Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett- On Death 

I was sad to hear of Daniel Dennett's passing. Although I never met the man I am left feeling a loss. He was my teacher, he made me think and he made me smile. I am very grateful to his contributions he made during his lifetime. A great philosopher, a great teacher and a great man! You the man Dan!

240p we meet again!

I feel it is a privilege to share this planet with Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett.

these two men are demonized, attacked, misquoted and vilified by religious apologists. If that doesn't piss you the fuck off, I don't know what you're talking about. They are nothing but wonderful people, curious about the universe, and educators in their own right. And they get death threats. Who's side are YOU on?

I've shared this today as it is very sadly appropriate. We will always have Daniel Dennett's books, talks & interviews, but I will miss hearing his opinions & takes on new ideas & events. A sad loss of a man with a great mind, who has helped us all understand a little more of the great puzzle that is reality. R.I.P. Daniel Dennett, March 28, 1942 - April 19, 2024

RIP Daniel Dennett. Brilliant mind.

Usually I don't like to talk about death, but this is really nice. "I was dead for billions of years and never suffered the slightest inconvenience" or "Think about the improbability of our existence". Brilliant!

My gratitude to Dr. Dawkins. I am one of your followers and have read some of your wonderful books. My greetings and appreciation. Eddie. I love you both. Best of the best.

I usually agree with everything Richard Dawkins says, but I have a problem with telling people to "stop moaning" if they're dying or fearing death. It seems a bit patronizing, especially from someone who has had the good fortune, genetics and healthfulness to have lived to age 74. "Stop moaning and be glad to have lived at all" is awfully arrogant for a successful senior citizen to tell a 17 year old on their deathbed.

I don't really agree with how an understanding of the universe helps remove grief and fear of death. The more beautiful I find something, the harder it is to lose. If we were brought into a terrible universe where no one could come up with a single reason of why it was worth living in, it would be easy to leave it. The more beautiful the universe, the worst death is. Sometimes I think that because our Universe is so beautiful, I would have rather not existed in the first place, because then I wouldn't have to say goodbye to it all forever. It's like a cruel joke, being brought into something so amazing and fascinating, only to leave it after such a short period of time, forever.

I'm trying hard to hold back tears. I love these men so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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It is truly a privilege to exist... but to exist in this era among countless others... an era where collective knowledge from the greatest minds are at the disposal of our fingertips... being able to hear, to understand, and to process... the universal language that is English... to learn, to grow, and to appreciate... our very existence... we appreciate the teachings from the two of four horsemen featured in this video... RIP Christopher Hitchens... a privilege to learn from Professor Dawkins... may you and Dan Dennett stay healthy and content.

Interesting when Dawkins says 'it's astonishingly unlikely that you and I exist, and yet we do.'

I met Richard in the Peter Singer's video with him. Thank you for reminding us how marvelous life can be.

I lost my dad a couple of months ago, and watching this brought a tear to my eye. Less than a minute later, my doorbell rang - it was Jehova's Witnesses!

Two great minds scraping what positivity they can from a belief that offers precious little comfort in the face of death. We are not here by chance, and we were not made for oblivion. Blessings to you both ❤🙏

Daniel Dennett died today. 😢. He was a wonderful influence for me. Maybe he lives on in the ones he influenced, like me. I’ll miss him nonetheless.

I cant believe all the negativity this video has attracted! Much Love All!

What model potato was this recorded with?

I think these two intellectuals are somewhat to optimistic about the existence of life. Perhaps some philosophy by Arthur Schopenhauer is needed... "Our existence is based solely on the ever-fleeting present. Essentially, therefore, it has to take the form of continual motion without there ever being any possibility of our finding the rest after which we are always striving. It is the same as a man running downhill, who falls if he tries to stop, and it is only by his continuing to run on that he keeps on his legs; it is like a pole balanced on one’s finger-tips, or like a planet that would fall into its sun as soon as it stopped hurrying onwards. Hence unrest is the type of existence. In a world like this, where there is no kind of stability, no possibility of anything lasting, but where everything is thrown into a restless whirlpool of change, where everything hurries on, flies, and is maintained in the balance by a continual advancing and moving, it is impossible to imagine happiness. It cannot dwell where, as Plato says, continual Becoming and never Being is all that takes place. First of all, no man is happy; he strives his whole life long after imaginary happiness, which he seldom attains, and if he does, then it is only to be disillusioned; and as a rule he is shipwrecked in the end and enters the harbour dismasted. Then it is all the same whether he has been happy or unhappy in a life which was made up of a merely ever-changing present and is now at an end."

