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@cliptomaniac2562

7 ай бұрын

I started reading Denial of Death. After the first few pages it crystallizes for me. I am going to die. Fear and weakness prevents me from picking it up again but I’m glad it ends well

@callmeuriah.5433

7 ай бұрын

@@cliptomaniac2562 So he read a book that won a pulitzer prize. It was about death. It didn't help; he saw himself in it. And he was disturbed at the conclusions that it lead to, but he couldn't say what, because the author was dead, too. And, so, though he made fun of us, he has now become one of us. --the ballad of costa concordia (the reason I read that book)

@atomictraveller

7 ай бұрын

for one obvious reason. a bunch of boys with the name m, a, s, o, n, s, and a bunch of suckers who won't ever do anything about it huh hey see ya in w3st p4pu4 for the last sixty three years of unconsciousness all you amazing genius heroes.

@worldadventuretravel

5 ай бұрын

This is interesting and well-presented. I featured your video, "The Revolution Will Not Be Livestreamed," as part of several references I connected in my article, "How the Victorian Era Persists in Our Modern Psyche, Palestine, and the “Moral Imperative” of Revolt---- Is resistance to oppression fundamental human nature, or a rare anomaly among the lunatic fringe?" (on Medium, linked). The article begins and ends with Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" in a number of ways as I explore human tendencies of resistance and compliance-- and the capos of the concentration camps that Frankl recounts. In "Wages of Rebellion--The Moral Imperative of Revolt" by Chris Hedges, he speaks of a similar inherent dignity and meaning in resistance to oppression that I found also in Frankls' work. When everything seems pointless, CAN we derive meaning through solidarity and common purpose, and is there the political will to do so? Let's see. medium.com/@adventuresinthefreeworld/how-the-victorian-era-persists-in-our-modern-psyche-palestine-and-the-moral-imperative-of-d1600cf68ca9

@ReverendDr.Thomas

4 ай бұрын

@@callmeuriah.5433 "why is the modern world so evil?" Beause it is populated with Silly Socialist Shills, Sinful SLAVE.

"There is no Good or Evil, there is only Balenciaga and those too weak to seek it." -Balencimort

@nguyen-vuluu3150

7 ай бұрын

balenciaga pilled

@yggdrasil2

7 ай бұрын

Hate to be a super-nerd, but that was actually Quirrel.

@alexanderkloiber333

7 ай бұрын

@@yggdrasil2 If I’m not mistaken, it was Quirell in the first book, but Voldermord, growing out of the back of Quirell‘s head, who said it in the movie. There is, as far as I’m aware, no rule by which book canon overwrites movie canon, even there are some elitist doorkeepers who act like it works that way.

@yggdrasil2

7 ай бұрын

@@alexanderkloiber333 Sorry, didn't mean to sound elitist, I guess I simply have read/listened to the book more times than I've seen the movies so I have some difficulty remembering the events of the latter ones.

@alexanderkloiber333

7 ай бұрын

@@yggdrasil2 Don’t worry about it, my cosmic tree loving friend.

last time i was this early sisyphus was still pushing his boulder

@toyotaprius79

7 ай бұрын

I was early enough when he gave us the secret of fire

@alex12397

7 ай бұрын

wrong guy toyota but i get what you mean

@brandonbennett3082

7 ай бұрын

nah sisyphus is ALWAYS pushing his boulder

@diogenes5079

7 ай бұрын

@@brandonbennett3082one must imagine Sisyphus pushing a rock up a hill for like a really long time

@LuNa_097

7 ай бұрын

​@@diogenes5079he's still pushing it

I guess evil often comes from one's own weakness, a way to fill a void that one may never be able to fill by putting others down?

@Juliebear122

7 ай бұрын

It sure does

@user-zo7dh9gw3j

7 ай бұрын

That kinda' sounds like narcisism.

@nineveh17

7 ай бұрын

yup@@user-zo7dh9gw3j

@user-ub7fb1uy8n

7 ай бұрын

A deep rooted fear of self reflection that makes somoeone so primally afraid that they would rather lash out , as it brings momentary comfort at the cost of going deeper into evil.

