Kierkegaard’s guide to a miserable life
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- We are surrounded by despair. All around us people say they hate their lives and don't know why. And there is a philosopher waiting in the wings with some surprising insights. Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death is a masterpiece of philosophical, psychological, and theological analysis. He discusses types of despair, how humans are the only creatures who can despair, and how to find a route out of the jungle of our own minds.
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00:00 The Sickness Unto Death
01:05 Origins of Despair
04:01 Types of Despair
07:33 Despairing over Despair
10:45 Faith (but not like you know it)
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Your friend had a very apt description of mental illness. As someone who suffers from chronic depression and anxiety, it really does color everything you perceive and think, and that's part of what makes it so difficult to work through.
Thank you for sharing and posting on your channel. It's a lovely source of light and inspiration for me, and I hope others feel the same. Have a wonderful day. ❤
Thank you! And I thought she had a very poetic way of putting it
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 she did indeed! I bet if she took up writing or does write in her spare time, her work would be lovely.
To a degree, faith is synonymous with trust, and we all need someone or something we can trust, or we go mad with paranoia. Possibly to the point of despair
I like this thought!
Well done lad, most people have never really known true despair. You completely give up, you just want to sleep forever and previous fears of death go away. Thank god for antidepressants.😅
did antidepressants really help you?
@@rick8246 yes they did, i tried doing it without them, but it got so bad i nearly died
@@rick8246 do not go on them, they are poison
@@rick8246They helped me.
Took some tries to get the right ones and after a few years the ones that worked stopped and I had to get different ones again, but they absolutely did work and it's worth the effort.
Mind you, antidepressants are there only to give you enough strength to create a new, functional framework. They aren't going to solve your problems for you.
@@rick8246helped with self deception
There was a psychological research paper that was written on the topic of why certain people end up becoming "school shooters" or end up committing acts of violence. Most of the researchers originally theorized that it was due to bullying, but that wasn't actually the case. They found that people who experienced a constant state of being in a negative social hierarchy and were unable to climb up the social ladder were the ones most likely to become violent school shooters. For example, it's not bullied kid that becomes a school shooter. It's the bullied kid who constantly gets ridiculed AND can't improve his reputation no matter how hard he tries. THAT's the type of person that ends up harming others. I think the people who hate their lives come from a similar boat. Self-hatred probably has to do with trying many different avenues and still being in the same place you were.
I personally found this in my life. I've always been insecure about being skinny, and did my absolute hardest to improve myself at the gym. Trained for 2 years 4x per week and still did not see the results I wanted. I was still seen as "physically petite" despite being able to lift a lot. I was even known at my gym as the little guy that lift way heavier than what my body is supposed to handle. A lot of people are impressed by surprised that I'm not get any bigger. It gave me a deep sense of self-hatred because no matter what I did, I couldn't see any visible results. The hardest part was realizing that I gave it my all, and it still wasn't enough. The changes I tried to make were out of my genetic control. I can still rest knowing that I wasn't a quitter, and I gave 2 years of working out, and 2 extra years of serious lifting before calling it quits at the gym. Now obviously, I'd never do anything harmful to anyone else. I have no plans on ever being a school shooter lol, but the feelings of self hatred does linger. Because no matter how hard I tried to improve my situation, it was out of my control
It's all genetics after all. Never began for low masculinity and hierarchy cels.... .
@@keylanoslokj1806 I disagree completely. I worked at the University of Toronto temporarily and saw many skinny/nerdy/effeminate male students with gorgeous girlfriends. These were usually Chinese international students getting top grades, and they were dating girls that looked like Korean models. The key is to focus on your strengths. Look at Kanye West for example. Shorter guy, always got made fun of and bullied by other rappers for being weird, short, etc but he made a career out of proving his haters wrong. He ended up marrying a Kardashian. The key is to play into your strengths. Play the game that works best in your favor.
