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Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
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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Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory.
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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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I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.
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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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A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants
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Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction
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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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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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Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
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There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
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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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Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.
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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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...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
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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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Only the madman is absolutely sure.
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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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Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!
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Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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