Should I cut off my Fingertips?

Fingerprints are prone to change.

Music:
Kevin MacLeod - Outside Night
Kevin MacLeod - Past Sadness

#animation

[Joel-Haver]

Sorry for being so careless with my question, thanks for putting me in my place!

[ampoulgon]

I like how theres an expert in the field of cutting your finger prints off.

[doctorduck]

I remember in middle school I was in a woodshop class. The woodshop teacher had often told us a story about how when he was very young his hand got stuck in a sanding machine. Luckily he didn't lose any fingers or fingertips, but it had actually sanded his fingerprints on his left hand off. He told us that when he applied to be the woodshop teacher for that school, the school had called him asking for him to redo his application because there was just a black blob where there was supposed to be his fingerprint for his left thumb and they assumed it was an error.

[portlandbluewizard]

The mood when you're busy falling down The Spiral, insanely obsessing over your fingerprints, and somebody points out that you could double how much pointless madness you wallow in by revealing to you that you also have toes.

[thegreatandterrible]

I can feel the allegory, but I don't really know what it is.

[anselric]

Identical twins, despite having the same genetic makeup, have different fingerprints. An anatomy teacher once told me it was due to the way the two embryos move around in the womb and shake up the amino acids in each cell, causing this phenomenon. An oddly specific fact for an oddly specific video

[codexcracked]

If you aren't sure about cutting off your fingertips, you can always use acid or heat to burn off your fingerprints instead. This is a mildly painful process, but do not fear- the loss of fingerprints is temporary. Think of it like a demo of fully cutting off your fingertips!
Of course, if you don't want to go that far, you could always wear gloves for a few days ;)

[Neo]

This video summarizes the thought of: Therapy is pricey but, Making art is free

[crumb.crumblet.S.crumbington]

i saw a video once about this family that dodnt have finger prints! it was very cool! (please do not cut ur finger tips off i think it will hurt)

[axelprino]

Man, other people's existential crisis sound so strange and weird. Every person has something they obsess over, and while it can be easy to relate to that feeling, relating to the object of their obsession is much harder.
In short, this sounds familiar and completely alien at the same time.

[arceuspower]

I have never been so moved and inspired while not understanding the message whatsoever.

[benjaminkingsley-jones]

Hey, if you want even more of an existential crisis:

Even your tongue has a distinctive print that can be used to identify you!

And also, in the opposite direction, fingerprints aren’t entirely your identity - it is very possible (and multiple instances have been documented) for 2 or more people completely disconnected from one-another to be born with identical fingerprints.

[genghisjon]

As absurd of a topic cutting off your finger tips is, I can definitely relate to the thought process. Something so oddly specific and abstract can easily lead down mental rabbit holes relating back to meaning, purpose and direction in life. I'm not sure the intended purpose or message behind this video, but I can't help thinking that the thought patterns presented are much more important than the desire to cut one's fingers.

[joelkang]

I’m taking a gap year in college rn and it’s really hard seeing people move on. And I relate a lot to this guy. I also wanted to find the “right path” and be honest with myself. But I got too caught up in “roles.”

I don’t regret my decision, but seeing people make progress sometimes makes me feel like I must force it on myself. Leading me to consider making drastic changes that sound good on paper, but in reality I probably wouldn’t be happy with it (like cutting off your fingertips).

I had to learn was that although people and their opinions are valuable, as soon as I take their approval as gospel I lose myself. I’m still figuring things out and taking one step at a time but just wanted to share this part of my journey.

Thanks for reading this. And thank you Matthias for the great video as always.

[NedInYaHead]

I think this is about how following a passion or career goal in life can narrow your perspective, leading you, ironically, to become further estranged from it. When you choose something to be your identity, you tend to introspect far more about it, and without anything to ground you, there is a tendency to come to conclusions that are detached from reality, that would seem silly to people who look at it from the outside.

This man has spent so much of his life thinking about his fingerprints, he is unable to see the bigger picture without a layperson's perspective. As someone who is studying to become a game developer, this feels too real to me.

[Rum-Runner]

This is a monologue worthy of being performed on the stage. No joke.

[winstonthepooh]

This type of meaningful content, usually if someone makes things like this they explain the deep correlation it has to someone else, but I really like that he just leaves it at that, you understand but you don’t really know exactly what it means, but things I believe are best conveyed when not made obvious. For that, I love this.

[cf]

Eyyy you’re not drawing stick figures anymore, love to see the progress!

[gianniavido]

I think this video perfectly depicts curing a symptom rather than the actual disease. There is a morbid desire to be unchanging, always right, and then there are fingerprints: the manifestation of the impossibility of that unhealthy desire. So, rather than seeking help, why not just cut off your fingertips, and then your toeprints and who knows what else. Until the Disease finally consumed you, or you anderstood the pain you were into, and did something about it at the right time. Seek help people, sometimes doing the right thing is exceptionally hard. But the only way to get out of a loop is changing yourself, with help possibly.

[eatsleepplayrepeat]

This entire video is like the thoughts we have in a split second.