Comments by "Pope Balenciaga" (@Pope_Balenciaga) on "This video will give you an existential crisis." video.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy. That's my answer to the existential crisis.
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@RichardHarlos I don't view absurdism as resigning oneself to boundaries and just giving up. That's boring. I hate that. I like to think I'm a rebel. The biggest default boundary is death. Everybody dies. There's nothing more default than that. Doesn't matter if you're Rick or poor, weak or powerful, good or bad, everybody dies. In the grand scheme of things your death is not going to be significant. Even if you're Adolf Hitler and had a lot of power to change society, the wider universe with stars and planets, don't really care. So the fundamental question one must ask himself is is it worth living. If you chose to commit suicide, you realise that you're life is pointless and die. That to me is resignation.
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@RichardHarlos So what if you choose to live then? Then the next question if why live in this meaningless purposeless life. Some people think that it's better to just lie to ourselves bh saying life actually has a point and try to come up with reasons for why life might have meaning. The commonest people you'll see in this camp would be people who believe in God, follow religion, etc. etc. The next group says life has no inherent meaning, but you give it meaning by the choices you make. That's existentialism
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@RichardHarlos And finally, the ultimate rebel. The abursurdist. He just doesn't care that life has no meaning. He doesn't deny it. He embraces it. He continues living for no good reason. Just as an act of pure rebellion against the natural order. Just showing his middle finger to the universe with his every breath. An absurdist belives that the mere act of existing against the will of the universe is enough to give his life a purpose. Hence everything he does in this life become secondary to the primary goal, which is to just exist. If he becomes a rockstar in life, good. If he works a dead end job, good. He's not looking for some overarching narrative to his life so it has meaning. He knows who he is, what he wants and what the universe wants. That's why Sisyphus is happy.
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@RichardHarlos I hope that answers your question. If I were that immortal ant and the maze is the final boundary, I'd be trying to jump out of the maze, again and again. If I were a mortal ant, my final boundary isn't that maze, it's death. So in that case, again the mere act of existing is an act of rebellion and whether I die trying to jump out of the maze or follow the maze till I die, that's secondary.
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@RichardHarlos I get what you mean. If everything we know about the world comes through our brain, how can we know it's real, because brain might've just tricked us into believing that it's real. I'm a strong proponent of realism (I do believe reality and the external do exist) just because I work in a science related field. If I feel no pulse on a person, and their pupils are reactive, I'm going to start CPR. I'm not going to wonder if my brain has imagined those sensory findings from my touch and eyes and what if they aren't real.
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@RichardHarlos Realism is a practical philosophy. I think you're view fits best with philosophical skepticism. People who propose this say we don't know anything and we can never know anything because of the brain filtering our outside experience. So we can never have any knowledge and because we have no knowledge we should not take any judgement or believe anything.
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@RichardHarlos This is where philosophical realism differs. It says we know it because of the process of scientific method - through observation, hypothesis creation, eating hypothesis with experiments. (Atleast that is what scientific realism says, I think) Realism basically says we can never know anything to be true with 100% certainty. But we can definitely reach 99% or in some cases even more than certainty. That's enough to make consluions and know things about the universe and external world.
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@RichardHarlos Then there's solipisim. Which basically says everything in the external world is just a simulation by our brain. We can only know we exist. We don't know if the universe, your mother, this earth or anything does exist.
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@RichardHarlos I'm not a philosophy student. I just have an interest in it. So I read and watch videos about it from time to time. So my take on this might have some mistakes.
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@RichardHarlos What's your profession btw?
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