No proof for this either, so belief has been withheld. Interesting story though.

If there's a universal truth it is that everything dies, decays, annihilates, even the universe. Ignorance is bliss. With high intelligence, comes higher levels of awareness. Those with a greater awareness see all the problems and folly of the world around them, in great detail. In the enthusiasm of youth there is a desire to try improve the world, make it better. Experience then sparks wisdom, to complement intelligence, and the bright mind starts to realise that, ultimately, nothing changes the world, let alone the universe. For all the brilliance of individuals, there are masses of fools to counter anything they attempt. Not necessarily maliciously, but simply because they know no better. For intelligent, aware and driven minds the mundane insanities of regular society erode the hope they may have been born with, into an inevitable despair. Those who once loved life and the world, start to despise both. On reaching this view, and knowing that it is eternal, and that those around them are blind to it, it becomes easy to conclude that removing one's self from the situation, is logical, and the best thing to do. The alternative is to prolong an untenable situation, that will never improve. Nihilism is often the ultimate outlook of brilliance, simply because it is the most logical. To live is to suffer. Suffering ends with death.

Worshipping the creature more than the Creator

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As someone who has sacrificed relationships and health to impress strangers, this hits hard. This video is a reality check i come back to every few months.

Exactly.... we go back into the darkness we came from as we will have no memory of ever existing. Eventually family or people that knew of your existence will eventually die and will eventually be no signs we ever did exist.The hardest part is saying goodbye to your self and others in the moments before death unless it's an instant death which would be the easiest way to go or in your sleep. This is the best explanation of death I have heard yet and how I have always viewed it.

I once had this train of thought that this reminds me of. Namely that the Big Bang is the (re)birth of the Universe, and that one day the expansion of the universe might halt and reverse. Pulling everything back into a singularity, creating the conditions for another Big Bang. That is to say, the Universe alternates between a state of absolute concentration and a state of absolute separation. Of course I have no way of knowing this to be true. But it has always been a comforting thought.

Still, you won't ask her out

Is this going to be a metaphor for scrolling? .....Yup, it is.

What's outside of everything? YO MAMA'S WAISTLINE! Ha ha. I'll see myself out.

Hope is useless when your fate has already been decided. -Arthur Schopenhauer

Haha, silly humans thinking they can find rationale to their existence. You cannot analyze a system from within a system. Yes, you can die, but you won't come back. Ever. The point with "the will", is to use it. Not question it. Accept the fact that you are a flawed biological machine. And yes, there will be suffering, but there will also be joy. There will be everything. You just need to dare to get into the dance. Your existence is a canvas, and you are the artist. Now or never.

This man's work reads like SSRIs would have done literal wonders for him. The whole jumping-off-a-stack-of-his-own-books thing makes him sound like the first edgelord to ever exist. Obviously a genuinely tormented soul tho, and I've talked myself into some dark philosophical corners before in my past due to mental illness so I certainly empathize with him. It took me a long time, but I realized a few things that are now firmly lucid truths in my eyes, this one being the key insight: Language and the use of words is an act of representation, a useful convention to make sure we can meet tomorrow at the corner of 6th and 9th, and a format through which we abstractly process the reality around ourselves both internally within ourselves and externally amongst one other. Using language is like pointing your finger at the moon; I'm telling you to look at the moon, not stare at my finger. We often make the proverbially linguistic tail wag the dog in this sense. Personally, I once bought into a scientific reductionism whereby I was endlessly depressed at how clinical life was, how any feeling I had was simply a bunch of chemicals, synapses and neurons all firing randomly and for no discernable reason and I was just a lonely, singular consciousness trapped within my body. Then I realized it'd been no one but us who had created taxonomies with which we divided and labelled all aspects of existence in an effort to better understand what the hell life is and why we're here at all in the first place. "Would a rose smell as sweet by any other name" essentially. So, now knowing words were nothing more than these fingers pointing to the moon and that we were all essentially as clueless as we've ever been and likely ever will be made me realize how strange and genuinely fascinating it is to be anything at all. One particular truth (which has become an old catchphrase of mine through my worst and best times) is one simple question I ask through it all: "is it NOT beautiful?"

The biggest joke for an atheist is when after his death he feels someone patting his shoulder saying: "Guess what"?

I have never read a book and still understand the meaning of every meaningfull word better than u all. If this were true, how would you make sense of it.

Very good video! Covering this on my podcast soon, I will shout out this video. We don't have much of a following but we have fun! You have given me lots of info, so thank you.

Because when you are in a relationship, you are pretending. Love is a fairy tale. Be single and Know Thyself. The true purpose in life. If you cannot accomplish this true journey, go back to the dice.😊

Only 2 things are certain in life....

I just feel sorry for the dude. It's also a shame such sad and misleading philosophy had to play so great role in world.

2:15 we are currently living through the largest child sacrifice 1.3billion children in the last 50 years.

