Is life meaningless? And other absurd questions - Nina Medvinskaya
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2020
- Dive into Albert Camus’ philosophy of the absurd, and explore the question: if the world is meaningless, could our lives still hold value?
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Albert Camus grew up surrounded by violence. His homeland of Algeria was mired in conflict. He lost his father in World War I. Seeing World War II's devastation, Camus grew despondent. What was the meaning behind all this endless bloodshed and suffering? And if the world was meaningless, could our individual lives still hold value? Nina Medvinskaya explores Camus’ philosophy of the absurd.
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"Everyone is quoting something."
-Me
lol irl
What a paradox
So?
@@robertimmanuel577 So?
Ben Goh so profound
“Why are the TED-ED comment sections suddenly filled with quotes?”
- me
😂😂😂😂😂
True! I'll give one, too!!
😂😂
“I don’t know”
-me
i don't even think it's a bad thing, but it's unoriginal and repetitive.
I like that everyone is joking with these funny quotes in the comments section of a video on such a deep philosophical concept.
I think this is what makes us human. We all understood that if we start asking these philosophical questions, it will lead to despair. So we get on with our jokes and try to laugh whenever we can in this cruel and harsh world.
Our coping mechanism.
Wubba lubba dub dub
Religion be like:
It's the opposite. It's the despair itself that is so inherently absurd, and therefore funny.
that depends, i think it's beautiful that life doesn't have inherent meaning. i wouldn't have it any other way.
a robot has a purpose, living beings do not, and that's what set us apart.
"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."
― Frank Herbert, Dune
this one felt kinda good when i read it.
A process that can not be understood by stopping it.
What if we forgot what we experienced later?
You can't handle Reality
And it sucks
I live for two reasons
1. I was born
2. I haven't died yet
They died for one reason.
Life is unfair.
@@ajdg6509 yes
this comment will not make you a genius. you will not be regarded as anything extraordinary. this comment is futile. how do you like them now, apples
This is good!
yes
“If nothing in life matters, then it shouldn’t matter that nothing matters.”
-some guy I saw in a UA-cam comments section one time
Infact it didn't matters
But does it truely matter?
Is not that existentialism?
Whoaa
Congratulations, We Played Ourselves!
3:00 the animation of the jumping off cliff suicide act is HILARIOUS! And it fits the narrative soooo well! For such a grim topic, I laughed my heart out and learned the lesson so well. Job well done, TED-Ed animators!
Why do you laugh at suicide? It is no easy decision and someone must have been really feeling hopeless and helpless when he/she commits suicide
@@verityv5284 she is not laughing at the idea of suicide. She is laughing at the animation and i can say that animation was actually funny. Watch at 3:00.
Ironically, when you think back on his life, it turns out not to be meaningless. His ideas feel motivating. The fact that his ideas and works affect people till now give his life meaning.
Still inherently meaningless
Albert Camus, Henry David Thoreau, and Diogenes basically living their own philosophy
It only has meaning to those that believe it has meaning in them
@@samuelcharles7642nothing is inherent in the world. Why would meaning be inherent?
@@S_-- it wouldn’t be
*I do not know who I am*
*I don't know why I'm here*
*_All I know is that I must get a passing grade_*
Oh, you must you say?
School!! Lol.
@astigmatisme you are the cause of something big
sums up my totally meaningful life
Looking back though, grades never mattered. 😆
It’s not that life is meaningless, it’s that “meaning” is meaningless.
...Some might even go so far as to call it absurd.
Now that’s just mean ;)
@@yoso585 I get what you mean
Yoso lol nice! I tip my hat to you*
The meaning of mean started to mean Something else
Nice 👍🏾
One of the most absurd things about life is how many people and familial generations live and repeat the same identikit formulaic lives (school/college/job/marriage/pet/kids), holding the same beliefs, and consider it to be meaningful without any self questioning. They’re not even close to leading conscious lives.
It’s funny isn’t? Like right now I feel numb & burned out from American holidays feels pointless lol.
So by doing things like a normal person we're not being conscious? That's weird.
