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  1. I have lost both of my parents. At a very young age and I on one side I deeply hurt for their lost and wish they were here. But at the same time I am grateful. Why grateful? Because their death set me down a path in life that lead me to meet my wife and to have 2 children with her and to this day we have shared 23 years of love and family. So in the loss of something so dear, a new tree of life is born with new branches of love. Their sacrifice delivered me to the best part of my life. I will eternally miss them and grieve for them, that never goes away. But I am the better version of myself thanks to their sacrifice. I don't know why I am sharing this on YouTube, the land of trolls, but I could care less what a troll thinks. Bless you all.

  2. Both of you are beautiful souls that have suffered tremendous losses. Your insightfullness and self introspectiveness and wisdom are poetic. Steven you are blessed in your reasoning. Anderson you will always think of your family that you have lost….right now it is so raw…..give yourself time to grieve and congregate only with those that love you. I will pray for you both.

  3. I always say, Everything good has something bad, but everything bad has something good. You just have to be willing to look for it.

  5. “It’s easy to be thankful for the things you’ve got, it takes guts to be thankful for the things you’ve lost.” – Cloud Cult

  6. This is so beautiful, soulful and lovely. I’ve never seen Stephen so honest. Or Anderson. Colbert is THE most intellectual comic mind in history. He is such a hero to me. This guy…

  7. Wow ! This was profound. I recently lost my Dad last year and my Mom 5 yrs ago but I still grieve about them but I have learned to live with it. This was helpful !

  8. I’ve heard a number of comedians mention that they discovered their comedic gifts because they wanted to make their mothers smile. These are two men talking about their mothers, now gone, but grief still palpable with such love and reverence. Bravo both of you!

  12. There is something so gentle and innocent about Anderson his honesty I can feel that he is looking for something deep down like all of us just amazing.

  15. Thank you Anderson and Steven for sharing this personal part of human experience. I know those you have lost are looking down upon you with love and and pride.

  17. In one word: profound. Hard to believe a conversation of this depth was held on television, which is so often the loudest of platforms.

  19. It's always so reassuring to see other people express thoughts that you had yourself your entire life. We are all so incredibly alike on this small blue dot in the great nothing. Sometimes I wonder if we weren't all a little better off if telepathy was a thing. Not in the way that you would hear all thoughts around you unfiltered, such a cacophony would drive us mad. But in a way that we could willingly offer our thoughts to others to share. Mabye we would be more capable of loving each other, realizing how much we are all the same deep down.

  21. 9:37 "[My mother's] example of her faith stays with me… We're asked to accept the world that God gives us. And to accept it with love… If God is everywhere and God is in everything, then the world as it is is all just an expression of God and His love, and you have to accept it with gratitude. Because what is the option? What is the option?" Assuming Stephen meant 'what is the alternative', I would say: The alternative is not to accept the premises of that question-begging argument because that's what you grew up with and accepted at such a young age that you didn't even understand what you were accepting. And not to hang on to that belief because you've leaned on it so often through the tough times you have experienced that losing it would seem like just as big a loss as that of your father and brothers — because to lose that belief would be to lose the (purported) comfort that it has given you. To realize that losing faith in a "loving God" is not the same as losing love or loved ones, because the latter things and people actually existed and were experienced in reality, and the same cannot reasonably be said of the former ("God"). And to realize that we have to "accept the world" only in the sense that we have to accept the reality that we find ourselves in — not because it was "given" to us by a loving God, but because one cannot expect to effectively act in the world (including trying to avoid, change, or deal with the parts of that world that you don't like) unless one understands the reality of how that world actually works. Unfortunately, faith tends to short-circuit peoples' path to (better, not ultimate) understanding — and the more blind the faith, the more so. Unshakable faith is an unbreachable barrier to understanding. And "Thank you, Jesus" (or Mary) is essentially the worst, most useless possible response to any tragedy. And there seems to be little difference between that and Stephen's quote above. With all due respect… that's what I would say.

  22. My uncle died 24 years ago & my dad remembers him every single day. He has a picture of him in his wallet. Sometimes he talks about him, other times his baby brother comes in his dreams. Both of them grew up as orphans so all they had was each other. I don’t know what a loss like this must feel. I can’t even imagine. I hope everyone heals and Find comfort in God

  23. For all the crap that is going on about Catholic priests and church cover-ups; Stephen Colbert IMHO is a breath of fresh air and a shining light displaying what true FAITH, not religion; truly means. I think he would have been an excellent priest. (Selfishly I am glad he did not).

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