It's Time To Wake Up - Alan Watts on Religion

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  • It's Time To Wake Up - Alan Watts on Religion
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    Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularizing Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audience.

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  • @42bellabella
    @42bellabella Год назад +3991

    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
      @truthseekers1620 Год назад +161

      @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
      @timwoodger7896 Год назад

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

    • @MrMortal_Ra
      @MrMortal_Ra Год назад +225

      @@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
      @MrMortal_Ra Год назад +73

      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
      @truthseekers1620 Год назад +77

      @@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

  • @bobdobalina8910
    @bobdobalina8910 Год назад +2323

    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
      @HighHell99 Год назад +84

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

    • @snoozdude1
      @snoozdude1 Год назад +100

      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
      @Davido50 Год назад +71

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

    • @HighHell99
      @HighHell99 Год назад +49

      @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
      @docrobo360 Год назад

      @@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.

  • @CrossCory
    @CrossCory 7 месяцев назад +36

    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.

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 6 месяцев назад +2

      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)

    • @POINT69.................
      @POINT69................. 3 месяца назад +1

      ​@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363I agree's with you,this world is wicked and full of evilness

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 3 месяца назад +1

      @@POINT69................. Yes the wold needs to repent
      Make sure as a you are a repentant Christian. Read the Bible daily and pray often throughout the day, the devil is trying to make lukewarm Christians everywhere (Rev 3:16). Join us in spreading the good news of Jesus Christ.
      If you tell everyone that you are a mechanic but day in and out, you do the work of an accountant are you truly a mechanic? No, you are an accountant. Likewise, a Christian by name who lives contrary to Jesus’ teachings by living sinful/worldly is not a real Christian.

    • @13_heavens_content
      @13_heavens_content 26 дней назад

      ​@@POINT69.................Evil is like the cold. Cold only exits due to a lack of heat. Evil exists because humans lack closeness to god

  • @martintalbot875
    @martintalbot875 2 месяца назад +19

    I am totally with this..I have always felt this..even at an extremely early age

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 Месяц назад +1

      In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

    • @Xenos01-lf7nu
      @Xenos01-lf7nu 27 дней назад +3

      yea me too, life on earth always felt weird and peoples believes and actions were so full of nonsense to me even as a child

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 21 день назад +1

      @@Xenos01-lf7nu 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.

    • @Xenos01-lf7nu
      @Xenos01-lf7nu 21 день назад +1

      @@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 i am god i am the jesus, i am the next prophet. the world will obey me. know my name. all mighty XENOS . repent and return to me or you will burn in hell jesus is a player i am real jesus

  • @Bladespeedy
    @Bladespeedy Год назад +506

    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
      @tatsbyk1 Год назад +17

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

    • @Bladespeedy
      @Bladespeedy Год назад +64

      @@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
      @criostasis Год назад +66

      @@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
      @dummythin5378 Год назад +58

      ​@@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
      @JulianWendt-xo2nl Год назад

      @@dummythin5378 No do real research not atheist shit

  • @anitraheath7882
    @anitraheath7882 Год назад +412

    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
      @jerryrothenberg9750 Год назад +32

      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
      @russellhartz1768 Год назад +32

      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
      @RyzenZegend Год назад

      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
      @thetruthnothingelse5033 Год назад

      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
      @Kevin-ys7sj Год назад +25

      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!

  • @juancruzlives
    @juancruzlives 8 месяцев назад +108

    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
      @minehike 8 месяцев назад +7

      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
      @kofidan9128 6 месяцев назад +2

      😂 ... 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

    • @ScooterOnHisWay2024
      @ScooterOnHisWay2024 5 месяцев назад +3

      ​@kofidan9128 Because he is more intellectual and well spoken than yourself.

    • @user-k4d-e59mo28oc
      @user-k4d-e59mo28oc 4 месяца назад

      @@kofidan9128 Yes, reject Thales, Pythagoras, Socrates, Aristotle, Pyrrho, Galileo, Francis Bacon, Voltaire, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Adams, Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, Tesla, Jobs . . . kowtow to desert megalomaniacs and their Voodoo priests.

    • @robzillian
      @robzillian 4 месяца назад +3

      @@kofidan9128 you should take it with an open mind instead of doubt. Kill your ego, think for yourself. You’ll begin to understand what he’s trying to say. Took me a while, but the man makes perfect sense if you research different religions and beliefs. It’s all the same shit, religion is like politics, used to put fear and divide humanity.

  • @tomjeffries3540
    @tomjeffries3540 3 месяца назад +190

    Heard a fellow coworker say, I believe in God not an organized religion

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 3 месяца назад +5

      In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

    • @tomjeffries3540
      @tomjeffries3540 3 месяца назад +44

      @@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 then heaven must be a lonely place then, if the unclean aren't allowed there.

    • @viaan6097
      @viaan6097 3 месяца назад +5

      @@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 Proof

    • @odelekevictor3895
      @odelekevictor3895 3 месяца назад

      ​@@tomjeffries3540Unsafe bcos of cruelty of the unclean humans or lonely because of few population of just people. Wonder which you will choose for a future world that will remain forever.

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 3 месяца назад +2

      @@odelekevictor3895 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.

  • @masoncarlisle363
    @masoncarlisle363 Год назад +370

    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
      @TheBohemianAngels Год назад +35

      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
      @zaidnava3728 Год назад +109

      @@TheBohemianAngels what a loving god

    • @pardonmyfrench4760
      @pardonmyfrench4760 Год назад +31

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

    • @TheBohemianAngels
      @TheBohemianAngels Год назад

      @@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
      @TheBohemianAngels Год назад +29

      @@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.

  • @greghamilton6681
    @greghamilton6681 Год назад +367

    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

  • @jthrowback
    @jthrowback Год назад +86

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

    • @ronniebattle1310
      @ronniebattle1310 Год назад

      Encounter Ministries RUclips channel. Mark Hemans/

    • @christiandpaul2022
      @christiandpaul2022 Год назад

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

    • @ronniebattle1310
      @ronniebattle1310 Год назад

      @@christiandpaul2022 Encounter Ministries RUclips channel. Mark Hemans÷

    • @jthrowback
      @jthrowback Год назад +7

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

    • @beyondallreason-du4pq
      @beyondallreason-du4pq 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@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

  • @Texas_Roofer_01
    @Texas_Roofer_01 4 месяца назад +510

    This won't make sense to most but the day I stopped believing, 85% of my stress disappeared.

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 3 месяца назад +24

      In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

    • @milehieheal5140
      @milehieheal5140 3 месяца назад +89

      makes sense to me…. you put your psychological control back in your own hands. Not in the hands of an imaginary character.

    • @aminali4061
      @aminali4061 3 месяца назад +34

      ​@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 where is heaven located bru

    • @LordOfSeamenAndTestickles
      @LordOfSeamenAndTestickles 3 месяца назад +31

      @@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 Why do you have to spread his message? Can't jesus christ do it himself? Face to face. I think it would be better.

    • @neerajkale
      @neerajkale 3 месяца назад +5

      ​@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      JAI SHREE RAM 🚩🚩

  • @Nighthawk799
    @Nighthawk799 Год назад +1059

    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
      @remowilliams7569 Год назад +121

      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
      @carolebarker2195 Год назад +86

      I don't blame you.

    • @Nighthawk799
      @Nighthawk799 Год назад +332

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

    • @captainsafety0104
      @captainsafety0104 Год назад +59

      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
      @carolebarker2195 Год назад +31

      @@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.

  • @DiVa-ks2jg
    @DiVa-ks2jg Год назад +148

    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
      @jonni1023 Год назад +9

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

    • @ramsesp5009
      @ramsesp5009 11 месяцев назад +24

      @@jonni1023 And how the fuck do you know?

    • @jonni1023
      @jonni1023 11 месяцев назад

      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
      @jonni1023 11 месяцев назад

      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
      @musicantd 11 месяцев назад

      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.

  • @kaaya..
    @kaaya.. Год назад +398

    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. Enlighten yourself with God at the centre of it all. Surrender yourself to Christ and all will unravel.

    • @bobclog50
      @bobclog50 Год назад +5

      As long as I am humble.

    • @jacktorrance1237
      @jacktorrance1237 Год назад

      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
      @jacktorrance1237 Год назад

      @@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
      @andy4829 Год назад +4

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

    • @JesusBichito99
      @JesusBichito99 Год назад

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

  • @mohakgupta3749
    @mohakgupta3749 Месяц назад +7

    Spiritual Experience, being one with nature, out of yourself feeling, living in the moment - these are ways to describe the state, I agree we dont have the language to express it but that experience gives extreme joy.

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 Месяц назад +1

      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.

    • @Corn_Pone_Flicks
      @Corn_Pone_Flicks Месяц назад

      @@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 Spend eternity kissing the ass of a monster? No thanks.

  • @jerryrichmond4707
    @jerryrichmond4707 8 месяцев назад +115

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

    • @wushiba
      @wushiba 6 месяцев назад +2

      I recommend the movie "Her"
      (SPOILER: he becomes almost literally immmortal there.)

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@wushiba In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

    • @wushiba
      @wushiba 5 месяцев назад +6

      @@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 Have you been to heaven? Or how do you know?Just don't tell me you've read it in a book because I can write books too.

