I was raised catholic and even as a child I never like the fact that I couldn't question it. At 15 I used to tell my father that I don't believe God is going to send me to hell because I didn't do my homework! I was discouraged to seek answers or what I say today the truth. If no man is perfect then how is the person that is writing the Bible without sin? I'm 42 and I came to a opinion that religion was created out of good but is being manipulated to get the outcome they want. God isn't jealous or a murderer he is not of our world because he created our world. Jesus was a messenger and we all can be gods messenger if we choose to live with light and love and continue to seek the truth.

@truthseekers1620

8 ай бұрын

@42bellabella i would question the heck out of what i believe because i wanna know if what i believe is true or not. what hell? there are many people who wrote the bible not just one person and no they are not without sin. only one person is without sin and he is jesus Christ who is the son of God. good luck trying to live right in your own power because it will not happen. but you should seek the truth to be set free from the lies good luck and have a good day

@timwoodger7896

8 ай бұрын

Religion is just a cage they put spirituality into so they can control it and the people who believe.

@MrMortal_Ra

8 ай бұрын

@@truthseekers1620I left Christianity, and Jesus being lord and Saviour. I have many reasons why and have all the verses to back them up, it's in my PowerPoint. Jesus was not a God nor was he the son of God, he was a man who achieved enlightenment and overcame darkness and dark feelings, like anger,hatred,fear,anxiety,guilt,shame,depression etc. Just like the Buddha, Buddha sat under a tree and fasted for 49 days while also meditating. Through that, he achieved enlightenment, Jesus fasted for 40 days, and Buddha’s sitting under Tree was Jesus wander through the desert. They both over came these dark feelings and primal emotions. Through that Jesus achieved enlightenment.

@MrMortal_Ra

8 ай бұрын

Absolutely brother, but I’m actually 15 and 1 week ago decided to leave Christianity altogether, for many reasons. But the thing is my entire family are all hardcore Christians and I’m having a hard time deciding if I should tell them, and when. Any advice?????

@truthseekers1620

8 ай бұрын

@@MrMortal_Ra who says jesus Christ is not the son of God? you are confusing Christ with buddha if man could overcome dark and primal feelings on his own he would have done it long ago i can not wait to see the truth anything else does not matter

Never confuse Religon with faith in God

@jeffburman7832

8 ай бұрын

Right on the money

@adriaandoelman2577

8 ай бұрын

Which one of the 10.000+ gods?

@sammy57533

8 ай бұрын

any god which gives you mental power to deal with daily shit@@adriaandoelman2577

@Poolberi88

8 ай бұрын

And never confuse religion with the bible. Many...not all.... who have never studied it in depth sometimes are quick to put it down. People try to destroy it or like the churches keep it hidden. It survived it all. Study it. It answers basic questions we all ask. What happens when we die? Where are the dead? Will sickness ever end. Who rules this world? Why is there so much wickedness? Why is there so much suffering? You may not accept its answers. It gives us the choice...but its satisfying and worthwhile

@jeffburman7832

8 ай бұрын

@@adriaandoelman2577 the word god means ultimate good. A synonym for ultimate good is ideal. It has been tradition to teach morals through morals. Ideals through story. To follow god means to follow the ideal each god teaches. You know like truth justice and the American way. Or use the force Luke. I cannot say whether god exists or not. But the Bible is undeniably a book. A book with contrasting ideals. The two primary biblical ideals are conditional love versus unconditional love. I believe the intention is for the reader to follow God through the changes of conditional love to unconditional love. Number one we are born with the instinct to love on a conditional basis. It’s consistent with the natural world. Then the god of the Bible asked for the reader to love as he has loved. Essentially asking the reader to love unconditionally. The Greek gods were used to explain the phenomenons of the oceans and phenomena of skies. Until science has come along and explained that hurricanes aren’t the will of some divine being. This was the science sponsored by churches. The sciences have yet to explain away the God that explains love and unconditional love. The fact that government has hijacked the sciences, in the recent past, is proof to me they never will.

Perhaps the true religion is in our hearts. Not an organization or institution of any kind. It’s human nature to make things more complicated than they need to be.

@johngraham1427

Ай бұрын

but you trust that same human nature to lead you to truth about the transcendent? You cant follow a compass you just claimed is broken.

@HappyHermitt

16 күн бұрын

You mean Spirituality. Religion is man made doctrine, rules, and conditions. Spirituality is freedom. One with God. I see Atheists and agnostics confuse them constantly. Its pure ignorance.

@d00d-gtp

9 күн бұрын

@@HappyHermitt I am an atheist, but I am heavily spiritual. I see God as the cosmic everything that lies in all things, whcih surely isn't a sentient being nor needs worship, but it's like spirituality itself.

@TheVine-du2bj

9 күн бұрын

I’m hearing more and more of this “I’m spiritual”. What I hear is that you’re in tune with what you really are, a spirit that lives in a body and you have a soul but how about the one who made you. We must remember it’s always the creator that gives the creation it’s purpose so it important to ask the question who is my creator that I might know Him and even understand myself better. This leads you to understand it’s not religion it’s relationship, just get to know this person you’re in a relationship with, pray and ask God your creator to reveal Himself to you and you’ll be surprised that the answer most likely has already been presented before. “He’s the way the truth and the life”. It’s Jesus just get to know Him no matter your background just get to know Him and see how your life changes.

@godlesslyhandsome

8 күн бұрын

The impotent Gawd's organized religions are possessed by Satan's Holy Spirit inhabiting our Almighty YAHUAH'S geocentric flat earth.

True religion is not about polarisation, hating each other, criticizing others religion, becoming an irrational person. It's about helping the needy, loving family and friends. Being kind to others and yourself.

@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363

16 күн бұрын

All Humans need to repent & Believe in Jesus as their God. Why? Because all Humans have sinned (lied, lusted sexually, stolen, dishonoured parents, unbelief etc). Avoid the fires of Hell (justice of God) and choose Heaven today. Jesus defeated death by rising from the dead. GOD IS HOLY

@carltoncoleman454

14 күн бұрын

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 I am so sick of this rhetoric of being afraid to born in Hell. I'll never return to the Bible-thumping evangelical and fundamentalist version of Christianity as it has always turned me off even as a child growing up. Freethought and Secular Humanism are the best ways to go.

@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363

9 күн бұрын

@@carltoncoleman454 No their not hundreds of millions of people have been killed in the name of atheism, moral subjectivity is the worst thing because i may deem racism to be wrong and you right but at the eng the pinion that matters is the one that lines up with God. If you have sinned even once (lied,,stolen, used God's Name in vain, sexually sinned ) you need the saviour, ou are not an animal but a human being made in the image of God

@grasroots601222

9 күн бұрын

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 I can assure you that we do not. There is no such thing as 'sin' outside of the narrow and hypocritically imposed sanctions of religion.

@DaRealFishyy

3 күн бұрын

not exactly true, doing good deeds wont get you into heaven.

My Grandmother, GRHS, she believed that you did not need to or have to go to church, that she had a personal relationship with God within her, and as long as she lived a good, fair, honest life, then that is what mattered most, not what someone in a Church, or a Religion told you you had to do or be.

@HighHell99

8 ай бұрын

Where does the standard for good, fair, honesty come from?

@snoozdude1

8 ай бұрын

Many people who believe they're leading good lives pleasing to God aren't, but are merely satisfying their own standards which they adopted because they were convenient. Without religious training, many will have no idea what they believe to be good is actually abomination to God. It's akin to insisting one is a good citizen while at the same time routinely ignoring or acting contrary to existing law.

@Davido50

8 ай бұрын

@HighHell99 Christianity my friend! Period . God is real 🙏. Every knee shall bow to Jesus one day in near future. -NY

@HighHell99

8 ай бұрын

@Davido50 God is definitely real, that is a separate topic. Not going to the church or mosque and trying to live a good, fair life by your own standards doesn't cut it, that is the topic at hand.

@docrobo360

8 ай бұрын

@@HighHell99 These emerge from norms in society and our need to be part of a group to function and live as human beings. We could say the moral truth comes from some intrinsic source, be it Religion or a God. However, even if a child were to just observe their parents and surroundings, they too would adopt whatever habits and norms they perceive as good and true. After all, parents are the first teacher of children and children tend to mimic their parents. It is only when a child sees written words or the words echoed by parent or other influential adult who applies a label to describe concepts related to goodness, fairness, honesty, truth, morality; only then do they also associate such to a prescribed Religion or deity. Children rarely choose their faith... their faith comes naturally to them because of what they grew in to and it is only when they are adults that they either continue to follow their Religion or adapt their beliefs to something else that calls to them. Just as Alan Watts said in this monologue. If you were born into a Hindu family, you would adopt the Hindu faith, the same is true for Shintoism, Buddhism, Islam, and the Catholic faith. Once you grow older... your world view widens and you are exposed to other viewpoints and ways of thinking.

At the age of 10 at confession I was told by a priest I was on the verge of Hell. I stood up and I exited the church. And I never went back.

@remowilliams7569

8 ай бұрын

What the priest said to you was terribly wrong in how he said it. However, based on your own actions, that priest has been proved right by your very actions. I will pray that you return to God.

@carolebarker2195

8 ай бұрын

I don't blame you.

@Nighthawk799

8 ай бұрын

@@remowilliams7569 i didn't leave God.I left a church 😁

@captainsafety0104

8 ай бұрын

Most priests/clergy are real scum. Not all. I say this as a Christian, albeit one that asks a lot of questions and doesn't understand the why of things despite reading bible etc. A lot of priests will clam up and start telling you that you're heading to hell when you ask the wrong questions. Calvinists are the worst at this crap.

@carolebarker2195

8 ай бұрын

@@captainsafety0104 I agree with you. Most clergymen have been coasting for years, they've been allowed to. I wish I could have stopped going to church when I was 10, I was brought up as a Catholic. In the 60's and 70's you were given a hard time if you missed mass on Sunday. If you didn't confess to a priest your "mortal sin" you would be told you would go to hell. Lots of nonsensical rules to follow back then, including not eating meat on a Friday, which now they don't do! Since the lockdowns, when the churches were all shut up, these clergymen have shown their true colours.

Rest in peace 🙏 Alan Wilson Watts 6 January 1915 ~ 16 November 1973⚘

@hanskadenge5951

Ай бұрын

58 years of magnificent Wisdom

@katymcdowell7237653

Ай бұрын

I hope so

@johncordora4941

17 күн бұрын

Is he really resting after going against Christ ?

@WithinIsLight

16 күн бұрын

@@johncordora4941after the wisdom he shared about the origins of the Bible and you still came to that conclusion?😆 he actually did not go against Yeshua in anyway

@kofidan9128

16 күн бұрын

​​@@WithinIsLight in my part of the world, portions within Black Africa, there's deep spiritual activity. Ppl are experiencing demonic attacks all the time and defending themselves in Jesus's name. Pastors are constantly performing exorcisms in Jesus's name. This is going all the time, so that knowledge of the supernatural and of God is even taken for granted. Atheists in the West are terribly lost. Too clever for your own good. Best wishes.

This man is a gem. I have just known him for quite a year - still cannot fully comprehend the enormous influence he has made on my thinking. Everytime I listen to him, his words grow broader and deeper

@minehike

Ай бұрын

You can tap in to this knowledge if you kill your ego. You will find true happiness if you stop living life but observe it until you find the patterns. Once you understand what the world is about, you will not fear. This is your story

@kofidan9128

7 күн бұрын

😂 ... i hope you're joking ... people who have been lucky enough to get a bit of an education, and who presume to know the deepest truths in life. I'd take anything he says with great doubt

One of the saddest lessons of history is that we've been hoodwinked. "If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” - Carl Sagan

@joe-31

8 ай бұрын

👍

@stepheni.s7080

8 ай бұрын

Well said 👌

@weemac4645

8 ай бұрын

No fool like an old fool.

@liquidmagma

8 ай бұрын

Sounds like government, not religion.

@secretagent4610

2 ай бұрын

Sagan is awesome.

Enlightenment is like a flower that keeps opening its petals infinitely. When you feel you have grasped something, another mystery unravels. Life is a continuous learning curve as long as we humble ourselves.

