Meaning is a Jumper That You Have to Knit Yourself

Edit as of September 2020. How in the hell can you pin things to a blackboard. I don't remember what I was smoking when I made this, but I want more.

[Jhonconnor]

This video should be shown as a welcome to earth video to every newborn.

[jprice]

Your videos are existential bliss. PLEASE continue to rip apart the human condition and sew it back together with rationality and compassion.

[vverlaine]

I was searching how to wash a knitted sweater.. and i end up finding you ._.

[yao]

No matter how bad you are, you're not useless. You can still be used as a bad example

[CasuallyExplained]

This is just my 2 cents, but I think the tricky thing for most of us is grappling with the idea that meaning and inspiration are deeply intrinsic and spontaneous, but you are 100% responsible for creating the circumstances where you'll experience them. Most people stumble their way into something motivating by chance, like meeting their SO at a party; someone at work invites them rock climbing and they love it; or getting into an actually enjoyable career because their parents made them do the degree, but if you're waiting for those things to happen I really think it's a defensive/losing play. I think the most practical thing you can do is deciding to take the initiative/responsibility and invite your friends out to try new things, do a hobby alone, host a party, travel, watch/listen to inspirational people at the top of a field to see where you'd like to be, really just taste things that might grip you, and then once you see something bigger down the line, it's just a matter of figuring out how to progress there and that's meaningful. Even if you're paralyzed by choice, then tell yourself you'll try something just to prove it's not the right thing to do.

[johnyamahm]

Ironically these videos help me with my existential dread.

[Ahypnion]

Please don't ever delete this. I come back here periodically, take something new from it each time, and seriously need this video to remind myself of what really matters.

[bigcuck]

That's it. I'm gonna do it bois. I'm going to fulfil my lifelong ambition of becoming the worlds most notorious mass murderer. Thank you exurb1a for giving me the push I didn't know I needed.

[pcandrsn]

"...certain breakaway British territories what what..." I genuinely laughed out loud. Thank you for that, and for your wonderful videos and sparkling wit. From an unseemly upstart resident of a breakaway British colony. What what. ☺️

[noshow]

"You will never live through a war directly"
Me, a syrian who lived there two years during the (still ongoing) war: *nervous laughter

[damondominique]

These are kinds of concepts you get so freaked out thinking about that you have to dumb yourself down by putting on some Top 40 to forget that you were just thinking that deeply. Ignorance is bliss?

[osmanika]

Pretty presumptuous to say I didn't consent to being brought into life.. I like to imagine that I paid a lot of money for this simulation in the universe above, and while I'm here I intend to make the most of my money

[ludbud]

Exurb : “Were all balls in a cosmic game of pool”

Also exurb: “Have purpose!”

[JustinY.]

Out of the hundreds of channels I'm subbed, I'm always excited to see another video from you.

[oliverwhisker-leon]

For those who missed the cat frame, for you:
To answer the inevitable question, The Destroyer of Worlds isn’t just imitating a plant pot, she’s just recovering from a bit of surgery. She’s amply fussed and is currently training for her participation in the No Giving a Fuck championships.

Your welcome, I think

[wazkss]

>buy a game
>now you have a goal in life=meaning of life
>to complete this game
>you ultimately do it
>then you buy another game and repeat

>endless goals in life
>???
>profit

[dimbulb]

I'm 74, here's the secret.
Life has no meaning for you anymore than the life of fly has meaning.
The Cosmos doesn't care about either of you.
Lower your expectations and just go get an ice cream.
I like to think about James, he mended shoes in London in the 15th Century.
Surely he was real or if not someone much like him.
The mender of shoes is gone now.
I hope he enjoyed something, maybe bread when it was nice and warm.
I hope he had expectations that allowed him to enjoy something.
Life is what it is and it most definitely isn't about me, James or you.

[zachappel]

Unsure if you’ll see this, but I work at a rehab facility in America and run a group based around this video once a month, essentially anatomizing our patients’ sense of meaning. It’s helped lead to a lot of therapeutic breakthroughs, so I just wanted to say thank you, keep doing what you’re doing

[mars]

*certain breakaway British territories*

[MynameisJoey]

[Reads title] That doesn't make sense!
[Watches video] That makes perfect sense!