Comments by "Aaron Okeanos" (@AaronOkeanos) on "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell" channel.

  1. Reading through the comments today and yesterday for hours. They come in faster than I could read and it's intresting how different and wide-spread the comments go. And again "Kurzgesagt" managed it that the extremes are both against this video. Extremly religious people without open mindedness completly reject it and want it turned down and the extreme scientist don't want to see this as it can't be proven or can't make anything out of it or even found it dangerous. In the middle there is just everything to find from very low level comments to enlightenment. The comment section on this one is really intresting on it's own.
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  2. Feels wrong to advertise so directly with the reputation of Kurzgesagt.
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  3. @duh Even Einstein had metaphysic moments. And who knows, maybe something beyond String Theory can actually prove or disprove something in that direction or maybe the telescopes we have available in the next decades show something we didn't expect. You know the drill: Any theory and idea can stay until proven wrong.
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  4. Actually it's a step up. Every nation in the EU had and still have it's own system of "states" and the "state" we call it Federalism similar to that of the U.S. with differences here and there. What the EU is experimenting on now for 70 years is how to upgrade this in combining multiple systems to an even larger system. And our history between us and the different languages and culture makes this not an easy thing. Especially since we also had the iron curtain for 40 years which not only devided a large city (Berlin) a hole country of people who used to live together and were practically the same culture and origin sometimes even family (Germany) it also divided east and west, different economic systems and different political systems and ideologies. In that view the EU is a remarkable success and a much larger achievement considering the difficulties. Today you drive along the "Autobahn" :) and barely notice you just changed a border (and the most heavily fortified border along the iron curtain within germany is not noticeable at all). You suddenly notice that the traffic signs might have a slightly different color scheme or the language changed but noone wants your passport noone want's you to pay customs you can often pay with the same money you can even decide to live in one land and work in another can freely travel, establish businesses, trade, transport stuff freely it feels like one more and more with every year. That does not mean it's complete or perfect there are still a lot of issues to continue this and the political structure might need an update after so many years since the realities of life within in the EU have far more progressed since it's beginnings. Kurzgesagt* Can you imagine to form a single country between the U.S., Russia and China? Because in a way that's what the EU is trying to do between it's members. *This is BTW the application of this channels name in the german language ... when you realize you wrote too much for anyone to read and try to reformulate an essay ... into a single sentence.
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  5. Now that you mention it yes. However my first thought was Jean-Luc Picard talking to Q after he presumably died. You know: "You running the after-life?! The universe can't be that badly designed." And in another episode Q was going to hint something about what comes "next" but decided against it and only said "You'll find out".
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  6. Come on. It was just one international know example for an empire which clearly self-destructed instead of being actively conquered.
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  7. We have no real borders between us anymore, we share money, we share economy, we share culture, we travel freely between us, more and more families are from multiple EU members ... why not let us protect from one force. In practise we do that already to a degree. Maybe we can further reduce the cost or use the current budget to make them more effective.
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  8. Not it's just history.
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  9. And even there empires ended at some point. The Roman Empire was just one well known example for the western world (this video is after all in English). This video is not evaluating or comparing civilizations here the point is ... they ended but humanity survived.
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  10. Not every video you disagree with is automatically propaganda or part of conspiracy. However you upvoting your own comment it telling.
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  11. They said up to 200h. It's just not the animation, they try to be very thorough with research and sources for their videos so it takes awhile. And they tend to make more science but this is Philosophy. Once is a while they do something else. This one is edgy because it almost makes religion and science go mad at them, but Philosophy is like that, it's the connection between both. It's just neither side wants to have anything to do with the other because they can't prove and/or can't belief in each other.
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  12. The author of this story is Andy Weir. All others took the story from him. And Kurzgesagt has permission.
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  13. No you are not alone, have probably 10.000 of the current 80.000 read. Can't catch up though. ... Happy reading.
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  14. For example?
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  15. Please grow up ...
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  16.  @DJPonko  The fact that you need to upvote yourself and actually answered to me on this are saying otherwise.
