Why We're Fated To Feel Lost - The Philosophy Of Albert Camus 

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keldra alpine literally, yeah, but in other context it is more than its literal meaning.

Thats beautiful bro

One can feel lost and be unable to go anywhere. This, it seems to me, is the main reason I was never a big fan of continental philosophy. It's most likely because I haven't studied it deeply enough, but these philosophers never seem to take into consideration material things like one's socio-economic status. Lots of folks feel lost and would like to have some sense of purpose, belonging and community. But their material circumstances just won't allow for it. They're trapped in a system that uses them as cheap, disposable parts. And no matter how much Camus they read they won't be able to do anything until these circumstances change.

but what is it that i want? i cant seem to answer that myself other than death and eternal rest.

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source?

We all strive to escape the notion of nihilism

Sooo my dog? Awesome

Thank you for posting this. At 39, and an Army combat veteran, I’ve relentlessly searched for the perfect string of words placed in a specific order to explain this idea I just couldn’t grasp and as validation of a sense of solidarity. Even though I’m very familiar with Camus, I’ve never heard this quote, or at least haven’t retained it. As simple as this quote is, it’s the string of words I’ve been searching for my entire life.

If you live with your eyes and mind open, you can find happiness in the damnest places. Sometimes it’s a real struggle to just walk outside, but I’m always glad I did. Happiness is sometimes just a content feeling, and that is good enough most times. Peace.

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good

Think i saw this in a cartoon too

Thanks

I believe Viktor Frankl said that first.

And the first time i read this is in one of Ryan Higa's video 😅

"Clean your room and take the trash out" - Mom?

I''l ruin it watch this...one must imagine Sisyphus unhappy.

@@shatterdreamz2325 I'll try to not think of that one lol. But it's interesting despite its possible self evident conclusion.

The thing though is that he must be happy. Because if he wasn't, then how could we have gotten this far. Right?

Sisiphys was a dickhead.

He was prolly in good shape!

Dude lmfao. While i was literally telling my friend he dies too much in gta, i looked at my phone and saw your comment. Destiny

Only 5 times? Amateur

lol seriously, when im sitting the graveyard yet again i have this personal crisis

have you heard of dark souls? you will start to question your sanity.

Git gud u filthy casul

To be happy you must choose happiness.

@Jaime Alonzo When the self is vainly worshiped above all else. The extreme.

Why so serious?

That's called narcisissm and it's a dis order

Vodkacannon It’s one quote, meant to be read in context. Maybe you’re a narcissist.

I agree,and our sole purpose on this planet is 1. Survival 2. Survival of our species,survival by itself is our primal drive,we want to be alive,we are wired up that way,and we want to be far away from death and that means we want better survival conditions,and we could apply that in the modern world by having more money and more resources,after that comes a will to have children and pass our genes,take care of them and love them and teach them to be able to gather their own resources later in life(same as the lion teaches cubs to hunt),and that's it.

Exactly lol

Marko Kraljević yeah, for sure that’s the main meaning in life as a living being

Than does life have meaning even if I say it has meaning as you say it is Than why would meaning matter?

Grew point of view on life my friend that's what life is all about making the best of it even if it seems absurd at times tho.

Underrated comment.

We have no choice but to like it since it's all we've got

brilliant

Killer response !

At first sight, it is just a witty comment. After second thought, It is beyond just a simple humor. It really contains the spirit of this video's core lesson. Especially considering you thought of this humor when you were watching this serious videos.

Did you find a way out of the cul de sac of your absurd existence or did you embrace it in all its absurd futility?

JeffRebornNow -I escape, I embrace, escape, embrace. Ad-nauseam.

Smug Anime Girl -I’ve experienced those out of body moments numerous times through my life. It happened to me quite often in grade school when I had to stand up and speak to the class. Fear of public speaking, quite common. I would detach from what I was saying and go on auto-pilot, observing myself as if i was looking from another room. Weird, strange and kinda fun. Maybe fun isn’t the word, but it wasn’t unpleasant.

@@tubhair You felt alienated in grade school? You're a born existentialist, aren't you?

I once read a response to the question “What is life?” The answer was “Wrong question. Ask instead What do I want to experience next?”

I agree but people will take advantage of your kindness.

TM of course, so then you cut those people out of your life.

Is it negative, if its true?