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@wushiba Yes Heaven and Hell
      God through the Holy Spirit has shown me several things relating to the afterlife with the purpose of convincing people like yourself. Stuff like Heaven and Hell, Angels, and evil Spirits the Lord Jesus (not worthy at all), a miracle happened to me that saved my life (thank you God) & so much more. I am more than happy to give further details.

    • @wushiba
      @wushiba 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 If you're talking about christianity or any other religion then I'm not interested.

  • @ZfromBrooklyn
    @ZfromBrooklyn Год назад +619

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

    • @caterinabonadiooconnor9982
      @caterinabonadiooconnor9982 Год назад +7

      ❤❤❤

    • @JesusChrist-SavesFromHell
      @JesusChrist-SavesFromHell Год назад

      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
      @mickm79 Год назад +8

      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
      @ZfromBrooklyn Год назад +25

      @@mickm79 I humbly disagree

    • @mea7527
      @mea7527 Год назад +5

      Absolutely 💯

  • @brandonkearns2712
    @brandonkearns2712 Год назад +424

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

    • @the-dave-house-project
      @the-dave-house-project Год назад +80

      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
      @bdawg2513 Год назад +18

      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
      @gwilymyddraig Год назад

      ​@@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
      @gwilymyddraig Год назад +12

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

    • @gwilymyddraig
      @gwilymyddraig Год назад

      ​@@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.

  • @scabbycatcat4202
    @scabbycatcat4202 5 месяцев назад +268

    Anyone who follows a Religion , no matter which one, is basically allowing themselves to be told how to think and what to do. You are no better than a robot. The greatest gift you have is the freedom to think . Do not surrender that freedom to anyone.

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 4 месяца назад +17

      In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

    • @scabbycatcat4202
      @scabbycatcat4202 4 месяца назад +50

      @@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 You don't know and certainly can't prove that a single word of what you have written is true.

    • @dragonfire2159
      @dragonfire2159 4 месяца назад

      So I guess with all the genocide, God isn't allowed in heaven either. If your religion can't stand up to even surface level logic, guess what, it's not true.​@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363

    • @GodisGood-g2l
      @GodisGood-g2l 4 месяца назад +13

      @@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 I'm a catholic, and we don't have the right to condemn anyone because Jesus himself never condemned this world, he came to save us. We all sinned, we cannot deny that, but unless you repent and believe in God and savior Jesus Christ, he can clean you, which he already did because he died for our sins.

    • @MikeFisher-l3j
      @MikeFisher-l3j 4 месяца назад +4

      I prayed constantly for years to overcome my addiction to sex, and it was a waste of time

  • @danieltudor8691
    @danieltudor8691 Год назад +119

    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!

    • @ZooScott
      @ZooScott Год назад

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

    • @hamarana
      @hamarana Год назад

      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
      @sharonreneau6157 Год назад +2

      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
      @FragmentOfInfinity Год назад +7

      ​@@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.

    • @ronniebattle1310
      @ronniebattle1310 Год назад

      @@FragmentOfInfinity Encounter Ministries RUclips channel. Mark Hemans==

  • @raggi123456
    @raggi123456 11 месяцев назад +144

    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
      @raggi123456 11 месяцев назад +6

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

    • @NoGMOGod
      @NoGMOGod 11 месяцев назад

      How do you explain this away?
      ruclips.net/video/JoNp8dkyYWU/видео.htmlfeature=shared

    • @NoGMOGod
      @NoGMOGod 11 месяцев назад +6

      Most of this is false information.

    • @NoGMOGod
      @NoGMOGod 11 месяцев назад

      Catholics are not Christians. You are a liar sir

    • @biivii100
      @biivii100 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@NoGMOGod how could you know?

  • @astrocat88
    @astrocat88 Год назад +81

    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
      @alexcajiao7489 Год назад +2

      You love lies? Anything but the truth huh?

    • @johnc5915
      @johnc5915 Год назад +4

      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
      @DG-cu1vt Год назад

      @@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
      @DG-cu1vt Год назад

      @@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
      @bbfoto7248 Год назад

      @@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 RUclips Search bar:
      dMQciYeDHU0
      It will take you to an enlightening RUclips Interview by Derek of *MythVision Podcast* with Dr. Francesca Stavrakopoulou.

  • @kelseylyons7746
    @kelseylyons7746 21 день назад +6

    Im happy to see how many are waking up.

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 12 дней назад +2

      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

    • @kelseylyons7746
      @kelseylyons7746 12 дней назад +3

      @ I certainly hope that you eventually end up freed from the chains of religion. ❤️

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 5 дней назад +1

      @@kelseylyons7746 Jesus doesn't want anything from you, He simply wants to save you
      God through the Holy Spirit has shown me several things relating to the afterlife with the purpose of convincing people like yourself. Stuff like Heaven and Hell, Angels, ,evil Spirits, the Lord Jesus (not worthy at all), a miracle happened to me that saved my life (thank you God) & so much more. I am more than happy to give further details.

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 5 дней назад +1

      @@kelseylyons7746 This is coming from a good place, my love for you are drops in the ocean compared to God’s love for you.
      Jesus loves you and wants to save you from hell so love Him back.

    • @RaPr-c3z
      @RaPr-c3z 5 дней назад

      @@kelseylyons7746 They’re not chains. The foundation of a proper life are in The Bible. Old and New Testament

  • @javiertorres9114
    @javiertorres9114 10 месяцев назад +640

    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
      @johngraham1427 7 месяцев назад

      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
      @HappyHermitt 7 месяцев назад +22

      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
      @d00d-gtp 6 месяцев назад +22

      @@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.

    • @IYKYK.GO2TN
      @IYKYK.GO2TN 6 месяцев назад +6

      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
      @godlesslyhandsome 6 месяцев назад

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

  • @AllThingsFilm1
    @AllThingsFilm1 Год назад +79

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

    • @alexcajiao7489
      @alexcajiao7489 Год назад +1

      The Antichrist is going to deceive you easily.

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 6 месяцев назад +1

      WHAT IS HE MEANING OF LIFE?
      To have a relationship with God on earth so you can spend eternity together in Heaven. So, what pushes me away from God? Sin (lying, unforgiveness, sexual sins from lust, dishonouring parents, steeling, taking the Lord’s Name in vain etc) which leads to hell. But Jesus died on the Cross and rose from the dead to give you the ability to repent and Believe in Him as your Lord and Saviour to go to Heaven.
      Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • @ZenMindUniverse
    @ZenMindUniverse Год назад +204

    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
      @philsmith5705 Год назад

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

    • @welshgruff
      @welshgruff Год назад +13

      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
      @SnowWhite-hr4ho Год назад +1

      You respect prejudice

    • @Pray4urenemies2day
      @Pray4urenemies2day Год назад +8

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

    • @requiem4ameme929
      @requiem4ameme929 Год назад +5

      "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

  • @Jesse-d9d
    @Jesse-d9d 8 дней назад +3

    Ever notice that people who aren't religious are always a thousand times happier than those who are

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 6 дней назад +2

      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.

    • @Kolgart
      @Kolgart 10 часов назад

      Nope, never noticed that.

  • @misterbum1
    @misterbum1 Год назад +26

    I had such an experience when I was 29 years old. While meditating in a church, I felt like a spear of energy pierced my heart - just like some of the most famous Christian mystics. I was unable to speak for almost two days, and the overwhelming pureness of the event swept me away. I am 76 now, and not religious. Have been much so in the past, off and on. But the faded feelings that I experienced so many years ago still lives small inside me. I don't think of it in a religious sense, only in the wonder of the feeling.

    • @misterbum1
      @misterbum1 Год назад

      I believe equitable morality leads to civility which leads to functional CIVILization. I believe that scientific fact-finding leads to an increase in our overall knowledge base, and to potential improvements regardless of personal opinions to the contrary. I also believe that we are a very, very small part of the universe, with a commensurate very small understanding of much universal knowledge. Hence, my personal acceptance of an event totally beyond my understanding without feeling that I need to apply any explanations other than it happened. It added to my life, and that is enough for me.@@GetZapped-Helsinki1974

    • @justynjonn
      @justynjonn Год назад +1

      Wow. Sounds like you really had an experience. I wholly believe you. I've sometimes felt something, always searching but I do believe there is something higher .

    • @brentwooden7995
      @brentwooden7995 Год назад +1

      I know from my own experience,you are speaking the truth. I think that is so beautiful. You don't have to be in a religion, but in a relationship with God, the Supreme ruler over earth and the universe. I think sometimes we forget, we are only here for a moment in time and space.

    • @misterbum1
      @misterbum1 Год назад

      I don't know about the Supreme Leader part; however, the head repulsigan grifter (the Don) has recently been called by right wing Q loving pseudo-'christian' PROPHETS the 'messiah'. Given the destructive, anti-everybody nature of THE NEW messiah, I don't expect the world to last much longer. I would also add that:@@brentwooden7995 has no content on his/her/its site.

