The Egg - adaptation of Andy Weir's viral short story

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  • Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
  • Based on the thought provoking short story 'The Egg' by Andy Weir and with a spine-tingling soundtrack from Nils Frahm, this visually powerful short film shot on location amongst some stunning Yorkshire settings sees Andy come to terms with his maker, with his death, and ultimately with his life.
    Second year undergraduate short film production at the University of York, filmed using Sony F3. RUNNER-UP Yorkshire Royal Television Society Student Awards - Short Fiction 2012.
    Music used with permission of Erased Tapes Records.
    'Let My Key Be C (Thriller Edit)' written and performed by Nils Frahm and Anne Müller.
    'Tristana' written and performed by Nils Frahm.
    'Familiar' written and performed by Nils Frahm.
    Read 'The Egg' by Andy Weir here: www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
    Andy: Harrison Lee
    God: G. Philip Hope
    Writer/Director/Producer: Sam Meacock
    Director of Photography: Oliver Richards
    Focus Puller: Jack Lawrence
    Sound Supervisor: Akash Tuli-Phakey
    Boom Ops: Ed White and Luke White
    Traffic Coordinator: Liam Bracey
    Sound Mixer: Luke Beardsley
    Visual Effects & Colour Grade: Sam Meacock

КОМЕНТАРІ • 917

  • @darrend.4835
    @darrend.4835 8 років тому +1387

    Looking in this comment section, I kept thinking "Wow, so many people are being so rude." Then I realized it's all my fault. And it's all your fault.

  • @sarahthompson293
    @sarahthompson293 8 років тому +2336

    I'm very proud of myself for being such a great author, director and actor. Bravo me

  • @sunmoon-82
    @sunmoon-82 8 років тому +537

    The most important thing to take from Andy's short story is to realize that how we treat others is how we treat ourselves, whether his story is a real reflection of how death works or not. When we impact others, we impact ourselves because everyone is us. We are eyes that make up the same creature. When we make one eye go blind, all of us slowly go blind.
    If Andy is right about death then we will have to live through both good and bad lives. But what can make a difference is treating others how we like to be treated. We just have to have faith that by doing good we can make a difference to the whole cycle so that we can make all lives good.

    • @BriannaKendrick
      @BriannaKendrick 5 років тому +11

      asdf4 “an eye for an eye and everyone goes blind” true

    • @MrMrjones333
      @MrMrjones333 5 років тому +2

      Agree

    • @ethanreynolds2951
      @ethanreynolds2951 5 років тому +4

      Beautiful

    • @analogkid4957
      @analogkid4957 4 роки тому +4

      Do unto others as you would like others to do unto you is the law of karma in one aspect at least

    • @rickkkkkkkka
      @rickkkkkkkka 4 роки тому +2

      no

  • @LnPPersonified
    @LnPPersonified 7 років тому +131

    "Be nice, and have fun."
    The single best piece of life advice I've ever heard.

  • @daedrichero1635
    @daedrichero1635 8 років тому +400

    I was impressed by my writing of the story, and the acting of myself, and the dialogue I wrote to exchange with myself. Good job, me.

  • @CantBeTamed53
    @CantBeTamed53 9 років тому +289

    Every time I tell this story I feel like I don't do it justice. This is the best representation of the story I've ever seen.

    • @HDHollowGaming
      @HDHollowGaming 9 років тому

      Pranav Raghavan yeah same here, try to show people the video usually works.

    • @cookiesoldier8114
      @cookiesoldier8114 5 років тому +11

      Yet*

    • @TamalPlays
      @TamalPlays 5 років тому +1

      @@cookiesoldier8114 lol yes *yet

    • @cloudy772
      @cloudy772 5 років тому +1

      Pranav Raghavan
      Check out the new one!

  • @CheReji0289
    @CheReji0289 9 років тому +651

    So the youtube chat is all a monologue?

    • @lucasday9246
      @lucasday9246 9 років тому +44

      Garage Sale is that any way to talk to yourself?

    • @garagesale8003
      @garagesale8003 9 років тому +9

      Lucas Day, fuck you, shit-head, fuck-face, fuck-head!

    • @garagesale8003
      @garagesale8003 9 років тому +4

      Mangirdas Bukenas, fuck you, shit-head, fuck-face, get the fuck out of my face!

    • @TheAshleyBravoKid
      @TheAshleyBravoKid 8 років тому +38

      +Garage Sale why are you bullying yourself?

    • @aivlysplath
      @aivlysplath 7 років тому +2

      송이아름 😂

  • @mtheory3
    @mtheory3 10 років тому +188

    "Be nice. And have fun."

  • @yugasamuel6402
    @yugasamuel6402 5 років тому +2679

    Who came here because of Kurzgesagt?

  • @lova4886
    @lova4886 4 роки тому +33

    The Egg is probably my favorite short story of all time. Its intriguing, beautiful, engaging -- but sad,
    and even scary or dark at the same. It just really resonates with me. I'm glad I wrote it. I did a phenomenal job.

    • @OfficialEdwardNewgate
      @OfficialEdwardNewgate Рік тому +3

      @Maker Haugh "I'm too dumb to understand a 12 minute youtube video"

    • @whoareyoutoaccuseme6588
      @whoareyoutoaccuseme6588 Рік тому +3

      @@OfficialEdwardNewgate Hey, we gotta be nice to ourselves, even if we are acting like real jerks.

