After Life - An Answer to Nihilism

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    Video essay on After Life, or; how Ricky's Gevais crafts an answer to Nihilism. Examined through the work of Albert Camus, C.S. Lewis and David Foster Wallace.
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  • @LikeStoriesofOld
    @LikeStoriesofOld  Před 4 lety +457

    What were your thoughts on Ricky Gervais' After Life? Let me know below!

    • @sambennet1138
      @sambennet1138 Před 4 lety +47

      I’m so happy you are tackling this, I thought this series was one of the most honest takes I’ve ever seen on what it’s like to lose someone you absolutely love

    • @fridgeman2008
      @fridgeman2008 Před 4 lety +52

      I really loved this interpretation and you might be pleased to know that Ricky Gervais does too! I tweeted him this video link & he replied to say "Amazing"
      Keep up the good work I really love your channel! 👌🏼

    • @jollyyeholiver1578
      @jollyyeholiver1578 Před 4 lety +13

      I've been ignoring this show because it was by Ricky Gervais your review has convinced me to watch it

    • @JeniJustJeni
      @JeniJustJeni Před 4 lety +18

      I was in a coservative fundamentalist pocket of Christianity and it was affirming to see someone else wrestle with the the same things I wrestled with in the face of my loss of belief. When you spend your whole life believing in some divine purpose it was very uncomfortably to have that confidence fall away and struggle to see what was left.

    • @bibingraj9743
      @bibingraj9743 Před 4 lety +7

      @@jollyyeholiver1578 Please do put a reply afterwards you have seen the show. I thought the acting was bad and the whole setup too pretentious. Felt his character as an immature adult with too much tantrum. Tried to be fun philosophical but fell flat.

  • @isabellabaloloy2877
    @isabellabaloloy2877 Před 4 lety +2196

    Ricky Gervais just tweeted this! And I'm glad he did! It's an extraordinary analysis!!

    • @fridgeman2008
      @fridgeman2008 Před 4 lety +149

      I'm glad that he did, I sent him this link on Twitter and he replied "Amazing" ☺️

    • @smaakjeks
      @smaakjeks Před 4 lety +34

      @@fridgeman2008 Aw, that's lovely!

    • @Zombieyan
      @Zombieyan Před 4 lety +12

      @@fridgeman2008 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

    • @Sebbir
      @Sebbir Před 4 lety +8

      Simon Walmsley thats fantastic

    • @TheBermudaMan
      @TheBermudaMan Před 4 lety +12

      Of course he did. It's a video about himself from a show all about himself. The only thing atheists truly love beyond themselves is a mirror, regardless of what they might claim otherwise.

  • @thrinay399
    @thrinay399 Před 4 lety +686

    "I would rather live missing him than for him to live missing me, that is how much I love him"
    "A society grows great when an old man plants trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in"
    The best lines in the whole season.

    • @kyotow7388
      @kyotow7388 Před 3 lety +18

      “Happiness is amazing. It's so amazing it doesn't matter if it's yours or not”

    • @baggieboydan82
      @baggieboydan82 Před 3 lety +4

      Very well spoken by Harriet Jones former prime minister

    • @DerrickMims
      @DerrickMims Před 3 lety +1

      @@baggieboydan82 Ha! I knew I recognized her. 😃

    • @darlamae9876
      @darlamae9876 Před 2 lety

      I felt that 🤍

    • @Wax_Man
      @Wax_Man Před 2 lety

      who said the second one?

  • @trellified
    @trellified Před 4 lety +1321

    "Happiness is amazing. It's so amazing that it doesn't matter if it's yours or not."
    All I can do is smile :)

    • @TheBermudaMan
      @TheBermudaMan Před 4 lety +8

      What the hell does that even mean? Does Gervais go around leeching off other people's happiness like a psychic vampire? Come to think of it, that would actually explain a lot about him.

    • @hesch-tag
      @hesch-tag Před 4 lety +11

      It's a ridiculous quote. Most if not all people are way too selfish for that.

    • @bhut_trolokia9954
      @bhut_trolokia9954 Před 4 lety +3

      Reads like a bullshit philosophy for idiots.

    • @barnacleboi2595
      @barnacleboi2595 Před 4 lety +3

      Well thats stupid, i see seemingly happy people all the time when i work, i dont envy them, i just obsess over what went wrong with my process.

    • @DarkSideOfTheBrightSide
      @DarkSideOfTheBrightSide Před 4 lety +3

      “Happy ppl make me miserable.” -Louis CK(Louie tv show)

  • @FooFighter193
    @FooFighter193 Před 4 lety +447

    The local free newspaper is indeed a nice metaphor for life. It has its banal stories of day-to-day people, just trying to be special.

    • @smaakjeks
      @smaakjeks Před 4 lety +43

      I loved Tony's (Ricky) eventual take on his job, and local newspapers.
      They're not meant to be read, but to be in. That everyone should be in the local newspaper at least once. It's a little "I was here".

    • @neo-filthyfrank1347
      @neo-filthyfrank1347 Před 2 lety

      cringe mediocrity idolization

    • @numberonedad
      @numberonedad Před 8 měsíci

      this series is a a great metaphor for life, because it's insipidly insincere, and best enjoyed by morons

  • @PhilJonesIII
    @PhilJonesIII Před 3 lety +112

    'Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.' Thirteen years already. I wanted to build some great memorial so no one could forget her. A better person than me. I decided to become her memorial and try to reflect the qualities that made her beautiful.

  • @lastplacerebel7774
    @lastplacerebel7774 Před 4 lety +437

    He's is like me for 17 years. now 3 years in recovery. not easy losing someone. RIP Melissa

    • @MikeOzmun
      @MikeOzmun Před 4 lety +17

      I'm sorry for your loss. There is no other pain like it.

    • @gabrielmata6144
      @gabrielmata6144 Před 4 lety +7

      Sorry for your lose man.

    • @jamesmoore1089
      @jamesmoore1089 Před 4 lety +8

      Rest in peace means you as well, I hope you know that.

    • @potatonoodlebear8035
      @potatonoodlebear8035 Před 4 lety

      U r the brave one.

    • @NASkeywest
      @NASkeywest Před 4 lety +5

      Congrats on 3 years! I had to overdose and have my heart stop before i finally got clean.

  • @TheRandomMuffinMan
    @TheRandomMuffinMan Před 4 lety +454

    I agree with the story for except one key detail. The pursuit of happiness. I think people aim for the wrong thing since the problem about happiness is that it’s a fleeting emotion. It’s what makes it valuable and the pursuit of constantly feeling it will only make you feel despair when you’re not at the zenith of satisfaction. Instead you should find something that gives you meaning, that makes life feel full. I’m not saying you shouldn’t accept happiness, but instead you should cherish it when it comes your way.

