If You Were God - Akira the Don, Alan Watts

If looking at it from another way

We push technology

To its furthest possible development

And we had instead of a dial telephone on one’s desk

A more complex

System of buttons

And one touch, beep

Would give you anything you want

Aladdin’s lamp

You would eventually have to introduce a button

Labeled «Surprise»

Surprise

Surprise

Surprise

Because all perfectly known futures as I pointed out

Are past

They have happened

Virtually

It is only the true future is a surprise

It is only the true future is a surprise

So, if you were God

You would say to yourself

Man get lost

And it’s strange

That this idea is obscurely embedded

In the Christian tradition

When in the Epistle to the Philippians

Saint Paul speaks

Of

God the Son

The logos

The Word of God

Who was incarnate in Christ

And says:

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus

Who being in the form of God

Thought not equality with God a thing to be clung to

But made himself of no reputation

And humbled himself

And was found in fashion as a man

And became obedient to death

Same idea

Same idea as the idea of the dream

That very far out dream

Same idea as the idea of the dream

That very far out dream

Same idea as the idea of the dream

That very far out dream

Same idea as the idea of the dream

Getting as extreme

As you can get

As you can get

As you can get

And so, this then is the basis

Of the Hindu view

Of the universe and of Man

The Hindu looks upon the universe as a drama

The Westerner of course, looks upon the universe as a construct

As something made

And it is not therefore insignificant that Jesus was the son of the carpenter