    • @9y2bgy
      @9y2bgy Год назад +3

      Sometimes I've felt something that can only be described as a connection to something more than myself which is to say connection to others. Yes, when I was a christian I interpreted that as connection to god. But that connection would be interpreted differently depending on one's religious affiliation, one's spiritual journey, or even lack thereof.
      Personally I differentiate between spiritualism and religion. The latter is wholly human-made. The former, I cannot fully articulate bc it's a mystery which science cannot YET explain satisfactorily.

  • @jeannerogers7085
    @jeannerogers7085 Год назад +156

    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
      @Allergic2broke Год назад +3

      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
      @w.storyteller Год назад +2

      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
      @wop2784 Год назад +1

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

    • @MarkSeibold
      @MarkSeibold Год назад

      ​@@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 RUclips 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
      @NYx3 Год назад +1

      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.

  • @NathaelStrange52
    @NathaelStrange52 Год назад +114

    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
      @VestalNumbre 10 месяцев назад +2

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

    • @bestbuilder7833
      @bestbuilder7833 10 месяцев назад +2

      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

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 7 дней назад +1

      @@bestbuilder7833 In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

  • @wsc1955
    @wsc1955 5 месяцев назад +5

    Thank goodness for youtube, i would have never discovered Watts. I've always been interested in philosophy but somehow missed him. Genius!

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 5 месяцев назад +1

      People often say, “I’m not hurting anyone so it’s ok to sin (lying, stealing, sexual sins, disrespecting parents etc)” The same God who said to love your neighbour first said to love Him to the best of your ability. If you carry on sinning, then you do not love God but are selfish like the devil so you will be joined to your father in hell or repent of your sins and believe in Jesus as God so Jesus adopts you as His child and you will join Him in Heaven forever.

  • @catherinekeller4230
    @catherinekeller4230 Год назад +167

    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
      @hikedayley9309 Год назад

      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
      @weareallone6148 Год назад +5

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

    • @damoncrockett9321
      @damoncrockett9321 Год назад +13

      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
      @Lonnie-lf7hj Год назад +2

      ...Welcome Home :)

    • @FragmentOfInfinity
      @FragmentOfInfinity Год назад +16

      ​@@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.

  • @joemc1960
    @joemc1960 Год назад +167

    I always appreciate when someone can succinctly explain the things I also believe but have never been really able to put it into words

    • @sophiedan5329
      @sophiedan5329 Год назад +5

      EXACTLY!! ❤

    • @manuelshaul9244
      @manuelshaul9244 Год назад

      Basic instruction before leaving earth. The bible is absorb inwards. From the heart. This old man just showing his heart and it's against GOD. So why would GOD reveal the truth to him. If you own a business don't you give information to people base of wothyness. Right. So he sound mad at GOD because he's knows he not worthy. So he talking from willful disobedience and he sounds like it. He wants to believe in something else cause his heart not pure. Purity actually means innocent. He sound like he full of anger and self pity. You can't read spirit. You just hear what you want to believe. There's nothing holy about the Catholic church. They want to be GOD and wants you to follow them be careful. Everything that sounds good isn't good. He sounds good. But the bible is real. Trust me. I'm laughing at him cause I can read through his words. There are inspirited. It's words with no light behind. It's dead works the truth of his words are worth less than a penny. I feel sorry for y'all listen to this man. He's corrupt.

    • @freespeech515
      @freespeech515 Год назад +2

      He lied just like every other humans.

    • @deemisquadis9437
      @deemisquadis9437 Год назад

      The Bible was written by men for kings to control the masses of people. Religion is of the world. Jesus is not religious nor of this world. Go back to nature, she will teach you the truth. Man's world is not the truth. Mother Earth and nature is the truth, and fully free. No charge! God's words and gifts are free. ❤

    • @EmeraldEyesEsoteric
      @EmeraldEyesEsoteric Год назад

      "Some Buddhists believe their Sutra's are of Buddhic Origin." I really have to wonder about those Buddhists who don't think their Sutra's are of Buddhic origin.

  • @HocusPocus6969
    @HocusPocus6969 Год назад +26

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

    • @ronniebattle1310
      @ronniebattle1310 Год назад +1

      Encounter Ministries RUclips channel. Mark Hemans

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 Месяц назад +1

      @@ronniebattle1310 In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

    • @ronniebattle1310
      @ronniebattle1310 Месяц назад

      Read Mark chapter 16:1-20. Ask yourself this question. Do you believe what it says? These signs will follow those who believe!

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 Месяц назад +1

      @@ronniebattle1310 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

  • @dineshdodwani8924
    @dineshdodwani8924 4 месяца назад +6

    I got my answer through this.
    Thank You so much. God bless you❤

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 3 месяца назад +1

      In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 Месяц назад +1

      @@claudiaschneider5744 God is not forceful, love that is forced is not true love. You have two people Joshua and Eva; Joshua loves Eva so much and seeds her love letters, flowers, chocolate, and messages through people quite often, yet Eva does not respond to anything.
      Joshua accepts the fact that Eva is not interested so He decides to leave her alone. I Eventually Eva marries someone named Satvian, who treats her badly. If we keep saying no to God, He may end up leaving us alone and we end up regretting our decision, so say yes to Joshua (Jesus) today.

  • @reiniermoran3459
    @reiniermoran3459 Год назад +50

    So much wisdom shared by Allan Watts in his words. There is no way to accurately express our spiritual connection and experiences through words because when we try to do it we have to do it through the veil of our consciousness which can only understand material images and concepts. That is why there are so many different religions trying to explain the same truth that we can only understand through our deepest feelings and that are a completely personal experience.

    • @johnstewart4350
      @johnstewart4350 Год назад

      YOU FORGOT "THE AUTHOR OF ETERNAL SALVATION", AND HIS HOLY SPIRIT, GIVEN BY HIS ETERNAL FATHER... THE SATANIC PAGAN ROMAN CATHOLICISM CAME ON THE SCENE 310 A.D. AND IS THE ENEMY TO THE BIBLICAL DOCTRINES OF GRACE ALONE THRU FAITH IN CHRIST ALONE... PS: "DECEIVE NOT YOURSELF"--JESUS WILL JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD REAL SOON... YOU WILL NOT ESCAPE... SOOO THROW YOURSELF ON CHRIST THIS VERY SECOND... BECAUSE HE IS THE CREATOR. PERFECT HOLY GOD AND PERFECT SINLESS HOLY MAN !!

    • @Truerealism747
      @Truerealism747 Год назад

      Sydney banks good reflection to spirituality doesn't use it for 💰

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 Месяц назад +1

      @@Truerealism747 People often say, “I’m not hurting anyone so it’s ok to sin (lying, stealing, sexual sins, disrespecting parents etc)” The same God who said to love your neighbour first said to love Him to the best of your ability. If you carry on sinning, then you do not love God but are selfish like the devil so you will be joined to your father in hell or repent of your sins and believe in Jesus as God so Jesus adopts you as His child and you will join Him in Heaven forever.

  • @parkerduke6487
    @parkerduke6487 Год назад +250

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

    • @Loser_1.
      @Loser_1. Год назад +5

      I feel you

    • @leadnsteel1428
      @leadnsteel1428 Год назад +5

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

    • @dev...5150
      @dev...5150 Год назад

      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
      @uso_Jus2SmooTh94 Год назад

      You're not alone

    • @sjs928
      @sjs928 Год назад +6

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

  • @raymoles
    @raymoles 7 месяцев назад +55

    It is so refreshing to hear an intelligent person break down the falsehoods of the Bible.

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 7 месяцев назад +9

      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

    • @yachayeeeb9423
      @yachayeeeb9423 3 месяца назад +1

      ​@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363lol

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 2 месяца назад +2

      @@yachayeeeb9423 People underestimate hell, it is bad because it is separation from God. In a vision I was shown a person who claimed to be Christian but started fornication (premarital sex), He died relatively young and went to hell forever (1 Cor 6:9). God’s holiness means He will not coexist with sinners forever therefore Repent (Luke 13:3) and have a relationship with Jesus.

    • @yachayeeeb9423
      @yachayeeeb9423 2 месяца назад +7

      @@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 Christianity ain't the truth

    • @julianschmahl8267
      @julianschmahl8267 2 месяца назад +2

      ​@@yachayeeeb9423 repent & accept the gospel

  • @Ashley-cb9th
    @Ashley-cb9th Месяц назад +6

    I was raised catholic, baptized, and made my communion. I became agnostic, atheist, agnostic again throughout my teenage years and now in my 20s I am a christian. Everything and everyone turned me away from God and I disagreed with everything I saw, I even met a satanist and listened to what she had to say and I agreed with all of it. Her life began falling apart in every aspect in front of my very eyes. Life separated us and I began seeing a man who I believe God brought him and I together in a desperate time of need at probably one of the if not the lowest points in both of our lives. Him and I discussed my worries and fears around Christianity and he opened me up to it and made me feel so validated and welcomed like I had never before. My connection with god grows stronger every day and I am now very spiritual. I trust and believe in God because when I think of God I feel good, just the thought of him makes me feel happy and at peace. When I looked back on what my Satanist friend had gone through I could clearly see that she experienced horrible things because she rejected God, she wanted his love but Satan tricked her into believing that love and acceptance came from Satan. It doesn’t matter what people say to you about God or your religion, it’s how you feel about it in your very being. When you think of God and put energy into him how do you feel? When you think of Satan and put energy into him how do you feel? Simply the act of thinking and feeling can tell you all you need to know. Listen to your intuition, it’s an extremely powerful and underutilized tool. When times are uncertain you must think, feel and use your intuition and then you shall know the truth. Though don’t blind yourself and not consider other possibilities. There is a fine line you need to tread in the balance of reality and fantasy. Ask for guidance from god and you will receive it and it will improve your life even if you can’t see it. I promise.

