Picked up your two books on Amazon.. Great stuff!

I did. Thank you.

Well you must truly be a special one indeed, making a video on Beckett BEFORE knowing how to pronounce Godot, instead of AFTER. Leave that to those basic boring channels right? 😃

Very creative well done thank you

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That is pretty damn funny.

8 o'clock, it's written on this piece of paper kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qLKBm7SEzqq2XZ8.html

That bit has an entirely different meaning to me now that I'm older. Magnificent.

Fancy meeting you here, old friend. And loved your recountment of wise men who didn't wait around for Godot but hightailed it for parts unknown! For the record, any time I hear or read of another expressing their belief that life is utterly meaningless always puts me in good cheer.

I would be alone at the Gothenburg City Theater waiting for Waiting for Godot.

I was born in 1985. I hope it was at the same time as when these men took their freedom.

@@joesanpatricio794 Better than 9 months after, right?

Well yeah... they ran with it.

ive heard that desire is the root of suffering. the duality is real.

It can also be the opposite. Imagine never feeling desire.

Indeed😊

if your emotions are attached to desire only then it's a obstacle to happiness Follow disattachement and then desire is one of the most life changing thing

"Desire is the obstacle of happiness" is an amphiboly, which relies on your mindset and perspective of existence.

Beckett is especially bleak to busy body type people who are addicted to copium and denial (in the form of religion, obsession with wealth for examples) of his seminal delivery of this concept.

Most overrated Nobel Prize winner until Obama.

This is a common Yt practice. People who didn't click on the video before maybe get interested on the new title. Or maybe you are having quantum leaps of consciousness. 😅

It's an algorithm trick. Gets you more views

I have noticed this. I assumed it was if the first title was having an unusually low response

@chrisbirch4150 I'm sure it's algorithm related, but the sheer number of times it has happened to me with this one specific channel and the psychological damage it has done as a result has left me to rationalize it as needing a higher purpose XD

AB testing, bro

So is humankind inevitably to turn on itself, maybe it's only the 'script'of incomplete , 'godless', phalice-less' individualism that made these characters look past each other, instead of turning to each other,- what other conversarions, insights or adventures they could have had if only they had seen and focused on each other? I think Eastern philosophy must have it over the remnants(?) of Western: Why even wait?Why not 'be' or 'do'?(If not instead of, at least 'while' waiting? Hmm, maybe I just don't like the inevitability presented: Like Godot's persistent absence is inevitable, why is our apparently universal(?) 'human' denial of this truth, and 'compulsive obsession' to deny it, inevitable? Or do outliers exist but they're only the exception, insufficient to drive collective history to the rational and the 'good'/peaceful?(Guess I'll have to read more!-including, Beckett)

@@KatieB-sx1gw The characters don’t turn on each other, because they have a common goal that cannot be competed for. Beckett wrote this play during the aftermath of World War Two. Waiting for Godot is what peace felt like for millions of people. And it felt good, for a long long while, to those who had lived the Nazi occupation. Like my parents. I’m Belgian. Becket lived the Nazi occupation, in France. Becket wrote the play in French, although he was an Irish Protestant. Its format is that of the circus farce: clowns meeting each other in the imaginary middle of nowhere, improvising away. It’s comedy. French style. You laugh in anticipation, not in response to a punch line. You are having a low level of fun during the show, for no reward, at no cost, and at no-one’s expense. In the first years after the end of the occupation, this was all you wanted to experience.

but if the waiting are not waiting does that mean you have been too late?

Fire

@@KatieB-sx1gwfire

Everything's relative.

Must be a low bar for you

​@helencheung2537 I've watched dozens more since this one and this one definitely hit me different still top 3

I appreciate your opinion. But I don't think it was before its time. I have fair confidence that many have seen existence this way long before this story. Your statement of timelessness, i feel and think, is more accurate. Though I don't consider him a giant. Brilliant yes. Brave yes. But human, just like the rest of us. Don't idealize if you can. His life circumstances led him to be who he was. Just like you or I.

@@josephbelisle5792 you apparently didn’t get what I was saying which is at heart my fault. I compared the work to The Illiad as well as The Wasteland-one ancient, one modern-i meant to state the work is both timeless and ahead of its time for many who watch the play-flawed logic but my own. I didn’t mean to imply that Beckett was a God -his humanity, foibles and all, made him who he was-if I didn’t get that across, again, my bad. I do think he is a giant in the arts just like Townes VanZant, Hank Williams or Basquiat -all very human. These very flawed people were giants to me as artists compared to others-not physically large or otherworldly- though I do think there is an element of divine inspiration to great art-Faulkner spoke of listening to the voices. Keith Richards dreamed the riff to Satisfaction. However, tastes, like opinions are different for everyone. I appreciate the comments but on some things, we can agree to disagree. I suspect we can agree that keeping works like Godot alive and part of the conversation is important. Thanks for the reply. I am headed to play some guitar so if this seems rushed it is. Again, thanks and sorry for lack of clarity-good thing I didn’t make my living as a critic.

