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A true initiation never ends.

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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Philosopher
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Flatbush
Long Island
Robert Edward Wilson
Initiation
True
Ends
Never

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I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.)
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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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People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.
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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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My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.
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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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Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.
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Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very childish forms of conceit in a world of infinitely whirling complexity. None of us can see enough from one corner of space-time to know all about the rest of space-time.
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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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Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
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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 totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
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I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.
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Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.
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The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most scientists above the technician-troll level, computer freaks, and the righteous dope-dealers of California.
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