I have no problem with the idea of being dead forever, just as I never worried about the billions of years I wasn't alive. And, to tell you the truth, I don't think that life is such a wonderful thing. Perhaps I felt something like this two or three times when I was a child, but since becoming an adult I have found life to be monotonous, tiring and repetitive. Mainly because "it's impossible to be happy alone" and I don't like to depend on anyone. I learned very early on that people lie pretty much all the time (myself included) and, for some unfortunate circumstance, I hate lying. This took away my taste of living under the same roof with other human beings. Animals are the only company that never tires, bores or disappoints me. That said, the only thing that terrifies me is the DYING PROCESS: a slow, painful death is my only nightmare. A quick and painless death would be the greatest gift of all.

Richard, It would be very interesting to see you have a conversation with Aubrey de Grey about death.

its sad knowing how few people truly understand this. PS, i can say im bored sometimes because sometimes ill be almost nodding off asleep and then what seems like a lightning bolt of pure dread hits me. my heart rate speeds up and i feel like i am about to die. but it is just the fear of unconsciousness itself, eternal sleep.

RIP great mind.

Death still scares the shit out of me. I don't think people truly know the fear until they get put in the situation of having to think about eternal oblivion because they know it's coming... Terminal people know that fear.

THIS "IM LUCKY TO BE BORN" SHIT HAS TO STOP. I WAS THE STRONGEST OUT THE PATCH, I HAD MAD NIGGAS ON MY TAIL, BUGGING ME OUT, BUT I STOOD MY GROUND AND ELEVATED TO THE HIGHER LIGHT. FUCK WITH ME

If people can treasure life as these two, there would be more peace and love in this world

There is life after death. These 2 people will see it with their own 2 eyes Inshallah.

I also never met Daniel Dennett but came to know him through his books, and now the internet. He was one of the Great Ones and I was very sad to hear of his passing......but what a life he lived!

"Stop moaning". Peak British.

I am someone who doesn't really sit well with the whole "the odds on you being here are phenomenal" approach. You are alive and always would have been. It's impossible to look at it from somewhere where you weren't born. It's hard to put this into words really

In Japan it can be the opposite. Fear of being alive and for some it is more honorable to visit death than to continue being alive. Justified suicide, keeping your inconveniences out of the way of others.

Thank you Daniel. You did good while you were here.

When it comes to death, I find that having faith in an afterlife (as I did up to the age of about 5) serves as a hindrance in accepting loss. I think that believing in an afterlife causes people to deny that their loved ones are truly gone meaning that they will never get over the death. Understanding that the most probable result of death is the decay of the body rather than ascension to heaven allows people to know that the deceased individual has gone forever. Admittedly, at times it would be easier to just use the easy answer of "they are in a better place", or "when I die I will see them again" but it is damaging in the long term. It causes people to base their lives on superstition and false hope. It's like refusing an education and a career on the basis that you could win the lottery. It's just not worth the risk as the chance for reward is so slim.

How to not be afraid of death? Whenever I heard about someone that died in a horrible accident I'm afraid to die with suffering like them. And how you accept that there will be nothing after you die? How you accept that you will be nothing? help me

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Who else is here after his death? Now he is in the DMT realm and realizes death is an illusion.

A thought: If everyone in the universe died and then there was somehow only one life-form born in the entire universe after you ceased to exist - that one new life-form's experience would be the experience that comes after your death because it'd be the only experience there is.

I would say this about Dawkins's reflection on dying: What seems so logical about becoming rotten when we die is not so logical within a dimension higher than that Dawkin thinks he exists in. In a few words, suppose that we exist as excitations of an existential field (as the fields of quantum physics, something beyond a quantum gravitational field) so that dying in that dimension is very different from dying in the poor and limited dimension we believe we live in. I do believe we must rely on something beyond crude matter!

This is a difference between an American and a European looking at the vastness of the cosmos. An American sees how big and uncaring the universe is and feels small and insignificant, while a European looks at it and feels special to be one of its only parts capable of reason and wonder. I think that this difference is largely cultural, though I can't find exactly what.

The ideas about the billions of years we weren't alive shared from 2:33 onwards between the two resonate with me. I had the same epiphany years ago.

it's great privilege that we are here and can enjoy the beauty of our universe and it becomes more beautiful if we know that there is no after life.

