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Emptiness

It isn't everyone who deals with that every day, but most people already felt it.
I'm talking about the sensation of emptiness, the one that makes you feel as if
nothing is worth it, nothing has value with the most it offers you. Emptiness, I am
tired of you. Each time I look in a mirror, I can swear I don't know whos looking
back, I can't see myself there, only a depressed conscious wondering it's own
existence. I am tired of looking at myself from above, I can't see anything in
myself but a logic responses machine, I am of not understand what my feelings mean.
Every day wondering about the credibility them, even though i know i shouldn't
understimate them, I always do. I like philosophy, and i suppose i do because it
fills the hole on my personality. Even though it doesn't satisfy me. Do you know
the myth of Sisyphus? That one guy that got punished by the Gods and had to roll a
rock up a mountain forever? It must be lonely. Can you imagine yourself as him?
Rolling the same rock up a mountain every single day... The premiss here isn't the
repetetitive cycle, but how you feel about it. You are trapped there for eternity,
do you feel sad? Knowing you will feel like that for eternity?

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists
of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” - Albert Camus

Everytime i try to find a meaning for happiness i end telling myself to not think
about it, i love wondering what i am alive, but i only end up on that, though that
never satisfied me. Don't take me wrong, philosophy is beautiful, i'm not trying to
make it look depressing by telling you my problems, but that's a letter. I think i
need to teach you something, that's the purpose of this channel, i think. Whatever,
think the video is starting now.

Existentialism

Existentialism is the part of philosophy that deals with our freedom and existence,
Soren Kierkegaard, Albert Camus, Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean Paul-Sartre are all
examples of well known Existentialism relataed philosophers, even though some of
them reject the label. Soren kierkegaard being the father of the area. All of them
have minimally different views of existentialism, According to Soren Existentialism
“is a rejection of all purely abstract thinking, of a purely logical or scientific
philosophy; in short, a rejection of the absoluteness of reason”, Soren was
christian, even though he condemned christendom, Christianity as a political and
social entity, he says that directly looking at the abyss of our existence, we
shall take a faith jump into Religion, not by reason, but only closing our eyes and
jumping. And that's the only way we can be somehow happy. If there's a God, they
will never be proved with evidence and reason. The most irrational choice turns out
to be the most rational one. Albert Camus on the other hand, completly refuses the
faith jump into religion, as he says “Seeking what is true is not seeking what is
desirable.” He follows the same path as Soren, but he embraces the meaningless
absurd of life with all his strenght, and that's enough, simply do what works for
you. Nietzsche's view about existentialism is principally associated with nihilism,
but nietzsche was not a good friend of the idea, for nietzsche nihilism is a
necessary bad, by Religion losing it's weight in our lives or we eventually
questioning these concepts, we will have to pass through nihilism one day. For
nietzsche there's two types of nihilism, passive and active. In a summary, the
passive type being the raw questioning of the general value of things, you can
understand it as the long stage of nihilism. The active being the acception of the
meaningless value of everything, when you accept the state you're on. Jean paul-
sartre is well known by his paradoxal understanding of freedom, for him the human
is condemned to be free. Our lives are completly empty in our birth, it being like
a empty picture, we can fill it with whatever we want, but, we are responsable for
everything we do. Yes, we are free to choose, but the consequences of every choise
we do will always resonate ourselves and the environment. None of us chose to be
here, therefore we are free, but at the same time we are not.

There we go, you learned something. The video will end by here, i think it's long
enough for a summary. See you in the next weekand, bye.

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