One Thought Can Change You Forever
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After stumbling across a TH-cam video, a young man suddenly finds himself thinking and seeing differently. In a chain of events, this thought then leads to a sequence of new thoughts and discoveries, which he can't seem to find his way out of.
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Does anyone else have moments where you see yourself in the mirror and you realise you are you. Like a strange distance is created between your consciousness and your material body/mind. I sometimes have these moments and they are interesting to say the least. It's like an intermission between one part of a play and another.
Ayy bruv. Just this day i saw myself in the mirror and thought “holy shit that’s me”
omg, I have been trying to explain this feeling to my mother but wasn't able to find the right words. Now I can! thanks. For me this phenomenon becomes more evident when I am doing something that does not resonate with what I want. like this damn internship I have gotten stuck with till May.
One day I suddenly had this moment where I stared into the mirror and saw a girl with deep dark circles, a frown, and herself screaming internally that 'I wish I had caught a fever...then I would not have to work today...' I looked at her and was like this is not me. This isn't what I was looking for when I decided to take up the internship. I thought I would learn stuff, feel joy; but I am just stuck making things that others have already planned out without using my own head. I feel like a laborer instead of a creative person... This isn't what I want to define me.This damn internship is not me. I am so much more. There's so much more this girl can do. And then I was out of the trance, in that moment I realised that all i need to do is do my best. Whether they like it or hate it, I don't care. I did what I liked and thought would give the best result. And there's no way in hell I will work with them after May. No way.
You should get into spirituality
Don't look into the mirror while on drugs, or do look into mirror...
@PriceisRightProperties this is cheap, you just gave zero meaning to all experiences and all interactions. you are you from the brain that operates your body and the heart that allows it to keep moving. if you aren't you, all meaning means nothing. death isn't death because then you haven't died. your child isn't your child since your aren't actually yourself. if you want to live this way then you must prepare to forgo all meaning in life since as you said. you aren't you and nothing that you think you do matters. but in reality as much as you may not think. you are your brain, you are your conscious, and you are also the sub-conscious that has already made those the decisions to effect your life. they may not be you directly but just as other things that are involuntary within the body, doesn't mean they are any less part of your body. the idea that you stated is the first step of dissociation, but if you keep looking into dissociation you will know that you are more you than anything else. you control your life, you control your actions, you control your personality, mindset, and body. the real only truth is that you cant control the world around you, but you can control you which will change where YOU are in the world.
Dog: *sniffs the ground*
Casey: *Has existential crisis*
ente ponno
I had a good laugh hahaha thanks
Just wait until he realizes that the ego itself is an illusion
@@thegrandnil764 I wouldn't say the ego is an illusion per-say. It does however blind us from the truth of our reality. Once you strip away the ego, you;'re met with an energy that has no beginning or end. I believe that same energy resides in all of us, waiting to be released from these physical bodies and back into the universe. and then....reincarnation? maybe...idk im tired
Your comment is predetermined for other TH-cam users that post comments with this format, so you had no free will over that action. but still managed to come out with something funny :)
"If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice." - Neil Peart
“I choose not to choose”. - Willow Rosenburg
From Buffy the vampire slayer.
What does that mean
@@YAYJEM it's impossible to do nothing? Idk the meaning but this is my guess
I had just thought of that song while watching! RIP Neil
These are all talks. I have been doing all this shit for year. All this philosophy falsifies itself. I would suggest that do nothing and now you will say that doing nothing is doing something. This is just an illusion created by the bullshit language. We always hold to something for a sense of security so let go and just get out of this dumb philosophical world it takes farther away from truth which is ultimately you.
I've come to a realization. If you think about something for long enough, it can become a paradox.
hello mine turtle
@Udruga Mladih UMNO how
@Udruga Mladih UMNO sometimes i think about how i don't have anything to think about
Sometimes I think thinking is a luxury too as many people can't afford it. Or rather the circumstances in which they find themselves, they can't afford to think
Happened to me too
"You have already made the choice. You are here to discover why you made it."
-Somebody
The Oracle from Matrix Reloaded
i have? fuck i blew it
Woh! That was nice.
This doesn't make any sense
@Tomek
Beat me to that comment bro, nice!
The most freeing words: "oh well".
and ''it is what it iiiiis''
That’s what wisdom is, not knowing or understanding or even finding and not finding meaning but still trying to find the good in it. That’s why “it is what it is” is one of the greatest quotes of the decade
in germany in bavaria we say: : "ja mai"
Que sera sera...
My version is: "anyway" then proceeds to what I was doing at the moment. 😄
Things start to lose their meaning when you think about them hard enough.
Nothing is all that exciting anymore.
Like a plothole? Cuz I get pissed at myself for thinking too much about it that it ruins the mood
I agree. ‘Nothing’ is the most fascinating thing I could ever imagine.
@@hamish518 everyone has differently wired brains so you can’t exactly blame a person for being sad.
@@hamish518 if you need the threat of hell to make you a good person then you never really were one.
@@hamish518 lol ok
"Maybe it's time you stopped asking questions and started having Fun"
-A certain talking Cat
Rick and morty
Exactly! Hey.. how long does it take you to drive to Florida?
Can't agree more😢
hi loki.
asking questions can be fun
"So why are you ordering this fish that you don't like?"
Casey: *INHALES* Well a week ago I watched a TH-cam video and-
this gave me a good laugh
Thought the same thing.
Thanos HAHAHHAHAHAA ok this one’s good
🤣🤣
Waiter, could I get a fork, please? -snaps fingers- oh sh....
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde
I hope the irony of you quoting this doesn't escape you :)
Does it even matter?
@@jorispelder8333 haha lol
In an angle, we' all are programmed
What a boring way to live...FREEDOM
"inevitably, he sounded pretty crazy"
How my every attempt at meaningful conversation goes.
The best part about the coinflip, aside from it completely lacking free will, is that even the outcome of the coin toss is not at all random, It's determined by weight, rotation, air resistance, etc. Random only exists down at the quantum level. But even those random outcomes may only seem random to us at this point of our understanding of it.
I hate to say it but people don’t speak there subconscious thinking so that’s prolly why
@@Angelodaprophet Those cursed with the knowledge of our self are doomed to be divided from those in blissful ignorance.
@@Kazuma11290 it’s for the best
@@Angelodaprophet That's the thing - it may cause extra pain but an unexamined life is not worth living.
@@Jimmy1982Playlists all comes about at once by death bed or interrogation
The meaning of life is what you find meaningful. If you want your life to have a purpose, you must place the purpose yourself. This is the real beauty of life.
Woah 😳
And this is why several people are still miserable. Because it is a purpose or meaning you created, the only laws that hold it together are the laws you created for it, and these laws are torn apart by flaws and paradoxes like perspective. If the purpose was objective, the laws would've been created by an outside force not determined by you, therefore it would not have any paradoxes. However, your comment was a good take on what life truly is about.
One of the best comments here. Also,Viktor Frankl touched on the analog,that if we can assign a purpose to suffering,we can bear almost anything. True evil is pointless suffering.
Say more. I like listening wrong things more than right things.
if a system has rule then it is stimulated . it applies to our universe too...... the formula is {0 = +x-x+0...}. if the system follows the law then the smaller system inside the system too follows that law...
"Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills."
- Schopenhauer
Man can choose as he wants but cannot choose the will of his want.
Which book?
