One can feel lost and be unable to go anywhere. This, it seems to me, is the main reason I was never a big fan of continental philosophy. It's most likely because I haven't studied it deeply enough, but these philosophers never seem to take into consideration material things like one's socio-economic status. Lots of folks feel lost and would like to have some sense of purpose, belonging and community. But their material circumstances just won't allow for it. They're trapped in a system that uses them as cheap, disposable parts. And no matter how much Camus they read they won't be able to do anything until these circumstances change.
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” -Albert Camus
Thank you for posting this. At 39, and an Army combat veteran, I’ve relentlessly searched for the perfect string of words placed in a specific order to explain this idea I just couldn’t grasp and as validation of a sense of solidarity. Even though I’m very familiar with Camus, I’ve never heard this quote, or at least haven’t retained it. As simple as this quote is, it’s the string of words I’ve been searching for my entire life.
If you live with your eyes and mind open, you can find happiness in the damnest places. Sometimes it’s a real struggle to just walk outside, but I’m always glad I did. Happiness is sometimes just a content feeling, and that is good enough most times. Peace.
I agree,and our sole purpose on this planet is 1. Survival 2. Survival of our species,survival by itself is our primal drive,we want to be alive,we are wired up that way,and we want to be far away from death and that means we want better survival conditions,and we could apply that in the modern world by having more money and more resources,after that comes a will to have children and pass our genes,take care of them and love them and teach them to be able to gather their own resources later in life(same as the lion teaches cubs to hunt),and that's it.
At first sight, it is just a witty comment. After second thought, It is beyond just a simple humor. It really contains the spirit of this video's core lesson. Especially considering you thought of this humor when you were watching this serious videos.
This bleakness happened to me recently. I was walking alone in a crowded mall and was hit with a sudden sense of absurdity. I sat in the food court and tried to think it through. I realized that everything beforehand has led me to this exact point. Sitting and staring at a sea of faces and storefronts, so distant they could have been on Mars for all I cared. I was in the middle of and a part of something so warped and useless and empty. So void of meaning. And I was not above it. I was in it. What do I do now? Is it my turn to walk into that store? Do I stare at the mannequin behind the glass? What is this?
Smug Anime Girl -I’ve experienced those out of body moments numerous times through my life. It happened to me quite often in grade school when I had to stand up and speak to the class. Fear of public speaking, quite common. I would detach from what I was saying and go on auto-pilot, observing myself as if i was looking from another room. Weird, strange and kinda fun. Maybe fun isn’t the word, but it wasn’t unpleasant.
not true, just something manipulative hedonistic people say to avoid guilt while expecting deprived others to unhealthily bottle up their hurt inside, instead of rightfully claiming validation by letting their hurts and hates be expressed. I really would kindly ask that you delete this comment so that giving people who have been taken advantage of don't feel guilted or hurt by it. It's ok to hate, hate exists for a reason, and it's not right to repress it when it's honest and pure.
I would love if pursuit of wonder also had a podcast version so we could listen on the go. I really like the way which such deep concepts are presented in a clear and concise manner. I can’t get enough!
For me The meaning of life is found in the experience itself. Its Like a finger pointing away to the moon . Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory - Bruce Lee
I always find it strange that many of the biggest thinkers from the 19th and 20th century, seemed to come to the same or very similar conclusions that the Buddha came too.
Leigh Foulkes I think it’s because genius is almost always rejected when first confronted and it always takes time to understand and comprehend someone else’s wisdom
1:08 What really grinds my gears is when people DO decide to take the negative conclusion because to me it makes no sense. When I concluded there was no meaning to life, I felt free; there was no set goal for me to accomplish, no check list needed to be filled before I died. I could do anything within my power knowing that, when I died, I hadn't failed at life because I hadn't finished THE thing we're supposed to do before we die, because there is none. The world is indifferent to us. If we try hard enough we can leave our mark, but even then it will fade with time. Unless God exists there is no inherent meaning in anything, so we have no choice but to find our own meaning. The most obvious conclusion for me is to maximize happiness. Being happy makes me feel good, I like feeling good, so I do things that make my happy. We can't be happy all the time, but I don't think I need to be, right now, typing this comment. I'm not happy, but I'm not sad EDIT: Also after watching past 1:08 I see our messages are similar.
or you can cheat and commit suicide. then you dont have to be happy, or have desires, or suffer in anyway because u no longer exist. people when they find no meaning dont decide to suicide. they also suffer living (as does anyone) but they prefer not living over living, and that's the most difficult decision to take action upon. obviously not living is the winner if you wake up everyday to sadness and pain.
Tobori Ethics is trying to think through the problem that arises when I pursue that which makes me happy happens to make others unhappy. You can say that we can’t be responsible for how we make another feel, but what if your act makes you responsible. Meaning is the ethic that enables people to live together happily. That means embracing the thing that makes us unhappy at times. It’s messed up, but it’s a little more complex than pursuing what makes us happy.
Tobori, you felt free when you realized the meaningless of life, i felt lost. Probably because that happened in a very bad moment in my life. What i am trying to say is that our response isn't disconnected from our personal life and how we fell in general. Now i'm starting to fell free, because i'm recovering thanks to therapy
I like that theory a lot. But I do believe in a god and Jesus cause they are the beings, that makes us most be positive, loving, caring, and help you achieve your goals. I’m writing on here cause like the rest of you who’s trying to find meaning in your life I want to find mines. I feel like most of the people on this planet think they will feel completed if they get married to someone have a few kids and be happy right? When you look at sitcoms, movies, books, the internet those ppl who most of you want to be. U see them depressed and stressed for having to pay their bills pay their kids student loan and not to mention to the dudes on here who is working, with a family to support, you tell other people to not get married or you screwed. I will ask this to those married ppl that tells others not to marry or have kids why didn’t you just use a fucking condom dumbass? U complaining about your shitty life and how hard shit is that you don’t realize what you did, I’ll want you did cause you yourself thought...... yeah that’s want I need a wife and a kid and a shittyass job to be happy. Cause that’s what people think, if you want to feel complete or happy or whatever. (When u just overpopulating the world with you frigging kids and in the process hurting earth, in my opinion a 2 child policy for each couple will do wonders. Anyways just saying good luck to you all of y’all who is sacrificing for the life they want instead for settling for the life they don’t want to do shit for. Just get high, drink, fuck with protection on yous idiots. Be happy, travel do whatever you want that you think will work and for-fill or contributes to your personal life’s goals instead of thinking I want a fucking family then end up unhappy, think about how it means, I want to be happy b4 having a fucking stupidass kid.!!!! Well that’s my 2 sense, well way over 2 sense. Take it easy and drive slow people, take so you can really see things for what they are, explore, feel b4 getting knocked up. Anyways take care and happy Thursday. I hope someone will read this at least one person will be awesome.
Camus is a favorite! Here are some things I discovered during my journey of finding comfort in the absurdity of the world. "When man is happy, the meaning of life and other eternal themes rarely interest him." ― Andrei Tarkovsky “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” ― Albert Camus "I hate to break it to you, but there is no big lie, there is no system, the universe is indifferent." ― Don Draper "The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless." ― Leo Tolstoy “The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.” ― Albert Camus “Meaning and morality of one's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as possible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche "'I think everyone should love life above everything else in the world.' 'Love life regardless of the meaning of it?' 'Certainly - it must be regardless of logic - it's only then one can understand its meaning.'" ― Fyodor Dostoevsky "Drink! for you not know whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where." ― Omar Khayyám خیام نیشابوری
When I first started suffering from depression, my tutor at university asked me to explain how I felt, and all I could say was that it was a bit like being Mersault from Camus's L'Etranger. He replied that he didn't think anyone could ever feel like that. So I became a heavy smoker and took to drink.