  • @maxserrettigodoy2806
    @maxserrettigodoy2806 5 років тому +86

    This poped in my feed after I watched the Kurgezsat video

  • @garin6361
    @garin6361 6 років тому +109

    "Ur parents always prefer your sister anyway" that old man is a savage

    • @warpedcomedy
      @warpedcomedy 5 років тому +17

      But he's also his parents and sister. So he prefers himself to himself.

    • @MrWongWey
      @MrWongWey 5 років тому +2

      The Fantastic Five Might have a similar soul. But the characteristics and personalities are different.

    • @renodabass689
      @renodabass689 5 років тому +4

      I am my sister and my parents so oh well....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @wadetheblade3261
    @wadetheblade3261 5 років тому +60

    We are all fragments of the universe interacting with itself, imaginations of ourselves

  • @kibateo
    @kibateo 10 років тому +526

    When I read the story I imagined more of a Morgan Freeman talking to me in a pure white world (like in Harry Potter)

    • @metakarp_
      @metakarp_ 9 років тому +13

      I also pictured Morgan Freeman!

    • @irievibrations333
      @irievibrations333 9 років тому +4

      Now that you guys mentioned it, I pictured the Catalyst from Mass Effect 3

    • @jpjpthedude830
      @jpjpthedude830 9 років тому +16

      If you pictured Morgan Freeman, that will be your God. Each of us has a different God and he will be represented how we picture him or her. I's kinda funny because I believed and philosophically pondered this even before Andy Weir's short story was written, and still believe in a version of this....I thought o Morgan Freeman too.

    • @metakarp_
      @metakarp_ 9 років тому +2

      jpjpthedude830 Funny, as I never picture God as Morgan Freeman apart from when I'm reading non-biblical stories/interactions about God.

    • @mathewjohnston770
      @mathewjohnston770 9 років тому

      jpjpthedude830 You know this how?

  • @wardi2012
    @wardi2012 9 років тому +118

    l'm very proud of myself writing this short story 'The Egg', lol.

    • @2015Kermit
      @2015Kermit 9 років тому +14

      Heidi Verstraate You wrote this? I wrote this.

    • @bebee2742
      @bebee2742 9 років тому +4

      SuperFurbyy no I wrote this...

    • @561cristian561
      @561cristian561 9 років тому +1

      Lol 👌 good job me lmao

    • @imraw087
      @imraw087 9 років тому

      give me credits for I who wrote this for I who created you for your for being me so therefore I am who I am which means I'm you and your me

    • @Masto379
      @Masto379 7 років тому

      pezones

  • @19billdong96
    @19billdong96 10 років тому +27

    This and the short story itself are those kind of things so precious you want to keep to yourself, yet to enlightening you feel obligated to share with everyone.

  • @nintendough7171
    @nintendough7171 5 років тому +428

    *horrified* "I created Fortnite?"
    "Yes, but you created Minecraft too"

    • @rayyaninspookymonth1630
      @rayyaninspookymonth1630 5 років тому +10

      There must be dark in light

    • @anninferno9129
      @anninferno9129 4 роки тому +19

      horrified: I created EA
      "yes but you also invented video games themelves"

    • @fatitankeris6327
      @fatitankeris6327 4 роки тому +14

      *horrified* "I created TikTok?"
      "Yes, but you also created all the memes"

    • @Gregory_12
      @Gregory_12 4 роки тому +1

      Brazenn and also Edward Jenner

    • @ericyoung5184
      @ericyoung5184 4 роки тому

      So by percentage we are mostly a giant nerd? Not a bad thing, I just want us to recognize it.

  • @ImaginerImagines
    @ImaginerImagines 4 роки тому +16

    This is one of spiritual thoughts that even if it is wrong, makes the world a better place to live in and be a part of.

  • @frebs141
    @frebs141 7 років тому +867

    We can make a religion out of this.

    • @kynthegod
      @kynthegod 6 років тому +65

      Asigna no, don't

    • @mysteryfatcheck1395
      @mysteryfatcheck1395 6 років тому +27

      I feel like it's some sort of a commentary on religion though...

    • @kroneexe
      @kroneexe 6 років тому +42

      Bill Wurtz

    • @gladman9634
      @gladman9634 6 років тому +22

      It's called solipsism

    • @varmint3461
      @varmint3461 6 років тому +26

      "aweirness"

  • @epicbananaman7776
    @epicbananaman7776 5 років тому +10

    The only thing that makes me sad about this story is knowing that I won't always know this story, and that I don't always get to discover this absolutely incredible take on existence.

  • @TemporalSatisfaction
    @TemporalSatisfaction 7 років тому +38

    Usually new ideas involving religion can be easily flawed by evaluating the moral/behavioral implantations after it's learned. This one however seems like a perfect religion. It gives you a great motive to help others and become a better human being.

    • @obed5oa
      @obed5oa 3 роки тому +1

      Yes. If this was implemented before the inception of all other religions the world would have been much different today.