@bobclog50

8 ай бұрын

As long as I am humble.

@jacktorrance1237

8 ай бұрын

Let me share this thought, it might be interesting to you :) I always wonder what people have to say about 3000 fulfilled prophecies in the Bible? Is that not proof for the Bible to be reliable? The Qumran scrolls prove that it wasn't changed as the texts were copied over the centuries because the Qumran Texts (which are up to 2200 years old) are exactly identical to the texts we have today). As an example for prophecy, take Daniel chapter 9. Daniel prophecies that the awaited messiah will come as prince in 483 years, starting from the moment it is commanded to restore and build Jerusalem after its destruction by Nebukanezar (it was destroyed at the time this prophecy was written). That command came from king artasasta in the year 451 bC. Hence, the messiah must've come in the year 32 aD. It is historically proven that Jesus died between 30-33 AD. His coming as prince was when he came into Jerusalem five davs before his crucifixion. Daniel gave us the exact year of the coming of the messiah, 483 three years prior. Or take Isaiah 44:28-45:1. Isaiah prophecies that king Cyrus (calling him by name!), who wasn’t alive yet at that time, would one day rebuild the temple in Jerusalem, which, at that time, wasn't even destroyed yet. was around 700 BC. 586 the temple was destroyed by nebukadnezar. Then, shortly after Jerusalem was conquered by the Persians in 539 BC, king Cyrus rebuilt the temple in Jerusalem. Now these are just two, know, but the list goes on. It's a topic worth diving into! Is that not proof that the Bible has something divine to it? It's proven to be, and the Qumran scrolls prove that it wasn't changed. And there's 3000 of those prophecies! If we calculate the chance of then fulfilling by Chance, with a chance of 1:2 for each (which is of course unrealistically probable), we still get an impossible number. The Bible is Gods word, and only the Bible is God’s word, as it says. There's no way around it. And you have an obligation to do what it says and receive the life you were made for, eternal life, by repenting of your sins and turning to Christ, making him lord over your life and living for him and by his will. Anything else leads to hell. May the Lord bless you by leading you to obedience of him, because he'll give you all that's good and all you need if you live for him. Know that he promised he’ll work all for your good if you live for him. That’s the greatest news you can receive! Because he loves you. And he wants to save you. You just have to let him, as I said. As he said. So study his word to get to know his thoughts, his will, his way. Any other way you’ll go astray.

@jacktorrance1237

8 ай бұрын

@@bobclog50hey, here’s a thought that you might find interesting :) I always wonder what people have to say about 3000 fulfilled prophecies in the Bible? Is that not proof for the Bible to be reliable? The Qumran scrolls prove that it wasn't changed as the texts were copied over the centuries because the Qumran Texts (which are up to 2200 years old) are exactly identical to the texts we have today). As an example for prophecy, take Daniel chapter 9. Daniel prophecies that the awaited messiah will come as prince in 483 years, starting from the moment it is commanded to restore and build Jerusalem after its destruction by Nebukanezar (it was destroyed at the time this prophecy was written). That command came from king artasasta in the year 451 bC. Hence, the messiah must've come in the year 32 aD. It is historically proven that Jesus died between 30-33 AD. His coming as prince was when he came into Jerusalem five davs before his crucifixion. Daniel gave us the exact year of the coming of the messiah, 483 three years prior. Or take Isaiah 44:28-45:1. Isaiah prophecies that king Cyrus (calling him by name!), who wasn’t alive yet at that time, would one day rebuild the temple in Jerusalem, which, at that time, wasn't even destroyed yet. was around 700 BC. 586 the temple was destroyed by nebukadnezar. Then, shortly after Jerusalem was conquered by the Persians in 539 BC, king Cyrus rebuilt the temple in Jerusalem. Now these are just two, know, but the list goes on. It's a topic worth diving into! Is that not proof that the Bible has something divine to it? It's proven to be, and the Qumran scrolls prove that it wasn't changed. And there's 3000 of those prophecies! If we calculate the chance of then fulfilling by Chance, with a chance of 1:2 for each (which is of course unrealistically probable), we still get an impossible number. The Bible is Gods word, and only the Bible is God’s word, as it says. There's no way around it. And you have an obligation to do what it says and receive the life you were made for, eternal life, by repenting of your sins and turning to Christ, making him lord over your life and living for him and by his will. Anything else leads to hell. May the Lord bless you by leading you to obedience of him, because he'll give you all that's good and all you need if you live for him. Know that he promised he’ll work all for your good if you live for him. That’s the greatest news you can receive! Because he loves you. And he wants to save you. You just have to let him, as I said. As he said. So study his word to get to know his thoughts, his will, his way. Any other way you’ll go astray.

@andy4829

8 ай бұрын

It's like I'm 1 step ahead and no one else understands

@JesusBichito99

8 ай бұрын

There'a no enlightenment w str8 men u liar. "Humble" 💀

“It’s fine to be born in a religion. Just don’t die in one.”

@Shiekh420

2 ай бұрын

UNDERRATED COMMENT

@davisvoelzke8011

2 ай бұрын

Don’t care I will die in one

@On3d3R_Lvst1nG

2 ай бұрын

💯

@chiefwhitenoise5227

2 ай бұрын

So what do you want to die in? Final desperation? 🙂

@MoneySavingVideos

Ай бұрын

Going on my tombstone

Best Gift I was Given- Atheist Parent who gave me Full and Complete Freedom of Choice, to Choose My Own Way. Divine! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363

5 күн бұрын

The issue at hand is sin and God’s nature of being just. Sin brings suffering (the pleasure is short term, and the suffering is long term-on earth and in hell forever). God brings Righteousness (may have short term suffering followed by long term pleasure- on earth and in Heaven). If you love yourself repent of your sins (lying, hatred, unforgiveness, sexual sins, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, stealing, dishonouring your parents etc) & believe in Jesus for forgiveness of sins. (Jesus died on the Cross as a sacrifice and defeated death by rising from the dead)

@tarapayne4945

5 күн бұрын

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 I don’t believe in Sins per se ….I believe we may make mistakes , but that’s part of learning. I really don’t do things in a ‘sinful way’. I believe in the Golden Rule. It’s really all you need to know. That and Gratitude 🙏… Always be Grateful 🥹. My life is a manifestation of my focus. Everything I’ve Eva wanted is already mine! So-Service to Man/Woman/Creature is where I’m at presently. I believe Jesus is proud of me. And So it is. Good Luck with repentance! 😃🥰

I distinctly remember being a small child and asking "where did God come from?". When my mother said, "you're not supposed to ask that", that's when my profound contempt for authority set in.

@TheBohemianAngels

7 ай бұрын

Sorry that your mother didn't have the guidance enough to lead your correctly. However, now that you are a man you will not be able to use that as an excuse when God asks why you didn't believe or have faith in him.

@zaidnava3728

7 ай бұрын

@@TheBohemianAngels what a loving god

@pardonmyfrench4760

7 ай бұрын

​@@TheBohemianAngelsnot my values, therfore, you are wrong

@TheBohemianAngels

7 ай бұрын

@@zaidnava3728 Atheists and people who try to challenge God always use this nonsense about "a loving God". Makes me laugh but unfortunately, its no laughing matter. Its about one's soul and eternity living an existence with a just God. God is a orderly and just being and has no time for games. So forget about using that lame excuse. When God returns, he will burn this place with the evils because that's what they deserve for rejecting his love (Jesus), and not following hims commandments. There is no time to hide behind the "loving God" business. He knows and reads one inside and out.

@TheBohemianAngels

7 ай бұрын

@@pardonmyfrench4760 That's the beauty sir. God allows us all to make one's own decision. Either accept his words or your don't. That's the beauty. Its not like Islam or Muslim God where if you don't accept it, they want to kill you here in this earth. Huge difference. Here, in the Christian view, if you reject it, you can walk away without an issue. We have no problem with someone rejecting it once they have heard the word. For God's sheep hear his voice. If it doesn't ring true to you, then that's your decision.

Truth is revealed in a manner that invites you to question it.

@ronniebattle1310

8 ай бұрын

Encounter Ministries KZread channel. Mark Hemans/

@christiandpaul2022

8 ай бұрын

There is nothing you can ask the Catholic Church that God has not already revealed. The Magisterium is the seat of ALL knowledge.

@ronniebattle1310

8 ай бұрын

@@christiandpaul2022 Encounter Ministries KZread channel. Mark Hemans÷

@jthrowback

8 ай бұрын

@@christiandpaul2022 those who say we cannot question God, don’t know God very well.

@beyondallreason-du4pq

Ай бұрын

@@jthrowback i see no reason why god would fear us questioning god, and if goddid not want us to question anything god would have made it that we are un able to because who are we compared to god after all......just my opinion slash perspective

Thank you for this. Deconstructed Exvangelical Christian here... still touched by this, made me cry. Thank you. I miss my religion but I know it's not true. All partial truths in religion, I still long for a connection. Even across the interweb, I somehow love you.

@pathfinder1273

2 ай бұрын

Tell me more... this speaks to me.

@user-kk4bh2pv6h

Ай бұрын

The most intriguing distinction between theists & atheists regards the "birth" of consciousness, technology, empathy & cognition versus EVERYTHING excluded. There are humans born brain-dead, that have the same consciousness as EVERY species on Earth aside from humans born otherwise. There are humans that have technological cognition unlike EVERY species on earth aside from other humans. There are humans that act on empathy, over survival (such a serial killers, prophets, mathematicians, or even atheists that have been handed terrible lives & yet continue to do "good" without "reason") unlike EVERY species on Earth aside from other humans. At the end of the day, "something" seperates humanity from EVERY species to EVER walk this earth. (Whether individually or as masses) No species, regardless of brain size (like ants, apes, whales, etc....) have EVER had the "ability" to experience divine nature aside from humanity. It's not to say it's "God's" doing just as it's not to claim it's "extraterrestrials" doings.... However, "SOMETHING" separates humanity from EVERY entity to EVER exist & we STILL cannot explain it to one another OR to ANY species outside our own. There seems to be definitive "proof" that humanity will NEVER "uplift" a species to commit these so-called "divine experiences" allowing them to bare prophecies unto their own kind. (Like a chimpanzee becoming the Messiah of their own species, akin to Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, etc.....) It begs the question; WHAT "flipped the switch" inside the "mind" of these "humans" to regard "prophecy" outside of nature's will ? Also; WHY can it NOT be perceivable in ANY species aside from our own ?

@Shiekh420

Ай бұрын

THIS IS THE ROMANTICIZED RELIGIOUS FEELING OF BEING PART OF A GROUP, AND TO LONG TO BELONG. BUT WHAT YOU THINK YOU ARE MISSING IS NOT MISSING, BECAUSE YOU BELONG TO A GROUP GREATER THAN THAT WHICH YOU ROMANTICIZE ABOUT. WHEN YOU BELONG TO THE ALL, THE ALL BELONGS TO YOU. EXISTING IS WORSHIP. NON - EXISTING CAN NOT WORSHIP BECAUSE THEY DO NOT EXIST TO WORSHIP BY EXISTING.

@pathfinder1273

Ай бұрын

@@Shiekh420 And here I thought an oral laxative was supposed to open up the sluice at the other end.

@Shiekh420

Ай бұрын

@@pathfinder1273 I CAN BS LIKE THE BEST OF THEM MAYBE IM A " PROPHET " 😉 😉 TOO. ALL THE OLD BOOKS SPOKE ABOUT ME BUT THEY JUST DIDNT MENTION MY NAME. ONLY MY ATTRIBUTES. 😂

The biggest sin you can commit is to ignore your own intelligence and not think for yourself.

@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363

5 күн бұрын

The issue at hand is sin and God’s nature of being just. Sin brings suffering (the pleasure is short term, and the suffering is long term-on earth and in hell forever). God brings Righteousness (may have short term suffering followed by long term pleasure- on earth and in Heaven). If you love yourself repent of your sins (lying, hatred, unforgiveness, sexual sins, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, stealing, dishonouring your parents etc) & believe in Jesus for forgiveness of sins. (Jesus died on the Cross as a sacrifice and defeated death by rising from the dead)

@davehenderson6896

5 күн бұрын

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 Did Jesus exist? Is God real? You need to ask these questions.

