Alan Watts

Anyone else here study Alan Watts? His lectures may not be prime redpill material but they easily help open your mind to reality and perfectly combine eastern with western philosophy.

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I agree user but you're going to subject yourself to a lot of ideologue fag shills who will be angered because you're not conforming to their brand of hipsterism.

“A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.”

Fuck them I do what I want. His lectures dont really have a political leaning and I am aware hippies eat his shit up but these lectures apply to more than just hippies.

Pretty simple advice, but yeah, it's too easy to lose equilibrium between the intellectual/philosophical and the somatic. Us being fluid filled, electrically charged bags of meat may not be all there is to us, but it still is at least half.

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I agree, the unburdened mind seeks wisdom wherever they can find it, I personally cannot stand the derisive charge of "new-ageism" as somehow being a meaningful criticism of modern esoteria of any sort.

It's nothing but a sophistic dismissal.

Alan Watts is good for a sense of perspective for yourself, but his lack of comprehension of other human life tends to leave me sour.

Even take the quote

"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun"

Has a serious lack of understanding behind the gravity of that statement. It's easy to say "don't sweat the small stuff", but he openly advocated that life wasn't meant to be stressful at all. And in that action he lead people, including many of my friends, that there isn't anything worth fighting for.

And so the American population shouldn't worry about the dying Palestinians, the South Americans caught in revolution, their neighbors addicted to drugs. Everything is Brahman and so there is less to worry about when this is known. He never taught that equally as everything Brahman, we too ought to put up a good show on our own side.

I've always enjoyed this mentality of my own, which I honestly don't know the name of, because I made it up. I always believed that people should do things not do things because of a reward, and to expect no reward given, but because they believe their actions are good in itself. That one should accept their ties down to the earth and not fear death, because there's nothing else for them besides to die with dignity. There is no heaven, no hell. You do things because you believe in something worth dying for. And this death is subjecting ones self to a endless black uncertainty, as uncertain as one can be of the past before they were born, so can they be of the future after their death. Very Neitzchean with a Kant influence for the call to action.

Anyways. I've read a fair amount of Alan Watts and respect a lot of what he says. Like to subject ones self to external stimuli. To undo the blocking mechanisms that our unconscious does to filter out all the details in the world. But what he advocates for politically is pointless and has no use towards anyone besides a sedentary.

You put it perfectly. I started this thread because I worry about all the neet Holla Forumsacks living as hermits in their own mind away from society as I was.

OP are you the guy that posted vid related the other day?

I post only a couple time a year, a lurker.

so hedonism? gotcha

While Alan was a good philosopher his teachings were inherently incomplete as you pointed out.

The "Everything is Brahman" approach which is all too common in the "New Age" scene isn't meant to be the taught with such carelessness.

Ramana Maharshi (probably the most well rounded teacher to emerge in centuries) specifically warned against dismissing the world of forms despise the fact that the world of forms at it's nature doesn't actually have "real" existence.

Not necessarily, it can apply in many ways.

But the point is basically that everyone has a purpose, and you need to be fulfilling that, no matter how much time you have.

Not exactly. More like, if you spend your life doing slave labor for a megacorp just to get by, you are not fulfilling your potential as a human. What is the point of living as a slave and not living to do what you love. I used to be a hedonist and drug culture helped me see the aryan light.

a lot of this garbage has been popping up lately, with a lot of newfags engaging it.

REPORT, HIDE, AND SAGE NON-POLITICS SHIT SLIDE THREADS

Bitch ive been here for years. What is politics without philosophy?

so if raping kids is my purpose, you're cool with that? white genocide is fine because it's the jews purpose?
enough of this hippy buddhist bullshit

REPORT, HIDE, AND SAGE

That's not exactly true, he's basically saying that what you're doing here isn't the be-all and end-all to you. He also states that even though you should not take things too seriously, you should pursue your purpose with a sense of honesty.

It's balancing the yin and yang, that's all. Too many people here on Holla Forums let their mental illness cards fall on the table with how psychotic they get over certain issues and refuse to approach any subject from a philosophical standpoint, as if torturing themselves emotionally or rather "not" will somehow delegitimize their values.

It won't, but that sort of unhinged psychoticism is like wearing blinders, and leaves individuals closed to seeing the bigger picture or perhaps solutions to problems that may not be the shortest path between two points, yet may be the only viable path in spite of appearances.

Counter sage, fuck off. This board needs some new life breathed into it. Go to newsplus if you just want news.

If raping my kids is your purpose my purpose is to protect them and kill you, that simple.

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/newsplus/? Are you retarded, this shits years old, Im trying to help you fuckers see the light at 4 am.

No, but who said everyone needs to be objectively cool with everyone else. The dark doesn't exist without the light.

You've got those aforementioned blinders on, step out of your ego and realize that you cannot ever eradicate evil, you can only ever be who you are and push back against it.

That's the point, you have to be who you are, and philosophically, you have to acknowledge that some people are going to be who they are, and it's not going to be pretty.

That's the way of this universe though, get used to it, as long as you know who you are and what you value, puttting them into practice is all you can do.

what im saying is, this " you have a purpose" hippy shit isn't meaningful or deep, its just to make you feel good with vague spiritual bullshit


like this retard here

This guy gets it.

My point mainly is that many of my friends will quote Alan Watts to exemplify their sedated behavior. There is a time for action and a time for philosophy. Both are useful, but more often than not, watts doesnt display any advocacy in action. Or that someone in pain, from the perspective of that someone being Brahman, there is no incentive to help or risk your own life.

