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New Alan Watts Documentary. Coming Soon to a Reality Tunnel Near You 1
#14462320 - 05/16/11 02:12 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chrisbritt/in-the-way-with-alan-watts
It's refreshing to see this kind of project being successfully funded through kick starter.
There is also an interesting list of benefits depending on the amount pledged.
Alan's son, Mark, had his hand in this one.
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Re: New Alan Watts Documentary. Coming Soon to a Reality Tunnel Near You [Re: The Whale] 4
#14462658 - 05/16/11 03:17 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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One evening, I was walking through the woods and got very lost. It was getting dark and I had lost all sense of direction. After many confusing hours of walking and fumbling through the woods, I finally stumbled across a path... This is when I met an old man named Alan Watts. We had a nice chat and then parted ways.
He never actually told me which way to go... but after we talked, I was confident about the direction I was heading
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Re: New Alan Watts Documentary. Coming Soon to a Reality Tunnel Near You [Re: danlennon3]
#14462726 - 05/16/11 03:27 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I'm absolutely stoked about this Alan Watts doc. I'm just now beginning to delve into the wisdom of Watts and i think so many of his teachings are just as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.
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Re: New Alan Watts Documentary. Coming Soon to a Reality Tunnel Near You [Re: The Whale]
#14462877 - 05/16/11 03:54 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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-------------------- Mad_Larkin said: Death is just a thang.
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Re: New Alan Watts Documentary. Coming Soon to a Reality Tunnel Near You [Re: danlennon3]
#14462881 - 05/16/11 03:55 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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danlennon3 said: One evening, I was walking through the woods and got very lost. It was getting dark and I had lost all sense of direction. After many confusing hours of walking and fumbling through the woods, I finally stumbled across a path... This is when I met an old man named Alan Watts. We had a nice chat and then parted ways.
He never actually told me which way to go... but after we talked, I was confident about the direction I was heading

Ive had kind of a shitty day and this really made me smile.
-------------------- Mad_Larkin said: Death is just a thang.
MrJellineck said: Profits, prophets. That's all you jews think about. sheekle said: life is drugs... and music... and cat...
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Re: New Alan Watts Documentary. Coming Soon to a Reality Tunnel Near You [Re: aNeway2sayHooray]
#14463019 - 05/16/11 04:26 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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i love watts. i have hours and hours of his lectures that i listen to regularly. one of the most important thinkers of the previous century imo.
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Re: New Alan Watts Documentary. Coming Soon to a Reality Tunnel Near You [Re: millzy]
#14463051 - 05/16/11 04:31 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Blah
listen to one neohippy philosopher
and you've heard them all
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Re: New Alan Watts Documentary. Coming Soon to a Reality Tunnel Near You [Re: The Whale]
#14463076 - 05/16/11 04:36 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Very cool! Glad to hear they reached their goal. $50,000 is a really tough one to reach.
I wonder what happens to the projects that don't reach their goal in time. Do the investors get their money back or what?
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Re: New Alan Watts Documentary. Coming Soon to a Reality Tunnel Near You [Re: pfxtc]
#14463101 - 05/16/11 04:40 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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pfxtc said: Blah
listen to one neohippy philosopher
and you've heard them all

Wow you just called Alan Watts a neo hippie.
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Re: New Alan Watts Documentary. Coming Soon to a Reality Tunnel Near You [Re: Learyfan] 1
#14463152 - 05/16/11 04:48 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Learyfan said: Very cool! Glad to hear they reached their goal. $50,000 is a really tough one to reach.
I wonder what happens to the projects that don't reach their goal in time. Do the investors get their money back or what?

With Pledge Music, no one is actually charged until the goal is reached. I dunno about jumpstarter and similar though.
-------------------- Mad_Larkin said: Death is just a thang.
MrJellineck said: Profits, prophets. That's all you jews think about. sheekle said: life is drugs... and music... and cat...
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Re: New Alan Watts Documentary. Coming Soon to a Reality Tunnel Near You [Re: muistrue]
#14463192 - 05/16/11 04:56 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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pfxtc said: Blah
listen to one neohippy philosopher
and you've heard them all

Wow you just called Alan Watts a neo hippie. 
lol right? watts is actually respected in academic circles. he's not terence mckenna (even though i find mckenna to be highly entertaining).
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Re: New Alan Watts Documentary. Coming Soon to a Reality Tunnel Near You [Re: muistrue]
#14463223 - 05/16/11 05:03 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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pfxtc said: Blah
listen to one neohippy philosopher
and you've heard them all

Wow you just called Alan Watts a neo hippie. 
He is
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Re: New Alan Watts Documentary. Coming Soon to a Reality Tunnel Near You [Re: pfxtc]
#14463244 - 05/16/11 05:08 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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pfxtc said:
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pfxtc said: Blah
listen to one neohippy philosopher
and you've heard them all

Wow you just called Alan Watts a neo hippie. 
He is 
How can you say that a writer/philosopher who passed away in 1973 is a neo hippie? It doesn't sound like you know what you're talking about.
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Re: New Alan Watts Documentary. Coming Soon to a Reality Tunnel Near You [Re: muistrue]
#14463250 - 05/16/11 05:10 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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if anything, watts was more part of the beat generation. but i highly doubt the posting labeling watts as a "neo hippy" has heard a single lecture from him.
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Re: New Alan Watts Documentary. Coming Soon to a Reality Tunnel Near You [Re: millzy]
#14463286 - 05/16/11 05:17 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I have heard him,
and he sounds exactly like:
Ram Dass, Terrence McKenna, Tim Leary, whoever the fuck else you want to put in there.
Form your own opinions, don't piggyback on the idea's of others (which is all these dudes are doing, stealing ancient beliefs and manufacturing them as their own, similar to what the English did with the Blues )
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Re: New Alan Watts Documentary. Coming Soon to a Reality Tunnel Near You [Re: pfxtc]
#14463343 - 05/16/11 05:28 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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you obviously haven't heard enough of him b/c he sounds nothing like any of those guys. and i do have my own opinions. thanks for the advice though.
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Re: New Alan Watts Documentary. Coming Soon to a Reality Tunnel Near You [Re: pfxtc]
#14463352 - 05/16/11 05:29 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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If anything those guys sound like him.
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Re: New Alan Watts Documentary. Coming Soon to a Reality Tunnel Near You [Re: millzy]
#14463355 - 05/16/11 05:29 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Well it's like, my opinion, man.
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Re: New Alan Watts Documentary. Coming Soon to a Reality Tunnel Near You [Re: muistrue]
#14463417 - 05/16/11 05:39 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Fractal, ignore people like this from now on. I wanted to say the same thing, but I didn't because I knew it would derail the entire thread like it did.
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Re: New Alan Watts Documentary. Coming Soon to a Reality Tunnel Near You [Re: Learyfan]
#14463432 - 05/16/11 05:42 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yes yes ignore those with opinions that differ from your own
only then shall we live in a perfect world.
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