Our Greatest Delusion

I am working on some big new projects I'm excited to share with you!
So this video is a little different from most of the others. The channel is an element of truth, after all, not an element of science. This is my truth. It may not be everyone's but that's ok too.
Clips included were from:
Chernobyl and Pripyat - drone shots from shooting Uranium
Obsidian dome, California
Panum Crater
El Capitan
The Pyramids of Giza
Toronto buildings
The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
Abu Simbel temple at Aswan, Egypt
Sydney Harbour
Milky way time-lapse from the badlands of South Australia
Sunset over Warrnambool, Victoria
Big Bang animation courtesy of NASA
Sunrise over Bondi
Water off New Caledonia
Great white sharks in the Neptune Islands, South Australia
Crosswalk at Town Hall Sydney
EDUtubers at the KZread EDU summit in San Francisco
Concert in Sydney
Jetpacking in Western Sydney
Vi's triangles at Perimeter Institute, Waterloo Canada
Aurora Borealis north of Fairbanks Alaska
Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain
Hiking with MinutePhysics in Washington State
Music Licensed from cuesongs.com "The Secret Tower" by Nicholas O

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  • @D-Man_Jam
    @D-Man_Jam4 жыл бұрын

    Alternate title: _"Radiation turns a man into a philosopher"_

  • @elantris-2002

    @elantris-2002

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is genuinely underrated

  • @D-Man_Jam

    @D-Man_Jam

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@elantris-2002 thank you. You too

  • @elantris-2002

    @elantris-2002

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@D-Man_Jam thanks I guess xD

  • @surplusvalue3271

    @surplusvalue3271

    3 жыл бұрын

    underrated

  • @based_rushi

    @based_rushi

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tears of laughing in my eyes 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂

  • @doogbazzard
    @doogbazzard5 жыл бұрын

    "We have two lives, the second begins when we realize we only have one." -Confucius

  • @kieronbrown73

    @kieronbrown73

    5 жыл бұрын

    We do and the second one is eternal but complete and uter nothingness

  • @shivambhardwaj7605

    @shivambhardwaj7605

    4 жыл бұрын

    #navalravikant

  • @RyszardPoster27

    @RyszardPoster27

    4 жыл бұрын

    So like when we are 6 years old?

  • @klutz3955

    @klutz3955

    4 жыл бұрын

    Boom, mind blown

  • @jokerssjokess4857

    @jokerssjokess4857

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@kieronbrown73 lies, upon lies. Something that exists, just to fill the last question, just to make you feel better. It always sounded and felt like a good night story, when your Mother tried to help you sleep. Something we truly want, but surely don't need.

  • @theredbobcat
    @theredbobcat3 жыл бұрын

    "Your failures will be forgotten" - the man in Chernobyl.

  • @WillowK.

    @WillowK.

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not Chernobyl, Pripyat

  • @TTaM581

    @TTaM581

    3 жыл бұрын

    I kinda liked that bit right after I've watch the video about Poisson's Spot.

  • @Shaun.Stephens

    @Shaun.Stephens

    2 жыл бұрын

    Tell that to Guy Fawkes.

  • @awuuwa

    @awuuwa

    2 жыл бұрын

    but I wont forget them while I am still alive, which is the part of my life that matters

  • @TheXuism

    @TheXuism

    Жыл бұрын

    @@awuuwa your pity

  • @TankUni
    @TankUni3 жыл бұрын

    It's like listening to your stoner friend having a revelation; 'rocks man, wooah, look at the rocks.'

  • @9897683983

    @9897683983

    3 жыл бұрын

    ha ha ha that true..

  • @WillowK.

    @WillowK.

    3 жыл бұрын

    Idk if you meant “stoner” as a pun or if it is just a coincidence.

  • @shaider1982

    @shaider1982

    2 жыл бұрын

    Rocks, you mean minerals:)

  • @israel963

    @israel963

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are you saying Derek is not our stoner friend having that revelation? Cause I’m pretty sure that’s EXACTLY what’s happening here 🤣

  • @nazojin7557

    @nazojin7557

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me after watching an anime that praises rocks

  • @MattHendrickR
    @MattHendrickR8 жыл бұрын

    I love it when somebody puts into words what I think and how I feel more eloquently than I ever could.

  • @xxDrain

    @xxDrain

    8 жыл бұрын

    Matt Hendrick Be careful that the words of others don't instead shape your yet undefined beliefs. That is a task for you, not others.

  • @19Carlo97

    @19Carlo97

    8 жыл бұрын

    Matt Hendrick I feel the exact same way after watching this video.

  • @xxDrain

    @xxDrain

    8 жыл бұрын

    Matt Hendrick tl;dr

  • @MattHendrickR

    @MattHendrickR

    8 жыл бұрын

    xxDrain And here I thought you might be a thoughtful person. I guess I was wrong. Nothing in my reply was insulting you or your comment.

  • @xxDrain

    @xxDrain

    8 жыл бұрын

    Matt Hendrick Sorry dude, I'm just not interested in your life story. This ain't the place. We're just strangers on the internet. The person doesn't matter. Peace be with you.

  • @Guardabosque
    @Guardabosque7 жыл бұрын

    *continues to waste time on the Internet

  • @Chewy427

    @Chewy427

    7 жыл бұрын

    I don't see it as waste. I see pleasure and comfort as the most important intrinsic good, and therefore my objective is to be sitting right here.

  • @Biglulu

    @Biglulu

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Chris N Maybe for you. To each their own.

  • @Chewy427

    @Chewy427

    7 жыл бұрын

    Effort causes me suffering.

  • @leemaina8170

    @leemaina8170

    7 жыл бұрын

    Theodoroball same

  • @chriswaters926

    @chriswaters926

    6 жыл бұрын

    I see it as the feeding of the mind. Moderation is still essential for sure. We hold a treasured place in time. A period of a shared knowledge and free ideas that can form a cohesive humanity.

  • @thrash1337
    @thrash13373 жыл бұрын

    I come back, every so often, to this video. It's just great and so special. I hope you know just how much you help, Derek.

  • @marciomicio

    @marciomicio

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me too! It's so weird yet so relieving

  • @jonashartwig738

    @jonashartwig738

    2 жыл бұрын

    You might wanna try Senecas go on time. It deepens this topic and makes you not forget how valuable time is.

  • @allisthemoist2244

    @allisthemoist2244

    2 жыл бұрын

    I don't know what you find comforting about the idea that you don't have free will. In fact if hawking is to be believed then you don't have even consciousness. Here's some nice quotes from prominent atheists on this matter. Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow: “It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law, so it seems that we are no more than biological machines and that free will is just an illusion Here's Sam Harris on this: SH: In what sense is the self an illusion? BH: An illusion is a subjective experience that is not what it seems. Illusions are experiences in the mind, but are not out there in nature. Rather, they are events generated by the brain. Most of us have an experience of a self. I certainly have one, and I do not doubt that others do as well - an autonomous individual with a coherent identity and sense of free will. But that experience is an illusion - it does not exist independently of the person having the experience, and it is certainly not what it seems. SH: If the self is not what it seems, then what is it? BH: For most of us, the sense of our self is as an integrated individual inhabiting a body. I think it is helpful to distinguish between the two ways of thinking about the self. There is conscious awareness of the present moment called the “I.” There is also a self that reflects upon who we are in terms of our history, our current activities and our future plans, the “me” which most of us would recognize as our personal identity-who we think we are. However, I think that both the “I” and the “me” are actually ever-changing narratives generated by our brain to provide a coherent framework to organize the output of all the factors that contribute to our thoughts and behaviors. It helps to compare the experience of self to illusions where you see an invisible shape. The brain is actually generating the neural activation as if the illusory shape was really there; the brain is hallucinating the experience. Atheist existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre: “If God does not exist… man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend upon, either within or outside himself” Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre goes on to articulate his nihilistic epiphany: “I existed like a stone, a plant, a microbe… I was just thinking… that here we are, all of us, eating and drinking, to preserve our precious existence and there’s nothing, nothing, absolutely no reason for existing” (48). Atheist Philosopher Thomas Nagel: “Even if life as a whole is meaningless, perhaps that’s nothing to worry about. Perhaps we can recognise it and just go on as before” This is what nihlism leads too

  • @jixxytrix1705

    @jixxytrix1705

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@allisthemoist2244 You're spot on, Joe. Nervous Atheists choosing to believe in nothingness and absurdity in order to set themselves up as Lords of their own existence. Explosions out of nothing with the help of no one and dead matter spontaneously coming alive. Talk about delusion....

