People Don't See It - Alan Watts on The Illusion of Money And Wealth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE2g3aePZAYComments
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Take him for a drive in the Tug and see what happens.Doog_de_Jour said: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.
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Watts was also a noted womanizer and sometimes drunk...so he might do OK. 😅creepycoug said:
Take him for a drive in the Tug and see what happens.Doog_de_Jour said: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.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham LincolnDoog_de_Jour said:
Watts was also a noted womanizer and sometimes drunk...so he might do OK. 😅creepycoug said:
Take him for a drive in the Tug and see what happens.Doog_de_Jour said: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.
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Yeah, Abe’s right. I never trust anyone who’s squeaky clean...they’re probably just good at hiding their skeletons.louism2wash said:
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham LincolnDoog_de_Jour said:
Watts was also a noted womanizer and sometimes drunk...so he might do OK. 😅creepycoug said:
Take him for a drive in the Tug and see what happens.Doog_de_Jour said: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.
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Bingo. Everybody has their shit. Everybody.Doog_de_Jour said:
Yeah, Abe’s right. I never trust anyone who’s squeaky clean...they’re probably just good at hiding their skeletons.louism2wash said:
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham LincolnDoog_de_Jour said:
Watts was also a noted womanizer and sometimes drunk...so he might do OK. 😅creepycoug said:
Take him for a drive in the Tug and see what happens.Doog_de_Jour said: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.
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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.
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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 DayDoog_de_Jour said:
Yeah, Abe’s right. I never trust anyone who’s squeaky clean...they’re probably just good at hiding their skeletons.louism2wash said:
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham LincolnDoog_de_Jour said:
Watts was also a noted womanizer and sometimes drunk...so he might do OK. 😅creepycoug said:
Take him for a drive in the Tug and see what happens.Doog_de_Jour said: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.