@@avivastudios2311 Being normal is pointless
As much as I hate to say it, but that's the real matrix, we can view it either as a bad thing and a good thing at the same time. For civilization, this system assures us as collective beings to survive, but individually speaking it prevents us to reach our true limit. Like, not all of us are smart and got any clue about what to do and what not to do next, those people are saved by the system. On the other hand, there are those who become way too unsure than they need to because the system tells them to do exactly as they said.
To me it's not absurdity at all, it all makes sense. But do I pity them ? Yes I do. Why ? well call me an optimistic Nihilist, to fully take advantage that life is meaningless is to treat life as a literal blank canvas that you can do anything you like and face the consequences of your own actions. That's true freedom, things that not all people have.
you guys wanna be different so bad
"If you forgot something, it probably wasn't important"
- Some guy
jkdjfjid this is legit what my teacher said to me when i forgot what i was abt to ask him
Charlie Harper (Two And A Half Man)
mhmm mhmm
ua-cam.com/video/a3u0kpvwYbc/v-deo.html
"Yeah you're right."
-The other guy
“But choosing to live regardless is the deepest expression of genuine freedom”, that is beautiful.
Yet nonsensical
@@guillemvidal1958 Of course. But choosing to live even when you don't have an outside force that justifies doing so means that you feel your own internal search of joy and meaning is enough to keep living.
Absurdism is a phisophy that truly celebrates what makes humans special
@@noahkarpinski1824 What makes humans special is the intelligence, absurdism is the epitome of lack of thought. It's the abandon of contemplation to be able to pursue that of which appears to be meaningful, and produces an effect of joy similar or equal to what's really meaningful.
@@guillemvidal1958 I don't take his philosophy as lack of thought rather inspirational.
@@pranjalsharma6827 How you take it, it's not how it is. Something absurd gives no logical reason of being, hence, lack of thought.
"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better." - Albert Camus
Not applicable in Philippines. 😂
Or worse
@Dylan ALERT ALERT WE HAVE THE NEXT DEBBY DOWNER IN SNL SOMEONE HIRE THEM-
Date On Scoot or China! 😂😂
Meaningless
I've come to a conclusion: Questioning life is useless. There is no answer and even if there is, what difference would that make
Intellectual equivalent of plugging your ears and going lalalallalal
Dang I needed this
me: already having an existential dread.
ted-ed: is life meaningless?
let me get some more panicky.
Damn Ted-Ed is here making me question life on a school night
Shahida J. Nur 😭 ikr
What’s new
You know something? Life isn't meaningless. There IS a purpose for this Earth and humanity, but it isn't what we see today. It has been promised for the nearby future. Check out jw.org for more details 😊
www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/wp20121101/purpose-of-life/
Shahida J. Nur I know right? It’s obviously a weekend activity.
Watch my channel too :)
"I don't know sh*t but I can copy paste quotes from Google"
- Cliff.
"HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY ' - A HUMAN
that's also copy paste
You gained a new sub
You are not real
I am not real
To find meaning, you've got to find love, passion, for something, for anything. You've got to find purpose. If you can't find those things, then make it your purpose to find them. Unfortunately many people find neither of them in life, but by deciding not to live, they end the only change that they've got.
As someone who stared into the deep abyss of despair and considered ending it all a couple of times in my life, I am grateful I didn't go through with it. My life philosophy has matured over the years and nowadays I think it would be classified as a mixture between classical nihilism and Camus's take on existentialism. Against the universe's indifference and lack of meaning I choose to live my life as a middle finger to entropy itself. Even if nothing we will do will remain life itself took a gamble and went through with it. And if life itself lacks meaning that just means we're given free rein to give it one. All things strive!
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
Woah!thats deep
And that's why faith in the Christian God is such an important thing in Kierkegaard's philosophy. Everything came from Him, and to Him we are going, so our supreme meaning is to be in touch with God through the only Saviour, Christ. By obedient and dependent faith we see God's goodness, looking backwards, and may proceed with hope, looking forward. But looking to our present moment seems rather absurd, for we will only understand each day as we see it in the larger picture of God being glorified in our lives, if we live to Him.
Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling is a great work, even if somewhat hard to understand, in this topic.
ua-cam.com/video/dhQqxOXZQM4/v-deo.html
@@PedroHLima12 oh cmon. Stop promoting Christianity here. You do realize Ted-ed has followers from everywhere in the world?
I found you in Dhruv Rathee and akash banerjee videos
“My grades won’t come with me to my grave but they’ll take me there”
-Le Students
That's cooooooollll
Did you just invent that quote qwq
Only a middle class Indian can understand this feeling 🥺
@@crazzy5856 yeah so much pressure
Learn not just memorize. Live wisely.
more like asian student
If existence has no meaning, in the great or the small landscape, then the greatest show of rebellion against the absurdity of it is to choose to live embracing every experience and making your own purpose in life. Against the void, even if it will win at the end, we make our stand.
Very good take. But maybe there is an explanation.
@@837haja that's what makes us miserable, there must be an explanation, otherwise nothing would be at existence. maybe our punishment is we cannot have the explanation, and we cannot even be at peace upon the realisation that we will never get an explanation, and also that we cannot comprehend there being an explanation, despite knowing there has to be one
Nobody else can decide what the meaning of life is, unless it's for themselves. Nobody can tell you what the meaning of life is, because you have to find that out for yourself. Whatever conclusion you come to is absolutely true. Whether its completely nihilistic or religious, that's the answer. That's the truth.
Sure, you can be influenced by somebody elses answer. That's different than completely obeying it just because they said so/the majority says so, you know what I mean?
Its seriously difficult for me to put this into words.
noo you did a good job, i felt that with my core
It's better
"You're not you when you're hungry"
-Snickers
🤣🤣
😎😂😂😂😂
Very inspiring thanks 🙏🏽
@@Raulv212 I'm glad to have enlightened you ✊
😂😂
Life has no meaning but no one wants to lose it.
- Itachi Ucchiha
I like the thought that maybe the cycle of love has to be written by us all, by living our own life.
Wow. Indeed.
Existentialist: There's no point to life, we are but Sisyphus in a futile struggle
Absurdist: Yeah but you can do it with style
On individual level, yes, but on collective level, you’re life is not useless, as you’re a link from previous to next generations (if you have children, ofc)
@@lemonboy2295 hope you had a good night's sleep
Your name almost gave me a heartattack 🤯🤯
38 years ago🤯🤯🤯
@@lemonboy2295 hey man
@@drjp4212 so you're saying having children gives meaning or is useful to society? either way, that could happen even without him, as many others would anticipate having children, obviously if everyone followed the ideals of meaninglessness, then there will be no world but the thing about the world is there will always be someone who is in opposite here an activist or people who didn't even think about this
I hope you understand if you didn't just reply again to me (this applies to anyone seeing this), I will elabarote
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
-Albert Camus
Been seeing so many of this Albert guy's quotes. He sounds like a sigma male icl
This is one of the most well-written videos I've ever watched. Camus’ philosophy is so inspiring.
Live a life that's worthwhile for you & others, it doesn't has to be meaningful.
Just be happy and be helpful to others as long as you live.
My shower thought has been answered
Don't take showers, it's meaningless.
666 likes nice
So what's the answer??
Life is meaningless: *sweats profusely
You can create your own meaning: *breathes a sigh of relief
That meaning is meaningless: *breaks down in the corner
let me process
wait you are not supposed to be questioning life... you should be questioning equality ayanokouji
istfg I relate to this sm... it almost has been keeping me awake at night and thinking but I just can't find an answer
Sometimes the meaningless meaning actually has a meaning
If there was an inherent meaning, what would give it meaning in the first place? Is an inherent meaning really at all meaningful? Would it give anyone contentment if a meaning was just assigned to you? Ugh.
I believe "meaning" is a projection of human mind and it only exists there. Life itself doesn't have to have a meaning. In fact life is chaotic and it happens pretty much randomly. Its hard for us to understand, but human mind is still evolving and maybe one day we will be able to not seek for the meaning or purpose, see life as it is and accept it.
Or it could be the other way around , that it may have a meaning that we aren't evolved yet to understand.