  • @PrestonSteele

    @PrestonSteele

    2 жыл бұрын

    Same, 2 years later.

  • @hunternelson7627
    @hunternelson76273 жыл бұрын

    Well, this just inspired me to text the girl I've been stressing over for a week. Let's see how this goes. Update: it didn't go well

  • @centauria9122

    @centauria9122

    2 жыл бұрын

    Like going into a relationship type stressing out? If so, I've been there before, and at least you've tried. There are good lessons to learn from trying to start up a relationship. :) If not, then I'm typing in the wrong thing I guess lol. 😅

  • @snakecodm7249

    @snakecodm7249

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sorry bro Lol

  • @jackihurst8350

    @jackihurst8350

    2 жыл бұрын

    I have found the secret to that is confident act like you don't care and you want her ask her friend or ask her about her friend create competition they love it he kills them more of these things that you use or combine the better your results will be

  • @ALBINO1D

    @ALBINO1D

    2 жыл бұрын

    And that's okay that it didn't go well. Maybe because of that you leave yourself open for someone a better match for you. Sometimes one thing not going well is what opens the possibility of something better.

  • @im1who84u

    @im1who84u

    2 жыл бұрын

    It usually doesn't. Stay single... Stay happy.

  • @mapledoctor3915
    @mapledoctor39158 жыл бұрын

    My biggest fear is not knowing what happens on earth and within the universe after I die.

  • @Fjolltzu

    @Fjolltzu

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Jacob H (MrGAEM) It wont be a fear

  • @MrGoatflakes

    @MrGoatflakes

    8 жыл бұрын

    _"Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not."_ Epicurus _Letter to Menoeceus_

  • @ideallyjekyl5200

    @ideallyjekyl5200

    8 жыл бұрын

    Just believe in Jesus and you can smile down as the world slowly burns

  • @Fjolltzu

    @Fjolltzu

    8 жыл бұрын

    Ideally Jekyl -_-

  • @Eriko94

    @Eriko94

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Jacob H (MrGAEM) I useally think what I did 1990 (I was born 199 ) and think what I will be doing the year 2150. Nothing. In 1990 I didn't exist and in the year 2150 I will not exist. And thinking that I didn't exist 25 years ago is comfortable since I was nonexisting as I will be a 150 years from now. You may feel fear in life but not in death. Because there will be no emotion you will just be gone.

  • @Mars057
    @Mars0575 жыл бұрын

    "I do not fear death. I was dead for billions upon billions of years before I was born, and not once did it cause me even the slightest of inconveniences." One of my favorite Mark Twain quotes.

  • @03Venture

    @03Venture

    5 жыл бұрын

    Mars: Thanks for bringing this up. Very appropriate!

  • @thesentientneuron6550

    @thesentientneuron6550

    4 жыл бұрын

    This was one of the first things I thought about when I was a kid but didn't realize it's significance. I just thought that it was an obvious fact that didn't really matter.

  • @greg_715

    @greg_715

    4 жыл бұрын

    This made me recover from the existential crisis this video gave me. Thank you

  • @Suzetteofthewest

    @Suzetteofthewest

    4 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful. My favorite of Mark Twain and almost my favorite of all quotes!

  • @kraio-sfu

    @kraio-sfu

    4 жыл бұрын

    What hasn’t Mark Twain said?

  • @susioeandno1else
    @susioeandno1else3 жыл бұрын

    I usually watch Kurzgesagt for my daily dose of existentialism...

  • @TheSilverShadow17

    @TheSilverShadow17

    Жыл бұрын

    Ah, yes. Our good old friend Kurzgesagt, the premier doctor in Existential Crisis medication. The party starts when he shows up.

  • @erikbianco78

    @erikbianco78

    3 ай бұрын

    me too 😂

  • @date_vape
    @date_vape2 жыл бұрын

    This is actually inspiring. This video actually makes me really motivated to try college again after failing all of my classes one term because of some mental health issues.

  • @alizo3

    @alizo3

    2 жыл бұрын

    Best of luck with that, wish you all the best!

  • @OllieCreates

    @OllieCreates

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hey, I really hope all goes well for you. You’ll come out stronger, regardless of whether you choose to go back to college. But I hope you choose to try again, because I believe that strong education is invaluable. You got this. ❤️

  • 2 жыл бұрын

    If you have a missing or injured arm, people can relate. Because they can picture having that condition themselves vividly. It is hard to relate to mental problems, even if you have a history of mental problems. Or relate to different ones than you currently have. Therefore it could be quite difficult. Because not only you have a problem you did not ask for, nor you deserve, but also you are low key blamed for it or it's manifestations in your life. I'd say just focus doing what you can with cards dealt to you I guess. Best of luck to you!

  • @Thrlta

    @Thrlta

    2 жыл бұрын

    I didn't even have any mental health issues and I still failed every single one of my classes.

  • 2 жыл бұрын

    @@Thrlta "Absolutely brilliant BUT..." was the comment about me of every teacher and boss I've ever had. And I didn't even have any mental health issues... or so I thought. Started ADD medication 6 months ago, and it changed _EVERYTHING._ I never knew the life could be in this way for me. I am not saying you might have it as well, but I'm definitely saying get checked for ADD and many other things that could be going wrong.

  • @ShadyPossum
    @ShadyPossum8 жыл бұрын

    i feel inspired, depressed, excited, and a failure, all at once

  • @mdk948

    @mdk948

    8 жыл бұрын

    You're not alone my friend, you're not alone...

  • @vincengo7036

    @vincengo7036

    8 жыл бұрын

    I know me too

  • @JamesBalazs

    @JamesBalazs

    8 жыл бұрын

    But he is. And he will be when he dies. But we will all be alone then, so we're together in that sense.

  • @ResanChea

    @ResanChea

    8 жыл бұрын

    Exactly what I feel

  • @CanariasCanariass

    @CanariasCanariass

    8 жыл бұрын

    Same..

  • @crustythethird3284
    @crustythethird32848 жыл бұрын

    Rock. You are a rock. Gray. You are gray. Like a rock. Rock.

  • @abhiram9956

    @abhiram9956

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Abba Zabba What ?????

  • @deathwilldie7741

    @deathwilldie7741

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Abba Zabba I see what you did there.

  • @Chalseu___

    @Chalseu___

    8 жыл бұрын

    Rock solid

  • @RoastyPotato

    @RoastyPotato

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Abba Zabba Preach. ROCK.

  • @ronen44444447

    @ronen44444447

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Abba Zabba Haha nice

  • @CentralIntelligenceAgency.
    @CentralIntelligenceAgency.2 жыл бұрын

    "Time is running out." It gave chills down my spine, as how many days i have spent on nothing. This gave me understanding on how should we spend time on things.

  • @user-fk8zw5js2p

    @user-fk8zw5js2p

    2 ай бұрын

    Wait, is that you CIA?

  • @LyrixNChill
    @LyrixNChill2 жыл бұрын

    On the flipside, you can make a huge irreparable mistake and then spend the rest of your limited time alive paying for that mistake or dealing with the fallout because you threw caution too far into the wind. There must be a balance of pause and action, consideration and recklessness in order to maintain a satisfying existence (which I imagine we all strive for in one way or another)

  • @alaididnalid7660

    @alaididnalid7660

    2 жыл бұрын

    You put into words what I felt deep down, well done.

  • @kongtaing5206

    @kongtaing5206

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well said.

  • @Adoreyou22

    @Adoreyou22

    Жыл бұрын

    thats true for alot of people. but i think playing safe is not something that everyone desires. we are not not here to survive but live. this video teaches about living but you value surviving( common people thoughts)

  • @LyrixNChill

    @LyrixNChill

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Adoreyou22 I suggested playing it balanced; not safe. This means well measured and calculated risks towards personally meaningful endeavors. Also, a prerequisite of LIVING life is that you first SURVIVE death. The two concepts go hand-in-hand and should both be equally valued. (Wise people thoughts)

  • @Adoreyou22

    @Adoreyou22

    Жыл бұрын

    @@LyrixNChill Playing it balanced ... haha . you still dont understand what the video is conveying at the end. and for me living is to live in the present. you are again confusing living with surviving. lets help u with an example- if suppose i love phy and maths but no one is ready to pay for my works. and im living hell life. if i still do not give up on my passion and at the end die of starvation ..... thats "living the life" for me. for someone like u , you would leave ur passion and earn money first. THATS CALLED SURVIVING!! (average people thoughts)

  • @jasertio
    @jasertio5 жыл бұрын

    This video makes me hopeful and depressed at the same time.

