Alan Watts - The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions 

Wrong the road to hell is paved by your tax dollars Work harder tax slaves Millions on welfare depend on it

Hasn't anybody seen Brave New World am I the only one that knows what is about to happen to humanity... should I even care.... we are atlanteans brought you animals Humanity we gave you civilization we taught you science and math and look what you have done with it just look what you have done with it

Would you be good enough to mention the When and Where of these speeches, assuming you know, in the description?

We live in a fiat society, soon to be fixed, I'm not worried

keep up the good work

without expensive smart phone, no one would need more apps like Twitter.

@@eduardochavacano yeah, blame the phones for the idiocy of the average tardo. Big brain time, fellas.

And Reddit.

@@alexcarrara8140 reject modernity, return to monke

A lot of altruism is a passive-aggressive attempt to be the king of the hill and make those on the bottom of the hill love you for it. - brian padrick drake

At its extreme, the notion to protect life is in itself authoritarian. Authoritarian over nature.

“I don’t come to bow. I come to conquer.” Bob Marley

Jesus

Sounds like our prime minister trudeau

I just want to stop the world from killing itself - Donald Trump

Your dad is a wise man good sir….that’s distilled truth right there.

He used the past tense when speaking about his father. That doesn't detract from the words his father gave to him.

Akala said "There are two victims, one on either side of the gun"

With all respect but, did your father ask him self what was he doing far away from home in other people's land!?( ... most Vietnamese knew for sure why they were fighting that war in their home land ) 🤔

That sums it up nicely.

Solzhenitsyn was one of the great ones. If people in the West could understand him, we might not be so rabidly anti-Russian.

he is not wrong there but it all comes down to the same thing. Whether we destroy all evil or let it be , it will return. Thru us or the other , that is the balance of the world. This is why buddhism has the golden path. The middle way. Something that Christianity adamantly opposes thru those words : " So because you are lukewarm (spiritually useless), and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of My mouth [rejecting you with disgust]." Now , this is Abrahamic way of thinking. All or nothing. Since the AD is dominated with this mental positioning , we cannot overcome it. If the one that slaps people for his internal reasons understands he is alone and cannot get anything with that behavior, because no one reacts , the slapper stops and becomes enlightened.

Good quote

​@@lovelife1867 if buddism is real there is no objective good or evil. In Revelation, evil will be utterly and finally purged. Evil is persistent, but not eternal. All evil will be stuck in the lake of fire, and can never get out. It can no longer spread when it is burning forever, eternally.

@@brazil3207 And? You are saying because there isn't good or evil it is fake ? So much for your dogmatic views ..

"'Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.' "― T.S. Eliot" Thanks!!!

​@@celticandpenobscot8658 be more useless

Amen!

just like Alan Watts is doing, right?

I feel people do what they do to feel loved. Everyone needs love. The more important one feels the more loved he feels.

“I ascribe to Mark Twain's theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most. The one who should be picked is the one who should be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.” Bill Hicks

Too true

@@theprodigy222 aren't there theories of what would happen if presidents were elected at random. I swear I've seen that. Tbh I'd be for it as at least then you'd get an accurate cross section of society generationally.

@@marktaylor865 back in Ancient Greece some cities had elections of officials based on chance, heck there was even a machine in Athens to pick people. I believe there were a few that didn’t want the jobs they were chosen to do.

@@rokinz3270 In the end, all efforts must be made to stop those who would cease power from ever ceasing it.

Hmm. I'd love to hear this exact lecture. I've followed Watts for about 8 years and this sounds like a fake quote. I've heard him say things similar but if you're going to quote please show me the excerpt.

Bet ur a Chinese bit spreading misinfo or something shit pisses me off man

Confucius said this not Watts

He was quoting Confucius bro.

Like all great lies the quote is half true. The fully true quote would be, "Every man has two lives. The second one begins when he realizes the first is only temporary." Watt's pride prevented him from seeing this.

