is this all there is? 

You become increasingly better at philosophising your way out of therapy, Syphilis.

The screens has made you hard to please. There must be more to life you say, blind to the holy reality before you. Don't overthink, consider your mind, body and nature for the wildest of dreams we live in.

Bottoms up... and the devil laughs

Reminds me of "And Jesus wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer"

I think this brand of depressed nihilism is the unfortunate but inevitable result of atomised individualism. Realising that you are a part of something greater than yourself- a society and a culture, one that came before you and stretches beyond you is liberating. Whether or not it drives you onto other philosophical or theological paths, it is the logical and best start point for happiness.

I didn’t expect Schopenhauer to define so accurately post nut clarity.

I struggle with this one very frequently… the thought that even if i lead a hedonistic life, practice some form of meditation/relaxation, or chase a monumental goal, none will ever get me where the inspiration to do them in the first place was hoping for.. The only real comfort i’ve found relating to this is narrative is when i reply with “Well, it’s either that’s too much for you and you choose to opt out, or you accept it as condition and move along anyway”. After contemplating the relationships i have in this life and at least some hope of a worthwhile journey in the future, i continue to choose the latter.

The day after a triumph is as hollow as the day after a tragedy.

As bojack horseman puts it: “Every happy ending always has the day after the happy ending.”

"Is this all there is?" "What else ought there be?"

I'm gonna bring this up at the dinner table tonight

as someone who used to be extremely pessimistic and su!cidal, i found that staying present and grateful helped me cope with the idea of life. i, like so many others, use to waste away either yearning for the past or obsessing over the future. we fail to realize that all we will ever have is the present. the past has already happened and is unchangeable. the future is just a mere thought. happiness and youth only ever exists in the now. life itself is a blessing to be thankful for.

In my opinion, that’s the joke _and_ the punchline. Like all jokes, one either finds it funny or one does not (or perhaps one just doesn’t get it). But I think it’s hilarious, and so I laugh myself through life. Win the lotto? Funny. Lose all my money? Even funnier. Car dies? Funny. Got a job? Funny. Lost my job? Funny. Got drunk? Funny. Got a hangover? Funny. Etc. It’s all ridiculous beyond measure, and I find a lot of humor in it. I’m going to laugh myself right into the grave!

Love your channel, man I first stumbled upon your video on depression, and when you said : "I imagine you happy" I bawled my eyes out like a baby and decided to turn my life around. Now it's almost been 2 months since I got diagnosed with depression of 5 years and started to take antidepressants My life is better than ever now, thank you for giving me hope :)

"Honey! Wake up! New Sisyphus 55 video!"

I think about this a lot, and this video perfectly represented my view. Yes, this is all there is. But the beauty of it is that once you are aware of this fact, you can start to look at life from another perspective, through another point of view. If this is all there is, then you must revel in the absurdity of it all.

If this is all there is then we have to realize that WE make the rules to this game. WE have the ability to make this world into something worth fighting for and living in.

The reality of our conscious awareness is something we can’t fully understand. We don’t know why we were born into this reality, with a mind that can think about the nature of it all and question it. We’re here, and yeah, it doesn’t make sense. The thing about philosophy is that it’s all different ideas on what life is. When people ask me these things I don’t give a straight out answer on what it is, cause I know nothing. I give them a simple answer and that answer is “I really don’t know what it all is, but I can give you my ideas on what I think it is” Nietzsche said that “There are no facts, only interpretations” us humans will never know the truth of the objective reality that our mind and bodies are living in at this very moment. There are reasons for it all, but we will never fully understand. So, saying that “this is all there is” can’t be a a full fact and statement. To us humans, it can be, cause that’s how we work, for me I say “I don’t know if it is or not” cause we humans are not all-knowing beings that can tell other people what the world is. Our job is to make others think rather than teaching them our own assumptions. You’re always going to find different ideas from different philosophers, RU-vidrs and all kinds of people you meet, all of us could be wrong or one could be right. Socrates says “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing” to me, I think it’s very good statement for him to make, cause knowing that we humans know nothing, makes us understand that we don’t have the truth, and we can strive to learn and discuss about those ideas. Keep questioning, keep striving and keep learning. We are alive and conscious, that’s all we have right now and it could be the only life we humans have, you never know. Enjoy your days ladies and gentlemen.

Schopenhauer post-nut clarity *Bottom textschopenhauer post-nut clarity*

"is this all there is?" is a question I've tried avoiding and kept looking at it with an optimistic answer, this can't be all there is, the universe is so vast, there has to be a much bigger meaning to our lives than just this. but everytime I look at it realistically, the correct answer is as clear as day, this is all,whether you like it or not.