Daniel Dennett finally got to meet Emanuel Swedenborg to get his real education

Wow, I never thought that Atheism is so close to Hinduism and Buddhism, and also Kabbalist Judaism. And like what Osho teaches. Incredible.

We were travelling in the desert and suddenly we found a nice big house which has many floors and wonderful garden and many animals. We entered this house but no one was inside. We found that house was containing all utilities such as water, electricity, light, food,...etc everything was well organized and well prepared. We were divided into two groups: 1- Some of us started to think and say of course this nice house exist because of the Mother Nature and there is no one built this house!! Or maybe the trees exploded and formed this wonderful house. Anyway this house is here just by luck! 2- Others said that of course this house was built by a very clever architect or designer who organized and designed this wonderful house in this beautiful way and he should built this house for reasons. The second group started to look around the house, then they found a mailing box. They opened it and found a letter. when they opened the letter, they found someone who claimed that he is the owner of this house and he knows everything on it and he says in this letter that each visitor will stay for a certain period of time and then he will be enforced to go out and continue his/her trip with no return back to this house. but u have to keep in mind that if you want to utilize all of the facilities on my house and spend good time there and when you go out to continue your trip, then u have to follow some easy instructions. And if you stuck in any trouble just tell me. (But why? the second group asked :) ) Because everyone will leave my house sooner or later, he will be accounted for all what he did in the house. the visitors who followed my instructions will get the real happiness in this house and when they went out and continue their trip they will gathered what all they need to continue their trip and they be rewarded a lot, the owner said. Actually, the first group who said this house was built by luck, they started to do many things in this house. They were feeling that there is big lack in their spirits and they don't know why, but they spent their time anyway until their time finished. Now, if I pick up two persons from the two groups. Both of them spent their entire life making shoes, then which one you will consider good and succeed in their stay at this house?? The one who don't know why he is in this house or the other one who knows exactly every step in his journey in the house and when he leave the house and gathered what he need when he go out from this house?? Let me introduce to u the heroes of this story: 1- The house is the universe and each person's life on it. 3- The letter is the Quran (before Quran it was the bible and Towra ) (this statement needs more explanation ) 4- The owner of the house: Allah, the creator of the universe 5- The second group are the believers or the right followers of prophets 6- The first group are more than half of the people on the earth now.

this is beautiful

I still can't wrap my head around that the odds of us being here is like a tornado that blows through an old junk yard and out comes a fully built flying Boeing 707. These are unfathomable odds.

RIP Daniel Dennett 🕊️

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I don't see how musings about the unlikelihood and beauty of my current existence can be consoling when, lying on my death-bed, it's the immediate threat of the end of that very same existence that disturbs me in the first place. Whether I'm the American president, a biologist from England, or a witch doctor from Haiti -- all my skills, experiences, and memories will disappear with me. And since one day all mankind will go extinct it's also pointless to foster the hope to live on in ones descendants. All human achievements and scientific discoveries will be lost. Life is meaningless. Unless, of course, there really is a divine Logos in whom we live, move, and have our being.

Which pixel is Richard Dawkins?

I'd rather die than live forever

Beautiful

It is a Huge privilege to be here. And Spirit, Eternity, Consciousness exists and that is it really, after all this Life, things go on.....and if you live a creative life that is quite something too.