    • @raycasias8144
      @raycasias8144 Před 4 lety +30

      I think rather seek fulfillment, and to be content. And happiness is bound to show up for you along the way. Most times even when it's not expected. Those are the times i enjoy most.

    • @TheRandomMuffinMan
      @TheRandomMuffinMan Před 4 lety +25

      @@raycasias8144 Agreed, the fact that happiness isn't always with you is the exact reason why it is precious. I think society has forgotten that valuable piece of information in this age of instant gratification. It's a shame really and I hope we rediscover it.

    • @raycasias8144
      @raycasias8144 Před 4 lety +8

      @Nelson Giles death is the ultimate caveat, oblivion the epitome of a get out of jail card and we all have each on the way. We're all in shit storm. I was just thinking might as well look to be content with whatever is in our grasp rather than mope around or make up fairy tales of vindication, exchanging what's palpable for something else we'll never see just to feel better about the struggle. One can be quite fulfilled with what one has if they try. Like an acquired taste for the life in your very hands i guess?

    • @SuperRand13
      @SuperRand13 Před 4 lety +7

      I agree. Happiness is great and if it were possible to be happy at all times it would be amazing, the problem is it's not, so striving for that will only lead to disappointment.

    • @philosophicalinquirer312
      @philosophicalinquirer312 Před 4 lety +7

      @Nelson Giles Agree but as for definitions and the pursuit of happiness, I think the Greek Eudimonea is more accurate as a pursuit.
      Eudimonia contains more that just an emotion of happiness that can be fleeting and transient. Eudimonea gives the impression of a journey, purposeful and flourishing along the way. Like a tree that grows whilst occasionally getting pruned and battered by a storm.

  • @beadmecreative9485
    @beadmecreative9485 Před 4 lety +191

    When I watched a documentary about Vincent Van Gogh, it amazed me how much he loved the natural world. The sun in the sky, the stars twinkling in the sky, the wheat swaying in the wind. He loved it so much, he tried to conveyed all that love in his paintings. Maybe happiness is fleeting but when you notice the small things like how the light plays on tree leaves on a windy day, you get to experience the small wonders that exists on this beautiful little planet. I read somewhere that Art is a way of observing, maybe take up art classes or start drawing, painting to observe the small things. That’s how you develop an appreciation for the small things. This is a bit in line with Mindfullness.

    • @ChristmasLore
      @ChristmasLore Před 3 lety +3

      It's way better than "Mindfulness", because you don't have to try, it's natural to you.
      I never read about it, I loathe any book that isn't a novel, I just always felt this way, from childhood to now.

    • @amygalvin1799
      @amygalvin1799 Před 2 lety +1

      Art therapy is a wonderful thing.

    • @NancysInsiderTradingTips
      @NancysInsiderTradingTips Před 2 lety +1

      The moment you ground yourself in the present moment, is the moment you see the divine truth that the purpose is the journey. The journey is a passing of moments that we must experience wholly and unapologetically to understand, reality is beautiful if you look close enough.

    • @bonghittaz1502
      @bonghittaz1502 Před rokem

      If you like Vincent you should listen to starry night by Don McLean. A beautiful song about a beautiful soul.

  • @collfreeman6883
    @collfreeman6883 Před 4 lety +466

    Something in my chest just expanded. You've done it again. I can't wait for the next one.

  • @_highgrain
    @_highgrain Před 4 lety +191

    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • @farmpite
    @farmpite Před 4 lety +278

    „Happiness is so amazing, it doesnt matter if its yours or not“

    • @tylerasmith52
      @tylerasmith52 Před 4 lety +4

      I had to stop the video to write that one down. powerful stuff

    • @tahunuva4254
      @tahunuva4254 Před 4 lety +7

      Kinda does though

    • @sebdunleavy1608
      @sebdunleavy1608 Před 4 lety +5

      It certainly does

    • @bekkayya
      @bekkayya Před 4 lety +1

      Feels like the same logic as 'god is so amazing, it doesn't matter to look into if its true or not'. Reading the comments I see a lot of religious text as well :/

    • @johnt.inscrutable1545
      @johnt.inscrutable1545 Před 4 lety +1

      Joe,
      The Sanskrit and Pali word for that kind of happiness is “mudita” (which, if not careful, autocorrect changes to “nudist”, a very different kind of happy).
      The Buddha suggested that mudita is a very wholesome thing that brings one joy (by definition) and can bring happiness to others as well. It helps to spread one person’s happiness, success, or good fortune to others.
      JTI

  • @OpenMind3000
    @OpenMind3000 Před 4 lety +233

    Just watching this video for the second time. I love it.

  • @DavidSenteno
    @DavidSenteno Před 4 lety +167

    Best one yet. Feeling disillusioned with life, losing the meaning you assigned to it. Those moments are difficult to overcome. Then you realize that the meaning was assigned by you for you, and you have to find it once again.

    • @adeimantusglaucon9732
      @adeimantusglaucon9732 Před 4 lety +10

      yeah, but the whole point is that meaning is bullshit - and suicide is a justified response to the world. perhaps more just than deluding one's self as if they were sisyphus......

    • @UltimateKyuubiFox
      @UltimateKyuubiFox Před 4 lety +13

      Adeimantus Glaucon The reason I decided not to kill myself when I was 9 years old was because I wanted to know how my favorite show would end. If meaning is bullshit, it didn’t matter to me. We invent narratives and attach meaning to them. Perhaps that’s why we keep telling stories at all. We’ll stay alive so we get to experience them.

    • @DavidSenteno
      @DavidSenteno Před 4 lety +7

      Adeimantus Glaucon of course it's all illusion. Just like a television show. We know it's all made up and scripted but we project ourselves into it and enjoy the ride. Like a television show off we aren't enjoying it we can always change the channel or switch it of completely. I prefer to change the channel because a blank screen is just so boring.

    • @DavidSenteno
      @DavidSenteno Před 4 lety +1

      UltimateKyuubiFox what was the show you wanted to know the end of?

    • @samwisecobbleshire9089
      @samwisecobbleshire9089 Před 4 lety +3

      @@adeimantusglaucon9732 one man's bullshit is another's gold plated ethos. It'd be the same as you discounting becoming a comedian because you see no value in it, while another makes comedy their life's work. Saying one's chosen occupation is wrong is like saying their taste in wine is wrong, as in the act of attempting to validate choices universally is what is truly absurd. Tl;dr Meaninglessness is meaningless

  • @FloatingOrbProductions
    @FloatingOrbProductions Před 4 lety +284

    Every single video you put out. So good. Your's is the only channel I will purposefully delay watching a video until I have time to devote my undivided attention. Well done.

