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Lists: Philosophy & meaning

47 lists in parts of videos about philosophy & meaning (a written list: in videos about it), oldest first. All topics · Overview

2009

  • 2009-09-03 · WTF IS GOING ON!!! · Hank, 3 named — Hank says some of the best things in the world, like lolcats, 4chan and Nerdfighters, were created not for money, fame or power but with the goal of awesome. (00:00:00)
    1 Lolcat · 2 4chan · 3 Nerdfighteria “nerdfighters”

2010

2011

  • 2011-01-19 · YOU ARE WRONG! · Hank, 2 named (joke) — We want simple stories and solutions: the golden-voice homeless man, Edward and Bella, a Toyota hybrid ad, the Tucson shooting (00:02:30)
    1 Edward Cullen · 2 Bella Swan

  • 2011-06-20 · On Religion · John, 3 named — Christians, Muslims and atheists alike share this worldview: almost none would give up comforts to help others, so judged by actions humans look like nihilists. (00:01:16)
    1 Christianity “Christians” · 2 Islam “Muslims” · 3 atheism “atheists”

  • 2011-06-23 · Do You Believe in God? · Hank, 3 named — Hank calls it really dangerous that people hunt for markers ('gay people, Christians, atheists are all like this'); his biggest fear is being judged by a one-word answer. (00:03:07)
    1 sexual orientation “gay people are all like this” · 2 Christianity “Christians are all like this” · 3 atheism “atheists”

  • 2011-06-24 · On Religion (Redux) · John, 5 named — John says Muslims believe in the Five Pillars of Islam (shahada, prayer, zakat, pilgrimage to Mecca, Ramadan), yet the majority don't follow them, e.g. most don't pray five times daily. (00:00:36)
    1 Shahada · 2 Salah “prayer, at least five times a day” · 3 Zakat · 4 Hajj “the pilgrimage to Mecca” · 5 Ramadan

  • 2011-06-24 · On Religion (Redux) · John, 3 named — Similarly, John says, many Jews don't keep kosher, many Buddhists disagree radically about nirvana and how to reach it, and many Christians think other Christians are going to hell. (00:00:53)
    1 Judaism “Jews” · 2 Buddhism “Buddhists” · 3 Christianity “Christians”

  • 2011-06-24 · On Religion (Redux) · John, 3 named — John says this fuzziness is one reason traditions look back to a clearer past: Islam's first four caliphs, Paul and the first apostles, King David's rule. (00:02:05)
    1 Rashidun Caliphate · 2 Paul the Apostle · 3 David (religious figure (tradition=Judaism))

  • 2011-09-23 · The Improbability of Place - Thoughts from the San Juans · Hank, 2 named — Hank lists the contingencies behind the San Juan Islands: a volcano, glaciers, mineral deposits, rising water, diplomatic squabbles splitting Canada and America, salmon runs drawing resident orcas, and a fishing village turned tourist destination. (00:01:59)
    1 Canada · 2 United States “America”

2012

  • 2012-08-03 · I Don't Understand My Life · Hank, 3 named — Jennifer Pinches, Kyla Ross and McKayla Maroney want to compete and win gold, but most of all, like all people, they want to be loved by those they love. (00:01:36)
    1 Jennifer Pinches · 2 Kyla Ross · 3 McKayla Maroney

2013

  • 2013-06-07 · How To Be a Baby Properly · Hank, 3 named — Hank: if all goes well, in Alice's lifetime humans will walk on Mars, computers become intelligent, the paralyzed walk again, absolute poverty all but end, and she may live past 100; or technological society may implode. It could go either way. (00:00:12)
    1 Mars · 2 artificial intelligence “computers will become intelligent” · 3 extreme poverty

2014

  • 2014-02-07 · Kill All The Humans · Hank, 3 named — Hank rejects the view that intelligence is just one valued trait among others (cheetahs fastest, blue whales biggest, barnacles longest penises), believing people know humans are special. (00:01:16)
    1 cheetah · 2 Blue whale · 3 barnacle

  • 2014-02-07 · Kill All The Humans · Hank, 4 named — Hank says the scale of human creation, from tiny ideas to the Burj Khalifa, cultures, atomic theory, Bridget Jones's Diary, Star Trek and honky-tonk music, is extremely valuable and unique. (00:01:39)
    1 Atomic theory · 2 Bridget Jones's Diary · 3 Star Trek (franchise) · 4 Honky-tonk

  • 2014-03-25 · I Gotta Go: Signing Off and Thinking about Inspiration · John, 2 named — John says we imagine creative work as singular feats of genius, like James Joyce writing Ulysses or Beyoncé's surprise album, but even they rely on vast networks of influence. (00:02:40)
    1 James Joyce · 2 Beyoncé

