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Ep. 19 – Improbable and Magical: A Tribute To G.K. Chesterton

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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Is There a Future in the Universe?

Our whole education is programmed with the idea that there is a good time coming when we are going to arrive. And perhaps the universe doesn't work that way at all. Maybe instead of that this world is like music where the goal of music is certainly not in the future. You don't play a symphony in order to reach the end of the symphony because then the best orchestra would be the one that played the fastest. In other words, if I talk about tables and chairs, these sounds that I'm making tables, chairs, refer to something in the physical world. The sound table is not the table, but it refers to this. So Chesterton's view of the world is

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