    • @KnightSolair
      @KnightSolair Před 2 lety

      im a recent viewer and the videos ive seen have rarely not drawn well fought tears.

    • @unclegreybeard3969
      @unclegreybeard3969 Před 2 lety

      I will also purposefully delay watching your channel -
      until I am dead and buried.

  • @Yevdokiya
    @Yevdokiya Před 4 lety +85

    "The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal." - C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
    Thank you for a most timely video, and the sweetly painful tears it brought to my eyes.
    P. S. I haven't even seen After Life, and that didn't matter.

    • @patrickd7988
      @patrickd7988 Před 3 lety +2

      Agreed. This vid perfectly stands on its own

  • @azuror6960
    @azuror6960 Před 4 lety +274

    There's a certain feeling of awe I get every time I watch your videos. They make me a better person. Thank you!

    • @shippey321
      @shippey321 Před 4 lety +1

      It's the New Age background music that's pulling you in.

    • @barnacleboi2595
      @barnacleboi2595 Před 4 lety +1

      @@shippey321 i was about to say the same damn thing lol, music can really make or break a video

    • @shippey321
      @shippey321 Před 4 lety

      @@barnacleboi2595 I guess our great minds think alike. Welcome to the party, Manuel.

    • @TheBoss-mo4nu
      @TheBoss-mo4nu Před 4 lety

      @@shippey321 Masha'Allah❤

    • @shippey321
      @shippey321 Před 4 lety

      @@TheBoss-mo4nu + What has God willed?

  • @nickzero6921
    @nickzero6921 Před 4 lety +40

    I just want to mention one of my favorite quotes. It's from a japanese manga, called "Vagabond". The protagonist had stated to a buddhist monk that life has no value. So, the monk while remembering that statement thought to himself:
    "And life has no value. Truly right, it has no value. If you think only of yourself, it has no value..."

  • @MetricZero
    @MetricZero Před 4 lety +137

    I struggled with ideas like these for years, and for anyone who feels the same I would point you towards Alan Watts and the idea that life can be experiential, rather than existential. That in a way, we're all connected. Even as our consciousness ends, even as the heat death of the universe occurs, we were given a brief moment to experience a life filled with awe, wonder, and curiosities despite the astronomical improbabilities of such an event. Death doesn't have to carry the weighted fear of the unknown, because you've already experienced it but in reverse. Billions of years passed by, and you woke up having never gone to sleep. Life will happen whether you make it or not. But our ability to be aware of the world gives us the chance to listen to music, to dance, to play, none of which are done for the end result. We can live to experience life. "Dance to dance", as Alan Watts puts it.

    • @wanderingsoul1189
      @wanderingsoul1189 Před 4 lety +4

      Thanks for the insight.

    • @nashwilliams5852
      @nashwilliams5852 Před 3 lety +2

      Well said!

    • @SoloFlightPinay
      @SoloFlightPinay Před 2 lety +1

      Damn, this is fucking beautiful

    • @thombykov1651
      @thombykov1651 Před 2 lety +5

      Beautiful, yes. But this is ultimately optimistic-nihilism. I’m not quite sure if this belief is the final human enlightenment or a reasonable modern fad.

    • @Alex_Barbosa
      @Alex_Barbosa Před 2 lety

      Doesn't help, returning to the void doesn't make life meaningless, but it still sounds pretty freakin scary.

  • @ahmedsultani3028
    @ahmedsultani3028 Před 4 lety +760

    Once you have given up on existentialism, and grown out of nihilism, all that is left is to embrace the absurdity..

    • @southerndiscomfort2412
      @southerndiscomfort2412 Před 4 lety +100

      You're just changing rooms from existentialism to nihilism to absurdity. It's not until your conscious awareness sees that the conceptual idea of absurdity is just another 'thought room' that you can step back and see the whole house of the mind for what it is. Only then is there a depth of peace beyond words...

    • @javier.alvarez764
      @javier.alvarez764 Před 4 lety +65

      True, absurdity implies that you have preconceived beliefs and notions about reality you disagree with and therefore find absurd. But this all stems from being absorb by your thoughts, and not realizing you are not your thoughts, you are the pure consciousness or awareness that feel and thinks of things. Reality is absolutely meaningless, it is humans that give meaning or lack of meaning in life.

    • @ahmedsultani3028
      @ahmedsultani3028 Před 4 lety +6

      @@javier.alvarez764
      Agreed

    • @davidsirmons
      @davidsirmons Před 4 lety +1

      Alas.

    • @boysteacher3818
      @boysteacher3818 Před 4 lety +30

      @@javier.alvarez764 I think we cannot be absolutely sure that reality is "absolutely meaningless" since that is an objective claim. Humans are not capable of comprehending something beyond reality so everything we say, think, feel or anything is fundamentally subjective.
      Reality may have a meaning, or maybe not. We probably would never know.

  • @Rinyotsu
    @Rinyotsu Před 4 lety +18

    I had a similar revelation in 11th grade, when I was at my first peak of depression. I decided, I would live for no other reason than to see what this story would bring.

  • @georgfriedrichhendl9881
    @georgfriedrichhendl9881 Před 4 lety +151

    Once you've entered the Valley of Nihilism, it's very very difficult to leave it.

    • @sarahkingston2099
      @sarahkingston2099 Před 4 lety +29

      Nihilism is like shooting yourself in the foot; only then do you appreciate how your foot felt before the bullet. But it’s too late, you’ve already been shot.

    • @philosophicalmonkachu7711
      @philosophicalmonkachu7711 Před 4 lety +17

      Me entered at 13,now am 25.…. Jordan Peterson,and vicktor frankl helped me .

    • @arrietty1619
      @arrietty1619 Před 3 lety +2

      oh shit. should I stop myself before it’s too late

    • @ZholGoliath
      @ZholGoliath Před 3 lety +8

      @@arrietty1619 Once you realise you're down this path, you're usually too late to do anything about it... Try to find joy on the little things life has to offer, that's what keeps me around... personally speaking.

    • @arrietty1619
      @arrietty1619 Před 3 lety +17

      Zhol Goliath
      I know. I wish I was never introduced to Nihilism. Wish I wasn’t so inquisitive. Now the existential dread is killing me and I feel lost.
      I’m trying to learn about stoicism though.. maybe it’ll help

  • @karloumutia5944
    @karloumutia5944 Před 4 lety +16

    In the end, you dont look for happiness in life, you look for meaning. Thank you for this video!!

  • @owangejewice
    @owangejewice Před 4 lety +19

    i was depressed for a long time, and for a long time I despised things that reminded me that I once enjoyed life. Comedy was what I enjoyed most but I grew to despise it. And because of that, I despised comedians. I watched this video. Then I watched After Life. Now, I understand what C.S. Lewis wrote about and why Ricky Gervais isn't a terrible person and why I am wasting my time being unhappy about the people I can't play pranks on anymore because they aren't here anymore. I understand now why I should stop wishing there were no trees in this world while hiding in their shade and why I should start planting as many trees as I possibly can with the time I have left. Thank you, LSOO. Shine on my friend.

