The most important thing to take from Andy's short story is to realize that how we treat others is how we treat ourselves, whether his story is a real reflection of how death works or not. When we impact others, we impact ourselves because everyone is us. We are eyes that make up the same creature. When we make one eye go blind, all of us slowly go blind. If Andy is right about death then we will have to live through both good and bad lives. But what can make a difference is treating others how we like to be treated. We just have to have faith that by doing good we can make a difference to the whole cycle so that we can make all lives good.
The Egg is probably my favorite short story of all time. Its intriguing, beautiful, engaging -- but sad, and even scary or dark at the same. It just really resonates with me. I'm glad I wrote it. I did a phenomenal job.
If you pictured Morgan Freeman, that will be your God. Each of us has a different God and he will be represented how we picture him or her. I's kinda funny because I believed and philosophically pondered this even before Andy Weir's short story was written, and still believe in a version of this....I thought o Morgan Freeman too.
This and the short story itself are those kind of things so precious you want to keep to yourself, yet to enlightening you feel obligated to share with everyone.
Usually new ideas involving religion can be easily flawed by evaluating the moral/behavioral implantations after it's learned. This one however seems like a perfect religion. It gives you a great motive to help others and become a better human being.
@@obed5oa This was implemented! This is what the Vedas preach, it also says, no matter what you do things will go bad because the material world can't satisfy you fully. People know this! But they still hope maybe if I do something else, this or that everything will be different. That is where the Vedas disagree with this short film, you can't be God no matter how many experiences you have because God was here before the experiences and will continue be here, all experiences are from God, looking at your experiences you can't see God, because God is the one who sees all. You have look into yourself and ask who is reading this comment, I mean who experiences this comment being read! You'll soon see you can't get a hold of this guy if you look outward he's behind you if you look inward he's outside, when you realize there's nothing you can do to understand who you are, what will you do.. That is the beginning of meditation
I see myself everywhere all the time.. the scumbag who pushed me inside the bus to work in this morning, the small cute little baby who just started his life journey and the mother who was holding him with all the love. I am all of them.. sometimes controlled by my selfish, egoistic, rudeness, violence, stupidity but sometimes loving, caring and being smart. This video is so deep... So deep that it shook me so hard.. it made me cry with joy. i am having this opportunity to live, love and learn. Thank you thank you god whoever you might be..
no, he conjured the cornetto out of nowhere. threw the bike away like it was nothing, as well as the cornetto. conjured a glass of water from nowhere and threw it away like it was nothing, again.
The only thing that makes me sad about this story is knowing that I won't always know this story, and that I don't always get to discover this absolutely incredible take on existence.
@while fools talk the wise is quiet Okay, maybe not SHOULD, but I think many people can learn from this. I really think the whole point of you are everyone as a thought could be a better 'religion' than many (if not all) of those that DO exist. But agreed. I wouldn't put it like that nowadays any more. But I was so elated by the whole work, and it came at just the right time for me then, that these were the words that I typed back then, 4 years ago.
@while fools talk the wise is quiet Well, I am glad you edited the reaction from what I got in my mailbox as to be your first reaction, for that was not doing your username any justice to say the least. Using words you don't know the true meaning off is always unwise, after all. But let me react to the now edited post you made: You think people would get schizophrenic from a 'religion' that tells it's believers that eventually all they do to others they actually do to themselves. That is a sign of having less faith in humans than I do. And that is okay. We may differ in opinions. And as to the 'it's only fiction' part of your comment... Well, yeah, but isn't every other religion as well??? Anyways, thank you for sharing your thoughts, and I wish you a nice live.
When I imagined the story, I imagined a white nothingness, and I imagined the first person view of the narrator (as it was in the story) I didn't give the "God" a manifestation at all.
I've went through a rough phase 6 years ago and I've realized this new way of thinking, I've never thought it would become popular so quickly enough that there would be short films about it. I thought at least 30 years or so.
At 27 years old I've gotten blown up by an IED, almost died of Malaria on a table in the desert, Hypovolemic Shock has stopped my heart, I've OD'd, and I was crushed to near death in an accident. I just don't die, but that's besides the point haha... on all five of these occasions where I've Almost died, I've gone to the same place and remember quite a bit of it (I guess I had experienced it enough to maintain the consistencies 😆 I don't recommend)... One of many things I took from it was this thought... among other things. Always the same consistencies as to "where you go" and how to come back. I'm glad there was a video on the same idea. Regardless of what one believes, it's definitely an interesting thought
Wondering why this version didn't have the 'The universe is - an egg' line. Seems like thats the punchline. On another note - there would be a lot less pain and suffering in this world if people actually believed this.
As is the case with most religions, or with most philosophies for the nonreligious. If people actually DID only what is moral, the world would be so much a better place, wouldn't it?
