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  • Lol...you all who can't see the comedy in this are in bad need of waking to the true world...for us out here just beyond the edge of dreamland, it is funny. More than philosophy really, since he is playing on an era that definitely said things like 'it's funny because it's true' It's like irony except with a reassurance at the end of the show. Not thinking this is funny is funny to me too, because it's exactly what he's telling you....some people on this ride forget that they are on a ride.

  • MadV brought me here?

  • This man was a genius. RIP Bill Hicks

  • Thank you very much for the transcript. Sometimes I just need to give it a quick read.

  • I originally thought he was in his mid 40s when he died. He looked so much older than he was.

  • great and powerfull - full of truth...we are all being taken for a ride!

  • The eyes of love see all of us as one.

    Absolutely beautiful words.

  • i love this guy, i reckon he definately has the right idea. but is it just me who wouldnt go to a comedy show expecting something like this???????

  • @maxkorch you mean "would" who would go to a comedy club expecting this? right?

  • @brucelee6790 but, i like him, he is cool, i just font think it is funny at all, why would u go to a comedy show to see this????

  • @maxkorch i font give a shit

  • @maxkorch this was the end of the set, the rest of it was more 'comedy' as you might think of it

  • @brucelee6790 That's right i'd go into a comedy club hoping to see this, but then some idiot would be making parodies of things that are completely ordinary and a bunch of snot-nosed fucks would be mouth laughing and guffawwing about shit that is so far from being funny that you have to laugh AT the comedian instead of at jokes. It's not called a parody club, or an idiocy club it's comedy. and the tragic comedian is one of the oldest stereotypes in the book....so YES

  • @markaolenick i font give a shit

  • @maxkorch this is just the ending of the show.. the whole show is comedy.

  • Bill Hicks is one of the greatest humans to have ever lived!!..........Greatly missed. Never forgotten!!

  • Stop the ride i want to get off...

  • this video

    is headlined at

    davidicke . com/headlines/52750

    -bill-hicks-its-just-a-ride

  • @TylerDurdenMakesSoap

    I agree with your theory, it's just not the facts with Bill Hicks. He was 32 and died of Pancreatic Cancer. Nothing suspicious.

  • @TylerDurdenMakesSoap you're fucking retarded the guy had cancer you stupid fuck.

  • @nickosharp love how those two comments are exact opposites hahaha

  • Eight people want to get off the ride.

  • Some genius shit right thar.

  • Bill was different. A good human being. He tried to make a difference. A real person. R.I.P. :)

  • If he didn't die he probably would have been like everyone else, sold out and became another "all talk" but instead he died. I wonder if given enough time, money and a lifetime supply of his own vices if he would have been another sell out. I guess it's human nature.

  • @crassology He probably would have sold out? Because of what? Because of something you gleaned from his persona while watching his act? Or is simply because he's a "human" and that's what humans do? Very interesting. So, essentially - if I understand you correctly - almost all of us graduate to become that which we lament. Of course, now what I really want to know is... are you feeling mostly human, yourself?

  • @crassology He was very well off and never showed it, What are you making up shit for? Maybe your a sell out to dreams of big money, speak for yourself.

  • Great stuff man 

  • What bastard killed him. oh yes Americans. Peace love and guitars x

  • What bastard killed him. oh yes Americans. Peace love and guitars x

  • He was more of a philosopher than a comedian.

  • totally agree :)

  • @BlackBile666 Aye. A sad loss

  • Bill is Legend.

  • It's like the 1960's anti-war saying.

    "What if they had a war and no one showed up?"

    Non-compliance is the most subtle, and powerful form of resistance.

  • ZeitgeistMovement can solve the worlds problems, if you have something better please suggest it to me.

  • R.I.P. Bill Hicks

    December 16th, 1961 - February 26th, 1994

    "Another dead hero."

    For those of you just hearing about him from this video, I highly suggest you look more of his work up. He was one of the most intelligent men to ever walk the Earth and a true philosopher.

  • Wow that was wise. The World(the system) is a ride(sin). You eventually get tired of it. But the good guys tell you about this ride and they kill those people. And like his last paragraph. We have to love those like we love ourselves and help the helpless. That is the true meaning of Christianity.

  • @Diachi26 Quite ironic, considering that Bill was a devout atheist...

  • Jem's song 'Just A Ride' was a tribute to this guy.

  • If only it were that easy.

  • With that said; I have infinite respect for Bill Hicks and anyone who believes in TRUE unity (Buddha, Krishnamurti, Icke, etc.) in order to bring about the change we all wish to see we must first change ourselves. When we achieve that level of elevation others will see it themselves and want to change themselves. Choice, it's our gift as sentient being, and kind of force in simply mental tyranny.

