Life is not a problem to be solved ...
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My review of The Seventh Seal by Ignmar Bergman through existential philosophy.
Literature:
The Myth of Sisyphus - by Albert Camus
Either/Or - by Sören Kierkegaard
I watched a movie about insects a long time ago. The narrator stated that insects know the answer to life: don't ask the question.
hahaha oh yeah
so that's what crickets have been
playing that trance..
seriously though,
the mind gets obsessed with riddles & questions & meaningless conceptual solutions to abstract made up problems...
and then there is that which is infinitely aware of the eternal awareness..
The root of the word CURIOSITY is CURE, and for good reason. ("Ask and it is given.") Curiosity didn't kill the cat; curiosity CURED the cat - as I know from firsthand experience. And life in this world (of imitation) IS a problem to be solved! Absolutely all problems in this world of limitation stem from FEAR...our irrational fear of Truth, which keeps us from desiring Truth...which is why the solution to our problem is DESIRE for Truth. "And in your desire lies it's accomplishment," sayeth the LORD. I'm the prophesied return of the biblical prophet Elijah, born in 1957 - the same year this movie was made. And I've published the answers to all major mysteries, including precisely what GOD is, what WE are, and The Meaning of Life: the exact reason WHY and HOW we fell into this realm of limitation, and the method by which we will be EXTRACTED from limitation - guaranteed.
@@tomrhodes1629where have you published this?
Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a reality to be experienced
Dune
Then is life at the end a reality at all?
I was clicking on my cell phone. Internet webvideo that is called Life is not a problem to be solved dot dot dot. Turned out to be half of a quote from Mann. I'll basically tell the quote that way you can hear and read it again while you watch the show. Why does the show come back on when you try to watch it again. I thought this was the TV remote but it's an email
@@flannigan7956 Stop thinking. It's killing you, Lannigan :)
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HOW do you know? WHY do you think you know? "Unless ye become as little children" - who know that they DON'T know - even GOD Itself can't give you the answers! My information doesn't come from mere speculation. And life in this world (of imitation) IS a problem to be solved! Absolutely all problems in this world of limitation stem from FEAR...our irrational fear of Truth, which keeps us from desiring Truth...which is why the solution to our problem is DESIRE for Truth. "And in your desire lies it's accomplishment," sayeth the LORD. I'm the prophesied return of the biblical prophet Elijah, born in 1957 - the same year this movie was made. And I've published the answers to all major mysteries, including precisely what GOD is, what WE are, and The Meaning of Life: the exact reason WHY and HOW we fell into this realm of limitation, and the method by which we will be EXTRACTED from limitation - guaranteed.
Remember to spend as much time as you can on your computers, you won't be able to use it once you die
exactly. drugs too.
Dont forget to leave plenty of time for sex
thats deep
I ain't tripping
Good computers go to heaven.
“I will be quiet, but under protest” is such a Mood
There is this phrase for it. I once knew.....
Too make it Very clear Its under Protest....then its called sulking....haha
@@etterbakk haha
"You steer this ship the best way you know. Sometimes it’s smooth, sometimes you hit the rocks, in the mean time you find your pleasures where you can.”
Don @cocojamboidoprzodu9302 salud.
where is this from
@@TravisListener sopranos uncle junior says it to tony
beautiful, i love that series, thanks and God bless@@imsurfingontheearthimasurf5975
Walt fuckin Whitman ova here
I used to question what makes life worth living all the time when I was 18. Then I taught a kid to draw one day just because he asked me to. Years later, his parents bumped into me at the mall and said that he now creates cartoons for his school and thanked me for inspiring him.
Teaching and helping others is what makes life worth living for me. I think if we ask why or what's the point of life, we haven't yet found what it is we're looking for.
Helping others fulfils me more than anything else
Helping others is full filling but not having to struggle is always much more full filling
@@CoperXYZBe loved intimately by someone is all that matters. In the end of the day, all we fear is to be alone. It has nothing to do with meaning. The meaning we are searching for is true connection with a loving partner.
@@reginaldgray4349 No doubt. That's the difficult part. You either have to find some way to teach that is profitable (like creating an online course) or you have to save and invest into semi passive investments that pay the majority of the bills (dividends, car or house rental income, etc.).
Oprah coauthored a book with Harvard Happiness professor, Arthur Brooks: Build the Life You Want.
One of the elements for a deep happiness-versus chasing success, esteem from others, sex, etc-is to share experiences you enjoy with others.
They have an excellent 3 part discussion about their book material and examples from their life experiences on TH-cam.
After diving from stoicism to spirituality, I have learned that focusing on life as a problem to be solved keeps you fixed in your thoughts about the future. About what you you will do or have to do. Rather think of life as series of moments that occur in the present moment. You're meant to live in the 'now' and accept it as all there is instead of hiding behind the veil of the illusion called future which also will occur some point in the present moment. You can only deal with what's happening in the present moment. Not a future that is yet to come.
Abs correct.
Treating your life like a problem to be solved will cause your life to continually and consistently be a problem to be solved.
“The future is the greatest tool to screw the now”
Pearsonalisms 2:11
I really like how you articulated that, makes sense.
Is it too late to understand this
"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve... but a reality to experience. A process that cannot be understood by stopping it. We must move with the flow of the process. We must join it." -Frank Herbert, Dune!