Oh yes, what could life be now if benign divine love in the sense of do to other as to thyself was the highest aspect in humanity of value, in contrast to do as thou will which seems to be most popular? Perhaps if man could see God as Self and such as purity and wholeness or holy he could see other in same light?

After all, we are still human....or are "we"?

Very much so

truth always transcends time and space

Everything he says is more relevant than ever.

You can play this in 1000 years or could've played it 1000 years ago and it still would accord to the events of that time

I love that so much

"That car mechanic was dodgy." - Albert Camus

Camus is underrated. I like his short sentences.

@@justdev8965 "NOBODY underrates Camus. Except a fool."- Albert Camus

Very similar to the quote by William Pitt - "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."

Reminds me a bit of political cartoon in the art style, but without the obnoxious punditry

is a computer program drawing

​@@robertalkemade989I don't think so.

I thought the same. Brilliant little sketches. Wish I could draw like that.

@@kathleenlovett1958try looking closer as the text is written 😜

Yep. That's why a psychopath is actually not the kind of human you need to be worried about. They're just more honest about what they are. Note how much fear mongering is made about psychopaths. See it? It's exactly what is mentioned in this video.

A lot of altruism is a passive-aggressive attempt to be the king of the hill and make those on the bottom of the hill love you for it. - brian padrick drake

Yea? Soviets though they were doing good too...

America and the UN think they are doing good don't they?

@@michaelmoldenhauer5318 Many Psychopaths/sociopaths are not open and honest about it. This is how they get more of what they want. Anyway, Hannah Arendt talked of the banality of evil. Seemingly normal people are quite capable of tremendous evil. They make it happen or simply stand by and let it happen. It has has happened and can easily happen again.

There is another species on earth that run the world. Its about your soul.

Yes, it's almost like we humans have a universal and inherent defect... Some religion somewhere took this into account...

Pretty intense looking back on this based on what we are seeing in this world now and the so called morality folks are using to justify insanity

It really did cut deep.

Hi Karen

Love him too There are many still And there will be more

Yeah and ironically the staggering majority of all these supposed ''woke'' people go against a lot of these teachings all the damn time. It's rather comical really.

People like this exist everywhere, it’s just that most of them don’t give talks or have a massive fan base.

Master yourself, master the enemy - some monk

@@ifjkiydxd2814 Lee Sin

Ironically your page name is "Externalised" lol 😁.

Best way to lead people is by letting them take the lead. - Lao Tzu

"Who ate the last cookie? Fucker. " - Lao Tzu

I have been thinking that very same thought this last whole month oddly enough..

It's easy to predict the future when we repeat the past

"the future" This was what colonization was largely about. He was at least several centuries behind the mark if anything

@Echo Foxtrot I know a lot of people like this. 😢

@Echo Foxtrot I understand what you're saying, but have far less respect for those, especially the so-called more intelligent, who refuse see what's happening and believe all of this virus nonsense. "It's safe to say that the section of society who have fallen most spectacularly for this scam are the pompous, university educated, BBC worshipping snobs who, despite their faux superiority and intellect, generally possess the critical thinking skills of a mouldy cabbage."

Probably more now. Pushing so called “morality” on people. It’s dark man.

@@alexgoldbergbass it’s gotten worse a year later

That's because man doesn't change, hasn't changed, and never will. He is no prophet. Hewas a man of his time, which is the same as it now and how it's always been.

He’d most likely be cancelled in today’s society sadly

@Dirty Joe alcoholics too

@Dirty Joe May I ask what led to the challenging experience you had? I’m interested in these uses for beneficial reasons and would like to learn from your experience what went “bad” in your view. I use quotes not to dismiss but to clarify.

Interesting...

Darn 😃

@Dirty Joe I'm interested in your story too, you sound slot like me.

Goes to show that human nature doesn't change. We really don't learn from history at all.

@@jasonlee8156 I posit that it's less human nature and more the human condition that has yet to change. For years, throughout all of known history, mankind has been subjected to mind control and propaganda wielded like a weapon to keep the masses in line. It's no wonder things haven't changed! No one has bothered to say no, save for in stories told and passed down through generations (think Jesus, Horus, Krishna, etc)

@@karmad.twelve6613 But maybe it's our human nature that creates our condition of servitude or bondage. It's human nature also to lord it over others. To control others. Tyranny has a long tradition. That unfortunately is a result of human nature.