    • @SrMway
      @SrMway Рік тому +1

      @@obed5oa This was implemented! This is what the Vedas preach, it also says, no matter what you do things will go bad because the material world can't satisfy you fully. People know this! But they still hope maybe if I do something else, this or that everything will be different. That is where the Vedas disagree with this short film, you can't be God no matter how many experiences you have because God was here before the experiences and will continue be here, all experiences are from God, looking at your experiences you can't see God, because God is the one who sees all. You have look into yourself and ask who is reading this comment, I mean who experiences this comment being read! You'll soon see you can't get a hold of this guy if you look outward he's behind you if you look inward he's outside, when you realize there's nothing you can do to understand who you are, what will you do.. That is the beginning of meditation

  • @kreiskhaos8516
    @kreiskhaos8516 5 років тому +21

    "Oh god, I hope they don't check my internet history"
    "Not the best of days, but they'll get over it."
    Damn God, you brutal!

    • @analogkid4957
      @analogkid4957 4 роки тому +1

      Kreis Khaos I didn’t like that. It made God into a mean judgmental God that some religions talk of

  • @Manzzzzzz
    @Manzzzzzz 5 років тому +640

    Who's here for kurzghesagt?😂

    • @betterfly7398
      @betterfly7398 5 років тому +7

      That version that I made voiced by me and written and drawn by me looks much better than this one.

    • @MrFancyPockets
      @MrFancyPockets 5 років тому +2

      @@betterfly7398 Yeah. But I kind of like this version I put up on UA-cam as well.

    • @fastmeansoftransportation2719
      @fastmeansoftransportation2719 5 років тому +2

      You (we) know that we did every one of them so we like all of them too.

    • @able.
      @able. 5 років тому +12

      Technically only one person came from kurzgesagt

    • @fastmeansoftransportation2719
      @fastmeansoftransportation2719 5 років тому +1

      @@able. and technically we came from the same person not just kurzgesagt

  • @Jaesonlee1
    @Jaesonlee1 5 років тому +4

    I see myself everywhere all the time.. the scumbag who pushed me inside the bus to work in this morning, the small cute little baby who just started his life journey and the mother who was holding him with all the love. I am all of them.. sometimes controlled by my selfish, egoistic, rudeness, violence, stupidity but sometimes loving, caring and being smart. This video is so deep... So deep that it shook me so hard.. it made me cry with joy. i am having this opportunity to live, love and learn. Thank you thank you god whoever you might be..

  • @Piarou
    @Piarou 8 років тому +32

    I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more views by now. I still think it is amazing, and should be seen by everyone!

    • @Piarou
      @Piarou 3 роки тому

      @while fools talk the wise is quiet Okay, maybe not SHOULD, but I think many people can learn from this. I really think the whole point of you are everyone as a thought could be a better 'religion' than many (if not all) of those that DO exist. But agreed. I wouldn't put it like that nowadays any more. But I was so elated by the whole work, and it came at just the right time for me then, that these were the words that I typed back then, 4 years ago.

    • @Piarou
      @Piarou 3 роки тому +1

      @while fools talk the wise is quiet Well, I am glad you edited the reaction from what I got in my mailbox as to be your first reaction, for that was not doing your username any justice to say the least. Using words you don't know the true meaning off is always unwise, after all. But let me react to the now edited post you made:
      You think people would get schizophrenic from a 'religion' that tells it's believers that eventually all they do to others they actually do to themselves. That is a sign of having less faith in humans than I do. And that is okay. We may differ in opinions.
      And as to the 'it's only fiction' part of your comment... Well, yeah, but isn't every other religion as well???
      Anyways, thank you for sharing your thoughts, and I wish you a nice live.

    • @bryonharrison1978
      @bryonharrison1978 2 роки тому +1

      444,444

  • @BijanIzadi
    @BijanIzadi 5 років тому +5

    “Be nice, and have fun” has made the best things happen in my life so far

  • @militious2166
    @militious2166 3 роки тому +4

    I've went through a rough phase 6 years ago and I've realized this new way of thinking, I've never thought it would become popular so quickly enough that there would be short films about it. I thought at least 30 years or so.

  • @deadchannel4619
    @deadchannel4619 5 років тому +19

    Woah. That was an amazing adaptation of Weir’s story. Just as brilliant as the original.

  • @DJDrLandWhaleOfficial
    @DJDrLandWhaleOfficial 9 років тому +115

    So wait... he biked all the way up the hill with a cornetto in his pocket?

    • @woahdudeitsme9742
      @woahdudeitsme9742 9 років тому +22

      Thats why it was all melty and he threw it.

    • @kroneexe
      @kroneexe 6 років тому +4

      Its god, he can do What he wants

    • @JJ-hp2oe
      @JJ-hp2oe 6 років тому +5

      no, he conjured the cornetto out of nowhere. threw the bike away like it was nothing, as well as the cornetto. conjured a glass of water from nowhere and threw it away like it was nothing, again.

    • @kreiskhaos8516
      @kreiskhaos8516 5 років тому +1

      Man I wonder how many version of me are excited to become a god. Conjuring dessert like that? Magnificent.

    • @briandainiguez481
      @briandainiguez481 5 років тому

      hilarious!

  • @toyomade
    @toyomade Рік тому +2

    Watch this again and again over the years, sharing with anyone who will do it justice… such a beauty thing.

  • @pedro6720
    @pedro6720 4 роки тому +4

    To my others me.... thankfully so found this video so you’ll be aware of your existence (my existence) in another different space and time.

