It wouldn’t have even been a surprise if this was how the actual Adventure Time episode went

This meme format is golden. Not the adventure time, but the surprise Watts lecture.

I actually got lost in the lecture and fin stomping on the skull scared the shit outta me

The skull’s voice belongs to Allen Watts if anyone’s curious- He was a mad lad into eastern philosophy yall should check him out if ur into that deep shit.

Like him or not, that skull’s spittin’ straight facts.

0:22 Even the skull was like: "Wtf he actually fell for it"

“If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself - not as a stranger in the world, not as something here unprobational, not as something that has arrived here by fluke - but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.” -Full quote Alan Watts.

*Breaking news*: local meme format tricking Gen Z into becoming enlightened

I was in some spooky ass trance when the skull spoke until Finn snapped me back into reality

Is this an Adventure Time clip mixed with an Alan Watts lecture and the sound where you crush a gore nest from DOOM

“Dude that skull wants you to drink the water, its bad water” Skull: i’m gonna do whats called a pro gamer move

0:05 The sound effect when that skull starts talking makes me feel likes it’s gonna be one of those videos w cartoon audio in the background of a chill song and the title is spelled l i k e t h i s... Y’know?

Who else wanted the skull to finish talking?

Finn smashing the skull actually startled me. I was entranced.

I love the fact that so many people got hypnotised by the lecture and got shocked back into reality by Finn stomping on it’s head

I wasn't expecting the Alan Watts awakening speech💀💀💀💀

0:23 even the skull is surprised by Jake's absence of mind, when he actually falls for it.

You get massive points from me for using the Alan Watts audio

Skull was about to drop the secrets of the universe on us. Nice going, Finn.

That skull had my full attention and when Finn A Town Stomped it, it was like I broke out a trance.

It's a reference to lethes water in the underworld of Greek mythology where people forgot who they are when they drink it.

He died in the afterlife.

This felt very microcosmic of life to me. You can realize great wisdom about how to be at peace with your life or be in a meditative state, but then suddenly some random other thing inevitably happens, such as the skull being broken in this case, and you can immediately forget the fact that you can choose how to interface with your reality, being swept up again in the problems that just before you had leaned to let go of. "All things in this life are subject to change."

The skull knew too much about the world, Finn had to do it to him

The title makes my brain hurt...

,,Absence of Mind Proves the Presence of One" There is more meaning to it, as the skull has no brain. There is philosophy even after philosophy.

Felt like whatever the skull was saying, it’s gonna make my life better, I need the full version of it.

This meme just gained a whole other layer with that Distant Lands episode 🥲

"See! That means good, right?"

“…Or should I say death implies life.” *pool table sounds*

This is such a perfect symbolic representation of Adventure time as a whole. The show often when went into existential philosophical places. But it was more focused on being an advocate of being present in life and the world, and being invested in it, as opposed to being disconnected and unattached to it. Finn smashing the skull is him saying "be here now! Concern yourself with and care about your immediate experience!" It's not a message that older stories/pieces of media focused on much, because people didn't used to need to be reminded of that. But it's perfect for our modern age, in which many of us live so much of our lives mediated through digital tools that we can forget what it's like to experience the real world directly, and know how that experience is valuable.

Only you could make this scene a religion

F in the chat for smart skull

"Absence of mind proves the presence of one." -Sun Tzu, the Art of War

That’s funny how he said who’s jake and good ol watts starts talking, he says that we don’t really know who we are we are given things like a name a birthday and a career. But it’s not who we really are deep down, they are constructs

"Don't drink the water. They put something in it, to make you forget... I don't even remember how I got here." -Citizen from Half-Life 2

The voice from the skull is Alan Watts, and this fragment is from a lecture called "The dream of life". Awesome philosopher from the 70s and 80s. His lectures can really transform the way you appreciate reality and your life

jake is literally my Idol I wanna be juat like him courageous , unbothered do anything I want without stress or overthinking

This is absolutely, definitely, positively the greatest thing you have given us yet. Keep it up.

The skull was above their plane of existence

"What I am saying then is just because you don’t know how you manage to be conscious, how you manage to grow and shape this body of yours, doesn’t mean that you’re not doing it. Equally, if you don’t know how the universe shines the stars, constellates the constellations, or galactifies the galaxies - you don’t know but that doesn’t mean that you aren’t doing it just the same way as you are breathing without knowing how you breathe."

"Dude, that skull wants you to drink the water, it's bad water." Skull: "DON'T drink the water." XD

I love how Finn is says ‘dang it’ calm rather than actually being surprised by Jake not noting his own name lol

Jokes on alan watts, now living in the underworld unable to die.

Jake, don't drink the lava!!!

I give this a watch every time I see it in my recommended.