@@karmad.twelve6613 I SAID NO!!! ...AND GOT THROWN TO THE WOLVES 😔

@@jasonlee8156 I STILL THINK THAT THOSE IN POWER ARE CHASING PROPHECY... THINK EGYPTIANS, MOSES, END OF DAYS. AMERICA KNOWS SOMETHING IT ISN'T TELLING THE REST OF US. TRUMP WAS OUT OF TIME... YOU CANNOT MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN UNTIL IT SOMEHOW FALLS. THIS FALL IS WHAT THEY ARE TRYING TO MANIPULATE. THEY TALK ABOUT AMERICA'S SHAME... YET THE WORLD HAS YET TO HEAR WHY. I WAS TOLD I WAS AHEAD OF MY TIME... A NONCONFORMIST... PLUS A WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER STUFF WHICH MAY AS WELL HAVE PAINTED A BIG BULLSEYE UPON MY FOREHEAD. I DON'T APPRECIATE PEOPLE THINKING STUFF BEFORE I DO STUFF. MY REASONS HAVE BEEN CLEAR... I HAVE WARNED THEM THAT THEY ARE MESSING WITH THE WRONG ONE. YET STILL I GET BUTCHERED BY DIRECT ENERGY WEAPONS... I HAVE BEEN A PART OF THAT EXPERIMENT MY ENTIRE LIFE. I HAVE BEEN MICROMANAGED MY ENTIRE LIFE ALSO. I STILL TO THIS DAY MAKE PATHETIC EXCUSES ON THEIR BEHALF IN ORDER FOR US TO HAVE A FUTURE. NOOO!!!! SOMEHOW THEY LIKE TO TORTURE AND TORMENT ME. I AM PROPHECY. IF I DON'T GET JUSTICE ON THIS SIDE OF THE FENCE I WILL MOST DEFINITELY GET IT ON THE NEXT LEVEL OF EXISTENCE. IT'S RIDICULOUS HOW I FEEL LIKE I'M ON A BLUEPRINT I CAN'T GET OFF. MY OWN FAMILY THREW ME TO THE WOLVES WITHOUT WARNING ME THAT MY SOLUTION DEMOCRACY4ALL AND MY IDEOLOGY WAS DEEMED 1000% ANTI AGENDA. I EVEN LOST MY OWN FREEDOM IN ORDER TO WARN A JUDGE OF THE EFFECTS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION ON THE PEOPLE, PLANET AND EVERYTHING ELSE. I ALSO QUESTIONED WHY THE FOODCHAIN LOOKED DELIBERATELY TOXIC AND RIDDLED WITH CHEMICALS. I TOLD HER THE TAP WATER HAD PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA IN IT... WHICH BLOOMS UNDER ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION. I ALSO MENTIONED ALGAE (THINK CYANOBACTERIA ETC) MOULD, MOSS ETC ALL BLOOM UNDER HIGH LEVELS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION. I HAD A WEEPING STAPLER, A MELTED BATH MAT, COUNTLESS OTHER PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE OR VIDEOS OF MOST OF THESE EFFECTS. I HAVE REACHED OUT TO LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE... WHO ALL IGNORED MY MESSAGE. I AM BEYOND.... BEYOND.... UPSET. DEMOCRACY4ALL WAS ALL ABOUT CONTROL... BUT IT DID PUT THE PEOPLE FIRST... IT DID PUT THE PLANET AS THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY. I KNOW MY STUFF.... I WILL NOT GO QUIETLY... JUST BECAUSE THEY REFUSE TO ACCEPT I HAVE A VOICE WORTH LISTENING TO. I THOUGHT I KNEW PEOPLE... GUESS NOT. FAKE VIRTUE SURROUNDS ME... THEY THINK I MAKE STUFF UP... I WAS DECLARED INSANE BY THAT JUDGE. OH THE IRONY LOL DEMOCRACY4ALL SCARED THE PANTS OFF THE AGENDA... I SHOULD KNOW... I TOLD THEM THAT IT WAS DESIGNED TO GET MAXIMUM VOTES. IT'S NOW OFF THE TABLE. I HAVE BEEN EXPERIMENTED ON. I HAD PLASMA BALLS FIRED INTO MY BRAIN IN 2005. I DO NOT TELL LIES LIGHTLY. THIS IS AMERICA'S SHAME!!!!! THANX FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO CHAT... PLEASE DON'T TAKE IT PERSONALLY... BUT I DID FIND THE ANSWERS AND I WAS MORE THAN CAPABLE... IT WAS DOABLE