@Jozzuh1

7 ай бұрын

@@user-zo7dh9gw3jnarcissism is kinda evil 😭

"You don't have enemies. The truth is, that nobody has them. Nobody in this entire world deserves to get hurt." - Thors Snorresson

@atomictraveller

7 ай бұрын

hmm, "you don't have a mile deep gold deposit in yagamo where your peoples souls go when they die, you've got sixty three years of genocide and a complete media blackout worse than the one for oj and the MK trials" - ya like it like that?

@Nykandros

7 ай бұрын

I won't have enemies once they've all been defeated. Conflict is inevitable, those who avoid this fact leave themselves vulnerable to subjugation by those who embrace it.

@bugjams

7 ай бұрын

​@@Nykandros Continuing to perpetuate the cycle. Everyone ultimately values themselves more than others. This is why there will always be conflict.

@atomictraveller

7 ай бұрын

@@Nykandrosthose who believe conflict is inevitable usually end up insisting on it at some point. ha comma ha.

@Shizkeb

7 ай бұрын

Ok but I want to have enemies for no reason, I’m not joking or alone on this. There are a lot of people who do this, succeed AND are happy. If they are happy and I am suffering then I am doing something wrong.

i've always tried ever since i was a kid to bring love instead of hate to the ones around me. But with the passing of time and constant events and confrontations it's difficult not to despair when it looks like evil always triumphs. So it''s really meaningful to ear words, like James Baldwin at the end, to remember why i should keep moving and have empathy to my fellow Man.

@Abhishek17_knight

7 ай бұрын

U keep going man. U are not alone. We are in this together. (I am happy u exist too coz i feel like u as well sometimes.)

@Paraselene_Tao

5 ай бұрын

James Baldwin is a wonderful person, and I plan to take some time to read and listen to his work. It seems like everything I've heard or read from him has been something solidly good.

@Hanna-jq2dk

5 ай бұрын

Dont dish it out. If you can't take it. If you roll with shiz you will be acknowledged as being so.

As long as the fear of death exists, evil people will be close behind.

@arcticpossi_schw1siantuntija42

7 ай бұрын

selfish people who cause harm and neglect others' wellbeing exist every real person is more complicated than classic disney villains evil people are only possible in fiction

@letsreadtextbook1687

7 ай бұрын

I... have to disagree. I think if people have much less fear of death, 'evil people' would be much more common or at least more open, maybe not even considering murder as _too_ evil.

@prophecyrat2965

7 ай бұрын

Recckless self destruction dose not care for death, it onvites it and takes seeks it out. It is the hate of life, the fear of living in a world where we are not the mostpowerful creatures, that is evil.

@enumaelish9193

7 ай бұрын

​@@arcticpossi_schw1siantuntija42I dunno about that boss. Pretty sure if I came across Child Eating Jim the child eating serial rapist and murderer I would be 200% justified in classifying him as evil.

@TheCompleteMental

7 ай бұрын

That's not the proximate cause. Proximate cause being the direct and more recent. Fear of death may get the ball rolling, but empathy allows you to see and feel that for other people as well. Therefor, you could easily fear death and not commit evil.

Someone asked Swami G: ‘why does evil exist?’, to which he replied: ‘To thicken the plot’.

@atomictraveller

7 ай бұрын

then swami G went back to playin rainbow at the lodge with the rest of the Brothers trust me it's thick

@loremipsum980

6 ай бұрын

Let's admit it, the "good" characters in stories tend to be boring, it is the villains that make things interesting and make the heroes' journeys worthwhile. Suffering motivates character development.

@Noxturno_

5 ай бұрын

​@@loremipsum980 This only works in art because it's not our reality. Meanwhile, in our daily lives none of this is needed in order to make ones grow up. It just takes critical thinking to achieve the same answer; Pain is not a meter for personal growth, but a rough teacher by other means. You don't necessarily need to force yourself into pain in order to learn from others mistakes. Worship of pain is what our today's society have nurtured all these years, hoping to keep ones deluding themselves that, through pain, all their problems can be solved (in which we know, it cannot).

@davidrobert2007

5 ай бұрын

Without contrast, life is meaningless.

@ronnypopona2589

5 ай бұрын

that's dissociation and why guru's have eyes like they do. they are also ignoring a whole spiritual reality

Due to John Immoral, CEO of Evil.