  • @BehindtheCurtain
    @BehindtheCurtain Před 4 lety +63

    Hope this gets a lot of coverage now that Gervais shared it! This video and your channel deserves it!

  • @DailyDoseOfInternet
    @DailyDoseOfInternet Před 4 lety +467

    :)

    • @riorasyid7667
      @riorasyid7667 Před 3 lety +25

      tf are you doing here ? 😂😂

    • @ea4935
      @ea4935 Před 3 lety

      🧲

    • @Junkb666
      @Junkb666 Před 3 lety +5

      ay man never thought id see u here

    • @ea4935
      @ea4935 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Junkb666 Face it

    • @Junkb666
      @Junkb666 Před 3 lety

      @@ea4935 wtf are u talking about bro

  • @TheTayloredMason
    @TheTayloredMason Před 4 lety +88

    What beauty you put out into the world. Every video of yours has me in tears, of joy, of sadness, of relief and gratitude that I am here now. Your way of presenting these concepts, and others, is so powerful, and I am so very glad that I have found your channel. Thank you for what you do. You inspire me to be a more thoughtful, considerate, and good human being. Thank you for these experiences you create.

  • @Vindens_Skygge
    @Vindens_Skygge Před 4 lety +21

    “Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard

  • @go3119
    @go3119 Před 4 lety +36

    I’ve been putting off watching this because of my own suicide idealisation. But with this video, you have made me feel brave & open enough to watch it. Superb content and analysis as always x

  • @ZambonieDude
    @ZambonieDude Před 4 lety +92

    The amount of emotions that just flew through me when i unexpected woke up to your newest upload.
    I'm gonna take the time to watch this film and report back, but thank you for your work with this channel.

    • @kathleenpapaleo8891
      @kathleenpapaleo8891 Před 4 lety +6

      ZambonieDude It's well worth your time. Beautiful story.

    • @smaakjeks
      @smaakjeks Před 4 lety +8

      Yeah, I paused the video and binged the whole first series.

    • @acosmicstoic9276
      @acosmicstoic9276 Před 4 lety +5

      @@smaakjeks started 10 second of the vid, paused it and binged it. I cried for both the show and this video.

  • @nickaoke
    @nickaoke Před 4 lety +149

    "For having consciousness in a universe without ultimate meaning really means having the freedom to create your own."

    • @Getyourwishh
      @Getyourwishh Před 4 lety +1

      What makes u so sure?

    • @wilsondelmas3934
      @wilsondelmas3934 Před 4 lety +7

      C.S.Lewis: 'If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

    • @arrietty1619
      @arrietty1619 Před 3 lety

      “life is suffering, to live is to find meaning in that suffering”
      forgot who said that

    • @Getyourwishh
      @Getyourwishh Před 3 lety

      @@arrietty1619 it's Nietzeche

    • @Getyourwishh
      @Getyourwishh Před 3 lety

      @@wilsondelmas3934 r u for real bro?

  • @skullsaintdead
    @skullsaintdead Před 3 lety +14

    Whenever I'm feeling especially depressed, I look at the images of Lyle Stevik. He was a man who committed suicide the week after 9/11 in a motel room in Washington state. He used a fake name, taken from a character in a book. He was discovered only hours after his death, his body was in a recognisable condition, hanging from the wardrobe; his belt used as a noose. He was identified 16 years after his death. There are many images of his room and his body. It gives me some degree of comfort to look at his face, to know that I, too, could escape if I needed to.
    It was the 10th anniversary of my friends suicide on Tuesday. I went to her grave, laid flowers, left a note. I don't believe in God or the afterlife but leaving the note made me feel better. There we no other flowers and no one else was there. Her facebook contained no messages of remembrance, the last being from 2014. Was I the only one of her friends to remember? I believe that people die twice, once when their heart stops beating and second, when someone utters or thinks their name for the last time. Until my dying breath, I will remember her name. I loved you Ruby, thank you for being my friend.

    • @jimmysmith736
      @jimmysmith736 Před 2 lety +2

      Thankyou for this lovely message
      Hope you are well

    • @skullsaintdead
      @skullsaintdead Před 2 lety +2

      @@jimmysmith736 Thank you, I'm doing alright (I have chronic pain). I went to her grave on her b'day two months ago. There was a new artificial daisy that hadn't been there before, slightly bleached by the sun. I now know she has not been forgotten by those who cared for her. What strange creatures we are to allow ourselves to love that which dies. Thank you for your thoughtful words.

  • @ericjames8765
    @ericjames8765 Před 4 lety +211

    crying at my desk at work isn't a fire-able offense right?
    - so apparently this needed a time stamp to appease some really cool guys - lunch breaks exist guys... lunch break... jesus christ

    • @movement2contact
      @movement2contact Před 4 lety +21

      No, but watching CZcams at work might be... :3

    • @thomassummerhill6357
      @thomassummerhill6357 Před 4 lety +1

      You must be a line manager

    • @tarico4436
      @tarico4436 Před 4 lety

      I (sorta) wish I could just watch YT all day long at my job. Must be nice.

    • @shippey321
      @shippey321 Před 4 lety +1

      It's more so that you're not going to get the promotion you were never qualified to get. So, good luck with the awkward stares that will inevitable ensue from now on:
      "What's wrong, Eric? Watching those "old stories" again? I knew Eric wasn't working and just taking up company resources on company time. Man, I hate, Eric, right now!! He's a semi-good guy, but it's really chafing my bum when he steals from our boss!! I hate that, dude!!!!"

  • @kandysman86
    @kandysman86 Před 4 lety +18

    "Everyone finds their own reasons, however silly or small they might seem on the serface, to make their life worth living"
    - -LSOO 2019

  • @EpimetheusHistory
    @EpimetheusHistory Před 4 lety +66

    very thought-provoking. Wonderful video :)

  • @RedekerEleven
    @RedekerEleven Před 4 lety +128

    I take a practical approach to life and living.
    As far as I know, this is it -- it's the only chance at this I'll ever have. Why not ride it to the very end and see what happens?

    • @martinprochazka3714
      @martinprochazka3714 Před 4 lety +5

      Because times will come when seeing what's happening might get too painful to watch.

