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  • I Love The Video The Unsettling Truth About Life It Can Increase My Knowledge

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  • South Park creators. lol. brilliant.

  • Very similar to Schopenhauer, especially the relation to music.

  • I think that earth and everything is so simple, and that there is a real,greater, better place thats truly amazing, whether we fimd it in life or when we dir

  • I new this reminded me of southpark

  • Well done, I can only agree with this video. At this point there are 8 dislikes hmmm! whats there to dislike. This is totally feasible

  • What year did Matt and Trey make this?

  • I disagree ip

  • They took err jeerbs

  • Not sure how naive I am being, but I think this video plus a recent blog about a med student who wants out of med school.... made me realize something.

    All the money and superficial things that society values - none of that can match the thing of time. Time is priceless. I'm 21. I'm going to aim to do what I like, but do it in a way that is also financially tactful and not wrecklessly either.

  • @YellowLittleDucky If only I could upvote this more than just once.

  • this video is great, alan watts is really great lateral thinker, if someone asks what does thinking outside of the box means, tell them to listen to alan watts

  • Just say "Screw you guys, I'm going home".

  • You don't need the "arts" to learn to enjoy the dance. You do need to be able to read, do math, science and understand the greatness of the past.

  • @louie5220 You're restricting the application of the term 'the arts'. Reading is invaluable, yes. Math is quite useful, yes. Science, while wonderful, covers but one side of the spectrum.

    Beyond art and music, there is writing, abstract thinking, and philosophy (and seeing life as a dance at all, is, inherently, philosophic.)

    If you smother those things and phase them out of our culture, what's left? Cold, staunch calculations with not heart and no meaning. We lose our visionaries.

  • Notice how almost every school now-a-days is cutting music and art classes in school?

    They don't value creative thought, and the things that TRULY resonate with human beings and make them so special.

    They intend to churn out obedient little drones who learn their numbers, and read the curriculum books, and study the greatness of other people, and prepare themselves to go to a college which does the same thing.

    They're trying to snuff the things that make us Human.

    All this, for money.

  • @HylianSpirit it's very unsettling that that's happening, because as far as I can tell, creativity is just as essential for non-artistic pursuits as it is for artistic pursuits. raising a bunch of uninspired academics with no ideas and no passion is going to be a detriment to the things they're being prepped up for. it seems like self-sabotage, neglecting to nurture and forgetting the things that make people great and what makes them make things great

  • Everyone close your eyes, place your palm up against your forehead (fingers up) about where your third eye should be, listen to anything by Watts and feel your eyes. I've found that this "stimulates" REM sleep and it makes you feel like your in a different state of mind (AKA being high). Go on, it only takes a sec and the effects are astonishing.

    Thumbs up so everyone can see.

  • When did matt & trey do this

  • stumbleupon brought me here.

  • i thought those looked like the works of trey and matt!

  • get a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life

  • They should have told me this at the start.

  • message to private joker: (i blocked from his utube, but he watch shadow videos so he can see)

    i use to think u were a good utube commentator, but after u trick people in ur subscribers to comment what they like better only 4 view whoring. so it on top commented page for more view, i truly understand that ur a hypocritic person. take care my friend, enjoy the utube money. u have 1$ less because i unsubscribe. thumbs up if u agree!!!

  • Life = A pile of unstable, meaningless crap.

  • Perhaps eternal recurrence is true, but then we all relive this over and over again, which would suck if your are miserable.

  • I worked all this out when i was just 20 - I went my own way. I must admit things didn't work out as i'd hoped, but i would have been even more miserable if i'd conformed just as everyone I know is even more miserable due to having conformed. I still feel I won - I sucked more out of the marrow of life than anyone i know.

  • as a musician and composer, i loved what was said, wish i would have known it sooner, for what was said at the end is simply true...but oh...how powerful if you can get this while young!

  • @hypnoboy3 Here here it is good to know this at a young age but its also a curse when the people who control your life thinks otherwise.

  • @bigtuba09 true!...ive gone through!

  • The American philosophy, from the pilgrims, has been to reach success. He's right, it's basically the biggest blunder of society next to religion. We have yet to rebound from it completely.