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  17. You know the drill: Can stay as an idea or even a theory until proven wrong. In the meanwhile it might improve our existance and dealings with each other a little bit and some more respect for life in general.
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  18. I think you need to make a video about anger. We need to talk about it more because it has some special properties people should be aware of like problems controlling a justified amount and transferability.
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  19. Why not. The Greeks were an important ancestor of western society. And had the first people thinking about the world without the presence of god (philosophy) and they thought about logic and basic science thanks for that BTW or the middle age would probably never ended into the renaissance.
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  20. Watch the other video "Optimistic Nihilism" I bet you will like it.
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  21. Some additional questions to this, maybe this video could be upgraded to version 2. - Wasn't there some recent breakthrough on that this year (2019) which changed the equation somewhat? - If it works, is water consumed fully or only the Deuterium in seawater? Maybe filtered out? Is the fuel (water) lost or only the Deuterium in it? - Could fusion reactors later also be used for waste disposal especially for radioactive waste from nuclear reactors and hazzardous chemical waste? If yes having at least one could offset the costs and good for the environment world-wide. - As I understand it suns are able to create every kind of matter from the created Helium-atoms by combining them to larger atoms when the Sun "dies". Would it be possible with Fusion reactors to do this as well maybe in a later version? Or is this a sun-/supernova-only feature?
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  22. This is only because we allow it be like that.
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  23. Watch "The Egg" and the philosophical videos of Kurzgesagt e.g. Optimistic Nihilism. In a way you do ... or it doesn't matter depends on how you choose to see it.
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  24. He probably heared that after this he will be living every life he destroyed or influenced in a bad way. If this not justice I don't know what else could be more appropriate.
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  25. Apparently you are new here. I suggest you watch the Video Library.
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  26. Yes it will be. But rejoice, I catched it before it drowned.
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  27. For?
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  28. I would use the term "metaphysical". "religion" has too much bad stuff attached to it, maybe "philosophical" as well to make it a little more neutral.
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  29. And do you know what this Channel is one of two the other being the German one. And that the studio making these artpieces sits in Germany I think not far from Munich if I remember correctly?
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  30. That's M.A.D.
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  31. This video is talking about interconnection not about centralization.
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  32. You believe in what you want to believe in. And I believe in what I want to believe in ... even if I choose to believe in nothing. Let's leave it at that and stop trying to push your belief on others.
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  33. Or they already short-selled on the end ... to be rich and wealthy after nothing is left * doh *
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  34. "Shall We Play a Game?" from the movie wargames (1983) comes to mind.
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  35. Close-minded Religion on one side and close-minded scientists on the other.
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  36. Evolution is never over. However humans are completly new strain and experiment and it remains to be seen if it survives or not. Evolution doesn't care, the Earth doesn't care and the Universe doesn't care. We have it in our own hands to decide if want to surive by cooperation or bomb each other into oblivion.
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  37. I actually started to use the private browsing mode on occassions so the plattform has to start from scratch or to avoid my profile getting tainted with stuff I just needed for one occasion because the algorithm is not giving me peace and quite when looking for something different.
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  38. Apparently not boring enough if you still watch and still comment.
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  39. I have read through probably 10k comments over the last 2 days. Normally I ignore comments completly but I made an exception here because I wanted to read about peoples reactions and where we stand in the overall progress. The majority seems to not see something between science and religion or want to make this a religion or think this is about the afterlife or deny it because it has no bases in fact and can't be proven. Schools should really add more Philosophy into the curriculum alongside the other subjects, unfortunatly it does not gain or lead to money or success or fame and it does not help with "surviving" in the modern time so normally it is just skipped and granted it can be boring :) but there is something to it and humanity is dealing with those issues since they have become conscious. People should just take it as another perspective on things and go on maybe they can make something of it now or later in their life or recognize something of it somewhere else just having heard about it is good enough.