Than you're a slave.
As a friend of mine who used to say when we were discussing Herbert's work, "so says the gospel of Frank".
There are no accidents ~ some turtle
Literally read this tonight before arriving here and reading it again. The world is strange.
It truly is I've just picked up Dune myself @charlesbrown4689
I'm 73 now but when I was young I was bound and determined to get all my questions answered. I studied great literature, philosophy and all religions in my quest. As I got older most of my questions were answered in study. Then I realized there were some questions which did not have answers. So I stopped beating my head against a brick wall. Today, I am at peace knowing I've gotten all the answers I could. Budha's right-hand man, Bhodditsava, said we should contemplate the infinite but at the same time experience everything we possibly can in life, live life to the fullest.
I’m listening to Alan Watts currently. And it seems like I’ve learnt a great deal about Buddhism. Do you know who you are?
@@lionelemilio4141 Yes, I studied everything I could get my hands on, from Einstein to Confucius to Pythagoras.
You sound very wise. I know nothing.
You are very old now and have more experience but I would not say that buddhism has all the answers, its an interesting religion but the only one that fufilled His promisses throughout history is Abraham's God right? I don’t want you to take this bitterly or in a disrespectfull way, away from me such thing, I just wanted to maybe ask you to consider if you really have "all the answers", because in reality most of the time we don't but cling to this ilusion of a complete knowledge. I mean, buddhism says that you can achieve this state of knowlege and elevation, but I never knew anybody that actually reached that (I guess you could say Buddha himself but from my knowledge he never came back, Jesus came back from the dead on the other hand). Please do not take this as disrespect, I just wanted to make you consider that this thought might be wrong, maybe you haven't searched on the right places for the answer? Have you read the bible without any bias and with a open mind?
In any way, may God bless you wherever you are brother! And may he show you a good path, amen.
@@lionelemilio4141Brother, no disrespect but thinking that, just because someone said that religion is man made, it is, is very arrogant in a way, you are making a lot of assumptions and discrediting many historical data (many of which are outside the bible yet mention those same events). I think you COULD make a case for some types of beliefs, sure, but to discredit EVERYTHING and say something that sounds scientific doesn't seem right. It is not that man created God to find a purpose, but rather God that created us with a purpose. Life is too complex to be a result of nothing becoming something out of probability, that one in fact that is so small that is probably uncalculable with our current technology, life only comes from life as we observe, there is only one 2 domains of creatures procaryotes and eucaryotes (if I spell anything wrong plz igone because english isn't my first language) and even they share DNA, if life could just randomly spawn without an inteligence behing wouldn’t we see diferent lifeforms? Maybe ones that are not DNA or RNA based? Also the universe being perfectly set with all its constants, some of which if they were decimals different reality, that is the universe, itself could not exist and would colapse in itself with its forces? Isn't it way much more likely to be there an inteligence, who HAS manifeted and fulfilled His prophecies throughout millenia than it is to not have? Think about the amount of coincidences, the amount of improbable events that would have to take place in the right time for eons, and that you are taking for granted after ignoring many historical records, evidence, that the true cause of everything is God? Please brother I intend no disrespect, just to make you question and maybe consider if you think like you think because you believe on it, or because you were conditioned to think like this, Or because you chose which and from whose evidence you believe? Takes a lot of faith to believe that everything is just a probability, things won't form out of nothing, that is perhaps the most important of the physical understandings humanity uncovered, yet so many people, and to my understanding you, neglect it saying that it is scientific?
Again no hate intended brother, just wanted to give you this questioning because I wish you well!
May God bless you brother! and may he lead you to a good path, amen.
P.S.: So if you want to check those evidence I mentioned, I don't quite remember on top of my head now but there is the dead sea scrolls, there is reference of the capture of the Jews by the Egyptians on their own records etc. A quick search will show you all the info around it that I would not make justice on a comment section, hope you go there see it for yourself, farewell!
“We are helpless. We see what she sees, and her terror is ours.”
Gave me chills.
Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Australia. Really need!
Yes, dr.porass. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
I wish they were readily available in my place.
Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He is 59 & has so many mental health issues plus probable CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac.
He's constantly talking about killing someone.
He's violent. Anyone reading this
Familiar w/ BPD know if it is common for an obsession with violence.
Is he on instagram?
Yes he is dr.porass.
I watched this film at age 13 in 1958. It has become one of my favorite films of all times. Subsequently over the decades I have studied Camus, Sartre and others others and your video really brings back many thoughts I’ve had in my almost 80 years. Thank you.
So what conclusion have you come to, sir?
@@thakurSavitarI also want to know that but there really isn’t much answer but to experience it, life.
@@MrAllstar well, it resembles me little quantum physics: on particles it's impossible to know in a moment both where the particle is and what is its velocity, and on living it's impossible in a moment both to understand and to experience existence
"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." Excellent and inspiring quote. Great video and insight.
"Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." Luke 12:27
Lilies of the Field, a good film starring Sidney Portier
@@onepeaceableworld very interesting verse, however as a Muslim who has some knowledge of Islamic spirituality, I disagree with the last part of the verse. In contrast to the Bible presentation of the Prophets, there is a different Islamic representation of the Prophets, so I think Solomon(Peace Be Upon Him) had far surpassed the lilies. We are still not like the lilies, me and you, but Solomon had certainly attained that inner peace and spiritual unity with God.