Life, your personal universe, is totally contingent on your personal perspective. Life is a story you tell yourself, nothing more, nothing less.
"However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light."
-Stanly Kubric
I feel that if he had used "deep" instead of "dark", the alliteration would have made this quote even better. Brilliant nonetheless!
@@chrisalldridge9378 you mean instead of vast?
@@guacamolelover454 I do yes, whoops!
"I'm not living, I'm just killing time."
-Thom Yorke
We must kill time before time kills us
That is just what life is
Eat, sleep and repeat.
"Your tiny hands. Your crazy kitten smile."
@Chihiro which anime character is in your profile pic?
I love this content! Also, the voice over for this video is very engaging, it fits perfectly.
I love the choice of words used in this. Beautiful.
Scrolling down further is meaningless, don't waste your time.
Haha 😂 Thanks
Thank you, I needed that
I regret scrolling at all now
Thank you!
I found myself lol😂
“Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody’s going to die. Come watch TV.”
-Morty Smith
Hahahahahahahahhaa
Good
I think this means nothing matters so let's just enjoy life? Please enlighten me.
It would be funny if he had a scientist crazy grandpa
"Sheldon, it's not 'What (even) is the point?!' but 'What is the point?🌸'"
Funny, when I was searching for Camus some time ago I hadn't found this video. But now YT suggested it by accident. This platform is kinda broken... This explaination is awesome. Simple and straight on the point.
I clicked here just to say that you give it meaning. You decide if your life “has meaning” or not.
To me, life has meaning, (though defining it here would be very difficult) even if it appears to not. You’re here for a reason. You’re here to survive.
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." - Albert Camus
Attack on titan summed up in 1 sentence
"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves." - Alan Watts
@El Ángel Caído
That's not the sick burn, and that's not something to be proud of.
That's just a statement of your refusal to live your life.
That's a statement of immense sadness.
I hope you find the light some day brother.
@@willson6254 for real
“Every 60 seconds a minute passes in Africa” -Michael Jordan
Wise words.
Words of the wise
Absurd 😂
actually its Jamal who said that but ok
omg so true
Wow, this video is really enlightening. I love the explanation for the problems that we humans face everyday.
So wierd how I was actually feeling so down yesterday because of this and UA-cam recommends me this. Helped kind of,
"I wish I had something smart to say"
- Me
You've just said it...:)
@@jeromemarchan1046 or did he?
😂😂
Damn thats so smart ...
🤣
Everybody is writing philosophical quotes, so......
"Every time I open my eyes, I see. "
This could be philosophical if you were blind
r/im14andthisisdeep
"This world is cruel, yet so beautiful" - Mikasa Ackerman
(hajime isayama)
This existence is painful. I hate every second 😭
Life is test, read this book.. Yusof Ali Quran English translation
skill issue
I find that whenever I'm in my depressive state I start questioning the whole purpose of life but when I'm back to normal, all the happiness I feel gives reason to life itself.
Happiness for 2 minutes and sufferings for a week. Ah yes, it's is a smart move to bear sufferings for most of ur life to live 2 minutes happily.
@@Warlord_Megatron That's not the case for most people. If it is for you, seek help.You might have depression
@@martpepkin472 It sure is.
@@Warlord_Megatron It sure is not.
@@Warlord_Megatron That's not normal, are you okay?
Normally my depresive episodes last 3 days at most, but they used to last months, there is not a only way to have depression
Life can be worth it, specially if you know it gets better
But yeah, don't talk about someone's life when you have no idea, implying that the best option is to stop living
If you CAN relate to the lifestyle you said, ask for help, that's not normal
_"The only thing I feel when I pull the trigger is the recoil."_
-Meursault
LMFAO
Yess lol
nokk
Simo Hayha
Deep!
I love how the questions in my mind are already thought upon and has answers that are relative. Some believe in one thing and others on something else. But there is one question that taunts me," why is it that we have so many things to do and we just want to do them but the time feels short and we aren't able to do that. No matter how much efficient you become the time will still feel short."
"I don't wanna die, sometimes wish I'd never been born at all" -Freddie Mercury
"... but choosing to live regardless is the deepest expression of our genuine freedom."