And now Daniel can experience It himself

There's plenty of well known ancient historians who wrote about Jesus, one of which being Luke who also wrote a gospel. There's about 42 documents saying something about Jesus, a lot of which are not positive of Christianity. Some historians also account for Jesus miracles recorded in the gospels or just that Jesus was famous for miracles that they claim are illusionist tricks, or sorcery. An example is a record from Thallus in the 50's A.D. mentioning the darkness that occurred during Jesus crucifixion and attempting to explain it as a solar eclipse. Africanus, who quoted this record about 2 centuries later, mentioned that an eclipse wouldn't be possible because it happened during the Jewish Passover, when the moon is full and diametrically opposite from the sun. Both of these historians records only survive as quotes in other records, like one by Eusebius, from what was still left of their work during the time. Tacitus, born 56 A.D., wrote in his Annals in 116 A.D. that Christians were killed for saying Jesus was resurrected. He wrote, "Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular". Suetonius, born 69 A.D., wrote in 122 A.D., "After the great fire at Rome . . . . Punishments were also inflicted on the Christians, a sect professing a new and mischievous religious belief". The only way that many people would believe that Jesus was resurrected was if they actually saw him. Even his most devoted listeners doubted his resurrection until they saw him and some even after, or didn't immediately recognize him. The same culture that wanted Jesus to be executed, with the accusation of apostasy and sorcery is not going to suddenly change their minds about him and invent stories in agreement with his claims that they had hated him for. None of them could have hallucinated him either, because neurological research has shown that shared hallucinations don’t happen because people’s thoughts are too varied. Hallucinations also can't happen when you aren’t expecting to see the image or have no care to. Paul on his way to Damascus saw and heard Jesus, and Paul was with other people who too heard Jesus but didn’t see him because they turned away, because the light of Jesus was so bright that it blinded Paul. Again multiple people seeing the same thing that they didn't expect. The talmud records that Jesus was arrested for accusation of apostasy and sorcery and that no one defended him in his trials. Simply knowing the culture of his time is enough to deduce that the converts were reporting a real encounter. It's recorded that one of the disciples touched Jesus after he appeared to them and that he ate. Paul records having met about 500 witnesses. These new testament accounts are consistent with Josephus and the Roman historical records about Jesus and the teaching of his resurrection. The only known forgery recording Jesus is of an account by Josephus, born 37 A.D., but historians know that Josephus wrote an original that Christians later altered. There is a copy of it in another language, older than most other copies, that has none of the Christian praise in the interpolation. Josephus wrote elsewhere of Jesus, in his book, Antiquities in 95 A.D.. He wrote, "and brought before them the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James". There is no alteration of that account. We have earlier evidence for Jesus than most other ancient people, recorded by historians who were alive when most of the witnesses of the events still were. Records of Augustus, Tiberius, Hannibal and Nero weren't made until much later after their lives. A few other such historians were Emperor Trajan, born 53 A.D.; Pliny the Younger, born 61 A.D.; and Phlegon, born 80 A.D.. Most other ancient people weren't recorded until a century or more after the events, including kings and emperors, and they aren't disputed either. Its not just Christians who trust these accounts, most non-Christian historians don't deny Jesus was real. it's mostly the miracles that are controversial, but with no evidence inconsistent with them, just skepticism that miracles can even happen. The reason Roman emperors had miracles attributed to them was because of threats to anyone who did not record those stories, like with Alexander, because they wanted a more glorified reputation. Most of those records of the Emperors weren’t written until centuries later anyway. www.garyhabermas.com/.../historicaljesus.htm... reasonsforjesus.com/26-powerful-reasons-why.../ No one who ever wrote about Jesus was ever questioned by anyone about if he actually existed. People who knew anything about Jesus would be around to say how accurate these claims were that were being recorded. There were plenty of people who hated his teachings who would have loved to refute that he was real, but he was seen by too many people. There are over 5000 copies of the new testament in its original language and over 24,000 total, all of which are mostly consistent with each other and modern translations. The earliest copy still around is dated to before the third century. The only differences are the story of Jesus and the prostitute not being in the oldest copies and textual variants. The second best preserved document is Homers Iliad, with only over 600 total copies, and the earliest being 300 years after the original. We know the New Testament was completed before the second century because Clement of Rome and Ignatius of Antioch quote it in the late first century. The gospels are the earliest of the New Testament. historyforatheists.com/.../easter-the-existence.../ www.str.org/w/-misquoting-jesus-answering-bart-ehrman

I don't buy the whole "I didn't care about before when I was alive" Its like saying "You don't care about the time before you had this car, why should you care now that is been taken away? "

What's the title of the poetry? Thanks

I don't understand how they square the "you're lucky to be alive" idea with the quote from Mark Twain moments later: "I was dead for billions and billions of years before I was alive and never suffered the slightest inconvenience". The former idea seems to suggest that inanimate matter is elevated to a privileged or "better" position when it possesses consciousness, and since the odds against the particular matter that makes up "me" becoming conscious is so high, I am somehow "lucky". But then the latter idea from Mark Twain suggests that "not alive" things don't care that they're not alive. So how is being alive better than not being alive? How am I "lucky"? It's as if they think that I was in some worst, less desirable state before I was born, and now I'm in a better, more desirable state. And I should be considered "lucky" because the dice roll to see who gets to be "alive" came up snake eyes and "I" won something. I really have no idea what they're talking about when they say I should feel "lucky"...

i have lost my slavish admiration for dawkins 'though i continue to support his foundation. his approach or affect does not endear him to a schlub like me. i do not have a legacy of books or a family but i still don't have trouble with the notion that death means lights out. i would not want this life to go on forever. even if the species makes it for 100 years or so (which i don't think it will), the dawkins/dennett/ legacy will not go beyond that so it's not like their existence is more significant than mine. we are all subatomic specs in the universe. man is another animal BUT that doesn't mean i can't enjoy each day to its fullest by doing the things that nurture me and my community.