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

I kind of love how the phrase 'this is all there is' can be so reassuring and so terrifying at the same time.

'Is this all there is?' yes, it is all I will ever have. And so I will cherish it.

2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” 3 What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? 4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. 5 The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. 6 The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. 7 All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again. 8 All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. 9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. 10 Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. 11 No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.

Life just really ain't worth it

When you say:"is this all there is", you assume that you have seen it all. I bet life could suprise you many many times throughout your life. The world is changing rapidly and new insights and new experiences are not far away.

The only thing that keeps me in the game at the moment is sheer beauty. I've given up on finding "meaning" and "purpose", I've given up on being an agent for the betterment of humanity and its home planet and its legacy. I just want to foster beauty during my lifetime. It can be aesthetic beauty (natural or man-made), or something a little more spiritual (like being polite and helpful to others). In that sense maybe I can be called a cynical hedonist. The reality is that creativity is the one thing that I have a modicum of control over at this point. I can't magick myself into living healthily or having fulfilling relationships or living in a world devoid of stupid cruelty-those things take too much time and effort to build-but when I sit down and put pen to paper, something can come to life right away. Or even singing a nice tune beautifully. Those things dog me, so I know that even they don't come along one day, they probably will on the next. I have not embraced the nonsense, but I am staying on my path alongside it.

The fact that anything exists at all is a miracle. This acknowledgment alone leads me to believe that what we see and feel and experience through our senses is definitely not all there is. The only reason we suffer through existence and feel emptiness as each mile stone is reached or not reached, is because of the thoughts that we have about it. I think that true peace is found when we let the mind go silent and simply experience this miracle of life fully and completely. The small glimpses I get of this are truly wonderful, but most of the time I am not there, not yet. Therefore I often fall back on my knowledge and belief that we are spiritual beings having a human experience, one that is necessary for the evolution of who we really are. Thanks for the insightful video. 🙏

Everything there ever was and will be is already here. To create is to lie, as to express is to live. Humility and honesty would help a lot of people.

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” Albert Camus

Whenever I finish a project or adventure, I'm left with this big emptiness that is just says "well now what?". like my entire being in existence had driven towards this one purpose, creating whatever this thing was, and now without that direction I am lost. It takes me a couple hours and sometimes a couple days to pick up the pieces and figure out where I'm supposed to be next. It's both a feeling of relief but also that of emptiness. When I work a endless nine to five job, this feeling never comes and it's actually painful to not have it. I see the endless pile of the work in front of me and how it will never be done or really appreciate it and somehow I come back to yearning for this little bit of emptiness where at least I know I completed whatever it was I was doing.

I love this channel.

"It means so much to us because it all will be gone" I can see how this could work for many people, perhaps without them fully realising it, but at some point it stopped working for me I dumped an enormous amount of activities because of this Hell, I care less and less about my own health because what difference will it make when I cease to exist I think this mindset was part of the reason I ended my relationship I had during first year of university. Why bother, if we'll both just be on with our lives after we graduated? It's killing me inside and I don't know what to do about it

I get this feeling but its always after an interaction with friends that was enjoyable. An emptiness in loneliness and knowing that all I do seems to be to fill that void with distractions or another time to hang out with my friends. I think I need a hobby but I don't know where to start. When survival is no longer an issue other issues will arise and so on. At least I can take some solace in the fact that so many others feel the same way.

Suffering is the creator of human's consciousness. Eat to avoid hunger, sleep to avoid fatigue, claim an absurd believe to avoid the true reality of nature, etc. The more advanced we get as humans, the more delusions we create to sustain the "will-to-life". Moments in life are all mere finite relative meaningless moments that you will see the end of. It's a battle you will never win; Reoccurring and endless suffering. No matter what you chase, no matter how much pleasure you can obtain, suffering will overwhelm it; it will all replay in your head at the dusk of death. No illiosion in life will ever be capable of giving you a way to escape the grip of death. Do what gives you purpose, or I should say what gives you enough pleasure to make you happy and mange to live with as least suffering as possible. Contemplating death and concluding the truth of our nature will not necessarily leave you in despair, but it can give you enough motivation and meaning in life to value time and do the things that matter the most to you. Twenty years of my life is gone and it feels like they were mere moments. The happy times felt short, but the times I suffered felt as it were for eons. I wonder what does it feel like to make choices for my own...