The easiest way to get into the meditative state is to begin listening. Simply close your eyes and allow yourself to hear all the sounds that are going on around you, listen to the general hum and buzz of the world as you listen to music. Don’t try to identify the sounds you are hearing, don’t put names on them, simply allow them to play with your eardrums. Let them go. In other words, let your ears hear whatever they want to hear. Don’t judge the sounds: there are no proper sounds nor improper sounds, and it doesn’t matter if somebody coughs or sneezes or drops something - it’s all just sound - pretty cool allen watts quote

Skull: going on this whole deep tangent about the meaning of everything Finns foot: allow me to introduce myself

“Uh, Finn, I think somebody spiked this river...”

This was amazing and well made. Thanks for this

That skull has some beautiful words to let others to explain about life

Hate him, or love him that skull was spitting straight facts.

The song is "Threnody" by Goldmund if any is curious. It's on Spotify as well.

I love how there’s no context to this, just a title and a video.

I subbed instantly as I heard the skull speak as Alan Watts

skull: giving wise, heartfelt speech finn: >:(

Wasn’t expecting to be visited by Alan, thanks

I saw this young dude driving a Honda Civic on the road while blasting an entire Alan Watts lecture. That was pretty stellar to see.

Every few months this pops up in my recommendations and I just love it every time :')

The skull is speaking words from. Alan watts, an amazingly smart person

I love this. It's like two my top favorite things put together.

I shit myself when I heard Watts’ voice, lol. He literally could go on forever talking about the universe and had to be done. He’ll be back though, lol.

this gives me Midnight Gospel vibes

If anyone is wondering, the skull's voice is from philosopher, Alan Watts.

alan watts dreams you're wellcome

I watched this when it came out, I just rewatched it and it blew my mind all over again. Thanks lmao

Knowing this show I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't edited at all and I just forgot that it happened.

Well the ending totally snapped me out of thinking

0:35 This is like those lofi noise that they put for no reason lol

This, I have been waiting for since birth. To the creator of this smush, my deepest appreciation.

This video is the reason why I unintentionally found Alan Watts. And it was one of the great things that happened.

What about that one scene where Jake didn’t want Finn to eat an apple and these two angels were trying to convince him to eat it? That actually scared me when I was little.

R. I. P. Skull (formerly known as Alan Watts)

This is my favorite Video on KZfaq. No one whom I ever showed this appreciates it. Sometimes I feel alone. Sometimes my parents get angry at me because Im watching cartoons at my age. They dont understand. I love you ma

This video got me super into Alan Watts, Just returning to say thank you

As an uncultured individual, can anyone tell me where the end speech comes from?

Holy shit, this was one of the most deep things I have ever heard

Did NOT expect Alan Watts. Love his work.

I'm into Alan Watts now. Thanks friend.

The op didn’t include a link to the audio used so here’s the source in case anybody’s interested: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nM2caaxkpsrRoI0.html

I fucking cheered when I heard Alan Watts lmao

This is truly a work of art. Congratulations on making art. Congratulations on making... A meme. KZfaq preserve my consciousness in many of comments scattered throughout the internet. Please. Thank you.

Beautiful, words of a poet

Philosophy 101 man

I think skull’s message was that accepting that the existence of the bad is what makes the good real, and is what brings the world into greater clarity and ends the a person’s need to blame external forces for their struggles. Just my interpretation.

Whoever did this is amazing.

I feel like this video keeps coming back to me periodically

Finn made me JUMP because i was actually invested in listening to the skull XD

_This explode my mind_

This is literally one of my favorite videos on KZfaq, I wish it was in real episode that would blow my mind

Amazing , my expectations were subverted, and I was better for it. God bless you beautiful human

Wut yall talking about, that skeleton straight blessed us

Boom. Out of nowhere. Alan Watts Why does he keep popping up, everywhere I go. I should take that as a sign

Alan Watts! Was not expecting not but I love it.

Finn had the correct response to an Alan Watts lecture

not as something here on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke - but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. I am not trying to sell you on this idea in the sense of converting you to it, I want you to play with it. I want you to think of its possibilities, I am not trying to prove it. I am just putting it forward as a possibility of life to think about. So then, let’s suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream, and that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time, or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each you would say “Well that was pretty great. But now let’s have a surprise, let’s have a dream which isn’t under control, where something is gonna happen to me that I don’t know what it's gonna be." And you would dig that and would come out of that and you would say “Wow that was a close shave, wasn’t it?”. Then you would get more and more adventurous and you would make further- and further-out gambles what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today. That would be within the infinite multiplicity of choices you would have. Of playing that you weren't God, because the whole nature of the godhead, according to this idea, is to play that he is not. So in this idea then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality, not God in a politically kingly sense, but god in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is. And you are all that, only you are pretending you are not.

0:23 even the skull looked surprised Jake jumped in

This is my favorite part of this episode

In case anyone doesn't know this is the late, great Alan Watts. I would highly recommend listening to his lectures.

Why is my feed getting filled with random clips of shows. And why are they all very good. And why was this so philosophical. And God dang why did Finn have to crush that skull