alanbwt on Nostr: “The idea of the universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman is no longer ...

“The idea of the universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody's disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of galaxies, and immense lightyear distances between them, and so on. So instead, it has become fashionable, and is nothing more than a fashion, to believe the universe is dumb, stupid, that intelligence, values, love, and fine feelings reside only within the bag of the human epidermis. And that outside that, the thing is simply a kind of a chaotic, stupid interaction of blind forces."

– Alan Watts, Tao of Philosophy