@@josephbelisle5792 again, I am not implying you didn’t make good, valid points. The fault is more likely that I didn’t express myself very well. You definitely gave me food for thought. Thanks

@@josephbelisle5792 one last point, I do idealize great artists’ talent. I have no idea what you do but know that I could play guitar for decades working at it for 15 hours a day and I would never be able to play and write like a Duane Allman or a Jimi Hendrix. Allman had been playing slide guitar for less than 10 years when he died but what he did was otherworldly. Look at the songs of a Loretta Lynn, Hank Williams, Dylan, Robert Johnson or Louis Armstrong-I think about them like the first time I actually thought I understood Shakespeare. I realized that the layers of meaning could not be pre planned or thought out-there was an element of divine inspiration. It is a personal opinion for me and nothing I can prove but I have heard great artists talk about those songs that just come to them. I also realize that there are buckets of sweat that produces great art. The truly greats seem obsessed and do it because they couldn’t do anything else. It is the combination of great talent, hard work and focus that seems to be what makes great artists. As one great said, you need to be there when the muse calls

That's quite the interesting list of works

"Living well is the best revenge". Great quote but I do not know who said it first. I agree with your comments & well said. Thanks

I agree generally, but your first two sentences imply hedonism and narcissism as an ethics. We have a politician that has in practice adopted this philosophy and done so much damage. Maybe you mean to cover this by saying "without infringing on others"?

Guilt is both tool and weapon, but only for folks who are animated "conscience-free zones". It is also very powerful. The antidote is thinking for yourself ... but not everyone can do that. (Indoctrination since childhood has a powerful grip, the Pushers know and exploit the fact.)

We HAVE to create our own meaning because without it our lives ARE meaningless.

That's one way to cope with reality.

It’s still meaningless

​@@vivekkaushik9508and that's sad

Sorry, its going to make life less beautiful over time as more and more people give up on life. The West was Christian Majority up until recently, with absurdist/nihilist philosophies taking over the West will fall. If you have children, their lives will be worse off then yours. If your children have children their lives will be worse off then them. Art in the next generation is not ironically bad 3D modelling of a head popping out of a toilet, and rehashing it over and over. Beauty is going down the toilet. I mean, of course; None of this would matter if you do not think anything matters. If nothing matters, then truely nothing matters that includes beauty, your friends, family, people, etc

it's all behavior. The doubt is a collateral effect of the fuck we are. intelligence? pattern recognition? anyway it results in self-consciousness.

What is it you instinctively know to be right, and how does it solve the problem?

And what if your insticts tell you to face the truth and get over it?

​@@helencheung2537 Then that's what you do, of course.

Experience, of course, is the antithesis of learning. It’s simply one person’s reaction to a given set of circumstances. True learning comes from evidential facts. The question then is, ‘so what?’

I'm always amazed that people with clinical depression can be so productive. It makes me wonder.

😢​@@EdDunkle The desperation of a downhill struggle.

I like that he presents each one with equal excitement with no bias or very little criticism

me too. In the mean time I'll amble through the purposeless and try not to take everything so damned seriously.

May i know why you 2 wait for the world to end? Is it because of the wars? 😢

I’m both waiting but not necessarily in a hurry either. All the suffering and horrors is like WTF man. For what? Why?

Yes, poor people have been fear-mongered badly. Sad to see, especially since people "waiting for the world to end" always seem to get manipulated into all kinds of craziness.

I relate to this. I think it's not uncommon, for those of us who were brought up with Cold War nuclear attack drills, and, I expect, everyone since then. And then there's the small (/s) influence of religion...

I let all of that go a long time ago! It was one of the best decisions I've ever made. So much peace comes with it. Just see life as a gift and live a good and happy one. ☺️

yes. it damning

@@ISayNukem But, what, exactly is the "good life" and what is it to be "happy"?

Try Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead". 💪😎✌️ Play or film, take your pick; they're both by Stoppard. 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨

​@@Novastar.SaberCombatgonna check, thanks

True

No. I know there are not any Godots, lol.

Become your own

Gotto, are you out there?

​@@HelloMyNameIsCody No. There are only the sunrise and the Sunset. But you can believe what you want, our mind is creative in creating gods and other Things.