  • @angelosumugat6653
    @angelosumugat6653 4 роки тому +8

    "So i'm a Karen?"
    "And every manager she talked to"

  • @ericb9931
    @ericb9931 7 років тому +9

    At 27 years old I've gotten blown up by an IED, almost died of Malaria on a table in the desert, Hypovolemic Shock has stopped my heart, I've OD'd, and I was crushed to near death in an accident. I just don't die, but that's besides the point haha... on all five of these occasions where I've Almost died, I've gone to the same place and remember quite a bit of it (I guess I had experienced it enough to maintain the consistencies 😆 I don't recommend)... One of many things I took from it was this thought... among other things. Always the same consistencies as to "where you go" and how to come back.
    I'm glad there was a video on the same idea.
    Regardless of what one believes, it's definitely an interesting thought

  • @nonuvurbeeznus795
    @nonuvurbeeznus795 9 років тому +41

    When I imagined the story, I imagined a white nothingness, and I imagined the first person view of the narrator (as it was in the story) I didn't give the "God" a manifestation at all.

  • @videos4mydad
    @videos4mydad 8 років тому +57

    Wondering why this version didn't have the 'The universe is - an egg' line. Seems like thats the punchline. On another note - there would be a lot less pain and suffering in this world if people actually believed this.

    • @Bronek0990
      @Bronek0990 8 років тому +13

      As is the case with most religions, or with most philosophies for the nonreligious. If people actually DID only what is moral, the world would be so much a better place, wouldn't it?

    • @markurrito
      @markurrito 7 років тому +1

      Because this isn't the original, so what's the point?

    • @adele7777777
      @adele7777777 7 років тому +2

      THEIR desire is an expression of the Creator’s desire. In order to experience everything, the Creator needs all of these different players in order to explore all possible choices.
      Each person carries within them the compass that will direct their journey, and because they are “blindfolded” the seeking can appear clumsy at times, but even that clumsiness serves the timing of events within the context of the whole. Tiny movements, small choices, are amplified through intersection with other movements in the same general direction. To the extent a clear pattern emerges, the alignment with others becomes more coherent, and therefore more powerful. Each individual is NATURALLY drawn to what is “theirs” - in the perfect way and at the perfect time in keeping with the whole - and the wonder of it is that they experience this as a discovery, similar to putting your hand in your pocket for your keys and drawing out a large amount of money instead.
      Each person carries within them everything needed to get to where they are going, and for all of the steps along the way. The “new song” was written before the world was formed.
      The video merely sounds the note you are waiting to hear and you begin humming in response because it is inherently YOUR note also.
      You must understand that no one can change what they came to be, what they came to do, what they came to experience. Their life is ALREADY written.

    • @Add_Account485
      @Add_Account485 7 років тому

      I dunno , it depends, if a person is a depressed person they may feel sad they gotta live over and over and over again

    • @zeriffu5059
      @zeriffu5059 7 років тому

      while I'm not depressed, this gives me a comfortable feeling that there may be a reason and that even if there is, it doesn't matter because I will live how I will live, I will feel my own emotions, and I will do what I must do for the greater purpose, whatever that is.
      Honestly, I hope that if someone is depressed and commits suicide that they have the same comfortability about death that I do right now.

  • @HermanManly
    @HermanManly 10 років тому +14

    Holy crap this is EXACTLY what I imagined when I read the story for the first time O_O God looks exactly like I had in mind, the setting on a sort of cliff overlooking a vast field of civilization and green...
    This is almost freaking me out a bit

    • @zbborah
      @zbborah 9 років тому +10

      well..you are the creator of this video..in a sense.

    • @Galdring
      @Galdring 9 років тому +1

      Herman Manly That is strange, to me. The story states "there is nothingness", and that god looks neither male, nor female, but like a "vague authority figure". I mean no offense, I am just interested in what people visualise when they read stories.

    • @HermanManly
      @HermanManly 9 років тому +1

      avraks The views and images you already have of things prior to reading a story influence your imagination alot, so conflicting or even opposing images can occur as to what's told in the story

  • @alejandrohernandez3767
    @alejandrohernandez3767 5 років тому +54

    This kind of explains Deja Vu

    • @aashi8316
      @aashi8316 5 років тому +3

      Especially because, for me at least, deja vu is only with other people.

    • @danmccaffrey2157
      @danmccaffrey2157 4 роки тому +1

      Fuck yeah it does

  • @paulocalinao2267
    @paulocalinao2267 5 років тому +20

    Ahh so every time i critisize somebody, i only critisize my self

  • @QuijadaFernando
    @QuijadaFernando 11 років тому +7

    I am really glad this was adapted into such an amazing short film :) Its a short story I will never forget

  • @subjectively-observered
    @subjectively-observered 29 днів тому

    I saw this around this past New Years. Finally watching again. Thank you.

  • @Buckets41369
    @Buckets41369 9 років тому +28

    I like this but I for some reason I didn't get the goosebump feeling as when I first read the story.

  • @myinternetidentitystill
    @myinternetidentitystill 10 місяців тому +1

    Andy Weir really nailed an extending example of the concept of solipsism here

  • @chiaraatencio
    @chiaraatencio 7 років тому +46

    He had to repeat this speech billions of times...

    • @JamieFisk
      @JamieFisk 5 років тому +3

      And he's had to repeat the latest iteration of the speech to me over and over again. It's like I'm an amnesiac.

    • @harisundar5707
      @harisundar5707 3 роки тому

      What if he just keeps on talking, or saying everything related to us of all our lives, since time doesn't exist there.