THEIR desire is an expression of the Creator’s desire. In order to experience everything, the Creator needs all of these different players in order to explore all possible choices. Each person carries within them the compass that will direct their journey, and because they are “blindfolded” the seeking can appear clumsy at times, but even that clumsiness serves the timing of events within the context of the whole. Tiny movements, small choices, are amplified through intersection with other movements in the same general direction. To the extent a clear pattern emerges, the alignment with others becomes more coherent, and therefore more powerful. Each individual is NATURALLY drawn to what is “theirs” - in the perfect way and at the perfect time in keeping with the whole - and the wonder of it is that they experience this as a discovery, similar to putting your hand in your pocket for your keys and drawing out a large amount of money instead. Each person carries within them everything needed to get to where they are going, and for all of the steps along the way. The “new song” was written before the world was formed. The video merely sounds the note you are waiting to hear and you begin humming in response because it is inherently YOUR note also. You must understand that no one can change what they came to be, what they came to do, what they came to experience. Their life is ALREADY written.
while I'm not depressed, this gives me a comfortable feeling that there may be a reason and that even if there is, it doesn't matter because I will live how I will live, I will feel my own emotions, and I will do what I must do for the greater purpose, whatever that is. Honestly, I hope that if someone is depressed and commits suicide that they have the same comfortability about death that I do right now.
The very best version I've seen on youtube... in large part due to great acting, a beautiful soundtrack, and fantastic cinematography (even in a limited [but strikingly beautiful] landscape).. Good jobs, all around!
By far the best version I have seen. Out of about 5. Well Done. The picture, the music, the wind, the acting.. Terrific. Why does the old guy kinda remind me of the professor from Futurama.
Good news everyone!!! You're going on a mission that's going to take ~5.2 trillion years and counting. It's too feel everything ever. Stay out of trouble. (Approx 117 billion people ever and a guesstimate 45 year lifespan)
Holy crap this is EXACTLY what I imagined when I read the story for the first time O_O God looks exactly like I had in mind, the setting on a sort of cliff overlooking a vast field of civilization and green... This is almost freaking me out a bit
Herman Manly That is strange, to me. The story states "there is nothingness", and that god looks neither male, nor female, but like a "vague authority figure". I mean no offense, I am just interested in what people visualise when they read stories.
avraks The views and images you already have of things prior to reading a story influence your imagination alot, so conflicting or even opposing images can occur as to what's told in the story
It does assume a human-centric model, since it's difficult to distinguish life on an atomic or smaller level. However, that doesn't mean we can't take knowledge from this.
we are energy, not consciousness..... and "god" didn't specify humans.... he said you must experience EVERY life thru out the entirety of time..... including, i presume, every dinosaur, bacteria, plant, etc. 🌎 humans can only present things from a human perspective.... that must always be understood and considered whenever truth is being presented.
When I first came up with this idea, many years ago, I envisaged it as a needle, pulling a thread through all the times and places in the Universe where lives have been lived. The first I knew of this short story was when I watched a video yesterday about the concept that there is only *one* electron in the Universe, and someone mentioned this in the comments. Well, I say the *first*, but, if it's true, I may have known about it centuries or millennia "ago" in my subjective time, and just forgotten about it...
Thank you Mr Weir for such lovely, and thought provoking short film. Growing up in a God believing world with a constant questioning mind to which some questions that I find religion can not satisfy. Now after seeing this clip not that I would say I found my answers but it definitely has broaden my views in many aspects of life. People need to make up their minds in regards to answering to themselves the question of whether the apples on the same tree are same apples or not. So when we grown out of this rock (earth) are we the same? If anyone find this story interesting or even mind boggling, look up Alan Watts on Out of Your Mind Lecture series.
Well, I can’t contest this... liking it or not, its plausible. The same for some religions based in multiple reincarnations like Buddhism (there you will reincarnate until you reach the level of a Buddha and that’s cool, but also will suffer a lot to reach that level - that’s very bad). It seems this concept was taken from there, like many others… At least, no matter how hard it seems (rebirthing as a slave somewhere in the past), its still better than the Matrioshka Brain theory… there, a “machine” will never let you out (also very scary, but also plausible…). Anyway, I consider myself atheist, but maybe agnostic… I can’t believe in “gods”, at least not the ones I’ve heard or read about so far… But I’m curious, I like to search for the truth… Sometimes an afterlife of nothingness can be quite comforting.
That was awesome, came here after reading the story. 4.5k views is a disgrace though compared with other videos, more people should be seeing this. Might help them to think twice
The sound is a bit jumpy, it's peaking in certain places and lacking in others, but asides from that this was really good! The location was gorgeous and the actors were on point, very well suited for their roles. Good job!
I'm really surprised I haven't come across this version sooner. Really is interesting seeing the Andy Weir story in this form after watching the one by Kurzgesagt. Really great.
+DrumtotheBass Woop Yeah, as logical as Andy Weirs philosophy sounds, I'd hate to live a life where I get killed by medieval torture devices, burned for being being a witch, be one of Hitler's experiments during the Holocaust, or sentenced to a lifetime in prison for crimes I didn't do. There's a LOT of suffering out there that I wouldn't want to go through. The good news is the jury is still out on what happens when we die. A cyclic universe could mean that we repeat our same lives, who's to say that time can't go backwards and we live our life in reverse, and we could be living in some sort of simulation.(Matrix, brain in a vat, dream, movie, imagination of higher life form, or even a petri dish in a lab that exists in a higher dimension)
+asdf4 Now when you put it like that. Dying doesn't seem to be so scary. I too have ideas that we repeat our lives until we a reach a better outcome or not. But to live as every single human, just sounds odd :\.
