finding purpose in our insignificant existence

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I keep forgetting that the sun will explode and absorb the earth or whatever. I thought my death was hard to cope with, but what. to do. with that. reality of my species and animal and plant kingdom and planet ending?
I think alien plant life could be alive somewhere now or in some billions of years

Why’s existing so relevant for lol

i dont under stand this
but i do know this
"the gtr can corner so fast each wheel has a special knurling on the rim to stop the tires coming off."

When does the Bible ever say humans are the most important beings? Apologies if you just meant religion in general, but since Christianity's the biggest religion, I wanna clear things up. Colossians 1:16 clearly says all things that exist only exist for Christ our God. A religion that says God created everything for human pleasure makes humans the "gods" - basically, a cult. Philosophy is really cool, and even though I as a Christian disagree with most of these concepts, I'm really looking forward to delving into this. God bless all of you, I hope you find Truth in Christ our savior, our ransom who saved all those who believe on Him❤

15:23 I have never been more greateful than right now to be insignificant and not purposefully cruel

Conclusion might simply be to not overthink it

I think the ultimate meaning of life is to survive. The manner and methods we use to survive will vary, and the development of civilization and society has input these social and systemic rules and systems to make survival more accessible but also now, in the current world. those mechanisms of survival are controlled by powerful groups of people, who exert their power and control over those systems becasue THEY want to survive.

We are conditioned to understand that going to school, learning and absorbing more information and becoming smarter and know more information and understand things, because we have been taught that in order to survive and be socially accepted, we need to have certain things and live a certain quality/standard of life, within the rules and laws we have created to live more "harmoniously" with others. Since money is the dominant form of exchange value, we aspire to acquire more money in order to have those things and quality/standard of life. And then there are rules that demand that we keep up with them in order to KEEP that life. Pay your bills, every month. Instead of struggling to hunt down, trap/kill/gather food, prepare it so that it is safe to eat, and then eat it without fighting with someone else over it, we have systems in place that make food accessible to get (stores - supplies by farms and factories), safe to consume (FDA laws and expiration dates and food nutrition science), and not necessarily a "limited" resource (because harming or killing someone for their food, stealing, is socially barred against by being a criminal behavior that is met with social and survival-affecting consequences -fines, jailtime). We pursue higher education because we are conditioned to believe that higher education, learning, and social development in a structured and safe collegiate environment prepares us for better income opportunities, networking, and therefore more likely able to achieve what we need and want to survive - access to money, resources in order to acquire shelter, food, water, companionship, medical care (barred by insurance and financial costs)

The existential crisis we are facing now is because those routes to survival are being controlled by someone else, and we are also becoming more aware through the connectivity we have with the rest of the world through internet and media that we understand this isn't okay, this isn't fair, and there are people suffering in so many variety and compounding of ways across the globe. It makes us feel even more insignificant. "1st world problems" - "omg, who cares if you lost your job? Children are getting kidnapped by ICE agents right here in your state. People in Somalia are being brutalized, this minority group is suffering from this and that, this minority group is dealing with that, this this this that that that"

We have become nihilistic because we feel powerless and overwhelmed with the expansiveness of the world and the feeling that even we see meaningfulness and significance in others, the entities and regulatiosn that control our lives do not recotnize that except as a means to increase their own significance. We become more and more dependent on them, and les and less able to spend time on ourselves and those close around us.

We don't see the value in exchanging thousands of dollars of debt and labor into schooling when it doesn't further our chances of surivval, but acutally burdens us further. We don't see the significance in pursuing a career if we are considered easily replaceable no matter how hard we work, how much we bend over backwards for acceptance and recognition in the role, whether you are a school custodian or a teacher or a scientist working in big pharma or some corporate office worker in a cubicle, or a mechanic, or a doctor fighting with insurance and pharmaceutical companies and hospital boards of trustees. We don't see any significance in buying food from stores when it might be filled with toxic chemicals and the people who work in the companies that make/prepare/package/deliver/sell the food are treated poorly, or the methods in which meat and produce are acquired are harmful to those beings and the environment and the people who work within and around those farms and companies.

It's all a huge yarn ball that keeps getting bigger and bigger and more tangled up and more difficult to navigate and untangle.

The manner in which we choose to survive is subjective. For some, that is accepting that things cannot be changed and doing your best to make it as pleasant and comfortable as possible. For others, it's taking action to incite change for more than just themselves but for people around them they love or for compassion for those they don't even know.

For me, I take kind of an agnostic perspective to meaning. I don't think we can really know if meaning is "real" or not because it's not something that can be measured or objectively analyzed, it's very subjective. Meaning is an illusion, but the idea that meaning is an illusion is also an illusion-we just don't know. I think the best thing to do is to try to avoid the comfort of certainty "just because I don't know that means everything is fine." Whether you think it's real or not, you're probably going to have to rebuild your system of meaning or alternatively your system of morality that guides your life. So I guess it's good to be open to the mystery. We probably won't ever know the ultimate answer, but at least we have the choice to create our own answers and the ability to change them or even build new ones. As much as it sucks to not know, I do think the freedom of not knowing is a pretty great upside.

I enjoyed watching this as a religious person, because yes my religion “gives me significance” but how do i grow or implement my significance. You write your own story and affect only the people who know of your existence. Views on life and philosophy is very intriguing

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Great watch on my lunch break. Now back to spreadsheets and PowerPoints ✌🏻

You predicated this video with a "whats the point of it all" based assessment position, when in reality its much simpler. Kinetic entropic forces are the reason you exist. simply put you exist to stop the decay of yourself.

Youve asked a question trying to define the canvas, yet you are still looking at the paint that is atop it.

actually there is a concrete reason to why we get sick - it's because viruses and bacteria want to reproduce, and hurting us is just a way for them to do that 1:09

you're pretty.

I haven't come across such a beautiful essay in a long while. Thank you so much for the brilliant work🤗

Why is there an ad for phone cases embedded in this video? And why is this video raising money for Islamic relief? Saudi Arabia and the UAE have more millionaires and more wealth than anywhere else on the planet. Why aren't they helping their own people? All this is just a grift

what this video gave me after the day ive had is this: im gonna be more honest to strangers, even if it might mean im rude. im gonna ask the difficult questions, like a 4 y o would. Now ill try to see to it it is actually still meaningful to me once i wake up tomorrow. May i not flee from a wortwhile existence