  • There is nothing to life but the social world though. There's nothing wrong if while dancing along to some music you become an insurance salesman. If you start hating what you are and focus on just enjoying existence you will be miserable.

  • Actually my favourite songs are by the fastest conductors. They're so impressive!

  • "Heaven is here and now, although, people are so preoccupied with eliminating tomorrow's imperfection that they miss the perfection hidden in today"

    ~~cc

  • 4 people must be related to my husband. :/

  • This is from an industrialized world. You ARE considered a tool and a product.

    It isn't fun either without something to "get to". My friend is doing this, everything in his power to get a job they told him he would have. Then, climb that ladder. He has given up a lot of he 20's so he can be secure when he is in his 50's.

    I'm on the other end. I'm lost. Life is what you make it? Well, I think everyone would make it a peaceful world if that was true.

  • @Shrunkenhead61 Life sucks, we are all slaves. All this spiritual solipsism/ you control reality is all bull. You can control some aspects of your perception and how people see you, but all this other crap is nonsense. Life sucks, you die, the end. No deity that watches over you. Nothing.

  • Life's an adventure. The journey is the prize, not the destination.

  • i cant believe it , in 18 years im gonna be 40, and my life is already shaping up to be like that.

    this beautiful and all , but reality states u must work , earn money so u can live comfortably.

    and this does not apply to poor people , ironically though , they are much happier.

    oh also there is that thing called ego "which always makes u want more".

    non the less, this analogy is very beautiful , wish it was this simple tho *sigh*

  • @cool2t "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

    "

    — Alan Wilson Watts

  • @PurposeOnEarth is this another way of sating "dont worry about what happened or what could happen rather just live in the NOW"

  • @PurposeOnEarth WOW, very deep. That just changed my perception of life. Thanks!

  • @cool2t Since when have poor people been much happier?

  • @EzMac1337 I think he's just referring to people who learn to live with, and "need", very little. Those that are forced to (the poor) are probably rarely happy because their basic needs are not met.

  • @EzMac1337 poor people are happier cause of less expectation and regrets. this is their mentality " got shelter, food, my health , my family thats all i care about and thats all i need". but wealthy or ordinary privileged people have high expectation so they end up being disappointed more, i want a bmw, i want that guy/girl, i want that house etc and obviously u cant have everything u want,

    why is the suicide rate higher with people who seem to u have enough or more of what they need...

  • @cool2t It can be for most. I understand what you mean though. What is it that bums you out? Can you make a change? We all must work, but I'm striving to work in a field I care about. That is what keeps me going. I stopped doing business to pursue what I really care about. The money and power of the job was not all it was cracked up to be. I guess what I am trying to say is do all you realistically can to live how you really want. Good luck!

  • you can dance if you want to you can dance yes all the time. But if you live for money you're no friend of mine

  • is this vid about the average Brit? cause this doesn't really apply to anyone I know :/

  • Happiness is a short memory :).There is no HOAX just options, variations on themes, without school we scrabble in caves. We need society and some rules or we have chaos and . Perhaps the answer is to love more, speak to strangers each day, down size your house,release posessions before they posess you? Give back to the world? Release your material world ? But we need both in a way or i couldnt go on youtube

  • This is phenomenal. Every philosopher commenter on this page is burning gasoline to conveniently accommodate their completely justifiable lifestyle. Amazing. Except me, of course.

  • This is phenomenal. Every philosopher commenter on this page is burning gasoline to conveniently accommodate their completely justifiable lifestyle. Amazing.

  • Learn the difference between wants and needs.

    Happiness=someone to love+something to do+something to look forward to. Right now, tomorrow, next week, next month, next year.

    peace.

  • @siliconstate There are many of us that feel the same way. We should not have to sacrifice anything of ourselves but we are pushed to because the majority is asleep and they do not realize what life was intended to be, what true freedom is. We must do all we can to bring an end to the capitalist tyranny and the slave mentality. We, unfortunately, cannot be comepletely free right now, there is no where to go. We must spread the truth while we wait. Money is the biggest illusion. Much love.