@@mrs8768 not in the sense u probably think, he definitely had untity with God in the consciousness sense, but no way he has found true peace and his life became all sunshine and rainbow
@@sigmaohiogyattfanumrizz well i think all Prophets had true peace, but they had 'terrible' exterior lives with the exception of a few like Solomon. I don't think true peace is anything like sunshine and daisies, its certainly not a naive positivity or a toxic positivity, its a sense of tranquility that remains no matter the hardships one goes through, and the prophets had that. I believe that finding unity with God and true peacec come hand in hand, for so many reasons. Negative attitudes towards life and fears are creations of the ego, which a Prophet does not have.
@@mrs8768 if you ever read Ecclesiastes, you might change your mind; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."
Using fear to gain power and entrench it....very telling and so applicable in these times
You should kill fear and work from a place sacrificial attitude, but you need God for this. Fear is simply the anticipation of what might happen ie, it is not something that exists, it is imagination.
@@SrMwayNay
@@hurricanemeridian8712could you elaborate on your denial of his statement?
Hilarious comment considering fear is how religions work/maintain power
@@SrMwaynobody needs god for this, tho who do are incomplete man searching to a false ego to complete themselves and give them courage, but the true answer is obtaining enough knowledge that courage is no longer needed, you don't need a leap of faith when you calculated the exact outcome where you'd be safe
Worrying about the past turns into anger, worrying about the future turns into fear. The moment is now, live the present, embrace it as the only thing that matters. The purpose is in front you.
"Knowledge is a burden or at worst a danger" , "blessed is the mind too small for doubt"
Children and idiots in other words......
That's Republicans
Blessed is the stupid?
@@DSAK55thats the imperium of man
@@DSAK55ur sad
I've thought about this and have struggled with this for years. I'm 60 and still learning. I've loved this film since I first saw it in my 20s and have my own copy, which I revisit. Your assessment is as compelling and astute as any I've ever heard.
I'm 67 and I can help. And if this is interesting to you, I'm easy to find if you want to converse. (I won't know if you respond to this post, so you'll have to give my icon a click and find out how to contact me.) But here's the deal:
Life in this world (of imitation) IS a problem to be solved! Absolutely all problems in this world of limitation stem from FEAR...our irrational fear of Truth, which keeps us from desiring Truth...which is why the solution to our problem is DESIRE for Truth. "And in your desire lies it's accomplishment," sayeth the LORD.
I'm the prophesied return of the biblical prophet Elijah, born in 1957 - the same year this movie was made. And I've published the answers to all major mysteries, including precisely what GOD is, what WE are, and The Meaning of Life: the exact reason WHY and HOW we fell into this realm of limitation, and the method by which we will be EXTRACTED from limitation - guaranteed.
Yes, GUARANTEED; "Good News" that men have corrupted into a BAD NEWS (lie) "gospel" of judgment and sacrifice for "sin." And in the coming years I will make a big dent in that lie, which is why I was sent. (Read Revelation Chapter 11, which is highly symbolic.)
From one sentient being come forth many; this is the propagation of life. One god divides himself* in the form of all sentient beings. That is why it is said - where there is jiva there is shiva. (* him = this one).
~ Sri Anandamayi Ma
@@sven888 More idolatry?
Well according to this logic smoke as much weed as you can, you only live once.
@@sw00t_yprd79fuck it, why not?
I met Gunnar Fischer in Stockholm in 1984. He seemed surprised that this film was so admired by film students in the US. He also said he felt the black and white film stock he was using seemed to contain more silver than what was available today (1984).
Silver?
@@ColtraneTaylorphotographic film is made using silver, there is alot that goes into making it. The ensuing film, when exposed to a short burst of light, will imprint an image onto the piece of film
@@reikyfoxxe1847 Thanks. So does more silver in the film make it look different?
@@ColtraneTaylor yes, it would change the brightness or clarity of the film on screen when the projector in the movie theater shines light through the now developed image. Technology connections has a few videos on photography and camera technology history
th-cam.com/video/wbbH77rYaa8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=-FiA7-xrNFECu8M3
@@ColtraneTaylor, the grain can be heavily impacted. The more grain, the more details can be captured and less grainy it looks. It also allows for more gentle shadows and such.
Anyone who looks for meaning in life will miss it altogether. The meaning of life is to live it, as it is right under your nose , right here right now.
>the meaning of life is to live it, because.... ITS JUST IS, OK???
It's just a part of it. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that we have been created to know God, to love him and to serve him. And we love him by loving our neighbors. Many won't like this simple answer, but it's the truth. Life is about love, but not any kind of love, it's the total gift of ourselves to a God that gives himself totally to us and the rejection of sin every day. True love is impossible without the cross.
Life is an slavery
@@KarmaWords you’ve misunderstood what i meant by exactly 100%
If life is essentially God's video game, I'd like access to the cheat codes that will let me forcibly power off the gaming console. I do not want to be a marionette for Yahweh the Cannibal to find its amusement in.