@Marcos Oliveira - Vídeos sérios Thanks mate
@Jack Clayton Thanks mate for the caveat/wisdom...i appreciate that 🙏🏼👍
Man only knows what he has been shown... Free will? Huge city earth.. but only a one way street for most.. nothing but what's been shown is for u... It's beautiful
"The only bad thing that can be done is taking it too seriously" - Alan Watts
But if you don't take things seriously, how are you supposed to experience the fullness of life? There are certain feelings and intellectual apparitions that only emerge after being very seriously involved in something. Some degree of seriousness is always needed to avoid apathy.
I do think the quote is applicable on loads of things that people tend to get too involved in though, games, work and sport for instance.
@@markusbredberg That's why he said too seriously
@@markusbredberg experience life for what?
@@aurelius7274 Yeah, I know. I just tried to give my interpretation of what that "too" meant. Difficult to know from just one sentence, I think
@@zacharythomas1820 I'm sorry. I don't get the question.
It's like he puts thoughts I've had into words perfectly.
Its a basic summery of the philosophical debate around this topic. You aren't alone with your thoughts
We are all Sisyphus, pushing our stones up the mountains of our lives against the absurdity of the universe.
NEVER REGRET A DAY IN YOUR LIFE:
Good days give happiness
Bad days give experiences
Worst days give lessons
And Best days gives memories
I spent 10 years depressed and I learned its better to not be depressed, here's to the next 10 years of bullshit.
oh so thats why i dont have any memory of my life
How about the tired or sick days? And if your worst day gave you a lesson than it actually wasn't that bad, real worst days are pointless.
I love this idea!
What an innocent mind you have, you've never really suffered then. Lucky guy! Keep that vibe :)
Casey's face when he'd realized that all events were predetermined:
👁👄👁
@@aidandarlow8991 maybe in a sense it is still predetermined? I mean, it is not in our digression to choose how it ends. In fact if we were to choose, we would want it to not end.
We can’t really control how it ends as we don’t really know how it will end, therefore maybe all the seemingly normal things that we do now might eventually contribute to the ending of the world and we would be completely oblivious to it. It is not in our will truly as no one could have told us not to do it, it would be like “ah, well the past humans did this and this and we can’t do anything about it anymore and the world is ending.” Things before May lead to things now, that may contribute to things that will happen in the future which includes the ending of the world.
unanswerable
Ain’t James Reid a celebrity tho
@@archeabacteria2365 /
@Vance Smith it's very much not arguable.
“Why there are so many quotes in cmt section”- me
They think they understand it but most of them don't :D
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HAHHAHAHAH
Guess there’re multiple reasons for this - some are (combine them with or or and):
1. Cause they can’t come up with sth originell themselves either cause they are too lazy to turn on their own mind or the latter hasn’t the capacity for out of the box thinking.
2. They think they understood e.g. Schopenhauer by just understanding one quote of him and are proud of themselves and want to share this positive emotion with the rest of us.
3. They want to show the rest of us that they can quote big thinkers and are literate.
4. They don’t just understand one quote of a big thinker but actually could comprehend a full work of him and want to make it easier to the rest of us cause they think we’re dumber than them.
5. They have read a quote from the guy of point 4. in a comment section like this and repeat the quote in the same or another comment section to impress us cause they think we’re as dumb as them.
@@goodpuss Rather people who think they are
Casey’s friend: “But technically, didn’t you still did what you wanted?”
Casey: ... fuck!
Me: *wheezing a storm*
That's why at this point, knowing there is or isn't free will in the universe just isn't necessary. Even if I know free will doesn't exist, I just stopped giving a fuck about it
same lmaooo I kept dying thoughout this whole thing
@@ghostagent3552 does this work? does it ever come back up and you just have to remind yourself it doesn’t matter? cause i need to convince myself that it doesn’t matter but at the moment it’s extremely difficult
@@nessquik1645 Everything is predetermined, even me writing this comment. Just because everything is predetermined does not mean you have to fall into a pit of depression. Imagine your ideal future. Maybe in that ideal future, you're a famous movie director or something, I don't know. If anything is possible, and everything is predetermined, isn't there a chance that your ideal future will play out? That by reading this comment, this outside source of motivation from me, the neurons in your brain will make a decision (that seems like free will to you), to start achieving your ideal future. You're just sitting at the wheel, not driving, but you're in a self-driving car that can make decisions and choices. The driverless car that you are in can be spurred into a new course of action by seemingly random road signs and obstacles in front of it. Outside stimuli can change its course of action, and maybe by missing the turn it was trying to make, it will lead to another location, completely unexpected, and maybe even better than where it was trying to go? These seemingly random, unexpected events, but technically predetermined (like this comment), can change our courses of action. Maybe this comment is the external stimulus you need for your brain to start achieving its goals. I hope this helped. Think about it. If you need more explaining, just let me know.
@@nessquik1645 has it gone away yet?
Casey's boss: "why didn't you come to work for past 2 days? You didn't even send a notice?"
Casey: I was staring at a wall...
Lmao😂
"I thought i wanted to come to work but then i realized that I didn't want to want to come to work, but that it was only you who wanted me to come to work. So I decided to work on changing your want for me to come to work and now I'm working on wanting to believe that you don't want me to come to work, but that you still want to pay me for it anyway...
Did it work?"
@@leighatkins22 you're promoted Casey, promoted to a customer.
@@Thanos-hp1mw Awwwww... 😆😅🤣
@@leighatkins22 yeah
The quest for meaning has led many people to insanity, and, especially if you have an over-analytical brain, you can fall easily into the trap of obsession.
Don't let the absurdity of this world consume you. Smile, laugh at it, be strong and enjoy every aspect of the ride.
I always think to those thoughts: Who cares if reality has no meaning? I just want to live now and that’s all that matters
after many years of being stuck in these thoughts, I have finally come to accept every aspect of reality and I stopped overthinking and questioning everything. Now I live under the rule: Life is a joke, so dont take it too seriously... :)
@@ruohonleikkaaja completely agree, which is why “it is what it is” is the best quote of the century
yeah im 16 and i think a lot of this especially in class, its honestly depressing knowing that i dont have free will but i guess you just have to try to make the best of it and enjoy life and accept
I go back and forth like a seesaw between these 2 ways of thinking, living. With all the bad going on now, trying to grab every chance I get to do something fun, forget the BS, get busy living and be grateful for every good thing.
It feels so nice to watch this video having already had, and beaten, this particular flavour of existential crisis.
I hope to find that freedom too eventually
Flavour🤣
My exact thought while watching this 😀
how'd you do it? i'm struggling after complex trauma
@@Sylar-451 Well the thinking that there's some separate observer who can predict everything you'll do is wrong. Nothing exists outside of existence obviously. We all form part of it. If some hypothetical thing interacts with something else it must too exist and thus be part of existence also. At some level we're not predictable as there can't be anything with sufficient knowledge to. Consider free will as a useful illusion then don't worry about it any more.
When I zone out and people ask me what I’m thinking about and I say no or I’m thinking about what I wanna have for lunch this is what im actually thinking about
One thought can be sufficient to torment you for your whole life. Such is a thought, such is the mind, and such is life.
It does not have to torment you though. Our attachments cause suffering. Let go of attachment, let go of suffering and torment.
