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My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.
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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Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is obtained through Rothbard's Medieval 'investigation by a reason,' i.e., by inventing definitions and then deducing what your definitions implicitly assumed.
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You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.
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Stupidity is a blockage in the ability to receive, integrate and transmit new signals.
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A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants
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Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.
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The things that hinder me are opportunities to learn more and develop further.
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There are gods, but there is no God and all gods become devils eventually.
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I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance! just doesn't cut it….
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We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.
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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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Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
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Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
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part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.
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Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.
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If you want to be happy, practise it every day
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under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.
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