Why are so many philosophers typically male perspective?

@@fieldandstream9362 hmm what's a man without a women feminine without masculine is impossible. Some people do see it but don't share

@@kevinlaguna2023 man's world, mankind, male gods, male counselors..stoics, philosophers, male technology, male medicine, men are more often chosen if a person can only have 1, name carried through males, dick pills but no abortions

@@fieldandstream9362 that's just english I suppose, another language can made for women but what good does it do in the end. Calling something different would be the same if that language would be used for centuries men would feel undermined. It's a fool's game to please all.

@Nate Vibez yeah he just repackages basic eastern philosophy for western audiences. he talks pretty but was basically a grifter

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because that's what schools fail to teach us. So we have to go and seek true learning After Skool

My education began when my night clubbing ended bout 7-8yr ago, wish i knew then what i know now. I thought i was Alan Watts back then haha more you learn the more you realise you know f all.... Or is that just me sittin' here with a D on my pointy hat

That part 👈

@@gingeroats896 I was the same way. I think it's that the things we thought we knew that seem like we didn't now just mean more and feel different. Maybe 🤔. Cuz to me the deep knowledge I've had all these years seems way more REAL and MEANINGFUL now. It also may be something to do with aging brains along with changes of perception. 🤔 🤹🕺

How does that play to killing animals to eat meat and killing plants to eat fruit & vegetables? Just a thought exercise. Who do we spread the kindness to and who do we eat? Just humans?

I think you missed the whole point of what he was saying. We do not know what is good for others.

I like that one. I'm gunna start saying it lol. Thanks.

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So things are working out for the elite because they are making the best of this "crisis".

Great point. So it puts another point of view in the place of honour. Otherwise said, plan for what exactly. Ha, the petol companies should be worried about our next time of high demand, not us worried about their prices. Ride a horse.

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Humanity has no need of messages . Thats the message .

Amen to that!

How about now nine months later….yikes man.

Imagine being even older.. they are terrified.

Well shit, this message has been around for at least 47 years and people still aren't getting it! Lol

Ego

Love this!

"Religion and Belief are for those afraid of Hell; Spirituality and Faith are for those who have already been there." (I do not remember the source of the quote.)

@@Damons-Old-Soul David Bowie

🙏🏼❤️

Be open to Jesus

Me too. I joined the Peace Corps, but learned early on to ignore the virtuous training and just live and make friends with those amazing people in my little village 😊

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You realise RU-vid is social media right?

Yep, hard not to. By using one social media website doesn't mean I use social media as a whole. I also don't utilise all the social media tools RU-vid offers...hmmm, maybe I meant I almost want to go back to using social media the way I used to in order to share this video... interesting.

@@LoulousCorner Technically yes. Effectively no. But you already knew that didn't you? Get outta here.

@@Jebusmike3 nah I'm not getting out of anywhere because you're being pedantic and butthurt. RU-vid is a social platform, that contains media, thus it is social media no matter how much it pains you to admit it and not nitpick 😉

I've never watched videos like that. Do they talk to the people or just give them money and scurry away as fast as they can? I've been homeless and it doesn't ever go away no matter what else happens.