The meaning of life is to give life a meaning.~ viktor E frankl
That’s like saying a planet can choose what star it shall orbit. It doesn’t make sense. The divine is our only hope.
@@TheNightWatcher1385 no it's like wave particle duality because of the insane juxtaposition of an actual meaning existing or not. Doubting is a trap, if you want to believe in something, live by it. You believe god exists? Allah ? Yahweh? Shiva? Go for it, don't doubt and take a leap of faith. You believe life is meaningless and we have the potential to give life its own meaning? carved by us? No problem, just don't have that semblance of doubt because it's a trap. At the end of it all, it's just a leap of faith. No one can ever truly know what's out there after our bodies decompose
Did he really say that? That means he didn’t get it.
@TheNightWatcher1385 Given sufficient velocity, a planet can absolutely “choose” its star. There are even planets which orbit no stars at all.
I would encourage you to read frankl. All of you. His words and wise and with broader context it will make more sense.
"Language is the tool of this world, silence is the mystery of the world to come" - Some dude at the bus stop.
I like that
My body is ready
But I am not
@@one.ebrownI have not done everything that I have wanted to do. I am not ready.
I got the 69th like I feel so honored 🥲
Reverse snu-snu
Godspeed gentleman
In that last scene, for some reason the Italian subs I watched the movie with actually had what for me was an even more inspiring quote from the squire:
“Maybe I could’ve liberated myself from this anguish of eternity that torments you. But it is already too late to teach you the immense joy of a hand that moves and of a heart that beats”.
Reminds me something of Nietzsche, as he wrote (if I remember correctly) that the Church builds an ideal of perfection and judges people based on it: and in doing so, the religious person ends up seeing the world for all its defects, as no human being fulfils all those ideals of perfection in a person set for example by Jesus, seeing all living flesh as an impure, sinful byproduct of Adam and Eve’s original sin. Or in general, one sees everything not in its beauty, but as a means for something else. And with this, one eventually never sees how much beauty there is in a hand that moves, or a heart that beats, as the squire put it.
Thank you for the video! Awesome stuff
came across the same solution weeks ago, with our idea of perfection whatever that means, we destroy our mental life, because let us for a moment say there is perfection, than no one reaches it, its only there in our mind, our fantasies, it never appears in reality and forever stays fiction
Respectfully, I couldn't disagree with Nietzsche more. The Christ of the Bible's achievement of perfection means I don't have to achieve it for myself (substitutionary atonement), therefore I am free to be who God made me as I move through time, becoming refined by experiences given to me as I return my life to him through acts of selflessness, service, and love. I don't strive for perfection, but to please the Father as best I can in each situation as an act of worship. This "abundant life" as Jesus spoke of means staying in the moment as I take the next step in obedience and joy. Maybe Nietzsche is referring to religion, but I prefer this living and active relationship with my Abba Father.
Our nervous systems say otherwise…geared towards curiosity and figuring out how to survive and thrive. Life is an absurd relay of problems and information from one generation to the next. We find pleasure in influencing others, present and future.
If only we all worked together
@@postpwnmalonewhat do you think society is, you misanthrope.
Humans are wired to avoid pain and solve problems, to try to inhale for a few more seconds even when their chest is being crushed...And yet at the same time we're so afraid and weary of the aspect of constant struggle, fear, and uncertainty, and we come up with idioms like "life isn't a problem to be solved" or "death is what gives life meaning" to make ourselves feel better.
That's all ego based. The ego is there for survival, and advancement, but it gets out of control, and that's when we worry about or consider that we may have any influence on someone. Let alone even believe the future exists.
@@UrMomsChauffer you can ignore reality, but you cant ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. It is in our nature to survive and propagate information beyond our lives. This has nothing to do with ego. Its literally built into our biology. You think you can override your biology? Good luck. It will make you alone and miserable.
i will always upvote someone spreading awareness of this masterpiece of film
What Film is this
@@alibengali1992a movie that’s aged terribly
@@freyasworn2600 whats the Name
@@freyasworn2600 whats the name?
The Seventh Seal @@alibengali1992
Life is for the living. Make the best of it you can. It is the only thing anyone really has.
“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfil the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.”
Viktor Frankl
Imagine your time is up. Game over..
And now you are in the spirit world looking back to your life what did you learn, value, care, love, all the things you did and did not do your mistakes & regrets. Do you want to change something?
Imagine you have a 2nd chance to live and continue your life like you enter again like in a game.
That respawn is NOW.
What you will you do?
You will die again and not come back again.
Play nice.
Don't be mean
Interesting! I'd had tried harder in sports as young as it is the actvity that passionates me most. I wouldn't start smoking weed as it has pulled down my ambitions for maaany years. I definitely wouldn't have studied what I studied. I would have learnt about finances and investments. I would have set limits, I would have shown a bit more anger in a way. I wouldn't have thought everyone is good
I would have been smarter (less naive) and I would have lied more
This was once stated to me: “If nothing has meaning, then the statement ‘There is no meaning,’ has itself no meaning.” Therefore, we have the power to reject the idea that nothing has meaning.
No. Its a flawed logic, do u see it?
@@rex-up9ln It is not flawed. It is simply a reflective.