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  40. You are not alive next year? Kurzgesagt has reset the year-counting of humanity according to what some scientists suggested away from the religious approach regarding christianity to the building of the first larger building in middle-asia which happens to be 10000 before christ or in other words 12020 years ago. A new year 0 for the history of humanity. The fact that the 4 last digits are the same as the christian calender helps a lot to simplify this without complex recalculation. There is a video about that in the library.
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  41.  @Mognatti  Either you don't know you already live in 12020 or you don't know why or you actually really not live next year in that case I'm sorry for you.
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  42. Well we give our knowledge and experience further by talking, painting, writing, teaching, making music, youtube video and so on. Others can incorporate what they learned or what ideas they had and seen in their life (History!) and do the same, improve on that or use this knowledge to avoid repeating past mistakes or improve things. So there is a possibility of giving information further and in the last 100 years we increased the speed a lot. Question now is: Can we avoid killing us in the process of learning (nuclear wars, climate change, etc) and can we avoid that we loose too much of the knowledge the past has left us so far e.g. by burning books or changing history or prevent others from learning by blocking the internet, by too much lying, forgetting or not leave information behind for the future.
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  43. Not really. But according to this philosophy everytime you use it you denigrate yourself. You use it to someone you were before or you will still become later. Greetings from a future you.
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  44. The video has a part which indicates something in this direction: "Time is a concept in your universe ... things are different where I come from". And because this "between-lives" happens outside the "egg" aka "universe" it might very well be the same "entity". Besides you wouldn't remember anything after this. It doesn't matter really anyway if or what happens "in between" lives this is not really the point of the video it goes much much deeper.
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  45. You don't throw away the hole package because of one bad egg :) Sorry for the pun. I found it actually quite good and very well made. Philosophy and Metaphysics have the same right to have a video as Astrophysics and let's say Quantum Mechanics. Who knows maybe in the end they are connected somehow and your goal is to find the connection. I wouldn't be surprised if our consciousness is somewhere involved in this but let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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  46. Internet says around 110 billion humans lived so far but thats very hard to say exactly. And since you don't remember anything from past or future lives nor is there a counter showing you a progress bar you might very well just concentrate on your current one.
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  47. Thank you for this and making this way of viewing things aware to me. Up until now there were only fragments aware to me disconnected and unordered more a "gut-feeling" from experiences and knowledge collected in my life. It helps me to reshuffle some thoughts and ideas I have about "living" (aka "existing") I collected so far. Feels a little bit like finding a puzzle-piece which connects two other pieces and I have no idea what the picture is gonna be or how large the puzzle really is.
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  48. The difference is: Kurzgesagt is voluntarily admitting it and more importantly explain why. My worry are the ones who do lie to us and not telling us.
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  49. Werd erwachsen ...
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  50. Not only love, more general the "Golden Rule": "Treat others as you would like others to treat you" Contained in almost every religion on this planet, in cultures and philosophies.
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  51. I think this is one of the problems that we have conflicting agendas here. Again money and greed is conflicting to what is good for humans/society.
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  52. No not immediatly. But if there is the slightest belief this may be true, and it may really be true we just can't prove it, it might lead some to change their disposition against other life. Maybe someone decide not to hurt someone or even worse, just in case it is true or help someone in need instead of ignoring him/her this would all be an improvement to before. And more is always possible. That fact that you outright recognized the Golden Rule in there is already a step up. Not everyone in the comments see's that or know's what it is or often just heared the well known sentence for that. But just sticking to the story "he/she/it is another me ... maybe I should treat him/her/it with a little more respect" would already encourage them to apply the Golden Rule without them knowing about it. And it goes from there because the Golden Rule is just the beginning. This story is really only a Nutshell (pun intendend) for a much more complex thing. Accessible, easy to understand and entertaining. If you read papers and books on the concepts you would probably just bore everyone they would never want to see this. With this story ... there is a start.
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  53. Solution: Find a shortcut through the Universe. Or well ... Faster Than Light Travel. I'm sure a Type 2 or 3 civilization will need it anyway.
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  54. Maybe former you's to show you how not to be and design society in a way to never repeat this again.
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  55. They really can't. It would make both extremes on this topic go berserk. It's already at the limit when you read through the comments any more is rather risky.
