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•Posted by5 days ago

Why the Hate against Alan Watts?

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•Posted by8 days ago

CMV: I'm 'subscribing' to an Alan Watts view that: "The meaning of life of life is just to be..

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..alive! ..It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves."

I accept that Alan Watts was one (if not) the most profound thinkers of the 20th century and acknowledge that times have moved-on greatly. Yet; I can't find the fault in his logic here - certainly not in this statement.

Am I wrong, to believe that the simplicity of this this particular statement still resonates very strongly today and carries great meaning?

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•Posted by2 days ago

Ate some mushrooms and did while listening to Alan Watts.

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•Posted by23 days ago

I found the beauty in the spookiness of the sea! Relaxing Fear With Alan Watts

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•Posted by7 days ago

“Solipsism is the idea that you are the only person who exists and everybody else is your dream. Nobody can prove this isn’t so, except I’d like to see a congress of solipsists arguing as to which one of them is really there.” — Alan Watts

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“Solipsism is the idea that you are the only person who exists and everybody else is your dream. Nobody can prove this isn’t so, except I’d like to see a congress of solipsists arguing as to which one of them is really there.” — Alan Watts

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“Solipsism is the idea that you are the only person who exists and everybody else is your dream. Nobody can prove this isn’t so, except I’d like to see a congress of solipsists arguing as to which one of them is really there.” — Alan Watts

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•Posted by25 days ago

Any people like Alan Watts you enjoy listening to

I'm interested in philosophy, theology and psychology and I try to be as rational as I can be.

When I was a teenager, I fell into a mystical and new age cringe rabbit hole and I managed to crawl out of it. I like that Alan watts talks about the universe and things that some consider spiritual but he isn't new age/woo woo or dogmatic. I also like the simplicity and accessibility of his work. Are there any philosophers like Alan watts that you all like and would recommend me checking out?

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