  • @celestialhaji23 Many thanks my friend, and thanks to everyone thats offered an answer to my question, they've given me a lot of insight. I've never understood why we have to pay to live on our own planet that we were all born into free of debt or a label of any kind. Its money thats caused all of this, I think we have to evolve as a species, we must globally recognize, & demand that the monetary system has to go, I feel its the responsibility of those of us awake to rouse the sleeping majority

  • @siliconstate Are you suggesting that we revert to a prehistoric state that could support a few millions at most. What happens to the remaining billions.

  • @siliconstate True that! though money is a huge part of this, we cannot blame anything or anyone but ourselves for we are not acting globally to change this. Being complacent solves nothing, yet Im not sure what to do while we wait for more people to wake up. yes, it sure is our responsibility to wake the sleepy. We will always evolve, every day we elove because I see it in myself. First we must realize we are god, we are the ones in power, yet not many are willing to use it. The day will come!

  • @siliconstate There are many of us that feel the same way. We should not have to sacrifice anything of ourselves but we are pushed to because the majority is asleep and they do not realize what life was intended to be, what true freedom is. We must do all we can to bring an end to the capitalist tyranny and the slave mentality. We, unfortunately, cannot be comepletely free right now, there is no where to go. We must spread the truth while we wait. Money is the biggest illusion. Much love.

  • siliconstate: You start by seeing that you are already free and there is no way you can be otherwise, and that there is no independence, only interdependence.

  • nice.

  • It's the journey not the destination that makes life worth living!!!

  • in the short run, we can only change our attitude. as we begin to gain leverage, we can do things our way. in the long run, we can change the world so that it rhymes with our hearts.

  • The spiral will convert the line into a circle and capture it's inertia

  • THe linear thinking mind must go....

  • the absurd human condition; the understanding of how our lives, on a cosmic scale, are futile and unimportant struggles, yet how we are unable free ourselves from also treating our lives with the greatest concern

    life sucks and then you die

    call it a 'symphony' if you want, but it's still a boring, exhausting and pointless endevour

  • @lhadyew If that's the way you look at it, sure. Just because things are a way you'd rather them not doesn't mean that you're put in a 'suck' situation. I'm surprised that people watching Alan Watts videos are complaining about their surroundings like some sort of victim instead of trying to fix the real issue: their perception.

    "Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." Lao-Tzu

  • @lhadyew you are so damn right

  • @lhadyew your right, except life doesn't suck unless you think it sucks

  • My favorite part was where the panda raped the...oh wait.

  • Trey Parker and Matt Stone? O_o

  • @JoeInNSUCRO yeh that peaked my eyes too...is this really by them? the animation i mean

  • @prede89 Yeah, it's them. I dont know when they created it, but it's definitely them.

  • @JoeInNSUCRO Most people with good senses of humor are fairly intelligent. It surprised me, too though. :P

  • Enjoy life, U know why? Because U should! (if you have Ur health that is?)

  • life isn't funny, life is serious

  • @Doriamos bahahaha you fool!

  • @PetMantis you can't just go around smiling and laughing all the live-long day. We live in a world of rules and consequences, calling me names isn't going to change that. You need to embrace the seriousness of life. How else will we be able to combat the nightmarish cruelty, madness and savagery that will soon engulf our sad little planet.

  • @Doriamos bahahaha you fool!

  • @Doriamos life isn't serious, life is funny.

  • Why doesn't this have more hits?

  • What? This makes no sense. Who ever created this is a fool and forgot about the fact that you can choose the extra curricular activities you wish to be involved with in grade/high school. And you can choose where you and what you want to study in college. From there you surround yourself with likeminded people, have amazing experiences, learn lifelong lessons, and create new friendships with people u will always remember. It's about the journey, not about ending up in an insurance company... Do

  • @XXXO333 Yes, you CAN choose that.

    But there is a lot of social pressure to "succeed" or some such nonsense. As a teenager & even now as a young adult (27) I'm sometimes told that a lot of my ideas are silly & I should "be more serious" & "go to (or back to) college so you can have financial security"

    Many people get wrapped up in this & sacrifice happiness & true joy (experiences & people) for things, nice houses, cars, a big screen TV, etc., etc. & social obligations (marrige, family, etc)

  • the programming starts even with hopscotch... 1234567...and at the very top is usually a space where you write "heaven"

  • I remember this episode of South Park!