In the video it said that you will have to experience all humans in earth. So does that mean that this might be just a simulation. Maybe the *god* are the humans in the future. Maybe it is just an expiriment by future humans and the others are just other scientists. Just like that rick and morty episode the battery worlds. Maybe we develop technology in the future where we can build our own worlds. Idk just saw this video in that way (from the other video)
When you realize and come to the understanding that you are just this, but more so, alone, forever to imagine that what you want and to experience the same thing, because it’s you who are the power that be, the being that goes on endlessly, you are infinity playing a game on itself
You won't automatically meet God when you die, he's not part of our order anymore, but you can find him for questioning if you know how. To avoid upset I think it's best to keep your expectations low. Our religions come with stories that are not entirely true.
Heheh. I've learned things aren't so simple when other strangers have got their own stories and agenders that conflict with mine. For example David Icke, used hallucinatory drugs to attain psychic visions but all those drugs did was make him paranoid. I advise people not to use drugs for psychic development, but they think i'm spoiling their fun, so they get upset with me. I thought the truth mattered to this world, but it doesn't. People seem to enjoy going round in circles and thinking in a limited way, so who am I to stop them?
The impersonalist only see the material energy and say the following - "In the Bhagavad Gita it states that in the material universe the living entity rides on the material energy like it is a machine, the vessels made of material energy is that machine and in some planets or even universes there is only 'one' living entity moving back and forwards through past, present and future experiencing all the various bodily vessels that takes trillions of years to do, one therefore has been in the material universe for a very very long time, there is no 'we' only 'I' because 'you' are everyone, within every material bodily vessel that is. It is the material world that is 'all one' only ONE living entity - YOU. The personalist or devotees of Krishna know more because they understand they are NOT the material energy which IS all 'ONE' but an INDIVIDUAL jiva soul, the movie above has a point
But how shall I continue I know I just am and have to BE and all is right and wrong. I say my success succeeds when you succeed but i dont want to be wrong. How do I abolish greed? How? How do I save my brothers and sisters? Helps me to help others but in doing so it continues to keep me bellow them.... Im my enemy and my only protector. All that comes to me is BE.......Now Im thinking of the verse " Be still and know that I am God "... "I AM" .. Be-Ing _Hu_Man...... I am being you man I am human-being i am humanizing
Your question therein lies a paradox: if we all are John Cena, how could we ever see anyone, let alone the world ever being able to see us. [in whisper voice] you can't see me.
Bleh, this is one of the oldest stories, at least attribute it to the original source. The Nar-Narayana pair from Rigveda. Nar is 'The Man' and 'Narayana' is the 'looker'. Brahmanda is 'The Egg'
What makes you think that was the original source? You saw it, thought it, heard it and told it countless times before you wrote it down in the Rigveda. This version's a particularly good one though. "Don't blame me, that's all you. Carpe Diem and all that."
I looked up Brahmanda, isn't doesn't seem anything like this. Brahmanda, from what I can tell, is the concept of the universe having hatched _from_ an egg. The premise of this story, meanwhile, is that the universe is the egg itself. Still, even if they are the same and I only saw a small part of a bigger picture, I guess I'm just not that creative, and I just kept retelling the same story in different forms through my different incarnations. Clearly I'm not to proud of myself for it.
Once Upon A Time Once upon a time... a man dreamed he was awake How much do things cost? How much can I make? Who are all my friends? Where do my foes live? With whom should I fight? To whom should I give? And with every question, another story rose The man was rather frantic and always on his toes Fighting every dragon, saving Damsels in distress Hoping just around the corner he would find some much-needed rest But then he noticed patterns, a tit for every tat A cat for every mouse, a dog for every cat Every time he pushed he received another shove Every move he made seemed to hit him like a glove The people all around him seemed to mirror every move until the man began to notice what he really came to prove He thought that he knew better how to build a world it seems And left a loving Father to construct a world of weird dreams He finally decided while dining at the trough his petty dreams of vanity had exacted to great a cost His friends were not his friends, his foes all knocked him down He tried with all his might but never found his crown He decided to go home if he could ever find his way cleaning up the messes he had made along the way He saw his Father at a distance with a smile upon his face as the gap was closing in the final lap of his big race He was sorry and he was saddened and wished to make things right He would even sacrifice himself in his own loving Father's sight But the Father sat there smiling with his hand on his son's head And a Crown was on the nightstand right beside the dear son's bed. And then the Father whispered: "Hear the Story that I tell Listen very closely and be freed from your own jail Once upon a time... a man dreamed he was awake and forgot that he was dreaming, that was his first mistake! And in this Grand Illusion, you fight all that you fear thinking I am gone while I am always very near There are no friends or foes or Dragons to be slain I need not your defence of my wisdom or my Name A Gnostic
I understand. Alan watts said it best in my opinion, we are all falling, and we want rocks to cling to as we are falling for some sense of security.. but they are falling with us. Anything we hold onto, will ultimately crumble in the end. Just as the personality we think “we” are. You are much more than who you think you are. I see your YT comment for what it is; to gain recognition in young souls to what this is talking about. Genius. Much love.
