Everybody "worships" - David Foster Wallace

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Michael Wesch

Күн бұрын

From "This is Water" by David Foster Wallace

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@sloaiza81 Жыл бұрын

Best short Ive seen!!! So relevante to todays world. Thank You for uploading this gem. You are doing god's work.

@blueandgreenslacks 16 күн бұрын

Because god ain’t real so he don’t work.😂

@bryanriggs9639 10 ай бұрын

God, I wish DFW hadn't committed suicide. I would have loved to see his takes on society today.

@scottv8124 9 ай бұрын

It's exactly as he predicted. Mass addiction to screens

@diecarly 9 ай бұрын

He would’ve killed himself harder after seeing what today is. Are you kidding? 😂

@WhiteRussianDolls 8 ай бұрын

If you read his books his takes are already there.

@MichaelWaisJr 2 ай бұрын

He’d say “This is some f**ked up s**t that we’re all in right here.”

@MichaelWaisJr 2 ай бұрын

@@diecarlyAfter seeing how crazy today is he would’ve killed himself successfully FIVE times- many of them as a zombie and a ghost- because he hated it so much.

@johnt5897 20 күн бұрын

Very true. If you don’t worship some type of higher power, you will worship something from this physical world.

@user-xu6bv7yh2j 15 күн бұрын

Aliens are both

@user-ts6uk1cu9m 7 ай бұрын

Everybody worships david foster wallace.

@MichaelWaisJr 2 ай бұрын

I worship Richard Simmons! He makes me feel so happy and giddy.

@DannyD-lr5yg 9 ай бұрын

….not me thinking you meant that everybody _worships David Foster Wallace_ (on account of your lack of punctuation in the caption) 😂😭

@zane4748 Ай бұрын

Amen✝️

@dd7aa 10 ай бұрын

I consider myself an atheist, well ag atheist anyway. I've never heard someone say anything like that before. Damn.

@gabrielalfaia8154 10 ай бұрын

Foster Wallace was a genius and he was spot on. I've seen many atheist miss his point because "it's not the same thing." They say that while wasting their whole money in whatever they obssessed with. It's really funny how we claim to be rational beings while being completly blind to our own irracionalities.

@dd7aa 10 ай бұрын

@@gabrielalfaia8154 yeah, reminded me of the "whats water" quot lol I watched a few of his videos since lol

@sloaiza81 5 ай бұрын

This is what the modern western atheist doesn't understand. And wow, it's professor Wesh. K-state baby! Wish I would have known of you before I graduated. You are doing gods work. If I'm ever in Manhattan again I would love to meet you.

@Saboteur4 Ай бұрын

What don't we understand?

@zane4748 Ай бұрын

✝️✝️✝️

@ericalmilloh1653 15 күн бұрын

I read the title and thought it meant "everybody worships David Foster Wallace"

@GaiatheSage 10 ай бұрын

I absolutely HATE shorts but I HAD to click and like this. as an previously agnostic existential philosopher of over two decades and now a new believer dwf was right, his full speech emanates the spirit of divine mercy and the teachings "a course in miracles" is trying to convey. it's beautiful worshipping but being neither atheist nor theist nor deist but neither and all.

@zane4748 Ай бұрын

Jesus Is Lord✝️

@chriswilloughby48 Ай бұрын

what about the other spirits, they just made up. better to believe in an invisible jewish ghost

@ethanbox2010 Ай бұрын

Theists really can't comprehend living a free life not being weighed down ny guilt or obligations being put on them by a figment of their imagination. It's just beyond them.

@to2burger Ай бұрын

What is the full speech?

@ignitableword8322 29 күн бұрын

search “THIS IS WATER” 😊

@lucascampbell3335 9 ай бұрын

what DFW speech is this from?

@mwesch 9 ай бұрын

This is Water

@gavinyoung-philosophy 28 күн бұрын

Atheism doesn’t deny worship of things though, it just denies specifically worshipping a god, so of course you can be an atheist 🧐Seems that DFW is assuming atheists deny their need for other things to depend on and is thereby undercutting itself, but it is not.