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 Месяц назад +2

      In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

  • @brows.
    @brows. Год назад +16

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

    • @batouttahell454
      @batouttahell454 Год назад

      Good One

    • @wop2784
      @wop2784 Год назад

      ? @@batouttahell454

    • @Cylance-ji9tn
      @Cylance-ji9tn Год назад +1

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

  • @reeleyezmusic222
    @reeleyezmusic222 Год назад +147

    Shout out to all the people courageous enough to seek truth and settling for nothing less. And to the people who know the universal truth sharing it with others on their spiritual journey. This is not an easy path, much love and continued progress to all of you, regardless of your perspective and where you are on your path 🙏 💕 ✨

    • @GeorgeDEE78
      @GeorgeDEE78 Год назад +12

      Jesus said I am the way, the Truth and the life, no one comes unto the Father except through me. Without Christ Jesus we are all lost souls.

    • @renakmans3521
      @renakmans3521 Год назад +29

      @@GeorgeDEE78you’re quoting the book that was written by the Catholic Church. Thank you for making Alan’s point exactly…

    • @9_1.1
      @9_1.1 Год назад +4

      @@GeorgeDEE78 forgot to take your pills today?

    • @renakmans3521
      @renakmans3521 Год назад +6

      Yea you nailed it! The true pathless path is a struggle for this ego which is why it’s tough! But it’s also grace that leads people to it so those who aren’t there catch up in future lifetimes I suppose. Belief is the veil!

    • @GeorgeDEE78
      @GeorgeDEE78 Год назад +4

      @renakmans3521 the Bible was written long before the Catholic Church was even formed 👍

  • @MarkSeibold
    @MarkSeibold Год назад +26

    I was attending Art 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; as I believe it was shortly after he died that year in San Francisco.
    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 RUclips 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, on a beautiful weekend, is playing one of these lectures by Alan Watts as you head toward the Oregon Coastline. A I venture there quite often, taking photographs of the Milky Way standing up high over the famous Haystack Rock of Cannon Beach, on midsummer evenings. [Many of these photographs may be seen in my Facebook site, or in a photo hosting site I can add a link here below, because I believe the relativity of these images to Watts lectures, has great value.] The Astoria Oregon radio station will start to fade in on the automobile radio dial as I'm driving. I actually recorded this experience as I approached the Pacific Coastline a couple years ago. I have the cellphone on holding device on the dashboard of the car, recording the New Ccrescent moon in the evening sky as the car moved up and down to the Coast Range Mountains, and curves, the Moon seems to be moving back and forth across the sky with Alan Watts speaking. Amazing that I have made this video like something out of a special movie scene. I'll have to see if I can relocate that video in my Google Cloud storage.
    I feel like I'm back in 1973 at the age of 19 attending art college again, observing through my first astronomy telescope which I purchased by age 13, I'd be out in our parents front yard, I lost all interest in watching television,] and still today, 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, the Summer of Love, 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, and I watched the effect that 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, by blending all this together with composites from old prints 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 sky photography and eventually my astronomy artwork that was soon published in NASA websites. Thesevlevtures I provided were 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 in Portland, and although it was a religious affiliated Lutheran College, I just took it for the job opening, as the University advertised in 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's surface activities in flares, safely through this instrument. I was appearing in many newspaper articles across the Nation at that time.
    I also had 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 spent the better part in the year in the Fiji Islands in 2003 ~ 2004, working on herr immigration paperwork, and I was invited to teach and lecture, as I was introduced to their Prime Minister and their Ministers of Education.
    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. I accidentally came across a music shop in the capital city of Fiji where they had Sitar instruments. I sat down and attempted to play one and realized it's not that easy, as only playing guitar before for several decades.
    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 live, 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. [I list the dozen and a half times I called in within an album in my Facebook the hyperlinks to each discussion.] 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. The actual discussion title was, The 16th Minute of Short-lived Fame. I usually called and got a busy signal but this time they answered, as 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, to act. 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 free 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.

    • @SathyaMoorty-v6j
      @SathyaMoorty-v6j Год назад

      gladly i've read your story if i were hollywood director i'll definitly make a movie about your story

    • @landanwoodard7569
      @landanwoodard7569 Год назад

      I studied Astronomy for a while and my determination is that the cosmos are concentric with Polaris. The heliocentric theory is a joke in that it's impossible.

    • @MarkSeibold
      @MarkSeibold Год назад

      ​@user-my9ox7be4u , thank you.
      A couple of local independent filmmaking friends have made some short film works about what I do with the public and astronomy. I'll post a couple links below showing one that I made, it's just the recordings and audio as I discussed with the public across the Nation and into Eastern Canada. Then you'll see another address link that shows one of the short films, that a local film student made; it has no narrative in it but just Philip Glass music in the background and runs about six and a half minutes, then you'll see at the end of that film, what shows as a splice, and words 'video calibration', in a few seconds you'll to see a countdown number, and a black screen for a few seconds, and then you'll then see a TV news story of a couple of minutes in Bismarck North Dakota, on the end of that film students black and white docudrama film he made about my public astronomy process here in Portland Oregon.
      I also assembled the short documentary of 15 minutes of the best excerpts out of 100 hours of audio recordings in conversations that I had with the public. I put this together into Windows Microsoft movie Maker in 2012, by adding photographs I took along the trip with my 35mm College days film camera, plus my large pastel sketches I've made of the Sun from observations through the telescope which have been published in NASA websites for nearly two decades now. Still today it's my top headline video in my Mark Seibold RUclips channel.
      I'll post the link here to that 15 minutes of excerpts, as you might find it interesting, it's humorous in parts, and some parts are in foreign languages, which I asked them to translate to me as they described the Sun, while observing it live through the hydrogen-alpha filtered solar telescope.
      Mark Seibold interviews the public while on a 10,000 mile solo road trip across America and into Eastern Canada >
      ruclips.net/video/jVtxx7kC_LI/видео.htmlsi=bdvrOfnpUavgYR7A
      A short film project by filmmaking friend of mine in 2003, this runs about 6 and 1/2 minutes and then on the end is a KXMB CBS TV news report in Bismarck North Dakota for about 2 minutes. >
      ruclips.net/video/IYYPnsKzrfw/видео.htmlsi=0xuLz__buEIEtb7V

    • @muruga83
      @muruga83 10 месяцев назад

      With lots of love from India..

    • @RonniePrince1-ff6ge5vi9b
      @RonniePrince1-ff6ge5vi9b 9 месяцев назад

      There's life after death guaranteed not in Allan Watts but in Jesus Christ. JOHN 12:45~50.

  • @1may-fj8pn
    @1may-fj8pn 5 месяцев назад +2

    As a researcher deeply immersed in the study of various religions, I have found that Islam is often misunderstood and misrepresented. Despite these misconceptions, my thorough exploration has revealed that Islam offers profound and comprehensive guidance for every aspect of life, and it is not inherently bad. In fact, it provides clear answers to some of the most critical questions that humans face.
    One of the most significant aspects of Islam is its teachings about the hereafter. Understanding the afterlife is crucial for humanity as it gives purpose and direction to our lives on earth. The Quran provides detailed insights into the afterlife, emphasizing the importance of living a righteous life to achieve eternal peace and fulfillment.
    Another profound teaching of Islam is the concept of a Creator. The universe and everything within it must have an origin, and Islam identifies that origin as Allah, the Creator. This belief addresses fundamental questions about our existence, such as why we are here and what our responsibilities are. According to Islamic teachings, humans are here to worship Allah, live ethically, and care for the world and each other.
    It's also important to address the misconception that violence is a part of Islam. The truth is, the violence often associated with Islam is not a reflection of the religion itself but rather the result of actions taken by individuals who misunderstand or misinterpret Islamic teachings. Islam, at its core, advocates for peace, compassion, and justice.
    In my journey as a researcher, diving deep into the teachings and principles of various religions, I have found that Islam stands out for its consistency, purity, and comprehensive guidance. The Quran has remained unchanged for centuries, providing a reliable and authentic source of wisdom. It offers a complete framework for living a moral and fulfilling life, answering critical questions about existence, responsibilities, and the afterlife. Through my exploration, I have come to appreciate the depth and beauty of Islam, recognizing it as a faith that promotes peace and provides solutions for the challenges of life. puff

  • @DannyDelRayMusicVideos
    @DannyDelRayMusicVideos Год назад +129

    Excellently orchestrated presentation with lots of knowledge to absorb. Thank you for taking the time to create this video.

    • @theharshtruthoutthere
      @theharshtruthoutthere 10 месяцев назад +3

      To every religious soul out there:
      BIBLE (KJV)
      John 10:1
      Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
      John 14:6
      Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

    • @svix01
      @svix01 10 месяцев назад

      @@theharshtruthoutthere I'm sure you know about the gift of free will? Right. Was this idea to born into to this world to participate between the devil and God was our will? Or only we were gifted the free will because God put us in here?

