42 to go better get moving

This buffoon keeps laughing while Allen is being real. Smh.

If Woody believes life has no meaning, why does he continue on? Hypocritical imo

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as Nietszche said: 'art is the true task of life'. Within art there is beauty and that is for me the meaning of life; a child playing and laughing, a wave, a pretty woman, a cat licking his dog buddy, some classical music in a rainy morning while your hand holds a cup of smokey coffee...until our last day on this planet we have the obligation to look at every thing beautiful and enjoy it

If been thinking about Existential and mortality stuff for some time now being in my late 50s and have never heard anything explained like this . Very interesting and helpful.

is that all there is. . . ?

Nah, people don't need to figure out a way to live - it's built into our genes and beings. It's hard and painful to die, and so we avoid it, and we fetishize our obsession about why we sit around in our bodies and try to build up rationizations as to why we do anything - it is in our bones. All civilization is either fetish or violence/war.

Interesting way of answering, similar to many other people, saying plenty of words without actually answering anything definite much less anything conclusive

I cannot start my day with something this depressing

I'm sorry, but he didn't answer the question here, the title of the video should be "Woody Allen questioning meaning of life on Earth"

Why do you think that heaven and hell are "fake," Woody? I guy could get really depressed listening to you.

Thank God for alcohol

At the very least, Woody Allen is fortunate to do work he loves. For 98% of people, work is just about earning a paycheck. Wage slavery forces us to ask why we even bother to continue. Typically, those who keep going with more energy are the ones who have suppressed any deeper self-awareness.

Basically funny, but not as funny as Plague. That was a killer.

The flushing of everyone is accurate, Woody, but it doesn't happen every 100 years. It happens every second of every day. We get picked off one by an agonizing time.

Woody Allen Quote ... What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my rug. Big Lebowski: This rug tides my room together :))

What if Hell is real?

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I’ve been asking myself that very question for years. Why SHOULD we go on with our daily lives even though it’s all meaningless? For a minute there I thought Woody had the answer.

*Spoken like a true Atheist.* (It's sad... cuz I love Woody!)

I don't know the meaning of life but the purpose of life is to share the experience with someone you love(and its a big plus if that person loves you back) and also to come up with at least one original thought.

As a drug induced experience once taught me, we are all totally forgotten, as if we never existed at all. Even those who are remembered will be forgotten.

Death renders life a temporary meaningless illusion and those of us unable to continue lying to themselves commit suicide.

"it is the artist's job not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote to the emptiness of existence"

Every living organisms has the will to survive and propagate. Every weed wants to cover the earth. That weed just reproduces and will choke out anything . The rabbit arrives just in time. Rabbits will cover the earth. The wolf arrives . It goes on until equilibrium is achieved. The invaders.

“What if the worst is true? What if there's no God, and you only go around once, and that's it? Don't you want to be a part of the experience? You know, what the hell? It's not all a drag, and I'm thinking to myself: Geez! I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get and just enjoy it while it lasts. And, you know, after--who knows? Maybe there is something, nobody really knows. I know that maybe is a very slim reed to hang your whole life on, but that's the best we have.” ― Woody Allen, Hannah and Her Sisters

Not too strong an argument. First, there were many superior minds who thought that there was a "higher sense" to it, not just a materialist nihilism- Goethe, Hegel, Plato, Whitman, Dostoevsky, Jung....to name a few. Woody is highly selective in his world-view, one-dimensional. Then, even in the case of "ultimate meaninglessness" - a healthy mind doesn't worry, because it is beyond our imagination what will be in the next million or billion years. We care about the continuity of our worries & our cultures, and these cultures last, hundreds and sometimes thousands of years. This is how our human minds perceive "what matters". And developed minds- for instance Aristotle, Leonardo, Marx (although he was wrong in his utopianism), Brahms, Einstein, Joyce... were aware that pseudo-questions stem from the lack of energy of an individual, or the exhaustion of a civilization. Optimistic, expansionist civilization & people in it don't care about some "ultimate meaning". They enjoy the energy of life's flow & energetically flow with it, not giving a damn where it flows to.

Profound and sadly true. His films are one of many great distractions from the truth. Watch “Hannah and Her Sisters” to see how he expands on this issue in one of his best films. 🎬❤️🎬

Seems like the point is in energy that we give out to those who feed off it. This is a big farm and we are the stock. Farmers remain unknown to us, common people. Game is rigged.

Slightly more pretentious sociopath heavy on narcissism light on encouragement.

Everything still exists, only in potential…..like my love life.

This guy REALLY needs something.............

Tough Assignment would be a good book or film title.

Nietsche said that the only valid philosophical question is whether or not to go on living i agree.

What I don't get about Woody is that Judeo-Christian values are at the heart of the best of his work: kindness, forgiveness, redemption, atonement of sins: he is, in a goofy sort of way, a religious filmmaker. And if If he truly believed what he's saying he wouldn't do anything - what would be the point? I truly believe that through his work he is an instrument of God's loving grace and is proof of the existence of God because he chose Woody. Oh the irony! I just wish the great man had the humility to recognize that but if there is one thing atheists lack it's that🎉

All gone. Everybody gone. New group cycles through. All replacements. Then they're gone. Next cycle. Absolutely right. People don't want to believe that. Just like the animal world...as we are all the same.

Whomever dies with most toys wins.

Gigante woody

I totally agree with Woody's assessment and have thought that way since my teens. For me, the only really useful thing to do with your life is to spend it trying to help and entertain your fellow beings get through it all. Woody has always managed to help me pass some time by capturing my attention for a short while. So have a lot of other people. Friends who spend time with me help. Musicians and artists who make you think and entertain you. Interactions with strangers are chances to make them feel better. We can all help each other through whatever this experience is if we try.

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I can’t believe this is from the same man who is (most likely) a sick pedophile. It’s crazy how life works, really

The philosophy of Absurdism by Albert Camus. Read The Myth of Sisyphus.

Huge Woody Allen fan, who grew up with a Jewish-Italian mom - double whammy- along with a healthy (unhealthy?) dose of personal existential dread. So what makes life worth living? Love. The Beatles got it right. The love you take is equal to the love you make.

Woody Allen and George Carlin are my go-to guys when it comes to making sense of my life and the world around me. I've tried Christopher Hitchens and Jordan Peterson but they just seem to over-analyse and overcomplicate things; at least to me anyway.

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Well said by Mr. Allen.

It’s a pretty grim description of life without meaning and devoid of God. My challenge is if there was a guy who predicted that he would die and raise again and then did it. That would be a game changer in terms of the meaningless of life.

What is the meaning of life? What sound does the color red make when you it eat it in 1922 under the Staples Center?

My thoughts exactly.