That beard is so fluffy☺

fuck!I'm jealous that i don't know English too good,to clearly understand the great conversations between the great people like this.

When curiosity and wonder on the mystery of existence come under attack by ANY ideology, this species has no hope left. These two are great inspirations for me. Thanks for the upload. Oh, and fuck the trolls. Don't even respond and feed the fire of their ignorance and need for conflict.

Dawkins is reading from his own book, Unweaving the Rainbow, at the end. It strikes me as being similar to the ending of Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker.

I don’t know, but I’m inclined to believe that both of them are wrong. I tend to think there is not just matter, or that matter is far far beyond anything that has yet been discovered, conceived, or understood by anyone except the deepest mystics, and I don’t believe we “understand what has brought us here” in the least. But the thinking here is brilliant, and uplifting and profound. These men, modern Zarathustras, are to be saluted for their embrace of life.

It's a privilege to exist IF one lives healthy and in safety. It's hell to exist IF one lives in pain and suffering.

The world will miss him, whether it knows it or not

Is Dennett 7ft tall or something? He towers over Dawkins.

You are surrendering to death, that doesnt have to be a bad thing, but it isnt a good thing either. I prefer to stay a live for a while.

These guys don't work out regularly, which could delay the inevitability of their demise. Many intellectuals seem to work out the mind, but not the body, really failing to realize the best way to improve the mind is through exercise.

2:00 Did Peter Jackson position the camera? Dawkins looks like a fuckin' dwarf in the presence of Dennett the White.

I guess I prefer to look at it the way Christopher Hitchens did-we live on, if not as conscious beings, then by the lasting effects we have on the world. For Hitchens, it was his work and his children, but we all have something we'll change the world with.

RIP Dan Dennett.

What if there is God after you die? And he already gave us warning about what is going to happen after life through his prophets and you deny them thinks your limited brain and knowledge is supreme?

Dawkins’ “improbability of your existence” death consolation seems misleading because many (including probably he & Dennett) interpret it as: “I am special because I am improbable-while everything else isn’t”. In reality *everything* is “improbable” in Dawkins’ sense-from the specific arrangement of dust particles or snowflakes on a roof (as opposed to some other arrangement), to the specific existence, uniqueness, travel path etc of a bacterium, mosquito or meteor, to the specific shape of an ocean wave, a rock, cow dung etc. If this “improbability” was enough to console for death, humans wouldn’t have invented culture, as: “Everything cultural is fabricated and given meaning by the mind, a meaning that was not given by physical nature. Culture is in this sense ‘supernatural,’ and all systematizations of culture have in the end the same goal: to raise men above nature, to assure them that in some ways their lives count in the universe more than merely physical things count.” (Ernest Becker)

Life. Joy, sorrow, hurt, healing, like, dislike, love, hate. Being a human being being human. Death None of the above.

That look Dawkins gave at the end...

For some, life is an act less preferable to death. For others, life is a gift which must not be squandered. What I think, is that the realities of existence are subjective, personal, common only to the beholder. Perhaps it is true that a majority of the living cannot see the beauty, the sheer dumb luck of their own existence, but for some we must acknowledge a difference in view. Suffering is not always a transient, temporary period, it can be permanent, unendurable. So let us not forget that life is both the beauty and the beast.

I am terrified that there's no one to replace these men/women (Ali, too). Hitchens was a monumental loss- his voice, though controversial re: war stance, didn't detract his atheist stance. All we have left, to stop our planet from imploding due to insanity due to religion, are these folks...

Was this filmed on a potato? Why is it 240p

At 2:00 Dawkins is so right. How the hell are people bored? I have enough projects and passions for a 100 life times. Boredom just means a lack of imagination and motivation.

