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00:02 Stoicism provides a way to remain grounded in the face of modern problems. 02:14 Stoic philosophy teaches to focus on inner growth over external circumstances. 06:29 Interpret and interact with others based on Stoicism 08:35 Be cautious of dwelling on intentions but be prepared for any betrayal 12:56 Hedonism emphasizes pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain 14:56 Epicurus redefined pleasure as tranquility 18:49 Upholding religious beliefs restricts pleasure but provides fulfillment. 20:33 Memories hold a mix of pleasure and pain 24:17 Finding fulfillment in activities and a larger sense of purpose 26:06 Igy and Eky: Different yet influential concepts 29:34 Iigi in Japan focuses on living with purpose and finding joy in small things 31:19 Struggle and Pursuit of Purpose in Life 35:11 Nihilism is the belief in nothingness. 37:01 Different types of nihilism and their interpretations 40:47 Nihilism challenges existing beliefs and institutions. 42:35 Society heading towards moral nihilism 46:20 Human desire for meaning in a meaningless universe 48:15 Nihilism as a necessary step away from religion but not the destination 52:06 Reacting to the Absurd 53:59 Embracing the Absurd empowers us to live passionately 57:52 Anti-natalism philosophy advocates for preventing suffering by not bringing children into existence. 59:34 Anti-natalism argues against human procreation to prevent suffering and harm. 1:03:28 Philosophical implications of hypothetical scenarios. 1:05:16 Exploring the concept of pain and pleasure 1:09:07 Facing unanswerable existential questions and human suffering 1:10:51 Actions in the face of suffering matter more than intellectual beliefs.

14:00 it's an odd circumstance how one's own "9 to 5, save for the rainy day" career choice can be the catalyst pushing the fulcrum toward seeing that there is in fact some wisdom in adopting at least a touch of those hedonistic 'values'. I worked in a two types of medical settings; the Level 1 Trauma (where the ratio of 'unexpected' death was much higher) did not have *anywhere near* of an effect on my own personal life when compared to the time spent working within the Hospice/EoL type of environment did. In many cases, deaths in the Trauma/Emergency Dept. are emotional and lean more toward a 'shock-to-the-system' sort of grief for the kit and kin of those who pass, and the person passing does not often have much time to think of anything beyond the urgent process of their own moment to moment status of survival. In End-of-Life treatment, I saw and interacted with people who already had time to process the fact that they were just marking time and waiting for "the day"; this environment broke me emotionally and set in motion a complete change in my perceptions about the future versus the present. Not one single person that was at death's door ever reflected on their lives and said, "I wish I had worked more hours and saved more money". No, it was an almost universal thought for those residents/patients in that they all wished they had spent more time with their loved ones (for rich or for poor), and/or wished they hadn't been so afraid to do or try new things and just take in as much of the world and it's people that was possible with the time they were here. The regrets always converged upon having wasted too much *time* chasing things that didn't matter as much to happiness as they had always believed. I went back to working in the Trauma 1 setting; I can handle the sudden emergent circumstances and resulting 'aestheto-anatomically displeasing' sights smells and sounds far easier than the daily shouldering of being constantly reminded of unavoidable march of time and entropy. My hat off to my fellow caregivers that are able to manage that "stoicism" as well as you do, and remain able to operate within the various 'End of Life' environments. The constant air of regret and depressive circumstances were too infectious for me to withstand. Thank you all for being who you are

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Thank you for these videos you're making, they have consistent good quality but also entertaining. Have been here since the shower thoughts videos and its really been fulfilling being here man.

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Our whole life is happy /sad. From the very beginning we are happy in our mothers wombs and come out to be made too cry. Sometimes if things are going good for too long I will think to myself🤔….uh oh….🌎☀️💙

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Hi there, firstly I love your shares and insights. Apologies for the ignorance. I think I am from an older school from you and I am falling behind with technology. I have stuff I would love to share but don't know how to verbalise it. I take it we have to record it somehow but how do we share on KZfaq afterwards?

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If I have to show my kids a video when they start confronting real life, it would be this, Thank you!

The best memories are the ones that lead to stories of overcoming. The Hero's Journey.

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*Not existing didn't stop me from being born* ... Not existing didn't stop a life from being imposed. *This is true for all beings - They didn't exist, and that lack of existing didn't do anything to stop a life from being imposed* .. So if you imagine a universe completely devoid of all life but then a single brain comes to exist and starts doing consciousness, then _that_ consciousness is going to be imposed. And your lack of existence couldn't do anything to stop it from being imposed, just as your lack of existing couldn't stop a consciousness (via a brain) from being imposed. In this way, there's no escaping conscious experience.

@ApertutreThinking if you have ever thought of doing a subbed channel in arabic, am certain it would be pretty helpful to those arabic speaking audience that are interested in your content and believe me there are a lots (me being one of them), i also always see these kinds of requests on your comments and i'll be beyond thrilled to be in any assistant in this matter if you are of any interest of course. Amazing video as always, keep up !!!

We all assume things don't have to be this way, we assume utopia is possible. But what if suffering is built into the universe. What if it's something the universe requires? If the Anthropic Principle is right, it's possible that suffering might be a needed aspect of conscious experience.