Beautiful

Can someone please agree with me that every time this guy gets quoted, it sounds like he is laying out the events and story of elden ring from the Greater wills prospective

👎1CE? WTF happened to BC/AD? You're so woke. I stopped here. Unsubscribed. And thumbs-down 👎0:57

You can't believe in the concept of deities and also be an atheist. He was certainly pessimistic, and I feel sad for him that he took that action, but it appears to be a symptom of depressive illness. My take: Human beings are extremely arrogant, believing that unlike other animals who are born, live and die, they are somehow outside of or above that. NO. We are no different from ants (apart from our ability to contemplate concepts like religion). Believe what you want, but in reality, there's no-one waiting for you when you die. You just die. And in most cases, apart from people like Alexander the Great etc. there will come a time when no-one alive will remember you were ever alive in the first place. But that's realism, not pessimism. We're just way too big for our boots, us Homo Sapiens, and I don't actually recognise that there is intelligent life on earth. Extra-terrestrials would not bother interacting with civilisations holding onto such quaint concepts as religion and our race being somehow special. I think they'd find it rather funny.

Ontological pessimists like Philipp Mainländer sound very much like gnostics in spirit. This is a very ancient philosophical trend which underscores the reality of the Will-to-Death. This kind of shady fantasy and tragic cop-out is all-too-often a rotten fruit from the tree of resentment. He was certainly not ambiguously cynical like modern nihilists or absurdists, but honest in taking nihilism to its ultimate tragic end. Nihilism is, indeed, basically a self-fulfilling prophecy. But it needn't be so. Either we learn to see everything around us as beautifully meaningful (because everything analysed close enough seems to provoke awe and teach us something), or we surrender to the fear (of ourselves? of judgment? of life? of love?) and cop-out from growth (individuation) with precocious death. It ultimately boils down to an act of faith, but it doesn't take much of a psychoanalyst to figure what Schopenhauer, Mainländer, Nietzsche, Kafka, Bukowski, Cioran and many other troubled figures had in common: unsolved (unforgiven) childhood issues from dealing with horribly proud or resentful parents. In a deep, spiritual level it is hard to shrug off the impression that behind every suicide or self-implosion, passive or active, lies a misunderstanding, a sickly denial of life, or an unspoken Will-to-Revenge. Nihilism and resentment are as ever the greatest spiritual threats to mankind.

Bravo!!! Absolutely wonderful. Thank you.

This SEEMS to be promoting regilion via the back door of pessimism if you don't recognise god. A darker thought is that atheism is metaphor for people believing in nothing, thus no reason to goodness, kindness or forward thinking. That is one view which I do not agree with! The notion that people believing in a god in absoluteness with no other possibilities is a kind of mental death, a death of freedom of thought. Ie calling this 'the most unsettling argument for atheism' is a bit of a stretch for the clear minded thinker! 🙄 A bit deep.

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will this man ever speak directly in front of the microphone instead of behind our right ear?

I’m always amazed at the practical optimism of penniless homeless fentanyl addicts who soldier on through the freezing rain.

It is worth it

If one were to look at the philosphy of Meinlander through the lens of a omissient, omipresent, and infinite being as god, the only conclusion that makes sense is to cease. If you have every possibility of every event happening at all times enraptured on your very fabric, what choice is there to experience anything new or different than cessation. One could argue that said god may reform with said memories entirely erased to start anew in a new eternity, though at the same time, its a vicious, horrible cycle of discovery, boredom, and suicide which to god would happen simultaneously and never, for infinite time would permit both. Thus my vision that god is only semi-sentient, uncaring, and lonely. An immortal would suffer the same fate of repetition and boredom, eventually. Thus returning to the null fabric of death is the final fate.

7:26 what’s that background noise?

It’s bizarre how he sees the physical world as an inevitable stage of pain, where seeking any kind of achievement or sense is deep down a lost battle, maybe that’s why he has so much strength as one of the greatest pessimists, he not only talks about the lack of purpose he connects it to something almost “absolute” and inevitable and this makes his thinking brutal but extremamente cativante

Death is not frightening. It is simply a part of life's reality. Death means returning to the state that existed before our birth, a state of non-existence. Death is, in essence, the absence of everything.

So... if the big bang gets reversed and All returns to One, God will again be? And again explode. No expert here, just a bystander, but I want to believe that. The ever repeating cycle of life has enough parallaxes to make it plausible. Adam and Eve were expelled from paradise, in fact us humans still are to this day, but eventually we go back to the source. I don't believe you can bring that about by yourself, though. It's about the all, not one individual. Get help. Life can be sweet if you get your tastebuds to behave. As long as the universe is expanding, we're only along for the ride. Might as well enjoy the view and help others enjoy it with you.

sixteen minutes and 12 seconds of pure b ul l s hit

Sounds eerily similar to Michael Heisman, wrote a lengthy manuscript titled suicide note and ended his life after sharing it online back in 2010..

This is the kind of real support I need in my life. 😉

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mofo wanted to be the next Sin

you are trying hard, but you are NOT exurb1a

Tell me why it’s always a sensitive soul that want the best for everybody are the ones that are the most depressed and suffering and in pain

Great points! Thank you!

This is how I learned that I'd gone too far with my philosophy on life - his philosophy doesn't seem so dark and pessimistic lol

what a loser

At 12:56 I heard “He was…a pessimist, perhaps THE pessimest.” 😂

Life is the algorithm the universe is running to create God/gods.

Best video on youtube?

I will never understand the point if speculating everything is terrible, given no information. Some people just love to be miserable, or perhaps they are rationalizing the misery their brain chemistry has saddled them with for no reason. In any case, I certainly hope it got someone laid.