Alan Watts poses a question that stops you in your tracks:
"Suppose you are God, suppose you have all time, all eternity, and all power at your disposal. You were given the power to dream any dream you wanted to dream every night, what would you do?"
He walks through what would happen, step by step.
At first, you'd fulfil every wish imaginable. "You would have all the pleasures you could imagine: the most marvelous meals, the most entrancing love affairs, the most romantic journeys. You could listen to music such as no mortal has heard and see landscapes beyond our wildest dreams."
You'd spend night after night in paradise. Maybe a whole month of nights.
But then something would shift. Perfection would get boring.
"You'd begin to think, 'Well, I've seen quite a bit. Let's spice it up. Let's have a little adventure.'"
So you'd introduce danger. You'd rescue princesses from dragons, engage in battles, become a hero. And as time went on, you'd push further and further.
Then comes the real turning point. Watts explains:
"At some point in the game, you would say, 'Tonight I am going to dream in such a way that I don't know that I'm dreaming,' so that you would take the experience of the dream for complete reality."
You'd forget you were God entirely. You'd dream yourself into poverty, disease, agony not out of cruelty, but for the contrast. For the moment you wake up and realise none of it was real.
"And you would say, 'Wow man, that was a gas.'"
Then Watts delivers the punchline:
"How do you know that that's not what you're doing already? You sitting there with all your problems, with all your whole complicated life situation it may just be the very dream you decided to get into."
And his final line reframes everything:
"If you like it, crazy; if you don't like it, what fun it'll be when you wake up."
It's a perspective that doesn't dismiss suffering. It recontextualises it. What if the struggles, the uncertainty, the messiness of life aren't things happening to you, but experiences you chose for yourself?
What would change about how you approach today if you believed you'd chosen this exact life on purpose?
The people calling me "left" now for doing what I've always done (supporting freedom and the Constitution)and all those who said I was "right-wing" for doing so in the past show how bankrupt those terms are.They're are just terms to divide us now folks!They've lost all meaning.
James Carville: “Wherever he is, you should have people shout pedophile protector! Pedophile protector! You know that gets to him. Print signs, show up. Trump had a massive negative reaction to it. When you find a sore spot, you keep hitting it”
Trump his supporters and ICE are flipping out because Tim Walz just told Americans to record everything they see ICE do.
It’s almost as if they don’t want their crimes to be broadcast publicly.
TIM WALZ: "If you see these ICE agents in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record."
"Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans, not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution."
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He’s a 44 year old grandfather that they signed less than a week ago. He would’ve had a game-winning drive if his defense got a stop. And in this house, Philip Rivers is a hero. End of story!