Jack Worthington it is a waste of time focusing on negativity.

not true, just something manipulative hedonistic people say to avoid guilt while expecting deprived others to unhealthily bottle up their hurt inside, instead of rightfully claiming validation by letting their hurts and hates be expressed. I really would kindly ask that you delete this comment so that giving people who have been taken advantage of don't feel guilted or hurt by it. It's ok to hate, hate exists for a reason, and it's not right to repress it when it's honest and pure.

nigga u edited it and still fail grammar

You two dumbasses can’t even get grammar right yourselves who are you to talk lmao

This channel is everywhere tho lol

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might be a bit late (2 years haha) but try Philosophize This!

That sounds very Zen. The quote from Bruce Lee is coming from a buddhist zen koan I believe.

Bro word up Jeet Kune Do

Heavy

Zen flesh, zen bones. One of the best koan collections

No meaning in this game unless you make it right? all we got are rules, a few rather easy to follow rules. or so i'd like to think

I find meaning through those who confess the universal lack of meaning. Oddly enough.

@@StayClear4321 almost like they've given you a clean slate to start your life proper!

@@silverman824 exactly!

Leigh Foulkes I think it’s because genius is almost always rejected when first confronted and it always takes time to understand and comprehend someone else’s wisdom

Question what about the 21st century? I think you might have gotten you centurys wrong 1800=19th century 1900=20th century 2000=21st century (now)

@Paulus Rosa bullshit

Not only the Buddha but Hinduism and Stoicism have similar perception of life

Same as the Philosopher in the book of Ecclesiastes. Except that he still keeps God in the picture.

Nice to see this Hicks quote here. Thanks for keeping his msg moving.

Except we're the ones in the driver's seat!

That's the difference between nihilism and stoicism, though both look the same on the outside.

or you can cheat and commit suicide. then you dont have to be happy, or have desires, or suffer in anyway because u no longer exist. people when they find no meaning dont decide to suicide. they also suffer living (as does anyone) but they prefer not living over living, and that's the most difficult decision to take action upon. obviously not living is the winner if you wake up everyday to sadness and pain.

Tobori Ethics is trying to think through the problem that arises when I pursue that which makes me happy happens to make others unhappy. You can say that we can’t be responsible for how we make another feel, but what if your act makes you responsible. Meaning is the ethic that enables people to live together happily. That means embracing the thing that makes us unhappy at times. It’s messed up, but it’s a little more complex than pursuing what makes us happy.

Tobori, you felt free when you realized the meaningless of life, i felt lost. Probably because that happened in a very bad moment in my life. What i am trying to say is that our response isn't disconnected from our personal life and how we fell in general. Now i'm starting to fell free, because i'm recovering thanks to therapy

I like that theory a lot. But I do believe in a god and Jesus cause they are the beings, that makes us most be positive, loving, caring, and help you achieve your goals. I’m writing on here cause like the rest of you who’s trying to find meaning in your life I want to find mines. I feel like most of the people on this planet think they will feel completed if they get married to someone have a few kids and be happy right? When you look at sitcoms, movies, books, the internet those ppl who most of you want to be. U see them depressed and stressed for having to pay their bills pay their kids student loan and not to mention to the dudes on here who is working, with a family to support, you tell other people to not get married or you screwed. I will ask this to those married ppl that tells others not to marry or have kids why didn’t you just use a fucking condom dumbass? U complaining about your shitty life and how hard shit is that you don’t realize what you did, I’ll want you did cause you yourself thought...... yeah that’s want I need a wife and a kid and a shittyass job to be happy. Cause that’s what people think, if you want to feel complete or happy or whatever. (When u just overpopulating the world with you frigging kids and in the process hurting earth, in my opinion a 2 child policy for each couple will do wonders. Anyways just saying good luck to you all of y’all who is sacrificing for the life they want instead for settling for the life they don’t want to do shit for. Just get high, drink, fuck with protection on yous idiots. Be happy, travel do whatever you want that you think will work and for-fill or contributes to your personal life’s goals instead of thinking I want a fucking family then end up unhappy, think about how it means, I want to be happy b4 having a fucking stupidass kid.!!!! Well that’s my 2 sense, well way over 2 sense. Take it easy and drive slow people, take so you can really see things for what they are, explore, feel b4 getting knocked up. Anyways take care and happy Thursday. I hope someone will read this at least one person will be awesome.

On the contrary. It's telling you that you should force yourself to seek arbitrary things to take seriously.

Yep, that's true.

school of life?

@Sally April erm I dunno I think they are both kinda subjective, aren't they?

@Sally April Well that's fresh news to me so I ought to check it out

oh and (forgot) thanks for the tip

I was just starting San Andreas over lmao

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Lmao this should be the top comment

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Yes, I guess that an earthworm doesn't think to much of living in the dirt. When I think about living in the dirt, all I want to do is wake up this side of it. Other than that, the last person who told me I think too much, I considered her opinion and didn't give it much credence. I make the assumption that your question was rhetorical but I wasn't quite sure. Thanks for your effort.