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  56. At least treat them better and with more respect. No bullying, no violence and no killing. More is possible of course e.g. helping, friendship, loving, and so on but even a small step further would be an improvement and make living/existence for you and others better. EDIT: I would even place "no lying" somewhere in that list because it causes more and more problems because media and technology makes it more and more easier to lie and manipulate.
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  57. Get rid of Putin and end the invasion ... then we can talk.
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  58.  @npc-op1wx  I said "end it" not "finish it".
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  59. You don't need a god for that and it may even be better not rely on one because things turn strange when bad things happening to you. It also makes you more receptive to manipulation by people pretending to be speaking in gods name. Imagine youself being god and you may very well be ... watch "The Egg" from Kurzgesagt.
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  60. "Civilizations in the past often ended at some point but humanity always survived and continued ..." what is hysterical or panic-making here?
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  61.  @bycycleworkingtool  Then don't watch it.
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  62. I think this is actually the point of this video. Not to make it harder on ourselves then necessary and find out why some civilizations self-destructed at some point without being conquered or damaged by nature. And not being too worried because usually humanity somehow survives.
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  63. At least it's seawater, which we have little more of on this planet and there are Ice Asteroids in the solar system and on Ice on Mars. So if it works, it could probably universally solve some energy problems for the forseeable future. And if I understand it correctly, it's only the Deuterium in water they need. So they only filter it out? Not sure on this one some clarification would be welcome.
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  64. A british radio presenter framed this effect footballification. When everything is pushed into some kind of football match. Topics are divided into two teams and you are being forced to pick a side and from then have to show undying devotion to your side even to the point of ignoring everything bad or wrong with your own side and even ignoring foul play from your side.
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  65. Let's talk about why Civilization self-destruct without external influence just by the shortcomings of human nature.
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  66. Ich bin ziemlich sicher Christoph Jablonka ist bereits dabei die Synchronisierung zu sprechen für den deutschen Kanal. EDIT: Und die Auto-Übersetzung kommt glaube ich von Youtube. Ich bin auch manchmal irritiert über die Auto-Übersetzung in Titeln, da ich kein Problem habe das ganze in Englisch zu lesen und zu verstehen.
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  67.  @epicheartbreakkshmr6645  Ich bin ziemlich sicher es hat mit meiner voreingestellten Untertitel-Sprache zu tun, sobald jemand Untertitel für ein Video eingibt erkennt YT das und zeigt das an, auch wenn ich Untertitel praktisch immer ausstelle. Mir ist das an den absurdesten Stellen schon passiert, z.B. einem Video über China in Englisch und absolut niemand vom Kanal da spricht Deutsch.
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  68. I doubt it, it is just another book in the library. There is a reason the video took 2 years to make. There would not be so much preparation and time involved for just everything and they must have had a very difficult and controversy time deciding over it and how.
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  69. Congrats for making this video without using the C-word.
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  70. Better than nothing. If it prevent's just one human being from commiting suicide or brings just one human being to help out another to survive it was worth it.
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  71. Do you prefer hard truths or comfortable fairy tales?
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  72.  @tmforshaw9  "Civilizations sometimes ended ... but humanity did survive" what is fatalism here?
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  73.  @tmforshaw9  Now it's clear you misunderstood the video. Take or leave it.
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  74. The video told what is required to be another "you": Consciousness. Bacteria don't have it. Maybe some animals have it.
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  75. Loved the old animes even watch them to this day. But this here is definitly Gen X made. I wonder what Gen Z will come up with.
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  76. Consider it another view on something science can't get a hold on ... yet. Maybe something beyond String Theory can, maybe we found something with the better telescopes in the next years on the edge of universe. It's entirely on you what you make of it or not. Even Einstein had metaphysical moments. And to be honest it feels a little more comforting than nihilism but with the side-effect that it might improve existence amongst "us" and put more respect on life in general.
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  77. Sometimes I wonder if the invention of Social Media and the inability to stick to the Truth is the Filter.
