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    November 22, 2025 at 10:40 pm

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  6. @КамронбекСуюнов

    November 22, 2025 at 10:40 pm

    Although it has been more than a decade since the video was released, the message behind it is still largely relevant. Notably, I have come to a realization that the decade has passed too quickly that by the time I am writing this comment, I have gradually turned into an adult looking for a spouse from an innocent school boy back when the video was presented in 2013.

    While I am not sure whether the authors will read this comment or not, I want to express my deep gratitude for the efforts you have made and are still making to spread knowledge among people. I hope, by the time I have gotten married and become a parent, your channel will have provided even more for the future generations.

  7. @Muttalip-z4e

    November 22, 2025 at 10:40 pm

    If you give up vice and misguidance and enter the sphere of certain, verified belief {[*]: According to Bediuzzaman, the aim of the Risale-i Nur is to gain for its readers 'certain, verified belief (iman-ı tahkikî). This has been defined as: "To acquire certain knowledge of all questions related to belief through close investigation, and to live that belief… Firm, unshakeable belief." See, Abdullah Yeğin, Yeni Lügat (3rd. edn.) (Istanbul: 1975), 271.} and righteousness, you will see through the light of belief that the past is not non-existent and a graveyard that rots everything, but an existent, light-filled world which is transformed into the future and into a waiting-room for the immortal spirits who will enter palaces of bliss in the future. Since it appears thus, it affords not pain, but according to the strength of belief, a sort of paradaisical pleasure. The future, too, appears to the eye of belief not as a dark wasteland, but where banquets and exhibitions of gifts have been set up in palaces of everlasting bliss by the Most Merciful and Compassionate One of Glory and Bestowal, Whose mercy and munificence are infinite and Who makes the spring and summer into tables laden with bounties. Since, knowing he will be despatched there, a person observes this on the cinema screen of belief, he may experience in a way the pleasures of the eternal realm. All may do this according to their degree. That is to say, true, painfree pleasure is found only in belief in God, and is possible only through belief.
    StaffMoses – 19

  14. @Endoe.McKronic

    November 22, 2025 at 10:40 pm

    Right after the pyramids this video goes into fake history. The Bible is the only recorded history that tells us what went on about 6,000 yrs ago. ZERO evidence about 200 million years ago happened. It's LIES in text books that were put in public schools to take GOD out of human history. PLEASE do your research!! The Bible is FULL of history and tells you everything was SPOKEN into existence. We didn't come from fish, monkeys, or caveman. Dinosaurs and humans died in a flood, and your car runs off of those dead bodies. And It's about to run dry.

  20. @parar2459

    November 22, 2025 at 10:40 pm

    Wow honestly I love this video, so glad I came to it after 10 years. The ending is just perfect, the music, the "time is precious make it count" brilliant

  21. @mackreig2356

    November 22, 2025 at 10:40 pm

    This is FICTION! NASA recently admitted that the "Big Bang Theory" did not happen evidence attributed to kepplar telescope/satellite. Many other statements not based in fact. THIS IS MISINFORMATION

  41. @zizbird

    November 22, 2025 at 10:40 pm

    According to my eyeballing of those colourful bars, life on Earth is about 2/3 through from start to the sun baking it. That means the Earth is like a 50 year old right now. 🎂

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