@@stevesayewich8594 would you say the pursuit of truth and meaning (or lack of) is worth it even though it normally ends in self suffering. The greatests writers and thinkers tend to have some form of depression or existential nihilsm , even scientists. Is the cost of knowledge worth its pursuit , or is living life as a mere bystander , a watcher of the play , a better way to live. Is happiness worth more than the truth?

@@StayClear4321 Thanks for asking. I have paid the price and hopefully will continue to do so. Mine is not a life lived in the abstract. I experience and therefore I am. I have gotten to the point of considering Camus" definition of a meaningful life. When asked he said, "Anything you do that prevents your suicide." The truth, my truth, is all I have and in war it came very close. Yet, at those times I have been close to death, I was closest to life.

……………...as it turns out , we are just a kind of rust fungus on the planet, wearing it down to a another dead nub orbiting a dying star. We are the universe being aware of itself, ..guess we should worship the astrophysicists.

@@carolnorton2551 Carol Norton, I came back around to find your consideration of a self aware universe to be worth my consideration. I turn to my right and on my night stand is the book, "The Self-Aware Universe," by Amit Goswami. It concerns how consciousness creates the material world. Have you ever considered the idea of Panpsychism or the idea that everything has consciousness? David Chalmers has given it thought and around 1995 CE termed it, "The Hard Problem." Cosmology, Astrophysics, Quantum Mechanics and The Unified Field Theory are mindful ways of thinking about thinking. I'm just amazed at the wonder of it all. Wow.. Iron Oxide...You....Self Reflecting!!!

Beautifully said.

Streets of Vancouver -thank you so much.

No it isn't. There is nothing wrong with being distracted if that is what you consciously choose.

UnYin99 if you want to embrace a life of sensual (e.g., taste, touch, smell, etc.) distractions that’s your choice... but it’s a solipsists’ choice that is neither noble nor enriching in the long term

Can someone please help me find something that inspires me :( I really need it

and yet, encouraging. i guess the real question is what is it that which keeps ypu alive, no matter how absurd it may be.

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One day it won't be.

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Johan Gustavsson No. You can’t blame it on others. People around you, and the ‘system’ is manipulating you, yes. But we’ve got free will, which mean we deliberately let them/it control us.

A refraising if I might add. You will never feel lost if you know enough to realize that you have the ability to manipulate your life for the better. Bad friends? Delete their contact/ your the bad friend? Fix your nature/ depressing job? Endure it until you've saved enough to make the switch but always work towards what you want. Remember that you have a mind and you own yourself no matter what your current situation is, I personally call it, suffering to suffer less in the future and eventually live in paradise. You've got the power to win if you work smart and figure life out.

How’d you get to know enough?

@@alrightthengreat through your community, curiosity, and human desire for better.

You are a person though. So if it is human nature to inhibit people well... That would mean the first part of your claim is untrue.

Eduardo Ramirez that’s me tapping in and watching through your consciousness

Thats Tinnitis, bro...you'll be alright.

Sounds like Watts

How else can it, you ask? It can't! Lol. The universe doesn't exist. That's how! Even if the universe DID exist, it isn't actually there. Because there is no one around, to observe it. We are the builders of reality. WE call energy into matter, by observing it. This was proven a long time ago. THAT, should be enough to fill in a lot of puzzle pieces for you. But most people, miss the significance of this particular law of reality. It means we ARE special, Not insignificant, as science would have you believe. It means God is real. It means a lot of things. But too bad, we have all been programmed to be self-limiting. At any rate, revelations are usually immediately followed by cullings. So, by all means, be ignorant. 😉 There's no rich folks, without poor folks, right? Lol. Tricky tricky. But, all will turn out, as it should. You just need to make sure not to run out of popcorn.

@@thediplomasta5891 yes materialism is dead. We get it . Idealism is so post modern lol

@@thediplomasta5891 So if a thief walks into your house and steal your stuff while no one is around, the rob haven't occured because there was no observers? Tell me more about that, please.

Psychobellic he can’t because he’s gone too far. As with any philosophy there’s a time to stop with it. The universe is absurd and the majority of things within it are unknown and will remain unknown likely forever. Does that mean it’s not real? Probably not. We exist and observe the universe. We act upon it and it acts upon us. We are characters, not authors. We don’t know when the book begins or ends or even why it is being written. We can’t believe things into existence. We can only observe and bare the burden that is existence. This is our fate. Existence is a punishment and a reward. And the only thing we can know for sure is that we exist. Anything more is just observation

This. Exactly. We find each other on line But miss each other in life.

