I hugely appreciate the kind words Benous! In moments of doubt it's comments like these that keep the engine ticking over so thanks a million for the support

@@TheLivingPhilosophy Maybe the bigger engine is ticking but too silent to communicate? at the moment it calls itself the million-year moment yet Time is not of interest? as it self mademoiselle not of Man creating time himself out of context meaning any natural selection has fucked up and something is responsible for the Mistakes Man should not be responsible for. not Logical but we have no other choice but to think at the very long shot in our time. we observe and are poisonous at any chance it gets to develop Controlling our lives as if we are not responsible for any reason could mean something greater than us and is out and about... I can't buy we are just here by natural cause of selective growth mutation or whatever bounces around like a mental mobile object standing still at 24,000 miles per hour.

Excellent take on N's words....agree w/ you on modern "so-called" reality, cheers brother.

Thanks Eternalised much appreciated!

De adventure of life is to learn what I find interesting and remember what matters to me. To me Fighting means conquering my self because I am my greatest enemy.

Neitcheze is DEAD. Jesus is ALIVE. Repent and believe in Him or you will go to Hell for your sins.

​@@56pjr Are you sure about it? how did you come to this conclusion?

Thanks jobbimaster I recognise your name from the early vids glad to see the interwebs have brough you back this way! Thanks for the support hopefully things only improve from here!

"A deluded mind can relate to true concepts in a false way. But the purity of observation stands beyond the fallacies of knowledge." This is absolutely genius, man. Thanks for sharing.

Just as much absolute truth as there isn't.

He was a sophist Ie, a satanist

​@@pinecone9045 2+2 is 4 yet still

@@aqilshamil9633 How do you know, flesh automaton? How can you justify trusting the neurons that fire in your brain to provide you the correct information?

What did science want to refute? Religion ! . Science and religion are two complementary things, not competing It's like saying a lab wants to refute a court And it is not possible for a religion to kill God and prove that He does not exist. Science's mission is to discover and study the physical and biological laws that run this universe. He cannot comprehend who created these laws The player cannot by studying the rules of the game discover the programmer who programmed this game

Haha that's ace thanks for watching and delighted to hear you got so much out of it! That's made my day

Thanks a million Patrick hope you enjoy the journey down the rabbit hole!

Ah thank you so much Felicia that's a joy to hear!

Haha thanks so much Tani! I really appreciate the kind words and happy to hear you feel enriched by it! It's a funny thing when you think about it a German philosopher being talked about by an Irish guy being watched in Germany. A weird and wonderful world we live in eh!

Thanks a million David I'm humbled!

That's so nice to hear thank you for that

Haha awesome! Hopefully it was a helpful insight rather than a summons to nihilism!

Ah thanks Emmanuel! Always good to hear!

Wonderful the hear Patrick I'm glad it sparked something for you!

Haha well we're all learning Mat and god knows that Nietzsche has as many readings sometimes as his books have aphorisms so I think you'll be forgiven that! I have even seen some push back with this video that has made me doubt myself again so I guess it's never ending learning from the good Friedrich. Thanks for watching I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Neitcheze is DEAD. Jesus is ALIVE. Repent and believe in Him or you will go to Hell for your sins.

Cool glad you enjoyed it J.H. thanks for watching!

Awesome Matthew glad to hear you enjoyed it so much and thanks for the sharesies!

Haha thank so much that's always good to hear!

Thanks Askeladd! I've never heard of this society of the spectacle but I shall be checking it out right now thanks for the recommendation let's see what it stirs in me!

Sounds good! I made a video on existentialism vs absurdism vs nihilism but have been meaning to circle back to camus and do a deeper dive so I'll happily add it to the list!

Haha glad to hear it Donald!

What a beautiful compliment thank you very much! I'm delighted to hear my work could have such an effect!

Thanks for sharing that Yusuf it always means a lot to me to hear that the videos as a collective are meaningful

Thanks vak!!

Ah now that's a hot take from Heidegger I love it! Don't think I agree but I love the novelty of it

Oh yeah that would be an awesome one to explore. I just need the right angle to come at it from but I could see the Nietzschean through-line there

When you quote Genealogy 3.24, as another point, why not then make clear what Nietzsche's religious, political, social... objections are to viewing life as such-and-such a person? I feel Nietzsche is saying (from what the video gave me) that its objectionable how a large entity would run, insofar as it values truth as a way of "being-in-identity-with/as" the world. In other words, when we choose to value "science", "governors", "politics" as governing entity's, we are regarding them truthfully; it would make our lives not more directly related to our health.

Thanks Roman that's always a great think to hear I appreciate the compliment!

