shadowshadow2724 Abel is in Judiasm, Islam, and Christianity/Catholicism. He is the son of Adam and Eve (Hawwa). Abel is also known as Habil.
@@shadowshadow2724 long story short thinking abouth god is like thinking abouth a super distant planet in our solar system that keeps every planet in their orbits and humans happy. Yeah it is just a tiny bit realistic but not much
This is one of the most incredible videos on TH-cam
Just. Perfect.
This video is so good that I keep coming back to it constantly
Thanks. Now I've been inspired to help build a galactic human space empire.
how many aliens will be killed?
For the Emperor! Purge the xenos!
Anything for bonus points!!
Next Kurzgesagt video about SpaceX? :D
That sounds like so much work. Cant do it today, many tomorrow. Or the day after that. Or the day after that. Or the da-
God dam dude, a lot of the frames from this episode would be glorious posters to be made out of.
Wow, that's someone I didn't expect here. Well, to be fair these videos are awesome and deserve all the views they can get
lol dude....designer thinking ;) I like it... ;)
Every frame a painting.
Is elvis presley alive or not
I could take some screenshots.
Animations make it so much better to understand such deep concepts. Amazing video!
I couldn't sleep and I remembered this video, so watched it again! This put me to an ease. Thank you.
"close your eyes and count to one. Thats how long forever feels"
I'm gonna use that line
I've already been using it.
I honestly don't get this line. 🤦🤦
TheRevivist you have no perception of time when you’re dead
would some kind soul please explain what this means to a dumbhead like me?
@@frankie5928 OOOOH Thank you. I'm stupid :P
"But size is not the most troubling concept we have to deal with, it's time."
That's what she said.
The Filipino Assassino it’s not the size of the boat. But the motion of the ocean
Gold
B R U H
Billy Ward/Dominos - Sixty Second Man?
Jesus Christ, I did not expect that xDDD
The one thing I struggle with is the end. I know everyone dies, everyone’s story comes to an end as all stories must.
Some peoples stories end sooner than later, some peoples stories are cut short…Some peoples stories last lifetimes.
But the fear I have, is when mine will end. I’ve come to reason with my mind that I will die. Maybe sooner, maybe later. And that disturbs me greatly.. and many times I wish I didn’t understand what death is. I’d rather that everyone goes to a beautiful place in the sky, but I do know that it will be nothing. Empty, and nothing. There is nothingness in nothing, you will not know you are dead. You won’t feel pain, but all your memories, and who YOU are as a person. Who you’ve built yourself up to be, this idea of what you are, and who you are, are gone. Everything in the world that you have come to surround yourself with will have never existed. Your mind will be gone, and soon your body.
I for one CANT come to peace with that, though I try. I spend my nights wondering why? Why should anything I do right now or later matter when I will be dead.
I’d rather just do things that make me happy, why do I have to go to school? Get a job? Work my whole life? If it simply ends?
We are on a rock, in a solar system, in a galaxy, in the universe. We are so small, our lives are SO small. And I find it intresting how people get caught up in their own lives, don’t they understand all this ideology that we have made up about what is right, what is wrong, what shouldn’t be done- doesn’t matter? Your opinions will die eventuality with you. So why does it matter if a biological women transitions to a male. He is so small to you, and to others. He isn’t bothering anyone, but people feel the need to have opinions on it? When this small matter has no effect, none, on the world?
Nothing matters, and in that, in a sense- everything matters.
Just some thoughts I thought I would write down. If you have opposing views, or agree, id love to discuss with you.
Yeah.. we know all of us will die, it is inevitable, and we can't understand that, I mean our brains can't understand concept of death since our consciousness only exists in existence. If we really try to think what we were doing or feeling before our birth, it will create same sort of existential dread as in case of time after death. It was like.. boom and we are conscious out of nowhere, like all the billions of years or infinity if you wish, have passed before, it did not matter. Same will happen after death, but difference is that there won't be snap moment anymore, just.. well, can't really say how it will be. You are right that we can't "fix" this problem, no matter how much time we spend thinking about it. Our daily lives are far away from such ideas, we are so involved in many little things that we rarely think about such ideas. If now we are contemplating about our existence and meaning, tomorrow we will wake up and do regular things, because that's what actually is important, to stay alive at least, and then decide to have some sort of goal in our lives. I am pretty sure no matter how many years pass, every time I watch this video, same feeling will arise. Just right now I wanted to delete this comment, but then realized that it does not matter at all, so let it hang around here, I guess that's what optimistic nihilism is :)
Thank you guys for putting out this video. I can’t overstate how much it means to me. This stuff is challenging and scary.