How else can it, you ask? It can't! Lol. The universe doesn't exist. That's how! Even if the universe DID exist, it isn't actually there. Because there is no one around, to observe it. We are the builders of reality. WE call energy into matter, by observing it. This was proven a long time ago. THAT, should be enough to fill in a lot of puzzle pieces for you. But most people, miss the significance of this particular law of reality. It means we ARE special, Not insignificant, as science would have you believe. It means God is real. It means a lot of things. But too bad, we have all been programmed to be self-limiting. At any rate, revelations are usually immediately followed by cullings. So, by all means, be ignorant. 😉 There's no rich folks, without poor folks, right? Lol. Tricky tricky. But, all will turn out, as it should. You just need to make sure not to run out of popcorn.
@@thediplomasta5891 So if a thief walks into your house and steal your stuff while no one is around, the rob haven't occured because there was no observers? Tell me more about that, please.
Psychobellic he can’t because he’s gone too far. As with any philosophy there’s a time to stop with it. The universe is absurd and the majority of things within it are unknown and will remain unknown likely forever. Does that mean it’s not real? Probably not. We exist and observe the universe. We act upon it and it acts upon us. We are characters, not authors. We don’t know when the book begins or ends or even why it is being written. We can’t believe things into existence. We can only observe and bare the burden that is existence. This is our fate. Existence is a punishment and a reward. And the only thing we can know for sure is that we exist. Anything more is just observation
Camus delineated himself from the Existentialist of his time by his concept of the Absurd. As a working philosophy, Existentialism has served me well. It seemed to me to define my world where I saw no inherent meaning except procreation and the creative act such as art. The feeling of being out of step with the world, was experienced by me as an actor on the stage, missing my cue. I am 73 yrs old and have found that at each stage I have had to make choices on how to be authentic. As Sartre said, "We are doomed to freedom." The only major change I have found in my thinking as applied to Existentialism, is the idea that we are thrown into the world (existence precedes essence) with a Cartesian blank slate. It does not appear that we have a blank slate and even free will can be questioned. I just try to create out of the chaos.
Yes, I guess that an earthworm doesn't think to much of living in the dirt. When I think about living in the dirt, all I want to do is wake up this side of it. Other than that, the last person who told me I think too much, I considered her opinion and didn't give it much credence. I make the assumption that your question was rhetorical but I wasn't quite sure. Thanks for your effort.
@@stevesayewich8594 would you say the pursuit of truth and meaning (or lack of) is worth it even though it normally ends in self suffering. The greatests writers and thinkers tend to have some form of depression or existential nihilsm , even scientists. Is the cost of knowledge worth its pursuit , or is living life as a mere bystander , a watcher of the play , a better way to live. Is happiness worth more than the truth?
@@StayClear4321 Thanks for asking. I have paid the price and hopefully will continue to do so. Mine is not a life lived in the abstract. I experience and therefore I am. I have gotten to the point of considering Camus" definition of a meaningful life. When asked he said, "Anything you do that prevents your suicide." The truth, my truth, is all I have and in war it came very close. Yet, at those times I have been close to death, I was closest to life.
……………...as it turns out , we are just a kind of rust fungus on the planet, wearing it down to a another dead nub orbiting a dying star. We are the universe being aware of itself, ..guess we should worship the astrophysicists.
@@carolnorton2551 Carol Norton, I came back around to find your consideration of a self aware universe to be worth my consideration. I turn to my right and on my night stand is the book, "The Self-Aware Universe," by Amit Goswami. It concerns how consciousness creates the material world. Have you ever considered the idea of Panpsychism or the idea that everything has consciousness? David Chalmers has given it thought and around 1995 CE termed it, "The Hard Problem." Cosmology, Astrophysics, Quantum Mechanics and The Unified Field Theory are mindful ways of thinking about thinking. I'm just amazed at the wonder of it all. Wow.. Iron Oxide...You....Self Reflecting!!!
I came to this conclusion years ago, that nothing at all matters, that good and evil don’t exist and none of my personal good deeds or compassion or pain is recognized by some hidden cosmic being that will one day judge me for it. But unlike Camus, I fell into a dark depression for two years. I was 28 at the time, and I now believe it is why so many around that age tumble into mental break downs, because you’re just beyond the age of everyone helping you on your path, be it parents or friends, if you can’t stand alone by then you’re deemed a loser, a screw up, and so your illusion that the world is inherently good crumbles and you suffer from the flood of disillusionment. But it’s from the rock bottom of that, that you can rebuild your own truth, and Camus’s was a positive one, mine not so much for a couple years afterwards. But ten years later I’m okay and created my own perspective on it that helped me through. And it’s this; All inner suffering is created by disillusionment. Think about it. Whether you believe someone loves you and they don’t, or you realize your faith has been lying to you your entire life. We build our entire moral complex on top of illusions. They’re like columns holding up a palace, if one gets crushed, the entire building loses its support and eventually you find yourself crushed under a pile of rubble. So you must rebuild, and this is where you must be the most cautious, so not to create a complete cynic of your new self, instead listen to Camus or others with a better design, because no matter what you build it will also be an illusion, but as long as you always remember it is and have fun with it, you’ll be okay
I’d recommend stoic philosophy. I came to similar conclusions but found the stoics had spent millennia refining the way to think and accept reality. I replaced the despair of immortality and meaninglessness with a sense of liberation as it means it’s all down to me and how I choose to view the world. Like Epictetus said: What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.
We feel lost sometimes because it's up to one self to learn, reproduce, and continue to do what makes oneself happy. It we felt safe all the time, we'll just be dependent.
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He is so right about that. That moment had me on a Wednesday at 8 PM on a street corner in Quito Ecuador. It was raining, and I was overwhelmed with purposelessness.
I assume there's no meaning in life, but I am open to change this belief though. The conclusion I can draw from this (one can draw any kinds of conclusions) is as follows. If there's no meaning in life I might as well just be happy. I study happiness, philosophy, success, money, myself, my deepest desires, etc.. I study and try to apply my studies as best as I can, becoming more of what I want to become over time. Studying various audiobooks and speeches daily is an INCREDIBLY beneficial habit. Setting on a journey of self-development was the best decision I ever made. I also promised myself to never give up and just keep getting better at everything. "The most important part is getting off your butt and doing something." - Unknown "Happiness is not in what you get, but in what you become." - Jim Rohn Love life! (as in actively loving or making love to life) Find the ways of making love to life, which you find the most romantic, and build yourself to do them most effectively. I want to be extremely wealthy. (Love, family, personal growth, people, arts, etc. are up there too) Why do I want to be rich? Because I love life. Making myself rich is a way of loving life that I truly want to do. I know I would regret it if I didn't go for it. Go for it. Just go for it. Happy love making everybody.