I came this the channel pretty close to its inception some time ago. Allured by the channel's nature, artystic style, and of course, quality of content. However it seems that there's much more nihilsm now than there has ever been. And steering away from the concepts of existentialism. I've come to view nihilsm as every part of existentialism that doesn't matter. Literally. Believing everything doesn't matter in the end, you're just a cog in the machine, whatever. And then leaving it at that and wallowing in despair is the antithis of existentialism. The following part that makes the latter so important, is the question of "so?" So. You go out there, and you as a person put meaning into things that otherwise would not. We are all destined to be ill-content with ourselves because there is no such thing as perfection. But there is also solace in that. Because we can never be perfect, it's okay to settle for always being a little bit better than the day before, in some kind of abstract calculation. The meaning we put into things, and the value that they have as a result, keeps us going. While there is no such thing as contentment with life, lest you're on some pretty serious drugs and high 100% of the time, there is such a thing as satisfaction and clarity. Not even to be happy with where you are, but to look at yourself and be proud of where you are. You have to make that happen yourself. And not blame the system around you. As the "system" is always going to fuck you over in some way, no matter what part of the world you live in. It happens to be that in first world countries with some systems have clean water, while others, do not. So now the focus is shifted up maslows hierarchy. The thing with that, though. Is that there will never be absolution. Humans create their own problems, when they run out of them. And we always solve it. It's kind of beautiful, in a way.

Ah geez I just dodged this thought like last week, why did I click on this video lol. Can we can an old person in the comments please to shed some light if this thought goes away over time as you get used to it, or if this really is all there is.

if you reproduced you achieved your main life-goal

it’s about drive it’s about power we stay hungry we devour

Watching this while eating spaghetti

Our minds, as amazing as they are, have a proven track record of failure-failure to predict, failure to observe and analyze without bias, failure to control and resist risky or destructive urges, and most of all, the inability to perceive the ultimate reality which constantly slips through the sieves of our limited sensory faculties. These very human failures lead us to the most tragic failure: a profound lack of awareness of our own ignorance, a conviction that this is all there is, and the concomitant loss of the possibility of finding even a mustard seed of transcendent meaning in life.

I suffer from ADHD and I love your channel. I really enjoy philosophy but the most common format it comes in, usually long and abstract books that are hard to follow, really makes it unoptimized for my ADHD. It's really demotivating but with your channel I feel like I can learn and think about philosophical concepts condensed in a more ADHD-friendly format and I appreciate you for this. Thank you

This is sort of akin to the question “What happens the day after the revolution?”

When most times you feel like it's never good in enough no matter what you do, that you could've done better but didn't and it's all your fault and wonder what the point is, this video helps :)

Finally, someone gets it

This isn't all there is though. Ever look up at the night sky? There is an entire universe out there, incomprehensibly large and beautiful. Each of us is just experiencing a tiny little insignificant fraction of "all there is" while hardly even able to see that there is a big picture. You strike me as someone who has grown up in an urban setting - taught to chase after awards and recognition to impress other people. When your entire world is limited to the games of society and people of course it feels small. But there is much more outside of that if you move your focus away from all the noise. Simple things like just sitting alone and enjoying the simple beauty of a sunrise every now and again. I'm incredibly depressed most of the time, but it helps to know there is a world outside myself; that this small grey world I live in is not all there is.

I remember when I was a little girl Our house caught on fire I'll never forget the look on my father's face As he gathered me up in his arms and Raced through the burning building out to the pavement And I stood there shivering in my pajamas and Watched the whole world go up in flames And when it was all over, I said to myself “Is that all there is to a fire” Is that all there is Is that all there is If that's all there is, my friends Then let's keep dancing Let's break out the booze and have a ball If that's all there is And when I was twelve years old My daddy took me to a circus “The Greatest Show on Earth” There were clowns and elephants and dancing bears And a beautiful lady in pink tights flew high above our heads And as I sat there watching I had the feeling that something was missing I don't know what But when it was all over, I said to myself “Is that all there is to a circus” Is that all there is Is that all there is If that's all there is, my friends Then let's keep dancing Let's break out the booze and have a ball If that's all there is And then I fell in love With the most wonderful boy in the world We'd take long walks down by the river Or just sit for hours gazing into each other's eyes We were so very much in love And then one day, he went away And I thought I'd die, but I didn't And when I didn't, I said to myself “Is that all there is to love” Is that all there is Is that all there is If that's all there is, my friends Then let's keep- I know what you must be saying to yourselves “If that's the way she feels about it Why doesn't she just end it all” Oh, no, not me I'm in no hurry for that final disappointment Cause I know just as well as I'm standing here talking to you That when that final moment comes and I'm breathing my last breath I'll be saying to myself Is that all there is Is that all there is If that's all there is, my friends Then let's keep dancing Let's break out the booze and have a ball If that's all there is