@scabbycatcat4202

4 күн бұрын

@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 You have been taken in by a work of FICTION masquerading as fact .

“You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain.” - Miyamoto Musashi ❤

@truthseekers1620

8 ай бұрын

and there is more than one path which leads to destruction

@theSword-

8 ай бұрын

But there is only 1 way into heaven. Jesus Christ.

@ericreed4535

8 ай бұрын

​@@theSword-There is no evidence that the blood sacrifice of a scapegoat on our little planet has universal nor eternal impact. Talking larynxless snake or a flying astronaut horse that did 500k miles around the moon?? No evidence for either.

@deadreckoning6288

8 ай бұрын

​@@theSword-That is your belief.

@theSword-

8 ай бұрын

@@deadreckoning6288 Absolutely it's my belief. But it's not "just" my belief, it's a fact stated by Christ Himself.

I have to admit I love how he didn't put religion down at all, he took a very open mind approach to it. I find that to be very beautiful.

@tatsbyk1

8 ай бұрын

He actually did. By giving u false information about where Christianity came from. Do real research not listening to atheist

@Bladespeedy

8 ай бұрын

@@tatsbyk1 or maybe I am not too soft on a situation and am willing to listen to others to further follow what I do believe. There is many beliefs and there is many things in this life we will just never understand. So, just keep your ears and mind open to people. Just cause I listen to someone does not mean it will forever change who I am. Not everyone will.

@criostasis

8 ай бұрын

@@tatsbyk1your are the challenger to the information presented so the onus is on you to refute it with factual information and sources, not just tell others to research. By doing so you educate others instead of adding a tangential and negative comment that doesn’t progress the conversation and does nothing to support your statements(s). Be an educator, not an ass.

@dummythin5378

8 ай бұрын

​@@tatsbyk1He gave the actual (brief) historical story of how Christianity was formed. You tell people to do their research but research will lead them back to here. You're the one living in an echo chamber

@JulianWendt-xo2nl

8 ай бұрын

@@dummythin5378 No do real research not atheist shit

Im here to share my fellings. Im 17 years old, Im christian, and proud to be one, sometimes i fell that it is wrong to be christian, that i am being a fool for being one, and even though i know its not true, it hurts me sometimes. I wanna keep my faith with all my heart, not because i feel forced, but because i believe Christianity is my home, like i deverve to be here, and therefore, i decide to keep my faith, and i know you have the same situation with atheism, and thats okay, i respect that. I believe its okay to have a religion, and its also okay to not have one at all. And thats it, i dont want any fights or conflicts, i just want peace, have a good life guys ❤

@nuntana2

Ай бұрын

Absolutely fine to have a religion and you also sound grounded and respectful of others’ points of view. Don’t ever lose that perspective, to not push your religion onto others or squirm at irrefutable scientific evidence. 👍

@mannymoo

Ай бұрын

Whether Jesus was real or not (I choose to believe he was), his teachings are blessed, pure, and divine. I pray for atheists. There are so many things about this universe that we don’t know. As humans I think it’s a practice of humility to realize that we are not merely a product of evolution. But of a Higher intelligence far beyond our comprehension. Something created the “Big Bang” Something came from nothing. Something created the “life” from which we evolved. Something created consciousness. Surely God exists

@sfullernj

Ай бұрын

​@@mannymoo"God surely exists" there is ZERO evidence for that. So try again

@mannymoo

Ай бұрын

@@sfullernj give me evidence that he doesn’t exist

@mannymoo

Ай бұрын

@@sfullernj look around you. The fact that the universe exists isn’t enough? The fact that the universe seemingly came from nothing isn’t enough reason to believe? That’s why they call it “faith”

I'm so glad i have my own beliefs!

@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363

5 күн бұрын

The issue at hand is sin and God’s nature of being just. Sin brings suffering (the pleasure is short term, and the suffering is long term-on earth and in hell forever). God brings Righteousness (may have short term suffering followed by long term pleasure- on earth and in Heaven). If you love yourself repent of your sins (lying, hatred, unforgiveness, sexual sins, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, stealing, dishonouring your parents etc) & believe in Jesus for forgiveness of sins. (Jesus died on the Cross as a sacrifice and defeated death by rising from the dead)

I've always felt like religion was instituted for a means of control. Especially during the times it was written

@the-dave-house-project

8 ай бұрын

Absolutely agree. All religions began as cults. Only the cults that caught on enough became full fledged religions... but they didn't stop being cults because they outnumbered the non-believers.

@bdawg2513

8 ай бұрын

Definitely! Although I don't believe that there is a God as described by Christianity or any other religion really, I do think that overall, the introduction to Christianity and many others were a good thing in general in order to teach a good and decent way to treat each other. Seems looking back on history that it was needed. Societies were so barbaric and violent before.

@gwilymyddraig

8 ай бұрын

​@@bdawg2513 There is no other organization on the entire planet that has barabrically killed more people in the name of GOD than the CATHOLIC CHURCH.

@gwilymyddraig

8 ай бұрын

​@@bdawg2513 you need to read more history books.

@gwilymyddraig

8 ай бұрын

​@@bdawg2513Jesus is TOO WOKE now for evangelicals. they are barbaric in their treatment of 'the other'whether they're gay, trans, female, not white, etc . religion has given nothing good to humanity.

I was brought up a strict catholic..gloom and doom, hell & damnation was shoved down my throat. I never believed this or in the Catholic religion. I have a brain and a soul, and i am compassionate i WOKE UP... and i'm happy to say i have found MY GOD is kind, forgiving, and never ever abandons me i have a strong connection with the Creator, Angels & Spirit Guides..you can keep your religion!

@hikedayley9309

8 ай бұрын

You are miserably wrong. You don't know anything about Catholocism. You are totally dazed and confused. If you knew about Catholocism you would be jumping for joy and have all the happiness on Earth you could have.

@weareallone6148

8 ай бұрын

Same here! Thank you, God!🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

@damoncrockett9321

8 ай бұрын

So you chose the aspects of God you like the most and ignore the rest. More people will be in hell than there will be in heaven that's scripture and there's a reason for this. Justice is blind and feelings don't matter your actions do. Catholicism is the only faith that's correct like it or not. Yes God is loving but God is also just and we must answer for everything we do in this life good or bad in the end. I would recommend you have a deeper dive into your original faith and decide for yourself instead of allowing the actions of others to draw you away from the faith. Pretty words from people with no more knowledge of the faith than you or I are just that, pretty words with no basis. Work out your own faith with fear and trembling.

@Lonnie-lf7hj

8 ай бұрын

...Welcome Home :)

@FragmentOfInfinity

8 ай бұрын

​@@damoncrockett9321Hell and Heaven is not a place, they are merely states of consciousness. You are the blind being led by the blind. But you will understand, even if it takes you several lifetimes. Fear, is not God. Love, is God.

Finally!!! Someone else out there shares the same way of thinking as I do. Only I can’t put it into eloquent words like Mr.watts. All of what you said is what goes on in my little pea brain

@michael-hw1uv

2 ай бұрын

The worst thing about Eternal damnation isn't the unbearable pain. Its having your brain think for an eternity. Near Death Experience by those who have been there . False Prophets abound such as this blind Fool. Thus fulfilling Thus the Word of our Lord.

@ladydeerheart1

2 ай бұрын

@michael-hw1uv. Prove it. Your opinion is just your opinion. Your opinion doesn't damn anyone to hell but you.

@dparrillojr2

2 ай бұрын

@@michael-hw1uv what does this even mean? Those are a lot of words can you simplify the meeting please I only have a high school education.

@Yonkipog

2 ай бұрын

​what race are you bro ? I genuinely want to know

@dparrillojr2

2 ай бұрын

@@Yonkipog me??

I think listening to Alan Watts is a person I’d always chose to listen to and really enjoy his philosophy. I think, like him, myself and anyone else, no one really knows for sure.

I absolutely love this!! I was raised and baptized as a Jehovah's Witness. Never felt like I came from that cookie cutter mold, new I felt different. You cannot question anything. You are stripped. They tell you what to say, do, think and act. I got chills listening to this, this took me back to being around 4 or 5 years old sitting in the kingdom hall during meetings feeling this spacious deep calm feeling within me, wondering if I was the only one who felt it. I wasn't like my sister who ate it all up, she loved all the meetings and door to door. I on the other hand dreaded it all, and sometimes I couldn't hide it and it made my parents upset lol. I always wondered why I couldn't grasp the bible like everyone else could. Now I know!!! This is amazing! Thank you so much for this 💜💜💜

@jerryrothenberg9750

8 ай бұрын

I too was raised as a Jehovah's Witness. My dad and mom had divorced several years prior to my dad and new stepmom started attending. We left the church for several reasons. They told my dad he couldn't hunt anymore. He deer hunted gun and bow season. They also demanded that we cut ties with all our family members who were not Jehovah's Witness or willing to convert. Which would have been the rest of my family.

@russellhartz1768

8 ай бұрын

There is a verse in the Bible that states if any person or church says that they know when Jesus will return,,it is a sign they are the devil,,,,jehovah witnesses have claimed 4 times Jesus is coming soon, it is really a fund raising event,,,in 1973 they talked many into giving the cult their homes. ,

@RyzenZegend

8 ай бұрын

Pure nonsense. Only people who are gullible and have Zero confidence are not Jehovah Witnesses. It's the same reason when things start crashing people all around the world tend to look for truth in scriptures. And there will be a time when Jehovah Witnesses won't accept Bible Studies and it's coming very soon. When we're not knocking on doors, out in the streets, phone or zoom. The silence will kill people. And then they will have to know. We have the Truth. For it is written: And he did not refrain from punishing an ancient world, but kept Noah, a preacher of righteousness, safe with seven others when he brought a flood upon a world of ungodly people. 6 And by reducing the cities of Sodʹom and Go·morʹrah to ashes, he condemned them, setting a pattern for ungodly people of things to come. 7 And he rescued righteous Lot, who was greatly distressed by the brazen conduct of the lawless people-(2 Peter 2:5-7)

@thetruthnothingelse5033

8 ай бұрын

Jehovas vitness is actually satans vitness since there God jehova is one of the names of satan, Never ever mentioned by Jesus as any name of his father, and he should know shouldent he, as the closest to God The almighty now sitting on Gods right hand side, JV have failed in all there end of The world predictions, and thats many, such prophet shall die it God sayet in Deutr. 18:20-22 they have alter their bible translation taking out and added, severe sins stated in the end of The book of Revelation. All plagues written in Revelation will come over them doing that. Gods true name revealed by him self in divine encounter to Moses is in Exodus 3:14-15 "I am who I am" verse 15 this name for generations to come for ever. Can those clear words be missunderstodd? Yes by satans deseptions, dident Jesus warnes for that? Also the first comandment. There is NO jehova mentioned in early Bibles or in the kjv 1611 Bible, its adderad later, this is also written in JVs first aid to bible understanding. they are full of satans deep teachings all lies and false. Satan the " devils viness" not God at all. Take heed all there in "go out of them so you dont partisipating in there sins"

@Kevin-ys7sj

8 ай бұрын

This is where Satan has done so much damage, Christ speaks to the individuals heart through His word, because He is the Word, without the witness of the Holy Spirit you were just reading "a book" but never taking it's meaning into your heart. I hear many on here complaining about religion and rightfully so, being born again of the Spirit was referred to as the way, not a way, religion can only get in your way and become a stumbling block much like it was/is to Jews and foolishness to the rest of the world. I personally left Catholicism as a pre teen having already encountered the hypocrisy and spiritual emptyness of that religion only in my mind 20's after coming to the end of myself and with no answers in sight did I cry out to Christ to save me. I truly wish I had all the answers, but at least now I have access to He who has/is the answer. Looking forward to an eternity of learning and serving He who loves me and never gave up on me even at my worst. Signed: not a religious person, just a believer!