    • @shrutis
      @shrutis Před 4 lety +8

      @@martinprochazka3714 imagine you are watching a movie... Everything is so good and happy till it starts becoming sad. Will you stop watching the movie when it gets to it's most saddest point? I think not. You'll watch it till the end just because you just can't give up after watching for so long.
      Now imagine if the movie has an unexpected twist at the end and everything becomes so so good and happy, wouldn't it be all worth it? You'll feel grateful for not giving up in the middle. That's how you keep going. 💞

    • @martinprochazka3714
      @martinprochazka3714 Před 4 lety +9

      ​@@shrutis You can't really compare the near infinite amount of suffering contained in one's life to a movie that had an unexpected turn in the middle... I'm not a self-suicide appologist but I have and idea how dark it can get and that's why I'm not surpriced some people choose to just end it before they turn completely crazy. -- And yes, it is sad but that's the way it is...

    • @Vysair
      @Vysair Před 3 lety

      Not to mention the time we are currently living in is great, there is so much here

    • @Karen-nq4ob
      @Karen-nq4ob Před 2 lety

      @@shrutis I hope you don't mind but I just used this as one of the best Quotes I have ever heard. Thank you.

  • @AjarnSpencer
    @AjarnSpencer Před 3 lety +9

    this is indeed one of the most poignant, and thought-provoking existentialist TV programs I have watched in many years. Very much resonates with many of my own personal experiences in life. There is definitely a serious spiritual message in this series, which I think everybody should watch

  • @idkjustTommy
    @idkjustTommy Před 4 lety +18

    Thank you for this video.
    I am at a very low point in my life. Like Ricky’s character, considered and attempted that very final action on multiple occasions. Although I didn’t notice it at the time I watched, After Life has helped me tremendously with doing better, with slowly climbing out of that hole. In no way am I where I want to be but your video reminded me of this series and of how far I’ve already come.
    Thanks again, LSOO!

    • @lyannawinter405
      @lyannawinter405 Před 4 lety

      I have huge respect for you carrying on.
      How much it takes I know quite well.
      I wish you all the best.

    • @bedokboy75
      @bedokboy75 Před 3 lety

      Lidia Baker try watching the show After Life. My mom passed away by suicide more than 20 years ago and of course the scar is still visible. But watching the show helped to reconcile some of the confusion I faced. When you get back out into the real world, the brain has to function in a way to survive, which is not always the best way to live. So it’s nice to be reminded and maybe comprehend the bigger picture.

    • @jimmysmith736
      @jimmysmith736 Před 2 lety

      How are you doing?

  • @nellkellino-miller7673
    @nellkellino-miller7673 Před 7 měsíci

    I sat on this show for a while. I knew it would be good, but never felt in the right mood. Just watched it my wife yesterday and it really came at the perfect time for both of us. I'm going into rehab for 4 months in 2 days. We have a son. It will be the longest we've been apart in our entire relationship. It's been the hardest thing I've ever done. I don't necessarily expect anyone reading this to understand but if anyone does, I just want to offer a pearl of wisdom. Enjoy life. Accept pain. Don't be afraid. Share your passion. Keep going.

  • @TheBeird
    @TheBeird Před 4 lety +200

    Ricky Gervais and CS Lewis talking on the same theme? That's like chalk and cheese having a civil conversation. Imagine that.

    • @lifewasgiventous1614
      @lifewasgiventous1614 Před 4 lety +7

      Chalk and cheese this line is a work of art hahaha

    • @Beery1962
      @Beery1962 Před 4 lety +3

      I have always suspected that C.S. Lewis chose to believe in God despite the fact that he knew there was no such thing.

    • @lifewasgiventous1614
      @lifewasgiventous1614 Před 4 lety +7

      Prometheus
      What would make you think his belief and conversion wasn’t genuine?

    • @Beery1962
      @Beery1962 Před 4 lety +3

      @@lifewasgiventous1614 I don't doubt that his conversion was genuine. But the fact that he converted doesn't necessarily mean he believed God is real. People can be very stubborn and swayed by their peers, so they can make themselves stick with all sorts of nonsensical ideas even when all the evidence and even their instincts are telling them not to. For years, I forced myself to defend Christianity despite knowing deep down that it was complete nonsense. If the folks around me had been more devout (as the folks around C.S. Lewis undoubtedly were), I might still be doing it to this day. Let's not forget, smart people aren't immune from attaching themselves to nonsensical beliefs, and the smarter you are, the better you are at defending the nonsense you choose to believe.

    • @lifewasgiventous1614
      @lifewasgiventous1614 Před 4 lety +11

      Prometheus
      I disagree I think his beliefs were genuine, just because you find yourself unconvinced doesn’t mean others have also arrived at that conclusion and are merely pretending.

  • @poslednisoud
    @poslednisoud Před 3 lety +9

    "So much struggle for meaning, for purpose. And in the end, we find it only in each other. Our shared experience of the fantastic and the mundane. The simple human need to find a kindred. To connect. And to know in our hearts... that we are not alone." - Heroes

  • @s33hunt
    @s33hunt Před 4 lety +4

    the seemless transition into an ad at the end almost detracts from the gravity of this video

  • @whereistejas
    @whereistejas Před 3 lety +2

    I can't even begin to describe how much the videos you make have helped me through life. The last few months have been so difficult not just because of the pandemic. Every video I watch on this channel, gives me hope to make it through one more day, one more hour. Thank you. Thank you not from the consumer of your content to the creator of that content. Thank you as a person who has received hope from the words you have said. Thank you.

    • @mrchickflick4444
      @mrchickflick4444 Před měsícem

      I hope you made it through the pandemic ok my friend ❤

  • @zinj2618
    @zinj2618 Před 4 lety +1

    Your channel is so therapeutic, i often play you videos just to listen to you talk, you have a way of analyzing movies that's so....alive, you break down a movie into its essence, its soul, i don't even know how to describe it, but i get a lot of healing from your work, keep it up.

  • @tkchen80
    @tkchen80 Před 4 lety +16

    After watching this, I'm more convinced that nihilism is just zen except with depression.

  • @donowtube
    @donowtube Před 4 lety +8

    This deeply reflects Rumi. He would say that the pain that we feel is the hole to our freedom. If we go into our pain, we see that we're not just going into our own pain, but everyone else's as well. Then, we find this interconnectedness that is filled with this painful love that everyone is trying to avoid through all the distractions in this world.
    In the words of Joesph Campbell, "Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say- the pain of being truly alive! But, love bears all things."

  • @liltick102
    @liltick102 Před rokem +1

    I paused and read all of ‘A Grief Observed’ (probably getting that wrong now), knowing I would relate.
    And holy fuck I have not stopped crying since I’d begun.
    I read that in like an hour, I was so impaled on our similar thoughts.
    Idk if I recommend it, but thanks for showing me this. Great video / channel. Subbed.