Thank you for that wonderful thought.
“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?”
― C.S. Lewis
AnnoyingMoose If he want to find God, why not find the ability to save lives?
We judge people not by comparison but by our own sense of just and unjust.
@@rajashashankgutta4334 And how exactly might one come to develop such sense of what is just vs unjust in the first place?
And by extension: how could anyone know what light, heat, and roughness are without direct experience of what is dark, cold, or smooth by contrast? If not for the experience/conception of both sides, neither one could exist at all. This idea of duality-neatly embodied by the concept of Yin & Yang-is present in anything that can be prescribed an opposite.
@@vulxonite1404 .
That is amazing. Because in Islam, we believe that the reason we were put in this planet is because as souls in the Ahira we wanted to take this "test" that even if we forgot all about it, we would somehow find our way back to God (Allah) But in order to do so, our memories were reset. So that whenever someone says "It's not fair, I never asked to be put in this world" they can't ACTUALLY make that claim. If you are an atheist or believe in any other religion, please no hate ok? We have to respect each other. Hehe :)
i am just tired... tired to survive everyday, day by day just to survive... so tired
I am too😭😭
"Certainty isn't uncertain, but uncertainty is definitely certain"
~Me
Meaningless is such a strong word. "Open ended", now that one's more fitting!
but, objectively, it has no "meaning." You can't personify the universe, therefore you can't expect to be born with meaning. You may have goals, but there's no objective existential meaning.
@@JacobRy indeed, open ended! You decide what the endgoal is.
There may be no reason or justification for life in the universe, but since we're here, we can CREATE meaning from making a more humane path to our eventual oblivion.
@@oscarlundberg7462 if thats what you meant, then yes
@Colin Berg bruh
People: depressed
TED-Ed: Is life meaningless?
Same
wow, this is cringe
Fr tho
Me: yes life is meaningless
🤬🤬🤬
In my highest belief I think there is a bigger picture to it. Every single thing happened for a reason , and its just that we cant understand the reason of it. The meaning if life is surely not to chase behind a currency that we gave valued and named it "money" and to reach a standard called "success" that we gave standard to. There should be a reason , but the problem is to find what it is.
@@Dan-tguhhggyyu4tg you gotta better belief?
1:23 "The universe's silent indifference" that hit hard
"I don't want to die.....
I just wish I wasn't born"
QUEEN
Are you ok? :(
If you were not born, another would be born in place of you.
As he grows under same conditions/ circumstances/genes , it would be another you.
So he could be wishing the same at this time, you may be that another.
So you are bound to be born.
@@pavankumar-nb9bx interesting way of thinking, i like it lol
Same no appetite
Ted-Ed: Is life meaningless?
Me, facing my maths homework: Yes. Yes it is.
Literally, I should just be doing maths...
@@baumgartnerpaulina6342 yeah maths is the best
but Maths is ♥
Hey that’s not really right for everyone I really like maths and physics
I don't know about life but maths homework is certainly meaningless 😂
This video used all this information to lead us back to the fact that life is meaningless. Amazing.
More than the video and the content , i love the voice ... Nina Medvinskaya you are fab ❣
"A senseless world with inspiration, rather than defeat"....so true.....isnt it better to work together and go higher instead of being selfish and get limited outcome???..won't more light be produced when one candle lights many others...instead of keeping its light to itself?that's what we need..a sensible unity in this senseless world
Sarcastically, selfishness is what perpetuates the absurd cycle of happiness and sadness. It propels the world to move forward. Without it, we will be truly meaningless. An intrinsic meaning of Humanity(or Species in general?) I can think of, albeit a pointless one, as it is a mere never ending cycle,is perhaps selfishness. To transcend that "meaning of meaninglessness", one has to learn kindness. But it takes time, takes so many reincarnations(XD if you believe so). And yet, not so many souls can relinquish the innate,raw, meaningless meaning bestowed/cursed upon us by the Universe.
@@manojmnaik8510 that's true....there must be challenges in life... that's what makes life more interesting....its like and endless race..the challenges might never end....and neither should our hope. our problems make us stronger....only if we fight them...