I've never categorized myself as 'nihilist' but I've always had this question stuck in mind for the past 2 months. I've always thought that everything I thought of the universe, of other people, my life, my struggles, and everything I know of it just never ends until I die. I could work out at the gym, read 100 books and gain more knowledge, or pursue true love with a girl I think likes me, but where will that take me? Thanks for making these videos no matter how depressing they might get

My stubborn hope to become something that I, first, and my loved ones, second, are proud of pushes me farther than I expect sometimes. Futility is just like God: it's what you make of it. I give myself and my life value. When I'm lonely and depressed, I lose control, but I always manage to remember that unless I'm here in the moment giving myself meaning, I will regret what I did while I was here.

Is this all there is implies there are not millions of different types of experiences in your life. Hedonism is not good unless moderated. Experiences to give pleasure are not the same and are significanty more fulfilling than food, goals, or anything. You are in a big rutt. I think you might be depressed man. Also why can't you choose every single day to live selflessly? Why is it bad to be used as a tool? So many of the assumptions in this video especially, but alao in so many of your recent videos, make so many assumptions. Also why think you have to be entirely hedonistic or entirely not? What does it matter if it is all gone eventually? This is all there is. But you can't even grasp how large "this" is. I am the same age as you. We cannot know how big this is. The random stumbling into new experiences or seeking them out expands your "this" drastically. You are at university like me. Finishing undergrad. We have so much our life left to live. If that terrifies you, good, better to have the chance than to not. After all these recent videos, I am beginning to worry about you. I hope you are okay. Recognise that even this concept of this being all there is will change for you and me and everyone in different ways. This is all there is, but "this" is unfathomable. Stay safe. I hope yoy are well

After a good nut, I just like to lie back down and bathe in the fuzzy brain-chemicals. Does this mean I'm ignorant of eternity or something?

I think either I'm sick of this videos or I've outgrown them... anyways imma get on with life thanks for all the content but I'm unsubbing bye bye

We humans are trying to see through the veil a reality which is impossible for us to comprehend. Some things are just eternal struggle.

Actually it's about drive, it's about power.

I sometimes wish that i was a hamster. I'd only have to wake up, sleep, eat and repeat. It would be so easy and i wouldn't need to worry about all the troubles of mundane life.

The freedom we seek is in Christ. Life is suffering but why wouldn’t it be.

Just go outside in the nature, man. There you will see the vastness of what there actually is, not only the things you can find in the concrete jungle.

0:07 Already we witness the problem. He who makes time with the Woman shall be doomed to coom.

Well my take would be that your goal isn't the right thing for you. Or maybe you're not supposed to give in to the question, making it a trap to ruin the sweetness of your accomplishments. Maybe you should acknowledge the fact that despite the occurance being "all there is" that doesn't take away the experience you've had, the joy you've felt up until you've asked yourself if it was meaningful enough to be enjoyed. When the confetti drops, watch it fall to the ground, and appreciate the joy it brought you. To ask for more is simply ungrateful.

I call the emotion described in the first 20 seconds of this video "postclimactic tristesse", the feeling you get when your boring old life resumes after a climactic event and you feel so empty

That emptiness within is not a curse, it’s a calling to match emptiness of heart with the one true thing we have to give to the universe: presence and attention

I love your videos. Always so relatable. I think everyone needs their own way of being ok with it being 'all there is'. For me, it's music. I can listen to songs that remind me of a past time and I know I'm still always going somewhere, so I'm more aware of the journey that you mention. The creativity of it is also something that will last and is an easy way to make a difference

In the march towards infinity one can do nothing but embrace the insanity of it. That's life, the struggle IS life, embrace it!

This is all there really is though. No matter how you twist and spin it, this is all there is. Meaningless pursuits of meaningless things to reach a meaningless goal. You can fill your thoughts for as long as you want that you are doing things for a higher purpose, that you are here to leave a mark, et cetera. But it truly is meaningless in the grand scheme of things. This truth always looms in my mind, no matter what I do. It sucks the motivation and life force out of me occasionally. But by acknowledging the absurd and admitting it, enjoyment of life can resume to a certain degree. There really is no other option than submitting to the nonsense of existence - you can indulge yourself in denial, but that too fades away when weakness takes over your psyche and you are overwhelmed with helplessness and lack of control.

It's okay. You just have to rewatch Fight Club to refresh your personality, bros.

Answer to the question: Yes

This is why we all need a bit more Jesus in our life.

This is that feeling after you get home after a convention or vacation, or after you finish a really good book series or video game.

I don't know why but this video hit harder than every video I have seen.

