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People Don't See It - Alan Watts on The Illusion of Money And Wealth

DerekJohnson
DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,562 Founders Club
edited May 2022 in Tug Tavern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE2g3aePZAY
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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,082
    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.

    There are worse ideas.
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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,082
    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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  • Doog_de_Jour
    Doog_de_Jour Member Posts: 8,041 Standard Supporter
    edited May 2021
    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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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,082
    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.

    Take him for a drive in the Tug and see what happens. :wink:
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  • Doog_de_Jour
    Doog_de_Jour Member Posts: 8,041 Standard Supporter
    creepycoug said:

    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.

    Take him for a drive in the Tug and see what happens. :wink:
    Watts was also a noted womanizer and sometimes drunk...so he might do OK. 😅
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  • Doog_de_Jour
    Doog_de_Jour Member Posts: 8,041 Standard Supporter
    louism2wash said:

    Doog_de_Jour said:

    creepycoug said:

    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.

    Take him for a drive in the Tug and see what happens. :wink:
    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.
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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,082
    Doog_de_Jour said:

    louism2wash said:

    Doog_de_Jour said:

    creepycoug said:

    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.

    Take him for a drive in the Tug and see what happens. :wink:
    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.
    Bingo. Everybody has their shit. Everybody.
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  • jecornel
    jecornel Member Posts: 9,737
    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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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,562 Founders Club
    Doog_de_Jour said:

    louism2wash said:

    Doog_de_Jour said:

    creepycoug said:

    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.

    Take him for a drive in the Tug and see what happens. :wink:
    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
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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,082
    jecornel said:

    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?

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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 68,562 Founders Club
    creepycoug said:

    jecornel said:

    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"
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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,082
    DerekJohnson said:

    creepycoug said:

    jecornel said:

    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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