UnYin99 if you want to embrace a life of sensual (e.g., taste, touch, smell, etc.) distractions that’s your choice... but it’s a solipsists’ choice that is neither noble nor enriching in the long term
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Johan Gustavsson No. You can’t blame it on others. People around you, and the ‘system’ is manipulating you, yes. But we’ve got free will, which mean we deliberately let them/it control us.
A refraising if I might add. You will never feel lost if you know enough to realize that you have the ability to manipulate your life for the better. Bad friends? Delete their contact/ your the bad friend? Fix your nature/ depressing job? Endure it until you've saved enough to make the switch but always work towards what you want. Remember that you have a mind and you own yourself no matter what your current situation is, I personally call it, suffering to suffer less in the future and eventually live in paradise. You've got the power to win if you work smart and figure life out.
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" at any street corner, the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face" I know exactly when this strike happens. It physically manifests itself as a sharp ringing in my right ear, and for just a moment, i view my life in 3rd person.
I just realized why I love this channel, many of these philosophies and thoughts, i’ve have already been ruminating and fathoming them, I like this channel because they resemble my thought but without my own efforts, the history is nice but not thinking for myself is uncomfortable
This is my gestalt summary. The universe is both meaningless and meaningful in unison. You can choose to perceive as either a grey endless quagmire of grim contests, or as a meaningful game or journey filled with surprise. I know which is better for my mental health. Essentially the material and the spiritual worlds collide and are both hear simultaneously now. The spiritual domain is not transposed.
In the acceptance of our absurd human experience, we realize that the point is not to eliminate absurdity or find in defense some ultimate truth. But rather, it is to be conscious and appreciative of the things within the absurdity. To look for, find and create things that are interesting and personally meaningful. As Albert Camus suggested that in the recognizing of our absurdity, we can better accept and share value with the people around us. Because we understand that we are all struggling victims of this absurd life. For Camus, continuing on in life and using its absurdity as a means of virtue. Exploration, art and unique experience. It is perhaps the highest and most worthy achievement in human life. When referencing the predicament of Sisyphus'fate, Camus writes, "The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a mans heart".
"We lack access to any end game purpose or truth that will give us a sense of finality or consolation." For some reason, this video kept making me think of the final season of Game of Thrones....
You should make a video about perception, especially the fact that we naturally think the world around us is what we see of it as indivual human being. The world is an entire different universe for each living being on this planet, and humans struggle to conceptualize it.
It is good to be concerned with others, but don’t think others think the way you do, also don’t think that the world will ever live up to your ideals. Fight for your ideals, but detach yourself from the results.
Strange. I would have come to the opposite conclusion: "don't fight for your ideals unless you can attach yourself to the results" That way even if the world refuses to live up to my ideals, at least I can benefit to some degree from my efforts.
@@youtubeviolatedme7123 fair, but I find that for many people the results they are looking for don’t actually exist or can’t exist in one’s own life time. The fact that the fight may not end in your lifetime, doesn’t mean that the fight has no meaning, it just means that the fight itself is what has the meaning. You are finding satisfaction in rolling the Boulder up the mountain, not much caring for if you ever reach the top. Sure you may pick your battles, but don’t pick your battles based on how likely they are to be achieved, pick them based on how much you care about them.
There is nothing to achieve in life because Das struggle itself towards great heights is sufficient to replenish a person’s heart. I must imagine Camus happy.
A life dedicated solely to self fulfillment will ultimately seem repetitive and vacuous and thus seemingly senseless. The people who are happy and content have the gift of giving and the joy it brings to help, elevate and improve the lot of someone less fortunate. Be a guiding star not a falling star.
Ah, but does that mean the altruistic are technically acting out of self-interest? I'm not going full Ayn Rand here and saying that altruism is evil or anything, but I do believe that altruism is always inherently a selfish action.
I'm deeply religious. I never feel lost. I never feel depressed. In fact, I feel completely centered, aware of precisely where I am and why, and completely comfortable in my meaning, and purpose - all of which I experience deeply and profoundly.
Every day is a battle against insanity! But, if you’re true to yourself, live your own live as best you can true your gut feeling. Everybody’s looking for something, desire causes pain. Let go and be free and you’ll die knowing you did the right thing for you.
@@kevinrmirezardila778 whatever you want it to be. Your goal. We feel like we need to know what our purpose is sometimes, finding that answer will make us feel lower than when we started feeling. There is no answer*.
That's the fascinating thing though. Sisyphus' life is, essentially, that of eternal suffering. There is no "victory at the end", no satisfaction at having rolled the rock up the mountain... it just starts again. Contrarily, Camus says you should 'imagine Sisyphus happy'.
I've often felt lost in life and that it was meaningless, but that led me to explore many things that other people may not think of like, extensive travel, writing, art. All of these things enriched my life and felt meaningful to me even if the meaningfulness is only in my own mind and isn't in any way an objective reality. Each one of us should find our own purpose and what makes us happy. That's meaningful in and of itself.
I really love your channel. It gives me motivation for life and for philosophy. School ruined my view on philosophy because they make philosophy seems so boring.
Oddly, or perhaps not, I seem to have not had to wait for this moment on the STREET corner. I was born wundering ( wondering) and knew it as soon as I was self aware. Have lived many lives in my 60+ years. Now I have this and other thinking people to listen to and think finally that though we never will meet, I have a family of beings like myself to share with. Thank you for posting this. Have a wonderful day, a day full of wonder. ( wunder)
Did your perception of live change throughout life? Do you think you are the same person as always? I'm only 19 but since i can remember i am the same person and my 'personality' didnt change much. People say you grow up or you change but i never experianced it. I always was very rational as i am now.
@@LordDark102 answer, no I never changed in my head however I had to learn to adapt to the world changing around me. At times that can make you feel like you have changed but if you still hold the same values ,you haven't. It gets confusing and you go through " phases " ,but you will still be you in the end. Did that help? Life is for the living of it nothing more. Have a wonderful day, every day. A day full of wonder......
@@jimsmith9853 it would seem that online and real life can be one and the same. Just keep your you ,you. Others are out here and maybe they will find you or you will find them, in the flesh. Don't give into all the " stuff " around you, always be true to your self. Have a wonderful day, every day. A day full of wonder.......
Perhaps accepting the absurd is either absurd in itself, illogical, and/or irrational. Camus seems to think it both logical and rational to accept. How absurd!
LSD and other psychedelics opens the whole spiritual world and helps you find meaning in life and helps you find out who you are and how to balance the ego.
Dan B - not trying to bum you out. I remember when NDEs were first becoming well known and reported in the media. The floating away from your body, the tunnel, white light, friends and relatives that had already died there to greet you, etc. At any rate, I read a study in the mid/late 80s (either SCIENCE or NATURE, I don't remember). It basically just tabulated common "occurrences" in those who'd experienced a NDE. Had a fairly large sample of adults, but it also included children. Less than 15 in total , age 12 and under, as I recall. At any rate, they all described a very similar experience - with the exception of the people who greeted them on the "other side." In the cases of the children it was their Mom and Dad or a sibling or Teacher. People who were still alive.
