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22-year-old kid convinces himself he's discovered the meaning of life
Jokes aside, this video is two things: firstly, an attempt at explicating the perspective that developed in me in place of my nihilism once the latter ended, and secondly, a thought experiment about how the conversation would go if a human was able to ask the meaning of existence to existence itself.
The video took a long time to make, but the analogy of the tapestry gripped me, and I really wanted to do it justice. The most dangerous illnesses are the ones you don't know that you have, and I think nihilism has clung to my generation as a host without us even being aware of its presence. The consequences of that are already evident. So, I wanted to make a video to maybe counteract some of those undercurrents as much as possible for whoever the algorithm dishes it up to.
If you act as if you are seeing through everyone's eyes, just not all at once, in the same way you see through your own eyes, but not at all moments in time, then you realise how relevant you are, and it also provides the basis for a morality that holds water. I also happen to believe that it's ontologically true (Dr. Donald Hoffman has some good stuff on this from a scientific lens).
In my view, the more you act as if that is the case, the more meaningful life becomes, because its not life that's meaningless, it's the question; it can't all mean something else.
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Channel overview:
A few years ago, I was stuck in bed, hating the universe for subjecting me to the 'sick and twisted game of life' without my consent. I was pathetic.
It was only after I realized something very important that things began getting better... life didn't suck; I did.
In the absence of friction, my mind was conjuring its own, so life was hard, yes, but it didn't have to be. The suffering was unnecessary. After a few years of incremental progress, I'm having the time of my life. I've never been in better shape, my mind has never been sharper, I've never experienced so much happiness, and it's all rooted in a deep sense of meaning that was once absent.
I had to shake myself of lots of old beliefs and patterns to get to where I am, and I believe there are millions of other people who feel stuck and could learn from my mistakes. So that's why I'm starting this channel: to share some of the insights that formed the foundation of the psychological habitat I now occupy.
I don't know exactly how the channel will develop but I'm going to start by posting my raw ideas as that's the only thing I can consistently do at this point in time.
I hope it helps!
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