  • that's beautifully crafted.

  • I love this video, and I especially love your username, PerfectlyCromulent. :) I approve of the Simpsons reference.

  • Life is what you make it, but it helps to separate yourself from the system as much as possible. Life is an asshole, try and make the farts your own.

  • @TheCaptainLulz

    "Try and make the farts your own."

    You earn your title, man. XD

  • The cake is a lie.

  • @wralphh What the fuck does this inane comment have to do with this wonderful, thought provoking video? Take your idiocy somewhere else, all 53 of you.

  • @manka6 Why don't you google it before making such an ignorant comment?

  • @avp715 He wasn't condemning education. He was pointing out a viral viewpoint in society. It's okay to get an education so you can get a job. He's not advocating sitting around on your buttocks all day. He's telling you to enjoy the journey. Life is what you make of it, and if you, avp715, enjoy doing what you're doing, more power to you. In essence, don't knowingly suffer.

  • Yes society programs just another brick in the wall

  • Who made the video? I'm sure you didn't....where's the credits?

  • @MountainLionStudio Matt Stone and Trey Parker

  • I don't think this is unsettling, I think this is uplifting.

  • Sagan said, "We are star stuff" and "a way for the cosmos to know itself."

    All the atoms on earth and in our bodies came from supernova that blew up over 5 billion years ago.

    Aren't we all just walking, talking stardust -- this cosmos become AWAKE and looking back at itself? -- and aren't we intimately connected to it all?

    We are this wonder called life become AWAKE

    Please enjoy the dance.

    And ultimately there's nothing that separates us from others in this grand mystery. Please be kind.

  • @goog2k well put. =)

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  • @SourDieselMyNeezle LOL!!!

    He didn't drink himself to death. He did take LSD while he was dying, but that's another story.

    If you are locked in the prison of EGO, you're right, "life sucks!"

    However, if you find you're true nature, which is your original universal cosmic nature, then life is a wondrous mystery.

    You are "THIS" become awake!

    Please don't miss it.

    enjoy the dance . . .

    (and please be kind and help all beings.)

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  • @SourDieselMyNeezle I don't doubt that Alan drank - not sure if he was "an alcoholic." He was vain & spoiled.

    Alan's understanding was deep. Unfortunately, understanding cannot help if you don't know how to put it into practice. It's like someone who completely understands music but can't play.

    The Buddha taught there are 6 kinds of unavoidable human suffering: birth, disease, old age, death, not getting what you want, & getting what you don't want.

    He also taught there is a way of freedom.

  • Please don't misunderstand. We can't survive as human beings without an ego. That's how our brains function.

    However, the belief that we're separate from the world is a fundamental mistake. We've always been part of reality & the cosmos and always will be. Truly experiencing that complete oneness is the beginning of wisdom.

    On the deepest level you really are this cosmos become awake and the ground of your being is the ground of all being.

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  • @SourDieselMyNeezle It sounds like you may have a chemical imbalance in some of your neurotransmitters, which can be very serious. If you do, that needs to be corrected.

    Have any anti-depressants helped?

    Beyond that, I can offer a few words from a very wise forest monk:

    "If you let go a little, you will get a little peace.

    "If you let go a lot, you will get a lot of peace.

    "If you let go completely, then all of your struggles with this world will have come to an end." -- Ajahn Chah

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  • Wow if this is news to you than you're stupid. This is Life 101

  • after a song comes another song

  • wow, my brain unleashed.

  • Holy shit, this is SCARY... yes, I'm a musician. LOL

  • ORUBOROS HAHAHAHANHA!!

  • What do you do when you know its a hoax, and you want to out. You *want* to enjoy life the way it was intended. But no one else around you thinks that way, and they all just demand that you just 'stop complaining, stop dreaming, get a job, go to work, make money, blah blah' How can you get out, and be free and independant?