@@unrulysimian3897 If you are resting your entire opinion of NDE's on one study then I can't help you. Also, a very old study, modern NDE research has taken things to en entirely different level of detail and specificity. Also it's pretty normal for children to have greeters on the other side appear to them as people they are familiar with, it's part of the comforting process for one and secondly, most children are too young to have dead relatives so there's so one to actually greet them. The fact your concentrating on that small detail rather than the fact that children, with no real deep biases or concepts of an afterlife are reporting basically the same experience as adults which simply bolsters the entire NDE research
You make a lot of sense. I have found that when I have found help that I absolutely did not deserve, that my attitude underwent a subtle but profound change. When I encounter difficulty or pain, I don't suffer much self-pity. And that is gratifying. I still get angry about things that go wrong, but I usually see what I am doing wrong or I ask for help. This is what makes life worthwhile. Religious people would call this grace.
Faith? I would suggest that is what it is about .Also we are put here to help one another, it is really very simple. What brings you the most joy and feeling of accomplishment is helping others. Nothing more or less.
Thanks for this. It's a real synchronicity for me since I'm just now reading a book on the INFP type (Camus is often quoted and is said to be one) to try and answer exactly the sorts of questions dealt with in the video. Namely, who am I, why I feel so lost, and how best to move forward despite my being totally out of sync, or absurdly out of sync, in terms of what I do for a living, a carpenter, and what is in line with my personality, such as helping people with this relentless appetite for psychology. One thing I've noticed myself in recent years, and what I've been really using to move myself forward, just as Camus points out, is how the little experiences, the little connections we make with others, a hope for the future, and the things that get us thinking and spark out interests are truly things of value that are often unique to us. Lately it's been hard to remember that so thanks again! I've never searched for Camus yet this video was right there on my feed. You have to wonder sometimes ;)
*Treat Everyday Like Its Your Last* thats what i tell myself everyday :) i thought of the black hole era and thought to myself *treat every single day like its your last because it just might be*
I used to work a graveyard shift in downtown. I would go to the top floor on my break and just watch the world go by. Often to ponder things, to think about what the hell I was going to do with my life. One day I was thinking why am I existing? What are we here? Then I woke up from my nap and finished my shift
From what I've learned from the universe is that there is no absolute. Life is full of grays, such as the yin and yang. To have achieved that means you didn't have anything. To fail that means you can learn.
*We are lost, until we learn about the divine truth and accept whatever is there.* Searching meaning is what confuses people, because you will never find it, because there is none.
"Feeling lost in life means that you're totally free to go anywhere you want"
Unless you're sick or disabled...
keldra alpine literally, yeah, but in other context it is more than its literal meaning.
Thats beautiful bro
One can feel lost and be unable to go anywhere.
This, it seems to me, is the main reason I was never a big fan of continental philosophy. It's most likely because I haven't studied it deeply enough, but these philosophers never seem to take into consideration material things like one's socio-economic status.
Lots of folks feel lost and would like to have some sense of purpose, belonging and community. But their material circumstances just won't allow for it. They're trapped in a system that uses them as cheap, disposable parts.
And no matter how much Camus they read they won't be able to do anything until these circumstances change.
but what is it that i want? i cant seem to answer that myself other than death and eternal rest.
"The meaning of life is whatever you do that keeps you from committing suicide."
--Albert Camus
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We all strive to escape the notion of nihilism
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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
-Albert Camus
Thank you for posting this. At 39, and an Army combat veteran, I’ve relentlessly searched for the perfect string of words placed in a specific order to explain this idea I just couldn’t grasp and as validation of a sense of solidarity. Even though I’m very familiar with Camus, I’ve never heard this quote, or at least haven’t retained it. As simple as this quote is, it’s the string of words I’ve been searching for my entire life.
If you live with your eyes and mind open, you can find happiness in the damnest places. Sometimes it’s a real struggle to just walk outside, but I’m always glad I did. Happiness is sometimes just a content feeling, and that is good enough most times. Peace.
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"The meaning of life is to give it meaning"
- Some card I found in the supermarket
Think i saw this in a cartoon too
Thanks
I believe Viktor Frankl said that first.
And the first time i read this is in one of Ryan Higa's video 😅
"Clean your room and take the trash out"
- Mom?
"one must imagine Sisyphus happy" is a fascinating interpretation of the story
I''l ruin it watch this...one must imagine Sisyphus unhappy.
@@shatterdreamz2325 I'll try to not think of that one lol. But it's interesting despite its possible self evident conclusion.
The thing though is that he must be happy. Because if he wasn't, then how could we have gotten this far. Right?
Sisiphys was a dickhead.
He was prolly in good shape!
I always reach this point when I die more than 5 times in a videogame
Dude lmfao. While i was literally telling my friend he dies too much in gta, i looked at my phone and saw your comment. Destiny
Only 5 times? Amateur
lol seriously, when im sitting the graveyard yet again i have this personal crisis
have you heard of dark souls? you will start to question your sanity.
Git gud u filthy casul
"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others." Camus.
To be happy you must choose happiness.
@Jaime Alonzo When the self is vainly worshiped above all else. The extreme.
Why so serious?
That's called narcisissm and it's a dis order
Vodkacannon
It’s one quote, meant to be read in context. Maybe you’re a narcissist.
Life is the way it is. Nothing more, nothing less. Meaning only has meaning if you say it does.
I agree,and our sole purpose on this planet is 1. Survival 2. Survival of our species,survival by itself is our primal drive,we want to be alive,we are wired up that way,and we want to be far away from death and that means we want better survival conditions,and we could apply that in the modern world by having more money and more resources,after that comes a will to have children and pass our genes,take care of them and love them and teach them to be able to gather their own resources later in life(same as the lion teaches cubs to hunt),and that's it.
Exactly lol
Marko Kraljević yeah, for sure that’s the main meaning in life as a living being
Than does life have meaning even if I say it has meaning as you say it is
Than why would meaning matter?
Grew point of view on life my friend that's what life is all about making the best of it even if it seems absurd at times tho.
In other words: "I know it's only rock-n-roll but I like it."
Underrated comment.
We have no choice but to like it since it's all we've got
brilliant
Killer response !
At first sight, it is just a witty comment. After second thought, It is beyond just a simple humor. It really contains the spirit of this video's core lesson. Especially considering you thought of this humor when you were watching this serious videos.
This bleakness happened to me recently. I was walking alone in a crowded mall and was hit with a sudden sense of absurdity. I sat in the food court and tried to think it through. I realized that everything beforehand has led me to this exact point. Sitting and staring at a sea of faces and storefronts, so distant they could have been on Mars for all I cared. I was in the middle of and a part of something so warped and useless and empty. So void of meaning. And I was not above it. I was in it. What do I do now? Is it my turn to walk into that store? Do I stare at the mannequin behind the glass? What is this?
Did you find a way out of the cul de sac of your absurd existence or did you embrace it in all its absurd futility?
JeffRebornNow -I escape, I embrace, escape, embrace. Ad-nauseam.
Smug Anime Girl -I’ve experienced those out of body moments numerous times through my life. It happened to me quite often in grade school when I had to stand up and speak to the class. Fear of public speaking, quite common. I would detach from what I was saying and go on auto-pilot, observing myself as if i was looking from another room. Weird, strange and kinda fun. Maybe fun isn’t the word, but it wasn’t unpleasant.
@@tubhair You felt alienated in grade school? You're a born existentialist, aren't you?
I once read a response to the question “What is life?” The answer was “Wrong question. Ask instead What do I want to experience next?”
*_Sometimes losing your way and experiencing new things is the only way to find YOURSELF_*
nigga u edited it and still fail grammar
You two dumbasses can’t even get grammar right yourselves who are you to talk lmao
This channel is everywhere tho lol
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Gossip and talking negatively about others will cause you pain.