@yagomizuma2275

2 ай бұрын

Islam and Christianity: yes

@yagomizuma2275

2 ай бұрын

And Zoroastrianism

What's so wild is that we- viewers of this video- could encounter each other out in the world without knowing it, and have a pointless exchange that leaves us both offended and hateful of each other. Watching this video doesn't change us, we're emotional creatures and quick to be pulled into moments of conflict. Maybe just try and be kind to just the next person who makes you angry, even if we're only mindful of it once before reverting and forgetting.

@bigcheese2128

6 ай бұрын

Well said but don’t let me catch you out here though

@quantumblur_3145

6 ай бұрын

Your statement could replace this video with any other common human experience

@kerritarian4945

6 ай бұрын

you don't need that far, even in this comment section it could happens

@CoperXYZ

Ай бұрын

I’ma get yo ass if u make me angry Janga

"I think this idea of fear being behind evil should only further encourage us to view love as the only true saviour." - Ben

"You should only know how much tyrants fear the people they oppress." - Albus Dumbledore

When I read his book (The Denial of Death) for the first time in 2020 during COVID, it was the most coherent theory of motivation I have ever read and I immediately dove into other related work (The Worm at The Core) and research that was done. And I highly resonated with the creation of art relieving underlying fear.

@mrboobiesrider9212

7 ай бұрын

WOW, I did the exact same thing.. I wonder how many people read the two books in 2020

@xbluebells

7 ай бұрын

@@mrboobiesrider9212 me too!

@blizzard1198

6 ай бұрын

​@@mrboobiesrider9212 did it before 2020 , I know I'm cool.

@javierriosgonzalez6495

6 ай бұрын

Same here!

@nycgweed

5 ай бұрын

I tried to read but it was difficult 😮 maybe I will try again

I try to be as good as I can be (unselfish) but its a poor metaphor to say you should listen to the angel on your shoulder. Because like you said, the supposed devil is also part of your human being. So instead of beating myself up when I get there (usually for what therapists describe as H.A.L.T.; hungry angry lonely or tired) I accept that this another part of me, my weakness and I try to make amends through humility of my human condition with anyone I might lash out on. And when I am refreshed and healthy I extend that much kindness and patience to those who might act out in the same.

@timisontube

7 ай бұрын

I think that’s great and what must be done .

my English class was talking about this topic. 'what does it mean to be human?' people treat animals less because they're not human, so why do we treat other humans less? they're human, but we sometimes label others as 'non-human' because of some evil things they do. humans just want excuses to make themselves better in life and in feeling

@colbyboucher6391

6 ай бұрын

Here's what I've started thinking: Humans are practically supernatural. No one can really explain WTF our conscious experience is. Somehow, the universe accidentally came up with some funky alchemy which led to creatures that can experience, imagine and create. Earth might not be the only place where this has happened, but it might as well be. So at the very least... that's sacred. Regardless of whatever suffering it causes, even the suffering is sacred. Human experience is too unique to let it just fade away. If anything I'm starting to feel like creative exercise is almost a moral obligation. I think this is something most people implicitly recognize, but I typically haven't, and without it it's pretty hard to not argue for the Benevolent World Exploder of negative utilitarianism.

@verac3105

6 ай бұрын

@@colbyboucher6391 yesss, I agree! I think animals have what we have on a smaller scale. it's just sad how we use our 'conscience' to have an excuse of doing horrible stuff to beings who have less of it.

@taistelusammakko5088

5 ай бұрын

@@colbyboucher6391 do you have any evidence that human conscious is practically supernatural?

@elmaschimba963

4 ай бұрын

@@colbyboucher6391that’s probably 20 light years away far from the truth. I think the answers of the existence of this world and it’s evil are beyond people’s comprehension or imagination

@elmaschimba963

4 ай бұрын

Unless when you die some will probably be able to comprehend the truth

There is an unspeakable amount of evil and t3rror going around in the world right now and people are turning a deaf ear and a blind eye😢😢😢

@lukeonuke

7 ай бұрын

People mostly only care when it impacts them, when its some country far away, away from sight is far from mind

Another fucking banger. All of the Becker stuff reminded me of the master slave section of the phenomenology of spirit. This othering of people as evil is the mechanism that allows for us to understand ourselves as good, or for Helgel, as simply being. I have also found this to be true in the version of christianity I was raised on: both the sinner and the false believer are what makes "us" holy through our recognition and condemnation of them. The only response to this dilemma must be love for the other; the other is the only way that I can feel myself to be good. The logical next step is to move beyond condemnation and towards a radical acceptance wherein both self and the other recognize each other with respect and move to create a world wherein we can both exist with security and peace.

