The Nature of Selfishness ~ Alan Watts

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Alan Watts

While many in the 60's played the stock market and paid their mortgages, Alan Watts lived aboard a colorful houseboat, writing, speaking, and inspiring a generation to re-assess their values. For more than forty years, Alan Watts earned a reputation as a foremost interpreter of Eastern philosophies for the West. Beginning at age sixteen, when he wrote essay for the journal of the Buddhist Lodge in London, he developed an audience of millions who were enriched through his books, tape recordings, radio, television, and public lectures. In all, Watts wrote more than twenty-five books and recorded hundreds of lectures and seminars, all building toward a personal philosophy that he shared in complete candor and joy with his readers and listeners throughout the world. His overall works have presented a model of individuality and self-expression that can be matched by few philosophers. His life and work reflects an astonishing adventure: he was an editor, Anglican priest, graduate dean, broadcaster, author, lecturer, and entertainer. He had fascinations for archery, calligraphy, cooking, chanting, and dancing, and still was completely comfortable hiking alone in the wilderness. He held a Master's Degree in Theology from Sudbury-Western Theological Seminary and an Honorary DD from the University of Vermont in recognition of his work in the field of comparative religions. He held fellowships from Harvard University and the Bollingen Foundation, and was Episcopal Chaplain at Northwestern University during the Second World War. He became professor and dean of the American Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco, made the television series "Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life" for National Educational Television, and served as a visiting consultant for psychiatric institutions and hospitals, and for the United States Air Force. In the mid-sixties he traveled widely with his students in Japan, and visited Burma, Ceylon, and India.

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[onewingedangel326]

the music ruins the speech no matter what the music is, because the music will give you an emotion that will stick with you for the speech and put you in a wrong mindset to genuinely accept his ideas and understand his state of mind

[Kan2209]

What is it with fucking backround music.

[Hoobifta]

On the contrary, what trouble is there in anti-altruism, I was disgusted at selflessness, giving up your own pleasure. And mind you I learned the hard way to be a holy man I suppose, agnostic is holy. Agnostics are scarier than atheists, atheist women want to beat them up. Oh yes, but people are very scared of me the atheist, I choose the scariest thing, because I don't find religion true, thus I will falsify religion, and I don't care. People made me afraid of atheism for the last time!!!

[Hoobifta]

This is why the world is shitty, I say no one of themselves will automatically reward anything nice to you, I'm very selfish. When I wasn't selfish, I felt love of a person but I had a feeling of warmth for a little while, continuing to be selfless I felt heat and cold, a bit of hate. Selfishness is what I'm born to take as morally good, the things I called good began with my first moral: selfish. No other is compatible, why should I connect with the other? The other never listens, evil am I?

[onewingedangel326]

The music isnt bad just steps on the purity of the speech. The music gives a sense of distance and lost.

[justin70108]

@onewingedangel326 why is that? what kind of emotion did the music give you?

[justin70108]

the background music makes me think that i'm having a fuckin revelation man

[clunkymonk]

I was trying to ignore the damn music, but it's bugging the hell out of me, throwing off the mood that his speaking gives me.

[kromeclutch]

@onewingedangel326 Then find the original :)

[killerkandi133]

@pedowpn it has often been used in that way

[killerkandi133]

@onewingedangel326 i thought that as well

[123Lighton]

thats three things