Hey, great content. Does he use AI voice over ? Or it's his real voice cause thats a very long video

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Yes of course service to others is actually selfish. No one escapes self-centeredness. People that go out of their way to go feed the poor for instance indeed do it because they want to and like it. Even if they feel like it's a pain in the butt yet they still do it, They are doing it because the idea confirms their own idea of how they should be. No matter what you will trace it back to selfishness. However this isn't what it seems. It's okay that that is the case. This puzzle troubled me for some years. The solution is that there are two kinds of selfishness. There is the all-inclusive selfishness as well as the exclusive selfishness. What we want to practice in life is all inclusive selfishness. However the exclusive selfishness is the ugly selfishness.

This is stoism i never asked for this, i clicked caus eof title

real ones know this is a repost but still watched it

40:06 I find nihilism very comforting dwelling on it while you’ve talked about it (normally I go from one belief system do another) Right now i’m researching catholicism and Christianity, but it does seem easier to forget what matters, I only say that because what’s here before you should matter, parents, family, friends, Earth. We all read in at different levels- for someone who reads “too deep” in most areas:/ This one seems to be of validity (but I must add does it not take a man’s state of mind to impose this thought? would that then make the belief just as meaningless? even if it’s truth, truth is something outside that governs the inside… Maybe that’s the truth and why those above are so capable in doing heinous things with no moral checking. We really do have immense power, even if it’s forgotten, theoretically those above know the truth and if it was nihilistic in nature wouldn’t they hide it to abuse it? Giving others a grander thing to live for (like that Japanese way of life, except always being pecked at and dismantled individually🤔.. or is it that i’ve aligned myself in the nihilist eye at the time of corruption, but what’s corruption?- the breaking of a person wants for another’s “needs”, what are needs? power for some. Logically we’ve made the answers and the reasons it’s appearing, I might look more into this, but it just came back to them being able to stoop us down again… I fear most for these people when they hear the true good news but don’t bear it.

Fuck that. Im all about leaving the phone for different things, but the toilet? Ive been reading shower bottles for my entire life, im not giving up my poop-phone time!

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Existence is a temporal illusion because time isn't real, and therefore our existence doesn't have value simply because it is real. When Buddhists say that life is suffering, I interpret that to mean that we struggle to exist, and that the struggle is what gives existence it's meaning and therefore it is the struggle, not the pleasure, that has value. When we think of a meaningful act, we are thinking of all the things we suffered to achieve, not the amount of pleasure it gives us. People love and who are loved by everyone don't value being in love because they don't know what life is like without it. When you dedicate your life to curing a disease it is only satisfying because you are thinking of all the suffering that existed before there was a cure. Most of the beauty in being alive can be found in what we found uncomfortable about being alive and struggled with, and so this illusion is a gift even if it isn't really real at all.

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Great work but if you suffer bad enough you will find pleausure more easily life is unbalanced in terms of pain but our minds is dying of fear and greed causes more suffer than what we find in reality ant my words are null too

Reject the sense of injury... Etc.

I have that despair of loss feel. It is easy to hold stupidtism

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It is really just the base bais of having oeace of minimalistic. Happy, despair. Babys are cute

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when nerds realize "i guess" in title got old and isn't blowing up anymore

Man if only the people at the top could be stoics then they wouldn't have to overcorrect and make things worse for the rest of us.

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Marcus Aurelius wrote about "lunch to work" "croutons" and "waitresses"? He was the emperor not an employee. There were no "croutons" in the ancient Rome. He had no waitresses, but servants and slaves. Please!

Happiness is overrated we must not be happy we must be full of joy not happiness we must look beyond earthly meaningless pleasures and find true fulfillment in something beyond us. When it comes to joy It is about being content with the most insignificant things that at least make you smile. If I had only smiled once in my life I still would have experienced more joy than someone who has never existed. "We are half hearted creatures, fooling about with drink, and sex, and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he does not know what is meant by a vacation by the sea, we are far to easily pleased." -C.S Lewis

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YOYO You Only Young Once. Once you are old like me, you are half dead and you have so many aches and pains, you wish you were dead.

I got I think I got the voluntary discomfort down I be drinking and smoking till I feel like I’m gunna die.

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By the title, I thought this was going to be and exploration of philosophical ideas over the last 2500 years, but instead I am met in the first 10 seconds with some nihilistic existentialism quickly railroaded down stoicism. Very disappointed.

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Work hard, love your family, live life. Thats my philosophy

The fundamental problem I have with stoicism is that a stoic has to make assumptions on what is and isn't in our control. Obviously there are things in life that are not in our control, but ultimately, we have to decide what types of things we do have control over. To me, stoicism is a lazy and fatalist philosophy.

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Ikigai is not possible … Do something you love and starve or make money and loathe what you do … Whoever came up with this was smoking good stuff 🤓

Man's speaks 2 libertarian of prejudice

I love your videos too but it’s the same content in new videos

What is absurd is materialism makes life meaningless... Remove yourself from materialism you will see the meaning of life.

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What's with the "I guess"? In your titles?

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The presentation was overly simplified, to the extent of being counterintuitive. It was the least Stoic rendition I have ever encountered. Why was it so diluted and watered down?

00:20:16 “…because in the end, living a life that's not real is pointless and meaningless…” If it’s pointless and meaningless, then it’s not the end, because our current human experience is, in truth, _not_ the real life after all. Side note, I totally believe that Ikigai is a great blueprint for life if you haven’t yet created your own. As you talked about Ikigai, I thought of my grandpa-he turns 105 years old this year. He taught me the secret to a long life when I was only a child and through the years I believe what he told me more and more. He sai-ohhhh a cat! Save the cat! It’s probably gonna die because of hoomanz anyway. ᘇᘏᗢ Anywhootz… *at the end of the day, whether you believe something to be true, or not true, you are correct.*