Looking in this comment section, I kept thinking "Wow, so many people are being so rude." Then I realized it's all my fault. And it's all your fault.
When will you learn...dammit, when will I learn?!
Dang it me
I'm gonna lose my mind.
Green Power Ranger im so fucking funny lmao
Medamnit, I hate myself
I'm very proud of myself for being such a great author, director and actor. Bravo me
+Sarah Thompson hahahaha smart.
Oh I see what I did there.
Sarah Thompson and such a philanthropist
Why thankyou :)
Sarah Thompson that's ego. Not true self.
The most important thing to take from Andy's short story is to realize that how we treat others is how we treat ourselves, whether his story is a real reflection of how death works or not. When we impact others, we impact ourselves because everyone is us. We are eyes that make up the same creature. When we make one eye go blind, all of us slowly go blind.
If Andy is right about death then we will have to live through both good and bad lives. But what can make a difference is treating others how we like to be treated. We just have to have faith that by doing good we can make a difference to the whole cycle so that we can make all lives good.
asdf4 “an eye for an eye and everyone goes blind” true
Agree
Beautiful
Do unto others as you would like others to do unto you is the law of karma in one aspect at least
no
I was impressed by my writing of the story, and the acting of myself, and the dialogue I wrote to exchange with myself. Good job, me.
I even liked my own comment 55 times!
Wow
"Be nice, and have fun."
The single best piece of life advice I've ever heard.
Every time I tell this story I feel like I don't do it justice. This is the best representation of the story I've ever seen.
Pranav Raghavan yeah same here, try to show people the video usually works.
Yet*
@@cookiesoldier8114 lol yes *yet
Pranav Raghavan
Check out the new one!
"Be nice. And have fun."
The Egg is probably my favorite short story of all time. Its intriguing, beautiful, engaging -- but sad,
and even scary or dark at the same. It just really resonates with me. I'm glad I wrote it. I did a phenomenal job.
@Maker Haugh "I'm too dumb to understand a 12 minute youtube video"
@@OfficialEdwardNewgate Hey, we gotta be nice to ourselves, even if we are acting like real jerks.
When I read the story I imagined more of a Morgan Freeman talking to me in a pure white world (like in Harry Potter)
I also pictured Morgan Freeman!
Now that you guys mentioned it, I pictured the Catalyst from Mass Effect 3
If you pictured Morgan Freeman, that will be your God. Each of us has a different God and he will be represented how we picture him or her. I's kinda funny because I believed and philosophically pondered this even before Andy Weir's short story was written, and still believe in a version of this....I thought o Morgan Freeman too.
jpjpthedude830 Funny, as I never picture God as Morgan Freeman apart from when I'm reading non-biblical stories/interactions about God.
jpjpthedude830 You know this how?
We are all fragments of the universe interacting with itself, imaginations of ourselves
This poped in my feed after I watched the Kurgezsat video
Max Serretti *our feed
@@shyon4152 yeah right
@@shyon4152 Since you are me, then it's my feed.
"Ur parents always prefer your sister anyway" that old man is a savage
But he's also his parents and sister. So he prefers himself to himself.
The Fantastic Five Might have a similar soul. But the characteristics and personalities are different.
I am my sister and my parents so oh well....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Who came here because of Kurzgesagt?
^_^
me and I did
Me
Me
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This is one of spiritual thoughts that even if it is wrong, makes the world a better place to live in and be a part of.
This and the short story itself are those kind of things so precious you want to keep to yourself, yet to enlightening you feel obligated to share with everyone.
*horrified* "I created Fortnite?"
"Yes, but you created Minecraft too"
There must be dark in light
horrified: I created EA
"yes but you also invented video games themelves"
*horrified* "I created TikTok?"
"Yes, but you also created all the memes"
Brazenn and also Edward Jenner
So by percentage we are mostly a giant nerd? Not a bad thing, I just want us to recognize it.
Usually new ideas involving religion can be easily flawed by evaluating the moral/behavioral implantations after it's learned. This one however seems like a perfect religion. It gives you a great motive to help others and become a better human being.
Yes. If this was implemented before the inception of all other religions the world would have been much different today.
@@obed5oa This was implemented! This is what the Vedas preach, it also says, no matter what you do things will go bad because the material world can't satisfy you fully. People know this! But they still hope maybe if I do something else, this or that everything will be different. That is where the Vedas disagree with this short film, you can't be God no matter how many experiences you have because God was here before the experiences and will continue be here, all experiences are from God, looking at your experiences you can't see God, because God is the one who sees all. You have look into yourself and ask who is reading this comment, I mean who experiences this comment being read! You'll soon see you can't get a hold of this guy if you look outward he's behind you if you look inward he's outside, when you realize there's nothing you can do to understand who you are, what will you do.. That is the beginning of meditation
This kind of explains Deja Vu
Especially because, for me at least, deja vu is only with other people.
Fuck yeah it does
I see myself everywhere all the time.. the scumbag who pushed me inside the bus to work in this morning, the small cute little baby who just started his life journey and the mother who was holding him with all the love. I am all of them.. sometimes controlled by my selfish, egoistic, rudeness, violence, stupidity but sometimes loving, caring and being smart. This video is so deep... So deep that it shook me so hard.. it made me cry with joy. i am having this opportunity to live, love and learn. Thank you thank you god whoever you might be..