  • @ilhamburger8288

    @ilhamburger8288

    4 жыл бұрын

    I cant even explain how I feel right now:(, it makes everything that other people expected from me means nothing, I mean FU*K school or job or anything. But how can I live the way I wanted if I don't go to school or get a job:(

  • @jokerssjokess4857

    @jokerssjokess4857

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ilhamburger8288 You are not forced to do anything, just do what has the best outcome for your self.

  • @bimsarademintha6845

    @bimsarademintha6845

    4 жыл бұрын

    Makes me commit suicide with joy.

  • @jokerssjokess4857

    @jokerssjokess4857

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@bimsarademintha6845 if you do, make a drama out of it. Make it public so everyone talks about it. You wouldn't care if they talk bad about you, cuz u dead.

  • @LBI-oe7dj

    @LBI-oe7dj

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@bimsarademintha6845 mental lability

  • @tysaylor8469
    @tysaylor84695 жыл бұрын

    ffs, I should not have watched this before bed.

  • @minecraftshieldworshiper7776

    @minecraftshieldworshiper7776

    5 жыл бұрын

    There really should be a warning before these type of videos

  • @plcflame

    @plcflame

    5 жыл бұрын

    I watched before bed... Now, I can't sleep

  • @kieronbrown73

    @kieronbrown73

    5 жыл бұрын

    I think about this too much

  • @HenryPiffpaff

    @HenryPiffpaff

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the heads up! Will not watch now, maybe later.

  • @aliviatevis1581

    @aliviatevis1581

    4 жыл бұрын

    Also my thinking at 11 pm est

  • @alanbunyan5007
    @alanbunyan50072 жыл бұрын

    I think that nihilism is something of a two-edged sword: although it might have a beneficent effect on some people in terms of motivating them to seek out the purpose of their life and live it to the full, it's not difficult to imagine that, in others, it could simply induce a depressing, disabling sensation of sheer pointlessness...

  • @proloycodes

    @proloycodes

    Жыл бұрын

    but facts don't care about being depressing to you

  • @Phoenix-214

    @Phoenix-214

    Жыл бұрын

    @@proloycodes Neither, apparently, do you.

  • @proloycodes

    @proloycodes

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Phoenix-214 of course, because i care about truth no matter how uncomfortable it is

  • @Phoenix-214

    @Phoenix-214

    Жыл бұрын

    @@proloycodes Nihilism is a null hypothesis, like just about everything else in philosophy and religion. The only truth is that we don't know for sure.

  • @proloycodes

    @proloycodes

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Phoenix-214 um, what? of course nihilism is a hypothesis, so what?

  • @Brisingr750
    @Brisingr7503 ай бұрын

    I am inexpressibly grateful that there was no ad at the end of the video

  • @lukepieters6974
    @lukepieters69744 жыл бұрын

    "This existential crisis is brought to you by Audible..."

  • @Guslopez73

    @Guslopez73

    3 жыл бұрын

    Y donde puedo escuchar TUS reflexiones? A ver que tan interesantes son.

  • @9897683983

    @9897683983

    3 жыл бұрын

    yes this dude is making money in it also and we are helping him for nohtingness how sad..

  • @YT-AleX-1337

    @YT-AleX-1337

    Ай бұрын

    For nothingness? Stfu, ffs

  • @johng7410
    @johng74107 жыл бұрын

    As someone with terminal cancer, this video is rather apt.

  • @deankhan1174

    @deankhan1174

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Melvin Sujo im sorry but take a minute to realize what terminal cancer means...

  • @deankhan1174

    @deankhan1174

    7 жыл бұрын

    I hope you lived a life that made you happy, and if not I hope the thought of death will bring peace to the life you have.

  • @aquamarinedream8304

    @aquamarinedream8304

    7 жыл бұрын

    If I were in your position I would quite appreciate someone pointing out Allan Watts to me, so if you have not listened to his lectures give a few a shot. I hope you can find peace.

  • @Heymisterbadguy

    @Heymisterbadguy

    7 жыл бұрын

    Dude, you just broke my heart. I hope you can find peace. I'd give you a lot of hugs right now if I could. In fact, if happiness was something quantifiable and transferrable from one person to another, I'd do everything to give anything I have left to you. Peace, bro. Don't be scared.

  • @cbr7170

    @cbr7170

    7 жыл бұрын

    Hey just a question. How are you doing?

  • @chris_d-triple_three
    @chris_d-triple_three5 ай бұрын

    Produced 8 years ago, still as true now as it was then… I’m getting older and coming to grips with the fact that time truly is running out.

  • @SeanMarcusFilms
    @SeanMarcusFilms3 жыл бұрын

    This was incredible and I feel the exact same way! it feels so nice to have someone share my point of view and put it in such elegant words.

  • @richweatherly
    @richweatherly3 жыл бұрын

    "I intend to live forever. So far, so good." - Steven Wright

  • @CrazyGaming-ig6qq

    @CrazyGaming-ig6qq

    2 жыл бұрын

    He was wright.

  • @samwillard5688

    @samwillard5688

    Жыл бұрын

    @@CrazyGaming-ig6qq I really miss that guy.

  • @canibaloxide
    @canibaloxide8 жыл бұрын

    "Errors and humiliations may be forgotten but great achievements may not." Nope, it's all is forgotten good or bad.

  • @SnowDemonAkuma

    @SnowDemonAkuma

    8 жыл бұрын

    Dead as Dreams The point, I think, is that other people will remember your great achievements. Eventually they'll be forgotten, true, but we still talk about Alexander the Great and Yeshua ben Yosef and Gaius Julius Caesar.

  • @ParaditeRs

    @ParaditeRs

    8 жыл бұрын

    Dead as Dreams That isn't true. The works of people and civilizations long gone are still present and in many peoples thoughts every day.

  • @canibaloxide

    @canibaloxide

    8 жыл бұрын

    And yet it will be as if they never lived eventually. I agree with most of what he is saying in the video but it just goes to show how deep our denial about our mortality is that he would include such a statement.I think that if you realize that nothing really matters then the fact that nothing matters doesn't matter. Live your life as you want to with no pressure or to much focus on the out come. Achievements or lack there of doesn't matter in the end.

  • @erin-rt6vn

    @erin-rt6vn

    8 жыл бұрын

    Everything will be forgotten one day

  • @AustinBeerTony

    @AustinBeerTony

    8 жыл бұрын

    Achievements dosnt need to be a good thing

  • @vvvvvv7434
    @vvvvvv74343 жыл бұрын

    I usually don't comment on videos, cuz already the creators know what they have to improve or just I don't care, but man " I can feel your hardwork " behind your videos and this video which was made 5 years ago is mind bending . My "Respect" Derek 👍💪🤘✌️

  • @Ahtalon
    @Ahtalon2 жыл бұрын

    Your description of the "what was before our universe: the true nothing" and explaining the resulting nihilism is exactly what i have thought for years. It was really relaxing to hear what you make out of the exact same thought. Although i would say the point of live is living, your last sentence somehow struck me, interestingly its not that i didnt knew about it, but i wasnt ware of it. Your days are finite, so get busy. Time is running out. I guess thats what i needed to hear right know sitting on 2 essays and a lecture needed to be finished in 3 days.

  • @GopalKrishanAggarwal1
    @GopalKrishanAggarwal18 жыл бұрын

    One of the best videos I have ever seen. Just amazing! Amazing thoughts!

  • @joshuagreen6971

    @joshuagreen6971

    8 жыл бұрын

    Your life must be really depressing..

  • @GopalKrishanAggarwal1

    @GopalKrishanAggarwal1

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Joshua Green Hahaha why do u think that?

  • @joshuagreen6971

    @joshuagreen6971

    8 жыл бұрын

    It looks like you've gotten everything figured out.. you're a rebel aren't you? 

  • @GopalKrishanAggarwal1

    @GopalKrishanAggarwal1

    8 жыл бұрын

    No I haven't and no I am not a rebel

  • @joshuagreen6971

    @joshuagreen6971

    8 жыл бұрын

    Hypocrite.

  • @NeoNeRoThatIsMe
    @NeoNeRoThatIsMe7 жыл бұрын

    Why do I find this so comforting?