  • @EFletc8985
    @EFletc8985 Před 3 lety +1

    I just watched this again after a few months and I came away with new realizations...I love your work because every time I watch a previously watched episode I learn something new. Keep up the fantastic work !

  • @AegisHoldgmail
    @AegisHoldgmail Před 4 lety +17

    Those who do not see nor hear beauty should watch and listen for the art that this is - thanks again for yet another small candle in a terribly dark world :)

  • @Pincer88
    @Pincer88 Před 3 lety +3

    Thanks a bunch for this video man! It really helps me out. Been looking at life as something absurd and meaningless for a long time now after my divorce and having lost work. Didn't believe there was a single honest person anymore. Until I saw it wasn't about me but about love, friendship, respecting your won dignity and that of others that makes life give a meaning that's worth pursueing, regardless of grief and self pity.

  • @criticalthinker72
    @criticalthinker72 Před 2 lety

    I just came across your channel. The way you look at things and present them is amazing. Your voice is very calming almost an entryway to allow anybody to come in.

  • @ncmatterson
    @ncmatterson Před 4 lety

    I am 64 years old now...and in many ways, have had a wonderful life....filled with wonder, adventure, excitement, fun, laughter, sadness & loss....and until I saw this video...nothing made real sense. For the most recent 3 years I have been grieving the loss of a relationship I had hoped would lead to marriage....it was not meant to be....and made me question if my life was worth continuing. This video has brought everything into perspective and has made me finally realise that only through love & giving to and helping others do we achieve happiness & peace of mind. I wish you all, wherever you may be.......Happiness, Peace, Joy & Contentment.

    • @almightybunny3320
      @almightybunny3320 Před 4 lety

      That not work everyone though because there is different individuals who get meanings and happiness as you call it other means! Which work you not may work others but as socials animals those means can bring feeling of meanings, purpose and enjoy our lives.

  • @ernstvangelderen9537
    @ernstvangelderen9537 Před 4 lety +5

    I haven't seen it yet. But after this I will. Thank you for the clarity in your analysis . I can well identify with a man like Tony. Finding everything and almost everyone pointless and absurd. Burnt ad infinitum by so called friends in my well meant attempts to help them or at least give them some solace. It hurts. And as any human being, I dislike being hurt. I'm just so lucky that there are a hand full of good friends looking out for me.
    And wallowing in self-pity does really make you bone idle.
    Thanks again.

  • @blackbird5634
    @blackbird5634 Před 4 lety +11

    "It is hard work, and great art, to make life not so serious." -John Irving. (the hotel new hampshire)

  • @TheDiamondHammer
    @TheDiamondHammer Před 4 lety

    Forgot how much I love your work. It's put together with such care that it is almost certain to bring me to tears. My favorite of yours is probably your analysis of the movie Sunlight. I've always been moved by how beautiful the cosmos are, and so it spoke to me in a special way. You deserve every ounce of support you get. Continue your work with similar passion.

  • @Dapryor
    @Dapryor Před 8 měsíci

    I still come back to this video a few times a year. Your videos have been there for me for a long time now.

  • @ffederel
    @ffederel Před 4 lety +56

    As we, Buddhist, say, we ought to have compassion for others all the more because, although they wish for happiness, they are ignorant of how to get it.
    It's another one of these beautiful (touching, meaningful) videos of yours, by the way.

    • @Sam-zj6mw
      @Sam-zj6mw Před 4 lety

      Where does euthanising drug addicts fit in with compassion?

    • @ffederel
      @ffederel Před 4 lety

      @@Sam-zj6mw Could you be more specific?

    • @Sam-zj6mw
      @Sam-zj6mw Před 4 lety

      The part where he Harold Shipmans the heroin user.

    • @ffederel
      @ffederel Před 4 lety +4

      ​@@Sam-zj6mw ​ In case compassion is associated with attachment, anger, sadness, anxiety, etc. then it's not wholesome. When it is conjoined with wisdom, compassion becomes the wish for others to be free from suffering and the causes of suffering. This entails you have realized for yourself with direct knowledge what the causes of suffering are. From a Buddhist viewpoint, this sort of wisdom is very rare. You kind of have to be an athlete of your mind. Otherwise, chances are compassion will be mixed, like muddy water.

    • @Sam-zj6mw
      @Sam-zj6mw Před 4 lety

      In the show he makes him free from suffering by facilitating his suicide by drug overdose. Are you seriously calling that compassion? I call it a reckless disregard for human life.

  • @sseaturtle
    @sseaturtle Před 4 lety +10

    After Life is one of the best things I've ever watched and this CZcams posting has been a thought provoking and an interesting follow-up.

  • @sohaibali9
    @sohaibali9 Před 4 lety +2

    The whole video was so BEAUTIFUL and so thought out, thanks a lot for making this.

  • @TheElMuffin
    @TheElMuffin Před 4 lety +2

    I had been feeling pretty militant recently, making effort to rewire myself to act, rather than react, to what is happening around me. Adulting with effort, just like everyone else. Watching this reminded me that we don't live as an abstract concept, we live for our loved ones, whoever it is we pick up into our crew on the way. I was focused on some particular part of my life, if not to say peripheral, and this video centered everything in my head. Thank you.

  • @emmanuelatti86
    @emmanuelatti86 Před 4 lety +3

    I stumbled on After-life on Netflix while searching for something to watch before going to bed. I had no idea what it was about. I gave it a try because I love Gervais savage sense of humor. I watched the show in one go and ended up sleeping late.
    I'm glad I watched it. I got way more than I expected from this show. Love it.
    Thanks for the analysis.
    You have put into words what it made me feel.
    Your work is very different than the usual essay. It made me feel just as much as the show did.
    This one, the one about the fall and the one about Blade Runner are my favorites. Keep it up with your great work and I wish you the best.
    Thanks.

  • @lordofgraphite
    @lordofgraphite Před 4 lety +5

    "happiness is so amazing, it doesn't even matter if its yours"

  • @Jaidabecca
    @Jaidabecca Před 2 lety +1

    This is honestly one of favorite CZcams videos. Thank you for this LikeStoriesOfOld!

  • @joec876
    @joec876 Před 4 lety +2

    Love your videos, between the music, your commentary and the stories you chose they always hit where it counts. Keep up the good work..

  • @amankumar-jc2fm
    @amankumar-jc2fm Před 4 lety +31

    I haven't seen it yet but here is something I wanna tell you, the way you've shown it, I think your words are going to remain with me for a while. Thank you (straight from my heart).