This is the best monologue I’ve ever heard from Alan Watts. Thank you for posting this 🫡

@caterinabonadiooconnor9982

8 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@JesusChrist-SavesFromHell

8 ай бұрын

JESUS CHRIST is The Way indeed , The true Life and and The absolute Truth is that we are fallen from grace and are rebellious sinners ,against GOD our Creator and after the fall and banishment from the garden of Eden we are already spiritualy dead (((that is way such videos of deception and lies ecxist))) not able to recognace even our state of despair and hopelessness living only to die ,we will do menningless effords for finding happiness and satisfaction , while we are separated from The Living GOD of The Univerce , Who is HOLY , Just and Perfectly Good ,in Whose presence darkness and evil , bad things can not exist , that is why we are away from Him and He can not tae us to Himself because we are of this world of fallen state , bound to die off . But God is unmesurably mercyfull and Loving , that is why He made a plan to free us from death and slavary to sin and to take us to His devine presence , giving us Eternal LIFE and HE Himself is The Life . That plan is JESUS CHRIST ((( Jesus means God saves , and was perfect Name for The Messiah , Which God presented for the dieing world ))) The Messiah was not concieved as everybody else , so was and lived sinless life ,fufilling God's expectations for a Perfect Man , He was not slave to sin as a human and also was GOD in the flesh ,lived as man . The Son of GOD THE FATHER as perfectly rightious was the only cappable to be the recluired sacrufice and the one ,Who should have taken the judjement we all deserved :the second death ,the dieing of the soul in hell,because of separation from GOD ((( and still will if we reject GOD's offer of salvation through HIS Son's dead on the cross ))) But HE defeated sin and dead , because He IS God and is ONE with THE FATHER and THE CREATOR , that is why JESUS The Messiah ressurected giving HOPE for those that awaits HIM ,that even after our bodies die and we are gone from the phissical reality of life, ONE day at JESUS's second coming (((this time forever to RULE the world which GOD created ))) will be ressurected to live with HIM and GOD for eternity .Amen

@mickm79

8 ай бұрын

I guess it's all subjective, this is one of the least enlightening of his that I've heard, in my humble opinion, but it depends where you are on your learning journey. peace.

@ZfromBrooklyn

8 ай бұрын

@@mickm79 I humbly disagree

@mea7527

8 ай бұрын

Absolutely 💯

Blessed to hear this..

@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363

2 күн бұрын

God is the epitome of Holiness because He is sinlessly perfect, A sinner (liar, sexually immoral, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, thief etc) cannot be in the presence of God or else he will be utterly consumed therefore repent of your sins and put your faith in Jesus as your Lord and Saviour to go to Heaven.

Now this is the TRUTH and nothing but the TRUTH. Thank You Sir!

@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363

5 күн бұрын

The issue at hand is sin and God’s nature of being just. Sin brings suffering (the pleasure is short term, and the suffering is long term-on earth and in hell forever). God brings Righteousness (may have short term suffering followed by long term pleasure- on earth and in Heaven). If you love yourself repent of your sins (lying, hatred, unforgiveness, sexual sins, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, stealing, dishonouring your parents etc) & believe in Jesus for forgiveness of sins. (Jesus died on the Cross as a sacrifice and defeated death by rising from the dead)

I have never felt so seen and heard. Thank you, Alan Watts.

@Loser_1.

8 ай бұрын

I feel you

@leadnsteel1428

8 ай бұрын

Yes everything they told us was a lie. Also the other thing is that believing jesus and angels were good.

@dev...5150

8 ай бұрын

I also feel a part of that statement... There are many good life lessons in religious doctrines... and I feel you can leave it that... if you so choose...

@uso_Jus2SmooTh94

8 ай бұрын

You're not alone

@sjs928

8 ай бұрын

NOT TRUE .... The Lord will rebuke you and then you'll know ..." be still , and know that I AM GOD " ...

I read his book at the beginning of the 70th "the taboos against knowing who you are" and the wheel of life continued to turn and today it is with emotion that I realize how far I have come to feel his words of wisdom modestly Bless you

@VestalNumbre

4 ай бұрын

All Scripture is inspired of God+ and beneficial for teaching,+ for reproving, for setting things straight,+ for disciplining in righteousness,+ 17

@bestbuilder7833

4 ай бұрын

who said that only 1 book is correct each book is a view of the divine from a different angle and so of course they will be different

Finally some one speaks on this topic.

Well said thank you.

This is the best commentary on religion I have ever heard.

@alexcajiao7489

8 ай бұрын

The Antichrist is going to deceive you easily.

I had been struggling with thoughts like these lately, started to lose myself until I found this video that gave me back my peace

@jonni1023

5 ай бұрын

Only Jesus can give you true peace. You will find yourself troubled again.

@ramsesp5009

4 ай бұрын

@@jonni1023 And how the fuck do you know?

@jonni1023

4 ай бұрын

yes the Bible says that Gods glory comes on the just and the unjust. The scriptures of the Bible have not changed from the days of the Dead Sea scrolls to now. I promise you more scrolls will be found with no change to the message yes words might change but not the message. Adam and Eve sinned before having any kids had a child was born from them before their sin that child would've been born sinless but we are born in sin and even without Adam and Eve we sin and once we sin comes death then the Judgement. The only perfect man was Christ for he was also God in the flesh. He give his life to pay for our sins as a gift not something we must work for but we identify that we need his gift of salvation. @@Ggg-um7jy

@jonni1023

4 ай бұрын

Because Jesus is the life and he is peace and who believe in him and accept him has lord becomes a new creature and is granted eternal life. Philippians 4:7 @@ramsesp5009

@musicantd

4 ай бұрын

There's a plethora of Alan Watts videos out there presently, fortunately. If you need a recharge of Alan's offerings, just do a little search. Great stuff, and I find I can relisten to pretty much all of it.

Thank you for this re-minder to our souls

I am glad that his speeches were recorded and are preserved in the digital world. In a sense, he has become immortal.

I discovered a few years back that I am not part of a "religion". I am part of the cosmic whole, we all are. It doesn't matter that I don't need to even understand it, that I am is all that matters.I will pass through this life and enjoy what I can, then I shall become part of something much, much bigger.

Mr Watts is a very enlightened man. He's actually had thoughts about our indoctrination from birth. Wish more would examine what they have decided to believe.

@brianbeam3304

5 ай бұрын

The man don't know what he's talking about

@JustReed

4 ай бұрын

He thought for himself instead of those that we're convinced of the story out of fear.

@boblozaintherealworld3577

4 ай бұрын

In my opinion, his words pre-date those of the much less cosmic and avowed atheist Christopher Hitchens. I've read a lot of his stuff, which I still find impressive, and can't help but think he was influenced by Watts himself.

Wow, my eyes have truly been opened by Watts, thank you for your enlightening words, and dying a miserable death from alcoholic poisoning!

@freddygat7325

4 ай бұрын

May God be in your heart, and soul my friend. I'm there with you.

@Zeus-rq5wn

Ай бұрын

He certainly loved the booze and the sound of his own voice. 😂

They made it all up. I have spoken !

We make everything up.That's what human being do. We crave meaning, but there is none, and so we create it.

@khairilhanafirosli9672

4 ай бұрын

Having faith is better than the destruction of nihilism. Before you dwell and pick on the succulent fruits of your intellect, observe the beauty of life around you as well as the subjugation of the whole universe and the things in it that had been to our benefit and service. Out of all the possibilities, the universe chose to explode, then exist, then expand with us being apple to grab even satisfactory amounts of it's service. Us, life, that has two pairs of each of everything, as per it's beauty. Observe the creation of the camel, then the sea, then the mountains, then the earth, then the whole topic of human dignity and the fraternity of man itself. There is a meaning in all of this.

@juanchymartin7824

3 ай бұрын

@@khairilhanafirosli9672 The destruction of the nihilism or the creation of the existencialism. There are many other better decisions than having faith. The poisons of the snakes, the hurricanes, etc., are natural disasters that have a lot of deads behind them. So, How I can believe in a meaning when in the world I dont find anything more than chaos and a dark beauty?

@donster1987

3 ай бұрын

There's no meaning and to stop and look around us have you seen the world we live in nowadays and you belive in some God

@soultune908

3 ай бұрын

​@@khairilhanafirosli9672 the children being killed out there definitely can't see the beauty

@firstaidsack

3 ай бұрын

Why did the Universe make us crave meaning if there is none?

Alan Watts help me find my path, great man , great visionary! One of the best minds who ever existed , his insights about all religions are so mind opening! Peace and Love to everyone!

@josephmartin5483

8 ай бұрын

He cuts through religious propaganda but then builds up authentic hope and meaning derived from science, philosophy and intellect. Very good.

@ZooScott

8 ай бұрын

Sophisticated 🌊’s… as it is ⚖️ 👀🪃💥 💯 % … 🏴 …….

@hamarana

8 ай бұрын

Anything anyoone telling you to do will sound as propaganda. Unfortunately no one can tell you what the matrix is... So best advice I can give you is in the bible.. KNOCK KNOW every door you can, get to know more of what all this journey is about and one DAY IT SHALL OPEN, one day you will find your spiritual home, the place where your soul will feel at peace. Seek, brother. Watch this movie Jonathan Livingston Seagull .. it shows that there is one neo who lives within you!

@sharonreneau6157

8 ай бұрын

Yahusha is the way the truth and the life. If we repent and turn from our sins Yahusha died and atoned for us. If we follow his truth and his ways we will have Eternal life. I know this is a sure true Fact. Any other way Is Death.

@FragmentOfInfinity

8 ай бұрын

​@@sharonreneau6157you're very good at repeating religious drivel and ideas that you've been spoonfed, but to say you "KNOW" is adorable. You do not "know." You simply believe. And if that's the story you want to have, you will have it.

That's your opinion, and definition of inspiration.

Alan Watts was a true inspiration. His lectures never cease to amaze me.

It's like listening to my own mind and heart's voice.. ❤

@Pl4sm0

6 ай бұрын

same

@user-qd4td7yb8e

6 ай бұрын

It's like listening to a blind person talk about light.

@TONY19021965

6 ай бұрын

"He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered." Proverbs 28:26 "[9]The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? [10]I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings." Jeremiah 17:9-10 "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." Proverbs 4:23 "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding." Proverbs 9:10 "For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones." Isaiah 57:15 "And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart." Jeremiah 29:13 "[18]But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. [19]For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:" Matthew 15:18-19 "[9]That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. [10]For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. [11]For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. [12]For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. [13]For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Romans 10:9-13 "And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." Acts 16:31 "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Proverbs 14:12 "All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." Isaiah 53:6 "For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish." Psalms 1:6 "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6

@segagenysis6918

6 ай бұрын

So you're a posh Englishman?

@rkinggamez7718

6 ай бұрын

​@@user-qd4td7yb8eironic how you say that

I never knew Alan Watts personally but I can say this with absolute clarity; Alan Watts, my friend.

@ronniebattle1310

8 ай бұрын

Encounter Ministries KZread channel. Mark Hemans

I feel “Cosmic Consciousness” happened to me when I read Thomas Paine’s most important work “The Age Of Reason”! He said “The true word of God is the Creation we behold”. These words change my Life, a truth I never heard before.

😃😄😀 The One that resides within can resonate w/ what you are sharing. Thanks for hittIng the mark & articulating it well & clear to the public though it may be shocking for those who are still trapped in the box.

This is one of his best. Actually, one of the best, period.

@ronniebattle1310

8 ай бұрын

Encounter Ministries KZread channel. Mark Hemans

I feel quite silly right now, this clip made me cry and not really sure why. Tears of beauty, the beauty from his wisdom, his kind and loving way of speaking his truth. Such profundity is hard to find in people these days, and he mixes it beautifully with his whit and humour. He will remain a great inspiration for the rest of my life for sure and I feel grateful that we have such freedom to choose who and what to be inspired and shaped by nowadays. He is one of great teachers, and I put him next Aristotle, Socrates, Bertrand Russel etc. It is indeed possible to be atheist or agnostic and at the same time be open minded and forever curious. Thanks to whomever shared this video, peace

@raggi123456

4 ай бұрын

Oh and I should give credit to the beautiful complementation of visuals and sounds to his speech too. Well done 👏

@pass179

4 ай бұрын

How do you explain this away? kzread.info/dash/bejne/fKOC0pqdm9y_h7g.htmlfeature=shared

@pass179

4 ай бұрын

Most of this is false information.

