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Belief clings, but faith lets go. -Alan Watts
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More Ends to a Stick
Alan Watts 
Zihninizden Uzaklaşmak
Zen highlights the immediate action. So, when you think of doing something, just do it without a second thought. Do not think whether if the action is valuable or well fitted to your whole value system. Why should you? I am not asserting you to be necessarily cruel or reckless but you to be not anxious.
But, God we are too anxious! And main reason for that is within theological view, we condemned ourselves between a stick that has only two ends.
1. At the one end, we have this image of autocratic god that sends us to the life to judge us. See, at this point we became such creatures that ashamed by our existance. We see this image on every celestial religion like Judasim, Christianity and Islam.
Alan Watts himself, talks about his childhood experience;
“ When I was a child, during services on Good Friday, they would give each of us a colored postcard with a crucified Jesus on it. And beneath him were the words: This have done for thee. What doest thou for me ? And we felt awful! Like we ourselves had nailed Jesus to the cross. And we felt guilty for even daring to exist at all.
2. At the other end of the stick, we have this fully-automatic image. Where in this image, you have only natural laws to determine your whole existance and your freewill. So to say you have no freewill at all. You are just a hormone driven machine that resulted from The Big Bang.
See, for the atheists, you are such an accident of the universe. You are not belong to it. So mind aswell kill yourself. Or bear to live in this accidental suffering.
You suffer because you don’t feel yourself to belong anyone or anything, including this universe.
Now get rid of the stick and ask “What if there are other theological images ?” Cant we have such god that likes us to see dance andTeolojik Felsefe
Alan Watts Zihninizden Uzaklaşmak
Zen highlights the immediate action. So, when you think of doing something, just do it without a second thought. Do not think whether if the action is valuable or well fitted to your whole value system. Why should you? I am not asserting you to be necessarily cruel or reckless but you to be not anxious.
But, God we are too anxious! And main reason for that is within theological view, we condemned ourselves between a stick that has only two ends.
1. At the one end, we have this image of autocratic god that sends us to the life to judge us. See, at this point we became such creatures that ashamed by our existance. We see this image on every celestial religion like Judasim, Christianity and Islam.
Alan Watts himself, talks about his childhood experience;
“ When I was a child, during services on Good Friday, they would give each of us a colored postcard with a crucified Jesus on it. And beneath him were the words: This have done for thee. What doest thou for me ? And we felt awful! Like we ourselves had nailed Jesus to the cross. And we felt guilty for even daring to exist at all.
2. At the other end of the stick, we have this fully-automatic image. Where in this image, you have only natural laws to determine your whole existance and your freewill. So to say you have no freewill at all. You are just a hormone driven machine that resulted from The Big Bang.
See, for the atheists, you are such an accident of the universe. You are not belong to it. So mind aswell kill yourself. Or bear to live in this accidental suffering.
You suffer because you don’t feel yourself to belong anyone or anything, including this universe.
Now get rid of the stick and ask “What if there are other theological images ?” Cant we have such god that likes us to see dance and