Gratitude and joy for others will make you an overall happier person.
I agree but people will take advantage of your kindness.
TM of course, so then you cut those people out of your life.
Is it negative, if its true?
Jack Worthington it is a waste of time focusing on negativity.
not true, just something manipulative hedonistic people say to avoid guilt while expecting deprived others to unhealthily bottle up their hurt inside, instead of rightfully claiming validation by letting their hurts and hates be expressed. I really would kindly ask that you delete this comment so that giving people who have been taken advantage of don't feel guilted or hurt by it. It's ok to hate, hate exists for a reason, and it's not right to repress it when it's honest and pure.
I would love if pursuit of wonder also had a podcast version so we could listen on the go. I really like the way which such deep concepts are presented in a clear and concise manner. I can’t get enough!
might be a bit late (2 years haha) but try Philosophize This!
For me The meaning of life is found in the experience itself.
Its Like a finger pointing away to the moon . Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory - Bruce Lee
That sounds very Zen. The quote from Bruce Lee is coming from a buddhist zen koan I believe.
Bro word up Jeet Kune Do
Heavy
Zen flesh, zen bones. One of the best koan collections
No meaning in this game unless you make it right? all we got are rules, a few rather easy to follow rules. or so i'd like to think
I always find it strange that many of the biggest thinkers from the 19th and 20th century, seemed to come to the same or very similar conclusions that the Buddha came too.
Leigh Foulkes I think it’s because genius is almost always rejected when first confronted and it always takes time to understand and comprehend someone else’s wisdom
Question what about the 21st century? I think you might have gotten you centurys wrong 1800=19th century 1900=20th century 2000=21st century (now)
@Paulus Rosa bullshit
Not only the Buddha but Hinduism and Stoicism have similar perception of life
Same as the Philosopher in the book of Ecclesiastes. Except that he still keeps God in the picture.
I love being an Absurdist, I owe Camus a huge thanks for brightening up my life in these dark times
I find meaning through those who confess the universal lack of meaning. Oddly enough.
@@StayClear4321 almost like they've given you a clean slate to start your life proper!
@@Silverman216 exactly!
You can't ever be lost because everywhere is somewhere.
1:08 What really grinds my gears is when people DO decide to take the negative conclusion because to me it makes no sense. When I concluded there was no meaning to life, I felt free; there was no set goal for me to accomplish, no check list needed to be filled before I died. I could do anything within my power knowing that, when I died, I hadn't failed at life because I hadn't finished THE thing we're supposed to do before we die, because there is none.
The world is indifferent to us. If we try hard enough we can leave our mark, but even then it will fade with time. Unless God exists there is no inherent meaning in anything, so we have no choice but to find our own meaning. The most obvious conclusion for me is to maximize happiness. Being happy makes me feel good, I like feeling good, so I do things that make my happy. We can't be happy all the time, but I don't think I need to be, right now, typing this comment. I'm not happy, but I'm not sad
EDIT: Also after watching past 1:08 I see our messages are similar.
That's the difference between nihilism and stoicism, though both look the same on the outside.
or you can cheat and commit suicide. then you dont have to be happy, or have desires, or suffer in anyway because u no longer exist.
people when they find no meaning dont decide to suicide. they also suffer living (as does anyone) but they prefer not living over living, and that's the most difficult decision to take action upon. obviously not living is the winner if you wake up everyday to sadness and pain.
Tobori Ethics is trying to think through the problem that arises when I pursue that which makes me happy happens to make others unhappy. You can say that we can’t be responsible for how we make another feel, but what if your act makes you responsible. Meaning is the ethic that enables people to live together happily. That means embracing the thing that makes us unhappy at times. It’s messed up, but it’s a little more complex than pursuing what makes us happy.
Tobori, you felt free when you realized the meaningless of life, i felt lost. Probably because that happened in a very bad moment in my life. What i am trying to say is that our response isn't disconnected from our personal life and how we fell in general. Now i'm starting to fell free, because i'm recovering thanks to therapy
I like that theory a lot. But I do believe in a god and Jesus cause they are the beings, that makes us most be positive, loving, caring, and help you achieve your goals. I’m writing on here cause like the rest of you who’s trying to find meaning in your life I want to find mines. I feel like most of the people on this planet think they will feel completed if they get married to someone have a few kids and be happy right? When you look at sitcoms, movies, books, the internet those ppl who most of you want to be. U see them depressed and stressed for having to pay their bills pay their kids student loan and not to mention to the dudes on here who is working, with a family to support, you tell other people to not get married or you screwed. I will ask this to those married ppl that tells others not to marry or have kids why didn’t you just use a fucking condom dumbass? U complaining about your shitty life and how hard shit is that you don’t realize what you did, I’ll want you did cause you yourself thought...... yeah that’s want I need a wife and a kid and a shittyass job to be happy. Cause that’s what people think, if you want to feel complete or happy or whatever. (When u just overpopulating the world with you frigging kids and in the process hurting earth, in my opinion a 2 child policy for each couple will do wonders. Anyways just saying good luck to you all of y’all who is sacrificing for the life they want instead for settling for the life they don’t want to do shit for. Just get high, drink, fuck with protection on yous idiots. Be happy, travel do whatever you want that you think will work and for-fill or contributes to your personal life’s goals instead of thinking I want a fucking family then end up unhappy, think about how it means, I want to be happy b4 having a fucking stupidass kid.!!!! Well that’s my 2 sense, well way over 2 sense. Take it easy and drive slow people, take so you can really see things for what they are, explore, feel b4 getting knocked up. Anyways take care and happy Thursday. I hope someone will read this at least one person will be awesome.
"The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
Camus is a favorite! Here are some things I discovered during my journey of finding comfort in the absurdity of the world.
"When man is happy, the meaning of life and other eternal themes rarely interest him."
― Andrei Tarkovsky
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus
"I hate to break it to you, but there is no big lie, there is no system, the universe is indifferent."
― Don Draper
"The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless."
― Leo Tolstoy
“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
― Albert Camus
“Meaning and morality of one's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person explores as many of them as possible. Religions that teach pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging, devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
"'I think everyone should love life above everything else in the world.'
'Love life regardless of the meaning of it?'
'Certainly - it must be regardless of logic - it's only then one can understand its meaning.'"
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Drink! for you not know whence you came, nor why:
Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where."
― Omar Khayyám خیام نیشابوری
"Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." ~ Bill Hicks
Nice to see this Hicks quote here. Thanks for keeping his msg moving.
Except we're the ones in the driver's seat!
When I first started suffering from depression, my tutor at university asked me to explain how I felt, and all I could say was that it was a bit like being Mersault from Camus's L'Etranger. He replied that he didn't think anyone could ever feel like that. So I became a heavy smoker and took to drink.
Finally, a channel that rivals Academy of Ideas!
Yep, that's true.
school of life?
@Sally April erm I dunno I think they are both kinda subjective, aren't they?
@Sally April Well that's fresh news to me so I ought to check it out
oh and (forgot) thanks for the tip
I keep coming back to watch this video every once in a while. It is a beautiful and important reminder to not take things too seriously.
On the contrary. It's telling you that you should force yourself to seek arbitrary things to take seriously.