@@keylanoslokj1806 ovER for schoolshootercels
I am sorry to hear that, but did you happen to know about Mike Mentzer and his approach? If not, i really recomend you to give it a try even if you already quit lifting
@@kryht6100Thank you. I'm essentially an idiot at heart, so I still haven't given up weight lifting despite my genetics and environment telling me that it's just "not for me." Yet, I still aim for a goal I'll never reach due to genetic limits. I will check out Mike Mentzer like you said.
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I definately fall into ”the constant daydreamer” type, I very much recognize these patterns. BUT, its is not really me wanting to keep things open forever that haunts me, but rather the fact that the world offers me no paths, no co-operation and no influence. Nothing to collapse into.
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As I listen to philosophers' insights and observations about human suffering, overcoming personal struggles, and coping with the restless sea of life and existence, it seems philosophy in a lot of ways is a resource for self-help. If that's the case, why don't people pay to see philosophers rather than psychologists? You hear about people going to their appointments with their therapists, but shouldn't they be meeting with their philosophers instead?
Because in modern world anything about your mental health is attached to medical institution. Philosophers are not in this. Also, I think there is pragmatic philosophies (the goal is more important that truth), and "real" philosophies (the truth is more important than goal). Not every philosophy is going to make you better...
I was in need of this message but unaware of it, thank you for bringing it forth.
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You described my own despair so well. Thank you for your video
Thank you for watching!
Without going into what got me to the point of despair I would say getting out is seemingly only possible if you want it.
In my case my perspective changed. I explain it as if I fell down a deep hole. I think the fall was longer than I realized . I only noticed long after it began. As I fell I tried to stop the fall by clawing at the walls. I refused to accept I had a problem. Eventually I accepted the fall as unavoidable. Thats when I gave up. I wallowed in it almost being addicted to this new numbness.
As I thought about having no hopes or fears anymore I realized I wiped the slate clean in some ways. I could create a new focus and dream. If nothing mattered anymore it likewise didn’t matter what I decided to do. It felt like falling so low into a pit finally made my path clear. The light was finally visible above my head only when I was surrounded by darkness.
None of this is to say I just woke up happy or motivated. I still had to fight for myself and make an effort to be who I wanted to be. I had to accept the causes of my despair were both real and would take effort on my part to come to terms with. I would not allow myself to accept myself as I was anymore. Im not where I want to be as of yet but I am moving in the right direction. I do know where I am going now and where I came from. In this sense every day feels like an accomplishment now where before every day felt like a chore. Perspective.
As far as it goes with me being a Christian is that depression can be a frequent state of mind, but considering despair I never dispare for the Lord answers prayers, his promise is sure for those who endure and I also know the chains of despair can be broken when we praise God
Despair is like hunger. Both are cues or signals from our subconscious to do something. When your body needs to eat, it will tell you by making you feel hungry. When something is in need of change or improvement to yourself, your mind will tell you by making you feel despair.
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Needed this video. Thank you.
Thank you for watching! I’m glad it was helpful
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 I'm working on a book largely inspired by Kierkegaard so this came at the perfect time. Helped contextualize a lot of things.
Great video! Screw the haters that come in hopes of finding a video that will "fix" their life.
This was amazing timing, thank you!
I'm in the third year of my degree facing serious burnout, and realizing my GPA is going to tank this semester and make my dream of being a doctor that much harder. I didn't even put the word despair to the gross feeling I've had in my stomach all month til just now. I still have that, but I also feel encouraged - thank you, hope you have a wonderful week.
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В цьому відео Ви дуже змістовно розкрили сутність філософії К'єркегора, у Вас талант!
Дякую за це цікаве відео!
Thank you! That’s very kind of you to say
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great video, Thank you.
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ofc the reason you mention which i call purpose is truly an advantage to those who have faith and believe, since pursuing a life adapted to the lifestyle of Christ will ultimatly make you more like him, and in a certain way more holy, ao less nihilist but more charismatic, human, empathic
Happiness is not ideal for reasoning .