  • 2014-05-16 · The Myth of Greatness · Hank, 3 named — Asked why so much interesting happens in small Missoula (shows with Emily Graslie, Lindsey Doe, now Jessi), Hank says interesting things happen everywhere: not magical places or people, just people who found their passion. (00:02:27)
    1 Emily Graslie · 2 Lindsey Doe · 3 Jessi Knudsen Castañeda

  • 2014-05-20 · Deserving · John, 2 named — Big History teaches, John says, that 99.9% of the matter in the solar system was sucked up by the Sun as it formed; everything else is the 0.1%. (00:02:29)
    1 Jupiter · 2 Atlantic Ocean

  • 2014-07-25 · Towering Mountains of Ignorance · Hank, 2 named (playful) — Hank lists things he doesn't know: why Mario is the best-known video game character, why guitars are shaped as they are, why Iggy Azalea is popular. (00:00:09)
    1 Mario · 2 Iggy Azalea

  • 2014-07-25 · Towering Mountains of Ignorance · Hank, 2 named — Hank says everyone is now expected to have opinions on solving the Syrian Civil War, creating US jobs and cell phones' effects on youth; he knows he doesn't know, yet everyone else seems to. (00:01:24)
    1 Syrian civil war · 2 United States

2015

  • 2015-02-06 · You Will Be Forgotten ...And That's OK · Hank, 3 named — Hank lists his successes: touring in a rock band, being written about in the New Yorker, helping raise over 2 million dollars for charity, Crash Course in thousands of schools, interviewing the President. (00:01:20)
    1 The New Yorker · 2 Crash Course · 3 YouTube Asks Obama “I interviewed the President”

  • 2015-02-13 · Draw My Life + 16 Other Suggestions · Hank, 5 named (playful) — Doing 'Draw My Life', Hank says he takes up a trivial amount of space in Montana, itself tiny next to the Earth, solar system, galaxy and universe, and his lifetime is unnoticeable on a universal scale. (00:02:55)
    1 Montana · 2 Earth · 3 Solar System · 4 Milky Way “our galaxy” · 5 observable universe

  • 2015-11-27 · Never Satisfied: The Story of Humans ¦-/ · Hank, 2 named — Hank is glad to live in a world without smallpox and with twenty one pilots songs and pumpkin pie, and says one day of Thanksgiving a year is not enough. (00:02:45)
    1 smallpox · 2 Twenty One Pilots

  • 2015-12-18 · We're All Gonna Die - A Song · Hank, 2 named (playful) — Hank sings that hopes of escaping death by fixing telomeres, digitizing brains, freezing bodies or the singularity will fail; no one outruns the hearse, the sun's explosion or heat death. (00:00:54)
    1 Sun (star) · 2 heat death of the universe

  • 2015-12-18 · We're All Gonna Die - A Song · Hank, 3 named (playful) — Hank sings that hopes of escaping death by fixing telomeres, digitizing brains, freezing bodies or the singularity will fail; no one outruns the hearse, the sun's explosion or heat death. (00:01:00)
    1 telomere · 2 mind uploading “digitize our brains” · 3 cryonics “Freeze our dying bodies”

2016

  • 2016-01-22 · Why Are Vegetarians Annoying? (An Exploration of a Cultural Rift) · Hank, 3 named — Hank finds it a little immoral that he spends money on unnecessary things like Coca-Cola, flights to San Francisco and a fifth Force Awakens ticket rather than giving it to Save the Children, for the same reasons he eats meat. (00:02:04)
    1 Coca-Cola · 2 San Francisco · 3 Star Wars: The Force Awakens

  • 2016-04-29 · The Time a Taxi Driver Stole My Money · video description, 13 named — Hank lists the all-ages tour dates: Lawrence (May 16), Dallas, Houston, Austin, El Paso, Tucson, Anaheim, two nights in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego (May 26), then Salt Lake City, Denver and Omaha (May 28-30) without Hank.
    1 Lawrence, Kansas · 2 Dallas · 3 Houston, Texas · 4 Austin, Texas · 5 El Paso, Texas · 6 Tucson, Arizona · 7 Anaheim, California · 8 San Francisco · 9 Los Angeles · 10 San Diego · 11 Salt Lake City · 12 Denver · 13 Omaha

  • 2016-06-03 · Redefining What it Means to Matter · Hank, 3 named — Hank says Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb, the Wright Brothers did not invent flight, and Elon Musk has never built an electric car; these are inspiring stories. (00:02:18)
    1 Thomas Edison · 2 Wright brothers · 3 Elon Musk

2017

  • 2017-02-24 · Doing Bad Things To Make Good Things Happen · Hank, 3 named — Hank says he saw himself as the protagonist of books he liked: Ender Wiggin, Frank Chalmers, Paul Atreides. (00:01:03)
    1 Ender Wiggin · 2 Frank Chalmers · 3 Paul Atreides