@@manojmnaik8510 While I agree that all people not being friendly poses a challenge(an interesting one perhaps)l I don’t think that that alone would be the peak of humans or life, there could still be disagreement(friendly disagreement), friendly competition, things that we don’t know or that we can improve, etc., if anything everyone being friendly would just accelerate our evolution, not stop it.
@@EclipseOfGod that's very true.....unity and compassion will accelerate our development...not end all problems for us...but ya it's a better option to evolutionize faster...
@Bob Taylor why would you get everything u desire?everyone doesn't get everything they desire...and still their life is shattered and violent and sharp..
Do it or don't do it. You'll regret it either ways. This is the essence of all philosophy. - søren k.
I needed this
I just screwed up in the exam
me: life is meaningless
Ikr
Keep up hope
My guy
if this isn't me :|
Yeah, in the end, were all gonna forget about it and move on.
As Muslims ,the matter is different for us
We believe in another life after death
We believe in reward and punishment from our only God(Allah) (our creator) after death
Life has a great purpose for us
Please read about Islam
"We have reached the moon, and we dived into the depths of the ocean, but we are afraid to look inside our souls ... because we feel ... that there we will find frightening contradictions."
-Trans enabled
WOW this’s so meaningful and can be explained in many ways
I have been struggling to try and find meaning in life against the indifference of the universe. It is, as Camus said, absurd. However this has given me a lot to think about, and will definitely look into his works.
"With great power comes great responsibility."
- Uncle Ben
"Life itself is meaningless, life is an opportunity to create meaning"
- Random Stranger in the Internet
Yes, exactly!! Very well said to whoever wrote that, I have the same thought but can't word it out.
It's actually humans who want to create meaning out of everything. Life is meaningless at the end.
@@agasthya9128 we can only have meanings to ourselves and I guess that is all that matters 😉
@@agasthya9128 seems like you learned nothing from the video.
@@mohammedsharf8459 I just have a perspective of life which is very clear to me.
come on im not trying to have an existential crisis during my google meet
Nihilism hit hard at start ♂️😎♂️
pshs?
Don't worry, there is a purpose in our lives. We didn't just randomly pop into existence into a perfectly functioning world, where everything is catered to us. We were brought into existence from our Creator Himself. The next question we gotta ask is whether that Creator had communicated with us, and what does He want from us, if there really is a purpose 🤔🤔
@@nuetro1709 but who created creator ♂️😎♂️, what if creator's life dont have sense too
@@marsdriver2501 this question is asked a lot. Think about it this way, we can keep going back and back. But there cannot be an infinite regress. There had to be a starting point that caused it. Imagine this scenario: you want to ask your teacher if u can press the button, but in order for your teacher to allow you to press the button, he must ask his supervisor, and then the supervisor must ask permission of the boss. Eventually the permission of letting you touch the button must come. But if there's an infinite regress, you'll never get to touch the button. Same thing for the universe, there had to be a starting point.
Now to answer your question "who Created the Creator". This is an oxymoron. Because the concept of creation is created BY the Creator. You cannot explain the origin of cause and effect through cause and effect. I hope this helps. Also here's a short clip you should check out:
twitter.com/DrShadeeElmasry/status/1088904195338653697?s=09
A great episode💜
I've come to the conclusion that if life is meaningless, then I have the power/freedom to decide what's meaningful to me, like the people I love or a beautiful flower. That idea alone keeps me alive and hopeful :)
well said
meningless is life
Well, it depends from which perspective
Then what is this ua-cam.com/video/8iJV7lX5HAo/v-deo.html.. The true meaning of life
*meaningless, also that doesn't even work even if you spell it correctly, it'd be *meaninglessness
r/im14andthisisdeep
Rebecca, the 13 year old girl who spends most of her time at instagram: WOW SOO DEEP (CRYS :^C) OMG IM SO SAD.
I had this thought that if one desires to find the meaning of life, isn't that already giving their life some meaning because they are living for something, and that is to seek out the meaning of life itself? It feels like this thought goes on a loop.
@@sarahy.2442 if I were god and I knew everything then I must know I am God.
