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@jamaljohnson9734

8 жыл бұрын

+academyofideas You're beautiful.

@MegaElpunto

8 жыл бұрын

I love you

@emperoraugustus62

8 жыл бұрын

+Academy of Ideas how doing a video on german idealism?

@jamaljohnson9734

7 жыл бұрын

craig byrne "we philosophers" hah, get a grip you loser.

@marlenasien8793

5 жыл бұрын

Are you a teacher? YOU SHOULD BE. No pressure :) People used to tell me all the time, and still do, that I should be a therapist because I'm so good at analyzing people... I finally gave in to what I knew unconsciously how I was best of use to others. Now I'm in school. Give it some thought. Again, no pressure; allow the energy to flow.

"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell." Antonin Artaud.

@douglasparise3986

Жыл бұрын

This makes perfect sense

@CrankyHermit

10 ай бұрын

Complete crap.

"Art is the only salvation from the horror of existence."

@FlashManinSpace

6 жыл бұрын

Apparently Nietzsche never heard of Niki Minaj😂

@mrtambourineman6107

5 жыл бұрын

Aha no, I believe the elimination of all expectations for life whilst retaining a true zest to our lives and being alive is a cure for what existential despair ails ya

@paulohyp

5 жыл бұрын

I just care about music, philosophy books and humor.

@mpcc2022

5 жыл бұрын

@@FlashManinSpace Nicki Minaj is not art!

@salmonr2707

4 жыл бұрын

Art enhances the joy of living

I have been intimately familiar with my darker side since i was about 12, and in my search to understand it, i have discovered an inexplicable beauty to life it's self, giving me an extreme passion for studying biology, philosophy, sociology, and psychology etc. in order to better understand life. Sometimes i can hardly hold back tears just thinking about the magnificent beauty of life and existence, while other times i look at the more cynical side of life with utter disgust.

@jJust_NO_

5 жыл бұрын

Haha. It is like an overwhelming feeling sometimes of pure gratitude to what life had offered before, the valuable lessons it taught. Now, I have an unshakable conviction of strength that I am unbeatable and unconquerable. It is a power that is founded on love. It is a collapse of morality. Fear is no more an issue. I just laugh and stare at the eyes of suffering like a neighbor I used to hate but had forgiven and now we are best of friends.

@movement2contact

5 жыл бұрын

What do you call "darker side" exactly..?

@mikehawk457

4 жыл бұрын

@@movement2contact basically the thoughts and urges you have that aren't "good" by social/moral standards

@josephhaas7413

4 жыл бұрын

I find my experience analogous with yours. I ponder the abject “horrors of the night”, only to be given the most optimism about life itself. Everything, from people to innovation to acts of kindness. The study of quantum computing is one that gives me the most hope for landslide innovation

@tarnishedpose

4 жыл бұрын

Comments like this one makes me feel good about myself and life itself. I always asked myself... how could I be the only one feeling like this? So many people out there. It is ridiculous to believe that Im somehow special (as in, Im not the only one who has certain beliefs about some aspects of life). I always disliked the idea of being just another person in the world but I also refused to believe that I was different. Not that being special is bad but how can I tell if the way I think about life is right(or if there's even any logic behind my thinking)... Now, the more I watch videos or read stuff about certain topics the more I realize how many people can feel or think the same way as I do about some life. Not that I need to fill some sense of belonging. Never had one tbh since I always felt better being in my own... but I dont need to have people around me. As long as someone out there can feel the same way as I feel, I'll know I'm not alone... and I will never be.

Thank you for taking your time and posting these videos. Know that they're extremely valuable to me. You're so succinct and clear with your writing and explanations on the topics you choose to cover. Thanks a ton.

@x15Lovex

7 жыл бұрын

zulubeatz817 I too like to use the word succinct whenever the occasion arises, why be common and use concise when you're a higher man.

@neiljohnstone5388

7 жыл бұрын

Eugene. L using succinct doesn't make you a higher man and certainly thinking that it does, makes you a much lesser man, i would argue.

@TheBruces56

7 жыл бұрын

Apparently Neil, you don't understand sarcasm

@aprilh2122

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for using the word succinct

@golden1324

5 жыл бұрын

Neil Johnstone bruh

Most people binge on Netflix...I binge on Academy of ideas

@michaelk9056

5 жыл бұрын

And beer

@Scout887

5 жыл бұрын

Is looking movies, series, and playing videogames also "Rausch" what nietzsche said? Would nietzsche affirmatively nick when he would see people playing videogames or looking movies ?

@Posdrums3

5 жыл бұрын

So you're in the distraction camp?

