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09 Dec 11, 13:57
Morning all, just located your little corner of the internet and thought 'I'd like to have a chat with these good folk'.
I grew up in a Unitarian household, and even then it was only in name. I hadn't been INSIDE a church until I was in 7th grade -- with by best friend's family (though, really, It was just the way we could hang out later on Saturday nights when they'd pile into the minivan and head to our local mega-church).
It wasn't long before I got the game of the UU's (the I'm-more-tolerant-than-you-are) and decided on Atheism as my personal game. To this, I held for a long time as truth, and it was in that mindset that I thought most of the 'Creation' of existence. I had, after years, concluded that it just is and there really is nothing I can do about the fact that is is, just that it is. That realization led me to agnosticism, which I have held since.
Well, until about last week. I had listened to Alan Watts lecture before, but I had come into a series of TEN of his lectures (The Nature of Consciousness, for those curious), and with every passing Disc I found the things he speaks of not only compelling in their own right from an Intellectual standpoint, but much of it resonated deep within my heart. It's something I don't remember experiencing.
And now I don't know what to believe. The core, fundamental aspects which Watts lays out in terms of Metaphysics are almost identical to the ones that I had come to realize on my own, and I thirst for more information on the subject (which is why I'm here).
I look forward to playing Hide and Seek with you all.
I grew up in a Unitarian household, and even then it was only in name. I hadn't been INSIDE a church until I was in 7th grade -- with by best friend's family (though, really, It was just the way we could hang out later on Saturday nights when they'd pile into the minivan and head to our local mega-church).
It wasn't long before I got the game of the UU's (the I'm-more-tolerant-than-you-are) and decided on Atheism as my personal game. To this, I held for a long time as truth, and it was in that mindset that I thought most of the 'Creation' of existence. I had, after years, concluded that it just is and there really is nothing I can do about the fact that is is, just that it is. That realization led me to agnosticism, which I have held since.
Well, until about last week. I had listened to Alan Watts lecture before, but I had come into a series of TEN of his lectures (The Nature of Consciousness, for those curious), and with every passing Disc I found the things he speaks of not only compelling in their own right from an Intellectual standpoint, but much of it resonated deep within my heart. It's something I don't remember experiencing.
And now I don't know what to believe. The core, fundamental aspects which Watts lays out in terms of Metaphysics are almost identical to the ones that I had come to realize on my own, and I thirst for more information on the subject (which is why I'm here).
I look forward to playing Hide and Seek with you all.