@misery_of_mika

7 ай бұрын

I love this takeaway

@soursopmcgee8682

7 ай бұрын

Unfortunately that goes against the laws of nature

@creatancremanova7097

7 ай бұрын

lol, and why is this a banger?

@callmeuriah.5433

7 ай бұрын

@@creatancremanova7097 Because it goes hard, has the whole squad bumping.

@5hydroxyT

7 ай бұрын

I agree, i think where we stumble is actually on the self-acceptance part - after all, isn't what we condemn in others the exact thing we condemn in ourselves?

Thank you Sisyphus... "If your adversary wins the argument about truth, you die." ... Such is the frailty of ideas. But there are many spiritual paths which tell you can go beyond the mind, beyond ideas to a pure experience itself. I recommend looking up Steps to Knowledge, which feels like a very real pathway for this.

That james baldwin quote really summed up everything. Love/empathy is the solution but the system and the fear and other distractions it produces prevent us from expressing that love, from seeing the humanity/ourselves in everyone else

Wanting to live isn't the source of evil. Death and suffering is the evil, not our fear of it.

I've been curious about the disturbing films iceberg lately. Having no strength in actually watching them, I decided to just read their plots on Wikipedia. It disgusted me. All of them. I kept thinking how humans can be this torturous, heartless, and downright evil. Then, somehow, Sisyphus dropped another video literally on the right time again

@almond5284

7 ай бұрын

I swear he's haunting our minds, hunting for his next essay topic

@bugjams

7 ай бұрын

People can be evil, but the media makes you feel so much worse than you should. The media pushes stories of evil human acts in your face every day, when in reality at least 10,000x more good things happen a day than bad things. But those good things don't make headlines unless they're exceptionally good. The truth is that real evil and cruelty is rarer than kindness, and usually happens as a result of someone else's cruelty. Be nice to the next person who's rude to you, and maybe you can end one of these smaller cycles.

Fear leads to panic; panic leads to pain; pain leads to anger; anger leads to hate - Danny Nedelko by IDLES

Evil can never be prevented, but it can always be cured or accounted for. To commit to any kind of "final eradication" of it is a fool's errand. But to commit to engaging with it and gently assimilating it into our societal whole is where the true progress happens. It must be cared for, consciously and diligently, just like anything else. Then we may someday find the balance we so desperately crave.

@Drekromancer

7 ай бұрын

Achieving broad, social enlightenment through the loving integration of the shadow on a massive scale? Brilliant take. Thanks for sharing. ♥️

@quantumblur_3145

6 ай бұрын

Isn't there constant friction that'd make such an endeavor fruitless? Every minute, new people begin fearing their bodies and the mortality they represent, the shunning of the shadow will always be an instinctive drive

@apatheticxmindsetx3549

6 ай бұрын

How do you cure something like pedophiles? Wouldn't they be associated with evil?

@almond5284

4 ай бұрын

@@quantumblur_3145 It is only fruitless if we aim to forever defeat the entire notion of evil. It is not something that can be solved in a traditional sense, but in another sense it can be solved with conscious manual attention and care. It is never guaranteeable.

@marsship921

4 ай бұрын

Well, from what I understood evil is only or own minds interpretating things that endangers us and makes us remember our finitude. That produces evil. So by losing the fear of death and living life as you want, does takes away all evil. At least to one person. Instead of having fear as the motivation to live, this person would have love as it's motivation.

In my book, evil is anything that threatens the finity of myself and others for personal gain. Those who opt to live at the expense of others when given the choice

“Evil is evil…Lesser, greater, middling, it’s all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I’m not a pious hermit. I haven’t done only good in my life. But if I’m to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.” - Geralt of Rivia Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher: The Last Wish

This is the philosopher's version of I'm 14 and this is deep. "Dude if you think about everything we do is like driven by our fear of death. Bro maybe if we all just loved each other there would be no more war".

