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Ep. 6 – On Being God

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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How to be a Good God

Explaining the question of measuring the height of Mont Blanc, the speaker argues that our ordinary definition of knowledge is the cumbersome process of translating life into words. Just as we breathe without thinking about it, shining the stars is a natural process that cannot easily be put into words. The speaker ponders the difficulty of finding peace and tranquility as a divine being.

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