  • @thevayudev

    @thevayudev

    7 жыл бұрын

    Because you won't live forever (think about it, that's worse than death), you won't Go to hell. No, you will Go to place, "with a nothingness so complete, you wouldn't even miss it. [...] What is there to be afraid of?"

  • @TheSecondVersion

    @TheSecondVersion

    7 жыл бұрын

    “Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not” - Epicurus

  • @thevayudev

    @thevayudev

    7 жыл бұрын

    Vito C Nice quote

  • @RelativelyBest

    @RelativelyBest

    7 жыл бұрын

    Ye gallants all, take heed how you Come to untimely ends; Justice has bid this world adieu, And dead men have no friends. -Sir Charles Sedley

  • @TheVsagent

    @TheVsagent

    7 жыл бұрын

    "Live your life as if you're immortal, live today as if you'll die tomorrow."

  • @micailethomas9111
    @micailethomas9111 Жыл бұрын

    Back when this video originally came out I saved it, while watching this I felt somewhat understood, somewhat free and strangest of all somewhat less alone . I can't put why into exact words but thanks for this video man

  • @Celestialeris
    @Celestialeris3 жыл бұрын

    I think this is my new favorite video ever, it put into words exactly how i feel and brought conscious clarity to stuff I've been thinking about without words

  • @majortom4308
    @majortom43087 жыл бұрын

    Powerful! But tomorrow I probably wont care about this - the delusion takes over once again...

  • @popalupa4844

    @popalupa4844

    7 жыл бұрын

    Tom Hail Tomorrow? It takes me less than an hour.

  • @Posesso

    @Posesso

    7 жыл бұрын

    I have a reminder and watch this once per week :)

  • @OAcessoPublico

    @OAcessoPublico

    7 жыл бұрын

    Mee to, Luis, high five

  • @Cyrik

    @Cyrik

    7 жыл бұрын

    Clap!!

  • @Posesso

    @Posesso

    7 жыл бұрын

    Clap! :)

  • @siddheshdaphane2932
    @siddheshdaphane29324 жыл бұрын

    "Nothingness is so complete that you wouldn't even miss it" great line

  • @xwann

    @xwann

    3 жыл бұрын

    Try to understand the following simple things: 1. You are NOT a BODY. 2. Consciousness is material, and you are NOT the CONSCIOSNESS. 3. A SOUL is REAL and it's not material. You are also NOT a SOUL. Who you are? You're an OBSERVER. And you ARE THAT, WHO CAN become immortal through your Soul. Or not become. Source of information: Books by Anastasya Novykh and programs with I.M. Danilov on AllatRa TV. For start, try at least ALLOW that all this is true.

  • @siddheshdaphane2932

    @siddheshdaphane2932

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@xwann With all due respect, I don't believe in the soul. I think it's the best way to escape from reality which is you will die someday. All the spiritual leaders say that our body is very limited but no one knows the real potential of it. The biology of it. I think total emptiness or nothingness is a state of mind because thoughts come from memory and to be empty means to get rid of your past which is memory.

  • @xwann

    @xwann

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@siddheshdaphane2932 I think all that true if you are contagious, but what if you are not contagious?... ) Sorry, i don't understand English free and mostly use bing translator. (Now write on English whithout it.) If you want learn more about this information, you can see original source, where I found out about it, which has English translations: Books of Anastasiya Novykh (which are available for free) and programs with Igor Mikhaylovich Danilov on Internet-TV AllatRa.

  • @johngacy1207

    @johngacy1207

    3 жыл бұрын

    There is something waaaay worse then nothingness. It's called hell.

  • @johngacy1207

    @johngacy1207

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@chipconsumer6811 oh brother what?

  • @Art_Vandelay_Industries
    @Art_Vandelay_Industries4 ай бұрын

    5:38 resonated so much with me. It was nothing new or eye opening, but it struck a chord to have it spelled out so concisely. That paragraph pretty much summed up my situation the last couple years: Waiting for tomorrow out of fear. Thinking that there will always be another day to live the life I long for, while deep inside being aware that some day there won't be.

  • @ChBrahm
    @ChBrahm5 жыл бұрын

    When you smoke a joint while on Chernobyl

  • @UpasanaDeka

    @UpasanaDeka

    4 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂😂 stahp

  • @deathsurgeon231

    @deathsurgeon231

    4 жыл бұрын

    🤣🤣🤣Here's your oscar 🚬🏆

  • @cykablyat6481

    @cykablyat6481

    3 жыл бұрын

    300th like

  • @Sundara229

    @Sundara229

    3 жыл бұрын

    - people who have never smoked, 'cause a joint wont do anything.

  • @max27889

    @max27889

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Sundara229 right on dude, an acid trip would most definitely do that.

  • @scottishnoob4729
    @scottishnoob47298 жыл бұрын

    Get busy living, or get busy dying. That's god damn right.

  • @konstantinvasiljevic6051

    @konstantinvasiljevic6051

    7 жыл бұрын

    I laughed and then i stoped like woah...

  • @ben_r_

    @ben_r_

    7 жыл бұрын

    Hell yea! Possibly my favorite movie of all time!

  • @emillarsson1299

    @emillarsson1299

    7 жыл бұрын

    same

  • @epicstyle4657

    @epicstyle4657

    5 жыл бұрын

    living is a lie....death is the truth......the only thing real are lies

  • @YesNoMaybeCode
    @YesNoMaybeCode3 ай бұрын

    i don't think I remember seeing a more inspirational video... and I've started KZread thought Ted etc.. and have been browsing around philosophy channels for a while... thanks for this, I knew your channel but came from wired itw for this particular video... that was amazing. Thanks. Pinacle of what I'm seeking KZread for

  • @almome
    @almome Жыл бұрын

    Truly inspiring. thanks for all your work Derek, admirable in all ways

  • @jackalspack4161
    @jackalspack41613 жыл бұрын

    I felt all the feels watching this. I've been going through my own emotional turmoil and procrastination that just makes it worse. This video is almost eye opening to a point where I think I need to make a change. I'll be coming back to this video to remind myself

  • @warchiefgaming4690

    @warchiefgaming4690

    3 жыл бұрын

    Waiting

  • @jackalspack4161

    @jackalspack4161

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@warchiefgaming4690 on?

  • @xwann

    @xwann

    3 жыл бұрын

    Try to understand the following simple things: 1. You are NOT a BODY. 2. Consciousness is material, and you are NOT the CONSCIOSNESS. 3. A SOUL is REAL and it's not material. You are also NOT a SOUL. Who you are? You're an OBSERVER. And you ARE THAT, WHO CAN become immortal through your Soul. Or not become. Source of information: Books by Anastasya Novykh and programs with I.M. Danilov on AllatRa TV. For start, try at least ALLOW that all this is true.

  • @fewbronzegames

    @fewbronzegames

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@xwann idk I can only trust what can be proved and reproved again and I see no solid evidence towards a soul or spirit

  • @xwann

    @xwann

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@fewbronzegames spirit can't be provet for material consciousness. The spirit is primary, but consciousness wants to think differently, and it can't know the spirit. The spirit can be felt in deep feelings, but not known by consciousness. Human is not consciousness. Consciousness is a tool. (Source of information: Books by Anastasya Novykh and programs with I.M. Danilov on AllatRa TV.)

  • @rootabeta9015
    @rootabeta90154 жыл бұрын

    "Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you" --Welcome to Night Vale

  • @nauka7565

    @nauka7565

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh god, yeah youre right, I just imagined that

  • @rawubs478

    @rawubs478

    3 жыл бұрын

    What if it's an anthother beginning!

  • @migadepancito

    @migadepancito

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ghostify8515 Your story is yours and ends with you. Your children are not you, your legacy is not you. Not even a part of you, since in death there's no more "you" to take a part of.

  • @andre.1984

    @andre.1984

    3 жыл бұрын

    The main story might not be about you, but if you die the story ends for you, so what is the difference?

  • @joeym2156

    @joeym2156

    3 жыл бұрын

    👌

  • @sjoerdvanderdrift2336
    @sjoerdvanderdrift23362 жыл бұрын

    I think this is one of the most meaningful vids I have yet seen! amazingly done, as always!

  • @benhadman2812
    @benhadman2812 Жыл бұрын

    Having just stumbled across this video and others from a few years ago it's like the weird Veritasium solo album where Derek breaks off from the band to make some out-there stuff

  • @iparkedmycar
    @iparkedmycar3 жыл бұрын

    “We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

  • @baruchben-david4196

    @baruchben-david4196

    3 жыл бұрын

    The butterfly lives only for a day, and has time enough. - Rabinranath Tagore.