Alright bois, time to start building that galactic empire. Who's with me?
This is how liberty dies? With thunderous applause?
Let's do it! (Sorry I'm late)
GLORY TO THE HUMAN PERSONS
GUTS lets go
Lets start RIGHT NOW!!!! Ehm... how do we get to low earth orbit? I mean the bases, you know... THIS IS TAKING SOOOOO LONG
*dies*
*opens eyes to see a doctor holding me & congratulating a lady over it*
me: "ah shit, here we go again."
Sounds like a paradox isn't it
Crazy to think of it that way, eh?
Then when you get to three you forget your old life.
Older you get, you forgot about your before life
Bite Me o_O now I can’t sleep
i love this video, this channel as a whole but this video in specific touches me
I remember watching this when it first came out, it helped me a lot and has very strongly shaped how i look at life. From the bottom of my heart, thank you!
“Close your eyes for one second that’s how long forever feels” - This line gave me actual chills lol
OK I just finish this video I didn’t realize how much I needed that 🥲
@@heroprime7599 okay so what we perceive as forever seems like long time, but in the grand scheme of things the universe is infinite and what we perceive as forever will be gone in the blink of an eye for the universe. Take that as you will. I see it as extremely uplifting!
this gave me actual chlamydia
@@heroprime7599 A great example is going to sleep, only to wake up 8 hours later feeling like you just went to bed.
"lilith chlamydia"
feels cute
“We are the universe experiencing itself”
-Alan Watts
Carl Sagan too
Nice quotes
One of my favorites:
“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”
― Alan Watts
i doubt the universe wants to rape itself, very sadistic
I really feel that. Life is so amazing that along with the universe created elements to feel each other. and here we are!
I have been looking for a word to define my way of thinking for so long and I'm so happy to find this video today 😁 This is so energizing !! ✨ Thank you In a Nutshell
I always come back to this. Thank you.
The animators should design a game...
It would get best game design of the year, if that was an award or something close was. Someone help me out.
For some reason the animations remind me of night in the woods characters, I think it's the eyes...
Yeah. It reminded me of this one game called hohokum
Fuck yeah
Well I would hope the animators would design the art assets of game, I doubt they would make a good game off of decent animation by itself.
Nobody:
Kurzgesagt at every video: WE NEED TO BUILD A GALACTIC HUMAN EMPIRE
David Latkin a lot of birds will die on this way though... ☹️
Also Elon musk
David Latkin How about every curious mind? Knowledge is preferable to ignorance
@@JayN_101 Humans make everything gross because of greed lets not fuck up another rock lets just finish killing this one and hopefully perish with it.
@@xxwy9977 The universe has so much stuff that human greed could never even begin to scratch its surface. Even if we fvck up a hundred thousand rocks, there are still several trillion (and probably much much more) rocks that will go untouched and unseen.
My favorite quote I’ve heard recently is “isn’t it amazing to be something?”
With the universe unfathomably large, there’s so much room to never have a chance to exist. But we do. Our odds of being here are small. And isn’t it lovely to be this lucky even if we are histories biggest loser?
As great as this is, the "do whatever makes you feel good" should have a massive asterisk. You need to find reason to also not make life worse for other people while you're at it. If I really liked robbing people, this video essentially says do what makes you feel good because it doesn't matter, I create my own purpose.
Not quite. We as a group get to decide if we'll accept Rougeish Robbers in our societies - and there definitely are people that *Love* catching robbers within our society.
@@robertvernon789 I guess it depends if making meaning is directed to the individual or the whole, if its the whole then you're right, but I think they mean individually find what makes you happy.
@@space_1073 Well even if on an individual level, this still holds true. Afterall - we make individual choices, buit not in a vaccum. The things we choose and in many ways the options that we have to choose from are often set well before we are born. In the even that we get a "Mad Dog" each soceity has rules for dealing with such indivicuals. Making of meaning must come withing the external social and power structures we live within - and create.
As a wise boy once said: Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody's going to die, come watch TV
Codi Guest
Moo * *GOUUAWWGHRR* * rrty shut the hell up no one cares.