♥️
We can make a religion out of this.
Asigna no, don't
I feel like it's some sort of a commentary on religion though...
Bill Wurtz
It's called solipsism
"aweirness"
So wait... he biked all the way up the hill with a cornetto in his pocket?
Thats why it was all melty and he threw it.
Its god, he can do What he wants
no, he conjured the cornetto out of nowhere. threw the bike away like it was nothing, as well as the cornetto. conjured a glass of water from nowhere and threw it away like it was nothing, again.
Man I wonder how many version of me are excited to become a god. Conjuring dessert like that? Magnificent.
hilarious!
“Be nice, and have fun” has made the best things happen in my life so far
The only thing that makes me sad about this story is knowing that I won't always know this story, and that I don't always get to discover this absolutely incredible take on existence.
I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more views by now. I still think it is amazing, and should be seen by everyone!
@while fools talk the wise is quiet Okay, maybe not SHOULD, but I think many people can learn from this. I really think the whole point of you are everyone as a thought could be a better 'religion' than many (if not all) of those that DO exist. But agreed. I wouldn't put it like that nowadays any more. But I was so elated by the whole work, and it came at just the right time for me then, that these were the words that I typed back then, 4 years ago.
@while fools talk the wise is quiet Well, I am glad you edited the reaction from what I got in my mailbox as to be your first reaction, for that was not doing your username any justice to say the least. Using words you don't know the true meaning off is always unwise, after all. But let me react to the now edited post you made:
You think people would get schizophrenic from a 'religion' that tells it's believers that eventually all they do to others they actually do to themselves. That is a sign of having less faith in humans than I do. And that is okay. We may differ in opinions.
And as to the 'it's only fiction' part of your comment... Well, yeah, but isn't every other religion as well???
Anyways, thank you for sharing your thoughts, and I wish you a nice live.
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When I imagined the story, I imagined a white nothingness, and I imagined the first person view of the narrator (as it was in the story) I didn't give the "God" a manifestation at all.
"Oh god, I hope they don't check my internet history"
"Not the best of days, but they'll get over it."
Damn God, you brutal!
Kreis Khaos I didn’t like that. It made God into a mean judgmental God that some religions talk of
Who's here for kurzghesagt?😂
That version that I made voiced by me and written and drawn by me looks much better than this one.
@@betterfly7398 Yeah. But I kind of like this version I put up on TH-cam as well.
You (we) know that we did every one of them so we like all of them too.
Technically only one person came from kurzgesagt
@@able. and technically we came from the same person not just kurzgesagt
To my others me.... thankfully so found this video so you’ll be aware of your existence (my existence) in another different space and time.
Watch this again and again over the years, sharing with anyone who will do it justice… such a beauty thing.
Thank you I see you
So the youtube chat is all a monologue?
Garage Sale is that any way to talk to yourself?
Lucas Day, fuck you, shit-head, fuck-face, fuck-head!
Mangirdas Bukenas, fuck you, shit-head, fuck-face, get the fuck out of my face!
+Garage Sale why are you bullying yourself?
송이아름 😂
I've went through a rough phase 6 years ago and I've realized this new way of thinking, I've never thought it would become popular so quickly enough that there would be short films about it. I thought at least 30 years or so.
At 27 years old I've gotten blown up by an IED, almost died of Malaria on a table in the desert, Hypovolemic Shock has stopped my heart, I've OD'd, and I was crushed to near death in an accident. I just don't die, but that's besides the point haha... on all five of these occasions where I've Almost died, I've gone to the same place and remember quite a bit of it (I guess I had experienced it enough to maintain the consistencies 😆 I don't recommend)... One of many things I took from it was this thought... among other things. Always the same consistencies as to "where you go" and how to come back.
I'm glad there was a video on the same idea.
Regardless of what one believes, it's definitely an interesting thought
I like this but I for some reason I didn't get the goosebump feeling as when I first read the story.
That's probably cause the novelty of the idea has worn off.
Wondering why this version didn't have the 'The universe is - an egg' line. Seems like thats the punchline. On another note - there would be a lot less pain and suffering in this world if people actually believed this.
As is the case with most religions, or with most philosophies for the nonreligious. If people actually DID only what is moral, the world would be so much a better place, wouldn't it?
Because this isn't the original, so what's the point?
THEIR desire is an expression of the Creator’s desire. In order to experience everything, the Creator needs all of these different players in order to explore all possible choices.
Each person carries within them the compass that will direct their journey, and because they are “blindfolded” the seeking can appear clumsy at times, but even that clumsiness serves the timing of events within the context of the whole. Tiny movements, small choices, are amplified through intersection with other movements in the same general direction. To the extent a clear pattern emerges, the alignment with others becomes more coherent, and therefore more powerful. Each individual is NATURALLY drawn to what is “theirs” - in the perfect way and at the perfect time in keeping with the whole - and the wonder of it is that they experience this as a discovery, similar to putting your hand in your pocket for your keys and drawing out a large amount of money instead.
