At first I was going to be cute and say "things poor people say." Because the first minute or so was heading in that direction.
Eventually he comes clean: the physical world is the spiritual world rather than an abstraction.
It's an elegant Aristotilian view of our place in the natural world, and ultimately a dressed up Gaia talk given by a guy who sounds like he teaches at Oxford.
And just so we're clear, the Finance Board has laid claim to Philosophical Hawt Talk, particularly anything leaning in the direction of Existentialist thought.
Alan Watts is an interesting guy. He helped popularize Asian religion/philosophy, particularly Zen Buddhism, in the West. I’ve watched many of his talks and read a few of his books and enjoyed them. I appreciated how he made Eastern ideas more accessible and understandable to my American brain.
Alan Watts is an interesting guy. He helped popularize Asian religion/philosophy, particularly Zen Buddhism, in the West. I’ve watched many of his talks and read a few of his books and enjoyed them. I appreciated how he made Eastern ideas more accessible and understandable to my American brain.
Take him for a drive in the Tug and see what happens.
Alan Watts is an interesting guy. He helped popularize Asian religion/philosophy, particularly Zen Buddhism, in the West. I’ve watched many of his talks and read a few of his books and enjoyed them. I appreciated how he made Eastern ideas more accessible and understandable to my American brain.
Take him for a drive in the Tug and see what happens.
Watts was also a noted womanizer and sometimes drunk...so he might do OK. 😅
Alan Watts is an interesting guy. He helped popularize Asian religion/philosophy, particularly Zen Buddhism, in the West. I’ve watched many of his talks and read a few of his books and enjoyed them. I appreciated how he made Eastern ideas more accessible and understandable to my American brain.
Take him for a drive in the Tug and see what happens.
Watts was also a noted womanizer and sometimes drunk...so he might do OK. 😅
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln
Alan Watts is an interesting guy. He helped popularize Asian religion/philosophy, particularly Zen Buddhism, in the West. I’ve watched many of his talks and read a few of his books and enjoyed them. I appreciated how he made Eastern ideas more accessible and understandable to my American brain.
Take him for a drive in the Tug and see what happens.
Watts was also a noted womanizer and sometimes drunk...so he might do OK. 😅
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln
Yeah, Abe’s right. I never trust anyone who’s squeaky clean...they’re probably just good at hiding their skeletons.
Alan Watts is an interesting guy. He helped popularize Asian religion/philosophy, particularly Zen Buddhism, in the West. I’ve watched many of his talks and read a few of his books and enjoyed them. I appreciated how he made Eastern ideas more accessible and understandable to my American brain.
Take him for a drive in the Tug and see what happens.
Watts was also a noted womanizer and sometimes drunk...so he might do OK. 😅
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln
Yeah, Abe’s right. I never trust anyone who’s squeaky clean...they’re probably just good at hiding their skeletons.
I like Watts. He did drink himself to death if I’m not mistaken. You open your eyes to this world and next thing you know you are drinking 18 hours a day.
Alan Watts is an interesting guy. He helped popularize Asian religion/philosophy, particularly Zen Buddhism, in the West. I’ve watched many of his talks and read a few of his books and enjoyed them. I appreciated how he made Eastern ideas more accessible and understandable to my American brain.
Take him for a drive in the Tug and see what happens.
Watts was also a noted womanizer and sometimes drunk...so he might do OK. 😅
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln
Yeah, Abe’s right. I never trust anyone who’s squeaky clean...they’re probably just good at hiding their skeletons.
I'm sorry I exposed you to it, but it is. It's ugly, but it's necessary... Sometimes you gotta have a little dirt on you for anybody to trust you. - Alonzo Harris, Training Day
I like Watts. He did drink himself to death if I’m not mistaken. You open your eyes to this world and next thing you know you are drinking 18 hours a day.
Damn Jimmy Cornel. It's like you went to a monastery in the Himalayas and came back a shaman. Does @DerekJohnson know you got this smart and philosophical?
I like Watts. He did drink himself to death if I’m not mistaken. You open your eyes to this world and next thing you know you are drinking 18 hours a day.
Damn Jimmy Cornel. It's like you went to a monastery in the Himalayas and came back a shaman. Does @DerekJohnson know you got this smart and philosophical?
Hardcore Husky has a satellite office in the Himalayas. Jimmy Cornell was "Our Man in Tibet"
I like Watts. He did drink himself to death if I’m not mistaken. You open your eyes to this world and next thing you know you are drinking 18 hours a day.
Damn Jimmy Cornel. It's like you went to a monastery in the Himalayas and came back a shaman. Does @DerekJohnson know you got this smart and philosophical?
Hardcore Husky has a satellite office in the Himalayas. Jimmy Cornell was "Our Man in Tibet"
He's so enigmatic. Watch ... he'll ignore our posts. He's operating on another level our little Jimmy Cornel.
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Eventually he comes clean: the physical world is the spiritual world rather than an abstraction.
It's an elegant Aristotilian view of our place in the natural world, and ultimately a dressed up Gaia talk given by a guy who sounds like he teaches at Oxford.
There are worse ideas.