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Originally Posted by Celladorina
Lol.
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^ I've tried reading a couple of Alan Watts books, but never quite made it to the end of one, so I was very pleased to see the man himself; lucid and making a clearly understandable point. Thanks for the clip.
Elsewhere I once read a similar idea about how difference so easily becomes agression - about how, the very minute you talk about "us" you are defining a not-us, which you call "them." We all know how most religions, politically theories and armies view "them" - not quite as enlightenedly as Alan Watts.
It was from Alan Watts, among others, that I learned the importance of tolerance and if anyone else takes that message away from your clip, then you've done a service to MB Celladorina, but as for too much analysis and over-thinking of life, I prefer to live by this banal maxim: "Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved."