I love when NCS starts talking about deep stuff like this. One of the reasons I like his videos, he never is afraid of letting out all thoughts that may be on his head. He isn't nervous or afraid of who he is.
Truly remarkable video. I wish I could say I believed in an afterlife.... I wish I could say I had irrevocable faith in something beyond our physical beings... I wish I could be you. Sometimes I wish it could have been different. I wish I could have grown up in a house with faith, to be utterly certain of such reassuring feelings. But I cannot undo time. Instead, I must torment myself, wondering, HOPING that this all means something.. that this will amount to something.... I can only hope.
Reasons like this is why NintendoCaprisun has and always will be the best Let's Player of all time. ChuggaaConroy has a fanbase that just loves him for the games that he plays and the information that he gives. I believe that a truly good let's player talks about just more than the game or not being completely serious about being perfect during the game which never truly happens anyway. It's people like Tim that are truly inspiring.
You know, there are a lot of times when I sit on RU-vid watching random videos and feel like I'm procrastinating or just wasting time. Not this time. Thanks for the insights, Tim, and for sharing them. The last nine minutes was 100% worthwhile.
NCS is the greatest sage of our time. He says what most of us are thinking, but we are to afraid to say it. He also brings out the big "what if's" in life and looks past what we have now and looks toward the future. I commend you greatly, keep up the good work Tim :)
Deep stuff Tim. This is what connected me to your let's plays and your videos and what really got me into making my own videos. You inspire us all, and these stories remind us of how far things things have come.
From my personal experience, hope has brought me nothing but wasted time and a lot of regret. Only by abandoning hope and faith did I start to get what I needed out of life. Only by hitting the bottom and realising I was living in hope for something to happen did I realise how pointless it was. I still hope every now and then, but that's how humans work. Perspective is the word. It may work for some, but definitely not me. Atheism and hopelessness brought me my life partner and musical taste.
This pretty much sums up what I've been through as of late, well, with more Star Wars references. I'm not religious, in fact, most of my days I considered myself an Atheist, but lately, I've felt there to be more to life. A friend of mine convinced me that an event in my life was a spiritual occurrence, not an act of God, but something special. She then opened my eyes to being an empathetic person, you can't possibly fake those warm emotions I felt when she told me. It made me happy.
I love these vlogs type videos you do on here. The insight and perspective you give makes my mind really think and the attitude you have towards everything is great. Really enjoy these videos please keep making them!!!
If that matters, you helped me alot in a very difficult time for me. And so I think you have done for many people who watched your blog videos and LPs. Never forget that Tim, you ARE helping people with your nice, funny kind. Keep that in mind, you did and do well. :)
This is a fantastic video. Your idea about there being things we haven't yet discovered or fully understood, like morality and death and goodness and all that, is very compelling. I do believe that there is an afterlife, but that it's somehow beyond our comprehension or our current definitions of "life" and "time." I think that ideas and information will become more and more important in the future, as forms of energy that are both undying and capable of giving us power we can barely comprehend.
This reminds me of a quote, and it pretty much speaks for itself... "Science knows that it doesn't know everything, otherwise it'd stop." There is always more to be discovered about life and the world/universe we live in, anyone who thinks otherwise or deals in absolutes and thinks we know everything is a fool to themselves.
It's the fact that he can look at it like a kid because of his love for video games and as an adult because of his age. Its amazing what he has really thought about in his life.
I wished there was an afterlife and then I realized that I didn't wanna spend all the time I have to live hoping and wishing for it and just decided to use the time to create joyful and happy moments for myself and the people I love and make the most of it so that when I'm at the last moment of my life I can remember all the good things that has happened in my life and feel warm and content in my heart for all the good that happened around me. Right now this is the purpose I give to my life. :P
*THIS* is why I subscribe to you Tim :) Your mentality and the way you convey it to your viewers... it's just something you don't see a lot of in people these days (although I hate to generalise) ....of course, the fact you can beat Contra in a single life is an added bonus ;D
6:42 lights out Tim, time for bed! I'm surprised, a lot of cities I've been all have their street lights on all night long. (yeah this is way off topic of the video, but I just had to point that small detail out :P)
I totally agree, no one person has the right to take someone else's hope away. Even more so if there's no proof that it does not exist, what ever it may be. I believe there is an afterlife
Thank you for the video Tim, I could definitely sit with you to have a cup of tea and a good chat :-) I believe that there is an afterlife, but what it is or involves, I have no idea lol. I also agree with what you said about how our science has made our lives on our planet better. I believe that we have much more to learn with science, and that science and spirituality work well combined together. I'm looking forward to 21/12/12 because I believe that will be the start of something great :-)
Believing in something when you have no proof of it is the ultimate mental investment. It's a lot easier to just forget it all and take things at only a practical, real level, but then you miss out on so much because of it. There are things I hope for that may make me seem stupid to the entire rest of the world, and it's not easy to hold on to that inner confidence when everyone else thinks they're right. Sometimes you just need to screw logic and think with yearning. That's logic enough.