@movement2contact

5 жыл бұрын

You're better than all of us distracted garbage...

@Huvrkrft

5 жыл бұрын

Dennis Blijleven As soon as you admit something like that, you know you have to make a change.

I love hearing things that I know intuitively and powerfully formed into words, something I am rarely able to do with any efficacy. Miguel de Unamuno hit the nail on the head with that last one

Ive always felt this but never put it into words so clearly.

@olahfsmart3630

5 жыл бұрын

Voids Every man is an artist by definition I guess

@ambershah5741

3 жыл бұрын

@Voids I may be 4 years late,but I concur with you.the ability to express one’s thoughts articulately is a tremendously valuable skill to possess.language is a powerful tool,and without it thoughts and ideas of the human mind are nothing but wispy clouds

@maisarahmonier2256

2 жыл бұрын

@@ambershah5741 all the way down to me, an egyptian living in a village, i too have always felt this.

you're pretty much my favourite youtuber right now. The topics and contents excite the plasticity of my brain and gives me much insight to the struggles of my daily life. at least now i know im not going mental

@marcus8710

4 жыл бұрын

"I am more a battlefield than a man." Damn, label me 'scan complete'.

@calebray4168

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly how I feel

These ideas remind me of the passage "With great wisdom comes great sorrow"

An artist must suffer for his art Great artists suffer for the people. (Marvin Gaye) The artist is not a 'Sunday child' for whom everything immediately succeeds. He does not have the right to live without duty. The task that is assigned to him is painful, it is a heavy cross for him to bear. (Wassily Kandinsky) You sir are a artist

@RebisRam

6 жыл бұрын

Show me this child's painting hung in the Louvre who does not hold insight into the depths of man.

@poisonsquid37

5 жыл бұрын

Mary Taylor Someone doesn't have to be "mopey" to have experienced suffering. Sometimes the happiest and most cheerful people are the ones who have suffered the most. But if you look at the history of great art great suffering seems to be the cost. And you got it wrong about artists being special. It's not that artists are special, it's that special people are artists. For someone who is critical of the idea that misery induces artistic thought, you seemed to have infused a lot of your own bad attitude into this comment. Pretty ironic if you ask me.

@1magnificentreg

5 жыл бұрын

well timed, for me. both blessing and curse to know.

@NickNicometi

3 жыл бұрын

As an artist (aspiring, as w/the vagaries of too few starts & too many stops of an endless pursuit), sometimes one can feel "the calling" a curse when one believes to posses the innate ability to pursue nearly any other vocation.

@douglasparise3986

Жыл бұрын

John Lennon

This is an incredible video. Ive just discovered Zapffe and Ligotti after doing much spiritual seeking along nonduality, etc. And, I have learned the necessity of dropping all of it and seeing the deep emptiness of life. Coming into contact with this emptiness left me unable to access the repressive mechanisms so many use. I also see why I have regulated this deep feeling with art and music. I achieve these deep states of Rausch for so many years and never knew it has been described! In the suffering there is great joy. Certain music and art has left me with this melancholy joy that I am so drawn to. On the verge of tears.

Thank you from my soul and mind great man. You are very, very intelligent and have a higher purpose to make us all our highest potential. I am not in a good financial state presently, however your material is gold and I have found after food and rent your material is the priority and deserve rewards for your diligent and inspirational work. You condense insights from the geniuses of psychology and philosophy and break it down in to quite simple and integrated relatively brief discourses. No doubt you have studied the field extensively, qualified or not it doesn't matter as you provide the material in a simple and easy to understand format. What you provide would cost me tens of thousands in study fees and at least 4 years of my life! It is inspirational that you see the potential in all of us to be great and give everyone free access to life changing education that to be honest some of it must be taught in secondary education to improve the future of humanity. A lot of people once given an opportunity take it and use it for good. Fortunately, the 21 st century has given the world these opportunities due to technology and people such as good yourself using it for the betterment of civilisation. Keep up the fantastic work!

Imagine listening to Wagner on your deck overlooking a Swiss Alpine Lake with a glass of wine, a big fat spliff and talking about life with Nietzche.

@jamestommasin6542

2 жыл бұрын

Ride of the Valkyeries always gives me chills.

That was inspiring and stimulating, thank you.

Makes so much sense, aligns with my experience. People figured this shit out like 500 years ago damn.

The most important way of limiting the contents of consciousness is goal-setting.

This was such an intensely succinct and insightful video. No glamour, no hype, no effects. Just a well constructed feast on the hard truths. Makes the distraction of KZread and the internet somewhat redeemable. Bravo!