Codi Guest a.k.a. morty C-137
Ugh, someone is going to get laid in college
You gotta problem with enjoying an extremely popular animated show?
I dont think you enjoy it yourself, since what I simply did was reference the same show. Rick says the same I did when he goes inside the Miniverse...
Can we all agree that the music was outstanding in this one?
That's what 60 fps feels like. Something that console peasants will never understand, unfortunately...
The eyes were kinda weird tho
Reminded me of something out the Tron Legacy soundtrack, like "Sunrise Prelude"
Yeah
Luke Farinelli i agree. Not as cartoonish.
I always come back to this. It’s been a rough couple months. I’m currently sitting at my desk trying not to cry because everytime I watch this it makes me feel… free.
This has genuinely helped me solve my fear of death. I've always got thanatophobia, always. It has always haunted me, countless nights of crying my eyes out, wondering what will happen. I will continue to do so, but optimistic nihilism helped with it. I've now stopped wondering so much about what will happen after death and started thinking more about what can happen before it. I have control over what makes me happy, and that's why I will do what makes me happy.
I discovered this way of viewing life thanks to this very video. Thank you Kurzgesagt, you truly changed my life.
Nihilism shows us the horizon,
the limits of time and space...
Optimism helps us sail there
with a smile on our face
this is awesome
Optimistic Nihilism is like an adventure
Lmfao 🤣🤣
How exactly??
@@sigmachadtrillioniare6372 ask joe
We come from nothing; we're going back to nothing. So, what have we lost?
Nothing!!!
* happy dance *
Hmm. Well we haven't even lost that, have we? Does 0 have any value?
Always look on the bright side of life! *Whistling*
@@bluedrew274 probably the most optimistic nihilist comedic collective in History
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A retarded thought, from a survival standpoint...
Every once in a while I re-watch this, specially when I'm kinda sad or feeling under the weather. It reminds me how little time I have left and its absolutely a crime to let things prevent me from enjoying life.
Just the video i needed after remembering my past, which some parts i regretted. Thanks!
Life has no purpose...
But building a galactic human empire would be a nice one.
@@yeleoh epic gamer moment
Since people in the US say they have "God emperor Trump", we are perhaps halfway there.
...and side note...
In the 1960's the U.S. government preceived a need for the creation of a armed force to deal with potential violent threats to space-based assets. The official doctrine was for the creation of Space Marienes.
Oh boy another atheist,how do you embrace emptiness?
@@yeleoh Well, if you want to live a truly Biblical life that's acceptable behavior...
@@adarkerstormishere nice
"close your eyes, count to one"
"that's how long forever feels"
holy shit this gave me chills
It means by forever=one life
They wanted to tell us that our life is as long as 1 second ?
yeah
@@AlexG-jm7cd yeah to me or to him
Depression
@@AlexG-jm7cd love ur music dude
"follow yourself and do what makes you feel happy it doesnt matter in the end" 🤓
"deny yourself everyday, pick up your cross and follow him" 🗿
Perfetct ! Thanks for the optimistic (even though it's presented as nihilistic) approach and response to a lot of the other content that you are used to produce. It's nice to see you care about your viewers and the way they react to your content. It might seem scary sometimes but it is necessary when you try to bring facts while still being able to understand the trouble explainining it. Most needed video. And perfect reassuring approach to it. Thanks
“Close you eyes. Count to one. That’s how long forever feels”
that line breaks me every time.. probably the most beautiful line ever said on this channel
That's exactly what happens after death, you close your eyes and forever feels like one second
That line made my anxiety fade
I got scared i don't know why
My whole life I never got scared of death
But this is something
Count to one, but start from negative infinity . XD
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3:33 "We became self-aware only to realize this story is not about us." So mankind is just a unnamed NPC ? Well, that explains the shitty A.I. ...
Vaniellis And still... everything is an illusion, the universe is a hollogram, buy gold (virtual currency). BYE !
Vaniellis jbbvd Pikachu de Dora katchou katchou
The plot is all over the place, the game balance is terrible, most of the quests are boring and repetitive, and death is permanent...
But at least the graphics are top notch!
Vaniellis - we are not NPCs, we are the protagonists and heroes of our own adventures and stories
Ask npc
How are you
Npc replies
Ok
Good thanks and you
Not good
Come to think of it we are like robots
This video has fucked me up and changed me as a human