The Long Return

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@alphalux Жыл бұрын

You are a lightning rod to the parts of myself that the world seems to be hell-bent on destroying. The random thought of you, wherever you might be, whatever you might be doing, has always brought a smile to my face, and reminds me that brothers and sisters are still out there fighting hard. Those old days have strong roots and twisted limbs, but they have come to mean so much to me.

@TheFaceMeIter 2 жыл бұрын

So great to see you back Ben. You have no idea how much of an inspiration you have been to me for over a decade. Please set up a patrion. I made you a promise a decade ago and I plan to uphold it. You are a light in a world shrouded by darkness. Damn few.

@BenCarruth 2 жыл бұрын

I'll talk plans and details a few videos in. I'm figuring out workflow and want to be able to produce consistently before I put out the tip jar. That said: thank you, and no, I honestly don't know/perceive my beneficial effect on adjacent lives. I hope, though. Always.

@TheFaceMeIter 2 жыл бұрын

@@BenCarruth You were so much part of my journey into philosophy. You can't begin to imagine how much of an impact you've had on people. I'm so happy to see you back. Your words don't fall on deaf ears.

@gangofgreenhorns2672 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheFaceMeIter ditto, go back to his videos often. Still link them to people. He was a huge reason I picked up a second major in philosophy. I'm definitely a better person for having found his content as a teen/young adult.

@TheFaceMeIter 2 жыл бұрын

@@gangofgreenhorns2672 Oh, absolutely. He was a major influence in my pursuit of philosophy. Unfortunately, in today's world, it gets lost in translation; but I love seeing that the spirit is still alive. Hope Ben throws us a pearl from time to time, but I don't blame him if he doesn't. We live in a Tik Tok world now.

@hallcyon 2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you're still on this wonderful horrible journey of life. It isn't ever what our idea of what we wanted at a given time. Anyway.. *HUG*.

@jdata 29 күн бұрын

Welcome back. Still trying to figure out what this all is.....but i subscribed what seems like lifetime ago when I different person in a different place. Im glad you're back though, it feels right. And now I'm a Michigander and love it here!

@StationaryTransient Жыл бұрын

I’m happy to see you again, Ben. I’ve been a follower and admirer for a long time - Since the Knighted Owls days. I check on your channel from time to time, always hopeful to find something new. Thanks for sharing this.

@ScpRpcEtc 10 ай бұрын

This was a real treat to see. As someone peripheral to or at least a prior fanboy of the Knighted Owls, it’s remarkable to re-experience such a stark reminder (you, surfaced) of those times to re-contextualize who & where I am. Importantly and foremost, I am alive. This is not a casual conclusion to arrive at. Secondly, domesticated life has subdued and then tamed a previously wild & artistic one. For all the grandiose and complicated attempts at creating something artistic and profound in my life, I find that I am the most proud and in awe of my two children; two things I have created, that (interestingly) require basically zero skill, discipline, or unique creative attributes; something that sheer animals do. I’ve struggled most of my life coming to terms with and clasping desperately at delusions of grandeur surrounding my nominally, quantifiably subpar artistic success, lack thereof really. Despite all my energy investments, I am not it seems destined to be an artist. I have made a fool of myself trying to get others, even my idols, to believe something that was probably never true. But maybe that makes me uniquely to be destined to be a very good father. And that’s where I am, still, with revenant breezes of silent creativity, blowing on & messing with my hair (thankfully ai still have it) this way and that, occasionally. You seem to be in a rhythm of decades. I never got to know you personally, so I can’t be sure, but it appears you have been relatively constant, which is admirable. I will not be doing myself or the long lost spirit of KZbin proper justice without offering some counter-argumentation. What is defined as a waste in the present tense, specifically a waste of energy, is prospective and as speculative as an asset’s appreciation. Proof of work is arguably not a lateral move away from proof of war ($). The “artificial“ in the phrase “artificial intelligence“ is future terminological-antique of our paradigm. AI’s progress, hindered by all the things you mentioned and also by an ironically Christian-fundamentalist-like sense of pretzeled ethics, is also hindered by (I assume) an exclusive knowledge that we have already reached a point of no return, and that the most disturbing milestones have been achieved in relative secrecy, similar to the atom bomb until its demonstration on a global scale. Despite those using the metaphor in a way that would make even the Nazis blush, there is no such thing close to being “the atom bomb of our era“. Cheers on being in home Michigan, and enjoy it being this year’s home of college football national championship, I’m sure that will be an easy and effortless mode of small talk when you need it. - CelphaFiael

@emversustheworld 3 күн бұрын

Incredible story! Romance isn’t dead ☺️. Have you ever heard of the village of Ceresco? I have some familiarity with the apocalypse as well. Thank you, I agree.

@ctso74 2 жыл бұрын

Welcome back. Your video and a TheraminTrees one on the same day. Serendipity. Attack Ostriches would be no joke. A single ill-tempered Emu should be enough, to make any reasonable person panic.

@SirLiamson 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like your voice has aged like fine wine. Good to see you back.

@amber-turner 2 жыл бұрын

Welcome back 🙂

@user_user1337 2 жыл бұрын

F me: The return of the Carruths. A face from the Old Age of KZbin, when we were all friends, or enemies, or at least nothing in-between. How are you doing, old post-modernist?