  • @siliconstate

    That's exactly what I've been wondering as well...

  • @siliconstate I assume you start by waking up with a smile one day and saying FUCK it I am not going to work today or tommorow or any other day! The rest is kinda up to you but that is the best way to get started on things.

  • @siliconstate If you find an answer, let me know... I've been looking myself for nearly 30 years, and have not found it.

  • @siliconstate thats a question worth answering. first of all : don't listen what other people say because people that say stuff like you mentioned are very very afrraid of life. Most people in this society don't like me very much. sometimes they even think i'm crazy or schizo or paranoid or whatever. it's because they can't seem to control me or teach me. because i don't believe them and they don't teach me anything. read books, do some work(for shitty money) and travel. you'll have a blast :)

  • @siliconstate but if no one works, how the world runs? Who ensures that the electricity for your fridge or everyday devices such as phone are provided? No one.

    You just gotta find a job which you like. And finding that job is like choosing shoes: you pick the one which looks good in your opinion and which seems to fit for you. Then you try it on to figure out if it's comfortable and does it fit. After that you make the decision to take it or try another pair.

  • I understand, but billions of jobs dont exist. Its within our abilities to sustain everyone, right now, without servitude. The only reason its not happening is because it would upset the current status quo. Lots of industries are being automated right now in order to save money, which proves many main services don't need people to run them, simply maintain them, which isn't a full time job. Imagine the true beauty of creation and solutions that could happen if ppl were free to learn and develop.

  • @siliconstate Like in "heaven"? :D But i wonder that would we still keep inventing and creating if we don't need to take care of the normal things. Our minds would be unchallenged and become numb in a quite short time.

  • @LaBambathereal I'm unequivocally certain we would keep inventing, we would build on what we already had. There would be no point in stopping everything just because we got the basics sorted out. There are so many things we still don't understand yet, so many tantalising unknown mysteries to delve into, most of us are too busy working to even think about those. Its a big universe, an we're still on this tiny speck fighting amongst ourselves.

  • @siliconstate What if the truth what we figure out isn't so pretty ? Like the meaning of life ? :o

  • @siliconstate

    The point is not to get out, the point is to find enjoyment in life as it happens. Go through kindergarten as if each day it the purpose for being there.

  • @creativeactionfigure Thanks for that. I think some people feel that the system we're currently in limits us from experiencing life as fully and as freely as we would like. In many cases, how much we can do depends on how much money we have, which isnt natural. It separates people into classes. I try to enjoy life everyday as it happens, but I find it difficult to turn a blind eye to the people at the top making millions off the rest of us born into their debt based system. Love your site btw :)

  • @siliconstate do something you love. and love what you do.

  • @911Shred What if you love to rape and kill?

  • @TunneTeknikko then you are a raping murderer. Just make sure you dance and sing as you do it

  • @siliconstate could you be more like them "sheeple?" you say what i feel and have said....you are smart stay with yer demeanor you (n my opinion r right on) i tried to get a degree in writing n i was told that (even thoe im paying for school i gotta have aljibra to be a writer..did i mention i was paying 4 education at this time????hmm...high school is one thing but when i pay 4 wat i want to learn n they feed me lies...k i stop n walk away

  • @magikoolz You are right. It seems as more and more people get the qualifications they supposedly need, the reality appears that there arent millions of jobs for millions of people, and so the system begins to look foolish. So what happens? They raise the bar a bit, so you then apparently need even more qualifications for a job. How long can that go on? Its a joke! Imo, paying for education simply shouldn't even need to happen, not when resources like khanacademy . o r g exist for free.

  • @siliconstate Listen to Alan Watts , Alan Ginsbeg and Gary Sneider from the "Houseboat Summit." The idea is to live off all the "idiots" ( those who create society and work to maintain it) because you, by "dropping out" are smarter than everyone else. Essentially, either forage in trash cans or move to the country and become self-sufficient. The "smart people" (Watts and the rest) use the stupid people (the rest of us) to survive because we deserve to be taken advantage of.

  • @siliconstate Learn the Tao. Your contentment is not in another disposition, place, or at another job... it is within all that you have now. To quote Lao Tzu, "Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."