@zane4748 Ай бұрын

Jesus Saves✝️

@Misserbi 9 ай бұрын

I tend to think DFW is a Tibetan Buddhist follower. He always mentions spiritual materialism. It is amazing to learn something about a faith then to fall back on science. It just further backs up reason and motivation. Sometimes that is the thing that never makes sense? Why do false leaders try to lead?

@charleskeen9845 8 ай бұрын

In his essays he mentions numerous times that he attends a Christian church.

@user-xu6bv7yh2j 15 күн бұрын

Is quantum physics considered a higher power?

@zane4748 Ай бұрын

Jesus Is King✝️

@peterg418 Ай бұрын

I wonder why he would think everyone worships something. And I suspect being a theist means something more than, say, overcommitting to bodybuilding aesthetics.

@ashtheviking5007 7 ай бұрын

To be fair to atheists, we don't neccessarily deny the potential existance of god, we simply dismiss your assertion that you know anything about god and that we should worship him too. We aren't buying the bullshit. DFW might have been making a point, I just question it's necessity. I don't worship anything let alone a god. I don't even think people who believe in god, necessarily worship god. If they did the world would be a different place. Do we value things, sure. I think he is assuming to much. Bold claim.🤷

@Shotzeethegamer Ай бұрын

Sorry, it's Jesus Christ.

@PkTwothousand Ай бұрын

God is cope

@MichaelWaisJr 2 ай бұрын

I worship James Dean. I like to pretend he was my illegitimate father sometimes too!

@MichaelWaisJr 2 ай бұрын

I worship Grandpa Smurf! That dude is LIT!!

@spotthedogg Жыл бұрын

Start with a misrepresentation of atheism, atheism isn’t a belief system nor is it a worshipful idea 🤷🏻‍♂️

@mwesch Жыл бұрын

This isn't about atheism. He is using that as a rhetorical device. He just wants us to see that we all place some things higher on our hierarchy of values than other things and if we place money or beauty at the top of our hierarchy, we are in trouble. He himself was an atheist and here he is just noting that maybe there is some value in religion even if he himself struggles to believe. This is originally from a graduation speech he gave at Kenyon College in which he assumed that his audience was mostly atheist and he wanted to open their minds to help them understand religious people, and see value in their perspectives. I am also an atheist and I understand the frustration of being constantly misunderstood and incorrectly defined in relation to other religions when atheism isn't really a religion at all.

@sloaiza81 Жыл бұрын

Thats exactly what he said. Atheism isnt a belief system because it's the absence of a belief system. The point we all have belief systems and things we worship. Boy did you swing and miss.

@spotthedogg Жыл бұрын

@@sloaiza81 I suppose that’s true, I worship your mom

@slicknick7121 Жыл бұрын

@@mwesch This clip is completely taken out of context. If you’ve listened to it, he’s not saying there’s value in religion. This aspect of his speech is merely to reinforce how strongly people value things such as beauty ie to the same degree as someone who worships god. He’s in fact saying the opposite; that we shouldn’t be so devoted to something and maintain a bit of perspective. DFW would never make a point about the value of religion.

@mwesch Жыл бұрын

I don't disagree with you however he is making the case that we should cultivate empathy, awareness, compassion, and something beyond our self, which is a core goal of all religions.

@bigidot6973 Жыл бұрын

Made 0 sense

@sloaiza81 Жыл бұрын

Wait till you get older. You'll get it.

@edwardsinger7644 Жыл бұрын

@@sloaiza81 its OK he doesn't know what he worships yet

@dd7aa 10 ай бұрын

@@edwardsinger7644thats the thing though most people think because they don't get down on their knees or actively go to a place of worship that they in turn dont worship anything. As the man said we do, its just not obvious to most.

@MichaelWaisJr 2 ай бұрын

Listen to it on the slowest speed. Might help. Or it might just make the video sound hilarious and goofy.

@MichaelWaisJr 2 ай бұрын

@@edwardsinger7644But of course, he worships Optimus Prime! Who wouldn’t??