    • @theharshtruthoutthere
      @theharshtruthoutthere 10 месяцев назад

      @@svix01 GOD created us 1stly in SPIRIT then formed our flesh in our mothers wombs.
      Free will starts on the day you born here and ends on the day you depart from here. it is not given nor found earlier, as earlier you didn`t exist.
      earth is testing ground, as it has became lucifers kingdom.
      testing ground for us, to show GOD whom shall be deceived by lucifer.
      All the answers are pretty clear ones - aren´t these? - MANY are deceived and FEW are not.
      None of us can`t drag free will beyond humans earthly life, as it is not earlier nor after found nor given.
      Jeremiah 1:5 KJV Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

    • @VestalNumbre
      @VestalNumbre 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@theharshtruthouttherewe need to learn the meaning of these verse All Scripture is inspired of God+ and beneficial for teaching,+ for reproving, for setting things straight,+ for disciplining in righteousness,+ 17

    • @theharshtruthoutthere
      @theharshtruthoutthere 10 месяцев назад

      @@VestalNumbre ROBERT BREAKERS bible study, he helps us to rightly divide the WORD OF GOD, as we should.
      so far, me and him, we read out the same.
      i place his videos into my playlist: BIBLE STUDY FOR ALL.
      get to know his work.

  • @ChrisMan802
    @ChrisMan802 Год назад +153

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

    • @PaulFekete1997
      @PaulFekete1997 Год назад +1

      Eh

    • @gknight4719
      @gknight4719 11 месяцев назад

      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
      @VestalNumbre 10 месяцев назад

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

    • @gknight4719
      @gknight4719 10 месяцев назад

      @@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?

  • @pretorius9598
    @pretorius9598 Год назад +187

    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.

    • @Virginie-a
      @Virginie-a Год назад +31

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

    • @melc800
      @melc800 Год назад +11

      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
      @bibekjung7404 Год назад

      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
      @dazzassti Год назад +16

      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
      @mistylover7398 Год назад +3

      @@Virginie-a no god

  • @timmckenna222
    @timmckenna222 Месяц назад +3

    After spending a lot of time as a Catholic, I firmly believe in the separation of church and faith.

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 Месяц назад +1

      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

    • @codeation5862
      @codeation5862 6 дней назад +1

      @@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 okay....? what relevancy was this to the original comment

  • @zovalentine7305
    @zovalentine7305 9 месяцев назад +276

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

    • @hanskadenge5951
      @hanskadenge5951 8 месяцев назад +9

      58 years of magnificent Wisdom

    • @katymcdowell7237653
      @katymcdowell7237653 8 месяцев назад +2

      I hope so

    • @johncordora4941
      @johncordora4941 7 месяцев назад +9

      Is he really resting after going against Christ ?

    • @WithinIsLight
      @WithinIsLight 7 месяцев назад +9

      @@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
      @kofidan9128 7 месяцев назад

      ​​@@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.

  • @iTzMattz
    @iTzMattz Год назад +72

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

    • @ronniebattle1310
      @ronniebattle1310 Год назад

      Encounter Ministries RUclips channel. Mark Hemans==

  • @deepashigli4511
    @deepashigli4511 Год назад +26

    This person is well read, I am new here, I wish you are experienced too, ramana maharishi,ramakrishna paramahamsa, sant kabir, they were some heavy words, for those who understand philosophy,.. I appreciate you for who you are, -born as God, grown as Hindu, living as a sadhu

    • @KK-Sara
      @KK-Sara Год назад

      Sathu🙏 I born as Buddha (God) and meet Buddha (God) and be in the middle way.

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 26 дней назад +1

      @@KK-Sara 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

  • @RealLaone
    @RealLaone 23 дня назад +1

    This is poetical, appreciate people who preach such instead of scamming/manipulating others with such wisdom imo.

  • @JacksonHoulihan
    @JacksonHoulihan Год назад +79

    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
      @boobyhatch7897 Год назад

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

    • @MikeMitchell-y3m
      @MikeMitchell-y3m Год назад +2

      He is in hell

    • @BazookaToe
      @BazookaToe Год назад +5

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

    • @aymen577
      @aymen577 Год назад

      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
      @unkown110 11 месяцев назад

      @@MikeMitchell-y3mwhy would god even make us just to burn us alive when are lives end, i thought he is good

  • @funnysods
    @funnysods Год назад +26

    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.

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 6 месяцев назад +1

      People often say, “I’m not hurting anyone so it’s ok to sin (lying, stealing, sexual sins, disrespecting parents etc)” The same God who said to love your neighbour first said to love Him to the best of your ability. If you carry on sinning, then you do not love God but are selfish like the devil so you will be joined to your father in hell or repent of your sins and believe in Jesus as God so Jesus adopts you as His child and you will join Him in Heaven forever.

    • @childpeanut5095
      @childpeanut5095 4 месяца назад +1

      @@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363we are the universe. We made up God

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 3 месяца назад +1

      @@childpeanut5095 Nah God creates something out of nothing and God is infallible, us humans lack these attributes
      John 3: 18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
      f anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. O Lord, come!-1 Corinthians 16:22

    • @childpeanut5095
      @childpeanut5095 3 месяца назад

      @@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 I am Jesus

    • @childpeanut5095
      @childpeanut5095 3 месяца назад

      @@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 He made us so God could experience everything through us

  • @jimotten5887
    @jimotten5887 Год назад +119

    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
      @johnhough7738 Год назад +6

      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
      @jimotten5887 Год назад +6

      @@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
      @JoBlakeLisbon Год назад

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

    • @jimotten5887
      @jimotten5887 Год назад +1

      @@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
      @keojin2208 Год назад +2

      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.

  • @recordstra8
    @recordstra8 2 дня назад +1

    Over a year this has been posted…he said some valid points coupled with invalid points such as, there is a day which all men everywhere under sun will be judged! Whether Buddhist, Hindu, Catholic/Christians, Muslim, Rastafarian, cults, pagan, hateist, fascist, Calvinist etc.
    Can I add, inspiration comes through introspection of what is real 😊…

  • @bambsforher
    @bambsforher Год назад +324

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

    • @Pl4sm0
      @Pl4sm0 Год назад +3

      same

    • @SiGa-i1r
      @SiGa-i1r Год назад +10

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

    • @TONY19021965
      @TONY19021965 Год назад +1

      "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

    • @DestinyAwaits19
      @DestinyAwaits19 Год назад +1

      So you're a posh Englishman?

    • @rkinggamez7718
      @rkinggamez7718 Год назад

      ​@@SiGa-i1rironic how you say that

  • @audiolivroscomdoen6883
    @audiolivroscomdoen6883 Год назад +46

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

    • @donforde
      @donforde Год назад +3

      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
      @MrBadintentionss Год назад +5

      @@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.

  • @apextrona
    @apextrona 9 дней назад

    In my experience, I felt a surge in new forms of understanding and as if my mind was expanding. I became obsessed with the loop of understanding leading to new understandings. Then one morning I felt extremely cold outwardly through touch like ice water. I got scared, after a while I started having a phenomenon of seeing most people as rottening away like dry wood or mud... Like walking dead. It's felt like a cold dead being was staring at me through the eyes of others and it will shift from person to person...fear struck me and I started screaming and shouting woe at the strange encounters, so everyone thought I had gone mad. Took me to the psychiatric hospital for about three months, some thought I was on drugs...but I can still remember to this day that the only thing I did before all the chaos was, reading the Bible and falling in love with the word and gaining insights, changing my ways. I can remember crying and pleading yo stop the expansion cuz it felt physical in my brain, not s pain but a scary feeling like as if letting go and allowing it could cause instant death.. I cried hard to God, and actually it felt like i lost my mind cuz I started acting like i was Christ. I can remember my self saying, do not suffer the son of man to see corruption... While in the hospital, according to my sister she said I fell when I entered the toilet and all they heard was a loud noise and they rushed in to see me but my eyes where already white. Thank God I was revived but the problem is I couldn't remember most things I did while in the hospital. Now I can't grasp those strange feelings and strange forms of new understanding I felt while reading the Bible.. in conclusion I feel like there's a lock in the brain of humans. A strange padlock and I would say it's for our own good since mystical masters are not everywhere to guide such situations. God is good.

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 7 дней назад +1

      In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

    • @michaelwilliams2430
      @michaelwilliams2430 7 дней назад

      @@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 By those rules you Bible god is not allowed in heaven.

  • @DigDugFTW
    @DigDugFTW Год назад +46

    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
      @caterinabonadiooconnor9982 Год назад +1

      ❤❤❤!

    • @JesusChrist-SavesFromHell
      @JesusChrist-SavesFromHell Год назад

      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
      @deadreckoning6288 Год назад +3

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

    • @DigDugFTW
      @DigDugFTW Год назад

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

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 Месяц назад +1

      @@caterinabonadiooconnor9982 This is coming from a good place, my love for you are drops in the ocean compared to God’s love for you.
      Jesus loves you and wants to save you from hell so love Him back.

