[Buddha-l] Theology among the Christians--may we be reminded of what Dogen said

[Curt Steinmetz]

Does your granddaughter like Watts? It warms my heart to think so. The 
fact that the South Park guys did the animation makes it very subversive 
in terms of potentially getting through to younger folks - at least I 
hope so.
Curt

jkirk wrote:
> Delightful. Sending it to my granddaughter. Thanks for the
> memories of Watts.
> JK 
>
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> Watts' point was that if aliens had come to earth too soon, they
> would have looked around and said, "huh - just a bunch of rocks."
> But if they came back later they would have said, "oh, we thought
> it was just a bunch of rocks, but now there are people." Watts
> then goes on to point out that:
>
> "We grow out of this world ... if evolution means anything it
> means that.  But you see we curiously twist it: we say, well,
> first of all in the beginning there was nothing but gas and rock
> and then intelligence happened to arise in it, you know, like a
> sort of fungus or slime on the top of the whole thing. But we are
> thinking in a way, you see, that disconnects the intelligence
> from the rocks. Where there are rocks, watch out. Watch out!
> Because the rocks are eventually to come alive."
>
> Watts starts talking about this in this video at 3:04 into it:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE5M8743a1s
>
> The animation in the above is by Trey Parker and Matt Stone of
> South Park fame. You can ignore the stupid title "Atheist
> Spirituality", which has nothing to do with anything.
>
> Watts also talks about this in "The Book", but this recorded
> version is actually better than that written version, in my
> opinion.
>
> Curt
>
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