I resonated really deeply with this video, I've watched it a bunch of times and plan on watching it a bunch more! great job! I only have this small issue with it where you keep misgendering God. God is non-binary, they is trans, and their new name is SWIM. Just thought I'd let you know in case you want to incorporate that into your philosophy stuff in the future.
I might regret writing this comment and delete it later since I'm kind of feeling it in the moment, but I was looking for other comments like this and only found one so I'm hoping it helps someone who also felt weird about this. Shape 3 kind of irked me. The descriptions of these subconscious thoughts and desires are exactly how one might describe intrusive thoughts, and yet all the examples you use are incredibly mundane– there isn't enough discussion of genuinely harmful intrusive thoughts to make it feel like they have been considered and excluded from the conversation. It makes it feel like they weren't considered at all, and have been included by default as something secretly desired. Yes, harmful intrusive thoughts should be welcomed and examined in order to make peace with them, but that doesn't mean they're a real desire or need. I can't imagine how someone with OCD would take it, rather than someone who just has some tendencies like myself. Still very thoughtful and insightful video but I finished the section and couldn't watch the rest of the video.
this has made me realize that the reason I want to go to college so so much isn't because of the job i will have after but because learning the career will be most enjoyable I am glad to note that I enjoy my regular everyday life like grocery shopping and brushing teeth and eating apples as much as I like completing big goals like graduation and money. in shape 4 you literally reminded me of jesus and why I am religious! also I find that I don't necessarily aways enjoy reading but I call myself a reader and enjoy being reader and want to want to read therefore I should probably start to try to enjoy the process of reading more
1:40 I work with a guy who can't form images in his mind, he finds fiction books and table top rpg boring af I read a little bit about how some people's minds work differently and its pretty crazy
33:24 my god role at this moment would be to figure out who was responsible for STAIRS being closed. STAIRS. Those things that are there for when the elevators no worky… STAIRS
41:41 as an autistic person, who just noticed the random time stamp i hit, and who has also had 53 years of experience, to state now, at this point of the video, "I understand/recognize ALL of this… and I have never really thought much about it at all", meaning I fully GET how we are our selves, wholly within each of our own minds, and somehow, I've ALWAYS known this. Truly fascinating stuff.
Ngl I wasn’t planning on watching Barbie but this video dropping got me to do it. And by extension Oppenheimer because I was homeless when Barbenheimer was happening and I wanted to experience it
My friend and I inadvertently created a similar saying, "These are the kinds of people we are right now," it's framed many moments of my life since we said it over a decade ago
for someone who'a always making fun of their audience for having a parasocial relationship with them, CJ really laid into it during the self love section huh
CJ, this video, in particuar the Lila section, lifted me out of a crisis I was having, and gave me the strength to finish my final exams. You are really cool for doing that, thanks a lot.
20:35 I'm here because my mom wanted me to exist! I'm her little Frankenstein monster! She created me in her little Frankenstein lab! There's a big fkn difference between that and "I chose to be here"! I DIDN'T!
I do absolutely not believe that there is an all powerful being using other's experiences to feed of them. How horrible. This may be a playful thought in the West, for unpleasant elevator experiences, but there is just too much suffering in the world, genocide, injustice of woman, famine, climate change, wars, sweat shops, animal suffering, to justify this. This idea is even more horrible then the idea of an all powerful being like an Abrahamic Sky Father, that created some beings in his image. At least they have some agency. Being a child that is wanted and has a chance to blossom for it's own sake, provides profoundly more psychological health than a being that is using me. It's gives me narcissistic vibes, lake a narcissistic parent that sees their child as an extension of its self.
Have wanted this video essay to exist ever since I first saw Bo Burnham vs. Jeff Bezos. It is – in my opinion – a triumph of complex articulation of fundamental ideas. Thank you for making it.
typing this while you're talking about the shampoo and conditioner bit CJ-! ;P
Part of my self-love, or revelation, or whatever, is the realization that I will probably always be alone; that I was meant to be alone, and part of my defining intrinsic existence is having that pain of being alone be an acknowledged part of my everyday life. That there's meaning in having that kind of life. That I'm not entitled to anything that wasn't meant to be mine in the first place. It's not about not feeling that pain, but about accepting it as a natural part of life, that even though you have the regret of something you can never attain, that it can be something you take with you on your journey to the end.
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I resonated really deeply with this video, I've watched it a bunch of times and plan on watching it a bunch more! great job! I only have this small issue with it where you keep misgendering God. God is non-binary, they is trans, and their new name is SWIM. Just thought I'd let you know in case you want to incorporate that into your philosophy stuff in the future.
im literally screaming. thank you for making this
what if god is the friends we made along the way……..
I might regret writing this comment and delete it later since I'm kind of feeling it in the moment, but I was looking for other comments like this and only found one so I'm hoping it helps someone who also felt weird about this.