  • @metametodo
    @metametodo Před 4 lety +6

    You're probably not gonna read this and may not care enough so there's no reason for me to put much effort in trying to explain every single one of my thoughts on this.
    I respect your work a lot, I think I've only seen 3 videos of yours, but every one is a mental journey, so although I think your work is Amazing it's hard to watch heavy stuff all the time, so important and great content like yours I wait for when I'm ready.
    But about this video. I thank you from the deepest regions of my heart for it, even if it's just for a few sections of it. I've properly read little of actual philosophy books, so it was gold what you presented by Camus, in addition to CS Lewis. I cried buckets and felt strong love for pretty much every second of the first 3 sections. Ive been crippling suicidal for the last 8 years or so, and what these two authors put in words helps to relate and express my expressionless feelings and thoughts. That's where the crying comes from, the frustration with the absurd. And I couldn't thank you enough for presenting me that.
    Unfortunately, from my point of view, after about 11:00 you went further and further from tackling the absurd and the real dilemma of why not kill yourself. David Foster Wallace presented ways to live better, and I won't deny it, but these reasonings still put nothing onto explaining philosophically why not suicide. I felt this was more of something you mentioned in the beginning, leaps of faiths and especially, like Camus put it, "like the donkey, feed on the roses of illusion", what I call in my words "fooling yourself because life only can be lived if you distract yourself from crude reality in some degree".
    So I think you tried to lead this to end in a bright note, but I must put clearly (if you don't already know it yourself) that you didn't face the absurd, you found in David Foster Wallace's work a way to avoid tackling the issue of wether kill yourself or not, instead just trying to answer how to live a better life. Now I must say that I honestly can't expect for you to solve this dilemma, I'd guess no human could ever solve the question philosophically, I can't ask this from you. Besides, it's okay for you to try to end it in a positive message, only rare fuckers like me want to watch content that makes you want to die. And you have all the right to ignore the possibility of suicide. I just want you to make clear to yourself that you didn't solve the dilemma.
    I still genuinely like you a lot though, and I still loved the video overall.
    And all this said, I'm sorry for being a jerk, and being absurdly pretentious. I'm no one, just some fuck who started seeking for absolute truths and now I'm suffering for reaching too close to the sun and wanting to keep going. I can't and I don't want to be a dick to everyone about it. Although I kinda did here. Sorry. Have a nice one. Really sorry.

    • @wanderingsoul1189
      @wanderingsoul1189 Před 4 lety

      I will like to say: keep going.

    • @chaddad1236
      @chaddad1236 Před 4 lety

      I think he tackled it by saying, find meaning in helping other people, making other people happy, etc, because everyone is searching for something. I hope you're doing ok.

  • @baronnolanvonstraya5743
    @baronnolanvonstraya5743 Před 2 lety +2

    Well damn. Wasn't expecting to cry today.

  • @idontcare7396
    @idontcare7396 Před 4 lety

    Your videos are the type of things we need online. They are just perfect and always make me sentimental, my bro. They talk and discuss things that have tormented my soul one way or another. And you always end all your videos on the highest note, the better compliment, the better teaching that there is always some good to learn out of every subject. You explain what it is that can be learned from every topic to make us better individuals. You are mythological, brother. Keep at it. Wish you the best!

  • @jaredsmith4919
    @jaredsmith4919 Před 4 lety +3

    I'm at a loss for words how amazing this was set, well done sir.

  • @bestLetsplayer
    @bestLetsplayer Před 4 lety +13

    Thank you for this incredible life-affirming story and this hopefull tune at the end. I just recently realized a dramatic limiting believe (or two), and, consequently, I'm rethinking my career options entirely. I feel so lost.

    • @peternall6566
      @peternall6566 Před 4 lety +2

      You don't sound lost to me.
      You sound more like you've found something.
      Be happy .

  • @pascusrex4152
    @pascusrex4152 Před 4 lety +2

    your videos are just amazing and so well done. Thank you sincerely for this, this show resonated with me for a long time (and your video will too). This restored my faith in youtube.

  • @Peregond
    @Peregond Před 3 lety

    Another video of yours that makes me cry of joy. It reached my soul, it’s beautiful, thank you.

  • @Ehstes
    @Ehstes Před 4 lety +10

    This is the best video you've made yet. Thank you so much for all of the content!

  • @MrAlphalphaproductio
    @MrAlphalphaproductio Před 4 lety +3

    This video spoke to me, so effectively, I cried. I can't help but thank you for your incessant effort. Your work means the world to people

    • @Therealhtrinity
      @Therealhtrinity Před 4 lety

      I’m still watching, reading the comments, with the same effect....
      Much love to you

  • @JussaraAlmeida2912
    @JussaraAlmeida2912 Před 3 lety +1

    Your content is REALLY good! I just started watching a few months ago and it's one of the best things here. Thanks for creating and sharing it with us here. (This one about After Life is excellent)

  • @sethbisschop140
    @sethbisschop140 Před 4 lety

    You have the most buttery voice for advertisements I have ever heard.Mubi should be grateful to have you.

  • @connornicholas8628
    @connornicholas8628 Před 4 lety +6

    Dammit, you’re making me cry right in the cafeteria. 😥😭
    Thank you.

  • @jeromehansen3969
    @jeromehansen3969 Před 4 lety +6

    This was like looking into myself.

  • @MrMoe1216
    @MrMoe1216 Před 2 lety

    Like Stories of Old, always find myself coming back to your channel at rough patches. Videos like this one are always wonderful little treasures. God Bless you.

  • @chipmunkshavenuts
    @chipmunkshavenuts Před 4 lety +1

    I normally really like your videos, which explains why I'm watching one that's a little older now to give me something more after your latest video. But this one touched home in a way I didn't expect. I think because I had gotten past that despair and meaninglessness that defined my life for so long after a series of devastating losses. At first I just started seeing life as a game for amusement because there wasn't any meaning to anything. I thought I had gotten past everything, but the recent realization that friends have given up on me, which caused me to choose to give up on them has been amplified by watching this.
    For a while, I've known that racing motorcycles was a way of running from having to confront uncomfortable things about my life. That working on the bikes, driving to the track were a means to waste time. That going too fast on the track took all of my concentration, so there was none left for anything I didn't want to deal with. That facade has just been torn down.

  • @deluxeassortment
    @deluxeassortment Před 4 lety +49

    I became an atheist after a long process of deconversion, but the thing that pushed me to get off the fence was not the sudden and tragic loss of my first wife, but discovering my second wife was pregnant. I had my eureka moment of disbelief at 8 months, and then 1 week after my baby girl was born, I faced The Absurd, and escaped nihilism with another eureka moment of realization that my role as a father, the roles of protector, teacher, comforter, provider, friend are the most beautiful meaning, in all its glory, that my life has ever had.

    • @serginoua
      @serginoua Před 4 lety +3

      Children grow, everything changes. And with this change meaning of your life will dissolve.
      Too small to be a meaning of all life...