  • @saltrock9642
    @saltrock9642 11 месяцев назад +81

    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
      @ReligionOfSacrifice 10 месяцев назад +4

      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
      @KenRobinson-lm9gu 10 месяцев назад

      Bravo

    • @TerradyneGurkhaLAPV
      @TerradyneGurkhaLAPV 10 месяцев назад +2

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

    • @saltrock9642
      @saltrock9642 10 месяцев назад

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

    • @richardlopez5335
      @richardlopez5335 10 месяцев назад

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

  • @stephenbouchelle7706
    @stephenbouchelle7706 Год назад +125

    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
      @barrylyndongurley Год назад +1

      Ditto!

    • @Bert-gc9dw
      @Bert-gc9dw Год назад

      😅bb

    • @NYx3
      @NYx3 Год назад +1

      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
      @SergioArellano-yd7ik Год назад +1

      "young teen" that's a stupid expression.

    • @stephenbouchelle7706
      @stephenbouchelle7706 11 месяцев назад +12

      @@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.

  • @jasonliebenberg7918
    @jasonliebenberg7918 4 месяца назад +5

    Oh,i get it...believe the word of a mere man as opposed to the Word of a true,living God... got it

    • @adams13245
      @adams13245 2 месяца назад

      If your God is so much better than humanity, and wants a relationship with us, how come he communicates via fallible humans? How come the Bible can't even get its own creation story right, and has two 'first' women, and Yahweh punishing Adam and Eve for something they could've never done in the first place? How come Yahweh orders us to not murder in the 10 commandments, but never defines the difference between murder and righteous killing? If Yahweh is all powerful, all knowing, how come he doesn't just make new fertile land for the Israelites to live in, rather than have them carry out a brutal campaign of conquest? Doesn't Yahweh love the Canaanites as much as his chosen people? Yet he orders the latter to wholesale butcher the former. How come Yahweh has Abram rape Hagar when he could simply allow Sarai to get pregnant; or is he not all powerful, all knowing? He sends an angel to Hagar when she runs away from Sarai beating her, and the angels says to go back and take the beatings; how is that loving?

    • @lukemoone4702
      @lukemoone4702 Месяц назад

      ⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@adams13245 there a ton to unpack there.
      1. The creation story is accurate to science about early earth, especially the atmosphere.
      2. What two first woman?
      3. If God gave us free will and let us be our own free moral agents, then in his divine foreknowledge he knew no matter what human would get the chance of being free, would rebel. They were our best candidates.
      4. He does define righteous killing. The taking / shedding of innocent blood is considered murdered. If a man does that, by man shall his blood be shed.
      5. Making new land in the already formed Earth would be illogical, we follow a God of logic. And the land appointed was a consummation point of glory for Jesus’ death.
      6. The Canaanite’s were just as loved.
      7. The canaanites had 400 years to repent from child sacrifice, abhorrent practices, and intolerable sins. When the Israelites were used to enact justice on Canaan, it was due to the point of intolerability, and even then, it wasn’t a full out slaughter. We know this because they come up later in the narrative. The war stories are also near eastern war hyperboles that every ancient society used. Even we use this in the aspect of sports. “The Chiefs KILLED the Steelers” which doesn’t mean they were actually killed. It’s a hyperbole.
      8. Hagar wasn’t ever described as raped. Abraham had sex with her as Sarah wanted even though he was relectant. Sarah was barren so it had to be done. And if she was, it shows that God turns horrible things into beautiful things because Hagar brought Ishmael which brought happiness for Abraham.
      9.we also into read Hagar was treated harshly, it doesn’t outright say abuse. So we can assume plenty of things.

  • @MariaMunoz-rz1nz
    @MariaMunoz-rz1nz Год назад +38

    I’m an atheist, but I do respect all religions and the people who follow them. I don’t question them, or try to change their minds, because I believe that they find something there that gives them purpose and happiness, and that is very valuable and important.
    Listening to this help me even more to understand humanity and why so many are trying to connect with something bigger than themselves, it’s in all of us, regardless of religion or not.
    Thank you for your very eloquent thoughts ❤

    • @jacquelineaslan8403
      @jacquelineaslan8403 Год назад +5

      Lovely comment!

    • @Whateverbro888
      @Whateverbro888 Год назад

      I have had bad experiences with atheists. Evil, mean and selfish people with no morals. (Also had bad experiences with ultra religious people) I am not religious at all. Religions are a little bit of truth mixed with a bunch of lies. But I have always believed in god, a higher power(some call him universe). Also Jesus has been confirmed outside of religious texts. Science and believing in god goes hand in hand for me. Hope you’ll get out of that depressing thought that we come out of nothing and go into nothing… if that were true … why is everyone so individual since birth? Baby’s have character already.. if everything means nothing then why would we have different thoughts and wishes and ways of living and feelings and experiences that change our way of thinking ..? That would be senseless if our existence is senseless 🤷🏽‍♀️ like out of an evolution point of view. I think we are all here to learn. That’s why we experience life so differently and have different challenges etc.
      What a depressing and senseless circle of nothingness (would call it life but something that is without meaning ain’t life for me 🤷🏽‍♀️) an atheists way of thinking is 😢 even if I tried to force myself to believe in NOTHING I never could. It’s insane to me.

    • @darkchildstudios5954
      @darkchildstudios5954 Год назад

      Can I debate your Atheism as an Agnostic?

    • @AdWiid
      @AdWiid Год назад +1

      Im an Atheist as well. I don't mind what other people believe except when people are puking bullshit about a or any god or goodness.
      The most hateful thing the so called believers do is to enforce 5heir shit believes on me ie :
      *proclaiming that government, business, achieve t's etc was their god giving it to them and you know them tebe biggest "devil's", corrupt f/faces and thieves,
      * claim their god created everything and their don't even believe that starts are solar systems or that such a super god is able to create the ezpantion in 6 days.. grrr,
      * even the worst is when they claim their God's creation is flawless but : babies are stillborne, about 80% of all people have deadly ailments...
      not even mentioning the rubbish scumbag politicians, so-called professionals out just to control and manipulate the poor...
      About their god allowing children being abducted, raped, killed, eaten alive (chinese), said children and their mothers to be done in churches known by and mostly lead by the scumbag religious "leaders"...
      Their fucktard gods allowing wars and destruction in the name of such gods.
      I, DONT BELIEVE IN ANY GOD.. AND IF THEY DO EXISTS ARE A GROUP OF LUCIFARIANS!!!!!
      AND I DESPISE ANY BELIEVERS AND THEI4 SO-CALLED "GODS".

  • @joesmothers3663
    @joesmothers3663 Год назад +36

    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
      @brianbeam3304 Год назад +1

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

    • @JustReed
      @JustReed 10 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @boblozaintherealworld3577
      @boblozaintherealworld3577 10 месяцев назад +2

      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.

  • @TrueDiscoveryTV
    @TrueDiscoveryTV 7 месяцев назад +274

    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
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 7 месяцев назад +10

      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
      @carltoncoleman454 6 месяцев назад +38

      @@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
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@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
      @grasroots601222 6 месяцев назад +15

      @@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
      @DaRealFishyy 6 месяцев назад +4

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

  • @leongwaikit6658
    @leongwaikit6658 5 месяцев назад +4

    All I can say, I will wait when my time has come and if I meet my creator, I will be ready for the next challenge even though my memory is forgotten.

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 3 месяца назад +1

      In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

    • @RIZALDYROMERO
      @RIZALDYROMERO 3 месяца назад

      ​@@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 you are just creating fear in that kind way".

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 2 месяца назад +1

      @@RIZALDYROMERO God through the Holy Spirit has shown me several things relating to the afterlife with the purpose of convincing people like yourself. Stuff like Heaven and Hell, Angels, ,evil Spirits, the Lord Jesus (not worthy at all), a miracle happened to me that saved my life (thank you God) & so much more. I am more than happy to give further details.

    • @13_heavens_content
      @13_heavens_content 26 дней назад

      ​@@RIZALDYROMEROChristians put fear into other because hell is REAL. Like there's actual evidence of hell since demons and exorcisms are proven to be real things. We often come off as pushy because we aren't selfish enough to be the only ones allowed into heaven

  • @briangathungu4479
    @briangathungu4479 Год назад +14

    Understanding what he is saying is beautiful

    • @vortex_711
      @vortex_711 Год назад +1

      Hi

    • @davidfryer9359
      @davidfryer9359 Год назад +1

      So very very very very beautiful. Think on it deeply. It gets even more beautiful.

    • @therealivydawg
      @therealivydawg Год назад

      What is he saying?

  • @ronnyjames3406
    @ronnyjames3406 Год назад +8

    I have no name for this experience but it is part of me, always has. I was baptized and raised a Catholic and reject my teachings and feel no need to commune with others to find my peace. It is within everyone of us and you too will see it when you crossover. It's not a religious thing it's just a human thing.

    • @ronniebattle1310
      @ronniebattle1310 Год назад

      Encounter Ministries RUclips channel. Mark Hemans/

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 Месяц назад +1

      In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

  • @radhikaschwartz3499
    @radhikaschwartz3499 9 месяцев назад +844

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

  • @TBW-p7h
    @TBW-p7h 23 дня назад +2

    I agreed they made it all up.