That's really funny considering you're going full dunning kruger here thinking you've got all this figured out.

Sophistry is just rhetorical training wheels for the inept.

Daily reminder that


are shill consensus cracking tactics.

I'm currently watching this. It was recommended in another Watts thread some time ago.

stop dropping acid buddy

Then all they're doing is letting the world know who and what they are through that appropriation. Why are you not acting on this information and adjusting your interactions with them?

You don't actually think you can proselytize or shame them out of being who they are do you? The whole point is the world is full of all kinds, and you can't stop them from being who they are, all you can do is be who you are and know yourself, and specifically live your life with as much cognizance as to how your values measure up against others.

Well, now you're starting to sound like a full-blown Brockfag.

I hope they're not paying you in wooden nickels to do this shit.

You know, I think the kikes switched tactics. I think these types of people are the shills. Like legitimately I see these arguments copy/pasted on Holla Forums all the time.

Yes. I always listen to his lectures on youtube and soundcloud.

I honestly believe a lot of far-right elements online are funded by the hymies, but you'll also see that from extremely intransigent, hardline pagan white nationalists which is a real shame.

From anons who care about board quality, not like shills such as yourself. Go to /x/ if you want to discuss Kek worship, /fit/ if you want self improvement threads, Holla Forums if you want Space Elevator threads, etc. This board is for
POLITICS

I completely agree, this user gets it. The basic idea behind watts philosophy is, how can you see the truth without also seeing the lies. If humanity never experienced rape and murder, would we truly know how great our lifeforce is? How great are white people compared to jews and mudslimes if you take out all the rape and murder they committed? We are equal, thats the philosophy, sure certain races are more prone to certain evil activities, but would we truly know the meaning of peace and love as Aryans without the evil of degenerates to compare it to?

Interesting guy for sure. His book The Supreme Identity is very much a traditionalist critique of liberalism.


Implying philosophy is not interlinked with politics you fucking KIKE.

Honestly yeah I do, people have a strong unconscious tendency to follow people with a sense of direction. This includes shaming those who don't conform. The interesting part is those who still refuse and can argue against you.

I don't see why it should, and why I can't change people. Strong horse and all of that. And believe me, people are dying to be told what to do by a successful person.

All you can do is to reduce yourself from all forms of slavery and dependence. You must relinquish yourself from right and wrong as a sense of oppressors and the weak, and reinvent it as a direction from where you lead your pack.

For example, I hate porn. I hate alcohol. I hate all drugs. I hate all forms of hedonism. I hate seeing it in people. If people wish to argue for it, and attempt to win, then there is a measure of strength. But I must fight against that tide. I must look far into the depths of human depravity, in hopes that I can cure it. If I don't, and if others don't, then the world will fall apart. It is in my opinion that it should not be that way.

Dude, it's ridiculously early in the morning, who the fuck cares. If it's gone or anchored and drops off, it won't hurt anyone.

yuppers. alan watts has been a part of my canon for years, through every political "identity" and life phase. It's good stuff and bretty apolitical. Not any kinda 'pill' at all, tbh. Fairly neutral it-is-what-it-is kinda material.

But he serves a specific purpose none the less. I find his lectures to be more of a safe decompression chamber when I feel myself getting to jaded from this gay earth and bullshit. He's good to take on vacation or road trips. I went on a pretty strong Alan Watts binge after the inauguration, for instance…

As I said, politics is based on philosophy and ideology. You cant have Holla Forums without /phi/.

If any of those precepts you hold were true, we'd all be SJWs by now. We'd all be mindless marxist goyim drones self flagellating at the alter of postmodern degeneracy.

No, there are certain inherent aspects to one's character and I generally find the people who obsess with trying to change others tend to be really fucked up both personally and interpersonally. Just look at the other side, they have a nervous breakdown if people disagree.

Sometimes fluidity in life in terms of getting where you want to be is far better than smashing yourself against a brick wall. Drop those people whose values strike a profound enmity with yours and move on, find your lot, it's not with those people I guarantee you.

You are a trash user and Holla Forums does not need you to defend it, let alone defend it from having good threads. Go straight back to reddit, don't come back.

You aren't very wise, are you?

Ahh yeah but oversimplifcation it's so easy user, anyone can do it.

You are what killed this board. This is the first marginally interesting thread in a month. But don't despair. The (((mods))) are firmly on your side and have been dutifully deleting every thread that goes beyond muh Trump US politics.

At least you admit it.

They wouldn't, I was simply characterizing it.

Self-improvement and philosophy threads get anchored, saged and spammed by newfags, kikes and weebmods all the time. Don´t even bother trying to teach these retards anything. Read the three baskets, m8. Alan Watts is a great start.

This. wtf happened.

Did people move somewhere?

Kill self newfag pretending to be old fag.

Yup. This place is fucking garbage now. /dailynews/ and e-celeb drama basically.

"You don't pay me, we don't even exist.
We're just a clever visual metaphor,
Used to personify the abstract concept of thought "

Pay attention everyone this is the state of JIDF disruption and obfuscation shilling

moonman at it again

Fuck these gay ass mods, pol is shit now. Anti aryan shill mods. Faggot niggers stifle any talk about the only true aryan religion. Bumplocking enlightenment threads? Bumplock alan watts. Fuck it, thats the last straw. Holla Forums is dead. See you faggots at the race war, traitorous mods hang first.

Sieg heil!

See you tomorrow

He made an entire visual novel about fucking kids. He called it porn. Look it up.