Well, sadness and depression are even less ideal… your thoughts are just paralyzed at one helpless scenario
I find I have far less perspective when I’m sad or depressed
@@moumous87It has nothing to do with happiness vs reasoning. It has to do with satisfaction being detrimental to survival. People who are happy don't push themselves to thrive. We are programmed to not be happy in order to better survive.
There's a saying. "Ignorance is bliss. "
People wo has experienced the perpetual despair wouldn't agree
I guess this is what Dr. Jung called the malaise. I understand it and I have experienced it. It is so debilitating but after years I feel less power to change it. I recently started Zoloft to ease it.
It is a rough thing to be going through
Sickness Unto Death presents great insights into the human condition. I prefer to eschew the overt Christianity and view it through a more secular lens, as well. This is a great presentation of its essence in a concise and entertaining manner. Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much! I also tried to interpret it through a more secular lens as I think the insights are by no means limited to a Christian context
This video found me at the perfect time. Although I have not read the book, I imagine agreeing on every point with this author.
There is value in faith, and there is value in creative expression and how it can be used to fill your empty life.
Mechanically speaking, i think finding Jesus is no different than just replacing obsession with the self with obsession of another, but religious faith is probably more healthy than focusing on self destruction constantly. And adopting a new set of values to follow can be a way of organizing your life without "doing it yourself" because technically you're just following the orders of your faith, instead of consciously and manually living second by second.
Heaven is the cherry on top that tells you everything's going to be okay, even if it's not okay now.
Wunderbar 👏👏👏
Thank you!
You are doing very well, your videos are professional looking, and you speak quite well, congratulations. Your topics are very important, and I would like to see your opinion on more optimistic Cosmo-visions. Philosophy is not only stoic suffering 😀 or perhaps it is?🤔 Cheers
Thank you! And I have an optimistic video coming up next - Epicurus’ philosophy of happiness
It's precisely because we want to escape from our fate, that we are unable to do so.
Not escaping from reality but from the suffocating self-profecised fate which accumulated over the span of our life.
The more suffering we experienced, the more suffering we expect to come.
These expectations are what keep us trapped.
We expect this and that from life, indoctrinated by parents and teachers who told us that life is rational and can be tackled with logic.
No. Logic is what keeps you trapped. Intellect is what keeps you trapped.
The world has emphasized thinking over feeling which lead us to the dilemma we're in.
But if we can somehow losen our obsession with thought and become more aware of our feeling function, our neurosis will revert over time.
Thought is calcification of the mind. Feeling breaks those calcifications up.
Things like novelty, trying out a bunch of new hobbies, learning how to be bored and psychedelics, ketamine especially, can improve Neurogenesis and Neuroplasticity.
Neuroplasticity is needed to find a new outlook on life, if your brain doesn't change, your thought patterns won't.
If your environment doesn't change, your brain will hardly change.
That's why everyone wants to keep each other prisoners. Your family knows that they're living in a prison but they've accepted it.
Don't be like them. Rebell. Experience life from a different perspective.
Make a plan, change your life step by step, even if the steps are miniscule, even if you think you make a 100 steps back, it's not that you go back to where you were.
Time or rather life works in circumabulation, meaning youre living in cycles, we all do. That means no matter what you do you will come across old stuff over and over. But this old stuff is also experienced in the present moment.
It has nothing to do with the past anymore. The past always becomes the present because we can only experience in the present.
So by living in the past or future, you're living in imagination. And if you experience old feelings then those are also in the present and not the past.
Connecting old feelings with new ones can be a huge mistake. Every time you connect the past to the present or future it will trap you in a story and if you are not aware enough, you become the story, you then think the story is real.
The story is real but it's only an exllanation of your felt experience and those 2 are very different, even if they can look similar.
What confuses a lot of people is that by feeling you come across all those feelings you had in the past.
That's because you supressed them or fixated them, which calcified them in your body as information. That means that your body is like a 3d information storage.