  • @xwann

    @xwann

    3 жыл бұрын

    Try to understand the following simple things: 1. You are NOT a BODY. 2. Consciousness is material, and you are NOT the CONSCIOSNESS. 3. A SOUL is REAL and it's not material. You are also NOT a SOUL. Who you are? You're an OBSERVER. And you ARE THAT, WHO CAN become immortal through your Soul. Or not become. Source of information: Books by Anastasya Novykh and programs with I.M. Danilov on AllatRa TV. For start, try at least ALLOW that all this is true.

  • @johngacy1207

    @johngacy1207

    3 жыл бұрын

    I wish we were not eternal. That way there would be no possibility of going to hell. But we are eternal

  • @helloiamenergyman

    @helloiamenergyman

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@xwann hi crackhead :)

  • @helloiamenergyman

    @helloiamenergyman

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@johngacy1207 I'd rather go to hell than cease existing. If I go to hell, I'll at least have time to reflect on my life, to remember it. By not existing, I can't think, I can't remember. It would be like alzheimers but infinitely worse. I'd rather suffer but remember, than to simply stop existing, remembering my life.

  • @daxvolfan
    @daxvolfan3 жыл бұрын

    "Get busy living, or get busy dying." - Red

  • @oscill8ocelot

    @oscill8ocelot

    3 жыл бұрын

    I hear you're a man who knows how to get things...

  • @undercoversquid1304

    @undercoversquid1304

    3 жыл бұрын

    "I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can’t be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free."

  • @shaurryaa

    @shaurryaa

    2 жыл бұрын

    It was Andy.

  • @Timmycoo

    @Timmycoo

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@shaurryaa Yeah but Red repeated it later when thinking of Andy and his voice is so enigmatic that it encompasses its meaning. But, you right. (Just watched it for the hundredth time the other day lmao)

  • @paddlefaster
    @paddlefaster3 жыл бұрын

    I stumbled across this video tonight it's exactly what I needed to hear. I've been wondering what's been holding me back. It's definitely a fear of failure because as you say that sticks with you forever.

  • @flow5718
    @flow57183 жыл бұрын

    This is liberating. So much feels seeing this video after all these years

  • @maniacalcactus4705
    @maniacalcactus47058 жыл бұрын

    I like how you're now doing videos that are completely hardcore science and some that are almost philosophical.

  • @dodyamr3

    @dodyamr3

    8 жыл бұрын

    this is philosophy :D

  • @AbeldeBetancourt

    @AbeldeBetancourt

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Mohamed Amr almost, but nope it isn't.

  • @KrunchyGoodness

    @KrunchyGoodness

    8 жыл бұрын

    +r4rev2 It's bad philosophy.

  • @dirtypure2023

    @dirtypure2023

    8 жыл бұрын

    +KrunchyGoodness Please define for us "good" philosophy, O Great and Discerning One.

  • @enrihsan

    @enrihsan

    8 жыл бұрын

    +KrunchyGoodness theres no such thing as bad philosophy because philosophy reveals the truth from observable empirical evidence

  • @erictaylor5462
    @erictaylor54628 жыл бұрын

    Some day you will wake up for the very last time. Someday you will say "good bye" and/or "I love you" to every person you care about for the very last time. Someday you will put on the clothes in which you will die.

  • @Insidious589

    @Insidious589

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Eric Taylor thanks for that inspirational thought. Just remember, Smile more.

  • @erictaylor5462

    @erictaylor5462

    8 жыл бұрын

    A happy Bambi Smiling will not prevent death. It may delay death, but it will not prevent death.

  • @Insidious589

    @Insidious589

    8 жыл бұрын

    im saying. enjoy the days

  • @KurtIngamells

    @KurtIngamells

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Eric Taylor Well aren't you just a bundle of joy! I suffer with severe depression and yet even I'm not that gloomy.

  • @deadlypendroppingby

    @deadlypendroppingby

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Eric Taylor What about people dying in hospital that didn't put their nighty on theirselves?

  • @brendagustavson7460
    @brendagustavson74602 жыл бұрын

    You are the first person I know that is already aware of that void. I spent time there, though I couldn't tell you for how long. I completed an electrical circuit while working in a kitchen when I was 17. Many years ago. I remember everything. The most profound aspect of the void was that there was no awareness of self. That is pretty much impossible for people to comprehend. Great episode!

  • @mairios521

    @mairios521

    3 ай бұрын

    Was that an experience close to death? I had it too... when I gave up fighting to survive inside a pool (i was 14 and i was drowning). There was a moment when I thought, "oh i can breath inside the water!!... It doesn't annoy me anymore". I remember seeing completely darkness or... The nothingness. And I thought that I was seeing nothing because I had with my eyes closed while breathing inside the water. Right after that, I heard the voice of a friend shouting my name and my teacher and the rest pulled me out of the water.

  • @Brisingr750

    @Brisingr750

    3 ай бұрын

    What it sounds to me like your describing is known professionally as "the flow". And even if that's not it, what you're describing seems to have essentially nothing to do with the video

  • @danielflinton
    @danielflinton2 жыл бұрын

    These types of clips need a playlist of their own. I really enjoy them once in a while to remind me what the "hokey pokey" is all about

  • @TheEliadventure
    @TheEliadventure7 жыл бұрын

    The comments under this video are very insightful and raw and emotional and honest and polite and I really wish all of KZread could be like this.

  • @joshvente6898

    @joshvente6898

    7 жыл бұрын

    if you want that then make every KZreadr make videos like this.

  • @lennarthorney3466

    @lennarthorney3466

    7 жыл бұрын

    Spartanburg me to

  • @scarybrowncub9102

    @scarybrowncub9102

    7 жыл бұрын

    But if all youtuber is like this, then Veritasium would lose what makes the channel standout as one of the most inspiring channel on youtube... ( sorry kinda in musing mode after the video haha...)

  • @abbym183

    @abbym183

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, it's refreshing.

  • @garneauaeronauticsinternat1367

    @garneauaeronauticsinternat1367

    6 жыл бұрын

    Wow very inspired.

  • @JohnSmith-td7hd
    @JohnSmith-td7hd7 жыл бұрын

    I've never been outside my home state. My brain keeps saying that I can do everything later. There's so much I haven't done.

  • @JohnSmith-td7hd

    @JohnSmith-td7hd

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thanks.

  • @sssidrockstar28
    @sssidrockstar283 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. It may sound crazy but the thought of passing over is comforting and scary. You spend your days , in and out , just living your life . But this thought of having a finite number of days makes life meaningful and so much more enjoyable.

  • @tomkelly8827
    @tomkelly88272 жыл бұрын

    Though I am not so sure I fully understand or agree with what you just said, I certainly will say that the way that you said it was amazing. So careful, so thoughtful with every word chosen so conciously, it was very moving to hear it. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing

  • @justbreathe7816
    @justbreathe78165 жыл бұрын

    Me: I'm gonna avoid all these Nietzsche videos and watch some real science stuff *Clicks this video

  • @roydaboii9925

    @roydaboii9925

    3 жыл бұрын

    two minutes into the video: it was at this moment he knew, he f'd up

  • @melindam4841

    @melindam4841

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for helping me laugh when I was brimming with tears.

  • @archanapathak4413
    @archanapathak44134 жыл бұрын

    Did anyone notice that he didn't put in that 'Veritasium logo' sound which is always there at the end of a video and no marketing of any product? Y 'Cause he wanted to let that that seriousness and thoughtfulness continue which was brought to the viewers by his words... Love this Guy❤

  • @dimplegupta7184

    @dimplegupta7184

    3 жыл бұрын

    yes i was thinking the same :)

  • @ercaner3905

    @ercaner3905

    3 жыл бұрын

    No, he did not put them because all of those fancy stuff is to market this(...) anyway. He is marketting a pure speculation here and you are directly falling for it because what: him and all of you are passangers for the same destination. I hope when you reach there you won't be disappointed. note: It looks like he could not refrain from giving advertisement in the end anyway.

  • @robertkelly5025
    @robertkelly50252 жыл бұрын

    I've watched a lot of your videos. This is by far the best one yet. I'm not a nihilist, nor would I classify myself under any underlying philosophy, but I'm okay with the end. Thanks.