Each person carries within them everything needed to get to where they are going, and for all of the steps along the way. The “new song” was written before the world was formed.
The video merely sounds the note you are waiting to hear and you begin humming in response because it is inherently YOUR note also.
You must understand that no one can change what they came to be, what they came to do, what they came to experience. Their life is ALREADY written.
I dunno , it depends, if a person is a depressed person they may feel sad they gotta live over and over and over again
while I'm not depressed, this gives me a comfortable feeling that there may be a reason and that even if there is, it doesn't matter because I will live how I will live, I will feel my own emotions, and I will do what I must do for the greater purpose, whatever that is.
Honestly, I hope that if someone is depressed and commits suicide that they have the same comfortability about death that I do right now.
Ahh so every time i critisize somebody, i only critisize my self
I saw this around this past New Years. Finally watching again. Thank you.
I am really glad this was adapted into such an amazing short film :) Its a short story I will never forget
Hello me...
I guess this is you...
Woah. That was an amazing adaptation of Weir’s story. Just as brilliant as the original.
The very best version I've seen on youtube... in large part due to great acting, a beautiful soundtrack, and fantastic cinematography (even in a limited [but strikingly beautiful] landscape).. Good jobs, all around!
He had to repeat this speech billions of times...
And he's had to repeat the latest iteration of the speech to me over and over again. It's like I'm an amnesiac.
What if he just keeps on talking, or saying everything related to us of all our lives, since time doesn't exist there.
I really do love these films they are so thought provoking
"So i'm a Karen?"
"And every manager she talked to"
By far the best version I have seen. Out of about 5. Well Done. The picture, the music, the wind, the acting.. Terrific. Why does the old guy kinda remind me of the professor from Futurama.
Good news everyone!!! You're going on a mission that's going to take ~5.2 trillion years and counting. It's too feel everything ever. Stay out of trouble.
(Approx 117 billion people ever and a guesstimate 45 year lifespan)
Honestly this was truly Amazing!! Thank (us) or for now you for giving us this film!! I loved it!!
You're/ I'm/ we're welcome 🙏 🤗
Im so glad I introduced myself to this. Im also glad that I made this story.
Amazing adaption! Very well-made and the actors did a brilliant job!
Yes I did a brilliant job
Andy Weir really nailed an extending example of the concept of solipsism here
Im here from Kurzgesagt
i wrote a haiku about this titled "the answer":
do not lose focus.
“peace” is not the solution.
compassion, is it.
Holy crap this is EXACTLY what I imagined when I read the story for the first time O_O God looks exactly like I had in mind, the setting on a sort of cliff overlooking a vast field of civilization and green...
This is almost freaking me out a bit
well..you are the creator of this video..in a sense.
Herman Manly That is strange, to me. The story states "there is nothingness", and that god looks neither male, nor female, but like a "vague authority figure". I mean no offense, I am just interested in what people visualise when they read stories.
avraks The views and images you already have of things prior to reading a story influence your imagination alot, so conflicting or even opposing images can occur as to what's told in the story
I prefer my kurzegagt version.
I wasn’t as happy with this version although my acting was not bad.
But I am not only all humans but also every other lifeform because I am consciousness
Basically that was the flaw that was obvious to me from the story, especially if we take evolution into consideration.
the story also says that there are other gods, perhaps there is a God for Fish, Plants, Bacteria, etc.
Ol Saint Lit Yeah, but the other gods are not "from around here".
It does assume a human-centric model, since it's difficult to distinguish life on an atomic or smaller level. However, that doesn't mean we can't take knowledge from this.
we are energy, not consciousness.....
and "god" didn't specify humans.... he said you must experience EVERY life thru out the entirety of time.....
including, i presume, every dinosaur, bacteria, plant, etc. 🌎
humans can only present things from a human perspective....
that must always be understood and considered whenever truth is being presented.
When I first came up with this idea, many years ago, I envisaged it as a needle, pulling a thread through all the times and places in the Universe where lives have been lived.
The first I knew of this short story was when I watched a video yesterday about the concept that there is only *one* electron in the Universe, and someone mentioned this in the comments. Well, I say the *first*, but, if it's true, I may have known about it centuries or millennia "ago" in my subjective time, and just forgotten about it...
I prefer the original story to be honest
CoreyJay yes me too. The crispness of the story gave it a character. This one somehow seemed like a play.
Damnit, me, enjoy whatever I feel like!
@@kreiskhaos8516, my real, new name, is a very intriguing amalgamation of your nickname, nice choice, other me!
One of the best I've seen. Awesome job.
Why is the monopoly man in this
The monopoly man is you. You are the monopoly man. 🙂
I love this version of this story. It is such an amazing idea. It was this very story that helped me really understand the idea of nonself.
absolutely amazing idea!
That was an eye opener, truly amazing. Thanks for the insight of me
Thank you Mr Weir for such lovely, and thought provoking short film. Growing up in a God believing world with a constant questioning mind to which some questions that I find religion can not satisfy. Now after seeing this clip not that I would say I found my answers but it definitely has broaden my views in many aspects of life.
People need to make up their minds in regards to answering to themselves the question of whether the apples on the same tree are same apples or not. So when we grown out of this rock (earth) are we the same?