  • @michaeljimerson9021
    @michaeljimerson9021 Год назад +31

    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.

    • @ISATŌP1
      @ISATŌP1 9 месяцев назад

      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!!

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 6 месяцев назад +1

      WHAT IS HE MEANING OF LIFE?
      To have a relationship with God on earth so you can spend eternity together in Heaven. So, what pushes me away from God? Sin (lying, unforgiveness, sexual sins from lust, dishonouring parents, steeling, taking the Lord’s Name in vain etc) which leads to hell. But Jesus died on the Cross and rose from the dead to give you the ability to repent and Believe in Him as your Lord and Saviour to go to Heaven.
      Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

    • @Hehekk197
      @Hehekk197 4 месяца назад +1

      Same I thought somethiing was wrong with me why I couldn't connect with god like others do.

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 4 месяца назад +1

      @@Hehekk197 In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

    • @Hehekk197
      @Hehekk197 4 месяца назад +1

      @@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 sry I don't believe in allat

  • @randymillhouse791
    @randymillhouse791 Год назад +12

    I began questioning the tenets of the Catholic church before age 9. At that age I decided that it was all a lie. A lie that I could not prove to be a lie, mind you, and I was threatened with damnation. I mentally distanced myself from the church though my parents forced my body to go to Sunday school and attend church weekly. I'll never forget the moment when my Sunday school teacher handed me a worksheet on the life of Jesus Christ. I said, "what is this?" She said, "This is a worksheet on the life of Jesus Christ." I said, "I don't believe in any of this stuff." She picked the paper off of my desk and said, "well then, I suppose you don't have to complete it." I said, "thank you."
    No hard feelings folks. I saw that I was being brainwashed by people wielding their dogma. Dogma that they swallowed whole without ever questioning. I felt sorry for that teacher and hold no malice to this day. I got away from them, and life has been a joy ever since.

    • @dianemitchell1717
      @dianemitchell1717 Год назад +1

      Your experience reminds me of a young man on TikTok who pretends to be 10 or so. He continually asks his Sunday School teacher difficult questions about Bible teachings.She never is able to answer his questions satisfactorily and always gets frustrated. He plays the teacher also. It is hilarious.

    • @randymillhouse791
      @randymillhouse791 Год назад

      @@GetZapped-Helsinki1974 CORRECT!

    • @runningbear9131
      @runningbear9131 Год назад

      you are the blessed one because i checked all the facts , one thing was missing thought the why ,why all this, then i stumble on it ,you are not going to believe it ,the romans knew they were going to have a problem with the Israelis so they went back 2000 years and pick up the story about a nutjob named jesus with 12 disciples going around town saying he was the son of god ,in conclusion the romans pick up the story and made a movie about it accusing them of killing the son of god. how would you feel now about the jews,? if i were a jew i would be pissed

    • @fishingislife9554
      @fishingislife9554 Год назад

      Personally I am a Catholic, mainly because I find most atheists to be insufferable people that I can’t stand being around, and if being catholic makes them angry then it is my pleasure to go to church.

  • @_ClearConscious
    @_ClearConscious Год назад +500

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

    • @truthseekers1620
      @truthseekers1620 Год назад +64

      and there is more than one path which leads to destruction

    • @theSword-
      @theSword- Год назад +55

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

    • @ericreed4535
      @ericreed4535 Год назад

      ​@@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
      @deadreckoning6288 Год назад +36

      ​@@theSword-That is your belief.

    • @theSword-
      @theSword- Год назад +36

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

  • @francisxavierderyzunuo1427
    @francisxavierderyzunuo1427 29 дней назад +1

    I faith lies in God the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
    I don’t care what happens after I die, I’m happy to practice a faith that centers around the idea of a creator. For me, religion plays a key role in my being from birth to where I am now.

  • @joelewis5187
    @joelewis5187 Год назад +12

    Great points, I have been pondering about these same things. Really coming to these same conclusions. I have read the Bible in whole many times, and am familiar with many different religious groups. I am indigenous to North America, and have been researching my clans spiritual beliefs before Christianity came into my ancestral lands. Something about some sailor who got lost looking for India and landed on these lands and brought a Bible in one hand and a gun in the other. Either way we were here as a people in those days and had our own spiritual ways. I was surprised about our beliefs and understandings were back in that time. But it has really opened my eyes, as to who we are in this world. As a people. Yes I find even here we have a creator. The highest spirit who created everything. So, we are a holy people. Directed by creator to care for the earth, to live as one with Mother Earth. We are her protectors, and responsible to him as stewards of these lands. Great points.

    • @deadreckoning6288
      @deadreckoning6288 Год назад +2

      I have some Native American ancestry and resonate with its spiritual beliefs. Intuitively I know it to be true. It's a shame about that lost sailor who brought death and destruction to these lands.

    • @isidoreaerys8745
      @isidoreaerys8745 Год назад +1

      There was wisdom and harmony in the Native Americans communion with nature and their reverence for the earth.
      When my ancestors landed in Massachusetts they brought with them a sickness, and it wasn’t just smallpox, it was private property and atomization of capitalism, the ownership of women, a dehumanizing religion that had no basis in reality. Competition based extractive Patriarchy is a sickness.

  • @Super09
    @Super09 Год назад +33

    Alan Watts was something special.

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 5 месяцев назад +1

      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)

  • @rsummers1974ify
    @rsummers1974ify Год назад +12

    a man lost at sea for 40 days staring up at the vast sky of stars 🌟 on his last night befor starvation. VS a man lost in the world losing all hope sinking to the depth of his heart ❤ only starring in to his mind asking why?. this is when he realizes. The spirit is Real outside and within him or her.

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 2 месяца назад +1

      In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY

  • @mileshul
    @mileshul Месяц назад +2

    Truth is the only one to have faith upon. Truth is supreme. Truth triumphs Alone.
    Even if Shri Krishna himself falls in the way of Truth and Me, I will fight him until the Truth is Victorious alone.

  • @PJGRAND
    @PJGRAND Год назад +12

    Nothing really matters except love

  • @richardphillipslivemusic
    @richardphillipslivemusic Год назад +32

    "There's your truth, my truth, their truth, The Truth...
    My truth says there's no truth, no end, no beginning, no everything, no nothing - there's no me.
    All there was, was this moment that is no more..."

  • @guoyaoteam
    @guoyaoteam Год назад +22

    To have wisdom is to have read widely books from different religions and then discover how we can express in words our own spitual experiences (or in Alan's words, cosmic consciousness).
    We will then live up to the true meaning of 'open-mindedness' and 'how to think rather than what to think'.

  • @gregorydardasm.d.3754
    @gregorydardasm.d.3754 3 месяца назад +2

    That was just wonderful.

  • @bigd7696
    @bigd7696 Год назад +12

    Interesting. I was brought up with no bias. My parents didn't force anything upon me at all but never held me back from exploring anything and never gave me their opinions. It was nice to be able to make up my own mind from the things I could see.

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 5 месяцев назад +2

      In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY.

    • @SacRepublicSC
      @SacRepublicSC 5 месяцев назад

      @@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363amen

  • @tothemoon8465
    @tothemoon8465 Год назад +87

    I'm so happy his wisdom is saved for us. Thank you for putting this together!

    • @BrianMack86
      @BrianMack86 Год назад +9

      That isn't wisdom. That was junk. You want real wisdom ask Jesus for it. Read the bible. Pray, worship. Jesus Christ is the way truth and life. That's facts, not opinion. I was raised atheist.

    • @tothemoon8465
      @tothemoon8465 Год назад

      be open to new perspectives my friend. One doesn't have to negate the other.@@BrianMack86

    • @ronniebattle1310
      @ronniebattle1310 Год назад

      @@BrianMack86 Encounter Ministries RUclips channel. Mark Hemans==

    • @thebasementfilmgroup
      @thebasementfilmgroup Год назад +3

      Read a comic.... It comes from the same minds of fiction.

    • @BrianMack86
      @BrianMack86 Год назад

      @@thebasementfilmgroup but comics are actually real. Gene motifying changing genes.
      Surgical procedures, it's literally in parts of the bible. Read about Enoch in those books and in Noah's time. That's going to happen again. Fiction doesn't exist. Entertainment is the news. The news is the fiction most of the time.

  • @ragnarrthorsen2792
    @ragnarrthorsen2792 Год назад +21

    I'm Catholic, and after a massive recent breakdown, that Mystical, Devine experience hit me so hard. My old life means nothing now, apart from a learning curve of mistakes. I have totally mistaken my identity.

    • @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 2 месяца назад +1

      In heaven no unclean person is allowed in, you are unclean if you have sinned just once like lying, stealing, sexual immorality, taking the Lord’s Name in vain, evil thoughts etc Jesus (God manifest in the flesh) can put his sinless righteousness on you since He died on the cross, rose from the dead so REPENT AND BELIEVE IN HIM TODAY

  • @Tarotaro23-k5r
    @Tarotaro23-k5r 4 месяца назад +7

    Don’t confuse abhramic cults to Hinduism or Buddhism.