This captures the modern sentiment so well
Ah shit here we go again
-CJ
I was just starting San Andreas over lmao
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Lmao this should be the top comment
yo lmaoooo
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“ playing the game, that you aren’t god. ”
Sounds like Watts
How else can it, you ask? It can't! Lol. The universe doesn't exist. That's how! Even if the universe DID exist, it isn't actually there. Because there is no one around, to observe it. We are the builders of reality. WE call energy into matter, by observing it. This was proven a long time ago. THAT, should be enough to fill in a lot of puzzle pieces for you. But most people, miss the significance of this particular law of reality. It means we ARE special, Not insignificant, as science would have you believe. It means God is real. It means a lot of things. But too bad, we have all been programmed to be self-limiting. At any rate, revelations are usually immediately followed by cullings. So, by all means, be ignorant. 😉 There's no rich folks, without poor folks, right? Lol.
Tricky tricky. But, all will turn out, as it should. You just need to make sure not to run out of popcorn.
@@thediplomasta5891 yes materialism is dead. We get it . Idealism is so post modern lol
@@thediplomasta5891 So if a thief walks into your house and steal your stuff while no one is around, the rob haven't occured because there was no observers? Tell me more about that, please.
Psychobellic he can’t because he’s gone too far. As with any philosophy there’s a time to stop with it. The universe is absurd and the majority of things within it are unknown and will remain unknown likely forever. Does that mean it’s not real? Probably not. We exist and observe the universe. We act upon it and it acts upon us. We are characters, not authors. We don’t know when the book begins or ends or even why it is being written. We can’t believe things into existence. We can only observe and bare the burden that is existence. This is our fate. Existence is a punishment and a reward. And the only thing we can know for sure is that we exist. Anything more is just observation
Camus delineated himself from the Existentialist of his time by his concept of the Absurd. As a working philosophy, Existentialism has served me well. It seemed to me to define my world where I saw no inherent meaning except procreation and the creative act such as art. The feeling of being out of step with the world, was experienced by me as an actor on the stage, missing my cue. I am 73 yrs old and have found that at each stage I have had to make choices on how to be authentic. As Sartre said, "We are doomed to freedom." The only major change I have found in my thinking as applied to Existentialism, is the idea that we are thrown into the world (existence precedes essence) with a Cartesian blank slate. It does not appear that we have a blank slate and even free will can be questioned. I just try to create out of the chaos.
Yes, I guess that an earthworm doesn't think to much of living in the dirt. When I think about living in the dirt, all I want to do is wake up this side of it. Other than that, the last person who told me I think too much, I considered her opinion and didn't give it much credence. I make the assumption that your question was rhetorical but I wasn't quite sure. Thanks for your effort.
@@stevesayewich8594 would you say the pursuit of truth and meaning (or lack of) is worth it even though it normally ends in self suffering. The greatests writers and thinkers tend to have some form of depression or existential nihilsm , even scientists. Is the cost of knowledge worth its pursuit , or is living life as a mere bystander , a watcher of the play , a better way to live. Is happiness worth more than the truth?
@@StayClear4321 Thanks for asking. I have paid the price and hopefully will continue to do so. Mine is not a life lived in the abstract. I experience and therefore I am. I have gotten to the point of considering Camus" definition of a meaningful life. When asked he said, "Anything you do that prevents your suicide."
The truth, my truth, is all I have and in war it came very close. Yet, at those times I have been close to death, I was closest to life.
……………...as it turns out , we are just a kind of rust fungus on the planet, wearing it down to a another dead nub orbiting a dying star.
We are the universe being aware of itself, ..guess we should worship the astrophysicists.
@@carolnorton2551 Carol Norton, I came back around to find your consideration of a self aware universe to be worth my consideration. I turn to my right and on my night stand is the book, "The Self-Aware Universe," by Amit Goswami. It concerns how consciousness creates the material world. Have you ever considered the idea of Panpsychism or the idea that everything has consciousness? David Chalmers has given it thought and around 1995 CE termed it, "The Hard Problem." Cosmology, Astrophysics, Quantum Mechanics and The Unified Field Theory are mindful ways of thinking about thinking. I'm just amazed at the wonder of it all. Wow.. Iron Oxide...You....Self Reflecting!!!
"Life is what you make it"
- Nasir Jones
I came to this conclusion without knowing a person actually made an entire phylosophy out of it.It is indeed truly awesome to find out about this .
i dare someone to click the link
I came to this conclusion years ago, that nothing at all matters, that good and evil don’t exist and none of my personal good deeds or compassion or pain is recognized by some hidden cosmic being that will one day judge me for it. But unlike Camus, I fell into a dark depression for two years. I was 28 at the time, and I now believe it is why so many around that age tumble into mental break downs, because you’re just beyond the age of everyone helping you on your path, be it parents or friends, if you can’t stand alone by then you’re deemed a loser, a screw up, and so your illusion that the world is inherently good crumbles and you suffer from the flood of disillusionment. But it’s from the rock bottom of that, that you can rebuild your own truth, and Camus’s was a positive one, mine not so much for a couple years afterwards. But ten years later I’m okay and created my own perspective on it that helped me through. And it’s this; All inner suffering is created by disillusionment. Think about it. Whether you believe someone loves you and they don’t, or you realize your faith has been lying to you your entire life. We build our entire moral complex on top of illusions. They’re like columns holding up a palace, if one gets crushed, the entire building loses its support and eventually you find yourself crushed under a pile of rubble. So you must rebuild, and this is where you must be the most cautious, so not to create a complete cynic of your new self, instead listen to Camus or others with a better design, because no matter what you build it will also be an illusion, but as long as you always remember it is and have fun with it, you’ll be okay
I’d recommend stoic philosophy. I came to similar conclusions but found the stoics had spent millennia refining the way to think and accept reality. I replaced the despair of immortality and meaninglessness with a sense of liberation as it means it’s all down to me and how I choose to view the world. Like Epictetus said: What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.
We feel lost sometimes because it's up to one self to learn, reproduce, and continue to do what makes oneself happy.
It we felt safe all the time, we'll just be dependent.
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These videos but a smile on my face. I feel I’m not the only one with these things in mind.
He is so right about that. That moment had me on a Wednesday at 8 PM on a street corner in Quito Ecuador. It was raining, and I was overwhelmed with purposelessness.
I assume there's no meaning in life, but I am open to change this belief though.
The conclusion I can draw from this (one can draw any kinds of conclusions) is as follows.
If there's no meaning in life I might as well just be happy.
I study happiness, philosophy, success, money, myself, my deepest desires, etc.. I study and try to apply my studies as best as I can, becoming more of what I want to become over time. Studying various audiobooks and speeches daily is an INCREDIBLY beneficial habit. Setting on a journey of self-development was the best decision I ever made. I also promised myself to never give up and just keep getting better at everything.
"The most important part is getting off your butt and doing something." - Unknown
"Happiness is not in what you get, but in what you become." - Jim Rohn
Love life! (as in actively loving or making love to life)
Find the ways of making love to life, which you find the most romantic, and build yourself to do them most effectively.
I want to be extremely wealthy. (Love, family, personal growth, people, arts, etc. are up there too)
Why do I want to be rich? Because I love life. Making myself rich is a way of loving life that I truly want to do.
I know I would regret it if I didn't go for it.
Go for it. Just go for it. Happy love making everybody.