If anyone find this story interesting or even mind boggling, look up Alan Watts on Out of Your Mind Lecture series.
Of all of the different adaptations of 'The Egg' this short film seems to be the best (just my opinion). Thanks..
Well, I can’t contest this... liking it or not, its plausible. The same for some religions based in multiple reincarnations like Buddhism (there you will reincarnate until you reach the level of a Buddha and that’s cool, but also will suffer a lot to reach that level - that’s very bad). It seems this concept was taken from there, like many others…
At least, no matter how hard it seems (rebirthing as a slave somewhere in the past), its still better than the Matrioshka Brain theory… there, a “machine” will never let you out (also very scary, but also plausible…).
Anyway, I consider myself atheist, but maybe agnostic… I can’t believe in “gods”, at least not the ones I’ve heard or read about so far… But I’m curious, I like to search for the truth… Sometimes an afterlife of nothingness can be quite comforting.
That was awesome, came here after reading the story. 4.5k views is a disgrace though compared with other videos, more people should be seeing this. Might help them to think twice
I m here after Kurzgesagt's video.
It is a good interpretation on how you should treat others
It's not just humans.. It's all animals. Plants., life on undiscovered planets across the universe.. Bacteria even..
Random Sheep bacteria isn’t conscious
The sound is a bit jumpy, it's peaking in certain places and lacking in others, but asides from that this was really good! The location was gorgeous and the actors were on point, very well suited for their roles. Good job!
Dude. That's so deep I can't even see you anymore...
+Timgor true dat
I mean I can't even see me anymore
I'm really surprised I haven't come across this version sooner. Really is interesting seeing the Andy Weir story in this form after watching the one by Kurzgesagt. Really great.
Really not looking forward to dying :/ seems a bit much to live every human ever lived. I've seen to many ways humans have died horribly :S.
+DrumtotheBass Woop Yeah, as logical as Andy Weirs philosophy sounds, I'd hate to live a life where I get killed by medieval torture devices, burned for being being a witch, be one of Hitler's experiments during the Holocaust, or sentenced to a lifetime in prison for crimes I didn't do. There's a LOT of suffering out there that I wouldn't want to go through. The good news is the jury is still out on what happens when we die. A cyclic universe could mean that we repeat our same lives, who's to say that time can't go backwards and we live our life in reverse, and we could be living in some sort of simulation.(Matrix, brain in a vat, dream, movie, imagination of higher life form, or even a petri dish in a lab that exists in a higher dimension)
+asdf4 Now when you put it like that. Dying doesn't seem to be so scary. I too have ideas that we repeat our lives until we a reach a better outcome or not. But to live as every single human, just sounds odd :\.
+asdf4 Also to add why are we only restricted to reincarnation as another human and why not other races of beings in this universe?
who said we haven't before or yet 😊
+DrumtotheBass Woop - do not worry, we will all die successfully.
( - _ ^ ) I think someone said that before me.
Bravo, truly bravo. Almost made me cry.
You could make a religion out of this.
Bill Wurtz: NO
No don’t
one word: Hinduism
It's called Solipsism
This is a terrifying theory because it means that I'll eventually suffer all the most painful deaths experienced by humans
But you'll also experience the most beautiful deaths experienced by humans
In the video it said that you will have to experience all humans in earth. So does that mean that this might be just a simulation. Maybe the *god* are the humans in the future. Maybe it is just an expiriment by future humans and the others are just other scientists. Just like that rick and morty episode the battery worlds. Maybe we develop technology in the future where we can build our own worlds. Idk just saw this video in that way (from the other video)
I was thinking that
This answers that we are truly alone with ourselves
anyone here cuz Logic's new album, EVERYBODY? o.o
fuvet yeah and it's really fucking with me
same xD
fuvet No
I had this realization on a DMT breakthrough
Am I the only one who thought OMG I actually did F*** myself when I suggested it to me coz I was being an a***ole to myself.. Wait.. What??
yeah me too :D, i feel like i have something to say but i cant say it???
Always love this story . makes me wonder and think.
Kurzgesagt bought me here.
I'm so proud that I'm every one whom making this video. :)
Anyone from logics new album "Everybody"
oDarlyyyn oh he put this here? omfg if he put this in his album he's so much more epic 4 that
oDarlyyyn yeaaaa, cuzz
When you realize and come to the understanding that you are just this, but more so, alone, forever to imagine that what you want and to experience the same thing, because it’s you who are the power that be, the being that goes on endlessly, you are infinity playing a game on itself
You won't automatically meet God when you die, he's not part of our order anymore, but you can find him for questioning if you know how. To avoid upset I think it's best to keep your expectations low. Our religions come with stories that are not entirely true.
I'm glad you know about the After-Life, you should go on Ellen telling her how we all had the after life all wrong.
Heheh. I've learned things aren't so simple when other strangers have got their own stories and agenders that conflict with mine. For example David Icke, used hallucinatory drugs to attain psychic visions but all those drugs did was make him paranoid. I advise people not to use drugs for psychic development, but they think i'm spoiling their fun, so they get upset with me. I thought the truth mattered to this world, but it doesn't. People seem to enjoy going round in circles and thinking in a limited way, so who am I to stop them?