@pass179

4 ай бұрын

Catholics are not Christians. You are a liar sir

@biivii100

4 ай бұрын

@@pass179 how could you know?

I had an ego death experience several years ago and it changed everything, the second half of this video is the only thing that comes close to describing what took place

Great Video! Love it! Th TRUTH will set us free!

As a Catholic I stopped believing at age 7, but didn't voice my opinion until adult hood. The more you know - the more you know.

@Wally-pu2hh

6 ай бұрын

You believe we came from nothing? A big bang? Evolution? Life feom non living dead materials ? 😂

@NYx3

6 ай бұрын

@@Wally-pu2hh So you believe in creation? Do you believe in a being that is eternal without verifiable evidence? 😂 The only people that believe we came from nothing are christians who believe we were created from nothing. Those that believe the bible to be the word of god have no credible evidence to back it. The bible like all other holy books they are just claims for the weak, fearful and gullible. That is what faith is. Religion is a pernicious SCAM that preys upon the weaknesses, fears and gullibility of people.

@InHerMajestiesDefense

6 ай бұрын

@@Wally-pu2hh fr

@DG-cu1vt

6 ай бұрын

​@@Wally-pu2hh You're the one who should be laughed at. You believe in a magic sky wizard who created everything, who knows what billions of people are doing and thinking all at once, never shows himself, never gets involved, created a vast universe that is billions of light years large with trillions of stars and planets yet only seems to be interested in our little dust ball and the humans on it. And he is particularly concerned with what these humans do in the bedroom. Religion is ancient fiction and fables and it shows with it's twisted morals of the time. It is all man made and the people who believe in it are brainwashed, usually from childhood when they are most susceptible to believe in anything they are told.

@hair4571

6 ай бұрын

yeah i mean all the killings doesn’t feel like what an all good God would do, if there is a god clearly it is not a benevolent beings

Alan watts saved me from the logic of my mind. In suicidal ideals I pressed through to my deepest fears and I owe it to him that his language and culture has given me perspective to what I don't know. I don't know anything really; that is very freeing, I no longer need to cling--to force--to bend to my will. You can let go like Jello on the ground. If you can't trust your lack of trust how can you trust anything! Open your eyes and just be present for what is. :)

@caterinabonadiooconnor9982

8 ай бұрын

❤❤❤!

@JesusChrist-SavesFromHell

8 ай бұрын

JESUS CHRIST is The Way indeed , The true Life and and The absolute Truth is that we are fallen from grace and are rebellious sinners ,against GOD our Creator and after the fall and banishment from the garden of Eden we are already spiritualy dead (((that is way such videos of deception and lies ecxist))) not able to recognace even our state of despair and hopelessness living only to die ,we will do menningless effords for finding happiness and satisfaction , while we are separated from The Living GOD of The Univerce , Who is HOLY , Just and Perfectly Good ,in Whose presence darkness and evil , bad things can not exist , that is why we are away from Him and He can not tae us to Himself because we are of this world of fallen state , bound to die off . But God is unmesurably mercyfull and Loving , that is why He made a plan to free us from death and slavary to sin and to take us to His devine presence , giving us Eternal LIFE and HE Himself is The Life . That plan is JESUS CHRIST ((( Jesus means God saves , and was perfect Name for The Messiah , Which God presented for the dieing world ))) The Messiah was not concieved as everybody else , so was and lived sinless life ,fufilling God's expectations for a Perfect Man , He was not slave to sin as a human and also was GOD in the flesh ,lived as man . The Son of GOD THE FATHER as perfectly rightious was the only cappable to be the recluired sacrufice and the one ,Who should have taken the judjement we all deserved :the second death ,the dieing of the soul in hell,because of separation from GOD ((( and still will if we reject GOD's offer of salvation through HIS Son's dead on the cross ))) But HE defeated sin and dead , because He IS God and is ONE with THE FATHER and THE CREATOR , that is why JESUS The Messiah ressurected giving HOPE for those that awaits HIM ,that even after our bodies die and we are gone from the phissical reality of life, ONE day at JESUS's second coming (((this time forever to RULE the world which GOD created ))) will be ressurected to live with HIM and GOD for eternity .Amen

@deadreckoning6288

8 ай бұрын

Seems the farther I go the less I know. It is liberating. I'm letting go attachment to everything, even this life eventually.

@JohnDoe-rw8he

8 ай бұрын

@@maccleba6721 why do you say attachment is the key? What's the point of clinging to a rock that's falling off the cliff?

Enjoying the day in Hanna leaving Thursday

It is good listening to the word, during turbulent times.

@sinjinbritt3371

3 ай бұрын

But, I would suggest only listening to cherry picked parts, to avoid any unwanted understanding or clarity. You should stick to only the verses that feed your confirmation bias.... because listening to verses that talk about genocide, murder, rape, slavery, a talking donkey, or the genitals of a woman's lover aren't as inspiring when you're looking inspiration.

Alan Watts was something special.

I agree 100 %. What a spiritual, sensitive and intelligent man he was. Wise, human and worth listening to him...

@PaulFekete1997

6 ай бұрын

Eh

@gknight4719

4 ай бұрын

I suppose "Eh" means you disagree, yes indoctrination is sometimes difficult to shake off. "religion poisons everything", Christopher Hitchens. It's the best Ponzi scheme ever!

@VestalNumbre

4 ай бұрын

All Scripture is inspired of God+ and beneficial for teaching,+ for reproving, for setting things straight,+ for disciplining in righteousness,+ 17

@gknight4719

4 ай бұрын

@@VestalNumbre All scriptures are inspired by god, including the deliberate drowning of innocent animals in the days of Noah, that would include drowning "pregnant woman". if you think this is true? then do you love this tyrant?

Marvelous! I am with you!

"Belief clings, but faith lets go" ~ Alan Watts 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

I don't know...i'm not quite smart man, but i always honestly felt there is a God around my heart personally. Both physically and spiritually.

@virginiemasai9024

8 ай бұрын

God exists, but no religion is the absolute truth. 💖🤲🌎

@melc800

8 ай бұрын

Religion is a dogma and is the opposite of what real spirituality is…so you can for sure understand there is more and consciousness doesn’t die( there is a lot of serious science tending to demonstrate this actually) and not be stuck in any religion

@bibekjung7404

8 ай бұрын

LIVING BEING IS OUR RACE,MANKIND IS OUR RELIGION HINDU,MUSLIM,SIKH,CRISTAIN,THERE IS NO SEPARATE RELIGION ALMIGHTY GOD KABIR is the father of all souls that JESUS, MOHAMMAD, GURU NANAK, VEDH was telling in BIBLE, QURAN, GURU GRANTHA SAHEB Who is complete God? Iyov 36:5 - Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB) See, El is Kabir, and despiseth, not any; He is Kabir in ko’ach lev (strength of understanding). Translation: Supreme God is Kabir, but despises no one. He is Kabir, and firm in his purpose. In all Bible translations, the word Kabir has been translated as "Mighty" or "Great" whereas Kabir is the original name of Supreme God. Conclusion: This verse of the Bible proves that Kabir is Complete God. The one who worships God Kabir by taking initiation from the complete saint sent by him gets complete salvation. After attaining salvation that souls rest in peace in the eternal abode Satlok forever. The throne of God is in Satlok. God Kabir met Jesus and took his soul to Satlok. On their way, God Kabir made him see his ancestors David, Moses, Abraham, etc. in the Pitra Lokas. Then God took him to Satlok PRESENT MESSENGER of ALMIGHTY GOD KABIR is SAINT RAMPALJI MAHARAJ 🙏🙏😊😊

@dazzassti

8 ай бұрын

You don’t need to be smart you need to think critically and with logic and reasoning. You simply need to consider a few points, humanity and humans need reassurance, they need to believe that there is a reason to death. Add to that for millennia humanity had no understanding of death, no understanding of science, no understanding how weather works, how even the sun shines, or it’s place in the universe, and humans had zero comprehension of how big that universe is. For this the simple way to handle this was to think a man in the sky made it all. Unfortunately humans also use lack of knowledge to leverage as power, to control others through fear! These are exactly the reasons religions took hold. These myths and fears are then Passed by parents to their children to keep the faith going. In the 21st century it’s would be inconceivable with humanity’s knowledge to think there somehow a man in the sky creating and doing these things, or that he had some special interest in some life form in a infinitesimal planet in a galaxy with 1000 billion other planets, in a galaxy with trillions of others, just think of the probability that some ancient people in tents were right about the man in the sky…

@mistylover7398

8 ай бұрын

@@virginiemasai9024 no god

He has a way of explaining delicate ideas without offending. He speaks. I then think about what he has said. His ideas are opening my eyes, finally. ❤

@alexcajiao7489

8 ай бұрын

You love lies? Anything but the truth huh?

@johnc5915

8 ай бұрын

Lol! And you believe everything he said on this video??😂 This is why it's really important to read and study the Bible. Else you will be carried and tossed by every wind of wrong doctrine, and lies!

@DG-cu1vt

8 ай бұрын

@@johnc5915 You didn't even watch the video. I bet you are afraid to because it might make you question your lifetime of brainwashing. Studying the fiction in the bible is a total was of time. It's just as "important" as studying the Muslim's Quran, the Japanese texts of Shinto or the Hindu's Vedas. They all believe just as strongly as Christians that their religion is "The One." In reality, there is absolutely no proof for any religion. Just stories that were told for centuries and then eventually written down to form these books which you people think are the word of god. Man made god in his image and not the other way around.

@DG-cu1vt

8 ай бұрын

@@alexcajiao7489 You're the one living the lie. If you were born in the middle east, you'd be swearing that the Muslim religion is the correct one. You people are brainwashed from birth. All religion is BS and there is no proof for any of it.

@bbfoto7248

8 ай бұрын

@@johnc5915 Do you HONESTLY and truly know and fully understand the origins of the Old & New Testaments of The Bible, and why/where all of its ideologies and myths were derived from??? I highly doubt it. In a nutshell, what Alan Watts is saying here is quite simply that ANY argument for or against the belief in or authenticity of Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, or any other Religion, is purely a "He Said/She Said" affair. No God or Diety has EVER physically spoken directly to ANY of us. Nor have we seen or physically heard any supposed "all-knowing & all-powerful" God claim HIS OWN WORD as the TRUTH. It has ALWAYS been relayed, interpreted, mis-interpreted, and DISTORTED by and through some worldly "man", not DIRECTLY from "GOD". WHY?... ...again, WHY, would a supposed all-knowing and all-powerful God NEED and Rely On his imperfect creation of man to "tell the story" and teach us his own "word" and "laws for living in HIS World"??? Does GOD not have his OWN VOICE? So, in heaven, "the streets are paved with gold." I'll ask you and everyone else: WHY would we have a need for STREETS in heaven??? And, WHAT VALUE or true USEFULNESS would GOLD be to any of us in heaven??? ^THOSE words are scribed by the simple desires, ambitions, and persuasions of WORLDLY MEN as propaganda to make mankind desire and long for entry into this "extraordinary" place with everlasting life and lots of unnecessary and useless worldly "Bling." To me...I rather envision a hip-hop rapper singing, "YO, come on over to my hood, brotha'! My fk'n streets are paved with GOLD, just like my grille, m0thafvkr!", rather than by the words and persuasion of the GOD of all heaven and earth. :P If you read the original Hebrew texts of the Bible, and then actually take off your blinders and give due dillegence and invest the time to read and study more ancient texts and their culture's ideologies, deities, and myths, you will clearly see the complete "rehashing" and the blatant reinterpretations and distortions in the modern Bible of those much, much older beliefs, myths, rituals, cultures, and ideologies! IOW, there is EXTREMELY LITTLE that is actually Unique, Completely Original, or Innovative in "The Bible." The vast majority of it is just much older re-used/re-worked myths, traditions, and ideologies from previous cultures and deity worshiping. This even includes older 3 days/3 nights "resurrection" myths (i.e. B'al of Urgarit..in the late Bronze Age in Syria). Another example, what we consider the "original" 10 Commandments in HEBREW are basically identical word for word and attributed to a much older and completely separate diety worship and religion than Judaism. They were simply "borrowed" and integrated into modern Judaism... And this is important because modern Christians base their strong belief in Christianity and The Bible as being the "correct" or "true" religion as oppossed to other religions on the *impression* or rather, illusion, of it being so incredibly UNIQUE compared to all other religions, texts, myths, and traditions, when in fact, The Bible is anything BUT Unique or Original, and is just a regurgitation of far older ideologies, texts,.and myths. If you are open to reading ANY book OTHER than the Bible, I challenge you to read "GOD, An Anatomy" by Francesca Stavrakopoulou, PhD. It is available as a traditional hardcover or paperback book, or Audible, or electronic/PDF/Kindle on Amazon. Or enter the following text string into the KZread Search bar: dMQciYeDHU0 It will take you to an enlightening KZread Interview by Derek of *MythVision Podcast* with Dr. Francesca Stavrakopoulou.

I expect to wake up tomorrow because I have for 64 years. A religious belief based upon faith. Religious in that I never waver. Not to be confused with my faith in God.

This is amazing thank you 🙏

As a young teen in 1972, I bought my first Alan Watts book with no former knowledge of who he was or what it would say. He was my introduction to religion and remains a touchstone.

@barrylyndongurley

6 ай бұрын

Ditto!

@Bert-gc9dw

6 ай бұрын

😅bb

@NYx3

6 ай бұрын

This video is my first encounter with this guy and thought it was overly flowery and verbose. This is not to say he is wrong but a more simple and direct way to put in is: Religion is a pernicious SCAM that preys upon the weaknesses, fears and gullibility of people. All religous holy books are just a bunch of unproven claims. If someone, as with most people, are raised in a religion then Alan Watts is a good way to ease people out of the cult they are in. I was not raise to believe or not believe. I was given the opportunity by my parents to make my own decisions on religion and god. There never was any thing there for believe in such things. As I started hearing about how others believed I quickly learned that religion is divisive, hateful and exists for it own sake. The core for religious existences is wealth and power. It will lie, cheat, steal and kill to get what it wants.

@SergioArellano-yd7ik

6 ай бұрын

"young teen" that's a stupid expression.

@stephenbouchelle7706

4 ай бұрын

@@SergioArellano-yd7ik perhaps there is no difference in your mind between a thirteen year old and a nineteen year old. For me that is the difference between middle school years and a college sophomore. I do not think it is a stupid expression. In fact, I was in eighth grade when I bought my first Alan Watts book. By my second year in college, I was studying comparative religion. I thank Alan Watts for initiating that trajectory.

Even when I was a child I knew that I didn't like church, religion, and that it all sounded like nonsense. I'm glad I trusted my instincts and stopped trying to make sense out of nonsense.

@TAGtalkinaboutGod

3 ай бұрын

Yet, the Bible teaches the truth if you are able to Discern it, but sadly, almost nobody is able to do so!! The Supreme illusion of the World Mind is that it accepts mortality/form as reality. Through Conscious Realization We must Establish Our Oneness with God....! Christ/Truth is born in us when we come to the virginal conscious realization that Spirit(Divine Consciousness)is the Only Presence. It is an unadulterated, unsullied moment of Illumination. It is an immaculate conception of the rare, but highly receptive, intuitive readiness for the Absolute Truth. It is an unblemished, impeccable Mystical insight into our True Spiritual Nature. The Birth of Our Spiritual State of Being as the Activity of Truth in Our Consciousness.....! Christ teaches from a different level that the human intellect is not prepared to receive!! Truth was saying through Jesus what all Illumined beings said before and after him, which is: Realize your own Divine Immortal Nature within and it will lead you out of the Veiled Dream of Time and Space. Out of the Karmic Cycle of Birth and Death. Follow me, I, the Reality of your being across the Mystical Ocean of Time where you don't walk in the world of matter, form, physicality, iniquity, mortality..... The Truth(aka Christ, just a name used to identify a State of Consciousness) we are walks in the Kingdom of Heaven right here, where no mortal being or carnal mind can reach it!! The Christ we are is Untouchable, and only sees that which is the Kingdom of Spirit/God!! All Illumined Beings Rest in this Principle: Abstain from the Temptation to believe that which is finite/material is of Consciousness/Spirit/God. If it's happening in Time and Space it can not be taking place(therefore, not a reality). Both the religious and atheistic world interpret this Mystic teaching through the same illusory sense known as human intellect, and this is what the Mystical Manuscript points out to those that are able to Discern it. Religion is born of ignorance, and atheism is born of religion, so what we have here are two sides of the same coin of nothingness. Both turn away from Oneness, from Omnipresence, from Spirit, from God! We must abandon the illusion/nothingness of the personal, physical self, and accept the Perfect Spiritual Body of the Kingdom of Spirit as the Only Reality. When this happens there is no longer anything to fight, to correct, pray to, pray for, or to run to or from!! "My Kingdom is not of this Material World" My Kingdom is the One and Only Spiritual Kingdom! The Kingdom of Heaven Within! The bible(and every other ancient Mystical Manuscript) has been hijacked by the carnal minds/human minds ignorance of the belief in a life separate and apart from Omnipresence(God....Oneness), yet, if Spiritually Discerned as it's meant to be, shows us how to walk out of the appearance of matter, out of the shadow of the Acceptance of birth and death(Atheism), and into the Immortal State of Our Being that is Spirit/Immortality/Incorporeality/Consciousness As the Only Presence. The Bible reveals the Unreality of the Material Dream of the Mind, and the Reality of Spirit/God as the Only Presence. The Truth and Untruth are placed next to each other in the Bible to show us Immortal Spirit as Reality, and the Mental Distortion we call Finite Form that we Entertain as Reality.... What we believe we are experiencing as a mortal being is actually the Binding/Imprisoning of Spiritual Immortality as the Truth of the Activity of Our Consciousness into a Mortal and Material Sense of Awareneness. The message of the bible(and all true Spiritual teachings) is not for the timid, it is for those who are willing to walk the Earth in Proportion to their Receptivity of Spiritual Immortality as Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Shankara, and many others have(THE STRAIT GATE)! Through the Realization and Acceptance of Spirit as the Only Presence Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, and many others became Interpreters and Demonstrators(as you will ultimately be)for the language of the Realization of Spirit/God as the Only Presence. Thereby Demonstrating the Unreality of the Material World, Human Mind, and the 5 Senses. Everything of the Senses is Perishable because it is not of Spirit, and therefore, not a Reality. Everything of Spirit is Imperishable, and your Divine Infinite Being, that which Jesus called The Father Within, the Buddha called the Buddha Mind, and Lao Tzu called the Tao, is Immortal, Omnipresent Spirit. Where everything appears to be, only Spirit/God is.... The Cornerstone of the Christ(God/Spiritual Consciousness Realized)Teaching is that Spirit/God is the Only Presence, not to worship Jesus the illusory form that is nothing and can do nothing of itself....(with Spirit being the only Presence, to worship anything of an illusory material nature, such as a human form, is to worship a graven image, as all matter is a graven image). GOD/SPIRIT IS OMNIPRESENT! (God/Spirit is the Only Presence) Therefore, to Be Reborn is to Overcome the Belief of a Human Birth, and Accept Spirit as the Only Presence! What is not of Spirit is not a reality. Every Temptation of this World is Meaningless when you know the Truth of Your Immortal Christ/God/Spiritual Being!! The Matter/Error/Evil is not there, ONLY THE TEMPTATION TO ACCEPT IT AS REALITY IS!! The Bible is a Mystical Manuscript written for the Development of Spiritual Discernment by those of a Mystical/Spiritual Consciousness, and written in such a way that if it were to make it's way outside of the Mystery Schools it couldn't be Spiritually Discerned by man with breath in his nostrils, and would instead be misinterpreted, and this choice has worked Perfectly, as the World Mind Illusion worships it as a religious document! No religion has found God, ever!! Only the Mystic has Realized God/Immortality because the Mystic knows where not to look! Religion, Philosophy, and Science seek God/Spirit in the Material World of Illusion through the faculty responsible for it, the human mind, hoping for a glimpse of Truth/God where no Truth/God of any kind Exists. The Mystic(of my Household, aka my Consciousness)knows God is the Realization of Infinite, Incorporeal Omnipresence(Spirit) that is the True Essence of Being. The Mystic Discerns the Reality of Spirit through the Unreality of Matter. The Mystic knows Our True and Only State of Being is Incorporeal, Infinite, and Omnipresent. The Mystic sees only the Spirit of Immortality through the Sense of Form/Matter of all beings. The Mystic knows that if it is happening in Time and Space it is Not Taking Place. The Mystic allows Infinite Perfection to be his Thought through Conscious Awareness of Spirit as the Only Presence!! Therefore, the Mystic reaches not for God or Truth, the Mystic Rests in the Realization of it!! This releases him from the reliance upon that which is ERRONEOUS, the 5 Senses!! We don't Transcend, We Realize!! The Mystic allows Infinite Perfection to be his Thought through Conscious Awareness of Spirit as the Only Presence!! The Mystic doesn't accept Love as a Sensual Emotion. The Mystic Knows Love is a State of Spiritual Integrity! The Mystic belongs to no religion, no human belief structure, and never to the mortal world of man with breath in his nostrils. The Mystic Says: I am not in this world to acquire or achieve anything: I am here as an instrument of God/Spirit to bear witness to Spirit/God's presence. I have appeared for one reason, that God/Spirit, through me, may be made manifest on Earth. I have appeared for the Glory of God/Spirit, not for my personal glory, not for my personal reputation or my personal wealth, but appear that Spirit/God might be Glorified as His Love shown forth through me! Prace Be Unto You!!

No one NEEDS ORGANISED RELIGION. You can worship God without ANY controlling, religious sect!!

I believed what the Bible says about God loving me and it changed my life.

@handsomhans343

Ай бұрын

The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. God hates you and any human. I suppose you are not even from Israel so you are not gods chosen people. To your fairy tale god, you would be nothing.

Delightful to hear Alan's voice. We used to listen to him on Sundays, eons ago in the Bay area. I have dozens of his lectures on tape, still. I have never heard anyone better at making spiritual beliefs comprehensible.

@Allergic2broke

7 ай бұрын

That is so cool you have recorded audio tapes. I’m from the bay too. Interesting. When did they play him on the radio?

@w.storyteller

7 ай бұрын

The author's opinion is that religion was created out of good but is being manipulated to get the outcome they want. The author believes that God isn't jealous or a murderer and that Jesus was a messenger. The author also believes that everyone can be a messenger of God if they choose to live with light and love and continue to seek the truth.