  • 2017-04-11 · Making the World's Largest Ball of Paint · John, 2 named — John says we usually imagine art as a story of individual geniuses, like Shakespeare or Leonardo da Vinci, using innate brilliance to expand the human landscape. (00:01:01)
    1 William Shakespeare · 2 Leonardo da Vinci

  • 2017-04-11 · Making the World's Largest Ball of Paint · John, 3 named — John believes in genius: some artists, from Mark Twain to Jane Austen to Toni Morrison, are uncommonly great. (00:01:11)
    1 Mark Twain · 2 Jane Austen · 3 Toni Morrison

2018

  • 2018-06-08 · Intentionally Ignorant: Does Free Will Exist? · Hank, 3 named — It doesn't seem possible to Hank that his song, the seagulls Yoda song, Emily Dickinson and Shakespeare were all inevitable results of particles seeking lower energy states. (00:00:27)
    1 Seagulls! (Stop It Now) · 2 Emily Dickinson · 3 William Shakespeare

2019

  • 2019-09-27 · Crisis · Hank, 4 named (playful) — Hank lists the crises on offer: constitutional crises a couple of times a week, housing, existential always, and climate, where scientists would like people to panic. (00:00:00)
    1 constitutional crisis · 2 housing crisis · 3 existential crisis · 4 climate change

  • 2019-12-27 · Why I'm Worried about 2020 · Hank, 3 named — Last video of the 2010s: no look back at the decade, because Hank is worried about the future; worry gets a bad rap (00:00:03)
    1 Fidget spinner · 2 The dress · 3 Planking

2020

  • 2020-05-12 · We Could All Use a Little Change · John, 2 named — John is grateful to strangers whose work brings him joy and comfort, from Mohamed Salah to Mary Oliver. (00:03:24)
    1 Mohamed Salah · 2 Mary Oliver

  • 2020-10-14 · John Predicts the Future! · Hank, 3 named — Hank says our lives and history are governed by unknown unknowns: the rise of social media, climate change and the internal combustion engine all once were. (00:03:07)
    1 social media · 2 climate change · 3 internal combustion engine

2022

2023

  • 2023-12-19 · End of a Rough Year · John, 3 named (1 unnamed item) — John says he finds hope in community and collaboration, in making meaning together by making change together: in the 'we's of his life, TB fighters, Nerdfighteria, his family and Indianapolis. (00:02:03)
    1 TBFighters · 2 Nerdfighteria · … · 4 Indianapolis

2024

  • 2024-06-14 · Some Reasons why People Suck · Hank, 6 named — Hank says social technologies hold society together: church, marriage, fashion, Christmas, soccer, the idea of a border and the word vegan are human-created things that change behavior. (00:01:38)
    1 religion “church” · 2 Marriage · 3 Christmas · 4 association football “Soccer” · 5 border · 6 Veganism

  • 2024-10-03 · Broadly in Favor of Humans · John, 3 named — John still thinks humanity will get through the polycrisis of climate change, growing violence and massive inequity, and survive our moment. (00:04:25)
    1 climate change · 2 violence · 3 economic inequality “massive inequity”

  • 2024-11-29 · I am Grateful for My Worry · Hank, 4 named — Hank worries about the community, his health, the DFTBA, Good Store and Complexly teams, meeting obligations to Partners In Health, and how all this relies on their reputations. (00:01:19)
    1 Nerdfighteria “this community” · 2 DFTBA Records · 3 Good Store · 4 Complexly

2025

  • 2025-04-04 · Morality · Hank, 3 named — Hank says there is and should be a taboo around infidelity to a partner, cheating on a test and tax evasion. (00:04:27)
    1 infidelity · 2 academic dishonesty “cheating on a test” · 3 Tax evasion

  • 2025-06-17 · My Religion · John, 2 named — John considers himself a Christian, but Christianity, like Islam or Buddhism, is tremendously diverse; his may be unorthodox or heretical to some, though it fits his Episcopalian denomination. (00:00:00)
    1 Islam · 2 Buddhism

2026

  • 2026-10-06 · Make Your Art. · John, 2 named (3 unnamed items) — John does not care whether your art is sweaters, YouTube videos, home-cooked meals, soccer commentary or Tumblr fanfiction, only that you make it and share it despite the costs. (00:02:42)
    … · 2 YouTube · … · 5 fan fiction + Tumblr

  • 2026-10-16 · Is Happiness the Goal? · Hank, 3 named — Answering Hank's joke, the nerdfighter Lee wrote that Hank's joy can matter to him because it matters to Katherine, Orin, John or whomever else. (00:00:00)
    1 Katherine Green “Catherine” · 2 Orin Green · 3 John Green