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“We are particular and temporarily identifiable wiggles in a stream that enters us in the form of light, heat, air, water, milk, bread, fruit, beer, beef Stroganoff, caviar, and pâté de foie gras. It goes out as gas and excrement—and also as semen, babies, talk, politics, commerce, war, poetry, and music. And philosophy.”

— Alan Watts, Does It Matter? nostr:note1ke7qgdf8emu5un3cu06pwkhdw4n7chsz5325z4n6fygntty5s4nqljt4kc

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“We are particular and temporarily identifiable wiggles in a stream that enters us in the form of light, heat, air, water, milk, bread, fruit, beer, beef Stroganoff, caviar, and pâté de foie gras. It goes out as gas and excrement—and also as semen, babies, talk, politics, commerce, war, poetry, and music. And philosophy.”

— Alan Watts, Does It Matter?

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“A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the substance is a stream of energy.”

— Alan Watts, Does It Matter?

Post-postmodernism feels a lot like a return to traditionalism.

“We justify our wars and revolutions as unfortunate means for good ends, as a general recently explained that he had destroyed a village in Vietnam for its own safety. This is also why we can reach no genuine agreement—only the most transitory and unsatisfactory compromises—at the conference tables, for each side believes itself to be acting for the best motives and for the ultimate benefit of the world. To be human, one must recognize and accept a certain element of irreducible rascality both in oneself and in one’s enemies.”

— Alan Watts, Does It Matter?

“The meaning of life is just to be 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.”

— Alan Watts, The Culture of Counter-Culture

Ty sir 🤝

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"When the Lord God accused Adam and said, You've been eating of the tree I told you not to eat, he passed the buck to Eve and said, This woman that thou gavest me, she tempted me and I did eat.

He looked at Eve and said, Now what about it? She said, well it was the serpent. He looked at the serpent. The serpent didn't say anything, because he knew too much. And he wasn't going to give away the show."

– Alan Watts, Myth and Religion

"When the Lord God accused Adam and said, You've been eating of the tree I told you not to eat, he passed the buck to Eve and said, This woman that thou gavest me, she tempted me and I did eat.

He looked at Eve and said, Now what about it? She said, well it was the serpent. He looked at the serpent. The serpent didn't say anything, because he knew too much. And he wasn't going to give away the show."

– Alan Watts, Myth and Religion

History rhymes.

The US dollar has lost 97% of its value since the Federal Reserve was created.

#Bitcoin, au contraire, goes up in value.

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"Why do you want to love God? Well, because God is the biggest boss, and it’s best to be on the side of the big battalions."

— Alan Watts, Still the Mind

“Affluent people in the United States have seldom shown much imagination in cultivating the arts of pleasure. The business-suited executive looks more like a minister or an undertaker than a man of wealth and is, furthermore, wearing one of the most uncomfortable forms of clothing ever invented for the male, as compared, say, with the kimono or the kaftan.”

— Alan Watts, Does It Matter?

Change starts from within.

“I never discuss anything except politics and religion. There is nothing else to discuss.”

— GK Chesterton

“In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!”