Watts Reading Response

Watt's Thesis is that "we don't come in it, we come out , like falling leaves from a tree." Like when he said that "There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins." [p. 13 para 3 ] What he is trying to say is that it doesn't matter about the start the only thing that matters is the end and what you get out of it.


Watts' view of religion is that he wants people to understand the human world, because everything now a days is changing and he wants men to be able to grasp it.[ p 4-5 para 2]

Watt See's that the problem with the concept of "conquering " nature is that we are part of nature. Also that humans aren't necessarily "conquering" nature but are just a part of it.[ p. 8
para 1]

Watt defines the "new experience" as a new feeling of what it is to be. "I" Meaning to learn the new way of life or feeling of life the way it is now. [ p. 11 para 2]

Watt sees that the purposes of myths to teach what happened in the past, like symbols telling you different stories. [ p.13 para 1]

Watt feels like someone finds there true identity by seeing through the illusion of you ego, and to thinking better about yourself [ p.20 para 2]


One connection from this reading and 1984 is that people that have "higher power" tell people with " less power" what is right and what is wrong, and they make them believe it even if they are giving out false information. In the novel 1984, big brother made everyone beleieve that 2 + 2= 5 even though it wasn't true everyone had to believe it or they would be sent to room 101. Now in the reading it was talking about the bible and god and different kind of religions , the kind of religions that whatever they beleieved, you had to beleieve too. [ p. 4 para 2] Those two relate because they are pretty much the same way , just different occasions.