  • @davidkvick5232
    @davidkvick52322 жыл бұрын

    Love the silence at the end :) Very on point :)

  • @simonenoli4418
    @simonenoli44187 жыл бұрын

    I had the first look into the void randomly when i showered 10 years ago. it was a blink. the realisation that I too, one day, will die. the sense of oppression that i felt that moment, the pure panic of my subconscious ratificating the sudden knowledge still lives with me today. I won't ever forget how I rushed out of the shower, completely naked. "where am I running?" the void will get me. 10 years from that day, after the path down the 5 stages, I accept my destiny BUT i still tell myself that I wont be there when the void will come.

  • @danieldyman7196

    @danieldyman7196

    7 жыл бұрын

    you nailed what I feel. the point of I don't want to die and I think it will never come. but it will. I can't stop it. it will take me. but I want to experience living. not nothingness

  • @lisazoria2709

    @lisazoria2709

    7 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like an anxiety attack. I get that feeling too though. Like the feeling of intellectually understanding the inevitability of your fate and yet on some deeper level feeling like it won't be "you" when that time comes. I feel like it won't be me on my own deathbed, as absurd as that sounds when of course I KNOW it will be. Then again, I just think that no one ever really EXPERIENCES death, only dying. So in that way, maybe "death" isn't quite real in any way that we can feel or understand once we're gone. We'll just go back to the state we were in for the last 14 billion years. I didn't seem to have any complaints about it then. lol

  • @kingbananasquid4250

    @kingbananasquid4250

    7 жыл бұрын

    Dream like your going to live for ever, live like your going to die tomorrow." -Unknown We don't need to let our expiration date stop us from doing what we want to do, but we also don't want to let the belief of there's always a tomorrow stop us from accomplishing our dreams.

  • @pegasBaO23

    @pegasBaO23

    7 жыл бұрын

    Timothy Barth to me this realisation came recently I was napping after a tiring day at university, my half awake mind just thought "I am mortal" with that phrase there was a humanoid shape fading in blackness and then a flash of light, it's still haunting to me.

  • @oRayUKo

    @oRayUKo

    7 жыл бұрын

    Me too. Once whilst meditating. I was falling into utter annihilation, utter nothingness. There was no emotion, no thought. I wasn't there at all. I absolutely recoiled. I've never forgotten that experience. I try to live with meaning now.

  • @STANNco
    @STANNco8 жыл бұрын

    this is some Vsauce level stuff

  • @apokalyhpse

    @apokalyhpse

    8 жыл бұрын

    DAT BRONY STAN Yeah! glad to see this philosofical kind of video more n more on Veritassium

  • @smaklilu90

    @smaklilu90

    8 жыл бұрын

    Vsause videos are much prettier. They are very inspiring and it is guaranteed you will learn something new every time, whatever the subject matter is. There is nothing new in this video! Tho He did seem to compensate his crappy (redendunt) content with a slick video ...lol

  • @ultimateredstone

    @ultimateredstone

    8 жыл бұрын

    sami aklilu he's getting his thoughts out to people and he's doing it in a beautiful way. if you don't understand what this video is, maybe you should rethink before writing something like this?

  • @smaklilu90

    @smaklilu90

    8 жыл бұрын

    ultimateredstone getting his thoughts out to people should be done in objective and scientific manner (as for a hardcore science Chanel). This video is purely philosophical (outside the subject of the Chanel) hence, I am disappointed that I didn't learn anything new.

  • @patrickwithee7625

    @patrickwithee7625

    8 жыл бұрын

    DAT BRONY STAN not nearly

  • @mapilem
    @mapilem Жыл бұрын

    One of the best videos ever made! Thank you!

  • @brunoalves-pg9eo
    @brunoalves-pg9eo3 жыл бұрын

    There's so much I want to do and I keep procrastinating because there's always tomorrow. This video is really eye opening and it fills me with the motivation I need to do what I want. Too bad that it'll be gone in 5 minutes.

  • @connor6596
    @connor65963 жыл бұрын

    It's kind of beautiful how 7 minutes and 39 seconds of a man speaking can make so many people feel so macabre, yet so inspired at the same time.

  • @loopje
    @loopje7 жыл бұрын

    Fifty thousand people used to live here; now it's a ghost town...

  • @RitwickChatterjee14

    @RitwickChatterjee14

    5 жыл бұрын

    The iconic intro in COD-MW

  • @Calliopa_22

    @Calliopa_22

    5 жыл бұрын

    Oh man, the nostalgia...

  • @TimFuzail

    @TimFuzail

    5 жыл бұрын

    Man of culture

  • @HachBoxe
    @HachBoxe2 жыл бұрын

    Hello Derrick, I don't know how I stumbled upon this video again. But it is a work of art, a piece of its time. Thank you for sharing this then, and now.

  • @nuvostef
    @nuvostef2 жыл бұрын

    I really liked this one; it touched me where I spend a lot of time - not wishing to be immortalized, but to do my best to make sure I do my best to be a worthwhile person, right here while I can. I happen to believe in an afterlife, so in my mind, being immortalized in my humanity isn’t important, but I would be lying to say I don’t sometimes entertain the idea of having my likeness carved into marble. But…in the end, does it really matter? Dead is dead, we can’t change it. Thanks for this one, sir. 🌹

  • @ElectrifiedBat
    @ElectrifiedBat8 жыл бұрын

    So do you think this is why we have formed religion? I don't mean to start a religious debate nor do I harbor any malice intent in my words. But the more I think about it it seems religion is just a delusion that in many cases tells you that something will be there when you die. I believe people in a whole are more afraid of nothing at all when they die that even hell, or the equivalent in other religions, is a better alternative. Those who do not fear nothingness at least a little don't quite understand it fully. Or maybe its hard too imagine nothingness if even possible. So I would like your thoughts Vertasium and viewers, what are your thoughts on this subject? Again, I harbor no ill will just trying to better understand how people feel.

  • @tylerasmith52

    @tylerasmith52

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Micheal Sands I think you are spot on. Religion is best at getting people to come together and achieve things like surviving. Pretty hard to get people to cooperate when they know everything is ultimately meaningless. It seems to me humans evolved to the point we realized we are mortal, realized this was a problem moving forward and invented religion in order to get everyone to stay in line. It definitely worked, but I think it is no longer necessary today.

  • @calebkim8404

    @calebkim8404

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Tyler Smith Yes , I respect your "opinion". Its not a fact because I believe in Christianity (Religion). The reason why I do is because I know its true. Even if you say its false, consider this.... Atheists don't believe in any after life. So you will get no punishment even after your death. Why not believe in a RELIGION and if its a lie (not a lie though) you wont live again but if you die you might (will) be saved, if there is no God you will have no afterlife.

  • @tylerasmith52

    @tylerasmith52

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Caleb Kim how can I force myself to believe something if I don't believe it?

  • @ElectrifiedBat

    @ElectrifiedBat

    8 жыл бұрын

    Caleb Kim If i may also give my opinion in this, I think, for myself at least, that I wouldn't even want to be saved by what the "rules" of Christianity sets. Like let me give an example, Lets say two people make their way to heaven to be judged. One of them was a great person who never hated another soul in his life, he helped people, and spent his own time for others. However, this person does not believe in god and never commits himself to god. The other person was a real prick growing up, hurting those around him, and doing other "sins" in his lifetime. However, at the near end of his life he becomes extremely religious and asks for forgiveness for everything he has done and gives himself up to the lord. From my early years when I practiced Christianity, I infer that the second guy will go to heaven and the first guy will go to hell. Not by the actions of the individual but by not worshiping some figure that can not be seen.

  • @calebkim8404

    @calebkim8404

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Micheal Sands Its not always believing in God. You ask for forgiveness = knowing what you did wrong. The first person will go to hell unless he repents you know why? Due to the fact that you said " He never hated a soul" The earth is cursed with sin so everyone will not be perfect besides Jesus. Not hating is basically saying you are perfect = I am God. Its not only believing in him. Its the fact that you believe that he is your savior and thats why you ask him forgiveness. You wouldn't ask a random person for forgiveness. Asking for forgiveness to God = you have relationship with him. At least I wouldn't and you probably wouldn't ask a random stranger that you have no relationship with for forgiveness.

  • @wacka.
    @wacka.8 жыл бұрын

    this rocks

  • @Eira_

    @Eira_

    8 жыл бұрын

    wacka .....no

  • @wacka.

    @wacka.

    8 жыл бұрын

    SamZe rocks

  • @TheTiagoFire

    @TheTiagoFire

    8 жыл бұрын

    wacka I just watched the video, felt so renewed, just to then have this feeling broken by this comment... *Sigh.*

  • @wacka.