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  78. I guess fighting it out digital on social media instead of using swords is an improvement.
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  79. I disagree. Social media is a tool. And like all tools can be used for good or bad.
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  80. So we just have to make the tribe larger to solve things? Maybe we need an alien invasion or something so we drop the internal divisions and instead get all angry against an outside. ... You know what I think you are right we are still animals ... genetically speaking. Our technological and cultural evolution far outpaces our genetic one.
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  81. Not true. 1/4 of the comments mentioning it ... it's like spamming.
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  82. Well this video is made in Europe and here it is the end of worktime.
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  83. The key word is "consciousness". The idea of this is you or better the consciousness of you is here to experience, to learn, to enlarge and enrich itself with every reincarnation a little more to the point of being born (as a god). So if animals are conscious yes it would (it is?) extended to animals. It would even include aliens (remember "it" said "the hole universe is for you") and even artifical life if they had a consciousness of it's own because all consciousness is combined to this god-thing in the video. And regarding simple life-forms: There is an argument I had with another commenter that you could say: Everything which is able to become conscious at some point in it's evolution is included in this model as well. And since simple life can evolve into complex life and maybe even with consciousness as we did every life should be respected and possible protected if possible. However you can go overboard with this rather quickly, e.g. all bacteria should be protected. So I would simplify it to: Try to respect life in any form.
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  84. They last longer and more reliable than CDs, DVDs and BDs or even HDs, SSDs or USB Sticks. And you can read them even without electricity.
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  85.  @chinabluewho  I don't disagree. But digital memory loss is a serious issue when some media starts just a couple year later to lose bits until the file or all of it becomes corrupt and unreadable.
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  86. Conspiracy theories like this one also grown exponentially since social media. What's wrong? Reality/Straightforward become too boring to be true?
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  87.  @666chapelofblood  So you have solid evidence? Something checkable something not based on your perception and opinion?
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  88.  @666chapelofblood  So it's banned so it must be true ... and not just totally bonkers?
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  89. Or you will be ... so better watch out.
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  90. In practive our forces already work together either in the NATO, EU level or even U.N. but you are right, it must be made clear who controls this force and how it can be prevented from turning against the people or misused outside. Well in free democratic societies every force is normally designed in a way that it cannot turn itself against the people it is mandated to protect and follow certain base rules possibly even against political leaders. Normally this is achieved to bind them to the constitution. The last try in 2004 for an European Constitution almost succeeded 2 countries voted against it (from 25) but it almost happend. Looks like we need another try on that now 15 years later. And since we need to reform the political system of the EU as well we should consider doing both together to enter a new stage in the unification of europe where everyone has the feeling to be ruled fair and democratically by a commonly established system, something everyone can and want to live with. Often things on this magnitude are confirmed in referendums so directly by the people not their representatives not in all countries, but it was done by some and suggested for all last time as well and seems generally a good idea, so every citizen have a say in this and noone can say afterwards that it was "decided over my head". The majority of citizens in the EU are not really clear about what and how things happening in Brussel the other EU video shows that even professionals have their problems. And citizens only feel their own country is overruled from somewhere far only to their disadvantage especially since the media loves to emphasize the negative (EU bashing is loved by everyone it's easier to blame) and this must stop. It's there and it cannot go away again without repercutions on peoples everyday lives and the economy as GB is already begin to experiencing right now, so we might as well make it simpler and more transparent and with the vote and blessing of everyone. Kurzgesagt The societies and everydays lifes of EU citizens and the economy is already more progressed towards unification than the political system so it needs an upgrade so that we can continue to grow together. And having a reform of the political system and a EU wide constitution would be a huge next step on this way and may even lay the basis for a unified force as well. With enough trust build in the reformed political system over the years and probably decades who knows, maybe we come to the point where people are willing to go the last step and give up the original nation sovereignty completly for a real unified europe.