  • @oub4a
    @oub4a Год назад +18

    I always liked that he spoke with no agenda other than wanting to help other people

    • @cincin4515
      @cincin4515 11 месяцев назад +2

      He loved an audience. He wasn't attempting to help anyone. He was a theologian and a really good speaker. That's all.

    • @musicantd
      @musicantd 11 месяцев назад

      He was a theologian, at first, but he grew past that phase in his life and became a student of religions, philosophies, a master of perspective, comparison and explainer of the subtleties in all these things. He became a communicator, in books, lectures and his participation in group endeavors. He was, it appears, as well something of a bon vivant. It seems that alcohol did him in, eventually. Didn't appear to diminish his accomplishments, however. I believe him peerless as an instructor. His lectures, preserved in videos, readily accessible, are his enduring gift to humanity. He very much loved his work.@@cincin4515

  • @jasoncarmichael4540
    @jasoncarmichael4540 Год назад +6

    The earth is who we should hold as Devine , and look after more then we are

    • @weemac4645
      @weemac4645 Год назад

      Beats praying any day of the week.

  • @slarzyer
    @slarzyer 7 месяцев назад +8

    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
      @thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363 7 месяцев назад +1

      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

    • @tristonayter78
      @tristonayter78 2 месяца назад

      @@thereisnonegoodbutgodjohn363Your god sounds like a bit of a dick

  • @John-tl1gn
    @John-tl1gn 4 месяца назад +1

    This has opened my eyes. Along with my visit to the Vatican last year.

  • @gwynjones747
    @gwynjones747 Год назад +12

    All things we percieve, come from our mind. Thanks Buddha for explaining this. ☸️

    • @pinkifloyd7867
      @pinkifloyd7867 Год назад +1

      Sorrry but no mind means no thinking about it. You can not know what making love is like, no matter how long you think about it 😂

    • @KK-Sara
      @KK-Sara Год назад

      Sathu. 🙏

    • @JustReed
      @JustReed 10 месяцев назад

      And those who came in spreading fear. Believe or ELSE!

  • @DOMOZORROORROZOMOD
    @DOMOZORROORROZOMOD Год назад +100

    Every religion has a hint of truth, like science. Pieces of ❤

    • @jayf8308
      @jayf8308 Год назад +12

      nooo lol I think you have missed the point maybe.

    • @Kennn-pd3ij
      @Kennn-pd3ij Год назад +6

      @@jayf8308what point was missed im genuinely interested to know

    • @beatcat1265
      @beatcat1265 Год назад

      ​@@Kennn-pd3ijI think the point is that it's all made up bs

    • @beatcat1265
      @beatcat1265 Год назад +1

      ​@@Kennn-pd3ijI didn't say that's what I believe just that's the point

    • @wolfgangdevries127
      @wolfgangdevries127 Год назад +1

      Each lie also, because otherwise no one would believe lies. And water is wet.

  • @georgiogerakio1358
    @georgiogerakio1358 Год назад +113

    Even a 1st year history student knows that the bible was collected by the Byzantines, what we call today the Orthodox church.
    The Catholic church was formed in about 950AD, at least 500 years after the Bible was created.
    By the way, the New Testament is written entirely in Greek, the official language of the Byzantines.
    Thank you

    • @maxrenaldi1941
      @maxrenaldi1941 Год назад +21

      Shot this man’s 10 min video down in 10 seconds I love it

    • @stevewise1656
      @stevewise1656 Год назад +20

      @@maxrenaldi1941You don't know who "this guy is" highlighting your ignorance. There's this thing called the internet where you could look up the impact of "this guy" and no, his statements weren't false.
      "As a branch of Christianity, Roman Catholicism can be traced to the life and teachings of Jesus Christ in Roman-occupied Jewish Palestine about 30 CE. According to Roman Catholic teaching, each of the sacraments was instituted by Christ himself." The Catholic Church was established by the Roman Empire. Any first year or otherwise fairly knowledgeable individual would know that fact.

    • @stevewise1656
      @stevewise1656 Год назад +8

      So, who was the first Pope and when? Saint Peter is considered the first Pope in the first century AD. Enough said. What was your point here?

    • @maxrenaldi1941
      @maxrenaldi1941 Год назад

      @@stevewise1656 listen dog, just like this guy is on the internet, so are you. So idc to argue with people who wanna battle with words on a keyboard. What he said makes sense. That’s my point. And it was facts. You didn’t prove or disprove anything. If you like the video, then like the fuc&ing video. Just live your life. Everybody has the right to their opinions no amount of knowledge will ever change a man’s will. Even if it’s based off ignorance. And tbh, no one should feel they could. You shouldn’t be coming at me and I shouldn’t be coming at you. I don’t have to agree and neither do you but we have to coexist. If believing in Jesus makes me a better human? Then let me do me bro. If believing in yourself makes you just as good, DO YOU.

    • @brenthorne8784
      @brenthorne8784 Год назад +18

      My goodness people. I’m sorry I stumbled across this video and thread. The information being presented here is ridiculous. The history of the Christian faith is pretty easy to research. The beliefs are more difficult to ascertain, but certainly can be discovered if you use common sense, accredited sources. If you’re seeking gratification by finding the first moron willing to say whatever nonsense you want to hear, then the internet is your oyster. This video is a good example, but more shocking examples come from the silly posts that follow.

  • @FatthewFrank
    @FatthewFrank Месяц назад +2

    Salvation is a free gift you just have to accept it. Simple as that.

  • @TheDiveWatcher
    @TheDiveWatcher Год назад +78

    The man is absolutely remarkable. Brilliant. His knowledge is so vast that I'm captivated. His logic is so simply that it's genius. He is the absolute best!

    • @BrianMack86
      @BrianMack86 Год назад +1

      I'm not exactly sure what caused you to think this about Alan. But he's wrong. If you get a message from God or from the devil, you will know and understand and hear it clearly and well. I've heard both. In dreams showing what's going on in your life or visions of the future, your future given to you. You cannot mistaken what you have been given. If this is a genius on here, this Alan Watts. Then the stupidity of the world or America has become far worse in stupidity then I thought. But thankfully that's not true. Those with wisdom lacking will think this video is beautiful. But those with great wisdom and understanding will shrug this video seeing no wisdom in it at all. I myself shrug this video. I hope the person of this channel is aware and digs in for more research next time because most of this is foolish wisdom. I wasn't raised Christian. I was raised atheist. Lol wow.

    • @ronniebattle1310
      @ronniebattle1310 Год назад

      Encounter Ministries RUclips channel. Mark Hemans==

    • @kingston163
      @kingston163 Год назад +2

      Does NOT makes all he says thoughfull.

    • @ronniebattle1310
      @ronniebattle1310 Год назад

      @@kingston163 Encounter Ministries RUclips channel. Mark Hemans=÷

    • @c.galindo9639
      @c.galindo9639 Год назад +1

      Funnily enough. What he believes in is also in the Bible which shows he hadn’t looked into it as much as he did the other religious beliefs

  • @soluschristus8360
    @soluschristus8360 Год назад +70

    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
      @cht2162 Год назад +1

    • @playdiscgolf1546
      @playdiscgolf1546 Год назад +18

      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
      @marezvid Год назад

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

    • @daisyd2392
      @daisyd2392 Год назад

      ​@@playdiscgolf1546Amen to that!

    • @biilyblast64
      @biilyblast64 Год назад +4

      ​@@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

  • @fengxianzhe
    @fengxianzhe Год назад +5

    Hearing what this man says seems to tickle the ears of many. I find it interesting that Christianity is always the focal point to deconstruct. I enjoy listening to these videos to challenge me as a believer, instead of pushing me away from God it draws me ever close. I take joy in having conversations with hostile or passive aggressive people who hate Christianity. Thank you for who ever reads my message.🙏

    • @nickJen502
      @nickJen502 Год назад +2

      JESUS IS LORD

    • @fengxianzhe
      @fengxianzhe Год назад +1

      @@nickJen502 He is Lord of all🙏

    • @admancab
      @admancab Год назад +1

      Satan is such a naughty naughty boy. God is truly kind enough to keep him around though :D

    • @fengxianzhe
      @fengxianzhe Год назад

      @@admancab thank so much for replying back to me, I take joy having conversations with those who are hostile or passive aggressive towards Christianity. That said , I'm assuming you're an atheist is that correct?

    • @f.r.ashley1317
      @f.r.ashley1317 Год назад +2

      I feel the same.. people always looking for an opinion, or a church that tells them what they want to hear.

  • @NurseMathipa-i6t
    @NurseMathipa-i6t Месяц назад +1

    I joined Christianity at 14 years😭😭 the level of shame and anxiety I’ve lived through because of Christianity is so painful to even think about. Now I no longer believe and I am finally experiencing freedom.

  • @alisonbrowning9620
    @alisonbrowning9620 Год назад +19

    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
      @1972jojodancer 9 месяцев назад +6

      ...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
      @michael-hw1uv 9 месяцев назад +1

      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
      @1972jojodancer 8 месяцев назад

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

    • @larryclark9380
      @larryclark9380 7 месяцев назад +3

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

    • @1972jojodancer
      @1972jojodancer 7 месяцев назад

      @@larryclark9380 Amen!!Amen!!