Haha Limerick

@@TheLivingPhilosophy haven't visited in a long time. My ear is gone.

Thanks a million! Delighted to hear it!

Haha delighted it helped Victor thank you!

Thanks Bill!

Fascinating suggestion Tiago I didn't realise Lichtenberg was so infliential

I live for god- God is in us- The author of our dream. Who is the interbeing that creates the wonder of dream When I am sleeping like a dead man ?

LOL but he be dead no?

Yeah and Allah approves.

Glad you enjoyed it Savannah!

Absolutely beautiful comment William thanks for that

@@TheLivingPhilosophy You are welcome, and thank you for your kind reply and for paying attention and responding to people's posts. You do a fantastic job with this channel (I just discovered it like a week ago and it's the best philosophy channel I've ever come across!). Keep up the great work!

@@williamkoscielniak7871 Ah wow it always blows my mind to hear people compliment the channel so highly William so thank you and also thank you for the kind words about the replying. I used to be much more proactive and engaged about it but the last couple of months have been so full on with it that I've noticed myself stepping back from it a little which is a shame but it's alwasy something that I want to be part of the channel - the sense that we are peers learning together and that we're all sitting eating popcorn talking about the topic being studied rather than it being me on a soapbox. I guess that's a very difficult idea to scale but it's a guiding ideal at least

Delighted you found the channel Pavl! And amazed that I'm gaining some traction on 4chan!

Thanks Ariel!

Just saw that you were in your 'About' section. Good man

Haha I am indeed I'm a Limerick man and with a name like Oisín you must be yourself

@@TheLivingPhilosophy aha, I just showed your videos to a mate whose just discovered the late alan watts and we were guessing your accent! He voted midlands, I voted not dublin. And I am indeed! You have some great videos man, really enjoying your work.

@@PageIsYourGod Haha well of the two vague answer I guess not Dublin wins XD I think my accent got dulled when I was living in Scotland and people kept asking what 100 divided by 3 was. That and then being in Australia it ended up giving me the weird mixed up accent I have now

@@TheLivingPhilosophy , I joined a group of Ireland. I love the Irish people and culture, though I am not Irish. I've heard a lot about the palce Limerick. Anyway, I just want to say I am more than impressed f your brilliant interpretation.

I have not but I shall check it out

it's very strange and experimental but very good! Frank Zappa was an absolute genius and had some very interesting thoughts on the dangers of religion

You're very welcome Evee thanks for watching and thanks for the support!

Does this mean you are a postmodernist?

@@TheLincolnrailsplitt Hm, could be, I'd have look at it more closely but from the broad introductions/short descriptions of it that I've read, I'd have to agree with that sentiment. My favorite philosopher is albert camus. I think, he can be labeled as postmodern?

Is there much about his childhood?

Thanks Janey!

So the answer to question 1 is that asceticism is the holding the universal valuations as the highest ideal so God fits this mould but so too does the modernist's "objective" world, the transcendant world in which truth happens. And as you point out in 2. it's not a scepticism about the existence of truth but about the value of truth. There are untruths that have been as important if not more important than truth in keeping life going so why value truth so highly? So I guess to answer the question asceticism isn't science's ideal but science is a manifestation of the "Ascetic Ideal" which is the love of universal transcedants. And as for your last point I think you might be on to something. Even then we might end up in the same trap because once you isolate out the objective from the subjective aspects of truth the danger is that this objective truth will again be enshrined on the pedestal. Maybe not but that would be my concern

Because every interbeing needs a hero

@@satnamo Nietzsche's superman might not be what you think it is. He/she is not a hero, but man (as in mankind) realizing himself, saying goodbye to herd mentality, setting his own goals, recognizing who he really is, as a part of nature, as opposed to meekly following contrived falsehoods about mankind, and the Christian submissive, worshipping herd/slave mentality, which is what Nietzsche deeply, deeply despised.

It doesn't surprise me Hammad. Myself and Peterson read Nietzsche in quite a similar way so it sounds about right

Hahaha indeed Mark! You bring up a very good point about the language Nietzsche uses and I wish I had dwelled on that more before making the video. It's such powerful biological language as you say. It's not something thin and inchoate that's been killed but you really get the sense of the thick blood on our hands

Thanks a million glad you enjoyed it!

The Shakespeare of philosophy. This is one of the greatest descriptions of Nietzche I have ever heard and I will be using this in future!