It's critical that we find things that INSPIRE us rather that merely DISTRACT us over a lifetime...
Beautifully said.
Streets of Vancouver -thank you so much.
No it isn't. There is nothing wrong with being distracted if that is what you consciously choose.
UnYin99 if you want to embrace a life of sensual (e.g., taste, touch, smell, etc.) distractions that’s your choice... but it’s a solipsists’ choice that is neither noble nor enriching in the long term
Can someone please help me find something that inspires me :( I really need it
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Life is absurd, we have to make sense of it and be happy in our experiences, we come across while dealing the absurdity.
Just do your part passionately, don't worry about results. Enjoy the process, the journey is more satisfying & enriching than the destination!
“One must imagine Sisyphus happy” has got to be my favorite quote of all time.
You have to be lost in order to find someplace new, someplace you have never been.
I find it liberating knowing that everything is absurd and there is no pressure to realise some large meaning, but to do whatever.
I love this channel
You will never feel lost, if you know enough to realize that it's people that will drag you astray.
Johan Gustavsson
No. You can’t blame it on others. People around you, and the ‘system’ is manipulating you, yes. But we’ve got free will, which mean we deliberately let them/it control us.
A refraising if I might add. You will never feel lost if you know enough to realize that you have the ability to manipulate your life for the better. Bad friends? Delete their contact/ your the bad friend? Fix your nature/ depressing job? Endure it until you've saved enough to make the switch but always work towards what you want. Remember that you have a mind and you own yourself no matter what your current situation is, I personally call it, suffering to suffer less in the future and eventually live in paradise. You've got the power to win if you work smart and figure life out.
How’d you get to know enough?
@@alrightthengreat through your community, curiosity, and human desire for better.
You are a person though. So if it is human nature to inhibit people well... That would mean the first part of your claim is untrue.
"Meaningless struggle itself is enough to fill man's heart." Well... THAT is an absurd statement!
and yet, encouraging. i guess the real question is what is it that which keeps ypu alive, no matter how absurd it may be.
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One day it won't be.
" at any street corner, the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face"
I know exactly when this strike happens. It physically manifests itself as a sharp ringing in my right ear, and for just a moment, i view my life in 3rd person.
Eduardo Ramirez that’s me tapping in and watching through your consciousness
Thats Tinnitis, bro...you'll be alright.
“ we understand that we are all struggling victims of this absurd life ...”
I just realized why I love this channel, many of these philosophies and thoughts, i’ve have already been ruminating and fathoming them, I like this channel because they resemble my thought but without my own efforts, the history is nice but not thinking for myself is uncomfortable
Finally, my quest to find meaning ended with this video.
Eh, no. It should have started with this video. The quest for meaning itself is the meaning.
@@youtubeviolatedme7123 A magic trick lose its charm once you know how it works... no matter how fascinating it was
in otherwords the words of the boss from MGS " It's not about changing the world. It's about doing our best to leave the world..the way it is"
Finally an actual intellectual who loves philosophy that has a channel!!!
Check out the channel Academy of Ideas. You'll really like that one too I think
Very well put together. Thank you. Seeing Sisyphus happy exerting effort does shift the essence of the myth.
"Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost" - J.R.R. Tolkien
This is my gestalt summary.
The universe is both meaningless and meaningful in unison. You can choose to perceive as either a grey endless quagmire of grim contests, or as a meaningful game or journey filled with surprise. I know which is better for my mental health. Essentially the material and the spiritual worlds collide and are both hear simultaneously now. The spiritual domain is not transposed.
Add to this the sheer joy of watching it roll hard and fast, flinging itself thundering downhill. Each event unique to the one before
In the acceptance of our absurd human experience, we realize that the point is not to eliminate absurdity or find in defense some ultimate truth. But rather, it is to be conscious and appreciative of the things within the absurdity. To look for, find and create things that are interesting and personally meaningful. As Albert Camus suggested that in the recognizing of our absurdity, we can better accept and share value with the people around us. Because we understand that we are all struggling victims of this absurd life. For Camus, continuing on in life and using its absurdity as a means of virtue. Exploration, art and unique experience. It is perhaps the highest and most worthy achievement in human life. When referencing the predicament of Sisyphus'fate, Camus writes, "The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a mans heart".
"We lack access to any end game purpose or truth that will give us a sense of finality or consolation." For some reason, this video kept making me think of the final season of Game of Thrones....
You should make a video about perception, especially the fact that we naturally think the world around us is what we see of it as indivual human being. The world is an entire different universe for each living being on this planet, and humans struggle to conceptualize it.
It is good to be concerned with others, but don’t think others think the way you do, also don’t think that the world will ever live up to your ideals. Fight for your ideals, but detach yourself from the results.
Strange. I would have come to the opposite conclusion: "don't fight for your ideals unless you can attach yourself to the results"
That way even if the world refuses to live up to my ideals, at least I can benefit to some degree from my efforts.
@@youtubeviolatedme7123 fair, but I find that for many people the results they are looking for don’t actually exist or can’t exist in one’s own life time. The fact that the fight may not end in your lifetime, doesn’t mean that the fight has no meaning, it just means that the fight itself is what has the meaning. You are finding satisfaction in rolling the Boulder up the mountain, not much caring for if you ever reach the top. Sure you may pick your battles, but don’t pick your battles based on how likely they are to be achieved, pick them based on how much you care about them.
The more we answer the more questions we get
Weird right
Life is open! So open you don’t understand just run!
There is no purpose in life, in the end nothing matters, just enjoy the moment and have fun, for in the end everything will have been for no reason.
ashes to ashes, funk to funky
Well I know we can die but why r we alive in the first place ok is to have fun fine but I think thrs more to life then fun and dying
@@lovepeaceisneverguaranteed7385 I would like to think that as well but if it's not the case we waste our lives waiting for it
@@elmao4927 Yeah life is just a crazy journey until we die tho
@@lovepeaceisneverguaranteed7385 Gotta make the best of it
There is nothing to achieve in life because
Das struggle itself towards great heights is sufficient to replenish a person’s heart.
I must imagine Camus happy.
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A life dedicated solely to self fulfillment will ultimately seem repetitive and vacuous and thus seemingly senseless. The people who are happy and content have the gift of giving and the joy it brings to help, elevate and improve the lot of someone less fortunate. Be a guiding star not a falling star.
Ah, but does that mean the altruistic are technically acting out of self-interest? I'm not going full Ayn Rand here and saying that altruism is evil or anything, but I do believe that altruism is always inherently a selfish action.
Indeed. It is.@@youtubeviolatedme7123
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I'm deeply religious. I never feel lost. I never feel depressed. In fact, I feel completely centered, aware of precisely where I am and why, and completely comfortable in my meaning, and purpose - all of which I experience deeply and profoundly.
life doesn't have any meaning, perhaps, it means what we define it
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I think you're lost!!!
Without meaning why you cooking food?
It's not fanney?
Every day is a battle against insanity! But, if you’re true to yourself, live your own live as best you can true your gut feeling. Everybody’s looking for something, desire causes pain. Let go and be free and you’ll die knowing you did the right thing for you.
To me, Sisyphus' meaning means to enjoy the journey, not the victory at the end.
What victory?
@@kevinrmirezardila778 whatever you want it to be. Your goal. We feel like we need to know what our purpose is sometimes, finding that answer will make us feel lower than when we started feeling. There is no answer*.
