Allan Watts Imitation

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Description

Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher who interpreted and popularised Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. This is my imitation of his voice and speaking style.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

British (England - South East - Oxford, Sussex) British (General) British (Received Pronunciation - RP, BBC)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
after long consideration, I've come to the conclusion that there are four fundamental philosophical questions which have Bean debated for long as we know anything about intellectual history. The 1st 1 is who started it. The second is Are we going to make it? The third is, Where are we going to put it? The fourth is who's going to clean up? But when you consider all of these together, they prompt 1/5 question, which is perhaps more fundamental than all of thes. Is it serious? And when we say to the doctor about someone we love, who was in some ghastly kind of sickness, doctor, is it serious? That means is the person in danger of his life? Because it is almost the fundamental supposition of Western thought at any rate, that life is serious, that we have an obligation to survive and that there is something therefore shameful about dying life. In other words, it is not a game. If it is again. The first rule of this game is that this game is serious