The skull’s voice belongs to Allen Watts if anyone’s curious- He was a mad lad into eastern philosophy yall should check him out if ur into that deep shit.
“If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself - not as a stranger in the world, not as something here unprobational, not as something that has arrived here by fluke - but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.” -Full quote Alan Watts.
@@sticks4632 _its extremley based on multiple mythology_ Here be spoilers 1. Finn goes in a boat and has to go past walls that close and opean, a reference to argonauts 2.a gigant metal robot protects a Island, a reference to talos, a Cooper golem made by gods to protects the Island minos 3. BIG GUM DRAGON CHOMS ON ROOTES, REFERENCE TO NORSE DRAGON THAT CHOMS ON ROOTES And i think theres more but im super dumb and forgot
@@creditsunknown7974 notice how Simon got the I've crown from Scandinavia where the Ice queen story originated from. The Vikings also believed in frost giants that could freeze entire valleys with just a breath though that may be unrelated however I think the Ice queen parallel is entirely intentional and is actually related to the Ice crown in this universe because she was a swedish queen who could also use the powers of ice and snow. Maybe that story is true in adventure time lore and she wore the Ice crown before Simon.
I enjoy Alan Watts and i think he's very charismatic,but most of the time hes nonsensical and uses word salads, its sad, but Watts speeches are usually gibberish and lack meaning. Its puedo life explanation.
@@iru_es well, lets brake this quote down then. What does he say. That if you wake up you see that you and others are the same and that death is waiting. Many have said this and im not sure why id have to be 'awake' to see that. Its very easy to get caught up in charismatic speeches. Its okay to enjoy it but you have to keep your critical thinking cap on and realize he just says what we've already heard. An old speech in a new package.
0:05 The sound effect when that skull starts talking makes me feel likes it’s gonna be one of those videos w cartoon audio in the background of a chill song and the title is spelled l i k e t h i s... Y’know?
@@spaghettioverlord3247 i guess i just don't get it. I understand "absence of evidence", but i still can't correlate that to "evidence of absence" in any common context.
@@spaghettioverlord3247 thanks for taking your time to explain it. English is not my first language so i had never heard of this expression before. Taking it literally didn't make any sense to me and i couldn't correlate "absence" to "existence" in the last half.
@@omori2391 It is in reference to the substance the combine puts in the water to decrease coordination, decrease the communication of resistance, suppress reproduction capabilities, and control emotions; i.e. suppress humanity to become part of the greater good known as the combine. Like they did with the other races from Xen.
The voice from the skull is Alan Watts, and this fragment is from a lecture called "The dream of life". Awesome philosopher from the 70s and 80s. His lectures can really transform the way you appreciate reality and your life
"What I am saying then is just because you don’t know how you manage to be conscious, how you manage to grow and shape this body of yours, doesn’t mean that you’re not doing it. Equally, if you don’t know how the universe shines the stars, constellates the constellations, or galactifies the galaxies - you don’t know but that doesn’t mean that you aren’t doing it just the same way as you are breathing without knowing how you breathe."
This is such a perfect symbolic representation of Adventure time as a whole. The show often when went into existential philosophical places. But it was more focused on being an advocate of being present in life and the world, and being invested in it, as opposed to being disconnected and unattached to it. Finn smashing the skull is him saying "be here now! Concern yourself with and care about your immediate experience!" It's not a message that older stories/pieces of media focused on much, because people didn't used to need to be reminded of that. But it's perfect for our modern age, in which many of us live so much of our lives mediated through digital tools that we can forget what it's like to experience the real world directly, and know how that experience is valuable.
@@littlemoth4956 I don't think that Adventure Time had a "technology bad" message. Critically, the show was non-judgemental. It was like "wow, being in the experience of life is really valuable, and we want to share that with you, but you can of course do your thing, whatever that is." And that message hit harder for the generation that watched it because being in the experience of life was something we tended to be more deficient in. If I remember correctly, even when the show did represent technology specifically as something that was separating people from life (when Jake and Finn found the atrophied humans living their lives in a virtual reality world), rescuing BMO aside, their response was more or less one of "that's not for us, but you guys do you."