And has been from the dawn of time. People freak out like this is the end times, and may be...... Though they've thought that a few times in my lifetime already. So over a century the panic has probably hit pretty high numbers of end time hysteria. Being that "I", this 1 individual, cannot change the nature of our collective selves. I'll go on living as though this rock intends to keep right on spinning. I'll adapt to the collapse, if it comes, or die trying. Human nature.

​@@joshparsons7631The idea of human nature is just an excuse for conformity, misanthropy and nihilism instead of actually looking at what drives opression and for solutions.

Nope, nothing wrong with you. "God is great. Beer is good. People are crazy."

Elaborate

Can you explain this, please?

Look at the last people trying to live off the land in south America. If it's not illegal loggers and poachers driving them off the land, it's toxic chemicals destroying their water sources, meanwhile the missionaries line up offering "redemption". That's dogmatic mindsets for you. Talk about false virtue......

@@d.j.brompton6794 still learning...thank you

In other words... Nothing new is under the sun

The more you think and examine, the more new questions will pop up and let the chaos of thoughts (which results in action) grow. It's a spiral.

And the less we know, the more we think we know. This is the dunning kruger effect.

The older I get, the less I know...

It becomes harder for the wise person to act, especially upon others, as he realises just how many unintended consequences his actions may have. Best, then, to act on the thing you have some control over: yourself.

When you change yourself, you change the world.

and what if one looks up to both?

I got taken down the garden path with "intention" a didn't understand why not the inside? "they thought they didn't need it" ohhh shit

@@rockgod2131 Tell that to the people getting bombed in the middle East.

People who are way ahead of their time usually dies young 😌

“We could have a plague of virtuous people”..... yup, sounds about right

Take this $600 dollars kids....

Not really

No it’s not

@@getback2me789 dude stfu mike pence literally got the vaccine on live tv do you think he’d do that to himself? Stop pushing your shit

Agreed

A shame he didn't live very long.

We didn't know shit. But at least we know one thing, and that is the fact that we don't know of the future.

Now we have paper straws wrapped in plastic. Congratulations

They didn't expect us to litter the environment with them. Recycling should've been implemented from the beginning.

Where I live, all my trash is burned, so nothing goes to waste, all makes energy. And paper straws are yucky!

@@theresedavis2526 There is no recycling. That is a sad myth. Most trash goes to underdeveloped countries and they do "whatever" with it. Recycling old stuff still costs more than creating new stuff.

Alan Watts was my best friend for a little while, these recordings are invaluable

I do that all the time.

I like that one .....

God why are all these videos filled with these empty virtually corporate produced quotes that are vague enough to seem meaningful, but when you actually think about them, realize that they are crap.

So how do you decide if its a mask or real virtue? :)

@Ferny Panda easier said, then done...

that's not really an helpfull answer.

Don't forget about radical vegans acting like puritans and woke people forcing their morals unto others like how their ancestor did through imperialism and colonialism.

Intellectuals are the issue today for a number of reasons. Every one of them is left wing pretty much - that tells me there are no proper intellectuals in the professions they claim to be intellectuals in

Nothings new under the sun

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@Brandon Neifert that's the point. That's what makes it bad having a ton of them. They definitely think they are virtuous.

I would be so bold to say its been either set up very poorly, or intentionally with no forward thinking of the net resulf of such ways. Information is critical and we have put education last almost every time for decades. Spreading the gap between those who have and those who dont. Then stack on ignorance and tadaa, the internet told me its true so it has to be. How does every publication require citstion of information and yet the internet, most peoples source for information, does not abide by auch rules? How can this end in any good way? Theodore Geisel would not like it, no, he would not.

Kinda like "Be like water" - Sun Tzu

What a lump of words.

The harder I tried the more I failed.

So when you make an effort, then you are virtuous.

@@CJ0101 No, when you stop trying to make an effort to be virtuous it only then that you understand what virtue is. A lot of times people are caught in the trap of trying to be virtuous for the sake of appearing to be virtuous. We've all done that. It is only when you stop trying, that you realize that virtue can come naturally when you no longer concern yourself with how virtuous you look.