@@ObiWanBillKenobi it is. Replace the word meaning with purpose/goal and u will see it. Your statement makes superficial sense, only because it's just bad semantics
@@rex-up9ln Except you can't make that substitution 1-to-1. Linguistically, we can obviously speak of "meaningless" vs "meaningful" goals whilst still clearly communicating, if we want to clarify the semantics. Meaning implies the existence of value judgements to which our intents and surroundings are subjected and measured, which we we should expect to sit on a sliding scale across the range of "Total Subjectivity" to "Total Objectivity", with the idea "There is no meaning" (inherent in life) being dependent on absolute subjectivity.
@@nathanharvey8570 you're confused
I'm glad I've clicked on this video. Thanks for the quotes, and the introspective movie. You've offered to me a different perspective and starting point to a new path of thought.
I really loved loved your explanation and answer to this complex question using philosophers teachings. I look forward to exploring more of this on your channel. I enjoyable you to make a longer version of this, covering how to confront tackle this problem of problems in life, deriving meaning in love when there semms to be so much suffering right in from of our eyes (suffering of others and sometimes ours too). Thank you very much, I truly appreciate your video.
Thanks for this video on a terrific film. I don’t find myself disagreeing with you on the themes of the film that align with the philosophical outlooks from the likes of Camus or Kierkegaard. However, it appears one storyline from the film is left out of your analysis.
This is the story of the musician, his wife and their child. When we first encounter the musician in the film, he experiences a vision of the Virgin Mary and the child Jesus walking together. He tells his vision to his wife, who chuckles him off a bit. But then we see the joy this man has in being with his family, even while living by such humble means out on the road. These are the same people who invite the knight, squire and maiden to a meal of strawberries and cream wherein the knight finds peace, a respite from the overwhelming doubt. The knight returns the kindness later on by averting Death’s attention in the forest, permitting the small family to leave the larger group by another way rather than into the clutches of Death at the very end. The knight is not left unchanged from his experience, as he does repent and ask for mercy at the final hour.
The family exemplifies the way of living that moves beyond any form of absurdism, either/or-ism, nihilism, etc. It is the way of faith and love, and one juxtaposed with the extreme positions of the mutilators and the inquisitors who demonstrate the dangers of a religion unwilling to see the Beauty of Creation, instead seeing humanity as a plague in need of cleansing or the body as a corruptible vessel for inexplicable evil, incapable of repair.
It is a difficult path because it requires a return to innocence even in the face of Death and the evils of the world. It is the way that requires us to give without knowing in exact reasonable terms what we may receive in return, to love and feed our neighbors without expectations. It is the Way of meaning.
There’s much more to be said, but it moves beyond the film so will pause here. Thanks again for the video.
This is a really wise and beautiful commentary
This is more on the actual lines of Kierkegaard's beliefs. Your comment brought to mind his book Works of Love and his spiritual writings, most notable Lily of the Field.
As you said, one of the greatest movies ever made. It`s certainly among my top ten. Great critique & explanation of The Seventh Seal. Thank you.
Thanks for this. I have long felt what you were able to so eloquently summarize about the meaning of this film.
Beautiful video! Intelligent speaker, Great channel! Thank you for what you do
Thank you for exposing me to something I would not normally have for but strive for.
Superb post! A journey I've been on my entire life, such as the soldier! Thank You.
Wonderful companion piece to a wonderful film. Thank you!
Dude - for your THIRD video ever to get almost 500k views…I’d say you have stumbled upon a new meaning/purpose to your own life. Congrats - great concept and execution. Simple yet rewarding.
Fantastic work. Thank you for sharing.
“To live, is to suffer. To survive, well, that's to find meaning in the suffer.”--DMX
edgy
"A man can bear with almost any _how_ as long as he has a _why_ ." - Nietzsche
Very good summary - clear and thought provoking. And it makes me want to see the whole movie!
This was most interesting indeed..
Thank you for telling us about it...
shooting my suggestion out there; Redes (1936) can be video you can make about in the future. Anything Alejandro Jodorowsky would be weirdly nice.
Fantastic Review, truly a hidden gem of a channel, can't wait to see more from here.
The best Christian response to absurdism, this existential dread we all feel, and all the other answers we seek to quell it, is found in Ecclesiastes. Therein, the anonymous, but undoubtedly powerful and learned author, lays out life's iniquities in plain view. He shows how often the well-laid plans of wise and good men fall to ruin. He shows how even when they come to fruition, they turn to dust quickly, or are otherwise inherited by fools. He shows how even when good wise men find themselves in wealth, and good fortune and health, all is unsatisfactory. He shows how, in the end, the wise man dies just as the fool does, for we all die the same final death. He describes these all as "vanity, and a striving after wind."
Many of these things are indeed good, doubtless. The pleasure we find in our good works and in the companionships of our days, and in the simple pleasures of life. But it all turns to nothing in the end, assuming we get anywhere to begin with, and disaster does not strike.
So what then are we to do?
The absurdist is not truly very different from the Christian in this regard. Make the best of it, of course, regardless of that realization of life's futility.
But where the absurdist goes wrong is in his lack of reverence for a higher power. Where does his path lead? In his pursuit of his own good, he disregards not only the good of others, but in the end, destroys his own. At best, where does this lead you? To the detriment of your brethren, for the sake of your own temporary peace and safety. And that, only if you're lucky.