@wop2784

7 ай бұрын

that's not what he was talkin bout in this vid @@w.storyteller

@MarkSeibold

6 ай бұрын

​@@Allergic2broke, I was attending arts school here in Portland Oregon in 1973 near our home where I grew up. The local FM Radio Rock station, KGON 92 mghz, would play these recordings by Alan Watts; I believe it was shortly after he died that year. So I listened to these recordings regularly on weekends, while I was working on my artwork in our parents home in my bedroom. It was just really comforting and enjoyable to listen to him speak late at night on weekends, while producing my artwork. I was between the age of 18 and 19, then, 40 years ago. So when I rediscovered all of these lectures by Alan Watts being replayed now through KZread across the internet, in the recent past years, I was of course just delighted. There's nothing like taking a drive from our home of Portland Oregon and heading Westward toward the Oregon Coast, say on a weekend and a local public radio station, say, from the west coast city of Astoria Oregon is playing one of these lectures by Alan Watts as you head toward the Oregon Coastline on a beautiful weekend, as I venture there quite often, photographs of Milky Way standing up high over the famous Haystack Rock of Cannon Beach. Astoria Oregon radio station will start to fade in on the automobile radio dial as I'm driving. I feel like I'm back in 1973 at the age of 19 attending art college again, when I hear Alan Watts voice. I also find this particular recording above here as quite interesting because we grew up with parents that were German Catholics, on both sides of the family. I was already making artwork by the second grade that was getting noticed by teachers and fellow classmates. By age 13 1/2, I bought my first astronomy telescope with my berry picking earnings from Summer work. [There's a work ethic I've ever heard one.] After observing through the telescope out in the large half acre yard of our parents second home, in 1967, through this modest optical instrument, I could easily visibly locate certain nebulous objects, such as the Andromeda Galaxy, the Ring Nebula, and M13 the Globular Star Cluster, but the big Revelation was seeing the planet Saturn and its Rings. Even through this modest and inexpensive telescope, that cost $79.95 at a local hobby shop where I purchased it about a mile from our home, I allowed my friends to see these celestial objects, through my first telescope, I watched the effect of this had on my classmates and other neighbors; I eventually told our father one Sunday morning that I was not going to attend Catholic Church any longer. I believe I had already used the telescope to attach our parents Kodak Box camera to the top and manually tracked in the eyepiece one of Orion's Belt Stars for 5 minutes of a time exposure onto the high-speed film loaded in the camera. I've kept that negative for years but misplaced it recently, so I recreated it with modern digital photography and myself and brother and sister in the front yard in the background, buy blending all this together with composites from old friends with careful use of Photoshop. I displayed this image into my Facebook Albums for many years now along with my other awarded photography and artwork published in NASA and other large astronomy venues and websites. Little did I know that one day after working nearly 30 years in the high-tech computer industry of data storage technology, I kept my astronomy hobby going all these years. When the modern world of computer technology suffered a recession in the year 2000, I risked the loss of that job, but I'd already been invited to lecturing about my night sweat photography and eventually my astronomy artwork that was soon published in NASA websites. This was in the local College, right up the street from the home I designed and built for my wife and daughter and I in 1988 at the age of 33 then, in the Eastern Portland suburban town of Troutdale. This is the same College I attended in 1973 I didn't have any idea that one day I would design and build a modern Frank Lloyd Wright-like architectured home just a few minutes drive from that College. Within a few years after these lectures, I was hired to teach astronomy in another local University, and although it was a religious affiliated Lutheran College I just took it for the job opening, the University advertised the local newspaper classified ad, not for any particular religious affiliation. The Dean of Theology and Science interviewed me and hired me to teach as the new adjunct professor of Astronomy that term in the Autumn of 2004, even though he knew I did not have a college degree. I showed him my resume and portfolio of traveling the nation, on a 10,000 mile solo road trip in 2000, with a large solar research grade telescope, requested and borrowed from my local astronomy club, the year before, and allowing thousands of people to observe the sun safely through this instrument. I also just returned from the Fiji Islands where my second wife was from, as a Hindu. I had to travel to Fiji from our home in Portland because they had deported her back to her home country, due to the fact that she was an illegal alien in the US. I'm rambling here now covering a lot of information, but I can relate so much to what Alan Watts talks about here in the opening moments or minutes above in this lecture; because it involves understanding some of the Hindu philosophies and religion and the Sanskrit language, from India, which I learned since I was with my Hindu wife for about 3 years. Most Americans probably don't relate to this part of the lecture above but I can tell you it's quite interesting when you're immersed into the culture and travel overseas to see the people living within this Eastern World culture of Hinduism. I also suddenly related to The Beatles and George Harrison taking the group to India back in 1968. Also during this time in the early 2000s when I first met my Hindu wife I was beginning to act on Hollywood movie sets as a background extra actor. This was partly due to others in the nation hearing my voice on National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation, which I held a record of calling into, in Washington DC while millions of Americans were listening live. [All these varied discussions are archived at NPR for review to easily listen to. The first time I called in and got through the lines was on March 14th 2005 just days after our mother passed away. They were having a discussion about the Andy Warhol line 15 minutes of fame. I usually called and got a busy signal but this time they answered in the young lady screener, asked if I was calling from another radio station, apparently my morning voice is identical to the morning NPR announcers, and others suggested that I should look into doing voiceover work. When I listed with agencies for voice-over they were also casting for actors, so instead, they sent me to movie sets for the past 20 years. Until a few years ago so I haven't been doing this lately. So I've covered a lot of ground in life, teaching and lecturing in the local University's, acting on many varied movie sets, my technical astronomy artwork made from observations through the telescopes is featured in NASA websites for nearly 20 years. Designing and building our own home in one of the most popularly moved to cities in America, as of lately. Since 1999 with that first solar telescope I borrowed from our club and traveled across the nation and then overseas to the Fiji islands I've been constantly providing a Community Outreach Public Service of Sidewalk Astronomy, and still today, at age 69 now, I'm quite active in providing this for the public and students. I feel that I learned some of my attitude and great outlook in life, from listening to these Alan Watts lectures on local radio simulcast from San Francisco 40 years ago. It's been great to have immersed myself within the philosophies of Alan Watts, that have carried me through the greater part of my latter life, with my interests in Art and Science and for the public and students benefits.

@NYx3

6 ай бұрын

Spiritual, mystical, etc... are terms made up to avoid the simple fact that nobody can prove the claims made by religion. Religion is an pernicious SCAM that preys upon the weaknesses, fears and gullibilities of people. There has never been anything positive out of religion that only religion can provide. Yet there has been countless bad that comes from religion. If there was such a think as evil in the biblical sense then religion is truly the work of evil for no better tool exists to get people to do evil things.

A young man was standing next to his broken down car on side of the road just blocks away from a church, it was Sunday morning. Church parishioners drove by in haste to not be late for services while the young man waited, wishing for someone who would stop to help. The young man started to walk and finally arrived at his destination which was that church. He realized early during the service that a church was nothing more than a social gathering and assumed that true acts of kindness, compassion and sacrifice wasn’t ever mentioned in “their” Bible but instead only acts of selfishness, greed and buying their way to heaven. You see, the young man was somewhat lost in life and was looking towards religion for guidance. But his first encounter was such a disappointment so he walked back to his car where an old black gentleman was waiting on his bicycle. The old man knew exactly what was wrong with the car and assisted in getting it started. The old man refused any offerings of payment and rode away. In that instant the young man knew exactly where he was in life and where life was headed which is to honor that old man by living a life of kindness, hard work, loving Jesus and thanking God everyday. That day an old black man was his preacher and his sermon wasn’t of words but action. The young man learned that actions speak louder than words and have greater meaning.

@ReligionOfSacrifice

4 ай бұрын

The power of Revelation 11:7-15 is that Jesus has that power and no one else does. Yahweh states He tells the end from the beginning. So what does Yahweh declare? That Palestine will be whole before the wicked are cast into hell to have their second body and soul destroyed. So if you see all Jews and Christians in dead in Israel turn to Revelation 11:7-15 and wonder, but know the elect can't be deceived for they believe in the power of Christ Jesus.

@KenRobinson-lm9gu

4 ай бұрын

Bravo

@PVC4108

4 ай бұрын

So like were you watching the man the whole time without helping him?

@saltrock9642

4 ай бұрын

@@PVC4108 yep. I’m the pastor of that church. 😇

@richardlopez5335

3 ай бұрын

10k more people has died in gaza since you wrote this. Half being kids

Thanks

once awakened i like to call it its like looking out at everyone while they drown in a sea of confusion and you are the only one with a life saver but everyone too busy to look words are spells of illusion to cast doubt and shame

@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363

29 күн бұрын

All Humans need to repent & Believe in Jesus as their God. Why? Because all Humans have sinned (lied, lusted sexually, stolen, dishonoured parents, unbelief etc). Avoid the fires of Hell (justice of God) and choose Heaven today. Jesus defeated death by rising from the dead. GOD IS HOLY

For a man who died in the year I was born, Alan Watts has had a deeply profound affect on my very being as much or more as any one person could possibly have.

@boobyhatch7897

6 ай бұрын

He drank himself to death the year you were born Good luck

@user-tm8sc2kz8f

6 ай бұрын

He is in hell

@BazookaToe

6 ай бұрын

@user-tm8sc2kz8f, which would be as mentioned in the video,…Arkansas.

@aymen577

6 ай бұрын

Our creator said in Quran: "Did you think We had created you in vain (without any purpose), and that you would not be brought back to Us?’ (Quran 23:115) "Exalted is He (God) who holds all control in His hands; who has power over all things; ˹He is the One˺ Who created life and death in order to test which of you is best in deeds. And He is the Almighty, All-Forgiving. who created the seven heavens, one above the other. You will not see any flaw in what the Lord of Mercy creates. Look again! Can you see any flaw?" (Quran 67:1-3 ) "Do man think he will be left without purpose? Was he not a drop of sperm emitted (in lowly form)? Then he was a clinging clot, and [ God ] created [his form] and proportioned [him] producing from it both sexes, male and female. Is such ˹a Creator˺ unable to bring the dead back to life?" "Every soul will taste death, and you will only be given your [full] compensation on the Day of Resurrection. And whoever is removed away from the Fire and admitted to Paradise, he indeed is successful. And what is the life of this world except the enjoyment of delusion" (Quran 3:185) "We shall certainly test you with fear and hunger, and loss of property, lives, and crops. But [Prophet], give good news to those who are steadfast. those who say, when afflicted with a calamity, ‘We belong to God and to Him we shall return.’ (Quran 2:155-156) "Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day are signs for those of understanding. those who remember God while standing and sitting and on their sides, and reflect upon the creation of the heavens and the earth: “Our Lord, You did not create this in vain. Highly Exalted are You, so protect us from the punishment of the Fire." (Quran 3:190-191) "Those who have believed and whose hearts are assured by the remembrance of God . Verily in the remembrance of God do hearts find rest!" "O humanity! Indeed, God’s promise is true. So do not let the life of this world deceive you, nor let the Chief Deceiver(Satan) deceive you about God. Surely Satan is an enemy to you, so take him as an enemy. He only invites his followers to become inmates of the Blaze." (Quran 35:5-6) "Their messengers answered, ‘Can there be any doubt about God, the Creator of the heavens and earth? He calls you to Him in order to forgive you your sins and let you enjoy your life until the appointed hour.’ But they said, ‘You are only men like us. You want to turn us away from what our forefathers used to worship. Bring us clear proof then, [if you can].’ (Quran 14:10) Prophet Muhammad said (pbuh): “When God loves one of His slaves, He tests him to hear his supplication.”

@unkown110

5 ай бұрын

@@user-tm8sc2kz8fwhy would god even make us just to burn us alive when are lives end, i thought he is good

This is simply of one Alan's best speeches. Thank you

@ronniebattle1310

8 ай бұрын

Encounter Ministries KZread channel. Mark Hemans==

I recall in school when learning about religion, if I question anything the teacher said for clarity, which they could not answer, I would be punished. Same way how anyone exposes the establishment today, gets crucified in the media

Makes sense what he says, my belief is that we don't need division and conflict, and reconise that there is a creator, and that's all that should matter in the end

i like it, i am an ex born again Christian, born into a born again Christian home and knew no other way until i went to secondary education. I am now a sceptic but obsessed with religion and theology and philosophy and forever talking about God

@1972jojodancer

2 ай бұрын

...forever talking about our Creator-let us forever talk with our Creator. If we talk directly with Him, we will not be deceived by this world. Peace to you my sister❤

@michael-hw1uv

2 ай бұрын

The worst thing about Eternal damnation isn't the unbearable pain. Its having your brain think for an eternity. Near Death Experience by those who have been there . False Prophets abound such as this blind Fool. Thus fulfilling Thus the Word of our Lord.

@1972jojodancer

2 ай бұрын

@@michael-hw1uv please say more brother.. enlighten us!

@larryclark9380

Ай бұрын

There is no such thing as an ex-born-again Christian. You can grieve the Holy Spirit but you cannot grieve Him away.

@1972jojodancer

Ай бұрын

@@larryclark9380 Amen!!Amen!!

The first lesson I learned in my religious studies in University was this: When scripture was transcribed BY the scribes, what we got, in the end, was based on the judgment and craft of said scribes. If they did not like, nor understood words or phrases, they either improvised or wrote what they thought should be written. And then layer, with ALL of the scribes who worked on crafting and transcribing scripture, over centuries, and we get what many men thought the words should be, and are not necessarily what they received to begin with. So is scripture the REAL scripture? And when the books of the BIBLE were codified, the church CHOSE which books to include and which to be left out or better yet, DESTROYED, because they believed that they were heretical and therefore, would never see the light of day, that to this day, languish in the bowels of the Vatican Archives. (Those books that survived the destruction purge) The church gave us what THEY believed we should get, based on the judgment of those church leaders centuries ago. The church engineered Holy Text, to suit the tastes of the leaders of that time, that spoke to their vanities and reputations as leaders of the faith. We will never know what was left out or destroyed, because there are many texts that were never considered to be canon.