@Sofiaode18

6 ай бұрын

I like the concepts that this channel brings but in practice the presentation is word salad. I don’t think there’s a grander “evil” in most people. Fear does lead people to behave negatively towards others, but the leap towards “fear of death” is a gross oversimplification. I think a more interesting framing for this title is how socializing in this day and age feels devoid of genuine emotions.

@ModifiedLamborghiniSpongeBob

6 ай бұрын

@@Sofiaode18 you too I don't care because Rock and stone!

@asteroidalassassin6949

6 ай бұрын

It appears foolish because it's dancing around the true answer and that is faith in God. Faith that God will provide for you and bring justice for you, faith in Gods mercy.

@iulic9833

5 ай бұрын

This comment brings nothing to the conversation at all. If you don't believe in it, so be it. But it is just as reasonable as any other out there, and people have the right to choose what they believe in.

@sneakerbabeful

Ай бұрын

​@@asteroidalassassin6949 And what if we're unable to believe in God?

Your writing and editing is just on another level, it's so nice stuff like this actually exist

It really is incredible to see the progress in your channels video production. Not only are your words filled with wisdom, but your visuals are so unique and enticing that it makes for a complete viewing experience. Keep up the great work :)

sisyphus i recently discovered your channel around a month ago i was going through a breakup and your videos have just made it that much easier thank you. ❤

I've been taught by every authority figure in my world since I was a child that I am evil, so insignificance is the greatest virtue I can possess and the greatest comfort I can seek. The sweet and inevitable embrace of death and oblivion is my perpetual safety blanket and snuggly, reassuring teddy bear.

@Astroqualia

5 ай бұрын

Those gaslighting fucks are the real evil.

@ianb.2575

4 ай бұрын

You're an abuse victim, dawg

Note to self- when I die, remind myself that this is my life now.

This video is actually really helpful for me write now. I'm writing an essay about The Iliad and for my main thesis I said that "Achilles emerges as a champion of love" and I kinda forgot what I meant when I first wrote it, but now I remember. Thank you.

@Vanity0666

6 ай бұрын

I recommend also reading The Aenid from Virgil if you have the opportunity, it's corrollary to Iliad

Disproportionate fear of death produces evil actions. I perceive that death may be inevitable but excessive anxiety and fear of death is not.

Evil is determined as that which is opposite to our preferences to live and avoidance of suffering. Without our preferences there would be no good and evil, only facts to which no value would be attached

@Juliebear122

7 ай бұрын

As someone who has experienced evil done to me, this gives me some perspective. Without giving value to these things they are just mere facts and it feels weirdly comforting and accepting

@jasonmoss-qk8oh

7 ай бұрын

if you think there's no evil then you don't know very much

@giovannironchi5332

6 ай бұрын

@@jasonmoss-qk8oh Hi, I think there is such thing as 'evil' as I think there Is such thing as 'down': I'm Just saying that in order to define evil you need that the parties involved have a sense of preference as to define down you need the gravitational field (or something that give you a preferred direction)

@Vanity0666

6 ай бұрын

​@@giovannironchi5332both of these things are relative

"Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive....it's that part of an imbecile that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

Yin and Yang, in my opinion We wouldn't know what good is without evil

@violetselene244

7 ай бұрын

🥱

@26diesel37

Ай бұрын

@@violetselene244 How does it feel to be a woman?

happy to see you posting again sisyphus, hope life’s treating you well.