C0mm Not really man, most people never think about life implying death or “being present” in their daily life. Some just do it without thinking about it, some do it when they think about , being aware.
@Daniel Jangthanong Nah man I love Alan Watts and agree with 75% of the shit he says. I was referring to OP saying "its common knowledge to think like how the skull thinks. Maybe I misinterpreted what he said, if so my bad.
The easiest way to get into the meditative state is to begin listening. Simply close your eyes and allow yourself to hear all the sounds that are going on around you, listen to the general hum and buzz of the world as you listen to music. Don’t try to identify the sounds you are hearing, don’t put names on them, simply allow them to play with your eardrums. Let them go. In other words, let your ears hear whatever they want to hear. Don’t judge the sounds: there are no proper sounds nor improper sounds, and it doesn’t matter if somebody coughs or sneezes or drops something - it’s all just sound - pretty cool allen watts quote
thanks bro. look I've been looking for good quotes but all that I find either edgy or funny. I want quotes like (absence of the mind proves the presence of one) (abandon all hope ye who enter here) do you know I a way to find some?
That’s funny how he said who’s jake and good ol watts starts talking, he says that we don’t really know who we are we are given things like a name a birthday and a career. But it’s not who we really are deep down, they are constructs
I shit myself when I heard Watts’ voice, lol. He literally could go on forever talking about the universe and had to be done. He’ll be back though, lol.
What about that one scene where Jake didn’t want Finn to eat an apple and these two angels were trying to convince him to eat it? That actually scared me when I was little.
not as something here on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke - but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. I am not trying to sell you on this idea in the sense of converting you to it, I want you to play with it. I want you to think of its possibilities, I am not trying to prove it. I am just putting it forward as a possibility of life to think about. So then, let’s suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream, and that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time, or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each you would say “Well that was pretty great. But now let’s have a surprise, let’s have a dream which isn’t under control, where something is gonna happen to me that I don’t know what it's gonna be." And you would dig that and would come out of that and you would say “Wow that was a close shave, wasn’t it?”. Then you would get more and more adventurous and you would make further- and further-out gambles what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today. That would be within the infinite multiplicity of choices you would have. Of playing that you weren't God, because the whole nature of the godhead, according to this idea, is to play that he is not. So in this idea then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality, not God in a politically kingly sense, but god in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is. And you are all that, only you are pretending you are not.
@boxdoesgames You need to pay attention. Play with the idea not insult for the suggestion of it. You Insult him and then adopt one of Watts ideas as your own. Also thinking of yourself as an ant is unhealthy and is not what everyone is. People understand that some stars are bigger than them but do they feel infiror to the star. Well let's hope not because that attitude is mindless. If you feel insignificant then you are but I feel powerfull because I can wield the tools I have been given and understand my role. To go against the system is what everyone does and it is a endless path. A rock uses its time to be a rock I use my time to be a human and trying to break that pattern is mindless. Everyone trys to break it people that work mindlessly in a job are living in an illusion that they think is all it is to being human. they break there real purpose of being what they want to be and get demotivated by everyone else to keep going with it. Humans gods and rocks we all have the same goal but don't know what to do about it.
I think skull’s message was that accepting that the existence of the bad is what makes the good real, and is what brings the world into greater clarity and ends the a person’s need to blame external forces for their struggles. Just my interpretation.
This is my favorite Video on RU-vid. No one whom I ever showed this appreciates it. Sometimes I feel alone. Sometimes my parents get angry at me because Im watching cartoons at my age. They dont understand. I love you ma
Before watching the video I made a comment of pp, but after watching this I am a different person , I can see , I have a purpose , my purpose is to not think of having a purpose before death , but I have forfilled the exact opposite of that , and I can now truly live. -Sebastian Cano - Julian Chancellor -too much dog Thank you Lol nvm