What a great video! I really enjoyed this framing of the topics here, I would recommend Thomas Liggotti's book, 'The Conspiracy Against The Human Race', as a more rigidly pessimistic and modern treatment of Zapffe's work, and philisophical-pessimism in general. But while personally, I might treat the Ligottian take on Zapffe as more honest (to the logical conclusion of his world-view at least), I love having multiple viewpoints, and that at least 25k people are intellectually curious enough to look this up, gives me some 'hope'!!

@curtiswilson859

7 жыл бұрын

Feuerbach1 pretty difficult to shake the worldview of Ligotti/Zapffe once you've read 'Conspiracy', though ;)

@sandeepkhairwa3300

4 жыл бұрын

I heard that book has show much stuff that inspired Rust Cohle's character in True Detective S1.

Thank you for this video. It's beautifully made and truly resonated with me. Lately, I've been suffering a lot from existential despair. At times it's maddening, especially because I struggle to find anyone who understands what I'm going through. But I connected with this on a deep level and it provided some comfort. Thank you.

Amazing video, timing, cadence, explanations, quotes -- a perfectly coherent video on very complex ideas. Can't wait to see more!

This truly is a masterpeice. Very well put together and very resonant. Keep up the great work!

I finally have an insight in my 'disease' from which i struggled for 17 years, that began after my creative life ended because i needed to know about the darkness. Time to pick up the brushes again! Thank you.

I love the fact you have a manuscript of your work. A certain compassionate disposition you hold to education towards the masses. Tank you.

Great video, explained aspects of me to myself. Always such beautiful artwork accompanying these. Thanks for the effort.

00:16 Is the pain of living an end in itself and as bad as it seems? Or, is our suffering a necessary means to a valuable end? The significance of anything is context dependent. Apparently, the wisdom of Silenus holds a materialistic view of life that assumes consciousness is a function of the brain and ends with death. If I believed that to be true, I would have ended it forty years ago. But what if matter does not lie at the base of reality? What if consciousness is fundamental and survives its physical host and the context in which it dwelled? What would death bring then? Would I find myself having returned to my essence or, transformed into something else? If so, would that be good, or bad for me? Consider Sāi Wēng’s horse, a Chinese proverb that expresses this idea very well. Sāi Wēng raised horses for a living. One day, his prized stallion ran away. After hearing of this, his neighbors felt sorry and came to comfort him. But the horse breeder simply asked, “How could I know this is not a good thing for me?” Eventually, the wayward stud returned with three beautiful mares. The neighbors came over again and congratulated Sāi Wēng on his good fortune. But he only said, “How could I know this is not a bad thing for me?” The next day, his son went out for a ride on one of the new horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. The neighbors once again expressed their condolences but Sāi Wēng replied, “How could I know this is not a good thing for me?” Shortly after, the Emperor’s army arrived at the village to conscript all able-bodied men for war. Because of his injury, Sāi Wēng’s son was left behind. Once again the neighbors congratulated him on his good fortune. His response was, “How can I know this is not a bad thing for me?” If I’m no more than a mindlessly determined instance of a supposed Big Bang, an organic machine, whose death will result in oblivion, and I’ve suffered my insanity these past six plus decades in vain, then that’s bad for me and I want to die now. But I don’t know that to be true. Perhaps the truth is, my life is an illusion; an intensely immersive virtual reality experience, generated in an advanced, high-tech civilization. Could it be, my life's purpose is merely to serve as a hedonic reset, a remedy for excess, for something akin to a Roman Orgy; purging after a binge of overeating so I can resume feasting? Have I been overdoing VR fantasies, indulging myself in every possible way and have, at last, become jaded and bored with it all? Could this life be tantamount to shoving a finger down my throat? Is it that I must now suffer a negative VR experience of figuratively vomiting the consequence of my previous overindulgence, so I can begin again to indulge myself anew? Or, is this life the result of something else? Did I commit a crime in that future world and this is my just and lawful punishment? Maybe I’m completely innocent and being victimized by a cruel power. I have no way of knowing; not until the full context of my life experience is known; if that’s even possible. Maybe my life, is but the dream of a privileged and arrogant child, occurring in the span of five minutes between snooze alarms, that hopefully, will teach him the importance of compassion and humility. If so, when I die in this life, I will awaken as that schoolboy and return to being a sheltered kid, surrounded by love, and no longer an aging, mentally ill recluse, treading water and waiting for the uncertain consequence of death. With a valuable lesson learned, perhaps this life/hallucination will not have been suffered in vain. But then, what would Sāi Wēng say?

@academyofideas

8 жыл бұрын

+Robert Rowland Astounding, and very insightful. Thank you for that.