@@cwcpants140 you obviously don’t understand then if that’s your response
Not true. You can accept not knowing. This video also does not even mention quantum fluctuations which CAN be interpreted through the Copenhagen interpretation as random and therefore not deterministic while the physics of the coin flip could be thought of as determined if given enough info.
@@cwcpants140 well the suffering isnt out of attachments though. You might think that's a profound statement but it's not applicable here
@@wren4077 No it's not applicable to this particular video, but it is true generally. We do create most of our own suffering imo.
Plot twist: Casey soon realised that he was figment of writer's imagination, who existed only till the story lasted.
And now he exists in the mind of over half a million people around the world.
Just like any of us ?? 🥲
"The only thing he now had was a meal he didn't want."
Great line.
I can relate so much to him. The string of questions keeps bothering me every day and every night I fall into an existential crisis. Sometimes I wish I could turn off my brain and focus on the moment instead of pondering over the questions that have no answers. It's depressing.
Been going through all of this for about a year. Just keep chugging along. It doesn’t get less confusing but I’m gradually relearning how to just enjoy the feeling of sun and rain on my skin, dancing to a good song when I feel like vibing, laughing when my dogs do funny stuff. In a way it’s better now because I appreciate it all more. It’s been rather uncomfortable coming to grips with the fact that I’m a more or less brain in a vat constantly reacting to whatever my current surroundings are.... but the key for me has been to save the introspection for when I’m alone late at night and the rest of the time just LIVE and not think too much.
Overdramatic. Just fking enjoy whatever make u feel good. Like warm water? Drink warm water. Like cold air? Turn on air conditioner. Just do whatevrr the fk that make u feel good.
Not that complicate.
I once gone through that but it only took me 1day to realize that even if it all a destiny, it doesnt really change anything because we dont know what is going to happen. A surprise is still a surprise to us, a good or bad news is still a good or bad news to us. All it take is stop being overdramatic and understand that life is all about having fun and nothing else.
@@prumchhangsreng979 I'm glad you found what works for you.
@@prumchhangsreng979 because everyone is one and the same and so are their problems and as are their solutions? Then why are there so many different characters in this drama, why is not everyone the same? And if everyone is the same then are they equal parts of the sum or their dissimilarity makes them unequal?
I've finally found the root to my sadness. I'm 15, and potentially have a lot of life left. I should really get over these thoughts.
"The search for reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings for it destroys the world in which you live."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
True. But Truth is dangerous only to illusions. Here is the one thought that WILL change you forever: "Do I desire Truth...or do I desire Truth to be what-I-desire-Truth-to-be?" But this thought will only change you if and when you have evolved to the point that you are honest with yourself, and you are indeed ready to try and desire Truth without prejudice. You will experience lifetime after lifetime in this world until you reach that point. A teacher and prophet of God has spoken.
@@tomrhodes1629 Christianity and Buddhism can meet unlike google proclaims.
It's the beholder... U c wat ur allowed... What ur shown... Illusions on illusions... Onion skins... Ur loose ur mind if u get to close... It's beautiful
Because it hurts when you are suffering and trying to figure out what the truth is but it would feel really good to just let go. However letting go means that you go back to being unknowledgeable so you might go back to searching the truth randomly again which is okay because it would be boring to stay in the same place forever. This is just my idea of it and it might be different for others.
@Phaedrus Smith "In order to be born, you must destroy a world." -character from the herman hesse novel "Demian".
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
-Albert Einstein
Then there's no reality, reality is an illusion
nah misquoter, you are the illusion, reality is real.
That's wrong. In order to say something is an illusion then there must be something that is not an illusion, otherwise the words "illusion" and "reality" become synonyms, and then to say something is an illusion would convey no meaning. If reality is an illusion then illusion is reality and we can simply abandon the word illusion since it conveys no additional information.
@Marko Bubich Suppose everyone everywhere looks on a wall and sees a circle. Everyone everywhere says the reality is circle. You are like the one that says, no, the actual reality is a triangle or square, there's just no way to detect it or prove it to be true or know which one it is. On the flip side, everyone can detect the circle with their own natural sensors that respond to natural stimuli out of their control. People didn't choose to see circle, yet they all agree that that is what they see. If there is no way to know that behind the circle is actually a triangle then how can triangle be reality? It is real to whom?
True
This has always seemed pretty obvious to me. I've always thought about things deeply, but I always thought everyone thought that deeply, but recently I've been finding out that not many people out there thinks like this.
I recently found this exact same thing out. My mind was blown.
I don’t think like this that much because there’s no point
@@tekashisun585 my brother said the same thing. But I think questioning things and creating your own perspective is important. That way, I wouldn't be ignorant. I hate being ignorant about myself, other people and the world around me. So I try to reach the furthest conclusion I can.
@@tekashisun585 but how tho..my brain physically cannot grasps people who don’t question EVERYTHING
You’ve been valadated
I went through an extremely similar experience in 8th grade. I was really into math at the time, and had self-assigned myself the problem of dividing by zero. Now, there are a lot of jokes about dividing by zero, and often times the flat-out answer of "you can't," but I seriously and legitimately threw myself into it using every tool I had at my disposal. Then, one day while I was heading home on the bus, I did it. I had spent such a degree of effort rearranging formulas and dissecting concepts and visualising the math that I began hallucinating, having visions of limits and singularities in the fabric of existence. In addition, I realized simultaneously just how constructed and arbitrary all these concepts are, not just of math but of human ideas and language: that there is no universal truth, that everything we know and are is just an arbitrary, tremendously complex construct formed over millions of years. The experience was so intense I ended up walking home in a daze. I lost all willpower and motivation, and essentially operated on habits and preprogrammed survival instincts until my mind basically rebooted and I came up with a new philosophy for living.
Nowadays, I can say that that experience ended up contributing greatly to my interest in philosophy, psychology, and artificial intelligence. In addition, I have a much simpler perspective on life now, directly evaluating and choosing things in life that I evaulate will be most fulfilling.
*tl;dr* In 8th grade I threw myself into a math problem so hard I ended up deconstructing reality and had an existential crisis where I lost all will to live, but eventually came out of it a changed person.
I still amazes how a math problem could just change someone's outlook
wow
Did you manage to understand the meaning of dividing by zero?
damn bruh this was a wild read
cool
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
It’s my first day sober. I could no longer live like that, in such misery. That’s a great quote.
@@mgal6234 Good luck on your journey onwards ♥
@@udkc 🙏🏼❤️
@@mgal6234 I remember that first day...I could no longer live in that misery either. 6 years later I realize it was the best decision I've ever made. I hated that misery and myself...not anymore. You've got this!
@@pagehed Hey, thank you. I needed that this morning! I am sober but terrified...I don’t know if that’s normal? My withdrawals physically have mostly subsided because I weaned off wine and Vicodin, so yesterday was my first day in a decade with no emotional crutch. I feel bored and afraid, but it’s better than how I was living. Anything is better than that. Congratulations and stay well my friend. 💕
"Good afternoon, good evening and goodnight"
- Truman
Smile. We're on Candid Camera.
I just watched that movie not too long ago. Great movie.
Hey, what does it mean? Please Explain....
@@govinddwivedi582 watch the Truman show with Jim carry as star actor
Then Casey watched a video about quantum uncertainty and realized the universe isn't an unbroken chain of cause and effect but a probabilistic mess. This still didn't prove he had free will. It just removed the comforting notion of certainty and replaced it with the discomfort of not really being able to know anything for certain.
exactly, you are another that has achieved a higher understanding of life.