@TRUTH_MATTERS1

8 ай бұрын

All facts 💯

@NeriaT

8 ай бұрын

The five Torah Pentacles were copied from generation to generation with great precision (only 9 differences, only in dotted letters in Hebrew), with great care in a very impressive way. You are welcome to check (I will leave you to think about the conclusions of this fact).

@EndTimesHarvest

8 ай бұрын

@@NeriaT Yes, the Hebrew scribes had an entire system in place to ensure that copies made of the Torah would be identical to the original manuscripts. This notion that Scripture was significantly changed and altered over time is not supported by the evidence. And, in fact, the evidence supports the fact that Scripture has been preserved to remarkable precision.

@trials6502

8 ай бұрын

​@@EndTimesHarvestThe fact that the language was changed means every single last one of you supporting this idea of identical copies is a horrible liar.

@EndTimesHarvest

8 ай бұрын

@@trials6502 What are you talking about? What change in language? We literally have 2,000-year-old scrolls of the Old Testament in our hands today (i.e., the Dead Sea Scrolls) written in the original Hebrew; the very same language that the Torah was originally written in. Anyone can read these original Hebrew manuscripts for themselves, if they truly want; they have been preserved.

I already thought all this myself. People just wanted to get others to follow what they wanted them to think and believe.

Our birth and individual reality comes with a preexisting social lifestyle. The beauty of curiosity is that it can be inspirational as we learn and search from within as we age.

"I am an expression of an eternal something or other, X." Beautiful.

@batouttahell454

8 ай бұрын

Good One

@wop2784

7 ай бұрын

? @@batouttahell454

@Cylance-ji9tn

6 ай бұрын

Nice coincidence...: I was scrolling through the comments and when Ibread yours - at this Moment Alan Said what you quoted!😃

@brows.

6 ай бұрын

​@@Cylance-ji9tn chemistry on point :)

I always wondered why people are so severe to others who don’t believe what the “holy” book says. Mostly it are the ones who don’t act out of love. Why killing people who burned a book, it is just paper. The truth lays inside you

@JesusChrist-SavesFromHell

8 ай бұрын

JESUS CHRIST is The Way indeed , The true Life and and The absolute Truth is that we are fallen from grace and are rebellious sinners ,against GOD our Creator and after the fall and banishment from the garden of Eden we are already spiritualy dead (((that is way such videos of deception and lies ecxist))) not able to recognace even our state of despair and hopelessness living only to die ,we will do menningless effords for finding happiness and satisfaction , while we are separated from The Living GOD of The Univerce , Who is HOLY , Just and Perfectly Good ,in Whose presence darkness and evil , bad things can not exist , that is why we are away from Him and He can not tae us to Himself because we are of this world of fallen state , bound to die off . But God is unmesurably mercyfull and Loving , that is why He made a plan to free us from death and slavary to sin and to take us to His devine presence , giving us Eternal LIFE and HE Himself is The Life . That plan is JESUS CHRIST ((( Jesus means God saves , and was perfect Name for The Messiah , Which God presented for the dieing world ))) The Messiah was not concieved as everybody else , so was and lived sinless life ,fufilling God's expectations for a Perfect Man , He was not slave to sin as a human and also was GOD in the flesh ,lived as man . The Son of GOD THE FATHER as perfectly rightious was the only cappable to be the recluired sacrufice and the one ,Who should have taken the judjement we all deserved :the second death ,the dieing of the soul in hell,because of separation from GOD ((( and still will if we reject GOD's offer of salvation through HIS Son's dead on the cross ))) But HE defeated sin and dead , because He IS God and is ONE with THE FATHER and THE CREATOR , that is why JESUS The Messiah ressurected giving HOPE for those that awaits HIM ,that even after our bodies die and we are gone from the phissical reality of life, ONE day at JESUS's second coming (((this time forever to RULE the world which GOD created ))) will be ressurected to live with HIM and GOD for eternity .Amen

@Liam-ke2hv

8 ай бұрын

Ego and identity are the root of evil, instruments of 'the devil'. Good people turn to monsters when the (false) core of their being is under threat. They do not understand the allegory of their own book.

@sistacoin

8 ай бұрын

You have a lot of followers who will accept anything and not everyone is going to think with a critical lense or see what is in front of them. They go into the Bible to attempt to explain anything and everything, and it's just not true.

@jacquelineseely5393

8 ай бұрын

Never burn books. What are you afraid of?

@tatie7604

8 ай бұрын

No, it doesn't. You know nothing.

THANK YOU FOR SIMPLYFYING SEVERAL THOUSAND YEARS OF VISIONS AND THEORIES THAT EARLY HUMANS AND MODERN-DAY HUMANS OF USED TO UNDERSTAND LIFE, RIGHT AND WRONG, GOOD AND BAD. FROM CAVE MAN DAYS TO THE MODERN DAY, WE ARE CONTINUING TO EVOLVE!!! "DEMAND TRUTH!!!".

Loveeeeeee this !!!!! It aligns with my thought patterns

@Slicksloth66.6

2 ай бұрын

Nice!

Hugely insightful soul!

What An Amazing Time To Be Alive 😎

I knew this before i seen this video because it's talked about this way for year's.

You are 100% correct. There are A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO IDEA HOW WE GOT THE BIBLE AT ALL. RIGHT ALONG WITH YOU!

@cht2162

8 ай бұрын

@playdiscgolf1546

8 ай бұрын

In the beginning was the word, and the word was with god, and the word was god. Believe what you want, but I’ll choose God having power over man’s “conspiracies”

@marezvid

8 ай бұрын

there were all hebrew manuscripts put together over time bro, cathedral took over like he said, is a long story

@daisyd2392

8 ай бұрын

​@@playdiscgolf1546Amen to that!

@biilyblast64

8 ай бұрын

​@@playdiscgolf1546you technically have no actual way to prove anything you're saying. I can make up something right now and if I believe it then I believe it. Idc if u don't believe in it. Lol

Love Alan Watts for this. ❤

Not all roads lead to the TRUTH!

I believe in Santa, unlike all the other enteties he comes to visit once a year bearing the gifts I have asked for. That is divine.

@B.I.-EIO_macdonald9786

8 ай бұрын

Yeah! I saw his big mitten in my driveway one christmas morning. My chimney musta been too slim.

@truthfacts2628

8 ай бұрын

So u believe in SATAN? Thats a Pagan and disrespectful MANMADE HOLIDAY! Research who NIMROD was which I heard about when I was 7yrs Old!

@truthfacts2628

8 ай бұрын

Read Jeremiah 10:1-5kjv

@B.I.-EIO_macdonald9786

8 ай бұрын

@@truthfacts2628 ok. Ill look it up now. Thanks

@B.I.-EIO_macdonald9786

8 ай бұрын

@@truthfacts2628 sounds lije a christmas tree. But im looking at the context surrounding it to maybe get a greater understanding of its meaning

In Sanatan, even Vedas, upanishad have always encouraged to ask questions rather than follwing a path defined by someone else. Hence in Sanatan you can define your own path to seek god, it is a culture of creating god. If you can find god in a sound (or in any form) you can follow that sound to get liberated. Liberation or Moksha (being one with the god) is the ultimate that every human should seek for. I beleive everyone has a birth right to ask questions, that's the reason the nature has given us a logical mind. I think the days are over of selling religion by greed of granting a place in heaven or by fear (hell, punishments etc). I see in coming decades many man made religions will disapper, as people have access to information/knowledge in their finger tip they will start questioning more and more.

Simple and direct. Easy peasy!

@kofidan9128

7 күн бұрын

Simple and direct deceit 😅

Alan Watts always had a way of making you think deeply about religion and spirituality. I appreciate his open-minded approach to the subject. It's true that religious experiences are often shaped by the cultural and religious background we come from. It's a reminder that there are many paths to understanding the divine, and we should respect each person's journey.

@philsmith5705

8 ай бұрын

I do not respect the con. God is imaginary and the Bible dangerous bad fiction. Grow a brain fool.

@welshgruff

8 ай бұрын

We should also respect those who believe none of this is divinely inspired because there is no evidence for the existence of any god.

@SnowWhite-hr4ho

8 ай бұрын

You respect prejudice

@Biden-shit_himself

8 ай бұрын

There is only one way to the Father and that is through the Son Jesus Christ

@requiem4ameme929

8 ай бұрын

"respect each persons journey" That "each person" includes you who believes in no creator. Your comment is completely pointless had you actually thought about what was being said. Never rush for your turn to speak and actually think about what the other person is saying....Just a thought

Please, keep giving us the opportunity to listen to this wise man. Thank you.

@donforde

8 ай бұрын

Why do u think he is wise? Whether the bible is true can only be determined by prophecy. Are they any historical events which it has prophesied and has come to fruition? I can name several

@MrBadintentionss

7 ай бұрын

@@donforde make 2000 predictions right now and see how many you can loosely associate with anything that happens in the next 2000 years. it won't be hard. "whether the bible is true can only be determined by prophecy" : no, it can be determined by a god manifesting in the real world. a god that does not manifest in the real world is the same as a god that does not exist.

The exclusive teachings of Christ's quoted words, taught me this love. I am certain that this truth is taught by others, including this video.

We don’t need religions to be human. To feel the divine within us like a beautiful drop that is destined at some point to merge with that infinite ocean. Whilst I am here that longing for the beloved guides me to feel and to uncover a heart full of thankfulness, understanding, love and clarity so I can feel complete whilst I am here. The choice is always mine. 🤗❤️🤗

This man.. this dude did his homework without losing the essence. What marvelous and brilliant perception this man gives us. Blessed are we to have this wisdom. Blessed with reality.

@johnhough7738

7 ай бұрын

Blessed indeed are they who can think for themselves. Cursed indeed are they who do think for themselves - verily, I say unto thee, that they are anathema; long may it last, endure, and prosper. First step: ban all religions, except on just one tiny wee condition- -that anyone anywhere anytime is free to voice his/her own thoughts without fear. AND- -and anyone inspiring such fears be stood against a wall and pelted with his/her own 'holy' books until they promise never to do it again. No? Why not? Tell me, I'm all ears and YOU are holding the mike ...

@jimotten5887

7 ай бұрын

@@johnhough7738 We don’t need to punish people for believing in the supernatural. Violence is not a good start for a new era of men. Take a look at the bible 😂 They are just afraid and uncertain about their lives or life itself. I think we need to show the way. Not to rely on false entities and be your own god in your own body. It’s cool to have gods and goddesses as a fantasy concept for movies and books. Let’s start by getting religion out of politics. This I think will help tremendously. Step by step we’ll get there! Cheers man🤘🏻😎

@joblakelisbon

6 ай бұрын

He didn't do his homework at all. The Catholic church didn't even exist until the 11th century.

@jimotten5887

6 ай бұрын

@@joblakelisbon maybe not. I’m not sure. I’ll have to investigate that. But that’s not the point. He still gives us a wise perspective on the matter.

@keojin2208

6 ай бұрын

Don't follow religion, follow Yehoshua - He said, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." - People cling to religions and their church. There will be a time when humanity will grow cold, so cold that they will believe they are god themselves. During these times the world will become colder due to such believe and in that mere instance we will know truth. God's name is something that we pronounce every time we take a breath - YHWH so even Aethist, agnostics and every other religion under the son are bound to pronounce his name for every breath we take is yhhhwhhh. Know that is not your own doing like this video claims for it was, you would be able to not take a breath and continue without one. But just like we need a breath, we need YHWH - As smart as this man may have sounded and compelling he missed everything that is God and Yehoshua. Amen.

I recently finished reading 'Truth' by Aman Jain. Its a book on spirituality with some great ideas. It entirely changed my perspective about several aspects of life. A must read in my opinion.

I've tasted the grace.

@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363

29 күн бұрын

All Humans need to repent & Believe in Jesus as their God. Why? Because all Humans have sinned (lied, lusted sexually, stolen, dishonoured parents, unbelief etc). Avoid the fires of Hell (justice of God) and choose Heaven today. Jesus defeated death by rising from the dead. GOD IS HOLY