    @wacka.

    8 жыл бұрын

    TheTiagoFire rocked your world view huh?

  • @MenaceRx

    @MenaceRx

    8 жыл бұрын

    wacka So it's not permanent, huh.

  • @Amonfobious
    @Amonfobious Жыл бұрын

    thsi used to be my fav vid on youtube and id come back to it a lot. thanks for changing the title back. wish your face with triangles was the thumbnail too tho. it really was (is) special

  • @user-ed2pn1ns9y
    @user-ed2pn1ns9yАй бұрын

    Best video you've ever done! Thank you!

  • @danielbrazier8095
    @danielbrazier8095 Жыл бұрын

    I love this video and keep coming back to it for a sense of calm perspective. I'm inspired to live my life. Will start tomorrow!

  • @SteBradburyDesign
    @SteBradburyDesign8 жыл бұрын

    Thinking about what happens after death leaves an empty pit feeling in my stomach, it so weird just thinking you're gone... forever, thats it. You're gone. It's hard to express this feeling over a message, but it's such a strong emotion and so scary. Anyone else get this?

  • @hdfjdjify

    @hdfjdjify

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Ste Bradbury Design I'm with you man. But a wild thing to think about is that everyone feels this way.

  • @TheRedTech98

    @TheRedTech98

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Ste Bradbury Design For Atheists: nothing. You will not see, feel, hear or be conscious. Just like before your birth, you do not exist. So you should not be scared of anything because you will not be alive anymore. For religious people: You could wait for a bit then go heaven/hell. According to that belief, your actions on earth will be detrimental to the direction you end up in. So, again, you should not be scared (unless you are a horrible person, or a sinner). I'm with the latter, but everyone's free to choose and decide .

  • @TheRedTech98

    @TheRedTech98

    8 жыл бұрын

    +James Brown TLDR

  • @statixlaw5675

    @statixlaw5675

    8 жыл бұрын

    After you die you will live again. This world is very temporary. Let me start you off with one truth: we will all die.

  • @bbruinenberg

    @bbruinenberg

    8 жыл бұрын

    While it leaves me a little uncomfortable, I don't have that feeling. Then again, I accepted the inevitability of death and nothingness quite some time ago. It's actually quite comforting when you accept it. The realization that you don't have to leave behind a legacy. The realization that your mistakes don't matter. The realization that, as long as you don't spend your time harming humanity, you can live your life the way you want. Regardless of what others think of you. Regardless of what others want you to achieve. Once you realize that your life will probably only be remembered as part of a collective, it takes the pressure off. And that to me is 1 of the most comforting feelings there is. The realization that in the end, I'm nothing more than a part of a collective, yet at the same time might be that 1 part that can steer everything in a certain direction.

  • @jamiegodman715
    @jamiegodman7157 жыл бұрын

    This is why religion is so easy to sell, because we all want eternal life and it just happens that's what most religions sell.

  • @nils1953

    @nils1953

    7 жыл бұрын

    wow! never even thought about it that way.. thanks

  • @m.shyamganeesh7421

    @m.shyamganeesh7421

    7 жыл бұрын

    I don't want an eternal life😣

  • @macdri

    @macdri

    7 жыл бұрын

    Actually, that's not precisely true. As you pointed out, not all religions push eternal life and even those that do don't always represent it as a positive. Judaism, for instance, has never really emphasized an after-life. Although it has become something that is assumed, Judaism has always focused on more immediate consequences to good and bad actions. Buddhism actually sees the cycle of rebirth and death and a conscious eternity as a bad thing (coming as it does from a culture that, understandably, views suffering as a constant part of life) and strives to free one's self from the illusion of self so that an eternity can be spent in an eternal state of non-sentient, non-individual existence. It wasn't until it came to North America and the individualistic, relatively wealthy culture that it holds that the belief system was "re-branded" as a way to find eternal life, because that is what people wanted to hear. Eternal life being seen as an excuse not to live one's life with purpose is really a Western religious phenomena. Christianity in the West has certainly played the, "become a Christian and get a pass to Heaven card" plenty, but before that, and much more recently, Christianity has been about viewing what people do now, not only as having consequences for eternity (which eliminates the option of people sitting on their hands and waiting until they die) but also (duh!) recognizes that today is also part of eternity and living life well now is part of preparing for the eternal after death but also is an important part of living in the eternal now. Like his redefining of nihilism, how one sees the concept of eternity as a positive or negative influence really depends on how one looks at it.

  • @otuzucuncuderecemason2462

    @otuzucuncuderecemason2462

    7 жыл бұрын

    How so? i know it's quite popular to bully religion on the internet but don't you know religions that promise eternal life demands you to refine your actions.They forbid you to kill another being, ask you to share your food with the poor and if need be, defend your society with your life. To me it's a lot easier to ignore religion and live a fully selfish life than be a devoted muslim and earn eternal prosperity.

  • @InMaTeofDeath

    @InMaTeofDeath

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Otuzüçüncü derece Mason Why would you want to live a selfish life though? Wouldn't you want to be moral and selfless for its own sake?

  • @EMAngel2718
    @EMAngel27182 жыл бұрын

    I've found my personal happy medium with facing the temporal limitedness of both myself and everything else in recognizing that while nothing is infinite, nothing is nothing either. Our joy, our suffering, all of our experiences as well as all of the marks we leave on ourselves and the world around us will be gone after a while but they'll still be there for that while, affecting us and other people. That is what makes life worth both pursuing and worrying about.

  • @markusjaggli548
    @markusjaggli5483 жыл бұрын

    So true! Thank you so much for sharing this insight🙏🏻

  • @ndv135
    @ndv1355 жыл бұрын

    "Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by and idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." - Macbeth V.V

  • @Shrooblord

    @Shrooblord

    5 жыл бұрын

    Words to remember.

  • @razza810
    @razza8108 жыл бұрын

    When you understand that everything is meaningless, you understand that you have to create your own meaning. The only worthwhile thing to do in this life is to make yourself and others happy. From someone embraces positive nihilism, I can assure you that it is a wonderful way to live.

  • @deep_fried_analysis

    @deep_fried_analysis

    8 жыл бұрын

    Ryan Granger That has exactly been my thought for years now! :)

  • @brendanoconnor9055

    @brendanoconnor9055

    8 жыл бұрын

    Really glad to have a nihilistic internet community to hang with. Although, personally, I doubt any human(s) will ever create meaning.

  • @razza810

    @razza810

    8 жыл бұрын

    Brendan O'Connor Meaning is an attribute that only you can apply to things. It is an entirely personal experience and can therefore not be determined by anyone else other than yourself.

  • @WildberryCrunch

    @WildberryCrunch

    8 жыл бұрын

    Ryan Granger So how can you say everything is meaningless? If meaning is only dependent on who is administering it, then it is equally (if not more) appropriate to say that everything has meaning, just not a static one. Something not being the same in every form of reference is not equal to it not existing. This applies to us. We say that we are not eternal, but we can only attribute that to a single form. The energy that we were composed of is eternal, as is the choices that are made in expressing that energy. Everything that we do has an effect. The magnitude of that effect can vary significantly, but the effect it caused no matter how it is looked at from the future is eternal in having taken place. THAT is why nihilism is funny to me. It is a view that presents how everyone else is delusional, when the delusions are just as strong in it, but in a different flavor.

  • @michaelrosche

    @michaelrosche

    8 жыл бұрын

    Hedonism

  • @EmilyTestAccount
    @EmilyTestAccount Жыл бұрын

    hell of a time to find this video, found an old youtube account and going over my viewing history and projects I planned over 10+ years and only a few of them I ever got around to.

  • @pprehn5268
    @pprehn52683 жыл бұрын

    "The meaning of life, is to give life meaning.

  • @warpy4124

    @warpy4124

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well said

  • @hypercube9531
    @hypercube95316 жыл бұрын

    *Existential dread intensifies

  • @simonedaishi5290
    @simonedaishi52907 жыл бұрын

    man... as watching Vsauce and Kurzgesagt videos about the end of the universe wasn't depressing enough...

  • @simonedaishi5290

    @simonedaishi5290

    7 жыл бұрын

    but I do love the final message, it encourages me to have less fear and paranoia and live more happily doing what I really want

  • @William_Clinton_Muguai
    @William_Clinton_Muguai2 жыл бұрын

    This guy got me going back 2 my dictionary every now and then. This guy got me thinking really deeply on every word he uttered. This guy got me feeling that he's really really wise. I highly guess he is, if not sure!