6:20 Just because something isn't permanent doesn't mean that it doesn't matter. I think of it like a christmas tree. Sure, it's only here for a short time, but it's truly beautiful, and touching to many. It's a great thing, that means a lot to people. Sure, it goes away, but it's still is great while it's here, which I think makes it worth it.
Some would call this being sappy. I call it reflecting upon one's thoughts. I commend your outward personality Tim and I hope you will continue making vlogs like this one.
There's something so awesome about NCS's fanbase. I mean, Tim poses his opinion through a video and rather than having everyone troll him in the comments or saying this video was boring everyone is pouring out there opinions as if they were talking to Tim face-to-face. I think that's so awesome for a fanbase to be so connected. Also, the comments are'nt plagued with religious debates, which is also awesome. I love these videos ^^ Nice work, Tim.
There are billions of stars in our galaxy, and billions of galaxies in the universe. If people believe that we're alone or there isn't more that we still haven't figured out they have some serious issues.
I believe that when you die, you are free to take on any person's viewpoint in the past or future. You start a new life without any knowledge of the life you are living now.
@CastlePokemetroid To be a true disciple of christ,that's what I strive to become,its always a pleasure to see someone have this type of understanding,because of God I know tim's hope isn't in vain,its because of my faith that I am who I am today or even who I'll become
This is very insightful! As a christian, I believe in God, and in the afterlife (heaven and hell) I believe that if you do good on Earth, you are rewarded with eternal happiness, and if you do evil you receive eternal damnation. I think Earth is just a test for us, to see if we are worthy of a good afterlife. I definitely hope there is an afterlife, cause what happens when you die? Do you see another place, or is there just nothing? Having no afterlife scares me, but it is still a possibility...
Just because Vadar didn't outwardly show that he was making a consideration toward moving back to the light, doesn't mean he wasn't. I always felt like he was struggling with it internally and that the Emperor attacking Luke was a kind of "straw that broke the camel's back" kind of thing. -Shrugs.-
What I hope to see is Humanity becoming a Civilization that is not bound by this planet, not the solar system. We have the means to do so and we should set out to do it, but the governments a groups that try to bring us down keep succeeding. I am an atheist, however, I hope that I can observe the rest of human civilization long after I have died. As Gene Kranz said: "To stop in space is to give up."
But yes, you're speaking with true words of wisdom and inspiration through the whole episode and I didn't mean to prove your wrong doing all this, I just wanted to let you know about the other side of the matter and that too is just human after all: Trying to proove others wrong, or saying the opposite thing and trying to fill up that argument with believes. Anyways Tim, thank you for this, I really appreciated this right now and I'm just glad to have heard this.
@RockBanned Yea, that's the problem. Einstein says it is literally impossible to go faster than the speed of light, but recently, physicists have observed particles moving even faster. Another problem is time dilation, were the faster you go the slower time passes by.
If you want to into Expanded Universe (not very deep, though), Vader wanted to take over Sidious through The Force Unleashed, by training Starkiller in between 3 and 4. Honestly, even though Vader was tainted by the Dark Side, he always had that mindset of the Light Side in him.
And people talk about afterlife and stuff we can't grasp our thoughts on all the freakin time, but we don't move forward by just talking of the possibilities, neither do we move backward, no we stand still by talking. We move by doing. And the only human way we move to dead is by actually dying.
At least you didn't get the snow like last year with the blizzard; I think your area was effected by that snowstorm. I got 4 feet of snow in that one. It took 8 hours to get off my driveway.
I can say that because throughout the books in Daniel 4:16 says “seven times” (“seven years,” AT and Mo, also JB footnote on verse 13). The Bible shows that in calculating prophetic time, a day is counted as a year. (Ezek. 4:6; Num. 14:34) How many “days,” then, are involved? Revelation 11:2, 3 clearly states that 42 months (3 1/2 years) in that prophecy are counted as 1,260 days. Seven years would be twice that, or 2,520 days. Applying the “day for a year” rule would result in 2,520 years.
Also... Star Wars is a movie... a fairy tale. Vader did what he did because that's how Lucas wrote the story. It's no more a demonstration of the power of empathy, than The Lion King is a look into the carefree lives of warthogs and meerkats.
Hope... What is it? Hope is our desire to believe that something is true, or will come to pass. We hope for things on a daily basis; whether you are hoping for a good grade on a test, a big bonus, or somebody's safety. It is one of the things that keeps us driven forward, one of the things we use to cope with the troubles of the universe. I am a rational, scientific person. However, this does not mean that I cannot appreciate the positive aspects of hope and other associated phenomena.