Thusly, the author of Ecclesiastes says all is vanity, and a striving after wind. We cannot hope to create our own happiness, by the most wicked, or the most righteous acts. We cannot hope to make for ourselves a home on Earth. This is not a place of rest, let alone joy and happiness.
So what, then, are we to do, if our hearts were made for a place which we cannot obtain in this life?
Keep faith, and hope, and love. That is the closest thing to peace you will have in this life, for they are concerned not with this world, but with the one you and all of us were made for. The absurdist finds this world lacking because it is. He cannot find meaning because there is none which is lasting. For all is vanity, and a striving after wind.
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
- C.S.Lewis
you write exceptionally well and with great clarity.
Fantastic comment
But the movie is meant to examine God within the world.. It is worthless in that respect. It is just Bergman's inversion of the cold perversions of his youth, which he was obsessed with over and over and over, especially in early career.
@@Ronald-ki8ch Thank you. I am glad to see my years of debating atheists in TH-cam comment sections has payed off.
@@kenkaplan3654 Unfortunately I don't quite know what you mean, as I don't know much about Bergman. Would you care to explain further?
A very interesting and well put analysis. Thanks 👍🏻
Great video, that film looks like a magnificent work of art.
Thank you so much for this video. I’ve been thinking about this topic a lot lately.
When I was four years old I had my mom open a can of spinach for me so I could eat it out of the can like Popeye...and I was disappointed that my muscles didn't grow. But as an adult, I learned that RAW spinach (not canned, but eaten in salads) is a healing food, as are all of the raw greens and cruciferous family. And I overcame cancer with raw vegetables long ago. And as for the topic of this video...
Life in this world (of imitation) IS a problem to be solved! Absolutely all problems in this world of limitation stem from FEAR...our irrational fear of Truth, which keeps us from desiring Truth...which is why the solution to our problem is DESIRE for Truth. "And in your desire lies it's accomplishment," sayeth the LORD.
I'm the prophesied return of the biblical prophet Elijah, born in 1957 - the same year this movie was made. And I've published the answers to all major mysteries, including precisely what GOD is, what WE are, and The Meaning of Life: the exact reason WHY and HOW we fell into this realm of limitation, and the method by which we will be EXTRACTED from limitation - guaranteed.
Yes, GUARANTEED; "Good News" that men have corrupted into a BAD NEWS (lie) "gospel" of judgment and sacrifice for "sin." And in the coming years I will make a big dent in that lie, which is why I was sent. (Read Revelation Chapter 11, which is highly symbolic.)
I won't know if you reply to this post, but I'm easy to find if you want to know more. (Click on my icon.)
This is a wonderful video. Thank you for posting it.
This was wonderful , thank you Toplak!
I wrote an Essay for my class of Filmtheory about this exact movie and it's tension between Existentialism-Absurdism, exactly around the time you uploaded this. It reallly freaked me out for a second, we even used the exact same quotes.
Loved it! Keep up the work.
When people ask this I always try to ask back 'what is the meaning of a blade of grass? or a computer?' This video summed up my thoughts perfectly! Thank you for sharing
The meaning of a grass is sucking nitrogen and water from the soil to power and propagate its biological machinery. The meaning of a computer is executing machine code of a specific format.
Grass wasn't designed, but it evolved under pressure that anything not suitable to live under died, thus it appears as a marvelous pseudo-design of unimaginable complexity. A computer was designed. Both work in clear ways, have a clear purpose. Life appears to not have any purpose in particular, it's just a lot of shit happening together in different times and places.
@@mostm8589Your viewing the question wrong, asking about the meaning of life is not the same as asking its purpose. Its a shit question in all honesty thats better worded as "What is the significance of life?" or "Why should I live as opposed to die?"
The purpose of life, could in theory be awnserd through biology but purpose is as arbitrary as significance since they are both empirical/rational concepts that exist for practical purposes. When you reduce empiricism down to its base form, you realize that we understand very little to almost nothing of how the real world (the world as it is, independant of your experience or observation) works. Rationalism in a vaccume devoid of experience (empiricism) leaves you with only one guaranteed truth, (I think, therefore I am) and all else becomes fallible. Thus, both reason and empiricism are incapable of definitivley awnsering these questions on an objective ground since the world in itself is inaccesible to us and reason cant give us much beyond proof of own existence. The awnsers then can only lie in the subjective realm, hence why they are often left up to interpretation.
@@mostm8589 Why did the blade of grass evolve under THOSE conditions and not any other. Why is 1+1, 2. You believe you have all the answers because you see the effect of the mystery. You still have not witnessed the mystery itself.
If we are in one of many parallel universes or the same repeating universe that coincidentally fostered life. Why is there a Universe at all? How does physics even exist at all? Math?
@@mostm8589If we are living in the matrix, as some people believe, then the grass is a program. Programs have a certain amount of instructions; the whole "if-then" paradigm. Think about it.
How many instructions does a housefly have? A spider? Nobody teaches them anything, but they somehow know what they are supposed to do.
@@GoldenTV3saying why isn't 1+2=2 is the worst argument ever, it means nothing and it does nothing, 1+1=2 is the basic of a logical system called math that we use as a tool, if 1+2=2 then we'd simply build another tool based on that logic
I should watch this video every morning when I wake up. Well done. 👍
What a beautiful movie, I must watch it. Thank you for sharing and thank you for your commentary.