Ethics comes from evolution.

Beautiful theory but put it in practice is the hard job.

Nice of them to let us wander in the garden. And the magazines are pretty good.

@@trinacogitating4532 😂😂😃

there is no death. Obviously because we are the same, eat, drink etc., consciousness that reflects more or less the same reality. Death is the fear imposed by the instinct of survival enforcing territoriality and individual survival, which ironically is false - everyone does die individually, but life keeps existing. Upon shedding individualism what is left is immortality. That is Christianity / Eastern philosophy. Individualism is a characteristic of western philosophy

Speak for yourself!

@@angrypidgeon1714 Wotever. Just don't give up the day job.

No. You cannot simultaneously acknowledge the nothingness and meaninglessness of existence, yet have any actual commitment to any self-created arbitrary meaning. Only someone with cognitive dissonance can square a circle. It is so preposterous to even assume that to be true. Nothing can ever be purposeful or meaningful while acknowledging the purposefulness and meaninglessness of it all. Sartre and Camus only pretended to believe it, their writings are miserable, so were they.

i get what you are saying. but not all see it as a way to create something they want rather once they understand nothingness they'll panic, they will go insane, they doubt themselves and what they been told. it does end good. not all are open minded about it

@@kaleabtam1783 I think we all should take some time from our life to think about these types of question

@@vaxrvaxr Living life with literally no meaning is very hard it creates depression and many things. I am not saying that life is not meaningless it is but that's the beauty of life that you can create something. It's like a empty canvas that you can draw anything with your imagination.

@@saimbhat6243 Exactly. Especially Sartre is so obviously a liar. In Nausea he first reveals that he's a pessimist, even darker than Schopenhauer, more like Mainländer, but then he starts talking BS and it ends with him moving to Paris! To put it short: he didn't have the courage to kill himself, but he also didn't have the courage to be honest, and he couldn't just live on either, despite being economically independent, because he had the need to stay relevant and famous. Mainländer was brave and killed himself. Schopenhauer was honest and said to the whole world that life is meaningless.

"its too late to kill yourself'

Cioran crafted in such a magnificent way Beckett's portait in his last book called "Exercices d'admiration."

Big black cocktail?

That is one perspective, yes.

that makes no sense

Existence here is preparation for the possibility of what lies beyond the veil. But if you're not ready, YOU DO ANOTHER LAP. It's a hard reset, too (memory). I'm not even close to kidding around. Some souls been doin' laps for *far* longer than they comprehend. It's not endless, though. Darkness awaits any who run out of "méâna". 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge, hope's strength resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ --Diamond Dragons (book I)

​@@Novastar.SaberCombat wow, really? Wow.

Life is not meaningless. You are alive. That is the meaning. Do the best you can to enjoy it and to help others enjoy it. Life is its own purpose. How we live it determines how we all live it. In essence be good, kind, generous. If we all are, then everyone stands a chance at a decent life. Be greedy and selfish and not just you will suffer. The latter is the essence of religion.

One of the best comments in these efforts, I believe.

Good stuff. I agree.

That’s one of the cooler takes I’ve ever heard on Waiting for Godot

🤔🤔🤔

Student of philosophy huh.

a number of Beckett's characters are stuck...it's in the hopeful act of breaking free of routine and actively searching where one may find one's godot

Yes it was. loved that show...

I have ben siting here al day wondering who else writes "Their Way" as I do. My writing is very "wanderous", but a joy to do. I'll watch and see why I skipped over Music.

You can then laugh at you at your own absurdities while they constantly present themselves. Enjoy.

He's a hawk!

oh wow

Which is ironic, since your existence is the only thing that you can be 100% certain of in this world.

@@wmpx34 I don’t think we can be 100% certain of anything.

​@@wmpx34 Are you 100% certain of that?

lol

Ur comment is fucking goated. elegant simplicity along with a pun?? have a great day pal :)

Animals harm animals shouldn't we stop that?

Violence is a part of our reality whether we like it or not ....

Please learn to say Godot.

@@andrewbreding593 Humans are unnecessarily cruel to animals. There is a difference

@@JayTX. How can we pray for salvation when we, with our sentience, cannot treat those beneath us with compassion?

I agree. Not the style itself, but in content even more so. Specifically the concept of waiting (for Godot) is to me very similar to Jozef K. Waiting at the gate of Law in his parabel inside the Process.

You should write some more verses to this - it has Potential...

@@mikeoglen6848 Yet Spirit Seeks with Shear Delight To find my Soul deep in the night The Beauty Found will never bend My sorrow dreams begin to end

Mostly the latter.