  • @thekaizer666
    @thekaizer666 5 років тому +2

    i wrote a haiku about this titled "the answer":
    do not lose focus.
    “peace” is not the solution.
    compassion, is it.

  • @Jesiahjesiah
    @Jesiahjesiah 11 років тому +5

    The very best version I've seen on youtube... in large part due to great acting, a beautiful soundtrack, and fantastic cinematography (even in a limited [but strikingly beautiful] landscape).. Good jobs, all around!

  • @KevinMcLean
    @KevinMcLean 5 років тому +1

    Im so glad I introduced myself to this. Im also glad that I made this story.

  • @georgekotronakis903
    @georgekotronakis903 5 років тому +25

    Hello me...
    I guess this is you...

  • @NguyenTrongTan82
    @NguyenTrongTan82 5 років тому +54

    Im here from Kurzgesagt

  • @metakarp_
    @metakarp_ 9 років тому +5

    Amazing adaption! Very well-made and the actors did a brilliant job!

    • @MrDuck420
      @MrDuck420 Рік тому +1

      Yes I did a brilliant job

  • @packedandready5693
    @packedandready5693 5 років тому +4

    I really do love these films they are so thought provoking

  • @pineapplepenumbra
    @pineapplepenumbra 7 років тому +3

    When I first came up with this idea, many years ago, I envisaged it as a needle, pulling a thread through all the times and places in the Universe where lives have been lived.
    The first I knew of this short story was when I watched a video yesterday about the concept that there is only *one* electron in the Universe, and someone mentioned this in the comments. Well, I say the *first*, but, if it's true, I may have known about it centuries or millennia "ago" in my subjective time, and just forgotten about it...

  • @infinity.1111
    @infinity.1111 9 років тому +1

    By far the best version I have seen. Out of about 5. Well Done. The picture, the music, the wind, the acting.. Terrific. Why does the old guy kinda remind me of the professor from Futurama.

    • @oscarinacan
      @oscarinacan Рік тому

      Good news everyone!!! You're going on a mission that's going to take ~5.2 trillion years and counting. It's too feel everything ever. Stay out of trouble.
      (Approx 117 billion people ever and a guesstimate 45 year lifespan)

  • @yashanepomuk2094
    @yashanepomuk2094 8 років тому +27

    But I am not only all humans but also every other lifeform because I am consciousness

    • @GrubKiller436
      @GrubKiller436 7 років тому +2

      Basically that was the flaw that was obvious to me from the story, especially if we take evolution into consideration.

    • @olsaintlit7180
      @olsaintlit7180 7 років тому +4

      the story also says that there are other gods, perhaps there is a God for Fish, Plants, Bacteria, etc.

    • @GrubKiller436
      @GrubKiller436 7 років тому +4

      Ol Saint Lit Yeah, but the other gods are not "from around here".

    • @kreiskhaos8516
      @kreiskhaos8516 5 років тому

      It does assume a human-centric model, since it's difficult to distinguish life on an atomic or smaller level. However, that doesn't mean we can't take knowledge from this.

    • @peacewillow
      @peacewillow 5 років тому +2

      we are energy, not consciousness.....
      and "god" didn't specify humans.... he said you must experience EVERY life thru out the entirety of time.....
      including, i presume, every dinosaur, bacteria, plant, etc. 🌎
      humans can only present things from a human perspective....
      that must always be understood and considered whenever truth is being presented.

  • @prashanthraghavendran2628
    @prashanthraghavendran2628 4 роки тому +2

    This is a terrifying theory because it means that I'll eventually suffer all the most painful deaths experienced by humans

    • @tonymurphy5947
      @tonymurphy5947 Рік тому

      But you'll also experience the most beautiful deaths experienced by humans

  • @RockLee339
    @RockLee339 11 років тому +3

    Honestly this was truly Amazing!! Thank (us) or for now you for giving us this film!! I loved it!!

    • @oscarinacan
      @oscarinacan Рік тому +1

      You're/ I'm/ we're welcome 🙏 🤗

  • @sempiternity0013
    @sempiternity0013 Рік тому +1

    When you realize and come to the understanding that you are just this, but more so, alone, forever to imagine that what you want and to experience the same thing, because it’s you who are the power that be, the being that goes on endlessly, you are infinity playing a game on itself

  • @yokowan
    @yokowan 9 років тому +4

    Dude. That's so deep I can't even see you anymore...

    • @G3Number
      @G3Number 8 років тому

      +Timgor true dat

    • @OptimusPhillip
      @OptimusPhillip 6 років тому

      I mean I can't even see me anymore

  • @CoreyJay
    @CoreyJay 8 років тому +72

    I prefer the original story to be honest

    • @Razrman
      @Razrman 6 років тому +6

      CoreyJay yes me too. The crispness of the story gave it a character. This one somehow seemed like a play.

    • @kreiskhaos8516
      @kreiskhaos8516 5 років тому +18

      Damnit, me, enjoy whatever I feel like!

    • @thekaizer666
      @thekaizer666 5 років тому +1

      @@kreiskhaos8516, my real, new name, is a very intriguing amalgamation of your nickname, nice choice, other me!

  • @darrenjones9359
    @darrenjones9359 5 років тому +7

    I prefer my kurzegagt version.
    I wasn’t as happy with this version although my acting was not bad.

  • @fromfurytofreedom
    @fromfurytofreedom 4 роки тому +2

    I love this version of this story. It is such an amazing idea. It was this very story that helped me really understand the idea of nonself.

