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- danzbar is a 23 year old guy from Pasadena, California, USA.
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Here to find good videos, photography, humor, and various weird and informative pages. I post on www.FussyPucker.com. An explanation of that name is here.
Inspired by a Beatles lyric, I now carry around the picture you see and sing the theme from The Courtship of Eddie: "Peopre ret me terr you bout my best fliend!"
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YouTube - To Speak the Truth
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Apr 14, 3:40am
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Alan Watts opposing dualism. What these videos do, for me, is distract me with beautiful images and beg me to see that I am a part of the beautiful world being shown. Not my image mixed with those images. But me, in them and them in me. I rather like the feeling.
That said, it's interesting to note the amount of power he places in humans' ability to alter the physical world with mere observation. Our very building of microscopes, he suggests, is creating new levels of microscopic life that were not there before, our telescopes causing the galaxies to move away from each other.
That could well be, but if we are to believe that our observation has that kind of power, then different observations will probably cause different responses. And perhaps one response is for the universe to become understandable. Why does that, as Watts seems to say, have to contradict the power of love? Why would understanding prevent or dull down enjoyment? Should we assume that when Mozart heard a piece of music, he didn't like it because his ability to understand it was so much greater than normal? When guitarists study guitar then watch or listen to others, they gain a new appreciation for the works. Most people don't have their most powerful experiences when they first start having sex. It's after they've explored and learned that they become better equipped.
On the other hand, human fascination with new experiences would seem to suggest he's onto something. So, too, the fact that singers feign surprise to get a fuller resonance from their voices. Just the simple switching to the cool other-side-of-the-pillow says something. As Watts likes to point out, variety is the spice of life.
Still, I tend to believe all things have a center, ends, and connections. And if we think our watching them changes them, what we're really saying is that the universe revolves around us. This is neither a new nor a very compelling idea, no matter how well Watts delivers it. If we are the center of all things and important enough to move galaxies and alter the nature of atoms, why do we revolve around the sun?
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