@CastlePokemetroid A lot of what I've gone through (which I'm not going into because that's just plain attention-seeking) involved things completely outside my control, where hope was all I had. And I had to accept the facts. Hope and faith just distracted me from what I had to deal with. Reality and internal truth. Then taking physics kind of sealed the deal. I'm the only one with control over my own, single life and I'm happy with that. Happier than when I had hope.
Yes, I do say life, and all things accompanied with it (family, friends, and emotions) are an accident. From the first cell, to me, all thoughts and connections and feelings are just electrical pulses which tell us to avoid things that hurt us, and tell us to live, survive, and reproduce. From the first bits of RNA that replicated from natural chemistry, to me being born, it's all been just that. Chemistry. I'm content with knowing what I know to be true, and dismissing that which is unproven.
I know some of you don't agree but I still believe people have control over us until we say so. The best example for me was today when prop 8 was found unconstitutional and people like me can get married.
But what about everything we discovered since the idea of a possible creator ? we always try to make it match to our idea that something created everything, maybe because we were the first primates to create stuff with our own hands and we figured someone might have created everything else, but we might just be the most beautiful coincidence in the universe. What I believe is that to every mystery we solve there's an answer that has nothing to do with magic, but emphasizes the beauty of life.
Tim, you bring up a very old and very refutable argument. This has been dubbed the watchmaker fallacy. Please consider hearing Richard Dawkins and how he views the topic. It is very persuasive and very logical
@w00td00t the one of the things i hold on to tho, that there is evidence, that after we die, for some reason 10 pounds just magically go away, like something just leaves our body when we die, and thats theoretically could possibly be our soul, and that gives me hope
@Rockabilly500 that is so sad you think like that...even my college physics professor concedes that the more he studies science the harder it is to believe it all happened by chance...if you are sincere and open when looking at evidence/design you'll realize there must have been a designer.
Then I ask you this Tim: Isn't hope a security for us? Hope may just feel as secure as the written facts of our mind, so this is no matter of security, because when you truly believe and hope for something it becomes a security to our mind...
And of course hope is a beautiful thing to have, but be beware you can be misguided by it. I'm not saying with that we should live without hope at all, because it's just human to hope, because we do it, unsubconsciously, all the freaking time, but be aware of the other possibilities as well. Be always in doubt, no matter stupid and hard it must be to think that way. You may believe something of course, just don't give it your 100% if you can't prove it!
I personally found peace in Jesus Christ. This world is sinful and fallen and theres no hope in materialism. The more I study science the more obvious it is that there is a creator for creation. Science requires faith just like Christianity....We dont know if the Universal laws will be the same tomorrow as they are today...but we just believe they will be. Atheism doesn't offer any hope for the future but Jesus does. Psalms 43:5
@joenike55 Actually, it's highly debatable that there was a historical Jesus. It's likely that Jesus was an amalgam of several magicians and cult leaders during the time of his supposed life.
When did the counting of the “seven times” begin? After Zedekiah, the last king in the typical Kingdom of God, was removed from the throne in Jerusalem by the Babylonians. (Ezek. 21:25-27) Finally, by early October of 607 B.C.E. the last vestige of Jewish sovereignty was gone, there's a lot more to explain but basically, Counting 2,520 years from early October of 607 B.C.E. brings us to early October of 1914 C.E., as shown on the chart.So this is 1 true prediction out of many, it's reliable.
@w00td00t You see, THIS type of comment COMPLETELY defies the whole point of the what Tim is saying. Tim says that believing that something comes after death doesn't take anything away from anyone but if you say that there is no afterlife, your taking hope from people. If you don't believe in it, that's fine but let others believe...let others die with the thought of happiness, not pain. Seriously, people, listen to what he's saying before commenting like this.
Everyone hopes, that is likely a fact. I don't envision people hoping when they die their power switch just gets turned off. Crap, even those people hope!
@Phanima I think it's a bit unfair to say "religion and other beliefs" don't seek answers. It's probable the majority do depend or rely on blind faith but I'd say the most credible religions do seek answers through scientific and historical means. Examples I know of include The Shroud Of Turin and The Palace Of David, these are both archaeological examples that lend to the validity of Christian Faith.
@CastlePokemetroid yes, but that is the security of a feeling that is actually true, hope on the otherhand can't actually be always true, though it may feel secure to some people. Like some people can hope for a roof to sleep under and they feel secure enough to hope to find it someday, but does that really mean it will happen some day? It's all just philosophizing of course! What you say is very true as well. The reasurrance of leading a normal life wihtout much worrying is a security to me!
When you started mentioning Vader I thought about Episode 5: Vader cut off Luke's hand, and saw him suffer there as well, yet did nothing but make him suffer more, but in Episode 6 he saves him from the suffering. Doesn't make sense and yes I know this has nothing to do with the video but y'know gotta be a geek haha