Ultimately suffering comes from desire and ignorance. Desire to be inmortal, to be a hero, to be bigger than life. Desire to success. And ignorance that if you just see life for what it is, every moment being a opportunity to experience a beautiful world, to love, to create, to learn and improve yourself, to have a virtuous life

so friendship was the real treasure AND it’s the answer?! HELLLLLL YEAHHHH

It's through understanding your own darkness you find your light. So simply said, yet it is the hardest thing to do

I don’t think people these days are any more evil - it’s just more on display / easy to see

@SinfulSoulBand

6 ай бұрын

In the 1800s, people were being accused of being witches, where your entire village or town come out to watch you get burned alive or beheaded. What you mean its more on display now? Lol we live in the most peaceful time in History. Its much harder to tell who is deceiving you these days. We act like times are getting worse and worse but if you actually look at the rate of crime globally annual, you will find that crime has been infact dropping, and fear mongering has increased. News, tv, social media, all pushing fear outlets, which in turn makes the herd masses listen obey and fear to appease their oppressors. There is far less crime this day in age than like... Ever. You can go to a grocery store without being called a heretic and get beheaded... People now have become more deceptive because of the internet, creating this split in human lives that have never existed before. People used to get sacrificed to God's and murdered as virgins, people used to be slaves on a mass level... I really don't agree with your statement because the world is far safer today than any other point in history since humans have established society.

@taistelusammakko5088

5 ай бұрын

I think its incredibly funny how people think modern times are some super evil times. We are living a time of everlasting peace if compared to something like 18th century. People used to get publicly tortured for fucks sake. People who say modern times are evil only ever have lived during modern times in comfy western world and then have the audacity to think we are more evil

@marsship921

4 ай бұрын

That was never the discussion

@Thomas-xd4cx

4 ай бұрын

This is such an overused dogma - "WELL WE ALWAYS HAD CRAZY PEOPLE BUT INTERNET JUST SHOWS YOU MORE" NO. Back in the day, you would get into trouble with basically everyone around you if you did anything out of the ordinary. You were kept in check and punished if you wanted to go out there and act all special (which is just plain narcissistic behavior, to always try and make yourself the center of attention). Furthermore, this thirst for attention many now crave brings us to the next problem: they will all fall over each other to do more and more wild stuff. It's like opening Pandora's Box; a vicious cycle ensues where the yardline will forever get moved further because if someone else did it, it's not special anymore; "We got to be more wild". These days, people are so pre-occupied with themselves that they don't do checking. In villages, mostly the ones tucked away, you don't see anything like this - they're all kept in check by each other. City folk would call that "oppression", we call what they have "degenerate degeneration". That's what's really going on.

your videos always get me thinking, about thoughts and ideas that i already believe and think about everyday, just not as fully fleshed out as you explain them in these. thank you for triggering the parts of my brain to ponder.

This is one of your best videos! I've always found ethics and existentialism to be two very different branches of philosophy, but you clearly proved me wrong with this video! Kudos!

thanks ben. this is a great video. you’re doing great. thank you for uploading

thanks for this video, glad to see you doing your thing. take care of yourself, sisyphus.

We often act on our primitive wild momentary impulses and spend rest of the time regretting doing that, it would not seem like but it's very hard choosing *not to* that's why evil has always prevailed

By “Love” you can only mean universal love, as the counteragent to fear. I not only disagree that universal love would be too much to ask for the average person, but also that the counterpoint to fear is not love at all, it is wisdom. It is more accurate to speak of the overcoming of ignorance as being the antidote to fear, and that is achieved through the recognition of three things; Impermanence, Determinism, and Universal Incompleteness.

@Vanity0666

6 ай бұрын

We out here on Dukkha

I reject the initial loaded assumption that the modern world is evil of even worse than any time in antiquity, it has its problems but we live in the safest most prosperous time in history for the largest amount of people on the planet

Because I said so

@LuNa_097

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for saying so ig, it gave us this vid

Great job Sisyphus! Made my day with this one.

Halloween was the best possible time to post this video about fear and its implications on evil

sisyphus why did you delete the "thank you for leaving me" video. That was one of my favorites of all time!

dont know if you read comments but I just want to say that often when you post these videos they genuinely make a positive impact on my life and the ay that I look at the world because I lack both the patience and time to read or explore the ideas of these thinkers myself. I really appreciate that you make these videos and I wish there were more channels making really well put together and comfy breakdowns of really interesting ideas like this in the way that you do. Thanks for making videos man I really appreciate your channel.