For example if you hurt your knee you will add the information of a hurt knee and pain and locally save it in your knee or around it maybe with a connection to your head. This is happening automatically but you can mannualy losen and dissolve those local informations on the body and reality.
Also it's not just the body, anywhere where there's space, the mind stores information.
For example it stores the information that your bed if uncomfortable locally in your bed, so when you look at it, you will instinctively think: uncomfortable.
I would call these "beliefs".
I think plato called this the realm of ideas, because they're ideas on objects and other things layered on top or below/beneath/behind reality as it is experienced.
Imagination isn't experienced. It just is.
But thought is experienced, that's because the thoughts we think are very silently spoken by our voice cords, almost unnoticably.
So if you think: i'm dumb,
Like you just did right now, your voice cords say those words silently.
Words are power, words can speak imagination into existance. And because thinking create silent words in our voice cords, thoughts are spoken into existance if you want it or not.
But that's also a good thing. That means positive thoughts and relaxing thoughts can release the tension that the self depricating thoughts created.
So, think and speak your pain away.
So speak with me: I am not the person I was anymore. I am a new person every day. My thoughts and feelings might be the same but I am not.
I am constantly chaning and evolving even if it cannot be perceived. My unconscious is constantly working on realising my desires, innately desires like sex, food, water but also external/materialistic thinking desires like having a big house with a garden or finding someone I can spend the rest of my days with.
But if you're surrounded by toxic people that disguise themselves as friends then they will drag you down with them.
You don't have to leave them behind but seperation is needed to become your own reliable person. Find and learn skills that will improve your fears. Internal skills like meditation or external skills like lateral eye movement or double/tripple inhale, deep exhale.
Write your new aquired skills down so you don't forget them and so you don't have to carry them in your mind but can just look them up.
But the biggest problem is yet to come: the ego. That which you think you are. Who are you? Why does it sometimes feel like you're just a nagging thought and then you're back to normal?
Your perception is a gate, it can be narrowed and it can be expanded.
But if your reality is filled with a lot of pain, from a pain reducing standpoint, narrowing your vision and perception makes sense.
Too much pain will make you go crazy, so you limit it to a certain extent.
You narrow your focus and only experience a little pain (psychological pain) but the rest that is outside your perception is supressed and stored in the body.
Normally if you would live in a healthy environment, you would decompress after stress and the supressed emotions would be released.
But we're living in constant stress and so the unexperienced emotions become more and more and are not released.
And when there is too much pain and emotions stored in the body, we call it psychotic break or burnout.
So if you want to become healthier and happier, more peaceful, then create an environment that is healthy and peaceful, where you can relax and let your supressed emotions free.
Supressed emotions can be painful because they're compressed. It's a lot to be honest.
But to be free, the calcifications need to be dissolved, otherwise you'll always feel stuck in the past because the past is literally stored in your body as emotions.
One tip i can give you is: if the emotions feel too strong then it's very likely supressed emotions.
Don't think about those emotions, you already thought about them in the past. Now they just need to be experienced which releases them out of the body.
You will come across the same emotions over and over because, as i explained, life works in circles.
20 or more years of supressed emotions aren't released over night. It's a daily practice of not supressing yourself and noticing when you start supressing yourself.
Try not to traumatize yourself that much anymore.
Confusion is normal. Learn to live with that confusion. Learn to live with boredom. Learn how to let your body go free. Learn to trust in your body, not your thoughts but your actions.
It's about unacting acting or acting unacting. In asia it's called wu-wei. Doing non-doing. Meaning: getting out of your bodies way.
Instead of mannualy doing everything, let your body act automatically.
Don't let it go crazy because it might sometimes but maybe that crazy is also needed for you to get well.
We're all a little crazy. People are pretenders. Even your parents and family pretend.
They all pretend to have it together but they dont.