Shape 3 kind of irked me. The descriptions of these subconscious thoughts and desires are exactly how one might describe intrusive thoughts, and yet all the examples you use are incredibly mundane– there isn't enough discussion of genuinely harmful intrusive thoughts to make it feel like they have been considered and excluded from the conversation. It makes it feel like they weren't considered at all, and have been included by default as something secretly desired. Yes, harmful intrusive thoughts should be welcomed and examined in order to make peace with them, but that doesn't mean they're a real desire or need. I can't imagine how someone with OCD would take it, rather than someone who just has some tendencies like myself. Still very thoughtful and insightful video but I finished the section and couldn't watch the rest of the video.
this has made me realize that the reason I want to go to college so so much isn't because of the job i will have after but because learning the career will be most enjoyable
I am glad to note that I enjoy my regular everyday life like grocery shopping and brushing teeth and eating apples as much as I like completing big goals like graduation and money. in shape 4 you literally reminded me of jesus and why I am religious! also I find that I don't necessarily aways enjoy reading but I call myself a reader and enjoy being reader and want to want to read therefore I should probably start to try to enjoy the process of reading more
only 6 minutes in and you're spitting bars how is this FAIR I am taking NOTES
i sort of care about the shampoo conditioner thing. i don't know if i qualify as someone to you tho <3
Love is the mutual realization that we are vulnerable to the potential loss of the other within us.
Commenting for the algorithm but more specifically to annoy you
Camp Grounded costs too much. I'll go throw my phone at a power transformer and try to get the raccoon in the Aldi's dumpster to skip with me.
Was not expecting the love for “It’s Such a Beautiful Day” and yet it ties in beautifully
Oh my god the title Who's Lila means so much more now
already crying 15 minutes in excellent excellent
It's a ride
I wish I had the ability to visualize
Another cj the x video, another day to cry tears of realization
I don’t wanna be any of this anymore
you'll have your mindful moments i promise. it took me a long time to get there but sometimes god is just a really good piece of fruit
1:40 I work with a guy who can't form images in his mind, he finds fiction books and table top rpg boring af
I read a little bit about how some people's minds work differently and its pretty crazy
33:24 my god role at this moment would be to figure out who was responsible for STAIRS being closed. STAIRS. Those things that are there for when the elevators no worky… STAIRS
hope u find love at the grocery store cj
41:41 as an autistic person, who just noticed the random time stamp i hit, and who has also had 53 years of experience, to state now, at this point of the video, "I understand/recognize ALL of this… and I have never really thought much about it at all", meaning I fully GET how we are our selves, wholly within each of our own minds, and somehow, I've ALWAYS known this. Truly fascinating stuff.
I've heard of self love but never had anyone try to explain it to me until this video
listening to CJ talk about how the creation of art is profound while drawing cartoon porn for twitter is a crazy
this was interesting and i learned. thanks
oh my god @11:34 bald man jumpscare
Ngl I wasn’t planning on watching Barbie but this video dropping got me to do it. And by extension Oppenheimer because I was homeless when Barbenheimer was happening and I wanted to experience it
God, I genuinely love you CJ.
My friend and I inadvertently created a similar saying, "These are the kinds of people we are right now," it's framed many moments of my life since we said it over a decade ago
But I have aphantasia
for someone who'a always making fun of their audience for having a parasocial relationship with them, CJ really laid into it during the self love section huh
CJ, this video, in particuar the Lila section, lifted me out of a crisis I was having, and gave me the strength to finish my final exams. You are really cool for doing that, thanks a lot.
Thank you for making this video I’ve been thinking abt hinduism and transcendence for the past YEAR thank you
I came here for the 'oooh' and 'haha' not to have an epiphany about the way I live and bawl my eyes out. Guess what I got!!!!!!!!!!!!!
15:58 "overthinking, overanalyzing separates the body from the mind"
20:35 I'm here because my mom wanted me to exist! I'm her little Frankenstein monster! She created me in her little Frankenstein lab! There's a big fkn difference between that and "I chose to be here"! I DIDN'T!
28:23 this all happened to me!!!!! And you're making a lot of sense here! I need to make my own video about it!
I do absolutely not believe that there is an all powerful being using other's experiences to feed of them. How horrible. This may be a playful thought in the West, for unpleasant elevator experiences, but there is just too much suffering in the world, genocide, injustice of woman, famine, climate change, wars, sweat shops, animal suffering, to justify this. This idea is even more horrible then the idea of an all powerful being like an Abrahamic Sky Father, that created some beings in his image. At least they have some agency. Being a child that is wanted and has a chance to blossom for it's own sake, provides profoundly more psychological health than a being that is using me. It's gives me narcissistic vibes, lake a narcissistic parent that sees their child as an extension of its self.
this hits so hard
Crying again at a Cj the X video
I have aphantasia. This means I don't have mental images when I "imagine" something. I have no visual imagination.
Have wanted this video essay to exist ever since I first saw Bo Burnham vs. Jeff Bezos. It is – in my opinion – a triumph of complex articulation of fundamental ideas. Thank you for making it.
typing this while you're talking about the shampoo and conditioner bit CJ-! ;P
Oh yea? Well why can't I see your reflection in the mirror behind you. Answer that captain philosophy
Viktor Nation, how we feeling?
Part of my self-love, or revelation, or whatever, is the realization that I will probably always be alone; that I was meant to be alone, and part of my defining intrinsic existence is having that pain of being alone be an acknowledged part of my everyday life. That there's meaning in having that kind of life. That I'm not entitled to anything that wasn't meant to be mine in the first place. It's not about not feeling that pain, but about accepting it as a natural part of life, that even though you have the regret of something you can never attain, that it can be something you take with you on your journey to the end.
This video is above my reading level