Isn't it obvious that everything is a result of a probability?
What explains this statement better is imagine you press a button on a computer to generate a value between 1 and 2. There is no way that any predetermined factors can affect it. Or the logic that when you drink milk, you get stronger. Logically, it would make sense that drinking it would help but what if the atomic particles of the milk go in a different cell in the body and cause damage instead. In other words, atoms are not 100 percent accurate and something of a very low probability can still happen. Like John used to drink milk all his life but that one day he did, he got a disease or something because of it
Me having fun pittong philosphers and scientists against one another.
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it Fate."
- Carl Jung
I stole this, I hope you don't mind, it is exactly how I think. thank you.
Well said man, well said!
yeah dude
@@22lilacsky wow
unconscious or conscious; what directs your life are *wants* that you have no control over.
Plot twist: Casey didn't want to want his desire to want what he wanted when he decided he wanted to stop wanting everything.
EXACTLY!!!
That moment when u moment when u smoke and the blunt that smoke when u moment smoke that moment blunt when u moment
@@sellitdontsmokeit2864 do you need medical help?
Exactly. but he simply stopped caring. he knew he had no free will and now he accepted that.
@@sellitdontsmokeit2864 I literally cannot stop laughing at how bizarre your comment is
to give up on life is like throwing out a game because we lose sometimes. as if the game would be worth playing if we already knew we'd win
pessimism video refference 👍
What is this supposed prize you think we win?
Sounds logical but still, we're all gonna lose eventually. And not everyone has a great time playing, life's not a fun game.
@@whinda4702 embracing what comes and enjoying life till the end would be a win imo
@@chronicallyalive life's not fair, we didn't ask to participate in this game but we are playing none the less. so at least we could do is enjoy the game and not worry about how fast we progress. play at your own pace
For me, having realized just that a few years ago, it felt like the heaviest burden was lifted from my shoulders - while it is not freedom in our general understanding, to me living in this illusionary real world feels like the greatest gift of absolute freedom in itself. Not having a free will is so reassuring, it got me to pursue happiness for myself, to live my life however I felt like.
This truly is my fondest realization
Beautiful. This sums up thoughts I’ve had for years. Whether life is predetermined or not, it doesn’t matter; I am fortunate enough to be able to choose my outlook in life, and I choose to enjoy it, and to spread that joy.
Carl Jung said, “If you do not make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it destiny.”
We do not have control over our past or desires, but we do have willpower. We can choose to do anything. Random or meaningful things. We do not have control over what is meaningful to us, but there is no sense in acting randomly either. I think we should pick and choose from our desires who we want to be as often as we can. I think the best example of this is selfless service or sacrifice.
I wanted to figure out the thought that lead the protagonist to waste his time. And I thought I wasted my time till I stumbled upon this comment. Thank you Bryan.
how much willpower you have is decided by your memeories, experiences and genetics. how much you can fight against your instincts is also determined, what decisions you end up making, even on what desires to act on, are still determined.
the vids still right on just enjoying the ride though
@@sora5982 Thank you for your comment! I had hoped somebody would mention this.
It is of course true that at any point in time there is an unbroken chain of causality leading up to that point, that is only logical. I don’t think this means your next move is predetermined by your past though. Yes, even our amount of willpower is predetermined by our past. But what about once you have it? Aren’t you absolutely, scarily free to do anything? Maybe some are predestined to “wake up” to their startling degree of freedom and others not through the factors you mentioned. It is probably true that most people who think they have free will have the least control over their desires and are the most predictable.
@@vresnuil it does mean your next move is predetermined. think about the reason you made any decision and you'll notice a lot of moving parts in the background all influenced by the past. whether or not you had the willpower to act in the way you did, what choice you make if you DO have the willpower is also determined by what you like. your line of thinking is already in the video, where the guy tries ordering something he doesnt want in order to fight against his desires.
I have almost succeeded in slaying all my instincts and desires in an attempt to be free of determinism. And I am pretty much at “sat doing nothing but stare at walls stage” I think I’ll go follow any feeling I have to it’s conclusion from now on, I have to or I’m already dead
"The answer is don't think about it."
- Rick Sanchez
The answer is...
Alan watts gang knows what im talking about, up-high!
trueeeeee
Its a good answer, but the answer was no answer.
No thanks.
"I'm not a sheep, I'm a pickle... when I want to be." - Pickle Rick
‘A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings’ -Sam Harris
If he has strings he's not free. So he's happy he's not free.
@@theintrovertedaspie9095 Hense the illusion of free will
@@wuziwu8148 Theres no illusion. Your either free or your not. If your happy your not free or if you accept it, that doesn't change or lessen the fact that your not free.
@@wuziwu8148Your opinions don't change facts. Yes, they affect the outlook on them but facts are still facts. And the fact is the puppet is not free. It may not bother him but he is still not free nonetheless.
@@theintrovertedaspie9095 that’s why free will is an illusion. We aren’t free, but if we believe in free will it gives the illusion of freedom even though there is none. Freedom is an illusion.
it's eerie how every video of this channel I stumble upon manages to be that one video I need at the moment. Thank you for this, this helped a lot
When I was 14, I essentially lived this video.
Growing up, my parents talked about god and heaven, but we were never religious or church-goers. I went to a school that was not a religious or catholic school, but we sung hymns every day. Growing up, throughout all my years, I was surrounded by talk of the Bible, God, Jesus and heaven and hell. I wasn't super religious and didn't go to church and pray, but I accepted that there was a god and there was a heaven and hell. I believed that if you were a good person, you went to heaven. If you were bad, you went to hell. If you were both, you waited in purgatory for a decision to be made. I never really questioned it. I never really asked the obvious questions - what's good and what's bad? I just accepted it as it was always something I'd known.
When I was 11, a friend of mine got in an accident and had a near-death experience. He saw the tunnel and the light at the end of the tunnel and then he felt like he was floating upwards towards something big and something really great, before being brought back. This was all the more reason for me to believe in an afterlife.
Everything changed on Christmas Day 2011, over Christmas dinner. We had my grandparents round, and one of them was 90 years old and was talking about how he almost died storming Normandy Beach on D-Day, but God knew it wasn't his time yet and let him live. We then started talking about the afterlife and heaven and God. That's when my sister chimed in. "I don't believe in any of it", she said. I had never known anyone NOT believe in an afterlife. "All that light at the end of the tunnel, it's all an illusion created by the dying brain releasing chemicals. When you die, you die. That's it. Nothing. You disappear, you cease to exist, back to the way you were before you were born".
And that's when absolutely everything changed. My sister's explanation.... I knew. I knew INSTANTLY that she was right. It just... of course! It felt so intuitive and correct and made so much sense........ but it is NOT what I wanted to believe, and it's NOT what I had grown up believing, and I found the idea of disappearing wholly depressing. I was very much unwilling to accept it. 14 years, my entire life's belief system about what happens when we die, tossed out the window in one short conversation. I knew in my deepest of hearts that she was right. But I was unwilling to accept it. I did not want to accept that we just disappeared and our time on Earth was all we had. I couldn't accept it.