    • @deluxeassortment
      @deluxeassortment Před 4 lety +11

      @@serginoua who said it had to be the meaning of all life? It's my reason to want to push forward, and yes, it might change. That's the whole point. I don't believe in a greater meaning for all of life. I just believe in the meaning I make for myself.

    • @shippey321
      @shippey321 Před 4 lety +1

      Thank you for manning up and being the father/dad you needed to be. Our kids, especially, need to see strength from their parents.

    • @alexinhoMelius
      @alexinhoMelius Před 4 lety +5

      @@deluxeassortment , that's what God is all about.
      He is a father, a protector, a teacher, a comforter, a provider, a friend.
      But if you choose to stay away from Him, that's not His fault. Actually He respects your will.
      And if you wonder about children who suffer, that is humans' fault.
      Yeah, maybe you think He should do a "magic trick" and appear food in their plate.
      Maybe He is actually helping in other ways that you don't realise, not with "magic tricks".
      Maybe He is focusing on teaching humans how to stop the suffering, because it would be a more efficient way to solve problems than just do "magic tricks".
      Just saying...

    • @deluxeassortment
      @deluxeassortment Před 4 lety +6

      @@alexinhoMelius Is it human's fault that a child would be born with his skin inside out so that he suffered immensely for the short two weeks that he lives? Turns out that disease is a direct result of an extraneous feature of DNA that, if you believe God made it, is by design. Inneficient junk that splits genes and wastes energy. So the plans for the destruction and suffering of that child were sewn right into the blueprints for his body. Man's fault how?

  • @MrLumagu
    @MrLumagu Před 4 lety +28

    Keep up the good work, man! I love what you do!

  • @nancychamberlin6520
    @nancychamberlin6520 Před rokem +1

    Ricky gervais is brilliant. This series was funny, sweet, sad and just about every emotion there is. I loved it.

    • @numberonedad
      @numberonedad Před 8 měsíci +1

      nah he lost his touch decades ago, now he's just a sad sap narcissist, especially in this series

  • @AbhishekSingh-hh5ky
    @AbhishekSingh-hh5ky Před 4 lety

    You are pure gold mate. You just bring up my feelings that are deep inside. Seriously the best channel I have seen.

  • @BMC273
    @BMC273 Před 4 lety +9

    "when the shell of my heart breaks open tears will flow. And they will be called pearls of God"...thank you.

  • @twinlakepictures9601
    @twinlakepictures9601 Před 4 lety +8

    You are one of those " Good People " and I am grateful for what you have said through this essay. I needed this 🙏🙏

  • @Bar_Bar27
    @Bar_Bar27 Před 2 lety

    You have the perfect voice for such type of content!
    I'll say that your voice even makes everything so impactful and emotional, goes straight to the soul and heart.

  • @adedotunakande6577
    @adedotunakande6577 Před 4 lety +1

    So much educative information to digest, so much inspiration to process. Somehow I do not want to see a next video from LSOO, and at the same time, I can't wait for the next. Thank you for these beautiful video essays.

  • @otterinbham9641
    @otterinbham9641 Před 4 lety +3

    This is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.

  • @fridgeman2008
    @fridgeman2008 Před 4 lety +8

    I hope this gets many thousands of views that it deserves, your channel is amazing! I hope you don't mind but I tweeted this to Ricky Gervais suggesting he watches it & he simply replied "Amazing" ☺️

  • @cjmarji
    @cjmarji Před 4 lety

    It was an extremely rare experience to have a tv show touching me the way After Life did. I finished the whole series in less than 24 hours, and If I didn't have work I would have watched all episodes back to back. It is such an amazing work of art. As for your video sir, it is an unbelievable philosophical effort that deserves applause for a long, long time! Fantastic video! Immediately added to my list of most favorite videos on YT. Thank you for your deep thoughts.

  • @brianbarajas2948
    @brianbarajas2948 Před 2 lety +2

    I haven't watched this but seeing some of the interactions is enough for me to see how much I relate to this. After losing ppl through death and losing people through complications in life there was one connection i lost that finally broke the camel's back... I have started feeling nihilistic in my mid 20s. I am between shifting between my old self and seeing things through this nihilistic lens. It sucks but I have to embrace this new view on life until I feel better about it.

  • @spineshock1
    @spineshock1 Před 4 lety +11

    Woahhh never thought you’d do a video on a series that I watch, this is awesome

  • @maceain
    @maceain Před 4 lety +71

    cheer up lad, read Marcus Aurelius, have a beer. Enjoy the ride. Embrace your ancestors.

    • @fansofst.maximustheconfess8226
      @fansofst.maximustheconfess8226 Před 4 lety +6

      Ah yes, THE GREAT EMPEROR, among the greatest beings who ever lived and walked on this earth. I salute you for your succinct comment!

    • @maceain
      @maceain Před 4 lety +1

      @yolanda jerginson and who the deuce is Shawshank? But... he was spot on. Purpose, extreme focus on that purpose, being the Master of that focus. Yes. It is pure magic.

    • @existentialhangover1124
      @existentialhangover1124 Před 4 lety +1

      Memento Mori, bro. 😎😂

    • @Zkkr429
      @Zkkr429 Před 4 lety

      Reading Meditations right now.

  • @jansengarside
    @jansengarside Před 7 měsíci

    4 years after this video was posted you’re making my cry on my lunch break lol. Amazing analysis

  • @hughjorgen1622
    @hughjorgen1622 Před 2 lety +1

    Your voice is very soothing... like audio lavender. This is a subject I grapple with/ponder daily. the seeming inanity of it ALL.

  • @c1nemascope
    @c1nemascope Před 3 lety +14

    Every time I feel that life is meaningless...I go find a fruit. Most preferably a ripe, juicy, sweet mango. And then I am quickly reminded that a world in which something so perfect can exist can't be all meaningless.

    • @amarikristopher8409
      @amarikristopher8409 Před rokem

      That fruit’ll someday be gone though. Why enjoy it when it could just cease to exist one day? You’ll enjoy it now, but that fruit may never be able to grow more again. Either cause of global warming/climate change, or cause of our own species. What then? You’ll just get anothsr fruit and repeat the endless cycle again.

  • @1987CRER
    @1987CRER Před 3 lety +6

    I struggle with emptiness myself, my fiancee left me two weeks before our wedding and I'm struggling to balance my grief with the needs of my friends and family. This review genuinely made me think.

  • @brutus4890
    @brutus4890 Před 4 lety +1

    Very moving and of the most inspirational a video could possibly be.

  • @otvoreniUM
    @otvoreniUM Před 4 lety

    I've just cried over this beautiful video. Thank you for such a moving story. I bless everything that moves me, because staying in a same spot is much much worse then the death. Aand btw ... this is the most original and most spontaneous commercial that I ever saw. This is what commercial should be all about.