I've recently started reading “The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are” by Alan Watts.    The book “delves into the cause and cure of the illusion that the self is a separate ego, housed in a bag of skin, which 'confronts' a universe of physical objects that are alien and stupid” (excerpt from book cover).  It's part of my expanding my mind to other life thoughts process.

So far — and I'm only eleven pages in — I'm enjoying it. Especially with quotes like these.

“Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world.  Faith is, above all, open-ness — an act of trust in the unknown.”

In speaking about the book that he would give his children, Watts explains that the book itself would be “slippery” as it would “slip them into a new domain, not of ideas alone, but of experience and feeling.”  He then explains that it would be a “temporary medicine, not a diet” and his children would “read it and be done with it, for if it were well and clearly written they would not have to go back to it again and again for hidden meanings or for clarification of obscure doctrines.”  WHAM!

And all this in the first 11 pages

This is actually quite funny. And this is quite addictive. And thanks to Planet Dan for exposing me to both of these.

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Not a scientific tool, and who the hell is Phil Mitchell?

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Thought this was cute.

Courtesy of The Windy City Slickers…
(Sung to the tune of “Hark the Herald Angels Sing.”)

COMING OUT FOR CHRISTMAS

I intend to drop a bomb,
On my dear old Dad and Mom.
For this year without a doubt,
is the Christmas I Come Out!

First I'll get their full attention,
then slip in a subtle mention…
“Lovley tree! and by the way…  some of my closest
friends are… gay.”

That should do the job ok.
When I come out on Christmas Day!

Oh say can you see it now.
Watch my parents have a cow.
Or perhaps if they disguide,
they'll insist that they don't mind.

Then they'll say “We always guessed.  After all
look how you're dressed! Seven earings in each ear?!
We're not quite that dense my dear!”

They'll adore me anyway.
When I Come Out on Christmas Day!

Coming Out to everyone,
makes the Winter doldrums fun!
It's a noble thing to do.
Why don't you Come on Out too?

Make the choice, damn consequence!
Lift your voice, get off the fence!
Shout it from the highest roof,
Gay is great and you're the proof!

Make this Christmas bright and Gay.
Come on Out on Christmas Day!