Comments by "Stevie" (@matthewhorizon6050) on "Bridget Phetasy: I Made Addiction Look Amazing" video.

  1. Yeah, shes gettin a lot of shit on here. I like her.
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  2. True man. I'm 44 and my life has been fuckin nuts and interesting. Some ups and downs like most, but one thing is for sure -- I cant do some of the shit I used to, but on the other hand, nor do I want to. I'm cool with getting older because I've matured intellectually and shed the endless urge to engage spontaneous and reckless behavior. Getting older is cool af, if the person doesnt allow themselves to succumb to the "existential four givens"
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  3.  @boredmisfit7725  Existential philosophers, such as Kierkegaard and Sartre believed that people face 4 existential concerns: death, freedom, isolation and meaningless. Later on, Frankl, May and Yalom, who were psychotherapists, went on to stucture their respective psychotherapeutic models around the behaviors and emotions, which are elicited by existential dread. Nietzsche's famous line, "when you stare into the abyss, the abyss stars back at you" is essentially the cornerstone of existential angst. Many believe 'the four givens' are why religions emerged (i.e. t's better create a loving god than face reality). We still do it today, contemporary philosophers have distanced themselves from nihilism and anti-theism and make the claim that we are in a simulation. By "the abyss," Nietzsche meant, our conciousness (e.g., "what is this conciousness that I've been thrust upon"). Uncertainty freaks folks out. So when they dont get the answers they want they become angsty. Personally, I believe that when existentialism is used in tandem with systems theory we have the greatest tool and investigator of human behavior.
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