  • @LoydsVideo
    @LoydsVideo 8 років тому +4

    Thank you Mr Weir for such lovely, and thought provoking short film. Growing up in a God believing world with a constant questioning mind to which some questions that I find religion can not satisfy. Now after seeing this clip not that I would say I found my answers but it definitely has broaden my views in many aspects of life.
    People need to make up their minds in regards to answering to themselves the question of whether the apples on the same tree are same apples or not. So when we grown out of this rock (earth) are we the same?
    If anyone find this story interesting or even mind boggling, look up Alan Watts on Out of Your Mind Lecture series.

  • @spiritual9574
    @spiritual9574 5 років тому +2

    It is a good interpretation on how you should treat others

  • @randomsheep3753
    @randomsheep3753 7 років тому +5

    It's not just humans.. It's all animals. Plants., life on undiscovered planets across the universe.. Bacteria even..

    • @Kaedynlimon
      @Kaedynlimon 6 років тому

      Random Sheep bacteria isn’t conscious

  • @SnoozingtonnMusic
    @SnoozingtonnMusic 5 років тому +12

    Why is the monopoly man in this

    • @buzzyboo6673
      @buzzyboo6673 3 роки тому

      The monopoly man is you. You are the monopoly man. 🙂

  • @KrogTharr
    @KrogTharr 7 років тому +8

    Well, I can’t contest this... liking it or not, its plausible. The same for some religions based in multiple reincarnations like Buddhism (there you will reincarnate until you reach the level of a Buddha and that’s cool, but also will suffer a lot to reach that level - that’s very bad). It seems this concept was taken from there, like many others…
    At least, no matter how hard it seems (rebirthing as a slave somewhere in the past), its still better than the Matrioshka Brain theory… there, a “machine” will never let you out (also very scary, but also plausible…).
    Anyway, I consider myself atheist, but maybe agnostic… I can’t believe in “gods”, at least not the ones I’ve heard or read about so far… But I’m curious, I like to search for the truth… Sometimes an afterlife of nothingness can be quite comforting.

  • @resol_beats
    @resol_beats 5 років тому +1

    The fact that he said he wont be remembered long 😢

  • @Psy_fi_prince
    @Psy_fi_prince 5 років тому +9

    I m here after Kurzgesagt's video.

  • @wesleycarson9254
    @wesleycarson9254 Рік тому +2

    I had this realization on a DMT breakthrough

  • @calinmuresan91
    @calinmuresan91 9 років тому +3

    absolutely amazing idea!

  • @Boombayboy
    @Boombayboy 9 років тому

    Of all of the different adaptations of 'The Egg' this short film seems to be the best (just my opinion). Thanks..

  • @DrumToTheBassWoop
    @DrumToTheBassWoop 8 років тому +27

    Really not looking forward to dying :/ seems a bit much to live every human ever lived. I've seen to many ways humans have died horribly :S.

    • @sunmoon-82
      @sunmoon-82 8 років тому +13

      +DrumtotheBass Woop Yeah, as logical as Andy Weirs philosophy sounds, I'd hate to live a life where I get killed by medieval torture devices, burned for being being a witch, be one of Hitler's experiments during the Holocaust, or sentenced to a lifetime in prison for crimes I didn't do. There's a LOT of suffering out there that I wouldn't want to go through. The good news is the jury is still out on what happens when we die. A cyclic universe could mean that we repeat our same lives, who's to say that time can't go backwards and we live our life in reverse, and we could be living in some sort of simulation.(Matrix, brain in a vat, dream, movie, imagination of higher life form, or even a petri dish in a lab that exists in a higher dimension)

    • @DrumToTheBassWoop
      @DrumToTheBassWoop 8 років тому

      +asdf4 Now when you put it like that. Dying doesn't seem to be so scary. I too have ideas that we repeat our lives until we a reach a better outcome or not. But to live as every single human, just sounds odd :\.

    • @DrumToTheBassWoop
      @DrumToTheBassWoop 8 років тому +6

      +asdf4 Also to add why are we only restricted to reincarnation as another human and why not other races of beings in this universe?

    • @K1NGTUT
      @K1NGTUT 8 років тому

      who said we haven't before or yet 😊

    • @SatyrBarbarossa_Eleusis
      @SatyrBarbarossa_Eleusis 8 років тому +2

      +DrumtotheBass Woop - do not worry, we will all die successfully.
      ( - _ ^ ) I think someone said that before me.

  • @alleycat2297
    @alleycat2297 7 років тому +2

    The sound is a bit jumpy, it's peaking in certain places and lacking in others, but asides from that this was really good! The location was gorgeous and the actors were on point, very well suited for their roles. Good job!

  • @firelies
    @firelies 5 років тому +24

    You could make a religion out of this.

  • @jpaul8284
    @jpaul8284 4 роки тому +1

    This answers that we are truly alone with ourselves

  • @mynamevim2399
    @mynamevim2399 5 років тому +4

    In the video it said that you will have to experience all humans in earth. So does that mean that this might be just a simulation. Maybe the *god* are the humans in the future. Maybe it is just an expiriment by future humans and the others are just other scientists. Just like that rick and morty episode the battery worlds. Maybe we develop technology in the future where we can build our own worlds. Idk just saw this video in that way (from the other video)

  • @danielwhyatt3278
    @danielwhyatt3278 3 роки тому +1

    I'm really surprised I haven't come across this version sooner. Really is interesting seeing the Andy Weir story in this form after watching the one by Kurzgesagt. Really great.

