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You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends.
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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Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a strange doctrine and almost implies that God and the devil must have collaborated on the creation of humanity, God working above the belly button and the Devil below.
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Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.
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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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Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don’t even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality.
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The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.
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Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!
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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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I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
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We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.
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My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
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The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.
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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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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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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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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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An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
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