That night, I lay in bed all night, just thinking about what it's like to just... cease to be. To lie in a hospital bed and disappear. How when we died, there was NO heaven. We were dead. I was never afraid of dying before this, because I believed I'd live on in heaven. But suddenly, that was gone. Just like that. I lay there, a terror unlike any I'd experienced before or since, and had the biggest existential crisis of my life. I realised like the tooth fairy and santa claus, the afterlife was just another lie I'd been told as a kid, to make me not be afraid of dying.
I was HORRIFIED. It was ALL I could think about for the next few days. Weeks. All the time, all day every day all I could think was dying and what comes after, if anything.
Eventually, I tried to refute it. I tried to find evidence that my sister was wrong and there was, in fact, an afterlife. I was not able to let that belief go. I found stories, watched videos, read books of anecdotes of people dying and going to heaven. I read "Heaven is for Real", and did everything to convince myself heaven and hell existed. But with this came a whole NEW load of fears. The Bible, and the internet, stated being a good person was not enough to go to heaven. I needed to believe in Jesus as our saviour. I spent many sleepless nights just lying in my bed, so afraid I couldn't move, just absolutely terrified of ceasing to exist or going to hell.
And then I became a full-blown Christian.
I started going to Church. I started going to Bible studies. I started going to religious groups. And I felt so much better in doing so. I felt safe again, I felt I was no longer going to sink into oblivion and cease to exist someday. This heaven place WAS real all along and my sister was wrong. I was willing to do ANYTHING to prove my sister wrong. It was April 2012 by now, and it was still on my mind all the time. Not 10 minutes went by where I didn't think of what came after.
By August 2012, I was still constantly thinking about the dying process and where I was going to go when I died. I was still attending church and still trying to prove that my sister was wrong. ANYTHING to cling onto the belief of an afterlife. When September came around and the next school year started, I actually really enjoyed Religion and Philosophy.
But..... I also got into science.
I was lying to myself this whole time and I knew it. I did not believe in Jesus as our saviour (come at me, evangelists!) and I had been lying to myself the whole time. I knew, deep deep down, even on December 25th 2011, that I believed my sister's explanation and my entire beliefs about religion and the afterlife had changed in one conversation. I just couldn't accept it yet. I knew all along I wasn't a Christian at heart and didn't really believe the anecdotes - I was just trying ANYTHING to still believe in the afterlife. But I knew all along there was a logical and scientific explanation to almost all these anecdotes that didn't involve any divinity. I just didn't want to believe it yet.
Gradually, slowly but surely over the years, I came to accept the idea that there was no afterlife and to make the most of my time on Earth. My attitude about life changed with it. The belief that I will exist forever meant I did not make the most of my time. When I realised how limited my time truly was, aided by the sudden death of my father, I made sure to never waste a day. Make every single day count and charge any opportunity like a bull, as I never truly know when it will all end. Tomorrow is never guaranteed. Every day is precious.
My entire belief system and outlook on life changed forever, because of one brief conversation over a Christmas dinner many years ago.
"not a religious or catholic school"? "purgatory" as an option? Childhood filled with fear and guilt? I'll be a monkey's uncle if you're not catholic!
Bruh i cried. This is really me rn. Im Agnostic Atheist.
What an amazing story. You know, have you ever looked into any of the philosophy of the new age movement? I went from Christian, to this similar earth shattering realization as you. But recently I’ve begun what they call a spiritual awakening, and I’ve never felt more clear headed about existence. I know it seems out there and if you’re comfortable with your current belief system then you may not want to stray. But ask yourself these deep questions, if there is no greater conscious energy beyond us as humans in this physical reality we experience, then how did something of such order and seeming intelligence burst into existence. As if some infinite, intelligent energy breathed one hot explosion into existence in this area of reality, that proceeds to ever decrease in entropy. Every aspect of it evolving and returning back to itself (assuming we’re on a spiritual journey). All seemingly made of artistically and mathematically beautiful structures at the molecular level. And within it all, what gives rise to consciousness? Could something as simple as an explosion of random substance really randomly spark a chain reaction of events that gives rise to the undeniably abstract and beautifully bizarre fact that we are present and fully aware of said fact... If you ask me, none of this sounds far off. But understandably many don’t want to accept it. And that’s for ones own choosing.
I’ve come to believe in my mind that there is some conscious, intelligent, infinite, and beautifully perfect force/energy behind all of this. “God” if you must. Or “The creator”, “The Source”, “The Universe”, “Intelligent Infinity”. It is something that permeates everything in existence. That is connected to all of us and that connects us all through a lightning strike like dispersion of consciousness throughout infinite souls experiencing infinite different viewpoints of this sources own essence (being that of oneness, light, love) so that it may become perfect, whole, and know itself, within a timeless state, wherein it both is the cause for us, yet the result of us all at once. We’re supposedly at a turning point in our species’ evolution, wherein we’re about to wake up to this fact. Marking the second coming of Christ. You see, Jesus was simply a spiritually enlightened soul who was incarnated into human form 2000 years ago. He knew these truths. Though his message was distorted over two millennia of human beings trying to understand something that is not really a mental realization, but a spiritual one. One that transcends thought. Something that is felt and known intuitionally. Like it calls to you with an unexplainable feeling of remembrance. This along with being filtered through 2000 years of translated languages as well as various different cultures and civilizations guided by greed and a lust for power. Christianity became the exact opposite thing that Christ stood for. It became a source of fear among men, rather than a source of love, which is what aligns with the true nature of “god”. And so the second coming of Christ marks not; the return of the physical man that is Jesus, or Yeshua. But the evolution and reawakening into a Christ-like level of consciousness within us all. Wherein we understand that we are all one, and love one another unconditionally, driving us far further than we ever have in our evolution back to source through higher dimensions we can’t currently perceive with our lower level of consciousness... This, to me, makes more sense than my two previous belief systems. And has certainly brought me the most peace. I wish not to force this upon anybody but I love to entertain the ideas to people nonetheless.
@@ianmcalindon9385 if there's a creater than who created him and the one who created him who created him it's just all bug question mark
So fuck it and live life to the fullest
@@spacedex9293 You know, assuming any of what I believe is true, I guarantee there are undeniably a million things that we cannot understand or are not meant to understand about creation at our current level of consciousness. One cannot know of something if they are not conscious of it. At the end of the day all that matters is, in fact, living your life to the fullest given what you have. I think we're simply here to be, and everyone is entitled to their own perspective of it all. Certainly could never claim mine is the right one but it feels right to me and helps me live a fuller life.
I’ve a feeling that Casey watched video from Pursuits of wonder😂😂
We are Casey. Well someone is
He actually did Pursuit of wonder has a video called “You did not choose to click on this video”
@@Serpent947 😂
🤣🤣
The look on his face confirms it
I’ve felt all of this before, the choice of free will I remember being a kid and looking at my hands and raising one up and questioning did I raise this or was this just a chain of events. I was a weird kid to say the least.
Meditation is a clear answer to this riddle. I suffered from dissociation after having these thoughts for too long. I eventually started to meditate and focus on stoicism. I began to find myself in the moment, subject to my environment and not shaken by this fact. The thing is, everything that happens is going to happen, or not. You have no control over this, but you do have control over the attitude and perspective you take on life. This is where free will lies I believe. In the fact that we can choose our reaction to anything. Even the thoughts of determinism. You can be in the moment, and choose to be grateful for life, choose to appreciate this beautiful world. You choose those things, that’s free will. It’s all we have, but it’s incredibly powerful.