@@themisanthropechannel1449 how have you learned the truth, then? Since you're so wise
Thank you for this video, Found it today!
"Spoilers!" I can't be the only one who thought Doctor Who xD
technically I am the only one aren't I? So you're correct!
Yes I am the only one who thought this
this is cool.. I could picture it as a lucid dream having conversations with your dream guides! i love this story
The impersonalist only see the material energy and say the following - "In the Bhagavad Gita it states that in the material universe the living entity rides on the material energy like it is a machine, the vessels made of material energy is that machine and in some planets or even universes there is only 'one' living entity moving back and forwards through past, present and future experiencing all the various bodily vessels that takes trillions of years to do, one therefore has been in the material universe for a very very long time, there is no 'we' only 'I' because 'you' are everyone, within every material bodily vessel that is. It is the material world that is 'all one' only ONE living entity - YOU. The personalist or devotees of Krishna know more because they understand they are NOT the material energy which IS all 'ONE' but an INDIVIDUAL jiva soul, the movie above has a point
But how shall I continue I know I just am and have to BE and all is right and wrong. I say my success succeeds when you succeed but i dont want to be wrong. How do I abolish greed? How? How do I save my brothers and sisters? Helps me to help others but in doing so it continues to keep me bellow them.... Im my enemy and my only protector. All that comes to me is BE.......Now Im thinking of the verse " Be still and know that I am God "... "I AM" .. Be-Ing _Hu_Man...... I am being you man I am human-being i am humanizing
Totally awesome! Mind blown!
Wait a minute, is that means I'm John Cena?
it means you should touch up on your grammar.
Bowie Widipermoko WE are John cena
Your question therein lies a paradox: if we all are John Cena, how could we ever see anyone, let alone the world ever being able to see us. [in whisper voice] you can't see me.
Ol Saint Lit but please, it's not my first languange
Ben Santos *epic entrance music* you can't see me, my time is now
love this film!! thank you!
Bleh, this is one of the oldest stories, at least attribute it to the original source. The Nar-Narayana pair from Rigveda. Nar is 'The Man' and 'Narayana' is the 'looker'. Brahmanda is 'The Egg'
What makes you think that was the original source? You saw it, thought it, heard it and told it countless times before you wrote it down in the Rigveda. This version's a particularly good one though. "Don't blame me, that's all you. Carpe Diem and all that."
I looked up Brahmanda, isn't doesn't seem anything like this. Brahmanda, from what I can tell, is the concept of the universe having hatched _from_ an egg. The premise of this story, meanwhile, is that the universe is the egg itself.
Still, even if they are the same and I only saw a small part of a bigger picture, I guess I'm just not that creative, and I just kept retelling the same story in different forms through my different incarnations. Clearly I'm not to proud of myself for it.
The fact that he said he wont be remembered long 😢
Im here because of kurzgesagt
Once Upon A Time
Once upon a time... a man dreamed he was awake
How much do things cost? How much can I make?
Who are all my friends? Where do my foes live?
With whom should I fight? To whom should I give?
And with every question, another story rose
The man was rather frantic and always on his toes
Fighting every dragon, saving Damsels in distress
Hoping just around the corner he would find some much-needed rest
But then he noticed patterns, a tit for every tat
A cat for every mouse, a dog for every cat
Every time he pushed he received another shove
Every move he made seemed to hit him like a glove
The people all around him seemed to mirror every move
until the man began to notice what he really came to prove
He thought that he knew better how to build a world it seems
And left a loving Father to construct a world of weird dreams
He finally decided while dining at the trough
his petty dreams of vanity had exacted to great a cost
His friends were not his friends, his foes all knocked him down
He tried with all his might but never found his crown
He decided to go home if he could ever find his way
cleaning up the messes he had made along the way
He saw his Father at a distance with a smile upon his face
as the gap was closing in the final lap of his big race
He was sorry and he was saddened and wished to make things right
He would even sacrifice himself in his own loving Father's sight
But the Father sat there smiling with his hand on his son's head
And a Crown was on the nightstand right beside the dear son's bed.
And then the Father whispered: "Hear the Story that I tell
Listen very closely and be freed from your own jail
Once upon a time... a man dreamed he was awake
and forgot that he was dreaming, that was his first mistake!
And in this Grand Illusion, you fight all that you fear
thinking I am gone while I am always very near
There are no friends or foes or Dragons to be slain
I need not your defence of my wisdom or my Name
A Gnostic
Anyone from Kurgesagt?
I am very proud of him. He will always be my favorite. Weather he realizes it or not. i just want something to hold on to.......
I understand. Alan watts said it best in my opinion, we are all falling, and we want rocks to cling to as we are falling for some sense of security.. but they are falling with us. Anything we hold onto, will ultimately crumble in the end. Just as the personality we think “we” are. You are much more than who you think you are. I see your YT comment for what it is; to gain recognition in young souls to what this is talking about. Genius. Much love.
9:25 Aren't all the people from his time actually him? That makes no sense...
I'm guessing that the old man meant why during this period of time, different incarnations of him all referred to Hitler
Time is irrelevant.
Definitely the best acted version I've seen