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The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.
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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Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
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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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Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
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Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals censorship blocks transmission.
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...reality is always plural and mutable.
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A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
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Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?
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Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
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Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway, the priest added cynically, which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.
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The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
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The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours.
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I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe.
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The things that hinder me are opportunities to learn more and develop further.
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I regard belief as a form of brain damage.
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Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
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The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
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Reality is what you can get away with.
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Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once.
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The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.
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If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.
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