" i am not this body nor this mind, these are just tools , I am who is experiencing this world by these tools"
I am happy that my thought is getting famous now
@@aahwanneeraj3518 your way of thinking is quite impressive, thank you for sharing this thought
Wow!
Consciousness. Probablemente.
@@aahwanneeraj3518 Lao Tzu...
I especially appreciate how your soundtracks are able to disorient you: they lack any refrain, they're not sad nor happy,they are just what they are
@TrueNeutral EvGenius doesn't matter who composed them , I appreciate the fact that Pursuit of Wonder use them
I just discovered this channel and I am totally and completely absorbed in every video that you post, this one being no exception. This is fantastic.
this is what I'm actually going through right now, it gives me the creeps on how accurate this is. It's like this video is narrating my current experiences, sometimes I feel like I'm actually going insane
I haven't seen the video yet but I am more than sure it will be a masterpiece as always!
Me too lol
Thank you for this video, amazing work!
I just recently found this channel and wow, I had no idea how much MORE I'd be interested in things when they're told as a brilliant story. 10/10
A few months ago, I was discussing about the concept of free will and determinism with my then boyfriend, and since he was a gamer, I used the concept of video games to explain him about the juxtaposition of free will and determinism, and seeing that being used here too really got me! The only difference was, I used the concept of a video game which offers you choices atm that leads to different endings, but all of those being determined, in the grand scheme of things.
I have no idea who you are or what your name is, but you deserve to go down in history as one of the true philosophers of our time. Your work is consistently great and life-changing.
His name is Robert Pantano... I think
Yes. He is definitely on par with the best of modern thinkers no doubt.
While the presentation here is innovative and creative, the philosophy itself is as old as the ancient Greeks.
"How did you get over your crisis?"
Casey: "I played an old video game"
Honestly it worked for me when I was in high school and also I thought to myself just don't have an essential crisis, there is more important things to worry about.
@@MementoMori-kn4dh Soulsbourne by chance?
It was the matrix video game I think lol
Thank you. Please continue to make these videos. They are truly thought provocative!
I'm not sure why, but I just found myself laughing uncontrollably after the conclusion of this video. A good hearty laugh for seemingly no particular reason.
I've been made aware of this truth before, but eventually you can forget it and return to ignorance, after a while. However, I really like the relation to games that is made as the final piece of the puzzle.
I'm a new subscriber to the channel, and I quite thoroughly enjoy the story narrative you write to explain and entertain these complex philosophical and psychological concepts!
It just shows that video games are awesome.
Imagine watching this and your internet cut off at minute 15, leaving you with no answer.
“It issss what it issss” simple as that
Wow. You just described my life... Until the ending. I'm still in the phase of sitting and doing nothing, unless I necessarily need to. I can't really seem to comprehend the ending though weirdly enough, although I watched the video.
So I hope I got this right: Consciousness is knowing it’s an illusion, yet still finding a reason to playing it’s game.
Correct
The whole free will problem still bugs me because we will never know if our future actions are truly predetermined or not. Just like the video game with its predetermined programming, begins, and endings, life follows predetermined rules and always has the same beginning and ending, birth and death. However something that you didn't seem to acknowledge was that even though the video game had a predetermined structure, there are still a potentially endless ways you can play it, even if all the tasks are still the same, you can move differently, complete the tasks differently, and fail to complete the tasks differently. I feel the same thing applies to life, and it very well may be that it is all predetermined and or deterministic, but maybe, just maybe, there is something about conciousness that let's whatever conciousness is, to choose how to interact with the illusion, how to play it. What path to go down. Maybe conciousness itself is the missing piece that collapses the infinite quantum probabilities in an infinite universe into one single, determined recording of reality captured through our nervous system. Is life a video game, or a movie? At the end of the day, whether concious decisions are predetermined or not, we cannot escape the fact that when confronted with a decision, something chooses between the two, causes one outcome or another. Maybe thats just the laws of nature playing themselves out, or maybe something outside the laws of nature, not defined by them, like say conciousness, is actually what is determining those outcomes.
Our decisions are more than just nature and chemical reactions in the brain there is something more than materialistic things
This. This is it, you win.
@@cobycarranza156 without being disrespectful and it also may be that way, but still sounds like a lazy explanation.
@@cobycarranza156 Thats true, fact is there wouldn't be a "natural" or "material" or "deterministic" world if there wasn't anything to observe it. We don't live in a material world because that's not what our world is made of, its made of conscious experience. The issue with the whole do we have free will argument is that we simply have no idea what conciousness is or how it arises and what implications that has on our understanding of how the universe works on a fundamental level. A camera can record a mirror reflection of itself, but it'll never be able to record the actual mechanical process of itself recording. I feel this applies to conciousness as well, something about its nature seems to make it impossible to define itself.
@@applecromby2144 I have no idea what I've won but im glad you think I won it😂
Its amazing to think that all the things that happened in this universe lead up to you reading this exact comment, and led me to write this comment.
While you're here all I got to say is
Enjoy your life, treasure and give meaning to every experience that you went thru. Life is about the experience after all.
You could say it was destiny ; )
Sounds to past tense for me
tu lo dijiste amigo! igualmente para ti y todos!
“Don’t think about it too much, too much, too much, too much” - Drake
😊
"Casey decides to spend his time proving free will exists after being told it does not, as if he would have freely chosen to do so if he was never told that it doesn't exist."
I wish I was as innocent as Casey.
"But Blithe, the only hope you have is to accept that you're already dead"
- Band of Brothers
We are no more dead when we die
Than we were before we were born?
"You have always been in the pool!" How you got there is an other question.
Notification: Pursuit of Wonder
Me: *clicks immediately*
Sees it 4 hours before you
Clicks it
If you love philosophy i recommend "Philosophy overdose" which is sooooooooooo epic and "academy of ideas"
😊☺️😀😆😂
“Still does as he always has”. This is the solution to my woes. I’ve been trying to figure out what I want for years only because I judge the things I’ve always wanted since I was around 14. I’ve always wanted a simple life playing video games, spending time with friends and family, eating an okay diet, and spending a bit of time in nature each week.
I’ve been sucked into the hustle culture crap for years and it’s made me feel bad about being myself and my desires.
This video helped me accept it’s completely okay, healthy, even inspiring to spend my time doing the things I’ve always enjoyed.
There are times when I question whether I should “get shit done”. I’ll just remind myself this is the toxic coding of hustle culture and once I follow my true dream of a simple life for long enough those thoughts that I’m wasting my life will go away.
This video summarised my thoughts in philosophy class in high school. Took me longer than 10 minutes to get to that conclusion though. I was sad for weeks before I realised that it didn't matter how it is, that you just have to make the best of it.
Casey has way too much time on his hands lmao
Casey needs too get a job and stop living off of welfare
@@thegrandnil764 He does have a job.
LOL
Lmaaao
Who's still sitting on the couch like Casey?
I had these thoughts as a teen and shared them with people around me and they all told me I'm crazy for thinking that way
can relate to that.
I just put some Alan Watts on over some chill music. Most people don't have anything sensible to say anyway, they just talk lol.
This is what my life has been like since day 1. It's the life of an indecisive deep thinker in a world full of perfectionists
Don't act as if you were special because you figured out some basic philosophical concepts. Seriously, your comment sounds pretty arrogant.
@@Cookiekeks lol did I say I was special? We're all human, humans are all created equal but are different in their own respective ways. we are all scum of the earth.