I'm still working on the first goal on your list.

I just got my first job today and experienced exactly this, once I got home from all the celebration, there was this deafening silence, of why? This heart wrenching question of is that really it? Idk I’m just so lost

I'm super melancholic recently and this is right up my alley

As a medical professional, it’s not just the happy moments, but the moments when you see a patient become the subject of their age, or to see them on their final leg, when you look at yourself and ask this question. They have been through all their ups, and now face the reality of their mortality. Not a single health worker I have asked has been able to look beyond ‘this’. This *is* all there is, and to work in healthcare, you must make peace with it or suffer mentally.

you just have a mind thats hard to satisfy

People usually overestimate how much they can accomplish in a year and underestimate how much they can accomplish in 10 years. Similarly, most people overestimate how much happiness some achievement they strive for will give them and underestimate how much happiness will they experience in the process. And if your process for achieving anything is a constant relentless grind then you're doing it wrong, no matter how noble your goal is, you'll end up famous/wealthy/spectacular(or none of the mentioned) but miserable human being. That's why rockstars end their lives at the peak - they've achieved everything and were miserable in the process and stayed miserable after gaining wealth and fame, because happiness is never in the material and very rarely in achievement of some kind. It is usually in other people and/or freedom, that's the remedy to take between the rounds of the grind. It's all there is, but it's much more than you can imagine once you open up.

I’m probably never gonna see her again

I'm connecting with your videos a lot more lately as Im finally gripping with my mental health after neglecting it through my 20's. They give me real perspective.

depressing, why not just end it then

"One must imagine Sisyphus happy"

We are human beings not human doings

This really hits home, I struggle with this a lot. I have great days, bad days and they end with such vague thoughts.

This is one beautiful video.

I am so thankful for you

Ahhh yes. Happy holidays dude

"Learn to poo poo in potty" Been there

I liked the essay. I didn't like the background music. Background music is bane of RU-vid

Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.

I love all this quasi intellectual stuff going arround but for most normal humans this is probably incredibly demotivating. He who increases wisdom increases sorrow.

Thank you for ruining EVERY FUTURE NUT! THAT IS EXACTLY HOW I DEAL WITH EXISTENTIAL DREAD YOU WALRUS!

"Success is counted sweetest By those who never succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires surest need."

DONT JUST stretch out of lazyness ryhmes with mess at the end cause having ine is a bad ending outcomes arent always good, STRETCH THE POTENTIONAL

A very dissatisfying video. The final conclusion falls flat for me. Im just left here with "No. This sucks."

“I have often thought to myself how it would have been if, when I served in the first World War, I and some young German had killed each other simultaneously and found ourselves together a moment after death. I cannot imagine that either of us would have felt any resentment or even any embarrassment. I think we might have laughed over it (p. 119).” Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

Did Schopenhauer just describe “Post Nut Clarity”?

ITS ABOUT DRIVE😤 ITS ABOUT POWER🔥 WE STAY HUNGRY😈 WE DEVOUR👹 1:22 PUT IN THE HOURS ⌚️ AND TAKE WHATS OURS🥶

No spouse or children. Friends will share time Caring for mom. Day is filled. Peace and Patience was what I found.

Good deeds with the material world's approval and personal goals will not fulfil you. Only the understanding of God's will, not people's, can remove such existential dread. The fruits of such a quest, will yield much joy, no matter how long it takes. He requires nothing from us. No deed, no works, no purity. His worship is entirely for our benefit .

This is unconditioned freedom, for no-one. What is appearing to happen is completely empty.

Some perspectives on life after 68 years..... Men have never been truly free for the simple fact that no one was ever consulted before being born. Life is like a prison and death is the only escape. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. In life, I am a spectator more than a participant. And the shitshow gets more entertaining with every passing day. Let my actions speak for me. I am disturbed not by things, but by the view which I take of them.( I can choose to be disturbed or not.) Make the best use of what is in my power, and take the rest as it happens. Know, first, who I am and then handle myself accordingly. My opinions matter to no one but me. It's not what happens to me, but how I react to it. Most of life is outside of my power. So, it is best to remain indifferent to those things and focus on the few things I DO control. Do the best I can and don't take life too seriously. Mind my own business. The only thing I have to fear is fear itself. Fear can be a prison. My desires can be merciless rulers. One Universal meaning to life, that I can see, is that it is here to be enjoyed. Another universal meaning to life could be that we are searching for ways to distract us from thinking about the fact that life is terminal. In the end, nothing REALLY matters.

Wait I thought post-nut clarity was a wonderful thing? Every time I have it it's perfection and thought done correctly.