Nonsense
@@sarahy.2442 God is the creator of life, well, based on my beliefs, so I guess God is ABOVE and BEYOND life. I can't say for sure what would be the meaning of life if I was in the place of God because God is God, and He knows everything. Meanwhile, you and I are humans who has limited knowledge. We're like blind people trying to describe what colors are if we try to look for God's meaning of life.
However, I don't look at the meaning of life from a religious point of view because I think that religion can't be taken literally but I treat it as a food for my soul, and one thing that can give MY life meaning :)) I hope that made sense.
Wow...
Well very true , I feel it's about the loop itself , acknowledging and understanding the loop is imp.
Life = a loop that I create
i still love this so much
aw this was so wonderful to listen to
"When everyone is writing quotes, you know you gotta write one too"
- Me
"To ask what is the meaning of life is like asking where is the art in a painting, where is the art in a sculpture. The thing IS the thing. We imbue life with meaning like the artist finding beauty from a blank canvas, like the sculptor finding form from within a piece of stone."
Becoming the Sphere.
The thing is the thing 😂😂😂. Thanks a lot you’ve just clarified the reason for my existence 😊
The art in a painting or sculpture is there because it was made by an intelligent being with intent. This doesn't apply to a universe without an intelligent creator
Ted ed is the best channel on UA-cam .
great to see this video.....Really thank.
"I was born to serve others, why the others are here, I dont know"
-_idk_
- W.H. Auden
@@patricksvideos4 who?
Idk why am laughing 😂
For them to be served
This is a good quote
_Reads title_
My mind: Back again with another existential crisis
Life is absolutely meaningless!
Read this book.. Yusof Ali Quran English translation
Beautiful job
"If you don't know what to do, then just do what you have to do."
- Laxmikant
More accurately - what you need to do.
@Ben Parkin For that there is Intuition. The more developed your intuition is the more you have the ability to know.
I disagree.
How will you actually define "do what you need to do"?
@@ashwanikumar3492 The problem is that intuition only works physically.
@@alchemist6819 What do you mean intuition works 'physically'? Maybe you think of 'Extraverted Intuition' as intuition.
There is "Introverted Intuition' too. Look up these two terms.
Suppose you are a student and exams are near and you really WANT to watch UA-cam videos. But what you really NEED to do is to prepare for exams.
Now, it's understandable that there are many situations where it's not easy to point out what is needed to be done. So, for that, there is intuition which unfortunately is underdeveloped in most people.
"This comment section is an ocean full of quotes"
- A person
- Abraham Lincoln
“In a motion
"This comment section is an ocean full of quotes"
- A person“
-In a motion
@Brendan Moriarty Wow. -me
Lmao facts
Informative 🙂
During certain times and places, makes us question why things occur. Yet, there are simple explications for most things.
“When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”
― Viktor E. Frankl
thats what happening with me now, I can't sleep so I distract myself with youtube and whatsapp
Bot
True
@@pianodna-james3147 well its evening in my country so I can't sleep now, even though I'm tired, but I have a maths online class in half an hour🙁
@@asoosy_artinity8906 talking about yourself?
LIFE IS MEANINGLESS,
BUT WORTH LIVING,
PROVIDED YOU RECOGNIZE IT'S MEANINGLESS.
-Albert Camus
And isn't it the perfect vdo to watch when I have an xm tomorrow..splendid time to have existential crisis
Growing old and dying is what gives meaning and beauty to the fleeting span of a human life. It's precisely because we age and die that our lives have value and nobility.
" I'm reading your comment"
- you
Oh lol
So true
Seems like it
ha, jokes on you I'm blind.
@@nathanjohn9151 then how did you know what it said
"The meaning of life is the life itself."
All the simple thinks you take for granted like waking up in the morning without pain, meeting with your friends, drinking favourite coffee... I've lost those thinks because of the serious disease and I can tell you: I would give everything to have them back. Just experience life and enjoy what it gives you.
@@crestraizn Thank you a lot ;)
Thank you for the reminder and wish you a speedy recovery
@Alicja Yes that's true. Hope you get well soon to experience the life.
this sounds nice
@@ravimali2814 Thanks a lot ;) It's getting better.