2015.09.29 07:00 - Finding the Alan Watts tab

    The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The lots of comments added at the end are by Riddle Sideways.

       Who found the desired quote after Bleu left (see far below)

     

    Bleu Oleander: hi Riddle
    Riddle Sideways: hi Bleu
    Riddle Sideways: starting to wake up
    Riddle Sideways: coffee hitting
    Bleu Oleander: yes, having coffee :)
    Riddle Sideways: day break coming on
    Riddle Sideways: use to be already day light at this time
    Bleu Oleander: sun's out here!

    Bleu Oleander: having a hot week ... still in the 100's
    Riddle Sideways: cool here
    Bleu Oleander: :)
    Riddle Sideways: high is supposed to be hi 60's
    Bleu Oleander: won't see 60's here for a while :)
    Riddle Sideways: it was hot a couple days ago

    Riddle Sideways: hadn't seen the swing over yonder before
    Bleu Oleander: was there for my last pavilion
    Riddle Sideways: swinging with nobody on it
    Bleu Oleander: perpetual motion
    Riddle Sideways: in a second life perpetual motion will be possible
    Bleu Oleander: especially for swings

    Riddle Sideways: am trying to find an Alan Watts selection
    Riddle Sideways: that was bookmarked


    Bleu Oleander: were you able to claim the session ok?
    Riddle Sideways: seems every talk of his is bookmarked :)
    Riddle Sideways: checking
    Riddle Sideways: the url reports no session by that uuid
    Riddle Sideways: sorry, there is a session, but no lines recorded
    Riddle Sideways: ooooo now there are lines
    Bleu Oleander: did you claim it?
    Riddle Sideways: yes
    Riddle Sideways: when first getting here
    Bleu Oleander: ok let me know if you don't get an email or there is no log when you click the link
                   Got the email
    Bleu Oleander: it worked fine for me
    Riddle Sideways: link is working
    Riddle Sideways: fine
    Bleu Oleander: ok good
                   --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: bell appears to be on time now :)
    Bleu Oleander: :)

    Riddle Sideways: appears the desired topic quote webpage is hiding
    Riddle Sideways: can't find it
    Bleu Oleander: which one?
    Riddle Sideways: there is a (remembered) Alan Watts talk that has Playing in it
    Riddle Sideways: should be one of the 60+ open tabs
    Bleu Oleander: ha!
    Riddle Sideways: why so many tabs being half read at this time
    Riddle Sideways: so many webpages, so little time
    Bleu Oleander: too much coffee
    Riddle Sideways: or not enough?
    Bleu Oleander: ha ha

    Bleu Oleander: coincidently, we have a salon on mars tomorrow
    Riddle Sideways: oooooooooo, that is a nice sentence Bleu
    Riddle Sideways: the salon will be ON MARS?
    Bleu Oleander: an astronomer and planetary scientist
    Bleu Oleander: on mars
    Riddle Sideways: upon mars
    Bleu Oleander: his book ‘Postcards from Mars’
    Riddle Sideways: have heard of that
    Bleu Oleander: ASU is a big space place
    Riddle Sideways: was that on Fresh Air a few days ago
    Bleu Oleander: http://jimbell.sese.asu.edu/books/postcards-from-mars
    Riddle Sideways: big announcement yesterday
    Riddle Sideways: Water
    Bleu Oleander: the water announcement was UofA in tucson
    Riddle Sideways: in your neighborhood
    Bleu Oleander: yes
    Riddle Sideways: ty, now there is another tab open in browser waiting to be read
    Bleu Oleander: lol
    Bleu Oleander: a busy morning for you!
    Riddle Sideways: need to go through and Evernote clip all these tabs
    Riddle Sideways: yep, this morning need to research the Mars announcements
    Riddle Sideways: only heard one question from press conf
    Riddle Sideways: "what will we do with this water"
    Riddle Sideways: A: "drink it"
    Bleu Oleander: can't drink it!
    Bleu Oleander: salty
    Riddle Sideways: guy got a big laugh
    Bleu Oleander: give it to CA
    Riddle Sideways: yep
                   --BELL--
    Bleu Oleander: well gotta go
    Bleu Oleander: enjoy all your tabs
    Riddle Sideways: thanks for Being
    Riddle Sideways: here
    Bleu Oleander: see you soon
    Riddle Sideways: thanks
    Riddle Sideways: by
    Bleu Oleander: byeee

     

    Riddle Sideways: HA! found it
    Riddle Sideways: not in the 60+ tabs of FireFox
    Riddle Sideways: but over in the 20+ tabs of Chrome

    Riddle Sideways: Probably the entire thing should be put in here
    Riddle Sideways: context being what it is :)
    Riddle Sideways: [a point of view]

                  "The Dream of Life" - Alan Watts



    If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself – not as a stranger in the world, not as something here unprobational, not as something that has arrived here by fluke - but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental.

    I am not trying to sell you on this idea in the sense of converting you to it, I want you to play with it. I want you to think of its possibilities, I am not trying to prove it. I am just putting it forward as a possibility of life to think about. So then, let’s suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream you wanted to dream, and that you could for example have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time, or any length of time you wanted to have.

    And you would, naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure during your sleep. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each you would say “Well that was pretty great”. But now let’s have a surprise, let’s have a dream which isn’t under control, where something is gonna happen to me that I don’t know what it's gonna be.

    And you would dig that and would come out of that and you would say “Wow that was a close shave, wasn’t it?”. Then you would get more and more adventurous and you would make further- and further-out gambles what you would dream. And finally, you would dream where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.

    That would be within the infinite multiplicity of choices you would have. Of playing that you weren't god, because the whole nature of the godhead, according to this idea, is to play that he is not. So in this idea then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality, not god in a politically kingly sense, but god in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is. And you are all that, only you are pretending you are not.

     

                   --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: researching through the years of "Play As Being" session logs finds some things around this idea
    Riddle Sideways: much is in there about 'Being'.
    Riddle Sideways: less about 'Playing'
    Riddle Sideways: yet it is Playing that has been being done in every session
    Riddle Sideways: when chatting of the weather in each part of the planet, we are playing lightly
    Riddle Sideways: when this typist interacts with, through an LED panel to, a 'game' Second Life, is that not playing
    Riddle Sideways: this older losing hair typist, is 'Playing' Being a younger avatar self that still has long blond hair :)
    Riddle Sideways: Being part way down the Bunbun hole of Play, it is an easy step to be more immersed in the Play
    Riddle Sideways: Playing the part of the creator of these realities.
    Riddle Sideways: and pretending you are not
    Riddle Sideways: .
    Riddle Sideways: [that would have been a good place to stop]
    Riddle Sideways: .
    Riddle Sideways: :)
                   --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: Being already set in a mindset of a self,
    Riddle Sideways: Being comfortable with a construct of this self is separate from All those other selfs
    Riddle Sideways: Being a mind the controls fingers to get this computer to enter SL to walk to this pavilion to sit upon this pillow,
    Riddle Sideways: the self construct that is "playing that you weren't god" comes to this place-time to Play As (as if we could even dare go out there to think to be) Being.
    Riddle Sideways: it is an exercise left to the reader to try to count the layers/levels that a 'you' traversed to get to this place
    Riddle Sideways: how deep are 'you' when the bell summons the quick shift to silence?
                   --BELL--

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    Thanks for this session, Riddle! Such peculiar yet logical stances to try on.
    Posted 15:46, 30 Sep 2015
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