No Ashtyn I mean you could read it that way but Nietzsche didn't phrase scientism as a god. And also he saw it as being the end point of the Ascetic Ideal that birthed Christianity rather than being a separate counter-ideal. He wrote that "where it is not the latest expression of the ascetic ideal-and the exceptions are too rare, noble, and atypical to refute the general proposition-science today is a hiding place for every kind of discontent, disbelief, gnawing worm, despectio sui, bad conscience-it is the unrest of the lack of ideals, the suffering from the lack of any great love, the discontent in the face of involuntary contentment" You could maybe frame it (and it has been done in the culture) as science being the new god but Nietzsche never talked that way

Or as I hypothesise the absence of gods breeds new gods which the people might not even be aware that they are honouring. Neil Gaiman's American Gods is a fantastic playing around with this idea

​@@TheLivingPhilosophy Also, Neil Gaiman's The Sandman seems related to these concepts... I never read the comics but saw the series and feel like we are turning to Gods (you can say truth, justice, etc...) because we need stability and order after postmodernist era. But, of course your hypothesis seems more contemporary according to Neil Gaiman's works... (I also agree) The universe is something comprise of demolition and rebuilding. P.S.: Sorry for my usage of English, I am not a native and my vocabulary knowledge is limited for this kind of deep conversations :D

@@shilmistatheforest7574 I love the Sandman! I watched it through last week and it really made me want to go back and read American Gods again. I love what Gaiman does with the gods he very much brings them to life I think in American Gods he does it in an even more provocative and interesting way by making new concepts into gods like Mr Road Mr Town or Media. I do think that there is a reorientation going on with respect to the gods and to my mind the last time this happened was Ancient Rome so it's not unprecedented but it is an extremely rare thing and it'll be challenging to find a new standard of values

Grazie Umberto!

Thanks Daniel

@@TheLivingPhilosophy You're welcome. A good extension to this is in Evola's _Ride the Tiger,_ specifically Chapter 20: Covering up Nature Phenomenology. Check it out if you haven't already.

Great comment Mo there's so so much bubbling up in me in response to it. I've thought about this a lot and that difference is really important. The existential vacuum seems to always be there if you decide to turn and face it. But with the meaning inherent in everyday life and the meaning systems (like religions but also nationalism and politics) that act as a safe container which give meaning outside of the personal sphere, with all this the void is never really faced. It's only when all this fails that we are faced with the void. I don't just think it's to do with thinking about thoughts. With the likes of Camus and Sartre I don't see their crisis of the absurd or of nausea as being about overthinking but of living in a world where everything has fallen apart. Religion was crumbling, politics was in total chaos (Nausea was written a year before WW2 and Myth of Sisyphus in the middle of it). There was no container to catch them and personal life was in such disarray and that's when they were slapped with the void. Another time when these crises are common is in the liminal spaces of life: adolescence and the midlife transition. These are times when our psychology undergoes a transformation. Our identity has to reshape itself. What formerly gave us meaning has lost its tang and so we have to enter into a new phase of life. And without the support of the previous meaning system and without a society that has initiatory processes to midwife us through these times we are in danger of staring into that void. So I don't think it's a case of one group being wiser than the other but of circumstances (both internal and external) leading to this encounter with the horror of meaninglessness. I think out of that there can be something productive and beautiful. My favourite art and philosophy comes out of this encounter maybe because I've fallen into those holes a couple of times in my life and having someone else out there to navigate it and make sense of it gave me some kind of map and meaning to get through that space. Thus ends my overlong reply. It was really good for me to write this to tease apart my thoughts and hopefully you'll enjoy it as well!

@@TheLivingPhilosophy Very much enjoy reading your lengthy response! Very insightful. I should probably read those books you mention. Got a lot to learn. I think it's interesting your favorite art stems from dealing with the void. I tend to gravitate toward art and philosophy that appear genuine to me. Your KZfaq videos definitely fall in that category! Probably pretty overlapping with your taste, because meaning systems often seem to be illusions held by (groups of) people created by constantly lying to themselves, or, in politics, focussing on conveniently incomplete information and jumping to conclusions. I'm not sure if lying is the right word, because I feel like the existence of anything beyond our reality can neither be proven nor disproven. So to what extent is hoping and believing in a heaven and a creator really self-deceptive? The desire for it can be very genuine and I feel that a lot in religious artforms such as Muslim prayer chants and Gospel music. The deception only occurs when one claims to know for sure what everything is all about. Anyways, thanks for the reply. Looking forward to seeing more of your stuff! :)

@@motownmoneygang Thanks a million Mo! Definitely have a shared sense of questions and curiosity around this question of authenticity and what is actually genuine

Thanks for the support Rin!

Fascinating analysis Austin! I'm actually doing a lot of digging into postmodernism now to gain a personal acquaintence with this philosophical wonderworld! Very curious to see what emerges from it and excited to digest the worldview and see for myself where the value in it lies