@robertrowland1061

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I am both grateful and humbled. This is high praise indeed; for it is I, who admire and respect the quality of your work. I wish you well.

@jovannawade4116

4 жыл бұрын

Some of the suffering put upon helps us to be kinder, more grateful ,more compassionate, better able to appreciate creature comforts. Some of the suffering we put upon ourselves maintaining a household, a business, studying long hours or working long hours, benefit us as humans. These things center us real or imagined the sense of purpose keeps us from becoming mad men. Most creatures are aware of life or they would neither run nor fight a predator. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Knowledge is power. A field of wheat can be beautiful. Knowledge of what can be done with the wheat is powerful. Despite the horrors in the world caused by man there is beauty in the world caused by man.

@Itsheymarie

4 жыл бұрын

Robert Rowland This is the best philosophical comment or existential opinion I have ever read in my entire life.

@ouisellmedia

3 жыл бұрын

Wow

This was such a good one. Just the other day I was thinking to myself that existence is toxic. Nothing particularly bad is happening to me at this stage of my life -- I just always feel burdened with violences and injustices going on around me, even though they don't happen in my neighborhood. Also, I have been contemplating getting into visual arts lately; I was really surprised by the Nietzsche quotes on art. I wasn't finding a place for art in terms of my greater questions but the Nietzsche quotes have really moved me toward taking the plunge into art.

Your videos are fantastic, my day is made so much better when I come home from work and find that you've posted another.

Your channel is seriously one that should be followed by more people! Thank you

This is the best video on KZread. Thus explains my life and my feelings for the past five years.

These videos are, for lack of adequate language, exceptionally well done and enormously helpful. The narrative has been perfectly woven into the fabric comprised of the best thinking of many brilliant minds. Thank you.

This video made me Rausch so hard.

@jonasdamion1627

6 жыл бұрын

i hope you actually know what rausch is (because that would mean you've experienced it and you enjoy the invigorating effect of creation!! and i love my fellow philosophers)

@michaelk9056

5 жыл бұрын

I Rausch on my carpet

@renel8964

5 жыл бұрын

I think They have ointment for that kinda thing

@Bluudclaat

4 жыл бұрын

Not to be confused with rauch(en) 🚬

First video I've seen and am already so glad I stumbled across this channel.

Simply addicted to this channel after just finding it today. Connecting the Great thinkers in a pedagogical manner. Many thanks!

love your stuff. good word and surely a good amount of effort too. you contribute to a better understand of the world and a better world in general. we all evolve. thank you. 💚

Good job with the videos. Hope you keep making them

What a great channel I just found! Thanks a lot!! Greets from Brazil

Such videos provide me a glimpse of what my personal being will take me. Thank you for this.

Really beautiful work, thanks for making these. 🤟🤟

Excellent video, please keep up the good work!

Your videos are truly inspirational.... thank you so much

Fantastic thank you for these; great voice & presentation. Bright Blessings.

Great stuff, really enjoyed this

This was truly great. Of the caliber that one wonders why this isn't taught / explained to kids when they're about 6. I sure would have preferred to have it explained to me as beautifully as this...

A very insightful video. Not something I expect to find on KZread.

wow...unbelievable sense of clarity...

Beautiful conclusion.

Thank you so much for such great content.

I love those sublime paintings. I wish to know the source..

Thankyou for such a useful and poetic introduction to this line of thinking.

I think this might the best KZread channel I've ever come across. I can't believe it's not more popular.

Absolutely stunning! If only I was capable of putting it to words.....

This whole script is like poetry. I love these videos.

VERY awesome video! Subscribed

Thank you for the the video.

Nice one! For the ones more brave or more loony - i recommend the book "The conspiracy against the human race"! Worth reading when it comes to analysing Zapffes ideas.

@johnmiller7453

6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely that book shook me to the core. Along with that Ernest Becker's "Denial of Death" and "Escape from Evil".

I had watched this before...and watched and re-watched many of your videos. They can take on different meaning based on life experience. I have been trying to live a path towards Enlightenment, whatever that may mean to some. It was only about a month ago I truly experienced that moment of the "despair of the tragic sense of life"...the futility. Ending one's life seemed the only logical next step. I didn't. I won't. Never will. But I crossed that bridge. It was a very profound moment. Keep up the good work.

This particular video hit close to home.

Beautifully articulated! 👌

brilliant effort Sir! mad respect to you...even if these concepts don't rid you of the quagmire that existence actually is they sure place you in a good position to deal with them in a better way...

Thank you! That was a great video!

I absolutely love this channel.