@@javantgarde you said you are a indecisive deep thinker and all people around you are perfectionists. Lots of self praise here
@@Cookiekeks it's not all sunshine and rainbows. I didn't ask for your approval or two cents either. Fuck off with that negativity
Not having free will made me feel way lighter about important decisions and kinda of took out all the pression
Yeah....having to choose everything is a tedious task.
That's why instincts and subconscious exist, so that our brain won't get tired doibg all the stuff.
Your videos have brought me to tears so many times.. they contain the exact words I need to hear. This year has been really hard, but also one full of experiences I’ll never forget. Thank you for this reminder
This channel has helped me heal and make my brain search for wisdom
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities” [Voitaire]. Evil comes from the abuse of free will 🖖
*Voltaire ✔
Quotes are nothing but oversimplification. You can't fit every single possible occurrence into a single sentence. It might be true in some case but completely ridiculous for the other.
@@hello123s to me it is quite funny, that what you just said there also reflects on itself. Because there are still sentences containing information that is always true.
Those who can make you believe a man with a wig is a woman no question, can make women kill their own babys
@@juanjosesanchez3302 well, no. There is always a chance that when killing their own baby they start thinking about it and and that then they have a enlightenment of sorts. It is possible that he only was able to convince them it was a woman because those people might not have thought it of much importance and simply agreed. Also the addressing to what person in your comment is quite confusing.
Great story. Even if life is predetermined, it is indeed irrelevant to your experience in life. There is still the illusion of choice and joy.
All your videos both terrify me and comfort me
Sometimes I wonder how much IQ/knowledge it takes to make such a video. I can't even begin to think like this forget about putting it in a though provoking and meaningful manner. The idea of randomness and determinism of Universe has bothered me for a while now. It just so happened to be when I felt ill and was depressed. When times are good you don't think, you just act. But bad times teaches you to stop, think and care for yourself and beings around you. I hope everyone who goes through rough times comes out a stronger and better person and weaker and bitter one unlike me.
The crazy part about nature and the universe in general is that it is random and chaotic and ever-changing, and the only way we can explain any of the randomness is through fractals. Even though everything is random, if we look at the universe through fractals we start to see patterns and make sense of it. We see it on earth all the time, but we also see it in galaxies and star placement. And if you think about it, humans operate on a basic function of fractals too; constantly being faced with choices, a path branching off in two directions that branches off again that branches off again and so on. So we’re not so different from nature. In my opinion, the chaos of the universe doesn’t need to be understood. We’re living in this crazy ever-changing landscape and our only real purpose is to experience as much of it as we can while we’re on this rock.
You just have to try. Probably the first one will be really bad. But what you do? You try again. You study. You turn big open problems into small achievable ones. You do it. Again. And again.
And when you notice, you will still think that whay you are doing is bad, but you will be in the middle of what you wanted to be.
I love these videos. But I didn't have a choice anyways- I was predetermined to like them.
@Pablo Slalom yes. everything being determined, you are essentially on a ride you have no control over. enjog the ride, because what else are you gonna do? fight it?
@Pablo Slalom You might want to speak to a professional about how you're feeling. But determinism does not say that you have to continue to be depressed - you'll never know what will happen until it happens. Do your best to enjoy the ride and stay safe!
@@sora5982 Lol the idea that everything is determined is absurd, and the idea that everything is not determined. In fact, I would say ideas themselves are absurd.
@@thegrandnil764 so be it then, reality is absurd.
the idea itself sounds wild and theoretical at first but if you think about its very intuitive and basic.
@@sora5982 if you dont think about it life is also intuitive and basic as well.
You guys are grasping at nothing but illusions in your mind.
Thanks man! Your videos just give me the best kind of existential crisis which makes it somewhat easy to navigate through life having some insight on it :)
Thank you for the video! That was the missing piece in my crisis. Thank you!
The amount of effort..THE AMOUNT OF EFFORT that my guy puts in these videos is unimaginable..thank you so much ❤️
There's a lot of self-improvement channels on TH-cam that follow along the trend of self-improvement that trails through the rise of industrialization and capitalism. This concept of self-improvement for the sole purpose of becoming more successful is one of the most toxic and damaging things I have experienced that breeds guilt and self-hatred in people who are already prone to these things, as they try to follow regiments that they don't understand and don't need. Toxic, addictive self-improvement relies on diminished self-compassion and fighting against what it is to be just a clump of atoms on planet Earth.
THIS channel, however, follows along the kind of self-improvement that I feel DOES work and DOES good for you. It makes you think, puts things into a perspective, where you don't need to be a MAN who takes LIFE and DISCIPLINE by the BALLS and rams it down his throat. This video is the epitome of a perspective that I feel far more people NEED to see and understand, that there isn't a point to this life and that this statement isn't a bad thing. You come from nothing, you will become nothing, as the universe did and as the universe will do. Believing in free will is railing against the concept of existence itself, which has never and will never produce a reason for free will to exist unless something really, really big happens.
Have compassion for yourself, have compassion for others. Being human is an ordeal, no matter how much the gurus call it a gift and the damaged a curse. It just happened to all of us. The only point is finding a way to die at peace and making the process of conscious existence easier for the people you care about. Peace.
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So if there isn't a point to this life, is the point of this life to live pointlessly?
This is a very destructive way of thinking.
@Pablo Slalom That is absolutely one of the core signs of depression and is something I think you should go over with a professional, if it's within your budget and if it's available where you are. I have no idea if you have interest in reading another wall of text but feel free if you do.
This feeling of being trapped in a loop is something I absolutely understand. I made a large change in my life some time ago that finally allowed me to see some of the lies I had told myself. I had been angry since I was a teen and it was an anchor for me, a part of my deepest identity. When the walls I had constructed around myself started to crumble and I lost hold of the anger that had been my hot fire in a cold world for so long I felt adrift, a ship without anchor, going through storm after storm of emotions I couldn't handle. It might have been the hardest time of my life so far, the first time I have truly felt depression and even blue enough to wish my existence just ceased. Anything is easier than constant pain.
On top of that are the things that you don't tell yourself, that you didn't consciously pick to be true. Self-confidence issues, specific fears, things that you just have in yourself that hurt and you know are wrong but you can't get rid of them. You know they're bullshit but you can't let go, your brain convinces you that these things must be true even when it doesn't have proof. If this describes you then... all you can do is attempt to figure out why you feel these things. Study your childhood, your soul, talk with someone you trust to take the info and give you real responses, whether a partner, friend, parent or a therapist. There is always a reason why you feel these things. Maybe it's something you don't understand right now, a perspective that you might gain through looking inwards, as it was for me, a realization that maybe things weren't the way you thought and that's why you feel this and that. Maybe it's a lack of some chemical in your head, something that might be alleviated by pharmaceuticals and therapy; pills and drugs aren't a cure, they can only be used effectively when paired with therapy.
What finally broke through for me, though these things still haunt me, was learning compassion. Self-compassion, compassion for others. We're all idiots. Nobody knows how to get through life because nobody's done it before and nobody will ever get a do-over that'll make the rest of us look stupid. The greatest sayings and the deepest wisdoms are just approximations a long life has revealed, with all the tumbles one goes through.