Did your perception of live change throughout life? Do you think you are the same person as always? I'm only 19 but since i can remember i am the same person and my 'personality' didnt change much. People say you grow up or you change but i never experianced it. I always was very rational as i am now.

@@LordDark102 answer, no I never changed in my head however I had to learn to adapt to the world changing around me. At times that can make you feel like you have changed but if you still hold the same values ,you haven't. It gets confusing and you go through " phases " ,but you will still be you in the end. Did that help? Life is for the living of it nothing more. Have a wonderful day, every day. A day full of wonder......

@@jimsmith9853 it would seem that online and real life can be one and the same. Just keep your you ,you. Others are out here and maybe they will find you or you will find them, in the flesh. Don't give into all the " stuff " around you, always be true to your self. Have a wonderful day, every day. A day full of wonder.......

Eh, no. It should have started with this video. The quest for meaning itself is the meaning.

@@youtubeviolatedme7123 A magic trick lose its charm once you know how it works... no matter how fascinating it was

I’d recommend stoic philosophy. I came to similar conclusions but found the stoics had spent millennia refining the way to think and accept reality. I replaced the despair of immortality and meaninglessness with a sense of liberation as it means it’s all down to me and how I choose to view the world. Like Epictetus said: What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

Robert Dabob -we strive❣

Weird right

LSD and other psychedelics opens the whole spiritual world and helps you find meaning in life and helps you find out who you are and how to balance the ego.

Dan B - not trying to bum you out. I remember when NDEs were first becoming well known and reported in the media. The floating away from your body, the tunnel, white light, friends and relatives that had already died there to greet you, etc. At any rate, I read a study in the mid/late 80s (either SCIENCE or NATURE, I don't remember). It basically just tabulated common "occurrences" in those who'd experienced a NDE. Had a fairly large sample of adults, but it also included children. Less than 15 in total , age 12 and under, as I recall. At any rate, they all described a very similar experience - with the exception of the people who greeted them on the "other side." In the cases of the children it was their Mom and Dad or a sibling or Teacher. People who were still alive.

​@@unrulysimian3897 If you are resting your entire opinion of NDE's on one study then I can't help you. Also, a very old study, modern NDE research has taken things to en entirely different level of detail and specificity. Also it's pretty normal for children to have greeters on the other side appear to them as people they are familiar with, it's part of the comforting process for one and secondly, most children are too young to have dead relatives so there's so one to actually greet them. The fact your concentrating on that small detail rather than the fact that children, with no real deep biases or concepts of an afterlife are reporting basically the same experience as adults which simply bolsters the entire NDE research

@@garyfloyd3541 It absolutely can, many people specifically lose their fear of death having consumed psilocybin.

I had an NDE, and I’m not sure if I’d call it consciousness, but I sure as hell knew who I was, but I wasn’t who I Am Now.

Heyo how are you?

You make a lot of sense. I have found that when I have found help that I absolutely did not deserve, that my attitude underwent a subtle but profound change. When I encounter difficulty or pain, I don't suffer much self-pity. And that is gratifying. I still get angry about things that go wrong, but I usually see what I am doing wrong or I ask for help. This is what makes life worthwhile. Religious people would call this grace.

Ah, but does that mean the altruistic are technically acting out of self-interest? I'm not going full Ayn Rand here and saying that altruism is evil or anything, but I do believe that altruism is always inherently a selfish action.

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ashes to ashes, funk to funky

Well I know we can die but why r we alive in the first place ok is to have fun fine but I think thrs more to life then fun and dying

@@lovepeaceisneverguaranteed7385 I would like to think that as well but if it's not the case we waste our lives waiting for it

@@elmao4927 Yeah life is just a crazy journey until we die tho

@@lovepeaceisneverguaranteed7385 Gotta make the best of it

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I think you're lost!!! Without meaning why you cooking food? It's not fanney?

But if you help others because it brings you joy, aren't you technically just being altruistic out of self-interest?

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How do you know the beginning and the end ? This is absurdity.

What victory?

@@kevinrmirezardila778 whatever you want it to be. Your goal. We feel like we need to know what our purpose is sometimes, finding that answer will make us feel lower than when we started feeling. There is no answer*.

That's the fascinating thing though. Sisyphus' life is, essentially, that of eternal suffering. There is no "victory at the end", no satisfaction at having rolled the rock up the mountain... it just starts again. Contrarily, Camus says you should 'imagine Sisyphus happy'.

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