They're as confused as you are. But a lot of them convinced themselves that they know exactly what's going on and that's why they need to stay in their small bubble because otherwise their world would crumble. Everything they thought they knew would crumble.
But that's the way of nature, everything crumbles, even our thoughts and our mind and body.
For new to come, the old must crumble.
A fire breaks out and a forest crumbles but the ashes of the forest are the nutrients for the new trees and flowers.
So it's with ourselves. If we dissolve our self, if we dissolve who we are, that is psychological suicide. By killing our old self it scatters into million pieces and those pieces are like the ashes of the burnt forest, they become nutrients for the new self which isn't bound by self centeredness anymore but free to go wherever it wants.
After that, everything will start to work on it's own, your trauma will dissolve and you will be free.
But freedom can be scary because it's not what we thought it would be.
Freedom means being nothing, because only if we are nothing and have nothing, we will be free of fear.
That's because possessions come eith the fear of losing them. If we are nothing and have nothing, there is nothing we could lose.
But being completely alone, not having anything can be a scary thing. You will feel alone and empty at first because becoming nothing is like flipping the world 180 degrees.
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It's still the same world but your perspective is completely new and unknown and as we know, humans are often scared of the unknown. But this unknowing is constant. When you completely stop knowing then the unknowing becomes default and somewhat familiar.
The unknown can't be grasped or known or understood but it can be experienced as continuum.
But thought and imagination loves to "trap" us and it loves to narrow our focus on a small outlook on life, so thought will try to create a story to move us away from the unknown. The moment we try to understand or have an idea of how it could be, it creates a story that pulls us away from the unknown which is the truth or at least part of the truth.
Thought can be usefull if you don't let yourself get trapped in a story.
And story is created because one thought will create another and another, like a virus, multiplying faster and faster and if you don't mannualy stop the thought/imagination it will go rampage. It will tell you stories like: "yeah but he doesn't understand what it's like for me, I can't do anything what he's talking about"
Don't believe in limiting thoughts. They're part of indoctrination by society that wants to crush our individuality and power.
Death is not the end.
You are unlimited.
You can do ANYTHING you want to. It might take some time but with enough time you can do whatever you want.
Try. -> Fail. -> Try. -> Fail. -> Try. -> WIN. ->
EVEN IF WE FAIL WE KEEP MOVING FORWARD. Imagination tricks you into thinking that you're going backwards but you're not.
It's impossible to go backwards because time can goes forward and times goes on and on and on. It doesn't stop and doesn't look back.
Thought and imagination stops time in your mind. Feeling let's it run free.
Feel yourself, experience yourself, learn how to put your awareness on anything else than thought and imagination.
That's what meditation is for.
If you can losen yourself from thought/imagination and come in touch with your body through mediation or movement+breathing it's only a matter of time and effort until the painfull past and present and future will only be a shadow of it's former self.
One day you will wake up. You will know where to put your focus and how to extend your perception and you will know how to not get trapped by thought and it will be the most beautiful thing and you will go outside and feel the warm sunlight on your skin, you will see the clouds burning orange and all the vibrant colors that daybreak brings.
Trust in your feeling, trust your body, trust your intuition and be carefull to not add new stories to your life.
Story creating is a habit and to experience reality the story needs to be dissolved. Not dissolved by doing but by non doing. By extending your perception and allowing reality and yourself to happen, the stories will dissolve themselves because there will be no place for them.
Speak to your thoughts. If they say: "you are not enough" then you think or say or scream: "YOU'RE WRONG, I AM ENOUGH"
And if your thoughts say: "you don't even know what you're talking about", then you say: "how do YOU know what you're talking about!?"
Don't let thoughts terrorize you. Don't let other people terrorize you. If you want to become healthier and a better person then you're already far ahead of 90% of the population of earth.
You deserve to be well. You deserve to be loved and accepted. I don't need to believe that, I know you deserve it.
We're all hurt and we all deserve healing, some more and some less. But we all deserve it because we didn't chose to come here.