The process of actual self-healing is hell itself, like how the body goes haywire fighting off a flu. It extracts tears and emotions that not many are willing to deal with, forces confrontations with things we know are wrong within ourselves that we don't want to face. That to me was the concept of hate. When I was at my worst I had only two choices: The freedom to hate or the chains of peace. In the end it was again the question of free will: If free will exists then people choose to be evil and hate is justified, but if it doesn't then nobody chose their life and you can only choose compassion. And in the end... nobody chooses their life. Even the worst of sadists, snakes and demons didn't choose to be who they are, they are simply missing something, perhaps a lesson you can only learn as a child or connections in the brain that everyone else has.
As a last point there is one thing I learned that made things a little bit easier: The worst moments usually lead to new truths, as soon as you're looking for them. Something I accidentally picked up from cognitive behavioral therapy is trying to write down thoughts during the bad times, which allows you to process things without losing the thread. Just sit there, numb, empty, in tears, burning on the inside or whatever, and write down your thoughts, for no one else to see. It may take multiple bad times to come to a single conclusion but it's still a conclusion you wouldn't have made otherwise. It's still progress in the path to healing.
I wish I could help everyone through to the other side. What a world we could make if people stopped chasing fame, riches and legacy for the sake of fame, riches and legacy. But most people will never get it because they have no chance of getting it. I choose to try to not hate them because I've had enough of hating. I just try to understand why things are the way they are. It is an everyday battle but slowly you get better at it. Peace.
This is really got me sitting here questioning everything I'm kind of having a crisis like our main character. But at the same time I'm also trying to understand the situation, the beauty of this illusion we call life is to experience it.
An excellent way to express the philosophical view points of causal determinism and free will.
Thoroughly enjoyed it! Thank you!
‘One must imagine Sisyphus happy’ - Camus
‘... his active participation was entirely necessary to the experience...’ - even though there’s no free will, we still need to participate in this game. That’s the missing puzzle piece and it’s genius.
Like a video game
@@HeyRae Just like a video game...
Love this. Thanks so much!!
For me the moment of this realization was extremely intense. I still remember it very well. I was out with friends and then it just suddenly hit me. For a few minutes I felt like I finally "woke up". It took away so many of my anxieties and it was the point in time where my depression slowly faded away. Now 9 years later, I watch this video and it still holds true. Experiencing this chain of events is just amazing. I am not looking forward to it ending though
how did it take your anxieties away? i just finished the video and now is when
all my anxieties begin
Love that he jumps right into the story.
Freud demonstrated the lack of both free will and destiny more than a century ago, instead, he said, there is what we call "the determinism of the psyche/psychic". When I learnead about it, it was a revelation, a thought that changed my mind the way this video describes, except for one thing: I didn't feel anxiety, I didn't try to negate what Freud had just taught me and keep my attachment to my until then dearest ideal of free will. The reason is, at the same time, iun the same course, I learned about the concept of responsability, meaning that "you must assume the consequences of your actions."
So, yeah, I do things not because I have free will, but because I can act upon the world, and my actions are determined by my situation in the world, what came before me. But what I can do, freely in a manner, is take responsability, not blaming the people. I am not responsible to have been born. But Instead of blaming my parents for bringing me to a world where I can't have a plenty life, I can instead try to achieve that life, or kill myself. If don't do one or the other and stay stuck in a life I hate, that's on me just as well, that's my choice, and being responsible means it's a valid choice, because nothing guarantees struggling to get a better life will be successful, and it's likely it wil not, only making you feel frustrated and like you wasted you life trying... enter assuming the consequences.
If you choose to stay, the consequences of not improving your life conditions are on you. If you try and don't get it, the consequences are on you. If you try and suceed, the consequences are also on you!
As for the struggle to find/make meaning of the world and life, I was fortunate to have read Nietzsche before. At the time, I didn't understand, but in restrospection, it made a lot of sense: existence ins meaningless, which doesn't mean you'b be better off dead, but means you can make meaning and choose meaning. Feudal period peasants didn't have a say on the meaning of their lives: to work the earth, to pay taxes, to live in poverty and die to be happy with god. Sad and brutal as it may be, it was at least a meaningful, not an empty life. But I'm convinced it's better to lack meaning if that meaning is being a slave!
Finally, other two authors to helped me to understand the meaningless of the world, and be happy about it, are Alan Moore with his masterwork Promethea, and Grant Morrison, with his masterwork The Invisibles: Everything is an illusion, art, knowledge, politics, life... but that doesn't make it less real. Might as well enjoy the ride!
Yeah, but isn't it frustrating? That your betterment of life could hang on something arbitary, like an event that seems unimpactful, yet has great consequences in your personal life.
@@303Dudi Not sure I follow. You mean that I make a simple, almost irrelevant choice (like, say, a pair of shoes or or staying home instead of going out), and that simple choice will impact my life more than? And you say is it frustrating that we cannot forsee the consequences of these small acts?
@@vagabundorkchaosmagick-use2898 Yes, but for a less extreme example let's say the company you work for has a layoff and you are thinking "Well I'm doing my job pretty well and have been for years. I should be safe.", but unknownts to you the guy that you interacted with a few days ago took your actions quite harshly (which were almost completly normal from your POV) and so instead that clumsy co-worker next to you who has a friendly relationship with your boss/HR guy is going to be the one who'll have a job and not you.
@@303Dudi Yeah, I can see how that's frustrating, and how can something llike that impact your life. But that doesn't change the fact that you must take responsability, that is, making choices and hold to the consequences. You can sue, you can go away and try to find something similar, you can try to find something entirely different, you can kill yourself, you can ask for help.
What I am trying to say i that responsability is not a means to an end (be rich, be happy, be successul), it's simply an ethic.
@@vagabundorkchaosmagick-use2898 I know and personally I quite enjoyed reading your point of view, I just wanted to say that sometimes things that are trivial do matter in the end and you probably had little or no control over that matter. Life is hard, I guess. That could summarize all our points.
Man I just randomly picked this video to listen to and I gotta tell you Casey is relatable af.
Stunning! Thank you!!
Every Deed, every word, even your personality once began with a thought. Be careful what you think!
I was about to deny "be careful what you think" in virtue of determinism, only to realize I cannot un-read your comment, and I probably will be more careful about what I think in the future because of it. Thanks for the tip man.
I'll give you a deterministic nudge in return: Most old people regret working too much.
Do you choose what you think? Study your thoughts for a bit
@@jeffrey6609 I'm not at all new to this topic.
I'd respond by saying that: being careful of what you think, does not rely on free will.
One could define being careful of what you think, as being the dialectic between the intuitive part of the brain and the discriminatory part of the brain (which constantly check's the intuitive part of the brain for errors).
So by reading a comment about the importance of being careful about what to think, it might happen that you actually will, in terms stated above. And this does not rely on free will. Although it's often accompanied by the illusion of it.
@@jeffrey6609 You can clearly influence it if not fully control it
@@TheDhammaHub but isn't your influence over it and how you decide to influence it not your choice at all since your thoughts are all based on situation
It's almost scary how I've been thinking about determinism for two days & now, u uploaded this video. Is the universe trying to tell me something?
The Master 🌞 "appears" when the student is ready 💎 ...
No.
The universe is telling you to learn about confirmation bias. ;)
I honestly love this channel, because everyone here has some small thing with big meaning and everyone here is the type of person who wants to comprehend the entire concept and the channel itself has interesting concepts that the comments are all trying to understand.
Hello!!! This was awesome! Thank you for the amazing videos!!!