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My brother made it through surgery

No, I haven't read any of Alan Watts, but I did go online and reviewed several comments made about his books. He appears to have built somewhat on the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, and even Whitman in the area of an overlay on World Religions. The best example that I know of are Emerson's writings which you might enjoy because he so brilliantly and evenly contested the ideas of the Calvinism of his day...the 1830-1860 era. He and the others, known as Transcedentalists believed in a consiousness of the soul that can always give rise to a better man when the stress and strain of life is encountered. They had a much different outlook on the nature of men than the common message of their day that mankind was a doomed, evil, wicked trespasser on the Earth. They found much in the other religions of the East to support their idea that the seeds of mans desire and quest for God needed only to be recognized and given a little water.

I had a few thoughts about how we all behaved in the deer camp when we brought down the deer, but I am going to wait a day or two before posting out of respect for the situation you and your brother find yourselves in.

i am just an oldtimer for the Lord.

-- posted by Brother_Jones