/lit/ - Literature

>>8800409

I like you, Anon.

Alan Watts is to Eastern thought what John Green is to history.

He was also a deadbeat alcoholic who abused his children.

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/lit/ explains their religious views

>>6100771
>>6100778

christianity doesn't have a monopoly on what's good and right

>>5725581

>muh new age mumbo jumbo
>buddha is speaking to me via Alan Watts
>I'm writing a new sutra as we speak

>>5687229
>The fact is, reincarnation is not integral in most "Eastern religions".

It is integral to "eastern religions"; it's just not integral to Western Hippie versions of "eastern religions"

because westerners have a secular bias/dogma.

>>5551622

I'm getting tired of westerners spreads misinformation about Buddhism

>>5416064
All you did was go from an indoctrinated child to an edgy teenager to a vaguely spiritual hippy. There are people who actually lack the ability to conceive of a god or find it meaningful. The rest of us are stuck in the limbo of occultism or end up back where we started, never able to fully shed the idea that was planted in us so long long ago.

>>5045888

>read Nietzsche

we saw how far his philosophy took him
>lonely and introverted, tfw no gf
>resorted to prostitutes
>got STDs that damaged his brain and killed him

Why are artists/writers so prone to killing themselves, but scientists/engineers don't seem to be?

Does their materialist and pragmatic philosophy make them wiser than existentialism ?