It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: BuzzyWigs
Right? Me, too!
That's why I bring it back up now.
There are many of us who had fleeting exposure to Alan Watts - but then were swept back up into the "Western" way of things. It deserves revisiting.
Yes, and unfortunately the western way of never-ending consumerism is taking over the east as well. Scientific-materialism has become the most dominant world 'religion'.
Don't forget to have fun while you're at it... this is very important.
originally posted by: BuzzyWigs
Every day is a new opportunity to live, laugh, love. Enjoy, savor, embrace. Learn. Think. Reflect. Pet your cat. Kiss your loved ones.
LAUGHING is the best, though - just the best
This country is a wreck. Capitalism (materialism/consumerism) has ruined it. Partisan bickering and obstructionism is beyond belief.
originally posted by: BuzzyWigs
a reply to: metalholic
This is interesting.
I believe you are talking in the general sense of "you" though, right? Like they say, "One might think...." instead of "You might think..."
Not to me specifically?
The difference I see between our views is that you believe we are all already connected.
I observe a disconnect from the world.
as I look back on the short life I have lived i realize as I grow and experience more the more I notice how wrong everything is here.
Not necessarily that people are doing horrendous things,
but everything seems wrong to me. I feel a presence around the air that seems foreign.
originally posted by: metalholic
a reply to: BuzzyWigs
The official document will always say that you understood and thought it was interesting.
Now your looking bi-polar.
originally posted by: metalholic
a reply to: AinElohim
People can't take their own medicine it's a sign that they do not remember or comprehend their own activities that cause and effect those around them.
They are a storm that has no consciousness of it's own destructive path.
He hoped for change, but he preferred amiable, semi-isolated rural social enclaves, and also believed in tolerance for social misfits and eccentric artists