We didn't choose to be born. But we can choose to be happy and to heal.
You have the power to heal within you and around you. It may be out of your reach of perception but it is there, all the time, eternally.
You are eternal, you are so much more than your thought and mind will allow you to accept. Even if you are weak, you can become strong. Even if you are dumb, you can become smart.
Humans can change, humans must change, that is in their nature. We adapt and overcome. And sometimes we have to overcome ourselves and our limiting beliefs.
The past is you, the future is you but what happens right here, right now, that's just reality, experienced through a body that you call your own. But you don't possess this body, the body just is. You are. Reality is. Pain is. Happiness is. It all is. Right here and now.
And imagination and thought is too. But remember what I said, thought and imagination will lead you to past and future if you're not carefull and it's so easy to get lost in the stories of past and future.
By thinking you become something. By feeling/perceiving in a relaxed manner you allow reality to be. You allow your body and emotions to be. Extend your vision, broaden your vision and extend it even further to include your body, hearing, seeing, feeling, etc.
Play with your perception and try out what you can do with it but don't forget to extend your perceptions or you'll become narrow minded again.
Everything is an interplay and you are the unknow factor.
Go into wide spaces, create space in your room. Go into nature, extend and broaden your perception. It will help you gain new perspectives in life. New perspectives are needed for change. New perspectives will bring new outlooks on life and through action, new outcomes.
I don't know if anyone will read until here but if you did, congratulations.
I hope I lead you in the right direction and if not, I'm sorry.
Whatever you think right now, write this down on a piece of paper: "I have the ability and power to change my reality, one step at a time"
Reality might seem cruel but there is so much you can do to make it fun and awesome.
I believe in you. You can do it. Try again and again. Keep moving forward. Even if you go backwards you go backwards forward, meaning whereever you it will be forward. Even if you lay in bed, thinking you're lazy. Maybe you are. But at least you're lazing forward. But remember: thoughts stops time perception and it'll make you think you're not moving forward. Go back to perceiving the body and senses. They will move you forward
You are good the way you are. Change will happen naturally if you mive into the right direction and have a healthy environment.
One love ❤
That is relatable
I stay in bed to protect myself from evil people in life.
6:04 I'm absolutely that
Thx
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I have a hard time with faith. Believing in something just to get around the objective meaningless of life doesn't sit well with me. What I ended up with instead was a philosophy of trying to create a life that I could admire, like writing a great story or creating a work of art. I can't say that I've been hugely successful so far, but maybe one day I'll work it out.
Hmmm, it sounds like something akin to Camus’s approach may be more your style
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 yeah I think so, or maybe Nietzsche's Übermensch in the sense of building myself into something worthwhile.
@@VinOptimaxxx Keep striving. In those moments when you most want to give up, think: "this is the challenge. A great story of someone who resisted the greatest urge to give up."
Another very difficult video to watch, way too close to home.
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Ok so how would Camus solve the issue of despair then …if you accept there is no greater meaning, then what can you have faith in?
Your instincts and emotions. Yourself. You create your own meaning. Adapt to perspectives and habits that make your day worth living. Although, this is perhaps exactly what our shepherds desire, exactly what's contrary to social mobility, for most Westerners.
Have faith that your next action, or next upgrade from your current inaction, will feel at least different, perhaps better.
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One issue I have with pascales law is that ok we pretend to believe in God or have faith - but what about all of the rituals associated with these Abrahamic religions that go beyond this and dictate not only our faith but our daily actions and forced rituals like going to church and so on. According to the Bible it's not simply having faith but practicing these so called celestial laws and rituals that if we don't follow are still doomed to some eternal torture despite having 'faith'. Seems somewhat ironic - not to mention that these religious fables haven't aged very well and the notion that the earth sun moon and stars were 'created' simply proves that this was myth consequence of its time and is not timeless (you would think the Bible aka the word of God would be timeless yet even the 10 commandments are way out of date - eg lie to your parents go to hell for eternity lol or slave justification and bartering policy) - I think faith in a higher power is def valuable but these written fables and so called prophets is a falasy and a weakness of the human mind to not come to grisp with the notion that we are nothing and prob at same stature as an ant in the universe
It is kind of terrifying that he just described me in this video, I can change my life right?
