Posted: 2/11/2014 10:48:58 AM EDT
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I have no idea if this has been done before, but I would like to introduce Alan Watts to Arfcom.
I know there is a lot of fighting between incredibly religious folks and hardcore athiest/scientific people. 
One side is showing a severe left brain dominant world view and the other a right brain one. The key is to develop both sides or you will never learn anything. (Alan Watts didn't say any of this, I did) So here are some videos that may expand your horizons and if it does great, if it doesn't then that's great too. |
The past starts now......Self implies others.....When I die, I will just be born as somebody else....We are all one
I don't dislike his videos, but it just sounds like a bunch of philosophical mumbo jumbo to me. Then again, maybe I'm just not smart enough to grasp just what the fuck he's saying. That's certainly is a possibility. 
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Alan Watts (influences of Zen, Tao, Vedanta) made a big impact in my early teenage years when I read most of his books. It's not like I wanted to drop acid and put on a robe and try to be like him; more that I got some alternative ways of looking at things that I've never been able to shake in the decades since, in particular the notion that the universe could be more of a dance than an unending series of conflicts. While still 95% of me thinks that one always should be striving at something so that later one is prepared for that other thing so that eventually one can accomplish the next thing, there's still a little voice saying: "A cat sits until it is tired of sitting, then gets up, stretches, and walks away." |
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I just see most of arfcom as always pointing outside of themselves and saying he is wrong or that is wrong and pointing at evil in the world.
I know this is gd so I wasn't really expecting too many to agree with him or hell even watch any one of the videos, but I figure it will help someone who as some questions. You have to be the change you want to see. |