Just discovered the channel.
Great video on a movie I didn't even know exists.
Welcome aboard 😄
I didn't know it existed, either. And I was born the same year this movie came out, 1957...
But life in this world (of imitation) IS a problem to be solved! Absolutely all problems in this world of limitation stem from FEAR...our irrational fear of Truth, which keeps us from desiring Truth...which is why the solution to our problem is DESIRE for Truth. "And in your desire lies it's accomplishment," sayeth the LORD.
I'm the prophesied return of the biblical prophet Elijah. And I've published the answers to all major mysteries, including precisely what GOD is, what WE are, and The Meaning of Life: the exact reason WHY and HOW we fell into this realm of limitation, and the method by which we will be EXTRACTED from limitation - guaranteed.
Yes, GUARANTEED; "Good News" that men have corrupted into a BAD NEWS (lie) "gospel" of judgment and sacrifice for "sin." And in the coming years I will make a big dent in that lie, which is why I was sent. (Read Revelation Chapter 11, which is highly symbolic.)
I won't know if you reply to this post, but I'm easy to find if you want to know more. (Click on my icon.)
The fact that basically all of the cast of this movie about life and death is dead though.
This is not a full sentence, what are you trying to say?
@@ChucksExotics you're so smart, man
That's so profound! Not. It tends to happen when a movie ages past 70 years.
Your parents were supposed to tell you about death, I'm sorry.
Wow, what a discovery, I hope you didn't get a splitting headache after thinking that sentence 🥱
This was great - thank you for taking the time to make and share it.
Beautiful video, many thanks!
"Be Here Now"
- Zen Proverb
I want to check out this movie sometime. Im not sure if I agree with you, or the movie, or your interpretation of the movie, but I will think and consider it all.
I needed this, thank you
Very good video, I watched the film some years ago, during the pandemic, and it truly impressed me
Really uplifting thoughts. Thank you for your work. 😊
Yes a great inspiration right before bed haha.
@@Catpanl It's 3 am and I am sitting in my room, waiting, waiting... And it's so cold. And the light is dim and my mind is burning bright. But it's so cold... What am I waiting for? Endlessly?
@@Jose-jx5pu look up “ikigai”
Thanks for the video! Very insightful. I'll have to make sure to watch the movie myself.
Yes, please do, I love this film 😄
One of the best movies made to this day. I love especially the Dies Irae scene. It gives me shivers. The seventh seal is just about 90 minutes but the message it gives timeless and far over 90 minutes. Bergman is true genius about his movies.
I need to watch this film now.
he is right that reason will never get us to the true answer but the truth is beyond reason it is where reason comes from, and example your dreams, they are a living proof of something beyond reason.
That was fantastic! Thank you for creating and sharing!
what an absolutely beautiful video. thanks Aljoša
Title of video was enough.
You don’t build a robot to tell it “ figure it out”, you build it to function as it was designed to function.
I mean, the AI revolution of the past two years is only possible if we design robots to figure things out for themselves. It's the only reason new ideas, art, voices, and perspectives can be created by smashing together all the information placed inside it by programmers.
The unique things generative AI creates aren't always profound or uplifting, but you can't argue that it's NOT unique.
You could state the fact that it's all based on previous creations made by humans, and therefore claim its output can only ever be derivative. You'd also have to ignore the fact that literally everything humanity has ever dreamt of, thought of, and believed in has been given to us. Our imaginations combine all that information to ways not necessarily defined by logic, creating what we'd consider truly unique.
So what if it was "designed to function" a certain way? You can still do what you want, that's the beauty of humanity, you design your own function.
@@Game_Hero yea, thats part of the function. free-will
The meaning of life is found in dancing with the present moment.
Take it as you wish.
Whatever was and is going to be is not as important as this moment now.
Be present.
Be now.
"The meaning of life is found in dancing with the present moment."
Tell that to the two billion people on this planet who live beyond the poverty line and don't even have regular access to clean drinking water!
Tell it to all the civilians who die in stupid wars!
Tell it to the children who are forced to work in mines in africa so we get cobalt for all tne batteries in our electronics!
Tell it to everyone who suffers from a disease because he can't afford the medical treatment he needs!
Incredible video. Great job!!!!
Very nice video! :) Thanks for sharing brother! All the best.
I knew this day would come.
Memories! 😊 we performed The Seventh Seal for our finale in our last year of high school drama. I was the narrator and also Karen (back when Karen was just a girl’s name 😅). I was oblivious to how much my life’s journey would echo that of the Knight’s 😳
Likewise.. those trap questions are nonetheless the seeds of madness
That was beautiful!❤ Thank You
I was not aware of the existance of this movie. What a beautiful combination of philosophy, storytelling and imagery. I'll watch the movie soon. Great review too! Thanks.
Wow, that was a really gorgeous synthesis of Camus, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, and of course, Bergman. Beautiful!
4:58 “and consequently craft their own little meaning”, I’m sure that Camus’ thoughts evolved, but I recall in one of his essays him stating “life has no meaning, and we can’t make one either”. This issue, I’m sure, he struggled through for the entirety of his life. You sort of have to take his word for it, but a priest in France (I believe) claimed that prior to the car accident that ended his life, Camus came to him wishing to be baptized, but didn’t want to do it publicly, and so didn’t.