  • @HannahSmith3
    @HannahSmith3 7 років тому +4

    "Spoilers!" I can't be the only one who thought Doctor Who xD

    • @TjPhysicist
      @TjPhysicist 6 років тому

      technically I am the only one aren't I? So you're correct!

    • @kreiskhaos8516
      @kreiskhaos8516 5 років тому

      Yes I am the only one who thought this

  • @ph1ly
    @ph1ly 11 років тому +1

    That was awesome, came here after reading the story. 4.5k views is a disgrace though compared with other videos, more people should be seeing this. Might help them to think twice

  • @bluelivesmatter8502
    @bluelivesmatter8502 5 років тому +5

    Kurzgesagt bought me here.

  • @sandykd8800
    @sandykd8800 7 років тому +1

    That was an eye opener, truly amazing. Thanks for the insight of me

  • @fuvet
    @fuvet 7 років тому +9

    anyone here cuz Logic's new album, EVERYBODY? o.o

    • @Sami-qb3tl
      @Sami-qb3tl 7 років тому +3

      fuvet yeah and it's really fucking with me

    • @fuvet
      @fuvet 7 років тому +2

      same xD

    • @Intenxsify
      @Intenxsify 7 років тому

      fuvet No

  • @Generalkenobi-we6lo
    @Generalkenobi-we6lo Рік тому +1

    To our, your, my collective combined consciousness I just want to say…
    “Hello There!”

  • @elecmetala7220
    @elecmetala7220 5 років тому +8

    Anyone from Kurgesagt?

  • @philippahope2355
    @philippahope2355 3 роки тому +1

    I am very proud of him. He will always be my favorite. Weather he realizes it or not. i just want something to hold on to.......

    • @sempiternity0013
      @sempiternity0013 Рік тому

      I understand. Alan watts said it best in my opinion, we are all falling, and we want rocks to cling to as we are falling for some sense of security.. but they are falling with us. Anything we hold onto, will ultimately crumble in the end. Just as the personality we think “we” are. You are much more than who you think you are. I see your YT comment for what it is; to gain recognition in young souls to what this is talking about. Genius. Much love.

  • @BonelessVisual
    @BonelessVisual 7 років тому +69

    Wait a minute, is that means I'm John Cena?

    • @olsaintlit7180
      @olsaintlit7180 7 років тому +10

      it means you should touch up on your grammar.

    • @bniisantos
      @bniisantos 7 років тому +7

      Bowie Widipermoko WE are John cena

    • @gerrodboothe4948
      @gerrodboothe4948 7 років тому +15

      Your question therein lies a paradox: if we all are John Cena, how could we ever see anyone, let alone the world ever being able to see us. [in whisper voice] you can't see me.

    • @BonelessVisual
      @BonelessVisual 7 років тому

      Ol Saint Lit but please, it's not my first languange

    • @BonelessVisual
      @BonelessVisual 7 років тому

      Ben Santos *epic entrance music* you can't see me, my time is now

  • @skieblve2752
    @skieblve2752 6 років тому

    I came to this same(almost) conclusion about 13 yrs ago. Finally found this, that can say it for me....

  • @themisanthropechannel1449
    @themisanthropechannel1449 8 років тому +5

    You won't automatically meet God when you die, he's not part of our order anymore, but you can find him for questioning if you know how. To avoid upset I think it's best to keep your expectations low. Our religions come with stories that are not entirely true.

    • @olsaintlit7180
      @olsaintlit7180 7 років тому +2

      I'm glad you know about the After-Life, you should go on Ellen telling her how we all had the after life all wrong.

    • @themisanthropechannel1449
      @themisanthropechannel1449 7 років тому +2

      Heheh. I've learned things aren't so simple when other strangers have got their own stories and agenders that conflict with mine. For example David Icke, used hallucinatory drugs to attain psychic visions but all those drugs did was make him paranoid. I advise people not to use drugs for psychic development, but they think i'm spoiling their fun, so they get upset with me. I thought the truth mattered to this world, but it doesn't. People seem to enjoy going round in circles and thinking in a limited way, so who am I to stop them?

    • @kreiskhaos8516
      @kreiskhaos8516 5 років тому +1

      @@themisanthropechannel1449 how have you learned the truth, then? Since you're so wise

  • @samrowbotham8914
    @samrowbotham8914 Рік тому +1

    Once Upon A Time
    Once upon a time... a man dreamed he was awake
    How much do things cost? How much can I make?
    Who are all my friends? Where do my foes live?
    With whom should I fight? To whom should I give?
    And with every question, another story rose
    The man was rather frantic and always on his toes
    Fighting every dragon, saving Damsels in distress
    Hoping just around the corner he would find some much-needed rest
    But then he noticed patterns, a tit for every tat
    A cat for every mouse, a dog for every cat
    Every time he pushed he received another shove
    Every move he made seemed to hit him like a glove
    The people all around him seemed to mirror every move
    until the man began to notice what he really came to prove
    He thought that he knew better how to build a world it seems
    And left a loving Father to construct a world of weird dreams
    He finally decided while dining at the trough
    his petty dreams of vanity had exacted to great a cost
    His friends were not his friends, his foes all knocked him down
    He tried with all his might but never found his crown
    He decided to go home if he could ever find his way
    cleaning up the messes he had made along the way
    He saw his Father at a distance with a smile upon his face
    as the gap was closing in the final lap of his big race
    He was sorry and he was saddened and wished to make things right
    He would even sacrifice himself in his own loving Father's sight
    But the Father sat there smiling with his hand on his son's head
    And a Crown was on the nightstand right beside the dear son's bed.
    And then the Father whispered: "Hear the Story that I tell
    Listen very closely and be freed from your own jail
    Once upon a time... a man dreamed he was awake
    and forgot that he was dreaming, that was his first mistake!
    And in this Grand Illusion, you fight all that you fear
    thinking I am gone while I am always very near
    There are no friends or foes or Dragons to be slain
    I need not your defence of my wisdom or my Name
    A Gnostic