Be kind with yourself
This depth of human psychology is usually seen only in Christian thinkers. Good video.
He’s a very clever guy
@@unsolicitedadvice9198indeed. Worth the reading. Has his limitations theologically speaking because he is more of a secular and rationalist philosopher than an ascetic. But still has many gems
@@unsolicitedadvice9198as for faith, exactly. Everyone is faithful. Without cope the mortal and limited human mind would die from despair. Self, doctors, science, everything is used as a cope even by modern secularists. Noone is exception to that
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Oh thank you! That's a wonderful compliment
I feel despair right now. I need to get right with God or something, because my life is a shitshow. Thx for the timely video though.
I am glad you liked it! And it is a common feeling, so you are not alone in it
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 yeah that's compassionate and all, but not very helpful
A fair point! I do not pretend to have definitive answers
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 that just makes you a moral relativist. Thus you offer no real wisdom of value, even though you pretend you do
I would call it an appropriate amount of intellectual humility. But it’s also the fact that I wouldn’t want to give any advice without knowing someone’s specific situation. But I am sorry if you find that disappointing. In my experience the world is far too full of people making bold pronouncements without knowing enough, and I am wary of become one of them.
This is not a matter of relativism, but of contextualism.
From a secular perspective, faith emphasizes loyalty and commitment to HONESTY. As opposed to fantasy, magic and hocus pocus.
That former is from your own perspective - although I agree with the latter. What scares me, is that in English, to 'act' is the same as to 'act'.
If you want to get paid, you have to be a paid actor. Or utilize confirmation bias of the many prescribed perspectives around your environment, to sustain the self-faith in purity and morality; the morals instilled into Westerners, is quite quasi-religious.
To me, 'morals' are simply tools utilized by the shepherds to differentiate themselves from the sheep.
The extent today, whereby we are less religious, is paltry. We have shifted our beliefs unto our institutions, our propaganda; our science. One should realize, the only way for scientists to make money, is by applying for grants, and seeking to prove its hypotheses. How many influential papers have their data manipulated? The truth has always been directed - there is no truth. The 'truth' is simply a scheme by the powerful. 'History' is simply a self-justification from the victor. Maths is true, because it only applies to the confines of our human psyche; physics is barely an approximation of reality. If the priest had the same understanding of 'truth' as his subjects, would he any longer have subjects to control?
There is no good or evil. They are simply instructions for civil control. If a child that is beaten and essentially imprisoned becomes a doctor, are the parents evil? Compared to the parents of a child who has been provided free reign and ends up a drug addict, or an 'influencer' or 'travel vlogger' who's essentially just waiting for the next payment, simply for existing, from dad; and for the inheritance to come.
@@williamlu4394 I agree, getting to the crux of honesty is not an easy task. For a long time, many humans were opposed to a round earth versus a flat earth…. But an objective reality exists. It's either a goal worth pursuing or an unrealistic goal.
@@williamlu4394 and does the doctor from authoritarian parents have more virtue than the drug addict from liberal parents? Do doctors embody virtue? 🤔
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Life is not worth living. Reality is a neverending nightmare. I hate existence.
The more you hate existence, the more existence will hate you.
My wrath is unlimited
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I despair because there is no god, this world is futile and so is it’s “comforting” lies ie god.
Maybe Camus would appeal to you
I would be in despair if I were in the room you're in, lol .. how bland and uninspiring 😂. at least put some pictures up!
I am a poor interior decorator, it is true
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 I'm a bit of an interiors obsessive, tends to be the first thing I notice, lol.... just trying to inject a bit of humour (probably a fail)