There are many unsubstantiated stories about famous atheists suddenly becoming religious before their deaths, they're often spread by religious people
@@Kyoto_Edalways. And so on it continues , people trying to make sense of life. To solve it
@Kyoto_Ed You don't "sort of have to take his word for it"; there's no independent, reliable corroboration of this at all. It sounds just like the French version of Lady Hope's lies about Darwin.
Camus definitely struggled with these questions, his philosophy is pretty shallow, can hardly provide any meaning at all and it is a wonder it's so appealing to modern audiences (or maybe no wonder at all, since absurdism is perfect for people with a penchant for simple, mediocre answers.
Absolutely beautiful.
This video is a masterpiece in disguise, thank you🤟🏽❤️
This video feels a bit hopeless and acceptance of that hopelessness. I wonder if that is the function of humanity. To hope when there is no hope left.
Life without God inevitably becomes hopeless
And a young, Max, Von Sydow, too!
Brilliant! Thank you for your video essay, delicate edit work and beautiful interpretation 🙏
amazing analysis, nice job
One of the greatest youtube videos of all time
Life has meaning. All one has to do is glance into the eyes of their loved ones, their children, and God willing grandchildren's eyes. That is the meaning of life, and its greatest reward and satisfaction. Life isn't a problem to be solved, it's a gift to be enjoyed.
Very good narration.. Your voice brother is exceptional and suits the type of content..keep going
Thanks for this video, that was brilliant and thought provoking. Subbed.
If money were not the motivation we would not have been here
Money is meaningless if you are loveless.
Just one scene, we understand
What this movie film meaning really great movie
I like the idea the answer is always simple, that we as people make things more complicated than they need to be
Life actually is a problem... not to be solved but to be ab-solved. Once absolute absolution is attained, one disappears, and Life with it.
Very well put. Curious, do you believe in life after death? Reincarnation? Heaven? Field of Reeds?
Spend as much time with your family, friends and outside in beautiful places... That is as good as it gets...
What if you don't like your family or other people, or to be outside?
That was a very fine video, bravo !
One missing element, I would say, in this analysis, is the fate of the performer/artist, his wife and their baby. He had visions of the virgin Mary and remained faithful, but also simply did not despair the way the knight did. There is something beautiful in the splitting of their paths where, in the storm towards the end in which death approaches, he and his wife are separated from the group. In this moment they are saved, unwittingly. I love how this is never fully explained. Yet it remains the other side of the coin of the fate of the other characters.
There's an insulated sense of priviledge in people who form ideas about existence and fate. They smoke, they read, they discuss among peers. They absorb life from the privacy of their perspective window, without the affect of others that govern their daily lives.
"Have you read the Greek Tragedies?" they begin. Another bottle of Brandy is uncorked.
Meanwhile, in some bayou, a 40year old alligator, whose evolution has not changed in millions of years, considers the comfort of the cooling algae on it's back after a large meal. It is content after the suffering of another's demise at his teeth. This is because in it's view, suffering does not exist. He doesn't feel the need to write his expressions down or interpret life and death. Tomorrow he could be the leather on a man's boots, or torn asunder by a new bully on the block. In about a week's time, the corpuscular remnants of a wild dog will be expelled from it's arse. Or a small child, it doesn't matter to him. Creatures outlive their life span just by being, not contemplating with quandary or question.
Along comes Us, in the most recent phase of it's lengthy existence and suddenly everything is a trial; a paradox; a tragedy; a best-selling-novel or movie. Us - as the bench-mark to it's indifferent, era-spanning existence. Along came Albert with his cigarettes and cheap brandy. Along went Albert Camus with nothing more than absurdity.
"It is content after the suffering of another's demise..."
Is it not the perview of Man to contemplate the adventageous path forwards; is it not in our own capabilities, the momentary truth, that superceids all others, through which actualization occurs? To debate the natural essence of living to death, can only be done so by those whom have surpassed dying by unnatural means: Wouldn't it take the privilaged perspective of 'the undying' to provide adequate answers in the endless face of death? Be it an alligator, of reptillian mind, or an ape, of sapien standing, is it not the contentment of suffering that demonstrates the nature of a satisfactory life?
Knowing what is due to us all, is not the issue; knowing what to do with your capabilities, in the face of abject dissoultuion is the question, and a sound answer has yet to be found.
@@zacharybennett3249 Albert Camus, in his contemplation of existence, posits happiness as a form of rebellion against the inherent absurdity that permeates life. He views life as an enigmatic paradox, a realm where absolutes are illusory and those who assert their existence are merely a question away from confronting their inherent contradictions. This perspective encourages a stoic embrace of the absurd, suggesting that in the recognition of life’s inherent lack of meaning, one can find the freedom to create their own meaning-a defiant joy in the face of existential ambiguity.
Imagine believing in macroevolution
What makes life living is us 😊
-we give life a meaning ,
So … it is up to us .
❤❤❤
What if you have no meaning. How can something meaningless give meaning.
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You just resumed the shallow, self-defeating dead end of existencialist and absurdist "philosophy".