Great video, as per usual. Just had a thought while watching, though: do you think you could include the names of the major people that you are drawing from in the title of the video? That may not work for some of your videos where you draw upon a lot of thinkers, but for this one I think including Ernest Becker somewhere in the title could help draw in some people who are specifically looking for an interpretation of their work

@quantumblur_3145

6 ай бұрын

I feel like that'd commodity it and attract people who whack it to marble busts of Greek philosophers

@tamajack8179

6 ай бұрын

@@quantumblur_3145 What? I don't understand what you mean by commodify; this is youtube, it's already commodified by its hosting here. Also, greek bust philosophers pretty much actively avoid any philosophy post 19th century. Look at any channel that covers philosophy from 1968-onwards in good faith and you will probably find only leftists (think plasticpills, overthink podcast, or Epoch Philosophy). These channels don't have trouble keeping the greek busts out, probably because their explanations and interpretations of this kind of philosophy is thorough enough to either change people's minds or repel people with closed minds

@ericraululyeetusdelyeetus5028

6 ай бұрын

@@quantumblur_3145 What?? How??

@quantumblur_3145

6 ай бұрын

@@ericraululyeetusdelyeetus5028 people who watch philosophy content just to feel smart

Sisphus, I still don't know how you do it with these timings. Currently taking a philosophy class this year and having a pretty good time with it. One question that I decided to ask my professor during office hours yesterday pertained to why evil still persists giving conflicts that are ongoing in the world at the moment and why it makes it hard for me to believe that a God exists. Of course, I gained a lot chatting with my prof but I can't help but chuckle that this dropped just a day after. Good stuff man!

@Astroqualia

5 ай бұрын

God does exist, our existence on earth isn't for God's benefit - its a training wheels learning experience for us, like a shallow end of a pool to learn to swim. When you look at an anthill or a battle of insects, does your heart literally break when one of the insects are rent in half or brutally ended by the other, or do you find it mildly interesting and barely bat an eye? The perspective of an omnipotent creator is leagues above our own, much like the example given above. A good secular example that doesn't reference a religion for God's existence, would be, the complexity of DNA and how it is tightly assembled would clearly point to a creator, as much as it would be unreasonable that a 2012 Honda Civic has a factory/human designer that crafted it, and over time, didnt just magically spawn into existence from random natural phenomenon.

The opposite of love is not hate, for hate still has concerns about the hated. The opposite of love and hate is apathy, for only in indifference is there no possibility for mercy or kindness.

i appreciate you and your existence, thank you for these creative videos talking about everything on my mind.

it is my hope this we are the last generations to suffer like we are That we've seen the worst of the worst and being so widely informed we will break the cycle of mistreat, at least for a single generation

This video pairs very well with the film The Zone of Interest, especially that final quote.

its good to see you back, i hope your doing better, happy haloween.

Thank you for this video. As always, eternally relevant, and thus always a hot topic! Love and courage are - sadly - hard to obtain. Love alone is not enough. Courage alone is not enough. Both must be there in equal proportions. Love - also - is hard to define and capture. Do you have an opinion on love? I found it incredibly hard to pin down since it's a broad term that is at times contradictory. I know you made a video on: "love without attachment", "how we think of love is messed up", and "How To Fall In Love" but I think the love you mentioned here is more far-reaching.

Great video. Would love to see something about Plantinga's Transworld Depravity. Super interesting attempt at explaining why evil exists at all.

excellent video. loved the baldwin at the end. liberation truly is at least in some way a liberation from fear!

Genuinely one of the best videos you've ever made dude, had my ass staring at the screen 5 minutes after the vid ended

It may not be the root of evil, but a fundamental lack of empathy for others must surely be fairly proximate to its source.

The music in ur videos is top shelf, chef’s kiss.

“Whoever among you sees an evil action, let him change it with his hand [by taking action]; if he cannot, then with his tongue [by speaking out]; if he cannot then with his heart [by hating it and feeling that it is wrong], and that is the weakest level of faith.” The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) 🌷 Muhammad (S.A.W)(ﷺ)🌷 (Narrated by Muslim, 49)

Obrigado, tava precisando disso

11:37 ayyyyy I love to see the Ionesco quote!

I just wanna say I’m one of those viewers who usually skips the add but thank you so much something was telling me to go back and watch it. I will definitely check out brilliant

"You're on a path in the woods. And at the end of that path is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a princess. You're here to slay her. If you don't, it will be the End of The World." -- "This is a love story."

