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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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Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.
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A disciple is an asshole looking for a human being to attach itself to.
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I regard belief as a form of brain damage.
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O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?
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We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.
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He who lives happiest has forgotten most
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There is no complete theory of anything.
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A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants
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Reality is what you can get away with.
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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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The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.
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Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
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Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size).
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Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
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Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.
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What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.
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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
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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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