I love this video and the ideology it brings. It goes to show more of what people should understand to obtain more from their everyday lives

I've experianced Rausch... it's beautiful. It makes me feel so happy when art looks amazing

'Thank you for those artworks Academy of Ideas! I would like to say that Rausch' might as well be translated as 'flow' (Mihály Csíkszentmihályi) like in a rushing brook and that life as being inseparable from suffering and the law of impermanence are hallmarks of eastern philosophies like taoism and buddhism as well. Thank you for creating those loopholes in this matrix of distraction transforming it thus into the abyss smiling back.

So, I somehow find relief in these videos. Thank you.

@khairunishakhetikheti3273

4 жыл бұрын

Bhai mne aamizon videi ne te main building mlliya 6 te tme aapi jav hu ambler kal mlse tem divs kathu hhu nre tme mne often video hu having nhi lav mari gift 6 a visva nkro tmne aapi jrur nhi mari bthi vst stuff aek sathe lad vo mara dikarane sabit thaya aa sa chi 6 tme Aa.ina riksama aavo aj hu pag athuri lachr nhot to hu khud lyaja the aagrib dar vkht thi lost thya 6 aNkh na aasu pan skkya vya kyare jordar aathat mne mari nnakhi pchhi god ni marji bhu thakyo gya chhu nmane dhrno helo put nbhai no bhu thaki gya chhu have je kavu hoya te god kase

Really really grateful for your content - thank you

amazing video. much appreciated.

Great stuff my man!

wow this is amazing. good video

this is one of the best videos I've seen

Such great content!

Great video!!

A very powerful video, always insightful. I believe you have touched upon this theme in other videos, consciousness as a disease, existential crisis and meaning ... however I would ask you expand upon this dialogue. Do repressional mechanisms alone limit the content of consciousness? Is limiting consciousness a survival mechanism? Is suffering representative of conscious existence? Is there a transcendent experience, a transformation that realizes a greater truth? I really enjoy this topic ... and your great insights, perhaps you could make a part II to this video.

@academyofideas

8 жыл бұрын

+amakhija1 I replied to your comment earlier but deleted it by mistake...those are very interesting questions and I agree there's a lot of possibility to expand on this topic. I'll definitely consider doing a part II in the future.

@srajput3247

7 жыл бұрын

I have all these questions too... Will explore more videos here to see if any of these topics have been attempted.

@johnmiller7453

6 жыл бұрын

For more info read Ernest Becker's "Denial of Death"

@pramitbanerjee

6 жыл бұрын

john miller I am reading that right now. Currently on chapter 4.

Monstrously good video.

Excellent series

These are the best videos on KZread

bravo! excellent video.

Your channel is helping me a lot. At least I hope so... Everything is relatively ok, but I'm going through such a meaningless pain, despair, and obsessive thoughts. It feels unbearable sometimes.

thats true. i really dont know what would i do without music...

Fantastic. Thanks.

Where (or how) do you go about finding all of your sources? Brilliant work.

Damn that was good

@Cyber_Elf_Elpizo

5 жыл бұрын

Glad it was good for you, too

Thank God for Nietzsche. I no longer feel alone. ☺

@nilnada5037

5 жыл бұрын

"thank god " ironic choice of words

@alilmtiaz3612

5 жыл бұрын

Nietzsche is the man

When you do the zooming in and out of images, it is a bit unsettling. I hope you can find ways to show connections in a different manner other than that. Great video by the way. Keep up the good work.

This is the best! Thanks

Beautiful, creative, inspiring....... incredible. I cannot get enough. I love your work.

I always assumed, not that depression results in creativity, but that creative mind tends to depression. It takes imagination and ability to envision things to get depressed.

To quote the drummer and lyricist Neil Peart from the band Rausch, "One must put up barriers to keep oneself intact."

"Anguish is the price we pay for love." Queen Elisabeth II "And the lovers lie abed. With all thier griefs in their arms," Dylan Thomas

Rausch is flow of insightful concepts of your mind..creativity becomes your default thought process for a good bit

I loooove this channel.

Great video. Great topic.

I think I found it. Painter of those wonderful images at 7:35 and 10:35 or so is Bierstadt, Albert.

hard to understand...... a lot of information......gracias. Academyofideias.....excelent chanel.....

Lovely video.

Great, great content

@theboywhocriedswag

7 жыл бұрын

scratch that, i just finished the video, BEAUTIFUL content. i love you

Make yourself happy first and always ,before you can face the world. In the end you only have you to rely on.

Nietzsche wrote some beautiful & interesting chamber music... look 4 it... Never hurts to see the ideas in practice... Excellent video thanks a lot

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. ♥️♥️♥️