These always arrive at the right time

This was amazing, thank you so much for sharing this

Omgoodness...thank you, so much for this one. ALL of them, of course, but I needed this one. 💚💚☘️

pretty much you can't have good if you don't have evil, and vice versa I like to think of the Yin and Yang" in Chinese philosophy Different doesn't equate to good or bad but signifies uniqueness

The Prophet Muhammad Once Said - “If the son of Adam (Us Humans) were given a valley full of gold, he would love to have a second one; and if he were given the second one, he would love to have a third, for nothing fills the belly of Adam's son except dust.”.

The idea that death is something to be feared is what seems to keep this all going. If we cannot accept that confronting others beliefs will inadvertently cause the death of some of our beliefs (thus a death of self) we become aggressive to any other “combative” formation. I think this stems from a bigger issue of believing that our personal semantics of our reality apply to the rest of the world rather than the other way around. So because we find identity in our semantics we leave room for opportunity to have more conflict in realms where it doesn’t suit us. The idea that my moral semantics is applicable to all situations involving others has caused me so much pain. I hated others for what they said and instead of taking them where they were, I played a fighting contest to be right. The reality of things is that me holding my identity to those beliefs is what prevented me from showing up and being the help the other person needed. There is a reason for each person to be on every side, and we “win” by accepting that rather than fighting for our “team”.

How is this guy stepping it up? Animations are excellent, before they were unique and communicated well, now they're full on rad. Writing and delivery/narration in a league of his own.🤠😎👌

I think what we think of as “malignant evil” comes from fear, like the comic book villain type of evil, but I think life is a bit more complex too. There’s also the evil that comes from nihilism which is kind of like just chaotic evil with no real purpose other than why not. I dont think there’s any one answer

@TryingtoTellYou

7 ай бұрын

Nothing is done without purpose.

@ContaConta-fc9kc

6 ай бұрын

​@@TryingtoTellYouwanting to do something counts as a purpose?

I used to smoke weed. I came to all these same conclusions when I smoked. I considered writing a book about it, but I also figured someone else probably already did. And eventually I was proven right on that when I discovered the wikipedia article about Terror Management Theory.

i love ALL your videos but this THIS video by far is the greatest

I am reading Ernest Becker´s Denial of Death right now, you perfectly summerised what he says in this book. We all want to be heroes of some kind.

Love the videos keep it up

Love the James Baldwin at the end

LETS GO I JUST READ BIRTH AND DEATH OF MEANING AND NOW IM READING DENIAL OF DEATH AND U DROP THIS LETS GO. Thanks Sisyphus 55 I love your content you're sharp

Robert Sapolsky is a great read in understanding the genetic & environmental factors that make us who we are.

It's not evil that gave us human overshoot. It's our greed and ignorance that is destroying the biosphere.

Where did you get the quote “All ideology is about ones qualification for eternity and so all disputes and conflicts are about who is truly dirty” from? It ties with a lot of literature being covered in my English class and we need 15 quotes we can reference by memory for our writing and id love to use it!

Feel less lonely, thank you man, I'll definitely check more Ernest Becker then

Evil is simply the lack of empathy.

Love this video and channel, thanks 👍

hey, what program do u use for animations? love ur videoss :)

Why did the video from a week or two ago get deleted? Was it too personal? It was one of my favorite videos of yours

To Sisyphus, what happened to the video 'thank you for leaving me? ' i need to watch it again

Idk. I agree about much of this. But another thing that you may need to feel, is that evil is also "compulsion" and "habit". As those are also drivers of the actions that lead to fear in others.

These people are real and they will rule the world, they already are

I agree with Sisyphus's conclusion tbh

I'd rather be rich, evil, but afraid, than strong, loving, but poor.

@oightKoreraAreEditable

7 ай бұрын

Alright mate after all we have free will so you do as you say 👍 wait a second..

Love is definitely the answer, it took me 26 years to find it for real And to create art to immortalise yourself couldn't be a better expression of what it means to be human Wise words

Im so happy your videos are continuing to be posted. Has it been a year yet since youve taken a step back and i hope youve been enjoying your life and making sense of your journey. Cheers