  • Guys, ST4LLION should not be criticized or verbally abused for his thoughts because they're not really his. We are all conditioned and indoctrinated from the day we are born to by into the agenda. Global Warming, voluntary eugenics, religion, political factions, etc. My grandmother use to say, "If you wanna change an opinion; show the person why they are wrong and let them find the answer." Remember, fear or love, I chose love.

  • Great man, Wonderfull words, Epic Truth in these sentences!!!

    R.I.P Bill You Deserve it More Than Anyone ON THIS PLANET !!!

  • that s why i love Hicks...he was a cynical mind with an idealist heart

  • Respect!

  • Bill Hicks had a great mind too bad he died

  • @halflifeh

    If he hadn't died, he'd still be hated in his own country. Since he died early, he sits on the shelf with all the other icons of philosophy

  • Epic

  • Ohh Bill I apologize it's been 16 years now since you've left and were still on the same ride, I'm beginning to think were all gonna crash on this ride. It's amazing how stupid and apathetic we all are. Every single one of us. " Hey an Oil spill just destroyed the gulf of mexico thats bad because animals are dying.... Oh hey look over here the Iphone 4 came out yay, What was I just complaining about ? Oh well I forget "...... Go to back to bed america your government is in control :)

  • 6 people thumbed down, haha. 'it must be real'

  • hey without the ride what will uneducated idiots do when their bored!

  • Join tezeitgeistmovement for better ride.

  • @TZMRussia Hicks would be supporting of the zeitgeist movement. just because they stole some quotes from him. Only dead guys have quotes in the Zeitgeist movie, I wonder why? hmm.....

  • @jimruthless ohh :)

  • Why is it, that every fringe conpiracy theorist, or paranoid person that thinks that that every institution has lied to them, comes on here and proceeds to tell ev eryone to wake up and have independent thought? They then proceed to tell you to google some bit of info pertaining to conspiracies or paranoid propaganda. I'm not sure that leading someone to a piece of paranoid information on the interwebz is really a good start at convincing people to have independent though. Just Saying!!!!

  • @dante1273 Well it matters, If the conspiracy passes the common sense test then I think people should take it seriously.

  • what a great ride its really fun , good guys , bad guys . I learn from it and we need to make the ride ours and do as we see fit , peace

  • Is it not time to stand up, and say NO!? We will not allow this anymore!

    People are Dying and being enslaved because of your need for power! You do not control us, you are monsters!

    We The People; are the ones who control our lives and future.

    We have been lied to and manipulated by every institution ever created,

    Religous/Political/E­ducationa­l/Financial­.

    It's time we shed this backwards system and focus on where Mankind is really going!

    Look up the Venus Project, and Zeitgeist.

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  • I'm considering getting a tattoo on my arm of simply 'It's just a ride.'

  • awesome idea...:D go for it...)))

  • u should get it done on your ass

  • @chrisdood193

    actually that's a v ery good idea...... i might as well :D

  • @chrisdood193

    same here man, right on my forearm

    I think its the most powerful message I've ever heard in my life

  • Genius! Such profound insight. So much truth. This is Bill at his best. Let's get together folks.

  • Closest thing to the second coming of Christ in my lifetime, I'm not even christian.

  • "And we... KILL those people!"

  • Last track on Comaphoria!!

  • Thanks for the upload, this is great.

  • It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. R.I.P

  • Its a metaphor...

  • why explore space?

  • why not?

  • i asked first!

  • so our existence can continue, its the last frontier

  • oh i get it after we destroy our planet lets go destroy some other planet's,

    our existence is not important.

  • how negative of you

  • Why not........There is an infinite space in our backyard but because we're so busy putting money into trying to annihilate each other in a more efficient way we have not discovered an efficient way to travel to distant planets and reach out to whatever form of intelligent life may be on them...........

  • i think everyone who sees this and is effected by it should show it to people (email, facebook etc) and encourage others to do the same ...help them by explaining it. imagine if this knowldege were to effect large amounts of people....maby bill really could change things

  • You ever wonder why people who might not agree with what Bill is saying here...have a lot of fear deep in their hearts?

  • Cognitive dissonance.. but thats not bad.. people who understood this already knew about reality.. to open ones eyes and thus change ones opinion from old to new, realisation somet has to grow from a seed to a tree, this video was the seed for some. they dont understand it now. maybe in about 2 months they learn some different things and think ohh now i get it,, u may exp this too with friends.first u go of course fucker i told u 2 months ago,but it was the seed AND the time, that was needed!:)

  • more ppl need to see this video

  • I worked out where you can get off the ride.

