Knowledge Flashcards
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Alan Watts on Atheism
Being an atheist isnt any more scientific then being religious. Its stems from enlightenment thinking that helped the European justify colonialism. To say they were more rational and more evolve so they deserved to destroy the natives. They could see themselves as the fittest while killing.
We are our choices.
Satre
If one cannot draw on 3000 years is living from hand to mouth
Goethe
Nobody believes in God like an atheist. There is no God and I am his prophet
Alan Watts
Zen Impermanence
we ignore the fact that we are experiencing the world as it is.we put a layer of meaning over it. We ignore what’s really happening and the beautiful Impermanence of the universe. We alienate ourselves by building this type of layer. We need to return to experience world in a raw way.
Public persuasive speaking/Think as a wise man, but speak as a common man.
anon
Capitalism will transition into devolve into barbarism
Luxembourg
Implied obviousness
(advanced form of future pacing) Benefits of what you’re selling is a given. “Now john, you’ll make money with this, but more importantly is what I can do for you in the long term” (Obviously the product is a winner)
Comodety Monetary fetishism (lame deer)
Comodety Monetary fetishism- when we see money as an ends to itself and Every thing stands for money. We comodify everything. We even comodify nature because we see them because they are dead. We comdify ourselves into chairman and clock punchers and labor. We changed what we think it means to be human into something else. We answer the question of “who we are” but s what we do. We think if ourselves in terms of our functions. Can we endorse the world we created? We created a life no one can endorse.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Camus
Traveling - it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.
Ibn Battuta
No one will make me happy, i won’t make anyone else happy. Not for long.Certainly not forever
Me
Path to truth is tremendously diverse.
Bruce Lee
Egyptian gospel of Jesus
- female and male become one. Death will stop when women don’t gicd birth. He has come to destroy work of female (desire in those days)
midlevel executives have no reason to encourage true democracy. Sense of freedom but has no real influence on his world (mills cheerful robot)
Midlevel bureaucrats-
Tech - We should start a band
I like your look. We should start a band. I won American Idol in my shower last week and I’m a champion at playing the triangle. What music do you listen too?
Consuming symbolic values in late capitalism
Late capitalism- freedmen- now products have more symbolic value not utility. more small niche, identify with products with identity. Irony of Nike selling mass produced shoe as something unique we can build identity on.were constantly looking for something authentic. Tgif and Applebee’s pretending to be neighborhood places. Microbrew- when I drink this beer it shows i have refund taste and shows who i am as a person. Consuming symbolic values “Substance is nothing, image is everything.” John Bodrard We define ourselves more from consumption not production . We try to consume things that are more real than real. Reality tv shows, prepackaged vacation, Disneyland swamp tour v real swamp tour, las vegas with the Eiffel tower. Celebration florida (fake old school towns).
Meaning of life is purposelessness by Alan Watts
Meaning of life -purposelessness. Is the point of dancing where you end up. Is the point of music to reach the end. The journey is the purpose (applies to travel)
Wu Wei
recognize you are just a link in the chain.You are only part of a causul network. You forget you are just a new link in the causal chain. You are a nature to which were in harmony. You’re achievements are only part of the achievements of others.
Dali Lama 7 Billion Religions
There are 7 billion people so in a way there should be a billion religions. Everyone should embark upon their own spiritual journey based on who they are” the purpose of religion is to benefit people and nourish the human spirit. We should encourage diversity. People may like a certain restaurant but if there was only one it would cease to be useful and benefit everyone. Personal contact between those of different faith is very beneficial. They are all designed to make the world a better place after all. Religion should be a tool to reduce suffering in the world. Everyone has buddha nature seeds within.
Plan all the ay to the end. Consider possible outcomes. Keep plan adaptable. No half measures.
Laws of Power
Substantive economics
anthropological view where economics arises from cultural context. Its not the other way around. The dhobi don’t want unlimited stuff . The Trobrianders tribe in new guinea trade shells and beads ritually. Its not about the object but the connection. Social debts are more important.
Osho on contradictions
A man who remains the same with the same opinions his whole life is an idiot. It means he isn’t growing.
Many religions think you are unworthy and flawed. Christianity has original sin, buddhism and Hinduism have karma, in the big bang were a cosmic accident. Toltec religion says you are a piece of divinity and perfect the way you are are. Its another way to be addicted to suffering.
Many religions think you are unworthy and flawed. Christianity has original sin, buddhism and Hinduism have karma, in the big bang were a cosmic accident. Toltec religion says you are a piece of divinity and perfect the way you are are. Its another way to be addicted to suffering.