@@bobofthestorm Thanks. My comment was not intended to be serious. My point being that you still have to make an effort to not be virtuous. Therefore you are still trying.

You are most definitely NOT the only one, for there are umpteen millions of others doing the exact same thing, let the real re-set begin

I thought I was going off the rails on conspiracy theories a year ago. Sadly all of it is true today.

It's some sort of a series of contradictions against one another.Human intellect is not programmed for these.

I was red-pilled in 2021 too.

When you are introduced to a genius thinker like Alan Watts there’s no turning back. He said as and is and amazing mystic. I only wish I had been able to meet him✨❤️

hate to break it to you but evil doesn’t lie out there but within yourself. Within all of us

@@destinycantwait🎤 drop! 🙏🏾

Madonna has been saying shit like this since 1987.

What's this supposed to mean

@@w.8424 Before the face of God, and even in the realm of our own reality, we are ignorant and unknowing. To profess yourself to be wise, you are only cementing your idiocy in the face of God. The smartest people on the planet will tell you that the more you come to know, the more you come to understand your own ignorance. "Science" will continue uncovering more information, but will never have the full picture, and therefor will come to premature false conclusions. The universe we live in is beyond our comprehension and it's reality is truly beyond our imagination. Those who profess to have it all figured out, have absolutely no clue about their ignorance of the beyond. Praise the Lord and ALL glory is His. I was an ignorant atheist for many years until I opened my own heart and mind to the TRUTH that is the spirit of God. He revealed Himself and showed me my ignorance. I owe everything to Him. We all do.

@@TheSpecterRanger beautifully said my brother/sister in Christ. May our heavenly Father bless you in all your days for he is beyond our comprehensive mind. Amen to all you said 🙏 🙌 ❤

@@crazyanimeloveable Thank you greatly

@@TheSpecterRanger you know what you know👏🏽

But where are the limits to this? For example - if I'd like to kill people - should I just do it?

@@harribertschmalzkopf2799 If that is what you desire then yeah, go ahead, but don't blame anyone for the consequences of your actions for you to come to that conclusion. (You can't blame anyone really tbh) In this world it is quite easy to be fooled by oneself or others. Desire and belief should really be considered the most important thing to be cautious about imo, because those things influence how you act. Which can come off as a Good thing or a bad thing to you. (Perspective) So watch what you desire and especially to what you believe, you can easily be trapped into a mindset if you don't learn to doubt it even if it does speak some things that are true. As for limitations, it is really just how far you want to go, yeah there are things that you truly cannot see pass, but that doesn't technically mean there's a limit to it even if there seems to be. There is always more. No matter how much you think you know, there will always be a certain level that you stand. I know this was a year ago since I made this comment, but even though The road to He'll is paved with Good intentions, we need to take into consideration to what "are" those *Good* intentions, because you can always justify that by killing others it decreases the population which is a good since we over consume or waste resources.

@@Yusa_Beach THAT is INSANE, the world could have 100 billion, and support it. Stop believing media propaganda. The more you think you know the dumber you are. The people who claim to understand the earths weather, (and have the nerve to call it climate change) and think taxing CARBON is going to help, are unwittingly helping the financial prison and wealth gap to become more powerful.

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It's not history repeats itself but it's human that not learn from history that doomed itself

I don't believe in mistakes. They are all lessons. If you choose to learn from them the first time is the trick.

Hmm...you both have good points!

@@majestictravler5717 I believe that one should acknowledge their mistakes in order to learn from them. Everyone makes mistakes, nobody is perfect. But to better oneself and to change is what matters.

@@josephferrer8780 yes that's basically what I said. Lessons to be learnt or not and repeat.

@@majestictravler5717 well actually yes, we agree. I just misunderstood you where you said there are no mistakes.

Variety is dangerous. Bland and boring is a good life.

Agreed nice and spicy haha

Amen

@@sickid41 what'd you think of diversity

@@sickid41 My friend please elaborate

The art's nice but the speaker...can't quite say as much. Had SOME good points but...

@@greggeverman5578 But?