  • @siliconstate By realizing that your work, your school, your friends, your family, all places and all objects are just as they are. You are not separate from anything here. There is no wanter, there is just what is happening. All suffering arises from 'i' and 'me'.. However 'i' is just used as a referent for the body.. Thinking is just thinking, a useful mechanism to create stuff with here and help others and eat. As Mr. Watts would say, come off it. There's no self here.

  • @siliconstate simple: work for 5 years, saving 80% of your income by moving into a small flat and living off potatoes, rice and self-baked bread (and the occasional necessary bacon burger), investing the money and retiring to do whatever the fuck you want to do.

  • @siliconstate simple: work for 5 years, saving 80% of your income by moving into a small flat and living off potatoes, rice and self-baked bread (and the occasional necessary bacon burger), then invest the money and retire to do whatever the fuck you want to do. Read the cynics and stoics (or the latest research on happiness). You don't need much stuff to be happy. The cake is a lie. It's better to be free than to have a big house full of crap. There's a reason it used to be called wage-slavery.

  • @siliconstate by doing what makes you and the people you love happy.

  • @siliconstate I am asking the same question!!! Does anyone have comments on this?

  • @siliconstate Courage. Being in the world but not of the world. By being grateful for what others around you have given and are giving you, and giving back in good measure, but not for the sake of getting. By living your truth wholly and completely, and not compromising your values and standards for the lures and temptations of the world. By accepting the challenges you face with good heart and good humour and not taking it all too seriously. Because you know a secret.

  • @siliconstate Listen to the man speaking. If you KNEW it was a hoax you wouldn't be asking stupid questions. "Enjoyment of life" isn't a goal to obtain and it was not "intended" by anyone that way. There can be happiness or there can be not, like the waves of the ocean. Truly think about this hoax. Think how would you live if it was actually true...

  • @siliconstate join a commune!

  • @siliconstate dont let them bother you

  • @siliconstate find your own path, you'll be fine

  • @siliconstate find your own path, you'll be fine, Im in the same boat as you.

  • I love philosiphy but at times i really hate it. Especailly when it creast paradoxes

  • @loyalzerg That's when I love it.

  • I'm 23... I realize it's a hoax, but it's hard to get away from it. I'm surrounded by it and trapped by my own desire not to continue into it... I just want to be able to survive and enjoy surviving.

  • You'll only 'get away from it' when you become completely overwhelmed by the boredom of it. The point is, you don't want to get away from it yet. It still fascinates you. It still holds your interest. When all of life's drama is seen for what it is, a realisation occurs.

  • google Doe's Account, its mindblowing

  • i like it!

  • this is like my friends last summer.we went on a journey and they were to stupid to observe anything between their home and the objective that was a church on the top of a mountain

  • "The journey is the reward."

    -from "The Tao te Ching" by Lao Tsu

  • @SourcesAreEverything Being without desires you experience the wonder-by having them you experience the journey.Peace,LOVE AND RESPECT.

  • wtf trey parker and matt stone

  • yes! :D

  • life is to be lived to the maximum of your senses and spirit....after all babies are distracted by motion & so on.....you can keep on dreaming for the unobtainable & wax cold with frustration....we need to stop and feel the wind, taste the fragrances, smell the perfumes, hear the symphonies (classical & rock) and see the beauty that is before us daily otherwise we will die regretting never lived

    you are so right!!....many thanks for sharing

  • Awesome comment! Agreed : )

  • yeah agreed, the point to life is experience and thats it, so live it up.

  • love it. Yes the journey along the path is what really matters!

    dp

  • "The Unsettling Truth About Society" would have been a more accurate label.

  • Now.

  • We have a consumer culture because mass schooling was instituted in the late 1800s to raise consumers; people needed for the new industrial society. But, since the late 80s, there have been more homeschoolers every year. This is history happening under our noses. Things change. As Max Planck said, "a new scientific idea does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die out and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it".

  • What a wondreful reminder that the Joy Is IN The Journey!!! Not the Finish Line!!! Most find that out at the Finish Line, that's why they feel so empty.