That's the fascinating thing though. Sisyphus' life is, essentially, that of eternal suffering. There is no "victory at the end", no satisfaction at having rolled the rock up the mountain... it just starts again. Contrarily, Camus says you should 'imagine Sisyphus happy'.
I've often felt lost in life and that it was meaningless, but that led me to explore many things that other people may not think of like, extensive travel, writing, art. All of these things enriched my life and felt meaningful to me even if the meaningfulness is only in my own mind and isn't in any way an objective reality. Each one of us should find our own purpose and what makes us happy. That's meaningful in and of itself.
I really love your channel. It gives me motivation for life and for philosophy. School ruined my view on philosophy because they make philosophy seems so boring.
In a family full of educated existentialists with three recent suicides, my advice is to not take yourself too seriously.
Feel like I came to this conclusion on my own a few years ago, glad to know im not alone here
It's perfect that you put the clip of rock climbing in the video, and the last quote sums it up perfectly. Thank you.
Oddly, or perhaps not, I seem to have not had to wait for this moment on the STREET corner.
I was born wundering ( wondering) and knew it as soon as I was self aware.
Have lived many lives in my 60+ years. Now I have this and other thinking people to listen to and think finally that though we never will meet, I have a family of beings like myself to share with.
Thank you for posting this.
Have a wonderful day, a day full of wonder. ( wunder)
This.
Exactly.
We find each other on line
But miss each other in life.
Did your perception of live change throughout life? Do you think you are the same person as always? I'm only 19 but since i can remember i am the same person and my 'personality' didnt change much. People say you grow up or you change but i never experianced it. I always was very rational as i am now.
@@LordDark102 answer, no I never changed in my head however I had to learn to adapt to the world changing around me. At times that can make you feel like you have changed but if you still hold the same values ,you haven't. It gets confusing and you go through " phases " ,but you will still be you in the end.
Did that help?
Life is for the living of it nothing more.
Have a wonderful day, every day.
A day full of wonder......
@@jimsmith9853 it would seem that online and real life can be one and the same.
Just keep your you ,you.
Others are out here and maybe they will find you or you will find them, in the flesh.
Don't give into all the " stuff " around you, always be true to your self.
Have a wonderful day, every day.
A day full of wonder.......
WOW...!! THANK YOU SO MUCH....I WAS JUST SEARCHING THIS MOST VALUABLE THOUGHT....
Perhaps accepting the absurd is either absurd in itself, illogical, and/or irrational. Camus seems to think it both logical and rational to accept. How absurd!
I’ve been searching for this, I’ve been experiencing this since the 8th grade and my anxiety has grown chronic. This is THE explanation. This is it...
Heyo how are you?
"Life is like a game. There's a beginning and an end. And the point is to win."
-A card I found in Walmart
* laughs in minecraft *
😅
How do you know the beginning and the end ? This is absurdity.
I refuse to give up
Many people find meaning in modern Near Death Research which shows very clearly that consciousness survives bodily death
LSD and other psychedelics opens the whole spiritual world and helps you find meaning in life and helps you find out who you are and how to balance the ego.
Dan B - not trying to bum you out. I remember when NDEs were first becoming well known and reported in the media. The floating away from your body, the tunnel, white light, friends and relatives that had already died there to greet you, etc.
At any rate, I read a study in the mid/late 80s (either SCIENCE or NATURE, I don't remember). It basically just tabulated common "occurrences" in those who'd experienced a NDE. Had a fairly large sample of adults, but it also included children. Less than 15 in total , age 12 and under, as I recall. At any rate, they all described a very similar experience - with the exception of the people who greeted them on the "other side." In the cases of the children it was their Mom and Dad or a sibling or Teacher. People who were still alive.
@@unrulysimian3897 If you are resting your entire opinion of NDE's on one study then I can't help you. Also, a very old study, modern NDE research has taken things to en entirely different level of detail and specificity.
Also it's pretty normal for children to have greeters on the other side appear to them as people they are familiar with, it's part of the comforting process for one and secondly, most children are too young to have dead relatives so there's so one to actually greet them.
The fact your concentrating on that small detail rather than the fact that children, with no real deep biases or concepts of an afterlife are reporting basically the same experience as adults which simply bolsters the entire NDE research
@@garyfloyd3541 It absolutely can, many people specifically lose their fear of death having consumed psilocybin.
I had an NDE, and I’m not sure if I’d call it consciousness, but I sure as hell knew who I was, but I wasn’t who I Am Now.
As a Camus fanatic, this vid just passed the Vibe check.
The meaning of life is the struggle to sustain it. Only humans question this innate truth and futilely stray from it.
You make a lot of sense. I have found that when I have found help that I absolutely did not deserve, that my attitude underwent a subtle but profound change. When I encounter difficulty or pain, I don't suffer much self-pity. And that is gratifying. I still get angry about things that go wrong, but I usually see what I am doing wrong or I ask for help. This is what makes life worthwhile. Religious people would call this grace.
Faith? I would suggest that is what it is about .Also we are put here to help one another, it is really very simple. What brings you the most joy and feeling of accomplishment is helping others. Nothing more or less.
But if you help others because it brings you joy, aren't you technically just being altruistic out of self-interest?
Now that explains why so many live in cubicles all day.
I am drinking a cup of coffee while watching this, waiting for that one famous quote..
Thanks for this. It's a real synchronicity for me since I'm just now reading a book on the INFP type (Camus is often quoted and is said to be one) to try and answer exactly the sorts of questions dealt with in the video. Namely, who am I, why I feel so lost, and how best to move forward despite my being totally out of sync, or absurdly out of sync, in terms of what I do for a living, a carpenter, and what is in line with my personality, such as helping people with this relentless appetite for psychology. One thing I've noticed myself in recent years, and what I've been really using to move myself forward, just as Camus points out, is how the little experiences, the little connections we make with others, a hope for the future, and the things that get us thinking and spark out interests are truly things of value that are often unique to us. Lately it's been hard to remember that so thanks again!
I've never searched for Camus yet this video was right there on my feed. You have to wonder sometimes ;)
Robert Dabob -we strive❣
Excellent summary of Camus and existentialism. Thank you!
*Treat Everyday Like Its Your Last*
thats what i tell myself everyday :)
i thought of the black hole era and thought to myself *treat every single day like its your last because it just might be*
I used to work a graveyard shift in downtown. I would go to the top floor on my break and just watch the world go by. Often to ponder things, to think about what the hell I was going to do with my life. One day I was thinking why am I existing? What are we here? Then I woke up from my nap and finished my shift
I thought I was going mad, now I know what it really was.
From what I've learned from the universe is that there is no absolute. Life is full of grays, such as the yin and yang. To have achieved that means you didn't have anything. To fail that means you can learn.
*We are lost, until we learn about the divine truth and accept whatever is there.*
Searching meaning is what confuses people, because you will never find it, because there is none.
Training for the worst now, train for the best now, and live now in the moment!!! How You want.
Good videos, they speak to the core of modern existentialism.
Imagine Sisyphus happy.
Now
Here
Nowhere...
Marishkahargatay, Guru Pitka.
These videos always find me exactly when i need them. Thanks.
Bro you need way more subs
They got +100k subs in the last 30 days, because the YT algorithm showed it's generous side. How much more do you need?