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  91. Not in the short term no. But just making this story known to more people is a step in the right direction. This story is really only a Nutshell for a deeper and much more complex concept behind it and humanity struggles with this since it had become conscious. Maybe some of the viewers will discover something along their lives and say: "Hold on, this reminds me off a video I have seen." or "Hold on, this matches something I heared about a very long time ago.". And I'm a little reluctant to make my personal insights to this public and I'm neither a very religious or spritiual being denying it because it does not fit some religion or belief nor a radical scientific one denying everything which can't be proven more something in the middle taking ideas from both sides. Somehow I think everyone must find this out on their own there are no shortcuts here without creating issues but having this video available might help people and giving them a place to start.
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  92.  @kevinc.cucumber3697  It's actually not important if it's true or not. The results by deciding to at least consider the possibility to your personal behaviours and view to your life and the life of others outweights the disadvantages by being wrong about it.
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  93. Funnily social scientist start to see that humanity slows down and will saddle around 11 bn people around 2100 sorry I mean around 12100 ... time to develop space.
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  94. Thanks for the feedback. Too bad though I thought maybe we could get rid of the environmental sins of the last 100 years with it by completly dissolving the problem into atomic particles. And it's good news, that the water is filtered not "used up" and could therefore be used for other things after it, e.g. desalination or at least returned in to ocean.
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  95. What angers me is that your own shortcomings and stupidity making us always learn things the hard way and always in the very last moment. And that we make it harder on us by lying at each other, often not learn from past mistakes and squabble over trivialities instead of dealing with serious issues. And finding ways to fight each other instead of working together.
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  96. That's why we talk with others, have kinds and bring them up, go to school, read books, view youtube videos, give speeches and being teachers, write books, make youtube videos, give TED talks and so on. It's the only way of giving information further maybe someone can pick it up and go on from there.
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  97. You seem not to have seen the video about "Optimistic Nihilism", it made a lot of people uneasy. And Kurzgesagt is known for their "weekly dose of existencial crisis". Maybe ... just maybe ... your brain is telling you with this feeling: Hey there is something to this.
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  98. I have no problem with different opinions I have problems with people who evidently repeating lies to me and based their opinions on incomplete or even wrong facts. They not even know the difference between opinions and facts so how can I ever have a fruitful debate with them when they see my facts as opinion?
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  99. This video just recounts history and facts. It does not blame nor put an opinion on something if it was good or bad or who did what wrong because this is not the point of this video. The message is: Yes sometimes civilizations go under by internal or external factors ... but humanity was so far resilient and came back.
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  100.  @TT-bm2kd  Not everything is a conspiracy. However existential anxiety is on a record high for various reasons.
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  101. Funny I heard the exact oppossit. And that the right has a stronger tendency to autorianism because they like being told what to do. (and it's easier to live if others do the thinking for you).
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  102. Let them see this ... maybe they think about it for a while and their conscience kicks in. I thought about this for a while. It's also possible they need to be like that, so that others can see how bad it can come and work actively against this or find a way to prevent it. Same with dictators and so one. Future "you" read or hear about the past and ensure it never happens again or at least less often and therefore improve existence at least for everyone after this. It's a kind of learning process and why we should never forget about the past.
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  103. 1) This world view rests upon the idea that body and conciousness (or soul if you prefer) is disconnected from your body. So it doesn't matter and you will not remember anything anyway from former or future "you" and any other "you" is a new body and a new fragment of your total consciousness. ... Yeah I know sounds strange. 2) I thought a little bit about it. I see it as a painfull lesson/bad example about how important the respect for human dignity and the respect for life and about equality. Germans learned something from it, that's why they made a new constitution after Hitler with §1 being "Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority." making "Dignity" the first and most important principal. All other rights in Germany derive from this. That's why there is no death penalty anymore or why prisoners are treated totally different and why there are less homeless and more social rights in Germany. And that's one reason why Mrs. Merkel allowed 1.5 mio refugees from Syria into the country when they needed a new home and their dignity was at peril. So you could say the bad example for Hitler teached the witnesses and children of the Hitler-Era an important lesson about "a better life" and about "what is important for humans". And in context of this video one step closer to finalize the growth process.
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  104. And everyone they affected.
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  105. And all his victims.
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