@SeekingPlumb

"What would you do, if you were God?"

article image placeholderAny Dream You Wanted ft. Alan Watts ( οΌ·οΌ‘οΌ΄οΌ΄οΌ³οΌ·οΌ‘οΌΆοΌ₯ ⚑🌊 )
Watts, then posits, how far could we push it? How far would we willingly push it? I think also what's interesting about this is that in living that amount of time in a condensed period gives us the opportunity to not only experience things, but to learn things. So if we kept pushing it to kept challenging ourselves, where would we end up? And then the question he asks, what would you do if you were God?

Alan Watts dares us to dream, to challenge ourselves. https://youtu.be/GK72U02TUsI

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@Izzy
Izzy S-L
@IzzyΒ Β·Β 1:48

I would want to feel small

I just want to feel small, and it's something that I think we are afraid of. But if I were God, that wouldn't be a factor to it, right? It's just kind of ironic because as God, you would think you're the sentient all knowing being this powerful, mighty large being like everything that's associated with largeness. But and achieving such largeness, I would want to be small. It's so ironic. But that's what I think of that's
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@SeekingPlumb

Wow... πŸ™πŸ» @Izzy

When I let that go, and I started to think about the expansiveness of the universe and how absolutely minuscule that doesn't even scratch the surface on how small we are. By comparison, there was suddenly this overwhelming awe of thing that was my experience anyway. But yes, if we could have that understanding on a regular basis or be reminded of it, like the worries of today would sort of fade away
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@Izzy
Izzy S-L
@IzzyΒ Β·Β 3:29
And I think that I had so much time to be alone, and you would think that being alone would make it so that my centric view of myself would be amplified. But it had actually quite the opposite effect. I'm an only child, and because of that, I had to spend a lot of time alone, and it didn't make me selfish. It didn't make me
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Challenging the norms. @Izzy

But to discuss the expansiveness that happens, and you've done that so succinctly and beautifully in how you've described this, it's interesting that as a society, we teach children and we reinforce it as adults, that it's about us as individuals, us and what we want. And it's all this focus on being big as opposed to shrinking ourselves. And we don't even stop to realize that there could be problems with this thinking or this approach
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