    It starts with a good hard look inside and deal with all your ugly parts and forgive yourself for them. Then you help someone out, even if it's a small bit of help and you'll help yourself.

    Bill is an enlightened being and you should follow what he says.

    I hate a great deal about man, but want to live a life of peace and happiness and be able to forgive us all. Bill helped me to see that.

    WANT LESS, BE HAPPIER!

    Pass It On!

  • Epic. Legend. One can never fail when one is full of win....Bill Hicks.

  • bill im sure right now your sitting up there with the legends

    your laughter lives on

    peace :)

  • What are we waiting for? Lets change this ride, lets change the world right now. Stop racism, hate, be tolerant, help, lets see the world as a huge country.

  • amen

  • yeah let nwo begin :p

  • @ST4LLI0N That's easy to say but as long as banks and corporations are allowed to operate as they are, nothing will change. Only total anarchy and a huge scale revolution can do it. The hippies had a chance but they fucked it up. Students these days are too worried about getting a job to care about anything else.

  • @ST4LLI0N <-------truly human soul, is speaking, thx.

  • @ST4LLI0N "..world as a huge country..."

    Their already working on that, it's called the NWO.

  • @ST4LLI0N NWO faggot!

  • @ST4LLI0N

    Sounds like a nightmare. Are you kidding, one world government with no borders, no sovereignty, no respect of cultures, just one big melting pot of all the garbage and shit the world can throw into the pot? No thanks, sounds worse than what we have right now.

  • @ST4LLI0N If we all want peace why is it so hard to achieve?

  • @thediamondjames We don't want peace, we just like the idea

  • @thediamondjames One bad apple can spoil a bunch and our leaders fuck us up. All the people I know are tolerant people and peaceful people meanwhile you turn on the news and it seems like the worlds going to shit. I think as a whole most people are tolerant and peaceful.

  • @ST4LLI0N Some of us are still waiting for our thumbs!

  • @ST4LLI0N One nation, no religion, only love and compassion and curiousity.

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  • I think you missed the point, watch it again friend.

  • oh we could put it into renewable energy sources too, so that many people and other animals can have a better ride for many generations to come :)

  • and we can spend that money that we spend on weapons and chopping down the rain forest to grow feed for livestock and subsidizing the meat/dairy/egg/testing on animals for pointless things industries into an abundance of education and clothing and food for all those poor starving children in the world... govegan :)

  • WTF?! Why did people thums down your comment?!

    Jesus, do people really hate animals that much? They make me sick... The dumbasses probably think your placing animals above people.

    Good comment

  • Aw thank you so much :-) You see it accurately, I don't put humans below other animals - I put them on par. All animals should have equal right to their essential freedoms. They thumbed me down because they've been taught to be anti-vegan, exacerbated by what they've been misled to believe about it being unhealthy etc etc. When I said "go vegan" I meant that as a positive, healthy, reasonable path of non-violence. I'm not anti-human, I care about all animals including humans. Take care :)

  • The problem is some people have fallen asleep on the ride the majority and like bill says we can change the ride all we have to do is want the same things we are all the same 5 fingers 2 eyes 1 nose with the exception of color and really that means nothing i mean you don`t throw out a box of crayons because it has black , white , yellow ,brown red so why is it okay to discard a people or race if we all got on the same page and wished for the same things WE could change it we just have to try

  • This ride sucks, i wanna get off....

  • You cold just jump off, but the fall would probably kill you.

  • thats the point. you can change it.

  • well, change it then, or it might change itself tomorrow, who knows...

  • @joeylabate Just change the ride :-) for you dream

  • @joeylabate Can i interest you in some mind altering drugs?

  • @joeylabate Well change it then

  • @joeylabate Suicide would be a solution ^.^

  • @joeylabate get off the ride = kill yourself... you can either do that ( dont recomend it, you ll end up here again anaways) or try to make it a better ride, one that everyone can enjoy, a little change from every one of us can make a difference

  • @joeylabate Then do it.

  • @joeylabate just change your park man:)

  • @joeylabate  just change from park man:)

  • Will Sasso.... I told u to stop eating mushrooms off the lawn.

  • Will Sasso is plugging this video on his Status and Mood section on Myspace.

  • That's exactly how I got to this very video. xD

  • amazing, thanks.

  • best video ive ever seen

  • Hes another one of those good guys that tried to tell us that.

