Alan Watts on conforming to society

Why do we feel like we don't fit in? Is it a bad thing? Why do we have a harder time the less we conform? Alan Watts talks about societies insecurities.

He says they want us to "play the game". We have to strive for status otherwise we aren't playing by the rules. But what are the rules? What is the game?

Alan Watts talks 40 years ago here like it was yesterday.

Listen how he explains how we are all believed to be equally inferior and how dangerous it is to society.

A free society should embrace those of us who strive to see things simpler and less manipulated.

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[AurynThePaladin]

Life is ultimately meaningless with no point. However, I still latch onto things that I understand to be mere illusion, I suppose simply because I can. Whether I die tomorrow, or in 50 years, it means nothing. Reaching the mountain top, or living your entire life living in ignorance are one it the same.

What's the difference between every human being in history having become enlightened, or having not?

I suppose you'd have to believe in an afterlife to believe "this" life matters.

[BrewedStrange]

@AurynThePaladin The difference between becoming enlightened or not is whether you have to come back to this low level plane of existence or not. Believing this "3D physical reality" is all there is to it, is a total disservice to who you really are. And if you believe that you really are "your body" and "your brain" then yes, you will most likely have to keep coming back until you learn the truth. It's okay though, there is no right or wrong. Nothing truly dies - this is the grand illusion.

[birdistheword1960]

@AurynThePaladin Corporeal life will never last forever. The goal of corporeal life is to overcome the temptations that earth (a world far from spiritual advancement) brings to you. Your spirit will never cease to exist. Spirit is everything. You create your own happiness, pain, fear, love, ect.. the True goal of everyone is to become spiritually enlightened and to progress in every corporeal existence through the path of God.God has many different names on earth but ultimately is everything.

[BrewedStrange]

@birdistheword1960 Thanks for your wonderful comment.

[Megaritz]

@goregrindmonstrosity I wish more 9th graders listened to Alan Watts.

[nolifenojobnogirl]

i dont have a lawn :)

[texasB666]

@Maindrian5 One nation... UNDER THE GROOVE! :D Thanks for commenting. Well, to answer your question: Sometimes you got to have luck in this world i guess. Right now i'm actually intentionally unimployed, but winter is almost gone so i'm going to search for a half time job to earn some money so i can travel some more. I have a big family, lots of friends, girlfriends and live now back with my sister and mother. I sold some books but not enough to live off, but i will one day :) cheers

[Maindrian5]

@texasB666Hey bro Do yo thang man I respect you !!! but how do you get around?? dont you have a job or anything how do you earn your money?? one nation bro

[bongcouver]

To reach "Enlightenment", one must chop wood. Upon reaching "Enlightenment", one must chop wood.

[justinweltmer]

@AurynThePaladin If you deny that life has meaning, then you deny the greatest ability you have: consciousness. Conscious beings have the ability to assign meaning to the world around themselves. To deny this is to deny the fundamental underpinnings of humanity and morality. If this is your standpoint on the world, I would have a hard time calling you human.

[BeGoneTrolls4evR]

The Grand Illusion by Styx. :)

[pantallametalla]

It's not about becoming defeated. It's not about saying "fuck it". It's really very simple. It's about being happy. You say what's the point? To be happy. To be fulfilled. If becoming spiritually enlightened is your idea of torture, then it is your duty to be as ignorant as possible. It is about being you in the true sense. Life is not about fitting into someone else's view of what you should be, it is about fitting into your own skin. Look inward, not outward. Find your happiness, anywhere.

[jeef88]

The secret to life if is to just say fuck it.

[heyassmanx]

@AurynThePaladin Thats the thing, those intangibles are indescribable and beyond most human capacity. You have not been to that place so it is hard for you to understand and I cannot blame you for that, but it is foolish to assume you have mastered all that there is to know about existence, which is what your doing by assuming that it all is meaningless. Even the most learned of philosophers and scholars will tell you there is a fountain of knowledge far beyond any human understanding

[AurynThePaladin]

@simonk512 Please enlighten me to how I'm 'misled and confused'. Who/what misleads my thought train? How is my logical thought process misguided or inaccurate?

Everyone seems to be upset with what I'm saying, but nobody can orate any semblance of an argument that resides within objectivity.

Assume my entire memory has been wiped away and I asked you to explain why:

1) Things in life matter

2) What's the purpose of personal/mass human development

3) How you arrived at those answers.