Humans rely on god to face the challenges they face in life. Eg. they pray for longevity. Its not that they pray to save the world. They pray for their own wellbeing.

I'm not afraid to die anymore. It sounds like peace for a while from this crazy first heaven

here's my consolation: every century our knowledge of the Universe and reality in general have been expanding far beyond what people had imagined. It would be extremely arrogant and irrational to assume we occupy some special place in history today when we know the grand scheme of things. The reality is likely far richer and the future generations will keep uncovering more and more of it. With genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, advances in quantum physics (and this is only what we can imagine today), who knows what role our existence today, and consciousness specifically, will play on the map of the future intelligence who will control information processing on unimaginable levels. Perhaps this life is only one form, a fluctuation in the never ending field of information.

AWESOME VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had no idea Daniel Dennett was so tall😮

I have broken Bread with you in a yellow victorian home with Dan as a child with his family. Our Lord died on a Cross for you and all of in this fallen world so he could make a way for us in eternal life with the father of creation and you seek to exhault yourself out of incompleteness with his love. I am no longer a child. I would challenge in maturity to share a meal and she his love for you. Mathew 11:28 "come to me all you who are weiry and heavy laden and I will give you rest."

Richard Dawkings has many tattoos under his shirt.

Rip Daniel D.

I didn't realise that Dennett was so tall or is Dawkins shorten than I thought? "Stop whinging" is good advice from Dawkins. Yes thanks friends and family for a great human life with knowledge from a long history of our species. Thanks for all the science and history and reason, I will be dead for a very long time. Dawkins thanks Darwin, but I must thank Darwin and Dawkins. Dawkins has put evolutionary biology into the age of DNA. I believe his book, "The Greatest Show on Earth" is one of the greatest true stories ever told. And thank you Dr Dennett for all your work as well.

We will miss Daniel. Rest in Peace !

Anti-natalists would vomit listening to this.

There is no doubt that consciousness is one of evolution's remarkable gifts. I find that glib statement comes even more to life when I realize that I am experiencing some of this consciousness. And I fully agree with Richard that before I was conceived everything was fine since for me it wasn't. After my time passes everything will also be fine since for me it will not be. Not a big deal. But here we are and it is up to us to make our lives and the lives of others as positive as possible. Here again we can set the switch between appreciation or despair. My best to Dan and thanks for what both he and Richard have done to raise my own consciousness.

I cannot be so presumptive as tell people to stop complaining about life. We do not know what's in the mind and experience of another. I would llke to think I would start of with a recognition and validation of the others rights and experience and then go in on the reality of experience and existence. Yes, to be alive is great and rare and to be aware as we are above that is perhaps the most beautiful thing I've ever contemplated, but we also have our histories and we are still alive and human. Don't tell them to stop winging. Respect them, love them and then help them to see existence better. I love Dawkins verve but Dennett has this wonderful calm about him. How will we handle dying? We won't know until we do. But I'm very Ok with the moment my brain activity ceases, I cease. So far the reason for life is just being alive. And that is incredible. Words can't actually describe what it looks and feels like. Dennett in this video tries to express it but he knows he can't. This is the only truth we know about life and existence. And it is more than enough. To risk sounding silly, it's supercallifragilisticexpeallidocious. All the descriptors for joy, beauty wonder, awe, gratefulness, .. all put together in the right sequence hardly does it justice. And there doesn't appear to be any diety that fits into this beauty.

Every day i wish I never existed , it’s a terrible thing to live in the first place , life to me seems very scary and people are animals and are just horrible

Daniel looks like Santa more than Darwin😀😀😀😀😀

What sources of information did Richard Dawkins and his assistants use when studying Leo Tolstoy’s views regarding religion? The fact is that the content and results of the intellectual, philosophical, and spiritual search of Leo Tolstoy are completely misrepresented in the film "Sex, Death and Meaning of Life". I believe that in this particular case the scientist could not correctly approach a subject of study because he restricted himself by using secondary sources of information. In brief, Tolstoy, as well as R.Dawkins, proposed to abolish the God of Abraham. L.Tolstoy entirely denied religious mysticism (this led to his excommunication in 1901). L.Tolstoy arrived to the idea of a god as a humanistic concept of the unity of all people: "Christianity not as mystical teaching, but rather as new life-understanding". Taking into account the cross-cultural studies of sociopathy, each society needs the teaching of life-understanding in some form.

240p shouldn't even exist

Was this recorded with a Bible?