  • bill hicks was a real prophet he was always on time....rest in peace hero

  • This pretty much sums up my view of the world. Brilliant.

  • bill Hicks was a really good comedian being able to make people laugh while talking about issues that not a lot of people talked about in his time. Zietgiest was an excellent movie by the way. Still you have to understand that it's hard for people to change the way they think just because the facts prove that they are thiking wrong based on lies that they were made to believe. Don't worry, without the lies the truth can't come out. And out it comes without fail.

  • Of course Zeitgeist is just a repeat, but you fail to see how he connects all of these conspiracies into one thing. The way he makes the connection is new, and not only that, but Zeitgeist can reach out to the people who are being brainwashed, and help them to start their own research, rather than trying to reach out to the people who have already done their research, which would be pointless.

  • bill hicks is dead on saying this..humanity really needs to change

  • Nemesis921 I think you forgot a "right".

  • well i meant to say "dead on"

    but now i actually see "dead right on saying this" would have been better..lol

  • When one of these alphabet groups kill a beloved public figure, it is called a Love Bomb. It is partly used to demoralized the public.

  • MLK, John Lennon, the Kennedy's, Lee Harvey Oswald, America's greatest heroes, all died, just like Bill said.

    Why did I list Lee H. Oswald? Search "JFK II: The Bush Connection" Oswald virtually saved the world.

  • Oh yeah? And I bet George W Bush is responsible for 9/11 too. Not only that, he probably directed the moon hoax video while chillin' with the aliens that landed in Roswell after abducting hillbillies from Alabama.

  • Haha, that's just crazy.

    JFK was killed by the CIA though, and 9/11 was a false flag.

  • Everyone here should watch a non-profit movie called Zeitgeist. It ends with this speech from Bill Hicks and I can honestly say that it's possibly the most eye-opening film you will ever see. It's here on YT just search it.

  • amen

  • Man... Zeitgeist is NOT the ultimate film about spiritual/conspiracy stuff. For crying out loud you people need to expand your minds and start to READ BOOKS. If you had done your research, your "homework," you would have noticed that everything in that film (except for the conspiracy stuff) has been done over and over again for the past 10 years. Zeitgeist was NOT the first film to discuss these topics.

  • Nontheless, CearaQC, it IS a film to discuss these topics. It isn't always a race to be first.

  • you are right. but its not about being first is it ?

  • On religion that movie may have been dead on, what a revelation. Hardly. On the fed, any Austrian School economist could argue the illegality of it even better than that movie. And the 9/11 part is garbage. It quotes "loose change: cut three: part six: revision nine" for Christ's sake. What a joke.

  • that is a good movie.

  • Bill Hicks was in the know. He "got it". A true original.

  • you know what Kalavere as true as that is, i think he would've preferred you to tell people how kick ass it is to be on board with him. just a ride mofo's!!!!!

  • God damned, I fucking love Bill Hicks.

    It's so sad he's gone. =(

  • this single act helped me through many tough situations. the greatest thing bill hicks did for mankind was remind us not to take life too seriously. because at the end of the day - its just a ride.

  • whenever you feel like you have a problem in your life remember: It's just a ride.

  • Bill Hicks is an absolute genius. He's more prophetic than comedic at times. What a legend; hopefully his message will live on for a long time to come.

  • if anyone knows where i can get this on mp3 or anything...please reply & tell me

    i just need this on my iPod so i can listen to it every fucking day

  • This piece, I firmly believe, should be taught in school

  • That, my friend, is almost as genius as Mr. Hicks himself.

  • This is the greatest

  • I never get tired of listening to this...

    I memorized it, so I can share it with the people I care about...

  • those were some true words

    rest in peace Bill

    we miss you

  • That's so true, We all miss you bill.

  • We do miss him :( but he's still among us! remember... it's just a ride!

  • I agree with like, 50% or less of what Bill says but I agree with this...

  • I agree with 96% of what bill says, lets compare notes.

  • Damn, my mind needed to hear this. Thanks Bill!

  • The man is a ledgend. His strength lives on in us.

    All matter is barely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectivly. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream. we are the imagination of ourselves.

    - Bill Hicks

  • holmatro07, and energy is not *really* anything at all, check it out for yourself if you dont beleive me.

  • this man should go down as one of the greats...plato, aristotle...Russell

  • 11 stars!

    Love this, especially the part about fear and love.

  • Zeitgeistmovie(.com)

  • are you high and even more experts have shown that it is impossible to do what it did, honestly just logically think about what happen, They went down because of planes like common