  • @fonsly3475
    @fonsly34752 жыл бұрын

    always love your vid, keep working like this!

  • @DGP406
    @DGP4068 жыл бұрын

    Death is terrifying? sure it is, but know what's more scary? people browsing your porn folder after you die.

  • @saikatahmed7912

    @saikatahmed7912

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Master Hiei Hey, its ok. You are not the only one. LOL

  • @v3le

    @v3le

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Master Hiei make sure its protected by a password

  • @v3le

    @v3le

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Master Hiei anyway it's a natural thing, sharing is loving

  • @moscanaveia

    @moscanaveia

    6 жыл бұрын

    Better be complete and utter oblivion after death then. Only way to avert that particular disaster

  • @JohnHeisz
    @JohnHeisz8 жыл бұрын

    There's a great message here, regardless of personal beliefs. Extremely well said / presented.

  • @GarageWoodworks

    @GarageWoodworks

    8 жыл бұрын

    Interesting. But hard to take him seriously after 0:28. From what I've read it's only 2-weeks at a time because of radiation exposure thresholds.

  • @wearesimulated1579

    @wearesimulated1579

    8 жыл бұрын

    GarageWoodworks Yea dude because what you read certainly trumps his PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH ACTUALLY BEING THERE... IN REAL LIFE. If he says it is psychological, he is probably right.

  • @GarageWoodworks

    @GarageWoodworks

    8 жыл бұрын

    9th Power Right. He was there, therefore he's "probably right" regarding their limitations on exposure. Makes perfect sense. Their concern is for the safety of the workers and it relates to radiation exposure; I assume you know why.

  • @Thejrrg

    @Thejrrg

    8 жыл бұрын

    John Heisz i go from your channel to to this one and see you here. man oh man

  • @GarageWoodworks

    @GarageWoodworks

    8 жыл бұрын

    9th Power No, because he was there doesn't make him an authority on the subject of radiation exposure and their safety policies regarding worker exposure. I've been to the beach, but that doesn't make me an expert in all things related to marine biology. And you seem to have a reading comprehnsion problem. I never said that I "can't take him seriously", I wrote that it's hard to take him seriously. There is a difference. Calling me an 'f..ing idiot' does nothing for your argument or your defense of his statement. It only helps me to solidify who I am most likely communicating with; an immature kid.

  • @publiclyshamed5383
    @publiclyshamed53832 жыл бұрын

    I found this in my favorites and couldn’t remember why it was there. After watching it again I remembered why this is one of my favorite Veritasium videos.

  • @dPhi_dTau
    @dPhi_dTau6 ай бұрын

    Everytime I remember this video, I rewatch it again. Definitely one of the best, if not the best, video on this channel.

  • @jeremiahmcelroy2726
    @jeremiahmcelroy27268 жыл бұрын

    "ephemeral sack of particles that thinks itself eternal" I think that is one of the greatest quotes about humanity I ever heard.

  • @MattPalka

    @MattPalka

    8 жыл бұрын

    Darth Strakh The particles themselves are eternal. The form is not.

  • @ahmadsaba9795

    @ahmadsaba9795

    8 жыл бұрын

    Not really. Those particles can be destroyed

  • @paperhabit

    @paperhabit

    8 жыл бұрын

    +ahmed saba Pretty sure that's what "ephemeral" means - transient, impermanent.

  • @ahmadsaba9795

    @ahmadsaba9795

    8 жыл бұрын

    .

  • @MrCheesysmell

    @MrCheesysmell

    8 жыл бұрын

    I agree😘

  • @nikoskabbadias
    @nikoskabbadias5 жыл бұрын

    This was very Carl Sagan-y

  • @benwherlock9869

    @benwherlock9869

    4 жыл бұрын

    " Billions and billions and billions"

  • @paulwhite5289
    @paulwhite5289 Жыл бұрын

    Nice one mate. Thanks for making this. Please continue in this direction. Or just please continue.

  • @fmitsinc9146
    @fmitsinc91462 жыл бұрын

    I was searching the term "delusion of continuity", and I found your video...Brilliant. Thank you.

  • @basicallytrash3538
    @basicallytrash35384 жыл бұрын

    He changed the title? This is one of my favorites from Veritasium. Several years ago, I think, the title was "Our Greatest Delusion"

  • @TheSachinRK

    @TheSachinRK

    4 жыл бұрын

    Now I'm starting to think the same

  • @ilhamburger8288

    @ilhamburger8288

    4 жыл бұрын

    same here, I rewatced this, and now I really miss my delusion:( I couldnt sleep:(((

  • @Malohdek

    @Malohdek

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Vicky Rannaware He also noted that he's going to be using more clickbait-y titles and he also said his reason why in a very simple video he made about a month ago.

  • @jaunegiallo

    @jaunegiallo

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Vicky Rannaware "My video went viral. Here's why"

  • @sujaybelsare4743

    @sujaybelsare4743

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@JadenWaddell like your grammar

  • @maza38
    @maza384 жыл бұрын

    I dunno about yall but all I hear is *_”FIFTY THOUSAND PEOPLE USED TO LIVE HERE, NOW ITS A GHOST TOWN”_*

  • @azoozabousaad536

    @azoozabousaad536

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mercile33Wolf OG

  • @fatvikingr5743

    @fatvikingr5743

    4 жыл бұрын

    LOL

  • @anishnehete

    @anishnehete

    4 жыл бұрын

    @10.000 subs yes vidz i think it's from cod

  • @armchair.9664

    @armchair.9664

    4 жыл бұрын

    My eyes almost well up with the tears of nostalgia. Such a great game.

  • @rajasarkar2145

    @rajasarkar2145

    3 жыл бұрын

    COD

  • @raberschnor7804
    @raberschnor78042 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, this one is very well written! I love it.

  • @sanderhalvorsen8362
    @sanderhalvorsen8362 Жыл бұрын

    What you said at around 4:00 is something I also have experienced, and I am so happy to see someone pointing it out!

  • @christian_7624
    @christian_76243 жыл бұрын

    I’m trippin, why did I watch this before bed

  • @Hydra-BR

    @Hydra-BR

    3 жыл бұрын

    same, watching this 4 am

  • @RKKPvP

    @RKKPvP

    3 жыл бұрын

    Fr im rethinking life while on my mini break from studying xD

  • @alfiepicton1339

    @alfiepicton1339

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@RKKPvP fr 🤣 back to my project on radiation... oh no....

  • @cihad735
    @cihad7357 жыл бұрын

    "I don't fear death. I've been dead for billions and billions of years until I was born. Death is not bad. You're lucky to be able to die. There are huge amounts of people that are not. They were not born at all." It's a privilege to have a life. Make the best out of it

  • @kalechip8129

    @kalechip8129

    5 жыл бұрын

    Cihad. You weren't dead. You didn't exist. You weren't created. It's strange to think you just became and you will just leave just like that. It's a lie to say your not scared. Maybe your not... our mind cause us to fear and the fear creates delusions that overpower itself causing us not to be afraid of things. I dont know about anything. If you think about it. We came out of existence. Where did existence come from? Where did the place that existence came from come from?

  • @nanuckdogg3338

    @nanuckdogg3338

    5 жыл бұрын

    If there is nothing after death or before birth then being dead and not having been born yet is exactly the same state of "mind". It's oblivion, just nothing.

  • @NessieAndrew

    @NessieAndrew

    5 жыл бұрын

    Cihad Your profile pic is from Kurzgesagt's Fermi Paradox video.

  • @thefakeslimshady8881

    @thefakeslimshady8881

    5 жыл бұрын

    *mind blows

  • @maximusgorog5337

    @maximusgorog5337

    5 жыл бұрын

    I completely agree with you Cihad. For all of those who want a logical way of looking at death: Death, by definition, is "the action or fact of dying or being killed; the end of the life of a person or organism", but lets look at this mathematically (in terms of functions). If the universe exists in every single possibility, even outside of time, you are a function of time and space, and you can switch any of the spacial dimensions for the time dimension and the time dimension for one of the spacial dimensions to create a new universe from a different perspective. Then, the death of an organism can be defined simply as an inequality function(in space or time)that exists outside of that organism. In other words, everything that isn't you, is in a strange way, the death of you.

  • @topquarkbln
    @topquarkbln3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing, this is one of the best videos I've seen of you ❤👍

  • @danielm2313
    @danielm23132 жыл бұрын

    I love this video mate, can't believe i haven't stumbled across it until now