  • @StormJaw
    @StormJaw 10 років тому +8

    Am I the only one who thought OMG I actually did F*** myself when I suggested it to me coz I was being an a***ole to myself.. Wait.. What??

    • @DemonChickenNugets
      @DemonChickenNugets 9 років тому

      yeah me too :D, i feel like i have something to say but i cant say it???

  • @NutzumiT
    @NutzumiT 11 років тому

    I'm so proud that I'm every one whom making this video. :)

  • @oDarlynHD
    @oDarlynHD 7 років тому +23

    Anyone from logics new album "Everybody"

    • @jameswhite6056
      @jameswhite6056 7 років тому +1

      oDarlyyyn oh he put this here? omfg if he put this in his album he's so much more epic 4 that

    • @skeptikalmakhluk
      @skeptikalmakhluk 6 років тому

      oDarlyyyn yeaaaa, cuzz

  • @thesnare100
    @thesnare100 6 років тому +1

    I think a sad part of this, I'd be upset, is that the people who liked and loved don't really exist, they're you just in a different form.

  • @Krsna5
    @Krsna5 10 років тому +5

    The impersonalist only see the material energy and say the following - "In the Bhagavad Gita it states that in the material universe the living entity rides on the material energy like it is a machine, the vessels made of material energy is that machine and in some planets or even universes there is only 'one' living entity moving back and forwards through past, present and future experiencing all the various bodily vessels that takes trillions of years to do, one therefore has been in the material universe for a very very long time, there is no 'we' only 'I' because 'you' are everyone, within every material bodily vessel that is. It is the material world that is 'all one' only ONE living entity - YOU. The personalist or devotees of Krishna know more because they understand they are NOT the material energy which IS all 'ONE' but an INDIVIDUAL jiva soul, the movie above has a point

    • @mrpaytonsparks
      @mrpaytonsparks 5 років тому

      But how shall I continue I know I just am and have to BE and all is right and wrong. I say my success succeeds when you succeed but i dont want to be wrong. How do I abolish greed? How? How do I save my brothers and sisters? Helps me to help others but in doing so it continues to keep me bellow them.... Im my enemy and my only protector. All that comes to me is BE.......Now Im thinking of the verse " Be still and know that I am God "... "I AM" .. Be-Ing _Hu_Man...... I am being you man I am human-being i am humanizing

  • @provenelk
    @provenelk 11 років тому +1

    Definitely the best acted version I've seen

  • @yashbatra
    @yashbatra 5 років тому +6

    Whose here after the Kurzgesagt video?

  • @shaunablack
    @shaunablack 10 місяців тому +2

    Be nice and have fun. Why can't we just do that.

  • @kentnollanabella6355
    @kentnollanabella6355 5 років тому +4

    Im here because of kurzgesagt

  • @logicmonkey1034
    @logicmonkey1034 5 років тому

    I've come back to this for 7 years now... I cant believe it has so few views :(

  • @lotiq
    @lotiq 9 років тому +12

    Bleh, this is one of the oldest stories, at least attribute it to the original source. The Nar-Narayana pair from Rigveda. Nar is 'The Man' and 'Narayana' is the 'looker'. Brahmanda is 'The Egg'

    • @jonatkinsonriver1
      @jonatkinsonriver1 6 років тому

      What makes you think that was the original source? You saw it, thought it, heard it and told it countless times before you wrote it down in the Rigveda. This version's a particularly good one though. "Don't blame me, that's all you. Carpe Diem and all that."

    • @OptimusPhillip
      @OptimusPhillip 6 років тому

      I looked up Brahmanda, isn't doesn't seem anything like this. Brahmanda, from what I can tell, is the concept of the universe having hatched _from_ an egg. The premise of this story, meanwhile, is that the universe is the egg itself.
      Still, even if they are the same and I only saw a small part of a bigger picture, I guess I'm just not that creative, and I just kept retelling the same story in different forms through my different incarnations. Clearly I'm not to proud of myself for it.

  • @void3824
    @void3824 3 роки тому

    Reminds me so much of Alan Watts: "In other words, we all know when people die, other people are born. And they're all you. Only you can experience it one at a time. Everybody is "I", you all know are "you". And wheresoever beings exist throughout all galaxies, it doesn't make any difference, you are all of them. When they come into being, that's you coming into being. You know that very well. Only you don't have to remember your past in the same you don't have to work your thyroid gland. You don't know how to shine the sun, you just do it. Like you breathe. Doesn't it really astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing? And that you're doing all this and you never had any education in how to do it?" (The Real You - Alan Watts by T&H - Inspiration and motivation)