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What does /his/ think of Alan Watts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssf7P-Sgcrk
I've always enjoyed listening/reading him. He's got a bit of a reddit-tier philosophy-bro thing going on, but part of his appeal is that he didn't toe the fedora line.
>This way of looking at the world - in a sort of passive move - permeates our general feeling about life. As Westerners, we are accustomed to looking at human existence as a precarious event occurring within a cosmos that, on the whole, is completely unsympathetic and alien to our existence. We have been reared within an early twentieth-century form of common sense, based on the philosophy of the science of the nineteenth century, which rejected Christianity and Judaism. Therefore, we tend to regard ourselves as biological accidents in a stupid and mechanical universe that has no finer feelings and that is nothing more than a vast, pointless, gyration of radioactive rocks and gas.
>Buddhism is not a religion
DROPPED
>>1151763
>Alternatively - if we have a more traditional outlook - we see ourselves as children of God and, therefore, under God's authority. We believe that there is a big boss on top of the universe who has allowed us, at his pleasure, to have the disgusting effrontery to exist. So we'd better mind our Ps and Qs, because that boss is always ready to punish us, with the attitude of "this is going to hurt me more than it is going to hurt you."
>When we adopt ether of these worldviews - the scientific or traditional - then we are defining the world as something to which we do not really belong. We are not really part of it.
>>1151776
Can say that of all eastern religions.
I think he is a very wise man but take things he says with a grain of salt, don't just accept them as fact. He is more of an entertainer than a philosopher.
>>1151776
You could certainly argue that about any Eastern religion since they are functionally so different than western religions
>>1151763
i like him a lot. one of my favorite philosophers just cause he knows how to give a great presentation
Alcoholic crackpot but he was entertaining. Did not present most of the philosophy he discussed truthfully.
>>1151763
>He's got a bit of a reddit-tier philosophy-bro thing going on, but part of his appeal is that he didn't toe the fedora line.
Jesus. I hope you don't speak like this in real life. What a trite, meaningless sentence.
>>1152916
Translation. Alan Watts resembles contemporary internet liberals he doesn't care for, but at the same time he is glad that Alan Watts doesn't cross his personal boundary with regards to secular ideology.
It's not a meaningless sentence, even if you don't care for his vernacular or his ideas.
>>1151763
He's awesome
>>1151763
I dig him.
But I'd rather listen to Jiddu Krishnamurti
