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The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
Robert Anton Wilson
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Robert Anton Wilson
Age: 74 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 18
Died: 2007
Died: January 11
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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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People have murdered each other, in massive wars and guerilla actions, for many centuries, and still murder each other in the present, over Ideologies and Religions which, stated as propositions, appear neither true nor false to modern logicians- meaningless propositions that look meaningful to the linguistically naive.
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Is, is, is — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything is I only know how it seems to me at this moment.
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Voting wouldn't excite me unless it included electing the directors of the big banks and corporations, who make the real decisions that affect our lives. It's hard to get excited about the trained seals in Washington.
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We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?
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In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them, 'traditional family values' denotes their right to keep their children as ignorant as their grandparents (and to hate the same folks grand-dad hated.)
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Reality is what you can get away with.
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Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
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There are gods, but there is no God and all gods become devils eventually.
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Communication is only possible between equals.
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Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!
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I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.
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The things that hinder me are opportunities to learn more and develop further.
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Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
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It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called barbarism and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.
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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
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Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
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A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants
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Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.
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